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Milford chronicle., 1920-05-21

Select your tires ac-
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eordins to the roads
they have to travel:
In sandyor hillycountry;
wherever the going is apt
to be heavy-The u. S
Nobby.
The Little River news., 1920-04-03

i, was?"
 q saw the other one this morning. 1 They look alike"
 But how did you know which sister it was?"
 You didn't seem to get along well enough in your talk for it TO be Bal. bara, he answered with another grin.
 It had not been my intention to re- veal even to him Claire Bradford's S second visit to my apartment but I saw how foolish it would be of me to attempt to deceive or to withhold any information from such a shrewd ob- server.
 Without reserve and with the ut most detail I proceeded to relate ev- erything that had happened since had seen him the afternoon before. l told of my discovery of the secret panel in my room and of the blind passageWay into which it apparently led, of Bapbara's having made the perilouS journey over the window ledge to inspect my find, of the screams we had heard, followed by the shot, of how Barbara had fled back by the way she came. and l had run downstairs and with Wick had discovered the body. l told him every detail so far as l could remember it. winding up with my catching Claire Bradford leav- ing my apartment, just before my ar rest and the finding of the revolver
 
 themselves planted the gun on you?" he asked. i've heard of them doing things like that"
 He spoke with such an air of inno- cence that I had to smile I doubt if there were many tricks of detectives that German did not know all about.
 ''They had no opportunity whatever Neither of them had been near the dresser before. and I was watching their every moment"
 "Well, who did hide the revolver there, if they didn't?"
 q don't know"
 "Couldn't Wick have done it?"
 q was with him every moment after we discovered the body"
 Maybe it was Claire Rradford|
 I shook my head.
 q thought at first it might have been she but I'm convinced since talk ing with her that it was not She's either entirely ins>~s~st .. a:se the most wonderful acte.a' q a world"
 INC, WICK nun't do IL He's bad one all right. and he has done time, but he's only tool"
 Wick has done time 70 l exclaimed. How did you find that out? What have you learned about him?''
 German grinned at my eager ques- tioning.
 Il don't know much about him yet, but I'm sure he's an ex-cos While you were in court this mt s~iag," he explained, "I went up to the Grand deck to take look at things for my self. Wick showed me through the
The Little River news., 1920-04-03

the hig crook that is back of all this the master-mind."
 "1'he master mind" l echoed
 "Yes," he said. there's a big crook cd brain somewhere that has been di- recting the whole plot, and planning phone girl and maybe of Claire Brad ford, too
 q wonder if it could be her ex-hus- band. She told me, though, q few moments ago, that she had moi heard of him for years, and sine seemed to me to be telling the truth
 T don't think it was him." said German. "He was only chauffeur. If he's in it it all, he's only one of the gang, He's not the master-mind"
 T hope we can keep the Bradfords out of it altogether" 1 said. You see, Gornlan-"
 T understand" he interrupted. II know how the land lies. You need not wo-rv about that. If Claire Brad ford had any part in the plot, you idH pet Siie Was ipEctu lIlJt IL anu driven to do what she did. Have you seen her sister,"
 ''No and ] hope she'll make no eff fort to see me. She mustn't. You'll see her, won't you?'
 Leave it to me- said the detective ''Tll manage to reach her without even her own family knowing any thing about it. I'll make her under stand that if she tries to see you or says anything, she'll only be damag- ing your case. Don't worry about her.
 There's one thing, though," l said, that I wish you could do
 What's that?"
 Gan you find some way of getting to the GaSton apartment and eXplor- ing that secret passage and see where it leadS?'
 He turned savagely on me.
 "Say, young fellow" he sad, If l didn't know that you were innocent, I'd swear that YOU were q dope Eend
The Little River news., 1920-04-03

