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Show Ever Heard of Community Silver? S. It it Ik tigkatt (rid of plated tilt er knms, fork ud ipooos. It it g air anttcd to Wtf tweaty-fir- t years, sad U only om of tbo several fiat lines vt carry. i Detection of Gfaimkv 170 St IAIN CITY, UTAH. SALT LAKE By George GflUnBDUl jF. 'Butter and Herbert IUtey Dr. Furnivall Solves a Perplexing Case by the Use of His IS $50.00 Round Trip Daily Elks Low Rates Feb. 6th Powers Psychometric-Deductiv- e 6:30 In the morning a laborer with two cents for his breakfast' milk warm In his hand stopped in front of Swartz' provision store and stared at the blankly T ttlneart Anew Then suddenly ho went on In full con Ddence: "No, 1 asked blm if we had time before the 11:45 train to drop la somewhere for a little taste." t "What did he say?" "He asked me where I was going. and I told him to Fairview on my vacation, and I mustn't miss the train," "What did he say thon?" "He said there was plenty of time. So we got oft and walked through Arch street to Heulzer's, but he wouldn't go In. He said he'd wait anil shutters. The place 5unshine, Fruit lro$ers ancf Hours of Within, Twenty-fou- r your very door. It's the place for rest and recreation, health and pleasure. Fishing, Golfing, Autoroobillng, Yachting1 and other out-dosports may be indulged in every day in the winter. For full information, write to or KENNETH C. KERR District Passenger Agent Salt Lake City, Utah nK A TT'BTlT'ri I H lM I N A at ta Adrice U patent Precedur. bi,itr FREE p request. Send sketch and detcriptioa of your inrentioa. Harry J. Robinson, Attorney at Law and Solicitor f Patents, 304-- 5 Judge Building, Salt Lakt City MONEYWEIGHT SCALES DAYTON VANGUARD MEAT SLICING MACHINES TEMPLETON COMPUTING Moaerwtiik Sol Co.. Salt Lake CUTTERS CHEESE Ma 232 : 2d So. St. Point of . the American Family. In 1870 the per cent of all marriages terminated by divorce was 3.5; in 1880, 4.8 per cent; in 1886, 6.2 per cent, while now it seems probable that approximately 10 per cent of all marriages in the United States are Professor terminated by divorce. Wlllcox, of Cornell," has calculated that, Should the present rate of of divorce in the United States of all continue," by 1950 marriages will be terminated by diCharles vorce, and by 1990 one-halA. Ellwuod, in the February DelineaVanishing se one-fourt- h tor. The Alaska-Yukon-Paclfl- c exposi- tion has appropriated 100,000 premiums In the live stock and try for poul- show. Elks' Excursion to California. Via Salt Lake Route, February 6. Thirty days, 33 dollars, 30 scenes. If Interested, see any Salt Lake Route agent, or write to A. VV. Raybould, Secretary, Salt Lake City. Boating, bathing, orange grove trips. Their Good Time. Little Elsie was very disobedient and mother was cross and scolding. Suddenly the little one looked up and said very sweetly: "Oh. mainma, ain't we having a pood time!" "How?" asked mother crossly. "Oh, JuBt afusslng." The February Delineator. Two live stock show circuits will close at Seattle next September durexposiing the tion and the prize winning blooded stock from all of the shows will be exhibited at the 1909 world's fair. Alaska-Yukon-Pacifi- c The opening articles of the' notable series, "Stories of a Great Nation," to appear in the National Magazine for 1909, have awakened widespread Interest. The Jaifuary issue contains one of the most remarkable sketches of "The Supreme Court of the United States," written by Henry B. Brown. "The, Secrets of the 'Secret Service " are told by Chief John Wllkie, who has made a remarkable record In this department Editor chats on Joe Chapplo's Inimitable "Affairs at Washington" continue as feature of this excellent magazine, whIU the fiction Is of an entertaining and clever nature. The Pay Streak, or amusement cenexter, at, the position will pass through a subway Alaska-Yukon-Paclfl- c decorated plants In with 25,000 full bloom. , , geranium The English In India. That Ilf Itlsh rule has been an comparable boon to the natives In- of India Is urged by Sydney Brooks In a recent Imsuo of Harper's Weekly. He thows how the great majority ol civil service appointments have been made from among the inhabitants of the peninsula,-- while local autonomy Is universal. The proposed reforms tor the better administration of Engare land's greatest dependency thoughtfully analysed In this ablo article. was always open at five at this time of year, and be was in a hurry. The stillness was broken by the policeman.