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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14

OIdyoaS anu '0"oiS
p Daggett & Sons.
Drugs, Wall Paper and Pal
Clark Drug Store.
Sargent's Drug Store. =
Owl Drug Store.
Ho;mann's Drug Stort.
Crescent Drug & Book Co.
w. H. Mynard Drug Co. "
F. z. Kidd & Co.
Davis Drug Co.
Central Drug Co.
Opera House Drug StO.e.
Electrical Supplies.
Polling Electric Co. .
Fuel, Feed and Flour.
Roseland Fuel Co.
Ottumwa Fuel Co.
w. w. Cummings.
Citizens & Mowery.
e. M. Robertson.
J. F. Black.
Crescent Fuel Co.
Pioneer Fuel 90.
Dan r. Shea.
Furniture - Carpets:
w. H. Cooper & Sons.
Hall-Ekfelt Furniture Co.
Martin Furniture Co.
8 ard 10c Stores.
Putnam & Bridgeman.
s. S. Kresge & Co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14

Mitchell & Seaburg.
Standard Grocery.
]. N. Shindley.
T. M. Thornberg.
Shadley s. Crisswell.
Frank Schafer.
Fletcher & Schultz.
Randol & Rhoades.
B. A. Warren.
J. A. Swanson.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14
DRAIN TILE
Fer prices and informal ior write
Morey Clay Products Co
OTTUMWA, IOWA
Tri-W eekly Courier
CHANGING ADDRESSES.

Subscribers wishing their address
changed will please give the name OF
the postoffico to which the paper has
been sent 40 well - the postOf1ics
where they desire It to b changed to.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14

Caughlin & Van Dyke.
J. F. Dings.
Fred Eaton.
SchwarZenbach & Co.
w. A. Humiston.
J. L. Graham.
Ben Grotz.
Mrs. E. H. Lewis.
w. l. Peck.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14

Mrs Frank Ballard Of Prophetstown,
Hill, has returned to her home after a
visit at the w. B. Wendell home, 40
North Wapello street.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14

Bakeries.
Lowenberg's Bakery. rs.
Ranges Bakery.
. -. Books.
LongfelloH Book Store.
Crescent Drug & Book Co.
~ Cigar Stores.
Reed & McQuaid. -
Norfolk News Co.
Clothing.
Dysart & Pearson Clio. Co.
Iowa Clothing & Shoe Co.
Peach & Cresswell.
J. B. Sax Co.
Martin Clothing CO.
J. H. Anderson. ..
Cramblit & Polling.
Truefit Clothing & Shoe Co.
Doty Clothing & Shoe Co.
cloaks and Suits.
Nelson Cloak Co., Ladies' Ready.
to wear goods.
n. Scase Co., Ladies' Ready-to-
wear goods and millinery.
Carriages, Automobile Repairing
and General BIaoksmIthIng.
J. A, Belmont. 8~s
Confectionery.
Dan r. Shea. ..'s vs.. .......
Puritan. .. ,a.a... g..
Department Stores. :.
Donelan, w. J. & Co.. Dry Goods,
Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Goods,
Millinery, Hair Goods. Cosmetics,
Notions, Carpets, Shoes, Mems
Furnishings, Etc.
James Swirles, Dry Goods.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14

Globe Tea Co.
Gibbons Grocery Co.
Farmers Grocery Co.
Frasier Grocery Co.
East End Supply Co.
Eugene Burnaugh.
Otto Bremhorst.
M. F. Chisman & Co.
D. J. Griffith.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14
GrOcerS

Model Market.
M. H. Blake.
Thomas Cation.
S. j. Seistrand.
J. s. Swenson.
Henry Throne.
Geo. D. Head & Co.
\. p. Anderson.
Keyl-oe's Grocery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

pathy for my poor anxious family.
But get the story-and make
the operation an incident.
The strange pungent odor of
ether and iodiform strikes you the
instant you enter; the very walls
reek with it.
They take your pedigree at the
office, and white-capped nurse
comes tripping down the long cor
ridor to escort you to your room.
Right here is where you begin
to let your eye wander toward
the door. and speculate whether
you could reach it-and freedom
before they'd yank you back
again.
1t is a nice little room they
show you into, with bare walls
and a pathetically small cot-very
clean.
One goes to bed quite naturally,
for a few hours. and then there
is a gentle rattle outside the door.
1t is the wagon, and it has
come for you!
One climbs gingerly aboard the
narrow slab on rubber-tired
wheels, and the march begins.
/ know now, just how a con-
demned murderer feels when he
begins the march to the death
chamber where the gibbet or cleo
trio chair awaits him.
How bright and clean it is in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
PRISONERS CAUGHT PLAYING POKER
AND COCKTAILlNG In QUIET CELL

