The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-01-02
They alkley-R Russell.
Hinton Mystery
By HOWARD N. BRADFORD

please. sir" said the chambermaid
e the second floor of the K~ensingm0re
hotel to the proprietor. Il can't get a
reply from No. 43. The door is locked
and the key inside"
The landlord remembered that No.
- had been taken the night before by
. James Walkley. a nan with a bald
head and mutton chop whiskers. He
wished for No. A also. which commu-
1cated. but 1t had been taken by a
small man, named Russell, who had
come in only half an hour before
Walkley and left $500 in the hotel safe
- be kept till morning.
The landlord went to No. 3 and was
obliged to force the door. The room
was empty. and the bed had not been
slept in. He passed through the con-
1ecting door to the adjoining ROOM. 1t.
too, was empty. but the sheets Of the
bed were bloody.
Evidently Walkley had murdered
Russell. But how had he got away
With the body? This was SOC ex-
plained. Russell was a travelling sales
nan. taking orders for laces. BE had
brought with him an Oblong sample
. se about five feet in length. SO light
that he had carried 1t to his him.
self. A shopkeeper opposite who lived
ever his store and who rose very
early. on looking out Of his front win
Cow. saw a man emerge from the hotel
carrying something that looked like a
hong. low trunk and walk away with
bis burden. He said the nan carried
Il as II it were tolerably heavy.
The landlord. putting these facts to-
gether. made up his mind that Walk
10y bad known Russell had money
about him. had followed him to the
hotel and had taken the adjoining
room purposely to rob him. The at
tempt to rob had resulted in murder.
Walkley had packed the body In his
victims lace sample cas- and had car
ded 1t away early in the morning.
whatever plumber he had acquired he
certainly had not got the $500 that
Russell had left with the landlord for
safe keeping.
The matter was reported to the pO-
Nee. but the mystery was not solved.
though 1t was further suggested by the
Inspector that Walkley had seen Rus
sell draw the money from the bank.
The landlord was directed that II Rus
sell returned for his money to make
the fact known at once, and efforts
were made to trace Walkley. A hack
man vas found who reported that q
nan in the street had hailed him early
IN the morning Of the murder and ask
Cd him to carry himself and an Oblong
trunk to a railway station. But the
cabman reported that he had lifted the
trunk on to his box beside his seat
and 1t could not have weighed, more
than twenty-five or thirty pounds.
About the time that this Walkley-
Russell affair happened q certain Ed
ward Hinton disappeared. leaving be-
hind him a wife and three children.
He kissed his wife one morning previ-
eus to going to his Office and was never
afterward seen by any one who knew
him. Mrs. Hinton reported his dis
appearance to the police and had u
thorough search made Of the hospitals
without finding her husband. The two
mysteries were not thought Of AZ hav-
ing any connection with each other.
but II they had and the date Of MI.
Hinton's vanishing had been compar-
Cd with that Of the occurrence of the
Russell affair 1t would have been
found that ON the evening Of the day
Hinton disappeared Russell and Walk
Icy put up at the Kensingmore hotel.
Three months after HintOn's disap-
pearance his wife was summoned to q
hospital where she found her husband.
He did not appear to be seriously Ill.
but said that he did not know how he
had come to be there. 1t seemed to
be a case Of loss Of memory. He was
taken home. and, though be seemed
somewhat daxed for a few days. with
In a week had returned t bis daily
duties.
One day he went to the Kensing-
more hotel and asked for a private in
terview with the landlord. Being
sioseted together. he offered to reveal
the Russell Walkley mystery on condi-
3on that the matter be kept . secret.
The landlord gave the required pledge.
and Mr.. Hinton said:
II am really Hinton. but besides be-
ing Hinton I am Walkley. Russell wa
and IL a woman. l became infatuated
with her and for her deserted my
wife and children. l determined to 20
away from them with her. but that
We might not be traced we determined
to disappear. Dressed as a man. she
p~ersonated a travelling salesman and
took m Of two adjoining rooms at
your hotel. followed. taking the
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