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HoHadaY
Case


understood, ever since her daughter's
birth. She had come home at last,
bringing the black eyed child with her,
and within the year was dead.
Holidays affections from that mo.
ment seemed to grow and center about
his daughter. who developed into a
tall and beautiful girl-too beautiful
as was soon apparent, for our Junior
partners peace Of mind. He had met
her first In business way, and after
ward socially, and all of us who had
eyes could zee how he was eating bis
heart out at the knowledge that she
was far beyond his reach, for It was
evident that her father deemed her
worthy Of brilliant marriage--as In
deed she was. I sometimes thought
that she held herself Mt a like value.
for though there was about her a con-
slant crowd of suitors none of them
seemingly could win an atom Of en-.
enlargement. She was waiting, I told
myself. waiting; and l had even pic.
tured to myself the grim irony OF a
situation in which our Junior might
be called upon TO arrange her marriage
settlements.
The cab stopped with a Jolt. and
looked up to see that we had reached
the Criminal Courts building Mr..
Royce sprang out, paid the driver and
ran up the steps to the door. l after
him. He turned down the corridor TO
the right and entered the room at the
end of 1t. which recognized as the
Office Of Coroner Goldberg. A consid.
cradle crowd had already collected
there.
HAS the coroner arrived yetY my
companion asked one Of the clerks.
Eyes. sir; he's in his private office"
will you take him this card and
say that I'd like to see him mt once. IL
possible?"
The clerk hurried away with the
card. He was back again in u mo-
ment.
This way, SIR" he called.
We followed him across the room
and through door at the farther side.
"Ah. Mr.. Royce glad to see you."
cried the coroner as we entered. I'VE
tried to find you last night. but learned
that you were out Of town, and | was
just calling up your office again"
Miss Holiday asked for me. them"
Eyes, at once. When we found we
couldn't get you. we suggested your
senior, but she said she'd wait till you
returned"
l could see our juniors face crimson
with pleasure.
You didn't think it necessary to con
fine her, I trust?" he asked.
"Oh. no. She wasn't disturbed. She
spent the night at home-under sur
vellance"
THAT was right. OF course it's sim
ply absurd to suspect her"
Goldberg looked at him curiously.
Il don't know. Mr.. Royce" he said
slowly. III the evidence turns out as
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CHAPTER III.

"ROM the breathess silence that
IL followed her answer she saw
that she had somehow dealt her
mistress heavy blow. and the
sobs burst out beyond control, choking
her. could see how my chiefs face
turned llvid. He had driven another
rivet in the chain-just the one ii need
ed to hold it firmly together. My head
was whirling Could it be possible.
after all. that this gentle, cultured girl
was really such a ticnd Mt heart that
she could strike down I put the
thought from me. 1t was monstrous.
unbelievable.
The coroner and the district attorney
We're whispering together and ] saw
the former glance from the blood
stained handkerchief on the desk be
fore him to the sobbing woman on the
stand. 1t needed only that-her iden-
tification Of that square of cambric-to
complete the evidence. He heSitated Il
moment, said another word or two 70
Singleton. then Strengthened up again
In his chair. Perhaps he thought the
chain was strong enough, perhaps he
saw only that the witness WAS in no
condition to 60 on.
Anything further. Mr.. Royce! he
asked.
mot at present, sir" answered our
junior hoarsely. think he was just
beginning fully to realize how dcsper-
ate our case was.
Go
temporarily" said the coroner. I'VE
slulll probably recall her later on"
The maid was led back to the wit
ness room OH the verge of hysteria, and
Goldberg looked over the papers OH
his desk.
I'VE have one more witness" he
said Mt last, Miss Holidays coach
man, and perhaps little testimony in
rebuttal If you wish to adjourn for
lunch. Mr.. Royce, I'm quite ready 10
do So"
THANK you, sir" said my chief, wei
coming nh opportunity to pull himself
together and prepare plan Of de-
tense. II do wish it,"
"Very we'll. then. Wen adjourn till
2 O'clock" and he pushed back his
chair.
May I have one word with You,
sir!" asked Mr.. Royce,
Certainly"
II should like to see Miss Holiday
few moments In private. We wish.
Of course. to arrange our rebuttal."
The coroner looked at him for mo-
ment with eyes a which just tinge of
curiosity fiickered.
TN be very glad to allow You to see
her IN private" ~ answered really.
Il regret greatly that we couldn't md
you last Night. 20 that you could have
opportunity - prepare for this hear
ing. ] feel at In u way We haven't
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"Tm glad to see y0u!" she cried.
think it will, I shall have to hold her
the district attorney expects It,"
Mr.. Royce's hands were clutching a
chair back. and they trembled a little
at the coroner's words.
Hell he present at the examina-
ton, them" he asked.
ayes; we're waiting for him. You
see, it's rather an extraordinary case"
us it?"
eve think so. anyway" said the cor.
oner, just trifle impatiently.
l could see the retort which sprans
to our juniors lips. but he choked it
back. There was no use Offending
Goldberg.
II should like to see Miss Holiday
before the examination begins" he
said. rs she present."
shes In the next room, yes. You
shall see her, certainly. at once. Ju-
Illus, take Mr.. Royce to Miss Holiday"
he added to the clerk.
can see her yet, rising from her
chair with face alight, as we entered,
and l saw instantly how l had mis-
judged her. She came a step toward
us, holding out her hands impulsiveiy;
then. with al effort. controlled herself
and clasped them before her.
"Oh. but Vm glad to see you" she
cried In q voice SO low ! could scarcely
hear 1t. "l've wanted you so much!"
1T was my great misfortune that !
could come no sooner" said my chief,
his voice trembling a little despite him
self IL scarcely expected to see you
here with no one
"Oh." she interrupted. there was no
one I cared to have. My friends have
been very kind-have offered to do any
thng-but ! felt that wanted to be
just alone and think. ! should have
liked to have my maid. but
"Shc's one OF the witnesses, ! SUD.
pose" explained Mr.. Royce. "Well.
now that I'm here. l shall stay until
I've proved how utterly ridiculous this
charge against you is."
She sank back ante her ehaiE and
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looked up at him with dark, appealing

