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Notice Of Assessment Tae Pleasant Grove Canning Co, Pleasant Grove, Utah. - Notice is hereby siren that at a etrag of the ' Board of - Directors ."eld on the lOth day of April, 1923, n assessment of 25o per share was levied on th capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately to Alex Thornton, Treasurer, at the office of-fice of said Treasurer, Pleasant Grove ttah County, Utah. , Any stock upon which the assessment assess-ment may remain unpaid on the list 4y of May, 1923, will be delinquent nd advertised for sale at public auction, auc-tion, and unless payment la made b fore, win be aold on the x5tb day of 'one, im, to pay delinquent assess-mnt assess-mnt together with cost of advertis-ta advertis-ta ' expense of sale. f (Signed) . If . W. Jacobs, Sec i Pleasant Orore, TJtah. Wrst Pub. April ft, 1928 Pub. May 12, 1928. ILAW805 A ELSMORI , Attorneys-at-Law General Practice and ; Probate. Bank Bldfir-Werlcan Fort Mondays and Thursdays. J "H-l Kearm nidau flH Lake Wo Print Butter Wrappers (bsbbsbW vwn 7" CefvM nil ly CHAPTER XIV The Murderer Speaka. Who turned on the Ughu I do not know. . As soon sa they flaahed on, we looked at each other Inquiringly, our eyes filled with fear. Who had cried out in terror and broken the drdef Bartley motioned to us to alt down again, and took his stand back of the table. He seemed to me to be very weary, and his eyes rested on us aadly, as If bo were reluctant to proceed pro-ceed further. It waa not until we mored reetleaaly under his Intent gase that he said, 1 am not going to make any comment on what we have Just seen." He paused for a aeeond, then added impressively, "But I think I ought to tell yon that I know who killed both 81yke and Brtffeur." 1 There ' was a murmur of astonishment astonish-ment Carrie looked at me appeal-fngly, appeal-fngly, but I knew no more than he. Roche whispered to 'Black, and they exchanged looka of bewilderment Bartley still hesitated, as If to were very reluctant to continue. "i know that aome of you doubt If we can prove that Mr. 81yke was murdered. mur-dered. Ton say there are no clues, and I admit that I have never seen a case 'In which there were so few. There is no doubt however, that he was murdered, though It la difficult to say what the motive was. In the 'case of Briffeur, It waa very simple." -Simpler, Roche gasped. Tee, ' simple. There : was but one reason and one way, and even one person, that could have killed him." This statement was too much for Roche; he' ahook' his heard In disbelief. disbe-lief. -Let's consider Mr.' Slyke's death for a moment" Bartley continued, "After the' party' waa ewer Slyke asked Mr. Lawrence to stay behind and offered to sell him some whisky r They had a drink, then Lawrence went' home. But we found three f lasses, showing that someone besides Lawrence had drunk with Siyke. Let us say this third person killed Slyke. Understand me: I do nor believe that, when be came, he had any intention of killing him that came later. We will assume that Slyke and this third person went upon the balcony, for what reason I cannot say, but I am sure that Slyke wax the one that suggested sug-gested going there.' No murderer would have selected It , voluntarily, as a place In which to kill his victim." He paused for a second, then continued: con-tinued: "After Slyke had been killed, the. thought occurred to the murderer that It was possible to make bis death look like suicide. He undressed the body In the room above the bedroonC and later carried, bis clothing downstairs, down-stairs, placing It on a chair beside the bed.' But he overlooked a stock-. Ing that bad fallen on the floor behind the door of the room above. ; Criminals, Crimi-nals, no matter bow ahrewd. always make aome mistake that ' betraya them; this person drew' the bedclothes bed-clothes up around Slyke's. neck. If he had not done that I doubt If we would ever have suspected that Slyke was murdered. The ahot took effect st once. If would have been impossible impos-sible tor him to have drawn the bedclothes bed-clothes up around his own neck, end placed bis hands by bis side before he died." The doctor's " voice sounded perplexed per-plexed as he said, "But Mr. Bartley, this Is all a rather. One-spun theory." ."I expected that someone would say that" Bartley smiled. "It Is more! we eyes ougw io vn open, un roi-thsn roi-thsn an unsupported., theory. How:t ter plalned this discrepancy by eay-ever eay-ever let us proceed. The