The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-19


arisen out of the restless sea of hui
mainly and we're fighting for tn,
ghastly bit of wreckage il had cas-
I up. One party, two men in f1ashy gar
ments and displaying huge watch seals
were but out of court forthwith. Their
missing friend had disappeader from
Salt Lake City. They had not reaC
| the newspaper reports carefully. He
was two inches taller than the body In
the trunk. Their eye for measurement,
was bad. In fact. their entire course
savored of longing for a good mu-
scum attraction.
TIE other claimants, a middle class
family from a northern suburb, pre-
scented remarkable case: remark
able as one of the strange condolences
which occasionally arise in police work
In great city. Despite the length OF
time. the difficulty of accurate identi-
fication and all other probabilities to
the contrary, they described the body
most exactly. even to the filings of the
teeth. His name, they said, was Oliver
Dixie; he had disappeared three yea .
and a half before from Etteso, whence
he had gone to take a position as at
tendant I'm an asylum.
For the want of a third and better
claimant, the body was turned over
to them. Here, for the suburban fam
was but a second cousin and an
orphan. Their grief was long since
assuaged. neat round hole in the
occipltal bone, with corresponding
one in the frontal. told all too plainly
that his death had not been a natural
one. Somewhere, perhaps, a fellow man
with blood guilty hands lived and
thrived, but money was required to find
him and the suburban family thought
bAI.- fU.n .I,aN.v -. q
agreed to relieve the county of the ex-
pense of burial
Before we left Deputy Coroner Nc
Nally, who. despite his grewsome call
Ing, was a most jovial, round faced
Irishman, led us to the basement to
view his treasures, the exhibits in the
case
The body already had been prepared
for burial. and Clarke did not ask to
see it. The pine box he glanced at
just long enough to read the fictitious
with a look. When he came to the
zinc case, however. it riveted his atten-
ton. He examined closely every seam
and corner of it.
"A nate job, that. Mr. Clarke" sug-
gested McNally. "Th' murderous divvil
that done it has packed NANNY a wan
before by tn looks av ut
Yes. and he may pack others If he
isn't stopped" answered Clarke, GRIM
ly. Look here, Sexton. Did you ever
see case just like this?"
! admitted that | had not.
Then it's safe to say you never
have been to Vancouver
Neither had L. but | failed to see
what il had 10 do with the zinc case
nor did Clarke see fit TO enlighten me-
He soon brought his examination to an
end. and. thanking the genial McNally,
we sought more wholesome atmo-
sphere.
We lunched down town. and from
Clarke's silence l knew his busy brain
was wrestling with one of the two
problems. Which one l was unable to
guess
You must forgive me, my dear Sex
ton" he finally said. for keeping you
in the dark for awhile longer In fact,
have nothing to tell you as yet but
a mass Of odds and ends which may
be meaningless. | am afraid it will
he some time before the slender
threads l now hold will lead me to the
main cord. | wish to refresh my mem
DRY on two points before deciding defi
nitely on the trip to the coast. If we
go | should like to have your company,
for three men may be none too many
for the work in hand. Do you think
you can spare the time?
IF anything is doing you know I
shouldn't want to miss it"
Thank you, Sexton. Lets see, IT
is now o'clock. Well prepare for the
trip. anyway. You hurry out to the
house and pack what clothes we will
need and meet us at the station.
VIII telephone Dudley to be there. l
also have "A call to make at your little
office and a little matter to
attend to down i'm Chinatown, which
will aid me in passing the two hours.
Run ahead and | will settle the checks.
The usual weapons. and pick out
good one for Dudley. We may find
desperate game
The time proved little enough, and
it was within a few minutes of train
time when | met Clarke and Dudley at
the station. Clarke's Investigations
since | left him evidently had decided
the trip. for he had tickets and berths
for three straight through to Seattle.
/ spare the reader the details Of the
tedious four-day trip. Dudley and /
were very much in the dark as to
Clarkes plans, and as he did not see
partook mostly of commonplaces de
signed to keep Dudley's mind as far
as possible from his trouble This
much only i gathered. Clarke In some
manner connected the finding of the
body with the disappearance OF Evelyn
Mason. My nina struggled with the
problem long before the light came.
'Osette." the name on the paper. Eft
teso" reversed. But this was a slim
excuse for so long and expensive a
rip. | pressed Clarke gently for fur
her details, and reluctantly, but with
,ut telling me all he had in mind. he
gave them. His memory of the case.
verified by a look at the files of my
I'D newspapers. recalled that a guest at
he coming out party of Miss Mason, |
hree months before her disappearance, |
vas DR.. Clinton Withersbee of Etteso. |
Wash.
oh. remember Evelyn speaking |
# him. exclaimed Dudley. II was not |
Il the party, which was advanced that |
'ur engagement might be announced, |
,cing I'm the orient at the time. This |
was a guest of the An |
rims. Evelyn recalled him because she |
ook a violent dislike to him. Said he /
vas always following her with his eyes, |
which she could even feel burning into |
Ter back"
You have given me an additional /
lew. Mr. Dudley said Clarke.
Clarke did not mention the zine
ase nor his visit to Chinatown, yet 1
cit that these must be two of the
most important links in his chain OF
When we finally reached the end of |
ur long journey and succeeded i'm To-
ating the town of Etteso. we found
little hamlet numbering about 800
ouls Across a snug harbor shone the
road expanse of the Pacific. Walled