The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-13

to take her away from her parents.
No picture was there.
When did you arrange this alpha
bet?" Captain Whitsett asked.
That one! asked Sharp in a
quick, eager voice, which is charac-
teristic OF him.SI invented it when
met Eunice. She inspired it. As we
used 1t more and more l changed
some OF the characters and improved
It. 1t was the best one ever made.
Ever since l was a boy liked to de-
wise cipher codes. At first. when she
told me Of her mistreatment at the
hands OF her father, we used the code
SO that my wife wouldn't find out
Then her parents became unfriendly
and the code became doubly neces-
sary. Eunfce always burned the
notes."
How the Code Was Planned,
Sharpe worked out the alphabet
carefully. Each, of (his characters
suggested in some way the letter rep
resented. For some he drew pictures
which could be associated with the
letters. For the letter &c" he drew a
wavy line which represented the sea
waves. "P" 10 represented by dot,
which meant a pea. The letter %"
was the picture Of a braid or a queue.
The letter "z'' is combination of the
letters IS" and &C" which two sounds
nearest approach that of "Z." For
TT he drew a picture that looked a
little like tea cup. Il" is a circle,
suggesting the dot over the small "i.'
20" is two small circles.
II lived over the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist school,. he said, land when
Eunice went into the schoolhouse we
| would exchange notes. In school be-
hind her book she wrote the answers
which we would pass to each other at
recess time. With this code we were
sure no one could read our notes and
they couldn't, could they?" he added,
proudly holding out the sample.
Don't hold II against me. My wife
Is good woman and didn't want to
cause her pain. l loved her, but she
was not the proper mate for me. She
was cold and practical and when l
wrote her letter from here express
I, ing my willingness to come back she
answered that; 1 ought to bring
enough money to pay my debts first.
l didn't like her material spirit. My
spirit is peculiar one and only Eu-
nice seemed to understand it.
His Wife Still Loves Him.
Mrs. Lillian Sharp, the pastors
wife, according to her husband, had
known his affection for the women
and children of the Adventist church
and school and never complained un-
til her husband converted Eunice and
the rest of the Whitaker family and
became intimately acquainted with
the girl. April 25, charges were made
that the pastor was paying too much
attention to the women of the con-
gregation and he resigned. Shortly
afterward his wife left him.
After he left Schenectady. Sharp
wrote to his wife. June 30 she ans
wered the letter. She wrote in part:
1T seems almost impossible that
! you could do such thing il you love
me as you claim. 1t seems SO strange
that you could think we were against
you, but 1t must be that Satan used
the stubborn side of your character
to furnish his own ends. The debts
you have contracted must all be set
tied before you can come home and
right this wrong. l have always low
ed you, not in the gushing, what I call
sentimental way. but am true to you
in every sense of the word. l believe
Brother Whitaker is innocent of the
charge against him, and l think you
do to-
Sharp is Willing to Return.
Sharpe was caught after he wrote a
letter to the chief of police in Schen-
ectady. June 80. In his letter he ex-
pressed willingness to return and re-
ceive punishment. William H. Hath
away, the sheriff in Schenectady, tel
egraphed Captain Whitsett that he
would be in Kansas City Tuesday to
take the two with him. Sharp is in
the holdover. The girl is in the ma
irons room at headquarters. Sharp
formerly was Methodist but was
| converted to the Adventist faith at
Rochester, N. Y, twelve years ago.
A man who said he knew Sharpe in
Schenectady applied to Captain Whit
sett for permission to see him yester-
day. 1t was refused.
"I have no friends" said Sharpe.
when told of it, except Eunice and
my mother"
Eunice, dressed in blue jacket and
dress, was suffering from earache
yesterday. She said the charges
Sharpe made against her father were
true.
Il did not dare trust anybody but
Pastor Sharpe" she said. "Nly moth
er did not sympathize with me and