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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27

likely % be correct, ON the strength
Of this letter. We may conclude thai
when he went home, after disnoslRe
OF the body under Kerry Head, yaul
brother must have disguised himself
in some way and taken an early train
from Paigntan "a Newton Abbot and
from Newton Abbot 10 Plymouth, Hs
would already have been there and
lying low before the hunt began"
That's how figure H." answered
the sailor,
when did you last see him, Mr.
Redmaynes"
$50 newhere about a month ago
lie came over for the day with Miss
Reed-the young woman he was go
ing 10 marry"
WAS he all right them"
Rendigo considered and scratched
in his red beard,
NOISY and full of chatter but
much as usual"
"pid he mention Mr.. and Mrs
Pendant"
mot word. He was full up with
his young woman. They meant "a
he married in late autumn and SC
abroad for a run 10 see my brother
Albert"
HE may correspond with Mis-
Reed II he gets TO France7"
II can't say what he'll do. Sup
pose YOU catch him presently? How
would the law stand? 4 man goei
mad and commits a murder. Thei
| = pa he's n
Judge. You can't hang him for wha
he did when he was off his head. anc
you can't shut him up In a lunati'
asylum II he's sane"
"A nice problem. no doubt" ad
mitted Brendon. but be sure the Law
will take no risks. A homicida
maniac. no matter how sane he Il
between times. Is not going to rur
loose any more after killing man"
well that's all there is to 1t. de-
tective. II hear again. III let th'
police knew; and II you take him, o.
course you'll let me and his brother
know at once. It's very ugly
thing for his family He did goot
work In the war and got honors; ant
II he's mad. then the war made him
mad"
That would be taken very fully
| into account. be sure. I'm sorry
both for him and for you, Mr. Red
mayne."
Bendign looked sulkily from under
his tangled eyebrows
II shouldn't feel no very great cal
to give him up to the living death OF
an asylum if he hove in here some
night" =,
You'd do your duty-that viii
bet" replied Brendon.
They descended to the dining-room
where Jenny Pendean was waiting te
pour out tea. All were very sllen'
and Mark had leisure to observe the
young widow.
what shall you do and where may
I count upon finding you If wan
| Won. Mrs. Pendean?" he asked pres
entity.
! she looked at Redmayne, not a
Brendon, as she answered.
II am in Uncle Bendigo's hands
know he will let me stop here fol
the present"
"For keeps" the old sailor de-
clared. This Is your home no"
Jenny, and I'm very glad to have yo'
here. There's only you and YOU
Uncle Albert and me now, l reckon
+or don't think we shall ever see
poor Bob again."
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27
RTGIN IIEnI TnnAN

Michael husband % Jenny laeRr
dean, disappears fEem his home on
DaFRlasF. be is last sssR Ia lhs
company Of RohfTa RedmaEne, nReie
70 JsRRY, when The two men Nlsit a
lew bungalow being hg.ilt b. Michael
near FeEginl0r Quarry
Bleed Is found az the iioaF 81 the
cottage and witnesses testify u haN'
Ing seen Robert ride aRaF an his
motor bicycle With a heavy sack hes
hind the saddle, The sack IL found
In a Tahhit hole a far distance from
the sesne Of the supposed murder,
Mark nFeadaR, famous criminal lnr
vestisatar, is engaged by Jenny 10
solve the mystery, Jenny goes "a
live with her uncle liendiga Red
mayHs, RFehdeR calls az hendlgos
home and meets Giuseppe Dora, who
works there,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27
Al slasElF n-aman - b.


