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The Washington times., 1925-12-08

NEAREST GENEVIEVE:
~ What a week this is to be! Every
minute of every day and hour is filled
with pleasant events of all sorts
There are recita1s and art exhibitions,
there are dramatic premieres and for
NAL dinners.
And above all there is the diplomatic
reception at the White House on Thurs
day night This event formally opens
the season, and every maid and matron
attending will undoubtedly christen a
new costume on that evening.
1t seems almost unfair to know as
many secrets as I happen to about
some of the gowns which will be worn.
But spending as much time in the
shops as / do. it is natural that
should observe few selections being
made, and then, too, people viii insist
upon confiding in me.
Then beyond all this there is the
Christmas spirit, with its tug at the
heartstrings, everyone feeling in
kindly mood toward everyone else.
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Christmas shoppers, who want to buy
something different and really very
good. In the showing are also peasant
dresses with gorgeously colorful en-
broidery. You know how hard these
are to secure.
You must see the fancy papers for
wrapping packages found at the Lam
tern Shob, They are made from hand
blocked Resigns, and to my way OF
thinking are entirely too pretty to
Use forE wrapping paper. l should
think they would make nice lamp
shades. y
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C e ! e b r a [ l o n
which will be a
carnival of fun
fro IN ballroom
to re S t a urant
a n d restaurant
to Garden. III
fact. every ball
room and res
taurant in this
magnificent no,
tel will be turned
over to revelry.
It is not too
early to make
reservations and
- 4La nNHVS
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HOLLANDS HOSTS TO
TWO DINNER PARTIES

Assistant Attorney General and
Mrs. Rush Holland will entertain q
company OF sixty-eight at dinner this
evening at Wardman Park and they
will be hosts again at dinner tomor.
row evening to a large company.
Among the guests tonight there will
be Justice and Mrs. E. T. Sanford,
Justice and Mrs. Harlan Fiske
Stone. Senator and Mrs. Charles
Oeneen of Illinois and Senator Law
renee e. Phipps of Colorado.
Among the guests tomorrow eve
ring there will be the following from
New York: Mr.. and Mrs. Murray
Hurlburt. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph 7.
Tanning. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Blair
and c. III. Huston.
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danes of the court of Louis XIV.
am not exaggerating when I say
that the manner in which everyone
troops into Emile's since HIS return
is a tribute to the faith Washington
femininity places in his authority on
hair fashions. Because he has the last
word on the cut and the latest Ideas on
the wave, naturally everyone wants to
take advantage Of it.
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ENTERTAINING TODAY
FOR ARTIST VISITOR

Mr.. and Mrs. Godfrey Lowell
Cabot are entertaining at tea this
afternoon in their home at 1928 r
street in compliment to Sir Phillip
A. de Laszlo, the artist, and Nine.
de Las2lo, who are in town for the
exhibition of the former. Assisting
Mrs. Cabot at the tea table will be
her daughter.in-law, Mrs. James j.
Cabot. of Charleston, w. Va, and
Mrs. Herbert Pell, OF New York.
Mrs. Caboot and Mrs. Pell are Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Godfrey Lowell
Cabot here fny. q fevy dava
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DELI. O8htlC, III
the Seven OgiIvie
Sister of Wash
ington and New
York and Paris !
and will t a X e
place about II
o'clock.
You know how
some people have
trouble this time
of year with fail
ing hair on ae-
count of the me-
e,lanf dtYrfno f6r
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=
ception on Thurs
day evening. For
I happen to know
t h a t dozens of
t h e gorge gu S
gowns which filled
the rooms will
make their first
bow to society
on that evening.
With this re-
ception the for
NAL social season
- " ri acton
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lovely novelties
back from Paris
some elaborate
French dolls. A
pair you w ill
want is made
up of a wistful
Pierrot and a
darling Pierret,
and then there
are much be-
jeweled and tat
feted and white
- n n ri
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MISS MARGARET ZOLNAY, who
AVA is spending fen days Visiting
her sister, Mrs. George Sua,merlir,
jr., enjoys the Sunshine on Connect
cut Avenue, and finds the shops as
attractive as eVer. Miss ZolaGy has
begun her career as dancer, and
is to open IN a BroodeVGy production
aUithin the month.
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DIPLOMATS TO ATTEND
OPERA TONIGHT

