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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH whose name was on the card. It took me but a second to find the card that Out of the Darkness By CHASLES J. DUTTON lo M3 -- A FRAME-UP- T InJohn Bartley, noted criminalfrom vest. gator. recently "turned the Secret Service work during of governor the asked by Is ar a mysInvestigate to York New of the terious attempted robbery Robert Slyke home al Circle In near Saratoga Bartley Is asked to view of recent developments, of establish the guilt or Innocence men In the penitentiary for of Justhe crime. A miscarriage chief tice is suspected. Rogers. as Bartlthe central office, arrives his friend Pelt, a news- to ey and paper man. are trip, and begins to describe the case. on a fishing CHAPTER I Continued. 2 He took Bartley was Interested. and caning op his pipe, lighted It, back in his chair. listened attentively as Rogers continued. When It came time for the men a bit of a to be Identified, there was was pretty The two men. been had there that sure had only he while Slyke insisted that seem not did he In one. fact, seen case-e- ven to he very eager to push the requested the police to drop It, since he had lost nothing. Then Bartley asked in surprise. did keep under they heaven, why, step-daught- er conflict. on with It? I don't Rogers shook his head. John. It has been suggested that the city police did not want to drop It. Anyway, they held the men; and a few days later announced that they had found a piece of paper' torn from a newspaper in the room where Slyke had discovered them. Several days later they announced that they had found a newspaper with a torn corner in Horns pocket, into which the piece that they had found at Slykes house fitted. Bartley asked with a weary air, "Did they later find a piece of cloth torn from the coat or trousers of one of the men? Find It, perhaps, on a bush near the window the men hao Jumped out of? 1 thought ou had never heard of the case? Theydid find such a piece . - .of cloth." . I never Bartley half laughed. heard a word of It until you told me. I had an idea that a piece of cloth would be found that had been, torn from the clothing of one of them. A piece that would fit, say, the torn trousers of one of them. Rogers threw me a look, as If to ask how Bartley could have guessed, then remarked, I dont see how you hit It ofT, John; but thats the 'very thing that did happen. All this did not come out until the trial. When It was Introduced, It made a stir. Both men claimed, in fact, that the whole thing was a frame-up- . He paused to relight his cigar before continuing: The man to whom thetrousers beknow, -- longed asserted that they had been taken from him the week after he had been put In jail, and that there was no tear In them when he gave them A tailor at the trial testified up. that the cloth was so strong that It could not have been torn away by catching on anything, and that It looked to him as If the piece had been cut out with a knife. Bartley threw back his head and laughed. Rogers was thoroughly displeased. I dont see the Joke. There is no joke, Rogers. Tell me who found all this evidence? Was It the police?" I am not sure. 1 think It was the head of the local police. It wag a day or so after the crime that most of It was discovered. I broke in to say, I presume the men claimed the police faked the evidence?" Rogers nodded. Thats Just wbat they did claim. In fact,1 their whole defense was on that line. They were 6ald to have been night-fishin- g on a game preserve near the lake. A good deal was made of the fact that the . at the time; its doing It now. The papers thought the mens denial was the usual thing. But later the lawyers got interested, then a reform society, and now they are all getting after the governor. He thinks there might have been a miscarriage of justice and wants you to look into the thing. He wants you to do it at once. With a shrewd look, Bartley asked. Then there Is something new? Well, answered Rogers, that depends. The otuer night there was another attempt to break into Slykes house. They say there have been several since these men went to Jail. Bartley said but one word, but It was expressive enough. We sat in silence until Rogers pulled out his watch, glanced at it, and rose to his feet. Time I ran along. Thats the way It stands. The governor wishes you to look Into it, and Bays he will consider It a personal favor if you will do so." Bartley also rose, and placing his hand on his friends shoulder, said, I will deal with the case at once, but In my own way. Tell him he wont hear from me until I have found out whether those two men ought to be In prison or not." Roger nodded, and after a second glance at his watch hurried out. Bartley said, Pelt, over in the bookcase, In the section of the trials, you will find a small brown book. Its somewhere in the third section, under the letter E. The title Is, I think, The Edlingham Burglary. Wondering a little why he should want It, I went over to the portion of the bookcase he had Indicated. In a moment I had found the volume that he wanted a thin book, covered with brown cloth, and on the title page The Famous Edlingham Burglary or The Innocent Persecuted 1879 I handed Bartley the book, and without a word he opened it and quickly ran through the pages. In a few minutes he threw It over to me, saying with a smile, I know, Pelt, you are wondering why we should spend our time on a simple burglary case; but this may turn out to be a rather curious one. When Rogers told me the story of the Circle Lake affair, I recognized at once that It resembled a very famous case that took place In England In 1879. He waited to fill and light his pipe before continuing: Yes, thats why I am interested In IL Its almost the same in every detail as the story you will find in that pamphlet you hold In your hand. The English case, known in criminal history as se The Edlingham Burglary, is famous-becautwo Innocent men were in prison for six years for a crime they did not commit The evidence against them, the manner In which it was discovered, is almost. If not the very same as that In this affair at Circle Lake of which Rogers tells us. The Edlingham case goes down in the history of crime as one of the worst miscarriages of Justice of which we know. There Is no doubt that the police faked the evidence against the men. They spent six years in prison for a crime they knew nothing about. In that case, too, the two men were found early in the morning in the house of a local