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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09

The marks were there as clearly Is
though they had been stenctled.
IT. the meantime evidence was piling up
in other directions. Mrs. Mary Boyle.
who was employed as a waitress In a
res taurant near 32d and Market streets.
testified that she had served all three OF
the men on the day Of the crime. This
was important as establishing the fact
that they were toge Their. But this was
not all. A gardener named Lutz. said
that earlier In the evening all three OF
the negroes had surrounded him at
poin. five or six blocks from where the
rot use violence toward him. simply, an
he put it, ''acted suspiciously.'. He man.
aged to elude them. however. and thought
no more of the incident until he read
Of the arrest Of the negroes in connec-
ton with the murder of Prof. White.
-.
Within three weeks after the murder
Ivory broke down and confessed every
thing he said that Perry. Stirling and
himself had met at the Buffalo Bill show
that afternoon and. comparing notes. had
resolved to get money at any cost. They
crossed the Girard Avenue bridge and
went along the river drive until they came
to 32d street. They had intended as
saulting Lutz. the gardener. but when he
ran away they were too indolent to fol-
low him. They little dreamed that thu
his possession. or he might have been the
victim instead of the unfortunate pro-
fessor. Finally Stirling picked up tn,
iron bar near the Powelton Avenue sta
ton. They resolved that he should as
sault the first prosperous looking man
they met. Several persons were permitted
ID pass unmolested. At last Prof Whit
was seen coming along the dark street
Stirling turned 10 the others:
There's a guy looks as IL he had
money"
They agreed with him, and the thr
black-hearted scoundrels followed the I'M
suSpecting teacher. At a favorable OPP
portunity Stirling let the iron bar come
oowr. with a crash on the skull OF Roy
Wilson White. The man sank 10 the
sidewalk with a groan. The big brute
continued using the iron bar until the
face of the victim was unrecognizable.
TbeI, they went through his clothes and
got a few dollars In money. a ring and a
gold watch. The assassins went to a
nearby lot and divided the things. The
watch was Perry's share Of the loot.
Perry corroborated the confession OF
every detail. Stirling denied 1t until the
last, but weakened within the shadow OF
the scaffold. All three were tried, con-
victed and hanged.
Their arrest and conviction was a big
accomplishment Most people gave the
credit to James 1. Donaghy. He smiles.
shakes his head and says ii was simply
good team work" on the part OF the
police.
Next week: Gen. Trepofr and the
Russian Students.'D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09
Like a Hole.

