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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

ror IN regard to any one of these letters
Brown would stop him and have the
letter produced as proof He knew more
about those letters than the men who
wrote them or to whom they were writ
ten.
This blind man is wonderful reader
of character. He seems to read the soul
through the mans voice. Just as some
men read the soul of a man through the
mans eyes. Few lawyers are more sue
cessful with witnesses than is this one
He never brow-beats, ridicules or IN
sultst. Calmly, patieItly, but insistent-
ly, he Keeps at a witness If the witness
is not telling the truth until he gets that
witness to state the facts correctly He
is a gentleman all the time.
He convicted the Monroes Few per-
sons expected such "a result, but Mr..
Brown never doubted. He prepared the
case against the Columbian- Sterling
crowd, but did not try it. Nearly every
internal revenue case in the New York
district was prosecuted by him and in
variably he obtained conviction. either
by the defendant pleading guilty or by
the jury's findings
One strange thing in connection with
Mr.. Brown is that a lot of persons who
have seen him conducting a case in court
and every jurors who have tried cases
he has conducted have not known that
he was blind. He carries himself as IL
he were seeing everything He retains
in his mind the position of persons, of
books, of papers, There is no cropping,
no hesitancy. He has the same con-
fidence that a sighted man has. Once
he hears a voice, he knows the person.
In court, first one lawyer, then another,
will pop into a dispute. The blind law
yer, all animation, will turn from one
to the other and be as easy In poise and
a : CfITA nf mo- nfAIa bn ho6
them all his life.
AS a lawyer, Raymond Brown has done
great public work, but as a blind man,
who has shown a way TO the blind he has
done greater one. There are scores of
, blind men who practice at the bar, but
nearly all of them become blind after
they had been lawyers for some years,
So far as is known. Brown is the only
blind man in the United States except
United States Senator Gore, who WAS
blind when he studied law.
Brown is no longer in the employ of
the government When Mr.. Wise went
out of office, the blind man went with
him. Now Mr.. Brown is of the legal
staff OF the American Tobacco company
Recently he has been very Ill, having
been stricken with pneumonia and Having
had to return to his old home at Dover
to recuperate.
Over in the grim old New York post
office, where the United States district
attorney has his office, the attaches love
to tell stories of the young blind law
yer. Some of these tales are almost
unbelievable. One is to the effect that
for three or four solid months, when en-
gagged in the preparation of case he
put In from eighteen to tewenty hours
day and never showed evidence of
fatigue or irritation. Another is that he
could tell the moment he went into a,
room the exact number of persons who
were present and exactly where they
We're standing or sitting. It didn't mat
ter whether it was a single office or a
large room or whether it contained two
persons or twenty.
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before | could say Jack Robinson, or
anything else, and locked up, but even
tually Sir Francis Knollys came down to
see me and had me released at once after
giving me the greatest going over ever
had in my life for going right up to the
princes bedroom like that OF course
| might have given the policeman away
but If had. he would have got into
trouble, as sure as fate. so | just to- k
my wigging. Then Sir Francis said taat
his royal highness would try on the suit
on the next day, and so he did. but it
proved too small He laughed when he
heard of the rapier incident and said -le
wished he could have it., but precedent
prevented him from accepting so valu-
able gift from a commoner As an
example of the late kings good hearted
ness and splendid memory, | may tell
you however," added Maltby, that when
my first book. Queen, But No Queen
came out his majesty wrote to me- say
ing that he would be willing to accept
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and my prizes included 81 cups, II medals,
considerable money and several pieces of
furniture. | began running at 10 and ran
my last important race when L was 3S.
This was half mile event at Kensal
Rise, and my son, who then was 20 ran
in the same race. / took the first rx'ize,
which was a handsome set of furniture,
and he took the second, a gold watch,
which he still wears.
I was fairly useful on the bicycle, too
Maltby went on. 'I rode against Arthur
Zimmerman at Herne Hill, and beat him
twice, but this, l should explain, was
a handicap race. I won two heats against
kim, but was disqualified in the second,
my starter having put his foot over the
starting line. He happened to be a man
of considerable means, and he was so
sorry for having lost me the race that
he presented me with replica of the
prize, cup paid for out of his own
pocket.
Another bicycle race of mine" said
Maltby. resulted in a rather grewsome
experience. In the course of the race
managed to run into lthe back wheel of
the man in front of me and after doing
SO, swerved across the track, ran over
small boy, crashed into the fence and
was flung right over the palings. When
| came to 1 was laid out in a mortuary,
my collision with the fence having
stopped my hearts action for the time
being. 1 was paralyzed for days after
ward, but then came round and soon
was as right as rain"
The tailor-novelist, it seems, started
out to be a physician and studied medi-
cine under a professional coach, but just
as he was making good progress, nis
father died unexpectedly and there was
no one else to take over his big business.