vicar.' Just as Slyke found someone and his In their house, so the vicar and his daughter discovered two men in their living room. Later the men were arrested on the outskirts of the little English village; and, as in the story that Rogers told us, a piece of paper was found in the room at the vicarage that fitted Into the torn corner of a newspaper which was discovered some days later In the house of one of the men. Footprints were also found under the window, and a little piece of cloth on a rose bush. This In turn fitted into a tom place in a pair of trousers belonging to one of the men. I uttered .in exclamation of wonder, It Is the most and Bartley grinned. famous case of its kind In the history of English crime. Its odd how the evidence In this Circle Labe robbery parallels it so closely. It looks a little as if someone had read of the English crime, and tried to repeat the evidence -- step-daught- er incriminating evidence was not found until some hours after the crime-e- ven days In fact. I admit that It In this one. looks a bit fishy. And then these men may be InnoStill, you never heard of the evidence cent? police faking to the extent they claim this was Well, replied Bartley thoughtfuldone. ly, maybe. The fact that there have We both 'laughed and our langhter been other attempts to break Into made the red face of the ch!-- ' turn Slykes house points that way. To a a shade darker. We had in mind the student of criminal literature, the charges that one of the newspapers finding of an old crime Is was making at the time against his rather Interesting. That is why I said own detectives, that they had planted I would like to look Into it guns on some men Qo Into the ofHce, will you. Pelt they wished to nId. But even at that, he was right, and see what we have there on Slyke. the police do not fake evidence to Bartley had a large oflBce, lined with the extent that this story of his tall, green filing cabinets, containing seemed to hint. Bartleys next re- the reports of his cases and his wonmark showed that he felt as This Index conderful did. You are almost every about Information right, Rogers, though the tained jvhole thing does look queer. J take Important person In the country, Inthe conviction made a stir." formation that gave at a glance a keen Rogers shook his head. It did not Insight Into the character of the man contained Slykes name. When I returned to the library, Bartley asked me to rend It aloud. It contained the following: Slyke, Robert, broker. Born Maine. Educated in public school. In business In New Hampshire, 1S79 to 1886, buying and trading cattle. Came to New York. 1886. became a broker. Made and lost several fortunes. Said to have been converted by Billy Sunday In 1913; no evidence of It Rather eccentric, dabbled a bit In spiritualism and has been duped by several mediums. Quick tempered, with few friends. There is o question of his business honesty. Wife died 1914. One son and a Summer home. Circle Lake, N. I. City home. Garden City. Was worth about $500,000, but rumored to have lost a part of this In recent years." When I bad finished, be said simply, I wonder what was In his house that the burglars wanted. I asked the question that had been in my mind for some time. Why was he unable to identify the men when his daughter said she could?" Bartley smiled at ray question. You are getting wiser every day. Pelt. It is curious that Slyke professed to be unable to Identify the men when the girl, who was on the steps behind him and even further away from the men than he was, could do so. It may be that he did recognize them and did not vi ant to say who they were. If that Is so, then the whole affair Is more mysterious than ever." He rose to his feet and glanced at his watch. Tomorrow, or Sunday, we will run np to the lake. We had better drive up in my car. It will take only seven hours. I will telegraph to Currie, my old Harvard roommate, that we are coming. lie has been after me for several years to come for a Klt-ter- y, step-daughte- and already baked for you similar. As he left the room, he added with a regretful little laugh, There goes our fishing; its always the way. An hour later when he returned 1 was still curled up in ; big chair by the fireplace. I had spent the time reading the story of the old English crime. The two cases were, as BartI ley had said, very much alike. agreed with him that) if we took the ground that someone at Circle Lake had faked the evidence, then whoever he was he had read the report of this other crime and used It as a guide. CHAPTER II Visit Mr. 8lyke, but Do Not Receive a Very Warm Reception. In Which W It was not until early Sunday morn-in- g that we were able to leave the city. After the days of rain, the ride along the banks of the Hudson was At Albany we had very beautiful. luncheon In one of the large hotels to the accompaniment of an orchestra booming the popular music of the moment Bartley was so thoroughly uncomfortable that he refused to speak. It was not until we were waiting for the waiter to return with our change and he had lighted a cigar that he became more amiable. ' Pelt, we cannot Bay Just wbat we I have will find up at the lake. thought the affair over carefully, and the more I think of It the more puzzled cts, I am. If Rogers told us all the conthen there are two clusions to be drawn. The first Is that those two men are innocent. The second is that Slyke knew who It was that broke Into his house, but had strong reasons for claiming he could not recognize them. If his daughter could swear to the identity of the men that were arrested, he should also have been able to recognize them. Bat he says he did not, and, we are told, he wanted the case dropped. mile Saratoga was only a forty-fiv- e drive from Albany. Circle Lake was several miles 'nearer. I knew very little about the place except that it was a small lake outside of' Saratoga where there were a number of large summer estates. Bob Currie, who had roomed wltH Bartley at Harvard, had a place there where be passed the greater part of tha , were found guilty. do you want? What more (TO BH CONTINUED.) baking; Made with finest seeded Sun-Ma-id Raisins. 1560 calories of energizing nutriment per pound in practically predigested form. Rich in food-iro- n, also good food for the blood. Make cakes, puddings and other good foods with them. You may be offered other brands that you know less well s, but the kind than you want is the kind you know is good. Insist, therefore, on Sun-Mabrand. 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