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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10
"What tOas the shippers name Z"

room, made many think he was the
culprit, especially as Jessop said that
Krill had noticed the brooch and COM
mented on the opals."
HE was a traveller in jewels once,
according to his wife"
Yes, and left that to turn innkeeper.
Afterward he vanished, as I say, and
became pawnbroker in Gwynne
street Well, the jury at the inquest
could not agree. Some thought Lady
Rachel had committed suicide and
others that Krill had murdered her
Then the family didn't want q scandal,
so in one way and another the matter
was hushed up. The jury brought in
| a verdict of suicide by a majority Of
| one, so you can see how equally they
were divided. Lady Rachers body was
laid in the family vault, and nothing
more was heard of Lemuel Krill''
What did Mrs. Krill do?'
"She stopped on at the inn, as she
told you. People were sorry for her
and helped her, so she did very well.
Mother and daughter have lived at
the Red Pig all these years, highly
! respected, until they saw the handbIlls
| about Krill. Then the money was
1 claimed. but as the circumstance of
Lady RachePS fate was so old nobody
/ thought Of mentioning it till this young
/ lord did so to you, and L as you see,
/ have hunted out the details"
What is your opinion, Hurd?" asked
/ Paul. deeply interested
"Oh. / think Krill murdered the
woman and then cut to London. That
accounts for his looking over his Shout
der, ETC.
But how did he get money to start
I as a bookseller? Premises are not
leased in Gwynne street for nothing"
We'll. he might have got money on
/ the brooch"
mo. The brooch was pawned by q
nautical gentleman" Paul started up
Captain Jessop, perhaps. You re-
member?" he said excitedly.
"Ah." said Hurd. putting his pipe
with. satisfaction, Il see you under
stand. 1 mentioned that about the
/ brooch to hear what you would say
! Yes. Jessop must have pawned the
/ brooch at Stowley, and it must have
/ been Jessop who came with the note
for the Jewels to Pash."
"Ha," said Paul. walking excltedly
about the room. Then it would seen
that Jessop and Krill were IN Lacquer
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10
STUDY PITTSBURG WAYS
Uplifters Gather There
Sleuths Hot on Trail of
Millionaires.

Pittsburg, Pa. Oct 9.-Probably by
Christmas time anybody who is inter-
ested in the subject will be able to
learn what kind OF a city Pittsburg
is to live in and why people live in it.
There's a group of sanitarians, Uni
tarians. vegetarians. economists, and
civil engineers now here working night
and day to find out. It's all part OF a
general plot to show up what they
call the trend of living conditions in
American industrial communities"
Paul U. Kellogg is chief sleuth. He
is managing editor OF Charities and
Commons, which keeps you posted
about the doings of the worlds great
est uplifters. He is also assistant sec
rotary of the national and New York
conferences of charities and correc-
ton.
OF course, 1t is a mighty delicate
task. because II the Pittsburgers ever
get wise to the fact that they are be-
ing studied they like all other wild
creatures. Will cease to be natural
Sleuths Disguised as MiIIionaires.
Mr.. kellogg and his little band of
scientists have been here since the
first of September. and their DISCUSSES
have been so cleverly maintained that
only recently have their real duties
begun to be suspected. Probably no
one would have ever imagined that
they were anything but Pittsburg mil
lionaires. If Mr.. Kellogg hadn't made
a bit of a break last Saturday evening.
At that time, wearied with a week
Of steady inquiry concerning the num-
Der of steam yachts owned by promin-
ent Pittsburg puddlers, Mr.. Kellogg,
as is his wont, went into the grill
room of the Duquesne club for dinner
When the terrapin came, he thought
! lessly neglected to tuck his napkin
under his chin.
Nobody has seen Jimmy Reynolds
yet, and Mr.. Kellogg won't say that
he is here, but in view of the fact that
Mr.. Reynolds public service as the
presidents meat sleuth was so great,
it is hard to see how DR.. Bramley's
free lunch report can ever hope to be
what 1t should be without the coop
Grafton of Mr.. Reynolds.
But DR.. Peter Roberts is here. AS is
well known, but he represents the in
vestigating department of the Inter
national Young Mems Christian asso-
citation. The immigrants are his spec
ialty 1t is believed that one result OF
DR.. Roberts inquiry will be dainty
brochure entitled THE Immigrant and
the Bathtub," or When Extremes
Meet"
The expedition is being carried or
under the auspices of the National
Publication Committee of Charities and
Commons, which, 1t will be rememb-
cred. was in charge of that movement
of two years ago for a brighter, bet
ter, more beautiful Washington. AND
everybody knows how much brighter
better and beautifuller the nationa
capital has become in consequence.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10
CHAPTER XVIII.

