Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 3, 1915, Page 2

Triple Tragedy Occurred Yesterday At Miami Miami, June 2—After slaying the jailor and police officer, with whom he exchanged fatal shots, Bob Ashley, mortally wounded, died today while on the way to tell his brother, John Ashley, convicted murderer, of the des- perate, but futile attempt he made to break open the death cell and save his condemned brother from the gallows. These three men, as a conse- quence, lie dead; their bodies torn by bullts: Wilbur W. Hendrickson, jail- or. J. R. Riblet, city police officer. Bob Ashley, brother ofi the condemned man. Kills Jailor at Door Soon after mid-day yesterday, Bob Ashley approaching the jail, called Jailor Hendrickson to the door. Soon as he opeéned it Bob Ashley shot him dead. Screams of the jailor's wife brought City Police Officers Riblett and Stephens to the jail. Leaping over the jailor’s dead body Bob Ashley ran toward the city park, dashing down gravel walks and causing consternation among nurse-girls wheeling in- fants. Planting himself behind a tree Ashley, reaching for his revolver, ran out and stopped a cycle car. ake me out the county road|s quick!” Ashley shouted. The occupant of the cycle car, seeing the man was pursued by the po- lice, hestitated. Intimidated by the snarling threats of Ashley, the driver made room for him and started the car. Exchange Fatal Shots With Policemen. At the edge of town the driver, complaining that his motor would not work, got out to tink- er with machinery. Police- man Riblett overtook the car, and he and Ashley opened fire simultaneously. Riblett sank, mortally wounded in the head, but from his prone position he raised his pistol in reply and sent a bullet through Ashley’s ab- domen, Policeman Riblett and Ashley were put into the cycle car and driven back to town. Ashley died on the way. The police of- ficer died at 4:30 o'clock in the city hospital. Brother Must Die on Gallows. The brother, John Ashley, sits in the death cell, sentenced to die June 18. He is convicted of murdering Tom Tigr Tail, an il- lustrious Seminole Indian chief, in the Everglades last winter. He and his nptorious brothers were also accused of hold up and robbing a Florida East Coast train last fall. They dynamited and robbed a bank at Stuart car- { Three Ingenious Articles Patented By Polk Co. Men| Bartow, June 3—A handy fruit and vegetable slicer and| shredder has just been patented by Messrs. J. L. Ross and J. R. Spencer and they have formed a company for the purpose of manufacturing these. The com- pany is composed of Messrs. R. B. Huffaker, J. J. Boynton, J. L. Ross and J. R. Spencer. The article is simple in construction, will save time, prevent the cut- ting of finger on a shredder or potato cutter and it is strange no one has thought of it before. The machine complete has three in- terchangeable drums, about three inches in diameter and twelve inches long, one of these drums is for shredding bread, cocoanut or vegetables, another) for cutting vegetables in thin strips and another for making Saratoga chips. Each of these drums may be attached to a; crank and by means of an ar- rangement on top the articles are pressed down on the drum which is in motion without the hands or fingers coming in con- tact with it. When a sufficient quantity is cut the drum can be removed, one end taken off and the contents placed in a dish. Messrs. Ross and Spencer have two other patents which they hope to use a little later. One is a campaign button which the White House in Jashington, an electric wire is attached to this and the coil car- ried just beneath the shoulder, by simply pressing the arm down the switch is thrown and the white house disappears and the presidential candidate’s pic- ture appears in place of the White House. The other is a small boat for trolling. The boat is about three feet long fit- ted up with motor and propeller and rudder, the latter may be set at any angle so as to describe a small or large circle. When a bass strikes the minnow, which is attached to the rear of the boat the contact causes a small flag on the top of the boat to rise, or if at night the contact throws the switch and lights a small electric globe and the fish- erman pulls in the craft by means of a line attached to the front of the boat. All three ar- ticles are very ingenious and will probably meet with a ready sale. GOT $s50 FOR A SHAVE. flmbul Los Angeles.