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mis i: :THE" SHEfLLE - CITISEfc THE WEATHER FAIR Circulation Daily Over 8,000 VOL. XXVUX, NO. 30 ASHEVILLE, K. C, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21,19U price five cento PACKERS WILL USE EVERY CHANGE FOR PUIIG OFF TRIAL . " Probability of Sudden Move to Delay Trial Past. Tomorrow Crows Stronger THEY MAY APPEAL TO , U. S. SUPREME COURT Want Highest Tribunal to Pass Upon Criminal Section of The Sherman Law CHICAGO, Nov. 10. Probability of a audden move on the .part of the In dicted Chicago packers to delay their trjal beyon. YVsonesday,, , to which Cute la wm postponed today by United Btate District Judge Carpenter, In extended creased tonight alter an conference of coupael for. the pack era. , .5 f " ' ' ' Just wat the move will be la not known. One 'possible action that has tow mentioned by . a, man Interested !n the National Packing company is ' ?,. the packer, to appear for k trial and ask Judge carpenter for a con tinuance on a ppea Chat the packers , sjeSire to" take an appear to the United States Supreme court as to (fie constitutionality 11 me criminal " section of the Sherman law. This they ay, would save the time of the Dis trict court and the expense of a trial should-their contention be upheld. PoO't Believe Report . Government attorneys today were disinclined, to 'credit this report, be lieving that any further delay would be sought by the packers' on the basis of a demand for separate trials for each of the' ten defendants. Should the1 packers ask a continuance In op en pourt, several days probably would be consumed in arguments. Since the federal Supreme court has adjourned pntil December 4, the packers might .appeal to Judge Carpenter for more t;m on the ground that on December ,4 they would apply to-the Supreme enirt in which the subject In que 'torn1, mffnt. be argued and decided wltsln ' sixty days. Another plea might be for adelay until an appeal could . be madl to some one justice Ut- Supreme Court ; TbJytstlcalv...., probably would be Mr. Day, who re presents this clrejilt and Is now at Ills home in Canton, Ohio. An attorney for the packer said after the conference today that there could be no secret moves made, but be confirmed the report that "sudden nd surprising" action would follow. Eighty-three prospective Jurors ap peared before Judge Carpenter today for service. . . LONDON SUFFRAGETTES Tfl IT Premier Asquith Gets Him self in Bad For His Bold Declaration WOMEN DETERMINED LONDON, Nov. 20. The suffra gettes are preparing to renew their attacks on parliament with a battle tomorrow night, which will surpass all previous campaigns. A few days ago, a delegation of suffragettes interview ' ed Premier Aaquith to obtain a pied go that the government would undertake to paaa a bill giving equal suffrage to both sexes. Premier Asquith declined ! to make such a pledge, but told the women instead that iie hedarwaya been opposed to women suffrage. At a subsequent meeting the suffragettee decided to inaugurate a war of dem onstration In Parliament square 'on November 21. They have summoned all their follower and male sympa thisers to assemble around the paVlls , ment building at 1 p. m. The fact I that the gathering' is fixed for after 1 dark may make unusual trouble for 'the polioe. Mrs. PetMck Lawrence explain It thus: "The gathering has been arranged late for the express reason that tha decent honest working - men will be in the street. We have found that 1 their presence affords women moral protection against violence by the po lice and hooligans." Mrs. Pankhurst declared tonight that the women, certainly will push their way to the floor of the house of common tht time, to make their protest against "the .great Insult Mr. Aaquith baa given." v TO THE "ZOO" FOB MATES ANSONIA, Conn., Nov. 20. "My grandfather married a Fox, my fath er a Canary and my brother Par-' rett, and I'll go them one better," ays Joha R. Welch, who will wed Miss Ele-nor RabbH here next Tuea .day. In "1838 1- Welch married Mary Fox a. ! county Claire, Ireland. Twrnu ars afterward ill eon, Peter. . . llc Canary to the altar In New Haven. '-Richard, eldest son of Peter, last year found hie bride in Mlaa Edna Parrott, and John, next In late, will contribute to the .list a WV Ttli'-'-l wedding, a not la t .