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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12

Of halferected buildings on Kingsway,
At a signal from Crewe we fell back
a little.
How do you know that is the
MANI" l questioned hurriedly.
He bears the mark of the beast"
Crewe returned.
THE beast?"
Look at his collar"
l crept UP more closely and sud-
denly perceived. upon the cheap eel
luloid collar that the man wore, the
Identical hen-track-three finger
marks. clearly outlined-that Crewe
had drawn upon the paper. A sud-
den sense of horror almost overcamc
me. l fell back again and waited for
Crewe to join me.
What are you going to do?"
! whispered.
Seize him-at an opportune mo
/ ment"
1t was night now, and the thorough.
, fare, which was not yet installed with
street lamps, was SO dark that we
could discern our man only as a shad
ow moving among shadows. He
stopped before the flank of a new
building from little cells in whose
walls lights cleaned fltfully. I knew
it to be one of the County Council
structures for the housing of poor
persons, but could not imagine fol
what purpose the robber intended
breaking in.
He hesitated a moment. then moved
round toward the end of the block
And suddenly was enlightened As
though emerging out of squalor into
fairyland, | saw before me the splen
did new Wemyss hotel, fronting upor
the Strand. Now the robbers pur
pose was made clear If he coulC
ascend that blank wall of the lodgin.
house for fifty feet and more-if, like
a fly, he could climb that APPARENT,
impossible structure, he could gail
the unlit back court of the hotel anC
have each tier of rooms at his mercy
while their occupants were dining O.
enjoying themselves at some place O
entertainment. It was a daring con
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12

sacked. No clue has yet been dis
covered as to the identity of the MUIR
derer. although a foreign-looking man
had been observed lurking in the
vicinity recently. Mr.. Deans house
stands alone in extensive grounds;
1t is a perfectly plain brick structure,
and the robber appears to have en-
tered through the window of the third
story, on which is Mr.. Deans bedroom,
though how he contrived to effect an
entrance without foothold remains for
the present mystery"
81 suspected as much" said Crewe.
THE fellow is so emboldened by the
success OF his first attempt that un-
less he is caught a series of crimes
will follow We must get him this
afternoon"
You think it was the same man.
Undoubtedly" said Crewe. But
to make sure. let us take the train
for Noting Hill Immediately"
We arrived there an hour and q
half later. The grounds were packed
with an immense throng, whom the
police were Intellectually endeavoring
to- dispense Crewe stopped anG
focused his eyes upon the building.
What's your business 'ere?" de
manded a policeman roughly. Move
on there"
Crewe turned abruptly and left th'
grounds. THE same tracks" he nut
tered. Now, Langton, we must catcl
this fellow tonight"
/ viii you not tell me the sig-if
canoe of the markings?" l asked.
Not now. Langton. l want TO benz
every effort to apprehending the muT
derer. Luckily this will not be diff
cult. Since the police imagine him t
be an Italian, he will have no incer
tive to Disgusting his true nationality
You know the Spanish quarter"
Bloomsbury" said
I'VE shall find him there. Thes
people would rather die than live out
side their own neighborhoods. Watc
for a man with a sack"
"a sack?" l queried
Yes" said Crewe impatiently. al
will not dare to maintain the organ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
Few Arrivals.

''He says the first thing that comes
into his mind"
THAT being the case. I presume
there are long intervals of time in
which he says nothing"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
Similar Sensations,

Meet any icebergs ON your way
across?'
mo; but several of US tried to fiirt
with Boston girl who was on board"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
Solves a Deep Mystery.

tom of my heart wrote c. Is. RAIDER
of Lewishurg, w. Va, ''for the wonder.
ful double benefit | got from Electric
Bitters, in curing me of both a severe
case OF stomach trouble and of rheu-
matism, from which had been an al
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for me" For dyspepsia, indigestion,
jaundice, and to rid the system of kid
ney poisons that cause rheumatism,
Electric Bitters has no Equal Try them.
Every bottle is guaranteed to satisfy
Only 80 cents, at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12

Chamberlains Cough Remedy never
disaL poiats those who use it for OBJ
stinatl coughs, colds and irritations
of thu t;sToat and lungs. II stands I'M
riyailed "a a remedy for all throat and
lung diseases. Sold by all druggists.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19

