The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1905-11-09

| lage anu IL sister OF the unuertakerS
wife. The moment the detective men,
toned mysterious crimes to her she
replied:
Yes, I've suspected for the last
| twenty years that murders and other
things were going on in this village,
but never have been able to trace
them. l will now take the trail Of
| these guilty wretches."
| The last thing the stranger did be-
fore leaving town was to caution each
of his assistants to watch another. The
| grocer was to watch the postmaster,
| the postmaster the blacksmith, and SO
on around, while all were to watch
| Aunt Sally. Weekly reports We're to
| be mailed to a certain address, and in
case a crime was unearthed fitting
reward was to be forthcoming, The
innkeeper began his Old Sleuth duties
| before the stranger had reached the
depot. His place was the only one in
| town where stranger could get
drink. and there were always num-
Der of idlers hanging around. He be-
gan to run his eye over them. There
was Dan Tompkins, carpenter. Dan
had the reputation Of being good fell
| low, and he was always at work, but
now, AS the landlord watched him
drink a glass OF beer, he saw that Dan
had u suspicious look about him.
| Farmer Joe Skinner, who had come
in after pitchfork and had stopped to
OF ha ri
home, was one Of the county super
visors and a man of property and repu-
| tatiOn, but AS he stood at the bar and
talked about later hugs and the want
of rain the landlord made up his mind
| that it was all discrimination and cal
culated to throw him off the scent.
| There was no doubt that Joe Skinner
was meditating crime, but he would be
nipped in the bud. He also had his
eye on the grocer, the postmaster and
| the blacksmith. and if Aunt Sally sue
ceeded in committing burglary without
being caught she'd have to be sharper
than fox.
The postmaster got on to score of
suspicious things. In less than week
he and the undertaken clashed. The
undertaken received u letter from Co
lumbus, o. The envelope had been
closely scanned by the postmaster, and
he had not been able to convict it of
crime, but the way the undertaken put
it in his pocket instead of reading it
at once was living proof that there
was hen Oh. The +. NJ. followed the
undertaken and said:
Look here. Silas Tompkins, If you
are guilty you had better own right up
and throw yourself OH my mercy"
What are you talking about!" de-
manded the other.
THE finger of suspicion is pointing
at you"
You are a jackass. and If you don't
mend your ways I'll have you behind
the bars within a month"
Would be assassin
Hog thief
1t wasn't long before the grocer and
the blacksmith were discovered dog
ging each others footsteps at night.
with the landlord DIGGING both. and
there was a row i'll which one man got
a black eve and another n skinned
nose. Aunt Sally had gone into the
business with great enthusiasm. She
had hardly got her dishes washed the
first morning after being appointed
a detective than she was out on the
trail
She went over to see Mrs. johnson,
Sha haI Inno "A hrndraJ fimoS no
fore, but she had not been in the house
five minutes before she made dis
covery she had never made before. 1t
was that Mrs. Johnson was not frank
and Outspoken. When she asked her
il she and her husband had ceased to
have family rows. Mrs. ]. flushed and
lodged the question. The inference
was plain. She was intending to pour
hot lead into her husbands ears while
he slept
Aunt Sally took up trail after trail
with the greatest success. She went
up as high as the minister Of her
church. and dropped down as low as
Bill Jones. who worked in livery
stable. The finger Of suspicion pointed
in all directions. and she had begun
to doubt that the state prt Oh would
hold all her victims. when copies Of
the first weekly reports Of the five de-
tectives We're sent to almost every one
in the village. There were jaws and
fisticuffs and wrangles before the thing
was understood, but the problem was
solved at last. and everybody begged
everybody else's pardon. and the dove
Of peace came back to pipe her notes.
1t was year before the identity Of
the Chicago detective was solved.
Then he proved to be a dry goods