-''.'V SANATORS PLEDGE THEMSELVES F O R APPROPRIATION Coming Congress $50,000,000 for National High- way.--Martin Wojild reduce Mil itary Appropriation. RICHMOND, Vs.,, Nov. 10.-At the first session of the Good Eoads con gress,' which began here' today, a marked conflict developed as to the power of the federal congress to ap propriate for good roads improve, menu within the etates. Senators Martin and Swanson, of Virginia, held that the government had such a right, but Representative) J. Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania, a . member ef the house committee on rtvera and har bors, opposed federal appropriations upon the ground that they were ex pressly prohibited by th constitution. He cited President Monroe's veto of the Cumberland highway Mil in 1122,, and declared that all good roads Im provements necessarily mun ,00 ! state affaire. Tacit Pledges Senators Martin and Swanson and Senator Bankhead, of Alabama, tacit ly pledged themselves to ask the com ing congress to pass a national high way bill. carrying an appropriation 04 at least 150,000,000. Senator Martin declared that if the highways .of the country and particularly those of the southern states ould be improved In no other way, he would vote to cut down the annual appropriations for the Improvement of rivers and har bor or favor reducing the appropria tions for the army and navy .to per mit a food roads appropriation. If this plan were not feasible. Senator Martin declared he -would favor hav ing the federal treasury issue bond at the rate of ,50,000,000. a, yearifor good roads work, and . let .posterity pay foj. the "Improvement. ; ,s Resolution aeklng : President Taft to recognize the subject in his mes sage to congress were referred to a committee of which T, Coleman DU pont, of Wilmington, Del.: Jesse Tay lor, president of the , Ohio ' (food Roads federation, and Leonard Tufts, pt Pinehurst, N. C., president of the Capital Highway assochatlonr . were named members. (. , ' The declared intention of the con grass is for a good roads ' improve- FM SIS $11 AND ONE YEAR'S LABOR Did Piece of Engineering Work in Washington En tirely Free of Charge BELLINQHAM, Wn, Now. 20 The flood In the Skagit river has done a big piece of engineering work for the United tates government. In twenty four hours and without a cent of ex pense. It has saved the government $1,000,000 in money and one year In labor. The stream cut through the Sterling Bend, above Mount Vernon, where a channel now runs 300 feet wide and .twenty feet deep. For seventeen years the federal government haa considered thle lm provement ' and many surveys have" been made. The cut-off Is tnrougn a neck of hind eighty rod wide. It shortens the distance from Mount Vernon to Sedro-Wooley, three and a half miles, giving a good eteam chan nel where a long and dangerous one existed before. v PROGRESS IK" GETTING JURY DENVER, Colo.. Nov. 20. Rapid progress in tne selection 01 a jujt marked the first day of the trial of Gertrude Gibson Patterson, charged with the murder of her husband, Charles A. Patterson, and at the close ef court tonight twelve men passed for cause wre In the Jury box. The prospect of procuring a Jury by ad journment tomorrow was declared by both aides to be good. Despite the fact that the state probably will ask the death penalty, little opposition to capital punish ment was developed among the ven iremen examined today, questions asked by the stele Indicated the pros- cuton'a intention to try to show that the killing of Patterson wa premedi tated, and that a verdict of marde In the first degree with 'the death penalty will be asked. Especial stress wa laid on the veniremen's willing ness to send a woman to the gallows if the evidence warranted. The name of Kmll Btrouas, - a wealthy clothing manufacturer, of Chicago, .wa brought Into the pro ceeding by Special Prosecutor Ben son, who asked veniremen If they were acquainted with htm. BOOST fXB TEDDY. YOUNG STOWN, O., ''Nov. 20. A call for the "foremost cltlien of the "world, Theodore Roosevelt." to bear the standard of the republican party in the struggle fof the presidency next year was voiced at the banqaet tonlrht of the Garfield . chjb- ofJ.be Nineteenth Congressional district of Ohio. John J. Sullivan, flormer United State district attorney, wa the speaker who' named Colonel Roosevelt for the nomination of his party.