New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1929, Page 13

Bt. Louis, Feb. ¢ UM—Twenty Years with one railroad from sten- ographer to aasistant to the general manager was the record of Miss Katherine Wilson. During this time the line grew from a six-mile single- industry road to a 50-mile one serv- ing one of the most active industrial 4 districts in the middle west. Miss Wilson resigned yesterday from the Illinois terminal railroad at Alton, 1. During her years in practical harge of the property it achieved he reputation of being one of the most profitable railroads in the country, The beit line was sold eight months ago to the 1llinois Power and Light corporation, for a reported $7,500,000, The value of the property was zlnd to Miss Wilson's manage- * ment, railroad operators affirm. Tried Often to licsign Miss Wilson has attempted several times to resign since the road was so0ld, but the new owners repeated- ly urged her to remain. She gave as her reason for resigning that, un- der the new contrel, the road is too large, as about ¢50 miles of track b * would come under her direction, and she felt she had devoted enough of her life to working and wished to retire. Despite her resignation, . Miss Wilson will retain an office in the railroad headquarters and act in an advisory capacity. It was reported at the time of the sale, Miss Wilson received a gift ap- { ¢ proximating $100,000 in appreciation of her long scrvices from the for- mer owners, As far as can be learn- ed Miss Wilson never owned stock in the line, i Miss Wilson joined the road in | 1399 as a stenographer, and after scrving some years in that capacity, became chief clerk., That post gave " way to a car accountancy position and for a number of years she was the only woman in the country oc- .cupying such a place. Later she was made assistant to the vice president and general manager maa with her knowledge of the operations, practi- cally the entire management was left in her hands. Stories regarding her knowledge of operations are numerous, chi anmong them the averting of a strik in 1917, Some of the men had walk- ed out and Miss Wilson climbed into the cab of a locomotive, went to the scene of the strike and persuaded the employes to return to work, " SPANISH MOTHER QUEEN DIES AT 70 " Maternal Parent of Allonso Was Native of Austria mother Christina of Sp died at the royal palace at 3:30 a. m., to- duy. itor 17 years until her son, King Alfonso X111, was erowned king in 1602, Christina was regent of Spain. She was 70 years old. | Madrid. ¥eb. 8 (UP)—The queen » Maric Christina Henrietta Desives cite Nteniere was born July 1, 1858, the danghter of the Grand Archduke Charles Ferdinand and the Grand Archduchess Blizaheth, of Austria, house of Hapshu &he was married on Nov.' 28, fonso X11, king of Spa after the death of his first Quoen Mercedes, When King Alfonso XIT ¢ Nov. 25, 1885, she had b two daughters bul no =on, was not officially . 17 mont wife, ed on ne him 4 and it a child was to he born to the queen. The posthumous child was the pre ent King Alfonso XIIL of Spain. After the birth of her son s months after her husband's » death, Queen Christina was made regent of her dominions. Some anx- "~ ity was felt because she was a for- | cizner and had manifested, during Ter husband’s life time, no interest in politics, Caristina proved a successful re- gent, however, and won not only the admiration and loyalty of her sub- jeets but the respect and obedience of her opponents. o " Senate Lunch Club Elects Mrs. Moses Washington, Feb. 6 (#)—The Sen- ate Ladies’ Luncheon club has set- tled a problem that has caused quite & bit of discussion in Washington social circles by the clection of Mrs. George H. Moscs, wife of the New Jampshire senator, as their organ- fzation's president. Ordinarily the wife of the vice president assumes the office of club president automatically, but the vice president-elect, Benator Charles Cur- . Bdward tess is his e neh- Gann. Some members of the I eon club contended that Mrs. Gann should be choscn president. The matter was settled behind closed doors yesterduy, Mrs. Calvin Cool- fdge being present at the meeting. Mrs. Gann wus made an honorary member of the club, without the right to vote. Mrs. Frederic Sackett, wife of Kenator Sackett of Kentucky, was reelected club sccretar: Klan Lawyer’s Wife Files Divorce Suit Reno, Feb. 6 UM—A divorce wuit by Mrs. Ann Mows Zumbrunn w. * file here today against W Francis Zumbrunn, chief counsel for the Ku Klus Klan of the United States, who several years ago had an sctive part in