The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-07
DIR. OWENS MAGIC CIPHER.
ONLY HE AND TTPEHHITEH GfRL
CAN DIssECT sHlKEsPEhRE.

Rseouisa Posus fro. shskespearsss
FIsy--Irs 20 sI-pis she Doss It Ps-,iy
~ Esehiuery-Bsee-, n Appears, Mur-
ssred sh.hsspsare ror BIseku.iiinz ais.
The West, MP to date. 10 winning in . walk
IN the on-Shakespenre cipher race and
although no one but his typewriter girl knows
how the cipher IL worked which o. W. Owens.
Md. OF Detroit. has discovered. the doctor as
sured an audience in Parlor II OF the Fifth
Avenue Hotel last night. that the cipher is, in
the language Of Chimmie Fadden dead
easy" The Doctor did not use that term in
describing his cipher. but what he did soy was
enough to make the East acknowledge itself
clean beat Or else It might import the type
writer girl
The Doctor 10 tall. slender. good looking. and
quite too young looking TO make easy the be-
lief that he has read all the Elizabethan litera-
ture he really has read. But what troubled his
audience was that he would not tell just how
TO work his cipher Some one in the audience
said TO him:
doctor. do you not think II would be nobler
Of you to give the world yourknowledse Of the
eipher1 Why do you not end this agony and
plainly state the case so that he may run that
reads"
Because" said the Doctor meeting scrip
ture with scripture. tho laborer IL worth yof
his hire Why" he added. If told just what
h was THE Sun would have nifty men on the
cipher before tomorrow morning. and get out
ali the stories before l could"
Tho Doctor lectured FIRST, and then he an
swefed questions. The latter were the most
fun. He began his lecture By saying that he
had been for years. before he became Ba-
CONAN, q Shakespearesn. It was not until he
began observing the differences he found
In q ac-simlls OF the 1923 edition and
later editions that his curious attention was
directed to puzzling sentences and relations
Of cue words and concordant words, that he
started on his hard grind for the cipher He
worked on the theory that the mathematical
solution was the correct one being led in that
direction By the line in Loves Labor's LOST
"a most nne figure to ind you cipher
Then no found In four different plays Q
warning against figures and soon became
impressed with the frequency and meaning
fulners from . Bsconisn's point of view Of
ths iour. word. Rspgtation'" Fortune
That hunt finally landed and, him on the RICH.
By The enc iour conserdsns Words the coneordant
shakespeare; H.s system taught him that In
credited to shsSespesre and even some other
contemporary works we're q series OF guide
Esr tSe Place 'f Bacon s send soa to-
and then concordant word to tell you whore
This system he had taught to q typewriter.
and he lad Just received from the publisheE
,ss S a SSa
He picked up the volume and read some Of
1riterr YS s remarked triunpS.ntiy. they
Then he demonstrated how some OF Baeon's
short STORIES were built or ,petched together;
word. which sent him to another play. used the |
partly for Francis, partly for tho Doctor but |
most Of all for the typewriter. surely.
extraction. Adjoining a typewritinR machine !
'Ss. ns a' the net
with nets this reel was covered with pages Of |
eeos hsnd A5S osf tsas
girl has to do 10 to turn. the reel watch the |
know more sesndsi about oueea Elizabeth
than any Of her subjects ever limited at-and |
Then the audience began asking questions.
One man asked II two Of the Doctors type,
the cipher and were turned ,-ose ON the same |
short story would their yor,s result In identi.
o-k %. SsRs sSs4s
the . sd tho How ,ds msny g! any good French
This was not quite satisfactory. and the
Questtoner. who had Q round head. repeated |
% snd read The Subject matter sannet
err
The round-headed man remarked: You |
are 90 familiar with yogI subject: Rosto.; that
po{
The Doctor listened to the man. who asked,
anS have yhi e..
~ There might Be but there are not" the
are 6oStor Interrupted his ausstionsrs to
In the first. volume Of cipher stories there
are iorty-two historical facts related. l had
verified thiFty-seven Ct them before my recent
4lsslens1s a d g @ besS.pSy there isH !:
put they became closer alter that. 4 is pro6a:
FSa. TosS. 'o 81 ssfGss
y sDssr tes yet oa sSss
story and had printed It Bacon, how.
Lord pack srin9's WHOM L Of course I Correct
Lord Pneksrina although an idiot. was made
!s SId his liz: about he .ssSss mAH.T.
kney OF. and which Baeons cipher has told
Bacon has told the Doctor several interest,"
Ing thinkA IL Was Bacon who murdered
WIZ should he have told Of i, even in
cipher. II he didtkiii him - suspicious man
eoysrdsEsnd he had to tell Of his crime so he
But whst did he murder sh.ks.pe.r. for
This did not phase the Doctor q little bit. He
answered promptly:
shakespsars, was blAekmsiling Bacon
not own the land It was on. but no was getting
vast sums OF money. How2 He was black
letter Bacon wrote to Ben Jos son which would
have greatly Injured Bacon II the queen knew
OF II. and Shakespeare black mailed him."
Tho Doctor said that the English cipher
story that Bacon and JODson poisoned Shake
covered with her little reel that Bacon admits
the killing. but says Jonson was = witness
only not accomplish.
OF course, Jonson may be the typewritSr'a
fAyorite author, and she Is mon sying with the
prsfSrences.
Here IL another thing that Indomitable De-
tIoit typewriter has reslsd on: Bacon did not
die until 1913, years after all England thought
him deesntly in his tomb.
That girl must b. a great girl.
MAD IN An ELETATED STATION