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which must die. You are now about
to witness my destruction by the state,
which is organized to protect the lives
of the innocent. May Almighty God
pardon every one who has contributed
in any degree to my untimely death.
And now on the brink of my grave /
declare to the world that ! am proud
to have been the husband of the pur-
est, noblest woman that ever lived
Helen Becker This acknowledgment
is the only legacy l can leave her.
bid you all goodbye: Father, | am
ready to go. Amen
(Signed) Charles Becker"
Talks All Night.
, After his wife had said farewell,
shortly after midnight, Becker main
tanned a casual conversation with
Deputy Warden johnson who sat be-
side the screen in front of his cell.
Sometimes he smoked cigars, after
which he would let his head fall on
his hand and gaze refectively at the
floor Tor minutes at time. Dawn
found him seated on the edge of his
cot carefully pinning a photograph OF
his wife on his white shirt just over
his heart Then, as if he desired to
have her all to himself Becker put on
a thin black alpaca coat, which he
tightly buttoned. The photograph was
not seen by the witnesses until the
prison physician opened his coat as he
sat in the death chair
Becker was put to death by the state
executioner whose name is unknown
to the public This man succeeded
State Electrician Davis and he said he
would not take the job unless his name
was kept secret He lives in little
town upstate and went about his
work briskly.
Be:ker's executioner said that in his
opinion the man had died instantly at
the first contact.
Negro Follows Becker.
An autopsy on the body Of Becker
was performed, according to law, i'm
mediately after the execution. After
Becxer's body had been removed from
the electric chair, Samuel Haynes, q
negro murderer, was brought into the
execution room and electrocuted. One
of Becker's last requests to Warden
Osborne was that he be put to death
before Haynes.
Mrs. Becker Makes Statement.
A statement credited to Mrs. Becker
was given out here shortly after her
husbands death.
II shall never rest she was quoted
as saying, until have exposed the
metf DDS which were used to convict
nv husband. Whether he was guilty
or innocent, there was no justification
for the means employed to CONVEX
him.
II would rather lose all the other
members of my family, as dear as they
are to me, than lose Charlie. No one
can take his place. In all of the ten
wears of our married life never had
occasion once to regret that was his
wife.
"Charlie was no angel. He made no
pretense of being one. He was Just
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LEAGUE ENDORSES
PROHIBITION MOVE

Dubuque, July 80. Resolutions en-
dorsing the action Of the last general
assembly in adopting prohibition legis
ation were adopted Thursday at final
session Of the Iowa Catholic Total Alb
stinence union. Officers elected were:
Honorary president, Archbishop j. J.
Keane, retired; president, Rev. P. j.
Martin, Usage; secretary, j. Berger,
Dougherty; treasurer, Rev. w. ]. Con-
very, Charles City.
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an ordinary human being-and per
haps that Is why loved him so.'
History Of Case.

History OF Case.
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler for
whose murder Charles Becker was SEN
fenced to die in the electric chair, was
shot to death by hired gunner in the
early morning of July 16, 1912, in front
of the Hotel Metropole on Forty-th1rd
street. a few steps from Broadway.
The murder was the swift elimination
of sensational charges made few
days before by Rosenthal against Beck
er in which Rosenthal asserted that
Becker. then head Of the strong arm
squad of detectives, freely sold police
protection and had accumulated thou
sands of dollars of graft money.
Rosenthal went further than that.
He sSore that Becker was his silent
partner in a gambling enterprise that
failed and that Becker, angered by
losses where he had expected large
profits. raided the Rosenthal estab-
lishment and drove Rosenthal out of
business by stationing uniformed po-
licemen on his premises day and night.
These charges were published and
District Attorney Whitman began an
investigation Of them. He summoned
Rosenthal to the criminal courts build
ing and listened to his story. An ap.
pointment was made with Rosenthal
for the next day. Before the time
came ,Rosenthal was murdered.
When the assassins had done their
work. they ran across the street, jump
ed into a grey automobile which was
waiting at the curb and whirled away
untown. A bystander caught the
license number of the car.
Murder Car Found.
District Attorney Whitman notified
nv telephone of the murder, reached
the police station where Rosenthals
body lay before dawn. He aroused
his detectives from their sleep and
snread a dragnet over the city for the
murder car. It was found before night.
Its driver, Louis Shapiro, and Louis
I,ibbey. part owner, were arrested and
Mr.. Whitman asserted openly In an
emphatic statement that the police
had abetted the murder.
New York City, already interested
in the charges of police corruption,
responded to the news of the murder
al if to a call to arms. Becker, who
had been the chief target OF Rosen'
that's accusations, was openly sus'
pected. He was relieved Of his com.
n,ant of the strong arm squad and
transferred to the Bronx. Jack Rose,
his graft collector, walked into the
|crim,nal. courts building the day after
the murder and surrendered TO the
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TWO ELECTROCUTED
IN KENTUCKY JAIL

