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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-11-12
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The Washington times., 1916-01-16
STOMACH TROUBLES,
DUE TO ACIDITY

so-called stomach troubles. such as in
digestion' wind, stomach-ache ana In
ability to retain food. are in probably
nine cases out Of ten simply evidence
that fermentation. the result OF excess
acid, Is taking place In the food con.
tents OF the stomach causing the formR :
tion of gas. Wind distends the stomach
and causes that full, oppressive feeling
sometimes knoEn as heartburn, while
the acid irritates and inhames the deli
cate lining Of the stomach. The trouble
lies entirely In the excessive secretion
OF acid and the fermentation OF food
such fermentation is unnatural and may.
involve harmful consequences II not COR
rected. To stop or prevent fermenta-
uon OF food contents of the stomach
and to neutFalize che acid. and render Il
bland and harmless, a teaspoonful OF
Bisurated Magnesla, perhaps the best
and most effective corrector OF acid
stomach known, should be taken ia a
quarter of glass of hot or cold water
Immediately after eating, or whenever
wind or acidity Is felt. This stops the
fermentation. and neutralizes the acidity
in a few moments. Fermentation, wind
and acidity are unnecessary. Stop or
prevent them by the use of a proper
antacid, such as Bisurated Magnesia,
which can be obtained from any drug
gist, apd thus enable the stomach TO 90
its work properly. without being hih-
dered By Gas and excessive acid.-Advt.
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
WAR NURSES BODY TO
REST IN WILMINGTON
Miss Reva ]. Taylor One of First
to Respond to Red
Cross Call.

The body of Miss Reva J. Taylor,
one OF the first American nurses to
answer the call OF the Red Cross for
volunteers to go to Europe at the out
break OF the war, and who died at
the Homeopathic Hospital here yes
terday, was taken to Wilmington
Del. for burial this afternoon. Fu-
neral services were held at the Regis
tered Nurses Club. 1897 X street
northwest. at / o'clock. Miss Tay-
lor, according to friends, will be one
OF the first nurses to, be buried with
both the United States and Red Cross
nags.
Taken III in England in December.
Miss Taylor returned to her home in
Wilmington. and after a few days
came to this city. She was gradu-
ated from the training school OF the
Homeopathic III Hospital in 1898, and un-
til taking up, her work in England
had practiced her profession in this
city continuously, While in EnglanI
she served with the Royal Naval Hos
pital and with the American Women's
War Hospital. When the American
Red Cross nurses returned to thiS
country Miss Taylor remained, volun-
Aeering to serve with the English Red
Cross, but illness prevented. Miss
Taylor is survived by a sister, Miss
Ella Taylor. a nurse, OF this city, and
her mother. who lives in Wilmington.
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
No Ahbi Offered By
Police In This Case

Ordinarily detectives and policemen
arc unwilling 10 discuss mystery cases,
believing that some fault may bo found
with the way they handled them. In al
most every case detectives have some
clue, even though it goes down in police
annals as a mystery, the evidence point
ing strongly to some man or woman.
but not being sufficient to justify an
In some cases detectives and police
men in many big cities lay the un-
fathomable crime on someone. who has
disappeared or died, but in the Dennls
case the Washington police ofIers no
alibi, excuse, or eXtenuaung circum-
stance. They very frankly say they
did all they could to apprehend the
guilty maa, but that was not enough.
The door to this magi's house was lock-
ed against them fourteen years and
more ago, and they have not yet found
the key.
Although the Dennis case happened
years ago. the slightest plausible clue
would set the entire machinery or the
Washington police department In mo-
tion on 1t today as It did on that De-
cember day In 1901.
''I don't know OF a single bet we
overlooked said Detective Evans.
III we had the case to handle again
today we would undoubtedly do eX-
actiy as we did then" said Horne, land
with the same result, probably"
There isn't any angle from which
the Dennis case could possibly nave
peen investigated that we did not prone
right down to the roots said Detec-
tive Helan, who spent a hundred nights
in Mrs. Dennis room at the hospital
listening for clues.
when they look over the police rec
ords hundred years from now IN
search OF a mystery" said Detective
Weldon, ''the one that viii Immediate
ly spring TO their notice will be, Who
killed Mrs. Dennis?' and the echo will
answer, who?
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
Could Get No Clues
From Girl EnpIoYe,

