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from home" the girl continued. He said
nothing about that. But after we had re-
tired. he knocked at the door and called
to me, but l refused to go to the door
"Ic you want me for friend You
oughtn't to talk like that he said But
told him / would stay where was. And
did
Mr.. Caravan interrupted. You were
pure girl?" Helen lowered her eyes and
nodded yes That was the first time
Hitchcock had spoken in that manner.
she added Resuming. she said she and
Elsie went home the next morning after
breakfast with the actor.
At her next meeting with Hitchcock,
she said, she presented Flora w lSton.
Flora was brought in for Identification.
She is much the prettiest of the three.
She is dark. with regular features and a
big pOmpadour. and wore blue tai
lored suit with a black picture hat. She
looks like the average girl of twenty
one or twenty-five.
Says He Gave Them Money.
At this point Elsie. Voecks was
brought into the room and identified by
the witness. She is a plain-looking lit
tie girl with small. insignificant fea-
lures. and wore brown suit of rough
and unbecoming fit.
When Flora Winston was brought in
Hitchcock turned to the reporters, and.
In a nall "HISpeI, Sdlu SHiiui i<oon
at that. They call them children.
This meeting was at the stage coor OF
the Grand Opera House. continued
Helen Won Hagen on the witness stand.
Hitchcock was unable to give them
tickets for the show, but told Them to
return week later They met him at
the appointed time. she declared. and
he gave them tickets and 81, and after
the performance-which was his last In
New York. for a time--told them he'd
be glad to see them when he returned
from his out-of-town engagement.
Helen said she telephoned him upon
his return, and she and Flora met him
at 41st street and 9Th avenue.
HE took us upstairs, she went on,
after he had gone in first for mo-
ment We went to room in the back
of the house on the second floor
He sat for a little while telling us
stories about his travels He WAS smok-
ing cigarette. Then he turned cut the
gas
She then told of the attack upon her
self and the Winston girl which re-
suited in their downfall.
The girls voice had been growing
fainter as she reached this part Of her
story. Now she stopped completely.
She turned her eyes toward the floor
and brushed away a tear or two. AS
sistant District Attorney Gar3an led
her through the rest of her tale.
WAS there any cutlery? Did. you or
Flora call for help or scream:
NO, sir
Il went home,' Helen continued Il
did not say anything to my mother.
| About a week later / went back 10 the
| room and took Elsie Voecks with me-.
IT was then time to adjourn the court.
SO the rest of the Won Hagen girls
story went over until today.
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ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
General and Personal News of Mont
gomery County, Md.
.ial Correspondence of The Star

ROCKVILLE. Md. March 13. 1908.
A delegation of citizens of Montgomery
county has visited Annapolis in an effort
to have the county's representatives in
the legislature get enacted into law the
suggestions contained in the good roads
resolutions adopted at the recent meeting
of the taxpayers of the county.
The delegation was informed that the
bill is too radical and that no leSislatio
along the lines suggested could be hoped
for at this session of the legislature.
Miss Alma Lucille .Akers and William
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Physician Gets His Fees.

DIR. Harrison Crook has been awarded
verdict against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company for S4,4T6 by jury in
Circuit Court No. before Justice Ander-
son. DR.. Crook sued to recover for serv-
ices rendered to certain victims of the
Terra Gotta disaster. asking S6361. The
company denied having employed DIR.
Crook. Attorneys Lambert IL Mclean anu
c. w. Fowler represented the physician.
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Reception to Lecturer Burns.

Edward +. Burns of Newark, N j.. spe-
cial national lecturer of the order, was
rendered reception last night by the
a. r. Talbot Camp No. 1912, Modern
Woodmen of America, at its hall. 3I6
Pennsylvania avenue southeast. There
was a large attendance, spirited addresses,
and an attractive program added signif-
canoe to the occasion.
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Political and Social Science Topics.

John Barrett. director of the interna-
tional bureau of American republics. ac-
cording to announcement. will preside
over meeting of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science to be
held in Philadelphia Friday, March 30
The general subject for discussion will
be The Relations Between the. United
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Personal Mention.

Thomas NJ. Defrees OF the United States
Army and J.. c. Blythe are at the Bres-
lin. New York.
Walter 8. Pratt. ST.. OF the firm Of A.
s. Pratt & Sons has gone TO Albu-
lus raue. NJ Mex, where he ha~ been
summoned to testify in a case brought
Jy the United States. Mr.. Pratt will
stop in Chicago and Denver, and on
lhe return trip will visit relatives in Mays
rille, Ky. He will he absent from the
eity for about three weeks.
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Temperance Rally of Rechabites.

