from Knowlton went to arrest
Howarth, another of the alleged conspirators who lives in the
same vicinity, last week, he surrounded the house with a cordon
of twenty men. They said, besides, the Wilsons were known as a
fighting family, who would never allow a member to be arrested
easily. As to Jenne, no two men would be able to prevent him from
slipping out of the house and escaping. As it turned out, Mr.
Carpenter had, in a measure, a greater success than even he
anticipated. Since the arrest of the man Kelly, who was hired to
do and perpetrated the act of assault, those who were interested
in the plan of getting rid of Mr. Smith have evinced a really
remarkable preference for the air across the line, and a score of
residents of this vicinity more or less connected with Brome
liquor interests have emigrated to the neighboring towns of the
United States, hoping that they may not be extradited. Mr.
Carpenter's little excursion cost a good many people beside
himself their night's rest. The first house where Wilson was
supposed to be was searched at about three this morning, and
three other houses were subjected to a similar process within the
next two hours. At the last place Wilson's parents, wife and sick
child were found; but they pleaded utter ignorance of the head of
the family's whereabouts. There is little doubt but that he is in
hiding in the States. Jenne's hotel, at Abercorn, was visited
about six, and he, too, was in the States. But Mr. Carpenter gave
Jenne's son such convincing proofs that his father would be
extradited anyhow, and that his staying away would only be
considered an acknowledgment of guilt, that the old man was sent
for and decided to come to Canada without trouble. It is known
that the confession of Kelly, now under arrest, implicates,
directly and indirectly, a dozen or so of well-known people
around here. There is a promising prospect for penitentiary terms
for several of them."

[Illustration: The General Manager of the General Manager--Grip.]

In the above account is given evidence of both the guilt and cowardice
of these hotel keepers. When men concoct plans of evil which they
dare not execute in person, and then hire a foreigner to carry them
out, it is not strange if they prove too cowardly to face justice when
their part in the crim