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Alan R.. Hawley Of the Automobile Club Of
America has offered a cup for the automo.
bile which will arrive at the landing place OF
any balloon taking part In the Pittsaeld, Mass,
ascensione next Friday or Saturday within
twenty minutes after its descent. Automo.
olllsts wishing. 70 try. for the trophy can OBJ
tain cards which will be issued at the Aero
Club grounds in Pitts1eld 10 any one wishing
TO take part in this contest.
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land, where Lawrence Dune will take his
place and drive as far as Elmira. where De
Forest Lul will relieve him and completes the
journey. Holcomb has laid q route OF l,I0s
miles. which is about sixty miles longer than
the route followed by Carris Inc his associates.
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issued ON the life of this unfortunate
brother-in-law as security for some
money he (Grayl mad advanced. he
might contemplate with more eoua-
nimity his relatives approaching end.
Richardson thought he could fix IL.
ana the brother-in-law was sent for
from st. Louis
NOW, the convenient Drother-in-law
was about as much a relative CT Gray's
as Gray was himself a lumber mer-
chant but he was indeed suffering from
consumption and diabetes and was so
Ill when Richardson wrote his $50. 900
policy that he had to De propped ND
IN bed in order to sign IT, Richardson
announced that he had brihed n couple
OF doctors to sign the physical exam
nation papers, and the sick brother
ln-law was shipped back to st. Louis,
whence he went out to Arizona a year
later to die.
Dallas Made Headquarters.
Greatly did Gray admire the skilled
manipulation of the brother-in-Iaw
case by his friend Richardson. So
when the latter suggested that there
was plenty of easy money TO be made
by similar undertakings down in the
border country where people are not
watched too carefully, Gray fell in
with the game at once, and the two
went back to Dallas, where Gray's
lumber Office became shortly their
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brother OF Qevers, William Meredith.
Harle was not cross-examined, and he
left the stand thinking he had got
away with the goods"
Confession from Harle.
AT this point Bottome from Eel Paso
telegraphed Harle that he was com
ing to Chihuahua and wanted to see
him. Harle thereupon started for Ell
Paso, and Bottome, when he was we'll
on his way to the Mexican town, got
wire on his train that he would
pass the train on which Harle was
travelling in mid-route Bottome left
his train AT convenient station and
boarded the other. Then, as he did
not know Harle, he sent porter
through the Car with Western Union
telegraph envelope addressed to the
doctor, and Harle tumbled into the
trap. Bottome and detective led
Harle into the smoking compartment
and started a quizz of the third de-
gree" order that wound up that night
with a 50-page confession duplicating
Harle in the death of Devers, and
telling enough of the circumstances OF
Harry Mitchells death to indicate
how his suicide" had been arranged
Harle said that Devers had been
brought from Chihuahua from Eel Paso
by Richardson in December of 1901,
and that Richardson had said that he
had explained to Devers that Devers
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the Fort Worth Office at the request Of
Meredlth, and when 1t came back after
collection through Fort Worth bank
1t bore Meredith's Endorsement for de-
post. Inquiry at the bank in oues-
ton developed that soon after the
claim had been filed on Devers death
Meredith had called at the bank in
company witt richardson, and had
obtained there loan of $4,000 upon
Richardson's assurance that the COM
pany had admitted the claim under
the policy and was about to paw the
money, This loan was paid in part in
cash and in part by draft on the
Seaboard National bank, of New York,
and 1t was this draf. for $1,000. to-
gether with its Endorsement to Rich
ardson, that forms the first link in the
chain of evidence that was to connect
him with the crime
So the search led back to chihuahua
and when more light was sought on
the manner of the deaths of Harry
Mitchell and Devers 1t was found that
in the house in which Richardson and
his wife lived and within half an hour
after Mitchell had talked with a
friend in the street, apparently in
perfect health. This was hardly con-
sistent with the theory of spinal men
nights advanced by DR.. Harle, the
physician signing the death certificate,
who happened to be also the physician
who had examined each applicant for
insurance upon his admission to the
company. In the case of Devers it
appeared that death was due to dysen-
terry, as might easily have occurred
with man of Devers' dissolute man
ner of living. OF Richardson nothing
could be learned, except that he had
appeared in Chihuahua in the sum-
mer of 1901, with his wife, Helen
Richardson, as an American looking
for business opportunities in Mexico,
and had secured an appointment as
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was to be used in swindling one VILE
lis Meredith out of lot OF money,
For this purpose Devers was to pose
as the half-brother of Meredith, and
also to take out life insurance pol.
