The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1920, Page 9

” A DIRECTOR 200 Letters and Many} Threats Received by Phone in Boston | | BOSTON, Aus. 3.—Seven letters threatening the life of William J.| McCarthy, federal prohibition direc tor for New England, were receives fat his office yesterday, according to a etatement dy federal authorities. | ‘These letters have been coming to McCarthy in increasing numbers ever since he took charge of the New Eng-) and district last September, and up| to date more than 200 have found their way thru the mails. i ‘The letters all threaten Mr. McCar. | thy with death unless he resigns im mediately from his office and calls tn | Bis operatives, who are rounding up) Mlicit stills thruout the district. The! letters are signed with various signa. tures and devices, including “Hlack Hand,” Bolsheviki and the mysteri- ous “Taner Circle.” However, Mr. Mo- Carthy has paid no attention to the threatening notes. Not only by mail, but by telephone, | has McCarthy been threatened, offi. | Gals my. Numerous telephone calls traced to pay stations have come into Ris office in an attempt to frighten him into withdrawing his men. While threats against the life of the di-/ Feotor are being made, other methods are being attempted with the opera- tives, the officials assert. Many bribes, ranging from $50 to $1,000, have been offered Mr. McCarthy's men of late when [llicit stills have Been unearthed, It is alleged. Nome Air Fleet Is at Prince G eorge | PRINCE GEORGF, Aus. 3-) Pianes two, three and four of the) American army squadron of four planes attempting a New York to) Nome flight, arrived last night at Prince George from Jasper, British Columbia, covering the distance in two hours 40 minutes. | Capt, Street, commander of the | party, was forced to turn back to Jasper soon after leaving there, ow- | | sighed. (Continued From Our Last Issue) At the very hour that Kerry was hastening to Princes Gate, Sin Sin Wa nat before the stove in the drug cache, the green-eyed joms upon his knee, Perebed upon his shoulder was the raven. Upon the opposite side of the stove sat the ancient Sam Tuk The sitting door, which concealed the Inner room, was partly open, and the coarse volce of the Cuban Jewess rose and fell in & ceaseless half.muttered soliloquy Propped up amid cushions on the divan, which once had formed part of the furniture of the House of a Hundred Raptures, Mra. Sin was smoking opium. As the moments passed, the eyes of Mra. Sin grew more and more glared. Her harsh voice became softened, and presently: “Ah! she whispered; “so you walt to smoke with me? Ab, my Lucy, You smoke with mo?” she whispered coaxingly Chandu had opened the poppy gates. Mrs. Sin was conversing with her dead lover. “Something has changed you,” she “You are different—iately You have lots of money now, Yet once I seemed beautiful to you, Lucy. For La Belle Lola you forgot that Engtieh pride.” She laughed softly. “You forgot Sin Sin Wa. It there had been no Lola you would never have escaped from Buenos Ayres with your life, my Lucy. You forgot that English pride, and did not ask me where I got them from —the $10,000 to buy your ‘honor’ back.” She became silent, as ff listening to the dead man’s reply. Finally: “No—I do not reproach you, my dear,” whispered. “You have paid me back a thousand fold, and Sin Sin Wa, the old fox, grows rich and fat. Before it is too late, jet us go—you and I. De you remember Havana, and the two months of heaven we spent there? Oh, let us go back to Havana, Lucy. 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Her eyes opened, horror growing in their shadowy | depths, CHAPTER XVI | Beyond the Veil | Rita Irvin's awakening was no awakening in the usually accepted | |wonse of the word; it did not even represent a lifting of the veil which cut her off from the world, She tot tered on the borderline which divides sanity from madnes she was learning what Sir Luc had meant when, once, long ago, in some | remote time when she had belonged | to a living world, he had said, “a day ls gure to come—" It had come, It bad dawned when Kazmah ~-and that veil had enveloped her ever since. ‘The horror of the moment, when long, slim hands of the color of old! ivory were cold, id, lifeless —the | hands of a corpse! * * * ¢ Complete darkness came. other side. Boy Scouts will be here from all Ce made by ettizens that Rita uttered a wild ory, shrinking parts of the British empire, thove Ppartment employes were forced 4 back from the thing which sat in the|_SAUT LAKE CITY-—(By Mall), anti! long after thelr code mes|ripened inte serious romance from Australia having arrived early |contgbute to campaign funds ve mereages wig-wagged | sages had #pelled out the reciprocal]! One Saturday Heaton waved, “I'm|in July. Five thousand of these | their chiefs. ebony chair, She groped for support but found none, and, moaning, she sank down, and was unconscious of her fl. © © © A voice awakened her. Some one spoke wildly, but