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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-15
FOUND clasped n ths dead man.s righe

hand"
From his pocket Stanley Hopkins drew q
small paper packet He unfolded 1t and
disclosed golden piHce-nez. with two
broken ends OF black silk cord dangling
from the end of 1t. .Willoughby Smith had
excellent sight, he added. There can be
no question that this was snatched from
the face or the person of the assassin
Sherlock Holmes took the glasses into his
hand. and examined them with the utmost
attention and interest. He held them on
his nose, endeavored to read through them,
went to the window and stared up the
street with them, looked at them most
infinitely in the full light of the lamp and
finally, with chuckle, seated himself at
the table and wrote few lines upon a
sheet of paper, which he tossed across to
Stanley Hopkins.
That's the best I can do for you" said
he. 1T may prove to be of some use"
The astonished detective read the note
aloud. 1t ran as follows:
Wanted, a woman of good address, at
tired like a lady. She has a remarkably
thick nose with eyes which are set
close upon either side of it. She has
puckered forehead a peering express
sion, and probably rounded shoulders. There
are indications that she has had recourse
TO an optician at least twice during the last
few months. AS her glasses are of remark
able strength, and as opticians are not very
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dying words. Leaving Susan with the kSsy.
she hurried to the professors rooru. He
was sitting up In bed horribly sgitated,
for he had heard enough to convince him
that something terrible had occurred.
Mrs Marker Is prepared to swear that
the professor was still In his night
clothes. and. indeed. It was impossi-
BILE for him to dress without the help OF
Mortimer, whose orders were to come at
II O'Clock. The professor declares that he
heard the distant cry, but that he knows
nothing more. He can give no explanation
Of the young mans last words. The pro-
fessor-it was she,' but imagines that they
were the outcome of delirium. He be-
1ieves that Willoughby Smith had not an
enemy in the world. and can give no rea-
son for the crime. His first action was to
send Mortimer. the gardener. for the local
police. A little later the chief constable
sent for me. Nothing was moved before
I got there, and strict orders were given
that no one should walk upon the paths
leading to the house. 1t was splendid
chance of putting your theories into prac-
tice, Mr.. Sherlock Holmes. There was
really nothing wanting"
Except Mr.. Sherlock Holiness said my
companion. with somewhat bitter smile.
well, let us hear about it. What sort of
q Job did you make of t?
II must ask you first, Mr.. Holmes, to
glance at this rough plan. which will give
you a general idea of the position of the
professors study and the various points OF
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the case 1t will help you in following my
investigation.
He unfolded the rough chart, which
here reproduce, and he laid it across
Holmes knee / rose, and. standing be-
hind Holmes, studied it over his shoulder.
1T is very rough of course, and 1t only
deals with the points which to me to
be essential. All the rest you will see later
for yourself. Now, first of all, presuming
that the assassin entered the house, how
did he or she come in? Undoubtedly by
the garden path and the back door. from
which there is direct access to the study
Any other way would have been exceed
ingly complicated The escape must have
also been made along that line, for of the
two other exits from the room one was
blocked by Susan as she ran downstairs
and the other leads straight to the pro-
fessor's bed room. 1 therefore directed my
attention at once to the garden path
which was saturated with recent rain and
would certainly show any footmarks.
My examination showed me that l was
dealing with a cautious and expert criTni-
nal. No footmarkS were to be found on
the path There could be no question, how
ever, that some one had passed along the
grass border which lines the path, and that
he had done so in order to avoid leaving
track. / could not find anything in the ma
ture of distinct impression, but the grass
was trodden down and some one had>un-
doubtedly passed. 1t could only have been
the murderer, since neither the gardener
nor any one else had been there that morn
ing and the rain had only begun during
the night"
'One moment" said Holmes. Where
does this path lead top
ITO the road
How long is it?
"a hundred yards or So"
''At the point where the path passes
through the gate, you could surely pick up
the tracks,"
Unfortunately the path was tiled at
that point
well, on the road itself?"
mo. it was all trodden into mire."
"Tut-tut! Well, then, these tracks upon
the grass, were they coming or going?'
ut was impossible to say. There was
never any outline"
"A large foot or a small?"
You could not distinguish
Holmes gave an ejaculation of impa-
thence.
1T has been pouring rain and blowing a
hurricane ever Since" said he. TT will be
