Show five dead by richard it BADIAH ADIAH LITTLE was t there were plenty who be glad to hear that n new WS were a great majority of nf who 4 care a rap obadiah was a 0 mean lean old who lived alone on a farm am 10 west of fairview eve 1 e I 1 hir h M bec bacius se minute irive bar argain fi fiction action closed conj and ad on 0 the ina that was a situation that conar confronted n ted ouen one me when vi we e arv drove e up un to in in ll 11 i gate preliminary investigation healed the following facts ac C lah had been killed by i a thrown through a window which he was sitting reading knew he had been sitting t i reading because moses lions neighbor had passed by in the e evening and noticed the tg hs window and no obadiah sitting beside it n had gone up the road lookin lookia a cow that had strayed he f fi the cow and started back ani and ticen that obadiah had position something about the wray y I 1 n old man looked aroused mosi curiosity and he went up cl di and saw blood on temple moses went on OB bo hon and called the police we corroborated this by neighbors who had heard li calling the cow and by biscow footprints and hoof prints cu the window and by the fact act oscar jones another neighbor come by while moses was 10 k in the window so we discounted moses i a possible suspect and went to t on the others who had hated i diah there was for or exin roscoe norbert who lived i a away and who had been he be obadiah with his haying A ni ne bor had heard obadiah and RD bo quarreling over wages tint that day 0 WE CALLED at ron ROI S SO house and struck a i roscoe been home all tah a that looked bad or good dip ing on what side of the fence ence were on I 1 sent owen to hunt bin roscoe and returned to obal farm arm quite a crowd had side ide lights from automobiles automo bild the house and gro among the cars I 1 noticed irions little coupe lie he was inside and had bad al ill begun his investigation hows it look I 1 ashel let you know la in RIM hour ile he glanced up and re to his work I 1 scowled doc DO usually ally more confident I 1 went back into the bed timit D doc oe was stuffing things back his beg bag been dead about five hoi hd he be said how some blunt instrument obadiah was a ni t b man everybody hated bated the rock eh could have been just then owen olven cm came e 10 liadi 1 id rawboned bad a a tall with him this is ros I 1 said awen owen came in again in with ML moses looked important I a moses I 1 said youre 7 ond class liar you murdered g moses jaw went slack lack you figure that Shur Shu rul ruf I 1 said ea id easy as pie low c 0 started out after your obad ob to stopped by to talk about renewing a nar r t gage else el something haps or mad and slugged flugge you got u PIC P W th n yo e poker the stove W liged window him up by the book in his lamp and put the outside went then you the ev h through throng heaved a rock bal k later when you came 01 tl ayat saw w your cow you v had bad slumped and you acar j C ben t look which is came by betl bl there was of 01 cours cour 1 W that t the poker to prove fa d do d the he but it was wa what dead I 1 real K gave me the 0 4 hours well five hours ri id wa was Sl shining AnIng and a 11 me born N uke obadiah badiah oui ou t when t the he sun was |