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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17
SYNOPSIS

Jeb Braddon, young and fantastically
successful broker of Chicago. is infat-
uated with Agnes Gleneith, beautiful
daughter of a retired manufacturer
Rodney, doctor, in love with Agnes
visits his brother, Jeb. Rod plans work
at Rochester. Jeb suggests that he
make a try for Agnes before leaving.
In Rod there is a deeper, obstinate
decency than in Jeb. Agnes believes
to be happy, a girl must bind herself
entirely to a man and have adorable
babies. Rod visits Agnes and tells her
Of his great DESIRE but realizes II can
never be fulfilled. Agnes mother is at
tempting to regain her husbands love.
Agnes has disturbing doubts as to what
attracts her father in New York. Jeb
tells Agnes he is going to marry her,
and together they view an apartment
In Chicago. Jeb asks Agnes to set an
early date. but she tells him she can
not marry him. When the agent, Mr..
Colver, offers to show them q furnished
apartment. Jeb asks Agnes to see it
alone, saying he must return to his
ONCE. Agnes consents and Jeb leaves
"A radio IL blaring terrifcally from one
Of the apartments. Colver raps upon
che door, which is opened by q scantily
clad girl, who draws Agnes into the
room Colver finds her husband Charles
Lorrie. fatally shot. He calls the police
Myrtle Lorrie asks Agnes to phone
Cathal O'Mara. a lawyer. to come at
once Agnes does. The police take
charge. O'Mara arrives. The officers are
antagonistic to him. Agnes sides with
O'Mara. Agnes Is to be witness at the
coming trial. Cathals grandfather and
father had lost their lives in the line
of duty as city firemen, and his grand
mother. Winnie. has built her all around
Cathal who, being ambitious, had
worked his way through law school
and, needing the appeal of the desper-
ate and the despised cause, has commit
ted himself to the defense of criminal
cases. Thoughts of Agnes disturb Cathal.
Mr.. Lorrie had cast off the wife who
had borne him his daughter to marry
Myrtle, and after two years of welded
life she had killed him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17
CHAPTER v

Cathal O'Mara set out from the city
at three on the following day. He had
been In court on another case; and
when the hearing was adjourned, he
took his car and drove north alone.
1t was sunny, warm. indolent
March afternoon. with cutters running
off the melt of the thawing snow, and
the still air iridescent from the rising
moisture. People appeared everywhere
and they seemed unusually pleasant
and patient
Far north along the lake shore We're
great Georgian homesteads. Elizabeth
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17

He had left his car on Dearborn
street on the side across from the jail,
and as they approached 1t, Agnes saw
man standing beside 1t whom she
recognized suddenly as Martin O'Mara.
She started a little; and when, the
next instant, she felt Jeb's fingers
tighten on her arm. she knew that he
suspected who this was.
THAT'S the lawyer you called7" he
said.
Agnes nodded; and before the men
spoke to each other, she felt-almost
as when O'Mara had come into the
apartment confronted by the police
the flash of opposition to him.
Jeb could not like him, Agnes real
lied; Jeb could not possibly like him,
even If she had not had her name
coupled to his in the papers from the
fact that she had summoned him for
Myrtle. Under O'Mara's picture, one
paper had so described him-"Martin
O'Mara, the criminal lawyer. called to
the Lorrie apartment by Miss Agnes
Gleneith." That Infatuated Jeb; and
Agnes could feel 1t rising In him as
they approached O'Mara.
Cathal O'Mara stood bareheaded,
having taken off his hat, and holding
1t after Agnes spoke to him.
Cathal was excited, seeing her; but
he did not show 1t. "How do you do,
Mr.. Braddon?" he said.
"What do you wantT"
"Of you," said Cathal, suddenly hot
inside, and because of that, only cooler
without, little. l was In the JAIL" he
explained to Agnes, as though he had
not retorted to her companion at all
and nothing had passed between them ;
land coming out. saw Mr.. Braddon's
car. And 1 knew you were both be-
fore the Grand jury"
"Theyll indict your client by night"
said Jeb.
"Yes," said Catnal. u told her So"
And he glanced toward the grim, black
barred walls connected to the Courts
building by the covered passage known,
most aptly, as "the Bridge of Signs"
Over 1t, to and fro, trudged the accused
to their trials and acquittals or con.
formations.
O'Mara's thought was returned. for
the moment, within the jail; and Agnes
wondered at what, within those gray
walls. his mind caught; with what mis-
cries and repentances he dealt with
with what hopes and despairs. She
wished she could follow his thought in
its flight.
She looked up at Jeb. Often his
mind, momentarily, fed away; but she
never had wished to follow its alb
straction.
OMara recollected her. after the
indictment is found, as 1t will be. Miss
Gleneith," he said, looking down at her,
shall I see your
"Why" objected Jeb.
'Ill be preparing the case. In doing
it, / must 60 over the evidence of my
witnesses"
Yours" said Jeb. you imply she's
yours. You've the hell of a nerve.
Miss Gleneith Is a witness for the
state"
Cathal felt the pleasant furies dane
ing within him. Oh, he liked fight
and this man would give him one. He
met Jeb's contempt straight, without
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17
uJt%t Q
SS.(I1ooSiib
Nuvv12U about
Haile's Private Treasury

CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ Had it not been a foreign dis
patch, a fellow might have thought
it referred to one of our own in
vestment councillors, specializing
in looking after widows and or
phans' funds, and having neat
line of European securities to dis
pose of, and prominent in welfare
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17
CHAPTER IV-Continued

Agnes mother tried to keep her In
bed all day. IF we had gone to Flor
ida, as we should have" her mother re-
peated, 'this wouldn't have happened. I"
"Not to me-" said Agnes, and won
dered who, instead, would first have
stepped into that room, and been seized
by Myrtle, and who would have sum-
moned, for Myrtle. Martin O'Mara. She
could not wish that it was not she.
Florida had been the winter play
ground for her father and mother In
their years of happiness; and while
Mother held the romantic Illusion that.
by returning together, they could re-
capture what they had had, Father
lately had become more of a realist.
He knew it would be dancing on the
grave Of their ecstasy.
Agnes lay looking at her mother but
thinking Of her father, who, though
turned realist toward his wife, re-
NAMED romantic-with whom? Some
one younger. much younger, and per-
haps like Myrtle? She couldn't imag-
inc it; but
She pulled the newspaper to her
again, and looked at Charles Lorrie.
You wouldn't think a man like that
would marry Myrtle; he looked as If
he'd have more sense. But sense didn't
enter in. One day he'd wanted Myrtle:
his dragons Of desire had driven him,
and he'd married her. Who was In
New York for Father?
Agnes arose to be a witness at the
inquest, and the coroner's jury decreed
that there was cause to "hold" Myrtle
Silver Lorrie to the Grand jury, which
took up the case early next week.
Jeb was to be a witness too, so
Agnes and he went together; and they
called her in, before him. So in she
went alone, and stood before the %
men, and swore to tell the truth and
all of it.
Mr.. Colver had Just come out of the
room, white and very nervous; and
Agnes, trembling as she faced the %
solemn men, wondered what Mr.. Colver
just had told them. Especially, had he
told them of Bert?
Agnes repeated what she had related
before.
''Now you have told us all that you
saw or heard happen In your pres
ence2" the foreman challenged her.
"Yes."
you are sure there is nothing
more?"
Nothing" But her face was burning.
"You have remembered something
else?"
YES; have"
And then there was no retreat; she
had to tell them. And 1t was plain
that word of Bert was new to all of
them, that 1t was what they had need
ed-and that 1t was of great damage
to Myrtle.
She waited outside the grand-jury
room, while Jeb was giving his testi-
mony, corroborating her account as to
how she happened to come to the Lor-
rie apartment. Agnes sat on a bench,
avoiding others, and unable to control
her trembling at what she had done.
Jeb came out, straight and strong
and at ease; for he had made a good
| appearance and had nothing to tell that
! disturbed him.
He helped Agnes up from her seat
md brought her down to the street,
tih news-cameras clicking at them as
Aey left the Criminal Courts building.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17

America holds the worlds ''mur-
der championship" for all kinds of
murder, at all ages-quantity, quail
ity, variety, volume.
A New Jersey boy, is years old,
was sentenced to death.
In Wisconsin, coroner reports
that little David Holl, two months
old, was killed by two boys four
and three years of age.
They each held one hand of the
younger one, and dropped it on the
floor. It cried and would not stop.
Then, one of the small boys ex-
planned, "We pounded him."
These youngest "killers" puzzle the
law. You can't "try" a four-year-
old child.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17

