Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-08-05

Hague. All that Italy needed was the
proof.
Imogen Leonard could furnish the
| proof! Because of her confidential re-
Iations with the head of the trust.
Italy believed there was no doubt
about 1t. This was why she had been
forcibly taken from the Colonia when
the steamship called at Genoa. and
placed under surveillance.
Regardless of party affiliations the
press. the country, hurled at the White
House the vertlict-outrage!
The president was not without his
excuses. Proof of ]. Pierce Lamont's
guilt under the criminal section Of the
Sherman law lay in a secret memo
rsndum whereby the restraint of the
powder trade was maintained. This
memorandum had been dictated by
Lamont to his stenographer, Imogen
Leonard. and by her transcribed and
mailed unsigned to the smaller, fear
ridden manufacturers of powder
Wherefore Miss Leonard could give
testimony that would convict J. Pierce
I.nmont--land trust magnate behind
the bars.
Unfortunately, Miss Leonard's vaca-
ton. comprehending sea trip at the
expense of her employers was so
timed-owing to a leak in the United
States attorneys office-that she was
beyond the three-mle limit before the
secret service knew it. Nothing re-
mained. therefore,. but to engage the
cooperation of some foreign power in
the enterprise of OBTAINING the vitality
important witness and etfecting her
return home-to the witness-box
Italy's fight with the Powder trust
dovetailed into this scheme. Miss
Leonard was to be detained by the
Italian authorities and pumped, but
with the American ambassador stand
ing by. ready to offer a refuge-and
safe return home!
On the part Of the administration at
Washington it was Machiavellian. on
ltaly's part, the execution of Amer
tca's third degree" At hest it
wouldn't look we'll In print-at worst
1t would defeat the presidents party
at the next election. Wisely. the
White House kept silent. But the
American ambassador to Italy be-
stirred himself.
Less than twelve hours after the
storm broke IN the United States,
mogen Leonard. under the courteous
escort of his excellency John Bisnler.
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Out Of the horde of Americans who
have invaded Europe. three are re-
membered: General Grant, Colonel
Roosevelt and Pitcher Larkin. Each
made his impress. but of these impress
stonistS Barney Larkin contributed by
far the most color. He said when he
got back to the Giantkillers' bali park
that he might forget his trip abroad.
but he didn't think Europe would!
Naples, where the globe-running
baseball players landed. was the one
place where Barney devoted himself
strictly and intellectually to sight
seeing. Accompanied by Ernest Stead
man. his guide. custodian, and friend.
he Jared forth. with the best intentions
to behold every treasure that the city
and its envtrons advertised. But he
was first conducted to the NeapoItan
aqnarinm-and never left It, Here
Damon and Piscatorius" were enrap-
tured with the, curious marine won.
ders of the Nlediterranean-cuttl fish.
crested blrhbers. impossible-looking
crabs, crayfish, and pipetish, the cleo
trio rays which Barney, after expert
encing a shock, pronounced, ''live
wires. all right"
Above all, the eccentric twirler was
delighted with the octopus! AT home
Barney had seen pictures of it in the
papers. usually labeled STANDARD Oil,"
or Sugar" or Steel" but in a for
eign land he saw it in the original
mother of the trusts! He had to be
dragged away to the train.
At Rome he announced that he was
tired of 'lookin' round" But some
one told him of the Catacombs-cel-
lars where the early Christians were
laid on the shelf. He apparently be-
came fascinated with the subter.
ranean phenomenon. and devoured all
of the literature he could find on the
subject. The reason he gave for visit
ing the Pantheon was that twenty
eight wagon loads of the best bones"
had been carried there from the Catn-.
4mbs and planted beneath the altar.
When he made his excursion to the
Roman Catucombs he took Ernest
Steadman with him. Apparently be
wandered through the galleries alb.
sorbed On what he saw. But there
was malice afQrethought in his wan
derings. Hs Succeeded in losing his
keeper!
Rome rememgea TO this day what
ensued. The a1cot 4c eruption ended
shortly after midnight. Barney Lar
kin, dirty sweater sped togawise
about his powerful shoulders, his head
bare save for a wreath filched from
the tomb Of Raphael. paraded up and
dSwn}the middle. of the Piazzi di Spug-
ma, pausing only to cool his brow in
Bernini's nautical fountain. and pro.
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