The evening world. Newspaper, July 6, 1916, Page 12

EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 6, NEE EE DEEL AEA OADE READE EOD DEORORRODEIIN ITD An interes ng Series of Pathe Photopleye — sented at the Leading Motion in Greater New York, LAPEER RAR OEORED ORE CEE er reer ee WHO'S GUILTY? ere PORsOr EH CeTs Now Being Pr Picture Theatre "999900049" ee Story No, 10 A TRIAL OF SOULS. ries of separate stories commission © 4004 faint Waiting only to help he serve revive the oy The teath dealing with inviting judgme and real responsibility ctual guilt m triumph oo ot pretty eatiafaotor And bie fers an A oo and foew : ' the aos! son Weetrew) whole bendful he mused unhepe vofere newapapere were “you've beard, then? I'm eo gina!” mow people ce Femember, of your \ 6 = bie vee BNATOR MABON form Here on Tom Vietohere chances of bad beld the Whrtving & “Hetore | could etop « © out up that news Novelization By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow “Dad! Mother!" sid Rose, nervously, kissing them one after the other, ‘I've some news for you-some tremendous newel Promise not to be angry.” * © * Draws ing Tom forward from the curtained of the doorway, Rose summoned all her courage, bape whole courtroom to make mention of it tm Vale and rookie ai preeorived by law I will ‘ just then have to call Dootor Colfa one penny ageing one million “Nol” ageie broke in wih vindviy increasing wogulltad “L remember now Wat 1 thought you bad, by the w " ghe replied we Up Bfieen minutes @ herrivie about t* going lo write b die mother @urreptitiously wiped ber even, « with 08 ehauied of dread for a mire oe He wes the ottys richest men. the county's pone leading corperetion lawyer Th wiagte term in the Senate, be etl bore th Tour eae a0 rlghtees on the marrient & decade bad paseed # ud Utle of “Benator” 1 Hie encemore had fe vaded od Gamed bis Bome clly, and be ruled that chy a9 he chome And now, efter & quarter of eretury qual city magnate Me was bot a fe ck Ot Mephen Fletober behaved beautifully al ie marriage and that they're plee te Rose pel short wtth @ grunt av ualvely © © man 04 @ girl dato tue pal ood ae aye you ¢ 90m wnannalied cxardom as oly © will be expelled And you will be In the dim let Ma the present, teher is gving to give Tom @ jov vped with «cold Wiumph crushed bia ft “ ‘You ourht to be more ban Peepoee Pe i SER aie i moe t there for # talk with y and then we ' ie persoa, and ih was very ieee was true Moreover seearieg bad Wholly failed to tal and political ee 4 cources of wealin D ateher 04 abou! Mase ehuekied the Henator the most tactful of the the editor of we are bin live with the Pletehers but at the county jail And © lithe later at the Hiate prison for bout seven y: Mr Atephen Mietoh eve bim @ Job to do that for him r “nt lees eaten 00: eae (ey ented tn sn arted bie epruc Uniform for @ olvilian bimaeit down by & rainpipe fre dormitory window inder the corner of the sem ve years and years afraid wed be ht away and be toweiher alwayel” she surrendered, ne (hem one after the other beraiely bop The attacks cootinued and grew Cente plight Kor, bein Breve and more viruieat to eye Mason askance. Dapere in other cities were printing me of the more apicy of Fieicbere sor more Also Ie not going to The Hate io going A nice oony Jobv ated chalre or peg “Take bim out, “end ture tim As soon asl can get my And ae clung to ping @ Mitte, tnary garden’ wail Anery with you, you precious ite io attendance.” Sto her heart wi prayed 4 voy, Blephen Fietob- wae maokiln ut Die have never been more aripped each other so phy tn sat (he Balle vit deap will be an en8y mm * anon Wee weeping aloud. husvend® irom vieww evant questioning, 1 know my learned opponent hopeless ¢ ut t cours le Lelong tampered with, Guest to know What the name Vhyrivlan haa to do with a es ae Thomas Fletcher te Y Ne abductor auttor for her dear eake, “init Uole and Davenport, above all (he lay-mom were Atlee ade Be bere of The wudionce, know