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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29

five minutes Co find a medicn. after be- ing led astrny by a red lamp at a pri- vate hotel. and another i've to get back with a policeman.
 Foggatt was dead. without a doubt. Probably had shot himself. the doctor thought. from the powder hlackening and other circumstances. Certainly nobody could have left the room by the door. or he must have passed my land ing. while the fact of the door being found locked from the inside made the thing impossible There were two windows Co the room. both of which were shut. one Icing fastened by inc catch. while the catch Gf the other was broken-au old fracture. Below these windows was a sheer drop of fifty feet or more. without a foot or hand hold near. The windows in the other rpoms were shut and fastened Ger tainIy it seemed suicide-unlcss 1t were one of those accidents that will occur to people who fiddle ignorantly with firearms. Soon the rOOms were in pos session of the golIce. aad yEe were turned cut
 We looked h at the housekeeper's kitchen. where Der daughter was re- vivIag and calming Mrs- Clayton with Eia and water. Hewitt tgok a SzzE bottle of sewing machine oil from E.s pockei and hzzds1 it b tEe dauzzteE. Banking her fer the loan
 There was Etfle evidence at the in- ~t The sh1t hzd ben heard. the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29

teen or twenty minutes before, perhaps a little longer-an inference supported by the fact that 1t was only partly eaten.
 T examined that apple and found 1t bore marks of very irregular teeth. While you were gone oiled 1t over and. rushing down to my rooms, where always have a little plaster of paris handy for such work, took mold of the part where the teeth had left the dearest marks. I then returned the apple to it's place for the police to use
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29
JUDGE LovINo's TRIAL.
Court Strikes Out State Instructions
 Given on "Unwrftten Law"

Court Strikes Out State Instructions|
 Given on "Unwrftten Law"
 HOUSTON, Va, June 29.-The argu-| ment of the attorneys in the trial of former Judge William c. Loving forl the murder of Theodore Estes openedl here after day spent by the attorneysl of both sides in the preparation of in-I structions and a legal wrangle over| them before the court The instructions| as read by Judge Barksdale discussed murder, its various degrees, the ques-| tion of reasonable doubt, the time all lowed for a mans angry passions to| subside and especially insanity.
 The following instructions prepared by the prosecution touching on the| ''unwritten law were stricken out by| the court: No man under the protec-| ton of the law has a right to be the| avenger of his own wrongs. If they| be of a nature for which the laws of society give him an adequate remedy, thither should he resort, but be they| of any nature whatsoever he has mol AA6nh tO dNru6c thNiu N1ttpt III tuc manner prescribed by the law. The| unwritten law, by which is meant the right of the citizen to become thel ayenger of his own wrongs in a man. ner not authorized by law or against the law, has no place in the criminal jurisprudence of Virginia"
 Attorney Daniel Harmon for the prosecution fin his address sought to show that Judge Loving killed Estes after "deliberation, reconciliation and upon reflection and that the defendant was a sane and responsible man at the time of the killing. thus making the offense murder in the first degree.v
 Throwing aside all problems of law. the defense went to the jury with the single plea of the ''unwritten law" Again and again 1t was poured into the ears of the jurors that "yIrglnians must protect the honor and virtue of its women"
 The case will go to the jury today. and LovIng's lawyers say a verdict of acquittal will be rendered within half an hour.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29


