Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-05-02
CHAPTER ml.-(contlnued.)

weapon from MIN, thus t1e ponce QlS-
cover them. Coast is arrested for murder
CHAPTER iii.-[Continued.)
Well, SO much for Biackstock--
until the police get wind Of him. at all
events. They're trying to locate him
by cable now; haven't heard of any
success that way. however. Naturally
But few days ago Dundas
came to the surface"
Coast started violently. "Dundas!"
"Um-mm; full confession. exculpat-
2ng you, discriminating Blackstock.
Corroboratiye details: letters from
Blackstock-all that sort of thing.
Furthermore, Dundas told us why
Blackstock feared Van Tuyl: Van
knew something-some dirty business
Blackstock had cooked up in the west
Dundas took us to the shop where
Blackstock bought that gun-sales-
man recalled the transaction. You re-
member how we failed to prove the
gun his?"
"Of course. Go on about Dundas.'
"Well 1t was Truax's do
ing: nailed Dundas on the street one
day, somewhere east Of Third avenue.
The man had been In hiding ever
since Biaakstook cleared out; he was
In pretty bad way. broke and seedy;
!claimed Blackstock hadn't sent him
dollar since he disappeared. So Dun
ldas, thrown back upon his pen for
means OF livelihood. went all to
lpieces; couldn't work-had forgotten
the trick-or wouldn't; drank up all
lho could raise by pawning things.
!. Truax staked him to meal
and drinks, plenty Of drinks; and all
that on an empty stomach made him
maudlin. Confessed he was keeping q
conscience-remorse gnawing at his
vitals-whatever those are-every-
thing like that. Then Truax bundled
him into taxi and brought him to
my rooms. It was near midnight
got me out Of bed: caught cold.
However own 1t without
lcompunction. we worked the poor
devil through the third degree; SIM
ply browbeat and bullyragged him un-
III was ashamed Of myself. But the
truth oozed out finally, along with
tears-whisky tears. We hadn't
1tinted the bottle.
"As ! say. In the end Dundas owned
mp to the whole filthy affair. just as
you told it-whimpered about selling
his soul to Blackstock, price not de-
posed. We made him sign brief con-
fession, but I knew that wouldn't be
sufi1cient. and Il was then too late and
Duntas too far gone to do moro with
him. So called In central Office
man I happened to know. and turned
pundas over to him to be taken to
D Turkish bath and licked into shape:
and It did the trick. with hearty
breakfast and plenty Of black coffee
fora chaser. He was pretty shaky
next morning. but coaxed him into
= taxi and had him at the district at
torney's eface before he knew what
was. up. There he wanted to hedge.
but his signature to the overnight con-
1ession took all the starch out Of him.
and he went all over It again, with q
stenographer taking It down-type-
written deposition-all that sort Of
thing.
Meanwhile my friend the detective
7 HAD 4Eensached pundass leaging-seH.e
cheap room just OF the Bowery and
found = bundle Of letters from Black
8 aA0ck-moetly written during the trial,
when they didn't dare be seen together
hints and orders . to the evidence
Dundas Wa 10 give. That settled it.
DunNas was rushed before : masis-
tsafo and Jailed and the grand Jury
u ErRna 0Ghod % indict him Tor perjury,