wow dea fyolod,, auilY, of | ebduet whole question of his powell hinges on Howe Maaon'e being phase of the law, than cighieen years old. There Ute perfects tte Lint + ‘eas ken court record of her age, The e ro Was bot @ legal loohnioal, Mivat Be eatablinhed by vont ily, hot @ flaw, of which the defense Witveseae and by similar laughed Mason tndulmently What w thls bead tied up TU come around to t station and mal eing shoes or'— “What do you mean? gasped the ‘what do you meant could take advantage or whoreby # moon could be made for an “I've thought out the arrangement not wolng back to the mewhere out the formal cha And Ui charge you with eri yelled Mason, “with eriminas Little by little Senator Mason bad 0 @ homicidal rage fn into the dark gar doun news? Porbed bimeeit | den below him forward from The only known witn ea who « rently recalls no her child's birth except t w trial, being of the bulldog b d, thr week, u mad Davenport would not yield, A lone? tu a family Mible he ible, Buminst bie foo, whe would neither De bribed nor Diuffed into submission © we climax came tog bie morning paper, bwe Dally Appeal, Mason read these § ve-colums headlines oo the frost what I started to aay when I told you Tom Fletcher waa ‘wetted pretty eatiafactorily,” i've just come from the Diatriot Attorney, and the oMcore muat by thie time, with the w. Presently @ white and slender fig ure emerged cautiously from ar wa that lay between the wall doors to night advocate would bave bee: the night in some part of the eam inary where they won't be apt to look better apend curtained alc wummoned all har cours up!" enapped the reporter, clapping his band, non over the captive’e mou and come along Uy, or we'll drag you out by the beels And never go qulng any paper for If you do, they're apt te pro the enauing wante: "The warrant? ehe repeated dully. BABON CHARGED WITH TRACT FRAUDS. Wall of evidence againat charge of abduction pregnable. Yet again In the Masonburg Police Court, an Piillionaire Stetoomen plein Discrepancy in Electric: to hammer 1h it eon fe of consent’ Is elehtoen (backed by that of his oMce boy, who th @ family ible content tO Honor, in a red and unin hetle plea for mercy, to ably truthful book, But the youth and mutual love unfmpeachability does not include ae Saunier eeeice bi aa 84 revorda that are placed in it by vune coup! op Lia ue to Ort a a G wom tion the Jury's Verdict or to shortea an pose a aory bee Breved be . contrically defective as thie wit I crave permiasion to go on with Questions” "I object!” orted the Distriet Aster a “Objection overruled,” 4 S Judge, after @ moment's oo! breaca through tion, "Go on, Mr Davenport’ Le belleved was absolutely now hurled which he could drag bis client 0 ‘The District Attorney took None won't be elghteen for eral months, The man who mar- & girl under eighteen without Lighting B:de and Bill Ren- dered to City. * Fhe Genator read the headlines ois bad seen the whole fight) Ono odd feature tn the prosecution's clearly that Mason bad been the ag- case had improssed him, and while tion, The exception was aoted, enport resumed: “Mra, Mason, you have he not no special value on it, yet it making a certain entry in yor her parenta’ consent ts Hable to prose- the Magistrate-—who owed cution for the crime of abducting her, Ris appointment to the Senator-had times. Then, fuming end muttering. Do read the news etory beneath them. ur ainat this that he began bis Hible, You were not under oath you wrote bs entry. You are He recalled Mra, Mason to the oath now, @ vory grave felony. courta treat ft with acant meroy. ree I have just made The District Bo option but te believe the story. He made the penalty as light as pos- sible, imposing upon M. fine of $10 and an almomt respectful command to keep ‘The Senator @araing to the editorial page, bis mor toast! “leader” entitied date of Rose's birth in the family 1898?" Hible, Mrs. Mason wi condition of nervousness, and border. Manon, white and