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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-27
GIRLS BURNED AS WITCHES
Twin Sisters in Siberia Declared to
Be Possessed of Evil Powers
Suffer Awful Tortures.

Moscow.-A horrible story comes
from the village of Kasimirovka, ST.
IBERIA. In this village" runs the re-
port, "for three years past all the cattle
have died from the Siberian plague.
"a witch doctor announced that the
village was cursed by the presence of a
family of witches. He singled out a
young girl named Soldatenko. The viii
layers seized her and her twin sister.
The sisters were solemnly tried and
condemned to be burned. They were
bound to rude wooden cross, round
which was built high pile Of faggots
and logs.
Liefen (the witch doctor) declared
that the most innocent child in the vii
lage must light the torture fire, and lit
tie girl of three was given the torch and
told to thrust it among the faggots.
THE flames burst up. The wretched
girls screamed frantically, but in vain,
while their frenzied mother tried to rush
into the fire and rescue them. The vii
layers, convinced that they were at a
pious work, sang hymns and prayed.
AS the girls sank back in the flames
their father, who had been absent from
the village, returned. Hearing the
news, he dashed among the crowd with
hatchet and Glove the witch Doctors
skull to the chin"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-27

abused the relatives, and particularly
the son who was instrumental in getting
his father away from her. The detec-
tives pushed Duke out of the apartments,
and the next day the bride was asked to
leave the place. For awhile she went
into hiding, but when at last she was To-
Gated she told story in which sentiment
and business was strongly mixed.
Mrs. Duke has all along claimed to
have large property interests. She is
about so years of age, perhaps five years
the junior Of her husband. For several
years she has figured as promoter of a
certain kind of industrial concern OF
more or less magnitude. Her business
correspondence is written on nicely en-
graved stationery, under the heading of
THE Texas-Cuba Tobacco Company"
of which Alice M. Webb figures as the
president. The offices of the concern are
in the Continental bank building, of Chi
cago, and. according to Mrs. Duke, 1t
owns considerable area of tobacco
land in Texas. She is also interested In
the firm of Taylor, Webb & Co., which
has it's headquarters with the tobacco
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-27

tives will respect you, or have to get out
of It,
Mrs. Duke also had much to say about
the plans she and her husband had
formed for building a church in Durham,
N. c., and improving the condition of the
poor people of the great tobacco city.
Denies Drinking Stories.
''I want to deny emphatically," she
said, "all the reports about Mr.. Duke and
me indulging to excess in drinking, and
that we were often in an intoxicated con-
dition together. 1t is all a wicked false
hood, and intended by the members of
the Duke family who have been persecut-
ing me ever since my marriage to Mr.
Duke to destroy my good name. / con-
sented to an early marriage at the urgent
plea of Mr.. Duke. The following day
we went on with our business arrange
ments, but Mr.. Duke contracted a severe
cold and his condition became so serious
that l thought it safest to have the doctor
give all Of his time to him"
ga Beautiful" Marriage.
Mrs. Agnes Desplaines. who has fig.
ured as Mrs. Dukes closest friend, has
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-27
INITIATED ON THE CURB.
Tenderfoot Begins His Brokerage Ca
reer in New York with an Ex-
citing Session.

New York.-Isaac Siegel, who left his
large law practice recently to become u
Wall street broker, will in all probabiI-
ity, remember his first day on the curb
as one of the most exciting days in his
career. He will also remember Inter-
national mining stock, phantom issue
organized for his enlightenment and as
a species of initiation to the curb.
For two hours Mr.. Siegel traded in
International mining stock with all ths
enthusiasm that only youthful votary
at the shrine of Finance can exhibit. He
got some of the brokers short of the
stock, and so mixed matters that ver-
liable corner was precipitated in the
phantom issue, and at one stage of the
speculation he stood to win 100000.
While all this was going on he was
surrounded by bowling mob of brok-
ers, apparently panic stricken, dealing
in huge quantities of the stock, the price
moving upward and then declining with
frightful rapidity. His hat was
smashed, his collar spattered with mud,
his clothing and hair disheveled, but he
stood forth valiantly, thoroughly be-
lieving that he was the most important
man in Wall street
When finally kind relative took him
! by the neck and showed him out of the
center of the crowd and explained mat
ters to him he looked like man recov-
ering from six weeks attack of typhoid
| fever.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-27
Lord Nelson and Soap.

"As occasional squalor is the worst
evil Of poverty and labor, so cleanliness
should be considered the greatest bless
ing of luxury and ease" argued Mr.
Frank Prindle in expatiating on the
moral force of his own business, which
is the importation of soap. However"
he continued, those in the seats Of the
mighty are not altogether without re-
proach on this subject. 1t is well au-
thenticated fact, If not generally known.
that the celebrated Lord Nelson had not
washed his hands during the last eight
years of his life, and Napoleon Stunned
a bath as though he was cat clergy
man once told me that he believed the
expression cleanliness Is next to godli-
ness referred IN moral cleanliness and
that the fashionaL.s daily morning bath
was of little consequence to health or
habits. We should. he said, make our
manners as we'll as our teeth. make our
temper as sweet as our breath, and cut
OF our peccadilloes as well as our nails =
IN. Y. Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-27
The Experience of Wealthy Brode L. Duke with "WOma1
with Schemes"
MARRIED IN HASTE, REPENTS AT LEISURE.
Takes Wife Under What Is Said to Be Peculiar Crcu
StanceS-His Family Object and the Investigation
Brings Out Some Startling StatementS-WasHe He
the Victim of Deep-Laid Scheme-Rich
Victims of Questionable Women.

