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Show Saunders, who sprang into the conveyance and drova hut-riudly hut-riudly lo the police station. Ho then toot in Ollicer Glenn and together they drove to the acene of the awful affair. There laid Callahan dead in a sea of his own life blood. From an orilice in the right of his forehead the blood was flowing. There was another bullet wound in the abdomen abdo-men and from this Aaotliar Crlm.on Streak was flowing. Across the nose was a heavy cut that had evidently been in-llirtud in-llirtud by a heavy blow from a revolver. This wits all the light that could be had upon the shocking affair; and the coroner notified, the bullet pierced body was removed to Skewes' undertaking parlors. The solitary eye-witness, save him or her who dispatched the fatal bullets, was now in a cell at the city jail, and it wax to thoso gloomy confines that the reporter plodded. Josie was occupied by her own retlectinns. She laughed a giddy. toothsome laugh wbeu the interviewer landed ON THE iCXNB. Perhaps that was the mask by which she proposed to shield her guilty knowledge. knowl-edge. "Who killed your friend?" was asked. " don't know." ii mm Tlio Shocking Death of Edward Callahan at the Point of a Revolver. Lured to His Death by a Woman and Slaughtered on the Grim and ' Dark Highway, THE COURTESAN IN THE CASE. Joslo II ill Tell Her ITlmsy Story to a Representative of The JCvoning Times. Sht Had no Knowledge Whatever of the Contents of Hit Puna or the Crime. BUT DROVE HIM TO HIS DOOM. Ob of tha Darkest and Mil namaahla Attrocltiat that llara liarlienait tha Criminal Calandar al I tab. At 3 o'clock this morning Kdward Callahan, a resident of Salida, Cob-rado, Cob-rado, who registered at, the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan hotel on May 1H, was murdered by parlies near National park, on State toad. The tragedy is one of the darkest and most atrocious that, ever crimsoned the awful calendar of crime. Callahan, a tall, atatiiesipie fellow, with ample means to indulge his follies came to this city from sunny Salida where he is the owner of some real estate and the proprietor of a club room, lie aought his friends, prominent among whom were the proprietors of the (iaitity, at once and divided his time between business and pleasure. In the pursuit of the lattter he followed Tba l.ureniants of Folly to the haunts of the courtesan. On Wednesday ho joined an agrpeablo group and was soon moored at Lottie Miner's halle dc jeu, on Franklin avenue. ave-nue. He camped there that evening, ves all niaht. The "Why?" "It was too dark." "With whom were you talking of his money r" "No one." "Who were the parties In the back room ;" "A bookkeeper for Grant and two strangers." 'lid you see his money?" "No." "How did he compensate you for your embraces?" "Ho gave me 125 a twenty and r. five i dollar bill." "You Koaw H had MaaayT" ":o." "The money he gave you was an independent in-dependent plant?'' "1 can't say. He never exposed any roll to me." "Hut he did to tha landlady?" "Yes." "And you had no knowledge what ever of the amount?" "None." "Why don't you tell Marshal Young who committed this murder?" "Why don't I? liecause I don't know," and the woman who drove Kd. Callahan to his funeral settled back in her chair with as much indilTereuce as if she had dismissed an obnoxious suitor. The marshal is using every artifice known to the department to induce her to squeal, and it looks ns if that was simply a matter of minutes. The crime has Awakaaad Jntania Kiflltament throughout the city and the confession of Josie Hill is expected every moment. Judge Lynch is on the ale'rt nnd sits with grinning gae upon the bench, A half dozen theories are alloat. The most plausible is that which reflects re-flects a conspiracy between the courtesan courte-san and her allies. It was probably the original programme that ho simply waylay tho twain with her consent and relieve him of the bills and jewelry that he carried. Callahan was a man of powerful mould, however, and resistance probably led to the Hash of the six shooter. The bullets that came from a pistol of 44 calibre were prompt in hours were frequently sandwiched with drinks nnd when Callahan arose the following morning he was ready to renew re-new thn debauch. Among others who had shed their sorcery about him was Josie Hill, a courtesan of most masculine mascu-line prcdelictions, with a head of bleached hair and a face on ber as alabaster ala-baster as Tha Haiti of a Cathailral. Trior to the pilgrimage among the nymphs Callahan and his companion had been wooing tho faro bank. They won. The proceeds, however, were consecrated to a death march and from that hour the debauch began. Yesterday morning he rose ami the afternoon was given up to the