we closely questioned every girl and
woman employed by Mrs. DENNIS. but
got no shred Of clue from them. and
they did not have any theories about
the case. We investigated the lives,
habits. and associates OF many friends
Of Mrs. Dennis. but got not scintilia
OF clue which would assist us in solv-
ing the mystery of her assailant. We
learned the names OF practically all the
people with whom Mrs. Dennis had been
publicly seen in washington during the
thirty years she lived here. but suspicion
fell on none Of them. nor could any of
them shed the slightest light on the
case.''
Both detectives laughed when refer
ence was made to the finding of a
bloody coat IN a sewer at Thirteenth
and X streets northwest a few days
after Mrs. Dennis was assaulted.
,'I shuddeF TO think what would have
done TO the man who put that coat in
that sewer II ] could have laid hands
on him." said Detective Evans. That
man got me more excited and worked
uD than ever had been in my life be-
fore. or have been since.
That was the hottest clue of them all,
and II looked fine" said Evans until
we looked ut the name OF the merchant
IN the collar and went to him. From
MN we learned the coat had been
DouRht two or three days after Mrs.
Dennis was assaulted. Some one. hon
Ing to create. a sensation. probably
killed cat and soaked the coat in the
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
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The Washington times., 1916-01-16
.535 CANADIANS DIE
IMAM ENGAGEMENT
Reports Reaching Ottawa Indi-
cate They Fell in important
Battle on West Front.

OTTAWA. Ontario. Jan. 16.-Reports
reaching Ottawa indicate that Canadian
troops have been in an important en-
Eagement presumably on the west
front, and have suffered severely. The
losses are officially stated to have been
5S5 killed and wounded. The regiments
in the fighting which have suffered are
the Third c. M. r.. of Medicine Hat.
Alberta, and the Thirty-hrst Infantry
Battalion. Of Calgary. under Lieut.. A.
H. Bell.
The Third Canadian Mounted Rifles Is
one Of the finest battalions Canada has
sent to the front. II was recruited in
Medicine Hat. and Is under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Colonel Whitaker.
The men composing the regiment are
drawn from all corners OF the globe.
Many are Americans
There are- no details Of the engage
ment, only the bare statement OF the
535 casualties being given. General
HuEes cabled to the war office for de-
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
Skull Fractured, Jawbone
Broken, Arms Battered

II was At my home when theS case
was first reported at headquarters, E"
said Dad. Horne yesterday. and re-
ceiyed orders by telephone to go inn
mediately to the X street house. where
a woman, had been brutally assaulted.
''T hurried to the house and found
Detectives Helan and McNamee already
there. A crowd had gathered inside
and outside the house, although 1t was
not daylight.
Mrs. Dennis lay on the bed with her
skull fractured. her iawbone broken. her
arms bsttered and her body weltering in
blood which covered the torn and dis
heveled bed. DR.. Wade Atkinson was
there preparing to dress Mrs. Dennis
wounds
e 'Helan, McNamee. myself and other
detectives at once made an investiga-
tion of the premises and the circum-
stances of the finding of the body.
Mrs. Dennis bedroom adjoned the par
lor on the. first floor. She conducted
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
CLERIC WEDS COUPLE
. IN STORE BASEMENT
Consents TO Perform Ceremony
on Spot When Told They
Have Only rs Minutes.

Minds with but a single thought"
and a pair OF hearts that had been nut
tering as one In more than double-quiclO
time were quieted yesterday afternoon
under the pavement of an r street
store where the Rev. Hugh 7. Steven
son, pastor OF Bethany Baptist Church,
performed the ceremony making Henry
q. Alley and Miss Frances N. Hill. both
OF Richmond, man and wife.
Fluttering hearts. Cupid, twenty-five
minutes in which to have the knot tied
ana catch a train for home, and the ex-
citing chase TO catch up with the Rev
Mr.. Stevenson, all entered into the
selection OF q basement Of the store as
the scene OF the wedding.
Are you Mr.. Stevenson?' said the
breathless bridegroom as he entered the
store at 1910 + street at 2:40 o'clock
Can youN marry us here? We must
catch a train at 3:05." he continued be-
fore the clergyman could answer.
With permission of the proprietor the
minister and the young couple went to
the basement, and as the crowds above
hustled up and down the asphalt OF
the busy thoroughfare, she answered
Il will" and became Mrs. Henry G.
Alley. They were smiling happily ais
the 3:05 left the Union Station.
The Washington times., 1916-01-16

