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and this would account for the fact
that the neighbors heard no noise in
the house. II IL more than pi obahle
the slayer approached her from be-
hind, threw his visellke grip around
her throat and dragged her through
the kitchen.
MY belief II that the door of the
refrigerator was open at tbs time of
the attack and that Its hinges were
broken as the woman was dragged
past the ice box. In support of the
theory that she was attacked in the
kitchen is the presence OF two saucers
on the floor which the woman prob
ably had In her hand when :hs man
entered the room. and the finding Of
one OF her slippers in the kitchen"
The atrociousness OF the crime,
detectives say, handlcap3 the theory
that a rejected suitor slew Mrs. Bran
don. It Is almost inconceivable that
q person OF normal mind would bruise,
choke and kill a woman who expected
to become a mother within six weeks.
Nevertheless, the police are refusing
to consider no clue and are closely
following today the story that before
her marriage Lottie May Haislup had
admirers other than Valentine Bran
don.
In their investigation the authorI-
ties are somewhat hampered by lack
OF motive"
The Brandons were not wealthy and
they possessed little or nothing which
one would care to steal. This elm
mates the motive OF robbery. In ad-
dition the rings worn by Mrs. Bran
don, and few trinkets on the dresser,
were undiBturbed.
There remains practically only one
other motive-revenEo or jealousy. and
there 10 little 80 far to support such an
analysis OF the crime.
30 the case gets back to an attempt
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Another murder! This time IT.
not the dramatic climax Of q societ,
divorce. Nor does it show sordiC
signs Of theft, Jealousy. and hate
IT'S Just the end Of little story Of
simple people whose clean, straight
home life forms the backbone Of ma
tons.
He Is q stenographer in the Gov.
eminent service, q fair-haired
straight-limbed young fellow o.
twenty. She the bright-eyed daugh-
ter Of q brieklayer-ons Of nine chill
dren. Just q year ago they were
married, and in q few weeks q tiny
stranger should have entered their
doors. Hardly more than children
themselves, their one thought was Of
the Joy they would have In the tiny
playmate that was coming to them.
Two days ago the husband rose
at z o'clock rs usual to prepare
breakfast for his none too strong
young wife. Half an hour after
ward he left, after kissing her az
fectionately to 20 to his daily work.
At 4:30 p. m. he started for homo.
This time the little wife was not
at the gate to meet him, 30 he open
ed the front door and walked In.
Baby, baby, why don't you speak
to me 2" he called out In surprise.
He entered the inner room to find
the blinds down and tn body on the
bed. When he saw that she did not
reply he concluded that she had q
fainting spell. He shouted to the
neighbors to please look after her,
whilst he ran out and telephoned for
a doctor.
He returned to find q small crowd
In the bedroom. And thev would
not let him in-telling him she was
too i'll II speak to hiL,.
Then came the sheriffs dramatic
gesture. He called to the young
husband. With a flourish he OPEN
ed the door Of that room now flood
ed with light and with the merciles5-
ness Of the law intent to trap he
pointed to the body Of the young
wife bathed in a pool Of blood.
So this youth-for he is hardly q
grown up man-who had left his
girl companion smiling and content
In the morning, without dread or
forsboding, returned to find this
fHghtful tragedy.
I went down to the sleepy old
fashioned townlet. It's shady gar
dens seemed to deny the possibility
Of grim murder In their midst
/ found the little simple two-room-
ed house with its furniture 50 evi-
IDENTIFY bought on the gradual pay
ment system. There was a white
woody toy lamb pathetically near a
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at criminal assault. and the attack Of
brute. Opinion in Annapolis leans
| strongly toward the assault theory.
Drs. Joyce and Hopkins today sub
mitted to States Attorney Nicholas
Green a report on the autopsy they
performed on the dead woman's body
late Tuesday night.
The report shows that in addition to
the finger marks on the woman's
throat the doctors also found three
small abrasions forming a crescent
on the right sido OF the neck which
they believe are the imprints of teeth
Numerous abrasions and bruises were
found on the hands. arms. and near
the knees. The bruises near the knees
are supposed to have been made as the
woman's body struck the refrigerator
door.
The concluding statement in the
doctors report is that death was due
to a combination OF strangulation and
extradural hemorrhage, or hemor-
rhage from the front part OF the
head.
The detectives are still cropping for
a theory as to how the assaIlant en-
tered the house unobserved. No one
was seen to enter the front door,
which was unlocked. The back door
was locked on the inside.
