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would not hesitate at murder if neces-

would not hesitate at murder if neces- sary.
 ] Brookvlle has always been noted for | it's "liberal'' ideas, and it is such an | out of- the-way places that it was se- lected as the spot for the footraces. Some fifteen or twenty races were run
 here, and in every instance the race was fixed" so that the man who bet his money against King was sure to lose. The stakes were from $500 to
 S5, 000 The first victim was Harry Heason of this place who was a sort of a runner and athlete. Johns import
 ed young fellow, and he and Heason
 agreed to run race at Cincinnati. In
 their friendly races Heason had always
 defeated the other, and Johns urged the
 lad to bet on himself. The race took
 place in Cincinnati, and the ''un-
 known who had been imported by
 Johns, easily won, and Heason was
 broke
 A short time after that Haughn ap-
 peared in Brookville and the fake foot
 race industry was started in earnest. s.
 A. Greenland, q. wealthy stock raiser,
 near Great River, Iowa was selected as
 a victim. A runner named Godfrey se- cured the confidence of Greenland. Haughn and Godfrey had race, and Haughn won, Then he disappeared. A. short time afterward Godfrey got a let ter from Haugkn at Brookville Haughn said there was man here who had did him dirt" and he wanted to get even. The mans name was King, and Haughn's proposition was that Godfrey should find a man to back him
 Haughn) and King would be induced to bet on Godfrey. Haughn would win and King would be skinned" Green land had seen Haughn defeat Godfrey and fell into the trap. He and some of his friends sold $2,000 worth of cattle at Chicago and came to Bruokvlle with the money. The preliminaries were soon arranged. The money was put up in Johns hands. Greenland was sent to one place and the conspirators went ! to another and had the race. Godfrey, |! of course, winning. By the time Green : land reached the race ground every one was gone. And he has never seen the | gang or his money since. A crowd of | sports from Rensselaer, came down here | to beat the game The pretended race 1 was pulled off" an hour before the ap- ! pointed time and the sports from Rensselaer, were glad enough to get out If town without being mobbed as we'll IS robbed
 All the races were worked on tho gen sral plan of the two mentioned and for iears the syndicate of swindlers had
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everything their own way, but at last
 they went up against the real thing.
 The industry was languishing, and it
 was decided to make, a big strike.
 Haughn left Brookville and went to the little town of Ipava, Ill., and soon got
 in with the high school boys. They were so pleased with him that they selected
 him as a director of their sports and | he gave them a great deal of informa-
 ton for the small amount of money
 they paid him, and that inspired con-
 fidence in him. Lewistown was "A place not far away and there was great riv airy between the high school boys of | the two towns. The athletic instruc- i tor at LewistoWn was J. c. Stillson,
 sprinter from some unknown part of
 the globe. Stilson and Haughn enter
 ed into the spirit of their two schools and were such bitter enemies that they almost came to blows several times. At
 last 1t was decided that the two schools should have race. Stllson, on the part of Lewiston, selected lad named Perry Ballard, and Haughn said he would run himself There was consid- erable money put up. Haughn threw the race and left Tpava forever, and
 with him disappeared Perry Ballard
 This race was the beginning of the con spiracy that entered so disastrously for the syndicate at Brookville,
 Livng at Lewistown was Edward Du- wall. He had been a farmer all his life. but sold his farm and bought the village hotel. He also had ambition to hp n dad r9 snort Cf51lchn q In. cd in Lewistown--qute a. hero he was and got on good terms with MT. Duvan. the would-be sport One day he got a letter from his old friend Haughn of Brookville, Ind. At that place there , was man named Ali King, who had l refused to 'cut up the money" won by ] Haughn in an enterprise in which they | were interested, and he longed for re- | venge.
 The proposition was this Hauetn | had made King believe that Perry Bal 1 lard Was the sWiftest runner in Aneti- | ca, and King was ready to put up his ! money on Ballard Now Stillson was to !, find sdine man who would back him. | end as it would be dead easy to head 1 Ballard. they would get az ood roll, and | Haughn would have his revenge on King This letter was shown to Duvall. |, and into the trap he plunged, He went l to Brookville with s1 700 in cash. As in all other eases, the negotiations were with the utmost secrecy Du- vail registering at the Valley House under an assumed name. It was some time before Johns would consent to act as stakeholder and his seeming reluc-
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UP- COUNTRY SWlNDLING.
THE FAKE FOOT RACE BUSt-
 NESS

