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STOCKWELL HELD FOR TRIAL.

Inquiry Into the Disappearance OF the
Funds of the Iron Hall-Into Whose
Pocket Did the Cash Go, a Question
That Is Troubling the Courts of Justice.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20-Adelbert E
Stockwell, late counsel and assignee of the
Mutual Banking Surety and Trust Com
pany, and j. Henry Hayes, Cashier of the
defunct institution, were given hearing to-
day on charges of conspiracy and perjury,
growing out of the failure of the bank and
the Order of Iron Hall, and were held in
$4,000 bail each for trial. Stockwell
furnished the required security for him
self, but Hayes declared his inability to
obtain bondsmen and was taken to the
county prison.
The evidence as summed up by District
Attorney Graham tended to show that the
bank directors, when they found their cap
ital impaired, signed a paper requesting
Cashier Davis, of the Iron Hall, to loan or ad-
vance the Mutual Bank 5000, 900. j. Henry
HAYES signs it and the receipt for it.
Stockwell prepared that paper and was
present at the meeting which ordered it.
This Stockwell denied, but Mr. Graham 8
only reply was to read the testimony that
Mr. StockwelI had given before the court.
"Then," continued Mr.. Graham, .'he
went into court and swore that money had
been contributed by the stockholders. OF
this 5000, 600, according to the testimony of
expert accountants, S170, 900 was charged on
the books to profit and loss. Not word
about the $4,000 Into whose pockets did
it go?"
''Mr Stockwen says the money was in
vested in bonds Davis says No 1 tell
you that when the ruin was hanging over
them they tried to cover it up. Then
Stockwel's lawyer came to him and he said
1 have invested it. That $4,000 was just
purloined from the Iron Hall, then taken
from the bank and the securities were
found where? Why, in Mr. Stockwell's
Office"
The only crime, the counsel for Stockwell
argued, that his client could be charged
with was in being assignee of this concern.
He defied any one to show that Mr. Stock
well had received one penny he was not
legally entitled to for his services as a
lawyer, or that he had received one dis
honest dollar. He said that it was perfectly
natural that the Iron HolI, as the principal
creditor, should come to the rescue of the
bank and make good the impairment
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a moment before entering it, with sudden,
sickening realization that this was what she
must expect her new life to be made up of.
She advanced to the table and, kneeling
down by it, put her head on her clssped
hands. As she knelt there she heard the re-
turn of the trap, but she did not rise, for
she knew Robert would drive round to the
back.
He did not do so, however, but opened
the hall door, and before she could scramble
to her feet, not he, but Mr.. Esmond stood
before her.
The telI-tale scarlet rushed to her face IS
she remembered her prone position.
"We missed the train, after all, ex-
planned Mr.. Esmond, "and as there isn't
another until evening, we were obliged to
come back.
care you?'' he asked, an unusual color
rising to his face, now.
Phoebe was too entirely confused and
startled by his return to do anything but
wonder how far and how irrevocably she
had betrayed herself Mr.. Esmond
took possession of her hands, aud drew her
to the window.
"Where is your collar9" he asked, ab-
ruptly.
looked at him helplessly.
fOT gOOuueSb Sdhoy uOu bEluc1 no
burst out, irritably, "Why have you taken
the collar off?'
"Why should you ask?" demanded
Phoebe, reused by his anger.
81 left you looking like yourself, and
wearing your engagement ring" he said.
'I come back accidentally and find you
without it, crying"
81 was not crying" said Phoebe, involun-
tarily.
eff it is because you have given him up
that other lover-and 1 have a right 70
speak-to try to win your loye-is it,
Phobe?"
She glanced at him, questioningly.
81 know what you are thinking, he said,
impetuously and enormously, "you are
wondering what manner of a man I am.
Well, am not worthy of you-but-will
you trust me?"
Yes, will trust you," she sale, d,-'but-
you didn't say that because was crying, did
you?"
"Well-what do you think?"
''Of course, know IL you were in the
habit of consoling crying damsels like that,
you would be married long ago-but still"
"But still love you out of all the other
women in the world. I can't help it Does
that satisfy you?"
The END
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two. Then they would generally fall asleep;
and she would scan the faces lying back in
the easy chairs, and muse on the general
superiority of man to woman.