Eddyville, KY, July 3O-For the
third time in the history of Kentucky
double electrocution took place this
morning at $3.50 o'clock at the Eddy
vile penintiary.
The first to be executed was Turn
er Graham, Jr., a., a white man, con-
victed for the killing of r. J. Nc
Murtry. sheriff of Hardin county. The
second was William Lane, Is, negro,
convicted at Pineville, on charge OF
killing his wife. Lane was the first
negro to be executed in Kentucky
since the adoption Of electrocution as
a means of inflicting the death pen.
atty. Both men passed the night
calmly and walked unassisted to the
death chamber.
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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
MRS: F. U. Mauser OF Aiola, mas re-
turned nome aIter WISHING III ol'uin va
Mrs. B. B. French Of Des Moines,
has returned nome AFTER Vislting m W
tumwa.
Mrs. T x Zithers of Laredo, Mo-.
VINO mas peen Vls'ung IN oe'un"a' mas
returned nome
Miss Mary Rodgers, 225 Tisdale
etreet' returned rom WISH WIZ
1rasnos IN Des SAones and NAi'ine@poi's'
MRS H. Cassei, has returned to her
home in Gienwood after visiting in Of
unawA
Mrs, L, o. Considine Of Knoxville,
has .one TO Sfsourney after visiting in
OfAsnva. ,........,.,4,. ....,.-.,. ~
The Masses Ruth and Marguerite
Smith OF Hamilton street. have gone
to Beckwi<h to visit friends.
~. Mar a Rr.den Of Des Moines
Is slsst OF tho Misses Nellie and 10.
Millee. 410 North Weller street.
- 49, ~. r r. nu,rar ~ Charlton
h.-. returned home after visiting
fF9sDds m Ouem~a.
nra A. J. Wilkinson of Keokuk, Is
vieIwnx a tho homo of Mrs. w. T.
W381nson, 360 North Marion street
M Harriet Rare of Davenport.
vto has been visiting friends In OF.
f1mxa hls returned home.
v1,,,.,, NV. sourh If the
-da1 h.s rome to Blakeshurs to visit
4 rssalfxeA
HirA WeAace Eager ana oausn.o.'
Lon. 20 :. n's.,snS Nm haxa rone
- n.I.anosa to visit friends.
MI. ana 1fe. @eolse nav av LII aau u1 Ts.h
ter, WAS; neaen NV, -. ,ra CIV
1872 ..nah rsli,o-nia
M, ~.
MRS. NJ, iIaSls Q. DeliOe III. s,a., -
gone to baaxesouIs' W visi. ,,Iu ",
after vlsitne d. tne n W1nWo VI atnaet
NJ iIaVl'' 1A' A,' ~
Miss Mary OMaiiey, QUO , wen.ea
avenue mas le,uins a Ilo s;s,tad for
and minneapolis "nefe sn' 'te''0u A'1
Ten ua'''
Ms Harry Nve. 1871 South Adella
street, has been called to Newtown'
Mo-, by the serious illness OF nsr
mother
NJ .rd Mrs Alfred sparhne of New
or,..ra IA visited at the home Of
M u BAKER of Ellis avenue, Tues
. -
Mrs Lee Stein ana son, Julie 4ns anu
daughter, 1eannette. 'zo Mo,aa ha1ne
inSton street. nave retufneu no
from three weeks WISH at mA'on
CITY.
Miss Marguerite Boyce OF Oskaioosa,
VIC NJ - ~ na,s,,arty 90 Worth gheri.
s Mis w.n,,a has ratrrnad tn her home
: az So
~
Frank md Anna Ward, AS North
I.epereon street. are in Iowa City
- .ttend the funeral OF their uncle.
nv father Ward. which was held
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-FOUR HUNDRED ARE
THROWN TO GROUND.
SEATS GIVE AWAY At COMEDY
PLAYERS PERFORMANCE
At CHARLTON.