- - Drawing his revolver he tapped with it lightly on the class. calling in a loud voice: "Hi, there! You In there! I set you. Hold up your hands and come on out o that! Come out. I say!" "Well, well, well! 'Tis poor old Swarts he's hung himself!" the policeman whispered in awe. Then he remembered that the door of the shop, fastened on the outside, was secured by means of a bar and padlock. These niust have been put in place by somebody with Swartz in the shop! Then who could that somebody be if not the murderer! Yes, it was not suicide, it was murder, and if murder, who could the murderer be but Flannlgan, the only person besides Swartz possessing a key to the padlock? With the flash of this pbvious sequence Into his mind, the policeman hurried to the store telephone and called up his Btatlon, notifying It that Swartz was murdered, that Flannlgan a clerk, had done the deed and was missing. From the evidence not a man of the force present entertained the slightest aoubt of how. the crime had occurred, nor who the criminal logically must be. Flannlgan, Just before closing-tim- e on Saturday night when, trade being over and the shop deserted, the street door was closed and the shutters put on all but the back window, had for some reason throttled his boss with his powerful hands, slipped the rope around his neck and hoisted him up there to make It appear to be a case of suicide, locked up and fled. Flannlgan was thick-witteand it would never occur to him that be had left all the signs pointing to himself, and only to himself. As long as nobody had seen him do it he would feel safe; for be was one of those people who are continually repeating for the Information of their audiences that "what you don't see you don't know." Officers were at once dispatched In several directions for the man. The fact that be was not at his boarding house, but must have returned to his room from the shop and changed his clothes at some time between six o'clock on Saturday evening and eight on Sunday morning, was precisely the evidence that the police looked to find there, and they found it. Flannigan's lodging mistress said that on going to his room to put It In order on Sunday morning at eight, the usual time, she saw that the bed had not been stent In, and examination showed that his every-daclothes hung in the closet while his best suit was missing from Its accustomed hooks. And he had not been seen in the vicinity since Saturday morning, when he left the house for his day's work. To this in formation the police, making a search or bis room on their own account, added certain other aueeeatlve Items. A badly soiled shirt, torn up the back as If discarded In a hurry, was crowded behind the bureau: a razor. unwimxl after using, and a shaving paper with dried lather on It, as If the shaver was In such haste that he could not stop to clean away the traces of his work, were on a little table near the gas jet; a traveling bag, which the lodging mistress asserted that he owned, was not to be found; there was no linen in the bureau drawers. In fact, all the evidence tended to show that the man had left suddenly for parts unknown, saying nothing to anybody of his Intended absence, taking with him what few valuable effects be possessed. If the razor remained behind It was because In his excitement he had forgotten It. Inquiry In the neighborhood soon brought to light a man who had seen Flannlgan late Saturday night with a suit case and a big roll of bills staggering from one saloon to another on the way down to the south station; and It jpresently being learned that Flannlgan had relatives In the little country town of Fairview, which was his native place, the rest was easy. He was Just the type of man who, having committed a crime, would Immediately make for the vicinity of his old home, having neither sense nor general Information enough to steer as widely away from that particular spot as possible. Connections were made by telephone with the police1 of Fairview, and within two hours from that time Flnnnlgsa was undergoing examination at station five. He was a very muscular follow of y , "But you went In?" "Yes." "Was he waiting when you cam out?" "No. I guess I stayed too long. I missed the train and had to go horn on a freight" "You say you didn't know the man very well, but can't you remember anything about blm, any peculiarity about him?" "Well, he had a funny smell." "A funny smell. What was It like?" "It was kinder sweet He said he'd been eating