Thursday night, when he went 10 the
Haslett house at the request OF Dr.
Deyo, and consented to subscribe 10 the
will. In his opinion, as physician he
declared that Mr.. Haslett was OF souno
mind and both physically and mentally
capable Of executing such document.
Barred from House. Says Lord.
DR.. Minton, who. had been attending
the old man. John C. Stapleton, the day
nurse; Mr.. Lord and Martha B. Law, the
housekeeper, all made affidavlts that
they had not been allowed to enter the
house on Saturday, when Gardner anu
the others held possession.
Mrs. Gardner met her husband at the
police court yesterday morning. Gard
ner appeared as his own lawyer When
he was arraigned and succeeded in get
ting the magistrate to reduce tS bail
from 5000, which the court first named.
to $4,000. A clerk from the National
Surety Company, OF No. 115 Broadway,
with bail for the prisoner
shortly afterward. With his wife and
his cousin, John Sanderson, Gardner left
court and went to his home in an auto
mobile.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
REN0UNCES KIMMEL'S KIN
White Has Lost Affection for Al
legged Mother and Sister.

st. Louis, Feb 1s.-Andrew J. White,
claimant in the Kimmel mystery case. now
on trial in the United States District Court,
renounced Mrs. Estelle Kimmel and her
daughter, Mrs. Edna Bonslett, mother and
sister of the missing George A. Kimmel, as
his mother and sister to-day.
These women are no longer my mother
and sister," the claimant said. II mean,
Of course, that they are my blood relatives,
but feel no kinship for them.
"Our relationship is dead. 1t was killed
by their actions toward me in this litiga.
ton"
Despite this the claimant referred TO
them as mother and sister
"As 1 sat in the courtroom and heard
mother disown and discredt me-" he said,
something within me seemed to snap and
/ gave up hope of ever being reconciled
with them. Up to that moment there had
been a lingering hope perhaps that we
might be reunited, but I do not feel that
way now l am against them from row
on. l will see this thing through. | will
hight their case in every way | can. ] feel
eTly interest in Edna. was engaged to
the loveliest girl in Michigan, and would
have married her but for Edna, who was
sick, and | gave my sister the money
had saved to be married on. Had II not
been for that / might have been an hon.
ored man now instead of an outcaSt, an al
legged impostor."
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
WEDDING PARTY LOST
New Workers Finally Get to
Greenwich in Taxi.
Tgy Telegraph to The Tribune ]

Greenwich, Conn, Feb. IA wedding
party Of five, which left New York at noon
to-day IN a yellow taxicab bound for
Greenwich. arrived here at o'clock. tired
ont and the bride complaining Of a head
ache, due to the excitement Of becoming
lost. The party thought they were in
Port Chester when they were really at
Valhalla, they said. The taxicab attracted
attention everywhere, and the bride-to-oe,
who was attired in white. with a pink
pieture hat, announced the forthcoming
wedding, as well as old shoes and tin cans
would have done.
After inquiring they found the town
clerk, Robert Wellstood, secured their IL
cense and went to the home OF the Rev.
H. B. Alley a Baptist clergyman, where
they were wed. Mrs. Alley providing cam
phor for the headaches OF the three women.
The bridegroom gave the name OF George
Thuken, jr., divorced, Of Brooklyn, and the
bride was Miss Frances Tonaszewska,
daughter Of Thomas and Mary Bush. They
forsook the taxicab at the Greenwich sta
tion and returned to New York by train
II became known to-day that DR.. William
s. Maynon. q New York surgeon, divorced,
aged thrty-three, and Miss Alice Gardener.
of New York. a widow, aged thirty-three.
were married here by the Rev. II. B. Alley
on st. Valentines Day. The bridegroom
came here on February 10. got the mar
rIage license and arranged with the min
lister to wed them on February IA.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
PANAMA CANAL OPENING
This Port Should Prepare for
Responsibilities, Saws T0mkinS.

