Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1907-03-28


mans cot where they had rested and
smoked from IL TO .. Imagine their
amazement and sorrow on returning
TO Gallinagh and finding the squire.
who In the morning had 80 heartily
wished them luck, n pale. cold corpse,
The squire had been shot In broad
daylight and from the direction OF the
rifle range and the lake, lie had also
been shot with the service bullet OF
the Lee.Metford rifle. which was the
arm carried ON that day by young
Hanna and DR.. Terry, who had been
seen to cross the lake and disappear
| In the mountains on the other side;
who had, moreover. called ut OGor
mans for matches on their outward
march, and for refreshments on their
return.
Now, as every action of Importance
| has a motive, II follows that when we
see the act we guess the motive. not
always correctly.
First, who would benefit pecuniarily
Il Uy lut buuiIto u'N'Hs h"'"N'' 49,
son and heir and his daughter Mag.
The money tack having failed,
turned TO another motive: revenge
Here we CROPPED blindly for days With
out one single cheering ray. At
length the old vicar of Ballyoran said
| quite casually. but In Upton's hearing
/ that the squire had In his youthiul
days practlsed boxing. and for years
was a handy man with his fists. also,
| that years ago he had thrashcd Denny
O'Gorman within an inch Of his lie
| for that the said Denny would persist
| in poaching In the squire's preserves,
and that Denny. himself notorious
| fighter. had thereafter been held In
such derfsion that he had forthwith
| emlgrated to America. from which he
had only returned n year ago, In order
| to take possession of the small farm
| left to him by his deceased father,
after an absence of % years
The revenge motive was clear
enough TO anyone who understood the
long memory Of the Celt; but the
thing would hardly work in connec'
| ton with O'Gorman, who was digging
| turf behind his cottage when Millar
swept the country with the telescope
| in search of the captain and the doc
tor. Moreover, the cottage was a
mile and half away in a bee line. ms
to O'Gorman." said Upton, that COCK
won't fight. Besides the alibi, which
is proved, he was on the best terms
with Squire Hanna and often refer
red with glee to the hiding the squire
gave him q quarter of Il century ago
IL seems that his Kathleen threw him
over because of 1t and that he never
married. an escape for which he de
clares himself deeply indebted to the
squire, He's alone in the cottage, ann
is trying to sell the farm. America
is the only country fit TO live in, says
O'Gorman.'
Yet somehow | felt that to search
O'Gorman's cottage would he beni'
son to my struggling soul. And so
strong was this inclination that | took
immediate measures TO indulge 1t.
and to get O'Gorman out of the way
in order to obtain favorable oppor-
tunity.
This was easy enough. He was ad.
vertising the farm. and arranged for
pretended probable purchaser to
meet him at Ballyshannon, O'Gorman
rose to the bait, and departed in
peace. He would be absent for the
night. and the search over so small
an area was easily feasible in the
time.
UPTON and | rowed over in the
night. We were rewarded. In an up
per room were two chains with deep
marks on the upper bar Of the backs.
asked Upton to look out for the
small vises that had made those
marks, and presently one turned up,
under the bed. Upton did not under.
stand. He had never studied scien'
tific rine.shooting; did not know that
Sir Henry Halford had put Is bullets
out Of 20 into a mark at 1000 yards.
Upton was not prepared to find that
grudge could be borne for life
time, and Notwithstanding protests oil
friendship could be paid of at last by
means of a rife shot from a fixed
rest, the weapon carefully laid by
means of a telescope sight
Yet so 1t was. We found the other
wise: we. found the rifle in the thatch,
with the marks of the wise on the
stock; we found the cartridges, and
books which led to the belief that
O'Gorman had been employed In an
American rifle factory. And as the
summer morning dawned we looked
across the lake, and in the clear
mountain air discerned newspaper
| [ had spread on chair at the fatal
spot where the squire had fallen. with
the naked eye. The distance was ar
forwards found to be exactly 2,247
yards, and there can be no doubt that
the squire had long been the object
Of rifle practice from o'Gorman's cot
tage.
It had taken O'Gorman some time
to get the range. even with the help
of the squire's newspaper which would
ho q ronanicuoua object against the