something for bis breath. He gave me some, too. He said I ought to have some by me, it was so good for a whisky breath." ' Have you any of It with you?" "Yes, in my vest pocket" The doctor searched the pocket and n presently found a kernel of a for article the proprietary breath. He chewed It a moment and then leaning toward the man so that the scent must strongly reach hla nostrils, said: "Do you remember that smell?" "Sure I do." "What Is associated with it in your mind? What does It remind you of?" "Heulzer's hotel." "Did you ever smell It before you were In that place?" "Why, yes; that is what Chlnky gave me Just before I went "Chlnky? Who is Chlnky?" "I dunno. He's a feller I met sometimes. I dunno his last name." V "Whv U ha railed Think? " ' "They say it's because when he iuub iu iuiu iuo nwum iuo uiuiaw and nickels chink in his pocket." "Then he must be a conductor on well-know- In" the street cars?" "Oh, yes; that's what he Is! I remember now." Dr. Furnivall returned to the office. The captain had Just returned with the Information that, sure enough, the key did not fit the lock. on Swarts' ' store. "Of course," said Dr. FurnlvalL "Now hunt up a man a conductor on the street cars, who Is known as 'Chlnky.' He Is your man. Bring htm . to me and I'll prove it." But "Chlnky," who was found to bt a conductor by the name of Ataa Westover, frightened so that he could not stand on his feet when charged with the crime, admitted his guilt at once, and there was no necessity fof hypnotizing him. He said that Saturday night after his work he had met Flannlgan on a car. He told him he was going on a vacation, that Swarta was In the store with a big roll, which he was intending to take home with him, as the safe wss no good, and that he t Flannlgan) had brought away the store key Instead of leaving it with the boss, as he ought to have done, seeing that he was to be away bo long and might lose It Flannlgan was stupid, and "Chlnky" easily got the key from bis pocket as be helped him from the car to go to Heulzer's, substituting one of bis own In Its place. Running to the store he watched until he saw Swarts removing his butcher's frock, and while it was over his head, entangling his arms, he rushed in and choked him with a short length of rope. He meant only to render him unconscious and get the money, his hastily conceived plan being to throw suspicion on Flannlgan, who would seem to have run away after doing the Job; and that was why he had stolen the key. But when he saw that he had overdone the matter that Swarts was dead the pulley and rope dangling down from the loft gave him the Idea of complicating the affair by making It look like suicide. So he hoisted the body up and left it hanging, shut the door, put up the bar, locked the padlock and went home. He had suffered the most horrible tortures of mind ever since; had been oa the point of giving himself up a dozen times, feeling that death would be a relief to him, and now that he was taken ha was glad of It They would put him out of all his misery before long. His only excuse for the crime was that he was a cocaine fiend, and supposed he was crasy and didn't know any better. Flanulsan, released at once, went home for his vacation, this time without stopping on the way; and he never entered a saloon afterward. Westover was electrocuted, after a long trial Instituted by a benevolent society in tbt attempt to prove him Insane. . with a face full of imbecility. It seemed evident at once to the examining officers that the man would know no better than to commit murder, and would commit It under provocation, the last thing to enter his thick head being the fact that be, with his grade of Intelligence, would not have one chance In a thousand of escaping the penalty. He asserted his Innocence of the charge, but In a manner, as If he was very far from realizing the seriousness of bis position, lie said: "If old Swarts is dead, I'm sorry. I didn't do it. He always treated me all right, and I wouldn't do him dirt. It I knew who did I'd lick him good." "What did you go away from your room for without telling anybody of it?" "Shucks! I didn't have no time. It was most 11 Saturday night when I knowed It first myself. The boss, he says:'Flanny,' he says, 'how'd you like a vacation?' he says, 'Everybody but you and me is taking a vacation,' be says; 'it's the fashion nowadays,' he says. 