- HI speech . wa made at the club' annual cele bastion of the an niversary of the' birth of the late President James .A. Garfield, who attended congress from tab district Will be Asked for ment movement wholly within' the state. The boom for federal aid took the delegate by surprise, though many, seemed to favor It. Senator Swanson declared that (he American people, particularly those of the south, were paying a mud tax of 1260,000,000 a year because of the Increased cost of living, which he declared, could be traced directly to poor 'roads and. the resultant dlffl culty in getting food to market. Wilson's Views Beoretory Wilson, of the department of agrloulture, who came to the con mention representing Preeldent Taft, who was forced at the last moment U cancel his engagement because of his' cold, also took that view, and de dared the solution of the high ' coat of. living problem fM directly con nected with the poor read In .the ru rai section. Dr. Walter H. Page,, of New York an economist and megaalne editor, al so took a decided stand against fed era!, aid In road building. Governor Mann., of Virginia, who welcomed the delegate, declared em phatlcally In favor of using convict labor on the roads, and brought out the approval of Senator Martin who criticised Virginia' employment of conviota In a shoe ahon and declared thnt'th state should do ft utmost to oloee Its contract (or thrit work and turn its convicts to the highway. President W. W, Flnley, of the Southern railway, took the position that first development should b di rected to Improvement; of roads which radiate from market centers. - He said ths .improvement of great trunk line highway could wel wait. By con necting ra.aia.ung system inrougn highway for tourtata eventually would be secured, he said. Secretary Wilson practically took up a))! tne engagements which had been nwae iot t-reuiaem wnn in ex caption of the f 3,004 luncheon at the Commercial 1 club.' In the afternoon he visited the home for Confederate veterans and In the 'evening ; the alumni of the University of Virginia, BAPTISTS WANT CHANGE TO VOTE AGAINST LIQUOR Virginia Convention Would Have Next Legislature to Pass Enabling Act NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 80. The fea ture of today's final session of th general Baptist convention of Vir ginia was the adoption of a, strong report by It temperance committee, calling upon She next legislature to pass ' an enabling act, sucth. as will provide for an election on state wide prohibition., Rev. B. J. Richardson, speaking to th report, declared that the people of Virginia will stand for no "monkey business" n this con nection, and that something will ex plode If a state-wide election Is not soon provided for. A sensation was spNfig during the temperance repert when IS yards of liquor advertise ments from one Issue of a Richmond Sunday paper were stretched ehroufh the church where the; convention 1 being held. A social service commission w named to deal with and report on th divorce and temperance evil. A committee wa appointed to raise 17,600 for Virginia toward the Euro pean Baptist seminary. A fight was made to have th an' nual conventions held 00 such date a weuld eliminate Sunday, but tht failed. The convention will meet next at Petersburg, November 14, 112. EMPEROR'S MOTHER ELOPED, SAN . FRANCISCO. Nov. 20.T Prince Lai, mother of tb bshy em peror of China and wife of th prince regent, haa eloped irlth sun actor, Yang Shu Lu. according to Chinese newspapers received today. A num ber of newspaper published In China refer to the "digrace that haa com to the royal family," but only one. th Mln Lu Po. the largest newspaper published In China, give the prin cess' name and an account of the elopement. The mother of the emperor, th paper says, fell In love with the ac tor and corresponded with him for some time before the rebellion began. The paper draws the conclusion that the princes believed that the Mandiu cause was lost and decided to flee. The princes Is said to have taken fortune In jewels with her ''and to be Irving with Yung In Mukden. An actor and a. barber are classed with the lowest of caste In China and Chines her said today that the elopment of the prince was the greatest disgrace that could come to the Manchu dynasty. 