The daily Alaskan., 1914-09-16
~ &LE0GAL1EC1 S
 Wife
By SADIE OLCOTT

One day a man named CrockfOrd
 went to his bank drew S5Og and was
 about to go out when he stopped and
 said to the paying teller:
 Look right over my shoulder. You
 see that young Italian looking fellow
 with a striped walstcoat and felt hat
 with a fancy band? We'll, when got
 through counting the mouCy'you paid
 me ] turned suddenly and caught the
 fellow Iookiur at the bills with a cov-
 etous expression on his face. You know that there area lot of robberies committed by persons seeing some one draw money from bank"
 "vhy don't you call policeman to
 sec you home or wherever you are
 goiug?"
 "Bgcause ] don't ha,icve I shall die . tu my time comes, and when it does . nothing uau save me"
 l. uhu uisargcarWy2 of stephen Crock
 ford vas one of the great mysteries
 of the close of the nineteenth century. ! The police had d very strong clew, but .4vcrn unable 10 follow it. 4 bank
 clerk gave them thc incident that has
 been told aDovc and they GSl not
 doubt .hat lDc Italian had murdered { Cra.sfori but when or where or
 wla. had been done with the body
 they fu..a 10 discover The only Oth- rr o.uw u the matter was furnished
 Hy Mrs. nro.Efori Her husband
 wh,u coming hoMa from the city often . made a sHp.u cut over path through . l wood She searched the wood and . u # part 70 thick that few ever went into tr ala .aauG lH' umains of fire, . and suue wood corded near had yisI- . Hy diminished Iu the ashes she . tmut sum. .t:s of bone and burned 1 flesh. >la picked mp also an uuburn- . ga piece uL # mans culr. This she took ] To a laundry where her husband was a..I ra hry.u@ his collars and cuffs mu1urN. and t.e mark on it was . IGawHu.l gs 1mEmg been put on g. cuff ] ne.au.u- ro Gne missing man. This. iudt,Uu- that iur body had been burned tu the .ui.Eet ended the infOr- uwlluu concerning the disposition of lIt. grg...a.IH body. The police, get . Cr- uo l...byr c.y., gave mp the case. . Cro' ford was GwuciaI man for ru-Iy'a.t x Co.,. Importers of Japa- 1 mr-r ....s. Mr. .r.ekrord after her ..~.."'a dtaan.a"unc went to the . ..ad 0, -r fra w. asked fur a psi t.u AE ,.i.. ..e ...-lJ support her sy.. She w#s rak,l into his private office, w..., she #5 Informed that a sum wHa r..Ss.g- C.m the firms cash and lrc l.-haul was suspected of hay 1 ing taken l.. Ie had been seen day OF two before his disappearance in company with a blend woman not his wife. Mr. Egger.u believed that Cvo.kfocl WIS uot dead, but had fled with the uluuI woman.
 Ou hearing l.~ recital Mrs. Crock ford fu, .u rug a.s in a faint. So great w#s the sympathy of AIr. Engle- hart that hg agreed .. employ her on ,he hooks, she having some knowledge 1r IoglEcor..- She became the as- si-tmt of John Udrdwick, who had 1 been her msyaads assistant. Since ] tha attor's disappearance uardwick . had Icau r~amored to be the financial man of JNo firm.
 A year r.ssed, during which nothing
 
 ford was complained of ny Hardwiek fpr ineHi.lucy several times and at last naityd the firm that she must |ieuyc OF he would do so himself. She WAS informed of tnc fact and told that since Unrdwf.h was am excellent ac- couulmt uui willing to work for mere rt-hc of what a. was worth they had Ge. aud that sine must go. She asked to an kept ua .a1 end of the month. gG.Her-re. .a,st was granted One evening Mrs. Crockford tele- pa.neI Mr. Eug'elart that uardwick was a Hefau'tcr and about to take to at@Gt. >ha M.-s.d that H2rdwick be arrested or Ean. .a sight Euglchart disgredi5cd lHn m.urmatt.a but put a watch on Uarlwi k.
 Tine next ,. -uuG wlo should ap- nelr at Euglr.aG x Co.'S office but lIr. and Mrs. -Crorkfori They begged to be admitted to the private room of the head cr the firm. and there they let in ou his brain Gu.d of informal tou
 Shortly before yro.l:t1rd disappear ed he told his wife that Urdwick was dufaulter. but had trapped him lCrocGfyru into position wherein there was excellent evidence that he was the thief He Was every day ex- pecting arrest
 Mrs. Crockfcrl aren.cd for her hus- bands disappearance. She dined with him at public restaurant made up with a blond wig and cnameled com pleXi0n. She was the Italian who had watched him at the bank She had taken the wood that had disappeared and burned most oi it in her fireplace. With the rest she burned some pieces of meat and bone. The cuff she had