The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1905, Page 11

stertous Mr. “Raf fles—@Worth & 00. ‘Watch for My This photograph was taken at the corner of Broadway and 14th street at 12.30 P. M. yesterday, tne moment the Mysterious Mr. Ratiles was to be there to meet the person who found his $10 bill, lost Sunday at Coney, Isiands The Mysterious Mr, Raffles was there and walked over to THE EVENING WORLD photographer and asked, “What Is the matter?” The photographer replied: ‘‘ They are looking for that man Raffles,” ‘* Haven't they found him yet?” Raffles inquired, and the photographer replied, ** No, he has just gone into the saloon with a big crowd behind him.” The Mysterious Mr. Raffles then mingled with the people, going up Broadway. . The photographe: remark about the crowd following Mr. Raffles applied to a young man whom many In the big gathering mistook for THE EVENING WORLD'S Mysterious Mr. Raffles. \ { % Did you get In thet mixup at Fortenthaateat an ———>—~E~~~~_—_ sy | Jookout for the Mysterious Mr, eB OF 0 Bye ee : My Eighth Day’s Adventures aA vay Suleeaher The Mysterious Mr. Raffles. lookout for the Mysterious Mt, Raton of The Bvenine meme ENT ME) \ “Who's Raffles” I asked determining on the spot to ‘No? Well, you can be glad it you didn't, for if you had male a tent oF ny identley; PEOPLE HE SAW Y.RSTERDAY. t hi rou ‘would ati! he chances are that you would atill be rubbing yourself “Oh! he's a guy what's going around New York trying Started from Forty-second street and Broadway. Bythe Mysterious Mr. Rafiles, with ernice to-day, a : 1 ‘was there, and I know what I’m talking about. si ay to get captured,” answered my stout friend. 10 o'clock, Mr. Raffles’s Face and Cloth Anyhow, I only lost one $10 note at Dreamland on ‘Well, why are all the people waiting for him here on|| ‘Walked south on Broadway to Canal striet, \\ hi 8s, Sunday, and yet I never in all my life saw so many this spot?” I persisted, Matled letter in post-office, Broadway and Howard people who were willing to acknowledge having found} “Oh! he said he Jost a $10 note down at Coney Island|| street, ; " lengcrrregrt rt rat au Vourasath ret youterday. peeterday, and would be here torcny ceoS*for' hie cupture|| Sloe on. Morton Flouve. corner, Fscrtownth ted eB ‘i ing , ni Hedy, REST Athen eae the vara Bult of ae ARR Faw cers an welts all these people are trying to make the collar.” and Broadway, from 32.20 until 1,15, tent I didn’t know there was so much money in New York, I really don't blame the person who found my money At Coney Island for not trying to give it to me in that mob, #0 if you will kindly drop me a line where I can meet you Iwill call around some evening this week and get it with muoh thanks, When I arrived at Fourteenth street precisely at 12,80 I noticed with some surprise that the street was un- If I had thought for an instant that the mere mention Walked north on Broadway to Forty-second street of losing $10 would have caused the dozen or so mem-|| and then east to Sixth avenue, git? bers of the traffic squad so much trouble during the noon Took Sixth avenue car to Fifty-ninth street, trans-' hour I certainly never would have mentioned it. Yet 1)} ferring to Third avenue, 3 Am glad to know thero are so many people in New York/ Took dinner at Neidhardt’s restaurant at 2.15. who are willing to roturn money, particularly when they Went to the Bronx, riding on an open "L” car. know it had been lost by stich an earnest youth as myself, Called on Borough President Louts F. Haffon ‘at And I’m the Mysterious Mr, Raffles of The Brenna 8,30, \olothes every day—the suit that you are photographed hin. T, P. WALES, Certainly not, Ichange my clothes at will, Iam simply making a test of the possibility of detection by means of widely scattered photographs of a sub- Ject'’s face, My foatures have appeared now in The ual, ded with people who apparently had no J Eyening World for oight days and have been scanned | her ion a eurth Lain staring gh Sie and World whom you would all like to meet, Called on these 1 estate men; ‘by millions of eyes. The trouble is that people follow || muttering strange things under thejr breaths, When 1 Bien. attend sore aga f Lape RAG By iar id £ Soha Third avenue, ia second street at 10 o'clock yeaterday I noticed with con- ward Polak, No, rd’ avenne,, f nad ve dd Neca of a to tdentity by clothes in- Waited for the “Ten.” aiderable glee