In London last season. said Chi
caEo millionaire. Il attended "A perform
ance of The Merry Widow at Days In
EEaftsoury avenue. and in a stage box
sat the young King OF Spain. very trim
and boyish in the sharp black and white
of evening dress.
Between tn acts an English baronot
pres nted M TO the king. and the talk
turnad-oVer "A fzZy. aromatic dr.nk-to
III innumera1le titles OF this young mon
arch ii is you know. Emperor OF Jeru-
salem. Duke of Flanders Lori OF Bra
bant King OF the West indies, Duke of
III, Philippines-tn short he has titles to
a hundred lands that have been wrested
from him by France. Holland. America
and on
They used 10 cali me. in addition to
nav other names. the Great. said the
young king. smiling. but ! put stop to
that. | said that the greatness OF Spain
was too much like that % a hol,, which
becomes greater the more you taAe away
from it,
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Dr. Emil Reich. the noted authority on
woman. holds that woman should do the
proposing. not alone In leap year. but all
the time.
Before DIR. Reich went abroad" said
a Pittsburg clubwoman. "he declared At
dinner that intelligent women. they
did not actually do the proposing. always
did the choosing, which amounted to the
same thing.
The women here. I can see.- agree
with me- said DIR. Reich. looking around
the table. The men don't believe me
They appear as skeptical as II / were tell
ing one of my large collection OF snake
stories
Then he told lot Of snake stories.
-smember the last OF them 1t was about
a man who took a nap in the woods. lay
ing his umbrella on rock beside him.
After while Ii began to rain, and the
man, awcke. He was all wet Ha took
i'old OF his umbrella and opened il hur-
riedly. 1t seemed rather stiff in got-g up.
and there was a ripping. tearing sound
Then live blacksnake f-ll TO the ground.
split i'm two from its h lad TO is tail
you see. ii had swallowed the u'nb-e.-
la all but the handl,. md the man ed not
rotice what had happened till. putting
the umbrella up. he halved the snafe from
stem to stern.
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would prove to be the foundation on
which they would build their case
He fastened hack to the city hall The
doors of the little private office were
closed. and for long while Donaghy.
Mckenty and Quirk had their heads to-
gether AS a result of their deliberations
"a most singular order was telegraphed
to every police station i'll the city of
Philadelphia.
1t was to arrest every colored man
found in or near any railroad station,
ferry house or freight yard within the
city limits 1t was the biggest DIR gnet
ever spread by the department. Donaghy.
in the meantime. continued his investiga-
tons near the scene of the murder.
Seveyal conclusions were forced upon
him. One was that the murder was com
mitted for money and that the murderers
were startled and ran away before they
secured all of their booty. The footprints
in the soft ,clay-large. clumsy. heavy
looking footprints-indicated that more
than one man had fed across the road
leading to the railroad tracks. The dread
full manner in which they had mutilated
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The only things respected in such Q
place are force and physical courage. and
showmen who possessed these qualities
had a chance of getting out alive with
some money. There have been more
showmen killed in Texas and Kentucky
than in any other dozen states OF the
Union.
Happily. every circus tour shows a de-
cided progress toward a higher civilization
milton of law and public order, and
greater degree of education and culture.
With this the morale of the show business
has kept even pace From a purely skin
game IL has become legitimate bust
ness. and is being generally respected and
protected according to its deserts.
In the French Midi. city Of Bexieres. We
had really terrific fight only few
years ago. In which our whole army was
engaged against the mob, and over a
most curious reason.
1t arose from the fact that our cheap
tickets were exhausted early. The ex-
citable people couldn't be made to under
stand the situation; and when they found
there were no more tickets to be had at
that price. denounced it as a Yankee trick
and assaulted everybody in sight. II fs
fortunate thing that the Frenchmen rare
ly carry concealed weapons, or some OF
our people would have been buried there.
1t was all fists, feet and sticks: but 1t took
company of gendarmes TO queA the riot.
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n Queer Excuse.

Capt. Pritchard of the Mauretania said
the other day of strange sea custom:
"All OF us have our customs We
Welsh have certain customs. you Ameri-
cans have certain others. and If ours
seem strange TO you. why, yours seem
strange to us.
Strangest of all were the customs of
young Abyssinian prince, who once
sailed with me.
The passengers liked this young man,
ard. at the end of the voyage they ar
ranged dinner in mis- honor at Clar-
idges in London.
1T was smart d.nner-orchids and
champagne no end-but-the prince never
turned up,
"Recroached the next morning by the
chairman of the committee asked ind G.
nant!y why he had not come to the din
~. :he prime. answered, simply and
va Iniy:
" L was not hungry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09
Our American Duchess.

