Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-09-06

| "Sh0rtly atter i met you lH Iolu-
| field perceived the true character OF
| your nature. Thereafter used you to
! your own undoing. To read mans
| mind 1t is first necessary to fasten 1t
firmly on the thing 1t wants to con.
/ ceal. That did by speaking anG act
ing in a manner which destroyed your
mental quiet, and kept you in a state
of uncertainty as to my meaning and
actions. For the rest it was merely
necessary to wait, while you betrayed
| yourself"
Reich laughed with a sneer.
"And you base your accusation on
that? Just what do you accuse me OF,
too? You haven't said"
| "I accuse you," said Semi, "of being
| an associate of the white slave people,
and specifically Of having betrayed
Miss Lawton into their hands"
"On that evidence? Mind reading?
| What is this-a joker"
"Oh, moi" said Semi Dual. II was
merely explaining how worked so
that you would understand. At the
same time am aware that such evi.
dence would be worthless at law.
Therefore obtained more substantial
facts to support my complaint
"First, let me call your attention to
the fact that before l arrived in Gold
field you sent several messages to Salt
Lake. One of them was addressed to
Mrs. Annie Paul. / saw that message,
and it was so worded that it might be
either request for information about
Miss Lawton or warning to the ones
who held her.
Further, there Is only the differ
ence of two letters-'o' and 's'-be-
tween the address of the telegram you
sent and Mrs. Annie Paulos, now
under arrest. That you really filed
the message is proven by the fact that
it was in your handwriting as shown
by another sample of your chirography
upon the back of photograph of your
SELF found in Miss Lawton's room.
"Also, while at Goldfield, you re-
ceived letter, missent from Denver,
| the envelope of which contained re-
turn postoffice box number IN the
Denver office. AS you remember,
saw that letter, and noted the num-
ber of the box.
"When / reached Salt Lake I wired
Mr.. Glace's partner-a man by the
name of Bryce-asking him to ascer-
tain the name OF the party holding
that Denver box: and later I wired
him from Winpemucca to send his aus
wer here.
Nov, Mr.. Reich, you claim to have
loved Miss Lawton, and admitted that
you had offered her marriage. Let
me read Mr.. Bryce's reply to my mes
sage which you saw me receive few
moments ago."
He drew the telegram from his
pocket and read:
P. O. Box No. -, Denver, held by
Mrs. Ada Richmond, wife of Harold
Richmond. alias Homer Richmond,
alias Homer Reichman. Disappeared
from Denver some two months ago. AL
legged destination Salt Lake. Present
name under which he is operating un-
known. Homer Reich-quite prob
ably correct.
"Mr. Reich, you are a married man
and incapable of offering honorable
marriage to arv other woman. Now
| to proceed. When we reached Salt
Lake you made an excuse of impa-
tience of my methods and arranged a
meeting between Mr.. Glace, Colonel
| Sheldon, and myself and a Greek
named Paulos and his friend Her
| mostyple. Both. of them were sus.
pected of being white slave agents and
one we now know was the husband of
Annie Paulos who brought the girl to
San Francisco.
I'm very flimsy story they posed as
detectives, and told us the girl had
| gone to Seattle. which information you
sought to enforce by YOUR remarks.
l allowed you to think l was deceived
until we reached Ogden and an
nounced that we would come on here.
Tonight after you broke away from us
you went to the underground tunnels
where the girl was kept-after you
had, as you thought, lost Colonel Shell
don, and you went directly to the place
where this woman was with the girl,
and you warned her to remove her, be-
! cause we were on the track.
"And in proof of the fact that you
knew her, we have your attempt in the
restaurant to cry out and warn her
after Miss Foote had identified her to
Mr.. McKabe. and latsr still. the fact
that after her arrest you spoke to her
in Italian and asked her not to betray
your connection in the case. AS II
happens. heard you and understand
italian as well as Greek. Besides that
we still have the message addressed
to her assumed name in Salt Lake
which conclusively shows that you
knew the address, which Miss Foote
tells me Is that of the wife of Paulos
and presumably the house where Miss
Lawton was held while in Salt Lake
Reich sat pale and shaken while
Dual was speaking-his eyes fastened
on the floor. At the end he heaved a