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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
Strong Chain of Circumstan-
tial Evidence Against
Rich Mans Son
CHAUFFEUR SHOT
AND THEN ROBBED
Property Belonging to the Dead Man
Found Under caves of the House
Where Young Clifford Stayed the
Night of the Murder

ALBANY, April 1s.-Malcolfn Gift
ford, ir., 10, son of wealthy manu-
facturer of Hudson, n. Y, is in ianl
here, charged with the murder of Frank
j. Clutc, chauffeur.
Clute was killed April /, 1913, while
driving an unidentified man from here
to Troy. The passenger shot Clute in
the back of the head robbed him and
threw the body into a ditch. The slay-
er wore gray overcoat and light fe-
dora hat.
On that night Clifford, who had been
expelled from private school a month
previously, but never had gone home
nor notified his parents, left the house
of friend, Derrick Boardman, in Troy,
ostensibly to attend a dance.
He was CARRIED in dress suit. a
gray overcoat and a light fedora hat,
it is said.
Several hours later Clifford appeared
! at the dance. Witnesses before the
| grand jury said his clothing was soiled
The next morning, it was testified. he
| put his overcoat in one friends suit
| case, his hat in another, borrowed a
| cap and left for home
Recently property belonging to ClutC
was found under the caves of the house
where Clifford stayed on the night OF
the killing.
A pair of gloves, of the same brant
Clifford was wearing when detained By
detectives. were found near Clute !
body. These, detectives declared Gift
ford attempted to hide when they ap
pretended him at Chatham, n. Y. thi
week, while he was on his way to East
hampton, Mass, where he was a stu
dent. in Williston seminary.
He was taken to Albany and his de
tention kept a secret, even from hi
parents, until yesterday.
Clute was shot with an automati
pistol. Authorities say Clifford owne
such weapon. Clifford could drive
machine. An attempt was made by tn
slayer Of Clute to start The autorn obil
after the killing. Footprints Shove
this. The footprints have been pre-
served and now are in the custody o
Distict Attorney Alexander, who OF
tanned the Indictment
The grand jury returned an indict
ment and Clifford was arraigned befor
Supreme Court Judge Chester. A pie
OF not guilty was entered for him.
The boy bears a good reputation i
Hudson. He refused to make an
statement. There is nothing to ind
cate that he ever knew Clute.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18

ness organizations. He had been in i'll
health about three years. Death was
caused by hardening of the arteries.
He came from Scotland in 1873 and
rose rapidly in the business life of
Rhode Island. He was % years old at
the time of his arrival in this country,
and began work in the Boston store in
Providence. In 1887 Mr.. Mcleod and
a partner established similar store In
Newport, which became q great mer-
camille establishment Mr.. Mcleod was
president of the Newport Trust Co., di-
rector of the Newport Wexford
Steamboat Co., director of the Aquid-
nick National bank, vice president and
director of the Aeuidnick Mutual In
surance Co., director of the Newport
Water Works, director in street rail
way, Illuminating, hospital and other
corporations and president of the Jo-
| let Dry Goods Co. of Joliet, Ill.
Mr. Mcleod was connected with va
rious fraternal organizations, candidate
| for mayor in 1902 and member of the
Representative Council three years H,
| was active in the United Congregation
al church and superintendent of tn,
| Sunday school several years.
In 1877 Mr. Mcleod married Mis-
Jessie Mackenzie of Scotland and the,
had five children, all of whom survive
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
DEATH OF VETERAN
ACTOR, MCKEE RANKIN
Known All Over the World in His
Career of so Years as Player
and Manager.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1S.-Arthur
Mckee Rankin, the veteran actor. died
yesterday.
In the prime Of his theatrical career
Arthur Mckee Rankin was known to
the theatregoers in all the English
speaking countries of the world He
was of the old school of bold versatil-
ity, hesitating at nothing as an actor
or producer. First and last Rankin
probably made a large fortune, but his
big earnings were lost in one theatrical
adventure or another. He began his
stage career in the Civil war period
and continued it actively for so wears.
lie was Canadian, born at Sandwich.
Ont, in 1911, the son of a member of
Parliament. While at Upper Canada
college he had q disagreement with his
father over his association with the dra-
matte society there, and ran away to
New York with an actor. His father
found hlm and made him return to ac-
| cept government clerkship.
! about two years later, Rankin
has said in Renaissance, 1.-the great
Sir John A. Macdonald. who was then
| premier, told me what he thought of
the government service. You keep on
and on, and in the end you are only an
old hack, he said. Il We heard that
once you were an actor. Why don t
you 90 back on the stage?''
! Rankin was quick to follow his adj
vice. At 81 he was leading man for
Mrs. John Drew. All of his three
daughters married into branches of the
Drew family-one is Mrs. Sydney Drew
one Mrs. Lionel Barrymore, and third
| Phyllis, married brother of Fanny
| Davenport.
81 played in Denver, Colo, when
there was only one brick house in the
town, Rankin related when pressed
i by interviewers for some of his expe
riences. ''And I was the first Ameri
can ever to take a theatrical company
lacross the ocean. I preceded DAILY ant
lall the others.
He bought The Danites from Joa
'jquin Miller, and made a tremendous
hit in it as Alexander MCGEE at tbs
4 Broadway theatre, New York, in 1877
7 For more than a decade, he was famou,
/, in this part, and later distinguished
himself in a play written by his broth
or, the late George Rankin, called Til,
Cannuck and in a play written by him
self, True to Life. Other of his pro
ductions were A Kentucky Colonel. The
Golden Giant, A Bachelor 5 Baby anC
Captain Imprudence.
In 1898 he became manager fo1
Nance O'Neill. Together Rankin ani
Miss o 'Neill toured all of the English
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
4 LIE (INsURANcEl SENTENCE

