The Adair County news., 1922-07-04

et4HAz1 efoA 10 klQnap MISS Mcdonald
stA6 a7cr father-theugh 1t wouldn't
3HasE directly-it would create a
zpNSadice In the minds of NE jury.
Sses e-gI1d bring that in as evidence.
lEk WzOs1sd 'discredit Bewyer 1t would
BotSos ihtrn into the witness-bOx and
s+srss 7ss IN opportunity. If those men
RI Miss Mcdonald could go into the
SEifaBsSs-box-we could present some
Pf1i1sE 81 q case. But they're dead-at
Assssst those outlaws are dead-and
their secret died with them"
We can get TOnguay there"
ftCE don't consider that he may be
e Ssssr witness for the prosecution,
t-Srzz&thers? He's got his neck to save
-4DsE, If your implication of Phayre Is
Ehe osOrEect one, you remember that
HDaSsxe is q director of the Clayton
klsEJZstSi, and donated a large sum of
l-znnssg to it, Three weeks in a private
ETBSz there offer opportunities"
fs5U do believe that Phayre is i'm
glIiSRSed?" cried Wilton.
do, CarrutherS I'll be frank with
S1sC q didn't at first. But I'm con-
vhn5sd that either Phayre or Bowyer
sSaS DriTy to Joe BoStOck'S murder.
k,eIssEEe 1T was an accident, and that
they're playing on 1t to get you con-
3sa4tsS-
That's what we can prove against
sda1n, and it amounts to nothing. Now
Wnrz can they prove against us? You
We're Joe BostOck's friend. You knew
zlI tsIS affairs. You were his executor.
Far rome reason or other Joe BostOck
ZaiSsez a loan Of a large sum on five
sIIus2red Missatibi shares-probably
xG ss01er some other investment, and
sinewiag that he could meet it when
rho rfime came. There's nothing alb
KmrFssl or unusual about that.
The money disappeared. Checks az
=sressSsxng four hundred thousand dol
ElES signed by Joe BOstOck and
zTsss5e out in your favor are found in
ysaxE safe. II is claimed that you pre-
ssz8sa fhem; that they passed through
s-.Ss E5znk In the normal way, and that
rfAESE went back to you at the time you
s<1eg3Eed the monthly statement as his
ss.SacIfSUr.
RSu are presumed to have caShed
chase Checks. Two days later you
yUeRc into the bush with Mr.. Bostock.
EkE gzaed at your side. Do you see the
1InERication, as a juryman would see
EeT"
And you believe 1 forged those
C1R4<ks9'
~E'do not" said Payne emphatically.
f2sIt-+l'u be frank-I couldn't see"
Enen it was Phayre."
Ehayre or Clark. Clark has a first
ar7asss record. He was twelve years with
lie Regina branch of the Western Ma
tEisszzz1- I'VE haven't been able to trace
ssaay7zaing to his discredit- Still. there's
l3s's rsne least doubt Phayre and Bow
-Se=r a1xed up this scheme to get con-
5t7zsl of the MiSSatibi and ruin you, at
Stt1e best. Joe BoStOck's death fitted in
'sizky too well with their purposes. But
ASFU those checks got into your safe,
IL <-2zKTutherS-'
Chambers placed them there, of
curse. l went over the papers i'm
aIIediately l discovered that the safe
SkSaS open, but the checks were the last
zalHEg 4 should have thought of look
rElg at. j thought they were after the
:. |.I1sleT5rints of the townships"
Ehen Chambers must also have ab-
=aracted the checks showing how Joe
H3oStOck expended that five hundred
thousand, and left those in their place
4ks diabGlical cOntrivance, and I'm
,sifraid we can't hope to make much
aggression with such a story on a
2TE, Carruthers. Are you positive
-z7eE closed the Safe?"
Il am absolutely sure, because L al
'sF1yS tried it after closing, and made
sire that the combination was not
set"
at couldn't be opened without the
q ss115iaationp
Impossible. OF course, I'm not say
: NJ what mightn't be done by a master
= .raftsman-"
But Chambers wasn't burglar. He
was an engineer, and always had been.
He was a skilled one, too. He could
40 better by his profession than by
Iasurgiary. That's the heaviest item in
che prosecutions BILL Carruthers. 1t
establishes a strong motive. That's
Z szEbat mean when say that we're on
she defensive. The thing we have to
= 10 s-to clear up this forgery situa-
s-ion."
He hesftated. "Carruthers, I'll be
ErankSwith you" he said. There's an
ksther motive almost as strong. It's
Mrs Bostock. She went to live at Big
, Muskeg in AN isolated cottage near
your own-right after her husbands
death. "A damning thing in the eyes
of men"of the world, as all jurymen
pE1fei themselves on being"
-4sShe was like a sister to me for
lees sake" said Wilton.
(which is the .last-the very last