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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-05
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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-07
on NOD OF HEAD
DEPENDS $4,000
Peculiar Situation Arises in
Contest Over John D.
Nesler's Will.

Whether or not John D.. Nesler,
late of this city, intended by
a nod of his head to assert
that the signature attached to a docu-
ment supporting to be his win was
genuine was among the points argued
before Vice-Chancellor Walker in the
Prerogative Court at Trenton yester-
day. On the signature depends wheth-
er the children or step-ehildren are to
receive the bulk of his estate.
Mr.. Nesler was formerly an Alder
ma in Newark. He had made two
wills, one in 1898 and another in 1891.
BY the one the bulk of his property
was to go to one set of heirs and by
latter the conditions were Just re-
versed.
The will of 1891 has beer before the
Essex ourts. and was taken to the
~Perogative Court. The contention Is
made by heirs of half blood that the
second document. while it bore the sig-
nature of witnesses, is not the real
desire of the testator during his life
time. The point is raised whether or
not the testator intended by a nod of
mis- head after the signing of the docu-
,ment to show that the signature was
MS and that it was appended to papers
expressing his final determination of
the property. -.
Abou 10000 is involved. Vice-Chan-
ceilor Walker reserved decision.
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snapped. That whole end of the Gel.
lar is kept locked, so nobody can get
at the clothes, and then the keys Jeff
In the door, so that unless a thief wa
as blind as-as some detectives, he
could walk right in"
'Liddy,' | said sharply, come down
with us and turn on all the lights.
She Offered her resignation, as usual.
on the spot, but / took her by the arm
and she came along finally. She
switched on all the lights and pointed
to a door just ahead.
That's the door, she said sulkily.
The keys in it,
But the key was not in it. Mr..
Jameson shook it, but it was a heavy
door, well locked. And then he stopped
n began punching around the key
hole with the end of a lead pencil.
When he stood up his face was eX-
ultant.
ITS locked on The inside he said
In a low tone. There is somebody in
there
Lore have mercy" gasped Liddy,
and turned to run.
"Liddy," | called. "go through the
house at once and see who is miss-
ing, or If anyone is. Wen have to
clear this thing at once. Mr.. jamie
son if you will watch here | will go to
the lodge and find Warner. Thomas
would be Of no use. Together o may
be able TO force the door"
"A good idea he assentcd. But
there are windows, of course. and there
Is nothing to prevent whoever is in
there from getting out that way"
Then lock the door at the top Of
the basement stairs l suggested. and
patrol the house from the outside
We agreed 10. this and I.had a feel
ing that TIE mystery of Sunnyside was
about to be solved. ] ran down the
steps and along the drive. Just at the
corner ran full tilt into somebody VINO
seemed to be as much alarmed as I
was. Ii was not until | had recoiled a
step or two hat l recognized Ger
trude, and she me.
Good gracious Aunt Ray she ex-
claimed. what is the matter"'
There's somebody locked in the
laundry | painted. That is-unless
you didn't see anyone crossing the
lawn or skuIking around the house.
did your"
II think we have mystery on the
brain" Gertrude said YEARLY NO. l
haven't seen any one, except old
Thomas, who looked for all the world
as If he had been ransacking the pam
try. What have YOU locked in the
laundry"
IT can't wait to explain | replied
81 must get Warner from the lodge.
IF you came out for air. you'd better
put on YOU o~vershoes." And then I
noticed that Gertrude was limping-
not much. but sufficiently to make her
progress very slow. and seemingly
painful.
"lcu have hurt YOURSELF" L said
sharply. ~
II fell over the carriage block she
explained. Il thought perhaps / might
see Halsey coming home. He--he
ought to be here"
| hurried IN down the drive. The
lodge was some distance from the
house, In a grove of trees where the
drive met the county road There were
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-07
PLAN TO MOVE INSANE
PATIENTS NEXT WEEK.
Superintendent Dill Empowered
to Hire Stages.

Unless something unforeseen occurs,
the SIS patients now housed in the
South Orange Avenue Hospital for the
Insane at Overlook, will be in the new
home in Overlook at the end of next
week.
DR.. Daniel M. Dill, the superintend-
ent. is prepared to begin to move next
Monday or Tuesday. and the committee
on county hospitals of the Board Of
Freeholders, at its..meeting in the old
building yesterday, gave him permis-
sion to hire the necessary stages at $40
a trip.
