Charlie Webb Awaits
Report Of Chemists
But Whether That Kejmrt Justifies or Disproves Suspicion
That lie I'liiioiied Wife He'll Have to Fight for
Two Million Dollar Inheritance
n> HOIIKUT T. SMALL
(C?ii?ri|ht. 192], By Th? AdvancO
New York, Oct. 1.?Charles Webb, the young New Yorker,
who waited ten years for wealthy Gertie Gorman to say "yes"
to his ardent suit, today found himself the central figure in an
official inquiry into his wife's death ten months after she had
yielded to his importunities for marriage.
Charlie Webb was waiting
again today, waiting for the de
layed report of the chemists
who are analyzing the contents1
of Mrs. Webb's stomach to see
whether or not there is any.
truth in the charges of her rel
atives that she was done to
death through the administra-l
tion of a slow poison?probably]
bichloride of mercury.
The friends of the husband say | '
he is stunned by the suspicions as to ! |
the manner of his wife's death but j
is calmly as confident that the chem
ists will sweep away all of the mys
tery and show that Mrs. Webb, twice
a miliiouaJress. .jclied of natural!
causes.
It was disclosed today that back of !
the inquiry are some of the most
powerful Influences in this city. In I
the forefront of those who have de
manded that some action be taken I
to clear up the case is Justice John
F. Mclntyre, of the court of general i
sessions. Judge and Mrs. Mclntyre. I
old friends of Mrs. Webb, were with 1
her when she died. Judge Mclntyre J
held a long conversation with the dy-'
ing woman and has said that she {
told him that "a certain portion of
her life" had been a great disillus- |
lopment. Although a Judge himself.
Judge Mclntyre said he was not,
competent to say whether his recital
of Mrs. Webb's last words could be I
accepted in a court of law as her |
po6t-mortem statement.
Mrs. Webb's friends always have
contended that Gertie Gorman. as ;
they knew her was not "a man's wo
man." She nad not cared for the |
companionship of men and had wait- I
ed until she was nearly 40 years of!
age before she consented to matri
mony. Webb's persistence, extend- !
ing over a decade, broke down her !
natural aversion to wedlock.
Gertie's friends were so surprised 1
at her announcement that "she was to
wed Webb that they openly avowed |
that some unusually strong Influence
must have been brought to bear up- !
on the woman who they had come to 1
recognize as a confirmed spinster.;
Some of the friends Were so frank in ?
their comments that they became es
tranged. Mrs. Webb's relatives, es
pecially her aunt. Mrs. Wm. T. Hun
ter, of t)even, Pennsylvania, were j
nonplussed. Naturally these rela
tives and friends never had a kindly
feeling toward Webb. They had
known him as Gertie's persistent but
unsuccessful suitor for a great many !
years, had known that he had ad
vised with Mrs. S. Jennings Gorman, j
her mother, about real estate mat
ters, but they regarded him as hav- i
Ing been definitely placed on the
plane of a friend of the family. They !
suspected no change of status even
after Mrs. Gorman died some two
years ago.
nut there was a change. Gertie
was left alone with her father. Webb
pressed his advantage after the
mother died and eventually broke!
' down his sweetheart's resistance.
That Mrs. Webb should have died
a little more than ten months after
her marriage, that she should have
executed a ten line will leaving all (
her estate to the husband, that the ;
dying woman should have expressed ,
misgivings as to the nature of her
fatal illness, that she should have |
made deathbed statements to friends |
of her recent unhappiness, and that
Webb should have remained strictly
out of the sick room during the last
ten days of his wife's Illness?all
these facts and circumstances led her
friends and relatives Into a hysteri
cal outbreak of suspicions and accu
sations.
Still living In his father-in-law's
palatial Madison Avenue home.
Webb complained today that he had
been shunned at the funeral Satur
day. He was not surprised, howev
er, to get a request to confer with
the New York authorities who desire
to question him as to his married life
and his knowledge of the various 111-1
nesses which led to his wife's death. |
The authorities admit that In the ab-1
sence of a definite report from the
chemists they have nothing upon
which to proceed. In view of the sus
picions expressed so freely by her
friends and relatives, however, they
wefe certain Webb would want to
tell his side of the story.
