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Show ! ' 1,1 i raunm, ranssaannnn-- HIE LEHI SUN. LEHI. UTAH if. An til ft Mao's Chest . ... w.rrlll CO. o ft! Boo w -- ffolW 6tff. "Buck" lZ Cton Pocket f,.T note 'ii&nu I - .DDo ntmenv trt"2a. ? Dutch food L-K K winter camp bota-Ku bota-Ku gathered. Jnclud-l Jnclud-l B?ofn. An apparent LvSTuwr. two men. ailed. Tney "u" . vlflduct. L passing it. A vaau" & repair. ' 0Ut f h. two men removes the ganger -n. Thfc ? i hli car, goes over the "' .'!. h. 1. dead when and Stanton 'k ' death.. He i. -!JX ,io, ana nu" - r ?r.mbly. Trembly bad Lm't death, apparent- accident. HAPTER HI Continued . 4-statc's 4-statc's attorney was not bo tn dismiss deration of accident even . .. ,wh nnd less so in $KU9 uvu.- dismisses itself," said tne . a 1L U "Trembly went from the w I ..... .. i. Ptnnv Tha MP. ... ., ha soar US the tWl he saw as the two k Atkni. fn fho lnriro hair user. fe wj cacb other In tne wag feey were not strangers, al- f heads pi lairasicij want Asss ra other. This boy may be a :i he tells an intelligent story. Isiog about all these men, is, Trembly and Brown, makes (want to meet as strangers. My is that they are watching for is ind considering their alibis, fre not gunning for one another i'er, Brown was surprised by pi, Just as Clayton was, but ej guess that both knew what h all about as soon as the other k'Peared, The trouble Is that e hold-up was the break of ;a Trembly In the Dutch Mill. 'Me throwing was his break k Little Butte lodge. The Me-"fH Me-"fH boy started that He said Veil were wrestling and rough-t rough-t to show how good they were, ta thought he'd change the Maybe be had more In mind, Trembly couldn't have foreseen ft he had a peculiar knife p could be used as he used it," of WE 1 Wiffijf j state's attorney. ElOf It" said the Hpnrennnt peculiar. It's startling, but I1 't brat IL Haven't I heard ! each crime has its iwn no. ?5l Why did it snow the day ! uuiwi ai utile Butte 7 If It a has the weather of two weeks Jf or of the next day the gang f iat have been drinking and Pt In the lodge. Why was P hold up at the Dutch Mill P Buck was hunting Dunn? Why I Wo killers know and remem-? remem-? 'tat the bridge was out on his wh,and why did Buck, If he J I 'orget It? He had the K was a beauty, a teakwood -e, silver mounted with four-Mii four-Mii of Spanish steeL A shield in silver was set in t!T An nnnsnal knlfe. Td J bow where he got If t Tmnt forSot say. I? that the handle toe ,ettering the words. !sangTe,acarne,fuego. I wTrt07 01 the troops In ia, l! ernwhenhe w" there Turner gold hunt. . Gtinued the Ueu- NtaiM880116- might S I ttelose. e. Heh-adnoth- i w. Assume tW i . l?e "8bts away from l Then m? 8ent off the U h?t7achance he would f " a d J? been crowded r-iS;l0t fell0T to some tt LPbabJy safe enough of road in env f:a?d !!, ,anterns ""ere ?dence of that tei 2 after mad becan.se &ea e got home te STENTS 1 i7"N ft. I 'hilt j decided something tad to be done about it He drove back Intending to go to the construction camp and raise h I but the lanterns were there," They might have been late In setting them out" "The man who was responsible for them swears they were In place long before dark, and there's other evidence that they were. Somebody took those lights away, and Trembly went through the barricade, off the road and Into the thoroughfare. Ton have to accept It as Intended, and that leaves us a killer still at large and a story we don't know." "It's Wisconsin Jurisdiction," said the state's attorney. "In a county which has no way of getting at non-resident 'hoods' who haven't left a trace. " Ton couldn't expect the sheriff there or the state's attorney even to try it" "What do you want done?" "I'm curious now," said the lieutenant lieu-tenant "I'm not a detective, but I'm curious. I'd like to know this story. The detective bureau will hunt for. Maisie. The'U get Into I Brovf n's history and Trembly's. ' Anything that comes of that will come of It Suppose yon try what comes of some publicity. This Is a newspaper story which hasn't been really told. Three murders, all with unusual angles, unknown motives and some killers still at large. If you extend yourself a bit it will go all over the country. It's making a cast blindly but . you may hook something. And It won't be bad publicity for our young prosecutor." "I'll think It over," said the state's attorney. "Don't kid me, mister," said