Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-13


Not that you won't win out Of coLrs
you WILL But when popular ppssiUn
are stirred when a newspaper can
paign has practically prejudged tn
/ case, it's apt to be reflected In tn
minds of the jury. I've thought o
asking for a change of venue. But
Pm frank. charlottesville feelln@ j
widespread, and Clayton is the tow
where your enemies have the leas
influence. / think Wen fight then
here"
an fight 1t out here" answered
Wilton.
''Your luck has been Internal. If II
could be proved that Bowyer hired
those men to kidnap Miss Mcdonald
and her father-though 1t wouldn't
help dlrectly-it would create a
prejudice in the minds of the jury.
We could bring that In as evidence.
1t would dlseredlt Bowyer. 1t would
force him into the witness-box and
| give us an opportunity. If those men
If Miss Mcdonald could go into the
witness-box-we could present some
thing of case. But they're dead-at
least those outlaws are dead-and
their secret died with them"
1--WE can get Tonguay there"
you don't consider that he may be
a star witness for the prosecution,
Carruthers2 He's got his neck to save
And, If your implication of Phayre is
the correct one, you remember that
Phayre is a director OF the Clayton
hospital, and donated large sum of
money to 1t. Three weeks In a private
room there offer opportunities"
"You do believe that Phayre is i'm
pllcatedr cried Wilton.
81 do, Carruthers. I'll be frank with
you. l didn't at first But I'm con-
vinced that either Phayre or Bowyer
was privy to Joe BostOck's murder.
believe 1t was an accident, and that
they're playing on 1t to get you con-
victed.
"That's what we can prove against
them, and 1t amounts to nothing Now
what can they prove against us? You
were Joe Bostock's friend. You knew
all his affairs. You were his executor.
For some reason or other Joe Bostock
raised loan Of large sum on five
hundred MIssatIbi shares-probably
to cover some other investment, and
knowing that he could meet it when |
the time came. There's nothing abb |
normal or unusual about that
1.-THE money disappeared. Checks ag-
gregating four hundred thousand dol
lars signed by Joe Bostock and
made out in your favor are found In
your safe. 1t is claimed that you pre-
sented them that they passed through
the bank in the normal way, and that
they went back to you at the time you
signed the monthly statement as his
executor.
you are presumed to have cashed
those checks Two days later you
went into the bush with Mr. Bostock.
He died at your side. Do you see the
as juryman would see
Itf'
"And you believe 1 forged those
,hecksY
II do not" said Payne emphatically.
'But-Ill be frank-I couldn't see"
'Then 1t was Phayre."
'Phayre or Clark. Clark has first
ate record He was twelve years with
he Regina branch of the Western Ma
ionaL We haven't been able to trace
nything to his discredit. Still, there's
ot the least doubt Phayre and Bow
er fixed up this scheme to get con-
rol Of the Missatibi and ruin you, at
he best. Joe Bostock's death fitted In
My too well with their purposes. But
ow those checks got into your safe,
Chambers placed them there, of
curse. l went over the papers Inn !
lediately l discovered that the safe
las open, but the checks were the last !
hing l should have thought of look !
lg at. l thought they were after the +
lue-pripts of the townships"
"Then Chambers must also have abb .
tracted the checks showing how Joe Z
'Ostock expended that FIVE hundred s
and left those in their place
IS diabolical contrivance, and I'm 5
AAAh We 1Ah HtDC " ludhG AuQNn /
IMPRESSION with such a story on a a
Try, Carruthers. Are you positive Y
on closed the safer"
II am absolutely sure, because 1 al "
avs tried it after closing, and made
Ire that the combination was not o
IT." r
1T couldn't be opened without the ri
d
Impossible. OF course, I'm not say Il
g what mightn't be done by master N
"But Chambers wasn't a burglar. He al
as an engineer, and always had been. NJ
e was a skilled one, too. He could h,
} better by his profession than by W
lrglary. That's the heaviest item in
e prosecutions bill, Carruthers. It bl
tablishes a strong motive. That's SC
hat mean when say that we're on 70
e defensive. The thing we have to It
Is to clear up this forgery situa- ha
m"