The State Hospital for the Insane in
Morris Plains will be visited by the
committee in the interests of the pa
tents from this county on July 70. The
will go on the S:45. a. M. train
of the Lackawanna Railroad and will
be accompanied by DIR. Dill and Dr.
rector Wallace Ougheltree.
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Two white stone pillars to mark the
entrance, but the iron gates, once
closed and tended by the lodge keeper.
now stood permanently open. The day
oil the motor car had come; no one had
tlme Tor closed gates and lodge keepers.
me lodge. at Suanyside. was merely a
sort OF supplementary servants quar-
ters; 1t was as convenient in its ap-
pointments as the big house and In
finitely more cosy.
As | went down the drive nv
thoughts were busy. Who could 1t he
that Mr.. Jameson had trapped in the
cellar? Would we find a body or some
one badly injured? Scarcely either.
whoever had fallen had been able to
lock the laundry door on the inside.
If the fugitive had come from outside
the house, how did he get in? If it
was some member of the household,
VINO could 1T W. been? And then
a Keeling of horror almost overwhelmed
fne. Gertrude! Gertrude and her in
1ured ankle. Gertrude found limping
slowly up the drive when Ihad bought
she was in bed
! tried to put the thought away. but
it would not go. If Gertrude had been
on the circular staircase that night,
why had she fed from Mr.. Jameson?
The idea. puzzling as it was, seemed
borne out by this circumstance. Who
ever had taken refuge at the read of
the stairs could scarcely have been
familiar with the house, or with the lo5
cation of the chute. The mystery
seemed to deepen constantly. What
possible connection could there be be-
tween Halsey and Gertrude, and the
murder of Arnold Armstrong? And
vet, every way / turned I seemed to
IND something that pointed to such a
connection. I.
At the FOOT OF the drive the road
described a long. slopipns, horseshoe
shaped curve around the lodge. There
were lights there, streaming cheerfully
out or 70 the trees. and from an upper
room came waYering shadows, as If
some one with a lamp was moving
around. | had come almost silently in
my evening slippers, and i had my
second collision of the evening on the
road Just above the house. I ran full
lnto a man in a long coat, who was
standing In the shadow beside the
crlVe. with his back to me, watching
the lighted windows
What the helli" he calculated furi-
ously. and turns d around. When nc
saw me, however, he did not wait for
any retort on my part. He faded away
This Is not slang; he did-he abso-
luteiy disappeared in the dusk with
out my getting more than a glimpse of
ms face. | had a vague impression of
unfamiliar features and of a sort of
cap with a visor. SThen he was gone.
went to the lodge and raped. 1t
REQUIRED two or three %poundings to
tring Thomas 10 the door. and he
opened 1t only an inch or So
Where is Warner" I asked.
II think he's In bed, ma'aml.''
Get him up" / said, land for good
ness sake open the door. Thomas. I'll
wait for Warner
IT'S kind O. close in here, ma'am,''
he said, obeying gingerly. n dis
closing a cool and comfortable-looking
interior. Perhaps you'd keer to set on
the porch an rest vo'se!f..
1t was so evident that Thomas did
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mark is probably yours and the foot
print certainly"
HIS audacity was the only thing that
saved me; his amused smile put me on
my %lnettle, and ripped out a perfectly
good scallop before l answered.
why did I Step into the tulip bed?'
/ asked with interest.
GU picked up something" he said
good-humoredly, which you are going
to tell me about later"
Am |, indeed?" | was politely Curl
Gus. With this remarkable insight OF
yours, | wish you would tell me where
/ shall find my dollar
motor-car."
L vas just coming to that he said.
"You will find it about thirty miles
away, At Andrews Station, in a black
smith shop, where it is being repaired
laid doYn my knitting then and
looked at him.
And Halsey?" | managed TO say.
We are going to exchange informa-
tion,' he said Il am going to tell you
that when you tell me what you picked
up in the tulip bed"
We looked steadily at each other; il
was not an u%nfrlendly stare; we were
only measuring Then he
smiled a little and got VI
with your permission he said, u
am going TO examine the card<room
and the staircase again. You might
think over my offer in the meantime"
He went on through the drawing
room. n | listened to his footsteps
growing gradually fainter. | dropped
p%retense at knitting and. leaning
back, ! thought over the last forty
eight hours. Here was |. Rachel mes,
spinster, "a granddaughter of old John
lnnes, Of Revolutionary DAYS. a d.. A.
r.. a Colonial Dame, mixed up with a
Nulgar and revolving crime, and even
attempting to- %hoodwink the law. Ger
tainly | had left the straight and mar
row way.