litigation and fnvesti- gation in which the organization fignre Mrs. mental t Dyer- Zumbronn eharged ehildren and no communily prop- erty. SSIFIED ADS 120 minut 1579 to AR | announced to the | public until thrce months later that | THIS HAS HAPPL Ruth Lester, beautiful secretary to “Handsome Harry” Borden, pro- moter of dubious stock companies. bccomes engaged to Jack Hayward, whose office is just across the nar- row airshaft from Borden's. On a Saturday morning in Janu- ary, Borden has two women callers, The first is Rita Dubois, night clui dancer, who is to accompany him for a weck-end at Winter Haven The sccond caller is Mrs. Borden Borden's wife and mother of his two children, who vomes for hicr month- | ly alimony which the forces her to ask him promoter for in per- i son. Learning her husband is busy she agrees to return, but before leav glimpses a pistol in Ruth’s de Rita leaves and Borden waves good- by with a torn bank note, ing her of her “bargain. While Ruth takes dict den mukes a playful pass she screams, attracting Jack's atten- tion in the opposite office. Jack 15 furious and threatens Borden across the airshait. He is still angry when Ruth mects him for lunch. Ruth forgets her bank book and rushes back 10 the office where she bruises her lip. Jack believes liorden b her but Ruth insists he is wrong. At the luncheon table Juck says he left their theater tickets on his desk and returns for them. He is gone returning angely - er. turbed. This mood persists 1hrongh- out the matines and reappears agam when he calls Sunday night. At the office Monoday morning luth gocs into Borden's private office with crumbs for pigons that gather on the window ledge. Her eyes fix in horror on the thing sprawled near {the window on the floor. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER V1T Slowly. her fect ing as and cold Jing that the floor, Lester ha ward the door which led into her own office, hor hand groping for the knob. in a desperate need for something to cling to. for her whole world was whirling madly about her. Rut her staring. un- winking hlue o could mot tear them! away from the sight which filled them — the pe hody of her cmployer, rlan Harry” Borden. Even in death son His still facg y very white against the pnhsh-( dark brown wood of the floor und in contrast With the sleck blackness of his un- vuffled hair, was pillowed upon his up-flung left arm, so that he looked as if he slept. But the rigid still- ness of that crumpled body was not the peace of sleep. From hencath the slightly raised right shoulder — he had fallen upon his side — something which had ence been warm and red spurted. form- irregularly shaped pool, Her groping hand found the door knob, and she clung to it, swaying for a moment. Then, fren- ¢ taking the place of stunned hor- stire s the nath he looked hand- iror. she banged the door upon that ghastly sight and staggered across ber own office. both hands reach 1g for the outer door. When she had come in. she had left it on the lajch, so that visitors 10 the officc might gain access, and as she let it &wiig shut behind her flecing. horror-driven figure, she had the impulse, born of long hab- it, to click on the latch. so that no |ene could enter during her abscnce. obody can hurt him now. IHe needn’t be afraid of unlocked doors any more.” Ruth's mind babbled crazily., as she ran down the hall, past the suite of offices that lay beyond Borden's, turned, the cor- ner, raced on. From the very first moment off discovery there had been only one thing she comd do She must se: Jack. The journcy along the twe corridors had mnever seemed long to her hefore, but now she 12t as 1 she would never reach the man she was engaged to, the man who . . But as if something too fright for contemplation were pushing up- ward from her sub-conscious mind she veered her thoughts. Two men who had offices in Jack's wing of the Starbridge Building looked at the white-faced, running girl, but she did not see them, did not hear one of them call out to her. 1f she had. she would not have answered. No one but Jack would do now. and he . - fou bt out Who was calmly ope Mr. Hayward? or rather, he's in the hoilding. Just stepped ont of the office a minnte, Won't you wait for him?” Miss 1 his oufer office door remind- | Barnes asked, her light-brown eyes taking Ruth in curiously, then [with a little cynical half smile, lich betrayed her thought that Ithe engaged couple had quarreled already. “Go right into his pri- |vite office, Miss Lester. I'll see {it T can find him for you. 1 think le went into the fypewriter agency {next door—" | Ruth had no power to listen. id not know that she shut the door of Jack’s private office the uncompleted sentence of his ccrotary. Gasping, her hand press |ing hard upon her heart, she sank | liown into Jack's desk chair, her | whoie body trembling so that the chair quivered and squeaked. 