Arrangements have been made for a
prohibition temperance rally In Norta
Capitol NJ. E. Church next Sunday even
ing under the auspices of John B. Hen
derson Tent, No. 1850. Independent Order
of Rechabtes Philip Lederer will act az
chairman of the meeting The pastor OF
the church. High Chief Ruler Vowles and
Representatives Hobson of Alabama and
Langley of Kentucky will speak. The
church choir and w. III. Evans will con.
duct the musical program.
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tates and the Republics of South Amer.

Dr. L. s. Rowe of the University OF
PENNSYLVANIA will deliver an address dur
ing the meeting upon 1.-The influence of
the United States in the Republics OF
South America The list of diplomats
expected to attend includes Senior Ma
buco. the Brazilian ambassador: Senior
Calderon, the Bolivian minister; Senior
Portela, the Argentine minister; Senior
Pardo the Peruvian minister: Senior Cor
ties, the Columbian minister; Dr. Luis Me-
liam Lafinur, the Uruguyan minister, and
Senior Cruz, the Chilean minister.
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Meetings of Republican Clubs.

A meeting of the regular Republican
Club of the fifth district was held last
night. Addresses were made by c. II.
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GIRLS AND HITCHCOCK
Trial of the Actor in New York
Today.
HELEN Won HAGEN'S STORY
Says She Went Repeatedly to the
Comedians Quarters.
OTHER GIRLS IN THE PARTY
Admits His Alleged Assault Did Not
Have the Effect of Keep
ing Her Away.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 13.-When the trial
Of Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian, on
charges made by little girls. was contin-
ued today before Justice Blanchard in
| the criminal branch of the supreme court,
| Helen Won Hagen, the seventeen-year-old
girl who is the principal witness against
| the defendant, took the stand, and under
| cross-examination by Lawyer Stanchfield
| of Hitchcocks legal forces she told about
| her early girlhood. She said she left
school when she was fourteen, and dur
| ing the summer Of 1905 had visited Mr..
| Smith, who lived at Great Neck. l.. l..
| where Hitchcock has summer home She
said the Smith house was about quar-
ter of a mile from Hitchcock's but she
| did not know the actor then.
The witness said she often watched the
actors and actresses going in and out of
| the Garden Theater from the window of
| her home across the street.
Didn't you want to become an actress
YOURSELF" asked Lawyer Stanchfield.
mo, l did not was the reply.
Hitchcock Looked Ill.
When Hitchcock came into court today
he looked as if he had spent a sleepless
night. His face was very pale and there
were deep circles under his eyes.
The girl said she had worked at various
places in New York doing sewing during
the summer and fall of 1906, and that she
had been arrested by the Gerry society IN
February, 1907. She often went to thea
tiers with other girls during thls tine.
fi IBID s you know that Flora Winston was
bad girl?''
Eyes, / was told So"
The witness was asked If she knew
that the other girls mentioned in the case.
including a Flora Marshall, were bad
girls and she replied that she did not.
She did admit that she had gone In COM
pany with the Marshall girl Elsie voeck ks
a man named Sontagg in East 18th street,
and had there played cards. Sontagg, she
said, was afterward arrested and her
sister was a witness against him.
Went Back to Him.
The witness admitted that she had gone
to the house on West 41st street once
after the alleged assault had been COM
mitted. She went there with the Voecks
girl because Hitchcock had asked her to
go.
Mr. Stanchfleld wanted to know if
Hitchcock had not told her at that time
that friend of his was being black
mailed on the strength Of certain stories
that were being told by her and the
voecks girl, and she replied in the mega
tive. She said she knew that the Voecks
girls brother had been indicted later for
blackmailing Hitchcock. a.
Mr.. Stanchfield made point of the fact
that the witness could not give the date
of the occurrences in the 41st street
house.
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Children's 12Hc Cam -
brio Drawers, made with felled nc
seams, hem and tucks.
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Children's Rompers of cham
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dresses in Hubbard style. kSC
Sizes / to 4 years. Choice......
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Tells of Alleged Wrongs.

