Bisbee daily review., 1911-01-25

10 his bosom. A member of the Amer ican Detective agency on the trail of a murderer. It's a bigger thing than a circus to him.
 ''I give him details. The murderer is a workingman. He comes home and finds clam fritters instead of pork chops for supper, and. seizing the butcher knife. he plunges it into his wife's heart. His children scream out fin horror. and he fees. He heads this way. He has no money and is prob ably hiding fin a haystack or barn. He has the knife with him and is des- perate man. but do not fear him. That's my business-to tackle desper- ate men.
 q want permission 10 search the Outbuildings. If 1t is toward night l suggest that go on watch right after dark. And. oh. how the game works! No matter how describe the murder CTS appearance and dress. the farmer and his wife have seen him skulking along the highway l search barns and stacks. The farmer. armed with a pitchfork. accompanies me. We find nothing. but that doesn't prove that the murderer is not in the neighborhood. I throw out hints and am asked to stay all night to protect the house. Glorious supper Glorious bed. Glo- riOus breakfast. And then I make an- other search and move on to the next place. Like enough my host squeezes Q greenback. into my hand at parting. Oh. man. man. but it's lead pipe cinch! There's millions in it!
 Say at about noon I come along to c farmer at his gate He calls out:
 "'Can you hoe corn. WilisY
 "'Not today
 "Then get along With you. for there's no dinner for your
 ''If I can pass a sharp eyed man like you guess my disguise will do
 "'Whad you meanT
 Wins by His Badge
 "Then l let him get sight of my badge and in a whisper ask him if he has seen a man with a broken nose and a scar across his right cheek pass his house within three or four days-es- capped convict. desperate man. $500 re- ward. killed a keeper when escaping, has sworn not to be reeaptured alive Further particulars after dinner
 Zine dinner I am urged to eat as much as a horse. I search the premises after dinner. crawl under the barn in doing it. and the farmer is so struck by my intrepedity that he forces me to accept a two dollar bill See?
 "I come along to a farmhouse about sundown- I peer and peek. look both wise and mysterious. Farmer is milking his COW. and he calls out:
 Now, then. you shove along or you'll roost in jail tonight"
 'S-h-h-h. Can We be overheardY
 "'Ab0ud whadY
 Hush. man, or you may scare the game ofTr
 "'Game? Gamer
 "'Have you lately hired a mana man with a broken nose and blind in the left eye?
 Nav. No sech man wanted to hire out to me-
 Then we may converse in our usual tones. I had a hint that he might be here. You see my badge and whiskers and darbies. Been on his trail for two weeks
 You don't say! What did the fel- Ter doY
 ~He's a Black Handler and threw a bomb that killed five people
 Lands save us. And he came this way?
 GAS near as can make out. We had best search your barns after sup per-
 Catches Another Lobster.
 Glorious supper. am invited to stay all night I accept. Search Is nil. but the fugitive assassin may be hid Ing in the woods close by and visit the house at a late hour in search of food. I am given the parIot bedroom. that I may be in and out of bed every hour. Twice during the night. as I relate at the glorious breakfast table. l heard suspicious noises and softly slid out of doors but the murderer escaped in the darkness.
 Farmer comes down with a scad for my eternal vigilance and another oD my promise to keep my eyes open. Then I move on to conquer new fields. So blamed easx that I'm getting con