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feared that If worried in the least about
business he would take his own life
He was, therefore, allowed further
delay. When the United States mar
shal went to the hospital on October s
to bring him to court he round that the
elusive Colonel had fed a few hours
before. His counsel, Edwin B. Wilcox,
professed entire ignorance of his
whereabouts.
Several weeks later he gave himself
up at New Orleans, where his ezra
dition was ordered.
According to the officials who are
prosecuting Collins, he has made vari-
GUS attempts to dispose Of the pearls
while he has been in this country, but
whether he has been successful they
will not say. In his defense Collins
alleges that his Indian creditors are
trying to collect debts through the
medium Of extradition proceedings.
Information has been received that
Colonel Collins has led a merry life
while extradition proceedings have been
pending, and even while he was supposed to
be suffering from nervous prostration. Re-
ports are heard of gay dinner parties in
fashionable hotels where he was the life
and soul Of The party.
In appearance Colonel Collins is de-
scribed thus: about 6 feet inches tall,
straight, broad shouldered. He has a
square jaw high forehead, aquiline nose
and long face. He has gray eyes. He
seldom smiles, but has very agreeable
manners.
dawned on New York society with the
finest of introductions. At Georgian Court.
the home of the George Goulds, he met
Miss Nathalie Schenck who was noted for
her statuesque beauty. She was feet 10
inches tall.
She was the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Spotswood d. Schenck and the grand
daughter Of Matthew Morgan, a once we'll:
known New York banker.
Collins played polo we'll and charmed
every one who met him. After a very
rapid courtship he and Miss Schenck were
married at Monterey, Cal He believed
that she had plenty of money, and she
thought equally we'll of him. AS a matter
of fact he had very little and she had less.
He had allowed it to be understood that he
had $50, 900 a year from his family, where
as he had never had anything but a small
allowance of about $50 a month, and his
family had cut off all further help on ac-
count of his numerous scrapes.
The happy couple, trusting in one an
others wealth. sailed for Honolulu with a
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great retlnue of servants polo ponies and
Luggage. There they learned the truth
and found that the Captain could not pay
his bills. The bride had to pawn some of
her jewels for this purpose They returned
to this country and then separated within
four months of their marriage. She OBJ
tanned divorce without delay.
Naturally, everybody condemned Collins
severely for his treatment of a trusting
woman. In 1907 he came back to this
country and went to work in the Grubey
Faience Pottery Company, of South Bos-
ton, Mass. He announced to his associates
that he was doing honest labor in order to
win back The affections of his wife. the
mother of his little boy. He impressed
his associates deeply, but not the former
Mrs. Collins. She was afterward married
to William Laimbeer. who was killed in
an automobile accident in 1912.
In 1910 the Princess Ethel Zoltykoff OF
Russia, obtained a judgment against Col
Inns i'm New York for obtaining certain
rare vases from her. She stated that she
lad these vases at her house in London,
that Collins admired them and said he
would buy them for $4,000. Exercising
his natural perSuasiveness, he carried
them away and never sent her the money.
She trailed him for seven years until she
caught him in New York.
In 1911 he became bankrupt in New
York with $414000 worth OF debts. They
were almost entirely for personal luXuries.
l. was explained that the Captain required
$4,000 year to dress himself properly.
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Landing Soldiers on the GaIlipoli
Peninsula, Where Captain Glen
Collins Fought with Distinc-
ton and Was Wounded.