''DaFa he Elshfgl lo knew WhsH
E0u'll NaRt ths best, she SAID,
7 Should like Il Immediately II
possible hegEed RFfRden, Much
time has been lest
Tell them 20 get aboard, thea
directed BsRdlge, and IN I'VE minutes
Mars Was taking his leave,
I'm let Fau haER the earliest Ia
timatioR Of the capture, Mr. Red
msyRe," he said, III your poor
brother sllli lives, il SCENE impossible
that he should long he free, His
present eanditi0n must he one Of
great laTmeR' -. : anKietg-l0 him
and for his 80 axe ! hope he will
soon surrender or be feuRd-if net In
ERglaAa, then IN France"
Thank yea" answered the older
man quietly, what you say is true,
I regret the delay myself now, " he
is heard Of again by me- TN telegraph
10 Scotland Yard, or set sem % do SO
al Dartmouth, I've sung a teler
phone wire into the town as YOU
ste"
They stood again under the iiagstaff
en- the plateau, and Rrendeh studied
the rugged cliff line and the fields OF
corn that sleRed away inland above II,
The district was very lonely and only
the raafiree OF a solitary farmhouse
appeared a mile or more distant 10
/ the west,
"If he should come % yeu-and ]
lave still a fancy that he may do so
take him in ami LEI us know" said
Rrend0R, "sneh q necessity VIII ne
rnspeakahly painful, fear but ! am
very sure you will not shrink from H.
Mr., Redmayne,"
The rough old man had grown more
aniahle during the detectives visit
II was clear that natural aversion
for Rrendon's business no longer en-
tended 10 the detective himself
"nu,y's duty" he said, Though
God keep me from yours II can
DO anything. you may trust me to
do Il. He's not likely TO come here.
I think: but he might try and get
over 10 Albert down south. Goodey
10 you"
Continued In Our Next Issue)
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27

left him. II YOU caught him tomor-
TOW. you'd possibly find him as sane
as yourself-except on that one sub
ject. He'd worked up his old hatred
OF Michael Pendean. as a shirker In
the war. until It festered In his head
and poisoned his mind. so as he
couldn't get II under. That's how
read 1t. had pretty good con-
tempt for the poor chap myself and
was properly savage with my niece.
when she welded him against our
wishes; but my feeling didn't turn my
head and I felt glad to hear that
Pendean was an honest man. who did
the best he could at the Moss Depot"
Brendon considered.
"A very sound view" he said, land
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27

he'd giYe yea ihe slip"
and, uRill 4 VAS found out that
he was mai, ae might hear ne more
ahRuf him'
WHY should u be- found that he
Mas madsn Asked Rendig0, sHe
MAS mad when he killed this innocent
man, no doubt, because none but q
luRaiie would have done such an
awful thing, az been 50 cumming after
with the saFt ~ childish cunning
lhai gaAe him away from the start
HHi once he'd done what this twist
In his brain drove him Ia Do, then ]
nudge that his madness very likely
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27

that the sustained high level OF pro-
duction had been reflected in the
volume OF employment and in many
Instances advances in wages.
Wholesale commodity prices de-
clined to some extent In the six
weeks ending June Is. the rednc-
ton being carried into some lines IN
TO the retail trade.
Production OF iron and steel, CO.
nlent and petroleum was larger In
May than in any previous months
and the rate Of production was re-
ported continuing in the early weeks
Of June. Mill consumption of cot
ton was close TO a maximum in the
same period.
A further decline In the value of
building permits granted In the prin-
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27
NOW co IN WITH TIN STORY