panting, dig upon breukdowa, urged her evidence without @ flaw, and all with fearful earnestness, “think, When you ‘Mra. yes fell on Mason's Rawest Deal Yet.” With «@ snort like @ baited bull's, Pre Genator snatched up his hat and Dig Reavy walking otick, and stamped @2 of his office, Five minutes later Be stormed tnto the city room of the ‘That'e the o! againat Tom Fletcher Attorney has promiaad to push tt to the very uttermoat.” fhe warped at him, epeechions with He went on gleefully: peace in future. out of court, volceloss with fury, at bis foe's moral you solemn): mado hor repeat her for- in the noe of Almighty Hony of having entered the Rose Mason was born on Sept in a wretched | “I—I don't know,” whispered Mim ut ehe uve Think, madam! oe It wae the truth, fore you anawer, Maaon," went on Davenport, Under oath it ta not to a mere lat “you have testified that you wrote You are speaking, nor even to thin entry tn the Bible, and that you Court, but to your Creator, To “That equares my account up to date with Stephon Fietcher, too. He attacks me in his miserable news- Very good, I send his aon to Nobody has ever yet clashed with Hiram Mason and Fletcher returned equally enraged at ¢ ad received and at the meagre pen- ity meted out to bis assailant thed in bandages, bi down to write a caustic account of the affair for the The Appeal. Dally Appeal and, brushing aside @a omice boy who tried to bar his wey, burst unannounced Into Biaphen Sietober’s private sanctum. ‘The editor wae glancing over a of smudged proof sheets. up, with no great show of in- did so within three w Palos Mason was born. en that her fath “He waa not at home,” Manon, “ile Waa in Wurope ite had 08? gone to Moscow on legal business for tho governmont, He was absent from the State prison. t day's Inaue of In due time both aftor Ri Creator to whom you must one How did it wive account of that solemn notity or violation, I ask you 21d nok Write It ae pees Gansta bare a Santee “No—nol" whispered the shudder ing woman, thin country for ten monthe. He did muy ineetor Attorney tareeed eee Qarest, as his visitor entered. Fletcher q@ase not surprised by the call. had been expecting something of the Bert for a long time. Well, Genator ‘Tho trial of Tom Fletcher for ab- ducting and marrying Rose Mason was Masonburg’s most law procedure of the year, Nia promiae to hia patron, the Dintrict Attorney preased the case for the atate with @ savage vigor that all Dut awept the defense off ite foot, Stephen Flotcher and his wife had harbored the unhappy Rose tn their home from the etart, less for her own fake than as a parental duty to their Datly he went to the court- She inateted on rlore took their grievances to their wives, and from each, according to ber kind, received full meed of symn- months old,” Mra, Mason, do you know the law re- aulres that @ record be made of every Mason.” he sald Gury to the purple-faced millionaire ho was bearing wrathfully down up- @@ him, “what can I do for you?” % came here.” thundered the Bena- er, “to order you to coase these un- Qerra=ted assaults upon my charac. , Oat and to retract this vile"— “The moment the ‘assaults’ become returned Filetche: they will coase, Until then, they Ghai! continue—untt] I have broken @® the political crookedness that ts @recking our city and county, I'-— “Are you responsible for thie out- Fageous article? 