 door was locked on the inside, and left 1t so. went back and quietly opened a window. Below was a clear drop Into darkness and above was plain wall. but away to one side. where the slope of the gable sprang from the roof. an Iron gutter ended. supported by a strong bracket. It was the only way. I got upon the sill and carefully shut the window behind me, for people were already knocking at the lobby door. From the end of the sill, hold. ing on by the reveal of the window with one hand. leaning and stretching my utmost. caught the gutter. swung myself clear and scrambled on the roof. climbed over many roofs be- fore found. in an adjoining street, ladder dashed perpendicuIarly against the front of house in course of re- pair. and availed myself of it
 T have taken some time and trouble in order that you (so far as am aware the only human being beside myself who knows me to be the author of Foggatt's deathl shall have at least the means of appraising my crime at its just value of culpabIlIty. You see the thing. of course. from your own point of view-I from nise. And re member ny mother. Your obedIent servant sIDNET MASON I read the singular document through and handed It back to Hewitt.
 How does 1t strike your Hewitt asked
 Mason wouM seem to be a nan o' rerT uarked charactcr.- I saId- Ger talnly no fool And. If hIs tale is true FoEEztt is no great loss to the world" lust so-if the tale k true. Pe-sou- aIlTI l am dizposed tD beiiere if Is.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29

~lHE old house wherein my cham.
 bers and Hewitt's office were
 situated contained, besides my
 own, two or three more bach elors' dens, in addition to the of fees on the ground and first and sec ond floors. At the very top of all, at the back, a fat, middle aged man named Foggatt occupied set of four rooms.
 MT. Foggatt appeared to have few friends, but lived in something as near ly approaching luxury as an old bach elor in chambers can live. The man himself was not altogether prepossess- ing. .. Fat as he was, he had a way of carrying his head forward on his extended neck and gazing widely about with a pair of the roundest and most prominent eyes I remember to have ever seen, except in a fish. On the whole, his appearance was rather vul- picious, without any very pronounced quality of any sort. But certainly he was not pretty. In the end, however, he was found shot dead in his sitting room.
 It was in this way: Hewitt and I had dined together at my club and late in the evening had returned to my rooms to smoke and discuss whatever came uppermost We sat talking while time .went unperceived, when suddenly we were startled by a loud report. Clear ly it was in the building. We listened for a moment, but heard nothing else, and then Hewitt expressed hts opinion that the report was that of a gun shot Gunshots in residential cham bers are not common things, wherefore I got up and went to the landing, look ing up the stairs and down.
 At the top of the next flight I saw Mrs. Clayton, the housekeeper. She appeared to be frightened and told me that the report came from MT. Fog gatt's room. She thought he might have had an accident with the pistol that usually lay on his mantelpiece We went upstairs with her, and she Knocked at MT. Foggatt's door.
 There was no reply. Through the ventilating fanlight over the door it could be seen that there were lights within, a sign, Mrs. Clayton main- tained, that MT. Foggatt was not out. We knocked again, much more loudly, and called, but still Intellectually. The door was locked, and an application of the housekeeper's key proved that the tenants key had been left in the lock inside. Mrs. Clayton's conviction that something had happened" be- came distressing, and in the end Hew- it pried open the door with small poker
 Something had happened. In the sitting room Mir. Foggatt sat with his head bowed over the table, quiet and still. The head was i'll to look at, and by it lay large revolver, of the full sized army pattern. Mrs. Clayton ran back toward the landing with faint screams.
 Run, Brettr said Hewitt. "A doc tor and policemanw
 I bounced down the stairs half a flight at time, but 1t took me a good
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29
Martin Hewitt,
 Investigator.
The Case of
 MT. Foggatt.
By ARTHUR MORRISON.
Published by Arrangement With
 Harper x Brothers.

HE old house wherein my cham bers and Hewitt's office were
 situated contained, besides my pSrn fyrn ar tbrao mora booh
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29
Where the Change coms,.

We often hear some neighbor sayi '"Things were not that way when was young" But they were. It id not the things that have changed, but ourselves. Our prim and precise aunt may make fuss because niece strolls| down to lovers lane in the summed twilight, but all the same she would have jumped at a chance to do thd same thing thirty years ago. When he came along she went. Mother grumI bles because we sit out on the porch and talk little late, but she forgetd how the old man used to call her down| good and hard because dad stayed pretty late when be was sparkling herl We think the circuses are bummed than they used to be and the clownd are not half as funny. But they arel The winters get just as cold and thd summers just as hot The flies are ad thick and the mosquitoes bite just as hard. About the only difference is that In the fiowery days of our youtb we didn't have troubles. Now we do.-Osborse Kan.) Farmer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29
HAVE YOU A SCRAP BOOK?

