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, "Where Every Man Finds 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. Classified List of iied-hi.ooded AMEI5ICANV NKKDS 'WANTED Twenty-five men to buy the best life insurance on the mar ket. All kinds anil all prices. I I OK SALE Dozens of life insurance pol I icies for all ages and all pocket I books. EXCHANGE We will exchange a perfectly good life insurance policy for all your worries and a small sum each year. VACANT 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. FOUND A way for you to work with j out worrying about what would become of your loved ones ill case you were taken from them. Try some life insurance. JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO. ?120 Hinton Building. S. S. Cartwright, Special Agent. NEW FALL STYLES ARRIVING DAILY Owens Shoe Company llintou ItuililiiiK Gallop-Sawyer Realty Co Let Us Handle Your City And Rural Property mnlon Ituilfllng Main Ht H. C. Bright Co. YjJUICest Jcw<?lera In Ka?>(omi \onii Cnrolliui When You Want a Real Vegetable Dinner RRMRMRKR To rail I'm. We carry a full lino of Prenli l-'ruits anil Veurtablen M. V. PERRY I'HOXK 4 8U. AYRSHIRE CREAMERY BUTTER [rjtmrnnteeri MrlHly pure. In innrtfr |M>un<l or one ?m It's (he be*t lijit* tcr we've been nlilo to btijr. TIIE MAIN STREET GROCERY For Farm? and Cardrn (Clectrlc Hnppllen, Lighting Future# ?ml Ifoune Wiring. Your* to nerve FEED For Stork and Poultry ^S.mil:e6Co. Phone 64: ico-uPoiiK(n>rrSt. 666 Cure* Malaria, Chill* and Ff vcr. Dengue or Riliou* Fever. It destroy* the germ*. Gelfand's Products (?clfanil** Mayonnaise, ox. Jar 14c K or., jar 27c CaclfntiilN ltd Mi, H nr.. 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Expert Cleaner and Block er. Hend your Hata by par cel pout. I pay chargea one way. L. W. SMITH 0 8. fUxMl Ht. Phone 614 Kllsabeth City, N. C.

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