weighed 200 pounds. She was a striking
type OF woman. She was born in Penn
sylvahia, and went to Baltimore with
her family at an early age. When In her
twentiea, she married Walter Dennis, a
famous tragedian, who played with
Booth and other renowned actors.
After his death she opened the
dressnahing establishment, in which
she catered to the society trade OF
Washington and became intimately ac-
quainted with many OF the social lead
ers here.
Among the mass OF information we
obtained were the facts that a man
who was said to have been one Of her
ardent admirers and that he came to
Washington frequently TO visit her. Al
though not definitely suspecting him,
but being ready and eager to entertain
any semDlance Of a clue, we investi-
gated to ascertain whether or not he
was in Washington on the morning of
the assault We obtained definite and
lrrefutable evidence that he was not lin
Washington. and dropped him after
Iurther running him out"
Ihen Horne took up the thread and
related the strangest OF all the strange
cftasuTes ctdd OF the puzzling cas-: the sui
strongly intimatinR that he knew the
Identity OF the murderer.
Wore strange than this, however, was
Une fact that on key ring found in
IIis mans pocket was key which
opened the front door Of Mrs. Dennlb'
residence, but did not At the lock on
the door OF her room. Yet, in the face
or all these condolences, the detectives
ascertained to their satisfaction that
the suicide knew nothing of the crime
except what he had read in the news
papers.
we were desperate for clues" said
horne, and ready to believe almost
anything in connection with the case.
We rather hesltated TO believe the
stories which came to us about "a Gov
eminent employe, which were to this
erect; That on several occasions, in
cluDs, barrooms and cigar stores this
man said TO those gathered about him,
Inc detectives want to know who
killed MRS. Dennis. / can tell them.
can give them an accurate descrip-
tion OF him Then 'he would give a
description which fltted no one but nim-
sell. He also talked Of having come
from town where a young girl was
Deaten to death with hatchet and said
her slayer was never caught.
we took this man into custody and
talked with him for hours, during which
ne convinced us that he knew nothing
ABOUT the case and that he was just
talking to hear himself talk and to at
tract attention to himself from the nun
dreds Of persons who frequ ented these
public places and began discussing the
Dennis case.
The Washington times., 1916-01-16

a fashionable dressmahing establish
nent on the second moor, where she
eInployed force OF twenty young
women: In other rooms on the second
,,,.a nno third floors number Of roomerH
Mrs. Dennis bed was on the north
side OF the room. At the foot OF her
peo, we were informed, she always
kept little table or tabarette on which
$1,000 a gas lamp burning low through
out the night. II was bv the light OF
deeth-dealing blows ON the table lay
nef pocketbook with more than 500 In
", ana under her pillow we found a
cnhmols bag containing more than
t2;00e worth Of iewelry.
she lay on the bed with her face
toward the north. The left side Of her
face was beaten into an almost unrecog-
sanity.
Leaving the doctor to dress her
WOUNDS, we went into the parlor. There
we found the blood-stained, piano stool
TOD on the floor some distance from the
stand Of the stool The front window
farthest to the east of the parlor was
raised and a wind whistled through II.
outside the window was little porch
with an iron railing around II
on the porch we found a flower pot
overturned. II was not knocked down
by any one leaving the house. The
flower pointed toward the house, and
there were other evidences that the
window was raised by some one enter
ing the house through the window, and
not by any one leaving that way.
The problem which confronted my
fellow detectives and myself was this:
To find the person who entered that
window after 4 o'clock in the morning,
passed through the parlor, unscrewed
the plano stool from the stand, walked
down the hall, unlocked Mrs. Dennis
door. beat her to death, relocked the
door, threw the piano stool top back int
to the parlor and left the house. say.
that was our problem then, and II Is
with us today Who killed Mrs. Dennis
becomes more OF a mystery as years
roll on"
The Washington times., 1916-01-16

feline's blood to work us np. And he
certainly succeeded"
10th detective Horne and Evans. as
well as fielan. McNamee, O'Brien.
case told OF visiting Mrs. Dennis at
Garfield Hospital IN futile quests for
clues
When taken to the hospital Mrs. Dem
mis- was pronounced In a Drecarious
condition. and little or no hope was en-
tertained for her recovery. Because OF
her wonderful physidue and constitution
she withstood the operations performed
and lived ten and half months after
the assault.
on December IS she was given a
saline solution and talked volubly about
birds, flowers. her girlhood. business.
and great variety OF subjects, but not
one word did she utter concerning the
identity of her asgailant.
Detectives Horne, Hartigan, Helan.
and others who we're there that day,
hanging on her every word and strain
ing their ears 10 hear her murmutings,
tried to elicit some Information about
the case, but made no progress.
She was asked IL she remembered
being struck and replied In the aftrrla-
tive and made 9 similar response when
questioned as TO whether or not she
knew the person who assaulted her.
But when asked in soothing voice,
Now tell us who IL was who struck
YOU" Mrs. Dennis became suddenly
bVeeCnleSb. f1tE eyes buN
seemed to be laboring under great eX-
citement. Although appearing to be
struggling for speech, no words came
from her lips, and she would fall back
on her Get apparently exhausted from
her efforts.
At other times she became irrational
when questioned as TO the identity Of
her aBsailant, mentioning the names OF
the detectives and doctors in the hos
pltal as the persons whb had attacked
her.
dropping everywhere for a clue.
said Horne,-'I thought that perhaps
Mrs Dennis knew the name of her
assailant but was Withholding It from
us. l spent at least a hundred nights
behind a screen in her room at the
hospital listening to her delirious MUIR
murings.
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
Worked Along oth& Lines
But Always Was Thwarted