In the bedroom the detectives found
a door leading to the cellar. II was
open The husband OF the slain wo-
man said II was their custom to
keep this door locked. He believed
the murderer opened the door, de-
scended the stairs, passed through the
cellar. walked up a pair of steps
leading to the little garden In the
back yard and then made his escape
over the high back fence or through
a covered alley between the Brandon
home and the residence OF Mrs. King
next door.
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TO-DAY
CONTINUED from First PaEs1


AMERICAN WOMEN to fight
also.
1t is difficult to believe that q
man Of Roots cunning could utter
such absurdities, yet, here are his
words:
("I saw the command Of
death march away from Pet
rograd. 1t was one of the
most inspiring sights 1 have
ever sen, to see those wom-
en-. =" It would not sur
prise me If, as time goes on,
American women did the same
thing, il we, too, should see
American women give their
blood on the field Of battle"
Mary Winsor, a young woman
Of Haverford, Pa, has written q
poem on Mr.. Roots sweet words.
We print it joyfully.
Women now must learn to
shoot,
For they must fight for Mr..
Root.
When we to death shall march
away
Mr.. Root at home will stay.
When we lie bleeding on the
ground
Mr.. Root will be safe and
sound.
Oh, happy thought! Let rs
learn to shoot
To make life safe for Elihu
Rootl
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book on the care Of mothers and
babies, in q room with Z mattress
soaked through with blood.
I saw the beautiful young mother
to-be serene and at rest in her coffin
despite the dry clots Of blood, the
bruised throat, and the discolored
forehead. And the red-eyed young
husband staring straight before him
into the vacancy Of dumb stricken
grief.
There was q little army Of news
paper men assembled In the house.
Their alert enthusiasm was q con-
trast to the nondescript attitude Of
the police fores. What machinery
had the country set IN motion to
solve this mySteryl It had supplied
three detectives from Baltimore TO
assist the courteous, portly, white
haired sheriff and his small. usual
police force. Surely none Of them
trained to trace erf1ae ~ battling -
thisl
And wondered. Had Il involved
q household q little leas humble
would there have been more hustiing
Of police than athree detectives from
Baltimore" In that sleepy townlet7
And VIII this mystery be allowed b
dwindle gradually and make way
for those that the actual moment
has made more thrilling7
Whose the crime? The young
husband cannot be accused. But
had his job not held him firm IN it,
daily grip, and had the wife not
spoken to several Of her neiahbors
after his departure, the torture Of a
cell and trial might have ben added
to his affliction.
Who so brutality beat this young
mother to death nobody knows or can
guess. Was it q jealous sutton for
her hand in her school daysf Was
It q crazed degenerate, who stealth
lily crawled into one Of the windows
over the back garden fsnee7 We
may never know.
But we have learned that q WON
an can be murdered in q little row Of
houses with friendly neighbors sur
rounding her on every side, watching
her movements, as such neighbors
do.
And we pause to think.
II homes such as this ara not safe
when we have still with rs our men,
the official protectors Of our homes,
what will be our fate when the best
Of our manhood strength leaves US
to fight our battles over the seas?
For it's not the bury fists that form
our main protection. Just Is the
rays Of the sun kill disease, does
perfect integrity keep away loath-
some crime.
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the finger prints showing the grip Of
q powerful hand, indicate the crime
was committed by one OF low mental.
fly or a degenerate.
Annapolis today leans toward two
theories: One that q rejected sutton.
after nursing his disappointment and
jealousy for ten months, finally
sought revenge and obtained It; the
other that a negro. or a white man OF
low caste, attempted to assault Mrs..
Brandon and killed her when she
fought for her honor and her life.
That there was a struggle in the
small apartment OF the Brandons Is
now generally believed.
DR.. Joseph C. Joyce, one of the first
persons to reach the Brandon home
after the crime was discovered, and
who, with DR.. Walton II. Hopkins, per-
formed an autopsy, says he observed
that the tablecloth on the little kitch-
en- table on which the husband and
wife breakfssted was pulled forward
toward the bedroom.
Il am satisfied Mrs. Brandon was
attacked in the kitchen while near the
sink, that she was choked into in
sensibility after a desperate struggle,
and that she was thrown upon the
bed and struck on the head after she
was practically dead" said DR.. Joyce.
Murderer Powerful
THE man who attacked her was q
powerful man. That is indicated by
the deep finger prints and fingernaiI
scratches on both sides OF her throat.
There were also scratches on her ears,
but she may have inflicted these upon
herself in trying to wrest herself free
from the grasp of her assailant.