eyes.
"You think you CAM" she asked.
"Can! Certainly can! Why, It's too
preposterous to stand for moment!
We've only to prove an alibi--to show
that you were somewhere else. YOU
know. at the time the crime was CON-
mitted--and the whole business falls
10 pieces in an instant. You can do
that easily. can't you?"
The color had gone from her cheeks
again, and she buried her face In her
hands.
II don't know" she murmured indis-
tinctly. ~ must think. Oh. don't let II
come TO that
was puzzled. COMPOUNDED. With her
good name, her life perhaps. in the bal.
ance, she wanted time to think!
could see that my chief was astonished
too.
1'il try to keep It from coming to
that, since you wish IT," he said slow.
~. "I'll not be able to call you. then. ia
testify in your own behalf-and that
always hurts-but hope the case will
WV ut OutCs UNi'CVC ~
At any rate. don't worry. want you
to rely on me-"
She looked IN at him again. smiling
II SHALL" she nurmured softly. "Fm
sure could desire no better cham
pion!'
Well. plainly. II he won this case he
would win something else besides.
think even the policeman in the corner
saw 1t. for be turned away with dis.
erection rare in policemen and pretend
ed 10 stare out Of the window.
I don't know what my chief would
have said. His lips were trembling sc
he could not speak for the moment.
and just then there came a tap Mt the
door, and the coroner's clerk looked in.
"We're ready 10 begin, sir" he said.
every WELL" cried Mr.. Royce. "Tll
come at once. Goodby for the mo-
ment. Miss Holiday. repeat. you
may rely on me-" and he nastened from
the room AZ confidently as though she
had glrded him for the battle. In
stead. told myself. she had bound
him hand and foot before casting him
down into the arena.
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We THE the knife fn he asked.

"1s Wts The knffcf" he asked.
"You hadn't mentioned that she wore
q veil"
mo. sir: when she came into the Of
nee she had lifted 1t up over her hat
bPim-you know how women do"
"fes-so you saw her face distinctly
when she entersdi"
Eyes, sir"
"but when she went ont she had
lowered her veil. Was it n heavy
One?"
why, sir" the witness hesitated,
"Just an ordinary veil, l should say"
BUT still heavy enough to conceal
her facey
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CHAPTER II.

ME outer room was crowded
from end to end and the at
mosphere reeked with unpleas-
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Fifth Baptist Beat Douglas by Timely
Batting