The Ouch IS Of Marlborough was re-
Gently taken Through the Tombs prison in
New York. and aft srward she was shown
over the rogues' gallery. with its photo
graphs of innum rahle criminals. and the
various m thods scientific and gal. for
detecting. recording and Furnishing crime
were explained to her.
The young duchess was deeply inter-
asted. But at the end she sighed
1T is all very cl,ver." sha said. but IL
the wor were as anxious to discover
and reward good men as bad ones. how
much pleasanter a place It would be-"
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Well said Miller, we've got some
thing bigger than d pickpocket to look
after now: listen"
Donaghy listened And the more he
heard the more absorbed he became. He
forgot all about his wet clothes He for
got everything but desire to get on the
track of the man or men who had so
foully murdered inoffensive gentle
man. While they talked a newcomer
Joined the group 1t was Robert J. Nc
kenty, another member of the detective
staS. afterward marked out to be a
member of the mayors cabinet.
Donaghy. as result of the conference
Immediately started for the scene of the
murder. 1t has since been said that the
White tragedy was his case" He pro-
tests against this distinction. ut was a
case of team work." he says. Thirty
detectives and over 1000 policemen were
engaged on the White case. and they
made good" AT any rate. Donaghy made
good. because less than an hour had
elapsed before he's was in conversation
with a youth named Ralph Hartman
who testified that he had seen two col
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We experienced much difficulty. by tho
way. in Germany over the same thing:
the impression being that the show ought
to sell the lowest-price seats as long as
anybody wanted them. But the Germans
are not individual scrappers. while the
average Frenchman is like an Irishman
in that he delights in a shindy-
In this country the great railroad shows
have revoiutionized the circus business.
and the prevalence Of and respect for law
and order are more general than In the
Hey. Rube"' days of the wagon show.
good many toughs at that time bit the
dust. 1t is a circus tradition that one OF
the most prominent showmen of that
period never went to bed without the
light full on because OF the men he had
killed In these struggles. He was afraid
of ghosts. l am aware that this story
seems to imply that this man had con-
science-which is fair subject for doubt.
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piece Of earth than France. and few
years ago it used TO be as lawless as IL 10
large Then he'll and Texas" were
synonymous. terms. But II is SO no
Longer.
The cowboys and ranchers. who some
times came riding into the tent with
pistol and iariat. and insisted on taking
TART in the ring performances. have dis
appeared with the great cattle industry.
In their stead We find the comm ,rcial
men, the cotton raisers and the oil men
and their dependents. and with these Q
new phase of civilization.
On the Mexican border. however. theirs
is still a rule of ruffanism running
through this rule OF law. while the Id
dian Territory side also has something
still of the spirit of the California forty
miner. Denison is. and always has been.
hard town for the Snowman.
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lively little OF the old-time physical
trouble.
In Texas we used to find an astonish-
Ing variety Of humanity in a half-wild
and woolly state that made the Snowman
fall back on his reserve of sand" Texas.
it must be borne in mind is a bigger
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generally preceded by a cutting of the
guy ropes and these necessary stays
wera. carefully guarded. Once begun.
there was no way out of the row except
TO meet force by force. Then score Of
athletic performers. armed with pistols.
and as many rough-and-tumble canvas
men with tent stakes usually were good
for a mob of five times their number by
reason Of their solidarity and almost
daily practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09
The Dreaded Cry of "Hey,
Rube," That Means War.
By Tody Hamilton.

lucky, Indiana. Texas and Kansas used
to be the most notorious for this spirit.
though it obt aimed more or less through
out the Union outside of New England.
I remember one memorable instance in
Topeka. Kan. thirty years ago The local
authorities had granted to negro the
privilege of a lemonade stand on the
showground. He selected the spot direct
Iy in front of the circus entrance, whence
he was ousted summary by the canvas
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wagon left the grounds. a Simultaneous
assault was made on every negro in sight,
revenging promiscuously tn death of
their comrade. Then the showmen,
sledges and stakes over their shoulders.
marched unmolested to the trains l was
sitting on a car platform when l heard OF
the results of the fight. and was hauled
in to avoid any possible reprisals. This
was with the big train show. too. with
which there is in these days compara-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09