The chemists report may not be
ready for fOVeral days yet but mean
while the relatives who were made
the main beneficiaries of Gertie Gor
man's 92,000,000 estate under a will
signed prior to her marriage have
come to New York to make war
against any part of the estate pass-1
Ing to Webb. ,
Webb I. fljthtln* ?InnlVhandn!
nenin.t tho*e who would tear him
down. The few friend* ho had he
.ay*. *oom to have deaorted him
Only hi* counsel remain true and j
Meadfa*t. The relative* *av that
even If Mr*. Webb died an entirely
natural death, her atatement* a* to
her married life were aufflrlent tn
warrant a ronte.t of the will, giving
? II of her property Into the hand* of
her husband.
In all It* aapect* the caae proqp. i
I.e. to become one of the mo?t noted
In thl* city of manifold myaterlea.
Harry Lanitar returned Sunday
from a visit to Banbury. una?r
Frontiers Of Help
To The Criminals
i
InrifMfd Olmc Causfd by Enw ]
With Which (Yimltutl* Can Skip
Front Country to Another
Vienna, Oct. 2.?Thp many fron
tiers of central Europe, in some
cases no farther apart than state
lines in America, are a great help to
criminals, and much of the recent in
crease in a certain type of crime in
this part of the world is laid to the
ease with which a forehanded of
fender can skip into another country
and claim sanctuary.
This aspect of things has been
brought out clearly at the Interna
tional 1'olice Congress that has Just
come to an end in Vienna. It would
appear that defraudations, forgeries,
embezzlements and thefts are com
mitted with relative immunity,
granted the criminal has a vised
passport in his pocket, and gets a
start of a few hours on the police.
False passports sometimes serve Just
as well as legitimate ones. The pur
suing police often as not are unpre
pared to follow, and must go
through the slow channels of diplo
macy to get permission to cross a
nearby frontier.
Criminality has assumed vast pro
portions since the close of the war.
Vienna is on the crossroads leading
to many countries, and has bMOfflC
the sporting ground of innumerable
bands of International thieves and
adventurers. The Vienna police ad
mit that the city Is overrun with for
eign criminals from all parts of the
worid,.and every day discloses new
methods of operation. In 1919, of
193 persons implicated in the forg
ing of currency, only 15 were for
eigners. In 1921 the ratio of for
eigners was 303 out of 481. There
are issuers of false checks, pickpock
ets, hotel and railroad thieves, burg
lars, safe-crackers, adventurers, and
1fnposters without number. In nine
cases out of ten they make good
their escape because of the inability
of the criminal officers to follow
them up beyond the frontiers of
their own country, and because of
the time that is invariably lost be
fore proof of identity and the cir
cumstances of the crime can be
placed in the hands of the police
authorities of the new place of so
journ of the malefactor.
The criminal has the ndvantace
of the police at every turn, it would
appear from the discussions before
the congress. lie takes advantage
of every Improvement in traveling
conditions, and every new conquest
Of science. Not SO the police, who
are local in their activities and have
no international character. Many
existing formalities must he swept
aside before the police ran even hope
successfully to cope with their astute
opponents.
To this end a resolution aimed at
better international police organiza
tion and intercourse was accepted
by the congress. It will later be
submitted to a plenary session and,
If acceptable, then go to the various
governments concerned for ratifica
tion.
In the meantime the flold for the
malefactor Is open, and the "crime
wave" Is rolling on, increasing as it
tarvels.
LINCOLN CARS ON
DISPLAY AT FAIK
Lincoln motor cars will be repre
nentod In the exhibit of the Auto &
Gas Engine Works, local Ford deal-1
era, at the Albemarle District Fair, j
"Arrangements have been made to
display a Lincoln," says C. W. Oal
ther, president of the Auto Sc. Gas'
Engine Works, "and Fair visitors In
terested In high quality cdVs will
find In this showing the distinct In
dividuality which characterizes thn
Lincoln as presenting the utmost in
automoibll* design and construction.!
"The Lincoln motor Is generally ;
sccepted as the finest of power
plants and recent refinements have
resulted n Improved appearance, In
creased acceleration and smoother)
operation.
"Lincoln bodies present the high-,
est type of craftmanship .by Amerl
Cl'l foremast body btllldtft. The.
purchaser lieight standard models'
to choose from and whore the de-j
fire Is for even further exclusive-1
ness six Lincoln custom-built enclos-1
ed types offer the latest develop-1
ments of this country and Europe.")