In a Small HoOsier Town-Systemah'
 syindIing of Wouid-Be Sports
 by the Most Bnrefaced Methods =
 Two of the Gang in Prison and One
 a Suicide.
 Brookville Ind, Feb. 25.-This is the kind of place that Washington Irving had in mind when he wrote his Legend of Sleepy Hollow" It is place fla nous in song and story, rich in legend; in it's early life it furnished some of In diana's famous men-statesmen, poets, great engineers, successful warriors Here existed a syndicate of swindlers whose ingenuity in defrauding their vic- tin1s was so devilish that many wonder since the facts became known that the victims did not shoot down their despoilers. I refer to gang of organ ized crooks. who fieeced suckers" for years on fake foot races.
 The leader and his assistant are wear ing stripes in Michigan City prison; an~ other fills a suicides grave here; two are fugitives from justice and it is like ly that indictments will be returned against more. The breaking up of this gang is due to the courage of one man Edgar O'Hair--one of the foremost members of the Franklin county bar. The amount of money that has been taken from victims lured here from all parts of the country is estimated at from $50, 900 to $150, ,000, but MT. O'Hair says he thinks the first-named sum is about the right one. .-
 The leader of the gang was John S. Johns. an all-round sporting man and saloonkeeper who came her from Bed ford twelve or fifteen years ago. He was genrally the stakeholder in the pro posed footraces. Albert G. King a of one of the best known fam flies in the county, was his chief assist ant King was a democrat and Johns q republican, and they levied genteel blaekmail on sll candidates and others who needed their political services l John P. Haughn of Fairbury, H.. a pro- fessiona runner and alleged teacher of , athletic sports, was the general fixer," | and these three were assisted by a gang i of toughs and shoulder hitters, who
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THE BTBLE IN THE ARMY

That in our country the Bible is con sidered particularly fit for soldiers to study appears in the custom of giving Bible to each West Point cadet. This custom was started by society of ladies organized for the purpose Eve ry year about this time the graduating class of cadets is gathered in the chap el some one makes an address, and the Bibles are presented. This year the
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charge of a trusted court officer. The jury was out for eighteen hours, and for a long time one man stood for ac- quittal, but he finally gave in, and the three defendants, Johns, Haughn and King, were sentenced to States prison for terms of two to fourteen years,-In- dianapolis News
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26
A Very SusDiciOus Case.

ITS wonderful, the change that has
come over that man in the last month,
remarked Il prominent evangelist to 4
leading minister yesterday as an e9
convict passed them where they wert
waiting to take an east end car ~
one time he was the very worst wlp
ever struck the city and did time fE
highway robbery
Il notice that he has braced up" atd
the minister looked after him apprv-
ingly. He seems to have reformed
thoroughly. The other evening he bt-
tended service ut my church and pix
ed up a pocketbook with sum Of
money. which he handed over to bne
of the deacons after service. Lott {
people who were never suspected u
crime wouldn't have done as welP
do you know. | think he's III =
bit wrong in his head" said the wan
gelist in tone suggestive of NJ in
quiry.
yes" replied the minister nfdita-
lively BESIDES the incident b Sc
just mentioned, have noticed a lot Of
little things that lead me to think his
kind of crazy. l believe he's COED
one to keep an eye duluth New 3
Tribune.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26
A Costly Cheese.

A Scottish farmer was one day sell
ing some wool to carrier, and after
weighing it in the yard he went into
the house to make out an invoice.
Coming back, he missed cheese which
had been standing on a shelf behind
the outer door, and, glancing at the bag
of wool, he observed that it had sud
denly increased in size.
Man." he said to the carrier, Il haze
clean forgotten the weight o that bag.
Let's pit it on the scales again"
The carrier could not refuse.
Being duly weighed, the bag was
found to be heavier by the weight of
the cheese inside. A new invoice was
made out, and the crestfallen carrier
went away.
The farmers wife ut once missed the
cheese and, rushing TO the yard, told
her husband that some thief had stolen
the cheese
ma, ma, Meg" replied the farmer
quietly. Il haze just self the cheese for
twa shillin's the pund."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26