] was reused by hearing Mr.. jamie
son coming rapidly back through the
drawing-room. He stopped at the door.
Miss Innes," he said quickly, will
you come with me and light the east
corridor? l have fastened somebody
in the small room at the head ~ the
card-room stairs"
jumped up at once.
o mean-the murderer" | gasped.
Possibly he said quietly. as we
hurried together up the sairs. Some
one was lurking on the staircase when
went back. | spoke; instead of an
answer, whoever it was turned and
ran up. | followed-it was dark-but
as | turned the corner at the ton n
hgure darted through this door and
closed II. The bolt was on my| side.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-07
COMMISSIONERS
FOR SANER FOURTH.
Already Move for Restricted
Celebration Next Year.

Preparations for a still more re-
stricted celebration of July 4 next year
were inaugurated yesterday by the
Board of Fire Commissioners. which
sent notices to all dealers in fireworks
and firearms that they will be COM
PEELED to observe to the letter a law
passed in 1903, which requires such
dealers to obtain the names, ages and
addresses of every person purchasing
firearms. The commissioners will also
insist that the size of cannon crackers
be reduced. The sale of paper balloons,
which have frequently caused disas-
trous fires, will also be rigidly re-
stricted.
On January l next. there will become
effective a law forbidding the sale of
blank cartridges, and this is looked
upon by the commissioners as one of
the greatest aids to them in their en-
deavors to prevent the loss of life and
The same law prohibits the
sale and use of cheap toy nno
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Copyright 1908.
The Bobbs- Merrill Company.


4.aonaei lnnes. a spinster. who has raised
tst ni"tht4 . oflllal chiiurvn. Halsey ana Ger-
ttude. from childhood, engages 'Sunnyside. ;"
the country house OF a banker, about whose son
mere are ugly stories. With Liddy Allen =
Aohestlc, she goes to prepare the place for oc-
sulHaacN- On the second night. while locking
~. ,lley are startled by .seeihg a face peprin9
70 through a window, At midnight a rafting
nletallic sound in the house awaksns them
Next morning they hnd the doors ali locked
- Only INDICATIONS or a visitor are a half OF
: iihk cutt button ant some scratches on a cir
LIAR staircase leading TO the cardroom. Hal
y IN" 'Fltiude arrive, bringing along John
pilieA 4 friend. Miss lines decides to say
nothins about her strange adventures. rho
ian1li3 fttlles at night. leaving Ha(aev AMI
geiih halley III the cardroom. 4 pistol shot
ANaNeus al and they ind the body of a man
~ the hall. II is Arnold Armstrong. son of the
81 "sunnNSile," He has been shot deal
$40 Halsfy ana John Galley. the latter being
an enemy Of the slain man. are nis,ine Tbe
police are called Miss LINES finds Halqe,is
revolver dnf a solf stick in the ga arden and
nilt' them she goes to her room ana finds
;lldt lne sold cuH link has vanished. Gertrude
nilt9 iells the detectives that her brOtna. ana
J'lh balcN we're called from the house nv
titihoae at 10 ocicck that morning. and thai
slle ~ engaged to marry Mr.. failey. she was
DIepaf-is IT, 70 to bed at 3 a.. m. when sha
leaId 2 iatch key in the door. Armstronr
uttered, she says, and then a pistol was nred
y some unseen hand. killing the Intruder Tho
cone make her admit that Armstrong and her
Yinthtf had euarTeicd because the former ar
.finptea 70 make love to her. Among the dead
man ; eifeets Is . scrap Of paper on which he
ma pfaetlseq forging Halsey's name.
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The second scrap, folded and refolded
INTO a compass so tiny that the writ
ing had been partly o%bliterated. was
part Of a letter-the lower half of a
sheet, not typed, but written in a
cramped hand.
by altering the plans for
l'oems, may be possible. The best way.
n my opinion, would be to 49, the
rlan for " in one of the 49, rooms
Chimney
That was all.
