New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1922, Page 9

. \LLIAM PATTERSON WHITE " by JLattle Brown and. (bapamy ,“4 Continued rom Our Last Issue, At which Pelix lost hin and his head and gave Jerry bum's rush® through the doorway. ry akidded across the sidewnlk and alld a yard on his nose, He sat up, supporting himself on a wavering el- bow und squalled, “Yuh-you nun- needn’t thuh-think 1'm gug-gonna Inl-lie for you non-no longer!. If you dud-don't gug-gimme plenty money, I'm gug-gonna tgll folks how yuh-you huh-held up the sush-stage yourself all dressed:up in Bill Win- Ro's clothes sho you cuc-could throw the hub-blame on Mm!" | Most certainly then the gambler | wouid have put a ° bullet through Jerry 1'ern had not Shotgun Shill- man and Riley Tyler been too quick for him. “Now, SURE! patience the Jor- now, I'elix, “d Shotgun. “He's a lar!” foamed Felix, strug- gling to jerk his gun arm free. I never held up the stage! Bill Wingo did it himself! Ask Sam lLardner!" “Was Sam there, too?" said Riley, with fresh interest, ‘“Herc, S8am, wait a minute.” Sam Larder regarded the muzzle of Riley's gun. “All right,” said Sam Larder, calm down,"” CHAPTER XVIII. The district attorney, having looked carefully to the fastenings of his win- dows, tucked a six-shooter under his pillow and began to unlace his shoes. Came a rapping at his chamber door. “That you, Rale?" inquired a muffled voice. “Yes! Come in! Come in!" Jack Murray entered quickly. ““What in hell are you doing here?" demanded the district = attorney. “Don’t you know—-"" “I wanted to see you,” Jack Mur- ray sald, seating himself in the near- est chair. “I suppose you got the money for that note.” “No, I haven't.” “I kind of thought you'd stick to thdt poverty squeal,” smiled Jack Murray, fishing a folded paper from a shirt pocket. “So I took care be- fore I came here to write down what T know about this Ii'l deal.—What's that?"” “That” was a rapping om #he kitch- en door. “Go in the bedroom.” whispered the district attorney with a very pale face.” On his demand that the caller de- clare himself, a voice whispered, “It's me, Guerilla Melody. Let me in quick.” The district attorney unlocked the kitchen door and opened it. A tall man pushed in at once. The tall man had a sardonic gleam in his gray eyes, a ragged brown beard, and a derringer. - The twin-barreled fire- arm was pointing directly at the stomach of the district attorney. The tall, brown-bearded man shot out a quick left hand and deftly twitched away the district attorney weapon. “Arthur,” said Billy, "“I've been hearing bad reports of you. I un- derstand you've decided to have Miss ‘Walton arrested. Is that correct? “Correct, sure. Sorry, but the law's the law, you know."” “Suppose T can prove that Dan Slike was at Miss Walton's the night Rafe Tuckleton was murdered, Would that help any?" “You can't prove it. “In the first place,” said Billy. know he didn't kill Tuckleton." “Then why are you trying to prove he did?"” “Just to see what you'd say. Just to see how dead set against investi- gating Slike you are. Just to double- cinch the proof against the real erim- inal. One reason is that if you do, ke’ll be sure to blat right out how you and lPelix and Sam Tarder helped him —DRINK — o | how Jmume | . Ayres’ Soda Water For Sale at Your Grocer's Three Size Bottles—5-10-15¢ to escape from the calaboose,” “ONh, you're welcame to what you think,” said the district attorney. “But just for the sake of argument, do yon know that Slike didn't kill Tuckleton?" “Recanse the initialed butcher knife Slike took with him from Miss Wal- ton's was still on him when he was At here must have been two here were two knives, but only one belonged to Miss Walton, Rale, you gave out that Miss Waiton her- self had killed Tuckleton hecause you 1d planned ahead that she was the one you were going to hang the mur- der on. And why did you have it planned ahead? Because you killed Tuckleton yourself!" The district attorney sat perfectly still. His eyes stole toward the bed- room door. What on earth was the matter with Jack Murray? Why Aidn't he shoot? “I don't know why you killed him,"” went on the inexorable voice, “but you did. TI've found out that carly last spring you went to Natp Sam- son and borrowed his hardwake cato- log. 1 sent a telegram to the supply house getting out this catalog, and their answer stated that vou had or- dered from them hack in TFebrua o butcher knife, paying for it in stamps. They gave the catalog num- ber of this butcher knife, and the catalog number is the same number as that of the butcher knife with which Tuckleton was killed, You cnt T. W. on the handle of this knife, rusted it a little and ground it some, and then you—Rale, you rat, I've got you right where you can't even wrig- gle." Billy leaned across the table to em- phasize what he was saying, heard a slight sound jin the bedroom and promptly blew out the lamp. With a heave of one arm he slammed the table over on the district attorney. The latter, taking thé table to his hosom, went over backward, together with the chair he sat in, and wal- lowed on the floor, Both guns exploded ly. What happened next bLeen clear in Billy's mind. He only knows that his head rang like a struck bell at the shot, and burning powder grains stung his ear and