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a ROT LOOWEE DELS POE ELE LOOT Com riehe 19 te The Cree Publeling Co. The New Yor! brening World.) LISSEN. ITS T 6MATTER “PoP WHAT YA THINK Tom? 1 BROUGHT YA THUM ONE To PLAY WIF. - Ten Nation-Famous New York Murders By Alfred Henry | Lewis: de wee, roon er wr ene SHAT'S WHAT I CALLA C.evea stir! By Julius Would think that afigr a . Vil—THE KILLING OF BILL POOLE IN STANWIX HALL, world inte epenblog enema GEOPS OF PREVEDING INSTALMENT. Hyer had been dogged trom Lafayette ‘York Clty tn middie Hall to Pmtt’s, under Wallack’s The- re etre, by Turner and Baker.. They in- tended to kill him. Hyer was etand- ing at Platt’s bar when Turner and Baker came in. Without a word the two drew their pistols. ‘Turner fired Alexander Graham Bell, may The telephone speaks a univernal te know if the Japanese language cou! by the neck and threw him to the floor. Baker at- tacked Hyer from behind, using the Dutt of his pistol as a club, Hyer sud- denly turned on Baker and hurled h on top of Turner. There were @ dozen friends of Turner and Baker present, but they were in too much fear of Hyer to lend @ hand. “Hyer took hold of Baker by the col- lar and dragged him to the atreet. Baker struggled fiercely and cut Hyer's fingers with a knife. But Hyer main- tained his grip. Both Baker and ‘Turner were badly trounced. “While the rough usage which Hyer . had given $04: Tuner ares hold- fog, the (por as, the -sonmont :teple entlet advised him to have a talk over their native language. The experiment not meet again until the Count wan at ‘was my pleasant fortune back in 198, and for several years afterward—until his death, in truth—to know Robert Roose- velt, the paternal uncle of Roosevelt, once a tenant of ite of Murder. Stanwix Hall; and An early use of the telephone was physician was called on the wi held his and a correct diagnosis was obtained. Geene Business detained Bel! during the hottest weather it work in pe eet i tory down ia hbit-or- ect his s wn : Srag-oarpet fashion, as I gathered Hall,” he eat, “on the west @f Broadway near Prince atrest, “one violent spirits, Poole, that .de- ad just flung open its doors. In the Vout adherent of Hyer, met Haker Beart of the fasnionatde pronienads, it ® Canal street cafe called the Gem. GMetened with mahogany and cui glass, He at once attacked Baker, and—so “The atmosphere of Stanwix fall was the latter claimed—attempted to gouge See political, without being pare Out his eyes, The police interfered and [Servant eny to. the maid: 4 explained that he had installed ‘an ice which registered 66 degrees Fahrenhe! An bir-tight wooden box, large eno! near e window in a room underneath. F alr; from fh ves rominent in ality Poole notified Baker that he yould yet and yas ‘nettle his hash.’ Baker made thie hs night and day excuse for going armed, “Morrissey was Baker's friend. More rissey seemed to be about the equal of Poole physically. Nor was he beneath ‘was likely to be found thei Aay Stanwix | evening would ha ‘been sure to show you Morrissey, Hyer, Weele or Baker, waiting—elbow on coun- Ya—while Barkeeper ‘Corny’ Campbell ‘mized their drinks. Aim in either courage or endurance, “The Tammany crowd most earnestly A rofensed himeelf eager for the Hyer, The mauling he gave Yan- battle which should settle their supe- Bullivan at Boge Le eee riority in the art of barroom fighting. lace hadn't served to make him " Two Foolish Bets. lar with the warriors of the Wigwam. © |” le ‘Morrissey foolishly offered to bet Ana whosoever hated Hyer might as further and hate Poole. Poole %0 that the latter couldn't na: the floor of the atudy. drawn into the wooden bo: Toe and electricity were ¢! over the conditions of the deaf and dumb, and menting with the problem. of filght. those of other invento He believes in height, formed of © eure wager, e and mamed the Christopher street pier, within two ®jpoke of his own house. The Terror. was what he claimed to be, the cetioned champion of America, never fought in the ring, never ‘wanted to. His forte was rough and temble, And so he and Hyer never \wellided in their ambitions. 