for specuating is, that you shall sell
all your uncertain stocks and enough
others, IL YOU have them, to buy an am
nuty which will last you all the days
az your life, So that YOU will never be
come burden on Your friends or n
disappointment TO Yourself National
Life ms Co., of Vt. (Mutual.) -
EARLE S. KINSLEY, General Agent,
Rutland, VT.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
Maine Man Charged with the
Murder of His Young
Step-Daughter
SHE WAS THE WIFE
OF VERMONT MAN
Letters of Farewell. Purporting to
Have Been Written by Mrs. Cum
mings, Said by Husband Not to Be
in Her Handwriting.

NORWAY, Maine, April 1S.-Two
letters said to have been written by
Mrs. Ethel Morse Cummings just be-
fore she met her death at her home in
Albany, are expected to figure promi-
nently in the preliminary hearing on
the charge of murder today of her
step father, William H. Adams, who
was arrested yesterday as he was re-
turning from the funeral.
The letters were found yesterday
three days after the shooting, in a
room where the girl died. The girl 5
husband declares the letters were not
in his wife handwriting. The let
tiers purported TO be farewell messages
to her parents, husband and others.
Anticipating the arrest large crowd
attended the funeral, which took place
in district sehoOlhouse at the Albany
crossroads. Throughout the service,
Sherman Cummings of Groton, VT, the
husband of the dead girl, sobbed bitter
~.
He accompanied the family in the
funeral procession over the snow-clad
hills to the little cemetery between Al
bany and Bethel, and stood by in ST
| lence when Adams was taken into Gus
tody.
Cummings has been employed in
! Bethel. For several months, recently
his wife had not been with him. She
had been living at the home of her
parents, but is said to have been pre-
pairing to reioin her husband when sht
met her death.
| According to the authorities, hel
marriage. little more than a yea
ago. when she was but Il, was agains
her father S wishes. Last Tuesday sh,
was found dead in the parlor of th'
| Adams home. with d shotgun lyina
near. She had Just finished packing he
trunk, it is said, in order to visit he
husband. Mr.. and Mrs. Adams main
tanned that the girl had been despond
ent and had committed suicide.
/ According to the county officials
Adams said that when he went into tin
Iparlor he found that the girl S CLOTHING
land hair had been ignited by the pow
der and that he put out the blaze wit
a bucket of water. He expressed tn
belief that she had shot herself b.
jpounding the hammer of the gun o
the stove.
The gun was single barrel one of a
ld-fashioned kind. and was general
kept loaded with bird shot. In supper
of his version of the girl ; death Adam
pointed out that no one had been abb
to cock the hammer of the gun sine
the girl was shot.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
EAST JAMAICA.

}. II. Peek is at Newfane as juror.
Leroy Potter is working for ]. H.
Peck
Miss Florence Allen visited in Brat
tleboro the first Of the week.
Miss lola Gleason and Prentiss But
Ter were in Brattleboro Monday.
A. r. Allen returned home Friday
from Putney. where he spent severa
days.
Mrs. Ellen Howard and grandson
Waldo Howard, returned to theiE HON,
in Putney Friday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18

speaking world, in Shakespearean and
other production. In later years the
veteran Rankin, at the age of 20, con-
tinued to appear in Shakespearean
dialogues with his daughter, Phyllis
Rankin Mrs. Harry Davenport in
vaudeville houses
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
BURNED TEA ROOMS.
Sutfragettes Charged with Another
Outrage at Belfast.

