New Britain herald., 1928-10-27
"DR. JEKYLL." :"

@LINTON S. CARNES was a grave, business-like, respected man in At
 lanta, Ga., not long ago. pillar of the church treasurer of the Baptist Home Mission Board, successful finan- cier, with socially prominent wife ana two sons in college, this thln-vlsaged' rray-haired man was the type that more worldly citizens might seek counsel or III their sin and trlbulatlon.
 Then came shocking. an almost un- believable, revelation. For Clinton 5. Carnes suddenly disappeared. A short age of a million dollars in piously con tribl,ted mission funds was discovered and strange tangle involving two pretty girls whom he had financed" in thelr search for movie fame was laid bare.
 Carnes made good his escape from the United States, but few weeks later was arrested in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Can- ada), on warrant for his capture and the detective forces of the entire world were on his trail. Carnes admitted his identity and agreed to waive extraditlon proceedings, so his trial will probably take place in Atlanta.
 In the meantime it has been learned that Carnes's history was not as stainless as had been supposed. For no sooner had his peculatlons come to hgnt than he was discovered to have served two prison terms, and to be an old con fidence man. and swindler.
 Moreover, he had been in prison right in Atlanta. He had not even taken the trouble to change his name. Yet no one apparently knew. For more than a decade Carnes had enjoyed the confi- dence and respect of all those with whom he came in contact.
 No more surprising case was ever re corded in the annals of Atlanta police history. How the respectable-lookln ex- convict managed to conceal his "stretch" for so many years from those who knew him best, the precise part the pair of pretty young girls played in the affair, are matters that have not been com pletely unraveled.
 Then arose the more important and annoying question of where Carnes was. The police of the United States, Europe and South America kept their eyes peeled for him for weeks without avail. Seem inqly he had vanished with the same etfl- ciencv which characterized his other operations.
 When Lois Griffin, Sonia Merida and Mrs. Louise Pope popped into the case police eagerly sought them out In al effort to learn the details of Carness amazing double life. Mrs. Pope, 1t seemed, was the manager, or chaperone, for Sonia in California, while she and Lois were learning to act and mounting the rungs of the ladder to flicker fame.
 But all three women protested at once that their relationship with the ab- scondine treasurer had been a purely business one, and that they were as much surprisd and shocked as anyone else that the money he sent them was dishon- cstly obtained.
 A.; for the girls, in both instances, il was the old case of stenographic mo notony against the tempting glitter ot Hollywood and "the ceIluloid racket that can give lean, gleaming motors. jewels and fifty-room bungalows to the anointed.
 Lois was quickly sated with office rou. tine after leaving school and taking a clerical position in an overall factory She had always ted to act. anyway and when she met Mrs Pope and the latter asked her to leave home and visit her, with an eye to developing her theatri. cal talent and "breaking in." she did so despite the protests of her widowed mother Then she met Carnes-iust how and where is not clear-and he agreed to be her ''angel' while she sought sue cess. provided she'd turn over to hin fifty per cent of her gross earnings fol five years.
 Sonia Norida, the other girl, was g stenographer and only recently an imm