Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1926, Page 26

26 KIDNAPING OF MAN INTEXAS BAFFLING Policeman and Boy Wit- nesses of Mystery on Fort Worth Street. By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH. Tex.. August 2.— The kidnaping of a man from one of Fort Worth's busiest business corners here Saturday night by six robed but unmasked men continues to baffle police. A policeman and newsboy, eye witnesses, said the man was stand- ing near the curb when an automo- bile stopped in front of him and the robed men seized him, threw him into the motor car and sped away before any one could interfere. The officer said he witnessed the kid- naping from a distance of about 20 feet. No clues have heen developed as to the identity of the man or his kidnapers. Police are attempting to trace numerous rumors, including a report that the man was a heavy winner at cards and that the kid- napers lost heavily to him Lanier Webb, the newsboy, said a large man in a white robe grabbed the victim and carried him to the automobile, where the other men pulled him into the machine. The robes all bore crimson crosses, Lanier declared. The machine was quickly lost in traffic. FARM HAND ADMITS STRANGLING GIRL 10 Father of 5 Cluldren. 54, Taken to Zanesville Jail After. Crowds Threatens. By the Associated Press, COSHOCTON, Ohio, August 2.— Robert ¥. Thompson, 54, widower and father of five children, was arrested | at Mount Vernon early’ yvesterday and confessed, county officers say, that he assaulted and strangled Gertrude | D'Ostroph, — pretty 10-year-old Co- | shocton girl, at a_secluded spot along the Walhonding River Friday night. After killing the girl, Thompson sald, he returned to Coshocton. The “hext day, for some reason he was un- able to explain, he sald he went again to the scene of the crime. retrieved the body and placed it in a path where it could be found. Fearing | violence from threateming crowds at | Coshocton, poiice met Thompson' captors and took him to Zanesvilie for s keeping. Thompson was traced to Mount Ver- non by two local men ployed as a farm hand. PRINCESS TAKES UP GOLF ON VISIT IN CHICAGO Sister of King of Spain Calls on Lucrezia Bori and Gives Views on Love. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 2. — Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of King Alfonso of Spain, has jolned the ever- | increasing host of Glencoe golf course, Mr. and Mrs. Ed princess swung her chased first golf ball down fairw The princess is paying her second visit to Chicago. She was here in December, when she toured the coun- try studying American business women. Following the golf game Sunday she paid her first vears to her friend, Ravinfa opera singer. to slight any of the suburbs, she ga love ar ston | “My hioned,” the princess said in her studied Eng- lish. I think a man should be very | much in love with a woman before | marrying her. And then T think when once married they should stay that way. ’ olfers. On a s the guest of rd ‘Glaser, the first mashie and her the and then, not north shore | interview on | ideas WIFE OF FLYER KILLED SATURDAY HAS NEW SON Mrs. S. Russell McIlvain Has Not Been Told of Husband's Death at McKeesport Airport. By the Ascociated Press PITTSBURGH was born vesterday sell Mellvain. wife three aviators killed August to Mr s- of one of the aturday. when | the McKees- | port Mellvain has not Hean tola of her husband s deats. 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It is a non-greasy, disappearing liquid that may be applied during the day. Atk your druggist for a small size C0c or lange bottle $1.00. He was em- | | behind. that | at the air- | of the | (Copyright. 1924, SYNOPSIS. Richends Peterson, & Londgn office girl. X I per cdntest, and de: lea to” apen Of Atfiea hole the Frentast promiss of ad Jenture to her. and sie books bassake for Port Mombasa. When the boat stops at Sibraltar, Richenda goes off alone to inspect the old fown. and is accosted by a native. who frightens her. Angus Brodie. one of her fellow passengers, rescues her from the man. Atrived at Mombasg, the first person Rich- enda sees is Brett Fairways. a noted ex- Slbrer. “Whose facs has hauneed her draums 8he ‘is_introduced to him by Lucille Dave nant. a widow. who has deliberately sought her acquaintance. Mrs. Davenant and Fair Fays invite Richenda to joine them on a hunting expedition. They start the journey intg the interior. " Richenda aows suspicious of Lueil Bivit tells Richenda he Joves her. He is moody and acts strangely. but Richenda trusts him completely. even thoush the inti- y, petween him and Lucille is disturbing um o b Pouye. £t "ORnd. Richenda, Tesiing She 1o destiny. corisents. Algus Brodie bays a surprise’ visit and cautions Richenda to go slowly her to promise to' come to him if she ever needs hi help, marriage is performed. and a few hours later Richenda ovarhears Brett and Luclile quarreling violently. Lucille is re- fusing a bribe and aceusing’ him of bigamy Brett retorts that his first wife has been dead 3 ! because he S e admits ehe is in dificuities about a check, and agrees to'go I Brett will pay up for_her. Stunned and disillusioned. Richenda floes from camp in a motor car. In a daze she remembers her promige to Angus. and directs the native driver to take her to Lambogru (Continued from Yesterday' ) INSTALLMENT XXVIL Fairways Follows Richenda. RETT FATRWAYS had sworn vehemently under his breath as he saw the car which should have taken Lucille out of his life forever drive in a cloud of dust around the curve of the hill and disappear from sight. An amused giggle from the woman at his side had added fuel to his anger. “How will you get rid of me now, Brett?" “You'll walk to the railway siding.” he answered tersely. “If you start in half an hour, you can t'au'!