The Minister of Norway and Nine.
Bryn will occupy the Presidential
box at the Audit arium tonight for
the Washington Opera Company's
presentation of Romeo and, Juliet"
In compliment to their countryman,
Sigurd Nilsson, who is singing the
role Of "Friar Lawrence
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OIL CCl1 ltlCL . 10
a special show
ing Of hand.
woven Russian
linens in marvel
Gus enbroideries
and a great va
riety Of colors.
II h / exhibit
C o m e s at 4
lucky time for
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avenue at II street..
The clever shop of
interior d e C O rat
ing has just re-
ceived these mar
velous line n 8
Some of them are
very old. Yester.
day there was one
in the window.
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And Next-
NeqV Year EUe

with it's annual farewell to mistakes
and its good resolutions by the YARD.
The Mayflower Hotel is planning
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For Fancy
Dress Balls

Emile is showing wigs of gold thread.
silk floss in weird colors dressed in
every conceivable manner. d m lie
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SAN IA CLAUS
TO WELCOME
NEWCOMERS
State Department Forces
Augmented by Two
u New Members

IN several families Of interest here
= Santa Claus will find this Christ.
mas for the first time a babyis sock
hanging by the fireplace--real or
figurative-when he arrives to dis
pense his gifts. The sock with the
most official significance will prob
ably be that hanging in the home
of the Assistant Secretary Of War
and Mrs. Hanford MacNider-if the
expected child arrives with the same
punctuality as Santa Claus has to
his credit.
New Stare Department Members
The State Department has had
within the last few days two babies
added to members of its staff. Both
are boys-one born to Mr.. andd Mrs
Stanley Woodward and the other
to Mr.. and Mrs. David McKendree
Key. The parents of the two young
gters are great, friends, and both
have homes in Georgetown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodward came to
Washington early last winter so
that the former could prepare for
the foreign service examinations,
which he passed. Mrs. woodward
was before her marriage Miss Sally
Rutledge, of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Key, who is the SON Of Com
modore Albert L. Key, u. S. NJ,
retired, of Tennessee, was married
to Miss Marjorie Wright, daughter
Of General and Mrs. William Mason
Wright, early in the year.
According to report another State
Department member-an assistant
secretary, whose marriage took
place in the summer-win be a
father within g. few months.
A Cabinet Baby
The Secretary Of Labor and Mrs.
James J. Davis win have to be
looking over the Us" Of proper
names soon to select q name for
q new member Of the family. Or
perhaps they will break away from
what apparently has become tradi-
ton and explore the possibilities OF
another letter In the alphabet.
Their children up to date bear the
names OF Jimmie. Jane. Jean land
Joan.
The stork, it is said, is also
towering over the home of Attorney
General and Mrs. Sargent's only
daughter and 1t is this which has
prevented Mrs. Sargent from spend
ing more time in Washington since
her husband was appointed to the
Cabinet.
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NEWCOMERS TO TOWN
TO FETE VISITORS

Mr.. and Mrs. David Turnure, who
have come to Washington to make
their home will take twenty guests
20 Keith's tonight to see Elsie
Janis ana will afterward entertain
at supper at the Club Chantacler.
The party is arranged in con;oli-
fnent to Mrs. Turnure's sister. Miss
Marian Wilson, of New Yorok, who
Is arriving today with her mother.
Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, to be the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Turnure
for few days. Before her recent
marriage Mrs. Turnure was Miss
Louisa Wilson.
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Yesterday I Enjoyed
n Peep

lin the alteration rooms at Nine.
Ash, 1917 Connecticut avenue, and be-
came enthused all over again about
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Princess Mary's
IrOHSSeHH

contained linens of rare beauty. The
man who made them has made some
for the Brandon Shop, Connecticut
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PATRONESSES NAMED
FOR CHRISTMAS SALE

The woman's auxiliary OF the
Episcopal Church of the diocese of
Washington is holding Christmas
sale of rare objects, old laces. fans,
shawls, jewelry. for benefit of st.
Margaret's School, Tokyo, of which
Mrs. Warren Miller lis chairman;
Mrs. Paul B. Fenlan, manager,
Patronesses for this sale are Mrs.
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I'm Exhibit at
The Lantern Shob

beginning today will attract crowds
of people who appreciate fine linens
At this interesting little shop, 1748 M
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n Radio Talk
Abouf Hair

will be one of the chief attractions
of tomorrow mornings Womans Hour
over WRC. It will be givenl by Miss
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LUNCHEON TODAY AT
COSMOS CLUB


