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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17

tent Of paying the expenses OF the
child through high school.
This year, n boy is in Harvard as the
result of the helping hand OF Friend
gan sending to the library at Friend
ship House for books. lie did not come
himself. but sent boy friend, The
worker in charge OF the library was
impressed with the character OF the
hooks sent for. and sent personal in
vitation to the boy to come himself.
So. the next time the library was
open, he appeared-a tlmid, understood
lad of eighteen. He was at the time
working in grocery store. and was
unhappy because his long hours gave
him no time to study. His great am
biton. he told the librarian. was 10
go to college.
Tho librarian thought at once OF o
public position. and suggested his try
ing the Public Library. Although he
without pay. he secured an appoint
ment.
Soon Made Good.
He soon made good" and when he
paid a call to express his thanks at
Friendship House q few months later.
he looked we'll and strong. Last year he
attended George Washington University,
and this fall he left for Harvard. From
reports received at Friendship House
ne Is UOlnS huIlllTdDlys
The Friendship House Week. which
opened Sunday, is for the purpose of
raising through subscriptions the annual
budget. $500.
Various downtown stores have had
boxes or booths placed in conspicuous
places to receive these contributions,
No other method is being used to raise
the money, and great hopes are being
held out by the Friendship House AS
ISOLATION that the subscriptions will
thn amnlInt napdn6 for the n
ming expenses this winter and next sum-
mer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17
MAJOR CONLINE DIES
AT LAUREL HOSPITAL
Aged War Veteran Succumbs at
Age Of II.

Major John Conline, ". g. A.. retired,
OF Washington. died yesterday at Laurel
Snnitarium. lie had been in III health
for several months.
Major Conllne was one OF the few Of
hcers of the army who had the dis
tinction of serving In the civil war be-
fore he entered West Point.
When a boy of seventeen he enlisted
in Company II. First Vermont Infan-
try. and served from May /, 1861, to
September 5, 1863, when he was dis
charged to accept appointemnt to the
Military Academy.
Graduating from West Point in 1868,
Major Conlne served in the Indian
campaigns and was I'm active service
during the Spanish American war lie
retired In 1891 as the result of disabili-
ties incurred in line of duty.
Major .Conline was seventy-two years
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17

This narrows the work Of prevent
ing the disease to point where eff
fective bacterial tests should insure
the absence Of the paralysis germs.
Flies and other insects are sus-
pected of acting as carriers for the
germs, and this fact points to an
other line of preventive work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17
Smell Costs Him $16.50.

NEW YORK, Oct. 17,-Sir James NJ.
Barrie's twelve pound look has moth
ing on Bonnie Helme's $3.50 smell.
Bonnie put asafoetida In his teach
er's coat pocket and $3.50 was his
dne.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17
Typist Breaks Record.

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.--Miss Mar
Earet owen broke her own worlds
1876 words a minute, making IL 1871
a minute. for one hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17
Our Own Tips to Parents Depart
ment.

Sir: Last evening l learned OF an old
wrinkle which should today bring COM
fort to many homes.
"YouR father was a little imp when
he was that age" remarked grand
mother, as she watched her two-year-
old great-grandson's frenzied antics and
his distracted mothers efforts to hear a
friend over the telephone.
II could keep him quiet and occupied,
when something else demanded my un-
divided attention. in but one way. I
would dip the fingers OF each little hand
In treacle and give him a few small.
downy fathers to play with"
We tried it, and say! Well try II
yourself. ROY o.
Anon wants to know II II is true that
in Words, Kan, there Is concern
named the Wood-Rowe-Wilson Com
pany selling talking machines. We
don't know. Is there? It IL almost too
great a felicity to expect of real life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17

Lilly B. r. opines that the person who,
wanting to share your seat In the train,
points to the vacant place and stutter-
ingly asks. rs any one sitting here"
must be the same one who upon acci-
dentally meeting a friend exclaims. is
that your
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17
Four-Line Thought.

A girl l know is nearly fat.
Her nose In freckle-dnubed and pug
I'm driven to admit, at that.
She has a habit-forming hug.
edward Hope.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17

Another reason for the existence OF
the President of the United States Is to
have some one important with whose
emoluments TO compare the salaries Of
movie actors. DON MARQUIS,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17

Il have often tried" says Linotype
Larry. TO figure out why, when there
are plenty of vacant seats In other
parts OF street car. a woman will
always take possession of one of the
-FOUR rear seats reserved for smokers"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17

First Actor. 10 Tomkins working
these days?
Second Ditto-He's gone into the
Silences.
T.. A.-What? Dead?
s. D.-Movies,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17
Don Marquis
Column
A Mixtry.

