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was insane.
But Jesse Murphy defied the
alienlsts to grove It.
The governor Of Pennsylvania
pardoned him so that he might be
turned over to the Boston authori.
ties for trial on the murder charges
Now Murphy sits in the cell in
the Charles street jail
Happy.
I'm going through with this
all the way" he says. ~ stand by
my confession as strongly tonight
as the first sight ! made it,
I'm going through clean, be.
cause I,conCiaer the conviction of
the Rollins boys terrible travesty
on justice. I'm set on getting fol-
those innocent boys somathing i
never got myself
"a square deal"
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an attraction 10 Ethel Cousin AT.
mes first came 70 Chicago & d giri
she told those who asked her. Pre-.
yiously she had lived IN a small
town and NO one-not even the
many newspaper interyiewers-got
farther than that.
1Kwas.p plain that not long .betota
her employment In the Cullen OF.
fces, she had passed through some
aordinary experience which
had tremendously sapped her Wit.
atty, She had endured some
fdghtful ordeal which temporarily
had downed her but had not beaten
her.
Many men offered themselves to
take up her battle for her. But
only Oliver Cullen, after his fifth
or sixth attempt succeeded in OF.
fering himself Alright.
John died and Oliver "the dam.
ned weakling" and his upstart wife
who had been a stenographer,
claimed from Lucas and his strong!
or, far more able sons, the control
OF the Cullen corporations which
ownership old Johns stock implied
Lucas fought and clustered; but
Oliver asserted the control: or,
rather, Agnes did. For Lucas and
his sons did not remain long in
doubt regarding the force with
which they had to deal; nor did
outsiders remain ignorant.
So they grinned and bore IL
while they watched Oliver gradual,
ly sink into invalidlsm and year
follow year with Agnes childless.
! There was an old contract
which Lucas, Senior, had safely
locked away, by which he and his
brother had bound themselves tina,
in the event of either of them OF
their sons dying without issue, the
holdings of the deceased would pass
to the survivor.
In September, 1918. those condi
tons seemed completely fulfilled
for Agnes, who had gone heart and
soul into war work, sailed aboard q
ship which was torpedoed; and she
Twas lost.
The news reached Oliver on the
eighteenth! and on the twenty,
second, he died.
But Agnes, as though to torment
Lucas even after her death, had
passed on in the most annoying
way possible. Though 1t was obvi
Gus that she had drowned. yet nc
one actually had seen her drown
/ Since she wa snot legally dead
her home remained open. Mrs
Vain. her housekeeper. and her
servants were at the house, which
they were Keeping In order as
though Mrs. Oliver Cullen were
away merely on a visit.
1t was to cousin Agnes home
that Ethel went after an unsuccess
] full attempt to discover any know
ledge of Bagley.
Marcellus Clark, she learned
was in Europe and no one at his
office could disclose information Of
Bagley or the reasons why the
frightened steward had been sent
to the lonesome house on Resurrec,
ton Rock.
But shock awaited her when
she entered her Cousins home and
was greeted by the housekeeper.
tTo Be contlnued)
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Vito Contesses to
SaUes l'lnocert Men Happy
in Shadow of Death Chair
What Do You Think About
CiroumstantlaI Evidence?

Two brothers, charged with
murder, were convicted by two
Massachusetts jurles.
One was sentenced to life
imprisonment: the other to
death.
The state was about to com.
NIT a legal murder
When a prisoner in a Phila!
delphla penltentiary, a harden.
ed crook confessed to the crime
A little delay and there would
have been added two more
names to the growing list Of
innocent victims OF the law.
What do you think about ad.
hitting circumstantial evidence
at a murder trial? Send your
views to the Editor Of The West
virginian.
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We, Miss carew2' he asked her.

