Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1887, Page 2

DESERTED WITH HER BABY How a (rl Olaims that 8he was Deceived, Betrayed and Abandoned, 18 SHE MRS. HOMER KIRK? Marricd by a Spurious Justice of the Peace in Lincoln and Then Neglected During Her Trial of Motherhood, Officer Tom Pierronet said to a reporter of the Bk last night on Tenth strect: 1 wish you would go up on Dodge street and sce a young woman named Mrs. Kir She has been stopping at Hortz's boarding-honse, on ‘Tenth street. She had a baby there, and after she beeame able worked for them some time, When she got & chance to get wages at another place she left, but they clamed she owed them and wouldn’t let her take away her trunk. All her baby clothes are in it and all her own elothes except a dre: I huve been uv there to get her clothes for her, but they won't give up the trunk until she pays them what they claim she owes them," 5 This ledl the reporter to look Mrs. Kirk up. She was found to be a petite bru- nette, nbo\lllw(mtf' years of age. She had a three months old 1nfant in her arms—-as fat and pretty a blue-eyed baby a8 could be wished for, Shesaid: I am, or suppose I am, the wife of Homer Kirk, a barber who worlks at the Areade hotel My maiden name was Maud McKnizht, My parents are both living at Brainard, Neb. I was working (sewing) in Stroms- burg in 1885, when I came to Omaha to attend the fair, 1 then intro- duced to Kirk. After I went back to Stromsburg, he wrote to me and an- swered hisletters. He came to Stroms- burz ouce to sce Last March 18%6) I went coln to meet him and get arried to him. We were to get married without anybody knowing anything about it for a while. He told me that it would be necessary to keep it quiet for a month or two because he wanted to get n home ready for me in Omaha and didn’t want my folks to know anything about it until he could do so. We were married by a ustice of the peace in the parlor of the Jommiercial _hotel in Lincoln. We stopped the hotel that night. The next day went to Brainard and he came to Omaha. I did not know the name of the justice of the penc he did not give mo aiy o ificate. Ididn't know hat I ought to have any. Kirk didn't me_any ring, but he said he would, staid at home at Brainard's until August. I was so sick my mother sus- picioned what was the matter. She made me own up and then she made me come to Omaha and told me to make Kirk take oate of m He had written me a good many times when I was in Bramard, promising from time to tim to send for me. I came to Omaha and Kirk took me to a lodging house on tne corner of California and Thirteenth streets, We lived there as husband and wife until late in November, He paid my board at Miss Spotts’, at Thirteenth street and Capital avenue. Ho told Mrs. Spotts he was my husband when he en- gaged board for me, “In November he left me and didn't come back. was crying all the time and was half sick. I sent hm word to come back. He didn't roply. Finally Mrs. Spotts sent him word that he would have to send mc some money and would have to support me. He went to Mrs. Spott's house and gave her §6 for me. The next day a woman came to see me at my room. Sho said she was Kirk's lawful wife and that she had two children. She said he had de- serted her back in Iowa and she had just found him, and that she was going to make him support her and his children. She told me that he had fooled me and that the justice of the peace who had married us in Lincoln was no iusuro of the peace at all. She said that would have to give him up because I had no claim on him, and she did. “I was so dazed by what she told me that I didn't know what to do. I thought that what she said was true, and that [ didn’t have any claims upon him. I told her that if she was his wife of course [ would give him up. I didn't know that I had any rights. 1 then commenced to look for work some- where, and finally went down to Horw's boarding house, where [ was given scwimilo do for my board. Threo of the men boarding at Mrs. Spotts’ had given me $10 and I kept that hid, sewed_at the Hortz house five weeks when I was taken sick. 1 had Dr. Clark. When I was obliged to take my bed I ave Mrs. Hortz the $10. I was sick in d two weeks, Then I got up and tried to werk, Twas weak and couldn't t I worked for for sewing I had done, Then I ls{rned th I oould earn some monn{ beside my board at another place, and I told Mrs. Hortz that I guessed 1 would leavé. She got mad and said 1 shouldn’t take my trunk unless 1 ,minl her $20. SoI had to go away without my trunk. I have tried to get it since, but they will not give it to me.” “What kind of treatment did they ac- cord you at the Hortz place when you were sick?" was asked of her. “They treated me kindly enough. 