thnt every woman on the street was more Brnst-Cahn Realty Company, No, 3820 Third ave- y foatnres, Scan the faces you pass and Thinking that tn all probability the man or woman than busy “rubberin’,” nue, ; compare them with my photos. Then perhaps you | who found my tenner would stroll along presently T took | f Sharrott & Thom, No. 3855 Third avenue, 5 Had the Raffles Eye. Baturin, Welsman & Henschel, No, 3905 Third ‘They had their eyes wife open for every man but me,|} avenue. und yet I brushed shoulders with quite a number of 8. Marcus & Sons, No. 4181 Third avenue, * enthusiasts whose sole miesion.on that busy thorough- Louls Brungson, No, 8616 Third ue, fare was nothing less than my capture, Supper at Jack’s restaurant at 5, ‘However, i wore no disguise, and was in no particular hurry, as I had the entire day before me. When I], ‘will catch me and win $100. THE MYSTERIOUS MR, RAFFLES, 1p & promineut position on the edge of the sidewalk in front of the Morton House. | Then, a few moments Inter, I learned from a large! stout man in & light sack suit that the crowd was on the, The Mystery of No. 13. By Helen B. Mathers (Copyright, 1900, by George Munro's Bona.) ) Day's pri was omfort |, But the old man who eat nose and ‘(By perminsion: of Georae Munro's Sons.) | to his mother, and hie SaSiey ware ‘and ined over hia bench, going doguedly on | SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING cHAPrar, | Childish babble were pbaim to her | at work that seemed always Intermin- Rows ts fond murdered ine house | McKed heant, His frequent inquiries | able, and whtoh seldom NS cht in much | d When t explained to the clerk in the ante-room ‘ad- renched Canal street I remembered my appointment at) , p} mn i ty or 12] 20!ning President Haffen’s office that my mission was ta Fourteenth streot at 12.20 o'clock, and as it was after 13/4116 °a, interview with the Borough President for # ear and rodo ns far as Tenth Hiring Wal oat ™ pu ay nea Liban fecure me an auilience In a . d 2 fe nutes if I would wa! From Tenth to Fourteenth street I was well looked Presently: t was ushered In to where Mr, Haffen was e ti over by thousands, and ns 1 crossed Thirteenth street I seated, and for the following five minutes bad a pl ay Barry cs for his. f e |ioney, always turne id gierupiad by Jock and Kitsabeth 9, Georks, | For jv father end for Urey Wane Glee | Ty ide wenistauty Lpiatiee thought {t wos ull over when a tall thin man in a dark) (iS) ts ot Po eae SSecentig AN tte. “when | One aXernoon pion after: Dafty’s ‘ar |. So when Darty cainé in Ifke @ aun- tweed suit and a Panama hat stopped my progress and Oe anil area pia ite print hid ty one On Ca eueeyene ners Tite the au eine, Tie cobbler esemned: {mata bluntly, “Say, Billy, what's the row here, anyway?” Haffen Miseed Chance. ; Sree niteabah: helleving Jack to be the] Usual walk, So Rose went with him in | to have put nome of his own wax in his | “That's what I'n trying to find out,” was my answer): “tm the office at the same time was an. old gentleman Y and ni as I edged away. who wanted Mr. Haffen to have a water main placed on Mayer, declares it was sho who ki | her place. ‘The new wh cars, ether heard nor saw any- are rae she estate’ | on ith had ah enoeeea mal Lroneeae | shia the heels, By the ume they had walked |, The vislts eo the cobbler continued & shont disianco the nail began to chate | till Daffy began to grow pale from the Amount of tlme fie spent in the atutty in's sombre eyes, rest- About 12.40 I spied Photographer Curtis, of The Hven-| toath atreet, where he raid he had a:valuable fiat build- ing World, mixing In with the crowd trying to take! ing which was a dead loss owing to the fact that he could snapshots as man after man was picked out as myself! get no water on tho promises, CHAPTER II. hip Synln {cots wo ona; | eto in t “ in my shoe,” he st { i For the next half hour Curtis was certainly kept busy, Mr. Haffen t i i "take & 1 i him, be; te ter thel: rt. Haffen turned th 1d: ni , Clandestine Visits Rose looked ante round, Onfy ondle | Breesion athang 0, that one, day as the crowd ran in biinches anywhere trom Twelfth to|Gumbloton, of some other heparin Fad sen Havie Fourteenth atreet, anil every man who happened to bear! to Hnginear Clark offered him a new lead pencil, the slightest resemblance to myself wns immediately] President Hatten told me he would not take a vaca 4 'Y¥, 80, ow HY did you