—Jack O'Reilly, a barber on West Third street, had the surprise of his life a few days ago. A prosperous-look- ing man walked into the shop. When the job was done the pa- tron unlimbered a wad of bills, stripped off a $50 yellow-back and said: “Thing have come my way handsomely. Here'sa T NI . THE MAN IN CHARGE By FLORENCE LILLIAN HENDER- SON. . —— , 1315, by W. G. Chapman.) “It's your duty, Eloise. You should look up this guardian of yours at once and call him to time.” “] certainly do not like his meth- ods,” responded Eloise Thayer. “I wish brother Earle was home. He would take this metter in band.” “Why don’t you just go to the city and give this lawyer, Rolfe, a piece of your mind?" “I believe I will do so, auntie. seems to me it is my duty.” The speaker, however, did not look as though she coveted the task set for her. One year previously she and her brother Earl had inherited an es- tate valued at about $20,000 from their Uncle Reuben Thayer. The latter had left the scttlement of the estate in the hands of Adrian Rolfe, whom Eloise had never seen, At the end of six months Eloise was notified that the estate had been 1t ! adjusted and that her share was $10,- 000. This was invested in improved real estate, the income from which was $600 per annum. Her brother Earle was to receive cash and securi- ULLERY ROLFE TORNEYS b Four Times She Repeated the Calls. ties. He went to the city and did not return. His great hope for years had been to travel abroad. Ile wrote to Eloise that at lust he had his heart's desire, 3 Eloise was glad that he was having a happy time before eettling down into business life. Now she had not heard from him for gome months. This wor- rled her somewhat. Then her guar- dian was acting strangely. She had been planning to secure quite a sum of money through the sale of a small plece of property Uncle Rleuben had left her, to help her Aunt Huldah build an addition to her home. To this the city lawyer had paid no at- tention. Two monthly payments had been passed. What was wrong? Some- thing—so, picturing one of those avaricious, grasping ogres of a lawyer she had read about, Eloise started for the city to d°mand an explanation for these irregularitics, Eloise had the address of the law- rying off loot estimated at $3,-a bit of a tip.” Leaving O’Really | yer, but first went to install herself 000. Through their series of desperate acts the brothers havethe man walked out. been in the public eye for several months, stuperfied with astonishment, He was a prosperous Los Angeles stock broker, O'Really said. Predicts War Will Be a Draw The Boston News Bureau prints the following letter from a leading Philadelphia physician, who is at the same time a mili- tary authority, now at the front, to a Boston friend: “The Eastern war area is very interesting. Germany will eventu- ally occupy Warsaw and two railroad centers, fortify and en- trench and hold Russia at bay, then devote her time and strentg to the Western campign. If she is able to do this, and I think she is, there will be little fear of Roumania entering the war. “Turkey plays a minor role; will eventually lose Constanti- nople and all her European pos- sessions and wiil be the football of all nations. After the occu- pation of Warsaw Germany will offer advantageous peace terms to Russia, allow her to have a free hand with Turkey, and Rus- cia will eventually accept (all opinion to the contrary); other- wise the war will last into 1916. The Western campaign will remain in ‘statu quo.’ Even if Germany should be able to take Paris or Calais, she is not apt or foolish eonugh to invade Eng- land, a few Zeppelin and Taube raids will no doubt be made. Of one thing you may be sure: The allies wil] not gain or cross the Rhine in 19i5. “Germany will continue to give a good account of herself; her resources are ample. The recruits of the 1915 class are not to be called out until the usual time, viz., October I, 1915; seh can easily place 2,500,000 to 3,- 000,000 men more in the field, and as long as she can obtain some supplies from Ttaly through Switzerland she is not in 2 precarious position. Swit- zerland is placed in a peculiar position, as she cannot stop ship- ments in bond from Italy to Germany via the St. Cotthard tunnel. Should Italy side with the allies, Germany would find herself in a precarious position, and would have to depend orf Scandinavia, Dlenmark and Hol- land for some minor suplies. “The war will end, no doubt, in a draw. I do not think it is the aim of Germany to acquire territory; she may eventually hold Belgium. Your sympathy will naturally turn toward the country where your forefathers came from, but it behooves you to consider cause and effect—the ultimate result. If Germany wins the world would face an- other Napoleonfc period, prob- ably not a one-man power, but ta UllL“L‘UlI“tl’)‘ |)l)\\'cl’. { “Should England. win ,many will be partitioned into small kingdoms and principali- ties, and assume the same posi- tion she held prior to 1879. Ger- many, being the most virile, the healthliest race, will in two or three decades assume her natur- al position, and will eventually come together with