1 didn’t “bother them much, ut 1 was always afraid that the house would be raided by the police and I would get arrested, There was such a hard crowd of men there.” ““What kind of men?” she was again were burglars and thieves. There were five of one gang. They were Charley Gollagher, Trank Williams, John Wilson and two they called Shorty and Froney. They would bring jewelry, postoffice stamps, silk handkerchiefs and shoes into the house and give them to Mrs. Hortz to hide for them. Bhe hid a set of burglar's tools once when the pol \od the house, by drop- ing them into the water in a reservoir n the back of the stove. This was after the time when there had been a safe burglary and just before the city steam laundry burglary. ‘Those parties I have named dia the laundry burglary.” The anove is given just as the young woman told it and nearly in her exact Iauguage, The BEE does not vouch for the truth of her statements, because at the time she was seen it was too late to make further investigatio which will be made to-day. 1tis possi- ble there are other stories, and that there 18 another side of the case as far as Kirk is concerned, The woman appeared to be honest and her manner gave the im- gumon that she was telling the truth, She is cooking for her livelihood and that of her baby, and her character is vouched ilm- by the persons for whom she is work- ng: CHEYENNE'S SUDDEN CHANGE. The Coming of the Burlington Road and the Consequent Boom, CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 15.—|Corre- spondence ot the Bek.]-—Like ‘the man who awoke one morning to find himself suddenly famous, Cheyenne awoke a fow days ago to find herself in the throes of an energetic boow. It is now becoming apparent, oven to the minds of the un- ‘hinking, that the boom which was so ‘aply sprung was merely the crystal- “act of natural causes that have ' work, ‘he eity has depended *, ontirely. sn tha cat- tle industry, Prices of beet have ruled €0 low during the past few years that the margin of profit for the oattie men has been very slim indeed. For several years the cuttle men hayve had o mania to get possession of large tracts of gov- ernment and railroad lands. Much money, therefore, was sent out of the m payment of these lands, and sum was not counterbalanced that rowurned from ~the sale cattle in Omaha and Chicago. result was an acute strin- geney of the local money market, add to the bad effect prices for ordinary commodities were high as compared with those which preyailed farther east. The city is provided with three railroads, and a fourth one is already built seventy-five iles north, but all are under the same agement and freight rates were not s0 low as they might be. The face of things is now completely changed, and the change was inaugur- ated by the coming of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy to town. Since the visit of General Manager Holdrege here ngents of the B. & M. have been actively at work., 000 building for depot purposes and city property that must aggregate not less than 0,000, have already been purchased. The road, which will be known in Wyoming as the Cheyenne & Buriington, is not due herc until about November, and is destined to strike northward through the territory. The Denver & Rio Grande is headed this way and is expected to come here. As the B, & M. has no shops west of Platts- mouth, the plant here will be an extensiye one, while the'Union Pacitic will vastly increase its present shops. igration is overflowing from west- ern Nebraska, and stretches of country that but a few years ago were deemed dreary wastes are now beginning to L’mm productive under the Iful la- ors of the grangers. Eighty miles north of here several large colonies will settie down on lands that have been reclaimed by an expensive system of ditches. About 1,000 families can be thus accommodated. The Silver Crown mines, twaenty miles from here, after having been worked in a desultory fashion, are now yielding liberal roturns. —As is well known, Wyoming is the richest mineral section in tl ountry, Itis still pracu- ly & virgin soil, and the development h the railronds will inaugurate will boost Cheyenne, which now has the edge Ly, toward metropolitan pre- eutions, wReal estate prices continue fo jump and there are already many moneyed men from abroad in the field to take ad- ntage of the prevailing activity, ,000 Union Pacific depot will be ready for occupancy within a month; a §200,000 capitol building will be close to comple- tion by winter; $75,000 additional im- proyements will be made at Fort Russell, which is in the suburbs of the town; ground will be broken within a week for the erection of a 000 Knights Templar Tum, n §25,000 A. O. U. W. hall and a 5,000 institute for the deaf and dumb; a new street car line is projected; a ma, nificent new hotel will be built, and ta E ing one consideration with another tho citizens of Cheyenne naturally look for- ward to incomparably the liveliest sea- son ever known in the history of a re- markuble little cit; ——— FINED FOR UTTERING SLANG. A Louisyille Woman Pays $5 for Say- ing “Ah, There!" With a Toss g3 of Her Head. Louisville Courier-Journal: Before the regular ordinance docket was taken up by