not oo: your) nary aawdlers and passers-by were to | When he was kneeling down Dufty ven a sapphires in’a safo?” asked| be seen at the corner where they, t 0 put Ns hand o} man's —the corner of a str mood |awart oad and leave tt there, "it's | the Pace eae aaurlite tar ese le to ‘He otis at the ba ied Nowa ty gh ty, shaking Hie own: | singled out as the much-wanted Raffles, tlon this year, then sald: then stopped ‘at the door of k dobehas the fits ard, la Threath an t8he Man That Looked Like Me. tn ihe Bron ts progressing ao rapidly T eantiot attord “Frave you arrested my husband, and | Shop, and without waiting for an anawer | Merced left I was particularly interested in the wolfare of one|taxen a vacation, ior Cwantyrtares youre 0d Te aot of l he tnte "spool of blac! oem ana This fe the Hy . little mawter,” i wa eadashe too; some. |) ™yéterious on what evidence?” wan ‘ota sitting ! oO! man, tH at hi “gtrietly apenking, he te not under ar-'| looked up at the amare Frenchworent | % and gruffly iked her business, harmless appearing young man who really did bear a » going to begin now,’ YOU }\ strong reneriblance to myself. He was well dressed,! when 1 called his attention to the fact that other men ARE THE jj) having on a new gray sult, and wore the unmistakable) in pnnlic lite were abotit to enjoy a reat during the warm Fest, but he is watched, end oolld not ‘And fgets 4h ‘.. young one, rked a LS Ween retpe it he trled, ‘The evidence,” he Turned to’ therm, Wid sot "atea ite nis | Smell SAG DRBY, worrOUnY, Donat || Mir. Rafios MY8- |) brown derby hat, T watched him with much concern as| weather, Mr, Haifen replied, “Well, that may all be well iched ‘his brenst-pocket, “is here/ sacs Ws bow . |, |Wever comes ‘ome,”” whose @uriocs || h° strolled unthinkingly across. Fourteenth street from) and good, but {f they were as busy as Iam théy would @nd he drew forth the platol. 1a ett, boy's shoe pinches him.” |) Janin put up his erimy as i he |! photograph Union Square—and then the crowd saw him, and {t was! ang ifitie ume fi ” Bkewton looked beyond Elisabeth to} make it more"comfotantet, “OU | would ave, Seas, Arey 1 en, Wi MR. |) ali off. poe ty ME aia ety aries A lca 4 e tte mata. Be foked {ike one petrified, | Rows toed J00king ‘oarslenaty about eed over sree fie eon tng Sr it ute ta RAFFLES Tt required the combined at of three pollcemen and shaniking him for the ‘iaterelewie Ana eireent Hates and #tar! ‘weapon, ah, mn ing on on, inn! enh iny laces two moun cops to save the you! en he + - Thien cue’ play, Mrs. Gt Gores |diiinaale MRS Witted SoBECd? Sh ‘hs |" Wve fad Bee wom paste ond geree, || Zhe AH || frolly emersed from the excited crowd he looked mach] "ry.dny will stroll about ae Uaual, T think An WL No. matter. in whose hands that pistol fitter ertain punchings and hammer- |during the iltue Sagpriude, and now ahe || Bvening Hke a man who had acctdontally got tangled up in a foot~ probability I will ramble over to the east aide and take bd tah these hada i gh Lo MPa ton tentedty (which bo weemned Ne forte Wear *nor|| World, behets ball serimmage And he Net Be wen 100. enter trom| (0.8 part of the Bowery for a change, If you happen tolbe “y et”? ‘ . And then there were the lady and her daughter from i My husbana'st” who exied out an one | SEMEL ney cote, weston abs Dad IPSS, aay op eng arenas near at hand Each day Ao will || sersey cise both of whom were detormined to capture) Wcitnieg pvn siete Wie Hewics Beta Decben nom ante GAAS tat! wos’ ehubeds end oosk teonts | Onl nn’ ete ait HOt ANSE Min gti [nothite to! sootan the, halar devotees || Gara arens admit his || me, to about Chatham Square, po se eta Ss SoMk betes | Sr Mar hie inte eee elke Foon ee et tt the || View of his identity ‘You junt watch down that way, Itezlo.” eaid the! what time will 1 be there? Oh! somewhore-betwwen | He could daly have avon it, and picked | “Wain” wha dnd Reet arottetante Soeenplyy | promune ted eas wrung erpes him ehat |} face wild PD ML ely hg ig dt hold of the first man you se9/ 10.80 and 11,30 o'clock, But 1’ be there, and it will be si ever @ would not pléad ie 8 like Raffles,” strictly up te you to win the hundred, (he till this: murde: pear, “s ‘i y a i ted with mont brininabhily sag When thoy sme y orying. Here “ansue | and enete oat de ane the clover IAW: Wat he heh moocompany T watched "Lizzio” stop three men, all of whom jollfed). Be on the lookout. You will know