Charlton, July 30.-(Special to The
Courier -Four hundred people were
thrown to the, ground here Thursday
night when a section of the seats In
the s. P. Mutt Comedy Players tent
gave way. Out of that number but few
were injured, only three receiving
serious injuries.
Those who are reported to be suffer
ing considerably from. their fall are:
Mrs. John Conner, hip dislocated; Mrs.
C. ". Carter shoulder dislocated, and
Mrs. Morgan Lewis, ankle twisted.
The management of the concern can
give no cause for the accident. The
managers state that an extra reit
forcement Of cinders had been placed
beneath the seat supports to strength.
en- the tax upon them by the soft con-
dition of the ground.
A remarkable escape as we'll as q
coincidence in connection with the ac'
cident was that experienced by the
child of Bert Starr. Mr.. Starr was
sitting in the front row with the child
in the go cart in front of hi9. The
vehicle was entirely demolished in
the wreckage that followed but the
child was unhurt.
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DRAIN TILE
For prices and information write
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OTTUMWA. IOWA.
Tri-Weekly Courier
CHANGING ADDRESSES.

Subscribers wishing their address
changed will plea.c give the name OF
the postoffice to which the paper has
been sent as we'll as the postoffice
where they desire 1t to be changed to.
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BIRMINGHAM.

Miss Georgia Burch went to Mont
rose, Iowa Monday to visit her sister
Mrs. Manford Johnston. :
Mrs. H. b. Kirkpatrick went to val
lev Junction last week to viist her SIS
ter Mrs. Anna Rankin.
Verlyl Anderson and sister Vada
went to Chicago the first OF the week
to visit their aunt Mrs. Perry Bonnet;
4 Roy Finger and family of Fairfield
visited last week with his parents.
Mrs. Maggie Kent and daughter Ollie
OF Ottumwa are visiting her sister Mrs.
Bert Ely south Of town.
Dr.. Samson and family went to Bur
lington last Saturday to spend their
vacation.
Miss Bee Nelson spent last week
visiting her. uncle and aunt. A. B.
Adams and wife in Douds-Leando. 81
Mr.. and Mrs VIII Hastings and
daughter Gladys went to Scandal. Kan
sas on Tuesday to visit sister OF Mrs.
Hastings.
A. Wheeler and John Taylor, were
arrested for shooting craps on East
Mill street and were tried In police
court this afternoon at o'clock. !.
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Ex.MINIsTER WOUNDED.

Paris. July So.-Adolphe Messimy,
former minister of war, was severely
wounded in the thigh by a shell spltn-
ter while on the vosges front, where
he was In command Of battalion OF
light infantry.
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Wife Loyal To Becker.

\
There was one other women who,
if reports are true, followed Becker's
career through the courts as closely
as his own wife did. This was Herman
Rosenthaps widow. Soon after Beck
er's second conviction she disappear
ed. Not long ago she was found broken
In health and spirit, and living with an
,old-time friend.
Il am living for one thing" she was
quoted as saying ito see the day that
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Bourne street. Eight minutes more
and the engine was wheeling at q
standstlll before No. 81.
Lomas leaped out and was ringing
the bell furiously before Ersmit had
haf way climbed the steps. a light
was burning in the hall, but the house
was silent as the grave. and there was
no response to the repeated summons.
TRY the door," said Ersmit. Lomas
turned the knob and It opened easily.
The two men entered the house and
Ersmit called aloud.
".strange!" he calculated. "Are they
ell dead? Ralph, believe somebody
has been hoaxing u.s."
Lomas pushed past him and entered
parlor. striking a match as he went.
He lit the gas at a chandelier, and
looked about the room.
Nothing here,"<said Doctor Ersm!t.
who had followed him. whats in the
next one?" y.
Tomas looked in. Then he turned a
pale face to his friend. Here's your
case, Billy" he said.
I On tho floor by a small table that
had evidently been overturned in his
fall. lay the PROSTATE figure Of q man
In evening clothes-a tall. powerfully
made man of forty or thereabouts.
with coarse features, now set in the
rigidtty Of death.
by. the Lord!" exclaimed Doctor
Ersmit- TITS Frank Beverly" He
ripped open the mans waistcoat and
disclosed small red stain over the
heart. Stabbed he added. Look
there. Hardly o drop OF blood, and
there hasn't been time for. coagulation
yet. Yes, he is dead; dead as Pharaoh,
and II It didn't sound heartless, I'd
say. It was a good thing, too. Ralph.
we've. got to see first II there's any
body about the place, and then-1've
got to do some thinking"
They made a hurried but careful
search of the premises, but though the
house showed signs ofirecent occupa-
ton, they found no one. They returned
toEthe parlor. where the murdered man
lay. and Doctor Ersmit flung himself
into an armchair and began to pull his
beard thoughtfully.
You say It wns q Swoman's voice?'.i
he said at last. "reil me exactly what
she said. &
Tomas repeated the conversation.
but added: Il couldn't undertake TO
swear that It was a swoman's yioce.
Billy" & -
Doctor Ersmit looked keenly atshim
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Grandma Used Sage
Tea to Darken Hair
SHE MIXED SULPHUR WITH 1T
TO RESTORE COLOR, GLOSS e
rLIrKMEce efs - tx

