Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-04

1t has been many a year since l
heard that name spoken" Kennedy
began toy move about, with abrupt
turns abrupt gestures. He dill not want to
hurt the boy; and yet the fathers
mouth ana eyes Of him stimulated the will
70 murder So. to keep moving. to tire out
the inclination. Once he paused gloomily
before his prisoner. Are you afraid of me?"
Yes. But only as a normally sane man
has the right to fear another who is"
1 wonder" unused Kennedy. Why not?
What has there not been to drive me in.
sane! have killed a man, I have spent
fourteen years In prison. l have lost all that
earth held dear-my wife, my child! -Four.
teen years with iron bars between me, and
sunshine-because of your fathers perfdy.
! trusted him absolutely, and he beggared
me. My child! She may be dead, she may
De hungry, she may be a drab thing of the
, streets. Day after day ! have sought her i'm
:hescroWds. rOh.sl would know. her Instantly.
She would have her mothers SMILE"
Tears Welled into Bancroft's eyes and be.
gan to roll down his cheeks. What an
Odyssey of sustained nisfortune! LAWYER
smells comment returned: Johnny Jones OF
s~outhSDakota, content to be a cowboy, but
whose bones rotted in France because A
mani by the name Of William Hohenzollern
The innocent bystander! He must let this
unhappy man relieve his soul of all its accu-
Mulatea bitterness; tell his story; then he
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little staff it seemed for these colossal mis-.
cries to lean on! The truth would not bring
back the wife and child. return the four.
teen years wasted in a dungeon-keep: it
might not bring back even the mans faith
in mankind. I'd
Kennedy went on. He did not address
Bancroft particularly. What had T done
that God should pile all these miseries unon
my head? I had never harmed any human
being. l had played square. And here I
stand. guilty Of an innocent mans death
guilty of the death of your father, if not by
\ deed. by intent. From a kindly man, some.
thing OF a dreamer. I became a piece of ma.
chinery, dedicated to destruction!
Rocked me, when I was thousands of miles
away and could not defend myself. For
fourteen years I had nothing to do but think
ana plan, think and plan. But your father
had hidden SO cleverly that / found him.
only that day.
Bancrofts chin sank to his chest. limo.
cent oystanders! This unhappy wretch, Silas
Bancroft and Silas Bancroft's son, all three
innocent bystanders, rocked and pulvcrtzed
BY chance-medley! Bancroft thought of his
1nther's agony; never daring to throw his
arm across his sons shoulder for fear the
emotion might snip the slender thread by
which his life hung.
knew nothing of finance" continued
kennedy, resuming his pacing. THAT was
your fathers game. So I turned everything
! had into cash-borrowed on call loans
dumped 1t into his hands, and sailed for
5SBouth America. I sailed away" Kennedy
Rughed again. II sailed away! when 7
leturned. two months later. my wife was
dead and buried, my child gone, the savings
OF years wiped out. Why, I didn't even
know your fathers brokers! I was
that trustful! I Immediately wrote to a
~ friend Of mine in La Paz and turned over
mine to him in trust. To buy that mine
&s mad taken up most Of my ready cash; and I
sM you'd need capital to work IT. / then de.
stroyed al my luggage and p~apers-any.htng
would identity me as Kennedy and
started out to kill your father. But first. I
yn1nted one more look at the old home where
j known such happiness. There was a
M NtoWd about the door. An auction4er was
ehanting inside. The world became red. ]
pushed people aside. A policeman inter.
iered. knocked him into the areaway.s He
Nd almost instantly from conclusion. Al
hour later / was In the Tombs for rnanslaush-
fer. Under the name Of Stewart, the first TIA
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being could stand and selected me to
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