BELFAST, Ireland, April 18.-The
Belfast corporation tea rooms in Bel
levue Gardens were destroyed by fire
today with a heavy loss. The police
believe that suffragettes were respon-
sible for the fire.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
The Limit.

Smith hear you are having trou-
BILE with your wife.
Jones-Yes. She carries the woman
suffrage business too far. l don't OBJ
jeet to saying a boat is womaned in
stead Of manned, or even that water
COILS instead of boils; but | do draw the
line at saving my dog skirts Instead of
pants.-Judgc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
JACKSONVILLE.

George Hunt is able to be out again.
Miss Florence Hunt is visiting in
South Londonderry few days.
George Hunt has returned to his
home in Bennington, n. H., after
spending a few days with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hunt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
FOR SALE

The home residence of the late E. L.
Roberts, 10 Western avenue. A large
two-tenement house with bath, new
furnace; two shares of Western aQue-
duct water, plenty to supply the two
tcnements; with large barn, henhouse
and fine garden.
This is one OF the best locations in
town, on the car line and 10 minutes
walk from the postoiIicc.
MRS. E. L. ROBERTS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-18
Phone 72 W. K. SPARKS 10 Flat ST.
Central Vermont Ry.
Corrected to January 4, 1914.
Trains Leave Brattleboro.


100 n. m. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
7.2O a. m. Except Sunday. For New
London.
900 a. III. Except Sunday. For New
York.
9.25 n. III. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
1910 n. m. Except Sunday. For New
London.
400 p. IN. Except Sunday. For New
London and New York via
the Norwich Line Steamers.
coop. m. Except Sunday. Local for
South Londonderry.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-05
K. OF c. MINISTRIES.

On Tuesday evening, January 13, the Bridgeport Chapter, Knights of Co1um bus, will give it's second annual minstrel performance at the Park Theatre. The entertainment this year is again under the direction of Henry F. and William J. Lynch. The latter will also be found in his usual place as interlocutor. Frank Braithwiate is writing songs and jokes and Mrs. Garry Mononan has assisted as musi- cal director. The entertainers include Harry Morrissey, Vincent Benham, William Regenery, William Higgins, John Bowen, John Hanley, James Duggan, Albert Lapky, Leo Shaugh- messy, David fHeaphy, Arthur Levas- suen, Charles Benham, Frank Rush and many others. An olio comprises feature acts by Johnny Harvey and Bobby Allen, Director Chassey's Spot less Towners; Benham and Morrissey in singing and talking number styled Some Act and a side splitting after piece taken from the interior of the Hotel Chateau De Beaux Arts. Tick cts have been selling rapidly and may be exchanged for sittings at the Park Theatre box office beginning tomorrow
 morning at 9 o'clock.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-05
NO PASSENGERS KILLED :
 BY PENNSY IN 1913

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. ~5-Reports to the general office of the Pennsyl-I vania Railroad Company indicate that not one passenger out of 111,O00, 900. carried by the trains of the company in 1913 was killed in an accident
 Reports for the last six years sh ov that almost 6OO,000,OO0 passengers have been carried by, the trains of the Pennsylvania. Railroad Company and only sixteen of them lost their lives in accidents, nine being killed in one accident.
 Tn six years, out of approximately 5,000o00 trains operated only five have been in wrecks which caused the death of any of their passengers
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-05
ADVERTISE IN THE FARMER
Drug F Habit Menaceo of AmericanCide
MEAT SPECIALS FOR TUESDAY


By LEWIS L. FAWCETT. Kings County GN YJ Judge THE PARADE or LATE OF YOUNG MEN A I WOMEN PEN TO THE BAR oF ~ THE NARROWING SIGHT. THEIR PAL m coNPL DERANoED NERVOUS eve FEM AND ABNORMAL oR EYES SPEAK uMEs WEAKNESS PROCLAIM HUMAN TRAeEpiz--
 Pms today community very development It prevents the growth @ Continued bly, leads asylum Many believe 5es that late inc noo deludd perncious world his weakness for which the community hi1nf ,fendo o felon
 KNOW OF COCAINE AND HERON HAVE BEEN D WITHIN SCHOOL AND ON THE CORNERS CUSTOMARY PLACES OF oa-E ARE IN SALOONS AND CHEAP POOL Roona-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-05
PAUL MAIIISTER
 IN NEW SKETCH

