Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1935, Page 28

TYANCONPLANT OFDOUBLEFOUND Author Protested Against Imposter in Letter to Cleveland Herald. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, November 30.—I Mark Twain ever had a double he was almost as elusive as the supernatural little boy of whom the author wrote in “The Mysterious Stranger.” | A Mark Twain letter has been dug | out of the records of the old Cleveland ‘ Herald, in which Twain complains to | the editor about a double who went around borrowing money in Twain's name, swindling landlords, getting *“magnificently intoxicated” and even stooping to horse thievery. Entitled “A Mystery,” the letter bears many earmarks of the hoaxes ‘Twain liked to play in his day, and it appeared just one day before a Cleve- land lecture by Twain, November 17, 1868. Appeared in San Francisco. The first time the purported double turned up was in San Francisco, “some two years” before the date of the letter. The double borrowed five dollars. The | author cleimed he was 300 miles away { t the time. | 3 “Two months afterward,” .Twam§ wrote, “when I was down in the | Sandwich Islands, this double went and | boarded four weeks at & thlrd-ratel hotel in Sacramento and then van- | ished in the most mysterious way, | Jeaving an oil skin carpet sack full of interior bricks, and the bill unsettled. 1 could not but consider myself re- sponsible for the acts of my do:lxble. of course, so I paid the hotel bill. The little boy who was “the mysteri- ous stranger” in Twain's story of that name, and who materialized out o!‘; thin air at unexpected moments, iden'- | tified himself as a member of Satan’s | family and spoke of his rich uncle in { the tropics. Lectured in Idaho. cho-analyist, keeping that in ml?m‘.’sxilghc smile at the locale of the double’s next adventure. While Twain was at sea, the double “delivered & lecture at Satans Delight, Idaho, on the ‘Moral Impossibility .of Dough- nuts'—a subject in which I never took the slightest interest in my life.” In June of the year of the letter the supposed double lectured in Wis- consin and Ohio, while the author himself was lecturing in California. “About this time it fell into the habit of getting persistently and eternally drunk—a thing which T al- ways considered disgraceful in a | ghost,” wrote Twain. In Cleveland the double imposed upon the newspapers, “swindled the | landlord” of one of the principal hotels, “kept itself more imposingly and magnificently intoxicated than ever a specter did before, and it closed its splendid career by failing to recog- nize a photograph of an old and well- beloved comrade of mine, and so was at once denounced as an imposter” end run out of town. The double’s fate was to disappear to the northward, stealing a horse the first chance it got. Not Spectral Double. In the first of three postscripts Twain declared the mystery is solved with the discovery that the man is not a spectral double, but a “very ordinary” young man, “entirely un- known to me or any of my friends.” The author adds that “I speak seriously” in declaring the young man “perpetrated, in my name, each and every one of the frauds mentioned in | the article above. “I ought to hate him,” wrote Twain, | %and yet the fact that he had been eble to borrow money and get board | on credit by representing himself to be me is so comfortably flattering that | I own to a sort of sneaking fondness for the outcast for demonstrating that such a thing was possible. I will try it myself, now.” Insect Parley. Delegates from 27 different parts of the British Empire recently met in London to discuss insects. BT S CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Photo Engravers’ Union, Hamilton Hotel, 11 am. Meeting, Mercantile Club, Hamilton Hotel, 1:30 pm. Meeting, Town Hall, Shoreham Hotel, 8 pm. TOMORROW. Luncheon, Newcomers Club, Carlton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, University of Washington Alumni, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, University of Pennsyl- vania Alumni, University Club, 12:30 pm. Luncheon, law faculty of George Washington University, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Fra- ternity, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Medical Round Table, 1pm Luncheon, V. M. I. Alumni, Army- Navy Club, 12:30 p.m. ° Meeting, Delta Bigma Chapter, Delphian Society, Shoreham Hotel, 10 am. Luncheon, Touchdown Club, Hamil- ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Committee, Early Birds' | Club, Willard Hotel, 12:15 p.m. | &\ Luncheon, Variety Club, Willard Hotel, 1 pm. Meeting, Abraham