'In the meantime we had been work
ing along other lines, which led us to
Illinois, Texas. and elsewhere. But in
every direction In which we worked
we were unrewarded with tangible clues
Thinking that perhaps some one who
had figured In Mrs. Dennis past life
might have been the perpetrator of the
crime, we investigated her from the
cradle to the morning OF the assault.
Mrs. Dennis was a handsome wonan n
Of fi,ty-one, with skin Ike marble,
raven black hair, large blue eyes, and
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
Not Even In Town
On Day of Crime

He told us he was Just running on, /,
and retracted everything he had been
quoted By hearers as having said. we
learned he was not even here the day
OF the crime.
The remarkable thing, though, was
that few days later this man went
10 his room in the X street house
near Mrs. Dennis. sat down and wrote
a long rambling note about the dark
ages. his mother, police persecution and
the Dennis case. in which he intimated
that he was implicated more than the
world would ever know. Then he
dragged his bed over to a gas burner
IN the room. attached a rubber hose
10 the jet and put the OTHER end in
MS mouth after turning on the gas
He was found dead in the gas-filled
gas was turned on.
His suicide attracted our attention
back to him. although we had satIs-
fied ourselves that he knew nothing
about the case. My partner, Tom HaFti-
gan. went down to n town in Texas.
where this man came from, and learned
That a girl had been beaten to- death
there q number OF years before the
Dennis case. The man who did the
killing was caught. however, which dis
posed OF the suspicion that the suicide,
had anything to do with the case.
Hartigan learned from the Texas
authorities that the suicide. who
was born in Arkansas and went TO
the Lone Star State TO teach school,
had led an exemplary life, and was
never suspected Of having committed
any crime whatsoever. This disposed OF
him as a suspect In the Dennis case
1T docs not matter what he said or
what he wrote. VIC satisfied ourselves
that II was a case of alcoholism, pure
and simple with him, and that he was
more in the dark nhnVtN NhA
than we were, II such a state OF az
fairs could exist
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
No Need for Jurors of Any
Sort in Perry County

MARYSVILLE. Pa, Jan. N1s-Oid
Perry county Is good. Sheriff d. l..
Kistler has sent word to all grand and
traverse jurors Of the January court
that they need not appear at court,
which would have convened tomorrow.
The grand jurors are not required
since there are no cases, and the
traverse Jurors for the reason that the
only three civil cases on the list have
either been discontinued or settled,
This action will result In saving OF ap-
proximately $40 for the county tax
payers.
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
Saw Her Rise Out of
Bed and Scream

"On a number Of occasions I saw
her suddenly rise up from her bed and
scream, oh, my God! 1 didn't know
God made such men as you Then she
would fall back on her bed and utter
low means and fall to sleep. At other
times she would start up and shield
herself with a pillow as IL to ward Off
blow or blot out the sight of some
one near her. but never did she utter
the name or give the description for
which we hungered and thirsted."
DO you think she knew the nameT'
he was asked.
well, that's for the One Above to
say. not for anyone on this earth" re-
piled the veteran sleuth.
Mrs. Dennis improved to such an
extent at the hospital that on the
bright days in September and October
OF 1909 she was placed in a chair and
wheeled about the grounds. One OF
the visitors to the hospital. who was
appearance. was Mrs. Theodore Roose-
Welt. wife OF the President, and both
she and her husband became deeply
absorbed in the case.
At the time of her death Mrs. Dennis
weighed less than 100 DoGnds. Records
on file at the Health Office show that
sne was fiftl-two years old. had been
an inmate Of the hospital ten months
and twelve days. that she died from ex-
haustlon, supeTinduced by a fractured
skull and cerebral abscess. and that she
was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.
The police say that shortly after her
death her mother-ln-law. who was
seventy-five years old at the time the
assault was committed and unable 70
be OF any assistance in solving the Ipys-
terry, dIed and was buried in the same
cemetery.
Among the men who. investigated the
case who have since died were De-
tectives Hartigan, Parham, and Lacy;
Inspector Boardman and Capt. Michael
Ryrnpa
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
Collar Button Kills Boy.

vINCENNES, Ind, Jan. 16.-Robert
eleven. was choked 70 death
by a collar button. The boy was play
ing In the street when he picked up the
collar button and put it in his mouth.
He started to run, hut after ne had
gone ha'f a block he fell 10 the ground
dying. Before a physician could arrive
he had ehoked to death. as the button
had lodged In his windpipe.
The Washington times., 1916-01-16
All Mystery, Deep,
Dark and UnfathomabIe

'T- all my experience as detective
and in all I have read of crimes and
mysteries have never encountered
the parallel OF the Dennis case" said
Detective Evans, now az the Central
O0ice, but who was precinct detective