Lutan apartment, thinking was from 1 the coa)ners office l spotted him at l once. crook that has done time | is always sure to give himself away"
 ''How?' asked
 ''Well," said German judicially, 'mens businesses leave their marks on them. A clergyman don't have to be wearing a high vest for you to spot 1 him. and nobody ever took a dancing teacher for a pugilist. A man that has l looked at as many crooks as I have l knows them by instinct, and then 1 there's little ways you can tell. As l 1 was going up to the apartment with Wick he just naturally fell into step with me, showing he had been used to marching with other prisoners. He talks, too, without moving his lips. That's sure sign. They learn that in prison so they can talk without the guards knowing it." 'Thats so" l cried. Tt struck me that there was something funny about the way Wick talked, but 1 couldn't have told just what 1t was"
 "Wicl<'s crook, all right, but think he comes from somewhere up- state or maybe out West, but he hasn't intelligence enough to be any thing more than runner for the gang"
 "Well, what's your theory?" I asked. If Wick didn't murder Miss Lutan, who did?"
 q don't know yet. Wick ain't big enough Big jobs take big men to plan them. This whole thing is a big affair, carefully planned out. It takes more brains than Wick ever dreamed of having 10 plant anony- nous notes and teIrly people nearly out of their senses with mysterious whispers and then to steal the Brad ford papers and the Gaston pearls and then when things get hot to have you already framed as the goat to blame things on."
 'Then you think my discharge from the office was part of the plot?'
 "Sure. it was. You hutied in on their blackmal plans, and they want Hd to SeI square NIln you, anu young fellow out of work and discharged in disgrace Is always an easy mark for suspicion"
 And was it part of the plot to blame Miss LutanS murder on mel"
 ''1 don't think SO The Lutan mur- der was an accident Even the big gest crooks seldom deliberately plan murder. They're all afraid of the chair. She came in and surprised some one of the gang in the apart ment. He had to shoot her to make his getaway. It was quick thinking on somebody's part after the murder to plant that gun in your rooms. That sort of scheming takes brains, and Wick hasn't got thcm.'
 "Who was it. them"
 "Weve got to ind said German, speaking slowly and with emphasis
The Little River news., 1920-04-03

"ith this tale of secret passage You ve been reading too many thrill CTS or going to the movies too much They don't have secret passages HI modern apartment houses. You pet ter Keep quiet about that You can get anybody to believe you, and youli only hurt your case"
 But l know there's a passageway there-along the hall. l found the opening, a panel in my bedroom There's a place there big enough for man to walk in. 1 saw it.
 He looked at me pityingly, and could see that he did not believe word l was saying.
 "All right, there's a passage there. and we'll leave it there. young fei- low in love is apt to imagine all SC of things"
 1 saw there was no use in my insiN ing further about the passageway. His mind was stubbornly made up that it could not exist. He was the only friend l had in all the great city, and I must leave it to hlD, to work
 
 the thing out in his own way.
 What about lawyer?' 1 asked.
 Didn't the court assign you onej
 "Yes, but he took it for granted thi 1 was guilty, so l got rid of him.
 "Well, there aint much lawyl could do yet. I'll dig up one why we need him. Bail is not possible a murder case, so there is nothing X you to do but to sit tight and take8 as easy as you can. By the way, h;A you heard anything from old Gasil since you were arrested?'
 Not a word," l answered. "1 h;A not the least idea where he is or h to reach him."
 "Humph, that's funny said G man abstractedly. "Good-by, I'll s$. you again tomorrow"
 He pounded on the cell door, and guard released him, leaving me alol# to ponder over my plight, and esl# cally over his last question. WhM had he meant by it?
 Where was old Rufus Gaston?
 N'-Ne u!oIt SuSpiCloH ol tlS dStA relative shot through my brain. W. , # possible that his was the masit mir" behind all this plotting? Gs ! man had insisted that the arch crf inal behind Wick ard the others mt be some man of intellect. My are uncle Rufus had brains. Out ofA clear sky he had summoned me to III in the Granddeck and then had my teriously disappeared. Certainly ~ had had opportunities for knowinsi Wick and the telephone girl Bar bara had recalled once having heard her father speak of him in disparag- ing terms. Had it been he who was plotting against the Bradfords and had brought me into the case as scapegoat?
 Was old Rufus Castor the master mind3 Where was he?
 To Be Continued
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-10
5. P. c. c. RESCUfS
Is YEAR OLD CHILD
FROM LIVING TOMB

