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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
DETECTIVE AMONG
GH0sTLY BEINGS
THE SINGULAR AND ORIGINAL
OCCUPATION OF A MILWAU-
kEE PRIVATE SlEuTH.
INVESTIGATES SHADE WORLD
For the Purpose Of Science He Watch
es and Uncovers the Deceptions
Of Mediums and Fake
Spiritualists.

Milwaukee. Being . detective
among ghosts IL perhaps the most
original occupation pursued by any
living American. A good many per-
sons earn their bread and butter by
playing the sleuth among mortals, but
so far as is known one young man in
Milwaukee is the only exponent Of
Sherlock Holmes In the shade world.
This detective is the general super
intendent of the Citizens Detective
agency Of Milwaukee. He was retained
by psychical research society to
serve as an investigator of spiritualis-
tic and mediumistic matters. Just as
the agency's general men are en-
ployed to unearth and search out cases
OF ordinary dishonesty, so this super
intendent was retained to run to earth
the receptions practiced by profess
sional spiritualists who use manual
dexterity and mechanical devices to
raise tables, materialize figures and
do the other miracles" which anyone
can witness at innumerable seances.
On the occasion of a recent study
near Chicago OF the alleged interpreta-
tons Of celebrated medium whose
mysterious case has been under the
observation of men like Prof. William
James and Sir Oliver Lodge for many
years past, this superintendent was
found to be thoroughly enthusiastic.
He said:
1T is because l believe that such
phenomena do occasionally occur that
/ am anxious to expose the frauds.
Only by so doing can we hope to reach
the genuine phenomena. The proper
ton of fraudulent to authentic ! have
tried to indicate in my reports, the
larger part of which is given up to the
former class"
This detective has exposed almost
numberless devices of mediums by
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09

babe him blush on, II blush he must,
but stern duty must. perforce be
obeyed.
So the bluecoat approached the
young woman, who was as unconscious
of the unconventionality Of her appear
ance as If she were In some ancient
Grecian glade and she a nymph Of old.
She, at least, was in costume for the
part.
Jerry slipped on his coat and wrapped
it about her. Meantime she murmured
that she was seeking the path heaven.
ward. Jerry sent for patrol wagon
Stragglers through the street were
mystifed at the appearance of shirt
sleeved bluecoat and a young lady
CARRIED, apparently, in brass buttons
and-well-
AS we were saying, the pair went to
the West One Hundredth street sta
ton, where the matron helped In the
dificulty. The young woman said that
she was Miss Bertha Schmidt, and
that she lived with a Mrs. ]. Car
michael In West Ninety-Third street.
Yes. she had walked all that distance
before she was helped into Policeman
Jerry's coat.
| From the station she was taken to
the observation ward at Bellevue hos
pital, where the physicians said they
thought she was suffering from relig-
ious mania.
Mrs. Carmichael said the young
woman had lost both her parents IN
the San Francisco earthquake and
that the shock of the catastrophe had
affected her mind. She had been IN
the care of q trained nurse from whom
she had disappeared.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
WILDCAT IN FREIGHT CAR.
Now It's Loose Near South Amboyi
Natives Go Armed.

South Amboy, N. MANY resi-
dents of this town have armed them
selves in anticipation of sudden at
tack by supposed wild cat, which es-
capped from a Pennsylvania freight
car. The car contained lumber con
signed to the South Amboy Lumber
and Supply company. 1t came to the
company's yards from North Caro-
lima. and was on the way nearly Q
week.
AS the lumber handlers started to
open the car they heard a scratching
noise inside, and when they opened
the door they saw in the shadow two
cleaning eyes. None of the mer
wanted to enter. Finally Edward
Let's hit upon the happy expedient Of
going to the other side Of the car and
banging It with a crowbar. The Others
drew away from the door to give the
animal a chance to come out. 1t did.
1t proved to be q wild cat, or south
ern lynx, and the lumber handlers say
It was about four feet long, though iti
rapid exit from the lumber yard maj
have caused an optical delusion in THU
respect.
It was seen later in the day drink
ing from a spring near the railroad
The lumber company has offered
reward for its capture dead or alive
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
CRIMINAL WHEN
MIND IS BLANK
SERVANT GIRL ARRESTED For
RoB6ING ROOMMATE TELLS
ODD STORY OF APHAsIA.
S PURSUED BY DELUsIONS
After Taking Money at Denver She
Wanders to LeadviIIe to Get
Away from Mysterious
Phantom.

