Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-05-19

He took small masnifying elae1s
from his pocket, and after scrutinizing
the yarioua footprints on the shore.
again wade& into the stream and
searched the tracks there with the
greatest care, following them Tor SONS
distance. Suddenly he uttered an ex-a
clamation Of satisfaction mingled With
astonishment. Is ssz.,-,,
My boy" he soliloquized, I've GOT
you! But what in the name Of heaven
could be your object?"
Within ten minutes he was at the
police station. and . few moments
later in company with two officers he
entered the room of Barney Maloney
at his clearinghouse. Barney was sit
ting on the side Of his bed, preparing
for his days sleep. He was q some
what stupid appearing young fellow, of
Is or so, not too clearly, with a sandy
complexion, stocky Of build. and It was
plain that he had been drinking some.
Barney" said DR.. Furnivall without
ceremony, tell these gentlemen what
! you know about the death of Sadie
Patrick?'
He removed his spectacles as he
spoke and looked fixedly into the
mans faded blue eyes.
For moment it seemed as II the
fellow had been suddenly turned to
stone, he became so rigid and gray
of skin. Then he shrieked out:
"Why, was the man that found
her! Would 1 do that if had done
it? found her there in the water, yes,
and the boys all saw me when done
it, and the blood that's on me, I got
it when picked her up in my arms
and put her on the shore, and the boys
will swear to it, every one of them,
for they was there"
He paused in his headlong rush Of
words, his eyes in the Doctors, his ex-
preston changing rapidly from fright
to peace. to earnestness, and finally to
wrapt abstraction. Then almost in
stantly he resumed in voice more
resembling machines than a mans:
II killed her myself"
"Why?"
"She was my wife, and she was try
ing to run away from me with another
man, and I wouldn't have it. She was
my girl, that married when she was out
Of work and supported, unbel1noWnst
| to anybody because she was ashamed
90 .J,a
as she might have, I found that out
all right And when she got work she
Was for going some place else where
wouldn't be bothering her-me that
took her when she was poor and in
| trouble! And then I heard she was
| I slipped cut CT the mill and had her
take q walk for q word about that,
and she ma(lded me, and the first thing
knew I had done it, for I had the
J knife with me. ran away back again
/ to the work, but seen the blood On
me, and 7 knew twas no good trying
to hide the clothes, for somebody al
ways finds them, SO would make the
play that 7 found her in the morning
and got it On me then. Back I gees
to the bridge and took her in the water
to the place where thought I could
see her when we was coming by in
the night-shift Off. 1 put her too far
down On the bank, and I couldn't see
her in the morning, but I knew she
was there, SO l cries out and runs
At this point one Of the officers took
him by the arm.
Il have warrant for you, Maloney,'
he said "for the murder of Sadie
Patrick"
That evening DR.. Furnivall, reading
daily paper, saw, in a story headed
Mystery in High Life, Child Abduct
ed" this paragraph:
"Wednesday evening between seven
and eight o'clock the three-year-old
son of Mr.. Chase Harlow, of the ultra
smart set, was kidnapped from that
gentleman's home, and all attempts to
recover the child or learn the iden'
tity of the abductor have failed. That
the crime must have been committed
by a person thoroughly posted upon
the habits of the inmates is assured by
the manner in which the daring deed
/ was conceived and carried out.
It will be recalled that it was only last
week that Mr.. Harlow succeeded in
securing divorce from his beautiful
wife, who was Frustrated on finding
that the custody of the child, whom
she worshiped, was given to the f.
ther."
DR.. Furnivall gave low whistle.
glove, my lady of the veil!" he ex
; claimed. "You said you had your rea
sons, and you certainly did have-with
; vengeance!"
Copyright, 1909, by w. G. Chapman)
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