was not to he found. for the FIRST time
the fourth act.
Hampton wasn't on in the fourth,
but he took such II & to get into his
street clothes that he wasn't ready to
leave until the others We're, and he
went out with his hat in his hand
Grasping the cold iron rail. he guided
himself to the blaze of electric lights
that marked the lobby entrance and
seemed to be spelling out the name up
on it. That was the last time the COM
pany saw him.
If it hadn't been for Mrs. Bowler
from whom Hampton rented his little
fiat, and If it hadn't been that flats
are built with thin walls, the company
would have altogether forgotten about
Hampton. But Mrs. Bowler knew Bus
coe, and she came down the next after
noon with message. Mrs Jennie
Hampton was dead.
Mrs. Bowler had heard Hampton
come in about half past IL the night
before. She had heard the doctor.
who was still there. tell him some
thing Then 1t became so quiet that
she fell asleep, although she had in
tended to remain awake and offer
what help she could if anything hap
pened. She didn't awaken until the
sun crept through the window in the
morning. Still it was quiet in the next
room.
Then. she said, Hampton began to
speak. Mrs. Bowler couldn't repeat
what he said, but she knew that he
was explaining about the play the
night before-how, ut the end of the
third act, the audience called for him:
how they called for him until the cur
tain was raised and he bowed to them;
how he took the leading woman by the
hand and led her to the footlghts, and
finally how he had gone out in front
OF the curtain and bowed to them
again. Mrs Bowler knew enough about
the theater to know what curtain calls
We're. and Hampton was telling Jennie
that he had six, while the most that
Temple ever had was four. In fact.
Mrs. Bowler became so excited that
she actually went into the room TO
congratulate Hampton upon his sue
cess
When she opened the door. she saw
Jennie smiling fcebly and Hampton
at the foot of the bed, animated, ear
nest. convincing, happy. And Jennie
was beaming She was still smiling
Mrs. Bowler said. when she fell back
on the pillow and CLOSED her eyes.
Hampton shivered and stopped his
story.
SO Mrs. Bowler came down for
Hampton TO tell BuScoe that Jennie
was dead and to bring one other mes
sage, which no one but Buscoe seemed
to understand. AS she told it, it was
like this: Tell Buscoe that Eve made
my one hit"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26

Perhaps they did NOT see that Eus
companion was a woman. The people
fell back little and looked on duly
Some of the best men of tie town
were there, but none offered to inter
fere. Bystanders justice is as slow in
getting under way as it is memorable
in its final action.
The gang was in their liveliest mood.
They unbuclled the harness, tied the
horses ears, tipped the wagon and
howled and circled. One of them
threw half eaten banana at Ed. He
ducked, and Mrs. Jamison screamed
and clapped her hands to her eye. Ed
sprang to his feet and drew the hands
gently away. Blood streamed down
her face The sharp stem of the fruit
had made ragged cut in her cheek.
A country crowd takes up news as
water does wave motion. Within five
minutes it seemed that everybody in
the place knew that something was
happening down in the square.
ED Jamison's fighting, Ed Jami.
sons killed two men! There's an aw-
full fight soing on in the square! Trem-
belly Ed Jamison's gone crazyr' So
the rumors caught from man to man.
Something was happening. Trembe-
" Ed Jamison was clicking the Tan
nersville gang one by one in twelve
foot ring under the wavering torch
lights of the speakers stand, while the
speaker waited and wondered.
mir hnfnpa tIn about
the wagon fully believed their eyes,
but when they did Ed got fair play to
the finish. Three of the gang tried to
wriggle into the crowd but they were
tossed back into the circle and when
| they saw that escape was impossible
fought gamely; but they were no match
for the sturdy hill boy. Clean, regu-
/ lar living, hard work in the sunshine
and a superior muscular Inheritance
1 were pitted against them, but more po-
{ tent than these was the unleashed spir-
it of the youth. 1t was as if the dam
/ that had caught and held all the man
1 hood that should have flowed quietly
and steadily through the growing
/ years had suddenly given way.
This flood swept him along. He
could not stop. When the last man, the
i tall leader. went down, he swung on
/ into the crowd like a mailman Three
/ men laid hold of him and shouted into
his ears that it was all over He re-
/ covered slowly and went to his moth
/ er. y doctor was binding UP her wound.
People wondered afterward how she
! could have sat there so quietly i'll the
/ midst of the noise and the jostle and
/ the sickening blows, but Mrs. Jamison,
deep in her troubled mother heart,
| knew that out of that dust and cursing
and pain another son was being born
| to her.
When Trembely Ed took the seat be-
side her, they hardly knew him, and
as the crowd parted widely to let him
pass the pent up feeling loosed into
cheer after cheer that rang up to the
hills and on up to the high heart of the
mother.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26