we, Miss carew?e he asked her.
Yes" she said. yea :.
"What2 her grandfather threat
ened. what? You think you will
go with this-this-" he stopped
with a snort Of contempt. But he
was not feeling contempt, Ethel
saw as she watched him.
i can forgive your imbecility
and madness. God helping me,
can forgive my chIld's child ever
what she has said to me this day
But disobey me again and shall
never forgive you. Now go: go te
your room and go to your knees
and later, when you are yourself
/ shall send for yon."
She gazed only an instant long
er at her grandfather before look
ing up at the friend at her side.
II am ready to go with you," she
said,
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CHAPTER VIII

| Y
She crossed the threshold, which
her grandfather had forbidden her,
and went to the front door. Barne,
followed and closed the door be.
hind them.
As briefly as possible, sne told
Barney what followed her arrival
at st. Florentin and she received in
return full report from Barney,
| He had stopped at wheedon's in
the afternoon, and there had learn.
ed that the man named Bagley had
arrived a day earlier and exhibit
ed a letter from Marcellus Clarke
which authorized him to obtain tho
keys to the house on Resurrection
Rock.
Last night Bagley served a good
supper, and afterward Barney wan.
dered about the Rock while Bagley
was still clearing up In the dining
room. Barney came indoors and
was trying again to read when he
heard shot In the direction Of the
shore and, going to the door, he
thought he also heard cries. He
wont ashore and wandered about
for nearly an hour before return.
ing to find the Rock dark and the
house shut. After trying to arouse
Bagley, he went ashore once more
to find that Bagley already had ar
rived at Wheedon's and was deter.
mined to remain there.
He had had enough" he ex.
planned to Barney as he previously
had informed Wheedon; that was
the extent of the explanation he
made. He was going home to Chi.
cago on the earliest train.
Il thought they had killed YOU"
Ethel said. "But OF course it was
come one who arrived at the Rock
after Bagley had shut you out and
you had followed him to Wheed.
on's."
Eyes; / think that's pretty
was he?"
my grandfather knows, of
course" Ethel said.
Ihat telegram from my uncle
Lucas in Chicago, which Asa
brought when we were at dinner,
told my grandfather who he was
! and what his presence meant. You
see. after that we had prayers and
grandfather sent Kincheloe' out
again, and grandfather waited in
his house with his rifle loaded. He
wasn't sure whether Kincheloe, or
the other man, was coming back
from the Rock to, his house."
What are we in. you and II" she
asked, suddenly shivering.
He put his hands steadyiugly
upon her arm. 81 got you into It."
he accused himself, you know I'd
no idea what 1t would do to you,
or lid turned back yesterday"
IL think there's surely some.
thing to be found out In Chicago"
Barney said when Ethel stated her
determination TO go there at once.
"Bagley's back there; and Marcel.
lus clagks has his office there."
"And my uncle Lucas is there
or he was when he sent that tele.
gram last night warning grand.
father. But OF course, he'll be with
grandfather; I'll learn nothing from
him, II he can help It."
She gave him her hand In good.
by.
CHAPTER TX
| AS the train bore Ethel away
from Resurrection Rock and from
Barney Loutrelle, the girl rebated
In her mind the task which con.
fronted her on her arrival and va
guely wished that cousin Agnes
Mrs. oliver Curren as she had been
known in Chicago society before
her tragic disappearance from the
torpedoed Galantic, were alive to
/ aid her.
About Agnes there had been
something OF a mystery as well as
y
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-08
VIENNA BAKERY
SOLD BY DEPUTY
SHERIFF OWENS
UNDER A MORTGAGE FORE
CLOSURE, BUT BUSINESS WILL
BE CONTINUED

Under a mortgage held by Mrs.
Maggie Faber against: C. H. Steiner,
the bakery business and PROPERTY
operated under the name of the Wen
ma Bakery, in the Royal hotel build
, ing, was sold yesterday by Deputy
Sheriff George w. Owens and was
purchased by Judge D.. w. Krauss for
Mrs. Hahn for $4,000
The business will be continued I'M
der the management of B. Blue
stein, RI. Hackle, who has been as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Bluestein for
some time past. A number of i'm
provements in the business will be
made under the new management
and it will be operated to better to
the public than in the past and will
continue under the name of Vienna
Bakery.
Since soming to Brunswick Mr..
Bluestein has made scores of friends
all of whom will wish him SUCCESS
and, in the meantime, Mr.. Hackle
has the best wishes of all in any
undertaking in which he may in the
future engage.
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ALLIES TO KEEP
ORDER OR MARTIAL
LAW WILL PREVAIL
CONSTANTINOPLE SEEMS TO BE
CAUSE. OF UNEASINESS ON
PART OF ENTENTE
(.sss1d ps4eIoossY Hal

