The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-01


y he had sharp. keen face, intelligent
beyond his years. with the precocity
taught by poverty. Hagar. looking al
ms Shock OF red hair and the shrewd
blue eyes which peered UP at her face
guessed that he was Irish; and when
ne spoke his brOgue proved her guess
TO be correct one. She stared at the
ragged. bare footed urchin with some
amusement. for this was the smallest
customer she had yet had. But Micky
$50 he gave his name-was quite as
sharp as customers of more mature
years-in fact. sharper He bargained
astutely with Hagar, and evidently had
made up Isis small mind not to leave
the shor until he obtained his own
price fo: Il" article he was pawning.
This was pair of strong laborer' 5
boots, hOb-nailed and stout in the soles.
The red headed boy heayed them on to
the counter with a mighty clatter and
demanded shillings thereon.
III give you g." said Hagar, after
examination.
''Ah, now. would ye?" piped the brat,
with shrill impudence. rs it taking
the bread out av me mouth We w'uld be
afther? Sure, me mother sid swim bob.
an It's siyin want"
Where is your mother? Why did
she not come .herself?"
Mothers comforting herself wild the
drink round the Garner; and sure I'm
aqual 10 gittin' tn dirthy money me-
silfi Swim bob alannah, an may the
hivins be yer bed"
Where did you get these boots?"
said Hagar. asking another question,
and ignoring the persuasive tone of the
lad. II see there are letters marked in
nails on the two soles"
ALI there moight be-" assented
Micky, complacently; there's 9 C. en-
one foot. an 9 X on the other; but me
fawther's name is Patrick Dooley, an
he's in Amerikey, worse luck. Mother
got thin boots fOive days gone in the
country. They wos a prisint me dar-
lin; an as they wos too big fur me
an me mother, we pop them, dear, fur
swim bob"
Take SIX" said Hagar. persuasively;
'they aren't worth more"
'Howly saints, listen to the lies av
herr" shrieked Micky. six, is it?
An how can / go to me mother wild a
shillin' wrong? Sure, it's breakin' me
mid she's be afther, wild o quart pot,
IN what's money TO the L likes av you.
me dear?''
"Here-herel. Take the seven shil-
lines!" said Hagar. anxious to rid her
self of this shrieking imp. "lll make
cut the ticket i'm the name of Mrs
DoCley-"
Mrs. Bridget Doolcy av Park lane -
said Mieky. granCly. Sure that viii
90 as well as any othe" place. It's on
the tramp we 2re-bad luck to it, II
'twasn't for thin boots we got i'm Mar
low. it's without a copper we'd be-
Here, take the ticket and money.
i1resay you stole the boots"
rs ii takin' away me character y'd
afther? Stain? Wasn't thin
1Ots' a prisint to me, for pure charity
n love av the saints? All. well. I'm
i-oin'-I'm sCin. Swim bob; it's little
enough onyhow: but phwat's the use of
vookin' for Justice to Oireland III The
country av the Saxon toyrant?" and
Micky weIt out singing THE Wear
Jing OF the Green in a very shrill and
4 UNPLEASANT voice
Hagar nut the boots away. never ex-
[ pecting that a story could be attached
No SO ordinary a pawned article. But
two days afterward she was reading en-
account of a murder, and, to her sur
price, the very boots, now reposing on
2 high shelf III her shOD, were men,
TONED rs a link i'm the chain Of evil
Tence likely to hang the assassin Co.
incidences occur i'm real life Oftener than
the world cares To admit and this was
a case in point A pair of boots with
initials on the sOles had been pawned
in her shop; end ncw-scarcelv forty
eight hours afterward-she was read
ing about them in a newspaper. Tt was
strange-elmost incredible; but to quote
trite ana we'll worn saving. Truth is
stranger than fictiCn." Briefly. the his
terry of the crime was as follows:
Sir Leslie Crane If Welbv Park
NARROW, had been shot by his game
Keeper, George Kerris. 1t seemed that
the man was engaged to marry a far
mer's daughter Laura Rrenton by
name: and Sir Leslie had beer paying
the girl more attention than was corr
sistent with their respective positions.
Kerris had demonstrated with the Bar
enet. who had forthwith discharged
him. A week later Crane. having gone
cut after dinner for stroll in the park
had been found dead by pond known
as the Queens pond. which was some
little distance from the gates. Foot
marks had been discovered in the soft
mud near the water. which showed that
the assassin wore boots marked on the
soleS with the letters &c" and tx"
These had been traced, through a Mar
low bootmaker. 10 George kerris. The
man had been arrested. but neither de-
MED his guilt nor affirmed his inno-
eence. Still, as the report said there
could be no doubt that he had killed Sir
Leslie i'm fit of jealous rage. and also
because he had been discharged The
boots could not be found, so undoubt-
eddy the man had got rid of them after
wearing them on the night of the muir
der. The report in the paper concluded
by stating that the dead Baronct was
succeeded by his cousin. now Sir Lewis
Crane.
"Strsnec that the boots should have
been paWned in London" thought Ha-
gar. when she finished reading this ar
ticle. and stranger still that they
should have been pawned by that Irish
lad. On the day ne came here he said
the boots had been given to him five
days previously. 1t was two days since
then. so that i'm all makes seven DAYS
HIM, Today is the 21st of August, so
I suppose Kerris must have given the
boots to Micky on the 18th. Let me
see. the date of the crime"
On examination she found that the
murder had been committed on the
night of the 18th of August, and that
Kerris had been arrested on the 18th.
Here Hagar came 10 a full stop and
reflected. If Kerris had been in Jail on