same unholy pursuits. Nitrtit came, it was the arrival of his own life's sunset, sun-set, lit: never suspected it, but the cunning fatalities, male and female were weaving their deadly plot, lu his pocket he carried A ftiill f 4raiilickl. This was the coveted prize and no balk was to be made even at bloodshed. At an earlier hour the landlady hail euterod tho apartments occupied by Callahan and his hand-painted consort. She found his pockets too plump with golden idols to expose them to the hoiM'sty of the woman and took their contents. They aggregated just S.VH, From this his expenses were deducted de-ducted and when uight, haunted as it were by that sinister plot, came, he was handed $,140. A drive to Hot Spriug was suggested and in company with the nymph that was leading him slowly and surely into Tha Threshold of Death he entered a carriage. They rcmainod there but a short time and then returned re-turned to tho city. Tho maison do joie was revisited. Hilarity again began be-gan its desolating " reign that kept up until long after midnight. mid-night. It was then the bloody conspiracy con-spiracy began to mature, and if the evidence of the jubilant Josie's Their ratal Work. The abdomen was pierced obliquity by one while the other entered the forehead fore-head and came out the left side of tho skull. The perpelranr was evidently desperate in his pursuit of a few dollars'. dol-lars'. For the imprisoned Josie the case looks threatening. She falters in her story. She declared she had no knowledge knowl-edge whatever of the amount of money that was carried by Callahan; that he did not expose the contents of his pocket to her. Another suspicious link is tho determined effort on her part to secure a horse ami buggy which she now says was finally obtained by herself her-self after having Jieen Driven to the Stable by a hackman. The whole affair in fact, directs the attention of the authorities author-ities to the suspicion that she knew of the tragedy when it was brewing. It is a sepulchral outlook for her and the genius of Charles It. Gleun and William Newton whom she has engaged to defend de-fend her will scarcely get her out of the awful affair. The murdered man was a fellow of magnificent physique, was about Sill yeors of age and single. He has a large number of friends who will rallv as avenging spirits and nothing will he overlooked that can possibly lead to the apprehension of the fiends. rivals at the fount of sin may be credited, tlark ami suspicious whisperings whis-perings began. Callahan wanted fresh air nnd Josie encouraged his luckless luck-less ambitions. A buggy was sent for and that's where the hackmau steps on to The Crimean-FriagMl Stage, He was dispatched to one livery stable sta-ble and then to another, and finally to a third Steele's where he finally sui'ceeded in securing an outfit. The mission seems to hav e been urgent of vital interest to somebody's fate. It was almost aj necessary as the gloomy I hearse for more gloomy obsequies, j The buggy came after this relentless j search for one anil seatetl in it Callahan j began the voyage to his funeral. I Josie held the roins another in-i in-i consistency nnd oue that points to some-i some-i thing significant. They started for the I road house. It was closed. The ileui-j ileui-j zens had tired of the night but the ! ('rime wee fctill rropajrailnff. ! l liable to effect an entrance at the I front Josie appealed to the back door i and by persistent rapping buc-: buc-: ceedod in musing the boy wno slept ; within. Then came the proprietor at j her solicitation, who joined them in a tipple and then sought his apartments again. Several rounds followed. Finally Final-ly it was decided to return to the city, anil the first letter in the I grim signature of tlealli was written I on the black scroll of night. Callahan I was doomed. Unsuspec ting, ho look his seal in the buggy. Josie was still holding the lines with the doomed man at her left. Through the lerkne,e thoy drove. Josie was in no hasto ae cording to her own admission bill left the pace to the pleasure of the roadster, j Suddenly some oue issued from the gloom. He probably coveted that money and jewelry thr.t was carried by poor Callahan. He was grasped by the sl.teve of his coat, and then came the ! death dealing report of two pistol shots. I "Drive on Joe" shrieked gome one. Josie says it was Callahan's dying appeal ap-peal but the authorities assume the right to differ with her aud declare it more likely that it was a cue from tho lips of The Determined Aaii!n. Callahan went out of the buggy as if be had been grasped by I he arms of an octopus, and Josie wlieeiing ber horse held consult with herstsif for a moment and then drove into the city. She reported re-ported the tragedy to Ollicer t |