Fhlladelphia, Feb 1s-Touching upon the
sisnlncance to American commerce of the
t"eAlh international CO. gre or nayiga-
'ioh' "hich will begin It's sessions In i
Guy on May @, Calvin Tomkins, Dock
Commissioner Of New York, expresses the
we" that the impending opening of the
rdhama canal and the completi~n of the
Ellie Canal make these coming sessions
douoly important. MIR. Tomklns said, in
part:
ne questions connected with the passing
OF cunlmerce through the Parana Canal
are OF worldwide interest, ana tue DOM
natIHg influence Of the Uni.ed STATES over
tne cahal Itself, considered in clnnecu IN
VIII VIII tne TACT tLat our country is Lot PEE
e,hllhehtiy a maritime counIry, and that
the ships OF other nations win use the
caHdi more than our own, make the situa-
tion an exceedingly interesting one.
New YORK, as tue create seaport Of all
the world, should, in my juds m mt, take
the most cosmopolitan and catholic view
or the International responsibilities of t1e
country. Tle development OF its own COM
merce i should naturally prompt it to ad-
vocate policy OF unrestr cted connective
international freedom of exchange. II the
united states shall moderEiZe its shipping
laws. New York will promptly becom. the
great port of commercial exchange between
the Occident and the Orient
Up to the present time the city CT New
York has dore little or nothing to prepare
for It's added responsibilities on TIL. COM
pletion Of the al. No compI ehens.ve
plan for the organization and administ a.
ticn Of the port has been adopted by the
city, although plan has been propo sed
by the, DOCK Department. Railroad and
steamship terminal improvements have
been at standstil for three ye RS past.
and the city government has rot civ, n
attention TO questions of rort organization.
There is no congestion a o nd the hart or
of New York. except along the We Side
OF Manhattan. connected with the handlr g
OF the local freight and food supplies OF
that district, but a fase impre oI Eas
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
MANY HEARINGS AT ALBANY
Sporting Men Will Fight Repeai
Of Boxing Law.

Albany, Feb. 1S.-Sporting interests
throughout the state are arranging to SEND
large delegation, fortified with mon
ster petition. to the hearing on the repeal
of the Frawley boxing law before the JOINT
legislative Codes committees on TUESDAY.
They will make q hard fight against lhe
repeal of this law, arguing that the state
Athletic Commission. which it created IS
now working smoothly and that the causes
for complaint which characterized It's
work in the beginning nave been removed.
a On Wednesday these committees VIII
hear arguments on various bills relating
to matrimonial actions.
The bills providing for an annual exam
ination of savings banks and the regula-
tion of the interest rate according to the
surplus will have Joint hearing before
the Banking committees on Wednesday
Frederick b. Stevens, secretary of the
Savings Banks Association Of the State or
New York and treasurer of the National
Savings Bank, Of Albany, is endeavoring
to have every savings institution in the
state represented. and has arranged a
luncheon in honor of the expected visitors
on Tuesday and Wednesday several
bills relating to conservation topics VIII
be heard before the joint Fish and Game
committees. The measures to be consid-
cred will include bill providing for pri-
vate auxiliary forest preserves. the state
offering as an inducement to waive taxes
for period Of fifty years and to furnish
planting stock at cost. providing certain
specified regulations are complied with.
on Wednesday the joint judiciary COM
mittees will consider various measures re-
lating to employers liability and the COM
pensation of workmen, including the pro-
posed constitutional amendment estah.
fishing a system of state accident insur-
ance. The question of fares, trar sfers
and other matters relating to street rail-
ways in New York City will have an air.
ing before the Railroads committees on
Wednesday.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
HURT IN MOVING PICTURE FIRE
Operator Burned and Girl Trampled in
Rush for Door,

Films caught fire in a moving picture
show at No. 74l5 Fifth avenue. Bay Ridge,
last night during the final performance,
and the operator and young girl were
injured. Richard Scott, the operator, ran
out Of his cage and told Manager Roland
Mcdonald what was the matter. and then
returned to fight the fire. Scott went to
the front Of the house. told the people
there was small fire and asked them to
go out quietly. Instead Of obeying his re-
quest they dashed pell nell for the exits
which had been thrown open.
Despite the precautions of the ushers
several women and children were trampled
and bruised. Miss Pauline Schamp. six
teen years old, of 40. 1872 Greenwich
street. Manhattan, was bruised, and was
treated in drug store by DR.. j. J. Carey,
of No. 47S 18th street, Bay Ridge Scott,
who was painfully burned about the face
and hands, was also attended by DR..
Carey.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
ENGLISH WRITER KILLED
Macmillan AppeIbauer Shot
Through the Heart.
ACCIDENT, SAYS B0ARDER
Young Man Picked Up at Dance
Explains That Rife Went On
in Sight Test.