So the embryo novelist put aside his
dream of being sawbones. and likewise
siGetracked his literary ambitions, and set
to master his fathers trade, which he
eventually did, and today could cut a
ccat or sew on trouser braid as well
as one of his own men.
Apropos of his tailoring, Maltby told
a rather funny story. One of his in
ventions in the sartorial line was a
''united suit" coat, waistcoat, trousers,
collar and tie all complete, which made
something of a sensation when 1t came
out, purchasers thereof numbering. ac-
cording to Maitby, about half of the
peerage. including, among others, the
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of the great prosecutors of America. It's
not in getting convictions that his case
is worthy of particular note. but in the
remarkable way In which he prepared
himself to perform his duty and the
wonderful example he has given to the
world of what sightless man can accom-
plish.
One of the cases he prosecuted was
that of Wisner, 9. man accused of land
frauds in California Most of the lands
were in the mining district and mining
cut large figure in the literature that
Wisner put out. To fit himself to ham
die this case. the blind lawyer studied
mining. He had everything that was
valuable regading the subject read to
him. Then he went over every paper
and every book that had been seized
in Wisners office. For eleven months he
studied this case. Expert accountants
were with him day and night at one
time. They discovered that he was a
greater accountant than they We're If
they made the slightest error in giving
to him orally a transcript of what was
in the books. or IL they made the slight
est error when he was questioning them
a month, or three months later he would
call their attention to 1t instantaneous
" and have the matter cleared up be-
fore proceeding farther One of the ac-
countants said 1t was uncanny how this
lawyer seemed to carry a million figures
and thousand accounts in his mind
and know exactly what was right and
wrong in every instance.
When 1t came to the trial of the case
the mining men who testified were strtled
to discover that this blind lawyer knew
more about mining than they did Wit
nesses who endeavored to explain dis
crepancies In the books discovered he
knew more about bookkeeping, queer and
otherwise, than they had any conception
of, and the shrewd old lawyers for the
defense were not long In discovering that
the young man probably knew more
law than any of them. That case was
fought with exceeding bitterness on the
part of the defense. The trial lasted
two months. Brown never lost his tenn
per, never lost command of the situation
and never blundered IN regard to a fact
or a figure.
He prosecuted the firm of Monroe e
Monroe, the Wall street gentlemen who
did a large business in selling wireless
stock and whose establishment got to be
known as the laundry because the
two brothers. before coming to New York
to do some frenzied financing, were
haberdashers in Montreal. This Monroe
case was a hard one-almost as hadr
as the Wisner. The blind man never
permitted the real issue to be obscured
There had been fraud. People had been
swindled. He always went simply and
directly to the point andsalways checked
every effort of his opponents to escape
the issue. In this case he gave another
wonderful proof of his memory There
were two or three hundred letters with
direct bearing on the case. Twenty or
more witnesses had to testify as to these
letters As each witness was on the
stand, the letters that concerned him
We're brought into play, sometimes only
once. sometimes three, four or a dozen
times. He was questioned and cross
questioned. If he made the slightest err
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a copy of it, and that I might present
him with copy in the ordinary binding
instead of the costly vellum which is
usual"
What became OF the rapier-umbrella7 r..
demanded the interviewer
L sold it eventually" said Maltby,
with a chuekle. FOR just $50 more than
1t cost me-
The tailor-novelist is almost as deft
with his paint brush and palette as he
IS with his pen, and the walls of his
house, near Regent park, are covered
with his works. Among his other treas
ures he showed me several letters from
Heads of states accepting copies a his
novels the writers including the late and
the present King of England. the King of
Spain and President Poincare, and last,
but emphatically not least, William Ii
Taft, who, at the time of writing, was
occupying the White House. Meanwhile
Maitby has sent a copy of his latest book
to DR.. Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
BY E. L. SCOTT

present Earl of Arlington and the late
Montague Guest. The united-suit, now
ever. too expensive to make to allow any
profit worth mentioning, so in time as
inventor abandoned it.
In the first flush of enthusiasm over
the suit, however, Maltby conceived lie
idea of making one for the late King
Edward-then Prince of Wales-and, of
COURSE the arbiter of male fashions Tie
world overland got permission to do SO.
This, by the way. was in 1888. The suit
he produced was of black velvet, lined
with old gold satin, and when notified
that it was finished. the prince consented
to try it on, making an appointment at
Marlborough House. which then was ms
official residence, one morning at n:3o.