LUNCHEON TODAY AT
COSMOS CLUB
Mrs. Frederic Young entertained
a distinguished company at lunch
con today at the Cosmos Club to
meet Mrs. Merritt w. Ireland, wife
of the surgeon general of the army;
Mrs. A. C. Dalton, wife of Briga-
der General Dalton, Mrs. James B.
Mitchell and Mrs. Frederick Van.
duyne. The guests were Mrs
Atlee Pomerene, Mrs. o. E. Weller,
Mrs. Tasker Oddie, Mrs. Edward T..
Taylor, Mrs. George F. Dudley,
Mrs. William Elliott, Mrs. Hart
Fem, Mrs. Robert Mackenzie, Mrs.
Will Point, Mrs. Byron Amber
Mrs. Roger Tracey, Mrs. w. w.
Wilson, Mrs. Clyde Aitchison, Mrs.
James Regan, Mrs. Ford Adams,
Mrs. Lee Dayton and Mrs. Law
renee Watts. The table will have
Christmas decorations of red flow
ers, greens and favors.
Mrs. Thomas jefferson Ryan
entertained informally at luncheon
at the Shoreham yesterday.
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TO BE ENTERTAINED
By GUATENIALAN ENVOY

The Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Kellogg win be the guests Of honor
at dinner this evening Of the Min.
lister OF Guatemala and Nine. SAN
chez Latour. who win entertain a
company Of twenty.
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Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Gown have
taken a villa on the Riviera for
the winter and do not expect to
open their house in Washington
this year. Mrs. Gown Is a season
box holder for. Mrs. Lawrence Town
sends concert series and has given
her box for tomorrow to Mrs.
Emerson Howe, who will entertain
guests.
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LUNCHEON TODAY
FOR SISTER BRIDES

Mrs. George 7. SUMMERTIME IT.
was hostess at luncheon today a.
Rauscherss in compliment to Miss
Virginia Blair and Miss Ellen Blair
whose marriage to Robert Ciymer
Brooke and b. Lowndes jackson, g,
respectively, will take place on lie
camber ~. Other guests Were mem.
hostess sister, Miss Margaret Zol-
nav. who Is visiting here from New
York
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MRS. LANE ARRIVES
FOR VISIT HERE

Mrs. Franklin K. Lane has
arrived in Washington from her
home in California and is making
a series of visits to old friends.
She is at present the, guest Of
Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale and
after tomorrow will be with Mrs.
Hennen Jennings. Previously she
was with Mrs. George Ehle for a
few days. Mrs. Lane IL planning
a trip around the world. with
friends. Her daughter, Mrs. Nancy
Lane Kaufman, and her small
son are at present in New York.
Mrs. Lane has hosts Of friends
in Washington dating from her
long residence in the Capital which
eliminated in her late husbands
service In President Wilson's
cabinet.
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Miss Jane Kendall, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Kendall, will
come to Washington on December
10, to be with her parents for the
Christmas holidays. Miss Kendall
is attending a French school in
New York
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Mrs. Miles Poindexter, who has
heen visiting in Washington, left
town last evening for New York
and will sail on Thursday for Peru
10 rejOin Mr.. Poindexter, American
ambassador to Peru.
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Nine. Riano, wife OF the Ambassa-
dor Of Spain. who il In New York for
. brief visit. is expected to return
TO town tomorrow.
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PEN LEAGUE
PLANS ANNUAL BALL

PLANS ANNUAL AslAA1
The annual ball for the League OF
American Penwomen Of the District
OF Columbia Will ta..c place IN the
ballroom of the Wnnara Hotel on
january Is. Mrs. George Thorpe Is
the chairman OF the ball, Mrs Del0s
Blodgett. honorary chairman, and
Mrs, Ell HeImick. treasursr ana
business manager.
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Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Davis
have arrived in Washington from
New York and are guests for A. few
days of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Lansing.
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FAREWELL PARTY
FOR MRS. ESSARY

Mrs. Arthur Sears Henning was
hostess at luncheon today at the
White Peacock In compliment to
Mrs. j. Fred Essary, who, with Mr..
Essary. Is sailing Monday from New
York on board the Mauretania for
London, where Mr.. Essary will serve
as correspondent for the Baltimore
Sun. Mr.. Essary has been head OF
the Washington bureau OF the Sun
for several years. Van Lear Black,
Of Baltimore. will accompany Mr..
ana Mrs. Essary abroad.
Mrs. Richard Emmett Nugent and
her sister, Miss Virginia Richardson.
are entertaining at bridge and tea
this afternoon at the White Peacock
Tes House In compliment TO Miss
Maud Mason, Miss Halle Brooke,
Ma EIenita Crenshaw and Miss
Dorothea Lane. all debutantes of
M william Edgar Richardson,
uofher of the, hostess, VIII preside
at the tea table.
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TO OPEN HOUSE
HERE FOR SEASON

Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont.
who have recently returned from a
sojourn in Europe, are opening
their house in Washington for the
winter and are expected in town
tomorrow or Thursday.
=
Mr.. and Mrs. John Campbell
White are guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry White at their home in
Crescent place and propose to re-
main in Washington for the next
two months, occupying Mr.. and
Mrs. Whites house after their re-
turn to New York the middle of
December. John Campbell White,
who is in the Foreign Service, is
on two months leave from his
post at Riga. Latvia.
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The first of the series OF dances
by the officers and the ladies of the
ordnance corps will be given this
evening in the ballroom of 2400
Sixteenth street.
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of SOCIETY

washington for the Christmas holi
day.
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Sir Joseph DuVeen has come from
New York to attend the opening Of
tie exhibition OF early American
art at the National Museum and is
q guest at Wardman Park Hotel.
n
Mrs. Philip Clancy, of New York
and Niagara Falls. will arrive In
town tomorrow to be guests of her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. anC
Mrs. Theodore TiIler, for several
weeks. Mr.. Clancy will come TO
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the year before to buy railroad stock. Of this sum he promptly lost S59,S41 in another stock deal Reduced to S159, he gave a dinner to friends at a Boston hotel and when the bill was paid found himself with S430.
 From the boy who in his teens could make a small fortune and lose it develorcd the man who tumbled money markets, who was million aire one day and ''flat" broke the next, who paid s30O00 for carna- ton and who, in a temper, junked a $200,000 yacht built to defend the Americas Cup.
 Tom Lawson's identity with copper began when he was a young man. He knew nothing of the mineral but when the Butte & Boston mine open ed he took a tip from a newspaper friend and began buying at 16. Then he sold the stock short and whittled the market down to 75 cents, taking up thousands of shares between that figure and two dollars. In this man.
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her he obtained a majority of the stock and saw it bring far more than his predictions of $60 share.
 This was the beginning of deals that ultimately won him the title of i Copper King" and which preceded the operations that led to the famous Amalgamated Copper transactions Lawson later became famous for his "brod-side" advertisements of ad- vice and warning published simulta- neously in large newspapers the coun- try over.
 The eccentricities of his financial career were matched in his recrea- tions and diversions.
 | In 101 he built the yacht Inde- pendence at a cost of $200,000 and fitted her out as a contender for the honor of defending the Americas Cup. Recognition was refused him unless he would consent to enter the boat as a member of yacht club. A long controversy ensued Lawson insisting that he had right | to sail his boat as he pleased. fingered by his rebuff, Lawson or dered the Independence broken up and sent bits of her bronze hull to his friends He wrote an elaborate ly printed book on the affair for pri- vate circulation, the estimated cost of each copy being $500.
 The story of the famous Lawson pink" was told by the flnancier as follows:
 q went into the florist shop and saw that pink. I liked it and said 1 How much?' The man said '$30,- OOO,' and I said I'd take it. I put it in my buttonhole and walked out. The next day it withered like all pinks but the glory of it went round | the world. 1 got at least $1,OO0,OOO worth of advertising out of that fool , transaction. Moreover, 1 like flow ers'
 With the pink, however, went the florists entire lot of 5000 plants.
 'Dreamwold," MT. Lawsons sum- mer home at Egypt, Mass, was built at a cost of $2,OOOOO0 to satisfy, it was said, a whim of Mrs. Lawson who had remarked that the stony site would be ideal for summer place. The training building for his horses was as large as Madison Square Garden.
 Lawson's stable of thoroughbreds was one of the best known in the country.
 One of Mr. Lawson's superstitions centered about the figure three. His associates said that he never bought shares in blocks of 1,000-it was al ways 999 or 333 He took an office at 33 State Street and got 333 as a telephone number.
 Lawson's advice to all who would play the market was: Keep out un- less you're on the inside.'
 Apply logic to all business propO- sitions. If they will not stand the test of logic, reject them"
 MT. Lawson published several books, among them was a history of the Republican Party, of which only fOur comics printed on satin. were published. One of these he present ed to President Harrison, one to Vice
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dy' in 1912; and "The High Cost of Living" in 1913.
 MT. Lawson was president of the following organizations: Bay State Gas Company of Delaware; Thomas W. Lawson Copper Company; Trim ity Copper Company and First Ma tional Copper Company.
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President Morton and a third to the Library of Congress. The fourth he kept himself. The Secrets of Cong ress' appeared in 1888; "Collec- tion of Poems and Short Stories
 from Magazines" in the same year; "Frenzied Finance" in 1905; Friday the Thirteenth" in 1907; ''The Reme-
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Thomas w. Lawson, financier, au- thor and sportsman, opened the way to his spectacular career by running away from school in Cambridge, Mass, to work in financial house in Boston as an office boy. His em- ployers found him so promising that they presuaded his mother to let him stay. This was in 1869
 Five years later at the age of IT,, Tom Lawson was worth $60,000 made from pool he had organized
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THOMAS W. LAWSON,
 NOTED FINANClER,
 DIES AFTER OPERATION
(By Associated Press)