(By United Press Leased Wire
NEW YORK, Jan. IA shake
ur among the keepers in charge
of prisoners in the Tombs was
forecasted today as result of an
unexpected visit to the Jail last
night by two assistants of District
Attorney Charles S. Whitman.
who found unmistakable signs of
poker party" in the cell of John
Mcnamara, San Francisco saloon
keeper, who is held here in con-
nection with the $274,OOO rob-
berry in September, 1911, of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
And that is all!
n Il 4

You talk very silly to the
nurse when you're coming out. -
Maybe you tell her she's an an
gel, or perhaps you cuss little.
| did both.
Then you get strong again, and
you go away.
But sometimes you come back.
Just as l did.
So a fortnight after the
first trip to the little white
room with the white porce-
lain table i'm it, had to go
back again.
Another operation!
What murderer. ask you,
what fiend so terrible, had ever
to go twice to the death-house?
But for the second trip, / had
no fears.
True, the second operation was
more serious. might never
come back, and maybe my wife
would have to spend quite a little
on mourning gowns-but-
knew the worst they could
do TO me; ! didn't mind a wind
storm nor cannonading in the
back of my head, and / smiled,
even, when the little rubber-tired
wagon came for me; smiled a bit
weakly, perhaps.
Now that the job is done. !
must fulfill the rest of it; l mus
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

the surgery!
Three sweet-faced girls chow
incongruous they look as butch
ers' assistants!) welcome" you,
and the surgeon and his assistant
stand by; all of them swathed in
white, even to their heads and
faces.
The knives and saws and the
needle-andtnredd are hidden
somewhere-thank Heaven for
so much
The transfer to the white por-
celain table, all aglitter with
nickel trimmings, is quickly done
with; they grease your face with
something, and a nice little white
dome is slid over your fair, young
face.
How like the death cap; that
was my thought!
And then the drip, drip, drip
of the ether liquid is the only
sound In the room, save for the
family audible breathing of one
of the nurses.
Maybe she was nervous
nurse; l thought of it, at the
time.
Several little wind-storms
start TO caper far. i'm the. back
of your head, something
seems TO be slipping away-it
is only the whole world-and
all of n sudden there is a
deep booming of cannons--
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
BY ROBERT. MANSFIELD.

BY RDBEISI- MANSElElID.
Ten years of daily famili-
arity with the record of
crime, disaster, ocean catas-
trophies, divorce courts, rail-
road smash-ups and death,
had hardened me, just as it
hardens other newspaper
writer's.
So
When the doctor had finished
humping me in the chest and had
glared ominously into my vitals
via my thorax, and had told me
that it was the hospital for mine,
/ dutifully trudged back to the
office here, and told the Chief
that I was going to be butchered
up a bit.
Then l 'phoned to my waiting
family, and shrieks of alarm from
the other end of the wire gave ne
a hunch; the Main Idea began to
penetrate my hide.
1t was I who was going to be
the actor in serious business.
"Finel" exclaimed the Manag-
ing Editor happily, when / had
told him. "It'll make a rich fea-
tufe story, and we'll have a pic
ture OF you, lying there cold and
still!S'
Wouldn't that startle you,
Helene?
Not a word from him hoping
I'd fecover, not a murmur of sym
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
CIVIL SERVICE
TO HOLD EXAMS


The U. s. civil service commits
sion announces that the following
examinations will be held in this
city on the dates mentioned. APP
plicants should apply at once to
the secretary. eleventh civil SER
vice district for application. blank
and full information. Mechanical
craftsman (male). $50 to sS5
per month, Feb. 8; electrical as
sistant (male), $1,000 -rer am
mum. Feb. 5; assistant horticui-.
turist tmale), $500 per annum.
Feb. 5; preparatory in entomol-.
ogy, $50 per month, Feb. &c;
messenger boy Seattle, s2s ~
month, Jan. 90.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
SAM BRIDGES FACES
THREE INDICTMENTS

Sam Bridges, who for a dozen
years sat at the clerks desk in
the federal court here, Is back
again today in the court room he
graced with his presence so long,
but not as clerk. He appears to-
day to be tried on three indict-
ments returned against him
charging embezzlement of funds
when he held the office.
Bridges is represented by At
torneys c. o. Bates and Walter
Harvey. The prosecution is being
conducted by District Attorney r.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
HUBBY TRIED
TO STEAL
WATCH?