'.Of course was there on the minute,
said Maltby, land with me took a little
present which had made for his royal
highness in the shape of an umbrella IL
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was very special kind of umbrella.
though, for inside the handle was an e..-
tt emely thin Indian rapier. To get the
thing UP cost me a bit over 5000, 1 re-
member, and Isihought. it would please
the prince, for sword-canes were then all
the go. Well, to make a long story
shorter. the policeman on duty at Marl-
borough House rnistoolz me for friend
whom the prince was expecting and told
me to go straight up the private stair
case to his royal highness' bedroom and
SO did, passing several equerries and
grooms-in-w waiting, and sat me down, suit,
umbrella and all outside the princes door.
There / was waiting patiently when sud
denly the princes valet came out, pouneed
on me and asked me what in the deuce
/ was doing there Before | could ex-
plain, he picked UP my umbrella and ac-
cidentally drew the rapier and then there
was a tremendous to-do. was. arrested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

ONDON. August 16.-(Special. THAT
old saying that it takes nine tailors
- to make a man will have to be re-
vised if there are many more tailors like
Arthur Maltby. Maltby who carries on
business in the fashionable "West End, "
has just come into the limelight as the
author of historical novel, called, De
tanned by the I<ing''-which, it seems, is
the third he has had published-and he
proves also to be an eX-athlete with sew
eral world records, no end of scholar,
and a pretty fair artist in oils, as we'll
as the sole proprietor of an old establish
ed tailoring house which formerly num-
bered Charles Dickens, the novelist, Rob-
ert Browning, the poet, and Macready,
the actor among its customers
This tailor-novelist, who is 56, but still
looks the all-round athlete, standing just
over six feet, and possessing girth to
match devotes four days a week to his
regular business, and spends the other
three at Thorpe Bay, an east coast water
ing place, where he has house. working
on whatever novel he may have in hand.
All three of his books, Queen, But No
Queen" "Inez," and his latest one, De
tanned by the King are historical ro-
mances, and the one and only claim that
their author makes for them is that they
are true for, unlike Alexander Dunes,
Sir Walter Scott and lot OF less emu
nent novelists, Maltby doesn't take lib
critics with history to suit the exisencies
of his plots He writes his novels with
the most painstalling care-each one of
item has taken him over two years, hav
ing been rewritten four or more times
and he is absolutely indefatigable and
reckons expense no object in getting his
material for them.
Although my own life has been exeep-
tionally eventfIll." he said, when seen
al his shop, "and though | have met many
remarkable people, | cannot make copy
of what happens about me, but must
turn constantly to history. My plot-germs
come to me in the oldest and most unex-
pected way A musty old manuscript
about Judge Jeffreys which I picked up
on a secondhand book stall for eight
cents gave me the nucleus for my last
novel, and for the rest | make endless
visits TO museums and libraries, always
searching for the 70, gotten incident the
unpublished secret about by literary
heroes; kings who have died. Collecting
The material for Detained by the King
cost me nearly $500, and for my book 'Inez'
l sent a man to Spain to make extended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
Ronaaaces of the Business Word--A Sight1ess Wonder

Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
II OR weeks a jury in the United
States court in New York had
4 been trying one of the greatest
fraud cases in recent times. A group
of lawyers of unusual ability represented
the defendant. The case was one of re-
markable complexity. The swind1e had
been concealed with a cleverness that
did credit to the master crook who plan
ned it. The lawyers for the defense
used every artifice to make it appear
that their client had done no wrong
They befogged the issue, harried the OPP
posing witnesses, fought against the adj
mission of various forms of evidence and
did everything the trained men of the
law do in the cause of thier clients.
Against the imposing group of lawyers
for the defense was smooth-shaven,
mild-looking assistant district attorney.
He never lost his temper, never got
excited, never used harsh word Day
after day he met every attack and turned
II aside Day after day he tore the
veil of pretense and exposed the fraud
that was behind 1t Hundreds of docu-
prove the points he made. Day books
and ledgers in which much complicated
accounts had been kept had to be re-
ferred to many times. He never rad
from the books or papers, but had one
of his associates do the reading If the
associate had difficulty in finding the
particular entry referred to or the par
ticular thing desired in some bit of cor
respondence, the young assistant district
attorney told him the number of the
paper or the date of the letter. On points
of law he seemed to be able to quote
from all the authorities When one of
his opponents put wrong Interpretation
on any bit of evidence or a wrong con-
struction on any legal ruling the as
sistant district attorney corrected him.
The young man always was right.
When 1t came to summing up, he had
no notes to guide him. but went through
all the maze of that intricate swindle
checking up one fraud and another, lay
ing bare each slip the swindler made
and exposing trick after trick in the
elaborate system of bookkeeping the man
employed. And all the while he kept be-
fore the Jurors the state of mind of the
prisoner, the intent behind all his acts.
man who had followed the case from
beginning took a long breath when the
young assistant district attorney closed
his speech.