Judge Thompson in the city court yes- terday afternoon, the cases of Mrs. Ktta Paul and Mrs. John DeWitt were called. They were arrested last Saturday night on warraut and cross-warrant., Mrs, Paul, accompanied by her sister and hus- band, came into court early and took a seat next to her counsel. Mrs. Paul was becomingly attived in a close-fitting black silk dress, with a fashionable black and velvet bonnet, trimmed with large brown ostrich feathers. She wore a tight, short seal sacque and light-brown kid gloves. In either ear wuas depend- ent a large solitaire diamond ecar-ring, These jewels were, in part, the cause of the trouble between the fumilies, Mrs. DeWitt was also in court and sat between her attorney aud her husband. Mr. DeWitt was the first witness. He tostitied that Mrs. Paul's husband owed him a bill, and he had taken every means to collect it. The only property they had upon which an attachment could be placed was the diamond ear-ring set, and he hud caused it to be levied upon. The suit was then pending in _the Jeflerson court ot common pleas. Saturday after- noon last he and his wife, atter leaving the museum, were met by Mrs. Paul. She looked at them, and shaking her ear- rings, said: ‘‘Ah, there, mf' diamond eurrings, don't you wish you had them?’ Mrs. Paul bad frequently made similar remarks to witness previously and he de- termined to stand it no longer. He re- turned to where Mrs. Paul was standing and told ner that if she ever did such » thing again he would have her arrested; also that he regretted she was not a man, s0 that he might treat her as one. At 9 o'clock that night he swore out a war- rant, charging her with cisorderly con- DeWitt corroborated her hus- band's statements, and said she had al- ways avoided Mrs. ‘Paulin the streets, and would avert her head or look into a shop window when they chance to meet. She had never lately exchanged greetings or words with Mrs. Paul, and had not given the least cause for the warrant which had been issued. Mrs. Paul was then placed on the stand. She seemed a little embarrassed at first, but soon recovered her composure and told her side of the case as follows: “I attended the matinee at Masonic temple last Saturday with my sister and little son. My boy is very much addicted to slang, and his favorite phrase to be used on all occasions is,‘Ah, there; stay there; if you haven’t got a car fare, walk there.” We were walking along Fourth avenue, when my son, Russell, stopped at one of the awning posts. I turned arouna, and, looking at him, I said, ‘Ah, there, Russell.” I happened to turn around, and met Mr. and Mrs. De- Witt, I heard her say to her husband, ‘Did you hear that slang?’ This made me nngl"ly and shaking my earrings with my hands, [ said to her, ‘Don’t you wish you had them?’ Mr. DeWitt came back and shook his hand in my face, and threatened to strike mo if I annoyed his wife again. 1was vur{ much frightened, and asked Officer Harland, with whom 1 was personally acquainted, to follow me a few squares in case Mr. DeWitt struck me. 1 was not molested again, however, until late that night, when Was ar- rested.” Judge Thompson dismissed the war- rant against Mrs, DeWitt, fined Mrs Paul $5, and placed her under bonds of $100 for six months. — .——— A Oar Conductor's Strange Career. Pittsburg Dispatel A note for $6,000 paynble on demand, made out by G. F. Jackson, indorsed by George Westing- house, 'jr., on the Masonic bank, was found by Waiter Hunter yesterday morn- ing._ He is conductor ‘of car No. 28 on the Manchester line, and was muking his second trip when he saw a rlucc ot paper on the straw, He picked 1t up and was about to throw it away, when ho discov- ered it was a note, He told the superin- tendent of it and telephoned to the West- inghouse office. On _his return trip he gave the note to Mr. Wostinghouse, who rewarded him and told him that ho would see him n. Mr, Hunter's career, as relatod by him. self, is another example of American life. Tbe farm, next the mansion and again & struggle for existence. A wus worth a w~* raised ‘o Butlor ‘county on & farm, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. APRIL 18, 1887, and after he was married became a farmer himself. Oil was found on his property, as also on that of his father’s, near by, He put down two or three wells and became rich, One night he was awakened by aneigh- bor, who wanted to sell to Mr. Hunter a piece of property adjoining his farm. t was a little over an acre, but there was a comfortable cottage on it Mr. Hunter got out of bed at the man's call and asked him what he wished. The man said he was in a “hole,” and wanted to sell his property. Mr. Hunter rephed he did not wish to buy, but the man insisted. He at first ed 600, but finally oame down to 300, Ho had the deed for the transfer with him, and the transaction was com- pleted then and there, About two months after, when oil had been struck on either side of the little farm, and Mr, Hunter was well fixed, an oil