Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
CHAPTER EII-contInusd.


any means, but I'd been a fool all my
life, and / ought TO have known bet
ter, and didn't. Her husband was
representative Of one Of the big min
Ing companies what had got wind Of
US being on the traii of something
and sent him up TO investigate. lie
was away for days at a time, and the
woman was all alone in the camp.
Il got Into trouble oyer her. Her
Husband come back and found us to-
Eether. lie tried to shoot me, bur /
Was handler, and / got the drop on
him and killed him.
I'VE three was alone IN the camp
at the time the woman. me, and the
man I'd killed. It was a wild coun-
try, but murder was a game no man
could afford to get up against. We
left him lying there and took the
horses and rode for our lives.
"He had friends, and they set the
police on to us. We got away, though,
and made for the native. territories.
You know how / came to be sort OF
chief there. King Seaton. I'm called,
NJ over the country. After a while
D.. come back. / thought it had been
forgotten
ut ought to have been, but De Witt
had known me in the old days and
se recognized me And he's held me
In his power ever since by threaten
ing me with the law So that's how
come to steal Mr. CARROTS dia-
mouds"
'What did YOU do with the woman?"
shouted De Witt springing to his feet
and waving his arms furiously
You've told the court this much
now go on and tell the restH'
Judge Crawford hammered with his
gavel, bat the uproar in the court was
TOO loud for him to make his words
heard Some were kissing, others try
ing 10 howl them down But all
through the scene judge Davis sat,
impassive and still, In his place In the
gallery.
De witt pushed his lawyer away.
There's more to the story by a
d-n sight" he shouted you've heard
that much, and now m tell the rest!"
You can be heard at the proper
time Mr. De Wittw cried the Judge
sngrily
There's no time like this" an
Ewered De Witt defantly, strdlng
forward. "Put me In the witness
box~ he shouted to Brown. "Put me
there If you dare and III tell the
Jury the rest Of H."
Brown nonplused over this new de-
Velopment hesitated But a glance
Al the faces OF the Jury showed him
that he could not decline the chal-
lenge. He nodded to Seaton. who
stepped down De Witt entered the
box. The clerk handed him the tesla.
meat but De witt brushed II aside.
aTd now, SO keen was the interest,
e"5en the presiding judge failed to no
ilce the irregularty.
I'll tell you what I know" shouted
oe Witt, addressing himself TO Davis
In the gallery. You've thrown me
over after I've worked for you these
ten years and more, you SNUG old
cantlng hypocrlte p he cried. Look
at him There he sits. clean and
sarctlmonious. Ike a little tin god
~ in the skies :"
Judge Davis certainly did look sane
Mmonious. His eyes were fixed upon
De Wits grayely. To those on the
floor Of the courtroom Judge Davis
looked at that moment the very type
OF the PharIsee But some Of those
near him In the gallery enoticed that
the old mans eyes had in them a look
Of strained horror, as II he was ex-
Fecting some dreadful revelation.
I'm done vita you noww cried De
Witt fjnging out his arm with
weeping gesture "He knew what
was doing for him. he knew from the
FIRST to last every bit Of the dirty
Work that nobody else would DO. But
BE- wouldn't soil his own hands with
It. lie wouldn't listen 20 the details
u was always, Gro ahead. he Witt
II YOU think It proper, but don't do
anything uurighteous or unchariiable'
UnCharitable! There's not single
drop of charitable blood in the old
Eeoundrel's body
Yes he knew everything. gentle
nen, and yet there was one thing that
be didn't know. a-J now his turn has
come, and he's going to know It. ASK
him to take of his collar and show
you hts throat gentlemen. You'll find
q buliet-hoIe there. It's healed M
long ago, but It's burning like the
rage be felt when he tried to shoot
back, just one second too late That's
the hole left by Daddy Seaton's bullet.
md Daddy Seaton's been running for
lis life for twenty years because Of
a man he never killed.
Look at him again. gentlemen!
Ask Daddy Seaton TO tell you If there
was only the woman In the camp. or
II she didn't have a baby OF six nor 3
with her, that she wouldn't leave be-
aind, although he wanted her to. Ask
him who Sheila Seaton Is Then look