‘. the § | o'clock traln into Nalrobi.” She gave vent to a stified exclama- tion of annoyance, then smiled a little After all, she would get that ‘hich meant a great deal to her at the present moment. Moreover, there might yet be a time ahead when she could use this man for her own purposes. At present she had lost this round of the game. The wisest thing for her to do was to fall amicably into the line of action he demanded of her. He was making his way up the hill- side now. “Come on, you'll have to hurr. called. She padded silently behind him, her high little heels catching in the clumps of tufted grass as she came. As they reached the encampment, Fairways' anxious eyes went at once to his tent. And the flap of that tent, no longer tled securely, was suddenly drawn aside, and there appeared the | figure of Jeroge, a pile of Fairways' clothes over his arm, a brush in one hand, apparently intent on proceeding with the valeting duties which were part of his daily labor. | Fairways was by his side in one moment, peering into the dimness of the tent, “Wapl memsahib?” he demanded. The memsahib, the boy told him, had gone to meet the bwana by the bamboo forest. She had walked down [ the path up which he came. With a word to Lucille, who was already embarked upon her task of hasty packing, Fairways was striking down the hillside again. “Richenda! Richenda! Dickie!" | His volce echoed among the trees. Suddenly he saw a little patch of white on the grass ahead. Her hand. kerchief! He picked it up, mechan- ically fingered the silk-woven initial in one corner, stood for a moment as an frozen in his steps. ferciful Heavens! he whispered. he came here. She must have heard it an!” He knew now why that car had suddenly elected to depart. Convic- tion came to him that she had gone in it, and he, poor fool, had stood in his ignorance and watched the very going of her. Where had she gone? Ah. that was the question to which he must find an answes The next hour was among the most trying ones of Fairways' life. Tn an incredibly short time he was hustling Mrs. Davenant on her way to the rail- way siding, two panting boys follow- ing in the rear with her suit cases. To Lucille he had not breathed a word of his discovery. She went, believing that Richenda still slept in’the camp A few words by Fairways to Jeroge, who understood elementary English, sufficed to gain the information sought. The slumbrous native nodded his head vigorously. By all his gods, he had seen a car go! Had it not nearly ground him beneath its iron feet as it leapt in starting? Oh, ves, there was a memsahib in it—a mem- you again! | windows. E Powder into the air gun. The Misty Pathway By FLORENCE RIDDELL by Flcrence Riddell.) THE sahib whom he had seen come run- ning down the hill. And &he had cried that they should speed much. Which way? He scratched his clay- bedauhed head and pointed vaguely down the road: “Oh, that way.” “But ask him what the memsahib sald.” Fairways was fidgeting in ex- citement now. “She said, came the reply. “But page where? Nakuru? To—-" A light of comprehension came Into ‘Pace, (hurry),” To pace’ To Nairobi? “BRODIE, LET ME IN! “The memsahib sald, he told the dusky face. ‘I will go to Lambogru, " them. It was exactly three hours after the engine which bore Lucille out of his life had steamed away that Brett Fairways boarded a trundling goods train, which by good fortune would arrive at the small station of Lam bogru somewhere about midnight. Richenda stirred uneasily in her sleep. Through her dream ran a dulled suggestion of some one ham- mering. She could hear the muffled beat of it. She was floating down a country lane curiously at ease, and of stones. Men were thudding blows on those stones, chipping them into flying pieces. She turned on her side, What a noise they made! She wished There it was again, louder now, near at hand. And they were calling, calling hoarsely and insistently. Her eyes opened slow the mists of sleep still clouding them. Yes, somebody was calling—knocking and calling. Came the scrape of a chair across the wood-planked floor of the adjacent room. Then Brodie's voice in pene- trating calmness. “Who are yvou and what do you want?" Another voice quick In answer. Richenda's feet swung suddenly over the side of her bed, the last shadow I WANT MY WIFE!" of sidep vanishing in a single instant. “Brodie, let me in! 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