4 @Brusting the paper under Fletcher's “T did not know,” “Do you know that there te abso- {purrage record. It tw dated lutoly no record in the board of health ahi of Rose Maso: “No,” “There ta not. I exami chives while I was preparin Somerston ts Afty miles, by ruil, It te @ fairly pret. ty village, noted chiefly for two in- eututions, One te the Bomerston Military Academy, Homerston Beminary for Young La- dies. Stephen Fletcher's only son, Tom, was @ cadet captain in the for- Senator Mason'monly daughter, Rose, was @ member of the Clase in the latter, Between the academy and seminary there is supposedly yo communtoca- tion whatever, terestedly at seminary girls on the from Masonburg. FROM CHILDHOOD TOM FLETCHER AND RO! MASON HAD BEEN 8WE ‘The othor te the born in this ality on Sept. “Your Hono lained, M and the seminary dormitorias, Tom dropped lightly to the ground and ran it the newoomer, she whispered axitated- ly, aw thelr bands met in the “I had such an awful time Mother Hinkle seemed to au Her room's at the head of the dormitory etaire, And whe aat there all evening with the for you and where you can get out at daylight, before they're up. you her at 6.30 in the morning, We'll catoh the 6.48 milk train to Mason- burg, and go straight to the City Hall, there, for # Hoenne. that new Presbyterian minister up on jace to marry wi know us and he's been In Masonbura only @ month or two, “We were married this morning, Tom and I, Just @ half hour age, a room with them, wawarranted,’ doing this, in the hope that her pres- ence might be of comfort to her boy- new of no ai was absent from hom “If your honor ple port, "that tn no e: hot require the parents to make such We had no children, He longed An tnarticulate roar of truly dread- ful ferocity from the Senator inters rupted her faltering confession, Married?" he aputtered, his volce drowning @ lesser ory of dismay from toto Stephen Fletoher'a aon? You're-you're not!" Then we'll get It was @ tedious tank to impanol the prosecution dreaded the effect of the young couple's unhappy Plight upon the average juror; and as pect something, tending physician—whether in the because we had none, He was get. case of birth or death—and of the ting tired of moe. I thought I could After that we'll urn until Rose Waa nearly four Ee eng Aare lores June & sea? a. “Gentlemen of the jury,” Davonport, his voice ringing glad excitement. “You have seem will go Into that later, » marriage or death?" 1916. t the time of her Rose Mason was eighteen years one day old, She was of logal age marry. The charge of abduction the ar- to pieces, The"—— this “I object!" bawled the dui was District Attorney, iT apoke up the Dia- ‘e birth?" Yot you have wi Attorney, "that ie readily ex. breaking inte Mason has said ahe id apringing up from the wite ch law. Senator Mason ness chair, “It is true! eighteen last month, And—and nald Daves lan't my child at all. We had been uae, The law does married seven yoara, Hiram and I.’ It is the province of the at- a child, And wo were drawing epart, clergyman and the license clerks in had a child, While Village atreet are sharply reprimand- od = Mig-oyed and Guffy-haired girls Who surreptitiously peep over the vine-clad wall Grounds as @ squad of cadets march went to thelr roome for the reat of the dey. “Are you? Speak up!" Tam,” answered Fietcher, “and I have here the proof sheets of a much @tronger one for to-morrow's paper, SB @tve you fair warning that I"— He got no further, Wurst al! bounds of self-control and shrewd counsel, wae ever on the alert to koop the District Attorney from pa box with aatellites of Mason’ But at lat the challenges wore ex- Dauated, the jury was complete and the tral begun, door wide open and the ball lights there yet for all I 1 couldn't go past her, found a« rope and from my window, wo to your father and mother and tell them all about tt,” "Oh, Tom!" she declared, “you're You're @ regular Napo- You think of everything.” he contradicted gaily, the cane of marriago, Mra, Mason, he resumod, tui ness, “what physician was in atten “Hut Tam, dad," Rose tn, pale, but with a resolve to stand her “And won't you forgive wa, Wo love oach other eo! Viease, dad, deart Hut Senator Mason was beyond the epminary myself down Tt burt my hands Mason, Mason's rage of 1 went to th dling asylum at Bulter, and Tone, She was so little and puny, that I could tell him she was three ‘ months younger than she really -I don't ramomber,” faltered Mra, And I wrote it that way in our Bible. She wasn't my baby at all. I don’t ning again to the