'You go Flanny,' he says,, 'and I'll go when you git back. You can stay a week,' her says, 'and here's two weeks' wages. That will do you,' he says. Then he counted out 26 dollars from the big roll he had In the safe" "So he had a big roll in the safe, did he?" the captain interrupted. "Sure! He had Just put it In there 1248. He says: 'Flanny, this Is the biggest day we ever had, and I'm he says, 'to give you a vacation, 'because,' he says, 'Flanny, you're all right, and we can afford to be in the fashion.' he says." "Well, what did you do then?" "I says If I'm going I'd go then, so's to gtt the 11:45 train and be home Sunday all day. So he says go ahead, , and I goes" "You went to your room before taking the train?" "For sure! I had to git my glBd rags. And I started to shave, but didn't. I didn't have time.'" "You had time to drop Into a number of places on the way down to the station, didn't you?" Flannlgan grinned slyly. 27 years, good-nature- half-hearte- d t, d "I wouldn't If I'd shaved," he answered. That ended the examination as far as it need be given here. Swarts was found hanged in his store, to which only he and Flannlgan had a key, Swartz' key was In his pocket, Flannigan's key was In his pocket, and the store was locked from the outside. Flannlgan had run away, and when story caught had told a of a vacation, a luxury never heard of before in connection with any employe of "Fatty" Swartz, or even with Swartz himself, who had been for 13 years In that store every day of his life except Sundays, and all day. The notion that he should suddenly propose such a thing to Flannlgan at 11 o'clock at night, make him a present of a week's pay and pack him off at once, was preposterous Just the kind of a foolish story that a man of Flannigan's caliber would be likely to Invent. Only one thing seemed strange to the police: What had Flannlgan done with the 1248? cock-and-bu- The next day after Flannlgan bad been committed tor trial without ball a little old woman with beady black eyes, a wrinkled, yellow skin, a highly nervous manner and a very shrill voice called on Dr. Furnivall, and announcing that she was Flannigan's mother said that her son was of course Innocent, and as she had no money to pay a high-ulawyer and detective to prove it, she had come to him as the only thing left for her to p do.- , Dr. Furnivall was given access to Flannigan's cell. He commanded: "Flannlgan, carry your mind back to 11 o'clock Saturday night, and tell me what happened to you then?" "Why," he answered without hesitation, "the boss was giving me 26 plunks to go on a vacation with." "Did you leave the store then?" "I left as soon as I put the shutters up to the front windows. The old man said he'd fix the back one." "Was he tn the store when you 1 left?" , "Yes, sir "Alone?" "Yes, sir." "When you went. out at the door where did you go?" "To Tim Foley's place first, and then to Randall's, and then to my room." "Did you talk with anybody in those places?" They was barkeeps. Only the hardly anybody around then. It was closing time for those shops. They ain't victuallers." "Did you see anybody at your lodging bouse?" "No. The lights was out and I went In quiet. Everybody was abed." "When you came out where did you go?" "I took a car for the south station "Did you talk with anybody on the car?" "I can't think. I dont think so." "You don't think? Can't you say positively? What you had taken at Foley's and Randall's hadn't begun to affect you, had It?" "Well, I h'isted it in quick, and a lot of It, and my head was going some, all right." Up to this moment Flannlgan had been talking In a normal manner. The doctor's gaze had put his face through the preparatory stages of change only, But now, from a startled, then earnest, passing to a peaceful and contented, expression, his eyes leapod to that of absorbed thought, and he continued In a monotonous voice: "I think somebody was there; some body I didn't know very well. I think I spoke to him. But I don't remember tf he said anything to me. It was an open car. and I guess he was way over on one end of the seat and I was on the other." "Was he on your right or your left side?" "I don't know, Seems to me he was sort of behind me. I'm pretty sure I didn't see him." I sort of felt htm, I guess, and I asked him" He hesitated, a strange, intent, tn trospectlve look In his blue eyes. "Asked him?" suggested Dr. Furnl vail, softly, "Asked him what time it was" He proceeded thus hesitatingly, groping In his mind for the clew to the Impression faintly traced there, . (Copyrlsht. ISM. by W. O. Chapman.) , (Copyright In Groat tlrlUloJ |