1 , . r . . ARMS SEIZED IX LAREDO. LAREDO, Tex., Nov. 10.--A quan tity of arm and' ammunition, aald to have been Intended for use In a re-, ott. against President Francisco I.' Madero of llealeo was aetaed ia JLaredo and vtciottr today. J"-" 60MPERS ASSAILS SOCIALISM AFTER T Labor Convention Gets Warm When Initiative and Ref erendum Come up ATTACK MADE UPON WILLIAM K: HEARST James.M.; wnch However Comes to I 13 Defense, Says he Should Get Hearing ATLANTA, (S., Nov, 10. Presi dent Samuel Oompers and the social ists engaged In' the first skirmish of th present contention of the Amer ican Federation, of Labor today. The socialists won fbelr point but Mr. Oompera seised the opportunity to express hi opinion .of socialists In general and tertAln of hi critic among them hi 'particular. - The point involved wa th adop tion of th lnlt&Ulv and referendum principle In thai election of Officer, upon which tbf law committee had reported adversely. A minority report presented by o dissenting commit teeman endorsing the general prop osltloa in eveaean Investigation by the executive tunoll proved it feas ible, found -irniieroii supporters In the convention And among them th socialist led ej Joaeph D, Cannon, of the Wester 1 '(deration of Miners. Mr. Cannon' & a epseoh, 1 support pf the minority! report, aroused the ire of Mr, damper when he men tioned an alleged interview with the Federation' president at th time when the formef wa endeavoring; to organise labo- " party In . Arisons, quoting' Mr.' Qojiper as aaylng they could get all tbty wanted out of ex isting partle. . 1." Th Inference ws that Mr. Qom pers wm pot ardently in favor of the democratlfl irlnclple of th ini tiative and referendum. Mr. Oompers denied h had rosde any such stats ment and declared what he probably did ay wa thai he wa more con eerned In the af option of th Intia tl ve, : ref erendun-1 and - recall ' i th consitutloB of th 4 proposed state than he was in the success of the demo nUH'publi-rMM!llh partr , 1 . Oornpeem't fUnr. Mr, Qomprr mid- that Mr. Can non's attack wa en a par with that of a labor paper reporter In Boston Who had groaaly ' misquoted him. When I asked him why he had printed such a lying, garbled report," aid Mr. Oompars, "he replied: " 'Well, you khow I am a social ist,' to me that was aufflcelent an' awer. " Mr. Cannon mad no reply to this lur upon the socialist but several other of that party arose to the de fense of their principle. Vie President James Duncan da- fended the committee' report argil ing that the referendum was not practicable for th eleotlon of the federation' officer. Several other delegate took th same attitud but twice the number favored the prln clble and when a vote was' reached there was hardly a dissenting vole raised against substituting th minor ity for th majority report The ex ecutive council I directed to make a thorough Investigation Of th mat ter and report on th practicability of it at the next convention, which probably- will be held at Rochester, N. T. Hearst AtOM-krd. , Earlier In the day. the convention proceeding . were enlivened by an attack on William Randolph Hearst by Charles H. Vloyer, alio of th Western Federation of Miners. Mr. Moyer charged that Mr. Hearst was an enemy of organised labor because he tolerated a lockout of union men at the mines or the Homestaks Min ing company at Iead. 8. D., In Which the Hearst estate own an Interest. V-t. Hearst claims hs has no Interest In the mine," said Mr. Moyer, "but we know that he and hi mother are the beneficiaries of tha Hearst es tate. He la simply hiding behind his mother' klrts." Jame M. Lynch, president of th International Typographical Union, warmly defended Mr. Hearst, declar ing that he paid a high wage scale to 1.600 union men and ought not to he condemned without a hearing) The whole matter referred to the executive committee for Investlga' tlon. MASSACRE REPORTED PEKIN. Nov. 20 Chine official confirm the report that a massacre of foreigners, as well as Manchus, has occurred at Slan-Fa. The lega tion believe that the report will prove true. There were rrty foreigners In Slan-Fu and many missionaries In the smaller Bhen-HI town. ' Up to the present only Chines reports have been received regarding th massacre. There 9ia been no telegraphic com muntcation with Sn-Fu , for mor than three- weeks. -y 1 111 1 1 ' mf WASHINGTON, Now, ; Tor cut: North Carolina, fair and aUght- IT IVINS ITS PQIN .f . 