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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-11

IIuGu 9IOO anu cOSLS. Beat girl 6S-
cort.
Policeman Edward Grimm, bitten
on hand by Edward Daley, 1877 E. 42d,
while making arrest.
Victor Bergstrom, 1920 Lincoln av.,
swOre at Judge Ryan. zone hundred
and costs, judge answered.
Cat which bit Elizabeth and Mar
garet Gardella, 958 N. Hoyne av., not
rabid, city chemist says.
Five alleged blind pig owners, dis
charged when arraigned before JUS
tice Harrison in Evanston.
Anton Christensen, 1902 N. Craw-
ford av., suicide. Rope. Wife's death
recently cause.
Jed w. Pearson, specuIator- in
stocks, missing. About $4,000 of
clients money also said to be gone.
Exchange seat forfeited.
George Wright, 8 w. Superior, ar
rested for annoying Mrs. J. W. Will
more, 832 N. State. Second time.
Fred Lang, 1902 Justine, lost $40 to
con man who offered to sell auto tires
cheap. Left with money.
Joseph Click, 1922 S. TaIman av.,
stabbed twice by brother-in-law, Jo-
seph KrumL Family quarrel
DR.. Theodore B. Sachs, pres. board
of trustees municipal tuberculosis
sanitaTiUm, reappOinted.
Max Lapidus, 10, drug clerk, 1000
w. Division, sent to Briedwe1 for one
year for pandering.
1890
IN PHILLY!-WHY NOT HERE?
The Assn of Commerce has plead
on Bonded knee for the Pennsylvania
railroad to electrify it's road into the
new union station. "Impracticable"
has been the Pennsy's one-word
reply.
Yet, in Philadelphia, where condi-
tons are identical to those in Chica-
go, the Pennsylvania is completing
the identification of 20 miles Of road
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-08

destination. edo you mean to say tina
you have talked with the emperor
lately?"
Just that" the blind man answered
Hold! The entrance of the tomb Ii
just in front of us. is it not 2"
"Yes-the lofty pillars-the high
gableal soaked in golden sunshine. :
And over it"
THE words-T desire that my
ashes"
The man who had played the part oil
Napoleon was playing the part again
May rest on the banks Of the
Seine"
Twas thus he spoke in life." said
Latour-Michel.
In the midst of this French PEG.
pie so greatly loved,
Not only his ashes, but his spirit"
said Latour-Michel softly. as they
came into the grotto under the gilded
dome
They paused at the parapet sur
rounding the tomb. There Grenadier
Mere looked down at the great stone
coffin, while Latour-Michel looked up
seeing, doubtless, with his sightless
eyes. what he had seen In the days OF
his youth.
And do you doubt that his spirit
still lives?' the blind man asked.
Mol" the grenadier answered. Just
now, when was repeating his words,
it was as II he lived. And listen. adju-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-08

Curiosity Is most destructive to hap
piness. Eve started the fashion thou
sands of years ago and Ewes daugh-
tiers have followed it ever since. Il
is not unusual to hear. of the woman
who escorts her husband home from
his Office. She has a perfectly insane
curiosity regarding all his actions. so
makes habit of dropping in on him
at unexpected moments. She will verb
~ every word or excuse the poor soul
says. She will even read his CORE
spondence. This is inexcusable. Any
man would justly resent such intru-
sion. and while a wife's place is
sacred one, an honorable mans private
affairs are just as sacred
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-08

Mary was crying, too! Perhaps they
didn't quite understand.
Il said it was not Billy" he repeat
ed. "There isn't any mistake, either.
81 made em give me the managing edi-
tor, and he read the cablegram to me-
He was awful nice. He said his broth
er's down there, too. / thought you'd
say Thank God!' or something"
Mother put her hand on Lonel's
shoulder and patted it gently. 81 do
say Thank God!' DEAR" she said
through her tears. But we must not
forget In our own great gladness that
it was somebody's boy
Lionel sat fiat on the floor, his long
length across the rug, and gazed
straight ahead. Shorn of its fife and
drum, Its trumpet and shining banner,
stripped of It's might and power, it's
charm and triumph and glory, he
tasted war.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-08