Denver. Col--To commit crime
and have no knowledge of it until fur
nished with proof many weeks later Is
the unfortunate position in which
Hannah Indy. prisoner in the ma
irons quarters of the city jail, finds
herself. She is Danish servant, pos
sessing attractions above the average
Of one of her station.
The girl was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Shafer on the charge of steal
ing $50 and some jewelry from Ida
Lehten of Twenty-third street The
alleged theft was committed three
weeks ago. The girl was found at the
home of brother In Leadville and re-
turned to Denver
Not until she was shown facts to
support the charges against her did
she become impressed with the sense
of her guilt. BY tracing her move
ments back to the day Of her depar-
ture from Denver, she recalled having
In her possession Q sum OF money
and other belongings. Where she OBJ
tanned them she was never able to
discover.
In her cell Hannah told remarka-
BILE and unusual story of lapses OF
memory and her inability to control
or even to realize her actions.
The present case is one OF the best
illustrations l can give of my misfor
tune" she began. Ida Lehten is one
of my dearest friends. 1t is hardly
likely that l would rob girl who had
befriended me and helped me in time
of need.
1--WE were roommates and had been
living together on Twenty-thfrd street
for several months. If / had ever in
tended robbing anyone she would be
the last person I'd choose for victim
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would wheeze and have spells Of cough
ing that would sometimes last for .
half hour.
"Now we can never thank you enough
for the change you have made in our
little ones health. Before she began
taking your Peruna she suffered every
thing in the way of cough, colds and
Group, but now she has taken not quite
bottle of Peruna, and Is we'll and strong
as she has ever been in her hfe."
Pe-ru-aa Tor Colds.
Mr. James Morrison, 90 East 10th St.
Paterson, N. j., writes:
81 have given Peruna fair trial, ana
| I find it to be just what you claim u
to be. I canpot praise it too highly.
have used two bottles in my family Tor
colds, and everything imaginable. !
can safely say that your medicine IL thu
best have ever used."s
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
CARRIES SEVERED LEG.
Logger Shows Great Grit In Going
Two Miles After Fatal Injury.

Tacoma, Wash.-Carrying his sew
cred right leg with him, Daniel Stet-
son, a logger, crawled through two
miles of brush to tidewater at Toby
Inlet, B. c., got into boat and rowed
another two miles down the coast to
a logging camp before finally collaps-
ing. Stetson was hand logging alone.
While telling a tree, he was caught
as the tree fell. 1t crushed his right
leg into a shapeless mass, practically
tearing 1t on. Stetson completed the
work by cutting the shreds Of skin
which remained.
Although bleeding to death. he re-
tanned consciousness and laboriously
made his way through the brush to the
coast. Foot by foot he crawled over
logs and through swamps until he
reached the waters edge. Suffering
untold agony, he got into boat and
managed to reach q small camp two
miles away. Then he collapsed. The
men procured a launch and took him
into Lund. From there he was con-
veyed to the vananda hospital. where
every attempt was made to save his
life, but the shock and the loss Of
blood had been too much and he died
the next day.
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which Standardization" of spirits Il
purposed to be accomplished. He has
discovered the cleverest Imaginable
schemes for smuggling. clothes into
cabinets, and has found that the self
playing guitar, which strikes the aver
age audience as wonderful, often sim
ply contains a music box to do the
work.
A ghost whom this superintendent
once detected proved to be young
man entirely covered by black tights.
except his right arm, which was bare
half way between the elbow and
shoulder and was powdered with pull
verified luminous paint With his
face masked in black. this phantom's
luminous arm seemed to float in space
while it wrote spirit messages, thrust
them into the pockets of sitters.
played a guitar and performed other
miracles which appeared real to the
credulous.
The sleuth has frequently been a
witness of the phenomena of gradual
Undertaking." and "dematerializing"
ON the floor in front of Gordon OF sit
tiers. To the audience 1t looks abso-
lutely astonishing to see small ball
of light, projected before them. grow
gradually into cloud and increase in
size until a phosphorescent spirit like
a woman waivers before their very
faces and eyes.
But trick underlies the whole per-
formances. The human confederate
who accomplishes the illusion removes
all her clothing. draws on long black
chemise which reaches her shoe tops.
puts on a pair OF white stockings and
white slippers. Her head is covered
with a black mask. She puts lumin-
GUS robe into black bag and then
slips down ladder into carefully
prepared cabinet.
BY crawling under the curtains of
the cabinet she exposes on the floor
a little portion of the robe doubled up
to form a luminous ball. Out of the
bag the glowing robe is shaken gradu-
ally. producing the effect of swelling
cloud. The woman then gets on her
knees. pulls the robe up over her face
and throws on the black mask. The
figure rises gradually until it appears
the full size of q woman. The robe is
next adjusted and, by slight noise. a
signal is given to have a little light
turned on.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
GIRL TAKES MIDNIGHT
RIDE ON A WHITE HOG
THOUGHT SHE HAD BEEN CAP
TuRED BY A GHOST IN HER
OWN HOUSE.