"Well?' ] said. looking up. There is
rothing in that, is there? A mar ought
10 be able to change the plan of his
house without becoming an object Of
suspicion"
There is little in the paper ITSELF he
admitted; but why should Arnold
Armstrong carry that around. unless
Il meant something? He never built a
house, you may be sure of that. If it
y this house, it may mean anything.
Som a secret room -r
STo an extra bathroom" / said
scornfully, Haven't You a thumb
print, too?'4
II have" he said with a smile, .'and
thu print of a foot in a tulip bed, and a
number of other things. The oldest
part is, Miss lines, that the thumb
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and | pushed it forward. 1t Is a closet
L think We were in the upper hal
now. IF you will show me the elec.
trio switch, Miss Innes, you would bet
ter wait in your own room"
Trembling as / was, [ was deter
mined to see that door opened. 1 hard
ly knew what l feared, but SO many
terrible and inexplicable things had
happened that suspens was worse
than certainty.
Il am perfectly cool,"I said. land I
am going to remain here"
The lights flashed up along thai end
Of the corridor. throwing the doors into
relef. AT the intersection of the small
hallway with the larger the circular
staircase wound its way up, as if 1t
mad been an afterthought of the archi-
tect, n lust around the corner. in
the small corridor. was the door Mr..
Jameson had indicated. | was still
unfamiliar with the house. and [ did
not remember the door. My heart was
humping wildly in my ears, but I nod
ded to him to go ahead. was perhaps
eiGht or Ten feet .away-and then he
threw the bolt back.
Come out he said quietly. There
was no reSponse. "Come-out," he re-
peated. Then-I think he had a re-
volver, but | am not sure-he stepped
aside and threw the door open.
From where | stood | could not see
beyond the door. but | saw Mr.. jamie
sons face change and heard him NUT
ter something. then he bolted down the
stairs. three at q time. When my knees
had stopped shaking l moved forward,
slowly. nervously. until I had a partial
view of what was beyond the door. IT
seemed at first to be a closet, empty.
Then | went close and examined 1t, to
stop with Il shuddeT. Where the hoor
should have been was black void and
darkness. from which came the in
describable. damp smcil of tse cellars.
Mr.. Jameson had locked somebody
In the clothes chute. As / leaned over
/ fancled / heard a g%roan-or was IT
the wind?
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/ A Woman Readers Praise for STAR
! in COIOrS and Great WOn7an'S MAGAZINE


would think TO read some papers that
a woman spent all her time before the
mirror, as they contain nothing else
but fashion notes and beauty hints.
Now that most captious of critics. Mrs.
Grundy. could never find that to say
of the Newark STAR. for it calls forth
nothing but the highest enconiums.
| feel like dofing my hat (barring
the hatpins) every time l see the
STAR, for this reason. that l learn that
the new mammoth press was built in
New Jersey, showing the publishers
love for his native State, and proving
his common sense and good Judgment.
BY thus pa%tronizing home industries
just think of the work it gave to Jer-
sey mechanics to complete such a mar
velons and up-to-date machine, and the
money distributed directly and lndi-
rectly in its long makeup. And as the
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rot want me inside that l went in.
"IelI Warner he is needed in a
hurry, | repeated, and turned into
the little sitting-room. | could hear
Inomas going up the stairs, could hear
nlm rouse Warner, and the steps of the
chauffeur as he hurriedly dressed. But
my attention was busy With the room
below. :
On the centre-table, open, was a seal
skin travelling bag. 1t was filled with
gold-topped bottles and brushes and
1t breathed opulence, luxury, femininity
from every inch of surface. How did
1t get there? | was still asking myself
the question when Warner came run
ming down the stairs and into the room.
He was completely but somewhat in
c~ongruously dressed, and his open, boy
lsh FACE looked abashed. He was a
country boy, absolutely frank and re-
liable, of fair education and intelligence
-one of the small army of American
youths who turn a natural aptitude
for mechanics into the special field Of
the automobile. n earn good salaries
in a c%ongenial occupation.
What is it, Miss ~Innes?'' he asked
anXiously,
There is some one locked in the
laundry" l replied. Mr.. Jameson
wants o to help him break the lock.
Warner, whose bag is thls?'' y
He was in the doorway by this time,
and he pretended not to hear. e
warner" called, come back here.
Whose bag is this?'
He stopped then, but he did not turn
around
49,, s f
It's it belongs TO Thomas, he said,
and fled uIsthe drive.