murderer in that she had closed the eyesTier- went down to the living room ana ( broneht back with him two cards,! which he threw on the floor of tne room where the glasses were. If Its being suicide was questioned, then the finding of the cards would throw suspicion on the members of the card party." I "He was a pretty cool band," Black Interrupted. "Tee, be waa cool enough. He went downstairs into the room where the dog was-" "But-" Roche commenced. ,. Bartley did hot let blm flnlah. "Tea, I know. The dog ahould have barked. The reason be did not was because the man was no stranger to blm." The doctor spoke once more, "But you have not proved any of these things are so; yon are Just supposing." suppos-ing." ' "No," came the answer, 1 have not but let os consider some of the points that have been proved. -Slyke tried to telephone severs! times during the tome sound., Therefore the knife had evening and failed to. get his Prtrj w thron'" - ' , 4 - each time." ' l "Thrown I" we gaspedt Roche and Black were astonished. ) "Tea. That was the only way it This was the first time they had could hayreached him. The blow heard anything about the telephone came frum directly Jn front of Brif-fjjlg Brif-fjjlg four. - It could only be thrown. Upon "Whim im foiled airnin ana aenm to , ;tj t pc-scn he wanted," liurticy ivifitlnwd. "lie 'fmi rpmrm to It villi iy m iU le read Us ads (); if inor CkQtIzi JDtittcn "" ' ' ")' Ut' ' ' niurtrctionsbg ' JttnbxHyota PelWMdC Ine. and locate mm tor ntm. Alt caus from here go through the 8ratoga exchange, and It was very easy to find out whom he wanted. But that la not alL On a magatlne found on the table beside the whisky glasses were a number of little circles drawn with a pencil, circles thatran . Into each other." ' "What has that to do with Itr asked Black, voicing his wonder, . "A great deaL Those tame circlet were on the handle of the knife with which Briffeur was killed. I have also a little piece of paper with similar ejrcles drawn Wit tad I know the person who drew them, . It baa been proved scientifically that if a person is playing with a pencil and begins to make figures unthinkingly on anything, any-thing, his subconscious mind will trick him into always drawing the same design. de-sign. I found the circles on the augs-sine augs-sine in Slyke's room, on the knife that killed Briffeur, and again on the piece of paper. I know to whoa Slyke telephoned, and I know also a person who saw the murderer enter the house to call on 8Iyke the night he waa killed." We leaned forward breathlessly to catch his words, which came with a cold, cutting edge, as be .added crisply. crisp-ly. "Now, knowing all this, don't you think the person . that drew, the circles, that was telephoned to. that was teen going Into 81yke'a, has something some-thing to-explalnt - Don't you think so, Doctor Klngr There waa no answer, and Bartley demanded sternly, ."Doctor King, you are not going to deny, are you, that yen killed those "two menf ., The ' question 1 waa so unexpected that I aat stunned. He was the last man I should have auapected. Currle cried, "My O d, John," and fell silent The doctor's face had gone, a, dead white, and be sank, limply back in his chair. Without raising hia eyes, " he stammered, scarcely above a whisper, whis-per, the words drawn from bint against his will. "No-o tooI killed them both," The next Instant he realized what he had eatd and: half rose from his chair, ' then fell ' back, clasping hie head In his hands. , I could not believe be-lieve my ears. That Bartley should suspect the doctor of the murders seemed incredible enough ; but that the doctor himself should admit that It waa true was beyond belief. Roche looked first at the doctor, then at Bartley, his eyes bulging with astonishment aston-ishment Black alone seemed to realise real-ise all that the doctor's admission entailed en-tailed Currle waa still too dazed to understand, for King had been a good friend of his. Bartley broke the silence with, "We have proved that the doctor Is the guilty party. He himself baa admitted admit-ted It I have suspected him for some time, but when be gave that cry as Slyke's figure appeared,1 I knew that I was right" The doctor wss still sitting with his head in his hands, and Bartley glanced down at him pityingly before he continued to the rest of as, "From the first I suspected that whoever had killed Slyke had some knowledge of medicine. The average layman would not have known how to place the revolver re-volver in Slyke's