her natural ally, England. Both nationns be- long to the same tree, and must recognize their mutual advan- tage. Russia is the natural ene- my of both countries. England does realize this, but she has to link her fortune with Rusia for seli-preservation. Ger- “In years to come England will have to watch the Gates of Hierat, in Afghanistan, the weak! spot of her Indian empire, and if Russia obtains an outlet into the Mediterranean the Suez ca- nal will be in constant jeopardy. Both England and Germany realize that to exhaust one an- other will ultimately benefit Russia, and this causes me to be- lieve that it will end in a draw.” at the home of a friend of her aunt's, not knowing but that her business in the city might take up several days. Her aunt had flled her mind with decided prejudice against Lawyer Rolfe. Eloiza et her lips very firmly as she reached the address of the at- torney's office. She was inexperienced in city ways. *The hurry and bustle of the streets had confused her. She stood before a door on the second floor of a big cffice building. It bore the name of Adrian Rolfe. There were the names of other attorneys also. The hall was somewhat dim. Floigse did not notice in smaller let- tering: “Entrance at No. 16.” She tried the door. Tt did not give. Bloise cupposed the usual occupants of the room to be absent temporarily. She went down to the street again and looked irto the store windows for a spell. Then she returned to the of- fice buildirg. Again she tried the door —still locked. Four times during the morning she repeated the calls. There was disap- pointment each time. She went to the house of the friend of her aunt where she was stopping and recited her experience, “In my opinion this lawyer is keep- ing out of your way,” said the lady, who was old and cranky and suspi- cious, juet like Aunt Huldah. “Oh, do you think s0?” murmured the distressed Eloise. “Then what am 1 going to do?" “Consult some other lawyer.” “1 will try to reach Mr. Rolfe once more first,” decided Eloise. “I hope he hasn't run away with all the prop- erty and money belonging to Earle and myselt.” “Just as likely,” returned her cross grained consoler. “This wicked world is full of crecked men.” Eloise went to the office building after dinner. Agoin she found the door locked. She walked slowly past adjoining offices. The door of one was open. Had it not been so, she would have been able to have seen the same names as were on the closed door and the word in large letters: “Entrance.” Financial Genlus. Mr. Foghorn—Take out your debt In singing lessons! You're crazy! What kind of a voice do you think I have? Professor Squeale—Like a steam whistle, only worse. But when you've taken one lesson in your home the neighbors will raise the money and pay the debt. First Principle of Precept. Impossible is the precept, “Know thyselt,” till it be transiated into this partially possible one, “Know what thou canst work ~t."—Thomas Carlyle. | [ Seated at a desk in a neatly fur nished inner room, Eloise made out a young man. At a glance his hand- some open face attracted her. She decided 1f he was a lawyer and she needed one, it would be a bright in- telligent young man like himself she would choose. “Oh, dear! I feel so flustered—ev- erything is so strange to me’ breathed Eloise timorously. “I must do something, though, to settle this matter,” and she entered the office and confronted the young man at the | desk. “Please pardon me,” she said, “but I am a stranger in the city and wish to consult with some lawyer.” The young man sprang up all cour- tesy. He bowed her to a chair. “I am an attorney, Miss,” he said. “Can 1 be of service to you?” “I hope you can,” replied Eloise, and | “I have she handed him her card. come to the city to see my guardian, or rather the man in charge of the estate of my dead uncle. My friends fear he is not—that is, attending to the affairs of my brother and myself as well as he should. I have tried all the morning to reach him in his of- fice, but have not succeeded.” If Eloise had not been so confused, she would have observed a strange expression come over the face of her companion. He appeared about to break out into speech. Then he bit his lips, looked startled, then serious, and finally said: “I shall be pleased to have you state your case, Miss Thayer.” Eloise did so. She was too gentle- hearted to accuse Mr. Rolfe of deliber- ate fraud, but she made a clear, plain statement of the circumstances. “If you will leave your present city | address, I will look up this matter and advise you this evening,” he sald. Eloise went home, feeling that she | had placed her business in competent hands. “So intelligent looking! He just seemed to see through the case in a flash,” Elolse told her landlady. (No wonder!) “And so—well, so