~APTAIN CHARLES GLEN COLLINS
is IN Jail. But Captain Collins was
once the welcomed CUES: at the most
fashionable entertainments OF New York
and Newport? Yes.
Captain Collins, of the British Army, is
a hero of Gallipoh in the cruelest, hottest
campaign of the war. Then why is this
dashing army hero Of unquestioned cour-
age in Jail?
Captain Glen Collins's extradition has
been ordered by U. s. Judge Foster, of
New Orleans, on the complaint of the
British Government for swindling famous
jewelry firm in Bombay, India, ont Of some
fifty thousand dollars worth o. pearls
Collins is really an ex-colonel now. and
his military record is one of the finest in
the British army.
But for fourteen years at least he has
been acquiring an unsaVory reputation on
three continents. Two American wives
have divorced him for his treatment Of
them, and numberless other women have
cause to regret his dangerous fascinations.
He has been arrested over and over again
on various charges, but never yet con-
victed.
Yet this social parasite, this deceiVer of
women, this dabbler in queer financial
transactions, served with credit through
the GallipoH campaign, the most terrible
ordeal of the present war. Before that he
had fought in the Boer war and was en-
gagged at Paardeberg, perhaps the grea lest
fight of that war, when the British troops
took tremendous Boer entrenchment by
a frontal assault
There is the problem. Can a man be a
parasite in ordinary social life and a real
hero in war?
This real "Jekyll and Hyde" is the
grandson of the late Sir William Collins,
a very distinguished and wealthy citizen
visit to American shores he married that
most picturesque New York society beauty,
Miss Nathalie Schenck. At that period
Reginald Vanderbilt, George Gould and
August Belmont were among the many
prominent Americans who were pleased to
call him friend.
The latest chapter in Glen Collins's long
and complicated story must be told first.
In August, 1914, when the great war had
broken out, he was actually under indict-
ment In New York for the larceny of 1922
from Miss Amelia Lauterbach, New Jer.
sey school teacher. She charged that he
had taken the money on the pretense that
he would buy her steamship tickets to
Europe and kept II. As usual, he had pur.
sued his object by making love to his VIC
tim.
Collins pleaded that he should be re-
leased In order that he might go to the
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aided by an abundance of German big guns
and gunners.
So great were the miseries of these Brit
ish soldiers that many Of them welcomed
an opportunity to get killed. During this
terrible campaign Colonel Glen Collins
bore himself with the greatest bravery
leading his men with the greatest GOODNESS
in attack and encouraging them by his in
exhaustible flow of anecdotes and good
spirits to bear their troubles. At last they
were ordered to abandon Gallipoli with the
bitter knowledge that all their losses and
sufferings had gone for nothing.
He was wounded at Gallipoli but recov
cred quickly and was mentioned in de-
spatches. He served continuously at this
place from April, 1915, to January, 1916.
He was also with his battalion a: Ant
werp in 1914 and kept it in hand during
trying retreat. He commanded regiment
at Salonica in 1915 and after that fought
in France. There he was gassed and SER
iously wounded.
He spent some time at the Royal Naval
Hospital at Portsmouth recovering from
his injuries. After that, according to the
British officials, he was allowed to resign
on account Of i'll health, but Collins claims
that he is on sick leave.
Then Colonel Collins relapsed to the
other phase of his character. While re-
cuperating from his injuries he became
very friendly with Captain Douglas MuntZ,
member of very wealthy English family,
an officer in the same battalion.
Captain MuntZ then discovered that
Colonel Collins had exercised over his wife
the deadly fascination that no woman had
ever resisted Muntz obtained a divorce
and since then Collins has married Mrs.
Muntz
With his companion Collins drf:ed on
to Bombay. India. This city happens to
be the greatest distributing centre in the
world for fine Oriental pearls. This fact
interested Colonel Collins deeply, and he
prepared to exercise his destinations on
the Hindu pearl dealers.
What happened there can best be under
stood from the charges on which the Brit
ish Government requested his extradi-
tion In New York. In one case it is stated
that he obtained from Mohamed Ali Zamil,
Of Bombay, by false pretenses, a black
pearl. valued at $4,000. The extradition
proceeding were brought by C. Give Bay
ley, the British Consul-General at New
York, and his counsel, Charles Fox.
According to the extradition papers Col.
Inns, on February 26, 1917, gave Mohamed
Ali Zamil check for $4,000 on G. Curtice.
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Some of the Difficulties of the
Disastrous Gallipoi Expedition,
Where Captain Collins Served
With the Naval Division.

