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mans imagination, for he had been re-
leased at first, upon prOtestatio1s OF his
innocence. and later rearrestad when
an official of the Mechanics National
Bank of New York. where he had over
drawn his account, arrived in Chicago
with warrant for his arrest.
Eastman's second capture was effected
through the use of an embryo "Sher-
lock Holmes" of which there are a num-
Der among the Chicago newsboys, all
able juvenile assistants to the police. On
account Of his lame leg, and the knOwl-
edge of this ineradicabIe deformity al
ways haunted Eastman, he was recog-
nized.
Gathering in the New York bank Of
fetal on his way, Sergeant Knowles pro-
ceeded 10 the cafe.
Hello, Eastman, what brings you TO
Chicago?'' asked the bank man
IT guess you know responded Lame
Bob" with his usual cheeriness.
Then the bank man introduced the
sergeant and Eastman said:
well, 1 guess you want me, we might
as well be on our way"
Thought of Suicide
Once Before End.
AS they passed the Morrison Hotel.
Eastman asked permission to go to his
room. II was refused. The refusal was
wise, for when Eastman was placed in
a cell at the station he said:
If 1 had had my gun with me /
wouldn't be here now The revolver
to which he referred afterward was
found in his room.
when searched more than $4,000 worth
Of stocks and bonds were found on
his person. M5st of them were ne
gotiable A baggage check called for a
parcel ct the depot in which nearly
$1,000 in cash was later discovered
When a further search of Eastman
was ordered i've $1,000 bills were found
ingeniously hidden in the harness-like
belt which Lame Bob" wore on his
weak knee. a handful Of match heads
was also found. He merely grunted
when asked II they were for suicidal
purposes.
Several continuances were granted by
the courts. Eastman in the meantime
being held for $4,000 bail. IT was final
~ reduced 10 $4,000. and Eastman gave
a bonding company $500 cash for ten
DAYS liberty before his next hearing.
II am not an embezzler,' he said, and
I can pay every cent ] owe. That
why / ought to be out of jail and my
creditors ought TO let me remain out Of
a cell. / can't do anything in one.
Aside from his desperateness as evil
dence0 by the episodes of the revolver
and the match heads. Lame Bob in
his Chicago career showed no signs Of
criminal instinct. Least of all did he
show that he was a 'iady-killer' or Of
being the possessor Of the hypnotic
eve
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Small Sum
His UndoinR.

And the strangest part Of # an is
Rat a paltry $1,000 is at the bottom Of
his undoing. The records of the dis
Lrict attorney in New York show Moth
ing against Lame Bob" Eastman ex-
Cept this alleged larceny and the for
fixture Of mis- bail. When he was
brought back from Chicago he made
good. excepting a few thousands, every
cent he had taken away. The losers
weren't inclined 10 push the case
criminally. at least.
Pm afraid of nobody except shat
woman client Of mine. he said to his
wife recently. They told me on the
street that even the woman client might
have Teleuted IL Eastman hadn't failed
10 face the courts
SO IL doesn't seem natural that Lame
Bob Eastman could have died for 81 500
II must nave been that great secret Of
iis former years. that ghost of other
DAYS. that skeleton in the closet aud
the fear that IL would be revealed
through the courts. after all,
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Ran Newspaper
In the Far West

