Show WHITE DEATH KNIGHTS WAS VMS ONLY BOYS BOY'S JOKE CHICAGO De Dec 12 Tho Tho mystery of I tho bo i Knights of the tho White Death 71 letI let Jet tern tors which were recently sent to various arious clergymen and prominent citizens in inthis inthis this city with the tho threat that unless they left largo large sums of money at Bated spots they would bo be put to death was teas cleared last night when William Pollard 22 3 years rears old oId driver dri of a grocers grocer's gro gro- o. o eer's cers wagon was arrested and confessed to having sent the tho missives missives' as a n. joke Pollard PolIard blamed Conan Doylos stories of f crime crimo for his exploit Fascinated by bytho tho novelists novelist's 5 lurid Inrid pictures Pollard declared ho had determined mined to see how they would work out in tho the hands of tho Chicago police So ho be organized the Knights of the White Death 17 and with t a i Sherlock Holmes fancy wrote out a bundle of letters decorated with skulls and md crossbones The demands for money he said were simply added to enliven the mystery as he he- never went to tosco see whether tho the money was left or not He sent coffin nails and trimmings with tile the letters Pollard said in his confession How How did I get set the human bones and the coffin coin trimmings 1 That was easy When they du dug a new grave gravo in in Calvary c cemetery the graves are so 50 crowded together together to to- gether ether that th tho side of an old Bravo gravo often caves cacs in in- inand and portions of the un- un in- in torment fall into tho new V excavation which is is then thrown out with the new sand Band At ni night ht I went into tho cemetery cemetery tery and gathered these things After I 1 had sent that coffin han hand handle 10 o to io Rev Rov Mr Waters I was as afraid they would tra trace e it to o Calvary Calvar- cemetery b because because be be- cause of the cross on it Besides those to the clergyman I sent letters Jotters to Assistant Assistant As As- Chief of Police telling telling tell ten ing ins the latter to leave leavo in tho the confes confessional confessional con con- fes ional box of St. St Charlottes Charlotte's church I I was del delighted l when whoa I read that Dr Dixon with the detectives stood waiting waiting wait- wait in ing almost all night for tho wh to I knights to appear r for the money |