nendiga Redmayne gruhted,
Come In and see the letter." he
ssid. II never thought you'd fail
It's all very terrible indeed and I'm
damned II I understand anything
about IL, But one fact is clear my
brother wrote this letter aud he
wrote IL from Plymouth and since
he hasn't heen reported from Ply,
mouth, feel very little doubt the
thing he wanted 20 happen has hap
pened.''
Then he turned 20 his niece.
.'well have a cup OF tea IN hal'
an hour. Jenny, Meantime I'll take
Mr.. Brendon M 10 the tower room
along with me"
Mrs. Pendean disappeared into the
house and Mark followed her with
the sailor.
They passed through a square hall
full of various foreign curiosities col
iected by the owner. Then they
ascended into large, oetagonsl
chamber. like the lantern OF a light
house. which surmounted the dwell
ing. NJ,
my lookout. explained Mr.. Red.
mayne. I'm foul weather ! spend
ali my time up here and with yonder
strong. three-inch telescope ! can
rick up what's doing at sea. a DUNK
up in the corner. you see. often
sleep up here. too.
you might almost as well be
anoat." said Brendon. and the remark
pleased Bendigo.
"That's how I feel. and ] can tell
YOU there's a bit OF movement, too
sometimes. never wish to see Dig
Ger water than beat these cliffs DUR
ing the south-easter last March. we
shook to our keel, can tell you.
He went to a tall cupboard In
corner. unlocked 1t and brought OUT
a square. wooden desk Of old-fash-
toned pattern. This he opened and
.rroduced a letter which he handed
to the detective.
Rrendon sat down in a chair under
the omen window and read this com
munication slowly. The writing was
large and sprawling: it sloped slightly
upward from left to right across the
sheet and left a triangle OF wnlte
paper at the right-hand potion
corner:
Dear Ben It's all over. I've
Gone in Michael Pendean and put him
where only Judgment Day Will md
him. Something drove me to do IT
hut all the same I'm sorry now its
done-not for him but myself.
shall clear tonight, with. luck, for
France. If can send an address
later will. Look after Jenny-she'
we'll rid of the Brighter Wher
things have blown over | may come
hack. Tell Albert and tell Flo
Yours, H. ~
Brendon examined the letter anc
the envelope that contained II.
"Have YOU another communication
something from the past l can com
pare with this?" he asked.
Bendigo nodded.
II reckoned you'd want that. M
answered and produced a second let
Ter from his desk.
II related to Robert Redmayne''
engagement to be married ana thf
writing was identical.
and what do you think he's done
Mr.. Redmayne?" Brendon asked
pocketng the two communications.
81 think he's done what he 'nopeo
TO do, At this time Of year you'll
see a dozen Spanish and Brittany
onion boats lying down by the Bar
tican at Plymouth. every day OF the
week. And IL poor Bob got there
no doubt plenty of chaps would MAE
him when he offered EN- none!
enough to make 1t worth while. once
aboard one of those sloops. he'd be
about as safe as he would be any
where. They'd lana MN a' o.
Ma,o or somewhere down there, and
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27

Berlin. June 27.-Even the 'aNiean
drivers In Berlin are Shakespeare
fans. An American tourist who re-
Gently engaged n taxieah for half a
day. noticed that the driver was al
ways reading while his passenger was
making calls. The American thought.
perhaps the man was student. and
glanced al the book. II was Shakes
peare's complete dramatic works In
German. and the man was reading
"Othrllo"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27
DRIVERS READ SHAKESPEARE

Continued In Our Next IsEue)
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27
BUSINESS CONDITIONS
Are REPORTED AS GOOD
Federal Reserve Board Shows
Wholesale Prices Declining and
Wages Gaining a Trife.

Washington, June 27.-Production
and shipment OF general merchan-
disc and manufactures continued IN
heavy volume during May and the
first half OF June A summary OF
general business and financial con-
ditions made public today by the
fe deral reserve board and revealed
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27

cipal cities was cited in the summary
but awards OF contracts represent
actual undertakings rather than
prospective operations increased In
most cities.
Slight increases in employment
have accompanied the industrial ac-
tivity in most lines The advances
were most marked In the cotton,
steel. meat packing and sugar rehn-
ing industries.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27
FIRE on FUNERAL PARTY.

Rome. June 27.--Several soldiers
Including one national militia man.
were seriously wounded at Parma
today when political agitators who
desired 10 make an issue of the
death OF laborer fired on the mill
tary guard escorting the funeral cor
tere
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-27
MAsARYK SERIOUSLY ILL.

/. Constantine. Algeria, June 81.
President Masaryk of Czecho-S lovakia
was taken suddenly Ill here while
touring northern Africa for his health.
His condition is regarded as serious.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
TOO MANY LAWS.

One of the strangest political tend
encies of our time is the suddenly in
creased faith of legislators in the pow
er of laws to enforce themselves one
they are reduced to writing. No belle
has been so continuously and thorough
ly discredited, yet none is so alarm
ingly alive. Every political philosor
her from Montaigue's day to this hou
has recognized that the best govern
ment is that conducted with the leas
law and machinery.
A multitude of evils attend the naiv
faith of legislatures in the autoen
forcement capacity of law as repre-
sented by words on a piece of pape
One is an inevitable weakening of re
spect for a government born of a dis
regard for its more outlandish aspects
Another is the uninterrupted encroaeh
ment of government on the governed
A third and most distressing evil
the appalling expense attending tn
creation of multitudinous new bureau
and Offices provided for.
The time may come when a candl
date pledging himself to nothing bu
the repeal of two laws for every on
created will be generally supported.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT.