Except for his experiences in Chicago
and New York. little is known Of
Lame Bob" Eastman. Twelve years
ago. it is said, he speculated and ran
q little paper called Facts in Denver,
Col. Here. as everywhere else. he was
a man Of mystery.
L talked with a number OF his former
associates on the street. To them he
was always one Of them. Smiling,
happy-go-lUcky. mainly fortunate at
tending his own business and letting
that of other people alone. A few tried
10 draw aside the veil Of secrecy that
enveloped his past. He rebuffed them.
kindly but positively and they never
knew. There was some reason for which
he dreaded publicity
He would never have a photograph
taken Only two are in existence, one
taken for the Rogues' Gallery, showing
him with "a beard and not exhibiting
his broad smile; the other a group
snapshot. with the CHEEKY face and re-
tund form of Eastman conspicuous in
q thrOng Of twenty-five. a Washinston
artist, Louis O. Pedler, a relative by
marriage could never persuade Lame
Bob Eastman even to submit to a
sketch.
And thus they passed out Of life to-
gether this poetic, beautiful child Of
fortune known ufsL as Edith WlrZ, then
as Edith Nav THOMPSON, then as Mrs
Edith Caswell. the wife OF a man she
laJer divorced, and finally as Edith
Woodland Lame Bob" Eastman.
Her nature is reflected In the old love
letters she wrote to a Baltimore man,
published elsewhere, and for the ilrst
time.
The book OF experience is robbed Of
a chspter full of human pathos by the
self-destTuctiOn OF Robert r Eastman.
The world viii never really know just
what he meant when he said. All, /
hope / don't die until / get chance
TO tell the story Of my life" or NOV,
you're asking questions" or I'D rather
90 down the river than up"
This Is the man. with al his faults
and he seems to have had but few ex-
cept his last great one whose body was
laid 10 rest without mourners. without
a. requiem. without a song with only
the Lord s prayer as a benedictioa, near
liia now deserted bungalow on Mary
laEds Eastern Shore.
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wANTED-SALESMEN.

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Two Sides Of Man
Prove a Puzzle.

Not once have any of them appeared
able 20 understand this one example Of
the dual nature OF a DR.. JekyI and
Mr. Hyde, characters in ficticn now
rivaled by characters in fact
Eastman had been a fugitive since
last December, following his arraign-
ment on the charge of grand larceny in
September. The complainant against
him was Helena A Robertson. OF
Brooklyn, who charged that she had
given Eastman $500 for the purchase
OF 100 shares OF stock OF the Chicago
Subway Company. The amount finally.
involved was 81. 600 About the same
time somewhat similar charge was
brought By Charles Russell. who alleged
that Eastman had absconded with $500
OF his money. He was never indicted
on this charge however, and his friends
say that this transaction was one for
the civil courts alone.
Caught in Chicago, Eastman was
brought back TO New York on the Rob
ertsOn charge and the heavy bail OF
$500 named. He finally made bond
His partner, John r. Garrison. also
accused Eastman at this time Of taking
away the books Of the firm and a. nor
ton OF its cash. Eastman's firm was
later put in the bankruptcy courts.
When the case was called IN Deem
Der, Lame Bob" failed to respond. ana
hts $500 bond was forfeited. He then
became fugitive pure and simple. and
the chase led across to Nicaragua. Lon
don. Paris. and other countries ans
cities. The forfeiture or his bail was
never explained. He appeared il. court a
number OF times when the case was
postponed for some reason or another
It is a mystery TO his friends today why
he declined 10 ask for aid which would
have been readily extended him. The
Street offers no parallel case where a
broker handling the amount Of money
Eastman had handled would permit
sl,600 claim 90 wreck his life and cause
him 10 MI the grave OF a suicide
Lived In Constant
Dread Of Detectives.
He lived in constant dread Of detec-
tives. When arrested in Chicago. after
bis dight from New York. in August.
1903. he said:
when I took room in the Brevoort
Hotel. behold. a detective took a room
across the corridor. When ] strollef
down quiet street-no one in sight-It
was amazing 10 see how quickly it be-
came populated with gell-to-do gentle
men. out for their health laid out q
game Of hare and hounds with my
shadows. ] went into Office buildings
lodging into unexpected entrances. and
emerging from supposedly unexpected
exits Each time I would find one Of the
familiar shadows OF a new one that I
could recognize as detective
Much OF this must have been East
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Summer N e e d S
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Metai Work Refnished.
DANCING.

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FOR SALE-MISCELLANEoJS-

FOR SALE-I2 lunch room stools, good as
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-23
LABOR STANDS BY BOYCOTT
President John Mitchell Makes
Stirring Speech at Toronto.
Declares That Term in Jail VIII Not
Cause Him to Recede From Asser-
ton of Constitutional Rights.