New York, Jan. 9.--Locked in a win
dow less tenement room ever since she
.was born, Hariette Sores, fifteen years
old this afternoon for the first time
saw the sky, felt the breeze careas
her cheek. and caught her first breath
of life
/ Her mad enec eyed mother, Mrs. Mar
garet Seres, who has kept the child
Jailed In one room since her BIRTH will
uhe taken to the ypsNcapathic ward of
Bellevue hospital tomorrow. Her father,
tieM ard Sores. a. pavement layer, and
her grandmother. Mrs. Ellen Sores. will
not be prosecuted since the authorities
deem al IT Mas the mother who dom
mated the household keeping her child
imprison ed<t'sp. ~oS
And as for Hariette-tonight she
| laughed for the FIRST time In her fifteen
years " hen she heard 1G0 other unfor-
tnnate little children sing in a chorus
at the rooms Of the-~society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Hariette, "a little wax doll old woman
of a child girl. sat on a stool. clasping
her frst dolly to her breast and rocked
with delight when she heard the voices
and the piano. She even tried to sing
herself-a worthless. almost tuneiess
song she had hummed to herself dur
ing the years she sat in that darkened
tenement room. And when tho nnwit-
a stool and tried to sing. she rubbed
her tiny fists into her blue eyes and
criedt until she was comforted on the
bosom of one OF the children's society
matrons,
| That a fifteen year-old girl was ex-.
listing a living death in New York, did
not become known until agents for the
Society Prevention Of Cruelty to Chill
dren broke into The Sores fiat on the
East fAae and 'foAnd the child sitting
IN .thard fney, chem ber. Der arhast trans )
parent hands folded iistiessly In her
lap. The agents acted upon informa-
tionefrein .a.priost to- whom the story
had beexl, whispered by a relative OF
the Sores family.
1~ AJrs.T Ellen Seres.. the grandmother.
rocked agitatedly in her chair by the
stove and cried that her family had
been put to shame by neighbors' spite.
She said the mother. Margaret. had
been "a bit dented In the top'' Tor years,
but everybody was afraid Of her and
sfrA dir asatshe chose. with the child.
The father. she said was so afraid OF
his wife khat he rarely came home at
Nigh t. .'brt George amt "A drsnkin' man,
either"
!, ra~ictfe tonight obed,entiy ate her
bread and milk and was put to bed in
"a little iron cot in dormitory with
-seventy-hpe other little gitts whose
hoYnes hayn been declared impossible
~ AXg etsiikts. Hariette. pale as a lily
and as ffail. closed her big blue eyes
happily In sleep as she Rugged her
dolly to her sunken little breast
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-10
ARE Held FOR MURDER
INVOKE INWRTTTE.S LAW