hand in such a way that It would appear to be suicide. The point that puttied me was that the eyea were almost closed. If the guilty person knew enough to place the revolver In Slyke's hand before tt stiffened, he should have known that self, frightened by their stare. Then I waa baffled. .True, there were the circles on the magazine but I did sot know who made 'them" and there seemed no wny of finding out Then one day, while I was In the doctor's office, be kept drawing little dgures on a pad before him as he talked. When he was called to the phone, I took out the piece of paper on which he had been drawing and bad carelessly care-lessly thrown It Into a waste-paper baaket aa he pessed. On it were the same figures that I had found on the magazine cover. Even then I was slow to believe he could be the murderer, though science had proved that i person per-son always drawa the same design, I found the same symbols on the knife handle. There was but one way he could have been killed." ' "My O 1, how" Roche gasped out "The knife blow came from the front : You who sat next to the chauffeur chauf-feur heard nothing.' , No one could have crept up on him without making t .VAXTED Clean Cotton Rags. Bring them tq this office. tt the knife handle were the drctee such as I had found elsewhere. Someone had scratched them on ft In a moment mo-ment of Idleness. It was a' trench knife. Doctor King had been to the front) he waa the only one directly la front of Brtffeur, and the only one Who could have, thrown tt , We had an agreed that Briffeur waa killed because be-cause be knew who bad murdered Slyke, and that -the -same man murdered mur-dered them both. There la another proof, also. The only person, outside of the family, that the dog liked waa Doctor King. The - day we found Slyke dead the dog came In, growled at the rest of us bat let King pat him.- -The doctor raised his head, his face white save for two red spots in either cheek. His eyes were pools of blas- Mevsr Intended - to - Oe So, Qftd : Knows I All Goes Back Some Time . ' i , tnf light He looked at ua wildly for second, then threw out his bands and In a Toice, low-at first but grow-lng grow-lng louder as be continued, he admitted, admit-ted, "Yes, I killed them. I never Intended In-tended to do so, God knows! -It ail goes back some time-'' ' Bartley, Interrupted him. "To the time when you got mixed up with' Slyke and Briffeur, selling whlskyr Tee-yes, that waa tt . It. iota back to that" His voice faltered, then he recovered. ' "I came back from the war, broke. Slyke suggested that I go la with him jn running whisky. I had a camp and fast motorboat en Lake Champlaln; it was all I did have. He suggested, we run the whisky whis-ky down the lake from Canada to my camp, then bring it on here and. bide. It rxi&et taqlt, ' Be never played fair with as; he cheated us again and again. That's why Briffeur suggested we break Into the boose and see if he had , told , the truth . about the amount of money be said he got for it Ho kept the records of all our sales In his safe. We tried to you know the rest about the robbery." His voice trailed off Into a whisper. I recalled that he had been shell-shocked, shell-shocked, . and wondered if he could stand the strain he was undergoing. "The night I waa at Carrie's to duv. ner and met Mr. Bartley It waa Slyke who called me up on the phone." His' voice was shrill now, and I thought he would break down at any moment "He said he wished to see me, and I started over here. I ran Into Brtffeur, Brtf-feur, who told me that Slyke bad sold the rest of the whisky for $23,000. Well--where was IT He stopped, confused, and passed his hand over bis face. ' "Oh, yes the whisky. I went up to the tower, and he suggested we go out on the balcony why, I don't know. I asked him what he got for the whisky, whis-ky, and he said 110.000. I knew be lied, and I. told blm so. We quarreled, quar-reled, quarreled AU at once, be flashed a revolver on me and said he had a good mind to kill me he had been drinking" "Agaln"hlsvoice trailed away Into silence and his eyes closed. Then he recovered himself with -an effort and continued. "Just what happened then, I don't know don't know! My nerves have been In pieces since I was shell-shocked. shell-shocked. ' We struggled, and I know I shot blm. I did as yoa say. Took him downstairs, undressed him, and put the revolver In his hand. I knew knew that .most , people would think be had killed himself. I waa desperately sorry but I am hardly to blame