man named Pollack came to him and in an ofhanded way asked hira af he wished to sell the acre of ground, and w he would take forit. Mr. Hunter 1id in a joking way he wanted $2,000. He was ‘offered $1,000, but refused. He sold it at $1,300. Mr. Pollack put up a vigging nnd Struck n 140-barrel well. Hunter then went into the livery busi- ness, and did a large trade in stock. On this he lost. On one_ pair of Clyde stock alone he sunk #$1,000. Thén he commenced to lose in putting down dry wells. After this he went into the oil exchange and in one summer lost $12,000. He would yet have recovered had it not been for two faithful friends for whom, in a business transaction, he went secu- rity for $4,200. These men failed and he lost the last money he had He came to this city and went to the superintendent of the Manchester line and asked for work. was still well dressed, and the superintendent growing suspicious, asked why he wished to wort i He teld his story, and atter Bredin to go his security, went to work on the line, That was on the 4th day of November last, Since that time he has found six pocket-books, one of them containing over $30, and in each case found the owner for them, pstats i A Smuggler's Desperate Swim. San Francisco Chronicle: The customs officers on guard on the Pacitic Mail steamer Gaelic observed yesterday some packages which mysteriously dropped from the porthole to the dock. A man picked them up and disappeared into a closet on the dock. Then there was a competitive raco between the inspectors from the vessel's deck to the closet, Cap- tain Holmes and Inspector Ulp ched the goal before Inspector Roberts. It was the work of but asecond for Holmes and Ulp to kiok down-the door of the closet, and they caught the man in the act of concealing a quantity of crude opium in his clothing. T“km‘f him outside the officers began @ him, They took away five s of erude opium which he had wled under his blouse, when, giving a jerk which nearly landed Ulp in the water, he broke away from that officer and sprang from the dock. Instantly the dock wus a sceno of excitement, A boat was started in pursuit, but the fug tive crawled upon the rocks under the dock. When the pursuers followed him there he crossed to the east side of the dock, and again plunged into the bay. As the boat was on the other side of the dock he got a good start of his pursuers and swam like a professional. Men were sent out on the ends of the neighboring wharves toseize him if he shmll\f!\.llcmpt to make a landing. Meantime the chase was kept up in boats, but the swimmer ained on his pursuers. Inspector Holmes, from one of the boats, fired a shot over the man's head, but this only increased the speed with which he ploughed through the water. The addi- tional exertion required to produce this Iast burst of speed soon told on his wind, however, and he gave up the race and made for a wharf, where he accented a rope from one of the dry-land pursuers and was drawn ashore. A four-pound bladder of crude opium was found in the water where the man had taken his plunge, and nine tins of prepared opium worth about $70 were picked up on the dock. ——— Beats Fish Stories, Fort Meade (Fla.) Pioncer: While on his recent trip out to the lake region, one evening after returning to camp, Mr. Robeson went down to the edge of the lake to quench his thirst, and finding no cup, he bent over on his hand and knees to drink like that portion of Isracl's hosts that were sent home from the at- tack on the army of Gideon. While n that strained attitude he was surprised by a stunning blow where his body made & sharp angle, from the tail of a large ‘‘gator,” which had been lying near by hitherto unob- served by him. The blow overbalancing his centre of gravity, sent him headlong ten feet into the lake, followed by the ‘gator,” which closed in on him with his ugly jaws, but fortunately the assail- ant missed his mark, only getting a good hold on Mr. R.'s coat tail, ~ Being a man of unusual physical strength and nerved by great excitement, Mr, Robeson man- aged to tow his unwleldy and uncomfort- able appendage to shallow water, where with the aid of our reporter his 'gator- ship was despatched with the use of a heavy axe. @ congratulate our neigh- bor on his narrow escape. Oremation, The London correspondent of the Man. chester Guardian writes: “lt is in tended to hold an international congress on cremation in September of the present year. The place selected for this gather- ing of the savants of various countries who are interested in cremation and cemetary hygiene is Milan. French will be the official language of the congress; but the speakers may, 1f they like, make use of any other language, )fh-pom will be submitted as to the progress made in the practice of cremation in different countries, and the formation of an inte- national leagne will be proposed. An exhibition of models of crematories, nrns and other objects conmected with the campaign now being conducted against