l. &. J ..
Commongarden sage brewed into a
heavy tea with sulphur and alcohol
added, will turn gray. streaked and
faded hair beautifully dark and lux.
uriant, remove every bit Of dandruif
stop scalp itching and falling hair.
Just few applications will prove a
revelation IL your hair Is fading, gray
or dry, scraggly and thin. Mixing
the Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at
home, though, is troublesome. An
easier way is to get the ready:to.use
tonic, costing about so cents large
bottle at drug stores, known as "Wy.
eth's Sage and Sulphur Compound"
thus avoiding a lot OF muss. -
While wispy, gray, faded hair, Is
not sinful, we all desire to retain our
youthful appearance and attractive
ness. BY darkening your hair with
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur, no one
can tell. because 1t does 1t 30 natur-
ally, 80 evenly. You tust dampen a
sponge or soft brush with It and draw
this through your hair, taking one
small strand at a time; by morning
all gray hairs have disappeared, and,
after another. application or two, your
hair becomes beautifully dark, glossy,
soft and luxurtant. W r. Crane Drug
Company.
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Fifth Carnival at
j. Marshall College

HUNTINGTON. W. va.,. Jan. s.
initial step made in preparation for a
carnival was taken few days ago
when the officers Of the athletic asso.
citation OF Marshall College met and
appointed a committee to take care Of
the business and see that the details
of the arrangement are carried out.
This committee was as usual com.
posed entirely OF students, one or
more being selected from each class.
The committee was as follows: Roy
Titus Of Huntington, and John Mont.
gomery Of Spencer. from the fresh.
man class; Minser Reeser of Hunting.
ton, and VIM. Williams Of Keystone.
from the sophomore class: Robert
Thurmond Of Huntington and Clyde
Lester Of Fort Gay from tho Junior
class: Ed Reeser Of Huntington and
Floyd sayre of Ripley, from the semi.
or class; Lee Bonar of Belleville from
the College Junior class and Shirley
starkey lfRayenswood. and Wade
Trump Of Marshes from the College
senior class. Shirley starkey was
made chairman Of the committee.
The entire program and outline Of
the whole carnival will be made on!
by this committee, subject to the ap.
'proyal of the faculty. The whole ar
rangement, as It has always been
heretofore. is strictly student affair.
This will be the fifth annual carnival
that has been held by the student
body Of Marshall college. Every year
that one has been held. It has proven
to be a great success in every respect
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FELL THIRTY FEET UNFRAMED
Explorcr's Escape From Death Might
Surely Be Described as
MIRACULOUS.

On Mr.lA!fH. Savage Landor's sre.
turn Journey topthe Tapatos river,
after q desperate struggle to reach the
rubber gatherers who live far. in the
Brazilian Interior. he had, as he re.
lates in ACROSS Unknown South
America" very curious experience.
1.-THE forest near the Secondary
river was at first overgrown with
dense vegetation that gave us a good
deal Of work and extra exertion; but
after that, when we got some Distance
from the water, the forest was fairly
clean, except OF course for the fallen
trees. We found troublesome, ravines
Of great depth where streamlets had
cut their way through.
'In going down one OF those difficult
ravines, l had an accident that might
have been fatal. The ravine. the sides
OF which were almost vertical, was
very narrow-only about ten meters
across. We let ourselves down, hold.
Ing on to a Llama. When we reached
the bottom, We found a tiny brook
winding it's way between great Hbund
bouldcrs that left space about two
feet wide for the water. I begun to
climb the other side, and had got to
a height OF about thirty feet. In order
to go up this steep incline. ! had set
one foot against a small tree. and ]
pulled myself up by q Llama. unluck.
LILY, the Llama suddenly gave way. The
weight Of the load that I had on my
shoulders made me lose my balance,
so that my body described o complete
semicircle. I dropped down head first
from that height on the rocks below,
Providence once more looked after
me on that occasion. On the flight
down already. imagined myself dead;
but no-my head entered the cavity
between two great rocks, against
which my shoulders and the load be-
came damned, while my legs waved
wildly in midair. Twas forced so hard
against the two side rocks that ! could
not possibly extricate myself. It was
only when Benedicto and the new man
came to my help and pulled me out
that we were able to resume our Jour.
ney. was much shaken and a good
deal bruised, but otherwise none the
worse for that unpleasant fall
Youths Companion.
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MARIE pREssrER.
Worlds Creates. comedienne TO be
Seen In Films.