4 “Hyer atood 6 feet 2 inches in height was as straight as a spear. form of gliders or planes, In aerial requieite, Vode “The C; ° Bell's successful al mame another piace. This was Monge ie i equally weak-minded. Again the 90 was put up and Poole named Amos street pier, one block above the other. The hour was to be 7 o'clock in the morning. This time Morrissey did not forfeit. The next morning, accompanied ground, it resembled a pounds. The celia were made of thini bamboo, Expert ai By Louis Joseph Vance Author of “The Brase Bowl,” dc. He h4 a.smail mouth, thin lips, straight 40) eady eyes, high forehead and was withal a man of sturdy horse emee. Fauitiess in his apparel mod by a dosen men, More@ifey was at Amos Sst in his manner and possessing an atreet. Inetantly a crowd attacked him inborn refinement, he was not wholly h unheard of in respectable circles, “Poole, the champion of the rough- and-tumbles, was the chief of a faction onthe west side. Bold, daring, a@gres- sive, 1 of shoulder, with huge, brawny arms, he was the terror of the Tammany brulsers, Both Hyer and ‘Poole were butchers, Poole followed his he Inst. “Sonn, Morriasey, who had come to tewn from Troy, was the sworn enemy ‘of Poole. He had as little use for Hyer. ut Hyer was a professional and too ‘a problem for him. Morrissey. in, the end, entered the ring himeelf, and! among his triumphs counted as not the viotory over Heenan. wae honest, Tt seared gracefully skyward 1 (Copyright, 1912, by Frank A, Muneey Company.) SYNOPSIS OF PREOBDING CHAPTERS. taker, caught him and took him mean- ing to put him in a santtarium. I don’t understand how ‘he got away—from Em- worrles me—on Emvber's accoun| T hope nothing has happened to hiny’—— “Oh, I hope not!" “You know—T mean about the cause—' the morphine?"* “1 never guessed until that night, a mad- wes knocked down and nearly killed, ‘On the evening of Feb. %, 1855, Mor- rissey was drinking with some bvon companions in the ‘back noom of Stanwix Hall. Poole came into the place. Mor- rissey, who was more than half drunk, headed at ence for Poole, pouring out a torrent of abuse. Poole tola him to get mmber and he'd talk with him. Where upon Morrissey drew a revolver and | pri snapped it three times in Poole's face, Poole drew his revolver, white the help- | lens Morrisey begged for another pistol. | js! “New York hasneverbeen without a king of the newsboys, and in 185 one Mark Maguire, who had not been one whit Gisqouraged when Morrissey pulled his old Allen on Poole, at sight of Pool Pistal ‘became mightily moved. In tones of reproach he sald to Poole, ‘You woulda’t ‘Ki @ man tn cold bland, would you “Poole flew tnto a rage. There were two big carving knives, keen as resors, lying on a tunch counter. Poole, as a professions butcher, knew all about knives. Taking one in each hand, he toraed them on the floor, and challenged either Maguire or Morrissey to make hia choice, He, Poole, would fight either of butcher knife against butcher (To Be Continued) could not tell. Briefly he told the story Sy the time he had finished, the of his marriage to Mary Ladisias and morning was well advanced, He turned of the impending divorce. at length.and trudged wearily ap from After a pause, during which the northern beach, through the com- neither stirred, she told him in a faint munity of desolation, back toward the voice: “Thank you.” weputation when wuifeur with whom she had eloped, 40, the Hout Bese, where be. fe ! farm hot Belt. Bhe turned toward the house and they Walking the faster of the two, she parted for the night. met him midway between the house and ‘Hugh was up and out In the cool of the beach. dawn, before delaying for ‘You've taken your time, Mr. Whita- some minutes oot of the etair- ker,” said she. ss ‘after, cane to lint y indication that ‘It was a bit of a walk. % dee the woman above was awake and etir- ‘cand only. your pains tin, sti) He nodded. cone wei oo tert eee ire fee no ana - ron talk, then?’ she de- lon; the night ¢o affright her with ft et . 