Skowhegan, Me.-To be wakened
from a sound sleep at two a. m. by
weird noises and then to be carried
downstairs and a quarter of mile
from home on the back of strange
white creature which aroused suspi-
cions of ghosts was the unusual ex-
perience of the 16-year-old daughter OF
Frank Lane of this town.
Mr.. Lane was first awakened by
strange sounds. He decided the wind
was whistling about the house corner,
and went to sleep again. Soon after
the noises were heard again, and this
time more distinct In fact. they
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have absolutely no recollection Of
the circumstances.
"The only incident in connection
with the robbery dates from the even
ing. about three weeks ago, when /
found myself standing in the waiting
room at the Union station. | had $50
in my chatelaine bag and some little
trinkets. / was then trying to recall
where had secured them, but could
not
81 seemed seized with an irresisti-
BILE impulse to take fiight-to run
sway from some one, / did not know
whom. / wandered toward the ticket
window and mechanically asked for 3
ticket to Leadville. / seemed to be
forced to go, and l remembered l had
a brother living In that place. i be-
lieved I would be safe there from the
thing from which l was fleeing.
las another proof that l never in
tended to rob my friend or that I
even knew / had taken her money is
that a few weeks ago / wrote to her
and asked her to send some of my be-
longings. As soon as she learned
where l was she told the authorities.
"Since the charge of theft was
made against me have tried to re-
fresh my memory OF the events sur
rounding the supposed theft. don't
deny that stole the money. But
cannot see that am to blame for 1t;
that is, for doing thing over which
| l had no control"
Hannah says she found herself In
similar predicaments in childhood
When a little girl she says she was
accused many times of small thefts
such as books and other trinkets from
pupils at school.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
Girl Fled on a Handcar.

Alicia, Ark.-Determined that she
would not marry any other than her
own choice, Miss Birdie Drickly, a
girl in her teens, scooted down the
fire escape after q merry chase with
the man her father selected for her.
and. making for the railroad. success
fully pleaded with the foreman of a
section gang, who carried her on a
handcar to Minturn to marry Sam
Smith, her sweetheart. The bride
groom, however, had gone on to Hoxie,
and when Miss Drickly reached there
she found her father and Smith await.
ing her. The father had hurried cross
country on horseback He exacted q
promise of Smith to return home for q
formal marriage ceremony, and all
returned here. whsn the knot wa
tied.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
BLUSHM6 BLUEC0AT AIDS
GIRL IN SCANT ATTIRE
PATRoLMAN COMES TO RESCUE
OF PsYcHE-LikE FIGURE WITH
COVERING OF BLUE.

New York-Patrolman Jerry Rear
don, a young and fair-complexioned
blueooat. looked once and then looked
again. He had never noticed any life
size picture of statuary adjoining the
front stoop of the home of Rev. Ed
win A. Keigman, the pastor Of the
West End Presbyterian church, at 1879
West One Hundred and Third street.
Then
Well, then, Jerry blushed and uncon-
seiously swung on his heel and gazed
at the landscape toward Columbus ave.
nue.. But there was murmur OF
words behind him. and stern duty
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
Bed Effects F6em Cod.

