The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1920, Page 32

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Lefbefl of No. 51 Cham- | bers @treet, the young attorney whose 4 | leventh-hour battle for his client men who were to have been executed Jast night for the slaying of @ eub- | way ticket agent in the Bronx, de- Clared to-day that the fact that the men are alive is due solely to the | evening newspapers. ; “The New York newspapers,” Mr. Lelbell said, “plus the telephone and the telegraph, saved Joe Usefof, Jim Cassidy, Chartie Molaughlin and, at | east for the time being, Joe Milano. | “Add to this combination the tact that the boys rode to the scene of the crime in a taxicab, amd that the [shooting took place on an elevated | Station of the subway, and 1 think we | tloular. Richard H. Mitchel of the Supreme | | Court, who presided at the trial of the | |wunmen and sentenced them to die, | heard and denied Attorney Leibell’s motion for a new trial, which was based on the ground of “newly dis- | covered evidence.” | Letbell did no give up. He made his | way to the Appellate Division. Here he was told that his one remaining re- course was to the mercy of Gpy. Smith. As the lawyer was leaving the Ap- pellate Division a friend thrust an evening newspaper into his hands “Young Milano has confessed,” he sald. “I called up my office,” said the) attorney, “and asked Capt. Williams | to verify the report. | “Warden Lawes confirmed tt. Then we went back to Justice Mitchell. We | had every evening paper in town. We | placed them before him together with | an affidavit giving the message we ‘bad received from Sing Sing. “Justice Mitchell called the Gov- ernor at Albany over the telephone, suggesting a reprieve for all four for two weeks and confirmed this mes-| sage by telegraph. The Governor, who had been under a terrible strain on account of the case, readily ac- ceded to the request.’ . Attorneys Letbell for Usefof, James | J. Barry of Schenectady for Cassidy, | Samuel Goldstein of the Bronx for MoLaughiin and George Gordon Bat- | tle for Milano will go before Justice | Mitchell on Monday or Tuesday of | next week ai med this time with sworn copies of Joe Milano's confes- sion to Warden Lawes—move for a new trial. U. S. GOODS LOOTED B LAST Be BE 5 Pe iia RA Y HAROLD TITUS An Exciting Western Romance of Adventure and Love Broke, disheartened, a New York society girl suddenly finds herself heiress toa vast Western 66 first night following, the have a story modern in every par-' any unusual sound as though they all believed it might be the foreman | Feturning or some one with the word that he would never return, because Late yesterday afternoon Justice the remainder of the crew did not have the faith in-his wellbeing that Beck had expressed to Jane Hunter. ‘The Reverend held the floor much of the time, preaching frequent im- Promptu sermons, discoursing largely on smul} matters. To him the rest | ligtened in delight with the exception of Two Bits, who was overawed by the verboseness of hie’ kin. A less obvious activity of the Reverend’s was his pertinent, never ceas- ing questioning. He asked questions comments on irrelevant subjects. Tom Beck, even, caught himself ex- Pressing opinions when he had not intended to and guarded himbelf thereafter. He's an old fox!" he thought. “He knows a heap more than he lets on + + + like some other folks.” Otherwise the man eeemed harm- less. He let no opportunity pass to sell his fountain pens, which he car- ried always in the pockets of his frock coat. He took frequent inven- tories of his stock and when he mis- counted or actually found sore ar- ticle missing he turned the place up- side down until the loss adjusted. He seemed inclined to linger be- cause, though assuring the rest that his plans were not of mortal making, he often spoke of the summer's work. He was no mean ranch hand himself and was with his brother much, do- ing everything from branding colts to digging post holes. ‘When, on the morning of the third day, Hepburn had not returned, Jane called Beck to the house and asked if he did not think it wise to send help. The man did not reply at once | because at this suggestion @ possibil- ity flashed into his mind which he had not considered hitherto, -He looked at the girl, who stood finger- ing the locket and asked himself: “Has he taken this chance to quit) the country? Has something hap. pened that is bound to come to light?” Aloud, he eaid: “Your worry is in the wrong place. cattle ranch. This thrilling story tells of the life she found there, ane of how she won for- HAT is as much assurance as could be given,” she replied. For forty-eight hours following Hepburn’s departure the H C was in a etate of expectation, Frequently, evefi on the men would stop talking and listen at casually and covered his attempts by “Now, now! no ane