Evening journal., 1922-03-23


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(Continued From Our last Issue) |
There ne lay on his back. his legs
and arms spresd-eagled abroad. his
body displaying the fiattened appear
ance a corpse assumes for the first
few hours after death. Rates throat
had been slit from ear to ear. His
head was cut open and lay in pool
Of blood His face was scored with
scratches. There was blood on his
coat and vest and shirt. they found
on examination. The district at
tornev ripped open the shirt and
found four distinct stab wounds in
The region Of Rafe'e heart From
one or these wounds protruded the
broken end OF a hroad-hladed knife.
Pull it out" urged sam Lsrder
with 4 slight shudder. his fat face 20
white that n showed green in the
moonlight
"Been dead about two hours"
pronered the marshal.
about that" agreed Felix. what
eou lookin at, Arthur"
"This." replied the district sttor-
ney, holding up the handle OF the
butcher knife.
with his fingers he traced two ini-
tials on the wood. The initials were
r.v.
You can't tell me- said the dis
trict attorney. belliEerently, that
this butcher knife didn't come from
he walton ranch"
Sam Larder stated his belief At
once. "she couldn't have done IT,
Arthur why Rates. carved up IKE
an issue steer She"
shes woman" interrupted the
district attorney And woman
win do anything when her dander IL
~. And we know what this particu-
ar woman WI 40 when she's mad.
Didn't she try 10 split open Nate
samsons head when he was hardly
more than joking with herr tell
-ou this Have walton IL mur-
irese. and I'm going to see her
1p~g"
CHAPTER XIV.
Behind the corral OF Guerilla
Melody. at the tip end OF Golden Bar.
Main street. small spring bubbied
% life amid rocks.
on the night Of the nrst OF April,
Guerilla reached the spring at eleven
o'clock
IT thought you we're never COM
ing" announced peevish voice.
..Ive been waiting here since nine
o'clock
you talk much louder. Bill =
said Guerilla calmly and youli
wait here a while longer-say about
twenty years longer or ffteen. II
the Judge feels good-natured. Man
alive ain't YOU got any seneef'
IL was lonesome" Billy excused
himself. I've got 10 talk TO some
body. And anyway. a Teller hardly
ever gets more'n ten years for
hoid-up where nobody's killed
but where somebody is killed the
nenaitv is worth considerin'," point
Cd out Guerilla Melody. And TIP
O.corman was found yesterday
morning living on the moor OF his
front room dead a. Julius Caesar,
with your aulrt beside him, and your
snakeskln hatband inside the door.
Tip killed. Tip"
Yes Tip. and on account Of the
quirt and the hatband there's a
warrant issued for you for the muir
der and two posses are out lookins
for you"
II saw them" said Billy placidly
And Tip amt the only one
last night"
How"
Throat cut. head cut and three
knife cuts through his heart. Haze
walton is in Jail charged with thu
job"
Billy wingo stiffened whore n
sat Hazel Walton in jail! For al
Instant he couldn't realize Il.
What evidence is there agains
Hazei?" Billy cut In sharply
I'm the first place there's tn
knife that killed Rafe," said Guerilla
seating himself beside his friend fl
the shadow OF the rock "Butche
knife with T. w on the handle tina
Hazel admitted was hers when the,
showed Il TO her But she said Dal
siike had taken the knife-stuck
in his boot when he left. Then ther
was Rates own gun which Haze
had lying on her kitchen table
showing he'd been there. She ad
mitted. that. too. but said he'd at
tackled her and she'd managed &
get hold OF his gun after the clocl
fell on him. and drive him out"
us that ALP asked Billy.
"Lemme get my breath" Guerilla
begged Indignantly. mo. It ain
all. The district attorney says thos
supplies we're bought for you an
hey were taken by yon Hazel
ridin' horse. the one used TO be he
uncle's. that's gone too-with you.
III Rafe thinks I was al Hazelf
it's reasonable 10 assume I Nigh
have had a hand In KILN Rafe m
own self. That goes double for Da
siike. seeing he had the knife last.
TITS reasonable all right enough
but then you and Dan slike ain
nowdays available. and Hazel Is rigf
handy"
But how did Slike get hold OF tn
butcher knife. that's what ! want
know2 He didn't have Il on hin
when ] arrested him last January
That's the damndest part OF n
whole deal Bill Hazel says Da