wi! when your daughter, Rose, w “You don't remember the physician know whose sho was, Hor mother who attended you when your only died at the bospital when she was ohlid was born?” exclaimed Daven born, She was a stran, don't think of anything except you, Teach of appeal from the sweet young voloe or from the team-brimming eyes 1 @0 piteously to his distorted Tho District Attorney set forth the Btate’s case, and propared to estab- Meh it, Davenport fought him, every Hut it was a losing olear, the facts With a wordless bellow, the Genator swung bis heavy cane aloft ing down on Everything that professorial minds can devise to keep tho girls and the cadets from seeing anything of each other ie most rigidly enforced, And ‘W Most instances the rigid effort ts completely wasted. Tom, stooping to kins each of her emarting pink palma tn turn, And so they parted for the alght, and brought Pletcher's unprotected head. But the more fragile editor was as Mimtie of body as of atop of the way, fight, The law wi wore evident, “But what a Sarah Walters, “She was with m we going to dp about he mouthed hoareely, being expelled?” abe broke In, “father Benator Mason his big house on tin the Hbrary of jasonburg's widest Astonished, They gave me the records of “No,” birth at the asylum and" “Then what nurse did you have? Sho sank back in her chat Amid the uproar which th gavel failed to check, Tom F! my marriage until five years ago. for the first time let Ma eyes reat on grotesque tn ite uncontrolled ferocity and chagrin. The marriage lcense blank waa Rose's handwrit- "I know the Wa feaped sideways from his chair Ho had just fniahed the Appeal's trenchant f y treet nearly always between the ronidense otf hools there was a half-dozen more because it'e you. He bates your produced tn court, ing on It was identified, Rowe's. ‘To the horrified girl hi awered Davenport; “she ts now acting of stark amage was one of di Ae hounekeoper In my alster's family, She cowered before it and pi ber Of & sudden he whirled to face the bride and bridegroom, “Cloar out of here, both of youl’ out and keep Rowe, you have married a sooun- and you've disgraced me After this your ways I wash my bande @ucked away from it, seizing his as @ailant’s arm. ‘The two grappled. count of the preceding day'a Aght With the cou fend for her te “No active Mirtation ‘Ole ON, UNsUMpPect- €d by the authorities. One alopement Would be enough to rutn the preatige both inatitutions, elopement occurred, in *plte of all the care taken by the Principals and the faculties to prevent such tragedy Here are the drief detatie of the ro- “1 wish I could turn all his cranky tomper on myself, dearest,” sald Tom, sho had started to write “seventeen” aftor the query as to her ago, and that she had laboriously crommed out word and subatt- Up and down ross the tiny oMce they pum- Ny reason of column report of ohise déala wh rtaly recent fran. roin the Benator was to have played @ somewhat doubtful role, A waxed apopleotte with Indig yor was bia wrath it, Harah was not with me when Rose was born. threaten eulonie nearly just t the half-written tutod “elehtoon” for tt, Honator and Mra, Mason were oallod to tho stand, one after the other testify that sho was not sator'a OWN #ugmeNtion, lily Bible waa introduced felled and wroeat! Breater bulk in to get the better of it As the oMfce force, aroused by the Surmoil, ran pell-mell into the room, Mason struck his opponent a chance Blow in tho face that sent Mietcher The editor fell, hit- Ging his hoad heavily against the cor er of his desk Before Mason could pursue his ad- Wantage half a dozen mon had seized kicking and nd T foal woree about vou than 1 do about myself,” she cried for anybody nation as he read, lowmened by a frontpage In guise of & hold-up man, Ket oxpollod for a boy than for a girl For it spoils bis whole career, ite all my fault” No!" beweed Mra, Magon, her arin Around the trembling wink ean't mean thatt “Lecan't, hey?" he yelled, Out