the lieutenant "I'll read it to-morrow." Preston Brown was the son of a Tennessee Baptist clergyman. At an early age It was evident that he was not disposed to satisfy his father's fa-ther's desire to have him in the ministry. min-istry. He could sing mountain songs and play the guitar. He Joined a troupe in time to avoid appearance ap-pearance for questioning in a paternity pater-nity case. He had measurable luck as a card sharper and later made a respectable success as a bucket shop broker. He married the widow of A. Peyton-Sharpfleld. She divorced him In Paris in 1924 and afterward was killed by Apaches who robbed her of her pearls. It was obvious to the surete that a Parisian gang had been guilty, but no one was apprehended. ap-prehended. The stolen necklace, however, was a paste Imitation of Mrs. Peyton-Sharpfield-Brown's pearls which were never found after her death but which, it was later known, she was not wearing when she was . murdered. She was wearing the paste. The story might have been Interesting and Mr. Brown might have told it . He was destitute when his wife divorced him, but her death marked the beginning be-ginning of a ''solvency which endured en-dured for th j remainder of his life. It was beyong doubt that the necklace neck-lace for which the Apaches murdered mur-dered her was synthetic, but the genuine pearls were very valuable. CHAPTER IV Mr. Whittlesex Pops In and Out JOHN WHITTLESEX in Dorset, Vt, reading his New York paper at home, the early morning of October Oc-tober 12, laid it on his knee and closed his eyes. Little furrows came in his forehead. He opened his eyes, picked up his paper and reread the story which had caused him to close his eyes and think. "Darn It" he said. "Martha," he called to bis wife, who was in the kitchen, "you remember the names of those fellows In that story I told you about the will I wouldn't draw np some years ago? Wasn't one of them Clayton? Dunn Clayton? Clay-ton? You remember me telling you?" Mrs. Whittlesex called back that she did "not remember. "Ion know what I mean?" Yes, Mrs. Whittlesex knew what he meant but she did not remember any of the names. "I can't blame yon for that" said John. "I can't remember them myself. my-self. No one ought to have a memory mem-ory like mine. Darn it! let I'm pretty near sure. Anyway, I'm going go-ing to call np Matilda Field. What's her number, Martha?" "Four-six-eight two rings." "Sure, I remember that" He went Into the hallway where the telephone was fixed to the wall and In calling asked for three rings. When there was a response he said : "Matilda? ... Oh, Mrs. Bart-lett Bart-lett sorry to disturb you. ... Tea, I wanted Matilda Field. Oh. shucks I Yes, two rings. Sorry, Mrs. Bartiett III blame it on Central, but I certainly did ask for three rings." He replaced the receiver for a moment mo-ment pnt it again to his ear and "Central," he said, Til bet the best way Is for you to give me Miss Matilda Field's number. Ill be obliged to you. Thank you. . . . Matilda, is that you? ... Matilda, Ma-tilda, do yon remember the names in that will we didn't draw? You know what I mean. Wasn't one of them Dunn C38yton? ... Ton said you kept your notes. Will yon look them up and give me the names? HI be obliged, Matilda. Call me op. after supper. ..." "What's plaguing yon, John?" Mrs. Whittlesex asked as he came and stood la the kitchen doorway. "Plaguing Is the right word, Martha. Mar-tha. If Matilda telephones me what I think she may Tm going to write to the state's attorney of Cook i.uumj ux unicago and tell him something that may Interest him. Of course, if what passes as a memory for me has done me another of its tricks, I won't be writing him any-thing." any-thing." October 18 the state's attorney in Chicago had a letter from Dorset: "My Dear Sir: I am a practicing attorney in Dorset in the state of Vermont Five years aim i asked to draw a will A number of circumstances have Impressed It on me. It was Thanksgiving .day. My wife had been called out of town by her mother's Illness, and that knocked our Thanksgiving dinner Into Christmas. The house was too forlorn to be abided. Consequently I was at my office. 