harder to read now than that palmpsest
Well, well, it can't be helped. What did
you do, Hopkins, after you had made GER
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some affair Of the heart. perhaps. which we
have never known. It Is q more probable
superstition than murder
But the eye-giasses?"
"Ahi I am only students man of
dreams. cannot explain the practical
things OF life. But still. we are aware. my
friend. that love-gages may take strange
| shapes. By all means take another
any one appreciate them so. A fan, o
glove, glasses-who knows what article may
be carried as token or treasured when a
man puts an end to his life? This gentle
man speaks of footsteps in the grass. but,
after all, 1t is easy to be mistaken on such
point. AS to the knife 1t might well be
thrown far from the unfortunate man as he
FELL 1t Is possible that speak as a child.
but to me IL seems that Willoughby Smith
has met his fate by his own hand"
Holmes seemed struck by the theory thus
put forward. and he continued to walk up
and down for some time, lost in thought
and consuming cigarette after cigarette.
Tell me. Professor Coram." he said at
last, what is IN that cupboard In the bu-
reau?"
Nothing that would help thief Fam
lily papers letters from my poor wife,
diplomas of universities which have dons
me honor. Here Is the key. You can look
for yourself
Holmes picked up the key and locked at
1t for an instant, then he handed 1t back.
mo, / hardly think that Il would help
me-" said he. Il should prefer to go quiet
ly down to your garden, and turn the whole
matter over in my head. There Is some
thing to be said for the theory of suicide
which you have put forward We must
apologize for having intruded upon you,
Prof. Coram. and / promise that we won't
disturb you until after lunch. At o'clock
we will come again. and report to you any
thing which may have happened in the in
terval."
Holmes was curfously distract, and we
walked up and down the garden path for
some time in silence.
Have you clue?" I asked, at last
cit depends upon those cigarettes that I
smoked. said he. 1T is possible that am
utterly mistaken The cigarettes will show
me-"
MY dear Holmes exclaimed. 'how on
earth"
We'll, well, you may see for yourself. II
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powers for which my friend was famous
As | turn over the pages ! see my notes
upon the repulsive story of the red leech
and the terrible Death of Crosby, the bank
er. Here also / find an account of the Ad-
dlcton tragedy, and the singular contents
of the ancient British barrow The famous
Smith Mortimer succession case comes also
within this period, and SO does the tracking
and arrest of Huret, the Boulevard ASSASSIN
an exploit which ff Holmes an au-
tograph letter of tharks from the French
president and the order Of the Legion OF
Homo. Each of these would furnish mar
ratiVe. but on the whole l am of opinion
that none of them uniteS so many nguiar
points of interest as the episode of YoNley
Old Place which includes not only the la
mental bic death of young WIlloughby Smith,
but also those subsequent developments
which threw so curious a light upon the
causes OF the crime.
1t was q wild, tenpeStuouS night, toward
the close of November. Holmes and l sat
together in silence all the evening. he en-
gagged with a powerful lens deciphering the
remains of the original inscription upon
palimpsest. / deep in a recent treatise upon
surgery outside the wind howled down
Baker street, while the rain beat fiercely
against the windows. 1t was strange
there. in the very depths of the town. with
ten miles of mans handiwork every side
of us. to feel the IRON grip of Nature, and
to be conscious that to the huge elemental
forces all London was no more than the
molehills that dot the fields. L walked to
the window and looked out on the deserted
street. The occasional lamps cleaned on
the eXpanse of muddy road and shining
pavement. a single cab was splashing it's
way from the oxford street end.
well. Watson. it's as well We have not
to turn out tonight" said Holmes, laying
aside his lens and rolling up the palimpsest.
I've done enough for one sitting. 1t is
trying work for the eyes. SO far L can
make ont. it is nothing more exciting than
an abbey's account dating from the sec
ond half of the fifteenth century. Ha1loa.
hallOa! halloai What's this?
Amid the droning of the wind there had
come the stamping of a horses hoofs and
the long grind OF a wheel as it rasped
against the curb. The cab which I had
seen had pulled up at our door.
hat can he wantT' I calculated. as a
man stepped out of it,
Want? He wants And we. my poor
Watson. want overcoats and cravats and
goloshes. and every aid that man ever in
vented TO fight the weather. Wait a bit.
though! There's the cab off againI There's
hope yet He'd have kept it if he had
wanted us to come. Run down, my dear
fellow, and open the door. for all virtuous
folk have been long in bed"
When the light of the hall lamp fell upon
our midnight visitor 1 had no difficulty IN
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~ = HEN I look at the