Constantinople, Nov. THE allied
governments have authorized the
high commissioners to take the nee
essary steps to maintain order even
to the extent of proclaiming martial
law.
Three additional classes of Turk
ish soldiers have been called to the
eolors, it is reported here in official
circles.
There is reason to believe that the
Kemalists will climb down off the
high horses they mounted yesterday.
The allies now have taken a strong
and united attitude toward the de
mands of he Angora government
that the allied troops evacuate the
city. TF E6t
The demands of the Kemalists
which the allied high commissioners
refused to grant were discussed at a
conference between the allied gener-
ais and the civil government of Con-
stantinople.
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SCOTT BACK FROM
!. INTERESTING MEET
Local Manager of the Western
Union Talks of Interesting
Managers Meeting in Allan
ia During Week.

A three days conference of the of
ficials of the southern division and
fifty of the managers of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company's of
fees in Alabama and Georgia held
at the Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta, Ga,
was concluded Monday.
Manager T. A. Scott of 1he com
pany's office in this city attended
the conference and addressed the
meeting regarding the telegraph
needs of Brunswick and returned to
the city yesterday.
Among matters taken up at the
conference were the betterment of
the service in Alabama, Georgia and
the southern territory, and the i'm
proved cable service to Europe and
South America. Under the new
plans of the company, kilograms are
now being transmitted in fifteen
minutes between the principal points
throughout the United States, and in
fifteen minutes to London and Liver
pool, ad in wenty minutes to Rio de
Janeiro, Santos, Montvideo and Bue-
Aires in South America.
Among the officials present were:
H. C. Worthen, general manager, At
lanta: A. C. Kaufman, general COM
mercial agent, New York; B. F.
Ragsdale, superintendent, Atlanta;
C. H. Carroll, city superintendent,
Atlanta; j. R. Turbine, division COM
merciai manager, Nashville; E. P.
Crutchfield, division commercial man.
ager, Atlanta; G. 7. Butts, division
cable manager, Atlanta, and William
Goldsmith, district commercial agent,
Atlanta.
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WILL PUSH DRIVE
FOR NEW MEMBERS
Chairman J. p. Davenport Says
Board of Trade Membership
Drive Must Be Increased
Drive Starts Monday.

Savannah, Augusta, Macon, Co
lumbus, Albany, Valdosta, and many
other cities are making preparations
for a Board of Trade membership
drive. Evidently each one of these
cities believes in the necessity of
have a real well supported commercial
organization.
Brunswick has always had repu-
tation for sustaining it's commercial
organization in many particulars in
far better way than most cities of
its size, or even some cities with a
greater population, and in talking
with ]. P. Davenport, general chair
man of the Brunswick Board of
Trade Membership Drive committee,
he stated that he was SO well salts
fled with the prospects for success
full campaign in Brunswick that he
does not hesitate to predict that
Brunswick will still for the year of
1928 sustain the same reputation
that she has always enjoyed in the
past. a a%y
Mr.. Davenport is having prepared
letter that will be mailed to every
man in the city of Brunswick some
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-08
MRS. PHILIP GOETTE HAS
PASSED AWAY AT MACON

A telegram received from Philip
Goette, who was called to Macon on
account of the serious illness of his
wife, which announced that she had
passed way and her death will cause
sorrow here where she spent many
years and had scores of friends.
Deceased has been i'll for the past
several weeks and her death was not
unexpected. Besides her husband,
Philip Goette, well known tailor, Mrs.
Goette leaves several children, all OF
whom are grown and a number of
grandchildren. In the telegram Mr..
Goette did not state wheather the re-
mains would be brought here or in
tered at Macon. 216U. 3
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-08
FEELS GOOD
OVER COTTON PRICES

Americas, Ga.,, Nov. Prevailing
cotton quotations have createi an
air of optisim in Sumter county.
Strict middling sold III Americas
Monday for rs cents, with buyers Gag
er to secure the staple. Approx
mately $4,000 bales have been snid in
Americas since September 1, and
there are now being stored in Sum-
ter county warehouses 5000 bales,
including several hundred bought
over from last years crop. Ginning
figures for Sumter now total more
than $1,000 bales, and it IS certain
that the final crop figures will show
$4,000 bales for the county.
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]. A. ]. HENDERSON
SPENDS DAY HERE
Well Known South Georgian
Believes that Country is on
Eve of Great Wave of Pros
perity.