1 should inject here that this letter relates to your Dunn Clayton murder and othpra and not to my Thanksgiving tribula tions nve years ago. Nevertheless, I must say that my resentment of the small steak and German fried potatoes I ate that day Is permanent perma-nent "The man who visited me In my office that afternoon was casually known to me. He had bought an extensive and lovely tract of land near here the year before. Some touch of eccentricity attached to him. I do not recall why. "When I asked him, after his knocking at my door, why he had looked for a Vermont small-town lawyer at his office on Thanksgiving "And You Are About to Dispose of Six Million Dollars to Some Scoundrels?" Scoun-drels?" day he said he understood that I was an eccentric. This on top of the small steak and almost cold potatoes po-tatoes was almost too much. I hardly refrained from asking him to close my door and be on the other side of It at the time. I am the soul of conventionality, almost its victim. The man was big, not fat but hard. He had a smile you might like or not I couldn't tell whether I did or didn't and can't now. "We finally got down to business. I mean there was some preliminary chaff In which he laughed a great deal and asked me If I believed In a benevolent God, and If I did how could I prove hlra up. He asked me what I thought of hate as an ennobling emotion, as a cherished possession. I said that he might persuade me of it if he remained a half hour. He laughed at tbat "He then explained what he Wanted. Want-ed. It was a will to be drawn, signed, witnessed, attested, etc. It was necessary to take notes and I was fortunate In persuading Miss Matilda Field, a very good dictation taker, to come over with her notebook. note-book. Then we got down to cases. "That man's name was Thomas J. Turner. He started out, when Miss Field was ready to take him, by nskine me If I ever had been an ac cessory to murder before the fact Well, you're going to be,' he said. I saw Matilda give him a look. Here In Vermont we have a different fund of humor. I was glad then but didn't care afterward that she didn't hear him talking about a benevolent be-nevolent God. Vermont doesn't ask anything to be benevolent That would cheat us of opportunity and character. "This Mr. Turner began to dictate, dic-tate, He provided a trust fund for hi nnlv child, a son. then seventeen years old and In a preparatory school in Westchester county. New York. The boy's education was to be provided, and when he had been graduated from a college to be selected se-lected by himself he was to receive five thousand dollars a year. When he married this was to be increased by one thousand dollars a year, and If there were children there should be another one thousand dollars dol-lars a year for each child. "The boy, Mr. Turner said, would not need and should not have any more. "He will select a small and probably obscure college, said the father. He will select and marry a girl of no ambition or get up. They will have Insignificant children. From my point of view such people are of no consequence. The world doesn't need them, but after all, Mr. Whittlesex. I am the parent of one of them and I acknowledge the responsibilities. re-sponsibilities. I have no feeling of disappointment In my son. If he had been of a different character I erould manage his future other-wise other-wise ..jIe Baid that his son Indicated too much conscience and no hardness. Hardness, he said, was essential. The trust fund as stipulated would f- ii Mini raf .immmmmsssm provide for him adequately and satisfactorily, sat-isfactorily, 'i may be wrong, Mr. Whittlesex,' he said, to do anything at all for him. It Is a social wrong to preserve and propagate weak, ness.' He hit the table with big flst, and then he laughed. Part of the time he was beyond my analysis. Miss Field made to put her book away, but 1 stopped her with a look. I don't mean that I am a lion tamer or that Miss Field is a Sweet Alice Ben Bolt to tremble at a frown, but one Vermonter understands another, although none of us would understand under-stand Mr. Turner. "Then, said Mr. Turner, be came to the real Joy of making a wilt It will amuse you, Mr. Whittlesex,' he said. 