len L lOth dt tthS
( hr e e massive
manuscript VOL
umes which con-
tain our work
for the year 1894
1 confess that 1t
is very difficult
for me, out of
such a wealth of
material, to Sc
lect the cases
which are most
/ mt e r esting in
themselves, and
at the same time
most conducive
to a display of
those p G C u ! lar
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Long Kimonos, made of dotted fan cy Swiss, with floral patterns in col Ors; full kimono sleeves trimmed elab- orately with scalloped open work em- broidery, light and medium ground eff fsets' ss1e prioe wsfth sa.oo. Sl.08
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Long kimonos made of plain white lawn or colored batiste, with hem stitched borders full kimono CT hO sleeves. worth S2.5O. Sale price .DI.U1
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
DAVIS AWFUL CRIME
A Criminal Assault Upon a Little Six
 Year-Old Girl.

Frank Davis. until lately porter at the Cottage Hotel, was arrested yes terday morning on the serious charge of a criminal assault upon the little six-year old daughter of Mrs. Beard, who lives near Lount's ice factory.
 Davis had been seen about the fac tory in the company of the little girl and his actions had been carefully ob- served. At length he was seen to en- tice the little girl into a barn where he was found by John Reiber an em- ploye of the factory. The story of the child supplemented and confirmed what the neighbors had seen.
 Before Davis could be seen he made his escape from the neighborhood into the southern part of the city where it was known he was rooming with a, Mexican named Ramon. A message was sent to the office of the sheriff and Deputy Wayne Davis was sent af ter him. He found him with little de- lay It was necessary for the officer to break into the room where Davis pretended to be asleep. He said he had been there since nine o'clock and, it was then eleven, a half hour after the commission of the crime. On the way to the jail the officer told Davis why he had been arrested. He admit ted that he had been betting the little girl.
 In the afternoon he was taken be- fore Justice Burnett for arraignment. He was in full realizati of his dis grace and danger and his misery was almost pitiful. He was put under a bond of s2,000 for his appearance at four o'clock this afternoon for pre- liminary trial. He said he had no mo- ney to employ a lawyer and that he had no witnesses in his behalf Davis is more than fifty years of age and a man apparently of ordinary intelIi- gence.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
FROM SAME BOX Where the Foods Come From.

Look here, waiter, honest now don't you dip every one of these f1ak- ed breakfast foods out of the same box?" Well yes, boss, we dug. all 'cept Grape Nuts, cause that don't look like the others and people knows 'zack- ly what Grape Nuts looks like. But there's bout a dozen different ones named on the bill of fare and they are all thin rolled flakes so it don't make any difference which one a man calls for we just take out the order from one box"
 This talk led to an investigation. Dozens of factories sprung up about three years ago making various kinds of breakfast foods, seeking to take the business of the original prepared breakfast food-Grape Nuts. These concerns after a precarious existence, nearly all failed, leaving thousands of boxes of their foods in mills and ware houses. These were in several in stances bought up for a song by spec ulators and sold out to grocers and hotels for little or nothing. The pro- cess of working off this old stock has been slow. One will see the names on menus of flaked foods that went out of business a year and a half or two years ago. In a few cases where the abandoned factories have been bought up, there is an effort to resuscitate the defunct, and by copying the style of advertising of Grape Nuts, seek to influence people to purchase. But the public has been educated to the fact that all these thin fiaked foods are simply soaked wheat or oats rolled thin and dried out and packed. They are not prepared like Grape Nuts. in which the thorough baking and other operations which turn the starch part of the wheat and barley into sugar, occupy many hours and result in a food so digested that small infants thrive upon it, while it also contains the selected clements of phosphate of potash and albumen that unite in the body to produce the soft gray sub stance in brain and nerve centers. There's a reason for Grape Nuts, and there have been many limitations, a few of the article itself, but many more of the kind and character of the ad- vertising. Imitators are always coun- terfeiters and their printed and writ ten statements cannot be expected to be different than their goods.
 This article is published by the Pos tum Co.,, at Battle Creek, Mich. Ad- ditionaI evidence of the truth can be supplied in quantities.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
NO LOCAL OPTION
The District in This County Found to
 Be Improperly Established.

It will probably be made known of ficially today that there is no local op- tion district in this valley. That an nouncement would doubtless have been made yesterday if the case of B. F. Reakseker had been reached in dis trict court. Reakseker, who is in bus mess at Alhambra, was indicted by the last grand jury for violation of the local option law, it having been charg- ed that he was guilty of selling liquor within the local option district estab- lished by election two years ago.
 It was also understood that when the case should be called District Attorney Baker would move to acquit him on the ground that the establishment of the district was constitutionally irreg- ular
 The local option law of this terri tory is a copy of the law of Texas where, at the time of its adoption here it had been held to be valid. Imme- diately, or soon after the passage of the law, in this territory a district was established in this county sur rounding but not including the city of Phoenix and embracing the princi- pal part of the county north of the river.
 A test case was brought up not long after and it was found that there had in the forming of the district. There fore in 1903 there was another cleo tion and a district with the same boun-
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24
THREE FELONIEs AT A STROKE
How Ifnacio Flores Pretended to
 Help a Friend.