A Mixtry.
Life 70 80 minOled through, and through
That u resembles Irish stetO;
Ltle 70 Of unmatched pieces butt,
LIKE my Aunt Tabby's PATCHWORK quit
LIE Is so mtred Of drink and dro0s--
LIFE u a dish of scrambled eggs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17

The Department OF Agriculture Is plan
ming 10 keep the oyster pure and un-
polluted. Why not teach the oysters
10 grow periscopes? An oyster with a
periscope could lie In his shell and look
out through the periscope at all that
came his way and keep his matches
closed II he found himself in danger OF
contamination.
A study of the snail should nut the
scientists on the right track The snail
has his own periscope; pair OF them, in
fact. Why not do a little lutherbur-
banking in the animal kingdom and
cross the oyster and the snail? II
would make a great animal the result
ing hybrid would. To the comparative
sprightliness Of the snail would be
added the docility and stability and con-
scrvatism OF the oyster. And the beast
could be eaten the year round
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-17
Visions in War Time.

RAIN.
On housetops lofty as thought
me rain drips pelting down. the winter
Pelting and spatterlng,
Driven from the austere. windy north
As II the skies would cleave
To spew once more the forty days and
Prodigious with pelting rain.
And over these housetops lofty as
thought.
over this city,
Roll waves OF desolation!
o. my ii,E people unconscious do you not
Do you not hear these messengers APP
Where is that open door. your soul,
Thrilling, invocatiye, with d, speech of
God they speak,
Conductors OF truth. ripeners of vision.
loosers OF power.
Whom you avoid as chill. tormentins
Nay. yourselves are chill. tormenting
rain
Rolling like myriad drops
Down cutters of nothingness.
Sinking to hidden pools. forgotten and
stagnant,
Rolling. rolling forever
Drowning the golden City, glory of Cod
BUN.
Is there a crowd that rolls upon itself,
A frantic, stuprous mob.
Headless and heartlesB?
II is an arrow streaming to distant
mark
Fixed In the will OF God.
And are there darkened cities.
Peoples sword locked and closely cruel
fled;
Explosive passions. self-tormentins
hates,
Blindness of path and peak?
They drive. all men. divided mobs and
towns.
Fort-girdled states, imperious conti-
nents-
All men soever-moving to a goal
Urged as these separate waters by one
moon.
They struggle. sleep; they murmur.
grieve or pray.
Thoughtful and reckless. seeing, un-
seeing: entwined In bitter grasp
Beyond partition into good and evil:
Yet all. and not one conscious stream
All, all, the sere. the singing
Obey one urge. and each alike arrives
o fool that turns his back!
Traitor that leagues the world TO dark
despair!
He gropes against the rising OF the sun,
And dawn shall strike him speechless.
Horace Holley.
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WHAT'S GOING ON IN
WASHINGTON TODAY
Today.

Address, Former Senator Nathan b, Scott
before West Virginia Republican Club ct
HEADQUARTERS III: II street northwest. Q
Meeting. Anthropolosical Society of washing
ton, NatiSnal Museum I1Ss $50 ?; M: =,
Bethel Literary and Historical Association,
Metropolitan A. NJ. f. Church. s p. m.
Meeting, Petworth Citizens Association,
Eighth and Shepherd streets northwest, T:dt
Meeting. under direction Of Indiana member,
Of The Womsns wilson Union. Cafe Re
Meeting. Mothers Congress. darkroom. Ra-
Musicale. National Quartet, Home Club, sis
Democratic rally. Rockville, Nd, .. m.
M Trafric otTieers. New wiiiafd, 10 q. M
Meeting. committee on Public Library Board
OF Trade in rooms. t:iS p. m.
Or. Benedict Lust. Pythisn Temple, sp. m.
Meeting, Anthony League. cc@ Columbia
Annual card party, for benent OF Columbia
Polytechnic Institute for the Blind. under
auspices Aid Relief Society. the Cairo. 2
y. m.
Boosting trip through Maryland towns. Retail
Merchants Association.
Meeting. Camp III. United Confederate Yer.
Grams, Confederate Memorial Hall 8 .. m.
Meeting, women's Missionary Society 81
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcepsl
Church South. i2cs Eleventh street, s .. m
Masonic--National, No. u; Myron NJ. Parker,
No. "a; King David: No. Is: La Faystte,
No. 8, Royal Arch; Mithras Lodge OF Per.
lection, A. A. S. r.
Eastern star-Mizpah. No. s: Fidelity. No
10.
Odd FELLOWSHIP. Pleasant. No -: Amity.
No. "a; Washington, No. 6: Golden Rule.
No. II.
Rebekahs-Fide No. &.
knights OF Pythias-Excelsior No. Il: Web.
Hter. No. Z; Capital, No. %: Myrtle, No. IS
Elks-Elks Oyster Club, oyster roast
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Amusements.

