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R. R. Haynaa,
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MANY HAlfOED BY ‘
BITS QP PAPER.
Tiny Sen* •! Paper OHts Sal*
llclast Evidence to Coavlct.
Slraafe Iastaacas al Trilling
bat Fatal Ovaralgbta at Crtml*
■ala.
"And this, geutlemeii, is what
you are asked to bang a man
on!” said Sergeant UalUiiliue.
addressing a jury at the' central
criminal court. He held op in
his fingers a little piece of
paper, only a tew inches big.
" You arc asked to return n ver
dict which will send that man
standing th.rrc before you to tbe
gallows, on the strength of a
scrap of psperl”
The scrap of paper was
enough, says London Answers.
Uallautiuc’s cticut was con
demned.
In a case tried at Lfeeds some
years back a prisoner named
Mouutfold was charged, with o
peculiarly diabolical offense.
Having conceived a murderous
hatred of' a mau who he im
agined had done him on injury,
Mountlold set to work to*plot
hi* death. ,A few week* later n
parcel was delivered at the in
tended victim’s house. The
. parcel, which looked innocent
enough, was a tin case holding
. several pounds of gunpowder
so packed Sa to explode when
opened. Between two pieces of
paper was some detoniug pow
der, connected witlwingenuions
; ly arranged matches at the top
i'' ‘kind bottom of tbe box.
Tbe attempt failed, the in
fernal machine did not daim its
victim, and the police were
called in to discover the would
DC assassin. wnacroeaio ine
brown piper in which the box
was wrapped- the detective
tound a scrap of newspaper—
. * h . portion of the Leeds Intelli
gencer of July 3. Other cir
* cumstsnces led them to suspect
Monntfold, and ob their visiting
< bis house and searching it they
found a Leeds Intelligencer of
that date with a piece missing.
The scrap in the infernal ma
chine fitted It exactly. Monnt
fold was found guilty.
> Newspaper used as a wad in
firearms has over and over again
sufficed to convict a murderer.
A youth named John Toms was
charted V at Lancaster assizes
with the fniKfder of . a man
named Culshaw. Culshaw had
been killed by a pistol shot, and
. the weapon bad evidently been
discharged from close quarter*.
The evidence against Toms was
> 'meager and unsatisfactory un
til ihere was produced in court a
terribly bloodstained, piece of
Bper. It was handed''to the
ry and examined by them,
and on it were still plainly
discernible the words of a north
* country comic song.
The piece of paper had been1
■J recovered from the fatal wound
».‘.‘Irf tho dead man's bead end
had been the wad for the as
sassins'* pistol. A aougbook
was fMsd ia Tom's pocket and
dead man’s «(6nhd corresponded
with the Inst part exactly. .Tim
won; of course, found guilty and
hanged. ■ .- .: »
Kraus Muller, the murdetei of.
Mr. Briggs in a railway car-'
riage on the North Ldndoa Use.
. made off pith bin victim’s top
r'iat. When esught several
1 ^ mouths later, a top hat, de
be Wr. Brim's, wdh
possession. . IU
■gad been coo
cltTM _ fiat Hid Sim
. 'wf it is Mr. Btlgjgy bat.' Mid
the hattyr who supplied Mm,
. ►you «»y «•<* • »cr>P «* Mmo«
,>me(Lwas too large for Um, m I
immv* to a*lte It it* a
'tZSdThJi. ' .A* ^ .*.;**
When the lining was turned
down, a scrap of the paper,
which bad adhered to the
leather,- was discovered, and
had, therefore, resolved to Ukc
the paper out, *IIc left that I
little bit, however—sufficient to
establish the identity of the bat
beyond all question as that Mr.
Briggs was wearing when be
was uinrdcrcd.
Never was a murder more de
lilierately planned to baffle sns>
Pic ion than that of Percy Mal
colm by Dr. Lamson. Lamson.
it will be Tciuemhcred, paid a
visit to Malcolm al his school at
Wimbledon aud murdered him
with aconitin, put in the place
of sugar in a soluble capsnle.
As soon as Malcolm had swal
lowed the capsule Lamson set
off by that night's mail to Paris,
whence be rctnrued to give him
self up when he heard that be
was suspected of the crime.
Lumsou imagined that his re
turn of bis own free will from
abroad would prepossess people
immediately in Ids favor. The
whole affair was cleverly plann
ed, but the murder :r was in one
respect strangely forgetful.