half-hour than little Bobbie could
| think up In day.
"He- was so thoughtful" mother
whispered, speaking at last to the
strong man beside her. do you re-
member how he brought home those
mint candies because he knew l was
fond of them? And how he got up In
the middle of the night to oil his
squeaky door for fear the winds blow
ing it might keep me awake? Doesn't
1t seem as though anything under all
the heavens would be easier to bear
than suspense like this?"
Bobbie, thinking only of the fact
that mother must not be allowed to-
worry, looked about for aid at this mo-
ment. Mary had gone back to the
window-seat and Lionel had disap-
peared, so, as father did nothing but
stroke his wife's hand, his face drawn
and queer, Bobbie stepped bravely
into the breach.
Mother" he said shakily, you re-
member wunst / swallered brass bell
off my reins? Well, now, mother, it's
beginning to hurt something awful
right round here"
Boobies hand roved indefinitely, un-
certainly over the region he supposed
to cover his little stomach, but his
heroic announcement did not have the
desired effect. Instead of rising, hor-
most Unexpectedly seized him and
gathered him up like very tiny boy
into her lap, where he was still sitting,
disgracefully babied, when Lionel ex-
citedly burst in.
Il went over to the drug store"
Lionel cried, with thrill in his voice
which they all felt ct isn't Billy, it
isn't Billy! 1t was man named
Smith. and he lives in st. Louis, and L
found out by telephoning the Tribune.
And it isn't Billy, 1t isn't Billy! was
afraid to telephone from here because
it might have been. ! knew there
wasn't anything to worry about Oh.
mother, it isn't Billy"
Mothers are very queer things, very
queer. Here was their mother, who
had been silent for thirty hours or so,
just sewing on Boobies new waist all
the time they didn't know whether IL
was Billy or not, and then, when they
knew It was fellow named Smith,
she just put her head down on fathers
shoulder and cried pitifully. And all
father did was to pat her on the back
and say: There, dear, there!" while
two great tears rolled down his own
cheeks UNDECIDED.
Lionel knelt beside her and put his
arms around her as best he could with
Bobbie in the way, and Mary crouched
down on the other side, as near as she
could, her face turned away from him.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-08

rived. Those eyes Of his-now wide
open, gazing mystically on space-had
once looked into the eyes OF Napoleon
himself. The adjutant was very old
more than hundred. He was q mere
white shadow of man In q rolling
chair, but he still carried with him an
aroma OF power He was the man who
had seen Napoleon!
AS for the man who pushed Latour-
Michel along with touching care, ne
also was bound up in the Napoleonic
tradition.
This was Grenadier Mere-the baby
of the company, man OF seventy-hve
or SO, with shaven, expressive face,
kindling eyes, readiness to smile.
They called him Cou-d' Argent, or Sill
verneck, from the way that cunning
surgeons had made him presentable
after Gravelotte; and they say that he
had smiled while the surgeons were
doing it. He was that kind-to smile
for hatred, or pain, or grief.
But the grenadier had been an
actor in his day, down near Marseilles,
and once, just before the outbreak of
the Franco Prussian war, he had been
cast for the role of Napoleon in GER
tain military drama, which had failed
as the greater drama unrolled. That
was his claim to Napoleonic glory.
The man who had seen Napoleon
and the man who had impersonated
him joined the group.
what is this-what is this feel?"
the blind man wanted to know.
"The emperor's flag" they told him.
Motto and Latude came up to the
chair, and Latour-Michel put out
hand to touch the thing Motto had
wrapped about him.
"Oh!" the adjutant cried. His mouth
opened, he turned his sightless eyes
aloft while he still touched the faded
silk with his superfine hands. "ThatG
it, comrades! Well make his sHpiri
live again. They march on Paris
They're already on the MarnS
The Grenadier Mere bAgcame tn
mouthpiece for the old a6d3utant, as h
often did. Although tthere were tear
in his eyes, there was that eterna
smile on his lips, and his voice role
out Surprisingly rich and full. He ha
nsgyer lost his Gascon accent, nor hi
N Gascon choice of words.
! "Oui! Let us recall the spirit Of tn
, great emperor! Let us evoke the i'm
mortal shaded"
Quartermaster Sandeau went abou
uneasily, nursing his murderous horse
pistol and thoughts to match.
Il Corporal Pictou, who had been IL
the artillery, made secret tours of tn
obsolete cannon that decorated tn
little park. Those cannon were still
sound. There was plenty of ball about
Trumpeter Martin, testy, but goinl
as quietly as his two wooden leg
would let him, made repeated trips t,
the far end of the great gallery Of tn,
military museum. After his last tril
there was still a placard in the par
ticular showcase he had visited, ant
nothing else. The placard read:
Unexploded hand-grenades found a
Sebastopol.
do you mean to say" asked Grena
der Mere, as he pushed the chair O
Adjutant Latour-Michel toward Their
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-08