hand- some, too.” (And she blushed.) The lawyer called that evening. It took him—he called himself Mr. Ed- wards—an hour, although it took him only five minutes to state that he could not settle with Mr. Rolfe for a day or two. He called the next evening and stayed two hours. At leaving, he told Eloise that if she would call at his office the following morning he would have the delinquent monthly pay- ments for her. “You had better return home then, Miss Thayer,” he advised, “and in & week 1 will see that this—this negli- gent rascal of a Rolfe sends you a full and complete statement of how your business affairs stand.” Mr. Edwards had given her the money at his office next day and Eloise was about to leave, when a volce that startled her spoke, and, turning, to her profound amazement she faced her brother. “I won't see you in a false position, Rolfe,” he declared. “Eloise, this is the best friend 1 ever had. He has not given you his full name—it is Adrian Edwards Rolfe. 1 have been fool- ish and extravagant. Some ready cash had to be got to lift me out of my troubles. The money due you and what Rolfe has kindly added, about saved me,” and a full explanation fol- lowed. “What can you think of me, Mr. Rolfe,” fluttered Eloise, blushing with embarrassment, “after the terrible pic- ture I painted of you?” “I shall try to make you think bet- ter of me in the future,” laughed Rolfe. ‘Which he did—aided by Earle Thay- er, future brother-in-law. Sense of Taste Comes First. Each one of the senses is of vital fmportance to the composition of a perfect or well constituted physical in- dividual, but it is probable that if the sum of influences of each on great achievements of mankind could by any possibility be estimated it would be found that the sensory machinery of taste has led all of the other four functions. From the days of Lucullus and Epicurus, centuries before our era, and doubtless for other earlier centuries the joys of the table, the bottle of wine, the bird, the boar's; head, the haunch of venison, all the fruits of the vine, the tree and the soil, were made to appeal to the sen- suous nerves of gustation residing in that little member of the human ana- tomy, the tongue, making from it po- tential appeals to the intellectual, the spiritual, the esthetic and the more or less grossly carnal. How to Massage Severe Injuries. Bruises, particularly the severe con- tusions due to external violence, yield well to massage treatment. Using the fingers or the palm of the hand, rub with a stroking movement, always di- rected from the center of the contu- sion. Relief should be obtained in a few minutes. The massage should be done twice a day and should not be continued for more than fifteen minutes at a time. When sprains are being treated by massage always rub toward the joint, not away from it. The time of the application may be lengthened to half an hour, and a greater amount of pressure exerted than in cases of simple contusion. The parts over the joint, however, should be handled gently. Simplified Spelling. Stern Parent—So you are at the foot of the spelling class again, are you? Little Bobby—Yes, sir. Stern Parent—How did it happen? Little Bobby—I got too many z's in scissors, Cleaning Photographs. Photographs which have been pro- tected with glass and have become sofled either by dust or fiy specks may be cleaned very easily by wiping them off with absorbent cotton dampened Wwith pure alcohol.—Woman's Home Companion. Between Two Fires. “I hear you intend to move. What's the trouble?” “Why, hang it, the fam- {ly above us has bought a pianola, and the girl in the fiat below is learming to burn leather "—Boston Transcript “IT WAS MY FAULT” By ANNE PAGE. ht, 1915, by the McClure Newspa- | (Copyright: Foer Syndicate.) 1 Suddenly they had separated; he to go to town to live, she to her daugh: | ter's house. For the pair had a mar- | ried daughter—their only child—and an infant grandson. Nobody seemed to have an idea of what the trouble was; everyone in for Mr. and Mrs. Sefton had bee popular in the little social circle foi years, The beautiful home of the Sefton was for rent, and summer vacation- ists were looking at it every day with | a prospect of renting it. Mrs. Sefton spent every moment of her grandson’s waking hours with him. She took him out into the parks; she sewed for him and romped and played with him as if she had been 20 years younger. | Mother and daughter had never dis- cussed the separation since the first | day that Mrs. Sefton came there; and ' then the explanation had been brief. Leila knew nothing. But she was a | loyal, loving daughter, and she knew that whatever had been the u'onble‘ | her mother could have done no great | | wrong. | | “You are utterly spoiling Peter and me,” Leila said to her mother one | day when she had returned from am afternoon spent under the trees with ! Peter. “I—I must spoil someone, deal‘."' the mother answered. “A Wwoman can't spoil and pet a human being for 30 years and then find herself empty-handed of anything to indulge. You're young, and may not under- | stand how long 30 years is, daughter.” | “Perhaps, not, mother,” said Leila. “And don’t think I'm seriously object- | ing to the spoiling. 