If 90 you will find many items of interest in the Democrat which should find . place in 1t. Be sure and clip them now.
 WHO WIRE OUR PREsIDENTs1 Where were they born. snd Chat rear. and when and how many years did they servt7 The Democrat win tell yoa- wateh.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29
Ten Knl.a nncPR.

WINNIPEG. June 29.-A report here says that two Canadian Pacific railway express trains. Nos. 1 and o6 were Iu collision last night near Kenora, Ont, and that ten persons were Killed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29

O O O O O O O O O O O O O C O SHAKING THE PLUM TREE. c o A Story of Graft. c o Will be told soon c 0 in the columns of O 0 THE EVENING DEMOCRAT. Q O O O o O O O o o O o O O Q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
SHIP SUBSIDIES AND The WEST.

The Burlington Hawk-Eye believes
Iowa to ship subsidies than there is to
protective tariff. It is true the prin-
ciple is the same but there is a very
general suspicion that the public we.-
fare is not so greatly in need Of ship
subsidies at this time as American in
dustry was In need of protection forty
years ago.
The people Of the west have been
paying tariff taxes for the benefit Of
the protected industries of the east
upon the theory that there was an in
direct profit to them in the prosperity
of the east and they have been doing
it cheerfully. Added taxes for the pur-
poses Of paying subsidies to steamship
lines might stimulate commerce, to be
sure, but is there no stopping point ?
With a steel trust, a sugar trust, a
lumber trust, leather trust, a beef
trust, all protected, it would seem that
less need for protection rather than
raore need would come as the country
grows older and stronger.
Then the west would like to see a
more rational method of developing
foreign commerce adopted in the form
of reciprocal treaties, international
trades. We have ample authority for
it that many present tariff schedules
are higher than necessary expressly for
trading margins in negotiating such
treaties and that other schedules are
NO longer needed. We also have re-
ceived invitations to negotiate with
foreign countries for an enlargement
OF our markets. Why does not some
body do it? AS soon as the bars are let
down so as to afford profit commerce
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

will seek the opening and when COM
merce seeks them there will be ships
offering their services. Ship subsidies
honestly applied can be of public bene-
fit, just as protective tariffs or railroad
tax aids can be, but the steamship
business is so far away from the west
that many of US are inclined to be
suspicious. 1t would help some to trade
down few of those excessive tariffs
and remove a few of the dishonest
tricks from that law before asking us
to vote more taxes for the aid of other
special interests.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
aases- Ellarsatum anua, aatuarp u 1907

Grinnell. No one disputes the rights
of Mr. Ray and the Grinnell Herald to
pound" Cummns, but hereafter sup
pose we leave the word harmony out
of our political dictionary. 1t may give
Mr.. Ray considerable pleasure to
know that the above quoted editorial
created much talk. But in the line of
"a soft answer turneth away wrath"
it is not worth cent. On the con-
trary, SO tense is becoming the situa-
ton here IN Grinnell that candidates
for constable will soon have to an
nounce themselves as standpatters or
progressives.
a1 M,.z4A
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
DON'T PAY ANY ATTENT ION TO IT.