New York.-Somehow New York over
Hooked the announcement of the mar
~iage of Brodie L. Duke and Miss Alice
Webb on December 81, 1904. The fact
that the ceremony was performed by
Rev. w. w. Coe, chief assistant of Rev.
Charles Parkhurst, of Madison Square
Presbyterian church, who became fa-
nous some years ago because of his cru
ssade against vice, ought to have attract
ed attention. Ordinarily the mere name
of Duke would have been enough to ex-
cite gossip. For Brodie l.. Duke is the
half-brother of James B. Duke. the head
of the American Tobacco Trust.
1t was James B. Duke who, starting in
n small way at Durham, N. c., founded
the tobacco trust and made it the great
power that 1t Is. Since that day James
B. Dukes progress to wealth has been
phenomenal. The trust virtually con-
trolls the entire tobacco business of this
country, and several years ago invaded
England and fought the big tobacco in
terests there to standstill.
James B. Duke is the sturdy, square
-jawed, silent type of man, who gives the
impression of force, but carefully avoids
notoriety. There are dozen men con-
nected with the Tobacco Trust who are
more talked about than he and whose
real achievements as money makers and
cuisines organizers are not half so great.
Lately he has built palatial country
place at Somerville, ~ j., where he now
makes his home. He, too, not long ago
yhf ,,,ly e. I,o
society of millionaires, which men of his
type usually aspire to enter in New
York.
Brodie L. Duke is quite different type
of man. Through his family relationship
he has shared to some extent in the good
fortune of James B. Duke, and has had
the reputation of being wealthy. But
most of his life has been spent in hard
work in North Carolina, and the attrac-
stions of New York proved too much for
min. He is said, in fact, to have dissi-
pated large part of his fortune before
his marriage and to have been frequent
cause of anxiety to his family.
After the Ceremony.
Two weeks after the quiet little cere-
7mony at the home of Rev. w. w. Coe, a
mysterious patient was taken one night
to the psycopathic ward of Bellevue hos
pital. Every care was taken to conceal
the identity of the patient. 1t was no un-
til the next day, when the detectives of
District Attorney Jerome appeared at
the hospital and demanded the delivery
of some $4,000 in stocks and bonds, and
a quantity of valuable jewelry, that it
was revealed that Brodie L. Duke S fam
dly had taken steps to have him declared
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-27

fore the minister with her. 1t is all very
strange"
At Bellevue hospital they said plainly
that Duke was suffering from alcoholic
dementia, and it was even intimated that
his condition might have been brought
about by the use of drugs. Naturally,
Mrs. Alice Webb Duke had quite diff
ferent story to tell, and her friend. Mrs.
Agnes Desplaines, bore her out in most
of the details. But it happened that pri-
vate detectives employed by the Duke
family and the detectives from District
Attorney Jeromes office had unearthed
enough of the records of the two women
to cast strong suspicion on them, and the
grand jury was put to work investigating
the matrimonial tangle.
For some time the Dukes had not
known where Brodie Duke was. He had
been in the habit of spending good deal
Of his time away from his South Caro-
lima home. Last October he dropped out
of sight for an unusually long period.
Then one day he turned up at Durham,
N. c., with Miss Alice Webb. Then came
another disappearance, and it was not
until his son, Lawrence Duke, had ar
rived in New York to find out what had
become of his father that the truth was
known. One day late in November Ben
! jamin N. Duke, half-brother of Brodie
Duke, who lives at the Hoffman House,
was called up at the hotel by a woman,
who said:
Caught by the Texas Girl.
This is your new sister-in-law.
called you up to tell you that have mar
ried your brother Brodie. l want to tell
! you that we are very happy. Mr.. Duke
wants to talk to you himself"
Then Benjamin Duke heard some con-
versation and voice which he recog-
nized as his brothers. came over the
phone. 1t said: This little Texas girl
has got me, and got me good"
Benjamin Duke asked his brother If
he was satisfied, or something to that ef-
! feet, and there was conversation at the
other end of the telephone in which he
heard women's voices. Then his brother
said: Yes, it is alright. l am salts
fed"
A Strange Disappearance.
At that time the Dukes didn't know
where Brodie Duke was. What really
caused them to put private detectives ta
work was the knowledge which came to
his family that Brodie Duke had gone
back to North Carolina and tried to wind
up his affairs there, among other things
asking that about 100000 worth of Sc.
curities he held there should be forward
ed to him in New York. On top of that
they discovered that he had given a
check for 81 200 on bank where he had
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-27

irresponsible. The next step was to Sc
cure his commitment to private sani-
tarium, at Flushing, l.. l., where he was
put under close guard.
Then the circumstances of Dukes mar
riage became public, and two days later
suit was brought for the annulment Of
the marriage. To one of his sons Duke
frankly expressed amazement when told
that he was married.
II didn't know that married Miss
Webb" he is reported to have said. II
don't remember having asked her to mar
ry me, nor do recollect appearing be-