7 presume that after a man has
been in politics awhile he learns .
great many things he didn't know be-
FORE"
yes, and they're usually about tho
other fellow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24

An $50 a plate dinner was gwen TO
Max Blumenthal, who styles himself a
White Lights sportsman and gambler
in the main dining room at the Hotel
Knickerbocker last evening. 1t was in
honor of his approaching marriage to
Miss Louise Meyers. late OF the Zieg-
field "FollIes."
Sixty Of Blumenthafs bachelor
friends were on hand to see that the
nine kinds of sparkling beverages
which flowed like water at the board
d,d not waste their fragrance on any
desert air. For the first time in the
hotels history the entire hotel golden
service was used. The souvenirs were
French boudolr table lamps.
Nat Goodwin was POSTMASTER. AS
an expert IN connubial bliss he had a
few well chosen words OF advice for the
guest of honor. After giving the pro-
Spectlve bridegroom the beneht OF his
own many matrimonial ventures Mr'
Goodwin called for a number OF toasts'
Among those who responded were feilx
Isman. Abe Hershfeld, Captain James
Churchill, A. J. Levy, Nat Evans and
Harry Tobin.
MaX Steuer made the chief speech OF
the evening. he said he wanted 70
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
Nat Goodqvin at Golden Feast
Advises "Maxey' on Matnmony
Sixty of Broadways Best Known Bachelors, Nine Kinds
of Wine and Knickerbockers Famous Plate at
Mr. Blumenthals Farewell Feast Before
He Weds Former Foies Girl.

praise most Of all Mr.. B!umenthaFs
home loving propensities.
Here is Miss Meyers" he said. who
has given UP a $500 week place on
the stage, Just because she wants a
home. And we all know she won't be
disappointed, because 'MaXey' IS Just
the man TO give il TO her"
When the orators mad expressed their
individual and collective good wishes
for their friends approaching venture,
Mr. Bldmenthal was presented with
three cabinets Of silver, cut glass and
china, worth altogether $4,000. George
Young Bauchel made the presentation
address.
By the time the general speech max
ing was over and the guest OF honor
had tried to tell his friends how glad
he was to have the little cabinets to
start in housekeeping with. Nat Good
win had thought of more advice he felt
a young man about to embark upon so
dangerous a sea really ought TO know.
He gave his last pointers TO the pros
pective husband in his characteristic
manner, and had the guests in roars Of
laughter.
Among the guests were Sam Bernard,
Albert Rau, John Gleason, Thomas
Costigan, Donald Cartwright, Robert
Hungerford. Lea Redding, Samuel Jack
son, John Shaugnessy, Joseph SchencS
and August Sill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24

at the recent trial of Thaw for con-
spiracy in escaping Matteawan. They
were John d. Blackburn, Lawton
Mackall and Christopher Schultz. All
said they had observed his demeanor
during that trial and were of the oDin-
ion he was sane. They said the jury
took a vote. although the court ruled
that they We're not to consider the
question of sanity in their verdict. and
were Of the unanimous opinion he was
sane at that time.
John H. Hobert, also O previous
Thaw Juror in the second murder trial,
testified that he was Of the opinion at
the time of that trial Thaw was ra-
tional, and that the verdict of not
guilty because insane applied to the
moment of shooting White.
Other witnesses were Moses l.. Male
whisky. a lawyer who stopped at the
hotel in Gorham, \. H., where Thaw
stayed; Father Evers. Tombs chaplain;
DR.. John A. Wade, formerly a chaplain
there; DR.. Perry Lichtenstein. TOmbs
doctor; George B. Strausse. a keeper.
and Tom Thorp and Gus Roeder, two
reporters. All of these told Of their
observation of MIN at various times
and agreed that he struck them as ra-
tional.
A serious setback was suffered by
the state in the discovery that II Will
probably be unable TO produce as a
witness Susan Merrill, who was de-
pended upon to testify as to Thaw' s
posing as DR.. Reed and keeping with
her the fiat to which he lured girls by
advertisements.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
Mrs Murray, Whose Boy Was Slain, Sure Suspect Is
Wrong Man-Prsoner Denies All Killings but
Police Stick to Effort to Break Him Down.