'Some years ago six men gave me occasion for remembering them in my wHL I have made and lost a great deal of money In my time. 1 have had men use me well and use me 111. Most of it all came out In the next wash. But I've never forgotten forgot-ten these six men.' "Mr. Turner looked at the wall for several moments as If be were thinking of something which pleased him. Miss Field has very fine perceptions and Intuitions. There was a distinct pickle expression on her face which had meaning for anyone any-one who knew her. 1 have amosed myself with these men for several years without them being aware of it I know their characters so well that I can anticipate their actions. ac-tions. That, you see, Mr. Whittlesex, Whittle-sex, Increases the pleasure. I have approximately six million dollars to form the trust fund I have In mind. If the young lady will she may take the names down for reference.' "Miss Field now gives me the names from her notes which she had preserved. They were: Acton Blair, Howard Ashley, Ronald Roberts, Preston Brown, Arthur Trembly and Dunn Clayton. "Mr. Turner said that his physicians physi-cians gave him an Indeterminate sentence, and although in his own opinion his heart which was at fault would outlast all of them, he wished to have his remembrance of the six men in shipshape so he could feel at ease about It He smiled very happily. I think It was the smile that affected Miss Field incon-trollably. incon-trollably. "To I understand, Mr. Turner,' she said, that you are leaving five thousand dollars a year to a fine high-minded boy? "'That as a minimum,' said Mr. Turner. Tou noted the slight Increases In-creases on occasion " 'And you are about to dispose of six million dollars to some scoundrels? scoun-drels? "I do not know from where Miss Field derived her descriptive adjectives adjec-tives In either Instance, but they represented her Intuitive conclusions. conclu-sions. Mr. Turner laughed. Miss Field closed her notebook and with a good-afternoon to me walked out of the office. Mr. Turner looked after her and then at me and asked what that meant I said I construed It as meaning that Miss Field did not approve of him or his will. Mr. Turner asked why It should be regarded re-garded as necessary for her to approve ap-prove or disapprove. I replied that Miss Field would not assert the necessity. ne-cessity. She merely withdrew from the association, a step In which I was constrained to follow her. "Mr. Turner seemed about to be angry, but his expression then chanced and he laughed very heart ily. 'Ion Vermonters,' he said, 'and your hard little moral universe. All right All right I respect you. You're tough. In your way. Well, then, I suppose, Mr. Whittlesex, we are not to go on with this will at this time In this officer That seemed to be so obvious a conclusion that I merely nodded. Mr. Turner shook hands quite heartily and said he liked them tough. "I found it difficult to dislike the man, although I bad made a good start at doing so. I find I have been beguiled into writing at great length. I recall that Mr. Turner asked me if I ever had been an ac cessory to murder before the fact In the New York World I read that of the six men Mr. Turner said he had occasion to remember, Clayton, Brown and Trembly have been killed. A connection is suggested in my mind. I never heard of Mr. Turner again, but I have no doubt that be proceeded with any purpose he may have bad. In my Judgment be was capable of enjoying a continuing con-tinuing hatred. I might surmise that at least two other deaths are to come if not three. I do not know why I write you unless the reason Is to be found In tne egousm oi pot-session pot-session of Information. I doubt that I wish to Interfere with any thing Mr. Turner bad in mina. Regardless Re-gardless of that I am, my dear sir. "lonr servant, "John Whittlesex." The letter of John Whittlesex sent the lieutenant traveling east His protest thereat was so weak he laughed at It himself as soon as he began It Certain mrormauon regarding re-garding Turner had been easily obtainable. ob-tainable. It did not give any real measure of the man but there was enough for first directions. He bad died two years before, October Oc-tober 29. 192a on his country place In Westchester county, New York, of pneumonia after a fall from bis horse. His will had been probated at White Plains. Its peculiarities bad brought It some newspaper publication pub-lication at the time In the East It was not contested. The son accepted accept-ed the provisions ade by bis father. fa-ther. (TO 81 COXTIXCXDJ cmDair. van (&3uiiii) Why don't you try thh amazing soap see how its ends last till dishes are sparkling clean how they flont dirt out ot clothes end hold it out so clothes are cleaner and whiter without rubbing? Softens water. Never balls op. 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