Rochester, Ny, Jan. e.~~-James }.
f,dcft and his sFafe. Pearl, a girl or
eighteen were this afternoon held for
the grand Surv on q charge of murder
in the frsf degrees Ia the killing of Ed
ward Kneip twenty-three years Ola.
The crime II WHICH the couple are &C
ctased was com rnllted "Wednesday night
vhen 0delI. posing as an officer. took
EreiD from his place of employment
to fhc Olets hDme, where an e1plana-
sIon was demanded of relations alleged
10 have been improper between kneip
ana Mrs. Oaei prior TO her marriage
a few weeks ago.
when kncip refused 10 taik. he was
taken 10 the outskirts Of the city in an
automobile ard there. IL is charged.
beaten insensIh}e with "A heavy file.
The body Yves left by the roadside AS
tn. Qdella started tn leave the spot
fhcw recutiectea q letter TINT Kneip
was supposed 10 have. Accordingly
they began a search OF his clothing.
and kneip sprang up and grappied
with ode1, The police say he was
getting the better OF the argument
.sf,ts., Mrs Gdell stabbed kneip in the
stomach with the file. Then odeIl is
alleged to have struck his opponent
5yer the head with IL heavy club. The
wounds were fatal
4sistrief Attorney William F. Love
said toslsy that he WAS convinced tho
nsur&er lsas fremeditated. The
mother of the stain man had charged
rol5bery as q motive. but the district
ATTORNEY does not incline to that opiu~
Ton. The oaali confessed the killing
after being questioned by the -poiiog
Attorney Elmer Shaffe~ who has
!, a,stt,sa engaged Ia, defend. beth .0dell
ana his wife. declares that his clients
-. L.. t.. ~
law. ~
gNo man or woman ever had strong
w incentive FOR their act than did these
fpsn" said Mr. Shatfer. "Eneip in
their own house, admitted tha. he had
f,fsased s>s4.- gir!s downfall and this ad.
naissSar, So tszssl resa, ,up0n the n1ind. ;of.
s-sy. tyrsrrfs, fitsrt it, te,t,iS The .fststt,r
M ss4saS sss9sson In his own hands in a IN
III Nsaspsls rage ard passion, Nov
zach is trying to shield the other by
taking the biaIns for the murder"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-10
SLIGHT INCREASE
At STATE NORMAL

Especial to The Richmond Firginian)
Harrisonhurg, Va Jan. lo.--~The sec
end quarter of the regular session of
the Harrisonburg state Normal school
began Tuesday morning. January 6.
There is a slight increase in the en-
roliment due TO the entrance of new
students. and the need of further dor
mitory accommodations is constantly
being remarked upon
The students from Eastern Virginia
who reached stanton Monday night
were met there by a special train car
ried- them to Harrisonburg. thus avoid
ing long and unpleasant automobile
trip. The students were so grateful
for tsts special srrans cement for their
convenience that st 81 likely to be re-
peated hereafter.
Friday morning at the assembly
period tina faculty appeared in aca-
demic costume. Appropriate ceremonies
were held aud the list of honor stu
dents for the first quarter vas read.
The special alunnae number of the
Normal Bulletin" has just come from
the press and Will be mailed out to
subscribers today.
At it's meeting last Tuesday night
the Harrisonburg city council decided
to purchase the Henneberger property
on South Main street between Camp
bell and paul streets, and on this site
there will be erected as early as is
possible a modern new school building.
This definite step looking toward meet
ing the needs for more room has the
unanimous support of all local school
patrons
Raymond C. Dingledine, OF the de-
partment OF history, was recently
elected historian of Rockingham Post
No. 81 American Legion.
The Page County Teachers associa-
tiun which met In Inray last Monday
was addressed by Conrad r. Logan. OF
the department OF English. on the
Fundamentals Of English In the E1e-
mentary Schools" In addition to thu
teachers Of the association a number OF
echooi trustees were present to hear
| tho tddresA of Colonel Robert r. L.eedy
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-10
HOME
SELLS FOR S5,OO0,O00

New York, JAN s---T'he sale OF the
I Cornelius Vanderbilt residence Tor
S ss,UeD.eoa ard its resale WITHIN
sssweuiy- hours at an advance OF
e half a milton dollars. as reported To-
aaay. sets n pace for speed In large
realty. transactions without pteeeo ass.e
s&sgr, New Yo.k transfers. The properly
covers che plock on Firm avenue oT-
aween. f1gsy-seyenSh and Fifth-eishth
g STREETS
neanite information regarding tho
row ovnsss van be given only when
i Cornelius NnuGerSilts widow applies
IL tho court fer permission to trans
i fsr Fflf nTnfSefts', nTlt TWO reports we're
current late today. General T. toie-
faan 7u punt was said 10 have pur-
~ chased the property with the purpose
s-ss.f erecting 100000 hotel FROM
/. s.As4aGo. comes the declaration that
the property tad been bought by the
e Marshall FIELDS Interests Fer The pur-
- fs<sse al tTe1if15g the finest department
ssstore ia %4A y ORR
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-10
COLVER SAYS PACKERS
PARTY TO THE PLOTS