with a strange, emotional reverence curbing the pas sion in his voice “Rita—my Rita! What have they done to you? Speak tome! * * ¢ Oh, God! spare her to me! © * 9" She felt herself being lifted gently, tenderly, And, as though the man’s passionate entreaty had called her back from the dead, she reentared into life and strove to realize what had happened. Sir Lucien was supporting her, and she clutched bis arm with both handa. “Oh, Lucy! she whispered. “I am so frightened—and so ill.” “Thank God,” he said huskily, “she is alive. Lean against me and try to stand up. We must get away from here.” Rita managed to stand upright, clinging wildly to Sir Lucien. He pushed open a door and spoke rapid ly im a language which sounded like Spanish. He was answered by @ per: fect torrent of words in the same tongue. Fiercely he cried something back at the hidden ker. A shriek of . of frenzy, came out of the darkness. Rita felt that consgiousness was about to leave her again. She swayed forward dizzily, and @ figure which seemed to belong to delirtum—e lithe shadow out of which gleamed a pair of wild eyes leaped upon her, A knife glittered see In order to have repelied the at- tack, Sir Lucien would have had to release Rita, who was clinging to him, weak and terrorstricken. In. |etead, he threw himsecif before her. She saw the knife enter his eee shoulder. * * ° ‘Through absolute darkness she sank down into a land of chaotic nightmare horrors. Impish hands plucked at her garments, dragged her hair. She was burried this way and that, bruised. torn. Darkness fell again. * ° © A Chinaman was bending over her. His bands were tucked in his loose sieeven, He was strangely like Sin Sin Wa save that he did not lack an eye. Rita found hervelf tying fn an un- tidy bed in @ room laden with opium fumes and dimly lighted. On a table beside her were the remains of @ meal. Rita managed to move her head so that she could pes mote of the room. On a divan at the other end of the place, propped up by a number of garish cushions, Pita beheld Mrw. | Sin. The long bamboo pipe had fal }len from her listless fingers, In the other corner of the divan, |contemplating her from under heavy |brows, mat Kagmab. * © ° Chinatown was being watched as Chinatown had never been watched | before, even during the most string ent énforcement of thé defense of the realm act. Scotland Yard had sent to ald Chief Inspector Kerry every man that could be spared to the task. The river police, too, were aflame with zeal, for every officer in the service, whose work lay east of London bridge, had appropriated to| himself the stigma implied by the creation of Lord Wrexborough’s commission. Towards the close of an afternoon of drizzling rain and gloom, Chief Inepector Kerry, carrying an irri table toy spaniel, came into a par row street which runs parallel with the Thames. Three times within the past 10 minutes the spaniel had tried to bite Kerry. Finally the ill-tempered little animal easayed a fourth and success. ful attempt, burying his wicked white teeth in the chief Inspector's | wrist. Kerry hooked his finger into the dog’s collar, swung the yapping ant- |mal above his head, and hurled it |from him into the gloom and rain mist. + “Hell take the blasted thing? he shouted. “I’m done with it!" He tenderly sucked his avounded wrist, and picking up his cane, |which he had dropped, he looked} about him and swore savagely. A \turious hatred of the one-eyed China man, around whom he was con |vinced the mystery centered. had} grown up within his mind. Ho re-| garded the murder of Sir Lucien} | Pyne and the flight or abduction of Mrs. Monte Irvin as minor incidents | Jin a case wherein Sin Sin Wa fig-) lured as the, chief culprit. Nothing had acted #0 powerfully to bring |about this conviction the inex: | plicable disappearance of the China- |man under elreumstances which had| apparently precluded such a posal. | bility. A whimpering ery eame to Kerry's lears; and because beneath the mask | jot ferocity which he wore a humane) man was concealed: “Flames!” he| snapped, “perhaps I've broken the! poor little devil's leg.” | He set off through the murk to- wards the spot from whence the cries of the spaniel seemed to pro- ceed. A few paces brought him to the door of a dirty little shop. In a} |Wig-Wag Courtship Across 13-Mile Canyon 4 Girl Waves “Yes” to Stranger’s Proposal the arrow marks the spot on the canyon’s rim where she wav- ed “I Love You” to Terrance Heaton, then.a stranger, on the army code across Grand Canyon, Arizona, brought to- gether Miss Mona Patterson, John’s, Arizona, and Terrance Hea of Orderville, to the romantic courtship story the|away, was a solitary rider Watch- two told here recently when were married in the local Mormon temple, ither had seen r range than the canyo ton, window close beside it appeared the legend: ‘The wpaniel crouched by the door whining and scratching. Kerry stood watching the dog for a moment. He the door and found it to be He entered @ dirty little shop, tried oyen searched in person that same morn. The dow ran tn past him and raced down into a tiny coal cellar. (Continued in Our Next Issue.) TH ATTLE Holding BoyScouts of World ie ‘Jamboree’ i, e e be ” ‘airy LEI COINS aR \ ern e” sds a 44 Ry ee RE in London This Week” } tae . BY MILTON BRONNER. Alhambra, celebrated mde. LONDON, Aug. 3.