Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-30

another state. Becoming involved in
speculation he used several hundred dol
lars of the banks funds. He had no rela-
tives but a sister, to whom he knew it
was useless to apply for aid. AS dis
covery seemed inevitable he was con-
templating suicide. seeing nothing but
prison and disgrace ahead of him. But
an old friend of his father, who entirely
by accident learned of his plight, adj
vanced him the money he needed to make
good his defalcation, eXacting from him
a promise that he would help others in
similar plight whenever he had oppor-
tunity.
His subsequent life was of the highest
recititude. Though he amassed a fortune
he never found opportunity to all any
one in a plight similar to the one in
which he once found himself. 1t became
almost a mania with him and resulted in
his leaving his entire fortune to aid first
offenders in turning back into the right
path.
| know Of no way Of reaching the per-
sons he intended to aid. 1 am sending
out this letter to persons employed in
banks and positions of trust, hoping that
you or others who receive it may know
of some man, young or old, who has
made the first misstep and is ~wrongfully
using funds belonging to others, but is
DESTROYS of making good his populations.
If you should know of any such I will
gladly make good his defalcation and en-
deaVor to save him from exposure, dis
grace and Imprisonment, asking only his
word that he will not err again, for Mr..
Green, in the deed of trust, expressly
specifies that this is the only security to
be exacted. I am, sir,
Very truly yours,
HENRY MALCOLM STEWART.
AS Davis finished reading the let
L.. r 4oo1~ - fc0.o hiC h oD6 ond 0oTn.
fully re-read it. There could be no
doubt that it was the same in form
as the scrap Louise and l had found.
AS I scanned the lines, the words at
the beginning of each, from the
seventh on to the thirteenth, were
the same as those owe which we had
racked our brains. The context now
made them plain enough, but still l
failed TO see what deadly import the
letter had or what sinister meaning
in it should drive it's recipients to
desperation and suicide. Surely on
it's face it appeared to present the
harmless within of an old mans slight
ly unbalanced brain. | turned to
Davis for an explanation.
can ingenious letter." Davis was
saying. "And they fell for it?"
A look of pride came into the pris-
oner's face.
Wasn't it great" he exclaimed.
why, they ate it up like hot cakes!"
"Just plain blackmail," said the in
spector.
mo, indeed-fancy b~lackmail," said
Young Indignantly. '"They never had
it dished up to them quite in this way
before. I insist, if I've got to go to
jail for it, on at least receiving credit
for a new criminal invention"
"I fail to see," I interrupted, "just
! how the letter was a criminal one or
why it should have bothered any
one"
I'm afraid you will never make a
| good detective" said the inspector
pityingly. Don't you see how it
worked? Young devised this letter.
He needed the cooperation Of some
one in the post Office to send it out
without arousing suspicion. He tried
yellow letters first on General Far
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Satisfied that his yellow letter plan
would bring results, he recalled his
acquaintance with Rouser, whom he
knew to be weak and easily led. He
returned to Ardway-his old home
and found it child's play to enlist
ROuser's services. 1t was part Of his
general scheme for Rouser to send
and receive all the mail through a
lock box with a false name. His OBJ
! iect in this was to enable him. in