Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09

Hines was Manby's friend. Perhaps he
would know.
Pear! Bless you, e was always
afraid" Hines exclaimed in his Eng
lish accent. THAT fellow lived in fear.
"E kept guns all over the house and
there were little boxes Of shells by all
the doors and windows. e was q lure
shot. Another thing-'e began having
dogs around the place.
z thought someone was tryin' to
kill i'm with poison gas over DR.. Mar
tins wall. Imagine that. Then e
thought people were shootin' at i'm with
high-powered rifles"
who did he think was after him?"
e always referred to 'em as they
| just they"
The doctor believes he knows who the
mysterious they" are.
MANLY meant an organization known
as the United States Civil Secret Ser
vice Self-Supporting Branch" he said
MANLY is supposed to have organized
this. He sometimes talked of himself
as a member, and other times expressed
| fear of 1t. He told me Of Severino
Gutierrez, supposed to head this organi-
zation.
Hines doesn't believe there is any
Gutierrez. Mandy used to say Gutter
reZ had been there to talk TO him on
certain nights and he always seemed to
be shaken up after these visits"
Terecita Ferguson Figures.
A singular factor in the Mandy case is
that no matter what line Of investiga-
ton the inquirer pursues he encounters
the name of Terecita Ferguson. In
some manner this solid, gruff English
mans destiny was irrevocably tangled
with that of the little half-caste woman
with the quick eyes.
Manly was born July IA, 1859. at
Morcambe, England. While still COM
paratively young, he went to New York
In later years Mandy kept diary. In
1t there is the statement that he studied
engineering and commercial and inter-
national law in New York City. He
later achieved some prominence as an
engineering promoter.
Throughout the queer work that was
Manby's diary, Terecita Ferguson looms
as the most influential figure In his
life. 1t is she, daughter Of Jack CO.
lumbus Ferguson, gold proSpector, that
Manly refers to repeatedly as "Prin-
cess Terecita," that most lovable of
women" and 1.-The princess OF all my
dreams" She was little more than a
girl when Manly met her and through
out the years he seems TO have re-
garded her with an affection that APP
preached idolatry.
This diary was seized by Martin, who,
after his dismissal by the Mandy heirs
was retained by the State, and recently
at Washington.
The detective maintains the facts in
the case were given the attorney gen.
eral, Mike Otero, ir., but that Otero
informed the governors ONCE he found
no evidence Of crime in Taos and could
make no arrests-even for investigation.
Reports Six DecapitatiOns.
Decapitation is a singular method of
murder. 1t is logical to seek what
might suggest the chopping Of heads in
this point Detective Martin unfolds a
story of seven murders in the last ten
years, all except one murdered by de-
capitation.
Il had not worked on the Mandy
case long," he explained, before I
found 1t leading into other cases.
I'm 1855 the Mystic Gold Mine was
by James Stone. Relatives Of Stone are
now living in Chicago.
About 1868 a proSpector, Jack Co
Leavenworth, Kans. He met Stone and
they acquired a third partner, George
Wilkinson. These three proSpected To-
gether for some time. After a while
they opened the Ajax Mine, 2 miles
from the Mystic.
Between them lay the Aztec Mine
of the Dutch Gold Co., corporation
having Offices in New York, and at that
tIme the Aztec was one OF the richest
mines in the State.
Now, although the Mystic and the
Ajax were not known as good mines,
the partners always were flush. They
said they got their wealth from the
Ajax.
I'm reality they were stealing gold
from the Aztec mine. and passing OIL
the wealth that belong to the Dutch
company as their own.
The three enjoyed uninterrupted
prosperity about four years. Then
Stone disappeared. After some time
his body was found on one side OF
Mount Badly and his head on the other,
little distance from the mouth OF the
Ajax.
THE next important date In this
story Is 1895, when Mandy met Fergu-
son and Wilkinson and became their
partner.
I'm october, 1917, George wilkinson
disappeared. In 1921 he reappeared
Word got around that wilkinson had
| $4,000 In cash with him.
i have q number Of witnesses who