In a desert of southeastern Utah,
men and women, belonging to the
cult of truth seekers" were gath
cred around the body of Mrs. Edith
Dakhal, who died more than year
ago. You read about it, perhaps.
Mrs. Ogden, leader of the truth
seekers" prayed over the body,
which appeared marvelously pre-
served. The truth seekers" be-
ieve they will bring the woman
back to life, but the pathetic fact
is that it would not in the least
matter if they did.
The important thing is to inn
prove the condition of 1900, 100000
actually living on the earth. For
one safely out of It to be brought
back would be unimportant, in
these days, and perhaps cruel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17

ers found the princess in one Of
them. The Nile mud seeping into
the tomb had helped to preserve
her.
That princess, living 5000 years
ago, could tell an interesting story
for the movies. She built herself
a small pyramid with stones given
to her by her many lovers" Where
do you suppose she is now? In
some strange Egyptian heaven,
perhaps, with all those admirers
around her.
England, alarmed by European
war threats, issues an official
white paper" explaining why
1.-THE relation of our own armed
forces to those of other great pow
ers should be maintained at fig
ure high enough to enable us to
exercise our influence and authori-
ty in international affairs"
Unfortunately for all plans, the
airplane in the hands of des-
perate nation might upset all ma
tional authority" just as a pistol
in the hands of a desperate man
upsets individual and police au-
thority.
One bullet will stretch individ-
ual authority in the dust; 1000 air.
planes, attacking the heart of a
great city, might cause national
"authority" to end in demoraliza-
ton.
England's new defense increase
will be largely in her air force;
that wise nation knows that the
real ocean" in future wars will
be the ocean of the air.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17

necklaces on ner
neck and on the
ground nearby,
a r C h aeologists
discover the we'll
preserved body Of
an Egyptian prin-
cess whose IA
Their, the Pharoah
Chephren, b uilt
the second big
gest pyramid; it
was his brother,
Cheops, who built
the largest.
Those pyramids
were tombs for
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17

Railroads tell the interstate COM
merce commission they would like
fares reduced to two and a half
cents a mile, instead of two cents.
The railroads should have all posi-
BILE consideration, for they have
built up this country, but at two
and a half cents a mile they will
not compete successfully with auto
mobiles carrying passengers for
one-quarter of cent a mile.
New York proposes to fingerprint
everybody, new babies included.
The baby of the future will be
busy, with finger-printing, tonsil
and appendix removal, vaccination
for smallpox and half dozen 9th
er diseases.
The new treaty with France, re-
ducing the duty on French wines
and liquors by so per cent, inter-
ests California and other wine
growing states. It should persuade
them to stabilize the production of
wines, establish official guarantees
of purity, freedom from adultera-
tons, mixtures, and especially
terrifying" with alcohol.
In Europe, notably in France,
adulteration of wines is an offense
against the law. With us, it is a
business.
For advertising reasons, a group
of men made long distance hike
on a diet of broken grain to prove
the superiority of that diet. They
were surprised when So mixers
showed a total loss of 21l pounds
in weight, while one, 66 years old,
showed gain of three pounds.
q King Features Syndicate. Inc.
WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17

WOTK anu Uphill
movements in his
home community
in short, a typical
specimen of a sub
variety that seemed
to sort of peter out
in the years i'm
mediately following
1929, some quitting
by request, some
by indictment and
some just vanishing
;r+0 cNaoa foEip or
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17
Worth a Battle

Magistrate-For two years you
two men fished together peace
ably, and yet you had to fight
over this fish.
Prisoner-You see, sir, it was
the first one we ever caught!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17
.n1l8gg
Turning Point

Turning Point
Squire to Villager-So you're
married, Tom?
Tom-Well, zur, I TUX fancy
to she cause of 'er looks; 'er's
purity like. When l heerd she was
doin' steady washin' for seven
families, then and there I sur
rendered, EUR.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17
CONDEsCENDING COOK
Did the cook

Mrs. Hatch: Did the cook
leave?
Mrs. Smith: No; she didn't
take the trouble to leave. She
simply notified us by telephone
that she was going to stay away.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-17
BRISBANE.
THIS WEEK
In Ancient Nile Mud
England Keeps Ready
Let the Dead Sleep
Murder Starts Early

