Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-23

had been carried 100 feet and badly
bruised and scratched. She will re.
cover
The Hotel Morrow suffered the most
damage. Sand and debris is piled all
over the premises. The lower floor
OF the building fs swamped and the
furniture ruined. The property of c.
Fitzsimmons also suffered greatly.
Kiowa lodge is high and dry and
Mrs. c. d. McPhee and Mrs. NJ. r.
Graw opened their cottage TO suffer
ers and every one was taken care OF.
The storm is the worst in the mem
ory of any OF the old settlers.
The track below Fairview Is entirely
washed out, and telephone wires down
and the only communication Is by,
telegraph.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-Tha mysteri-
Gus circumstances under which Mrs.
II. e. Fl. Benedict, wife for less than
a year OF prominent music instruc-
tor, was found unconscious in her
home in the exclusive Park slope sec
ticn OF Brooklyn, and is puzzliDg the
police. Mrs. BENEDICT is In the hospi-
tai unconscious and for only a mo
ment has she been able to speak and
then not in any way to dissipate the
| mystery.
For several days neighbors had OBJ
served that the windows and front
door OF the Benedict home had been
his wife had been seen and that no
one responded to the ringing of the
door bell. Neighbors discussed the
matter until it was decided to inform
to the house, found 1t open as it had
been for number of days and nights,
The first and second floors were de
serted. the furniture and fittings In
disorder. Rugs were piled in the cor
ners, chairs knocked over, cabinets
sprawling on the floor. In the third
bed room the police found Mrs. Benes
dict lying on the floor under the bed,
IOhly hCl iOSt Pictt -
was half dressed and unconscious. An
ambulance surgeon thought Mrs. Ben
edict had been without food for sew.
eral days but was unable to say why
she was unconscious rs apparently
there we're no marks OF violence.
Efforts to find Mr.. Benedict have
so far failed. One neighbor said he
had seen him leaving the house five
days before his wife was found in
company with a younger man, carrying
a suit case.
Surgeons are endeavoring to restore
Mrs. Benedict to consciousness in the
hope she can explain the mystery.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. 20.-With the
exception of negro who acted as
drayman to cart from the counterfeit
mint" at Harrod's creek in this coun
ty bogus 100 half peso Mexican notes
to this city. the police have put be
hind the bars all those supposed to
have been connected with a million
dollar counterfeiting enterprise un
earthed In Kentucky yesterday.
John Roberts, who was in charge
of making of the spurious money
Marion Roberts, Johns brother, who
handled it. also Mamie Harp. Marion's
housekeeper and VIII KeQnig, who
confessed, an were arrested.
L The final details of the swindling
plot was exposed by the police and
j. II. Fetter q Co., Louisville brokers
who were approached by Marion Rob
ers to show that the plans of the broln
ers contemplated taking" even stock
certificates of railroads such as the
Louisville & Nashville and the Penn
sylvania by issuing counterfeit money
to pay for them and conducting imag
mary business with imitation collat.
eral.
A brass bound trunk with 81 ,00O, ,00O
In Mexican notes is the most import
ant capture.
When Deputy United States Marshal
Playdes went to Shelby county yeste--
day after Marion Roberts had con
I
Vile was asked If he could tell where
the man answering John Roberts de.
scription lived.
There was fat guy called me
an old sport, when he got off the train
here some days ago." said the station
agent resentfully. Hes the man"
In statement to the press, W. G
Osborne, a broker of j. NJ. Fetter &
Co.. who revealed the affair to the
police, said Marion Roberts had
told him that headquarters of the gang
was at l0S Wall street, New York.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O-Postmas.
ter General Frank II. Hitchcock has
accepted an invitation from Texas to
spend three weeks on horseback In
Arizona and New Mexico in Septem-
ber. The journey win commerce In
southern Arizona and end at Fort
Bayard, New Mexico, where visit
will be paid to James T. William of
Washington, who was one of Hitch.
cocks chief assistants during the
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