lhe&)msenl methods of disposing of the dead will be open during the congress.” ———— Old Men in the Treasury. Of late years the United States treasury has been presided over by comparatively old men. Folger wos 63'years old when he was appointed, Sherman was nearly 60, and Boutwell and Chase were well up in years. Manning was 54, the gray had begun to sprout in Gresham's beard long before Arthur chose him, and MeCulloch is an old man. Ourfirst secretaries were younger. Hamilton organized the treas- ury department at 32, Oliver Wolcott, his successor, was 35, and the first seven secretaries were under 50 at the time of their appointment. Men grew faster in pioneer days. Gallatin was just 40 when e’ becume Jefferson's secretary of the treasury, and after serying fourteen years he was about the age of Manning when first appointed. Dexter, who preceded Gallatin, was 43, ————— A Miraculous Spring. A remarkable lt)rlnz has broken out in Lytle Cave, in the mountains twelve miles south of Abiline, Kansas, on the farm and sheep ranch of krankinham, in a place where water has not been known before. 1t is described as a cold spring of excellent water, and coming in this torrible drouth it has caused a sensation 1n the neighborhood, many regarding it as miraculous. Mr. James ills, of Abilene, a reliable man, wholived in that loculity several years, went out to see the spring, and reports it s wonderful fact, e James Russeli Lowell has wearied thus early of this “blawsted country” and will soon return to his beloved England, where he will spend the sumimer. He will salt from STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS. Startling Manifestations of Mesmerism by Frank Alderman, of Detroit. MIDNIGHT MURDER MYSTERIES. While in a Tranco'He Discovors Per- petrators of Dark Deods—People d Places ;Describod— Who Can Explain? Detroit Correspondence New York Sun: In this day of wonderful discover- 18, physical and mental, let us stop and ask the nature of the discovery made by Frank R. Alderman, of Detroit, who is generally spoken of at home as “Alder- man, the mesmerist.”” 1 have attended two of his private entertainments on pur- pose to give the readers of the Sun something to study over and think about. Mr. Alderman is a man thirty seven years of age, five feet nine inches high, and a physiognomist would say that his face exhibited force of will. He has had mesmeric powers since his childhood, but it is only within a couplo of years that he has developed what some may term sece- ond sight. He discovered some time ago that he could put a subject to sleep and thensend his mind, or spiritual half, or imagination, to any part of the country on an crrand. — On the evening of March 13 I attended a private exhibition at which Mr. Alderman made o new and startling departure. Before proceeding to explain what it was, let me cite some instances of the strange power which he wields through the subject. The sub- jeet on this night was & boy of fourteen named Wally Andrus, He is what is termed a susceptible subject. Alderman can draw him across the t by a ve of the hand. He can look at the boy and say to himself, ‘I want you to come to my house to-morrow night,” and the boy will come without further understanding. “Uhe lnd was placed in an_easy chair, a few passes of the hand put him under the miluence, and here is the colloquy of the result: Mr., A to the of stairs. Wally— 1'm there. “Now turn to your left and go to the second door on the left-hand side. 1s there a number on the door?” *No, sir; there is a letter ‘L. “Very well, go inside and tell what you see.’” THE MESMERT entered the room and d bed and accu- rately located every article of furniture, described every picture, told the time by the clock, and” eyen gave the colors of the gas globes. Neither Mr. Alderman nor the boy had ever enteved the hotel. Some of the artigjes described had been placed in the room only an_hour before. e was sent into three different rooms in the same hotel, and he did not make one mistake. The: hotol is a mile from t e residence where the exhibition was gven. He was brought outef the hotel and sent to a resitence a mile further y, and the colioquy went on: re you there?” Wally, I want you to go down hotel and go up one flight ) BOY “What kind of a house is it?" *“A double brick." “‘Are the steps wood or stone?" “Neither; they are iron,” N i Is there a earpet on the piano *“T'o the right.” “There's a square piano, a sofa, chairs, e te.’ [He describes everything, even to pho- tographs, andtell the time by the parlor clock. ] “‘Now, go upstaits. Any one up there?" **Yes; an Irish woman.” ‘“‘Ask her name?’’ e wouldn't give it. She wants to know what I'm doing here.” “But ask her nnme?” “She says it's Molli QUEER EXPERIMENTS. Such, in truth, was and is the name of the Irish servant. He afterward located a girl reading at the table, and gave the name of the book in her hand, and next day we verilied his statements. One of the gentlemen at the seance owns a salt block at Marine City. At his suggestion the boy was sent up there. He lunded on the dock, accurately described cvery building and then went to the salt bluci and correctly located the engine room, described the engineer, and went outside and read off a score ot signs without making a mistake. He had "never been at Marine City, but the smartest man in America could not come away from the town after a stay of three days and de- x:firiihe things as accurately as the boy d. Then came the new experiment. 