for his death. My big mistake waa calling In Mr. Bartley the next morning. I knew, if I could fool him, I could fool everyone." He paused; his. head sank again Into his bands. I saw that Bartley pitied him deeply and his voice was soft and .his face grave as he asked, "And Briffeur r , : With an effort the. doctor raised his head. "I was always afraid of that man. He was cruel snd treacherous. When I saw him, at the inquest I knew that all was over; that be would give me away. And when the lights went out In a wild rage I threw that knife. I don't know why." Then he almost yelled, "I wanted peace." " , "But bow did you hnppen to have 'the knife with, you Bartley asked.. He - thought for a moment It sewned hard for him to gather blm-Ttelf blm-Ttelf together enough to answer, j "I don't know-oh, yes, I had ued It to cut a atrap on luy car. When I arrived ar-rived here the day of 'I h Inquest, I found I hml left It on lie flxtr and I put It in' luy bag. fhire wua a bag on the table all the time, yea remem- It was easy to see that the doctor was la such a nervous collapse that he could say no more r he slumped down fn his chair and. doeed bis, eyes. There was some, whispered, coaversa-i Hon between Roche and Bartley; and then, aa If not liking the task, Roche went over and placed hla hand on the doctor'a shoulder. At his touch, the. doctor stiffened, He 'knew too well what It meant Shaking off the hand, he slowly rose and walked, with an effort, to where Bartley stood, --. . - "Mr. Bartley." be aald, hla voice trembling, "will you shake hands with me? I bear you no HI will It's a long Journey before me." Into Bartley's 'eyes came a look of comprehending pity, and ' even admiration. ad-miration. He grasped bis hand and silently the two men, one a murderer, the other the detective that had apprehended ap-prehended him. looked into each other's oth-er's eyes.' Then slowly , their, hands fell' apart and Roche led Doctor King from the room. None of ua spoke , an til Bartley. broke the alienee by saying, almost In a whisper, "Poor chap I God alone knows what he haa gone through." ; Suddenly Currle demanded, , "John, what about those slates and that aw ful ghost T I never was so scared m. my life.", For the first time a smile crossed' Bartley's face. . ' i "The slates? Why I wrote the messages." "Ton I, But we washed them,". Carrie Car-rie exclaimed. . "Surely, you washed them. That was the whole trick. I wrote those' messages with a camel's hair brush In hydrochloric add with a bit of sine In It When that mixture is , washed with water, the writing Is blotted out until the elate dries again. You re-, member; I ' always washed 'one side first; that waa the aide with the writ-Ins writ-Ins on It, Then I let you wash the other; and, of, course,, that made yoa sure that there was nothing on the slate. Had you not aeea. It washed witb-our own eyea? When the slate dried, the ' writing " simply ' reappeared." reap-peared." yy-.-' x ' Mlas Potter had' been elttlng,' over come by what had taken place. ! But as Bartley's explanation ceased she cried, "Then , I did not receive a message mes-sage from Mr, Slyker ,.y y .j,': Uo," Mlss V Potter,";.BarUey aald apologetically, "you did sot Ton must forgive ate, I knew that King waa guilty, and I had to make him confess by frightening 'or startling blm. , He half believed in spiritual-Ism, spiritual-Ism, and L thought that If I could stage. seance I might make blm con-; teas.' There was a medium In New York I bad once aaved from Jail and' I Drought him here with two assist-. I VBut the rapsrvsa aoeleeC ,. . "Oh, I produced the raps. Almost ail of that sort of thing to a fake, you know., Ton remember that I had you place your, band M, the .table, , Then I rose asl turned , out the lights. When I came back I slipped you the ; thumb and little finger of my right hand. Ton thought of course, that both my banda were being held, , They, were not Ton only held one, while, the other was free to give the raps. The medium was tied and gagged, but you can't tie one of those chaps so surely that they cannot speak and move, when they want, to." u:-. u:-. Currle gave a long sigh of disap-' polntment "Then I never saw a ghost at aur - y. "No, Bob," came the answer, "you did not - Everything ' was staged to lead up to the words you heard that figure say. What you saw was one of the medium's assistants painted with phosphorus so that be would 'glow In the dark. He was covered with a black velvet bag, made la sections; snd another . man, wearing" black gloves and maak to make blm In-, visible, removed the sections of the bag one by one. Thia gave him, the appearance of materializing suddenly out of the air. The head was a mask modeled from a . photograph of Siyke. When the figure vanlahed, the second man had simply covered him from head to foot with a black clothrthus blotting, him... from your sight ,The whole trick has been used again and again by so-called mediums."