Lincoln Cirele No. 3, Ladies of the G. A. R, Willard | Hotel, 8 pm. Card party and dance, Notre Dame de Namur Alumnae, Willard Hotel, 8:30 pm. Meeting, Gamma Chapter, Delphian Society, Shoreham Hotel, 8 pm. Concert, International Art Forum, Shoreham Hotel, 8 pm. Basaar, suditorium of the Church of the Nativity, 6000 Georgia avenue, 8:15 pm. Meeting, Stuart Junior High School | Parent-Teacher Assoclation, Stuart Dance, Minnesota State Society, ‘Washington Hotel, 9 p.m. Dinner, Soclety of Automotive Engi- meers, University Club, 8 pm.. Meeting, District Optometric So- elety, La Fayette Hotel, 8 pm. Dinner meeting, Craftsmen Club directors, La 4 Mrs. Amy Dumbrell, 50, is shown in jail yesterday at San Francisco, where she is held for shooting to death her husband, John H Dumbrell, 59, a banker. She surrender- ed to police. —Copyright A, P. Wirephoto. WIFE IN SHOOTING TOOFAT, SHESAYS Killed Husband Rather Than Divorce Him for Going With Another, Alleged Plea. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 30.— | Plump Mrs. Amy Dumbrell, crying “I don't belleve in divorce,” was ar- raigned today on a charge of murder- ing her broker husband in a quarrel over “another woman.” “You see what I am—short and fat,” she wept. “That's why I lost my husband.” The broker, 59-year-old John H.‘ Dumbrell, was shot as he and his wife argued over Dumbrell’s asserted attention to a red-haired telephone operator, officers were told. Mrs. Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. the leaden-eyed pre-Christmas look. A small boy in a sedan parked at the curb peers out through the glass windows. A woman—presumably his mother— comes out from a nearby store and ap- proaches the sedan. She tries the STREET. Noon time. Swarm- | ing shoppers beginning to get daor. The catch is fastened and it | won't open. A business of gestures. “Open the door, Billy.” Billy smiles. Mother gestures more wildly. Her lips move silently now—as though the little fellow can read what she's saying bet- ter through the closed windows if she doesn’t say it out loud. Her gestures grow wilder, A crowd begins to gather. Benevolent passers-by offer advice. Mother ges- tures and Billy smiles. One onlooker waves a chocolate bar so Billy can see it. “It's yours, Billy, if you open the door.” Billy only smiles. By now the gathered crowd is reaching proportions that are confusing to traffic. Then suddenly Mother relaxes. She | opens her pocketbook, takes out a | key, unlocks the door and climbs in | the sedan. The crowd stands staring | with s look as though it had been | cheated. * % k % BAD MEMORY. Where is he going, this young- ster who stands at Eighteenth street and Columbia road and cries for quarters. His story has not changed in three encounters Washington Wayside Operative 0017 has had with him. It's always that he sold his papers and then lost the quarter he collected. If he goes home without it, his mother will beat him, since that is the only income they have. He got away with the story the first o = | Dumbrell identified the woman only | | as “Mrs. Gladys Jones.” Visit to Apartment. \ “I went to the woman's apartment | and had a showdown with her,” In- spector William Stanton said the 50- year-old matron told him. “She refused to give up my hus- | band. I suffered in silence for 20 | years, but I should never have gone | to that woman's house. I knew she | was living in a luxuripus apartment | that she certainly was not able to | provide for herself.” The Dumbrells were married 27 years ago and have a 19-year-old son, John, jr. Used Son's Own Gun. “I shot my boy's own father with | my boy’s own gun,” the inspector | | quoted her. “I did it for the spke, just as I have spent 20 in torment.” WOMEN'S RIGHTS _DRIVE QUTLINED European Feminists’ Set- backs Told at Confer- ence in Ohio. By the Associated Press, COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 30.— Feminists campaigning for a “women’s rights” amendment to the Federal Constitution heard today their free- dom already far exceeds that of European women. “In Europe women are discouraged by law, propaganda and dictatorships from obtaining almost any form of equality,” declared Mrs. Rebekah Greathouse of Washington before the | National Woman's Party convention here. Mrs. Greathouse, cousin of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, represented the party at the feminists’ open-door international at Copenhagen. Previous Gains Lost. 1 “What little European women had| gained previously,” she said, “has been | lost through ‘depression psychology’| and the attitude of governments that | women should