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 9.-Thomas w. Lawson, fnancier, author and sportsman, died at the hospital here, three weeks after an operation for a bladder complaint.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-11

upon to settle this point The captain laid hinlsd
to get Robinson to open his mouth in a hear
laugh, and one day told an especially funny tai
which achieved that object.
False teeth glinted in "Mr Robinson's' mout|
The chain was complete. He must be Crippen \
his double.
And so as the fugitive murderer pointed upwal
at the wireless telegraph aerial and explained
marvels to his unsuspecting companon-both
them were ignorant of the enormous import of tH
words that were escaping with flash and sputt|
from that point in mid-ocean to Liverpool
Scotland Yard moved at once. Within remar|
ably short space of time Inspector Dew was stearl
ing out of the Mersey on board the swift laurent
the White Star liner whose mission it was to race tn
Montrose across the Atlantic so to arrest Grippe
before he landed in Canada.
The whole world held its breath during that dr|
matte race, and the only unconcerned persons wei
the two objects of the chase and the other passej
gers on the Montrose, who were entirely ignorant
the fact that the much-wanted Dr. Crippen and ETH
lie Neve were on board.
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was on board the steamship Montrose! Wireless
telegraphy had for the first time in the worlds his
tory led to murderers whereabouts being dis
covered!
The message came from Captain Kendall of the
Montrose, whose boat had been boarded at Antwerp
by man and his ''son" travelling under the of
Robinson. At that time the papers were full of the
Crippen affair, and Captain Kendall suspected these
"Robinsons." The boys" figure was curiously girl
like.
trustworthy officers they all set to work to watch
the suspected couple. Captain Kendall found that
the would often forget that his name was Rob
inson" and both he and his "son" seemed unac-
countaby nervous at first. At last the captain
practically convinced that the man. despite his lack
of mustache, was DR.. Crippen and that the hoy"
was Ethel LIE Neve. And so it proved.
1t is interesting to note however, that Captain
Kendall waited for one final clue before being abso-
lutey convinced. The police description of the
wanted doctor stated that he possessed false teeth
Had "Mr. Robinson" false teeth? ruse was hit
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A Word of Introduction by Mr.. Ellis.

oR nearly twenty-five official executoner of Great
Britain travelling the north of south of Ireland
from prison wherever
be hanged In all those many beings
the brink into the world beyond the grave
with
and silence 1t perhaps unnatural that there should be the
nenses interest the sayings and doing the hours
knows he is about face eternity guilty
there must be when the
finds himself hopeey facing
have life largely in and of the cells of
and have watched
being Observed have listened their frantic their
indifference have
been welcomed by and oked with
would their lives.
1t is know for the public identity
of public
scaHold.
But public hangan has ended
other decided
the death cells and the od which have hitherto
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cate" with anybody again, as the
willy doctor knew well enough, and
as the police found, too-when it
was almost too late. For when In
spector Dew went round to the
house again several days later his
man had disappeared, and it was
not long before that grim cellar de-
livered up its dreadful secret.
Human remains which were af-
terward proved to be those of poor
Belle Elmore were dug up from
under the fagstones that day,
The newspapers were taken into
Scotland Yards confidence, and
the public was Immediately in
formed of the discovery of the
crime and the necessity for infor-
nation about the missing doctor.
A reward of $4,000 was offered,
and the wanted mans description
was circulated all over the world.
For a fortnight the only topic
everywhere was, "Where is Grip
pen?" Detectives, both profess
sional and amateur, took up the
hunt, the newspapers spurred them
on and every kind of rumor, theory
and possibility was exclusively
investigated. Yet Crippen re-
manned at large.
Then came surprising happen
ing. From the centre of the At
lantic Ocean message winged its
way to land to declare that Crippen