New Nationsl-"Fair and Warmer" $50 H.
m.
Belasco--"Littls Lady IN Blue" $50 D. m.
'Poli's-''While the City Sleeps, 2:l6 ana Si5
y. m.
Keith's-vaudeviils, a:l6 and Sis D. m,
Gayety-Burlesque. 2:l5 and Sis p. m.
Loew's Columbia-Photoplays. 1879 .. m. to
IL y. m.
Garden-Photoplays, 10 q. IN. to II p m.
Strand-Photoplays, 10 a. m. to IL D. m.
Casino-Photoplays IL m. TO IL y. m.
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Our Own Wall Notices.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-09
How the Police
Reconstructed the Case.

1t was discovered, first, that the dog when
iohAd was stil live. 1t was battered-instea
OF being scratched and torn as it would have
been FROM TALL: battered as though il had
bcen hurled out into the air for the more than
one hundred foot descent from the boulevard
furthermore its weight not more than
h'tceh pounds. and so light body would in.
cTitably have been caught b. projections and
brush on the cliffs face. The police concluded
therefore mat it must have been thrown
examination of Mrs. Prices body showed no
bruises such as would have been causeS ,v
rolling down the cliff face. Neither was her
clothing torn as ii would have been if She had
SIMPLY to''"rcd over the edge ana had crashed
down through the brush and over the rocks
Minute examination % The face of the cliff
revealed no trace Of the passage oil any heavy
object such as her body.
The wound that had cause.i iler heath vas
jagged, crushing cut the !cad. There we're
no stones nearby which cOu'd have produced
nis particular cut. There WAS no mark of
blood or hair on The cliff ace The wound
appeared as though it had been made by the
bringing down o. a neaTy n .r-co-neInd rock
uroh ner head while she lay where she was
found
Mrs. Prices body was aftcen Zoe, from the
base OF the cliff. Experiments with dummies
OF her weight and size showed It was practical.
~ Impossible Tor hcr 10 have fallen off the
cliff and TO have landed on that exact spot.
hl' a dummy o! her weight ana size hurled
lrGM the cliff did strike on the exact SPOT
whore she was found.
Close examination Of the defective spark
only recently installed and that it had been
detective when installed
Inc police, recOnstructing the tragedy along
scientific lines drew a picture entirely at va
Rance with that Of Prices il had been
planned, they argued, to stop at this, the
ianferoua point on the boulevard. The de.
iecli|e spark plug had been substituted to give
an excuse Tor stopping. Mrs. Price had been
persuaded 10 leave the car She had then been
hurled over the cliI. The dog had been thrown
after her Mrs. Price had not been fatally
iinF, and she had been killed after her fall by
someone battcring in her head with rock
Mrs Price, whose family is very rich had
Just received, 1t vas also discovered, $4,000
from one of her sources Of income. Price
immediately after hcr death, had himself de.
''a ,, heir heir and executor
ne police wished. however. to make abso-
ihte!y sure ana keeping Price continually un.
n"r surveillance, they sought confederation OF
their theory
ON las December. ono year after Mrs Prices
nchth they received information concerning
I.aGniaoh ina, made them act. They arrested
flice on charge OF bigamy, aud few days
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-09