In southern or western town show
day not infrequently served in place of
court day to bring people OF a sparsely
settled country together where good
deal OF fighting whisky was absorbed and
family and neighborhood feuds were apt
to be aired. The show merely served both
sides as an excuse to vent bad blood.
On such occasions. when a man ap-
preached the ticket-taker and presented
the muzzle of an ugly-looking six shooter
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men, The negro collected some of his
friends Together they attacked some iso-
DEATH
That night, while taking down the tents.
the boss canvaSman quietly gathered and
arranged his force so that as the last
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orcd men near the scene of the murder
shortly after 10 o'clock. and had talked
to one of them Best of all. young Hart
man. who had intelligence, beyond his
years. was able to give Il vivid description
Of the two men. Hartman WAS employed
AS n messenger in the rowetoD avenue
station of the Penns yivau:a railroad. and
knew every foot of ground in that neigh
borhood Donaghy felt instirctive!y that
the knowledge possessed by this boy
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as an admission, it was promptly recog-
nized. But a careful eye was kept upon
the man, once UNDER the tent and any
tendency to push his luck was promptly
squelched 10y knocking him on the head
and depriving him of his gun.
Any preconcerted attack on show was
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At any moment the old battle cry of
Hey RUDE would bring a flying wedge
of trained athletes down on mob OF
town tOughs. and the effect was magical.
AS this sort of trouble WAS mostly in
small towns the local authorities were
usually powerless. The states of Ken
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Besides this Donaghy was convinced that
they were men totally devoid of educa-
ton. He deducted this from the fact that
they had evidently not even bestowed so
much as Il passing glance on the books
in Prof. Whites green bag. 1t is a known
fact that a man of education lor refine
ment is irresistiDly att acted by a book.
If a volume is lying table even in
the house of d stranger, he can no more
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Copyright. 1908, by r. +. Hamilton)

copyright, EkR, by X. r. HamiltonD
A0HE modern Snowman knows his
country and its people better
than any other business man.
He is the only man who deals
with all of the people person.
ally-meets them of every section. face to
face.
That he does so frankly and without
strange device is evidenced by the fact
that the same printing and the same
| methods are used everywhere in present.
ing his attractions He knows that the
human chord on which he plays Is the
| same in Texas as it is in New York. the
same in any foreign land as it is in the
| United States.
a smart clown may prepare himself
| with some local hit to tickle Washington
or Tombstone. but the show itself is ex-
| actly the same. The same advertisements
prepared by me In New York during the
winter were always used throughout the
entire summer tour.
| Yet. Notwithstanding the uniformity of
intelligence and general human nature.
| the local characteristics of our people are
widely dfferent-as widely different in all
| respects. except language, as one nation
atty differs from another.
| Such town as White River Junction.
VT, with only couple of thousand of in
| habitants, will be good for 5000 admis
| sions on show day, or a greater profit to
| the Snowman than good day at Madi-
| son Square Garden, and 1t will be the
best behaved of any anywhere. Circus
day there may be counted on being as
neaccf,,I and 11nevoDtf,II IN fhe
as campmeeting day New England is
the cream of the business, and always
was. With the old wagon show 1t was a
steady battle elsewhere-both south and
west 1t was an open question whether
| the Yankee Snowman was to skin or be
skinned. and often it was settled both
ways.
In grim anticipation of this emergency.
the fighting clause was a regular part of
the seasons contract with performers
well as canvasmen. They were sworn to
stand together through thick and thin.
The constant recurrence of necessity for
so doing developed some of the hardest
rough-and-tumble fighters ever known.
The show personnel was then compare
lively small. and many parts of the coun-
try comparatively lawless. 1t was scrap.
scrap. scrap. every day, more or less. and
on grand occasions the apparently Unborn
desire to lick a Snowman or ''clean out
the show resulted in bloodshed and
fatalities. Sometimes the. show was
cleaned out completely wrecked.
Frequently this result was to be blamed
on the show itself, which permitted and
shared in all kinds of side games in which
people were f1eeced. and sometimes it was
due to natural antagonism of two tough
elements. those of the show and those Of
the town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09
BY GEORGE BARTON.
Copyright, 1908. BY w. G. Chapman.)