Washington. Jan. 9.--Responsibility
for the charge that the Federal trade
commission Is infested with employees
of radical and Bolshevist sympathies
was laid at the door OF the big pack
ing interests by Chairman w. B. Col
yer of the commission in testimony to-
Gay before the senate committee on
agriculture.
The charge was made on the floor
of the senate recently by Senator Wat
son of Indiana, and a sub committee
of the interstate commerce commit
tee has been named to investigate it.
CoIyer told how Johann Chsol. A
translator for the commission was
placed under. arrest by department of
justice operatives in this city the other
night in the belief that he was Lud-
wig G. A. X. Martens, the so-cal1ed
soviet ambassador. He said that
Chsol was summoned to the Lafayette
hotel, where Santeri Nuorteva and
Martens We're quartcxed. to confer
with Nuortcva on matter in no way
connected with the BoIshevist mis-
sion. AS he left the hotel. Chsol was
pointed out to the department OF JUS
stice operatives by the hotel manager
as Martens whom" he slightly resesn.
bles He was hmm ediately released
when his identity was established.
Colver made no attempt to blame
the packers for the arrest Of Chsol.
but he produced a number of newspa-
per clippings to show that Nuorteya
had stated the packers were arrang-
ing to supply meat Il, the needs of
the Russian Bolsheyists' 1t was stated
in these interviews by Nuorteva that
the Russian-American Trading COM
pany is preparing to carry on business
| operations on a large scale between
/ this country and Bolshevik Russia.
| Former Senator Charles Dick, OF
| Ohio, Is connected with the Russian
American company and IS also part
! c7vnor Of the Lafayette hotel, where
Martens and Nuorteya made their
/ headquarters.
1t was alsC stated by Colver that be-
| fore the subcommittee to investigate
Senator Watson's charges was ap-
lpointed. persons claiming to be investi-
gators for the sub committee were in
terviewtng employees of the commits
| sion for the purpose of getting facts
| to help the sub-cum mittee in it's in
vestigation. He named G. r. Miller,
former United States attorney at In
! dianouolis and Clarence Martin. once
an officer Of the military intelligence
! '3'gsau. AS having been engaged In this
work.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-10

Sssss
IAs 'tlzh1lo dsiiffs - - y
eaxlixMtion here now u i huftAt
Men itke Hon. b. r. Hendren. le4d~s
Ing Democrat az county manager
ana Hon Iohn r. Jones chairman
OF the Republican executive c0nfu1t-,
tee as assistant county manager. and
Mr.. j. p. Moore as city manager with
Mrs. j. G. Stnoot as assistant manager
with gentl6mens committee Of ten
also a ladies committee OF twelve TO
cooperate with. them. When We
had our officers elected there was or
ganized law and order league OF
wilkes county az a permanent orr
= ,zation eiectfng officers each year,
subject to the call OF the county man
ager. There was a large turn out.
at this melting from all over the
county, country precincts being well
represented.
The big thing came when II was
put to the meeting that resolutions
be adopted, peldging members TO
work and talk and speak and preach
law enforcement. OF liquor laws and
other laws and to save this country
from anarchy and furthermore to de-
niand Of officers to show no favor to
rich or poor, high or low In earry-
ing out their duties, and further to
see that every law violator OF liquor
laws be reported as body. by the local
organization, first to the sheriff. and IL
nothing is heard from IL, then to tho
Federal State Prohibition Director
vanderford, or his local agent, and
also to state headquarters OF the
North Carolina world prohibition ana
home law enforcement movement n
Greensboro.
DO you believe IT, every man
women and child present not willing
to say l alone, just rose to their feet
and unanimously passed these pledges
by rising vote. Not satisfied. tho
various committees went IT once 10
work and at last hearing there were
500 names to these resolutions, ana
they are perhaps printed in tho
Wilkesboro papers by this time, %
that all of Wilkes will know there -
an organization to stand by abiding
citizens, and IL any ofictal fails In his
duty they have only to report Il. and
somebody viii hear 1 mighty lumber
ing from the moral element Of this
county which is in the big majority.
and on this subject In determined to
! know no politics amy more"
Director Mebane naturally was de-
/ lighted at this nne showing from
Wilkes, and says that Il only veFiAaD
what he has been urging. that citi1euD
Of every county lend . hand in thAU
law enforcement and world prohibi-
tion movement campaign, and by or
Canization. of citizens In each county,
give assistance to this temporary CEN
trail organization, - that when the
| fund is raised. 1t may be used largely
towards keeping up permanently
these county organizations for law
enforcement, thereby helping sheriffs
and federal officials to break mp
| liquor and all other similar public
F, nuisance iawlessaiesa.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-10
Charters