The Newark police are investigating
fatal shooting which occurred at NO. Of
whitney street that city. yesterday morn
ing. Macmillan Appelbauer. OF LONDON
England, twcnty-six years Old poet and
magazine writer. who lived at that ad-
dress, was shot through the heart with
bullet from a magazine rifle. Mieczyslaw
rorski. twenty-four years old. who became
q boarder on Saturday night in the Appel
bauer home, held the gun and is under
arrest. He says the shooting was acci-
dental
Detectives spent four hours talking with
Mrs, Apoelbauer to whom the dead man
had been married but a year, and she will
be further quizzed this morning. She says
she was in another part of the house when
the shooting took place. and the police
have thus far been unable to learn any
thing to the contrary. She told the de-
tectiyes she was married in London. 1t
was understood from her talk that Appel
bauer was man Of some Importance IN
the literary world.
Gorskis story is that shortly after oreak-
fast Appelbauer brought out the rihe 10
show IT, He removed the magazine, ana
Gorski, thinking this fully unioaded the
weapon, says he put II TO MS shouIueT W
try the sight, and pulled the trigger The
remaining bullet killed Appeloauer. All
Mrs. Appelbauer could tell the police aoout
the shooting was that when she heard the
shot she rushed to the kitchen. Go7ski was
then holding Appelbauer in his arms
The boarder then went locking for doc
TOR. and after an hour he telephoned TO the
police. Gcrski and the Appeloauers met
for the first time at dance week ago
Saturday. The couple invited him. with
others, to dinner the next day. Then the
subject Of Gorski becoming boarder was
discussed, and he took his room Saturday
night.
GorsM is a machinist and has been IN
this country FIVE years. He told the ponce
that among his English speaking acquaint'
ances he was known as Max Hill ne
will be held for further investigation.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
DR.. JOHN MEARs DIVORCED
Wife Charged That Insurance Adjuster
Ignored Her.
nv Tciegraph to The Tribune.

Reno. New. Feb. 1S.-Mrs. Anna f. Mears,
of BROOKLYN. yesterday obtained divorce
from Dr. John Mears. adjuster for the Pa
c!he Mutual Insurance Company OF New
York. Mrs. AIcars In her complaint alleged
that her husband persisted in getting into
debt and Ignoring his obligations. to her
continual deep modification. and needless
10 her remonstramces and lmploratlons. and
10 avoid her further counsel he became IN
different to her and ignored her completely.
She also said she was compelled 10 leave
her husband. In compliance with his assur-
ance that ne had no further use for her.
She further alleged that lie provided her
only with the necessities OF life. remained
away from home with other companions
and that another woman figured In his life.
Mrs. Mears is daughter Of Peter Rob-
ertson. OF Kansas City. Mo. She is MEM
Der Of the board OF managers of the Brook
iyn Orphan Asylum and active in various
other charities and church work in Brook
Ign.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
FIGHTS AT PICTURE SHOWS
Two Employees Hurt in Different
Houses-Boy of IA Arrested.

Patrolman Fred Rocs dragged Jacob
Zadek fourteen-year-old Office boy. into
the Clinton street station house last night
and charged him with stabbing Samuel
Dobin, seventeen-year-ol lad, in a NOV
irg picture house at No. p Suffolk street.
Dobin, who is an employe OF the theatre,
said Zadek made disturbance, and when
he attempted to put the boy out he was
stabbed. The house went in,o a panic, but
every body got out safely DR.. Grabins k
took Dobin to Gouyeneur Hospital. Zad k
lives at No. 65 Norfolk street and Do5in
at No. 1871 Orchard street
Just afterward Is2dore Greenberg, of No.
l26 East ISth street, came staggering into
the station house, accompanied by a pa
trolman. His head was bruised and cut
and he had suffered a bad be ltin;. o. g
ear was almost tern off. He sail he wa )
an usher in a moving ricture 10 Sc at No.
LIS Delaney street, and when he tried 10
put crowd of half-grown toys out they
attacked him in the dark He could not
describe any of them.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19

q mower Of attorney for Gardner APP
peared shortly afterward. Decker tur"eu
away DR.. Minton, Mr.. Lord ana others
when thcy appeared at the house iater'
at Gardnor's orders, he said.
In answer TO further question Deck
or said that he told Gardner Saturday
that he needed something for expenses
and he gave him $50. He said thal he
had bought medicine and wanted the
money for that The nurse SAID that
the old man had signed the second VIII
and the power Of attorney for Gardner
at the same time. Asked TO oescrloe
the natient's mental condition, ne salu'
.'N ell. he was mentally incompetent.
He was absolutely incomretent he
would do anything that was directed 10
be done and, as he is deaf, and very
deaf unless you are right by him you
could read any paper in front of him
and he would not know the contents
DIR. ]. F. Deyo, Of No. 3O3O Ocean
Parkway. Brooklyn, and Or. Hiram E.
Turner. Of No. 426 9th street, Brooklyn
both made affldavits explaining lnelr
connection with the case and how they
came to sign the wills. DR.. Deyo said
he had been summoned to the house on
Thursday by telephone, having been
told that he was wanted to act as a sub
scribing witness to a will. He had not
known Mr.. Gardner before that time
and did not know then that he was re-
tanning his services. When he was
called The second time on Thursday to
sign the second will he brought DR.. Tur-
ner with him, he said. because he felt
there might be a question as to the
validity OF the WILL and he wanted to
have another physician present as a
witness"
DR.. Turner said that he had been un-
acquainted with Mr.. Gardner until last
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
PRAISE FOR NEGRO RACE
DR.. Hills Refers to It's Progress IN
+, Meeting at Plymouth Church.