=" HE next afternoon Hurd was
| on his way to the former
se-Sz1Sl abode of Mrs. Krill. During
ESzl the journey he glanced at his
notes and arranged what inquiries he
should make. 1t struck him as strange
that Mrs Krill should have told Paul
of her association with the Red Pig,
considering the reputation of the place
in connection with Lady Rachel San
dal's murder or suicide. 1t would have
been better had Mrs. Krill changed
her name by letters patent and started
a new life on her dead husbands mon.
ey. The detective could not under
stand the reason for this unnecessary
frankness.
Before. leaving town he took the pre-
caution to call on Pash and note down
a description of the sailor-presumably
Jessop-who had tried to obtain pos
session Of the jewels on the morning
after the crime had been committed in
Gwynne street. He learned that the
man (who had given no nance was
tall and stout with the flushed skin of
a habitual drinker Of strong waters
and reddish hair mixed with gray. He
also had a scar running from his right
temple to his mouth, and although this
was partly concealed by beard, yet II
was distinctly visible. The man was
dressed in blue serge, carried his large
hands slightly clinched and rolled in
his gait. Hurd noted these things
down and had little doubt that he
would recognize the man if he came
across him. Connecting him with the
individual who had pawned the brooch
at Stowley, Hurd fancied he might be-
Jessop. He resolved to look for him
in Southampton. as, judging from the
evidence given at the inquest on Lady
Rachers remains, that was the port of
call for the mariner.
At the station Immediately before
that of Christchurch, Hurd glanced at
a telegram which he produced out of
his pocketbook and then leaned out
of the carriage window. A pretty,
daintily dressed little woman saw him
and at once entered the carriage with
a gay laugh. She was Miss Aurora
Dian. and Paul would have been con
sideratly astonished had he overheard
her conversation with Mr.. Hurd. But
the detective and the actress had the
compartment to themselves and talked
/ freely.
Its the safest place to talk in" ex-
planned Miss Dian, producing a bag OF
chocolate and eating during the con
versation. "Of course. told the land
lady at the Red Pig that my brother
was coming down. so we can so there
/ right enough. But walls have ears.
/ don't think railway carriages have
/ though, and we have much TO say
/ Billy"
Have you found out anything, Au
! rora = asked Hurd.
| Miss Dian nodded. a great dea
I considering I have been In the place
only twenty-four hours. Its a goo(
thing I'm out Of an engagement, Billy
/ or l shouldn't have time to leave Lon
don or to look after that man Hay.
am good sister,"
(To be Continued.)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10

ard Oil company OF New York IN 1906
to interests outside of the Standard.
When that item on the accounts OF the
New York company was shown to him
he said that he had no knowledge
whatever Of the transaction. but that
William Rockefeller. treasurer OF the
New York company. might be able to
tell about it.
Does the Standard Oil company OF
New York or the Standard Oil company
OF New Jersey lend money " ofJside
interests as q practice?" the govern
ment's attorney asked.
Yes. we sometimes let money go TO
outside interests on CALI replied the
Standards treasurer, and then he add
ed that on occasions short time money
was loaned He could not recall any
other time that money in large amounts
had been lent.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10