Helen Won Hagen. one of the three
young girl accusers of Raymond Hitch
cock. the comedian, told the story of her
alleged wrongs at his hands yesterday
before as big a crowd as ever filled the
supreme courtroom during Thaw-trial
days.
flora Winston and Elsie Voecks, the
other girls, were brought into the room
for Identification, so that the curiosity
seekers got their fill of the sort of ex-
element they were looking for.
But there was "a great difference be-
tween the commonplace little Won Hagen
creature sand the fascinating Evelyn
Thaw, and this little girls story had
none Of the dramatic elements that grip
ped the hearers Of Evelyn's tale.
Helen Won Hagen said that she willingly
accompanied Hitchcock on automobile
rides 10 his home at Great Neck and on
visits to the room he rented In 41st street.
And she voluntarily brought the other
two to meet him, she admitted. At the
time of the alleged wrongdoing in the
i1st street house neither she nor Flora
Winston made any outcry. Only her
youth. apparently was being offered by
the prosecution as the basis for the Of
Tense Hitchcock is charged with.
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Weeps on the Stand.

The girl was nervous and weeping at the
vital part of her story. She spoke in
low voice that did not carry even to the
jurors. Her answers had to be read aloud
to them. At other times, though, she
talked with the composure of a much
older woman. She is few months short
Of seventeen.
She could scarcely be called pretty, but
because of the youthful piquancy of her
features, she might be termed fairly good
looking She wore a dark red picture hat
and a red cloak which just reached the
bottom of her skirts, and they did not ex-
tend quite to her shoetops.
I'm September. 1906, l lived with my
mother and seven brothers and sisters at
33 East nth street." she began, led along
by Assistant District Attorney Garvan
Our house was across the street from the
stage door of the Garden Theater. 1t
was outside that door l first met Mr.
Hitchcock"
How did you meet him; did you speak
first to him to he to you:"
.He spoke first to me. One day In Sep
TENDER | was wheeling a baby carriage
along the sidewalk outside the theater,
minding a baby that belonged tailor's
family. named Dane that lived with us.
Mr. Hitchcock came out and asked me If
I'd like to take ride in his automobile.
II told him I'd ask my mother. and |
QlQ. she Sdiu IlO I1ilehSoth
that and he said, Very we'll; some other
time That night l went to Elsie Voecks'
house and next day Elsie came back with
me, and we met Mr.. Hitchcock together.
He said. is this your sister? How would
YOU both like to go out in the auto to
Great Neck and take dinner with me-?
We ran and got our coats and went with
out permission.
Says He Sang for Them.
The trip was uneventful, the girl said.
In the motor were Hitchcock and his
valet. Herman, the two girls and the
chauffeur Arriving at Great Neck, she
testified they met a servant named Min
ME. They stayed. she said, until o'clock
at night. the actor, after dinner. playing
and singing for them.
-On the following Friday. they visited
| Great Neck again. the girl said, in train
| this time They stayed over night. Helen
and Elsie sleeping together. Hitchcock
was very nice to them, Helen went on,
and made no offending suggestions. But
| they were afraid to go home-though they
didn't tell him sO-and accordingly spent
| the succeeding two days visiting Great
Neck, where Helen used to work. The
nights they passed. she testified. Gin a
bath house in Great Neck. This was
not made very clear.
The third trip to Great Neck came about
as a result of the girls waiting outside
| the Montauk Theater. in Brooklyn. and
| accosting the actor as he was entering.
| After. giving them passes to the show.
| Helen said. he asked them to meet him
| later and they went to Corona by trolley
| and the rest of the way by train.
Elsie told him then that we'd run away
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Children's Novelty Clio h
se yssTs: SOFA sod for feS 500. Sl.2O
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12Hcs Yard wide Cannon
Cloth, steam shrunk and E0/
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Went Back to Him.

The witness admitted that she had gone
to the house on West 41st street once
after the alleged assault had been COM
lnitted She went there with the Voecks
girl because Hitchcock had asked her to
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-29
WrestIlna For Exercise.

Wrestling, the ''microcosmos OF gym
nastics," is q fine form OF bodily exer-
else for those who enjoy hard muscular
work after the tedious business hours
OF the day and may be practlced-
adapting It to circumstances-by the
man OF a ripe age as we'll as by the
boy Of ten or twelve, especially the
form known In this country as catch
as-catch-can (which Is about Identical
to one form Of Swiss wrestling. ex-
changed the Greco-Roman Tor Ger
man gymnastic) style for this one
about twelve years ago, and ! was
then over forty years old. aud still en-.
Joy 1t much II my opponent is Of my
own weight or little lighter and il 1t
is deprived OF its potential roughness
by a gentlemanly spirit Of the part
ners.--New York Medical Journal.
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Re. Knox. auctloneer.