indistnct to me. but through 1t all ] hoped
Price would not have the nerve.
Il was numb with cold | got out of the
car and moved toward Price. hut he avoided
me. Then | started toward the woman. BY
this time she was standing the cliff. |
heard a scream and then something touched
me and heard the body fall.
Price beckoned me 10 follow him. Hardly
able TO stand, and stiff from cold and fright,
stumbled along the path Price walked quickly
TO the bottom Of the cliff.
There the woman stretched on the
ground Slowly she turned to side and
drew her legs up under her Then she
moaned was almost paralyZed Price stopped
over the woman and Strengthened out her legs
and arms. placing her arms at her side. Still
she moaned Price didn't say word | saw
him stoop again. and turned away. Then |
heard the crunch OF rock against bone and the
woman still
Price called to me to summon help. Yell
he told me, and get someone to help us up
with the body ] shambed up to the river
road. There met told him there
had been accident and begged him to
hurry Then automobile came by. ] stop
ped 1t and several men and women got out.
4 led the way back down the cliff Sud
denly Mrs. Price moaned again. Four men
pickle, her up and carried her to the road.
Once / was asked to help and tried to do
so, but couldn't. Someone called ambu-
lance, don't know who. 1t came. ! found
myself in the Price machine and someway
drove to the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. William
Dye, the latter the womans sister. took
them to the hospital in Midway, where was
told to come. How l made that drive will
never know.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-09

II had puncture and drove from the hos
pI l'al TO garage to fix the machine. Later
Price came ont. she is dead he said softly
did the fall kill her? asked.
No Price replied, 1t didn't
He asked me il had the dog.
i said had not. Late policeman. brought
the dog TO the hospital Ii was the night
Price went with me to my at the Ven
dome Hotel and there We slept He had
bottle OF whiskey with him and took several
drinks Once said Price that was an awful
thing 20 do
81 know it,, he said but it had TO be done.
and now ii is all over. Cont worry You will
get your money and that's all you have to
worry about
The next day had breakfast and sepa-
rated. We avoided each other until the day
of the funeral. ] attended, because could not
stay away. ! saw Price there and he nodded.
All you have to do, he told me, is to keep
your mouth shut
Morning and night could hear the means
or the woman as we found her lying at the bot
tom OF the cliff. Later Price came TO me with
my notes for $1,O50 and paid me $500 in
bills, promising there more to come as
soon as he had sold the bonds his wife had
received from her father. | took my wife
and went 10 my home in Illinois and spent
Christmas My wife asked what was worry
ing me. again thought of going TO the Off
GERS and telling them what knew. Then 1
went to Washington. There Price sent me his
personal check for 500 and a bank draft OF
$1,000. Tha; was all lie ever gave me.
Then came the arrest In Washington I
told my story to Mr. Armstrong, Assistant
County Attorney in Chicago, and it brought
relief. will repeat 1t again on the witness
stand. 1t is the truth and the whole truth
Never before have been in trouble. All
the trouble ] have ever known in this world
has come to me through Price. I have no
attorney. need none will tell the Court
and the jury my story. If have done wrong
they will punish me. But 1t is the truth that
did not believe Price would really carry out
his threats. OF murder am innocent vas
an unwilling witness to the killing OF a woman
who had always been sweet and kind to me"
Price, himself declares he Ia innocent that
Etchison is a drug user and his story a com.
pete fabrication.
The Minneapolis police have found that Price
was named twice before he became the hus-
band OF the woman who died so tragically
and, shortly after her death married again.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-09
THE Dark
Ride to Death"

reward the Price home at Spruce Place he
grove, and hoped the ride would end there,
put once the house was reached he asked his
"lle TO go in and get the dog and we would
get Il little air.
NO one VIII ever know how felt when I
sa" Price plotting the machine in the direction
o. the dark river road. Mile after mile we
nos were on the back seat Several times I
'rlcd 10 talk, but Mrs. Price would not listen
IN iide OF what seemed hours we finally
reached the road that skirts the river The
machine stopped. Price said he had TO fix tho
engine. light from nearby house shone
across the path he had shown me-
Price jumped from the automobile, and /
recall his asking his wife to give the dog a
iittle exercise What happened after that is
l6 by the Star COMPANY. Great Britain Richts
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-09
"Help Me Do
Away With NV Wife"