We should have learned the import
ance of industrial and agricultural
growth and development to our COM
munity.
Our prosperity rests upon these es-
sential phases in the city's improve
ment. If a mine, a smelter or a fac
tory in or around our city closes down
it cripples the community to the ex-
tent of it's prominence and the amount
of money it distributes regularly in
the place. The schools, churches, pro-
fessional or mercantile establishments
suffer proportionately. The comfort
able homes and well paid artistians are
affected and paralyizing influence
is felt. Our prosperity rests on the
basis of sound industrial and agricul-
tural growth and it behooves US to do
all in our power to keep those condi
tons settled and secure,
For this reason we should guard with
care the disturbing elements that creep
in to disrupt quiet and harmonious
state. 1t is the business of every home
loving man and woman to protect his
or her welfare, and to discourage any
attempt on the part of disinterested
agitators to break the serenity of our
eondition.7-Henrietta, Okla, Standard.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
LABOR NEVER KNEW THE LIKE.

The Democratic party needs to be saved from
some of its fool friends. Here is the Woods
field, Ohio, Democracy" publishing an editor
lal IN which is used the expression "the hard
times we have bee nexperiencing during the
Harding administration It is true that we
did have hard times in the early days of the
Harding administration, for there were about
100000 men out of work when the Democrats
turned the affairs of the nation over to the
Republicans But in the past two years and a
half great changes have taken place. There is a
JOB for every man who wants it and many of
the largest industrial concerns have recently
advanced wages ten per cent or more. In some
cities builders have been advertising for r:en
at S13 day and in New York City some class
es Of skilled mechanics have struck for S14 a
day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
FRAUD IN SILK.

The Federal Trade Commission has recently
developed facts which illustrate the basis for
the demand for a truth-in-fabric" law. A firm
OF wholesale hosiery dealers in New York City
has been ordered to cease advertising Ladies'
Art Silk Hose" in which there is no true silk
Such practice is not merely an unfair COM
petition, which the Federal Trade Commits
sion was created to suppress, but is bare-faces
fraud upon the public. The Federal Trade Com
mission, of course, has no power to impose fines
or Imprisonment. 1t can merely tell the crooks
to cease, Whereupon they can change the name
OF their firm and go ahead until told to cease
again. In the meantime the public is bilked.
A "truth-in-fabric" law, with teeth in it, would
provide jail sentence for men who deliber-
ately attempt to defraud = and there would
soon be an end of the attempts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
Predicts Cheaper
Fuel from Ignite

Montreal. = Sciences quest for
method that will add Ignite char to
the available fuel supplies of the Unit
ed States was described at a session
OF the Fuels Division of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers here
today by 0. P. Hood, chief mechanical
engineers of the U. S. Bureau of Mines.
"The Bureau of Mines is investigat-
ing the possibilities of a program" said
Mr.. Hood, (which has for its main
features an inexpensive carbonizing
device and the use Of the Ignite char
direct, without briquetting.
Ignite char can best be described
in few words as a fuel rather near in
analysis to anthricite coal, but softer.
with little more volatile matter, and
thus kindling easier. In size it grades
from pea coal to smaller sizes. and is a
stable product Whether a market can
be developed for such a fuel at prices
around five dollars a ton. at the mine,
remains to be shown, but it is at least
encouraging to know that Germany
used last year, 100000 tens of similar
material for domestic heating and
cooking.
This fuel burns we'll with natural
draft where a thin fuel bed can be
maintained. Base burners, cook stoves,
and other heaters can be adopted to
use the fuel satisfactory. The Ger
mans have developed special stove,
burning the fuel on bed of ash in an
enclosed drawer. There is no less of
fuel in the ash and Ignite char used in
such stove heats an oven sufficiently
for baking operations and will boil
water. It makes a very clean fire, is
sfnokeless, and the char is clean to
handle"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07

Buying at home means lot more than boost
ing the home merchant or the local manufac-
turer; it means boosting ourselves through the
up-building of our community; it means the
saving of useless transportation and the clog
ging of railroads and streets with needless
hauling. It also frequently means an actual
cash saving to the buyer. Such savings would
probably amount, in years time, to a siz-
able sum to add to ones bank account.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
Companions
BY BERTON BRALEY

GOOD friends, whose magic fills me
With tales of every kind,
Whose cheer or pathos thrill me
And stimulates my mind;
Who lead me in my roaming
To lands beyond my ken,
Then bring me blithely homing
Again;
X ZEN friends, who make life SAVIOR
Of wonder and romance,
Who make my spirit drawer
Amid the thrall of chance,
Who yarn of Sword and saber,
Broad seas, great skies above,
Of battle. play and labor,
And love;
TRUE friends, when days are sunny
Or dark as they can be,
Who do not borrow money
Or drag me out to tea;
Wise friends, who grid and arm mS
Against fate's hooks and crooks,
Here's to these friends who charm me,
- My booksi-
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc)
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
EMERGENCY.