"All the indications are that the
woman, soon 20 become a mother, put
up a most desperate struggle. Her
assailant probably stihSd hoF cries
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ARREST. OF SUSPECTED
MAN TOBE MADE SOON
IN BRANDON MYSTERY
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CONTINUED from First Pags.)
81 never want 70 see the town again"
! Captain Kinkaid. in command al
l the naval experiment station where
Brandon works, has written q letter
20 Secretary Daniels. asking that
: Brandon be assigned to duty in Wash.
anRton.
, The young husband will attend the
funeral Of his wife In Washington 70.
E1orr0W morning at IL o'clock. Plans
20 bury the body today were aban-
doned. The husband returned to An.
AApolis this morning and left again
for washington this afternoon.
! Sheriff Sullivan has ceased to follow
ysung Brandon about He says there
is no need to question him further,
and no suspicion whatever attaches to
him
Think Slayer Used Iron.
Every inch Of the Brandon home
was searched today. but the blunt
instrument with which the skull OF
Mrs. Brandon was crushed was not
-HIT-EIrS p6ssesSed thfee hatirons.
Only two were located today, and the
skull wound IL such that It might
have been made by q heavy iron.
However, this is but another unde-
Teloped theory.
The clothing worn by the husband
on the day of the murder was today
thoroughly examined. His clothes
revealed no blood spotE. 4 red
sploteh on the shirt was analysed as
an ink spot-just as he claimed It
was.
Annapolis police and Baltimore de-
tsetives believe the crime was COM
united by some outsider" They con-
tinue to work on various theories, but
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lat the request of the TINES the rter of this article
visited Annapolis to study the tragedy from the viewpoint of
millions of deeply interested IN IT, Miss Franc Is IN
Washington engaged in 10rtn0 book What the Govern
nrent Does for YOU From the Sociological Point of Vie
1t is extremely fitting that this fntgen young IUodn should
Investigate THIS question: dt Police Doing to Make
Life Safe By Tn0 to Convict the Guilty Man in This Cse1
BY AIISSA FRANC
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| took eagerly to the story this after
noon that q male visitor with a pink
shirt was seen about the premises
early this week. Murder cases, they
realize, have been solved by smaller
clues than this.
Captain Rinkaid comedies In the
view OF the detectives that the hus-
band is beyond suspicion and out OF
the mystery equation. The naval Of
ficer, commanding the experiment sta
tton, 10 assisting In every way pos
sible to aid his clerk to md the slayer
Of Mrs Brandon.
More Ala fer Detectives
Detectives Herman Pohler and John
H. Kratz, two OF Baltimore's star
crime Investigators, went to that city
last night to tell their chief that the
Annapolis murder case is one of the
most mysterious In their entire ex-
perience. Additional aid will be given
them.
The authorities are investigating
today. the story OF q neighbor that
photograph OF q washington man
with whom she was in love before
she met Brandon. This photograph,
according to the gossip OF the street
was kept hidden by Mrs. Brandon.
However, the disappointed rival"
theory Is not yet taken seriously by
the police. They will follow Il up
thoroughly, but are now unable to
understand the mental processes of a
rival who would wait ten months to
commit such q crime.
Revert To Negro Theory.
While there was an early abandon
ment Of the suggestion OF criminal
assault, the detectives returned to-
day to the suspicion that q negro
entered the Brandon home to make
an assault.
The slayer Of Mrs. Brandon was
one method. More complete reports
of the autopsy show: that the print
OF teeth were left on her neck; that
she was choked by q man OF great
strength; that her body was bruised
In several p aces, and her ears were
scratched in q struggle.
At frst II was believed there had
been no struggle because the furni-
ture in the bedroom did not show it.
Now one theory IL that the struggle
occurred IN the kitchen and the body
OF Mrs. Brandon was carried to the
bed and left there.
ChOked To Death.
It IL probable Mrs. Brandon was
killed by choking before she was
struck on the forehead and her skull
fractured.
Detectives and physicians agree the !
attack was made by someone Of great
physical strength. This further boil |
sters the abb OF the husband. After
the hands OF the husband /
An authority said Oday they were too
small TO have inflicted the deep
bruises upon the neck Of the victim.
To the police mind the teeth marks
upon the neck OF Mrs. Brandon, and
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The young husband caught the boat which carried
him to within short distance Of the naval expert
ment station. He carried with him lunch prepared
by his wife.
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All morning, from the time he entered his office
until the whistle blew at noon did he continue with
his work. unnindful and unaware of the tragedy at
his home.
