The Shepherd Murder Mystery

Wm. N. Brown, wlio kas been in Duluth for a time, went to Sliep herd yesterday to be present at the Struble investigatiou. ïhe attempt to implicate Mr. Brówn in that aifair Ls Sfcnrpiy used as a shield by sonie one eist! to help cover own guilty tracks. If there ivas any reason for him to desire the destruction oí the books oï the Sliepherd Bank, or for the niaking away with Cashler Struble, there mighD be sume suspicion on which to base sucli a theory, but his interests would be helped by the books a.nd by the presence of Mr. Struble. To one at tliis distance wo has no interest in the affair, it looks as though thera was but one or two men who had an interest iu the death oï Struble and the destrucfjon of those books. The suicide theury is quite ludicrous. To assert that a man would deliberately shoot himself türee timos, then take a Lever and pry the safe away from a hole in tlie wall, and hide the pistol there that he shot himseli with, put the 6afe back, and then fa 11 down and die, te certaitdy theatrieal, ü nothing more. There is no doubt in the minds of the people who have kept track of tlie evwlence in the case that Stvuble was murdered, and the books destroyed by BOine one who was to be benefited thereby. There I has been a lieap of rascality iu the banking business in Mt. Pleasant and vicinity there is no doubt, and it ís possible that the rascáis inay be unearthed before this investigation is" througli wlth. Tlie threatenlng u newspaper men because they wero finding out too much, is also a Bign that the rotteuness and crime may yet be exposed.