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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
The Daily Short Story

made no attempt to stop the fugi-
tive? Again, supposing that Con-
verse was assured Of the innocence
of the other, could the shooting
then be justified? And does the
fact that Converse did shoot his
client go to establish the latter's
guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
There's a set of question of The
Lady or the Tiger class that cross
roads debating societies are wei.
come to use"
Copy of paper found in the safe
of Attorney James Converse, the
noted criminal lawyer, who died
suddenly at GAINESVILLE, o., June 5,
1900:
GAINESVILLE, Jan. /. 1890. l con-
fide this story to this paper for
posthumous purposes only. | shall
not tell it while live, yet it is too
good to keep forever. Some one
will find this after l am gone and
will remember the first of the
story, and then he will see what a
keen new point this epilog of mine
puts on an old story-tho story of
the killing of Bottle Aston by tle
undersigned.
This is true of bill of what
TRANSFERRED in Aston's cell on the
evening Of May 3, 1882:
81 said to my man. while l was
gathering up my papers, Bottle,
I'm going to do everything that
can do, but may as well tell you
you haven't one chance in a hun
dred'
aston did not finch. Sure
there's no show
Nothing short of a miracle
would give you a ghost of show
"'All right
81 started to go and as l went to
the door to call the turnkey, Aston
said
Waltz
81 turned. He stretched forth his
| hand.
Goodbye" he said.
Goodbye?
81 looked into his eyes. Then
put down my papers and sat down
to argue with him. You see
wanted to defend him. He was OBJ
| durate, but finally persuaded him
to wait till ! had seen him once
more.
Il went away intending to notify
the sheriff. so that a vigilant watch
might be established. But did not.
went home and lay awake all
night.
"And this is a true bill of what
happened in Aston's cell on the af
ternoon of the following day:
'In the first place | tried by ev
cry argument at my command to
shake his resolution, but in vain.
Then / said to him:
"'Now | have a proposition to
make. / shall come here tomorrow
about this time and stay late-stay
till the turnkey must come to
notify me that 1t Is locking up
time. He always opens the door
and sticks in his head, when he
calls me. Tomorrow at that juno
ture you can stun him with a blow
and run
But there won't be any show
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
ANOTHER MONKEY DINNER

NEWPORT, July 27.-Mr. and
Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont handsomely
entertained the New York 400"
here last night at dinner given to
big circus monkey. When brought
down from the city the monkey
was taken to hotel at Belmont's
expense and from there carried to
his residence in an automobile.
The animal was the guest of honor
at the table, place he earned by
displaying far more intelligence
than his entertainers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
NO PAROLE FOR MURDERERs.

OLYMPIA, July 26.-Assistant
Attorney General Falknor has de-
livered an opinion that murderers
convicted in any degree cannot be
paroled and pardoned Under the in
determinate sentence law. He also
rules that the law does not apply to
present inmates of the penitentiary
until they have served the mini
mum term for the crime ON which
they were convicted. The opinion
was given ON request of the state
board of control.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
"BOTTLE" ASTON'S EVER
LASTING