When bis clothes were taken
from him and searched, f he po
lice found in one of his pocketa
a piece of soiled aud crumbled
paper, on which were some
notes made in I unison’s hand
writing. They were notes on
the* effects and symptoms of
vegetable irritant poisons.
Among them w&s aconitin.
14h)son had forgotten that fatal
nnfu > •
In a Scotch case, in which a
young lady was charged with
the murder of her father by
poisoning him at the instigation
of her lover, s scrap of paper
played the most important part.
The old gentleman bad most
emphatically refused his consent
to his daughter marrying her
lover lad had threatened to dis
inherit her if she did so. His
wealth was considerable and the
young fellow, after some, time,
succeeded in persuading the in
fatuated girl to administer mr
senic to her parent Cm slowly in
creasing doses. One day a ser
vaut surprised the Wretched girl
while she was preparing some
food for the old man. ■
Tbs girl seemed dismayed by
the servant’s suddep appear*
■ace, hastily threw a piece of
paper which she - had crashed
into a ball in her band hpon the
fan, and (hen disappeared with
the little trey in which the food
was standings. The servant, aa
soon as her mistress bad left the
room, rescued the paper from
the fire. It bid been crushed
together so tightly that only the
outside portiod was co As a wed
by the flames, aqd in the cresses
oi it the servant detected a kind
of white dhst. She kept.the pa
per, and when her master died
and her mistress was airested
end chanted with his murder, it,
W*r prod deed in court. The
analyst had no difficulty in ■■:
certataihg that the white dual
w»s arsenic,' and the murderess
was ■ condemmed- to death and
was executed.
- Who- wait the . murderer of
Mary Webber? was a question
which some yesnr ago sorely
perplexed tha .fiapeksbire po
lice authorities. Webber was ■
sCrvanf, and left bar mistress*
bouse one evening to keep an
appointment with respect to
which the bad, her mist ism
subsequently remembered, ap
peared peculiarly anxious.
Mary Webber never returned
house. Her deed body was dis
covered the neitt day fa a lonely
spot near a wood. There w*«
no doubt she had been. murder
ed—strangled by some person
with lar^e, powerful bauds, the
fimrgrmsrhs of which sear* to
be soon upon bar throat.
Ifa.kwa could spy who it was
sho bad gone to most, but it was
i«’ L-vf < Stfi > ‘1 :
generally suspected (hat she
wild have had an uppoiatmeut
with House lover at that spot
•wir she met wirh her death.
Upon exnmiuiug her box, the
detectives found three notes in a
strange handwriting, scCtaingly
i disguised, and only signrd "O.
L." These letter* were evidently
from an admirer. They were
peculiarly disappointing, how
ever tor each contained ouly a
few words, making appointments
for meeting at various places,
one sppointment being fur the
fatal night at the spot where
Webber’s body was found. The
writer of that letter was in all
probability the murderer. Sus
picion now centered around a
young fellow in whose company
Webber had heen seen.
The day before the murder
the suspected man had, it was
developed, visited a shop to pur
chase a sheet of note paper. He
had (hen asked for a pen and an
envelope, and requested permis
sion to sit at the counter and
write a brief letter. When he
had gone the shopman found a
half sheet of paper left on the
counter in the blotting pad at
which the prisoner had been
writing. This half sheet the
matt pot back into the box with
the outer paper. The last note
found •*> the dead girl's box,
making tbe fatal appointment,
was written on a half sheet of
paper. This .and the piece left
by the accused man In the aliop
were pot together. Microscopic
examination revealed the fact
that the two halve* made one
sheet. Tbc man was executed.
A piece of paper played an ex
traordinary p«rt in tbe trial of
a Wiltshire farmer at the Salis
bury assizes. The prisoner was
charged with having sent an
anonymous threatening letter to
a neighbor. Witnesses ac
quainted with the prisooer'a
writing wei\ called to prove that
tbc letter was In his hand.
Others, equally^! welt able to
judge, declared that the writing
was not bis. But the proaecu
tiou had what appeared to be
moat conclusive evidence of the
prisoner's guilt.
Three of these anonymous let
ters bad been written on three
pieces of paper, which had been
roughly torn out of a single
sheet. In a writing desk in the
prisoner’s house the detectives
found a scrap of paper, which,
when fitted with the three pieces
on which the^ letters were writ
ten. exactly 'formed qne sheet.
