Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-11-18

The draft was on its way to Mr.
yames's bank within ten minutes. The
money was In your name. No one
could ever touch cent but you!"
She was on her knees beside me.
"Jim!" she .sobted. I,felt her soft
arms around my body; I saw the won.
derful new light IN her eyes.
Then I tainted
guess that's the story,
Had I ever intended to rob them of
the money? Heaven help me, yes!
Mike Garven had filed my soul with
cringing fear. It was not until the
night l swore the oath that won the
fight and the sleep came. That's why
packed my suitcase so I could grab
1t and get away before Mike got Wise.
That's why ! stayed at the bank
twenty minutes with Carter. I've said
did a mighty big thing for him once
Il saved him from Jail. He did a
mighty big thing for me. and he took
big risk, but 1t all came out right.
He helped me Send the money the
one place knew Mike Garven could
MT get his hands on it.
While he was perfectly willing to
show the police all records OF my de.
posits, he wouldn't have shown them
the record Of that draft without rails,
Ing howl. But they never consider.
ed that possibility.
Now you understand why I was so
anxious to have them go home.
They'd have found the money waiting.
Or If Mr.. James hadn't come UP, he'd
have wired them instantly. But 1
know now that the only people in
that bank beside the head of 1t are
an old bookkeeper and a kid. They
Just let that draft lie in a drawer.
Why didn't tell them about It dur
Ing that interview In the bank? Be-
cause even then was afraid of Mike
getting the money. I think that
believed he was capable of anything
then.
That I didn't tell them afterward
was just the dog in me, / guess;
Just the bitterness because thought
the girl had broken her promise,
while Id taken as desperate chance
as man can take to save her money.
When 1 found that I'd been wrong,
and that she and her father had left
the hotel, after sending all of their
money down to the folks at home.
; you can understand why It hit me SO
hard.
Mike Garven7 Poor Slivers's
prophecy came true. didn't It? Jami-
son planned the whole game of break
Ing him. The story he told of how
Mike committed the murder was pure
ly imaginative and based on probable
tiles; but 1t was true almost to the
dot.
Mike had gone to Slivers and pre-
tended to be half dead with fear that
O'Hagen would keep his threat. He
gave him thousand dollars, and
while o'Hagen was counting the mon
knitted him.
Then he took back the thousand dol.
lars and fixed the tray. while he han.
died 1t with wads of cotton batting.
I'd never thought of the possibility of
Mike doing the job himself; but, as
Jamison said, 1t was the only thing for
him to do. Trusting some one else
wouldn't have left him any better of.
I've said before. somewhere in tho
story. that Mike Garven knew I would
60 to Kennedy. He did. One of tho
men sitting and smoking in the back
room was Rat-Face, whom I never
saw.
He telephoned description of that
raincoat and hat, and Mike took ono
Just like 1t 80 that he'd be seen.
He didn't believe for a minute that
Jamison's slick work of getting the
three men before the inquest and
questioning them till he'd put a doubt
In their mind was going to queer tho
whole thing for him.
The trick of throwing the coat over
j his shoulders and jamming the hat
down over his eyes was Jamison's.
You saw how 1t worked on the mon
the lawyer had prepared for It.
l don't know how he hypnotized
.hose to"n onclal3, Dut he certainly
had things all his own way.
Mike never recovered his nerve
again. and he was pretty bad with
brain fever for a month after the
trial.
Most of the newspapers called It
retribution. though one or two high
9hRrow writer's proved 1t to be psychol-
Epgy, or physiology. or something like
that.
The police woke up then. and I
helped them trace down the games
Mike had been working. The extent
Of them amazed even me. He had
more than five million dollars!
1t was four months before we'd re-
turned as much OF It as we could 10
the victims. and my help got me i'm.
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