1f only Jack would ¢ and take her in’his arm her what (o do. tell her lthat he hadnt— Oh, no; not that! | stn't go mad, with so much Afterwards, Ruth had o memory of reaching a shaking and down. down. to fhe bottom drawer of Jack Hayvy memory at all of it But there memory hegan, recordinz o ‘moment of such transcendent a8 was never to bhe entirely ased from her mind. Bvery finger of her groping hand [scemed to have an eye, as if her wide, terrified blue ones were not nough. But &l the cyes in the vorld could not have found Juck' utomatic pistol in the drawer, for {1 was not there, Tor a frantic minute, knecling now » that pulled-out drawe she pawed among the soiled fow | come! Come king it open upon | @'s dosk, no | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1929, | nitely long, cls and rubber-handed bundles of arcient Life insurance “literature,” |hut she knew that the thing she | had never had the courage to touch | but which she would now. if she {had found it. have hugged to hes ‘hwnxl in a tr port of relief and Joy, was not there—not there. } She heard Jack's \oiwce in the | outer office. Rose, trembling and vauseated, from her knecling posi- |tion. Held tightly 1o his desk for support as she fuced him. | “Hello, darling’ wect of you to pay me a good morning visit." his cheerful voice began. Then he saw | her white, stricken face, the horror |in her widened blue eys. “Wh | what Ruth? Wait! Hold every thing! here, sweet!” And his arms were about h steadying her, holding her clos. {against his heart. Her fingers dug {into his shoulders. “Mr. Rorden’ He's — dead! Murdered! Rlood |Jack — oh! What am 1 to do? The ! police—oh, Jack! terical Mabbling. hut up, Ruth Do you hear me? — stop it, T say! You've got to get hold of your nerves, darling! Oh, my God!” he groaned, pressing his cheek hard against the goiden curls. “Lister, Ruth! The man deserved to he shot. Hcld fust to that, darling! He deserved it, T tell you! There's cnly one thing for you to remem- Ler—that we love cach other. Now. we'll go — over there —" and he nodded, his face grim, to' the win dow across the airshuft, “and facs this thing together. Take my arm, darling. Hold tight:" The two corridors secmed stretching away bk interminable paths in a nightmare, Lut at last they were in her own office again. She laid her head on her desk, pillowing it on her crossed arms. while Jack, in a brisk, businesslik: voice, called police headquarters. Fragments of his conversation pierced th> swirling chaos of her mind — “Yes, Borden! B-o-r-d-e-n. Henry P. Borden. Murdered in his office, suite 712 the Starbridge Building. . This is John €. Hayward speaking. . . . Of cours: 1 shall stay until police arrive.” As from a great distance, Ruth heard him turn the knob of the Goor which sh> had closed upon the thing which had been “Handsome Hacry” Borden. He must be looking . . . Oh, how could he? His automatic gone from the drawer of his desk . . . That heavy briafease which he had not let out of his possession after he had returned to her at lunch- con, during the whole of the mat- inee. . . . “Check your hat and coat and bag. sir . . ." Jack's scowl at the boy. his curt refusal. . . . And all the time, cven when they were holding hands acress the Lriefease, that horrible thing of | blue steel had been there, Oh, no. no! Ruth wrenched her wind back, forced it to reconstruct | the events of Saturday afternoon. Tt that, too, was more than her mind could hear, without shudder- ing away and being dragged back. Her bruised lip. Jack’s white- hot anger against Borden. his re- fusal to believe that it had not n Rorden who had hurt her. His threats, insanely uttered in the presence of Moran. the clevator operator. . . . She had had to hold him lack with all her trength to keep him from forcing his way into Borden's offices. . . . His declaration . hat he had for- gotten the theater tickets, his re- turn to his office to got them. Had he really forgotten them, or hud he intended to do what—oh. she mustn't say it. even to herself! { Again that agonized wrenching of {her mind. to bring it back 40 the suhject, no matter how horrible ft | The young man's arms went lax for a moment. then tightened ahout her so that she gasped for hre “God! That you had to sce exclamation, uticred