icy in his half-brother's favor But
Devers never signed any papers in this
connection; that was all arranged be.
tween Harle and Richardson, SO that
when Willis Meredith, who turned out
to be Mason, arrived on the night OF
Harry Mitchell's funeral with a WON.
an who posed as his wife, it was neces
sary only that the final preparation
should be made to put Devers out OF
the way before collecting both of the
policies. These were easily arranged,
The bogus Meredith and Devers wen,
to live together. On February %
Harle was called to see Devers, who
appeared to be suffering from acute dys-
entery. Harle gave him some medi-
cine to ease his pain, but shortly after
he died.
In his confession Harle said he knew
Devers was being poisoned, and sup
posed that bichloride of mercury was
given him in whisky. Harle filled out
fake burial certificate and the
other papers necessary to collect on
the policy, after which Richardson.
and Mason, who had now become Will
| liam Mitchell, took it to the Ell Paso
agency and eventually raised the 49,
900, of which we have heard, at the
bank at Fort Worth. Harle, of course,
was Immediately arrested, and event
ually came to trial with the other men.
Hurlbert's Criminal Record.
But in the meantime photographs of
the trio had been distributed through
the usual police channels throughout
the country, and when they reached
Rochester, N. Y, the photograph OF
Richardson was recognized as that of
| Lester e. Hurlbert, lawyer, who had
| jumped that city in May, 1901, after
the exposure of an extensive divorce
mill which he had operated in the
| cities of Rochester and Buffalo. Will
liam Mitchell, or Willis Meredith, or
Mason, as he was variously known
! turned out to be the brother of Harry
Mitchell, who was killed in Chihua-
hua in order that the gang might col
lect on his $4,000 policy. Mrs. Rich
/ ardson was identified as the wife OF
Hurlbert, and investigation in Roches-
ter developed the fact that she was
the sister of the Mitchell boys. VIII
liam Mitchell's trail, indeed, was fol-
lowed even to Hot Springs, Ark,
where the wealthy lumberman" Gray
had his brother-in-law insured, for
Mason" was the engaging young
man who had himself examined by
the Hot Springs doctor as John j.
| Evans.
The trial of the three men had been
reported in part in the papers through
out the country, and 1t served only to
develop the facts in the remarkable
case which have been very simply mar
rated above. The verdict CT guilty
quickly followed the presentation OF
the facts to the jury, and 1t remained
at length necessary only for the exc
cptioners to carry out the sentence
o. the court
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hilbert. NIT CHELL AND HARl =
Under SENTENCE FOR COLD
FLOODED MURDERS.
|BE GANG or LIFE INSURANCE SWlNDLERS
hing of Their Victims Part of the Scheme
|by Which They Had Made Large Sums
Had Another Victim Marked
for Death.

,buahua, Mexico.-Through a skein
"A olot and counter plot, that, if
ID nv a writer of fiction, would
been considered extravagant, the
rms of the crime of the three
Hurlbert, Mitchell and Harle,
under sentence of death here.
crime for which these three
ara TO die S murder, an incident
Dir series OF carefully planned life
kanle swindles.
IN particular company victimized
Il of the greatest in the world, and
earelessness on the part of the
sers resulting from over-confi-
saved it from a heavy loss.
Iactically in its entirety the affair
follows;
Commenced in 1902.