A public meeting was held last night a.
the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in the In
terest OF Fisk University. negro college
at Nashville, Tenn. The purpose OF the
meeting was to arouse enthusiasm for con.
tributions to the $4,000 fund wanted for
the endowment OF the college.
The Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills pas
tor of the church, said there were nine
million negroes in this country who wers
calling for leaders Of their own race. He
declared that the solution Of the industrial
and economic problem in the South was
the uplifting of the negro.
"The negro race has made more progress
in the last fifty years than any other race
under Gods heavens" said Mr.. Hills.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
LACROIX WEEDS MRS. BAILEY
Found Preacher Who Didn't See
Their Divorce Papers.
TBy telegraph to The Tribune.

TBv telegraph to The Trlbune.l
philadelphia, Feb. 1s.--After two Clergy-
men had refused to marry them on the
grounds that both had been divorced, Pau
Louis jacques LacroiX, the American rep
resentatjve Of a French automobile con-
Germ. and a member Of the New York
Motor Club. was married yesterday to ldrs.
Susie F. Bailey also OF New York. oy the
Rev. DR.. William B. Chalfont pastor OF
the Thirteenth Street Methodist Episcopal
Church.
II was only after they had raced Ground
the city in a taxicab, after obtaining
marriage license at the City Hall, that the
couple, upon finding two ministers in the
southern section Of the city unwilling to
ioin them in wedlock. finally prevailed upon
the Rev DR.. Chalfcnt to come TO their
rescue
The latter explained that Y. Zen he mar
ried the automobile man and his bride. he
was unaware that they had already failed
70 induce the Rev. D. Stuart Moore, pastor
of the Scots Presbyterian Church, and the
Rev. Henry w. Stringer, of the South
Broad Street Baptist Church, TO unite
them
The Rev. DR.. Chalfont also declared that
he was unaware that Lacroixs first wife
had been the plaintiff in the divorce pro-
ceedings which parted them at White
Plains. y. Y, on June last, but that ne
had been under the impression that La
croix had been the one who had obtained
the divorce.
The Rev. DR.. Chalfont appeared much
perturbed over his having Become involved
in the taxicab ride of Lacroix and his
bride, which finally ended, after he had
married them at his home, in their depart
ing for Atlantic City.
II did not see their divorce papers" he
said. Il am sorry now that / did not,
although it is not required Of us to ex-
anime such papers before we marry d.
vorced persons"
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
MURDERER PREFERS TO BE SHOT.

Salt Lake City, Feb 1s.-Death by shoot.
ing was chosen by Harley McWhinney yes
terday. when the court. before passing
sentence. asked him how he preferred to
die for the murder of c. L. Erickson
March 25 was fixed as the day of execu-
tion. The state law allows condemned men
to choose between hanging and shooting.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19
SIXTY-FIVE YEARS A NUN
Venerable Religeuse Celebrates the An.
niyersary Quietly.

Madison, N j., Feb. IS (speciaD. The
slxty-ffth anniversary OF Mother Mary
Xavier Michigan as a nun was observed by
her at the Convent OF st. Elizabeth quietly
on Friday. She is the founder and thus far
the only mother superior OF the Sisters OF
Charity Of New Jersey. She is now in her
eighty year. At her request there
was no public mention Of the arrival of the
anniversary. There We're no outsiders at
the mass to celebrate the event, which was
held by the Rev. Joseph Gately.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-19

Any one of these publishers, by sending
representative to see the various dealers--a
large lst-misht have disposed OF his surplus
at profit But that would have taken time.
1t would be very expensive. And it would
cheaper a house to have its publications of.
fered generally by slow distributing mediums
at reduced prices.
So They Come to Wanamaker's
The books in this years list include volumes
of the first character, many Of which will
delight the heart of the collector. There are:
Illustrated Books
Books of History and Biography
Books of Travel
Books of Essays and Character
Religious Books
Books for Boys and Girls
Books for Very Young Folk
And Novels-the regular S15O editions for 25c.
The prces-from 50 to 80 per cent. less
than publication prices-apply only to the
l25,000 volumes included in the sale, and will
hold good only so long as they last.
Main floor, Old Building