Press dispatch put on the wires
on the evening of May 3, 1882, and
printed on the first page of various
newspapers:
KILLED HIS OWN CLIENT!
~Young Attorney Shoots Escaping
Desperate, Etc.
GAINESVILLE, o., May 3.-Jas-
Converse, young attorney of this
city, today shot and killed Bottle
Aston, the alleged perpetrator OF
the revolving Dresden murder. The
shooting took place in the corridor
of the county jail.
Converse, attorney for the de-
Tense in the case of the state
against Aston, was in consultation
with his client in the latter's cell
this afternoon. While he was there
Turnkey Johnson entered to an
nounce locking-up time. Aston
felled him with a blow and es'
capped through the half open door.
Before he had gone 20 PAGES down
the corridor, however, Converse
was at the cell door with a drawn
revolver. He fired and Aston fell
dead.
1.-THE incident has occssioned tre-
mendous excitement. The crime
for which Aston was held was the
most revolving in the annals of the
county there has
been talk of lynching
is the hero of the town
The bar of GAINESVILLE is preparing
to given an impromptu banque "
Converse is one of the
brightest of the younger attor
neys, etc.
Extract from editorial in Zanes
vile Daily Torch, May 4, 1882:
1.-THE shooting of Bottle Aston
by the man employed by the state
to defend him was not a remark
able incident from the dramatic
standpoint alone. The affair is
fraught with some profoundly in
teresting ethical problems.
Converse had been hired to de
fend the accused. He was prepar
ing to do his utmost that his client
might escape the moose. He is 6
young man with reputation tC
/, make. Had the case come to tria
I he would have endeavored with al
the power OF keen and well trained
mind TO secure the acquittal of his
client. We may assume that he
! would have left no stone unturned
In mis- efforts to win the case and
krsy his client.
@And yet he shot his client
Now We don't know whether
ASTON was guilty or not Converse
did. He had been closeted with
Aston daily for fortnight, and II
may be taken for granted that he
know.
snow, supposing that Aston was
; dlty In the eyes OF his attorney
II the latter TO be justified In the
course ne took to prevent the prls
oner's escape? Or perhaps a nicer
question would be. could the at
torpey have been justified had he
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
OFFERS BABY TO PAY DEBTS

PITTSBURGH. July 27.-Lying
on her deathbed, with no earthly
possession but her months old ba-
by, Mrs. Oscar Temanos of Mones-
sen, Pa, advertised the child for
sale for $50 that she may pay her
medical and doctor bills, a small
debt for food, and leave this life
without a creditor Her husband
had disappeared.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
A WORD FROM JOSH WISE.

WORD FROM JOSH WISE. there wouldn't
anything for them to this
winter.
MAGMG Z mcomo hold f.cs
X\ZS(
AVN ' "ie''
. NJ The bride to her husbar4 said,
VIII
Her voice was sweet and bonved While DIT price
'N0 oA'Oi'o'' {
In talking phone Turkey-What's he'll sitting
for?
A i unless
carpetkayer
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
SLEEPY JAG WAS COSTLY.

The police were notified this
morning by Jacob Holm that last
night as he slept off a jag in a
chair at the Cleveland house bar,
someone picked his pockets. When
he went to sleep, he says, he had
a cheap watch, a $40 gold piece and
a few dollars in silver, and gold
ring with the setting gone. When
he awoke he had nothing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
B0YHo0D'S MEMORIES

RICHMOND, Ind, July 27.-Be-
cause his millions have not robbed
him of his sentiment, Daniel G.
Reid, once a poor boy of this place
and now a millionaire Of the steel
trust, has had sent from here to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
BATHING AT LIBERTY LAKE

Visit Spokane's beautiful bathing
and picnic resort, reached by
Occur d'Alene electric trains. Fin
est beaches, groves and water that
is just fine. Round trip 75c. Take
trains at Spokane Terminal, Main
av. and Lincoln st. A**
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
DANIEL G. REID

New York Millionaire Who Has
Bought Door of Boyhood Barn
his palatial New York home an old
barn door, on which, as a-child, he
carved his initials. "A
Some of the happiestt days of
my life were spent in that old
barn." he said.
The deep-cut letters are still
plain in the old door. Reid had it
carefully Grated, and says it will
occupy place Of prominence in
his eastern home.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-07-27
MANiTo MOVING PICTURES

Free moving pictures every even
ing at cool Mantle park. Take the
whole family for picnic and en-
joy the lawns. flowers, ZOO and pic
ture show. PIT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
A Foreseeing Judge.

From the New York Times.
 In Arkansas, not many years ago, a country justice of the peace called upon a retired attorney, and after presenting a statement of facts, asked as a matter of friendship. for a legal opinion upon them. This the attorney gave. When the attorney had finished, the Squire rose and said:
 'Well, those are just the facts in a case l am again to try next Saturday in my court and I knowed you'd give me the right kind of an opinion, so I came to you. The costs in that case will be just S50, and I am willing to divide with you. When I was candidate, some of the folks in my county were mean enough to say that I wouldn't know how to run this office. I intend to show them that I do The next case I have I'll come to you again, and we'll run that court right or bust hamstring a-trying.
 With that the justice of the peace dropped s3.75 on his astonished friend s desk and took his departure, satisfied that his first case would get the right kind of decision when it came up for trial on the following Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Town pIannino in Germany.
Benjamin c. Marsh in the September
 Charities and The Commons.