IN was in the spring of 1902 that a
insurance company was called
4 to pay two death claims in Chi
kua, the first on the life of Harry
Mitchell for $4,000 under a policy
kned to his sister, Helen Richard
4 and the second on the life OF
Hes Devers for $4,000 under a pol
6of which one Willis Meredith was
beneficiary. Mitchell had died
FEBRUARY II of that year, anG
hers on March 90, and the agent in
d cases had been G, T. Richardson
! had formerly been in the employ
be company at Chihuahua. but was
] living in Dallas, Tex.
low, life insurance agents in Chi
5hua, Mexico, even those who sub
.bently move to a town like Dallas
mot, as rule, support private
*ns, nor drive out in style with
3rO coachman and a footman or two
these things were included in
'hardson's establishment in Dallas
1.-THE great amazement of a repre-
)tatiye of the life insurance COM
", who went down from the FL
y office, where the check for the
ers policy had been forwarded, to
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| headquarters. Gray used to hear from
Richardson how it wasn't really neces-
sary to bride doctor in an insurance
case, but simply to take dummy be-
fore the medical man to pass the
physical examination, and Richardson
had just the dummy that filed the
bill, a young fellow named Mason,
once a miner in Chihuahua.
So the months went on, and it was
in October of 1902. The Gray-Richard-
SON. Mason combination was now in
good running order, and it was
planned that they should go to Ell
Paso, where Mason would AXE out
100000 insurance in the name of
Marshall ID. Sanguinetto, AN individ-
ual whom Richardson said he knew to
be dying of consumption in Mexico.
They were to make Gray the benefi-
ciary of the policy, wait until Sanguin-
etto died, and then collect the $780,
OOO But hitch aroseA Richardson
remembered one day that mis- friend
Sanguinetto, was young man of
middle age, whereas Mason was but a
youngster of 20. Why not, then, have
Gray take out the policy as Sanguin-
etto, making Mason the benenciary,
and then collect in the usual way?
Gray Marked for Murder.
Gray was not overanxious TO make
his death a possible source of profit to
Richardson and Mason, but he con-
sented to be Sanguinetto for the pur-
poses of the policy, and to own Mason
as David Sanguinetto, his son and
heir. After various introductions the
policy was made out and the deal
closed What introduced
a new element into 1t that Rich
a-dson and his friend Mason had not
counted on was the fact that Harry
Bottome and a couple OF detectives
had been keeping in nightly touch
with Gray and incidentally had been
doing a little work on the side, listen
ing to conversations between Rich
ards,n and Mason when Gray wasn't
around. 1t was in one of these con-
yersa.ions that Richardson gleefRNy
remarked that Gray had been the cas-
lest thing imaginable tG the Sanguin-
etto case. ahG added:
I'VE won't do thing to him when
we get him over the border"
BottoI,e and his men decided that
matters had gone far enough. They
laid thei- information before the dis
trict attic -ney of FL Paso county, and
warrants were issued for all three, in
Guiding Cray, for it was inexpedient
inst then TO have an exposure of the
mart which the lumberman-detective
had playet in the case Gray, however
was soon released, and the next step
was q charge filed in the City of Chi
hnahua accusing Richardson and Ma
son of the murders of Mitchell and
Deyers. ~ the preliminary hearing
Dr HarIe \'as called as a witness, and
| testified that Mitchell did die of strych-
nine poison'ug instead of spinal men
nights. but that Richardson had told
him that tue case was one OF sui
eide. and waited TO have things hushed
nm Devers Harle still declared, died
of dysentery Harle said that he had
beeu called il to attend him by half
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agent for the life insurance company
in the territory.
Gray's Entry Into the Game
II was at this stage of the case that
there came to Dallas, where the Rlch
ardsons were living in STYLE pre-
possessing citizen named W. D. Gray,
a dealer in lumber lands, who opened
an office of some size and took house
in the best part of the town. the
Richardson's happened to be in Ho'
springs. Ark, at the time and SC
Gray. the lumberman, who WASH / III
any hurry to get his Dallas affairs NOV
ing anyway, took trip over to the
Arkansas resort and registered at the
same hotel with the former lie IN
surance agent, his wife and child.
