| Show MURDER M That's What Seth Dewberry Our OurTown OurTown OurTown Town Const ebb e Believes Has lias Took Place ace I In n Our Midst and Seth Says N He e Will Run the Gilly Parties to Earth or Bust Bustin in the A Attempt Fun Full Particulars Particulars Particulars lars Below Bingville Bing aint b been en stirred d up up for a long spell as it has been een for fori the past few days by what Seth Seth Dewberry Dewberry our lion-hearted lion town be believes believes be- be es to be a murder which has been in our midst has rained and what has has been een about bout the only to ick of com in Bingville s it Last Amzi Gookins went out to his back of Bingville to salt his cattle Jest after he had hac crossed the fooling footing over oyer th the brook and am amhad had dim clim the fence into the Amzi's was as to to k red on the ground near the the- fence and he went up closer to see what wha it was Well rell to make a long story short i iwas it was vas blood blood that's that's what it was I Amzi Anus hurried up and sa salted led the cattle and returned home and went down to toI I Hen s 's store an and told there what he had found Seth Dewberry Bingville town was among them pres present t l t and he was interested interested inter inter- ested at Seth he 1 Am i alot a lot lotof of pf about what wat le he had foundas found as to to how long the blood had hC been 11 there did he lie see sec any sins signs of a struggle struggle gle fe or or of th the 1 Pod hotly being drug away etc etc and Amzi to tell I the truth the the whole truth and hut but th the truth if he it i I would go o hard with hini him Amzi was puny ns IS he was afeard Seth might accuse him of the murder whereas where where- as he said h he was as innocent as a lam m. IS Seth th said he wouldn't gi give gie e no opinion about the murder until he had went to the scene of the crime an and looked for clews which he would do right off Seth Sett said he w assent assent surprised that Amzi t hadn't found clews vs how could you ou a person who wass nt a to see see ce things that I h he Seth would see as plain is as day being as his Ms life had been devoted de to track n criminals to earth as you might say 3 So Seth he heW W weilt I t home and got some extry e for or his r revolver roher and polished polish d up hi his badge andset andset and set out for or where Am Amid Amzi had the blood b by several se of our most r who vho was to see wl at tuk place by n morbid pr probably Vell Well ns os' S th was crossing the toot foot log Jog over the brook nad Wad was ali ahead ad of watching where he slept his Isis foot and he fell six o x feet into the bro brook k with a it splash plash The worter was only three f feet et deep but when Seth landed in iii the brook he stumbled scum sturn- bled and fell in clean over his head He Her r riz iz l up and wades wades' ashore indulging in in a str o of that awed the into silencer silence Seth hurt hUF none pone except his feelings edings and aft after r this tins Seth eth was tur tur- tur- tur cross and ana irritable ble and bossed around round like everything As Seth approached the spot pot he told th them m as s was was' with him to stand back being as they would tramp up up tip the clews dews and that if enny person come enny onY enny closer Hoser than they was he would arrest them as accessories after the th fact Seth he examined the tIle ground very critical and finally he hollered o out Hal leHa J I have found a human buman track of boots I 1 Jest then Am Amzi who was wai inthe th m the crowd called out to Seth that them was the tracks he be had bad made when he the blood Seth told Amzi to to keep his mo mouth th shet and tend to his hison own o biness unless ss he desired to be ar crested sted so after that Amzi i kep p party 1 quiet Seth after a of the spot st stated t d that in his opinion a afoul foul fout crime h had d been committed H He said without doubt had been bee en n stabbed to deth and the murderer whoever who who- whoever ever he was yas had drug the body ody off and concealed it not fu fur from the scene scene le of lof the crime He said saie that there ther was s nt any eny doubt in hi his mind that the motive for the crime crim was robber robbery and that whoever was th the victim had resisted and there e had been beena a a struggle and then the victim had hac been in cold blood and robbed ai afterwards af af- J Seth Set then returned to Bingville am and 2nd commanded present to re return return re- re turn with him hirr and to o not go ba back k where the murder had been committed under unde I cnn enny circumstances or he would jer jerk them then up and clap them in in the town townhall haIl hall up lockup for interfering with a a. a offic of of- fic fleer r. r The fhe first thing Seth done after h he be had s got f back to to Bingville was as to make mak maka a house to too house canvas from one em end of the town to to 10 to see if enny person was was' missing messing but to Seth's dee deep he found th that t all the inhabitants inhabitant in BinEf lIe could be for and that tha there didde appear to be in Bingville ille who had succumbed to murder Seth then that who whoever h 0 ever had been een murdered must be a resident of some other ne nearby rby town or o who lived hived rH near ar Bin Bingville and had been lured to their death on onI I sonic some or other At t this chure a Q bright bricht idee pc oc oc- curd to Se Seth h. h lie He made up tip his mint mind that if if he could find the body it might throw some soma light on who the was s 's so so lIe he returned returned to where the murder murder murder mur mur- der was committed and b begin to circle around in the hope hone of pf finding the th corpse But St Seth h find what he was wa looking for After he had jug his his- self 1 all all' allup up by y briars and h had d nearly slept nit o oa a a. blacksmith blacksmiths snake f five fe e feet long Jong Seth rive up his Ilis search and returned re returned re- re turned to Bingville A After fter this Seth shet Miceli up a ahome at home hanie and told his wife He he want ant antI I to be b bothered by enn person I in s herself while he w was s engaged in inI I solving ing the murder n b by deduck- deduck whatever er that is h is For a hun hull day Seth W was S buri buried d in deep and that g e he announced that he was to spend a few nights at the scene of the crime crime watching atchin for the murderer to r return turn Seth said id that s strange anse as it might seem I a a murderer most most al allus us returned to where he had committed a murder being as somehow V or or- other h r he was b back ck by a pe- pe he couldn't couldn t resist It t W was vs I Seth's opinion that whoever done the killing would ud come back and then he would him dead or alive Well Seth Vat watched h d all aU night but turned up I Pi He also watched the he two nights but the mur murderer murderer murderer mur- mur derer come conic back as s Seth he ic would so after that he ha give it up for or the time tim being and said he would wo Jd haft laft to res resort rt to some ome other means to tracK rack the criminal to earth euth fieth Seth says all aU he desires desire js is a leetie mite nite more time on this vase cast I ant and he will wilt bring the party jo to justice ustice e eVe We Ve hope lope he will I t M g i t ft t Mesa fua tsar o murder ra m mystery ite tery h has s been solved not by Dewberry but by AmzI Gookins Gookin who first fint found the blood was lookin over his hiS' cattle agin yesterday esterday making up his mind which ones he would s sell when he he- that one one of em em had its leg and chest badly tore ton and had bad bled considerable Amzi Amri then d the barb wire fence fenee near where he had found th the bl blood od on the ground and found c cattle b hairs irs on the b barbs where the steer had bad jug it it it- set self agin the fence I If f you want to git Seth mad as a a. a wethen wet wethen hen all you haft baft to do de is is to ask him how now he is coming along alon with his mur der mystery ry I i |