Paris.-Reclining on her side,
her body covered with gold, gold
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Bedtime Stor@7A
NJ Thornton w Burgess s'sA kR 4S

were foOling. When he saw the an
CRY red in Billy's eyes he knew that
Billy wasn't fooling. Goodness.
that was a narrow escape!" ex
claimed Bobby. 'T'm ever so much
obliged to you, Billy Mink. l hope
that some day I can do something
for. you. If you hadn't happened
along tonight I guess I would be in
a terrible fix right now. Do you
suppose that trapper built that little
fence?"
"Of course" retorted Billy Mink
''He built it so that the only way
of going up or down the Laughing
Brook without taking a lot of trou
BILE would be to go through that lit
tie opening, and no one could get
through that little opening without
stepping in that trap. There's an
other one set just the same way on
the other side of the Laughing
Brook"
Bobby Coon looked across and for
the first time he saw the other little
fence. Bobby's face became very
sober. 1--WE ought to do something
about those traps" said he. 'We
are the only ones who know any
thing about them and we can't sit
here all the time to warn others
who may be travelling up and down
the Laughing Brook. | wouldn't
want my worst enemy to be caught
in one of those dreadful traps. What
can we do to warn others?"
Il don't know" replied Billy Mink.
Il guess we'll have to put our heads
together and think up something.
You know, two heads are better
than one"
Bobby nodded. Lets go back to
that old log there and talk it over"
said he. And this is just what they
did.
CT. w. Burgess-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-10-02
LIFE ENDED AT
FORTY
BY DOUGLAS MALLOCH

TSAW a fellow with a beard to-
day,
The first such fellow l had seen
since way
now,
Not since Ben Harrison lived, any
how.
Bill Bryan he was slow, arriving at
The place he started for, but did do
that:
Set men a fashion, set the country
From long gray whiskers like they
used to be.
Why, l remember when I was a lad
The solemn habits that our fathers
had:
When they got forty, then their days
were through,
All there was left for any man to do
Was get religion, sit around the
store,
times deplOre.
Their dress grew sombre as their
fifties neared,
A woman mostly black, man most
ly beard.
To be granddad was to be all done,
Or often even have a married son.
A man of forty let his whiskers
grow
For fear that other people wouldn't
know.
A man without them couldn't hope
to win
A public office, looking full of sin.
The Bible pictures, all authorities,
Agreed on whiskers for old chaps
like these.
life ends at forty" was the motto
then,
Divided elders from the younger
men.
Now, if a mustache, even that we
dOff,
At forty tell the barber, shave it
off"
Mans life has heightened ten or
twenty years,
And all because the whisker disap-
pears.
No man of forty needs sit back and
hush
For he has quit his hiding in the
brush
e Douglas MaIloch-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-10-02

such hurry that it really was fun
ny. You would have thought he bad
burned his toes. Then he turned
around to face Billy Mink. "What
sort of nonsense is this?" he growled.
Il don't see anything wrong"
Billy grinned. You may not see
anything wrong" said he, "but if
you had put your foot down in that
little opening you would have felt
something wrong. Yes, indeed, you
would have felt something wrong
You certainly would There is a
trap hidden there. l suspect it was
for me, but | guess the trapper who
set it would almost as soon catch
you as me-"
Bobby Coon blinked and looked
very hard at Billy Mink to see if he
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-10-02