an’ ridin’ from hell to break- fast!” he protested. “One at a time, one at a time.” le to the story an’ drag her past advised modesty that Curtis. “It gin't much,” with a femepie forced. “It wasn't was nothin’ but a case of goin’ and gettin’ the goods. Picked up the trail at the mouth of Twenty Mile early the mo.n- in’ after J set out and dragged right along on it. There was three of 'em, 80 "I laid pretty low after roon. Then. one cuts off toward the railroad, ant at night the others turned the horses into that old corral at the Ute’s buck- skin camp. 1 waited until they got to sleep, saw I couldn't sneak’ the stock away so”—he spat an@ wiped his mustache—“] just naturally scattered their fire all ways!” He laughed heartily. “You'd ought to seen ‘em coming out of their blankets! I dropped two sbots in the coals and then blazed away at the first man up. Missed him, but cut 'em off from their ridin’ horses, got ours out’ of the corral while their saddle stock was stampedin’ all over the brush and lit out for here, hittin’ the breeze! ‘hat'’s about al! Stopped at | Webb's last night and tried to figure out the men, but they're strangers, iz bee | There were comments and tions. Then Jimmy brother, in a locality nearer than Denmark!’ . Beok whistled softly to himself, CHAPTER X, F all men.in that country Two Bits was the only one who openly accepted Jane Hunt- er and his devotion was caused by an awed appreciation of her beauty. The others, even her own riders, remained stolidly skepti- cal of her ability to measure up to the task she had undertaken, and when men talked of business of country they unconsciously spoke pf the prestige of the H © as a thi of the past, Hepburn had brought back some. gf her property that was veing dri off, but he had not halted attempts to make, away with her horses and cat- ule. There were rumors, vague but persistent, of other depredations, and those who best knew the ways of the gattle country awaited that ume when the situation must reach a crisis, when Jane Huoter'must be put to the ordeal that would test her mettle, She was yet unconscious of much of this, for her urge to make a pi: herself centred on penetrating callousness of the one man sne to impress most of gil. He ed aloof, watching her either with hat tantalizing amusement le challenge to win his open fi Bip. There were moments when, as on ‘that night after their drive to Ute Cross- ing, she wanted to throw herself on him, to beg, to plead that be lowes his reserve and give her a place... @ Place in his heart. But that, reason told her, would be the last thihg to win him, ' She must trust to the force of her personality to drive her way into his life. Occasionally he would t offered a sympathetic audience to the things he bad to say but ‘er did ‘heir conversation becomsesin- timate; the subjects he di were invariably abstract and 1 ~ sonal. While listening spe studied the man, striving to dotine that qué ity about bim which lay benind reserve and drew her on. she a not seize and analyze it. . . . He Yas: aside from obvious minor quali- Diu ans saw wan ying she saw him at night patrol! the cottonwoods before he slept She could not know what wenj in the heart of that man, of the fight he waged with himself, of the strug- gle he made to stick 'to'nis creed; never to take @ ohance. lie did mot know that she was aware of nightly walks. ‘Tho first bad been on that night after he had played with her pride and her high spirits. Returned to the bumk house be had suddenly seen her not a smart, caps le stranger but as a girl, alone, facing a new life, surrounded ,oy strange people and unfriendly influ- ences. He sensed a pity fot her and walked back to look about the nd seé that all was well, as be might have watched over a sleeping chijd. And then, the day that the sorrel he had felt her body and a Oliver, looking] the man in him had been stirred and at Dad's saddle, said: hen next he paced those shadows it “Whet happened to your horn,| was not as a protector of some dé- there?’ | fengeless lite, but ds oe who quile You're worrying over your men and! ought to be worrying over your ON OCEAN VOYAGE | Mock, ‘You've come into this coun- you want to stay; you don’t seem | Blyn-Plan Crowing Over His Shoes - Who wouldn't, if they're Blyn- +Plans? Proud of their looks, happy in their comfort, pleased with their sturdiness. the way everybody about Blyn-Plans. « The Blyn Children’s Departments carry extensive stocks of all approved shoes for Children. 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STones; {3 1267 Broadway, near Greens Newark Store—089 Broad Bt., opposite Military Park, Mail Order Department—2240 Third Av., New York. N TheStoneham { ) WEEKLY MARKET LETTER issued every Friday since 1903,N| fund hed reached $30,066,068 issues of thelN mmnd, 91 cents; Argentine mand, 1.0840, cables, 1.0310. DIVIDENDS. Delaware & Hudson R. R. Co.