Chapman and COMPANY. incorpo-
rated. Itnchhurg. VA. Maximum.
s2so, goo; minimum. 100000. r. NJ.
Chapman. president. I.ynchburg. va;
p. S. Adkerson. secretary Lynch
burg. Va, and g. w. Guild. Anderson.
s. C.. wholesale mercantile business.
Hall Coin and Casket company.
incorporated, SUFFOLK, Va. Maximum,
s2s, 0Oe; minimum. $4,000. Geo. r.
Jones, president; IT. A. Daniels Sec
Rotary, and K, J. Butts, all of SUI
folk, Va To Manufacture and deal
Ia Collins. burial baskets. cases and
accessories
Donnel Drug company, incorpo-
rated, Norfolk, Va. Maximum, SlSo,-
900. minimum, 100000. G. r. Don-
mel, president; Henry IL. Kenngott.
! secretary ana Jesse NJ. Greene. all OF
Norfolk, Va. Wholesale drug bust
ness.
The International Quitting and
Drug corporation, Newport News. Va.
Maximum, $4,000; minimum, 10000.
NJ. Poltz, president: j. Berman, sec
rotary; John Sheldon Jones. Allan ID.
Jones and John Nice. Hudson. all OF
Newport News, Va.aY General Tfler-
camille business.
The ormonde Realty corporation,
Roanoke. Va. Maximum, $1,000;
minimum. $4,000. w. w. s. Lutier,
Sr., president; NJ C. Franklin. sec
rotary and w G. Baldwin, all OF
Roanoke, Va. General real estate
business.
Arlington Hunt and Fish club. In
corporated, Richmond. Va. Maximum.
$4,000; minimum, $4,000. G. r.
Hobson, president: r. l.. Smith. secre-
tary and r c. Patterson. all Of
Richmond. Va. To maintain fishing
and hunting club.
Lynchburg Battery and Starter
company. incorporated. Lynchburg,
Va Maximum. $40, 900; minimum.
$4,000 f. A. Garlock. president: III.
]. Garlock, secretary and Laurence
Thompson all of Baltimore. Md. Gen.
eral automobile and accessory busi-
ness.
Taylor Realty corporation. Rich
mond, Va Maximum, 5000; mini
| mum, s3gooo. c. W. Taylor, presi-
dent; II. F. TAYLOR, secretary; Guy r.
Bazelgrove. LOWS C Williams and
James Mullan, all of Richmond, Va.
General real estate business.
The Farmers Land Developme mt
! and Supply company. Incorporated,
MapFSNIte, a Ma1Iiluin, SNo,"oVs
minimum, $4,000. frederick J. Davis,
president: John w Davis, secretary;
Walter Broadwater. Frank Milbouni.
ALI OF Nelsonia, Va. and Horace
Hope, Mappsville, Va. Douglas Hick-
man, Mappsville. Va. and John H. T.
Finney, Modestown Va. General
real estate and mercantile business.
Amendment to charter OF Taxa
Kola Bottling company. incorporated,
Newport News, Va. r. II. Williams.
president and J. 3. johnson, ssere-
tary. Increasing its capital stock
from $4,000 to $250,o 900.