fame of the Pinkerton Deteciire
agency. The Mollies fought the intro,
duction. of foreign miners into their
area and stopped not euen at murder
to achieue their cause. But in time
the outfit, its need OutgroWn, became
nothing but a great e1tortion ring.
One of the principal figures in the
breaking up of the gang, Charles A.
Wingert, died only three years ago.
Upon his death the New York Sun
carried the following editorial lin
part):
"The Molly Maguires had long be-
fore abandoned the original philan-
thropic purpose Of it's organizers
and had become known, early in the
70s, as a system of extOrtiOn. :.
It's method of operation has been
copied, perhaps somewhat uncon-
sciously, by some of the modern
racketeers."
IT.. @,Mestern Newspaper Union.
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demand the truth about secret,
rObed organizations which, under
the guiSe of true AmericaniSm," al
legedly seek. to grasp political power
by terroriStic methods.
Find State employees Members.
Positive proof of the existence of
such band seems to have been I'M
covered in Michigan, where 13 men,
allegedly members of the Black Le-
gion, were held in the murder of
Charles Poole, a twenty-two-year-
old WPA worker of Detroit. Author
tiles there claim that in district
of 135,00o persons there are at least
1900 and possibly 10000 Black Le-
giOnnaires. Three state employees
have been dismissed because of their
membership, and II others have
been suspended from state, city and
county pay rolls.
In some IS or I6 states. Investigations
are no,0 under Uay, probing into past.
unS0iued cases OF mob violence, and
into complaints by citizens that they
are being terrOrized.
Detroit's own case probably be-
gan last August, when ballot box
scandal reeked with charges of ter
rOrism by secret masked brother
hood; but police laughed at the idea.
When Poole was killed, however, the
police, in seeking some clue to the
murder, discovered that heshad been
a member of a club which met in a
little meeting hall and celebrated
weird rites. Dozens of witnesses
questioned revealed that the Black
Legion had existed since 1888, at
least. although there were a few
who insisted that it dated from the
Mayfiower or from the Boston Tea
Party.
1t is considered possible that the
organization may have been an out
growth of the Ku Klux Klan. The
officers dress in white garb some
what similar to that of the XXX,
and the ritual is said to be similar.
Detroit authorities are inclined to
believe the story of Dr. William ia
cob Shepherd of Bellaire, Ohio, who
claims that he was an Exalted Cy-
cIOps of the xxx, and organized
Black Guard which developed units
in Ohio and Indiana and then spread
like wildfire.
provided Interest in Life"
There were many groups who
were attracted by the black robes
and mystery of the new offspring,
Doctor Shepherd said. Arthur Lupp
of Detroit, who seems to have been
the chief recruiting officer Of the
Black Legion, insists that it never
c0untenanced violence of any sort.
He explained it's growth by declar-
ing that, during the depression, it
gave thousands of men an interest
In life that they would not other
wise have had.
Other i0;:neSseS claimed that the Dri
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order a general Fascist movement,
difficult to measure or control be-
cause of it's under-cover operation.
Precedent in History.
Authorities are virtually certain
that members, wherever they are,
are burning their hoods and robes
at a rapid rate, and that the organ
ization will die as others before it
have, in the light Of public discov-
cry and disapproval.
The United States, like many another
country, has in its diary many records
OF secret fraternaI orders Uhose MEM
bers cloak their identity. Indeed, ,Uhat
group of small boys has not formed
its secret" and fearful society, like
that of Ton, SaWyer and his friends,
signing copenants full Of misspelIed
,Uords in blood painfully pricked from
their little fingers?
Every section of the land has had
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-10-02
BOBBY COON AND BILLY MINK
PUT THEIR HEADS
TOGETHER

XXTHEN Billy Mink cried Stop
w Bobby Coon stopped. He
stopped with one paw lifted and
just ready to put down in the mid
die of the little opening in that fence
which had so puzzled him. He
turned his head to- look back at Bill
ly Mink. "Why should stop?" he
demanded, and he spoke rather
GROSSLY.
Because If you take one more
step forward, it will be the last step
you ever will take" snapped Billy.
Bobby didn't take that forward
step. Instead he backed away in
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-10-02

inclined to scott at first, has de-
cided that it is high time that the
outlaw order be taken in deadly seri-
BUSINESS. Authorities, it is reported,
are even ready to believe that the
secret members of the Black Legion
and its affiliations may number g.
O00,000 persons.
There are today even reasonable
grounds for suspicion that the or
ganizatiOn may have roots in other
sections of the country. In many
localities there are movements to
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-10-02

claims that he was threatened with
being flogged to death if he did not
return to work two members of the
Black Legion whom he had dis
charged. He returned them to work
forthwith. Police, in their question
ing, have noticed that high per-
centage of employment exists among
the witnesses charged with being
members.
The principal fear which was in
stilled into the hearts of honest cit
izens by the Black Legion was the
possibility of there appearing at
some time great leader able to or
ganize the Legion to transcend re-
gional boundaries and make of the
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-10-02

mary purpose of the organization rUas
the securing of jobs for its unemployed
members, and to keep employed mem
bers in their Jobs. Each member ,oas
"swOrn by holy and terrible oath" to
do his best to secure a Job for another
member in the place ,ohere he ioorked.
One of the cOmplainants against
the Black Legion claims that he was
forced to accompany members to
formal meeting, a sternly costumed
ly. He is a small employer. He
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-10-02
Peach MalIoWS.

Take halves of canned peaches,
place in stemmed sherbet glasses,
fill the halves with marshmallows.
Take the peach sirup, add a tea
spoon of cornstarch, cook until we'll
done, then add the yolk of an egg
lightly beaten; stir until smooth.
flavor when cool with few drops
of almond and pour over the fruit in
the cups.