A UCTION SALE OF A DESIRABLE
~ HOUSE AND LOT IN THE CITY OF
ALEXANDRIA. VA.
Pursuant 10 the terms Of deed Of trust,
dated June 6, 1905, and duly recorded among
the land records Of the City of Alexandria,
Virginia, in Deed Book No. 81, page So.
given by John B. Montgomery and Morslla
Montgomery, his wife, to the undersigned
Trustees, to secure the Mercantile Railway
Building & Loan Association Of Alexandria,
Virgins, the payment Of sum Of money IS
therein set forth, default having been made
in the payment of said sum, and at the re-
quest and by the direction Of the Board of
Directors Of said Mercantile Railway Build
ing x oan Association. the under igned will
offer for sale, at public auction. in front Of the
Royal street entrance to the Market Build
ing, In the City Of Alexandria, Virginia, at
IL o'clock noon, on
TUESDAY, March 3, 1908,
all that lot Of ground, with the improvements
thereon, in TIL city,
Beginning at q point on the east side Of
West street one hundred and thirty feet, two
inches north Of Duke street, and running
thence north on West street fourteen feet, two
inches to sn alley two feet wide; thence east
parallel With Duke street one hundred and
nineteen feet, FIVE inches TO an alley four feet
wide; thence south on said four-feet alley
fourteen feet, two inches; thence west in q
direct line TO the beginning, with the right OF
way over s5id alleys in common with others
entitled thereto
Terms Of sale: Cash. Conveyancing at the
cost Of the purchaser.
THOMAS, , :; CANNON, Trustees.
febl7 I'd
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uow N. Pulse Varies.

The human pulse has rather wide
range. but the general average may be
put about as follows: At birth, 40; at
two years, 100; at from sixteen to
nineteen years, so; at manhood, 10
old age. co. There are, however. great
variations consistent with health. Ma
poleon's pulse Is said TO have been only
forty-four In the minute. A case Is
also related OF healthy man Of eighty
seven whose pulse was seldom over
thirty during the last two years OF his
life and sometimes not more than
twenty-eight Another man Of eighty
seven years OF age enjoyed good health
and spirits with a pulse Of twenty
nine, and there ls also on record the
curious instance Of q man whose pulse
IN health was never more than forty
FIVE, and, TO be consistent In his incon-
sistency, when he had fever his pulse
fell to forty instead Of rising. as is
usual
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Electric Lighting Plants Short Lived.
During the past year the technical
press has recorded the breaking down
Of large number OF municipal cleo
trio light plants because the equipment
was worn out. II Is interesting to note
that in large majority Of cases the
necessity for abandoning or renewing
the plant came at period OF from ten
to fifteen years after 1t had been In
stalled, showing that the deteriora-
ton by wear alone amounted to from
Z to 10 per cent year.
According TO the municipal owner.
ship advocates who claim that an al
lowance Of per cent for depreciation
is adequate, these plants should all
have lived for thirty years, yet wear
Ing out is only one OF the forms OF
depreciation, and most of these plants
had been hopelessly out Of date before
their breakdown occurred.
Other cities may we'll take warning
from the experience Of these and make
an allowance for maintenance and de-
probation far In excess Of the esti-
mates OF interested parties II they
would avoid the thankless task Of pay
ing for broken down plants out Of the
tax levy.
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OPENING AND CLOSING OF MAILS