not be gainfully employed. “The German delegate could not even attend the convention because Hitler denied her a passport. In many European countries the number of | women in any occupation is restricted | by quota, even dressmaking being in- | cluded in the restrictions. | “All we in America can do to help them is by meeting with them and| passing resolutions.” | Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley of Washing- | ton, presiding officer of the Woman's | Party convention, warned that similar | restrictions might become general in | the United States unless feminists | backed the constitutional amendment proposal and combated existing State laws regulating women’s wages and hours. | She outlined the amendment cam- | paign as a process of “winning over” | members of Congress. RUSSIAN CHURCH FAIR SET FOR DECEMBER 13 Preliminary Plans Are Completed for Exhibits and Enter- tainments. The third annual St. Ncholas fair of the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church will be held December 13 at the Washington Club, Seventeenth and K streets. Preliminary plans for exhibits and entertainments have al- Yl‘iready been completed by a committee ®4T8 | headed by Miss Tasia Stadnichenko. The fair, sponsored by the Circle of | Mrs. Wiley Speaks. | Mrs. Dumbrell said she learned of | pussians, is intended to aid the per | the “other woman” three years ago | through an anonymous telephone call. | “I don’t believe in divorce,” she ex- | plained, as she appeared before Mu- | nicipal Judge George Schonfeld. “I| | believe divorce cuts the child astray. | This outcome was inevitable.” | by a policeman, demanding to know petuation of old Russian arts an crafts and to raise funds for cultural needs among Russian refugees. Last year more than $400 was raised. nichenko with arrangements includes Mrs. Viadimir Ayvazoglou, Mrs. L. M. de Blumenthal, Mrs. I. V. Emelianoff, Mrs. Vsevolod Joukowsky and Mrs, E. F. Portlianko. STEAMSHIPS. | | | where he was going. | “To Lorton to give myself up,” the | man replied. | “Well, you'd better get going, then,” the officer commanded, and told the | man his train was on the track. It wasn't and the man had to wait an hour in the cold until it came. x x ko THE ASTERISK SQUAD. For efficiency’s sake, a number of Public Works Administration officials have adopted the practice of having their secretaries listen in on all phone calls and write out the conversation for reference purposes. In the heat of discussion these Government section heads quite often forget the feminine taker- downers. The filed conversations, therefore, are frequently blurred with scratched out passages. Pity the poor working girl. “Lacquer ... jade ... silks o .. as the Chinese shop signs reads It’s not far to the Orient nowa- days. 10 days direct to Yokohama «+. Empress of Asia or Empress of Russia. Or via Honolulu in 3 days more...Empress of Japan or Empress of Canada. From Cali- ADVENTURE STORY. TH!R!: still is adventure in the world. A Washington hunter met it face to face the other day in— | of all guises—that of a ram. | They saw each other about the same ! time. The ram charged. The hunter ! stood his ground. As the animal ap- | proached within striking distance, the | hunter aimed a well-directed kick at | time, but he does not huve a good memory for faces. > Tfl! following incident is reported to have occurred, on & crowded elevator in a downtown office building several days ago, although nomne of the principals, for obvious reasons, could be identified: - * A woman passenger suddenly shout ed to the operator, “Stop the elevator, I've got to get oft.” As the Hift halted she turned suddenly, slapped the man standing behind her and squirmed out before descent, mouths still agape, a little girl in the rear spoke up: “Mother, what's the matter with that woman. She was pushing me | into the corner and I bit her.” * % x % PRODIGAL'S RETURN. I its lowered head. It landed perfectly, | but at that the ram won the argu- ment. The hunter now is laid up; with a broken ankle. | He remembers now that rams have pretty tough skulls. » i P * ok K x | FLIGHT OF WISDOM. | Moving day does provide its diffi- culties; especially when the person being moved receives a lot of phone calls for information. The woman's department of The Star was being moved from one office to the other the other day when just | such a call came in. “Certainly,"™said the young woman who answered the phone. “Just a minute.” She put down the phone and Jooked about blankly. Her desk was gone. She rushed out of the room. 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