Mrs. Ellen B. Ryder sued him for $4,000
In the same year John H. Parks, the
millionaire head Of the Tack Trust"
proudly announced that he expected his
daughter. Miss Clara, would marry the dis
tinguished Captain Collins. Inquiries by
Parks put an end to this affair.
At Chicago, in 1913. he posed as a lead
ing British banker before the Investment
Bankers Association. While there he was
arrested for obtaining $25 by means Of a
worthless check from R. II. Thompson, of
Baltimore. He was tried in Baltimore and
acquitted with an ovation, so agreeably had
his appearance impressed the spectators.
1t was at this period also that he began
his lightning courtship .of Miss Amelia
Rumsey Wheeler, daughter of Samuel H.
Wheeler, the millionaire sewing machine
manufacturer.
Papa" Wheeler hired a corps OF de.ec-
tives in various parts of the country to
stop this union. Once he caught his
daughter at the Pennsylvania Railroad sta
tion in Chicago just as she was about To
elope with the Captain. The next time
hey planned to run away and be wed al
Towson, Pa, but although the Captain fed
over housetops and disguised himself as
an old woman in order to shake of
"Papas" detectives, he was unable to do
so. On a third attempt, however, the
elopers were successfully wed at Summer.
field Md, on August Is, 1914.
II was while still wooing Miss Wheeler
hat Hantain Collins mo- Miss Eli1ahofh
Lauterbach. a clever school teacher OF
Crawford ~ J., who says that he obtained
1922 from her in order to buy her tickets
for Europe about which he talked so fasci-
natingly. Miss Lauterbach has described
him better than anybody:
He is very polished. He has much
savoir. faire, which in his case amounts to
an ability to romance at a moments
notice.
He is convincing. He always finishes
on a high note. He told us his brother
was a member Of Parliament and how he
had been presented to the Queen.
He never said he tried to borrow money
from the Queen. although if he had really
been presented 10 her ] have no doubt ne
would have done. So"
incidentally IL was stated in court that
he had obtained $4,000 from Miss Wheel
er in cash and jewelry before he married
her, and incidentally, Madame Won Jasar-
born, German majors wife, expressed
a desire to tell how Collins had obtained
$50 from her husband
The time was rapidly approaching when
Glen Collins was to drop his role OF social
parasite and figure for a time as a real
hero He was actually under indictment
on the Lauterbach charges when he
skipped ou: and plunged right into the
great war. At this point his last Ameri-
can wife. Amelia Wheeler, obtained a
divorce from him.
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PHsw .AIsi Dvpssr.

help of his country, then in
sore need of soldiers. When
this plea was refused he
Jumped his bail" and the
next news from him was that
he had been appointed a cap
tain in his old regiment, the
Cameron Highlanders.
Later he was transferred to
the Howard Battalion Of the
Royal Naval Division, that
took part in the Gallipoli ex-
pedition, the disastrous attempt
to storm the defences of
the Dardanelles. In this force
Collins became a lieutenant
colonel. The Australians and
many Of the best troops Of the
Br1tlsh empire were engaged
in that expedition and lost
1000 men in casualties.
Most people know the story
of the expedition. The British
troops, after landing under a
murderods fire, had to lie out
on a sandy beach without over
head protection from the
Turkish r. L!;:sa sheiiis or the weather.
Dominating them as far as
they could see was a long line
of hills, on which the Turks
were strongly entrenched,
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
LOSES AIR DERBY
Lieut., Maynard Is Eliminated
From First Place. .3@N e.,
Official Time SO EFours-Don.
aIdson Beats Him on Time.

New York Oct. 22.-offic:al calcu.
lation of the flying time of Lieut.
Belvin W. Maynard in the transcon-
tinenta1 aerial derby; received from
the air service department at WASH
ington by the American Flying club
today, eliminated him from first place.
His official time in the air was 69
hours, 3 minutes, 405z seconds.
The unofficial time of Capt. ]. o.
Donaldson. second to complete the
race, was 40 hours. sc minutes and 1 /
seconds. He is also credited with
establishing two worlds records on the
flight, one for covering the 5,400 miles
at an average speed of 10S miles an
hour, and the other for making a
single days flight of S23 miles last
Saturday when he flew from Rock
Island, ILL.,, to Binghamton, N Y.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
OFFER new PLAN
Go4npers Introduces Collective
Bargaining Proposal.
Hints at Break if Resolution Is
Defeated.

washington. Oct. 22.-President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor introduced a new collective
bargaining proposal in the industrial
conference Immediately after the
opening of the afternoon session.
Il shall ask immediate >considera-
dfon," said Gompers.
Il shall make no argument for the
resolution unless the conference
makes clear that it wants such a dis
cussion from me-"
Altho the labor group is reported
to have decided to withdraw unless
the resolution is adopted by the con-
ference, Gompers delivered no such
ultmatum in beginning his speech.
His manner indicated, however,
that the labor group has decided to
take drastic action In the event the
resolution is defeated.
Gompers began by praising the
work of President Wilson and eX-
pressing a wish for his recovery he
declared, the labor group had decided
on its present action in Difference to
the wishes of the president expressed
In his letter read to the conference by
Secretary Lane at the morning ses-
sion.
= Gompers's resolution reads:
The eight of wage earners to or
eanize without discrimination. to bar
gain collectively, to be represented oy
representatives of their choosing in
hegotiations and adjustments with en-
blowers in respect to wages. hours OF
labor and relations and conditions OF
employment is recognized"
Z Gompers's resolution differs from
collective bargaining resolutions voted
down yesterday chiefly in that 1t
makes no mention of trade or labor
pnion. e,-..,,u.
member of the public group, imme-
Aiately seconded Gompers's resolution
and Chairman Lane permitted tine
waiving of the rule by which all reso-
buttons must be submitted to the cen-
trail committee of fifteen before being
discussed by the conference
! These tactics assured the Gompers
resolution immediate consideration by
the conference.
{ Frederick Fish of the employers
group was the first to take the floor
to oppose the resolution.
Fish charged that it would force
hnionization on the whole country"
speaking for myself alone and not
my group" he said, II want to- say I
am against it because it is vague and
ambiguous"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
MORNINGSTAR WINNER
Beats George sIossonN in Bau< Line
Billiard Contest.

