The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-18
OUT Of the NIGH!
Copyriqht, 1897, NEA Service, Inc

satisfaction of the court. Call 1t
woman'S intuition OF what you
AMY believed that Worth had
taken the bonds and skipped to
Chicago. True, the court SAID
there was no sign of the stolen
bonds in the burned car. And
whose body was it, if not
. Wouh's" People don't just dlSap-
near i'm town like BlueficldS.
so AMY went TO Chicago, on a
wild goose chase. our lawyer sad.
Imagine tracing a voice. Fly this
time nv father was serving 4 SEN
trucc. He WAS badly shaken by
the trial. and | seemed to be the
one who disturbed him most. He
begged. he pleaded with me to
leave Utah and start life osmc-
where else. where | wouldn't be
linked % him. The police were
still watching ne, day and night,
irving to trace the bonds through
me. They've never been found,
Jim caught his breath 4 second.
then went on.
Naturally. wouldn't listen to
Dad az first. then it got to point
whore he made such a fuss every
time I visited him ;hat the prison
authorities refused me admission.
Finally. our family doctor urged
me 20 90 away. for 4 time at
least. :. t6r no other reason than
tu set fathers mind at rest. did.
Through a friend in Chicago. |
rot this lob in New York. dis
apDcarcd completely. Not even
ANY knew where | was | kept
i'm touch with Dad only through
Dr.. Blythe. That left Amy work
ING on her own. but she wanted II
that way. Ii was only Il willie. >
the wish she was following. and
she felt IL w1v,d ~ better for her
4 her relationship to me on to
ElucflcldS were not known by
anyone. Her only hope OF ever
r"ttiu" this fellow Worth, if in
decd me- were still alive, was in
his believing himself absolutely
clear Remember. Amy'S suspicion
newer came cut al the trial.
Then you think Amy followed
him here % New York;
I'm sure of that. When you
first spoke of Amy Kerr, | Won
dcrcd if 1t could be my Amy, but
!, didn't seem likely. The world Is
a big place Then | saw her
here Sunday night, Cilly, | can t
tell YOU how happy | was I.
we'd been outcaStS so long. |
wanted 10 tell you then and there.
but Amy warned ne. Anyway. |
slipped her that note your SER
geGnt found and | met her up
stairs on the roof as soon a. LETT
you. There was so much | wanted
to know
Did she really find Worth"
"She did. What's more, she
gathered enough evidence to send
him 20 prison. There was only
one thing she had to be able
20 prove he was Worth. The man
had been declared legally dead,
YOU know. However, last Satuur-
day she saw an item i'm 4 Blue
fields newspaper - she got them
regularly - which finally opened
her ewes. Some old hermit I'm the
mountains was missing, had been
missing for months. Amy felt
sure il was his body which had
been mistaken for Worth'S -
81 found that clipping, JIM"
Cil!y cried. 1T was still in Amy'S
/ hand when | reached her She
explained how and why she had
I burned il.
/ 1t was the final link. apparent
/ ~, in Amy's chain of evidence
against Worth. That is - If her
/ suspicion were true. That's why
! she sent me TO BlucricldS imme-
/ diatcly. to check for her. while
| she kept her eye on Worth here
| in New York. She was so terribly
| afraid he'd begin to get SUSPECT
/ Gus
what did you find out in Blue
/ fields" .,
Just this. Amy knew the old
hermit pretty well. Frequently
she rode out through the noun
tainS and stopUed at his shack.
She'd been kind to him. The day
of the robbery. she saw him in
town. She told him of some old
suits of mine which he might
have if he wanted TO stop for
them. He did, that afternoon. II
was Getting late and she suggest
cd that he sleep in the room over
our garage for the night. But he
was I'm hurry to get home. he
told her
Amy doubted whether he ever
reached home that night. Worth
had run him down. perhaps, and
then conceived the bright idea of
changing personalities. That's
where I've been this week, to