1a inted thipate cf nemeleas norrore , “Hf We must, I supbose-you'll have q iq behind {te impenetrable cloak, $ Lard the way, My mind's hardly He felt no longer bound to play to crelL breaking seeder. PS jeeping a inel on the real \ i e her apprehensions. ae leaned toward him, dropping her hand @ deat ov No clap in any, auarter ©: er his own with an effect of infinite teland. slav- —_—_——-——. changed at all, you hadn't aged a day. But now--and that morning when I saw you firat on the Great South Beach— IT never dreamed of associating you with my memory of my wife. realise I had never seen you in full Neht~ Rever knew the color of your hal Then, an soon as I got over th awful shook, [ realised he was man, talked Incoherently—raved— for your npeak m, ‘Later he quieted down a little, but that was after he had come down Into the cabin to—to drug himself. It was very terrible—that tiny, pite ‘ing, emoking | mutter himself over the glass morphine was dissolving. That hap- pened three times before the wreck. I ht I whould go eut of my mind. ed, her tragic face pitiful. he muttered Inadequate! ‘Dear, I didn’t &now, believe me, was you who bew! me—not wife for whose sake I fought against what I thought infatuation with you, I loved~I love you only, you as you are not the poor little girl of the Commer- jouse."* she questioned sadly, tn- “Tt le true, Mary. I love yo “I have toved you always, softly between barely parted lips when I thought you that you were drowned out there, Hugh. You know that, don't you?” bs) never for an {natant @ erous, ofa comp: "whe repeated, heading for th meeting hin equarely 4 he ooked up, startled, what's the good of keep- ba 3 the make-believe? You know!’ now, Below, a alow tide crawled, ‘2 right,” he gaid. “I do know, She removed her hand and sat back without lessening the fixity of her re- ward. ‘When did you find !t out?’ ‘Before you were wp—I meant to keep it from you--dewn there on the beach— I found Drummond. “Drummond! It was a cry of terror. #he started bmp from him, eyes wide, cheeks whit- des a with Yankee Sullivan and ot! gladiatore which bore fruit in ie wilting of Poole. More émmediately, the cause of that bloodshed was P troubles with Morristey. bart wag killed in February, *7t appeared that four weeks before ‘Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers Her Photograph for advioa 1 can only urge them to in protest. tery to me, you've laid on my thoughts, Ever since we met you've haunted me curiously with @ weird suggestion of some elusive relationship, some en- tanglement—intimacy—gone, perished, forgotten! “But since you called me to supper a while ago by my name—I don't know why—your voice, as you umed it then, has run through my head and through, ¢ my memory itke a strain of mualc from some half-remembered song. It half maddens me; I feel so strongly that everything would be so straight and plain and clear between um if I couid the receding waters had left Mmpid pool. In the pool lay the Dody of @ man, face downward, limbs frightfuly sprawling. Fifteen minutes’ walk brought Hugh to the pool. Ten minutes’ hard work with the spade sufficed for tue ex- cavation of @ shallow trench tn ‘the wands above high-water mark. There the living buried the dead. What the gulls and the crabe and the mhattering surf had left had been little, but enough for indisputable identification. ‘Whitaker had buried Drummond, CHAPTER XIV. find him, A moment later she toned It. "It wouldn't be like you to, my it wouldn't be you, Hugh, But then I loved the memory of you, You a "tear what you have meant in my much. Drummond had a jot of money, 1 tancy—enough to hire a desperate man to do almost anything. The wages of ein” "Don't!" she b me think of Pe i aia. “T'm nore Yor PY Tittle she pat, head bowed, brooding. ‘ ‘Always, always you have stood for all that was fine and strong and good and generous—my gentlest man, my knight sane peur et repreche. No other man I ever knew—no let me on—ever measured up te the stand you had eet for me to worship. But, understand, won't you? I'm sorry-- But [ presume you ought to,know His body— I buried {t"-— ° O girl should give her pho- tograph to man unless she i be more careful in the future “Pp. RA" writes: “I have paid atten- tlon to a @irl for two years, but now al me not to see her for some e ® little smothered cry and Seemed to shrink in upon herself, “Mary,” he said, and hestitated with a ttle wonder, remembering that this was the firat time he had ever called ‘her by * he repeated, thick-wit- ly sure she only fasten that fugitive, indefina- that name—"Mary, did od. ryggueet regret | time, as she wants to enjoy the society Ble’ something. that always fluttering Blight. pe