No housewife should be without
broom bags Heavy canton flannel is
used for these. A bag large enough to
easily admit the broom is made, with
the furry side of the flannel out About
two inches from the end the bag is
stitched across, thus making loose,
extra wiping surface across the end Of
the broom. In the hem of the other
ends runs a drawstring. On sweeping
days the broom is incased in this bag,
tied tight around the handle and the
walls cleaned much better than by any
other broom or brush. BY having sew
eral supplied to the maid there will be
no excuse for dusty walls.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26
EARLY American ScuIptors.

1t is worthy of special notice that
when Rush began to model in clay not
one of the artists who have given co
lebrity to our native sculpture had seen
the light of day. Frazer was not born
until 1890 nor Ezekiel Anger of New
Haven until 1871. The latter was orig
inally in the grocery trade. but, failing
in that, took up modelling and wood
carving without any guide except his
natural instincts; but like the major
ity of our early sculptors, with the eX-
ception of Rush, his efforts are inter
esting only rs evidence of what talent
entirely unobstructed can accomplish.
1t was not until 1903, long after Cop
ley, West, Malbone. Allston and Stuart
had demonstrated our capacity for pie
torial art, that Hiram Powers was
born. The same year IioratiO Green
ough first saw the light of day In the
remote wilds of Kentucky Hart was
brought into this world in 1870 and
Clevenger. Crawford and Mills follow
ed in 1872. 1913 and 1915. Thus we
see that without hereditary genius or
predecessors from whom to copy Rush
achieved his artistic results and sue
ceeded in winning for himself Euro
pean renown which made him the
equal of some of the leading foreign
carvers and sculptors of his age and
at the same time well earned the title
of father of American sculpture"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26
In order of their Rank.

The fancies of person enduring the
pangs of seasickness are sometimes
funny to his heartless and healthy
friends.
When retired army officer who had
always abhorred the sea was persuad-
ed by his wife and young daughters
that his duty to them called for year
abroad he groaned in spirit.
Later on he groaned in flesh, and an
old friend on shipboard, who was fine
sailor, sat with him in his stateroom,
listening to his laments. There was a
rough sea, and the waves seemed to
rise higher and higher and then sink
In regular recurrence. At last the
listener realized that there was meth
cd in the sufferers means.
"Private." he heard him mutter, "cor-
poral, sergeant, lieutenant. captain,
colonel, general" again and again.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26
EBEN b. THOMAS.

Telegraph company. At the outset he
developed ability aud push. and when
still Il young man he was engaged in
commercial and manufacturing opera
tons of importance.
He first became connected with rail
roads in i large way when he was ap-
pointed in 1870 receiver of the Lake
Shore and Tuscarawas railroad. Since
then he has been connected with sew
eral roads.
In February. 1SSS, he was elected sec
ond vice president of the New York.
Lake Erie and Western and in 1890
was made first vice president. He was
elected president of the Erie in No
vember. 1884. and was made one of its
receivers in 1895. When the company
was reorganized. under the name of the
Erie Railroad company, Mr.. Thomas
was made chairman of the board of di-
rectors, which position he has since
filed
Cnpretcntious and quiet in demcanor.
Mr.. Thomas is an effective force in the
railroad and coal business in this coun-
try. His methods are straightforward,
and the tendency of his mind is pro-
gressive. His strong point is finance,
and it was for that quality that he
was elevated to the craftsmanship of
the board of directors on the reorgani,
cation of the Erie road IN the field of
finance he has also beer Merry success
full in enterprises not cS9hected with
railroads.
Mr.. Thomas possesses Independent
means and is able to crafty an appre-
ciative taste for literature and art.
His library contains a fine collection of
books
Mr. Thomas principal diversion may
be said to be horses. He loves horses
and always has some good ones in his
stables. which he exercises freely and
with much enjoyment Being of a So
cial disposition, Mr.. Thomas is noted
among his friends as most hospitable
entertainer. His magnificent residence
in New York has been the scene of
many elaborate functions
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26
How Professor RlacI>ie Apolosized.

