Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
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LET No Man Escape"

LET No Man Escape"
John Brannon. ......... Richard c. rravers
Gordon Thorne. .............Joh John II. Cesar
Gunther, detective. ......... William Bailey
Carolyn Brannon's Age Age I Eleanor Kahn
| daughter, I Age IS, Ruth Stone
house.
1t was Gordon Thorne who killed
| Seaman, but when John BrannGn
awoke from his drunken debauch the
evidence pointed so strongly to his
being the murderer that Thorne had
no difficulty in convincing him that
the best thing he could do was to
| fly to the Canadian woods
Thorne had calculated that the
police would be deceived just as
Brannon had been, but he had rec
koned without the une pected.
Scan,on had not been instantly killed.
After Thorne and Brannon had fled
from his apartments he revived long
enough to write this note:
Gordon Thorne did it. Brannon
is innocent"
Gunther, the detective, found this
note. When he went to Thorne's
rooms, however. the man had taken
alarm and disappeared. And there
|
ended.
1t was more than a week afterward
| that Brannon, so great had been his
agitation and so numbing the effect
| of the liquor on his brain, came to
his senses again. Then he found him.
self in a shack in the Canadian woods.
many hundreds of miles from civili-
zation. He was equipped with the
arms, ammunitions, and suppl es of
a trapper. His little daughter was
| with him.
1t was more than month before
| Brannon could begin to think ration
ally of the past. Then the idea. vague
ly formed d, that he was not murderer
tegan 10 find Judgment in his bra n
| Something within him told him that
his hands were not dyed with Scan
| lan's blood. He had no proof and nc
| suspicious Of Thorne's treachery, but
belief In his own innocence would not
| leave him.
Like many other bewildered souls
Isolated from their kind he found his
greatest comfort in his Bible. Once
| opening the book he read worls that
seemed to AT his case. They babe him
go forth from his hiding place secure
| in his own innocence. Brooding over
this message he fell asleep in the
shack one day and in his dreams : aw
| the vision of an angel, who ordered
Go thou forth and mlngle among
thy fellow men. Justify thyself in
thine own sight"
book.
I'm thee, o Lord, 1 put my trust +"
| he read. My flesh and my heart ia l.
eth, but God is the strength of my
| heart"
These words decided him. Taking
! his daughter with him, he returned to
| the world and entered into busine s.
! Years passed and the daughter grew
! to womanhood. A suitor presented
himself and she became engaged to
marry. Their plans for the wedding
were made. when her sweetheart came
! to her with newspaper. The Alaska
| Gold Dredging Company, the new pa
per said. offered huge profits. She
| agreed with him that he ought to in
vest his savings in the securities oil
| this company
They visited the offices of the gold
dredging concern and bought some OF
its stock. Then, in triumph, they re-
turned to Brannon and showed h m
| their purchase.
| Brannon saw at a glance that the
concern was a swindle. With word
to his daughter and her fiance to wait
until he returned, he rushed off to t e
| dredging company's Office. lie de-
manded to see the manager and a
foment later was standing face TO
zee with Gordon Thorne.
Brannon demanded that Thorne re-
irn the money that had been paid
1r the securities, Thorne recognized
lis visitor and hesitated whether OF
ct to comply. In his agitation he
,prang up and paced about the room
fe paused at the window. Below in
he street he saw boy passing car
wing a sign:
"Brannon for Mayor"
That gave him an inspiration He
returned to Brannon fully composed
You force me to pay back this
money" he said, land, on the day be-
fore election I'll tell Nthe people OF
tn town the kind of man who is try
ing to be their mayor You haven't
forgotten you Killed Seaman, / hope.
The ultimatum struck Brannon
dumb. He rose and walked out OF
Thornes office.
Meanwhile Detective Gunther had
never given over his efforts to locate
, Thorne. One day an advertisement
J Of the Alaskan Gold Dredging Com
/ pany fell into his hands. The as
sumed name signed at the bottom
struck something in the detective
| memory. re Went pAoh over ilis
files. There he found an advertise
ment ident cal with the one In his
hand except for a change in the sigma
ture. The detective laughed.
"Once q crook, always a crook he
said. "Thorne's up to his old tricks
again. This time I'll get him"
! Gunther took the next train out of
town headed for the city in which
| Thorne had established himself. He
arr we'd there on the day that Bran
non was to make the great speech
OF his campaign. Brannon was in the
midst of his effort when the detective
broke through the crowd. Thorne
had just risen to his feet. Publicly
! he denounced Brannon as Scanlan's
| murderer.
! Gunther sprang forward and seized
! Thorne by the shoulder.
'You come up on the PLATFORM" he
orde ed, 1--WE got a word to say to
this crowd"
He pushed Thorne ahead of him
| through the multitude. They reached
the platform.
This man " shouted G11nther indi-