The New York Star, theatrical journal, says:
 Paul McAl1ister, the pride of the Bronx, where he, has appeared for three years in stock at the Prospect Theatre, will make his vaudeville de- but at the Bronx Theatre, New York, January 12, in a new sketch written for him entitled Putting It Over"
 MT. McAlister is well known here as leading man in the Po1i Stock com pany last summer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-05

Do you begin to cough at night just when you hope to sleep? Do you have a tickling throat that keeps you awake? Just take Fo1ey's Honey and Tar Compound It will check the cough and stop the tickling sensation at once. Does not upset the stomach, is best for children and grown per sons. Hind1e's Drug store.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-05
FINANCIA.I.
NOTICE

For forty-seven years we have been conducting business at the same IAu location corner of Main ana Jonn Sfreefs Rrideeport. Conn.,, and our Private Bank has been estaphsneu there continuously. We have receive0 and paid out on demand without no ice millions of dollars of money de- posted with us and we continue Io receive money subject to depository check at sight, on which we anloss three per cent per annum. creu..Su cr1.sA to each account monthly. We sohcls the accounts of individuals. business men, firms and corporations, ahu aH who want a bank account where tney can deposit money, cheeks or dra1Cs' and leave it for one day,one week, one month one year, and draw 1~nIeresss ~ on it for any time it is left with us: We give to the business our careiul personal attention as the oldest HrAn of private bankers i'm this state.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-05

In response to appeals for $500 900 to De subscribed by January, the Lon lon Olympic Games committee received s55, ,Ooo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-05
]. F. s. MARSHALL 2. AffI GeN.
 dc .McREYNOE DS-

New York, Jan. 3---At an important conference here between James c. McReynolds attorney general of the United States, and H. Snowden Mar shall, United States district attorney for the southern district of New Y ork, arrangement were decided on for an antitrust crusade. MT. Marshall, it is said, will proceed against certain cor porations having New Y York headquar ters, alleging that they are operating in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman antitrust law.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-12-04

Department of he Interior,
United states Land once, Occur
d'Alene, Idaho, Nov 2, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the
Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, by Thomas Cooper, Land
Commissioner, st. Paul, Mime
sofa, has filed a selection list No.
239, serial No. O9305, under the
act of March 2, 1899 $50 Stat,
093) for the SEASEA, Sec. IS,
Y. AZ N. R. E., B. M. and the
NV a SW "a, Sec. 80, Il. A N. R.
2 E., B. M. said list being filed
in this Office on May 9, 1914.
The purpose Of this notice is
10 allow all persons claiming the
land adversely, or desiring tC
show its mineral character an OPP
portunity to file objection to sucf
selection with the register anC
receiver at the United States Lane
Office, Occur d'Alene, Idaho, OF
or before the 10th day of Dec
or before the 10th day Of Dec
FRANK LANGLEY, Registe
| Nov. 6, Dec. 10
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Department of the Interior,
United States Land ONCE, Occur
d'Alene, Idaho, Nov 2, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that
on Aug. 25, 1914 the Northern
Pacific Railway company, by
Thomas Cooper, Land Commits
sioner, st. Paul, Minnesota, has
filed selection list No. Pa, SER
ial No. O936S, under the act Of
March 2 1899 $50 stat, 993l for
the NV a NV a, Sec. 13, I. A,
n, r. e, b. M.
The purpose of this notice is
to allow all persons claiming the
land adversely, or desiring to
show its mineral character an OPP
portunity to file objection to such
selection with the register and
receiver at the United States Land
ONCE, Occur d'Alene, Idaho, on OF
before the 10th day Of December,
1914.
FRANK LANGLEY, Register
Nov 6, Dec 8
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION or a.
PIERCE FOR a PARDON.

BEFORE THE HONORABLE
BOARD OF pARDONS OF THE
STATE OF IDAHO.
In the matter of the application
of A Pierce for pardon,
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERNS:
Please take notice that A..
Pierce the above named person
who pleaded guilty on the goth
day of December, 1913, i'm the
District Court of the Eighth
Judicial District of the State of
Idaho for KoOtenai County, Of the
crime of grand larcency, alleged
TO have been committed i'm KOOt-
enai County, Idaho, and who was
sentenced. on the 23rd day Of
December, 1913, by the Honor
able Judge of said Court, to serve
an indeterminate sentence of not
less than one year nor more than
fourteen years i'm the State Peni-
Tertiary at Boise, Idaho, will pc
tition and apply TO the Honorable
Board of pardOns at its regular
meeting i'm January 1915, being
the 9th of January 1915 at 40
O'Clock A. NJ, or as soon there
after as his application can be
| heard, for a full. absolute, COM
plete and unconditional pardon
of said crime. Said petition will
then and there be presented To
said Honorable Beard OF Par
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-12-04
RuNcALo THEATRE.