~ Regular quarterly $2.25 payable June 21, The Committee on Securities of the Stock Exchange rules that the stock be not quoted ex-dividend on May % and not until further notice. Bankers’ Trust Gompany has been ap- pointed registrar for preferred and common stock of the Matthew Addy Steamship and Commerce Company. The Stutz ‘Protective Committee has sent @ notice to those who were short of Stutz shares of an assessment of $6 a share to cover the expenses of the com- mittee, Membership of Auguste on the coffee and Sugar exchange has been sold to Orvis Brothers & for $7,000, an increase of $300 over the last sale. —_> $4,000,000 FOR BAPTISTS. Rockefeller Donation Swells Total to $30,066,068, Dr. John Y. Atchison, Director of the $100,000,000 Campaign of the New World Movement of Northern Baptists, announced last night the The feature of yesterday was the gift of Rags and Other Waste Substituted for Valuable Exports. | CHICAGO, April 30.—Officials of the Treasury Depertment have been for months trying to trace a gang of | thieves who have been looting United | States exports. | A Massachusetts leather company | consigned a big shipment to Gothen- | burg, Sweden. Six cases of 640 pounds | each, supposed to contain high grade | | leather, on. being opened were found | to contain American newspapers, coal, scrap iron and rags, but each case, weighed the amount shown in the in- | joes. : Six Christiania shoe buyers declared | that they had not received for six! month& one siipment which had not been plundered. i inert Lund, a Christiania importer, | received on April 1 several cases stockings. Every case was broken and some were nearly empty. \ James P. Collins, manager for G. ‘W. Sheldon & Co., custom brokers, said | “Tt is possible that this is the work of an international band of experts. packages bear traces of exactly the | game method of tampering in Buenos | Ayres, m Genoa, ‘in Christiania.” |AMERICAN WOOLEN | TO ADD MILLIONS: 40 Per Cent.—Common Stock ‘This is indicated by the fact that | take t Stuff | to ‘understand, quite, that this is no | u're DE. Pat, Sane Te TO eh tor an outfit. if he’s the right kind to be a top hand out here, he’s willing to do anything that comes up, even if it’s risking his life. That ain't right pleasant to think about, ma’am, but we all understand Tf it has to be it has to be; no ch — a “If you're going ory about your men ina case like this than you do about havin’ them hold ‘wp your end of the game you ain't going to play up to your part. You can't be soft hearted and stand off horse thieves.” ‘ “But, don't you see that I can't eel that way?” she pleaded. “Then you've got to act that way, ma’am,” he replied in rebuke. “Your men have got to understand that you care wh rr school keeps or not or gchool ain't going to keep. Get ti.at straight in your head.’ He looked down at her a moment ‘of | and his face changed, that little danc- ing light coming into his eyes at first; then he smiled openly. “There's a word we use out here that I guess that they didn’t use in the country you come from. It's Guts, They're necessary, ma’am. He waited to see how she would his assertion, but she only flushed slightly. “I¢ Hepburn don't show up soon, it ‘be wise to gO Prospectin’, but . «+ deast, it won't be. wise to show you do. I ain't advisin’ you to be hard hearted. Just play the game, that’s all.” ‘He left her, with a deal to think Will Increase Its Capital Stock by | about. After all, there had been no occa- Sion for concern because at noon, The foreman chuckled. F | “One of ‘em almost got me," boys, |ut a mis@ is as good as four or five! days’ ride, ain't it? Was circlin’ for the horses, shootin’ sideways at ‘em when one of ‘em put some lead in) ‘betwixt me and the horn, only quite) close to the horn. it seems. i ‘Well, Til be darned if you didn't have a close shave, and”—— Just then Jane Hunter rode up on’ her sorrel amd when she saw her | foreman she emfied in relief. “You're back, and safely!” she said |@# she dismounted. “With the bacon, ma’am.” } “An' they almost got his bacon, Miss Hunter,” Oliver said “Look her He indicated the damaged! saddie and explained. . \ “They came that close to shooting | you?’ she asked Dad. Her voice was even enought but she could not con- ceal her dismay at his narrow es- cape. why, Miss Hunter, that ain't nothin’! I was just tellin’ the boys ride. I'm your foreman, they was) your horees"-—— er i “Bugh "things have to be," she broke in, making an effort to be decisive and convincing, but her voice was not just steady and Beck, at least, knew how desperately she tried to play up to her part, to smother her tmpulse | to show that she held life boa — he did her property, to shrink from the hard facts of the hard life she faced. as I'm your foreman no- | pre Bipind ray with your| H mn went on pompously, well satisfied with