Feu fore oF Mim bi 1 could never forgive you If ther men’—- f having done eo. |°f others. She promises to accept my | just beyond my grasp. ‘ Y the time he got back to the She sat, her face averted, mate, you'd been pretending. It would be oo be begaed—~ ‘please don't ‘This bust of ,sttentions again later on. Do you think ‘You mean all that—honestly?" she de> farmhouse the woman was up. “I'd give everything if I could have cruel. Ab, but you haven't been! Tell harrow youreas Lot ary. Pelee ng out pho: {she will come back to me?” manded in an oddly startled voto ait’ she called mended matters. I was fond of Drum- me you haven't. . a %, Etat you. The: world pas I doubt it. I think she is paving the ‘One moment," he begged humbly, over her shoulder a¢ mond—poor If he'd only been ‘I don't understand, ‘Pretending’ med so empty and so lonely, ens a my 6ir Gale’ was gone, never to re- turn to me. I tried to lose myself in my work, but it wasn't enough. And those others came, beseeching me, and—and 1 liked them; there was none like you, but they were all good men of their kind, and I liked them, and they made love to me and—I wae starving for af- fection, Hugh. "' was made to love and to be loved. Each time I thought to myself: ‘Surely this time it te true; now at last am I come into my kingdom. It can't fultl! tograph to any one who may happen to ie for it is unwise if not ab- solutely dangerou! The porti Ae mt yourself is an on Geodingly intimate thing, The possession #% 1s.8 favor which should be re- for only your closest friends and especially you should be carefut ‘@hout wiving it to men who are mere he said wonderingly “Pretending you didn't know who f was—pretending to fall In love with me Just because you were sorry for me, to make me think it was me you loved and not the weman you felt bound to take care of, because you'd—you had? — ‘Mary, laten to me," he interrupted. swear I didn't know you, Perhaps don't understand how wonderfully ve changed, It's hard for me to be- you can be one with the timid and he came into the kitchen. “And where, pray, have you been all this long tim: he said o “T went for wim,’ might do me good. frank with me from the could have been avoided. # soon as I knew--that night when I recognized you on the stage—I went et once to you to say I would clear otit not stand in the way of your happi- nese—I would ‘hefore we go In. I've—T've something art all this else to say to you, if | may.” She watted, elim, straight and darkly weil. way for & permanent sepa: "C, RA” writes: “Is it possib’ to ‘break off an attachment when one comes| “I haven't piayed ¢air, I'm afraid,” he in dally contact with the object of it?| said, lowering his head to escape her The person for whom I care le obvious. | steadfast guxe. ‘I've Just told you thar Ay consoling himself. eiterue naan ‘Well? she demanded in an odd, ring- If you have euMcient strength of} ing voice. “Inn't it true? will you can do Mkewise, even though a “True?’ He laughed unnaturally. “It's you haven't absence to help you, so true I-I wish I had died before I Hon, 8 “Phought tt a eigne of @ response to our C Q Of course, it's early.” he rome the door, look ove! “None as yet. Breakfast ove! How long have you known?” awong suddenly to face him. Sne gequaistances. “CoML well “When a young ipalnlens Her esesaie were as coldly ‘For some Hh ager for two. oF oted liste rl 1 married sey" fiz tren, bese aae I have known the incisive as @ scalpel. ys. je ti ce to murder years ago, a nol — by rgd You see, it to moti sil ay a lady pi ea heqeagytiead ae santieeans, “1 — he atemmered — “I'm already ne. first thne he must have Only, that night, on the stage as Joan “Bach tlie, Hugh, It wad the same. 4 returned o chould eons i: married’ ght he'd done it—— Then he tried Thursday, you were that girl again. One by one they were taken from me, famen you for ft, A number of girls! One usually rises when introduced She ggve a little, atified crv —whether in, the night you were carried “Max told ine it wea 3 3 strangely, Peer Tom ‘Custer aoe have written tg me anybody, paca isamtscde @ pain, or horror, or of indignation he Ember watched for him, weulga't delleve him; to me you Bedn’t fret; he eee wet cae —_— —- ae — ee an ar ae e xe BG % By C. M. Payne Bee THIS- TOMCATS DO