Robert still went to sleep, but his COM
panion did not He did not exactly enter
tain Phoebe with es-Othello-like, but
! somehow, through the long hours, it was not
| often that the conversation ball dropped.
Phoebe was not without the feminine gift of
tongue-indeed, she was rather gifted in
that line-and Mr.. Esmond, she discovered,
| was of Irish descent, which accounted for
| his yolubility, and, on the presumption of
his having kissed the Blarney stone, for the
! facility with which he could make Phoebe
| blushes come and GO.
As they stood in the dining room one day,
returned from a skating expedition, Phoebe,
who was unfastening her jacket, took off the
| torque also, and handed it TO Mr. Esmond
DO you like my collar?" she asked,
lightly
He took the pretty ornament in his hand
and turned ii over in the light from the
Pwindow. Before he could make any remark
upon it Phoebe volunteered an explanation.
1t is my engagement, ring" she said,
leaning her fur-capped head back against
the window curtains 81 preterred.it it to an
| ordinary engagement ring, though it was
rather extravagant of me; and nv, my
what shall call him?"
''Don't you think just him. as you said,
has as much meaning as anything?"
He was holding the collar in his hand
with, to her, his ordinary placidity in his
blue eyes, though it might really be the
stoicism with which an Englishman bears
blow.
''Do you like it?" she asked, leaving her
former question unfinished.
'No."
The question was grim, and for a moment,
went unsupported BY any further explana-
tion; he handed the collar back to her
"When an article is marked sold at all.
it should be in very plain letters" he said.
He was not looking at her now, or he
might have seen that the fresh color faded
from her face for few minutes, and that
her thoughtful blue eyes cast q swift uues-
tioning and revealing glance at him. She
took the torque in her hands, and fastened
it round her throat with rather shaky fin
gers, and then gathered up her muff and
gloves, and took them away without a word.
One great disadvantage of modern civiliz-
alton is, that it enables our friends-still
worse, our enemies-to veil their feelings.
as we'll as ourselves 1t is very satisfactory
to feel that our own calm, imperturbable
gaze hides our own secret soul, but what
about the answering gaze of stony equan-
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That will turn the eyes of money-saving
buyers toward us. a great 3days sale at
the 2. Z. Z. c., cor. Grant and Diamond
streets. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
we will sell clothing at the following con-
vincing bargain prices:
We will allow you to take your pick from
800 mems fine black clay diagonal suits,
sack or cutaway style, silk mohair binding,
worm S1o aJ-.. VI oU.
l,500 mems fall overcoats oxford black, tan
and gray coiors, silk sleeve Innings and silk
faced or plain, regular Sl2 and S4 garments,
a.. ~ ou
1000 pairs mems fine dress pants, stripes
and stylish grades, Observation-Disclosures. So 90.
1900 suits for boys, age 4 to a. single or
double breasted, neat cheviot patterns, at
LOCO mems fine dress suits, made in the
height OF fashion, plain black goods or new
mixtures. garments that are worth So sim
gle or double breasted or cutaway style.
Our price for three days. $40 co.
The working man and those of limited
means should visit our well-lighted base
ment 1t always is crowded with good, SUBJ
stantial clothing, marked way down in price.
Three thousand additional candle-power
incandescent lamps make it brighter than
ever Visit our basment bargain depart
ment. p. c. Z. C., Clothiers, cor. Grant and
Diamond streets.
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stole over her slowly and comfortingly, it
was a more than usually fair self for any
one to look upon. Even to her, there was
something unique in the abundance of
physical charms, coupled with the breadth
of forehead and the independence of mouth
that bespoke wits and will. She mentally
passed "you are satisfactory" judgment
on the bending figure in the glass, as her
sharp scrutiny fell on the healthy tints of
the face, the perfect blue eyes, and the
alert, fnely-formed figure.
She rose and went to the window, and
with her eyes fixed on the srow-covered
road, over which the dogcart had carried
the two men to market that morning, she
stood trying to do what was beyond the
power OF even her sharp, blue eyes-to look
few steps into the future.
There were only a day-and-a-half of
Mr.. Esmond's visit left. They passed in
the same interchange of ceremoEious
courtesy-a sort of thin ice which covered
the unusually stirred feelings below.
And so the last day came, and with it
that very last minute which we can never
really believe in until it is here. Robert,
seated in the trap at the front door, had
called out several times that there was
barely time to catch the train, and Mr..