Hon. j. A. j. Henderson, of Cecilia,
well known banker and business man
and at one time candidate for con-
gress from the Eleventh district, was
among the well known visitors to the
city yesterday.
Mr.. Henderson has vast business
interests in this section of the state
and in addition to his many other
holdings is deeply interested in sew
eral short lines of railroads in South
Georgia.
Talking on the general trend of
business to a News representative
yesterday Mr.. Henderson said it was
his opinion that things were growing
better all over the country and that
this situation was being reflected in
the business situation in this section.
He has only recently returned from
business trip to New York and to
other points in the east and there he
says he found conditions rapidly i'm
proving. st seems to me-" said Mr..
Henderson, 'that the t1ottom has
been struck and that in all lines of
industry, there is a better feeling
and room for believing that we are
soon to get back to the normal
again"
Mr.. Henderson was struck with the
many signs of progress he saw in
Brunswick and especially with the
great plan involved in putting over
the St. Simon highway, which he
thinks is one of the biggest move
ments in this entire section of the
clio
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-08
BANDITS HOLD SEVERAL
(Bv Associated Press.)

Shanghai, Nov. 1.-THE bandits who
kidnapped H. E. Lagard, of the China
International Mission staff at Shang-
tsaisien last month are also holding
Madam Soderstrom of the Lutheran
mission, a French priest and another
Frenchman, according to reports re-
ceived here today.
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time during the campaign, that can
not help but start the average citizen
to begin thinking along the line of
supporting the Board of Trade in
such a measure that it can do more
effective work the coming year than
it has ever done before.
Chairman Davenport says the drive
will be launched next Monday and
will be pushed as fast as possible.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-08
TO MAKE MORE DEMANDS

Malta, Nov 7.-Reliable sources
declare It has been learned that
further Turkish demands will be
made at the Lausanne peace confer
ence to the effect that the Greek
island of Mytilene and Chios in the
Aegean Sea off the coast af Asia
Minor, be given to Turkey and that
Turkey shall be permitted to admin
lister her own debt
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PRESIDENT AND CABINET f
..u.y LISTEN TO THE RETURNS
(By Associated Press.

Washington, Oct. 7.-Surrounded
by the members OF his cabinet,
friends and the nations high officials
President Harding received the cleo
ton returns tonight at the White
House. s:~
A special Associated Press wire
sent the bulletins in recording the
count from all parts of the country.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-31
.'CAM0UFLAGE AND PIPE
DREAMS"

Republican cries of govern.
mental economy have been ex.
ploded so often. and have proven
so false on their face that it
hardly seems necessary to give
them another puncture. How
lever Senator Overman of North
Carolina, ranking Democrat OH
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee, has done this and his ex-
PLANTATION is SO clear that a part
of it is well worth repeating.
|"All the big headlines which
have been appearing in the
newspapers showing the great
savings made by the budget sys-
TEN under the Harding admins
tration were nothing but camou-
flage and pipe Dreams" says
Senator Overman in showing up
a recent statement by Senator
Warren in which that Senator
made customary claims of great
Republican savings. Then Sem
ator Overman goes on to explain
that appropriations under the
Republican administration for
the present year were $363, O0O,-
600 more than those under the
Wilson administration in 1915 Il
for actual running expenses of
the government, excluding war
time obligations. In other words
our expenses in the last of our
peace-time years before the war,
we're $793,O00,000; our expenses
lnder Republican president in
he present year are 81, 329,0OO,.
300 exclusive of wartime obli-
cations. The difference, 1868
100000, shows the added cost Of
he Republican administration
Ledger
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DOES HARDING CARE?