1 r -, jsf m s ri ... . -T-.... ly ooAler TUdr, Wedneeday talr; xooderat DrUrwt winds. ; - " - , '.-r FINAL DETAILS FOR THE NEW $200,000 HOTEL CONSIDERED Committee Returns From St. Louis With Assurances That New Structure Will he Built. Good News For A sheville. A new 1100,000 hotel, which will be altuatsd at th foot of Sunset mountain and connected with a mod ern lodge on the )ummlt of that mountain, and which will be built In th near future. Is practically as sured. Th uw structure ' Is to be financed by Dr. E. W. Orove and the bank of this city and I to be con ducted according to th plan of a skilled architect who will be Informed at one of th contemplated step and Instructed " t submit opacifications for a atrlctly modern, up-to-date and handsom structure. Th committee df AhrtU business and professional man eomposed of Dr. Carl' V, Reynolds, J. O, Mrri moo, E. L, Ray and I. W. Plum mar, who have been In St. Lout for th past few day where they have been In consultation with Dr. Orove: and W; F.lRandoiph, the manager of the latter' Ashevlll properties, returned to th elty yesterday morning full of hop and nOiuslatlo over th pro pect fer another hotel for thia city, whloh will be strictly modern and will be kept open the year round. While In Bt. Louis, th Aahavllle gentlemen were entertained royally by Dr. Q rove at th Jefferson hotel in .that city, and spent a great deal oflm with him wOier they heard thlar plan, made uggestlon and ' aurd blm that Ashevllle wa willing to co-op erate with him In any movement that he might make for th btst Interests of th city. - Thsy auggestsd that In stead of erecting th building at th ummlt of th mountain a had ben suggested, it b built at ths foot of th rid, on the recently acquired property of Dr. Orov Just off th automobtl road' and overlooking th property of the Ahv!ll country club, wther th view i magnificent for 10 mile and wher those who ihav ;on over th porperty consider that a hotel should be built It wa sug gested alio. Chat lodg, Tor th us of th guest and the people of hl elty, b eonstructsd at the sum mit Ot th-ottBtatr. whWh"WOlii to connected wltbth hotsl by th auto mobile road " Which iwa opened : to the publlo some trnie ago. After con slderlng tb matter. Or, Orov arrived at th eoneiusipn that rhe slug vestlon were good on-and decldsd to follow them. Dr. Grow' Plan Dr. Orov' plana, a submitted to the committee , of local 'gendemsn, wa to th effect that th entire pro perty surrounding Sunaet be' Includ ed In a bond issue of !SO,000, to be made UP of six 'per cent twenty year bond, the Interest to be guaran teed by him for at least ten' yars. It Is hi desire that the four banks of Ashevllle handle $100,000 worth melon mmm LOWER FREIGHT RATES Fanners Declare Rate Dis crimination .Has Made Melons Unduly High NEW YORK, Nov. 0MIo grower of Florida, Georgia, . An bam a, North and Couth Carolina, and northern commission man who han dle their product appeared through attorney before the Interstate com merce commission hsr today and asksd for lower freight rat on one hundred and twenty-fir eastern railroad. Th farmer declare that by rat discrimination th price of melon ha been mad undnly high everywhere west of Cincinnati and Buffalo. A special complaint Is made against the Pennsylvania railroad. The complainant say th action of this road in unloading melons in Jersey City Instead of delivering fhem across in river hs practically wiped- the greater New York market off the map. The complaints were filed last July but . th . commission wss unable to hear th case until today. OJTLT SPEECH-MA KIXO MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 0. Th first session of th convention of the Mlealstppl-to-th-Atlantle Inland Waterway association wa held her today and was consumed by speech -making by delegate and gueta. Sen ator Duncan U. Fletoher. of Florida, president pf the organization; Leland J, Henderson, secretary, and Con gressman Robert C. Wyctlffe spoke. Isbam Randolph, of Chicago, told of the work of the Illinois river and hvke commlffsion. Utilization of equipment being used in Panama in digging of the Inland waterway was ugf ealed by some speaker. ORDERS TO MOBU.IZE " MEXICO "CTTTrTlWI.