Esmond, had, at last, descended to the
waiting to say goodby.
One looked as calm as the other as they
met, and more conld not be said for the
calmness. Phoebe was the correctly at
tentive hostess, ready to wish her guest bon
voyage, and to hope they should see him
again, and then retire to her warm dining
room, comfortable and happy. Beneath
Mr. Esmond's new fur-lined coat, it was
impossible to imagine anything less con-
ventional than good breakfast and an easy
digestion. If they had been Jane, the
housemaid, and John, the footman, there
might have been a pert toss OF the head
from Jane, or back-handed speech from
John to help matters on, but even the
unusual whiteness of Phebe's face was
hidden by the semi-darkness of the hall.
81 hope you have enjoyed your visit"
she said with a confused recollection of his
first appearance, as her eye iell upon the
travelling cap in his hand.
Thank you. 1t has been the happiest
three weeks in my life"
Has it?" she said lightly, not noticing
in the strained sensations Of the moment
the unusual warmth of his speech. Indeed.
it was only in the words themselves that
there was any unusual warmth. The tone
of them was sincere enough, but Mr.. Es-
mond's quiet little voice always had sim
cere ring in its tones
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Concluded from yesterday.
Phoebe glanced across at her companion,
with face of blank dismay at the prospect
1--WE should be buried, if it went on
showing all that time
"How many feet deep will my port
manteau be now?" he asked thoughtfuliv.
Your portmanteau? Did you leave it in
the snow?'
''Yes, dropped it behind wall 1t was
heavy"
''You must have been dreadfully cold and
lost last night" said Phoebe, and for the
first time realization of what his struggle
across the moors must have been, crossed
her mind.
"Yes, it was dreadful"
mo onewho had known the moors would
have ventured," she said, with vivid re-
membrance of how he had looked as the
result of his venture. And, with the re-
membrance, came another remembrance, of
how Imply wet his collar and tie had been
the evening before. She glanced across to
see how they looked this morning, but was
met by vision of immaculate spotlessness.
which she felt Mr.. Esmond must have got.
somehow or other, if he had been stranded
on desert island, 50 impossible was it to
imagine him without their conventional
finish.
He intercepted her glance, and smiled
consciously.
You have discovered that have been
helping myself from Roberts stores, Z" he
said, in explanation.
The snow continued to fall for the greater
part of the day, but toward evening it
ceased, revealing a country covered many
1eet deep In spotless snow, and in the skies
above the stars came out and cleaned like
drops Of sparkling fire.
During the earlier part of the day Mr..
Esmond had acted as Phebe's henchman.
since then shey had talked and read in the
dining room. They were resting there now,
and Phoebe was thougbtfully staring into
the fire. She was thinking how dreadfuIly
ignorant country girl is Robert had
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-21
CRIMINAL COURT CASES.
Minor Offenders Convicted and Receive
Light Sentences.

Minor Offenders Convicted and Receive
Light Sentences.
In the Criminal Court Thomas Oswald
pleaded guilty to assault and battery and
was fined SIS and costs.
Theresa Backman was acquitted of assault
and battery on the child of Thomas Heron,
of Bradford township.
NJ. Higgins was convicted of stealing a
watch.
Edward Canavan was found guilty of
felonious assault on Lizzie Hoffman. The
case is the result of meeting in Schenley
Park one evening during a concert.
Samuel Wright was fined S. and costs for
committing an assault on Floyd j. St. Clair,
of McKeesport.
Abraham Levi, VINO was put on trial on
Monday for the larceny of IS from Gee
Wah, was found guilty.
Michael Hutton was convicted of assault
and battery on oath of j. w. McCleary, of
Buena Vista, and was fined 81 and costs
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BANDIT GARCIA HEARD FROM,

He Murders a Wealthy Planter and Defies
the Troops Pursuing Him.
HAVANA, Sept. 2O.-The notorious ban
dit, Manuel Garcia, accompanied by mu-
latto named Plasencia, recently waylaid
and murdered a wealthy planter named
Dionisco Banista, the owner of an extensive
plantation near Quivican. The bandit
placed on the body of his victim a letter
which read: 81 am not murderer If I
killed Banista it is because he tried to
poison my brother, Vincente, and to deliver
me up to the guards
The letter contained menaces against sew
eral persons, whom the writer declared he
would punish IN the same manner as he had
Banista. 1t also expressed the most con-
temptuous defiance for the troops who are
engaged in hunting him.
