The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24
The Case of the
Serpent's Head

l Aib Filu VI lfOuDlt, tlldl he tfltl WAS
/ talking with Coleman.
/ "A serpents head" growled the lat
| ter glancing again at the sketch And
/ you are positive, Felix, that it was sent
/ by Scanlon?''
a dark frOwn had settled over Boyds
pale, clean-cut features. He reached
up and laid his pipe on the mantel.
then drew forward in his chair. and
took the sketch from COleman's hand.
'Hark you, Jimmie, and you'll not
reiJerate that question" said he. with
unusual gravity. 81 am up against it
again good and hard. This is not the
only one Of these threatening sheets
. mat / have received, nor the only time
that 1 have seen the serpents head"
That so?"
Il have found it penciled on nv
mont door on that of nv Pine
street Office, and i'm chalk on nv
rear gate. The author of it. Jim
ME IS betrayed in its Internal sip
niiicance- Scanlon was the head of he
criminal gang ! so long have made a
special mark. and finally turned down
ne was the master criminal. Jimmie.
ana OF all the rascally body he alone
remains at liberty"
An ! See muttered Coleman. ser
iousIy impressed with Boyd's grim
earnestness. Therefore. he alone he
Jug icIt' he pictured the serpent's
Precisely"
ever "'"
Signifying that tho head of the
gang Is by no means dead. and that he
9''li VIII organize another rascaITv
crew, replied Boyd. Not until he has
turned my toes up, however. and re
moved me permanently from his field
OF operations, as this sketch fmplies. "
You refer TO the protruding fangs.
AUG ths threatening attitude of the
str.kc?' ''O"' u
Exactly
fiCant" 'i7'i'-
It Expresses Scanlon's bitter enmitv.
MS undying hatred of me. and the
NCnSeful and deadly purpose vita
winch hc is now inspired"
He is "u. to kill YOU"
most decidedly" declared Boyd. /
with grim vehcmencc. He means 10 /
X" me at any cost save that o. hi
own TarcaLy head. He ma accom- /
crafty"
You think revenge is his native 81.
Not that alone" rcDIiaJ 2,-,i f.
iterc arc nearly score Of his aali, F.
SUN awaiting trial ard he knows thai
iiiN my testimony viii insure ihaf, .
speedy conviction So ~ is resolve;
I" nave me down and ouc before thctI
cases and called "
Humph!' Sruntcd Coleman. IF this .
- ,, me SITUATION, Felix, | can easily see
the finish of the Big Finger"
Rather to his surprise. however, for
Elk Boyd rarely gave serious thou..l1f
TO personal peril the latter ersyelv .
shook his head
Goh feel SO sure Of it, Jimmie"
Sald he. AS. I remarked just now
Ie5f teIloW, l am up against it good
and hard this time"
In what way. Felix"
In every wa that the Internal in
OF Scan!on can devise. You
"a" IL eNeHDiified when 7 admitted
YOU. The bullet that smashed nv &c
globe was meInt for nv head. E,iPbt
.iHeS WlthIn q week. Jimmie. has nv
He been threatened i'm one We or
lhpther, and each time [ esca-,ed Nv
nc sam OF my teeth. II was nj, and
tek. Jimmie, in every instance
W nat other means have been tried -
inquired Coleman. frowning.
several groWled Boyd, with bitter
'Sperlty Nothing would be too dia
3oiical Tor Scanlon to employ. The
''e's' an i'fifiildl machine
iere IN an express package. the deadly
nature Of which ! detected onIv ~.
nance il put me On my guard how
bert" '0'iS ''il'iS
4 should Sav so
On another OCCASION my provisions
we're poisoned on the way rror, tbe
market. and the danger was revealed
MY by the sudden violent illness of
ny COOK who tasted tho dishes sha !
vas preparing. We saved her life /
immie, but only by q narrow maroin ,,
Why this is outrageous! Oniv .
eHl incarnate would stoo9 to - I
wait d Bit Look herei" exclaimed
,oyd, drawing omen his shirt-frent and
iNcIosinE long, vivid line iusr he
NV mis- haze shoulder.
The dickens, 4 wOund?''
Precisely nodded BOYD. with knit q
rows. AS I sat at dinner one eve J
lhS a week or SO back. a bullet was o
7li through one of my windows Il
aSsed between my. arm and BODY o
our inches to the left. Jimmie. ana i I
Gun nave passed through my heart"
"Infamous,"
10 you wonder that have sent nv 1
.ihliy away and discharged my help?
% You wonder that my windows are L
cavity curtained and my house in ,
For ali / know, Jimmie. the q
ouse itself next may fall. I dor't II
axe move, by night or day. without
zen eyes and every piecaution." {
IN BOYD pale ace his feverish ewes I.
$ drawn features. there was a look Z
hich added weight to his impassionfzI II
OfdS: ana the central office man. re-
riding him in silence for. several mo- e
ents. gravely shook his head.
This won't do, Felix he said. ..You =
Lnnot keep it up. No man alive could
ng endure such STRAIN
Il stand il until L have landed The p
Or a
Hold up, Have you made anv at "
mpts to locate and arrest him?" %
Again and again" u
With no results?'' =
None as yet, replied Boyd AS Won u
low, Jimmie, he is as cautious and Il.
nninS knave as ever stood i'm Ieath- :
l have found it utterly impossibIe a.
learn any reliable facts about him u
lie man is an enigma, and his past 4
ystery."
An Internally black one, I'll wager"
No doubt. Yet nv observations of Il,
criminal work plainly indicate that. n
1ng with his genius for knavery, he nj
possessed of a SUPERIOR educafion /