1 suggested to Mr. Alderman to see if the boy could go backward in his mind and see an old occurrence. Three years ago adrug clerk was shot 1n front of the store by an assasin. I have worked with the police on the case, and I know what has been discovered. Iknew who fired the shot, what for, and why he ran to make his escape. hundred people knew the clerk was dressed when found dead. The experiment was a8 follows: “‘Now, Wally, come up Cass avenue to the Triangle drug store.” “Yes. *Go inside and tell me who is there.” (The boy accurately described the clerk who was there that evening,) “Ask what has ever happened around here.” “‘He says that a clerk was shot down in frout, of the store about three years ago." “Very well; T want you to go back to that might. Are you there*" Yes, sir."” “It is now 11 o'clock at night. Can you see the clerk?” “Yes; he's in bed.” “Very well. (A pause of ten seconds.) What is he doing now?’ “Some one has called him; he is get- timi up.’ “Follow him and see what he does. Is he down stairs now?" “Yes, and & man is W hat's he saying? “He's saying the clerk has made him trouble, and he won't stand it, He's got a revolver, and I'm affaid of him.” “‘What sort of a looking man is he?” “I—I'm afraid!” “He can't hurt you; go closer.’ “Well, he's a—"' |Here he gave a erfect description of the mun known to ave committed the murder. | HOW 18 THE ChERK DRESSEDY" *‘He's got on——""+|Here be described exactly the dress of the clerk as found and noted by the detéotives. He screamed out in terror when the shot was fired, followed the murderer to the river and across to Canada, and there, in the mid- night darkness, lost hi! a coal yard.] ile the experiment of anti-dating was a great success, the boy was so overcome by what he had apparently witnessed tgn we could get no more work out of him thnuvenin*; that is,he was so plainly prostrated that Mr. Alderman would not subject him to further strain. Now, let some nkurtlu pooh-pooh at what the boy gculding hm."" descril and will convince him, First—While he had doubtless heard of the case,he described things never known to any one but the detectives. Second— He got u perfect description of the man, as the detectives affirm, and only three ple knew this description. —Third— e gave the cause of the shooting as the detectives understand it, but as known to no one else. . The experiment oronsd anew field to Mr. Alderman, and it was agreed (o have anothet private exhibition on the even- ing of the 19th. At his suggestion I went to police headquarters, and hunted up several eases and jotted down dates and ticulars, There was present at the ex hibition some of the best-known peoplo in Detroit, niost of whom came as' skep ties. Young Andrus had left the town during the week and gone to Cleveland, and the other boy, Charley Delano, had uever been ante-dated. ™ After be placed under the influence, he was sent to the residence of persons present. His first effort was a partial fuilurc. but his second was a great suecess, and at the third house he told the right name of a domestie. At 11:30 o'clock on that day an overcont had been stolen from the se ond tloor of n tenement, A little rl described the thief, while the owner of the lost coat deseribed the garment 1 wrote everything down to make sure there could be no error. The police held the complaint from publication, and there was no possible way the boy could have learned it. The experiment was begun as follows: “Now, Charley, 1t is about twenty minutes after 11 ‘this morning. “ARE YOU THERE?" “Yessir.” “Well go up to 3504 Woodward av- enue." ¢ in and tell me what you see?"” “Go to the head of the first light of 51 Are there any doors: on the right and left. “Now, then, watch und there and sec what takes place. See any one?’” “Yes, a tall man with a black mus wche.'