II could go out and get signers to q
ty,' exclaimed veteran newspaper
man in an attempt to give vehemence
to his contempt for the carelessness
with whicn men sign petitions. "The
average man will sign anything" he
continued. And it is a fact. Men ex-
ceptionally shrewd and careful in bus-
mess will sign any old petition that
comes along in the hands Of friend
and when asked to explain a seeming
Inconsistency in their petitioning for
something in direct opposition to their
known wishes and beliefs will waive a
questioner aside with the reply, 20
just signed that to get rid of so-and-
so. Don't pay any attention to It."
Why will we'll meaning, intelligent
men do thing like that, sign petit
ton addressed to some public official
or governing body asking for some ac-
ton which they, in fact, do not want?
Simply carelessness. That's all. The
fact that the English language reads
plain and that their opinion when care
fully given carries weight does not
deter them. They will sign petition
without looking at it, at least never
looking behind it and not feel that they
have Inundated themselves in the
least. 1t is an American trait, this
carelessness in signing petitions. It
ought to be eradicated. Men ought to
feel that their signature is too dignifed
an autograph to be thrown around
loosely into every passing petition.
How much more dignified to reply, mo,
I have not given that matter any
thought. may be for 1t but I'll not
sign until post up little. am just
as much obliged" When the name of
the man who follows such a course
does come down onto petition it will
have weight. 1t would at least dignity
the opinion Of that signer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

The Cedar Rapids Republican,: I'm
view of the legislature being in SEES
sion the Des Moines newspapers are
able to make the insurance companies
see their way clear to using a great
deal of extra space in the papers,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
pay town to donate him SIS and tell
him fo rpovan

him to move"
The senate fell over itself in it's
anxiety to approve Senator LaFol-
let's bill limiting the hours of labor
of railway employees at sixteen" is the
way the Ackley World puts it and then
the World remarks that: Bob was
thus prevented from shooting the air
full of holes the dispatch with which
the senate complied must have taken
his breath away"
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says:
There are so many people with a little
money who are unable to resist the
Establishments of the oily-tougued
agent and the lurid advertisement of
the fake scheme, that the swndler is
enabled to reap an especially rich har-
vest. If these people could just get
it into their heads once for all that
there is no short cut to fortune, espec-
tally for the man of small means, and
then go and deposit their money in
savings bank, or invest it in some
known and tried security or in tangible
property which they have seen and
know to be worth the money, there
would be no need for legislation for
their protection"
The Iowa senate has entered upon
its work of reforming everything that
needs it, except itself, by voting every
senator committee clerk notes the
Waterloo Reporter.
why not? Is not this an era of re-
FORM" asks the Des Moines Capital,
commenting on the fact that every
senator at Des Moines is to have
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

Senators, fearing the wrath of their
constituents, haven't the courage to
snub him. says the Telegraph Her
aid Of Dubuque, commenting upon La
Follette's reception in the senate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
"The Hawk-Eye doe.

1.-THE Hawk-Eye does not believe the
people of the country are any more
prejudiced against the ship subsidy bill
than they are against the protective
tariff" is a frank admission made by
the Hawk-Eye at Burlington.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
Tn. Price Of Peace.

The Price of Peace.
The terrible itching and smarting, in
cident to certain skin diseases. is al
most instantly allayed by applying
Chamberlain's Salve. Price, rs cents
For sale by ali druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
THE HOLDING COMPANY.

The recent effort Of the government
to Investigate Mr.. Hartman, the
colossus of railroads, calls attention to
a most startling development of the
holding company in modern finance.
Says the Wall Street Journal: His
power lis absc lutte over $4,000 miles of
railroad, having capitalization of
$1,100.OOO,0O0. His authority is very
large over $4,000 additional miles of
railroad having capitalization of ST.
20O,OOO,OOO, while he has potent voice
in the management of $4,000 miles of
road having a capitalization of $780,
100000 Thus directly and indirectly
his power extends over one-third of
the transportation interests of the I'm
tied States"
But how does he do it? He gets con-
troll of one railroad, issues bonds on
1t, and with the money thus borrowed
buys control of another railroad. Under
his plan $101,OOO,000 would control a
$200.000,o00 corporation which in turn
would be able to buy control of $780,
100000 company and this company
could buy control of a s79s,O0O,oo0 cor
poration and so on ad infinitum. The
control OF the first company might even
be held by voting syndicate in which
s51 100000 would control and thus have
dominant power over all the companies
aggregating capital into the billions.
The holding company is "a beautiful
thing. Suppose a national corpora
ton law should prohibit one corpora
ton owning another? What scatter
ing there would be? And yet we are
told that the railroads are not in poll
tics. OF course they have no interests
there
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

ylgor and cheerful
ness soon disappea.
when the kidneys arr
out of order or dis.
eased.
Kidney trouble La.
become so prevalen;
that it is not unco,n.
mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
weak kidneys. IF the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
"Ahout all the legislation that now