Mr.. NJ. J. Deutsch, Secretary Building
Material Trades Council, ISL Washing
ton St., Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
81 have found your medicine to be
unusually efficacious in getting rid OF
bad effects from cold, and more espe-
cially in driving away all symptoms of
catarrh, with which am frequently
troubled. a..
"The relief Peruns givesin catarrhal
troubles alone is well worth the price
per bottle. have used the remedy for
several years now.
Spells Of CoSghiag.
Mrs. G. e. Long, writes from Atwood,
Colorado, as follows:
"When wrote you for advice my
little three-year-old girl had q cough
that had been troubling her for foul
months. She took cold easily, and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09

Waterbury, Conn.-Charles Mallory,
supposed to be a farm hand of Bris-
tolls suburbs, wandering from Walcott
recently, lost his way in the darkness
and fell over a wall. He landed in the
crotch of a tree growing out of the
side of a cliff. He had been there per-
haps IL hours when his groans were
heard by a young girl crossing a
swamp for milk
Mallory was taken out, with two
ribs broken and . fractured ankle.
His watch escaped without even Z
broken crystal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09

Many people persist the insucientE protected BY
nm. 49, ,,o.ra tb.
chilled true sitting.
in of
autionsh catch cold
they do not decrease During the Spring months no one should
liable last through the entire Summer
of catching cold
duringt
in Of precautions colds will Be caught
the
Do of notw
taking positive
disappeared long perhaps serious ne
on.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
Orders His Own Coffin.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-Jack Smith, .
reputed millionaire of Atlanta, Ca.
came here and placed an order with
a local casket company for the con-
struction Of his CONN and vault.
A wooden model OF each Is now be-
ing made, and the cofdn Is to be Of
steel, mahogany trimmed. while the
vault will be Of steel and cement.
Smith says he win remain here I'M
I'll the models are completed and he Is
satisfied with them. Smith, 1t is said.
prides himself that he never wore a
necktie, and when an artist put one
on him he refused to pay for the pic
ture, and later defended and won a
$4,000 damage suit started by the
artist.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
Her Kick.

"John, I wish you would not DO
quite so polite. and so considerate Of
me when we are In company"
''Why, dear, I want them-the whole
world-to see how love you"
That's all right but they-the
whole world-thinks I've got you
scared."-Houston Post
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
Too Polite 70 interrupt.

Too Polite to Interrupt.
Police Justice-You saw that cock
aght? Why didn't you stop 1t and ar
rest the men?
Police OmcerI did, Yr Amer
afther tn fight was over.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09

Hollands Drainage System.
Holland has 10.100 windmills. each
draining on an average Of $40 acres OF
land
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09
THE QUARREL.

He-Farewell! Farewell, I said.
thou jade!!!
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important TO Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA safe and sure remedy Tor
infants and children. and see that 1t
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09

Truth, like a rose. often blossoms
upon g thorny stem.-Haflz.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-05-09

Hicks' capudlne Cures Women.
Periodic pains, backache, nervousness
and headache relieved Immediately and
assists nature. Prescribed by physicians
with best results. Trial bottle 10c. Regular
sixe sc and SOC at all druggists.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
Referee Saved Burke from
Knockout When Kline Had
Him Blinded.

The Kline family had 5000 wagered
On this battle and some of their friends
had their wealth on little Patsy, and
Patsy brought home the bacon the
same as he told me he would when lie
stepped into the ring.
kline's next battle will be at the
Brown A. C. or the Paramount A. G..
Kline has shown such speed in all
his fights in New York that he is now
in a position to dictate terms to the
club owners and whichever club offers
the best inducements will have his
services. I am not afraid to say that
in Kline Newark and the State of New
Jersey has one of the best %11S-pound
boxers in the country. His ability is
rot appreciated because of the little
fellows modesty.
He came home Saturday night with
out a scratch to show that he had been
In a battle and on his way over in the
train fell asleep as If he had been at
tending a tea party.
Kline is we'll up in the anne. but
there are a few tricks that he doesn't
know yet and with these learned he
will be able to hold his title of cham
pion, Kline Is the fe~atherweight cham
pion of the South. having whipped
Young Brett" three times for that
title. He is really a bantam, and az
such has 1t on every fighter in this
country, IL no In the world.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
Old Sports Tip to Back Local
Boy Brought Back a Wad
of Money.
BY OLD SPORT.