! [That the description given the police,] “‘What is he doing?"" ‘‘Gone into the door to the right. Now he's coming out with an overcont on his arm.” J *‘Describe the coat." . “It’'s a brown one with red slecve lin- ings. *'Well, follow the man.” The description of the overcoat was ex- actly as the owner gave it to me in writ- ing ten hours before. The boy followed the man two blocks, and then had him turn and come back to tne rooms. He did this three different times, and it be- came plai at he lost himin a the hound which suddenly loses a trail, returncd to a cer- tain point for a fresh start. The great experiment of the evening was another old murder case, On the night of October 23, 1885, Don Ewer, a well known spotting man whose home was in Port Huron, was murdered in De- troit for his moncy. As he passed the alley between Larned and Congress streets, on Third, he received # blow from a billy which fractured his skull in a terrible manner. This blow alone would have caused death, but he was dragged into the alley and shot. His money, some $1,600, was then taken. and when people who were investigating the report of pistol arrived on the spot THE VICTIM WAS DEAD. To this day the detectives huye been un- able to secure a clue leading to anything satisfactory. There have been various theories, some of which have been d and exploded, and others still but no man can say whether one persons were in the job, which way they went or give any other details. We tind” Ewer at a hotel on Jefferson avenue at 9:30 in the evening. From that hour to midnight no man has been foand who will say that he saw him again. It 18 the theory that he was closcted in some place, for reasons which we only uess at. He was to leuve the Michigan “entral depot soon after 11, but it cannot be found that he went there. It is not known to us whether he was going up or down Third strect. ~ As we cannot find where he was for the two hours and a half or three hours, we cannot get the direction from which he came. How- ever, we kuow that he was hit on the crosswalk and pulled into the alley. Thus, as I told you, was the first effort to antedate this boy. He was put under the influence and Mr. Alderman began: “Now, Charley, it is tho 23d day of October. Got that?” “Yes, sir.” It is 1885." *“Yes, siy. “The time is ten minutes to twelyo. Go down Third street to the alley be- tween Congress and Larned streets.”™ “I'm there."” “What do you see?"" “1 see a man lying in wait in the alley. He has his face muflled up. He hasa billy in his hand, and in his hip pocket he has a black-handled revolver, six- shooter and thirty-two-calibre.” ::l)c!cribl‘lhe man."" “A heavy man with large light mous- tache.” “Ask him his name.”’ “He says: ‘Boy!you skin out of this or I'll do’you up!™” “Never mind that; he can't hurt you. Now get his name, “He says it is " [[suppress the name for obvious reasons. | “All right. Any one conung?" L} a man is comlu{: uE the street. He is a lightish man with a black mous- tache.” “Very well; now what is in the alley*'’ “The man who was hiding therc has hit the other, knocked him down, and is drnfiglng him in."" ‘‘And now!" “‘He is taking his money." ‘‘And now?’ *'He is running up to Fourth street; now he goes down Ffiurlh to Woodbridge; he oes down Woodbridge to Twelfth, There e meets two men. ‘They look like bums. They ask if he has dong it, and he shows ‘em Don Ewer's satchel and money. Now " That Tired Feelihg Is no goneral At this season that ‘every one knows what s meant by the oxpression. A change of sea- son, climate, or of life. has such & depresying effect upon the body that one feels all tired out, almost completely prostrated, the appetite is lost and thero i3m0 ambition 80 doanything. The wholo tendedcy of thesystem is downward. In this condition Hood's Sarsapraillais just the medicine neoded. 1t purifies the blood, sharpens the up Overcomes the tired feeling, and lnvigorates every fanction of the body. Try it. Hood's Sarsaparilla. “Formany months I suffered greatly. My wholo seemod to be entirely run down, tuy ambition ud pains in my buck, and a feeling of | pich T could not throw off. 1whs treated un- ccensfully for kidney troublo. One dayat my brother's I saw a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and determined to try it. Before tho first bottlo was tuk- en can candidly suy I was rolieved. 1have used tho medicine off and on ever and recommend it for kidney or liver cq uints. ~Mus. W. L. SirANaG, 97 Atinntic Avenue, Brooklyn, N. ¥ N. 1. If you have made up vour mind Lo getlfood's Sarsaparilia do not take any other. thoy go down to thedocks, Now they go aboard a vessel. Now they go down into the hold, ‘and they are cutfing the satehel up and thro & the picces into the river,”” ‘an you seo th It's pretty dark ever mind; go closer,” Yos; 1t is the —— of —— ‘s the captain on board ™ “Yes; his name is . His tirst name isJames,” MURDERER ON THE ICE. The boy followed the murderer down the lakes aboard the craft to Oswego anc back to Buftalo He gave the nume of & street in Buffalo which they traversed, He had one of them arrested for drunk enness and sent up for thirty days. He followed the murderer all” winter told whore dic was cutting ice and what company employed him. 1o was brought down month by month until the mur derer shipped aboard a steamer plying between Now York and Liv 3 descended into the tire-hold described him, this time with a b He asked him what had become of his money, and when the man scemingly in- quired what money, the boy, under in structions, rephed: “The money you got w dered that man in Detroit. “What the d—1do you know about a murder 1n