on {kusts of breath might mean thing—anything! | Ruth struggied in his arms, {her eyes against her clbow. M fault! T—T sereumed! | hadn't screamed, Jack! 1 ave to (el the police, will 1 rHodiet T A, Jack will have to know! I'll dic: The man seized her roughly «hook her a it to stop that hy Jack ? Nohody If only 1] 1 Jack seen Borden ross shaft? Oh, God. why had the architeet set fwo windovas cxactly opposite so terribly close? . . . k *furiously delivered an n to Borden about her? marreled then, so that ry became insanity? What r than to snateh his vom the drawer of his desk re at Tor drawn to his own window hy the gaarrel? Suddenly Ruth's small aalvanized witn had done this thing, hody w purpose. If Jack he had done ow...in your Favorite Colors To the mechanical perfection of BoND Flashlights is now added the final note of Beauty! the Bond Electric complete with Mono-Cells Corporation, pioneer in most of the great mechanical improve. ments in the modern flashlight, has done the unusual thing—the interesting thing—the smart same Jow price prev same wonderful value that has always characterized these re- it for ber — for her! He bad com mitted a deadly sin, but he had done it to protect her. And now. before the police came, she could do something for him. “Where are you going. Ruth? Jack demanded harshly, “Stay o of there! no sight for eyes. Stop. 1 tell you “Oh. let me go!" Ruth sobbud. tearing at hin hands. “I've got ta go! T've got to do it before the police come! Don't you—under- stand 2" “Do what? Are you crazy? Flease, darling. get control of your- self! It wasn't your fauit, really! The man deserved to die—" “Don’t say that again! 1 can't bear it!" Ruth screamed. “Don't you renlize?—I've got to close the window before the police come!™ He let her go. or her strengta ‘or the moment was greater than his. for she flung herself upon the connecting door, tore at the knob until it yieided, stepped in—then stumbled backward Into Jack's arms. “The clo: Jack! hear? thee! window's Closed! 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PLANTSVILILE—. 1. ourviere. 151 Look for ¢his Sign Store, bility to the Ford and housing. The steering worm, for in- stance, is splined to the steering worm shaft and is stromger, of course, than if a single key were used to hold the shaft and worm 248 FORDS Telephone 5135 your | Closed! | easy to steer because of the well- proportioned weight of the ear, the steel-spoke wheels, the co- design of the steering wheel, and the simple mechanical construc- The Ford steering gear is of the high-priced cars and is three- quarter irveversible, In simple, mon-technical lan- steering wheel, yet there is ne danger of the wheel being jerked ruts or bumps in the road. A light touch guides the car, yet you al- ways have that necessary feelof- the-road so essential to There was a loud knock upon the thank you sald AMdermaun jouter door, followed immcdiately |Coughlin, “und 1 shall endeaver to by the turning of the knob., The [merit the continued suppert of my police had arrived to inquire into fconstituency.™ the death of ‘Handsome Harr Borden. Bill Provides Public Whipping for Women (TO BE CONTINUED) Who killed Harry Borden? tective Serg=ant McMann Indianapolis, Feb. § UP—The In- diana senate yesterday amended & Dbill establishing whipping posts Yer charge in the next chapter. criminals, to make mandatory the Bathhouse John Is 'public whipping of female as well as Sure of Re-election {maic oftenders. The bill then was Chicago. Feb. 6 UP—It may now |passed to final reading. Punishment jbe predicted, with & reasonable de- | would be administered before court grec of certainty that “Bathhouse™” | house doors by sheriffs. Johin Coughlin, fashion plate and| Senate leaders last night expressed | poet laureate of the city council, wiil the opinion that the amendments e elected to his nineteenth term 13 |were added with the intention of alderman Februaryt 26. | “laughing the bill to deat! Assurance became doubly sur: | with the announcement that Bath- house John's only opposition, Ed- ward T. Joria, had decided a con- test would be futile, “In view of your long record in representing the, first ward of our city,” Joria told Coughlin yesterday, | "1 see no reason why another two| years should become a matter of {electoral quibbling between us. | congratulate ‘'you and the people. De. takes | NO RECORD OF 'QUAKE Cambridge, Mass., Feb, 6 (I'P)— Slight tremc 5 reported yesterday | from North Weare, N. H., were nct | recorded on the Harvard ¢ graph. 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