Capt James l. Donaehy. chief OF the detec-
tive bureau Of Philadelphia. is q nne type OF
the level-headed investigators Of crime Of the
thirty years; he never wore q disguise Of any
kind in his life; he knows every rule Of the
game and has occupied every separate position
in the service from that Of subpo1iceman up to
the responsible post which he now hlls with sig
nal success. He was the conspicuous figure In
the famous White murder case. although he
modestly disclaims the credit. saying that the
glory belongs to the entire police force of the
Quaker city. The story. outside Of Its Own In
ferest is important as q fair illustration Of the
unromantic and bIsinessiike methods now gener-
ally used in the detection OF criminals In the
large cities Of the United States)
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- N the night Of May 10, 1901, Pror
Row Wilson White. a fellow OF
the law school Of the University
of Pennsylvania, and lecturer
nm Roman law at the famous
seat Of learning. was mysteriousiy anu
brutally murdered.
Prof. White. although man OF less
than thirty years of age. had already won
an international reputation in his speciai
branch OF study. He was quiet and un-
assuming in manner. and enjoyed the rep
utation Of being the most popular IN
structor at the university. 30 1ar as
known he did not have an enemy In the
world. and the news of his murder came
as terrible shock not only to his family
and friends, but also to the thousands OF
students with whom he had come into
personal contact during the period of his
tutorship
On the day Of the murder all OF his
movements were accounted for from the
time he said goodbye at his home In the
morning until the moment ne ie1t me
classroom for the night. During the art
ernoon he had long talk with one OF ms
associates concerning a work in which the
two men were mutually interested. ne
took dinner alone at a small hotel near
the university. and after that lectured TO
confident and enthusiastic, and never ap-
peared to better advantage. About III
O'Clock at night he left for his home IN
Germantown, suburb Of Philadelphia
He started in the direction OF the Powell
ton avenue station of the Pennsylvania
railroad with the purpose OF boarding the
1915 train.
Less than an hour later a policeman
walking along ed street, adjoining the
railroad tracks stumbled against a body
on the sidewalk. II was quite dark IN
that section--in fact. IL was afterward de.
clared to be the darkest spot In all OF
Philadelphia The officer flashed his Ian
tern on the inert mass before him ana
was shocked to find man. mangled ana
bleeding. His head was crushed and ne
was unconscious. The pockets or IN =,
white vest were turned inside out ana n :
gold watch was missing. The iittie gree
bag that he always carried by MS $40
was shattered with his life blood 1t cor
tainad among other things a text book q.
"Pleading''-a book from wnich frc'
White had been lecturng that evenin1
Some notes on sheets OF paper Whlcn .
had utilized In his quiz class were ais
i'm the bag A pocketbook contained III
insurance policy. an invitation TO a ciaf
reunion in another state and sum ="
money IN greenbacks. A few yards ava
imbedded In the soft earth was an /:
bar. quite thick and about eighteen men
long II was such q thing as Is usea
the platforms of freight cars
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The dishgured corpse was removed 10
the University Hospital and tn, best medi-
cal and surgical aid summoned. But 1t
was TOO late: the vital spark had ned. ana
al, that tn, professors and students had
left 10 them was the memory of Roy VIII
son Whites gracious life
Til, shocking nature OF TIE crime seems
To hay, aroused the authorities into IN
slant and universal activity. Superintend-
en-, of Police Quirk and Chief OF Detec-
tives Miller held q consultation TO de-
termine what should be done. While they
wer, talking James A. Donaghy. a MEM
Der OF the detective staff. passed tn, open
door % the outer office. Quirk espied him.
Hello. Jim" he cried.
1t had been raining "cats and dogs" all
the afternoon. Donaghy entered the Of
flee water-soaked from head to foot.
Whats the matter with your said
Miller.
You ought to know" was the rejoinder
'Ycu sent me down to Media to get a
pickpocket.'
Did you get him.
Sure" was the rejoinder. land got
soused In the bargain"
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On the very day of Ivory's arrest Dona-
ghy had taken him to the scene of the
murder The street where the body was
found was a littie-traveled thoroughfare,
and the footprints where the men had
escaped by leaping the little iron fenc
were still visible in the soft earth. The
right shoe was removed from Ivory's foot.
and the heel and toe fitted to a nic.ty
into the footprints in the railroad yard.
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The Snake and the Umbrella.

Next week: Gen. Trepoff and Il
Russian Students.')
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SILK VESTS AND UNION SUITS.

Ladies' Silk Union Suits, with low neck and no
sleeves knee length Regular price Gdos
$3.50, during May Sale only. ......... pT'%o
Ladies' SILK Vests, in high neck and short sleeves
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high neck and long sleeves, slightly soiled.
Regular $3.50 values, during May Sale CT TX
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