Toronto, Can.-Indorsing report
of the Committee on Boycott, John
Mitchell, one of the three officers Of
the American Federation Of Labor I'M
der sentence for contempt of Court.
in dramatic speech to the conven-
tion of that organization at the close
of its session here, declared that as
far as he was concerned, regardless
of consequences, he intended, while
at liberty, to declare for the rights
guaranteed him by the organic laws
of his country. The report which
drew forth Mitchell's speech and
which was adopted by the convention,
said.
1--WE say that when your cause is
just and every other remedy has been
employed without result, boycott; we
say that when the employer has de-
termined to exploit not only adult
male labor, but our women and chill
dren, and our reasoning and appeal
to his fairness and his conscience will
not sway him, boycott we say that
when labor has been oppressed, brow
beaten and tyrannized, boycott; We
say that when social and political con-
ditions become so bad that ordinary
remedial measures are fruitless, boy
cott and finally, we say that we have
a right to boycott and we propose to
exercise that right. In the applica-
tion of this right of boycott, to para
phrase the president (Gompers), we
propose to strive on and on.
II want the people of the United
States to know my position said Mr.
Mitchell u shall not speak deiantly,
but be the consequences what they
will, I shall not surrender any right
guaranteed to me by the Constitution
of our country. I am not sure how
much mental and physical suffering
will be necessary to make me submit,
but if I know myself, not any amount
of suffering will persuade me that
have not the right to spend my money
where I please or that | have not the
right to write and speak as l please,
being responsible under the law for
my acts.
Il understand that cognizance is
being taken at Washington, d. G., of
the utterance of men on the floor of
this convention, and | want clearly to
state my position I propose in the
future, as | have in the past, to ex-
ercise the rights secured to me by the
fathers of my country, and | propose
If I am sent to Jail to declare again
when come out that / shall not for
myself purchase any product of the
Bucks Stove and Range Company. l
make this declaration not to tickle
the ear of any man, but that I may
publicly declare the conviction that
that is within me-"
The convention broke into loud
cheers for Mitchell when he had con-
Guided, and there we're cries of Nor
rison!" but the secretary did not re-
spond. President Gompers was not
present.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-23
BILLION DOLLAR MERGER
OF WIRE SERVICES
Western Union Bought by Phone
Syndicate.
GOULDs SOLD STOCK AT s85
Theodore N. Vail, President, Ans
nounces That the American TeIe-
phone Company Has Obtained
Control of Telegraph Companies.

New York City The biggest cor
poration merger since the formation
of the Steel Trust was made known to
the public when the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company issued
statement admitting it had acquired
what it calls "a substantial minority
interest" but which is really the con-
troll of the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
The announcement confirmed the
statement that control Of the Western
Union had passed into the hands of
the Telephone Company. But more
information showed that the merger
of interests had gone much further
and that capital stock in various tele-
phone and telegraph corporations, in
GLIDING the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, aggregating in all more than
81, 900, 1000, will be dominated by
one set OF financiers.
The assets of the corporations in
volved aggregate fully $1,500,0
900, and if plans for the absorption
of many supposedly independent com
panies are carried out the total assets
will probably reach $4,000, 1000 900,
and the amount of stock and bonds
will exceed $500, 100000.
The official announcement was is
sued by Theodore N Vail, president
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, at the regular meet
ing of directors and of the executive
committee in Boston. This state
ment was as follow:
~ TnJanhAra ad
graph Company has obtained the con-
troll of substantial minority interest
in the shares of the Western Union
Telegraph Company
There is much to be gained by the
joint construction and maintenance of
plant, and by it's common use to the
greatest possible extent but the
greatest advantage would follow the
placing of the millions of telephone
subscribers in close and reliable con-
nection with the receiving and des-
patching offices of the telegraph com
panies. While some provision for
this after a manner exists to-day, a
between the companies and an in
ability to agree on methods of fixing
responsibility has limited its utiliza-
The harmony and cooperation neces-
sary, it is believed, can now be estab-
lished and the resulting advantages
made available for the public.
Total capitalization, ETC., of all tele-
graph and telephone companies of
United States, nearly all of which are
controlled by or affiliated by new
merger:
Number of companies, 22,996, of
which only twenty-five are telegraph
Single wire mileage, 14,570,142.
Salaried officers, 29,470. Wage
earnors, 142,733.
, George Jay Gould said: ut is fact
that we have sold large part of our
holdings in the Western Union Tele-
graph Company to the American Tel
ephone and Telegraph Company"
What price the Goulds got for their
holdings could not be learned def
nitely but the gossip of Wall Street
was that the Telephone Company had
paid $S5 share for the Western
Union stock
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-23