How Professor Rlackie ApoIOgized.
Professor Blackie was lecturing to
new class, with whose personnel he
was imperfectly acquainted A stu
dent rose to read a paragraph his book
in his left hand. Sir" thundered
Blackie. hold your book in your right
handm-and as the student would
have spoken-"No words, sir! Your
right hand, | say The student held
up his right arm, ending piteously ut
the wrist. "Sir, | hae nae right hand"
he said. Before Blackie could open his
lips there arose a storm of Kisses, and
by it his voice was overborne. Then
the professor left his place and went
down to the student he had unwilling
ly hurt and put his arm around the
lads shoulders and drew him close,
and the lad leaned against his breast
MY boy" said Blackie-he spoke
very softly, yet not so softly but that
every word was audible in the hush
that had fallen on the classroom-"my
boy, you'll forgive me that | was over
rough? did not know, l did not
know He turned to the students,
and with a look and tone that came
straight from his heart he said, "And
let me say to you all l am rejoiced to
be shown l am teaching class of
gentlemen" Scottish lads can cheer
as well as hiss, and that Blackie
learned.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26
TREMRELY EDS
AWAKENING
......By Frederic Brush
Copyright, 1903, by the
s. S. Mcclure Company

Trembely Ed, Trembely Ed
Look at i'm cross, an ell drop down dead.
The hooking singsong came from an
alley at the right of the village street
and from a very small boy. but its eff
feet on the man in the wagon was in
slant and remarkable. His chin drop
ped between his slouching shoulders,
his head moved from side to side with
out the eyes following, and his big
hands twitched forward on the slack
reins in futile effort to push the horse
into trot.
Soon a half dozen boys were circling
about the wagon, chanting the couplet
with Il peculiarly effective rise and
fall.
hotel vera a laughed. A group Of
girls stopp to watch the sport. The
roam mare ambled steadily through
and turned down the geXt side street.
Here the boys drew off. each with an
apple or tomato from the rear of the
wagon, but far down the street the cry
followed him:
Trembely Ed Trembely Ed;
Look at i'm cross, an. ell drop down dead.
Ed Jamison's father died at flood
time while trying to save another mans
fortune For twelve years his mother
drove alone to the village with the
produce. beat down a mortgage dollar
by dollar subdued stubborn upland
farm and asked odds of no man. Ed
Jamison had no right to be a coward.
He grew up strong and healthy. But
coward he was, and that in a com
munity where physical courage must
almost daily be put to the test.
People took differing views of the
matter The greater number thought
that his brain was wrong somehow.
Only once in Il long way was man
or, more often. woman-who claimed
that Ed Jamison had some stuff in
him.
Give him time-give him time and
the right chance" they said
His chance seemed to have come
when the mother broke her hip. But
for two weeks he chung to the farm as
if it were a life raft in rocking sea.
The stern necessities drove him down
at last
A week later the few that had cham
pioned him could not be found, for,
though he made the trips regularly and
won favor with his Customers by his
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-12-26

HIS ONE HIT
By RICHARD KAHN
Copyright, 1902, by the
S. S. Mcclure Company

Hampton had been sitting there in a
perspiration half an hour then He had
come in before I O'clock. taken half an
hour for his makeup and had thirty
minutes to put in on his part before
his dressing room mate arrived. OF
course every one knew he never would
get off the text. Hadn't they heard him
at the afternoon rehearsal. when he
made every one of Them ask who he
was because he was letter perfect, and
they knew he hadn't been given the
part until that morning?
Temple had been taken suddenly i'll
and wired that he couldn't 90 on that
night. When you know his part was
thirty-two sides AID he had no under
study you may imagine how the other
principals felt wien the stage manager
introduced old Hampton and explained
chat he would play Temples part in the
evening.
Hampton hal queer stride that
didn't help thei. peace of mind, but the