of committing suicide. Well about
midnight Mrs. Krill, who slept in one
room with her daughter, was awak-
ened by loud shouts. She sprang TO
her feet and hurried out; her daughter
came also. as she had been awakened
and was terrified. Mrs. Krill found
that her husband was raving mad with
drink and smashing the furniture in
the room below The skipper
'What was the shippers name?"
''Jessop-Jarvey Jessop. Well, ne
also. rather drunk, was retiring TO bed
and stumbled by chance into Lady
Rachel's room. He found her quite
dead and shouted for assistance The
poor lady had a silk handkerchief she
wore tied tightly round her throat
and fastened to the bedpost. When
Jessop saw this. he ran out Of the inn
IN dismay. Mrs. Krill descended to
give the alarm TO her neighbors. but
KriIl struck her down and struck his
daughter also, making her mouth
bleed. An opal brooch that Lady RAJ
chel wore was missing, but Mrs. Krill
only knew Of that the next day. She
was insensible from the blow given
by Krill. and the daughter ran out to
get assistance When the neighbors
entered, Krill was gone. and. notwith-
standing all the search made for him,
he could not be found"
sand Jessop"
@He turned up and explained that
ne had been frightened on finding the
woman dead. But the police found
him on his craft at Southampton, and
he gave evidence. He said that krill
when drunk and like demon, as Mrs.
Krill told you, had left the room sew
eral times. The last time he came
back, he and the skipper had a final
drink, and then Jessop retired TO find
the body. 1t was supposed by the
police that Krill had killed Lady Ra-
chel for the sake of the brooch, which
could not be discovered
"But the brooch
Hold on. 1 know what you are
about to say. Well come to that
shortly. Let me finish this yarn first.
1t was also argued that, from Lady
Rachel's last words to her father and
from the position of the body-tied
by the neck to the bedpost-she
had committed suicide. Mrs. Krill. as
said, declared the deceased lady new
er mentioned the idea of making away
with herself. However, Krilrs flight
and the chance that, being drunk, he
might have strangled the lady for the
sake of the brooch while out of the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10

81 think So" said Hurd, staring at
the fire, and yet / am not sure. Jes-
sop may have found that Kriu had
killed the woman and then have made
him give up the brooch, which he after
ward pawned at Stowley, though why
he should go near Mrs. KrilFs old
home 1 can't understand"
as Stowley near her old homer
'Yes-in Buekinghamshire. How
ever, after pawning the brooch l ex-
pect Jessop lost sight of Krill till he
must have come across him a few days
before the crime. Then he must have
made Krill sign the paper ordering the
jewels to be given up by Pash so that
he might get money"
"a kind Of blackmail, in fact"
well" said Hurd doubtfully, latter
all, Jessop might have killed Krin him
self"
But how did Jessop get the brooch?"
"Ah. that l can't tell you, unless Nor
man himself picked it up in the street.
We must find these things out. I'm
going to Christchurch to make in
quiries. I'll let you know what l dis
Wv ls anu i1uIu IOSt.
zone minute" said Paul hastily. do
you think Miss Krill is the dead mans
childT"
"Of course She's as like her mother
as two peas. Why do you ask?"
Paul detailed what Sylvia and Debo-
rah had said. 80 If she is over thir-
~" said Beecot, "she can't be KrllPs
oil ho hox
before Krill married his wife. In
either case, she has no right to the
money"
ITS strange" said Hurd musingly.
/ ''I'll have to look into that. Mean
/ while, I've got plenty to do
There's another thing 1 have to
say
You'll confuse me, Beecot What is
it?"
The sugar and that hawker," and
Paul related what Sylvia had said
about thuggism. Hurd sat down and
stared. THAT must be bosh," be said,
looking at the novel, land yet it's
mighty queer. I say" he took the three
volumes, will you lend me these?
Eyes. Be careful. They are not
mine"
"Tll be careful. But can't dip into
them just yet, nor can 1 go into the
Hindoo business, let alone this age of
Miss Krill. The first thing 1 have to
do is to go to Christchurch and see"-
"And see if Mrs. Krill was at home
on the night of the 9th OF July
Hurd started. "Oh," said he dryly
"the night the crime was committed
you mean? Well, I didn't intend tc
look up that point, as do not see how
Mrs. Krill can be implicated. How
ever, I'll take note of that" and this
he did and then continued: But Tn
anxious to find Jessop. l shouldn't be
at all surprised TO learn that he com
mitted the double crime"
1.-THE double crime?'
eyes. He might have strangled Lady
Rachel and twenty years later have
killed Krill. l can't be sure, but
think he is the guilty person"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10
ALTON MUST PAY FINE
Federal Judges Dispose of
Petition for Rehearing
With Scant Ceremony.