That Northeast Washington will turn out
to good game of ball was very clearly
to be seen yesterday, when, on the Church
League grounds, at 18th and A streets,
fully 1900 gathered to witness the game
between Fifth Baptist and Douglas Memo
rial The Baptist boys. as was expected
came off victorious. owing TO timely bat
ting and good fielding, the score being .
to 3. The game, up until the third inning,
was fast and interesting, but in the third,
with three men on the bases Evans, the
Fifths lanky right fielder swatted the ball
for two sacks, sending all three men across
the pan This took all the life out of Doug
las, and the game was never in doubt after
ward. Douglas broke into the run column
sacker, they scored one run. This was all
until In the NINTH on three clean hits and
an error, they scored two more, but not
enough by six to overcome the big lead of
Fifth. Kettler. whom Mr., Sternes is teach
ing 10 be twirler, essayed to act in that
capacity for Dougles but he weakened in
the sixth and had to be relieved by Lewis,
who Jared but little better ii not worse.
Newgent, FifthS veteran slab artist served
up some of his most puZZlng shoots and
Douglas could do nothing with his delivery
when hits meant runs The batting honors
were divided by DraeSer and Akers. each
The game was watched with much inter
est, for had Fifth lost Douglas would have
tied them for first place. but. it now
stands, Fifth has tight hold on that po
sition, and, playing ball they now,
they should hold il. The score:
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needed. Croson started out TO be inviucible.
an because OF the fact that he Was pitching
lightning ball and tie players of Eastern
were trying 10 put the bali over tie fence.
If the young pitcher of the orange and bIt,.,
had received the support that b.. should
nave had Eastern High School would not
nave forced a runner across the plate but
the fact that Eastern did score did not for
a moment dim any of the glory Of th,
young pitcher with the wonderful Suaa1
Croson struck out eight OF the first nine
men of Eastern High School who faced him
during the game and before the end of tn.
game fourteen of the heavy hittcrs from
Eastern had famed. Oyster who was in
the box for Eastern High School together
with Camalier, who caught played the best
game for their team Graves. who played
lett Held Tor the orange and blue is ono
OF the pluCkiest players who has eyer
played upon any of the local high school
diamonds. Yesterday afternoon. though
sick from recent attack of tonSiltiS he
went into the contest and PLAYED a good
game throughout because business needed
his services. He has an error which is cN-
cusable, as IT was most difficult hy. in
fact one OF the kind that Tom Brown used
to take in deep center field with one hand.
He is also a good sacrifice hitter, and sue
ceeded in smashing the ball to right Held
in the fifth inning for rafting good single.
which at first looked good for two-baG6er.
but which was quickly fielded by Dodd.
When the batting of both sides had ceased
in the ninth inning oyster had held Bust
ness High School down to four hits. while
Eastern had gotten three off Croson : curves.
Stuckett. who generally plays left field,
came TO first base yesterday afternoon for
Business High School and did good work
throughout the contest He surprised a
great many by the way he tielded his posi-
ton and caught some very difficult throws
from different parts OF the diamond. The
contest seemed to delight the first basenau
immensely. for. as Croson would shoot
those speedy curves over the rubber and
the batsmen for Eastern would fan after
the ball had passed and was in Camaliers
glove, he would jump up and kick his heels
together and start a line of coaching 20
the pitcher which would have put Fred
Clark of the Pittsburgs to shame The
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE.
Team Standing.
st. Stephens Trimmed Fourth in Ex-
citing Contest.

Fourth played excellent ball, but st.
Stephens played better and deserved to
win on merit. In fact, barring McDon-
aids two errors. there has not been such
an exhibition of heady, fast play on the
Mt Pleasant grounds as that to which
the winners treated yesterdays big
crowd.
1t was Cunningham's second game this
season and his pitching would have won
nine out of ten games, but Mcknight,
backed up by superb support, had the
best of the twirlerS' battle.
There have been many close games of
ball at Mt Pleasant this season. There
has been some hgh-class fielding and d
great deal of inside ball playing, but there
has been no such game as that OF yesteT-
day afternoon between St. Stephens ana
Fourth in which the former won by to l..
In many of the hill games, while one team
was putting up good ball the other had an
off day but in yesterdays game both teams
were edge It all stages, the game was
fast all the way and the spectators were
kept on tiptoe from the call of play until
Conner dashed over the plate in the ninth.
A total of eleven Fourth men left on
bases to curl up and roll away tells the
story of Meningitis effectiveness ana the
team great playing.
None of Macs passes resulted in runs
but Cunninghams were disastrous, Con-
nor, to whom all four We're issued, turning
two Of them into runs that won the game
by Willis seen this year, the right fielder
getting half of the hits made by his team,
one of them slashing double to left in the
second that swung the first run over the
plate.
While Conner and Willis proved the bette
noir of Cunningham, Chick Thomas, who
has been out of the game nursing a bad
hand was the principal stumbling block
of the Fourth. He slipped up in his frst
chance but he then started in. getting one
hand stops, lightning recoverteS and killing
seeming hits in "A fashion that daZZled the
spectators and helped largely toward the
nents, as ST. Stephens is now tied for the
lead and Fourth drops back
After the second there were blanks Tor
both teams until the eighth. Mcknight only
allowing one hit In six innings. against
three scattered ones off "Cunny." In the
eighth Bishop beat out bunt down third
base line. Aitcheson sacrificed him along
and he scored on Bielaski 5 blast that went
through Mcdonald Fourth was down one,
two. three in the ninth. For st. Stephen S
Thomas sat down on an easy pop to King
Conner again waited patiently. walked for
the fourth time and promptly stole second.
He could have scored on Willis fine drive
to center but feared q double play and
pulled up at third. Mcknight then bumped
IA teaser down to King, which Charlie shot
to Bradley but Conner, who IS something
of a sprinter, beat out the throw and St
Stephens won its fourth victory.
Handlers work at short was brilliant, and
Clark for Fourth made a beauty running
catch deep into McKennys territory.
The race is indeed pretty one-three
teams now being tied for first and three for
second place.
ia
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HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
Business Defeated Eastern Owing to
Croson's Effective Pitching