Benjamin c. Marsh in the September
 Charities and The Commons.
 Nearly 900 delegates representing almost every large European country as well az countries of other continents assembled in London, August Sd to 7th at the eighth International Housing congress.
 The remarkable system which German municipalities are adopting as a part of their method of dealing with the problem of proper housing was further described by Dr. J. Stubben of Berlin. Bad ho"s- ing conditions he claimed are partly due in Germany to the crowding together of the urban population in barrack dwell ings. When the barrack dwelling is es- tablished, the erection of smaller, better houses is hindered by the influence it has on its surroundings. These barrack dwellings are being erected even in new districts. It is one of the chief purposes ef town plans and building bylaws to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

prevent the growth of similar conditions on ground which is still uncovered by buildings.
 e Building sites must be arranged so as to comply as fully possible with the reuirements of traffic, health and beauty. The location of traffic streets is of most importance and it is determined first. The less important or secondary traffic streets known as residential streets are neXxt arranged with due regard for the formation of sites. The minimum width for a street is about equal to the height of the houses. Provision is, of course, made for parks and playgrounds, and the plan is made for twenty-five or thirty five years and, as the population often doubles in that time, at least an equal area should be added to that of the pres ent city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Keep Your Eye On Us-It
 Nil1 Pay You
Pleased Psies aGs a Bargain
ONE PRICE

Our best price marked in plain figures We will not ask you two prices and take all your mOney-We can get value or no value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
lf you Watch Us Closely you Will be OUT Customers
DiSpleaSed Pa;ss A"s Burnt
CASH

You get all your moneys worth. You are not charged up with other peoples bad debts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

See our fall sack suit for men and young men. If you wish to get one of the smart styles, best tailored suits ready to wear, come see us.
 MARLEY & BAUMAN.
 1924 First Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

In "The Emily Emmins Papers" Miss Wells offers sketches of travel and of tue social and other experiences which the young lady who gives the book its title met with in London and elsewhere. The sprightliness and point of Miss Wells wit, her never failing yiyacity, her ex- traordinary faculty for presenting the amusing or interesting side of whatever she touches, are qualities that a host of readers have already declared her to possess, and there is no call here to dwell upon them. England she sees with Amer ioan eyes, and Is quick to ridicule what, from her point of view, there seemed to her absurd. She is equally ready to ex- press her delight at the distinctive charms of English life and English people both in town and country. If there are any who can be other than pleased with these papers, we would inquire where such peo- pie are to be found-certainly not among the general reading public" a very con- siderable portion of which has, in no un- certain tones, declared itself for what ever comes from Miss Wells pen. Fluffy Ruffles, a young lady who is to be met in the authors lightest verse, has be- come a figure known both at home and abroad. But in amiable and engaging qualities, combined with shrewdness, wit and good sense, Miss Emily Emmins must take precedence of her widely known predecessor. It is certainly true that ''rhe Emily Emmins Papers" combine better than any other of her books the brightness. the cleverness and the com pete group of literary qualities that. taken together. explain Miss Wells wide vogue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
READY FOR FALL BUSINESS

line goods well No needs
  and your needs The Newest Styles will found Our buyers keep in close touch with the markets Our America WE SELL FOR CASF thereby expense bad debts well as the keeping credit books What t o is saved 0 ustomers
 Come and line nothing delighted show We guarantee dea Our stock s the latest French desnshe line the popular Bynum Designs Everybody find made order just what energies thought to the one lne-MLLINE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Hon. w. A. Covington, of Georgia, will speak against whisky this afternoon at Jeffer- son Theater at 3::30 o'clock. All men urged to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

he devoted himself to musical study. Good fortune, however (good fortune for the public as well as for himself), turned his thoughts toward literature, and in this his success has been remarkable.
 He has a middle name, Smythe," put he does not use it in his books. preferring the simplicity of Robert Hichens."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