neek. He fired blind. A voice above his head cried aloud on the name of God, a hot and sweaty body collapsed upon him, and he dragged himself out from under precisely in time to glimpse the distriet attorney who, having torn open the door into the hall, was sil- houetted for an instant against the dim radiance emanating from the kitchen. Billy hunched his right shoulder, took a snapshot, and drove an aceu- rate bullet through the right leg of the district attorney. “He's comin' around,” sald Shot- gun Shillman. “Now he’ll be a in- valid nuisance for a while, like Rale.” “What's Jack trying to do?" Riley Tyler asked. ‘Here, take that out of your mouth!"” It was Billy who reached Jack Mur- ray first. He snatched the wadded ball of paper from Jack before he could close his teeth over it. Billy smoothed out the crumpled wad. Tt appeared to he a letter and a promissory note. Billy read: simultaneous- has never Judge Hiram Donelson, Hillsville. Dear Sir: The man who killed Rafe Tuckleton is the county prosecutor Arthur Rale, Rale owed Tuckleton fivé thousand dollars on a note and couldn't pay it. Rafe wanted his money. Early in the cvening on the day he was killed, Tuckleton came to Rale's house where I was at the time, and demanded payment., ‘He brought the note with him. Rale refused and they quarreled. Tuckleton had been drinking. Before Tuckleton left he satd 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 looked Iike a good opportunity, Rale showed me a butcher knife, He sald it was “Yes! 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He sald when his knife was found on Rufe's body, everybody would think Hazel Walton had Killed him, and no- body would believe her if she said the knife wasn't hers, He asked me to go with him, 1 went, and hung around Walton's till Tuckleton came out, and then we followed him, and Rale stuek the knife in him a couple of tirmes, When Tuckleton was dead, Rale took the note out of Tuckleton's pocketbook, and I held Rale up and took the note away from him, Here is the note he took off Tuckles ton. * Yours truly, (Signed), we JACK MURRAY, Billy handed the letter and Rate note to Hhotgun Shillman, folded both earefully and them into an inne . the who slipped “Well," “folks will Rress nest,' “Yes,' assented his daughter, “now that the grand jury have indicted Craft, Larder, Murray and Rale, there fsn't anything left of the Crocker county ring hut the hole."” “Maybe now Hazel will make it up with him."” Y “Maybe.” With some indifference, ‘Hhucks, and he used to like you, Sally Jane." “But 1 never liked him This with more indifference. Hazel Walton, sewing in the front room, saw a rider coming up the Ram Bil ohserved be sending Prescott, to con- enough.” “B1LL, MIND. I-I'VE CHANGED MY I WAS WRONG." “That looks like Bill's horse,” “And Bill's hat, Tt— draw. she muttered. it is Bill."” Her heart began to pound. Her throat constricted. Therr was some- thing the matter with her knees. Billy Wingo came on. He came quite close—within twenty yards and stopped his horse and reated his Beecharn's Pil the digestive o When your stomach is upset Take the stomach a ing the digesti petite or are Sold everywhere in boxes secretion of the’ gastric juices. 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Billy drag- ged him back with a jerk, Six feet from the horse Hazel stopped @nd steod very straight, her | arms stiff at her sides. lHer Kknees began to shake again, She knew that her voice would tremble, It did. 'Bill, I.—I've changed my mind. I was wrong. J--you-—you did the right thing to see it through. If—if you hadn't, T don't know what would have become of me."” Theén, of a sudden, he was off his hoise, his arms were around her, and she knew that all her troubles were over, IND, AT TEXANS 7,000 Persons See Game and Receipts Go to Charity, Cleveland, March 25.—A game played between the Cleveland Indians and Dallas of the Texas league at Dal- las yesterday was won by Cleveland 12 to 7. Proceeds of tfic game was for a local charity and seven thousand per- sons saw it. Shortstop Joe Sewell turned his knee in running out a triple and gave way to Stephenson. McInnis, Cleveland's new first sacker, drove in three runs by a single, a double and a sacrifice. 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He further stufes that at the begin- ning of his term as mayor he found that the nest six months' total taxes had heens expended in advance, result ing In hix calling together o hoard of finance hends of vi- rlous bunking institutions in the city, This bourd he reduced the treasury deficit from $ to $185,000 This same L he al- leges, sold honds to the stent of $1,600,000 at par and ut 4% per cent, when 1o other city could sell them for less than Oy The Budget Szstem, He denjes statements that no rec ord of expenditures was kept and that there was 1o hudget system. Mr. Morgan concluded by that assertions by Mr. Barlow to the effect that the oity was hroke are in- nims there is a credit to $368,000 in cash and B ot CLAIMS TALK GIVEN HERE WAS UNTRUE Former Mayor of New London composed of (e cluims 30,000 Clalming that statements mada here hy City Manager Barlow, of New London, recently were misleading and misrepresented the facts, former Mayor E. 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