The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-11-27

no immediate family. BE lived afone
with one old ssrvant- The h0u WA
Isolated. surrounded by 3 hedge IencA
Three persons ha6 seen g man In tnas
vicinity about midnight. the time OK
the murder, s man with 8 beard And
there were grains Of morphine on the
floor beside the old man's bed. The
murderer was s dope" tiead. He had
stoppe5 20 take his dose even as he
killed
Tbs woman Of s., simple, honest.
hunt % Imagination. looked from this
Unknown man" U Whist happened
in Mary's soul she nor no n else will
ever know, Her own statement, on
record, is merely. 1T came to me. and
7 did IL. 7 had TO save my SON"
She put on her hat. then took the
morphine and wen TO the relief sta
ton where the unknown man was.
He Iay. dressed in his street clothes.
.upoa d cot his head upon an Ice pack
Overworked doctors and nurses were
busy administering relief to the last
sccrufng patients. There was the at
tendant confusion and crowding. Mary,
-1unoticed, sought out the unknown
man. He looked very nue. k her
son. "Prcyi6entiaily like" In Mary's
words
She bent over him and left the ring
and b morphine bottle-in his
rocket? No. And here is Mary's one
in crime, remembered in police circles.
She pushed the ring and the bottle
under him q little, as though they had
slipped from out his clothes some
where as he was laid down. Mary re-
Imernbered that kis pockets a been
found empty.
The Police Arc Fooled.
As Mary went out h saw q police
captain and a patrolman approaching.
She fingered and saw them go to the
cot of the unknown man. Then b
heard the words:
Then TT is. Here's the rtng-Yes.
and the morphine"
Mary went nome and shaved of her
sons beard as he slept. That night the
mother and son and the $500 went
to Bennington, VT From there. a few
Mary, from home papers. bought on
the newsstands. read about the I'M
known man who had killed and stolen.
And about the search for the $500
the old mans servant said was TAKEN.
And how the three persons who saw
man was he. The unknown mar had
softening Of the brain and was sent
ied.
Mary q little farm, SPEND
Ing $4,000 Of the $1,000. And there she
and her son lived for nine years. The
farm, under Mary's guidance, pros
|pered wonderfully. Then the son died.
At once Mary sold the farm and re-
turned home. She went straight to po-
lice headquarters, and laid a packet
on the desk containing the $4,000 plus
the nine years interest And she told
the story.
My boys dead. Y can't harm him."
she concluded. And now I'm ready for
prison, SIR"
For what crime?'
IAN accessory after the fact" she
said calmly.
The unknown man, still unknown,
had been dead for six years. He had
never known of the disgrace laid upon
him. Nc n had suffered because Of
It The stolen money. duly increased,
was returned. And Mary was an old
woman, a snowy-haired woman Of rs.
slight, worn, her face filed with q mar
tyrdom Of suffering. And a mother.
The mother Mary went free.
And" concluded my informant, "thiS
all happened because one mans de-
scrtptton tailed with another mans.
You story tellers will have to work
your brain hare to beat the mysteries
and the heart breaking tales we Of
f1cers of the law know. And-doublesl
The woods are full of EN-. Tell any
n who don't believe It just to look
about him, that's ALL"