The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-28

liowing paragraph Is taken from n paper
large Western city and properly opens
. tnle OF mystery:
. lThe police of the Second precinct came
N n strange case OF suicide in the rooming-
. ll,f the North side last night. Wilingham
.I,ld Englishman who lived alone in little
tlantic street, was found dead on
IIknifo buried TO the hilt In his
. fatty. after having stabbed himself the
4 lest some innocent person be suspected
| or his death. had dipped the foreilnger OF
. In his own blood and had written on the
. weak, scrawllng hand 'Wllinghnm Con-
| e. The use OF his formal name under such
tho police believe was due TO the dclirium
| i'm as death approached. The authorities
. the body as It s not known that he had
., ,or acouaintnnces."
|l,lso the View of the matter that the coro-
III verdict OF suicide was returned But
| K and the jury were in the wrong. for 1t
|, ,f suicide that occurred on that night. and
bingham Constance who died there on the
the true story in full:
|eonstance was a doomed man. The Sons
Id their headquarters In Whitcchapel, Lon
ded his fate more than a year before. In
|h other anorchstic societies the Sons OF
| many dark and grewsome secrets hidden
| and once "A man had entered their iniqui-
|d had gained their confidence. he was In
md several men to the gallows and a score
IN. or course the man who took advantage
dge of these secrets and turned them over
dties rIsked his life every minute. for the
. nly one code of punishment for those who
y on it-death.
e what Wilingham Constance had done. Ho
| he SPY and played II successfully that
hts had sentenced him to die. Constance
|er son. and as so often Is the case with
in England, he had gone nstray Possibly
bud at heart to begin with, but years OF
Ind the world and living by his wits had
|,roughy bad and careless or life and honor.
heated at cards when playing with friends
|sns ostraclzed and went out into the world,
|tralia later to America, and still later 70
. of continental Europe where there are all
ekings for unscrupulous blackguards who
sh and manners OF gentleman. He had
ow- gambler in Australia, helped rob and
er In one OF the Western States. and he had
sells to hide and to make q living In his
There IL was that he had come into con-
| anarchists. and then the idea Of entering
securing possession OF their secrets, and
e Information to the police. who were al
secure and pay for such stuff. was con-
Stances mind He needed the money badly,
was much akin to other work which he had
though he was Il thorough blackguard, the
ued with a courage that would have made
.lous had he applied II to tighting in one OF
regiments. a few weeks after his advent
|, became one of the anarchists.
| cafe in one of the most vicious quarters OF
| ocety was accustomed to hold Its meetings
re that Constance was taken into the fold
sworn to all the oaths in the society's code
After this he was a blood brother and
. 1T in the councils and listen to the Inner
Of the past. present and future
amer he soon became invaluable to the
he, His Inner knowledge of the workings OF
on enabled the authorities to begin a cru
.1esulted in the arrest of the most notorious
Europe men who had fed from other
. | were hiding In Brussels. So consistent
DFrestS that the society soon began TO sus-
traitor In It's midst Naturally they began
|stance ne being the latest addition TO their
was not long before they discovered that 1t
was betraying their brethren TO the hated
discovery spelled death for Constance On
ltered the cafe he saw that the members OF
|-ere all there before him. He knew that ne
ID when they rose one man. and with
hurled at him the words: THE spy-klll
n ever ready for an emergency, stepped back
.Irevolver. A man behind him knocked the
his hands and he stood forth. unarmed
before his accusers He protested yigor-
! was innocent. that 1t was some one else who