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WANAMAKER & BROWN,
ANDERSON BLOCK.

"Perhaps we shall see you again, some
time" And in that speech there was an un-
mistakable strain of wistfulness, which
made Mr.. Esmond hesitate for q moment as
he glanced for corroboration to her face.
"Goodby"
''Goodby," he replied; perhaps you will
ask me to come and dance at your we'd
ing?"
''Yes, I will," said Phoebe, standing lit
tie more erect at this reminder.
He stopped to kiss the hand that he held
with a pardon-asking air, and then Phoebe
withdrew the hand from his, and stood cold
and erect, till he had mounted the dog cart
and waved his last adieu.
She shut the door with her own hands
the great iron-bound door she had opened
to admit her unwelcome visitor few weeks
before; and, then going slowly upstairs, she
stood before the glass in her own room and
looked at her white face with mixture of
contempt and pity. She slowly unclasped
the torque from her neck, and holding it
up before her turned it roand and round in
the dim winter light Then she folded it
up and placed it in ths box where her par
eel of love letters lay; and, turning back to
the glass, she replaced the collar by q
brooch.
She paused for q moment to note how
beautifully staid the brooch looked-like
one who has renounced mankind, she said
to herself with smile. She saw the smile
In the glass, and 1t occurred to her that she
was acting; and there came to her a remem-
brance of how very young she was, of how
very many years there were yet to come to
make up life, of how, even the self that she
saw in the glass would leave her, and grad
ually withered, parched old crons would
take its place. And the only thing that
would gild this life would be q remem-
brance of the three weeks romance which
had been the cause of it.
As she packed the torque away, she
packed with 1t wifehood and perhaps moth
erhood, with the responsibilities which are,
at lowest, distractions But the strain Of
romance in the girl had awoke and taken
possession Of her being, until any possibil-
ity of following course other than that of
remaining faithful to her lost, never-de-
clared lover, never presented itself to her.
Out of the two letters which she had
written to her lover in London Phoebe chose
the shorter one, which she enveloped and
addressed ready for sending. In the box
of letters she packed sundry little presents
and the fatetul collar, wrapped and ad-
dressed those two, and then, with slow, sat-
isfied step, she returned to the dining room.
When she got there the room was so pain
fully, strikingly empty that she paused for
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A THREE WEEKS ROMANCE.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH
BY ALICE BUTLER,
AUTHOR OF ga RUDE AWAKENING" ETC. ETC

| told her very little of this friend of his,
and the very simplicity OF his behavior
made him puzzle to her. She had never
known anyone who was so unvaryingly
courteous as he had been to-day. He had
never paid her q compliment-neyer told
her, even in looks, that she was more than
usually good-looking. From his conversa-
tion she gathered that he moved among
people whose names were household words
in England. She wondered, with a sudden
burning blush in her cheek, if he thought
her country pumpkin. Somehow the
words were SO ridiculous they surely could
not apply to her. She rose with a feeling
of intolerable vexation at her own folly,
and without a word to Mr. Esmond she
went upstairs, and sat there, cold and un-
comfortable, looking out into the night,
until the striking of seven told her that she
had been upstairs an hour, and she left her
dignity and sorrow upstairs, and returned
to the dining room.
During the days that followed the same
pretty game went on. 1t might have re-
minded an onlooker of game of hide and
seek, played between the stately danes and
lords OF bygone age, wherein the fun only
breaks out now and then behind a carefully
decorous glance. Robert Dering found his
way home on the second day, and made the
play more interesting, because, in the
shelter of his chaperonsge, there might be
little more license
Now that SO wild a word as slicense"
might in any way be applied to the beha-
vior of the two principals in the game.
Phoebe, at first, made repeated attempts to
remain mistress of herself and her house
hold, only to find herself hankering after q
little knowledge or fashionable, London
life, wondering if she, with her graceful
freedom of movement and fresh beauty
would find herself an unframed pumpkin
beside Mr.. Esmond's friends. In the rare
visits of her betrothed, who was also a
dweller In London, she had been accus-
toned to providing bountiful tea for the
two "boys," and afterward to hearing them
exchange business confidence for an hour or
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unity in eyes whose secret feelings we wish
to bring up to the light of day? When Mr..