--njr to mobollze St.OfO men In a son pa ralleling th northern boundary line were lasoed today by th war depart ment Th government la yet akeptl eal concerning th Inauguration of the Ry-Vaaqusta revolution but should it be begun. President MadorO and hi caMnC believe th army would b uiricim t chack it. , of th bond and he Intend financing tne remaining, bond valued at IH0 006: Tha land on which the hotel la to b situated 00m prises forty aore and on Chi It I planned to spend th money, 1100.000 of whloh will be used for th erection of the hotel and th remaining ISO.000 for th laying of water and sewer line and th improving of the road through th property. Th remainder of th property will bs improved by Dr. urove and will b tnoluded th traot of land which will b put up to guarantee th bondholders. Al though th bond will cover th en tire amount of land Included In Bun et mountain and th plat of forty sores on which the hotel Is to b reeled, only the forty act will re oelve the benefit of th expenditure of the bond Issue, Dr. Grove having decided to Improve th remainder of the land at hi own expense, He plant to convert Sunset mountain in to a vast ressdentlal park whloh will unround tha hotel. iiBanhg Will Art Soon . , Th Ashevlll hank hav Hot de cided yet that they will handle th amount of th bond which they are asked to take, as non of them hav held director' meeting to consider th mater. However, It I almost foregone conclusion that they will It th meeting of their dlrotor, decld to use them as it Is consld rd that thy. ar vry valuabl, to ay nothing of th valu whloh. th opnlng of the new hotel would b to th. city and their business. , It tins been utd that Dr. Orov mad th atttreclr proposition to th four banks of th olty for th purpos of getting local capital Interested In th movement whloh he I promoting. The money whloh h hs spent In acoulr lng and Improving Sunset mountain rspresonts an expenditure of appro, miaUly 1110,000, which will mak th holder of th bond saf.J Th fact that h guarantees th interest for tn year I another point ln,fv vr'nr th bond and mean that If th lend war allow to stand Idle for that length of lm and go with out any Improvement, fii holder would not loos anything. , However, mat win not be tne ess. In any vnt suoceas Aura Th fact that Dit. Orov Is behind the enterpris Is regarded an as surance mat it , win be a . sueceas. Th construction of th hotel will mean that millions of pleoe of lit erature advertllng Ashevlll will go to an parts of th country, snco Dr orov has ttlnd grant wsalth through having something to back him up and using vast fund for ad vrtllng that in whloh ti has utmost raitn. .--". - fUtiOLPH-iCON IVIll GET ENDOWMENT FUND Richmond Man Gives $25, -000 Which Completes Sum of -$100,000 SALISBURY, Md., Nov, 10. A gift of tlt.000 from John P. Branch, of tuenmond, va., to complste an so dowment of $100,00 for Randolph Macon college, was announced at to day session of th Virginia confer ence of th Mthodlt Episcopal cnurcn, south. Mr, Branch Is a trus ts of th oollege. It was decldsd to hold th next annual conference at th Court Street Church, Lynchburg, Va. PT B. E. Blaekwall, J. C. Parker and Rev, Jame Cannon were an. pointed committee to confer with the Virginia state board of educa tion concerning the granting of cer tlfloate a teacher In publlo schools to graduate of church Institutions, , The report of the board of educa tlon recommended th appointment by th bishop of Rev. E. H. Row as president of th Southern seminary, Buena Vista; Rev. Thomas H. Ksevea, a principal of Blackatone Female Institute, and Rev. James Cannon as general superintendent of th Southern assembly. An apportionment Xf 10,000 for Kandotpn-Macon college, also was recommended. Rev. Jame cannon wa re-elected editor of the Baltimore and Richmond Christian Advocate, and Rev. T. 8. Southgate wa elected missionary secretary of the conference. An. Increas of 1-1 per cent D money raised tht year over last ws shown by th report of the Joint board of flnsnc. A total of 110.442 was distributed to conference claim ants. A temperance rally wa held to night. DIE AT emilKEK'a BANDS flEDALf Ari.. Novr-10ArM. Mackey, nephew of Mrs. Fred Dent Grant and of Mrs. Potter Palmar of, Chicago, ws stabbed to death late today by John L. Jones, striking shopman, - Th stabbing followed an argument about recent trouble be tween striker and MrtkMbreaker. Mae key owned taxicab and oarrlagtf tnpany -.;'.