While they were visiting in
Sacramento, Cal, according to a
divorce complaint filed today by
Mrs. Anna Hanson, her husband,
Hans Peter Hanson, struck her
down and attempted to steal her
watch.
This, the wife declares, is but
one of many instances upon when
her husband has beaten her bru-
tally. She alleges also that he
was in the habit of leaving her
without money and absentlng
himself from their home for long
periods.
The couple were married in
Tacoma in December, 1908.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

January 6, 1899, however, still
holds holds the record, for on
that date there was a nice blanket
of 16 inches of snow. 1t hung on
for a week or so at that time.
The weather bureau does not
go back to the time of what old
residents call the big snow,"
when there was said to have been
about four feet here, which Sim
ply tied up all sorts of traffic.
The chinook which struck here
last night, however, changed the
snow to rain and sent the ther-
mometer bounding upward. This
morning it was 1926 degrees at
the lowest and at noon it had
arisen to 42.5, and was still on
the upgrade.
This means trouble up in the
mountains, where there is said to
be at least IA feet of snow.
Teamsters who had their trou-
bles in Tacoma yesterday with
their horses slipping down, today
are wallowing through six inches
of slush and hauling small loads.
railways got DuSy WITH tnelr
snowplows yesterday, but they are
on the anxious seat today, fearing
the warm weather with the
weight of snow will precipitate
landslides all along the hills.
The Northern Pacific trains
were abopt 10 hours late this
morning. ,eing held up above
Kanasket by the deep snow. The
passenger train came down this
morning two hours late. There is
tremendous snow along Green riv-
er, the railway men say.
The Milwaukee reports its
track in good shape, with trains
coming through, although they
are couple of hours late, owing
to heavy snow in the hills.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

w alt IOf talm.
At noon the sturdy shoremen
were standing idly by waiting un-
til the subsistence of the gale will
permit another attempt to save
the two lives still apparently un-
taken by the furious storm.
There is hardly hope that
one man of the Roseerans' crew
struck the gale was sweeping
over the sands of the treacherous
coast at more than 60 miles an
hour. At noon it had subsidized to
barely more than 80 miles an
hour, but the terrific surf prac-
tically forbade any attempt at
rescue.
Doomed.
1t is almost a certainty that be-
fore nightfall the doomed tanker
will have been battered to
pieces. AS it is, she is practically
total loss, and the only hope
that remains is that the two sur
vivors may be snatched from the
shrouds before the vessel is en-
tirely battered by the seas.
Tried to Make the Bar.
The Rosecrans, which was for
merly a federal transport, went
ashore early this morning while
trying 20 negotiate the Columbia
bar in the teeth of a bowling gale.
She is wedged into the end of the
spit, where she lies exposed to the
full brunt of the storm Her
$4,000 cargo, consisting of 49,
600 barrels of crude oil, was
awash early.
The rigging to which members
of the crew might have clung for
safety is practically all down,
and there is not a member of the
crew in sight. The position of
the ship is l 5 miles northwest of
Astoria, and additional life-sav-
ers are being rushed from there
to aid the Cape Disappointment
crew.
JinkS Boat.
This was the second trip of the
Rosecrans to this vicinity. She
is known as the sinks" ship o
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
COAST? WHY
OF COURSE
SAYS MAYOR

Mayor Seymour wants the boy:
to be given free license to coast
on some of the hill streets when
there Is snow on the ground. He
says the street in front of his
home on North G from Fifth to
Ninth, makes fine coasting place
with a long gradual slope which
is steep enough, but not too
steep.
Commissioners Mills agreed that
the youngsters should have a
chance when there is snow. If
there Is occasion hereafter they
will probably be officially permit
ted to coast in front of the may
or's house.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

w. Coiner, assisted by First AS
sistant c. NJ. Riddell.
Bridges was removed from Of
flee over a year ago by the judges
of the circuit court sitting at San
Francisco, after Judge Hanford
had refused to act and insisted on
retaining Bridges in office. Short
ly after his removal from office
he was indicted by the grand Jury
at Seattle.
The morning was spent in try
ing to get jury and this will not
be completed before late this aft
ernoon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

branch Bank of Montreal at New
Westminster, B. C.
In Mcnamara cell were Percy
Davis, a republican alderman
who is serving a sentence; Jack
Sullivan, former member of Big
Jack Zelig's gunmen, and two
wire tappers, recently arrested.
1t was evident that the five pris-
oners had been drinking cocktails.
The keepers, it is alleged, warned
the party in time to hide the
cards and other gambling acces-
sories.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
PURSUIT OF
TURNOWIS
ON AGAIN
(By United Press Leased Wire.

