The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07

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which 1 rushed ii through. Concealing
my suspicious by appearing hOpelessly
perpleXed, L quickly framed up an oc-
| caslon for visiting HixOn'S room ana,
after having instructed you to quietly
bring officers and await my signal,
went there confidently. and easily
called the turn on them"
Did You then suspect that Dalton
was our old adversary, the Big Fin
ger?"
Il had begun to suspect it, Jimmie.
because of the curiOusly conceived
crime replied Boyd. 1T appeared
like his ingenious work, and when Hix-
on told me that he mad recently bought
! into the firm, and that Curley was sell
dom there in the afternoon, 1 reasoned
that the entire scheme had been de-
libeTately planned and executed"
Quite obvious. truly"
There's no knowing how many aft
ernOOns Debbs has been cautiously
watched by these knaves. Probably
they waited till sure he was bringing
an unusually big batch of bonds up
stairs. To remove the lay-fgure from
/ its place and substitute Kelly, made up
| to resemble it. required barely thirty
| seconds; and as but few persons use
the stairs, the deception was not likely
| to be discovered in the brief time Kelly
would require to learn what quantity
of bonds Debbs was about TO bring up
for deposit
q see" nodded Coleman. 1T was a
/ clever game"
Furthermore" added Boyd, "Debbs
naturally would have had no fear of
passing close by a figure with which
he had already become familiar, while
he might have avoided any stranger
encountered on the stairs. The time
was carefully chosen, and Kelly bru-
tally killed Debbs as he was passing,
then seized the package of bonds, and
darted back to Hixon's room and con-
cealed them where we discovered them.
Meantime, the work of barely a quarter
minute. HixOn whisked the lay-igure
! back to its accustomed place, and the
/ trick was done"
Very likely, Jimmie Owing to the
/ speedy discovery of the crime. how
ever, and our immediate arrival upon
! the scene, the Tascals Unexpectedly
/ found themselves cornered. Then they
| put up a mingled bluff and blind, which
/ failed to work" concluded Boyd, with
a self-satisfied smile.
Failed, Felix, l should say laughed
/ Coleman deeply. And owing to you
alone. Too much cannot be said in
commentator of your work in this de-
1 cidedly curious case. Well. well. it GER
/ tainly will end Mr.. Magnus Scanlon.
He's sure to swing for this job
He certainly deserves to swing for
( it" Boyd gravely rejoined.
What about Curley?"
''Oh. he had no part in the affair. nor
4 any distrust of HixOn." Boyd promptly
| declared. There were but three of
| them, Jimmie"
| ScanIon retained three of the ablest
| criminal lawyers in New York to de-
/ fend him, and also secured the services
/ of an Englishman named Ruggles, said
/ to be London barrister and a rela-
/ tive of his, whom he employed to aid
and advise his local practitioners. This
/ Ruggles was an imposing, dark-fea-
/ tured man, with an abundance of waVy
/ black hair and a well-trimmed beard.
| As subsequent events proved, more
over, ScanlOn no sooner was lodged in
| the TOmbs than he began, with char
/ acteTistic foresight and cunning. to de-
/ wise plans for GLIDING justice in event
| of conviction, which appeared almost
/ inevitable. Through the influence and
ability of his lawyers, who had free
/ access to their TaScaliy client, he thrice
obtained a pOstponement of his trial,
/ so that nearly four months had elapsed
/ when it finally was called. After des-
! perate legal fight with the district at
| tOrney, moreover, his counsel gained
/ tage-that the three parties charged
with the Debbs murder should be tried
/ separately. and in the order of things
/ the case of ScanlOn came first.
/ Despite his evil record and the evil
| dence against him of the crime for
/ which he was indicted, his trial occu-
/ pied nearly an entire week-a week
/ during which the court room was
/ damned daily to its doors by the vast
! Of
/ anxious to see the notorious criminal
They did not see, however, the man
! described by the newspapers, the
| smoothly shaver, hard-featured, GYM
] zeal knave arrested by Felix Boyd. For
! ScanlOn, protesting that they should
/ have no line on him in event of his &C
| quittal, had allowed his hair and whis-
kers to grow during his four months in
prison, and he appeared in court with
/ flowing locks and a full beard. His al
! legged object appeared quite vain. how
ever, for after five days a verdict of
| murder in the first degree was returned
1 by his jury, and Sca1iOn was rer1anded
to prison to be sentenced the following
/ Monday morning.
/ That Monday morning was a men,
! Orable one for the great crowd that
was present to Sc him sentenced. The
! court room was packed and the adjoin-
ing corridors thrOnged. Attorneys.
court officers, spectators-all wondere1
| if the knave would maintain to the last
| the icy cOmDOSure and sinister con-
| tempt with which he from the first had
regarded the court proceedings.
Not until he was ordered to stand up
| in the prisoners dock, however, and in
vited by the grave-visag ed magistra te
to say why sentence Of death should
not be passed upon him, were the
! grounds rpUp1 led "a MT Spa <
late attitude of contempt and uncon-
/ Germ.
For the prisoner, in replying to the
1 magistrate, finally raised his bowed
head. then deliberately removed his
| flowing locks and weil-trInmed beaId
| There is one reason only whv SEN
tence cannot be passed. your homer -
said he, with remarkable cuolness. ''It