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THAT WEAK BACK

Accompanied by pain here and there
extreme nervousness sleeplessness- may
ae faint spells, chills or spasms- are
signals of distress for a woman. She may
De growing from girlhood into womanhood
passing from womanhood to mother
hood-or later suffering from that change
INTO middle life which leaves SO many
wrecks of women. At any or all Of these
periods of a woman's life she should take
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DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has
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Louisville

j. W. Acey went to Louisville
Thursday on business.
j. w. Lunsford went to Franklin
county this week to work on farm.
Attorney George D. Florence as in
Mt. Vernon on legal business early
in the week.
DR.. and Mrs. James Rife, of Err
LANCER, spent several days here last
week, guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee
Rife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Frye, of the
Hubble section, have been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Fisher in Lexing-
ton this week.
D. w. Faulkner, formerly of Lin
coin, has moved from Paint Lick to
Berea. and writes to. have his I. J.
sent there as he ''feels lost" without
it.
Clifford Willis has gone to New
Orleans, where he will be associated
with his brother, Otis Willis, who is
connected with big racing stable at
New Orleans track.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. G.. Gilliland, north
Of Waynesburg, are receiving con-
graduation upon the birth of lit
tie son in their home. The youngster
has been named Willard Wilson Gil
liland. The father, who is serving on
the board of County Supervisors here
this week, is receiving congratula-
tons from his many friends inthis
section.
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MISS BAILEY ENTERTAINS

The Mozart Club was DELIGHTFULLY."-
entertained by Miss Mary Bailey at
her home on East Main street. In
the receiving line were Miss Mary
Bailey, Miss Catherine Gregory and
Miss Bess Holtzelaw and Messrs.
Spalding Hill, Bryan Perkins, James
Cooper and Cecil Brown, of Lancas-
ter. Miss Annie Lee Eubanks and
James Bailey preSided at the frappe
bowl. The parlor and hall were beau
tlfully decorated with the Christmas
colors, while the dining room, where
a delightful salad course was served.
was In the club colors. Early in the
evening the guests were entertained
with contest in musical terms. The
winners were Miss Nancy Katherine
Mckinney, who received a box of
dainty note paper, and Stith Noe,
who received pearl handle knife.
Mrs. Bailey, Misses Ophelia Lackey,
LISA Holtzclaw, Mary Moore Raney,
ard Marion Grimes assisted with the
entertaining. Those present were
Miss Matsy Brown ard Prescott
Brown, Miss Lettie Walker McKin-
ney and Arthur Coffey, Miss Pattye
Perkins and Charlie Thompson. Miss
Jean Paxton and Clarence Cooper,
Miss Anna G. Wood and Hartwell
Shanks, Miss Frances Embry and
Hugh R. Foster, Miss Annie V. Craie
and Stith Noe. Miss Nancy K. Nc
Kinney and JOHN Cash, Miss An
nette Wearer and Glenn Hill, Miss
Belle Russell and Maurice Tucker.
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King s Mountain

Rev. w. T. Tilford preached at the
Baptist church Sunday night.
Rev. Childress of Johnetta, KY.
has been called as pastor of Pleasant
Point church for the ensuing year.
Coils Singleton is improving slow
ly and his friends have some hope of
his recovery
The little son of Prof. and Mrs.
Robinette is improving
Little Byron Reynolds has been i'll
for few days with severe cold but
is better at this writing.
NJ. B. Smith bought tract of land
of Robert Hubbard for $50 per acre.
Miss Grace Trimble is with her
cinnati for few weeks.
Mont Dishon came home from De-
trOit to spend the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sena Reynolds are
spending a few days with Their par
ents here and at Barbourville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Rigney visit
ed their parents here.
Ed Carey and family have return
ed home after visiting relatives and
friends here.
Miss Elizabeth Dye spent a few
days with her mother here.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. King spent last
week with relative at Hodgenville.
Quite a sad event occurred last
Sunday evening when Virgil Gooch.
son of Clara Gooch was killed by a
fast train No. II just after he had
crossed Fishing Greek bridge. His
body was cut into many pieces. He
leaves two brothers, Ashford and
Lawrence Gooch, and one sister,
Laverne Gooch, besides his mother to
mourn his loss. We extend our
heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved
ones in their hours of trouble.
The little son of Mr. and Chitwood
Of Illinois was brought here for bur
ial last week. He was buried by the
side of his mother, who died few
years ago and was the daughter of
Mrs. Belle Jenkins of this place.
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