-- Black rose to his feet saying, "Mr. Bartley, . you have solved three problems prob-lems by one .solution the two murders mur-ders end the robbery." -. As Bartley was about to answer the telephone rang and he left the room as if be had anticipated the message. We could hear his cool, low voice aay, "Yes, this is Mr. Bartley. Bart-ley. Yes, Roche. No. I am not surprised. sur-prised. It's the best thing, after alL that could, have happened." , .;. 1 When he returned to us his face was very grave and. sad, yet with something of relief In it , "Roche tells me," he said slowly, "that when he reached the station King -was dead. Suicide." .; The news did not startle me. . L too, felt relieved.' Bartley was silent a moment playing wta the bag before be-fore him on the table. Suddenly he raised his bead. "You know be wished to say good-by good-by to me. I knew then what he was going to do. 1 could have had him searched and have prevented It, but It Is better so. He has not been himself him-self for months; we will never know t all that be has Buffered. I am sorry for him. Wbat k a greaj darkness must have covered bis life tor the last few days I Now It la over." . t i He was silent i!iln for a niomont i and their .added,- "lie took the best way out of the nJIalr.S --..y tTUH -K.VH.J , NOTICE TO CHEDIT0Z3 yr i.V.sr-y Estate of Ctoorge M. Buriesa, e ceased-: , ' : J ':'::jzl ' nlim a timn Ul Anmil at hfSI . UICUUIII, wit, Mi . . tmmMtmm " - i home, Alpine, TJUh County, Utah, m on. nerore June mn. ins. l , Geo. b. bukoess, CLARENCE BUR0E8S, . ..i Kxecutora, ' Ernest H- Bumss. Attorney, k . ,f Roosevelt vun.. , First publication April S8. Mi. , Ustublicatlon May t, llxl Assissmrr fotici , The Klebetef Tmtle .v Conselldatoel malar Company t laeerneratea vwm itr the Laws of the State ef Utalf Prtaetoal Plero ef Bashieaa, AmetV eat) Fork, Utab, County of TJtak Notice is hereby given that at meeting of the directors of the above ..mut mkiiiiii tiaM nn th a Snd daV a ir(l 1V aaaMament No. 11 Of 1.00 per 1000 shares was levied om the capital etoek of the oornoraiioaj payable Immediately to Ronald Nlch oles. Secretary, at bla residence, Am- -erlcan Fork, TJtab. ' Any ' stock upo which thia assessment remains unpaid on May 14. 1823, wlU be delinquent and advertised for sale tt public auction auc-tion and unless payment in mads before, be-fore, will be sold on Monday, June 4, 182 J. at 10 a. m., at the residence of the v secretary,, at American ..Fork, to nay the delinquent assessment to e-ether with , the , cost of avertlslnf and exnense of Bale. - RONATiD NICHOL1ES. Secretary. First pub. April 14Ust May 11 Itfl ... e . - .- Df Tin? DISTRICT COTJBT OF'TITI FOURTH JUDICIAL PT'TKICT PC m FOR. UTAH C0UBTT. ' OTAT1 OF UTAH. In the matter of the estate of Robert l. Tneemoll. deceeaed. ,,. K0TICE TO CRIBITORS. CredltorB will r resent claims, wtta vouchers, to the undersigned, at her treetdence In American Fork, utaa County., State of Utah, . on or before) - the 15th flay or Aagnst i"Z3. - i v , LOUIB B. INQTSRSOm , Administratrix of , the esUte f -Robert O. Tngersol!. deceasel MORGAN, COLEMAN ft STRAW, : Provo, Utah. Attorneye -forAdminiBtratrix ; . ,y ASSESSMUTT H0TIC1 " Tbo TTest Sentala Developmnt Co. ' : Principal Place of Bismess, ' Am- ', erlcan Fork, Utah, y " ' Notice Is. hereby flren that a meeting of the Directors of the ebors named company, held on " the Kt3k day of March, 1921 Assessment Kfe I of 11.00 per 1000 shares (one-tenCs cent per abate) was levied on tma) .-. M il , .1 .i,a.ll,B M. V b!e Immediately to Frank 0. Hom- pbrles, Becretary, at bis office, Am erican Fork, Utah. Any stock -which this assessment remains n pail on May 21. 181J will be deUa quent and advertised tor sle at pttb-, lie, auction, and, unless payment it, made ibefore, will be sold on .WeoV nesday, June f, 182J, at I o'clock f,. ml, . at . the otflee of tho secretary il, American, Fork, to pay the. dsimqusss. - assessment, together with the cost tf advertising nd expense of sale.'. ,'. , ., Frank 8. 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