The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-03

ma, sne said, and 1t took only o,
glance to assure the girl. Then she
cried softly. That's my father" she
said. IS.
Are you sure" i S'"'o A,,to.,
Then can talk. woun S"a,! S!
II he was alive. for II he was sssSs.c.cl sss..e
and IL he could hear what am say
ing about him, he would kill me. He
hasn't been good to me for year.
Ever since he met that woman"
"That woman" the visitor asked.
"Yes. don't know who she IL, ex-
cept that I've heard her name and
I've found some letters from her once
In . while, but she Is the one that
took him away from me- He used to
be q good husband before we came
to Grand Island here. But since then,
we'll, he wasn't at home much after
that and last August he left me. Since
that time he has been to the house
several times, but It was only to get
money to spend on someone else. I
knew he was spending It on someone
else. For he never needed the amount
of money that he got from me to
travel. have travelled myself lots
Of times, but it didn't take amounts
like one hundred dollars to do it on.
And what has 1t left me-? Nothing.
He ran through all my money, and he
ran through all the, money that we
had when we came here. thought
we had money in the bank until last
June when l went to look and then
I saw that we had nothing. He had
spent it all, but he said, that he had
merely put it out on interest.
The woman looked at the picture
again.
"I'm not so sure of that picture"
she said.
"Teil me, was he bald?"
"Just little thin hair on the top
of his.head."', s.
Yes st.,. -.
"And was one Of the upper teeth
on the right side of his jaw crowned
with gold?
YES"
There was a scar above his left
eye, too. II l could only see his
clothing" The reporter took q piece
of the mans clothing from his pocket
and handed it to the woman. She
looked at 1t only for moment.
That's his clothing" she said.
Over in one corner of the SOON,
Milla was still crying, while behind
the stove Dewey, an 11-year-old boy,
was looking on with nonunderstand-
ing interest. Annie, years old, was
crying, too, and Will, "a years old,
came in from town to lcok at the pic
ture, hear the description, the cloth
ing and say that he believed, too. that
the murdered man was his father.
Mrs. McCoig sat looking out the win
dow. There was no sign of emotion
in her face. Naturally hardened from
privations and worries, it appeared to
become harder still as she thought Of
FL herstroubleS and told OF them. : :
Coming on this January two years
ago, we moved here from Oconto,
Neb.," she said. I'VE had about &c.
900 that we'd gotten from the sale Of
the farm: and wanted to buy here,
but Neil didn't want to do that He
said that seeing we had right smart
bit of money that we'd better put it
in the hank and then rent farm.
Well, we put that money in the bank
of Oconto and then Neil took the
bank book. I amt seen it from that
day to this. because he wouldn't let
me have it. 1 know he had the bank
book with him when he went away
from Falls City. Well, for spell he
stayed around the farm here and
helped take care of the. stock, and he
got to wandering around with Walter
Euell. He used to work here. on the
farm. Well, they'd go out at night and
stay maybe until and o'clock in
the morning, and when I'd ask him
what he was doing he wouldn't tell
me. One afternoon l was standing
out on the step when along came Wal
ter, and he looked at me kinda queer.
"'Where's Neil?' asked him, and
he looked right at me again.
"'Mrs. McCoig,' he says, If you
knew what l know, you'd go right to
Kearney tonight 'Why?' L. asked,
and he says, Because Neil's over
there with a woman, and that's the
first knew Of him running around
that way. Well, after that he gets
started for true. He'd send to me for
money and I'd always send 1t to him.
l know he was spending it on some
woman then. He left me for good
last August, but last September he
came through here and said he want
ed some money. gave it to him and
he went away again. Then he start
ed that restaurant in Falls City, and
he has been back here just once since
then. He came to get money that
time, too."
who was the woman?" the visitor
asked.
why she was Alice Barber. that's
who she was. She lived right in
Stella, Neb."
Last week Neil called me up from
Falls City and said he wanted some
money. wouldn't give it to him.
Then a day or two later he called me
up again, then he told me that he
was going to come up for Christmas
and said that he was going to bring
the children a whole lot of presents.
/ asked him where he got going to
get the money and he told me that
he had about 500. He must have
taken this money and gone to Kansas
City with 1t. I guess somebody must
have robbed him there"