The two got acquainted and became
famous friends. Then one day hich'
ardson proposed that he should insure
Crav's life. Gray demurred' but ne
recalled that his wife had brother
who was i'll with consumption dia,
betes. and several other troubles anu
a occurred to him that If there weIe
any way in which policy might W
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H. 'n'o the matter. These things
Az 'eporled to the home office, and
49,, Tue direction of Second Vice
'qent Kingsley, Harry H. Bottome,
~ Vi New York, and detective,
lAe case. e
was discovered that Devers had
aa ~ Chihuahua a few weeks before
N, s1'h and that nothing was known
kDt.H H'ul except thar he was a hard
an, ana OF a type of social out
N, 'uoh enough in that territory.
IN enlightened a theory that the
Ia possession of a $4,000 policy by
bD,na. man required some further
lw 'ion' let alone possible suspi-
I'M circumstances attending his
L n,r 90 the investigators turned to
L N ' p of the Devers policy at
ID nni raso Office, after the company
III successfully tried to have the
trSns,. ' from New York intercepted
/ h ,D sifst Evidence Secured.
lrSarSsSa that the check had been
eu from the FL Paso office to
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ployed child. Only it is more restricted prob
lem arising in the summer months and confined
largely to the children Of the tenements. The
narrow streets Of the East Side. crowded with
perspiring humanity, blocked with husksters'
carts and made perilous to child life by lumber
ing drays occasional swift automobiles, q
poor substitute for the sphere OF hot weather
activity of the fortunate youngsters whose va
cation in the country means forgetting drowsy
school hours and incidentally keeping mind and
body active in wide range Of stunts followed
by sound sleep o. nights.
That is why the vacation schools and play
grounds came to he established and TO receive
so much attention from the Department Of Edu-
cation The thirty-one schools maintained by
the department closed on August IL. having
cost the city S52SS4 The Fairgrounds remain
open until August 81. and their cost is So, 699.
The schools were attended by nearly 10000
children, increase Of 5000 over last year;
$50 teachers were engaged and . courses
taught
The courses are radically different from those
taught tn tho rest Of the year. A temporary
ban b placed On Tia three Ia and the chill
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A DISAPPOINTED MAN.

Governor Pardee OF California was ns-
about a fire insurance agent who had d..
pointed him
This man." said DR.. Pardee, ~haa srrs.
so generously at first about the paynsr,
all claims In full that my disappointrsnt a. !,
later expression was Incredibly grsa.
II was as disappointed as a man vho Ii
Just returned from a months vacation. n
man got out Of the train with BIS Saey q,
valises. and with expanded chest truassl ls-.
ward through the hot city. pleasantly eulsds1
that he looked as brown as a berry, as hars
nails-in the pink OF condition aeser EE I.-
month On the sun and wind
suddenly he met friend This t-isn1 sasd
him By the hand. peered hard IN bis ass a
said anxiOuSly;
Hello! Going out OF town FOR sex ilE
suppose from you luggage? Wei. Tn Cd
see Il. for. by George. you need a chang ID
certainly do look tuckered Out'~
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81 Nicholas avenue side, is group Of three or
four Of the same trees which look less prosper
than their fellows. One or two OF them are
dead and another Is occupied by platform
which has probably been used as a lounging
spot for some of the people Of the neighborhood-
These trees are said to have once belonged to
Napoleon Bonaparte- The hole I'm the ground.
according TO anhquarians, was once pool with
pebbled bank on the well known Jumel estate.