"One day he came to my room in the Ven.
dome hotel and after few generalities,
startled me by saying that he should have
money-no matter how he got it. 1 suggested
he borrow from his wife. for he had always
tod me her family had money. He replied
mat was impossible. This conversation was
IN October, 1914. At the conclusion of his talk
Price turned to me and said suddenly:
Fred, listen I've got to have money, even
IL ! have to do away with my wife
u thought him Joking at first and paid no
attention to what he said. Swiftly Price turned
TO mo, repeated the sentence and added and
you have got to help me-
Help you do what? ! queried
Do away with my wife," came the answer
ana he continued: will pay You we'll Not
only will give back the notes for the money
you owe but will give you some more, once
she is out OF the way
Il did not know that Price was serious
tried to laugh it off. knew he had been drink.
ing little and thought his talk wild but he
came again with the same proposition. l
thought seriously OF going to the authorities
ana telilng them what he was proposing hut
knew he had influential friends and would
probably prove to them l had lied Being IN
his debt. fenced for time, and apparently
acquiesced to his plan
If you don't help me- Price frequently
told me. ! will kill my wife in your presence
and do it III q way that the blame will fall
upon You. Nou have got to help me, and l
have the plans all made
on the day before November 2S--the day
Mrs. Price Mas killed-Price came and asked
i'i' W 81 ti'FstS LOT some InealTc, AFTER tnat
we will take an automobile he said with
look did not like. ] again thought OF going
to the authorities, but doubted if they, or
even the little wife, would believe what had
to say.
II bought the tickets The play was the
Prince of Pilsen at the Metropolitan Mrs
Price enjoyed The play and laughed. Price
watched il moodily. | nervous tried
to catch Prices eye, but he avoided me.
i watched Mrs. Price--She was dear,
sweet little woman and warm friend OF mine.
Not for the world would have harmed hair
OF her head. Even boy hated death and
pain. | never shot a rabbit back in the days
when lived with my father and mother on
farm near Decatur Ill.,, but was sorry
Il watched the little wife she laughed at
the play, and wondered. was afraid Of Price,
and fearful! Of his power TO take away my be-
longings. But through 1t all came the thought
that Price would really do it.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-09

later he and Etchison were Jointly indicted by
me Minneapolis Grand Jury for murder in the
first degree
persuaded by his wife in dramatic scene
Etchison made confession. The confession.
printed below, is. If true a brief for the meth
DDS of the modern scientific detectives
IN his first statement Etchison said that
frlce mad deliberately removed a good spark
plug and had substituted a defective one to
provide him with an excuse for stopping at
the place where he had planned to throw his
wife over the cliff. His second statement in
full was follows:
1T was about five years ago that | first
met Price. l answered an advertisement Tor
statesmen. He manager for concern sell.
Ing scales. | was employed by him, and for
ABOUT three years we were much together.
lhen we drifted apart but kept in touch with
each other. Later came back to Minneapolis
and started TO work selling stock for local
concern. In the meantime | was unfortunate
III business ventures and borrowed 81 $50 from
Price For this loan he held my notes.
Frequently he pressed me for payment and
threatened TO commence an action in the courts
and take my furniture and other belongings.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-09


out. and another that the seeds of a
mans destruction lie always in himself
Both OF these expressions OF human experience
are repeated III another form by the formula
OF the modern scientific detectives who claim
that no criminal can so initiate natural oc.
cu!ehces as TO eTace all traces to praCtised
eye. OF his own handiwork
In other words no man bent upon the com
mission OF crime can arrange the circum.
stances OF that crime that it will afterwards
appear point by point. as an accident
Particularly is this go OF murder
1t is upon the lines of this theory that the
famous French and German scientific de.
.eCtiVes nave achieved such startling successes
The same methods arc responsible for the
recent arrest Of Frederick T. Price of Mime.
young wife little more than year ago and
when he is tried these methods will be equally
trial.
On the evening of November %. 1914. Price
took Mrs. Price riding iii his automobile
along the Mississippi road. the principal
lleasure.iriEe Of that city. With them was
CHARLES 7. Etchison. Il friend of the pair. Mrs
Price took with her little pet dog
~ one point the road runs along the edge
OF cliff about one hundred feet high. looking
down INTO the valley OF the river.
iiere the auto stopped. 4 few minutes later
men, attracted by tho shouts of Etchson, came
running to the spot. Descending the cliff with
MIN they found Price bending over his WIFE
she died without gaining consciousness.
i'rc" told the police that defective spark
pug had caused him 10 stop at the place he
did. Mrs. Price had gotten out with her dog
me dog had fallen over the cliff ami. III
eToTi 10 save il. Mrs. Price had herself fallen
fr!ce'a story was accepted at the time, but
the scientific analysis OF il begun.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-09

II had puncture and drove from the hos
pi'al 10 garage to fix the machine. Later
Price came ont. she is dead, he said softly.
Ibid the fall kill herr | asked
:" No. PRICE rcnlied IL didn't,