Pennington High School pupils
issue school paper.
Hunterdon County issued more
than 1000 gunners' licenses.
Dr. w. G. Alpaugh has been APP
pointed medical inspector of the High
Bridge public schools
The Salem County Board Of Free
holders has decided to build a State
road in the borough of Elmer
The old Bethel Lake, near Pitman.
has been drawn off so that the bed
may be cleared Of broken limbs.
The Salem Council has decided to
defer the installation Of fire alarm
system.
Mrs. Emma Higginson Adams,
eighty-two years old, died suddenly
in Trenton, leaving two children.
twenty-three grandchildren and sew
enteen great-grandchildr
Fear of IRE caused James B. Duke
to close his great estate near Somer-
Vile to the public, small blaze hav-
ing threatened shrubbery and stat
uary
Robert L. Lowe, a reporter OF The
Tribune, died in the Elizabeth Gem
eral Hospital, from valvular disease
81 the heart. Mr. Lowe was twenty
fouR years old
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-23
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Find Crater OF Old Volcano.

Engineers on the Lackawanna
Railroads twenty-eight-mile cutoff
at Andover, which has been under
way for about a year, have discovered
that instead Of making cut through
the Sparta Mountains, as had been
planned originally, they must tunnel
part Of the distance, at a cost esti-
mated at $4,000 above the amount
at first announced The reason for
the change is the unexpected charac-
ter of the interior Of. the mountain.
The contractors came upon a mass of
soft and brittle rock, entirely differ
emit from the hard and firm trap rock
that composes the bulk of the hill.
and borings establish the fact that
they have struck what appears to be a.
crater of long extinct volcano. AS
the soft rock would furnish no sup
port for the side walls of the cut, it
becomes necessary to tunnel and re-
lnforce the bore with steel and con-
crete, as has been done in the tunnel
under the Hudson and East rivers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-23
How to Make a Farmer.

The foundation stone of nation S
success is revealed in an article in
All Ireland Review. A friend of the
author was in Denmark, and was as
tonished at the amount of wealth got
out of so poor country by dairies
and by farming.
No doubt" said he to a we'll edu-
cacvd Dane, 'the children are in
structed in the schools as to dairying
and farming"
They are not" said the Dane
''but they are taught the old Danish
poems (sagas) in the schools. That
makes good Danes out of the chill
dren, and then they become good
farmers"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-23

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40 Dies tlnesfion.

"A Washington diplomat was laugh
ing the other day over a letter from
Ernest Lyon. the American Consul to
Liberia.
Lyon, said the diplomat, 4 had
been making trip from Monrovia into
the interior. He described in his let
ter the very primitive people he met
with on his journeyings. He got of
rather neat thing about women
The young woman of these re-
gions, he wrote, suggests the prophet
to you she has SO little on her in her
own country. w Washington Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-23
The Field Of shorts.

Savannah will race thirty days at
least at Thunderbolt Park.
AT Juarez, in Mexico, open book
making with paraphernalia will be
permitted
The American pitchers inflicted 145
whitewashes ON opponents last sea-
son, thereby breaking the league rec
ord
Bookmakers who used to be busy
around the race tracks are turning
their attention toward football as a
medium of speculation They offer a
complete book this season on the
chances OF the big college teams.