(By United Press Leased Wire.
ABERDEEN, Jan. 7.-Sighted
by hunters in the woods, in the
eastern end of Mason county
John Turnow, noted outlaw OF
the upper Satsop country, was
seen for the first time in six
months yesterday. The chase has
been taken up by a posse from
this county and an armed force
gathered hastily near the scene.
Deep SHOWS are falling in the
foot hills.
Turnow was seen when two
hunters attracted by baying of
their hounds, found the dogs be-
fore the door of rude shack IN
the hills.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
JAPS CHARGED
WITH CRUELTY

Y. Tomanaka and N. Kawinari,
Japanese hog raisers, who are on
trial today in police court, charg-
ed with cruelty to animals, were
conducting their business in a
manner SO filthy as to be dan
gerous to the lives of those who
bought their animals, according
to the testimony in the case.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
CLUB WOMEN RISE
AGAINST SUGGESTION

Tacoma club women don't take
to the suggestion of Frank Ross
that the Americans and Japanese
intermarry. ~ et...stss
In fact the idea was greeted
yesterday with indignant protest
and the Aloha club, meeting with
Mrs. w. w. Seymour, adopted
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
REFUSED REQUEST.

Administering a severe verbal
flaying upon Mrs. Louise Web
ster, wife of John H. Webster,
proprietor of a North End apart
ment house, Judge Card late yes
terday refused the woman her re-
quest for a divorce and a division
of her husbands property, and
awarded a decree to Webster.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
FACES CHARGE
OF LARCENY

Robert T. Harris, alias Frank
G. Grant, is in the county Jail to-
day, facing a charge of grand lar
ceny, he having waived prelim-
mary examination before Police
Justice Arntson.
Vic Vixen is the alleged victim
of Harris
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

. O 9 o 9 % @ 8 o o o @ o 9 80 %
looked yesterday the
a
will looking for floods.
January S Tacoma.
yesterday inches. 1912,
71s inches. 1909 tuned with inches and by
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

resolutions denouncing the
scheme in unmeasured terms.
Mrs, John H. Williams who pre-
sented the resolution declared TO
contemplate such a condition is
an outrage.
There was no dissenting voice
among the club women.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
GREEKS MEET DEATH

BINGHAM, Utah, Jan. T.
Three Greek laborers and a shift
boss in the underground work
ings of the United Copper COM
pany We're buried beneath a slide
of rocks and earth here early
today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

the Associated Oil fleet on ac-
count of her having met a series
of mishaps since being taken over
by the company. A few years ago
she burned off the California
coast, and only her steel hull re-
mained. On the occasion of her
first trip to Astoria she was buff
feted by storms and lost part of
her deck works,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
MAYBE HE WAS

Albert Beck, an escaped convict
from North Dakota, is said to
have been in Tacoma recently.
He stopped but short time, then
fastened to Centralia, where all
trace of hin was lost.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
PROPEULERS GONE,

SEATTLE, Jan. 7.-The Alas
ka Pacific steamship Mariposa is
in drydock at Bremerton today
for repairs, having lost two of her
propeller blades during a stormy
voyage from Southwestern Alas
ka.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
HITS
ASTORIA BAR
TWO MEMBERS CREW CLING HELPLEsSIY TO MAsTs
OVER WATER, WHILE IFE-SAVERS AWAIT CALMING o
GALE
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

ASTORIA Ore JAM With only of her
known be alive, the
ROsecrans
terrific gale early today.
Battling wind 1ifesavers
disappointment esaying station
doomed Sailors a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
T. r. & y. PAYS UP.

The T. r. & p. company this
morning paid the Judgment secur-
ed against it by DR.. Thomas r..
Steagall for $500 for injuries
sustained on the line last year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

urn in my story.
Two grave operations In
thirty days-is that story i'm
teresting enough TO print?
The Chief says IL is, and
whether ii interests you or
net, let me dwell cmphatical-
~ upon this one item: IL i'm
terested me a whole lot!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
COLD HERE.