responsible for the ripper murders,
declared New York detectives to-day
after they had closely questioned
George Blumlein, the paperhanger and
painter arrested here last night on
suspicion Of being connected with these
affairs.
Blumlein went to detective head
quarters here about noon yesterday.
al came TO see the man in charge,
and want to ask him something" said
Blumlein. 81 want you TO get me a
warrant for Mr.. -, in Greenwich
Street, New York." he whispered to
Lieutenant Woods. ale wants to cut my
liver out"
Maybe it's the same man who
killed those little children over there,
ch?' said Woods, looking Blumlein in
the eye.
81 don't know anything about that;
but see here, I've got something for
YOU" Blumlein went on. He thrust
his hand into his pocket and took out
a penknife with broken blade. Woods
said the blade had been about three
inches long, but that half of it was
borken off.
Blumlein has been out Of work since
Christmas. He brought three trunks
with him from New York and had
seven canaries in one of them. Upon
the arrival Of the baby he gave one
bird away and opened window for
the others to fly away. He said his
baby would now be his bird.
Physicians say Blumlein is suffering
from Authorizations and that he speaks
about being prosecuted and says all
his relatives are against him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24

Detectives went 10 work yesterday IN
an effort 10 connect George Blumlean'
who is in the psycopathic ward of the
Philadelphia General Hospital, with the
ripper murders Of the East Side few
weeks ago. Last night Blumlein's story
stood Just as he told it to Inspector
Faurot Tuesday night. II showed IA
miliarity with the circumstances under
which Leonore Cohn and Charlie Muir
raw met their deaths, and with the
neighborhood where they were killed,
but nothing more.
Blumlein denied that he had anything
to do with either death. His wife, who
became a mother not long ago, is in
Philadelphia, and declared II lmpossl-
BILE that Blumlein had any guilty knowl-
edge Of the murders. He was too iona
of children, she asserted, to attack them
or even brighten them.
Mrs. Nicholas Murray, Charlie Muir
rays mother, is equally confident that
the man in Philadelphia is innocent.
She went 10 428 East Fifteenth Street,
one of the New York addresses given
hv Blumlein, and Intercepted tenants
Of the house They told her that
man Of that name had lived there and
that he was a quiet person, of whom
they knew very little and suspected
of no wrong.
PHILADELPHIA, June 23.-"There Is a
chance that this man may be the one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
THAW, UNMOVED,
SAYS "T'M SANE
Continued from page l

davis was a token of hope for his fam
lily for the future of the trial.
In his opening address, which began
the day. Mr.. Stanchiield first told the
Jurors Of the unwritten law, which, al
though il is not recognized by the
courts, is often invoked by jurles TO
save man who has killed another for
violating his home. These were the
conditions, he said, which applied to
the killing of White.
"At that time" he said, "Mr. Thaw
was a younger man, of cornwall HABITS,
not the sobered, matured man you see
now, chastened by discipline and
growing years. He is forty-four years
old now. But ten years ago there came
10 him the message that White had Sc
duced his wife and that he would get
her away from him again. Then ne
took q pistol and shot him dead
Evelyn's Beauty Haunts Trial.
He went on TO draw an appealing
picture of Eyelyn's beauty, Of Thaw'ss
gallant love for her, OF the actions OIL
White ard Of the mental stress all
this had thrown Thaw into. Then he
read from the address of Mr. Jerome 10
the Jury in the resulting murder trial,
in which Jerome declared whites con-
duct as crying to heaven for condemna-
ton and that there could not be much
difference Of opinion as to what he de-
served.
~ want to let these thoughts, ex-
pressed by former prosecutor OF TINS
county, linger in your minds, MI
Stanchfeld said, and he went on 10
describe the various hearings and COM
been gone into, his escape from Mat
teawan and the resulting events. He
spoke slightingly OF DR.. Flint and Or.
Macdonald as experts who have re-
ceived thousands Of dollars from the
state for testifying against Thaw, de-
claring they never had any real OPP
portunity TO observe him.
Then he stopped suddenly and called
Thaw TO the stand as the first witness
in his own behalf.
"Wait a minute; I think the state
has the right to be heard IN case
of this sort before he taking OF testl-
mony begins" interrupted Mr.. Cook.
Then he plunged into the scathing ad-
dress which put Thaw to that test Of
endurance.
He said il would be shown that at
the second trial for murder Thaw's
own family presented the most elabo-
rate insanity defence made in the state
for twenty years.
ave representatives Of the state are
not here as prosecutors or as prose.
cutors," he said, "but as Investigators
II is our duty to help decide whether
this man is sane or insane. Il insane,
to take him back to Matteawan; if
sane. to restore him 20 his liberty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
POLICE HONOR COMRADE