MEN VIOLATED THE
STATE GAME LAWS
New Bern, Oct. 2?Charged with |
violating the State's game laws by!
hunting deer ont of season,]
four men have been arrested by
Game Warden O. K. Hancock,1
near Havelock, Craven County. The
men are J. W. Cobb, Spring Garden,
J. A. Hughes. Streets Ferry; E. L.
Arthur, Pollocksvllle; and a man
giving hla name as Hensley and hla
home as New Bern. One of the
members of the party had a young
fawn on his .back when arrested,
,the game warden reported.
SCENE OF EXPLOSION' IN LABORATORY AT WASHINGTON.
A short circuit igniting gasolene vapor in a test room of the bureau of standards at Washing
ton, D. C., cnuscd an explosion which shattered ten inch walls of concrete, hurled automobiles and
heavy airplano motors into the air and buried ten employees under the debris. A student, Logan
L*. Lauer of Silem, Ohio, was killed.
American Women Outlive Men
Is Fact Shown by New Survey
THE average woman of Amtrlca i
outliveq the man. U .
And If she happens to dwett on
the farm she la good for more years
of life than her elty sister.
These are the unusual, but Ir
refutable facts borne out by statis
tics now In the possesion of the
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Hartford, Conn.
The above graph, which deals
with unite of city malea, rural
males, city females and rural fe
males, each numbering 100,000,
tells Its own story.
The graduations down the side
Indicate the reduction of survivors
at the rate of 6,000 for each lino.
Across the top Is a acale of years,
and the curving lines Indicate the
way la which we males and fo
males die off. All that la neces
sary Is to follow a downward lino
until It hits one of the arcs and
then run your eye over to the total
of survivors at that point. For ex
ample, at the aRe of fifty, thero are
70.000 o#--the original 100,000 rural
females surviving; about 68.00Q
rural males surviving: about 63.000'
city females surviving, and about
57,000 city males surviving.
City dwellers die faster In th?
first five years of life, and the ad>
vantages of country life In thoso
Shears are never overcome, as the
graph shows. From the ago of
thirty-five to fifty tho mortality
among city males and females runs
In parallel and at a slightly faster
rate than the mortality of their
country couslnj.
ALL WOOL
SWEATERS
Men's Slip Over and Coat
Sweaters. Also the popular Durotex
Vests and the Durotex Coat Sweat
ers. These are great fads this season.
Mens and Ladies Shaker Knit
Sweater Coats the most popular
among the fair sex this fall.
Boys Slip Over and Coat Sweat
ers. They will stand plenty of rough
treatment.
Spencer-Walker Co,
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What He Likes To Wear"
Tine Keprcsonlativo of
Pa^qnot.'iiik County |
Miss Jemima James of tliin Coun- j
ty has returned from attending the j
I District Club Content held nt Wash
j Inuton, N. C. last Thursday and Fri
day. She was accompanied on the
trip by Miss Marcic Albert son, home
demonstration agent.
| Miss James and Miss Ora Jen
Inings were the winners in the bread
contest of Pasquotank County, but
| Miss Jennings was unahl?> to go to
| Washington on account of Illness in
her family.
Miss James entered the contest
Thursday morning, made her bread,
set it to rise, and In the afternoon
baked it. ' She won hi^h praise for
her work and was declared to be a
fine representative of the County.
The winners will not be known in
several days. .Indeed, it was ox
tremely~dlfYlcum to decide upon the
winners because' the club girls all
made such excellent records. t
The winning team will no to the
State Fair and enter the State Club
j Contest.
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We know of many widows
whose pocket-books are vacant
merely because their husbands
did not see the need of carrying
any life insurance.
EDUCATIONAL
Teach your dollars to have
more cents. Life insurance is
one of the safest investments on
the market.
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j out worrying about what would
become of your loved ones ill
case you were taken from them.
Try some life insurance.
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LIFE INSURANCE CO.
?120 Hinton Building.
S. S. Cartwright, Special Agent.
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DRIED RIOBT UP
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Any breaking out of the skin, even
fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly
overcome by applying a little Mentho
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Because of its germ destroying proper
tiff, this sulphur preparation instantly
brings case from skin irritation, soothes
ind heals the eczema right up and
leaves the skin clear ana smooth.
It seldom fails to relieve the torment
and disfigurement. Sufferers from skin
trouble should get a little jar of Rowlea
If tntho-Sulphur from any good drug
gist and use it like a cold cream.
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