The ragged edges of the differ
ent portions exactly fitted each
other, and tbe watermark and
name of the maker, which was
divided into three parts, were
perfect when tbe pieces of paper
were nlareH Inatllicr TK.
idence appeared overwhelming,
and the prisoner protesting his
innocence, was - sentenced to
penal servitude. The prisoner
was removed, when suddenly a
person stood up in court and de
nounced 'himself as the real
criminal. He was the son of the
prisoner'—a youth of eighteen.
, He wrote npon a piece of pa
per from tnewoTy the contents
of the three threatening letters.
His handwriting was exactly
that in tbe criminal epistles;
mistakes its spelling which ap
peared in them were reproduced
in the son’s writings. He bed,
ne.exptsjned, ,had access to tbe
writing desk 'in hit father's
room, and had abstracted the
paper from it. There could be
no doubt of hie guilt, and tbe
father was pardoned while the
son went to prison for seven
yam.’
' A piece of stamp sticking pe
ner was the means of assisting
lostlee in secure a notorious
bnrklsr Itemed Beriett, who
made e specialty of jewklry safe
break ng. He one night entered
a weakny gentleman’s country
ert.ln effecting an entry into the
•no. abstracting Jewel* worth
several hundred pound*; In kla
operation* on the aa(e, however,
one of hi* tool* inflicted a .light
injury to ooe of hi. fingers*. and
Benrett, • tearing off a piece o!
aUmp paper from some be oar
ried to hi. pocket, applied it to
tho won ad. Tlje remainder of
tbe paper be accidentally drop
ped on tbe floor, where h was
discovered by a detective. The
nefct day Berrett waa arreited.
Tbe piece of stamp paper be bad
pot on hi* finger tu Mill then
and grovM usefol in obtaining
him aeveo year* penal aervitttde.
. A piece of newspaper which
had been u.ed aa « book-market
was one of the strong link* in i
chain of eircinruUnttal evidence
Which brought t'ontio, a train
assaaain, tojiia desert*. Pontin
mnrdered a gentlemen trtvelei
ontkr a seat, alighted at a at.
turn and coolly walked awcj
Ifldtac • MWIMMf.
• • ,# • .. (
M. C'auler. the head of Um
riencu detective system, wai
quickly on the track up the im
perturbable passenger aod ran
him down. The ‘ucctiMd man
had atili in Jii* poetess ion the
copy of a newspaper of the date
on which the murder was com
mitted. and there waa a piece
tom out of one corner. The
muting piece was found in
the pages of a novel in the vic
tim's pocket. He had turn it
off to fnnkc it marker of it!
Poutiu expressed much disgust
at the folly he hail been guilty
of in appropriating the mur
dered. man’s newspaper and in
preserving it. He explained to
M. Canter, however, that be had
become interested in the serial
story that waa manias in the
paper and bad resolved to con
tinue it.
MOT APTEK HOLMES.
President leeeevelt lenenno
es the Statistician as n scesv>
M.
President Roosevelt, accord
ing to a Washington dispatch of
Saturday, has determined that
the scandal growing out of the
cotton report leaks in the de
partment of agriculture ahall be
probed to the . bottom. He
bolds that the men or men re
sponsible for the leaks are. even
in a greater degree culpable
than they would have been bad
they stolen money ontrigbt from
the government. He proposes
Assistant Statistician Holmes,
against - whom serious allega
tions are made, shell be pun
ished if it shalt be found possi
ble to secure hia arrest and con
viction under present laws.
The presideut has followed
the work oA the investigation
conducted by Secretary Wilson
with keen interest. The gen
eral results have been presented
to him, together with auch
recotnmeudatious as Secretary
Wilsou bad to make. The
president took prompt and de
cisive action. He referred the
matter to the department of
justice with instructions that it
should be given immediate and
careful attention. In accordance
with that order. Solicitor Gen
eral Hoyt, is now making a
thorough inquiry into the case.
To re-cnforce his formal order.
President Roosevelt wrote the
following pointed tetter to At
torneys General Moody:
“My Dear Mr. Moody: I
most earnestly hope that every
efiort will be made to bring
Holmes to justice in connec
tion with cotton report scandal.