—What rhymes] hall, | with noise? Windsor, home of Engi | Boys kings. 4 You said it! Eton, noted boys’ school, Well, this old capital of the Britinh Hampton Court, a royal pab © lempire expects to have more boys| ace. % jand more noise this week than ever | ing. For the first time in the history The most interesting of all | wetlowing are the eounteles which | 9,702 oof send lads here and the number sent: | America, 350; Belgium, 100; Holland, 350; France, 125; Maly, shipwreck: runaway horse che ek tendies the bande of tne] r® Mona Heaton, formerly Mise Patterson, inset on a 100; Japan, 3; Luxemburg, 100 man seated in the big ebony chair,| Photo of the Grand Canyon, across which she started the wig- Portugal, 10; Kumania, 7 was of such kind that no subsequent! wagged romance that resulted in marriage. Sketch shows Chile, 10; Serbia, Argentine, County Emple terrors had supplanted it. For thoes! her using the army code she learned as Red Cros: rs. Spain, Czechoslavokia, — Den- Several King county 0 y © Red Cross nurse, and mark, Sweden, Greece, Switzer- |heads appeared upon request land, Norway and Poland, 50 each, the King county commissioners day afternoon and denied visitors from overseas will be en camped at Richmond park and the American boys will be there, too There are 40,000 Boy Scouts in Lon- don alone and they will all take part. When the 360 American Boy Scouts return home they will cer tainly know something about Eng land. ‘They landed here about the mid- Me of July and had over a week's vacation at Bournemouth, one of the most famous of English seaside re- the 13<milewide| "I love you.” coming to see you.” Then he rode Several months ago, Mra. Heaton.| north along the rim of the great then Miss Patterson, rode her ranch | gorge, She kept up with him for) horse to the brink of the Gras®) some distance on her side and then Canyon. On the other side, 13 miles | returned home. He arrived Monday—in time to help bis sweetheart’s mother with! the family wash. His gallop had) taken him nearly to the Colorado} line over #0 rough a country he had been forced to detour 20 or 30 miles many times, The two decided to avoid such trips in future by mak- of St making the charges, but the truth, Each department head | the charge and suggested the Utah, according they/ing her. him again, Knowing that ff he were a young man of military age he would un derstand Uncle Sam's code of wis- wagging, sho fitted out two flags of large proportions. She had been a Following days she saw the other at ‘a rims Give E puree at Camp Kearney, California,/ing Orderville, Utah, their joint sorts. A eral invitation has SAM TUK, and at Presidio, San Francisco, dur-| home. | BOYS GUESTS tended by the Gen. George Barber, ing the war, While in that service| “When she wig-wagged 1 love) OF GOVERNMENT. ton circle of the Ladies of the she bad mastered the gauze alpha bet. “Hello.” was the first wireless she) waved across the canyon in a spirit of adventure. Heaton rode furtousty away and soon returned with’ flags, “Hello.” he frantically shot back. “Hello, hello™ From that day thetr convereation you,’ I got #0 excited I nearly drove my horee into the gorge—just a) drop of a mile,” Heaton confes#tS| tually the guests of the British gov- here after the matrimonial knot was|ernment. Their sleeping quarters tied. and their food are furnished them. Heaton acquired his knowledge! In addition to that, visits to the of wig wagging from boy scout lore | following places are on the program: He i» a scout master In his town of House of Parliament. Orderville where he operates the vile} lage general merchandise store. 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The competitions in which the assembled in one plate before in the| Scouts will engage will consist |whole history of the world. ‘The|tugs of war, obstacle races, |reason iw t the Boy Scouts are|tion contests in mental celebrating thelr 12th anniversary by |shoemaking, carpentry, 00 a “Jamboree.” | gardening, ete.; bugling; band lof the movement there will be a| \% thering of Boy Scouts from | tests ll be those for the jover the globe. They will contest in| scout championship between Olympia, one of the biggest bulld-|to consist of not less than 24 lings in London, for championships | more than 150 scouts. Marks in various scout tasks, be given for the moet original | poYsS FROM ment of such subjects as fire \ALL OVER. ng, ambulance work, accidents No Levies Made on * Chairman Claude C. Ramsey clared the commissioners were j merely to determine whether or accusations were founded had been made for malicious § R. to the general public for the ¢ wo | “e