10 Thomas. A London bag with
mirrors and cosmetic Jars Of which
Thomas could not even have Guessed
the usel However. | put the bag in
the back of my mind, which was fast
becoming stored with anomalous and
apparently irreconoilable facts, and fol-
lowed Warner to the house.
Liddy had come back to the kitchen;
the door to the basement stairs was
double-barred, and had a table pushed
against it; and beside her on the table
was most of the kitchen paraphernalla.
Did you see If there was any one
missing in the house?" l asked, ignor-
ing the array of sauce-pans, rolling
pins, and the poker of the range.
Rosie is missing" Liddy said with
JUNCTION. She had objected to Rosie.
the parlor maid, from the start. mrs.
watson went into her ROOM, and found
she had gone without her hat. People
that trust themselves a dozen miles
from the city, in strange houses, with
servants they don't know, needn't be
surprised If they wake up some morn
Ing and find their throats cut"
After which c,raf,,liy ,,atIaa O. :.
Liddy relapsed into gloom. Warner
came in then with IA HANDFUL of small
tools, and Mr.. Jameson went with
him to the basement. Oddly enough, |
was not alarmed. With all my heart
! wished for Halsey, but | was not
frightened. At the door he was to
force, Warner put down his tools and
looked at 1t. Then he turned the
handle. Without the slightest diff
Guilty the door opened, revealing the
blackness OF the drying-room teyond.
Mr.. Jameson gave an exclamation
of disgust. .'Gone." he said. Con
L
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CHAPTER VII.
A sprnined Ankle.
\ WAS panic-s STRICKEN. AS

WAS panic-strlcken. AS ran
along the corridor | waas con-
tdent that the mysterious in
truder and probable murderer had been
found. and hat he lay dead or dying at
the foot of the chute. / got down the
staircase somehow. and through the
kitchen 10 the basement stairs. Mr..
Jameson had been before me. and the
door stood open. Liddy was standing
in the middle of the kitchen, holding a
frying pan by the handle as a a
Don't go down there" she yelled.
when she saw me moving toward the
basement stairs. Don't you do it.
Miss Rachel. That Jamieson's down
there now. There's only trouble comes
of hunting ghosts; they lead YOU into
bottomless pits and things like that.
Miss Rachel. don't" as | tried to
get past her.
She was interrupted by Mr.. jamie
sons t~reappearance. He ran up the
stairs Two at a time, and his face was
flushed and furious.
THE whole place is locked he said
angrlly. Where's the laundry key
kept"
"1fs kept in the door, Liddy
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STAR thus shows its firm belief in
home industries l hope TO see the twin
STARS read in every home in the
State of New Jersey. for there is moth
ing that bespeaks the culture and re-
finement of a people as the reading
matter that enters therein.
While exquisite paintings are the
"~aristocracy of art good literature is
even better, for its price is within the
reach of all.
| hope all readers in Newark and it's
vicinity will %reciprocate and give the
STAR a warn home welcome and
make it
power and one of the powers that
be.
The freests thing in the land of the
Free
Respectfully. &
MARGARET q. HEERY.r
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CHURCH
CHILDREN'S OUTING,
Visit Christian EndeavOr Home
at ROseIand.

The Christian Endeavor Fresh Air
Fund Society, connected with the Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church at South
Orange avenue and South Seventh
street. gave an outing to the poor chill
dren of the parish at Roseland yester-
day. Miss n. E. Hedden and F.. C..
Bradley, who were in charge of the
children, chartered a special car, which
left with siXty-fve boys and girls.
They were met at Caldwell by stages,
which conveyed them to the Home at
New Fernwood, Roseland.
The children INDUCED in games, and
after spending a pleasant day at the
Home they returned at 8 o'clock.
The society was the winner of a
flag donated by $. d. Riddle, of the
union, for having collected the great
est amount of money from October.
1908, to February. 1909. The Home is
meeting with great success.
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CONGRESSMAN FOWLER
THREATENED WITH FALL,

When Speaker Cannon gets through
reorganizing the House Committee on
Banking and Currency it is generally
expected that Representative Charles
y. Fowler, of New Jersey, will no
longer be the head of it. Representa-
tive Edward B. Vreeland, of New York,
is looked on as his successor.
II Fowler remains chairman of this
important committee it will not be be-
cause Cannon wants him left in that
position, but because of the interven-
lion OF Observation-Disclosures Times.