Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-25

HIND a
Hes comm around" said Shot
gun Shillman.. Nov he'll be a in
valid nuisance for a while like
Rale."
whats Jack trying to do?" Riley
Tyler asked. Here, take that out
of your mouth"
1t was Billy wo reached Jack
Murray first. He snatched the
wadded ball Of paper from Jack be-
fore he could close his teeth over 1t
Billy smoothed out the crumpled
wad. 1t appeared to be a letter and
a promissory note.
Billy read:
Judge Hiram Donelson,
Hillsville.
, Dear Sir: The man who killed
Rafe Tuckleton is the county prose-
| cutor, Arthur Rale. Rale owed
Tuckleton five thousand dollars on
a note and couldn't pay it. Rafe
wanted his money. Early in the
evening on the day he was killed,
Tuckleton came to Rale's house
where / was at the time, and de-
manded payment. He brought the
note with him. Rale refused and
they auarreled. Tuckleton had been
drinking. Before Tuckleton left he
said he was going to the Walton
ranch. After he left, Rale told me
he had planned some time ago to
kill Tuckleton and get the note back
| at the first opportunity. This look
ed like a good opportunity. Rale
showed me a butcher Knife. He
said it was just like one at the Wal
ton ranch. He had cut Tom Wal
toms initials on the handle so ii
would be like it. Rale said he had
tried to get the original knife, but
| had not been able TO. This one he
had fixed up had to do. He said
when his knife was found on Rates
body, everybody would think Hazel
| Walton had killed him, and nobody
would believe her if she said the
knife wasn't hers. He asked me to
go with him. / went, and we hung
around Walton's till Tuckleton came
out. and then we followed him, and
Rale stuck the knife in him a couple
OF times. When Tuckleton was dead
| Rale took the note out of Tuckle-
toms pocketbook, and ! held Rale
up and took the note away from
him.
Here is the note he took off
Tuckleton.
Yours truly,
(Signed) JACK MURRAY.
Bill handed the letter and the
Rale note to Shotgun Shillman, who
them into an inner pocket or his
vest.
"WelI," observed Sam Prescott,
folks will be sending Bill to con-
gress next"
yes" assented his daughter,
NOW that the grand jury have in
dieted Craft, Larder. Murray and
Rale, there isn't anything left of the
Crocker county ring but the hole"
MAYBE now Hazel will make it
up with him."
Maybe" With some Indifference.
"Shucks, and he used to like you.
Sally Jane"
"But l never liked him-enough."
This with more indifference.
Hazel Walton, sewing in the front
room, saw a rider coming up the
draw. 'That looks like Bills horse"
she muttered. And Bills hat. It
it is Bill"
Her heart began to pound. Her
throat CONSTRUCTED. There was some
thing the matter with her knees.
Billy Wingo came on. He came
quite close-within twenty yards
and stopped his horse and rested his
hands on the saddle horn, and look
ed at the house. Just looked.
Suddenly Billy pulled his hat for
ward and picked up his, reins. She
saw his heel move. The horse began
to turn. 1t was then that something
snapped in Hazel's breast. Strength
came to her shaking knees. She
sprang to her feet, ran to the door,
flung it open and dashed out. Billy's
startled horse SHE'D away. Billy
dragged him back with a jerk.
Six feet from the horse. Hazel
stopped and stood very straight. her
arms stiff at her sides. Her knees
began to shake again. She knew
that her voice would tremble. 1t
did. Bill, 1--we changed my mind.
L was wrong. I-you-you did the
right thing to see it through. If
if you hadn't, 1 don't know what
would nave become of me-"
Then, of a sudden, he was off his
horse, his arms were around her.
and she knew hat all her troubles
were over.
THE END