Business High School got busy yesterday
afternoon in the contest with Eastern High
School at American League Park, and
when the smoke of battle had cleared
away the orange and blue had piled
up four runs, while Eastern had only man
aged to make two. The reason for the fact
Eastern only managed to get two scores
was that Croson was in the pitchers box
for Business and Eastern was unable to hit
his delivery at the times when hit was
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Cleveland, IL; Boston, 4.

Cleveland had no difficulty in defeating
Boston yesterday in the only game of the
series that the two teams We're able to play
by the score of II to 4. Tannehill was hit
hard throughout and received miserable
support On the other hand, Hess pitched
steadily with men on bases, except in the
ninth inning, and received good support.
The bus carrying the Boston players to the
grounds as struck by a street at the
corner of Euclid and Durham avenues.
The players were badly shaken up by the
collision, but none was seriously hurt. At
tendance, 4,2SG. Score:
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uings pitched-Mulln. 4; Ford, 5. Base hits.oh
Muffin !; off Ford .. TMobase 9tM ,- tdian
bases-Stahl 80. Huesman. Cassidy 81, Nil (2)
and ucydon. First base on balls-0f Muliin, o;
off Ford 4: of Jacobsen. 4. Hit by pitched bali
Jacobsen & Left on bascS-Detroit. .: Washing
ton. O. Struck out-By Mullin. 81 by Jacobsen l.
Double play-McIntyre to O'Leary to Schafer m
pire-Mr sheridan. Time of game-1 hour and %
minutes.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES.
Chicago, Q; Athletics, /.

Connie Macks Athletics could do nothing
with Mick Altrock yesterday at Chicago,
and were beaten to I. Altrock did not
give base on balls or hit a batsman, but
simply kept the ball near the corners of
the plate until the visitors were dizzy. The
fact that Altrock did not shut Comics men
out was due to an error of Green's in right
field The score:
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Standing Of Teams.
Todays game-St. Pauls Christ Church.
Monument grounds. 800 pm.
ST. Johns Outplayed Epiphany Chapel
in Field and at Bat

The St. Johns team from Georgetown
won one-sided game from the Epiphany
Chapel team yesterday afternoon on the
Monument grounds, the score being Is to 6.
The feature of the game was the batting
of Brewster who secured four hits, which
drove III six runs. Shaffer the initial
bag put up a good game. The score:
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DETROIT
Totals
ltted for Hughes in third inning

Detroit ............... o o x-4
Washington ........-.. y U U U y u
Earned runs-De,roit. /. Innings ptched-Hughes,
.: Townsend q. Base hts-Of Hughes, 4: OF
Townsend. 1. Tkobase ht-Cooley. Three base
hit-Towusnnd Sacrifice hits-Schaefer and Nil.
Stolen bsses-Cooley and lluelsman. First base
halls-On Kitson 3; on Hughes. 3: on Townsend,
3. Left bHsrs-Detroit, Z; Washington 6.
Struck ont BY Kitson. q: by Townsend, ;. I'm
pire-Mr- sheridan. Time Of game-1 hour and
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CLEH ELAND.
'Batted for Tannehlll In ninth.