New York. Oct 22.-Ora Morning
star defeateR George Slosson in the
forenoon game of IL balk line bill
Hard championship tournament here
today 400 to 2G2. MOrningstar's aver
age was 80 1913 and his high runs
A49, 127 and 81. Slosson's average
was 16 1912 and his high runs, 95,
AZ and %.
Z George w. Sutton, the Chicago vet
eran, outDlayed Welker Cochran, the
young Detroit expert all thru the sec
ond match on todays schedule, win
ming by 400 to 81. Sutton's average
was forty with high runs of IS, "A and
20. Cochran's only double figures
were "a and % with an average of
s 2-10.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
OPEN NQSTRILS! END
A COLD or cATkRRH
How To Get Relief When Head
and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count fifty! Your cold in head or
catarrh disappears. Your clogged nos
trils will open. the air passages of
your head will clear and you can
breathe freely. No more snuff1ing.
hawking, mucous discharge, dryness
or headache; no struggling for breath
at night.
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist and apply a
little of this fra grant antiseptic cream
in your nostrils. 1t penetrates through
every air passage of the head, sooth-
Ing and healing the swollen or in
famed mucous membrane, giving you
instant relief. Head colds and cataFrh
yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed
up and miserable. Relief Is sure
Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
PARLIAMENT OPENS
British Lawmakers Face Many Grave
Problems at Opening Session.


Problems at Opening Session.
London, Oct. 22.-Economy is the
watchword of the session of parlia
ment which opens today and efforts
are to- be made by members of the
house of commons to throw into dis
card the military program outlined in
the last budget, the new educational
scheme and the proposal to construct
at cost thousands of homes for work.
ing men.
Governmental military and financial
commitments. the national policy re-
garding Russia, military occupation of
Ireland, with plan for Irish home
rule, and the labor party's demand for
the nationalist lion of mines and rail-
ways will be important matters to
comebefore L: rliament this session. It
is expected that members of the house
will closely question the government
as TO its policies. especially regarding
expenditures and Mr. Lloyd George
may answer these queries in a few
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
.INDICT U.S.ACENTS
Three Justice Dept Workers
Before Grand jury.
Charged With Plotting To
BIackmaiI Liquor Dealers.

New York, Oct. 22.-Three agents
Of the Department of Justice were in
dicted~today by the federal grand jury
on charges of having engaged in a
conspiracy to blackmail liquor dealers
in this city and thereby frustrate the
operation, of the wartime prohibition
law. Two other men, one a former
agent of the department, were in
dicted on similar charges
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
ABDUCTED BY BANDITS
American Being Held for Ransom in
Mexico.

Hanford. Cal. oct. ga dispatch
received this morning by John w. Jen-
kins.S rancher at Hanford, from his
daughter, Miss Annie Jenkins, at
Puehla. stated that her brother. Oscar
Jenkins, had been abducted Sunday
night, supposedly by bandits, and was
being held for ransom.
oscar Jenkins, it is reported, is con-
nected with the American consulate at
PuebIa, some 200 miles f4Iom Vera
Cruz. He has been in Mexico
sinca 1901
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
HELLO GIRL A HEROINE

courage of a 70-year-oId telephone
operator today prevented robbery of
the First National bank here.
Cries of Laura Bushnell. the aged
operator. attracted neighbors, who
opened fire on four men attempting to
break into the telephone office to cut
the wires. The robbers returned the
fire, wounding one of their own men.
The other three escaped in an automo-
bile. The wounded man said he was
Sam Schuman. of Tulsa. Okla
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
"ALBERT" is IN OHIO
Belgian King Greeted With Flowers
and Songs by Children.