Northern mails, week days, close ct 10 a
n. and As, IL 80 q. M, and 200. $50, 4 so
Il and 10 30 p. n. Open at 800 g.. me-
IL 90 N, and 400 p. m. On SundaysN Northern
mails close at s 45 .. m, 23C, and z 20
,. 70.
Southern mails via Charlottesville close 81
9l6 q. u and 10 30 .. M, and 20 p. M:
% and 1880 p. m. Open at 500 g. m. and
800 p.m m.
southern mails, yia Richmond, close at
1880 q. m, and $50, 10 and loS
.. m. Open at 8 q. m, u N and 4 ?. m.
Manassas Division mails close at 10 4. M
and 20 D. m. Open at IL 30 and 80 p. m
Alexandria and Round Hill mails close al
20 Q. m, and 90 p. IA. Open at SVos' NJ
Chesspesks and Ohio mails close at 20 p.
%. Gzd 10 30 D. n. Open at 500 q. no and
e00p. M.
Washington mails close at 40, a. N; 8 15
and IL 30 q. M, and W. o.
8 Is and 10 80 D. N. Open at $40 q. m,
1900 m. and % D. N. and 30 p. M.
Office Hours-open ct 700 q. m. Close ~
800 p. m.
sanday HOun-opsn at sOos. "a. ClON
CSxTisrs' Sehsd sle- Collection made on In:
aide routes--6 80 and 10 90 &. Ia. and ~ and
Q 80 D, no. Flu route-620 q. M. and ~ p.
N. Sunday objection 500 p. N. Carr1erT
window open Sunday 900 s. 10. and Close
Deliveries made sO0am. 20 .. m. and
41b o. m.
hsfors our indicated tins for cioeing.
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Snake. wiz Two Heads.

| have lately been assured by more
than one Of my friends that they have
seen in northern India snakes with two
heads. e.. without a tail, but with a
second and perfectly formed head IN
the place where the tall ought to be.
They assure me that there are speci-
mems In northern India museums and
that these freaks OF nature are ire
quentIy found by the natives. The rid
er is added that the natives declare
that each head lives and performs ac-
tive service for six months In the year
in turn. The snakes are said to grow
10 about three feet in length. l my
self have killed a small snake with
two heads but these were both at the
same end OF the reptile, very diner
emit matter, which Is. believe. well
known freak and In the same category
with two headed calves.-PiOneer.
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Alnanasrsas& e1aG
SATURDAY EVENING. FEB. %, 1908.


Bunches OF bananas that are abso-
lutely unfit for food hang out in front
OF the wholesale produce commission
houses. Some OF them have remained
there until they have grown rusty with
age.
Couldn't get finer looking bunch
than that" said one OF the dealers
the other day, even If 1t is plaster OF
paris. We used to put out the real
article for a sign. but the peddlers who
came down here had way of pulling
one or two out Of the bunch that hap
pened TO be hanging there on the
hook. The small boys, too. had a way
of making a grab for banana or two.
By the time the bunch was on duty
under the awning for an hour Il was
no longer presentable to the aesthetic
sense. So we began to cultivate the
make believe article, which Is not
quite so palatable. but just as good for
advertising. And even at that some
youngster in his haste will grab plas-
ter Of paris fruit and get away with
1t before he realizes that he has made
off with something bad for his dlges-
tion."-New York Herald.
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A Meal Of Loeusts.

In the West Indies the negroes eat
freely Of the big grub found In palm
trees. The fat, white morsel, which
they call "grugru." Is not cooked or
salted. The aborigines Of Australia
live almost entirely on a butterfly
known as the bugong. The dies APP
pear in patches on the rocks, and the
natives smother them with smoke from
fires built below 1t Is said that Hot
tentot. with an appetite made sharp
by the simple life, can devour 800 fat
locusts at q sitting and feel better sat
isfled than If he had paid So for ten
course dinner. The Arabs dry the To-
Gusts and pulverize them into -four
for breadmaking purposes. The Moors
make a stew of them. and after boiling
in water for a few minutes they are
eaten with salt, pepper and vinegar
The locusts found In Central Africa
are enormous, and the native negroes
cut them In two and fry them In fat
and find them not only appetizing, but
nourIshlng. A flight Of these big To-
Gusts is a matter OF tribal thanksgiy-
inc
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At certain time, In the year. and
particularly a month or two before
the Christmas holidays. hooks
como into newspaper offices for review
faster than any one man can possibly
read and review them with justice oil
iher TO himself or the books He
glsnces through them hastily. unless
they are by noted authors. gets a
salient point here and there and writes
them up as best he can. Then he
forgets all about them.
"A friend came to me one day and
expressed his qualification at the way
| had written up a new novel by a
comparatively unknown author" said
the literary editor Of a Chicago paper.
"'You expressed my idea Of it exact
ly.' he said. 1T Is one of the remarka-
bic books OF the year The plot is alb
solutely unique. the treatment OF il Is
bold and original and the dialogue
crisp and delightful. 1t will make a
great hit
"'Well.' ! said. If II is as good as
all that I'll read it'"-Youth's Com
panion.