The relics of the great French general are all
that remain OF an entire grove which once en-
cdrced the pool Two-thirds Of the grove was
destroyed, It Is said. when ST. Nicholas avenue
and 10th street were cut through 1t will prob
Kbty be only short time when the remainder
yin be cut down to make way for apartment
houses. Some persons have suggested that they
ought TO be preserved by removal to some city
park
The story Of the way the trees came to this
country told by the antiquarians is like this:
In the early part OF the last century while
Btephen Jurnel. the owner Of the Jumel house
Nearby now preserved Of Washingtons
headquarters. was In Paris, he picked up many
rifles OF Napoleon, who was then at Elba- One
aay when walking through the Jardin des
P1antes he saw Il lot OF sapIings piled up, the
roots with a certain amount OF soil attached.
hound with curious mating. BE inquired what
they were, and was told that they were Esgyp-
ttan Expresses that had been sent as a present
b Napoleon from Egypt As everything at
hat time appertaining to Napoleon was In dis
navur the trees he was told. were to be de-
uroyed. Jumei succeeded In securing them and
had them sent to this country. He laid out a
circular pond which he stocked with goldfish On
ne hanks was path covered with snow white
eebbIes On the outside of this path. and COM
paeteiy surrounding 1t, were planted the cy-
presses with the soil of Egypt still cIinging to
their roots.
The pool surrounded by its Gordon OF Expresses
vas a beautiful sight In the days OF Nine Tunnel
Who became the wife Of Aaron Burr In bis old
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THE Debating HABIT.

Booth Harrington does not dictate BIS s1riz
He is foe TO the habit Of dictatiOn-
THE debating habit Is a growing onAs' be 81
recently. Everybody nowadays las ssas
tary and dictates"
He smiled
when I was IN the Indiana Lsgisla;u's =
said. IAN old eoloret man appeared as WIS
before one Of our committees
IN the course OF hfs examination tsess Q-@
lions were put 20 the man:
.%hat Is your manner
.CaJhoun Clay. sah'
Can you sign yOGE namef
s6ahr
II ask II you can write your name
.wel. no. sahs An nebbah writes ma -
All dictates II. sahs-
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At CAMP ROOSEVELT.


then put into the flreless cooker and covered up.
In this state If viii slowly continue to cook, and
hours afterward the food can be taken out pip
ing hot. In the mean time it may be trans
ported many miles. II has been found especially
suitable for troops going on a days march In wet
weather. where fuel is damp and cannot be ig-
nited- 1t IS also well adapted for men on picket
duty. where a fire Is not allowed Beans are
thoroughly Drowned In the freless cooker.
Camp Roosevelt closes September 50 II
opened ON July Ii Both In going and rrturntns
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ONCE NAPOLEON'S TREES.
On Part of old Junlel Estate, b"t
Viii Soon Be Cut Dozen.

Grouped around one side of hollow in the
queerly shaped plot of ground lying between St
Nicholas avenue and Edgecombe Road and
bounded on the south by 159th street and on the
north by of apartment houses. is row
of stately Egyptian expresses. Tackled on the
trunk of the last one on the east end of the row
are the signs of several real estate dealers tell
ing what the owner is willing to do with this
half block of open land, occupied only by these
trees-and a few horses. which find it a pasture
better than none-if only satisfactory offer is
made for it. AT the west end of the line, behind
a long sgnboard which fences in the lot on the
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the infantry and cavalry, IN order TO test new
equipment and transportation, etc. were forced
TO make Ions, marches: some footed two hundred
miles, some rode two hundred and nifty. Both
men and horses. however, covered the distances
i'm good shane In summing up the beneficial
res,,Jts of seven days work at Camp Roosevelt
with the regulars, a brfgadier general of one OF
the state regiments said: "One weeks fnstruc-
ton here Is worth more than twelve months
drilling I'm the armory 20 my men,"
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age. The snow white walk framed in it's border
of fresh green turf and the majestic trees were
reflected from it's surface as in a mirror. Those
who remember how the grounds looked in the
palmy days of the Jumel estate recall the strik-
ing picture that Nine. Jumel made as she
emerged from the old gateway between the pOr-
ters lodges in her coach and four with out
riders, wearing faded lavender silk gown and
a leghorn hat with a large white ostrich plume
and lolling back in her cnariOt like duchess.