The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-17
Detective COnnor's Heart Adventures

/ sympathy at times. and in. the course
| or an hour he knew all aboV; Tom and
| his habits. AS an innocent country Sis!
she had married Tom. wnl although .ne
| had beaten her cruelty. anc dragged her
down into the depths. she udrjtte1 !haJ
| she still loved him-wbuld give hcr very
| life for him-and thA captain realized
| that in these modern DAYS tho sykes
Family still survived. aud the BIS and
Nancies were not unrnmmoM.
Connor led the wet-cyad. tremD!ip!r, l!t-
| tic woman back 10 her thee small rooms
! in Fifth street There was a touch Of
sorrowful sympathy n his Yoce when
he gave her a word Of parting and, tru:n
TO tell, he was rather Indifferent for tho
moment over. Wardcls escape, for cap-
ture would have added much 10 the
troubles OF the wifc--a wife whose love
even for thief had rcver falte"ed. lSUt
IL would fsl 10 Couuor 10 watch ner
very closely in the days 60 COM. 10
haunt the tenement in which she lived
with the hopes of catching Tom should he
return. This was simple duty upon Cen
nor's part.
of Tom Wardell. The hue and cry
cached the towns and'cities round about.
but not a clue was found TO the missing
thief. As for Joe kiser. there was a
up the river. The legal sharps could
never turn a pebble in Eiser's path.
For three. weeks Detective Connor kept
OH the lookout for the clandestine re-
turn of Tom Wardell He lowered over
the Fifth street home OF the red eyed
wife like night hawk. The watching
was getting to be tiresome. when, one
morning at the stationhouse. the desk
sergeant gave Connor thorough shock
Il say. Bill" lie remarked. there's "a
friend OF yours up AT The moreue.'
Friend OF mine, Eddic:" exclaimed
Connor. what abe h-l?''
TON Wardcll-bceu pulled out OF the
river-aIl banged up by paddle wheel
already identified By his friends. What
IL tinl- ,f I,ay A,,I l,o
desk clerk smiled srimly.
81 wonder If that's straight COM
mented Bill renectiyely. And so ne
Wonder Sne r'iSe If the wife vic iSnoWsi poH" S"''
Sure replied the man al the desk.
she was Up there about an hour ago
carried ON like crazy woman-faintcd
dead away, they say, and had 10 be taxi
en- home by some OF her neighbors. Beats
the devil how a woman can get nutty
over a man, don't II, Bill"'
Yes, replied Bill thoughtfully. 81
guess I'll go UP and take look s.
That night. soon after the dinner hour.
the captain called Connor into the pri
Yate office
What's all this about Tom Warden2''
he asked. WAS it really his body they
Hshed out of the riyer?"
mo doubt about it. Cap replied Con
nor Took a look at the corpse. myeslt.
today. There's nasty hole in the
shoulder where | put bullet through.
The body had been knocked about good
deal-but IT'S Toms all right"
Let me see" unused the captain
the littIe woman we had in here-War-
dell's wife? / suppose she'll claim the
body-faithfuI Bit of a rag. Bill. She
loved that yegg like house afire"
''She sure did" was Cnnnor's reply,
From an undertakers shop in Second
avenue they took what was left of War
dell over TO Long Island. where they bur
led him, There was one carriage. con-
tanning the widow in a heavy veil, an
elderly woman. an Irish neighbor who
lived in the adjoining flat and the Iani-
tors Wife. There were no prayers ana
no flowers They laid Tom the yeggman
away in 81 wooden box. He was a
thle(-a lowdown thief-an East Side
thicf-and nobody cared-only the pale
faced woman, with the red eyes and the
lame foot. whose love reached out to
the edge of the ScaVe-and beyond.
Happening near the Fifth street tene-
ment. one afternoon a month after the
putting away OF Tom Wardcll. Detective
Bill Connor bcthought him of the little
woman upstairs, and guided by sud
den itnpUlsc-pcrhaps. OF curious inquiry
he FOUND his way mechanically TO the