Always improving and looking
forward to making The Bungalo
q theatre that the people of our
city can be proud of and truth
fully say that it cannot be beat
for a town of our size the man
agement has instased a motor to
drive their latest model picture
michine with. The old method
by hand does not insure a steady
picture but with an electric mo-
tor with its steady power makes
The picture absolutely rigid and
free from shaking. All up to
date theatres are installing them
and not to be out classed Man
ager Sommers has done the same
The picture booth is open for in
spection to the public that wish
TO see the inside of the picture
game and not wishing to give the
impression that we have the best
i'm the world, for we haven't, W,
can truthfully say that there is
not a more modern booth in tn
state and to our knowledge nOn'
its equal in a town the size o.
st. Maries. Come and judg
for yourselves.
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the parties. and one child, the is
sue of said marriage, age seven
months, name Iris.
THAT since the marriage you
have treated the plaintiff in an
extremely cruel and inhuman
manner, and have inflicted
grieVOus bodily injury and grleV-
BUS mental suffering on the plain
tim and that for more than one
year last past you have been
guilty of habitual intemperance
20 such an extent as TO disqual-
ify you a great portion Of the
time from properly attending TO
business. and that for more than
one year last past you nave neg
lccted and refused TO provide the
plaintiff with the necessaries OF
life by reason of your idleness,
prOnigacy and dissipation, all OF
which facts Will more fully ap-
pear from the verified complaint
ON file i'm said cause, which is
hereby referred TO for further
particulars.
And you are hereby directed to
lappear and answer said complaint
within twenty days of the service
LOT This summons if served within
The Eighth Judicial District and
within forty days if served else
where.
And you are further notified
lthat unless you so appear and
answer said complaint within the
time above specified, the plaintiii
will take Judgment against, you
as prayed for i'm said compliant.
WITNESS my hand and the
seal of the District Court this
l9lh day of November, 1911 a.
ID. r.. DANDY, Clerk
BY EMIL ELDER, Deputy.
I Seal
/ VIM. d. keetOn
ATTORNEY for the plaintiff
Residence and p. O. Address
ST. Maries, Idaho.
Nov 21-Dec %
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.


4GE-At AAN1h" - w.
U. S. Land ONCE at Occur
d'Alene, Idaho. October 26, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that
Reuben e. Carpenter, of ST.
Maries, Idaho, who. on May "a,
1914, made homestead entry
O7558 additional to 06747 for
SEA NV "A, Section &c, Township
ie N, Range 3 West, Boise Merid-
ian, has filed notice of intention
to make three year proof, to es-
tSblish claim to the land above
described, before George j. Nc
Fadden, U. S. Commissioners, at
PIummer, Idaho, on the 9th day
OF December, 1914.
Claimant names as Witnesses
Peter B. Shafer, Oscar Blake,
Benjamin f. Patheal, and John
Perry, all of st. Maries, Idaho.
FRANK LANGLEY,
Register
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Churches
S~0No~o~a~0~O~eNS~0~ONa~c
Methodist Church Notes

10 A. NJ Sunday School, Il
A. M. DR.. J. w. Terry will speak.
6 80 P. M. Epworth League, 1880
p. M. DR.. J. w. Terry will preach.
This is the beginning of a series
of services conducted by Dr. Ter
ry. Everyone is invited. Spec
ial music for each service, song
service each evening at 1880,
preaching at 8 p. M. Come and
enjoy a real intellectual treat and
receive a great spiritual uplift.
An unusual treat will be af-
forded the people of st. Maries
in The coming Of Or. ]. w. Terry
of Cleveland, Ohio. He is a
sneaker of great ability and is
recognized as one of the very
strong platform men in the east
He will speak at the Methodist
church next Sunday morning and
evening and each evening during
the week following.
No one should fail to hear him.
enjoy a real intellectual treat ano
receive the uplift Of his messages
DR.. Terry is a broad minded
sweet spirited, Christian gentle
man with a vital message for to-
day.
Services each evening at 1880
A. MONROE
Pastor of the Family Church