BAKERSFIELD, Cal. Jan. 7.
A temperature of six degrees
was reported today at Garfield,
Kern county, 100 feet above sea
level. Other Kern county points
report cold weather.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

For Tacoma and vi
cinity: Rain tonight
and w e d n G S d a Y,
warmer tonight.
For Washington:
Rain west, rain or
snow east portion to-
night and Wednesday,
warmer tonight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07
HIT BY SLED.

Jean Baker, 10, 924 South Sth
street, was hit by a sled and had
a leg broken. Pedestrians did a
lot of tumbling on the hill streets
and some bad bruises resulted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

. g o 90 o o o o . @ar> 90 o o 8 o 8 .
o YEP THESE ELKS ARE LIVELY. 9
9 SEATTLE, Jan. 7=August Hetlesaad, Snoqualmie 9
today vicious solar
pexus from clipper little e, whom he back
into the county corral with of When
ed there elk his They had
from the corral to which 40 elk recently brought from
9 Yellowstone for propagation g
& Q o o o o o o o . o o o 90 o o o o .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

PRAGUE, Jan. ASKED if he had any last
request to make, Rupert Krassinsky, condemn
ed to die, demanded boiled fowl stuffed with
tender partridge which in turn was to be stuffed
with lark, the lark to be stuffed with a truffle
and the latter with some olives. He got it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

TACOMA In
SNOW REVEL
0 ~~@@~@@e@~ o o % . 900 5000 o Q Q

January G. big snow day.
Eight inches fell yesterday.
Chinook winds now threaten bad floods,
Railway trains are late.
Sport of the coasters spoiled.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

o First chapter of Herbert =
o Quick's great serial appears y
o on page eight today. q
o g @ g 9 @ @ 9 @ 9 o p q . q .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

n ONT be glum, even if the snow did
jar you little today Turn to
the Times laughing section on
page four and have little chuckle;
there's laugh there.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-07

n ANDOM shots on the sport page Of
Il the Times will be certain to in
= terest you, even if you never
vent to ball game or boxing match in
vour life.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-12-16

lished a report discrediting the claim
OF the administration. Statistics we're
gathered in 80 principal cities OF u>
United States, and show comparison
of present prices with the average
that prevailed in the ten years from
1890 to 1900. Sugar has decreased 8
per cent. Everything else has In
creased. Some of the increases are
as follows: Pork chops, III per cent;
round steak, 1925 per cent; hens
76. 8 per cent; lard &c. % per cent; po-
tatoes, 4i.4 per cent; butter, 41.2 per
cent; eggs 40.S per cent; milk 1874
per cent; -four ESQ per cent.
The only way that the new tarifi
bill can reduce the cost of living IL
by reducing the means Of living. BY
shutting of industrial opportunity and
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-12-16
MONA LISA is
FOUND IN ITALY
Italian Who Stole Painting ArrC.ted
In Florence After a World
Wide Hunt

Florence, Italy, Dec. 13.-Leonar-
| do Da Vinci's masterpiece, Mona Lisa,
the mysterious disappearance OF which
| from the Louvre in August 1911,
threw the art world into constera-
| ton was found today in Florence.
The man who stole 1t was arrested.
| He Is an Italian.
Mona Lisa is one of the worlds
| most famous paintings and Is regard.
| ed as priceless. Leonardo Da VIM
CT took as his model for the picture
Liza Del Giocondo, woman Of Flor
enoe. He worked on the picture for
four years, from 1900 to 1904. 1t was
bought for France by Francis I.
Since the disappearance from the
Louvre of the picture, the search had
been world wide. 1t has been report
ed found in Germany, Russia, England
Spain and even in the United States.
The famous pointing had hung In
the place of honor In the Louvre In
room which was supposed to be al.
ways watched. 1t disappeared on the
morning of August 90, 1911, and its
absence from its accustomed place
was not noticed by its guardians un.
til some hours later, At first quiet
search was made In every nook and
corner of the museum and discreet
questions were asked Of the hundreds
Of copyists and photographers who
daily crowded the museum. The
questioning was all without result.
When the police authorities had
been informed they Immediately or
dered the museum closed. A thorough
search by detectives followed. They
found the empty frame lying on a
servants stairway in the museum
building but no trace Of the picture
which 1t had enclosed.
Paris. Dec. 10 The famous 10
condo was found today when the pic
ture was offered by EN- Italian resident
of Paris to an antiquary Of Florence,
according to an announcement made
by the French minister of public in
struct'on.
Both the picture and the Italian are
now incustody of the police Of Flor
ence.
81 stole the picture" said the man
~ xx,I,t ob
Napoleon committed In Italy"