In Anne Warmers new Susan Clegg book, entitled, Susan Clegg and a Man in the House., the inimitah!e Susan Clegg is persuaded to take a boarder, Eii:an Doxey, nephew of Mir Kimball, the v lage grocer. Elijah says Susan, '1s so smart, that he'll be offered a place on one of the biggest city papers in little while. but in the meantime he's just lost the place that he did have on one Of the smallest Elijah having been paid off with an old printing press, his molner sends him to the country to visit s:r. kimball who proposes to utilize Elijah and his printing press by publishing a village newspaper. Elijah Doxey's novel ideas as to the conduct of a newspaper, visit by Susan Clegg to a woman's con- vention, her views on democratic and re- publican parties, the material experiences of Grandma Mullins son Hiram, cele- bration of Independence Day, Mrs. Ma cey's Trials. etc, are among the princi- pal chapters of Anne Warmers new book. Susan Clegg and a Man In the House" will be published by Little, Brown & Co. in October.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

The Harpers are publishing new novel by Will N. Harben It Is another novel of Georgia, whose scenes and people liar ben has so fascinatingly described. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Readers of exceptional fiction will find in MT. Lancasters new book" The Tracks We Tread" q narrative which is as yer He as the country is depicts. It Is a tre- mendous story in which the clash of ele- mental passions is felt from the first page to the last The scene is laid in New Zealand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Among the names which are as "famll. far as household words in the United States it Is doubtful whether there IS one which has been for so many years d commonplace of American speech as that of John Harvard. Yet notwithstand- ing the important part that young 1un- ister played in the beginnings of educe- tion in this country. the founder of Har- yard University has had to wait till the present year for a look devoted to his life-story and memory This blank in American literature has been filled by Henry c. Shelley. whose John Harvard and His Times" now on the eve of publi- cation by Little. Brown and Company represents wide research and careful CO., ordination of results. One of the most attractive of Mir. Shelley's chapters-is that in which he formulates a novel the ory to show that the probabilities are all in favor of Harvard's parents having been introduced to each other by Shakes peare. MT. Shelley is tho author of Tit erary ByPaths in Old England"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Cyrus Townsend Brady's new novel, which Moffat, Yard & Co., will publish under the title of "The Blue ocean s Daughter" goes back to the Revolution ary time for its setting. Mir. Brady prob ably never made a heroine so lifelike as the girl who controls the destinies of the American merchantmen in this story. The book is appropriately illustrated by George Gibbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

The first volume of My Memoirs by Alexandre Dumas, is out in its English translation. and brings with 1t an intro-
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17

sess site of exceptional heaIthfu1ness a,l7 r,ro.
nyslca' ne"ulE- Inc residential portion OF il
will occupy an eminence some distance back
from Seneca Lake, and looking out over The
lake ana the buildings of the old college on the
bluff rising directly from the watersde As tbfs
high ridge IS given up to rather large esTateg
the site is sufficiently secluded wbiia an ,be.
other hand as two residence streets run between
n ana the Rake, u is by means lonely
Though mere advantage in situation viii bsrfiiv
solve the troublOus problem Of the ccIlece
NOmanS health, such location as This rotIst
have it's worth in mental and moral velIhefDa~
Perhaps the most interesting feature OF The
new undertaking. however. is that in which NJ
apparently marks new departure. II seems 10
he the first attempt to attach an "annex'-a c,,-
ordinate department for women-to small conn
try college for men Coordination in its social
lesuits may De said 10 differ from the two preva-
lent modes oY education in this respect that
while coeducation COmpels the meeting of men
ana women Students. and the independent COlleGC
seRreSates them, the coordinate scheme makes
such association possible. but not necessary In
large city institutions. where chiefly il has be4
tried. coordination amounts socially 10 practic-I
separation. IL VIII approach that in Geneva.
Certainly the arrangements ContemnIated herN
will secure 10 both the college bodies the COM
plete social independence which NEST students OF
both sexes and many parents prize SO highly
As college students they viii not be thrown in
one anOther's way.
one circumstance may difserentiate the condl
tions here from those of existing coordinate in
stituttonS. Ihe students OF Hobart College have
long been a part or the attractive society OC shis
town ShoHld some measure OF the hospitality
the have sought and found be extended
women. the students OF the two colleges would
meet members OF the younger social circles
OF Geneva much as they might make aCquaint-
ance if living in their own homes. In this way
the isolation and exclusively feminine atm0s-
phere'' which have been complained OF In the
ordinary womanS college might ne harmlesSIy
avoided. still. in the main the conditions Will
be those OF the separate college, and II is with
such institutions. and not with those OF the CO.
educational type, that the new college has a
right TO take. and means 70 maintain. It's place.
MILTON HAIGHT TURK
Warden William Smith School for Women,
Hobart College, Geneva. n. Y,
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
RENTS GOING UP.
Tenement House Landlords amply
Repaid for Sanitary Improvements.