of here, the palr of you, before I throw you out re this brat and Die father Hin done with you * sald Tom atifty, owre an obler man than tam, oan't Cirash you for apeaking ao about that time? normous ible had been Fletoher and Rose Mason had deen the Mason family for more than two kindergarten, dancing shoo! and at church back at Masonburg they had been inseparable are the Fletoher-Mason feud had begun, Glean off hiv Life!” to @ group of trembling elty “Ht waa not your fault," he denied; ht the birtha of seven generations were And it was worth “it was mine pr ten ‘The last entry wae in Mra fashioned hand of Hiram and Mar th of hor tld womaneowat at his mid uage Din wrath, u foel wo unhappy." “Hut what are we to dot thought it all out very the nurse? Who te your family phyale rifted airl in her ears rang the bite > a Ee Marling, into a ce eld him pinioned “Bball 1 beat bim up Baked a sympathetic reporter, helping Whe dared and bleeding Vietcher to n the angrier “How long has he attended your ory want family had gravely agreed that d not be marred the only solution of solution and tt Ive a@ daring sort will take lots Hut ivi mean a whole lot of Will you do it Hho was in domtnating husband and pathetioa anxtous to ple had been vo, contury of wedded lite whe had yearly grown more timid and waned dally their own affair n of hor mare 1 will trouble you neither of the elted the cele And Juliet to pro n #ympathtzed, rated case of Romeo that famtly quai ier to true love, Me company practice hikes or on route m happiness for wa. “Yea, of course, What is int e-ohilied hand ick laa I soon-wan June Ma, Tom lod the sobbing girt out of te proved that T when sho Wan which you have ‘Therefore, I have some rece smnae Fletoher mar No," panted Fletcher, swaying and though he seems to have neglected (Bnd of Tenth Story) @eak, as be clutched at the d * fer eupport bet don't do it, she echoed, though to run out and call them back, Mut hor husband bare bullying and iM I fight my own bat Bosides, it would be against the few. And this paper is struggling for ae end order in the community Ben. m: tor Mason has debauched ¥ attacked me. Ley the law deal - him,’ Wo muat get married right away," Then we'll ko back to our parents and tell them, and iC be them to make any may be @ little put out Wut they love ue te we tow girl under the ya lve a porter seminary garden, at precisely the Itutes the ort n ehown that had chosen to walk of abduction Home Mason's naye he'll prose Mt tft may what b had bi N the mtvingn) Mit gn lawyera adyiee "Wolre wll If ahe could #ink to marry If the cadets ever chanced, to notive @ Gower dropped trom br | wail at tt Jumt at Meat much net lo come around case la proven as It ataade permission | shall hands over her eyes, : Lot him take bor!" snarled Mme nd Mra, Mason flur- #on above the din, “A foundling t I come to think of ts fit wife for a son of Stephen Fletehe * Interv “Now th mber now, for my son?” mhouted Fletcher, jon't marry nameless foundings, we Mle ! T'll have the marriage annulled and’. Rose watted to hear no more, im the gasping moan of a hurt Shen who did act as your nurre at she ran from the room. rom, wetting a glimpse of her tees, 1 don't reeall.” sprang after her, but the attendant throst him back “Walt tll you're formally @lm. ungster!" TOW! Krowled & DO- it turn you loose pleas any mother can forget such ime Mt clroumstances attending the my child? You eannot ty soon, now nbher the name of the doctor or Out tite the atreet rushed the tere ter words of Mason and. Fletcher, tor Colfax" Htamped deep into her tortured memes supposed disgust she had read in ‘8 OvON T don't Know, @ince my mare On she ran without definite alm er oP think purpose, Her only thought fhen he must have attended you get away from every one wh Home wan born and he must known--even Tom, She told rd of her birth, even whe could ne come k THE ELEVENTH EPISODE IN THE SERIAL “WHO'S GUILTY?” Will Be Published THURSDAY, July 13.