By this time every Newarker who
takes any pleasure in following up tho
live sport of hit and bang knows how
the local champion mltt artist got away
with his man last Saturday night over
at the Dry Dock Club, on East Tenth
street, New York. 1 am glad to say
that while 1 have been calling Patsy
Kline's Saturday night opponent by the
same front name a. that of the local
boy. his name is not Patsy. 1t is
Peter. m If ever a champion or an
alleged champion petered out as such it
was this man Burke. l sat by the
ringside and watched the fight from the
beginning to the end. when Referee
Murray, out of the kindness of his
heart, picked up the fallen fighter and
helped to carry him to his corner, and I
failed to see one bit of championship
calibre In this fellows makeup. l did
see, and l want to give Burke his just
dues, that he is as full of grit and sand
as a Thanksgiving turkey on the eve of
u holiday. The big delegation of local
sporting men who went over to the
were not sorry that they gave up
their none N time to see it. It was
bristling from the time the two boys
met until Kline, who, demon-like, fol-
lowed his man every second, dropped
him for the tenth time, and the club
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
BREAK SWIMMING RECORDS
AFTER INHALING OXYGEN.

In tests held at Huntington Bay,
Long Island, Saturday at was consul
siyely shown that athletic who have IN
hailed pure oxygen are for the time pc
ing so invigorated that. they are
capaole of faster performances LOT
short distances than under ordinary
phvsical conditions. The experiments
were made on a number OF swimmers
from the Bath Beach Swimming Asso-
citation, and were under the direct su-
pervision of DR.. e. Z. Smith, professor
of physiology In the Fordham Univer-
sity Medical School.
Raw Mulvey and J. Ferber, after oXy-
gen had been administered TO them,
made remarkable records, and Mulvey
was Enabled to swim 100 yards in "a 20
seconds when his best time made under
identical conditions early In the after
noon was more than seven seconds
slower tina this. AS a result, the ply
sicians who witnessed the tests ellie
that when athletes are ex~hilarated by
oxygen they will be able to break all
existing speed records in the short dis
tances at least.
Another test was conducted on George
Dewers, who after three limitations OF
oxygen, swan under water for l min
ute and &c seconds and came to the
surface apparently as fresh as when
he began the test. Dewers sale that he
did not feel exhausted in the least.
Miss Elaine Golding, champion
woman swimmer, swan a quarter-m1le
exhibition on a triangular course which
included all conditions of tide n cur
rent in the time of 8 minutes 4 3-5 sec
onds Miss Golding had taken three
inhalations of oxygen two minutes be-
fore she plunged into the. water and
the time she made is a record for
women swimmers for that distance.
Miss Golding said that it required
much less effort than under normal
physical conditions.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
TAKE l3=INNING
BATTLE FROM TORONTO

and Providence tool a pair of games
from Rochester in the Rhode Island
town, 4 to 3 and 6 to 3. The Grays
originally were not scheduled for yes
terday, but jumped home to get rid
of two postponed games.
Newark's victory yer the champions
was u clean-cut affair. The Tigers
scored n run in the third inning on
DeVore's double and Kelly's single.
Toronto escaped a coat of whitewash
by picking up a run in the sixth, thanks
to a wild heave by Catcher Philbin.
With the score tied, the teams struggled
until the thirteenth round, when Kelly,
Demmitt. Engle and Sharpe bumped
out -four hits in a row, which produced
the winning tally.
Tho Tigers ave an open date today.
They will get busy again tomorrow at
Toronto, and Wednesday will mark the
end of the last Western trip. The
Bengals will hen return to these parts,
Opening a series with Jersey City
Thursday.