And while the ''normalcy'
president sails on his private
yacht and COLTS and eats and
drinks winter creeps a little
nearer and when the SHOWS fall
and the thermometer drops the
poor people will suffer untold
agonies. But what cares Hard
ing and his rich friends? They
will have warm fires to sit by in
the cold, bleak winter days.
Milan Standard.
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A REPUBLICAN BONUS TO A
CHOSEN FEW

Let us stop for IA minute and
consider the sugar clause in the
Senate tariff bill which is due tc
be passed tomorrow Saturday
II any private citizen ever really
had, belief that the tariff meas
urc was for the honest protection
OF American industries, that one
Clause is enough 70 Show hin
where he erred. Consumption of
sugar in the United States is ap-
proXimately 100000 tons an
nuaIly. OF this, about 1000. 600
tons of. cane and beet sugar are
produced within our borders.
The greater part of the balance,
about 100000 tons wear.
comes from Cuba. And vet, al
though on the face of things.
America can not produce one
fourth of the sugar we use, Re-
publican Senate slaps tariff of
$1.S4 against Cuban importa-
tons and marked up full tariff
OF $3.50. In other words, a few
hundred beet and cane growers
and score or so of refiners are
given a bounty to mulct Ameri-
cans Of 2.3 cents a pound on
every bit of sugar used in this
country.
1t must be remembered that
American sugar growers are in
no danger from foreign competi-
ton. Were Cuban importations
to this country to cease, we
would face sugar famine and it |
would be impossible for this land |
to produce enough sugar to meet |
Its own needs. The tariff il
nothing but q bonus, a subsidy |
arranged by Reed Smoot Of |
Utah to fatten the purses Of beet
growers in his own western |
state. They win get the money!
We will nav n M, Sfate Jonxv.al
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-31
GENERAL NOTES

Hot, dry weather of the last
month cut practically 27,0O0,O0C
bushels off the state corn pros
pcct, according to a report issued
Friday by }. c. Mohler, secrc-
tary of the Kansas state board Of
agriculture.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-31

Tangible assets of Allan A.
Ryan, Wall Street broker and
manipulation of the famous
"Stutz corner who recently
went into bankruptcy with liza
bilities of $1S,OO0,O00, were sold
for $500.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-08-31

New York Supreme Court
Judges TOWMsend Scndder, 4. s
Tompkins and X. r. Judson have
Just returned from Finland
where they re-estabIished the
Masonic Order suppressed by
Russia 400 years ago.
Figures gathered by the Ma
'tional Committee for the Pre-
ventf0n Of Blindness in the Rus
sell Sage Foundation Building,
show that during the first half
OF 1922 wood alcohol caused 100
deaths and 90 eases of blindness.
Mrs. James Bell 106 years old,
of Abrams, Wis, milks seven
cows daily for exercise, and her
husband, los years old, plows
for the same reason, it became
known when they celebrated
t"VA eighty -iIlutI WeOuluS ami
versary.
The war department officially
announces that Col. Ward Beck,
who was killed some time ago by
Judge Day while the army Off
Ger was assaulting Mrs. Day in
the parl0r of her home in Okla
homa City, met his death in the
"line of duty" Assembling the
wife of ones host is new thing
in the "line of duty
After having ordered 1000 To-
comotives from an engineering
firm and having received 800 of
them, the Russian Government
has minated that it is now un-
able to pay. When the contract
was made it was agreed that the
engipes were to be paid for as
lhey were delivered, and the
49, octnrers obtained q guar.
NJ their money. Il
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AN INVITATION

Every Woman desires above all else be Aractvely
Stylsy Alfred Certainly she deeply interested in know
ing what is and fashionable for for this
she will appreciate this Invitation to view
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you
Don't Wait Until the New Styles become Com
mon-be the first to see them-to wear them.
It's Joy just to view themand to slip one of these
big soft luxurious Coats richly lined with silk positive
e. ~ thrill.
And Dresses. Words couldnt possibly do them Justice
! And so different from those of past seasons.
SUITS, too that sure to command your admiration
Stylish Taieurs and novelty models each with an unmsak-
able stamp Of originality and anartness about it,
Prices n The New things q WALKS. lGeKihben's
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