-;' THEFT OF PICTURE fl Mysterious Disappearance of Fra Angeiico's "Madonna Delle Stella" FIVE PERSONS ARE ; ALREADY IN ARREST) Believed That Theft Had Its' Orlfltn with People Who " Stole "Mona UsaM :, - FLORI5NCB, Italy, Nov. 10, Th painting "Madonna Dell Stella," by Fra Angelloo, haa bn stolen fromj th monastery of Baa Marco whloh; has been transformed Into a muum. This painting Is on of th most val uable In th monastery. It waa de signated Madonna of th Star. b! caus of th atar on ih mantl cov erlng th head of th Madonna. It Is' a small wood panel, two feet by. one, and was. placed In th oell ocoupled by the Monk Fra Anglleo when th masterpiece wa painted, ' The theft took place lact night' during a terrific storm. When th storm was over a passerby saw a rope hanging from a window. H gav th alarm and search disclosed th loss of th pletur. Ths look of th 'door of th cell and th gls' eaao In Which the painting had r-f posed s wr hroken. Strengely enough, th thief or thieve did not touch other picture by Ft Angelic In. th same cell, representing "Th Betrayal" and "th Annunciation,". llol In Rnof. . I Furthtr xmlnatlon disclosed a hoi In th roof of th monastery! through whloh It was at ' first up-' posed the thief had entered but It1 was found tout the opening had been' mad from th Inside and was noti larg tnough to permit? the passage) of ven ft small man. It wss therefor argued that th hoi had b made! to -mUload 'lavisUf atorav,.'. '! Flv persons hav been placed tin' dr arreit, among them the rustn. I dlang of. th musum. It Is believed, I however, that th thft had Jt In ception in th International gang of thieve, who ar thought to. have engineered th theft of other valu abl paintings, ' Including Iohardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," which wa stolon from th Louvre. ; PH, last Aussist. Deteotlve hav been sent to th frontier In th hop of pre venting th pletur being taktn from tb country, , WRITTEPi CO:.TESSfD;j DF S. C. BOOKKEEPER WHO lUPERSOIlTEDUIItlSTER Bays That He Went tot- lanta at Gaffney Minis . ter's Request ,t MATTER CLEAEINQ ATLANTA, Oa., Nov. lOTf. K Peeler, a bookkeeper of 0ffny. g.i ' C, ha made a written confession to th effect that h recently cam to Atlanta and Impersonated th Rv.i W. A. Frrll, of Oaffnay, ' In order . to clear th latter" sktrt of a polio' court affair which resulted from ai newspaper want ad wooing piod.l Th confession of Plnr- thrown ad ditional light on an unique) local po lice case. t Several weeks ago a man stating that he was Rev, W. A. Ferrell, og Oaffney, S. C, wa arraigned befor Juriir ItrnvtM In th el mw am the complaint or a young woman; V who chargad that ho had mad love' (a hn I h rr,n h 4 h . wan I . There was nothing at th tlm to show that th minister wa not act- ' Ing In good faith and h wa r-( ' lMi Th resort r.r hla ; wmIm,.' ment, however, caused a senattion In Oaffney. Th affair wa clothed la deeper mystery when another man " who said he wa Rev. W. A. Ferrell.1 ' CimttntiV- ti. C... anllffht An Tn.. - Broyte. This man," denounced the other Ferrell an lm poster and receiv ed letter from th Judge dsolarlng that this wa not the man arraigned. ' After publicity had been given to th Judge's letter the matter remain. A In itnnM-.ta.1ntv unfit a nliAfA-..nk of th real Rev. W. A. Ferrell was ' sent to Atlanta and Identified - by Judge Broylea and others a th ' minister who had been arraigned. Peeler In hi confession state that - he Impersonated th minister at th. . latter request, came to Atlanta. aw Judge Broyle at hi home and : secured tne letter exonerating Ferrell tromv tne enair, , , i , s : cosTrssEB to bohbeht. .Z ., GRAND .RAPIDS. " Mich.. Nov. 10. According to the Grand Rapid po-j lie tonight Perry B. McClellan, a former employ of tlU Adam Ft-', pres company, ha ecofeesed to t ' e! robbery of the express ear. ' saf at th depot office f"- Defectives today rw-OTe currency and checks " MONASTERY DURING BIGSTORM n. ,' S" S' V1' .I'm
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