me sure enouah pest i a on), Mgiighte and what not’ —— Lyere would sot Up and whether Mre, Bt. OR Bee to the || her good-naturedly, and thon sho returnod to mamms,| if you get. good aquare look at mo; so don't be bashful, _ edtar'—= aie drew 9 deep wreath and was clirlous often Dafty's etoe| George would the trial, turn you lf] who was busy aletithing on Wourteenth street between] tut step right up to the fret man you see that looks 2 i many. six-| But nelt lend nor foe Knew what nein X ‘ bag fil oaeetnnhyi, pg ic i Peoee, yore. goin i Tepaira at the milnabeth Tatended to a On im oar || round. Aowokey, bleed an oe vA mind assumed such proportions bel bai) 1 pid un ¥! Wi, ay PSEBEDE you WUL De Oe y | cobbler'e run e@ corner, Be Continued, He y 1 o'clock the cro ner of The Bvening World's reward, | anther Jieodenie| an folineg pe iy a uli tes, The World, || that it was necensary for he Follse ee Joree ee 7 Grew his ‘pistol into frightening me’ into i undis- where you || % passageway clea cars. So hy that time not a soul evon hinted I was the man they were] Mr, Raffles Answers Correspondents, Pet pipetinnye he pire paper M A Y I { A N > auised, will 5 ened looking for. I really can’t understand it. FRED W, SIEBERT.-1 certainly will pate i up” untiT ' wh a ‘averse ba gO * IT ON Ss : ‘2 areas Maha Grew Tr isea ot tenes bea een falar formotten ME, Bt, lent the pistol to Mr, t Py ° reater Deolding there was absolutely no chance of getting‘my| 4 Ninth sip epee a at \ “Rowe,” ald: Bilsabeth, boldly. Ae Daily i Fashions ]| sew vors. for I! gio pitt back in that crowd, and that I was perhaps de-| | AARON ROBINAON.T wan not on One Hundred amd Fif., Nol"! ud Jack's volae: betind thea; — Prensananees It capturing || Siving others in Creator Now York of the chance of| teenth street that day. Look more carefully at my face ai® Myou are telling @ No, Elienbeht—a ie | a. pith (anlee Aa alo rab Apetad him. |} capturing mo, I moved on, leaving the crowd still busy leas at eddy ic POU RASA LeRLNOR| , jbo attoleea i ld aes ate ce iea ing holding up unauspecting pedestrians who happened to Pee Geib tb the other ne om vourealt, Mie, ‘Heve you. He took the pistol from’ my'| Waya in demand, ‘The tl- 'y have the misfortune to resemble me. BUNNY.Wae not in Lipton’a that day at all, Stet Leaving Fourteenth street at 1.15 o'clock | started JAMES HEATII—1 was not on a Staten Toland ferrp-boat, ‘possession, in which J had boen ever | justration Is of the very ¢ ; . " @ince I fired that shot, and which | \ h pay “ || latest dest; \ north on the west side of Broadway, first cutting throug Fa i ight eathess prevented you ftom laiele and aa ee y " Union Square, Hoyond the fact that I noticed everybady| Read my story and you will rare tweens 98 Hine Wash abe turned and. fell’ down, on ‘hér | brett bas ij hud the “Raffles eyo" largely developed, there was noth- la @tyle, that “te ing worth recording until I reached Forty-second street. Messenger Boys Are After Him; ** 1 walked over to Sixth avenue and took a car up to old hand and bowing her head on 1 he Mysterious Mr, Raffles: ‘ on it, i Wifty-ninth street, tranaferring east to Third avenue, aT vets yu on Broadway hetween Forty-necond and winging to him* for dear love, and with j : . 9 ene thea ehook her like a reed; AMUSEMENTS, AMUSEMENTS, SE nC tata at Neidhardt’s restaurant, at No, Forty-tiied mrects tovday at abate m9 nesnt) t hope MiNAt TT REAHAWA “Hob: atte, OP co , nnn | pnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nanan | fi ¥ apturcd: you. WiNl give tH all @ ohadve'ta loo sn : OF peak, only. the |srwcetully and abun- Ops ‘ SUPERD SHOWS at luncheon T thought it might be worth my} YOR On CePA Pom ime if you with to be at lane, mlinh of Ns hand chilled her—how |dnutly at if whe bm » Could she know that ho was thinkin, hd, j TwkeDaly, || HEIPPODROME || while to go up to tho Bronx and pay my respects to] Oe.” Auk nin aurstions of any of our United Distélas hed heer with Foas to rh tal made 4 \ ia foe pages vie é aga of Ea to 4 h Bt ye pu A rercent Louls N. Haffen, whom I had not seen iasehae Yor, Ionia We. ao oreniny Talia toe sek a meee eee > EE: \ p Jin OWN CUMPANT OF 81. oy Dead 1 took a Third avonue elevated train, riding in an t 1 Messenger No, 2 f f. Ssiby . DAY, || open car to Ono Hundred and Seventy-sev th str mag he Sale at tant, “10 Jenne match ttt eet yoenra “yan. 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