Boston ..............0 o o . o =
Earned Cleveland. A. Boston l. First
base on errors-Cleyeland, ). Two base hits
Turner IajOie Bemis S'ovall. Parent and Hess.
Three base hit-fl!ck. Sacrifice hits-Bay ana
Hess. Stolen bases-Bay 90. Ninsou 90 and Brad
ley Double piay-TuIner to Iajoie to Stoyall.
First base balls-OY Hess 4 Off Tannehill l.
Left on hases-Cleveland. 8; Boston, 10. Struck
out-By Hess, 3; by Tannehill, T. Wild pitches
Tannehll, =; Hess l. umpiTe-Mr O'Laughlin.
Time OF game hours
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St. John s tGeorget NJ u q u X-l3
Left On bases-Epiphany, o. st. John $, 3. Three
base hits-Brewster 90 and A Rogers. Two-base
hits-Brewster. \. Rogers and Iorsey. Hit by
pitcher-By Spates. /; by i.eimbach /. Struck out
By Spates. I; by Leimbach. ). Stolen bases
II. Rogers. Skidmore t2i, Hall, Spates and Brew
stcr. Umpire-Mr Gordon. Time of game hour
and 40 minutes.
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New York, 8; st. Louis, o.

Pitcher Powell, who was trade dtwo years
ago to New York for Harry Howell. yes
terday al st. Louis bested the latter for the
second time during the present series. St.
Louis losing, J 10 O. Attendance, 800.
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Left on bases-Chicago. A. Philadelphia 3. Two
base hit-H. Davis. Sacrifice hit-Tannehi Stolen
base-Hartsel. Double piay-Powers TO Murphy.
Struck out-By Atrock. :; by Plank, g. Bases u
bals-Of Plank. 2 Wild pitch-Plsnk. Hit with
ball-Dundon. Umpire-Mr Connolly. Time of
game hour and 80 minutes.
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Soft for Nationals.

The second game was soft for Washing
ton Mullin opened by passing Jones. and
both Huelsm and Cassidy hit, one run re-
sulting Another came in the second on
two bases on balls, a long fly and double
steal. Heydon scoring while Jacobsen was
being run down. In the third it was all
over A pass to Stahl a hit by Huelsman
an error Mis- steal and Knobs single
made three tallies. In the fourth Heydon
singled. Jacobsen walked, Jones bounder
was fumbled. filling them up, and hits by
Hill and Stahl, with another error. resulted
in four talIies. This sent Muilln to the
bench. Ford. bought from Minneapolis last
fall. succeeding him. The only tally off
him was In the seventh. Knoll made first
on an error Mcintyre got tangled up with
Heydon's bounding drive, and 1t went for
two. scoring Knoll from first base
Detroit could do nothing with Jacobsen.
They made three hits, all coming with two
ont pair of these were punched in the
third Mcintyre had walked. with two
gone and went to third on Crawfords sin
gle. the batter making second on a throw
10 get Mcintyre. Coughlin singled. scoring
both men Detroit had a number of men
on but was not dangerous at other times.
Washington left last night for Chlcago
where Manager Stahl is hoping for better
luck than he had here. Exceptional pitch
ing he blames for the failure to take better
than game.
The
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Fourth. .; st. Stephens. 3. Left bases
Fourth, 10; ST Stephens: !. First base on balls
By Cunningham, 3; by Mcknight . TwO-base
hits-Willis and Clark. Sacrifice hits Bishop and
Iynham. Stolen bases-Xander. Macdonald (2),
Common (2), King and Willis. Umpte-Mr. Belts.
Time of game-1 hour and A. minutes.
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'Battcd for Lewis In ninth inning

Two base his-Eyans, Newgent. First on balls
on Newgent. 8; Oh Kettler, 2; of Lewis, l.. First
On errors-Douelas, l; Fifth. 8. Left ON bases
Douglas. 8. Fifth, 5. Sacrifice hits-B. Wood.
Stolen bases-B. Wood. II. Elicit. Hurley. Evans,
McQuinn. s. Wood (2l, Draeger CD. Bohnke Sterhe.
Myers. Struck ouf-By NcwSent. 10; by Lewis. 4;
by kettler. L. n.ablr plays-Hurley TO J. Elicit
to b. Weed. Hi; by pitcher-By Newgent. 1; by
Levi. 2. Passed baiis-Wood, 2; Myers, l. Um-
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First base by errors-Business. /; Eastern, 6.
Left basas-Buslness. 81 Eastern, 10. FIRST base
on balis-Oh Creson, /: on Oyster. g Struck out
by Cr.son IA: by Oyster, s. Sacrifice hlt-Grayes.
StoirI. bases -Bowles. Cr0son, Lewis. Fields Lin
thicum 90 Rohnette and Dumont. Double play
H. Richardson to Yoder. Hit by ptcher-By Gro
G,nniinued on Ninth Pagel
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Today's Base Ball Weather.

At Chicago-Clear.
At St. Louis-Clear.
At Detroit-Clear.
At Cleveland-Clear.