Marie Dressler, best known and
most popular Coincidence on the stage
today. will be seen In a six part farce
comedy entitled .Tillie:s Punctured
Romance at the Grand next Monday.
Miss Dressler is supported by Chas!
Chaplin and Mabel Normand, famous
Keystone comedy players. whose an.
tics on the screen have made millions
laugh from coast to coast. Mack Sen;
nett author and producer OF .Tillie.s
Punctured Romance is admittedly
the best motion picture director In
the world. With this strong combin.
alton o fartists brought together in
o farce said to be the most laughabls
one written and staged by that great
man Mack sennett. q i safa te pxas.
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under his beetling eyebrows. and Lo
mas met his gaze steadily.
You've heard me speak or this Bev
erly and Of bis WIFE said Ersmit. ut
last.
I've heard you speak or him as an
unmitigated scoundrel u know that his
vile left him and that you regarded
her highly
1f she had been my sister-or my
daughter, for ] am old enough to be
her father-I could not have thought
more Of her. ! think she Is abroad
nov, but Il she had been here and
Ralph. ] guess we'd better call the DO.
lice. The telephonelis in the hall. ]
noticed it as we! came I'M
One night q year later Ralph Tomas
stood on the deck, Of a Cunarder re.
turning to New York, and looked down
at woman reclining in a steamer
chair with smile that was curiously
cheerful considering that she had just
told him that she could never marry
him. :.
7 suppose you have your reason :,
he. said, almost easily. and wrapping .
rug closer about her with solicltous
care. ut isn't that you don't care for
me. Iknow that"
She shivered under his touch and
looked at him appealingly. why will
you torture me so?" she cried. Eyes,
care for you. I have grown to care
for you very much in the short time
have known you. 1t seems as II i had
known you always. When first met
you your voice sounded strangely ia.
miliar..
80 did yours to me- he said, still
smiling.
Il seem to need you,r she continued.
"And, Ralph. don't want to lose you.
Does that sound selfish? You must al.
ways be my friend. am most IN.
happy
You will DO most happy" he said.
And you will marry me. Dear. you
spoke Of my voice. When I heard
yours for the first time It thrilled me
in It's every tone. l seemed to hear
It always. ! knew no rest until at last
saw you and knew you for what you
are. Then ] loved you"
II must tell you," she said, in whis
per.
II know" he said. "You FIRST spoke
to me over the telephone from 81
Bourne street You said: Tell Doctor
Ersmit to come at once had heard
of you before. and later Ersmit told
me more, but did not want his justih,
cation. lido not want yours. believe
In you, and ! love you. Look up.
want you to marry me-"
She did not look up, but she
stretched out a hand gropingly, and he
took 1t between his. Then, in the dark
ness, their lips met.
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Observation-Disclosures
he BELIEVED IN HER
cTn.f A - ,sSo,
BytKENNETrHaRRIs.

II 2y4NEhNElE III BftahhtS.
The telephone rang sharply again
and again. and Tomas. after q mo.
sment' hesitation, took down the re.
sceiyer and said: -Hello,. II.
sort Of strenyled gasp came TO his
ear, and then a woman's voice said !:
u is this Doctor Ersmit 2,
Its Doctor Ersmit's telephone. |" IN.
Sswered Tomas. III you will hold the
wire for o minute or two Twill go AMI
find him. he went"
II can't wal" said the voice. mo.
can't wait / must go. Tell Doctor
Ersmit to come at once to 81 Bourne
street and to bring things for stanch.
Ing a wound. 1tsissllte and death, and
even now it may be too late. Obi"
There was terror and anguish IN the
cry. and II was succeeded by the click
Of tie severed connection. Lomas
dropped the receiver and, hurrytng out
into the hall. shouted: 'tBilly?"
We'll, what's the matter with your
answered Doctor Ersmit from the head
of the stairs. DO you think I'm deaf?
You nearly made me drop the bottles.
I've joggled them as It is."
Never mind the vine" said Tomas.
Here's case for you-s7 Bourne
street, and It's a matter Of life and
death. Wound. Party didn't soy what
kind. Get your things together, and
I'll drive you over there in two shakes
Of lambs tally
1 "Bourne street," repeated Doctor
Ersnlit, wonderingly. why. that's two
miles of. Why didn't they call some
nearer man? Who is sit?e
"she didn't say" said Tomas. "Jusl
said twas wound, and to hurry, and
then rang off. Come on. Well try this
hook after We get back"
Doctor Ersmit slipped into the COZ,
that his energetic friend was already
holding for him, and two minutes later
Tomas auto was speeding at an ordi.
nence.defying rate in the direction OF