Chicago, Oct 10.-Pleas of the Chi
cago & Alton Railway company that
the United States circuit court of APP
peals has dealt a severe blow at COM
mercial interests in this country and
its petition for a rehearing on its ap-
peal to the higher court from the fine
imposed by Judge K. M. Lands for
alleged rebating received only curt
treatment yesterday afternoon.
In an opinion that little more than
advised the petitioner to read again,
and more carefully. the courts opinion
delivered when Judge Lands action
was sustained last spring, Judges
Grosscup, Baker and Seaman over
ruled the petition for a rehearing.
The Alton road. John n. Faithorn.
former vice president, and Fred A.
Wann, former general freight agent,
must pay the fines Judge Lands i'm
posed
Must Pay 100000 In Fines.
The railroad company was fined $40.-
600 and the two officers were each fined
$40 600 on charges of granting rebates
to the packing firm of Schwarzschild
& Sulzberger in violation Of the Elkins
law.
It is said to have been the Alton s
position that the ruling of the court
was that no railroad company or COM
mon carrier could acquire legally the
ownership of or the right to use indus
trial tracks by any means. and that
any sum. reasonable or otherwise. fol-
the use Of such tracks is a rebate un-
/ der the law.
| It's defense in the rebate case was
that its payment to the packing firm
were for the use OF that company's
! industrial tracks.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10

society has entered upon its down
ward progress, either civilization or
liberty must perish. Either some Cae-
sar or Napoleon will seize the reins OF
government with a strong hand or your
republic will be as fearfuIly plundered
and laid waste by barbarians in the
twentieth century as the Roman en-
pire was in the fifth"
August 81. 1907.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10
A BIG LOAN
Standards Treasurer Can't
Tell What Became of
Funds Involved in Deal.

New York. Oct s-Wesley H. TIL
ford. treasurer OF the Standard Oil
company OF New Jersey. could not ex-
plain today at the hearing before Ref
erea Ferris what had become of
loan OF ss2,TsI. 900. made by the Stand
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-10
Shave Heads of schooIboys.

It is the fashion ia France for
schoolboys TO have their hair shaved
on
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
SOUTH DAk0TA'S PEN IMPROVED
MANY Chances Made in Sioux Falls ~PriSon-UniformS for
Convicts Will Be Made by Convlcts Under Super
vision of Skilled Men.

tiary has arranged with an Eastern
correspondence school Tor books on
a number of studies which are given
at the school, INC will place these
books in the hands of prisoners who
are anNious to improve their educa-
tional qualifications during the time
they are in prison. Warden Parme-
ley believes this will be better for
many of them than to spend their
leisure time in reading novels which
they secure from the prison library,
which has a total OF about 1000 vol
umeS.
1t is reported by Warden Parmeley
that the health of the prisoners in
the penitentiary is unusually good,
and that the prison hospital has not
had an inmate for Il period of about
three months. Out of a total of ut
prisoners who are at present serving
terms in the ~penitentiary, twenty-five
of them are serving life terms. This
percentage is very large.
Inside the prison yard there has
been in course of construction for some
time the new binder Irvine factory,
for which the state legislature made
an appropriation a couple of years
ago. 1t will cost much more than the
amount of the appropriation to COM
plete and equip the binder Irvine
plant. The factory building is 800
fee in size. and is built of Sioux Falls
granite. which is taken from a quarry
belonging to the state. The building
has concrete trimmings. 1t will be
two stories in height, and when COM
pleted will turn out manila and sissal
Irvine. Another building which is be-
ing completed at the %penitentiary is
a storage building eighty-five feet
square. 1t will be used for the stor-
age of the product of the Irvine fac
tory. The factory will be what is
known as a o~ne-system mill, and will
have about 100 %spinners.
New Power House.
The new power house also is near
ing completion. This building has a
stack of concrete blocks 1876 feet high.
The warden takes great pride in the
stack because the prisoners made the
blocks during the past winter. The
stack has a base of twenty feet
square, and has not settled n thirty
second of an inch since it was reared.
Warden Parmeley estimates that the
whole cost of the improvements o
under way at the ~penitentiary, includ-
ing the new buildings, would be about
100000.
He said further that if there is no
! special appropriation made for the
cost of the works, which would be in
+, excess of the original appropriations,
the money would be taken from the
local endowment fund of 100000.
which has been created by the profits
from the prison factories.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
TO GUST THIRTEEN SALOONS,
Sioux Falls Mayor Is Said to Plan Re.
duction to Twenty.