Detroit*"” and at this point we ceused the puvsait and brought the boy ack to the atley. He declared that the murderer had a revolver, and that three of the chambers were discharged. As matters of fact, known to half a dozen detectives, Don Ewer was first struek on the head and then shot. cheap pistol, recently discharged, lay beside his body. The shot was heard a block or two away. In this examination the boy neither heard a shot nor the bells strike midnight, as they did nbout the time the shot was fired He did not at tlrst find the bullet hole,but when we brought him back he located it exactly, and he accurately deseribed the position of the body. In describing the man in the alley and the one coming up he transposed “the persons, or at least their deseriptions. His theory is just as plausible as any the detectives have got, and cannot be disputed. BODY IN THE ALLEY. ‘The next duy Iwent to the custom house and found that there was such a schooner as he named, and that she was a three-master, as he He did not give the correct name of her eaptain, but 2y he had to ask others who her captain was they might have deccived him. There was only one person present who knew the exict date of the murder. There was only one verson who knoew how the body Iny when found, and vet when the boy was asked to describe it he adily replied: *“I'lie body lie: fect to a fence 1 matter is ugain in the hands of the detectives, and there are strong hopes that a leading clue has at last been ob- tamed. [ can sce the skeptic smile as he reads, and for his beneht I will paragraph a few things I have seen these boys do when under the influence: Describe the style of piano n eleven di(|l('uron| houses without making one mis- take. ‘Take books from bookcases and give the correct titles. Tell the time of night by clocks which had been \mrpusel,y set back or ahead or stopped_altogether. Describe and give the names of ser- vants. Deseribe paintings and steel engray- ings as accurately as their owners could have done. Parfectly describe the buildings, locating doors, and gi st,{lz- ot roofs. f it was a series of performances on the stage, where subjccts were made to perform feats, one might look for trick- ory, but here the boy rests in & chair be- fore you. and the very first question to name of the vesscl!” on you mur- across the alley with the exterior of ng the I want you to go to , i up Broadway on Twenty-second street, and down Twenty-socond street to No. 1?0. Now, what sort of a building isat? It is a strange, mysterious power, and & stranger myste Who can name it? Lt A Personal Paragraphs, George E. Sherwood is down from Kearney, Miss Ella McBride, the elocutionist, is at the Windsor. Miss Edith Stuht has gono to Le Mars, Ia., on avisit, Jonas We city on bu. h, of Columbus, is in the 288, Thomas 5. Woods, of Cin ting his cousin, E. W. Simeral. Thomas Swobe, of the Pacific Hotel company, has gone to Laramie City. W. A. Carter, of Fort Bridger, returned home last evening after a few days’ visit ta Omaha. Among the Nebraskans in the city are J. 0. West, of Grand Island; Calmer McCune and James Dunn, of Stroms- of North Platte, is in the city. Mr. Beer states that he is not the author of that standard slmug article, which is attracting so much attention just now— bock beer. —~— A Doceptive Mask, W. R. Travers was a great wit and hu- morist, but like so muny other men of funny propensities his face wore a very sober expression. Artemus Ward, the funniest man of the century, had a posi- tively lugubrious countenan The hu- man face often, after all, is nothing but a deceptive mask. My son suffored from spring debility ane loss of Appetite, and was restored to hoalth as woon as ho began to take our favorite medic Hood's Sarsa- purilla, We recommend it toull onr friends.” B is. inioville, N. Y. “I sufferad considerably, being for nearly a year troubled with indigestion. [am now on my fourth bottie of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and never felt botter in mylifo. Ith H. M HILLAAN, De 1, aines & Makes the Weak Si g “I'womonths ago I commenced taking Tlood's Sar- W8 an experiment, as [ had no appotite or . and felt tired all the time, [ attributed my, 2 to scrotuloas humor. 1 had tried se Qifferont kinda 0 wmodicine, without recelving any beneit. Butwss * ¥ [ hud tuken hulf a bottleof Hood's Sarsupari 1 y®ppotite wis restored, and my stomach feit b ~havo now taken nearly three botties. and [ nezer was 80 well in my life.” Muits. JESSIE F. DOLBEARE, Puscon A peculinrity of 1ia is that it strength 4 bullds up the systei while It eradi cates diseaso. Now isthe lime Lo tuke it Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all dugsts. $1; six fo h 100D &GO, Apotheoaries, Lowoll, M 1SAAC W. CARPENTER, Pres. JAS. A. CARPENTER, Vice-Pres. red by 4 by all druggises. $1: six for §5. Pre 1 Ro8D"s &8 s (OOD & (0., Apothecaries, Lowell, 100 Doses One Dollar J. FRANK CARPENTER, Soc'y, JOHN E. 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