Cincinnati. Oct. 22-Albert, king of
the Belgians. and Queen Elizabeth
were honored guests of Cincinnati to-
day. School children, given half a
holiday in honor of the occasion, lined
the streets traversed by the royal par
ty and greeted them with flowers and
songs.
sage to President Wilson: 1T is with
keen regret that l learn that because
of your illness it will be impossible
for you and Mrs. Wilson to receive the
queen and myself during our visit to
Washington. We fervent1y hope that
you will soon be restored to fun health
and vigor. The queen joins me in
sending you and Mrs. Wilson our sin
cerest regards and the assurance of
faithful personal friendship
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
TO UNITE MISSIONARIES
Congregational Church Takes Up In
ter-Church World Movement

Grand Rapids. Oct 22.-The inter-
church world movement which con-
templates a consolidation of all mis-
sionary enterprises of Protestant
churches. was among the first prob
lens to come before t. biennial con-
vention of the national council of the
CONGREGATIONAL church when it took
up the legislative program today.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
WON'T-AI IN BLOCKADE
Union Stevedorcs at Frisco Refuse To
Handle Anti-Sovict Arms.


Handle Anti-Sovict Arms.
San Francisco, Oct 22-Union
stevedores of San Francisco will not
handle supplies, arms and munitions
shipments consigned to the allies in
Siberia for the overthrow of the So
Wet government it was announced
today.
In a resolution passed by the riggers
and stevedores' union the longshore-
men pledged themselves not to assist
in any way in the blockade which the
allies have thrown about the BoIshe-
Wiki.
This action is taken on the ground
that the United States has failed to
declare war on Russia.
-Four thousand riggers and steve
dores comprising the union are bound
by the resolution. About one-half of
the longshoremen here are still on
strike. The remainder have returned
to work under agreements with in
diVidual companies
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
DAY STATE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. EVENING" OCTOBER
PEACE OCTOBER so
Formal Ratification of Treaty
VIII Be Finished Then.
First Meeting of League Coun-
ell Ten Days Later.

Paris. Oct sa.-Forpai ratification
of the German peace treaty probably
will be accomplished October 80, and
q call will beA issued that day fer the
first meeting of the council of the
league OF nations to take place within
ten days. The French foreign office
explains that the delay was due en-
tirely TO the great amount Of preiinnin-
ary work before the convention could
be nut into effect
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22

Kansas City Oct. 22-HAY-Lower
grades alfalfa. 81 higher; lower grades
prairie, 81 higher; other steady. Quota
tions: Alfalfa, choice, $31 5O67 90: No. 1,
s3G.50G31.o0: standard. $2S. .5063000: No.
choice. S21 50G22. co. No. 1. S19.O0G n 90
No. .. $16.J0d 1880; No. 2 $11.00d1600.
Timothy No. :. $35.j061 $500: standard.
S16.0c12 &C SC
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
SUGAR DEALERS AGREE
Producers Agree to PaImer's Fair
Price, of Ten Gems

Washington. Oct 22.-Concurrence
of producers representing 80 per cent
of the beet sugar output in this coun-
try, has been received by Attorney
General Palmer in reply to his sugges-
ton that 10 cents a pound to whole
salers was a fair price for the new
crop.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22

New York. Oct. 22.-MONEY-Mercan
paper, 5G5ha per cent. Sterling, 60 day
bills, 4.141e commercial, 60 day bills on
banks. AK compereial 60 day bills. 4.13
demand 416ls: cables, 41TA. Francs. de-
maBd. $40; cables. S.fS Marks. demand.
3.60. ca bles, 3.ti5 Government bonds, firm
railroad bonds, irregular. Time loans.
strong go days, 30 days and months Z
bid
Can money firm: high, 6: low. 5ls rul-
ing rate. g; closing Bid 81; offered at So
last loan, 515- Bank acceptances, AS.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
SIT DOWN ON STRIKERS
Government Orders Striking Express
men To Return to Work.

Washington. Oct. 22-Striking ex-
press employees in New York were
warned today by the railroad adminis-
trAtion that unless they returned to
work their places would be filled i'm
mediately and that any interference
with the conduct of the express busi-
ness or its employees would be prose-
cuted under state and federal statutes.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-22
MILLION FOR RED S0x

Washington, Oct. 22.-An offer of
more than s1,0OO.000 has been made
for the Boston Red Sox in the Ameri-
can League by a combination of busi-
ness men. Representative James A.
Gallivan. Massachusetts,, stated here
today.