e top rail of the
fence, until he reached the gate. The bloody finger prints upon
the top of the fence were no doubt made by his own fingers,
which he must have raised up to his head. He was able to enter
his own gate, come up his own walk, and ascend his own front
steps. Up to that time no one can tell the story. What ensued
after that has been told by your reporter in the interview with
Miss Audrey Tarbush, his loving daughter.

So ended a long and honorable life. The pallbearers will be
chosen from leading citizens of the town, but their names have
not yet been determined. He will be buried by the Knights
Templar, to which order he belonged, probably on Sunday
afternoon, because, although such haste may appear unseemly,
this early funeral will allow a representative attendance of
all the members of the order, including practically all our
leading citizens, with their full music, so that the concluding
exercises may thus show a greater tribute of respect, the
attendance at any later day being sure to be far less general.

Your reporter has interviewed prominent citizens as to the
cause of this crime which has so shocked our community. When
approached by your reporter, Judge William Henderson,
well-known candidate for the United States senatorship, former
member of the Republic State Central Committee and prominent
citizen in this state, said, "I cannot hazard even a guess at
the perpetrator of this ghastly crime which has so shocked our
community."

The story written by Mr. Anderson ended at this point. As printed it
ended considerably in advance of this point; but at least, as he later
told his wife, he had done his best to give his paper a good story. By
the time his message was waiting in the hands of the station agent,
telephone wires were busy between Spring Valley and other larger towns.
The early afternoon papers in Columbus were on the streets by
eleven-thirty with big headlines, and a few lines of type about the
murder of "County Sheriff Abel Tarbush of Spring Valley, Jackson County,
for which murder four tramps had been suspected and placed in jail." The
deceased was described as a prominent Mason. By that time the star
reporters of the morning dailies were on the through train, Number Five,
bound east from Columbus to Spring Valley, as many learned by telephone;
so that the arriva