The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-01-07

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6~SI | believe that the Ladley case
was unusual In several ways.
Mr. I4adley had once been well known
In New YORK among the people VINO
frequent the theaters, and Jennie Brice
was even better known. A good many
lawyers, believe. said that the police
had not leg to stand on, and | know
the case was watched with much in
terest by the legal profession. People
wrote letters to the newspapers pro
testing against Mr.. Ladiey being held.
And | believe that the district attor-
ney In taking him before the grand
jury hardly hoped to make case.
But he did, to his own surprise
fancy, and the trial was set for May.
But In the meantime many curious
things had happened.
In the first place, the week following
Mr.. Ladley's arrest my house was I'LL
ed up with eight or ten members of
company from the Gaiety theater, yery
cheerful and jolly and well behaved
Three men. | think. and the rest girls.
One Of the men was named Bellows,
John Bellows, and it turned out that
ae had known Jennie Brice very we'll
From the moment he learned that
Mr.. Hoicombe hardly left HIM. He
walked to the theater with him and
waited to walk home again. He took
him out to restaurants and for long
street car rides In the mornings. and
on the last night Ut their stay, Satur-
day, they got gioriousiy drunk to-
gether--Mr. Holcombe, no doubt, in his
character of Iadley--and came Keeling
In at 3 In the morning, singing. Mr..
Hoicombe was very sick the next day,
but by Monday he was all right, and
he called me into the room.
We've got him, Mrs. Pitman." he
said. looking m0ttled, but cheerful. las
sure as God made little fishes, we've
got him." That was all he would say,
however. 1t seemed he was going to
New York and might be gone for
month. "I've no family" he said, ''and
enough money to keep me. IL | find
my relaxation In hunting down crimt-
nails, it's a harmless and cheap amuse-
ment, and-it's my own business
He went away that night, and L
must admit | missed him. / rented
the parior bedroom the next day to
bs:hooi teacher, and l found the peri
scope affair very handy. could see
Just how much gas she used, and al
though the notice on each door forbids
cooking and washing in rooms, found
she was doing both; making coffee
and boiling an egg in the morning, and
rubbing out stockings and handker-
chiefs In her washbOwi. I'd much rath-
er have men as boarders than women.
The women are always lighting alcohol
lamps on the bureau and wanting the
bed turned into coy corner so they
can see their gentlemen friends in
their rooms.
Well, with Mr.. Hoicombe gone and
Mr.. Reynolds busy all day and half
the night getting out the summer
silLs and preparing for remnant day,
and with Mr.. Ladley in jail and Ida
out OF the city-for I saw In the papers
that she was not well, and her mother
had taken her to Bermuda had
good bit of time on my hands. And
SO got In the habit OF thinking things
over and trying to draw conclusions,
as l had seen Mr.. Holcombe do.
would sit down and write things out
ms they had happened and study them
over, and especially l worried over
how we could have found slip OF
paper In Mr.. Ladley's room with list,
almost exact. OF the things we had
discovered there. l used to read 1t
over, rope. knife, shoe. towel, Horn
and get more and more bewildered.
"fIorn'-might hive been town. or
1t might not have been. There was
such a town. according TO Mr.. Graves,
but apparently he had made nothing
OF It. WIS 1t n town that was meantf
The dictionary gave only a few
words, beginning with 'horn''-hornet,
hOrnblende, hornpipe and horny-none
OF which was OF any assistance. And
then one morning happened to see in
the personal column Of one Of the