IgnaciO Flores committed more kinds of felony yesterday in a short space of time than had ever been done before. He IS or was the fat friend Antonio Musquiz, who found him self in Justice JOhnstone's court charged with drunkenness and disturb ance of the peace. He was fined s5. Flores thought that the proceedings of the court amounted to an outrage on justice but he said that if the court would hold Musquiz in the court room and not send him to jail he would go out and see if he could not rustic the amount of the fine.
 Just then Musquiz remembered that there was a letter due him from Con cho, Navajo county, and that it would probably contain some money for him. He asked Flores to go to the postof- flee and see if the letter had come. That was as his far as his instruc- tions went but Flores gave them a broader interpretation for having found that the letter was there he claimed it, took it and opened it. It contained no money but said that if Musquiz would take it to Goldman & Co. he would find there awaiting him a check for s39.
 Flores went to Goldman's and rep resented himself to be the brother Ot MusquiZ Payment was refused him on the ground that he could not endorse the check, but he was allowed to take it to Musquiz for endorsement. But instead of going to Musquiz he went to the Valley Bank and represented himself to be Musquiz. He received the money, retained $21.75 for his trou- ble and gave the rest to MusquiZ. When he offered the check at the bank he said he could not write but made his mark.
 In explanation of his retention of the money he said that he had some debts of long standing and he thought it was his duty to pay them while he had so much money in his possession. He was arrested in the afternoon on the charge of forgery. He admitted his intention to commit a crime in that connection and in making the admission to Con- rest he thought he had done smart thing. He could have written the name Of Musquiz but he said that he knew if he did that he would be guilty of forgery. Accordingly he thought he would sidestep the law by allowing the banking clerk to write the name and he would then have nothing to do but to make his mark.
 Two other charges will be brought against him. One will be embezzlement and the other will be a United States charge of a violation of the postal laws.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

daries was formed. the defects of the former proceedings having been cur ed.
 In 1904 the supreme court of Texas reversed itself and decided that the law was unconstitutional in that the legislature had delegated to unauthor- ized persons the power to fix arbitrary boundaries, since the law allowed a part of a precinct or of a school dis trict to be taken in and the rest of it excluded. It was in that way that the district in this county was formed. There was a general disregard of pre- cinct and school district boundaries. There is in the law a sort of recogni- tion of the principle laid down in the Texas decision in that the division of an incorporated town is prohibited.
 Reakseker having been acquitted, there will naturally be no more ar rests under the law and all the road houses which it was designed to sup press will be re-Opened. Then another problem will be presented. The sher- if without direction from an author itative source will continue to refuse to issue license to persons within the present local option district.
 Those who are active in this com munity in the cause of prohibition have already been informed of the situa- tion and they are already planning for the next campaign. It is not claimed that the law is wholly invalid, only that part of it permitting the disre- gard of established boundaries so that under the present law local option districts might be established if the boundaries are followed. There may be local option precincts or local option districts but there would have to be separate elections held in each propos- ed district.
 But that would not fulfill the pur- pose of those who desire the suppress sion of the road houses which mostly lie within Phoenix precinct where it would be impossible for local option to carry.
 It is therefore probable that if any, thing is attempted it will be the con- version of the whole county into. a local option district.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Elmer A. Todd of the Arizona School of Music will conduct a summer term in piano and pipe organ playing, for pupils of all grades. Private or class lessons
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Do you know about the Agni? Ask your lodge officials, or any one wear ing it's badge, a parallelogram with the figures 3 and g at either end.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Roosevelt Hot Springs baths and pools, any heat, best medicinal hot springs in Arizona. Roosevelt. Ariz.
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Go to Dan Curry for notarial work and all kinds legal blanks. Wickenburc
Arizona republican., 1905-05-24

Smoke the Lukin cigar-made from pure tobacco-no adulteration.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-10-25
Movements of Vessels

The following movements of vessels
of the navy have been reported To the
Bureau of Navigation
fArrived-The cruiser West Virginia
at Southwest Pass the gunboat Calalo.
at Hongkong; the tug Choctaw, cruiser
Mayfiower and gunboat Sylph, at Nor
folk 1.-THE torpedo boats Dupont. Michel
son, Porter and Rodgers, at Yorktown.
Sailed-The cruiser Cincinnati. from
Shanghai for Chemulpo; the collier
Hannibal, from Sand Key Light for
Newport News; the destroyer Law
renee, from Proyincetown for Boston /;
the destroyer Hopkins, from League
Island for Piney Beach
The Dixie was placed out Of COM
mission yesterday at the navy yard.
League Island.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-10-25
summer Diarrhoea in children.

During the hot weather of the summer
months the first unnatural looseness of a
child's bowels should have immediate atten-
ton, 50 as to check the disease before it be-
comes serious. All that is necessary Is a few
doses Of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy followed by a dose OF
castor oil to cleanse the system. Rev. Nj. o.
Stoclland, Pastor of the first NJ. Il. Church,
Little Falls, Mimi, writes: ave have used
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy for several years and find it a very
valuable remedy, especially for summer dis
orders in children" Sold by ke'dmeyer
Bros drug store.