A thousand policemen followed the
body Of Patrolman Rush A. Webster
on its way to Woodlawn Cemetery yes
terday. Along the route of march hun
dreds Of persons lined the sidewalk.
Webster, a member Of the Honor
Legion, died on Sunday from injuries
received when attempting to stop
speeding automobile on the Queens
boro Bridge on Nav 81.
Prior to the services held in the
Prospect Avenue Presbyterian Church
Masonic service was held at the home,
794 East l65th Street Police Com
missioner Woods and Deputy Commits
gioner Frank Lord sat at the head Of
the 700 members Of the Honor Legion
in the church. The Rev. James Cromle
pastor of the church, offciated.
Webster was appointed to the de-
partment in September, 1896, and was
decorated for bravery several times
He leaves a wife and four childres.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24

and privileges OF citizenship"
1t would be shown, however he con-
tinued, that the prisoner came from a
family in which ran the greatest faint
of hereditary insanity Then he pro-
ceeded to turn inside out he romantic
version of Thaw's relations with Eve
lyn Nesbit presented by Mr. Stanch-
field.
1--WE will show that it was in 1903
that Evelyn Nesbit told Thaw her story
Of her seduction by White; that sub
sequent to that he himself took her
abroad and they lived together as man
and wife before their marriage" he
said. as that the act of a protector
Of girhood? Does a sane man wait
from 1903 until 1905 20 kill the de-
spoiler Of his home?
There is something more in this
than dementia Americana which they
imported Judge Delmas from the Pa
cifc Slope to put over on a New York
jury. And | want to say here that it
ia a shame and disgrace that the name
Of Stanford White, that great arChi-
tect, known the world over, has been
SO long undefended.
"The evil spoken against him never
has been proved, except by the story
of Evelyn Nesbit, adduced that he
might hide behind her skirts with a
defence of dementia Americana"
He said Thaw was a Dr.. Jekyll and
a Mr.. Hyde, and it would be proved
that under the name of Dr. Reed he
kept fiat and lured young girls there
to satisfy his Ssdist perversion by
fagellating them, even after he was
married TO Evelyn, and that he was in
that fiat on the very night he shot
White.
"Dementia Americana Rot!" he
cried in conclusion.
Thaw Calm on Witness Stand.
Then came Thaw to the stand. He
answered the preliminary questions as
to his birth and residence, and then
Mr.. Stanchfield said:
when you left Matteawan did you
believe you had recovered your san
ity"
81 believed I was sane" replied
Thaw, who never admits that he was
insane at any time.
Stanchfed then led him over a
sketchy history of his trip to Canada
after his flight from Matteawan and
his return by the process of expulsion
from Canada into New Hampshire and
his extradition from New Hampshire
back to New York. He got lin to tell
OF the two commissions which declared
him sane during his stay in New
Hampshire pending the decision of the
United States court in his light against
extradition.
With this the direct examination
ended, and upon the declination of Mr..
Cook to cross-examne at that time
Mr.. Stanchfield started to summon his
line of lay witnesses who have been
in contact with Thaw or had chance
to observe him since his escape from
Matteawan.
Three of these witnesses were jurors
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
LACK OF MONEY
ENDS FAIRGROUNDS
'Oard of Education TO Close
Them Saturday-TakeS Up
Bronx School Situation.

ne Board Of Education yesterday
80 70 close vacation Fairgrounds on
,'sioay because Of the financial strin-
-P' The report on the reorganiza-
o. the schools in The Bronx 20 re-
=" me crowded conditions, as recon-
s.eoed By the Board Of Superintend-
~. ~, was referred 20 the finance com
-, sc 10 be prepared for the Board Of
.lS report pointed out that the
.,..slu,oSded conditions Of the Bronx
EsOss could not be relieved before
Ia unless the Gary plan was adopted
49, Expenditures made for additions
"; engagements. The alterations and
,..S.lons and purchase Of land required
sAls,22O pa" "'''U ''''
S,,Ss board approved a resolution 70
e,.oize the course Of study in the
sSag high schools so that students
receive the same credit as the stu
49, oi the day high schools. A COM
tseuon from the State Commits
4, o. Education. confirming the ac-
| h,S VI the Board Of Education in re-
H. 70 Mrs. Henrietta Rodman De
., ~ was received. Mrs. De Frem-
s:,s1 ~ be transferred TO Julia Rich
s,,ss nigh School when her period Of
''a'lOn has expired.