duction to Twenty.
A movement, alleged to have been
inaugurated by Mayor P%illsbury, which
has for its alleged object the reduc-
ton OF the number of saloons In Sioux
Falls to twenty, o one for each 500
inhabitants, estimating the population
of the city at 10000, has greatly agita-
ted the local saloon men. Should an
attempt be made to carry out the plan
the matter probably will be carried
into the courts for adjustment.
Thirty-three saloons are doing bust
ness i'll Sioux Falls. They all will be
permitted to continue in business I'M
til some commit some act which would
enable the authorities to lawfully re-
woke their licenses, when no new H.
censes would be issued. 1t is claimed
that this procedure will be followed
until the number of saloons has re-
coded to twenty, when hat number
will be fixed as the maximum.
Those opposing the reduction In the
number of saloons point out that I'M
der the state law which permits one
saloon to each 300 population in a
city or town, the city of Sioux Falls
would be entitled to a total Of about
f%orty-five saloons, more than a dozen
more than the present number.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
MISTAKE IN DRUG FATAL.
Physician Ends Life With Poison He
Gave Patient.

Did DR.. f. V. Frankenstein take
carbolic acid as the result of a mis-
take in the selection Of a remedy for
some ailment of his own. or did he,
in remorse over the placing of the
acid, by mistake, in a prescription he
had filled for a young woman take the
fatal poison with suicidal intent? is
a question to which the answer has
been sealed by the death of the physi-
clan.
DR.. Frankenstein has practiced med
icine at Epiphany, in the northern
part of Hanson county. He was sew
enty years Did.
The physician at first was thought
to have been a suicide, but upon an
investigation by the coroner other
facts were brought to light that cast
doubt upon this theory.
The physician was called upon to
prescribe for a young woman on the
morning of his death and he put up
a bottle of medicine with the usual
directions. The girl attempted to
take a lose of it, but was forced to
stop when 1t seemed to burn her
mouth. She went back to the physi-
clan and told him she thought that a
mistake had been made in putting up
the remedy. The physician wanted to
prove to her satisfaction that he had
| not made a mistake, and removing the
| cork of the bottle, he took a dose of
the medicine, which he declared to be
| all right. To be on the safe side the
doctor poured the contents out Of the
| bottle, reflled the prescription and
gave it to the girl, who, however, did
not take any Of the second prescrip.
ton.
1t is not known whether the physi-
| clan took another dose Of the medi-
cine after the young went
away, but at noon he complained of
feeling Ill, and said something to his
son about having made a mistake. BY
noon he was unconscious and an hour
after he died. The coroner's jury gave
the verdict that the doctor came to
his death as the result of an overdose
of carbolic acid, taken by mistake.
Burns were plainly visible in his
| mouth and when the stomach was ex-
amined the evidence of the acid was
strong.
The second prescription put up by
the doctor also contained carbolic
! acid.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
NEEDS OFFICIAL HUNTER.
Trapper May Be Employed by Govern
ment to Wipe Out Wolves,

Trapper May Be Employed by Govern
ment to Wipe Out Wolves.
If the government adopts the plan
of the ranchers living in the western
part Of Custer county, an expert trap
per soon will be employed to protect
the many 1ocks and droves of cattle
in that section from the depredations
Of wolves.
Wolves in the open country between
Custer and Newcastle, Wyo., always
have been numerous, but never before
have their visits to the ranches been
so disastrous as during the last sum-
mer when the ranchers have lost, it is
said, something like II per cent Of
their aocks and cattle. The wolves
are large buffalo wolves, a couple of
which easily a hamstring q steer,
and they seem so fastidious in their
tastes that they never come back a
second night to finish up the killing of
the night before, but always select
another victim.
The state. county and Stock Grow
ers' association have offered bounties
aggregatins $40 per head, yet few OF
the wolves have been killed this year.
When he ranchers appealed to Super.
visor ]. F. Smith of the Black Hills
forest reserve, he in tur asked the
forestry department to employ How.
ard Wicker, an expert, to thin out the
wolves.