1 love it. It's won- i derful to have you with us—even Ned says so, and that's a concession from a son-in-law, isn’t it?” ! “ suppose s0,” Mrs. Sefton said, ab- ! sently. Her mind was far away, back | to the days when her own little daugh- | | ter was in arms as was Peter now. | Leila had sensed her mother’s loneliness for some weeks, though this was the first time she had ever given utterance to a word that would lead anyone to think that she missed her partner. | That night Leila and Ned talked until far into the night. They were | planning a ruse by which they could | get their baby’'s grandparents to- gether. “For, once together again, I'm sure they could not bear to separate,” | Leila had said. ‘“Mother may have | a little too much Bruce stubbornness in her, but father—like all his fam- ily—is downright obstinate. I hon-l estly think they quarreled over some trivial matter, and having nothing else to think about and very little to | do, the quarrel became serious and neither one would give in.” “It can't be anything else, dear. It will come out all right—TI teel it,” com- forted Ned. Leila was in touch with her hthal‘.! and on the following day she spoke | with him on the telephone. “Hello, daddy,” she said. ‘“Mother’s out to- night and we—Ned and I—thought perhaps you'd like to come and see us and Peter.” She waited for a few minutes for the answer, but when it came it was satisfactory, for she promptly tele- phoned to her husband that she would join him for dinner, and that they would spend the evening at the theater or on a roof garden. John Sefton rang the door bell of his daughter's apartment with a feebler touch than had ever been his before. He did not admit it to him- self, but he was declining in strength very fast. He left his hat and old walking stick and gloves in the hall and he stopped to listen to the baby's cooing and laughing before he pushed inside the portieres and stepped into the cozy living room. “Mary!” he gasped, looking at his wife, who was as surprised as him- self, H “John Henry Sefton! You!” she sald, holding the baby close, “Mary—Mary,” began the elderly man, brokenly, “I—I didn't know how much 1 wanted to see you till I laid my eyes on you this minute. This is some of Leila's doings,” he added. “It must be” Mrs. Sefton said, blinking away the tears of joy that would spring to her eyes at sight of | her husband. There was silence for a full minute Wwhile John Sefton stepped closer and closer to his grandson and his wife. They both looked into the round, laughing face of the infant and then into each other's eyes. “It was my fault,” they said in unison. She looked at her husband with the old-time smile. “And you remember when we said, when we celebrated our silver wed- ding, that our love had been full blown for so long that we could re- member nothing else but that per fectly developed understanding?” asked John softly. “Oh, don't—I do kmow it Kiss Peter and—" Her words were never made articu- late, for Peter began to demand at- tention and the fond and doting grandparents tried all their wiles to quiet him. At last he screamed him- self to sleep, and the reunited pair found as much to say to each other as if their love were just in the bud- ding instead of full blown. # Got Beyond That. ‘How many rods make a mile, Sampson?” the school teacher asked of the little boy who was reviewing bis arithmetic. “Oh, I don't know 0w, teacher. I've forgotten long ago. at's the sort of stuff the kids in No. 4 learn.” Carrying It Too Far, An agreeable disposition is & nice thing, but some people are so easy to get along with that it's no fun to get along with them. the community wanted to Know, ||g Busi Improvi Financial reports are more optimistic each week ¢ students of business conditions see more Prosperous iy, the near future. The “BUY-A-BALE” movement checked the iccli, depression which followed the opening of the war. ks “BUY IT NOW* is stimulating all lines of I|yg, activities. “OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT NOW?”, should b titude of all who wish to benefit themselves and improig| iness conditions. “OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT ‘NOW’ " with us FIRST NATIONALBAN| C. W. DEEN, President C. M. CLAYTON, Cag THIS BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERj| RESERVE SYSTEM. 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