Please go over the papers your
self. The man is, in my judg
ment, a far greater scoundrel
than if he had stolen money
from the government, as he
used the -government to de
ceive outsider* and to make
money, for himself and for
others. .
omuciciy yuurs,
"Throdomk Roosrvhlt.”
la response to the president's
letter. Attorney General Moody
replied:
"Dear Mr. President: I have
received yoer letter/ of inly ,12
end note With cxrc the anxiety
yon express that Holmes, tha
offending official in,the cotton
esse, be brought to justice if
possible. < 1 have kept, through
correspondence with tbe tolic
Hor'geaeral, in close touch with
this Investigatlob. It shall re
ceive my most earnest personal
consideration. 1 will not now
express aa opinion,- as I think it
better to await the resalt of acme
investigations now ia progress
in the department of justice. At
the first seasonable moment 1
will communicate y to yon the
progress we have made and tha
prospect of indictments. /
Very respectfully, ,
william H. Moody.
■mUafKlfitw a LMag.
Lemimm TU-WU.
A correspoadent of a contem
porary , who baa been- Marching
Mr the moat monotonous method
of earning a living, decided la
favor of that of cracking egga
"T mat a man who mid he wat
a / biscott maaafacturer on <
large scale, and was rather in
dined to bonat about the num
bar of eggs—contipental eggn
whlch hip firm bought in tht
conrae of a year. Now, it aeerm
that to avoid calamity, five egg)
are broken iatb a bowl at a tim<
before being added to the com
won stock, 'there ate men, th<
old men. Who do nothing ela<
bat crack eggs. They become
to expert that a man can diapo*
of LMO an'hour, or 10,000 a day
mHMMaMMHntaMana
Tnic Gasbtt* Printing Hoa»
lor all kinds of neat ion print
' “I*,-*.
Subscribe to Tmi OasTOHI
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TOWN TOPICS MOK
tarr mateiialize
Tmt Nam la Ewr Chapter
far lljMC brought 1M Safa
scribe ra.
AHAmiad Kmw-hmtm.
No more of the well-known
MTMM who have subscribed
*500 for "America’s Smart Set"
were found ' by tbe subpoena
server* from the district at
torney's office yesterdat. They
are pretty unanimously out of
town, but Assistant District At
torucy Krotcl bas been asked to
send a piotuse of Charles H.
Able, the solicitor for the
Society Editors’ Association,
who is charged with attempting
to blackmail Edwin M. Post out
of $500, to a well-known musi
cian who is traveling in the
Weak A friend of the musician
told Mr Krotel that he thought
the masieian bad met Able. If
Able is Ifae naan the musician is
willing to return to this city and
assist so his prosecution.
It terna out that If. K
Wooster, manager of tbe Soci
ety Editors'* Association, is tbe
man who suggested tbe idea of
getting oat "Pads and Fancies,"
a biographical work, which
Town Topics has contracted to
publish. Wooster, Charles
Stokes Wayne and W. JU
Daniels were taken to the
district attorney's office yester
day under subpofena and ex
amined by Mr. Krotel. Wooster's
atory of his connection with tbe
production of "Pads and
Fancies"—which, by the way,
hasn’t left Che printer’s bands,
although it wpa subscribed for
two yean ago—interested Mr.
Krotel very much.
Wooster said that be was a
solicitor tor subscribers for
"Fads and Fancies." Under
tbe agreement he was to get 50
per cent, of all subscriptions,
after the expenses bad been
paid. The other 30 per cent,
was to be split np in thirds be
tween Colonel WiniaarD. Mann,
Justice Joseph' M. Deuel and
Town Topics. Colonel Mann
and Justice Deuel are directors
in the company that publishes
Town Topics.
Each subscriber for "Fads
and Fancies" pat up $1,500.
Wooster nhys that when tbe sub
scription list was closed about a
year ago there bad been about
100 subscribers, which meant
$150,000.’ Daniels, who is
treasurer of the Tbwn Topics,
corroborated Wooster's state
ment about tbe working agree
ment on "Fad and Fancies,”
bat he cottldn* tell exactly why
tbe book hasn’t appeared.
Neither could Wooster. I He
Volt the thing about a year ago
and started the Society Editors'
Association. Justice Deuel, in
— a.-.11. _!iL A_!_a_a. P»* . •
Attorney Krotel yesterday,.said:
"When the subject of getting
out "Fads and Fancies" was
broached, I was in favor of get
ting out the finest thing in the
printer’s art in the twentieth
centnry. Each subscriber was
to select the' hide that his book
was to be bound in. Hides arete
imported from all over the
world, and ia some cases out of
a hundred hides inspected only
one was selected. There were
to be a limited number of copies
of the’ book. After the supply
far the subscribes bad been
turned out, a few extra copies
for the Congressional library
were to be ran off and then the
plates were to ha destroyed. I
don’t exactly know why the
book has not been printed, as
the aabecripdon list was claaed
some time ago.