Goodness he exclaimed Hes a
wonderl He must have read law as
few men read it,
HE did" said dry-ioolxing man at
his side. HE never looked into a law
book in his life"
What do you mean?" demanded the
first man.
Just what I say" responded the dry
one. "Hes blind"
1t was true. The assistant United
States district attorney was Raymond
Brown, the sightless lawyer, who all
though not yet twenty eight years of
age, had representes the government in
some of the most important criminal
trials in the last five years. A United
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
Bachelors Lead in Crime

New York, August 16.-(Special.)-
Bachelor criminals outnumbered the
married ones in this city in the ratio
of nearly TO as shown In the annual
report of the district attorneys office.
There were 206S convictions of un-
married men and 7S9 convictions OF
married men in the last year.
OF the women convicted sc were mar
ried and 100 single.
A classification of the crime shows
that the married man is in the minorl-
ty in practically every crime except
attempted suicide.
OF the total number OF convictions
SsS were for second pfens'~
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bad boys and girls and so much bad
in good boys and girls that the diff
ference between them was largely acad-
emic, after all. The Junior republic
method of giving opportunity should be
open to all. When this step was taken
Prof. Liberty Hude Bailey of Cornell
said. "The Junior republic has developed
from a reformatory method to a great
educational principle
There are now eight junior republics in
different states of the union federated
into the National Association of Junior
Republics with headquarters In the Tri-
bune building, New York city Mr. George
is the national director. Last month a
similar community was started in Dorset,
England, known VS. "the Little Common
wealth.
An extension of the work has come
through the organization of the self
government committee" in New York.
Through its activities the junior repub-
lie principles have been applied to a
great number of schools and institutions.
There are 36 public schools in and about
New York city organized on some self
governing basis and the committee is In
touch with 100 more throughout the coun-
try. Self-government among youth is a
basic political as well as educational
movement. Just as children can only
learn to write or to read by reading, so
they can only learn political and social
thought and action through political and
social thought and action.
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freedmen, and in a suit that was car
r1ed to the supreme court their refusal
was upheld. The result has been that
there are more Indians with white
blood in their veins among the Chick
asaws than among any other OF the
five tribes. The ChicHhsaws never have
intermarried with negroes. The Chick
asaws were large shareholders previous
to the civil war. My mother. who was
half-breed Chickasaw, owned a large
number of slaves, as did my father, who
was white man.
dians in the five tribes of, Oklahoma
The number of pure -bloods varies
among the tribes, SO that while the
number of pure-blood Indians is de-
crcasing, it will be many years before
the native American is entirely extinct
IL that ever happens"
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-05-29
Notice Of Sheriff's Sale

In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for
Hood River County,
Security Savings and Trust Company,
a corporation, Plaintiff,
William Henderson Tobey, Charlotte
Ayres Tobey, his wife, Alfred Il. Allen
and A. b. Shelley, Defendants.
By virtue of an execution, Judgment order,
decree and order of sale issued out of the
ABOVE entitled Court in the above entitled
cause to me directed and dated the sth day of
May, 1918, upon a judgment rendered and en-
tered in said Court on the 9TH day ofApril,
1913 in favor of Security Savings and Trust
Company, a corporation, plaintiff and against
William Henderson Tobey and Charlotte
Ayres TObey, his wife, defendants, for the sum
of " $1,000, with interest AT the rate of seven
per cent per annum from the...............day of
December, 1911, and the further sum of S3(0 CO..
attorneys fees and costs and disbursements,
taxed and allowed at g.. .........., and the
costs of aud upon this writ commanding me
to make sale OF the following described real
property, to wit
The East half (Ei5) of the Northwest quarter
(NWl4) of Section Thirty (30), Township One
ID South OF Range Ten (l0) East of the VIII
lamette Meridian, containing eighty (S0)
acres, more or less
Now. therefore, by virtue of said execution.
judgment order, decree and order of sale and
in compliance with the commands of said
writ will on the 18th day of June, 1918. at 10
O'Clock a. m, at the front door of the County
Courthouse in Hood River, III cd River Coun.
ty, Oregon, sell at public auction (subject TO
redemption) to the highest bidder for cash in
hand, all the right, title and interest which
the within named defendants (or either of
them) had on the 2nd day of February. 1910.
the date OF the execution of the note and
mortgage described In the complaint In said
suit, or since that date had n and to the above
described property or any part thereof to sat
isfy said execution, judgment order aud de
cree, interest, costs and accruing costs
THOS. +. JOB NSON
Sheriff Of Hood River County, Greg IN.
Dated this 18TH day of MAY, 1913.
Date of first publication May IS, 1913.
Date of last publication June u 1913