New Nick Carter Weekly #24 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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ee = NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. = W Jorkmen hurried to the spot and ar-|spire with Campo against mem bes of hu rived at the window just as Trim crawled |own family in order to get it. in. The detective, realizing thatthere was; Among other things that came ot yet time to purse Campo, clapped hand- | when the various prisoners were examined, cuffs upon his prisoner’s wrists and left | was the fact that the wreck of the Mex him among the surprised workmen. can Central Railway train, described if - There was a sound of feet clattering |the last issue of this library, in whiel downstairs. |Irim had so narrowly escaped with hi 5s Trim leaped for the stairway and went | life, was caused by the Nanigos, who | ra } J es Jown with long bounds. The stairs in thus hoped to kill the detective who had “ the upper part of the building were un-/broken up their branch in Mexico. finished, but after going down two or! ‘The track-walker and: his accomplice ia. thtee flights he came to one where the! who caused that wreck, and who after- bannisters had been set up, then he did|ward attacked Trim in the tunnel, were his sliding act, and at the end of the|under orders to kill him, but they ha ~~ second flight that he went down in this | disobeyed because they thought that they = fashion, he came full against Campo. could rob him and then leave that part o eS: The latter, who had not expected this the country without reporting to oaleal kind of pursuit, had not time to draw his | members of their society. | =i revolver, but he madea stubborn resist-| The fact that Trim escaped them led ancé, giving Trim a hard fight to the finish. The detective overpowered him at length, however, and within an hour ap-| ers. His investigation was successfully | finished, and he had a day and a half to. _ spare from the time limit set bv his chief. | The evidence against Richard De Leon as well as the work-| man who was their accomplice was too} complete to allow of any hope of the Jared acquittal. It was made stronger by the recovery of iss De Leon on the day following the | se oe then told the story of the attack ar her, and it proved to be substantially one an ‘had reasoned it out. De Leon broke down and made a com- | = plete confession. From this the local police were enabled | o arrest a few others who were connected | a The society had not Ex large in New es Se Orleans, for Campo preferred to have it 2 ee “Tie to only a few members who| a we 10 ld do his bidding, and it was through | ' | : times poe? rial he kept himself i * - ha ‘ : se . .. ; J hoe on i - - ir -_ ot - a nm 4 ; a « x 4 ~~. ad ‘ —a ~ 44 7 d fn | ba | = 7 — = : ' 4 > i peared at headquarters with both prison- | Campo and _ As the evidence was pieced together bit by bit, it became so strong that Richard with SEES. as members of a branch of S95 a _|seribed in < he ard 7 € “Leon was not a direct | that gang, but he had been work by his own suees of s them to go to New Orleans and seek pre- tection of Campo, who was known to be” ithe leader of a gang there. Campo had been obliged to protect them for a time in order to prevent an exposure of his own connection with the ‘society. The persistency of the detective and:-his — good fortune in escaping the various ate | tempts upon his life, resulted finally in the coniplete breaking up of the society im that city. Before he left New Orleans Trimm looked up his peculiar friends, the voo- — ‘doos. He was satisfied that they had had nothing to do with Canipo or the Nani- ‘vos, but he knew that such people were 2 oublesome because of the way they . ‘aroused the superstitious fears of 4h e ‘negroes. a The detective had a plan for getting them out of the city, but when he vy bs nt to their headquarters he discovered that — they had gone already. ~ It seemed probable that they feared the | cool young white man who had ae i them, and had fled before he could expose them. ae ea | in ‘shies jndtters: bse The first of these of importance i is « di ‘“Tyim’s Combination Case; or, ‘T'wo Clients After the Same Man,” a 25) ops Nick Carter I — ye ae = [tue x END. oes