NOT, LIKE WITTENS Men of Initiative Modern Americans Who Have Led the March of Progress opyraus, vid, og Tee tems Mummbing Oo, (The. New Vora siveoung Word) 10-- ALBX ANDER G. BELL, Who ‘Wired Mankind Together.” Parison with hie first memorable success, tongues, but transmits Chinese an readily as English. student tn this country when the Invention was young, and expressed curiosity “Don't fail to put more ice in the stove!” When comment was made regarding the cooinese of the apartment Bell tin receptacle in which was an electric smaller pipe, covered with asbestos, was carried to a point about a When the fan wae started air from outdoors was only expenses, Much thought hes been given by this remarkable man to improving the Mp speech which does away with the finger language. For many yearn, like Maxim, Holland and Edtnon, Bell has been 000 tetranedrontc cell the broad enda, will remain aloft longer than any other form of aircragt, Me calls his machine an aerodrome, to differentiate it from the Langley-Wright hed a height of 60 feet and a three-sided base of 40 fest. iminutive three-sided pyramid and weighed 300 acended slowly and safely when momentum ceased. Dullt at the Bell summer home at Baddeck, N. ust LE Wen if HE DID NoT Lie THe WiT +e HAD NO re BITHNETH SHLAPPIN' 1T JuTy FOR 7)” 3 NUFFIN’ $ ry) ie Chambers man had brought the peoples of the ication—by Inventing the telephone— he could rest on his laurels, Whatever scientinc achievements hereafter attain must suffer LA com It te no discriminator of Count Kuroki was @ Jangua: id be understood over its wires. ‘wee introduced to Bell and interrogated him on that very point. The the wire with a fellow countryman im wan convincing. Kuroki and Bell id Portemouth as Special Envoy for his nation to settle the Russo-Japanese war, when one of Bell's children had ereup ire in the middle of the night, The ick child in front of the transmitter during a coughing apell Bell 18 a man of initiative: he Is always, inventing, Connecticut avenue home, in Washingtes, ir wan surprised to fing him js Btudio—which was cool, while the weather outside was tmtel- erably warm. As he entered the house the visitor had overheard the mam atovi He pointed to Briefly he described hie invention and told how to arrange an “ice atove,” it being unpatented. ugh to hold @ bieck of ice, was placed From one olde of this box a piece Its opposite side a amaller pipe com fen, Tals foot from & foe and forced upateire, ary and coal. Mr, Bell has originated a system of expert. it from His ide a@ thr are radically ded triangular ki packed together and open af Navigation, equipoise is the essential it before Wright or Curtiss had admitted the difficulties of equi- Bell had discovered the trouble and had set, about overcoming It. craft, built upon the lines dewcribea, Standing upon the nest olled silk, stretched over lightest jccensful. The great kite by attaching it to a motorboat, lone as the traction continued and de ‘The latest aerodrome, from the earth—which Holland believe: This was true of the Wright machine tn its early stages of development. $$. love him and couldn't marry him, ‘2 had to tell him so. HH Then Milly Hamitton; l wens pes to him, but he was taken m: from @ crowded ship in mi toved me."T Ued hia pete ee 3 hi have consented to marry h hie ins was laylight—no one 5 logge or why. @ world we knew of. mond--the crowning fH ) pias “And now"—her voice pealed out the magnificent solitude of the t% {sland like Sreat bell toll pew I bs ‘@ it to live through ene jain; ne = wond: and terror an@ beauty of love, the of having you torn from m: I don't believe I T can't bear thi Tm ad—unless—unieag'?— ice shuddered—"l have the the strength to”"— « he cried in desperation, not go on Ike this!, Mary! he ing her hand, sald gently, / a cloner to her, “listen to m ad what I eay, I love you: £ am your husband; nothing can possibly come between us. All these other things can be explained, Don't let yourself think for another instant”—~ Her eyes, fixed upon the two hands In which he clasped her own, bad grown wide and staring with dread. Mi t= arily she seemed stunned. wrenched it from him, at the same time Jumping up and away, Be Continued.) (To STOP THIEF! w)

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