"About a year ago Colonel
Mann heard that some of the
overaealous solicitors for the
book were using the name of
Town Topics as an argument
for the sale of the book. Colonel
Mann wanted the book to stand
on its own merits, and it SMS
men decided mat Town Topics
would never again issoe sOy
*uch book. Than Woostar con
ceived tkc idea that be would
atari a book of bis own called
America’s Smart Sat,’ and da
cided that it shonld hsve noth
ing to do with Town Topic#."
Wooster told Mr. Krotel that
ha organised the Society Kdi
ton' Association, ahd the only
other person who had any inter
est was Charles Stokes Wayne.
Ha is the editor-in-chief tod
managing editor of Town Top.
tea. The Society Editors As
•©elation was never incornor
atad, nor was any statement filed
with Uta county clerk tetHug |£
nature of the association's bnai
"It was in the early part o
1904," Woostar tnM Mr. Krotel,
"that I started the aasocistion
I weal to C«1dDt! Mann, of Towt
Topic* but be wouldn't havt
t snythlag to do with it. Than
took Wayne in. At first I go
« ‘1 .
subscriptions myself. I got ten
or twenty in Newport. Then I
bind two other men. A man we
bad in Chicagowm find became
be tried to blackmail some one.
In all we km collected $20,000.
Mr. Warns got 10 per cent, of
the profit and I got the rest.
None of the money ever went to
TSETSE
that Able ever got aa high as
$1,500 far an edition, bnt ha wm
authorised to go m high aa $1,
000. He got several of those.
That was In the case of a person
who wanted to be mentioned in
every chapter of the book—the
editions calU for twenty' chap
ten. I don't know how much
waa paid for the first chapter,
wblph is ont, bnt yon can see
our books and accounts or any
thing yon want. At ftnt Abie
a: 25 percent, on subscriptions,
» begot 30, sad at the cad,
SatSetr*'' -4-ta
Daniels said that when Colonal
Mann declined to go into
Wayne's scheme fan took it ap.
Ha wm than secretary and trial
**•£ of Town Topics, sad ha
thought it wm a good thing. Ha
tad equal power with Colon si
Mean and Justice Deuel, bo acid,
and be did what ha pteeeed. He
P«tg» $1,000 wkhtbeunder
•tanding that be waa to got o
fiS back!* h?'taS? £ the
bonus, except $200. He wm to
be paid on the > first contracts,
"and when I gat my $200 I’m
throueh* he mid
Wayne said that his income
from the editors' Was. about $25
a week. W. L. Allen, who wrote
the first chapter on "Society in
Maw York," sent to Wayne for
WET?sat&tta
scheme **rtWl1* *° tU
Soma* of Abie's fHeads mid
yestmjky that he was
of telling what be knows
America's Smart Set*
district attorpey. He fa
Tombs and nobody bat
to pat ap $3^00 bail fori
be tells everything,” mid i
friend, ' tkereArillha a agenda!
that wiH keep people talking fm
mas? days.”
■ ■ ..
I Aboo Ban Adbam, Neva Ugl
BaW^MsO ImariMa » £ t
rwn^mTT nmmtmi.
It la not bard to tall a practi
1 eal Christian and a maTi*
•ipcerely loves his feUow-mai
these day■. Ha la rare anopgi
i to be carthr counted aa tbe A
gHS, and ha ssovna up from tb
end acetal the open ear to maki
1 room far tbe neat paaaengef.
100 corm«s, regular price $1. at* offered at 50c.
200 corsets, regular price Me, will go for 38c.
Muslla Un4erwe«r. 28 Per Cent Off.
One lot inoslin underwear 400 rarnaenta *aiatMinU.i M
per cent off of Banal pricey ^ /yajot^inclnd— gowns, skirts.
Shirt Waists, 50 Per Cent Off.
nmATmM**' * “•*** *r&-.«
Wash Skirts Half Price.
One lot <4 ready-made wash skirt* at one half sf regular price.
Mohair Skirts $2.50.
f4.«ad $4.50. The ontfca lot can in this aayftJS.
Baby Caps.
One lot at -babr capo at ono-thinl off fraai regular price.
Beautiful regular atoek.
Sale begins to-snoriow (Saturday) —a a o’elooV
TERMS OF THIS SALE ARE CASH.
JAS. F. YEAGER,
Ladle** Furnlahiaa,