Esmond's behaviour became totally differ
ent after PhGbes disclosure about her en-
gagement, she was at a loss to know wheth-
er it was for his own sake that he had meta
phoricallY withdrawn to a distance, or be-
cause he had OWNED her motives and
wished to show her that she had miscon-
strued his attentions
Fear that it might be from the latter mo-
tive froze Ph9be's hospitality into ice.
Mr.. Esmond was as invariably courteous as
before; and the consequence was, that they
entertained each Other like drawing-room
guests. If only Robert had been endowed
with small share OF humor, he might
have enjoyed the stage-like behaviorof the
two; but to them it was terribly earnest.
The day following Phebe's disclosure
was market day at Ethan, and Mr. Es-
mond accompanied Robert there and re-
mained with him all day. Phoebe, left at
home, got out certain letters received from
the absent lover, and read them all thought
fully before the dining-room fire. They
were very much alike each beginning with
"Your devoted lover" and all closely re-
sembling each other in what came between
two remarks. There was quite pile of
them too, nearly sixty. She folded them
neatly together, and replaced them in the
scented box from which she had taken
them.
She sat looking at them, her hands
clasped round'the gold collar at her throat
Then she drew sheet of empty paper to-
ward her and began to write. The freight
fickered on her fair hair and blue serge
dress. and tried to warm her unusually pale
cheeks into little of their ordinary color
She filled the sheet of paper with her
clear, legible handwriting, and then pushed
it away from her, and Immediately wrote
another letter-a much shorter one. She
held the two in her hands, comparing one
with the other, her clear eyes weighing their
merits with the prompt, judicial ease which
she could apply to other things beside let
ters Finally she put both letters into the
same scented box with the others, and, lean
ing back in her chair, her eyes tell on the
reflection of herself in the glass over the
mantelpiece. She was not girl who spent
much time in the study of herself, SO that
the sodden appearance of the pictured self
before her came upon her with the start
lingness of something unexpected.
She leaned forward and scanned the pic
ture with something of the primitive curios-
ity of a savage. So that was herself-the
self that other people said "How do you
do" to, and criticised. Well, the sensation
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An Exhibitor Missing.

Visitors to the Exposition notice with
regret the absence OF the beautiful display
of Pennsylvania rye whisky, rare old wines.
liquors and cordials, made in previous years
by Max Klein, OF Allegheny. His famous
pyramid OF "Silver Age" bottles has been
transferred to his headquarters, No. 81 Fed
eral street, Allegheny, Pa, where can be
seen the finest stock OF liquors in the State
at extremely low prices. Silver Age still
sells at 81 30 per quart and Duquesne 81 25.
Send or call for complete catalogue and
price list furnished grauuitously.
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COMBINATION BEDSTEADS,
Hopper Bros. g. Co., 3O7 Wood Street

The combination folding beds displayed by
this firm are the most wonderful Invention
OF the age for household furnishment; they
comprise many different articles; may be
divided into two distinct pieces; are hand
some for large rooms, and save space for
small ones. One beautiful design with
rounded fronts, side cabinets with plush
lined dra wers, large oval mirror and bric-a-
brac shelf forms lady's dressing case, yet
would answer for a bric-a-brac cabinet. An.
other combines fine bookcase and cabinet.
A third has china closet and sideboard;
again you find parlor secretary. Then
some have wardrobe and chiffonier, or
wardrobe alone. or combined with cabinets
and closets; others are distinctly chiffonier
tirely detached and used in another room,
OF they may at will be turned to right or
left to shut out light or draughts and a child
can manage them. The exhibit Is north
gallery.
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Blocker and others. an action on an account,
is on trial before Judge Magee.
THE trial list OF Common Pleas No. will
be called at 10 o'clock on the morning or
Friday, September g. All the attorneys are
expected to be present
A NoN-sU1T was entered against the
plaintiff yesterday in the case of Matilda
Tankert against Stephen Tankert, an action
for damages for alleged slander.
The suit OF G. T. Mcconnell against the
Central Traction Company for damages for
injury to buggy caused by car running
into it. is on trial before Judge Ewing.
JOSEPH MILLER. OF the West End, yester-
day entered suit against Caroline Knorr for
$500 for damages for injuries to q building in
undermining the wall of building by ex-
cavating for q cellar.