"About all the legislation that now
seems to us urgent or necessary" says
the EARLY News, SIS a state wide pri-
mary law, including the selection of
United States senators by a direct
vote of the people, a law providing for
two cent railroad fare, a law empower
ing the railroad commissioners to
establish maximum rates for express
companies and an economical general
appropriation bill"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22
Women IS Well as Men Are Madl
Miserable by Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discourages and lessons ambition; beauty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

child urinates too often, ifthe urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet
ting, depend upon it, thecause of the diff
Guilty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment OF
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition OF
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
napit as most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made nilser.
able with kidney and bladder trouble.
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. It sold
by druggists, in fifty EE-
cent and o,le-do1lar es|:::.:::E Es::ssls
size bottles. Ycu may H.!
have a sample bottle ss. @&
by mail free, also Home Of swampRoos
plnphlet telling all about Swamp Root,
including many of the thousands of testi-
nonial letters received from sufferers
cured. In writing DR.. Kiltner & Co.,
Einghanton, N. Y, be sure and mention
luis paper Don't make any mistake,
ls,t remember the name, Swamp-Root,
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the ad.
tress, Binghainton, N. Y. on every
AsSttte
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

Seriously. Mr.. Ray and his standpat
friends may thank themselves, and
Mr.. Lacey is indebted to them for his
defeat for congress at the last election.
This kind of anti-Cummins talk was
freely INDUCED in for several weeks
previous to election on the streets Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

The Sheffield Press believes that "a
GROWER and sorehead in a town is an
enterprise killer every time. 1t would
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

Mr.. Dolliver can thank his stars to-
day that Mr. Cummins was more than
a mere politician. In a large measure
the governors high sense of honor has
put him where he is and perchance it
may have closed the doors to his real
ambition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

date for the senate why not come out
in the open and say SO? That will give
the people of Iowa a chance to choose
between him and the brilliant senator
to whom, Iowa owes debt of gratitude
it will take years to repay But in
stead of announcing himself openly, he
is encouraging his friends to harrass
and embarrass Doliver over the fed
eral appointments, in the secret hope
that a breach may be made between
Dolliver and his friends. And to cover
up the villainy of the scheme the
progressive newspapers are bowling
Wolf! Wolff at the standpat friends
of Dolliver, and trying TO throw dust
in the eyes of the people of Iowa."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-22

SWdiHpsNOOC IS SUOII
by druggists, in fifty
cent and oile-dollar
size bottles. Ycu may
have a sample bottle
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-27
RICHARD BROTHERS
Ground On Grand Vie wis Making
Good ShOxvinr

Ground On Grand Vic wis Making
Good Showing.
The Grand View Mining company
in which the Richard Brothers are
largely Interested, is making a good
showing. The company recently en-
countered some good ore and built a
new hoist. The present work con
sists of tapping the ore ledge at var
ious points below the 1O0-foot level,
the values being found to increase
with depth. At the 1S0-foot level
a crOss-cut was run and the vein
found much wider. 1t is proposed
TO continue the shaft to the 500-foot
level where it is expected that
enough stopping ground can be open
ed up to supply a mill of much larger
capacity than the present 25-ton-per-
day plant. The mill now in use is
being run on the 12-hour shift and
turns out two a loads of oncen
trates containing gold, silver, lead
and anthony each month. Thess
shipments bring high returns.