Although the Moeschen case was decided
weeks ago. tenement house landlords have not
vet ceased 10 rail at H. They declare on the
one hand that II imposes an intolerable hardship
upon them and on the other that il will check
the building Of new tenement houses. This
was test case brought by tho Tenement House
Department Of this city against a landlord who
refused to replace certain antiquated sanitary
fixtures with new ones when ordered to do so.
because those old fixtures had complied with
all the demands Of the law at the time they
were put in. The decision in the Moeschen
case once for all established the principle that
the public health is matter of more concern
than are the individual profits Of property own
ers. II a law does not square with the present
hygienic knowledge ii should make way for one
that does
Still. the landlords of oIdtlme tenement houses
refuse 20 see the reasonab bleness Of this deCi-
sion. Il put up my tenement house" one viii
say. "n accordance with the laws and rcguia-
tions I'm force RI the time 7 built. Now the
state steps in and says Here we've made
news laws the old ones don't hold any longer.
you must change this. You must add that. YOU
must tear down here. YOU must rebuild there
and all at my expense cutting down my profits
Is this just
But will his profits really he cut down?
sociated with DR.. Edward T Devine. OF the
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
THE IDEAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.

Vate individual tastes without license 10 follow
their promptings exclusively. II is safe to say
that there is no academic study from which
large results in the training Of faculty or the
enrichment of life cannot be reaped nor is there
any subject or group of related subjects which
will suffice alone TO attain these ends as our
day and our country define them
The work of the college, of course. is for the
future II Is preparatory not a finishing
school, and 1t finds it's justification in the lives
OF the men and women il trains. Without doubt
tho work of the woman's college In this respect
undergoes Z severe test IL is sharply tried
when the graduate is plunged into the busy
routine OF common school work; il is even more
severely proved by the engrossing social round
OF the daughter AZ home" That may we'll
claim TO be the ideal college for women which
can give energy and bent to these crescent years
which can preserve throughout and beyond
them its efficacy for mind and spirit which can
keep active the developed faculty. can maintain
the new point Of view. the wider outlook the
larger life.
Those who will guide the educational policy
of the William Smith School at Hobart have
hardly yet formed In their own minds their
"hopes and desires for it, From this View
point of the old college the circumstance that at
once challenges attention IS this: the new insti-
tuition will not begin at the beginning Ii will
set out upon its career from the point that Ho-
bart College has reached in 1908. after nearly
ninety years of experience While Hobart has
immensely broadened its curricula and multi
piled its electives in recent wears IL still retains
its ideal OF culture and training. of the general
rather than the special efficiency as the object
Of q college course. Such ideal, which seems
to me so important in the education of women,
the new wOman's college win inherit
In the Smith foundation. again. the note
worthy feature is the special provision made
by il for instruction in bioogic and phychologic
science, the obvious value OF which to women
has been so often emphasized. II is the ex-
pressed desire Of the founder that the students
OF the new college shall have every opportunity
for knowledge concerning the nature and func-
tiOns of the life they must so largely nurture
and guide. In fulhlment of this purpose a new
laboratory for biology and psychology will soon
be in course OF erection on the Smith campus.
Furthermore, this 0ld-yoVng college viii pos