How do you act in emergency? Go
to pieces or simply throw your clutch
into high and speed ahead?
DR.. Frank MCGOWAN, New York
surgeon, breaks his right arm when
a touring car smashes into the am
bulance in which he is rushing to an
emergency case. What would you
have done? Turned the job, over to
another doctor? Not MCGOWAN. He
and his assistant set his arm, ban
dage it in spIints. Inside 10 minutes
the ambulance clangs ahead, Meow
an apologizing to his patient for ar
irving late.
Interesting sample of how we can
master crucial problems if we don't
throw the sponge and quit.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
The Referee
TROTZKY.

Liebe Braunstein, better known as
Leon Trotzky, writes the story of his
life. He became a radical when he
was 16. In all he spent about five
years in Russian prisons. He adopted
the name Trotzky, forging it on a
passport, to escape from Siberian
penal colony.
Trotzky will be only a years old
on his next birthday, Oct. 26. He
has been the dynamo of the Bolshe-
viks, Lenin the brains. The moral to
be drawn from their lives cannot be
written until the daisies grow above
them Trotzky is a hyperthyroid per-
sonality. That's shown by his hair,
a days job for any barber.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
WATCHING.

The British government has COM
mittees of experts in the United
States, watching the effects of liquor
prohibition.
If we make a success of it, Great
Britain also will go dry. She'll have
to, in order to compete with US in
world markets, for big national IL
quor bill will be a ball-and- chain.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
THE SECOND CALHOUN

Some Of the papers who have greater desire
Tor their bucket of suds" or their bowl of
grog' seem to take delight in referring to Cow
ernor Al Smith of New York as a Second Cal
noun. While the designation is probably prop
erly placed we are not inclined to believe that
it il. one greatly to be desired by the New York
Governor.
Calhoun was the apostle Of notification of
the constitution. The work of Calhoun and
other men who believed state rights should
be stronger than the constitution brought the
civil war. 1t cost lot in blood and treasure to
insure the Welding Of the union under the con-
stitution.
We are not inclined to believe that the action
OF Governor Smith is going to break up the
Union or bring civil war to enforce the con-
stitution
We are still of the opinion that the federal
government is stronger than that of the state
Of New York or of any number of states which
might be linked together under plea for
Estate rights" The Unborn common sense of
the American people is not going to permit a
few people who love grog more than they do
established government to rule the nation.
Governor Smith was elected on "wet" plat
form. He was tied up with the liquor inter-
ests in manner that left but one course open
to him and that was to pay the debt he owed
to them. He paid it in a spectacular man.
ner but the certain reaction to his decision is
coming
New York may or may not aid the federal
government in enforcing constitutional law but
it is certain that constitutional law will be en-
forced.
Many of the states refused to aid the federal
government in stamping out human slavery but
it was stamped out. The inactivity of these
states kept men in human bondage long after
the amendment against slavery was part of
the constitution and certain elements of the I'M
ion will probably long be held in bondage by the
powerful influence of the debauching booze ele-
ment
Calhoun was the great "nullifier'' but hard
ly school boy on the street can tell you vhuie
he came from or what he did Probably the flu
ture of Governor Smith will be the same
The great strength of the American nation is
founded on the good sense of the people and
their willingness to abide by constitutional law
1t is certain that this good sense is going to
lead them to support the constitution regardless
to what booze soaked state government may
do.
Other state administrations who won pres,
tige through the route of support of the liz or
element must pay their political debts and the
more of these debts paid the sooner will the ma
ton get to the place where it will support the
constitution.
Smith may be as great as Calhoun but after,
all that is not saying much for Smith. The
metal of the people is assured and no national
party can control the nation which bases it's eff
fort to control on a compromise or notification
OF the constitution. The federal constitution
and the laws interpreting it are properly passed
on by the Supreme Court of the United States
and not by the legislature of any state making
up the union.