Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-09-29

L KNOW not now mucn, out IL was llBnl
bag. This ] took. Also he had under
his arm a good-sized tin box in a blue
bag, such as lawyers carry. The box
knew would contain his papers, and his
papers were his money. So / thought
would do as much mischief to his prop
erty as 1 could, and l took that box.
Then 1 went away, leaving him there.
with his white cheeks and gray hair,
and his eyes wide open. l felt sick when
I looked at those eyes, because they re-
preached me. l reeled and staggered as
l left him.
81 was not going to walk along the
road. That would have been a FOOLS
act l turned straight off and struck for
the open moor, intending to make for
Plymouth. And l remembered a place
where the box could be hidden away, a
safe place, where no one would ever
think of looking for it, so that everybody
should go on believing that the old man
had been robbed as well as murdered.
This place was right over the down, and
on the other side
II climbed the hill. On the way
passed the Gray Wether Stone, and l
thought l would hide the bag of money
in a hole l knew of at the foot of it.
| Nobody would look for it there. Not
twenty people in year ever go near the
Gray Wether. Then l walked down the
hill on the other side and got to Grims-
pound, where l meant to hide the other
bag with the box in it.
''Tell them, If you ever get away from
this awful place, that the box lies on
the side nearest Hamil, where three
stones piled one above the other make
a sort of little cave. The stones are In
the corner, and are the first you come to
on your way down. There l put the
box. l went on walking all the way
without stopping-except to sit down
bit-to Plymouth. There l got a news
paper, but 1 could read nothing of the
murder. Then l took the train to Fal-
mouth, and waited there for three days,
and bought a newspaper every day-one
would surely think that a murder in a
quiet country place would be reported
but 1 could not find a single word about
my murder.
"Then l was able to take passage on
board a German ship bound for New
York. l got to New York and l stayed
there till my money was all gone, which
did not take long. There l made the
acquaintance of some men, who told me
to 90 with them, for they were going
West. They were all, found, men who
had done something, and the police were
anxious to take them. / never told them
what l had done, but they knew it was
something, and when they found out that
| knew nothing about robbery and burg
larry and couldn't cheat at gambling and
the like, they set it down that it must be
murder. But they cared nothing, and
went along with them"
Your confession, my friend" said the
German, stopping at this point, "of
what followed-the horse stealing adven-
ture, your own escape, and the untimely
end of your companions; your honesty in
California, and its interruption; and your
experience of a Californian PRISONS
all interesting, but l cannot waste paper
upon it. | return, therefore, to the ma
terial part of the confession. And with
this l conclude"
II desire to state that from the first
night that 1 arrived in New York till
now l have every night been visited by
the ghost of the man / killed. My uncle
stands beside the bed, whether it Is in
a bed In crowded room, or on the
? ground in the open, or In a cabin at sea,
or on the deck, he always comes every
night. His face is white, and the wound
in his forehead is bleeding Come back
to England, he says, and confess the
crime
81 must go back and give myself IN
to justice. l will make no more strug-
giles against my fate But because 1
am uncertain whether l shall live to
get back, and because 1 know not how
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have my confession wf,-ten and signed,
so that If l die the truth may be told"
Thus ended the paper.
49," said the big German, "you ac-
knowledge this to be your full and true
confession?"
81 do"
"Sign it, then" He produced from his
bag pencil and gave it to the man, who
signed. in trembling hand, David
Leighan." Under the signature the Ger
man wrote, Witnessed by me, Baron
Sergius Won Holstein." This DONE he
replaced the note book in his wallet.
, THE reason why 1 wanted you to sign
the paper tonight" he said. sis that
there seems as if there might be n chance
of your getting away from the island. "
, "How?"
loOk Oul " sea.
} They were almost at the extreme south
point of the island-the maps call il
st. George. In the west the shores OF
! New Britain could be seen, because the
sun was just sinking behind them; to the
: south and the east there was open sea.
} II can see nothing"
Look through my glass, then"
81 can see a ship-a two-masted sail
, ing ship"
"She is in quest of blackbirds Sh,
viii probably send a boat ashore. For
, tunately for you, the people are all gon,
off to fight. You will, therefore. if sh,
: does send boat here, have chance o.
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