the {repression he had made. “Tf necei i sary they'll come a lot closer to lett ‘plessed eunshine into my carcass than | ‘thi ‘There ain’t a man of us ‘aie that a miss is as good as™@ long | bo tenderly lays siege to the heart of woman. He did not admit himself. He reasoned tbat he was Protecting her because she was a Stranger in a strange land and that the impulse was only kindness. But his reason in that was a conscious lie, for as he stood under the stars with that even to | ‘the cool, quiet night all about him be could hear her voice in the murmur of the creek, hear her limbs rustling her skirts in the soft sigh of wind in the wees, could feel her presente ee. te wi Shen en he was stark He was accustomed to talk to his horses as men will who love them and while he rode the gulches alone he would in later days reason aloud with his'own roan 9r tho H C black of bay he used. er, we can't take"a 1 he said time after e kept our heels out af trouble by playing a close game, not gettin’ out on @ limb, but up to now everything that come along has been y's play . . . compared to this, If an hombre took a chance with his love that'd be the limit, wouldn't tt He'd have his, stack on the table, e deal wor n't be ore as edi” moré than Tom's report to Jane after his ttt 1 town offered no encouragemeny ‘The filing had been legally uccomp- lished and its significance was further impressed on the girl when he said: “It's @ mighty popular subject in bind ma'am. Everybody's interest- “I supose they all =pe8 trouble for me” “Yes, an’ they're Ukely to be right,” she shook her head sharply?” “We don't want trouble, but if it does come we must mect it halt : She leaned forward deter- minedly and Beck stirred in his chair. think tt wil covers’ the active ils, Industrials, A Mining and Curb Securities. No one interested in the market, N| dn't do it for you and gladly. they're goin’ to try to fleece you they've got us to reckon with us first. “Ain't that the truth, Tom? Beck did not reply, but watched dust covered, on a gaunt horse, the foreman brought eight H C horses into the ranch. ‘The men hastened from the dinner table but Hepburn did not reapond to i & af t was a gesture of delight, for thoes FUNERAL DIRECTORS. were almost his very words to Hep- burn when they clear their rela- but ne said $4,000,000 from the Laura Spellman | To Be Doubled. Rockefeller Memorial Fund, making | rhe stock Exohange has recetved $6,000,000 from that family within two! 01/0) fom american Woolen Com- FUNERAL DIRECTORS. days. Smiles By DR. BERTHOLD A. BAER The last place you would expect.to find, and en- deayor to create, a smile is at an undertaker’s, Yet that is exactly what The Funeral Church, Broadway at 66th Street, is trying to do. He is a benefactor of mankind who can produce a smile where there were only tears before. Suffering makes kinsmen of us all. To relieve the a mi eae, to create forgetfulness, to plant hope in /» rare ite hearts, to bring a smile upon quivering lips, is a iv this is achieved by Mr. Frank E. Campbell, founder of The Funeral Church, and repeated every day, and over " ‘ot because cS does lighten the burdens of those “bowed down in grief does Mr. Campbell deserve the thanks of mankind, but pape he helps them to be thelr 8, service arra by Mr, Frank E. 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The first conditional $1,000,- |900 can be counted upon when the |funds reaches $62,500,000 and the sec- 4 when it reaches $87,500,000, The total for New York City and the Metropolitan area passed $4,000,- | 000 during the afternoon and up-State ew York reported a total to date of 106,583. Otber large State totals in the cam- paign are: California, $1,478,12 Tilinols, $1,015,000; Massachusetts, §2,- 021, . 200,000; Ohio, sey, a $18: Pennsylvania, $2,307,872. HOUSE HATS, GOWNS, WAISTS, VEILS, NECKWEAR, FURS. $1,000,000; New Jer- | | pany of proposed increase in pre- ferred stock from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000, and in common etock from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000, In this way the American Woolen Company would almost double its leapital stock and place ita dividends nearer § per cent. than 16. TEACHERS BACK PRINCIPAL. Uncle of Woolsey Girl Dentes D: Merdort Was Beate Teachers of Public Schoo! No. 139, Flatbush, are reported to have held ,@ meeting in which they voted to stand by their gray-baired principal, | Dr. Oliver C. Mordorf, who ts ac- cused of embracing and kissing thirteen-year-otri = Elizabeth Mary Woolsey of No. 260 East 16th Btreet, Brooklyn. Denis R. O'Brien, for the principal, denied the charges, and contradicted assertions by the girl's parents, that Dr. Mordorf had promised to resign May 5, Thegirl made no statement. ‘The assertions of the girl's parents that her father beat the Principal were denied by Dr, Mordorf's lawyer < by Jesse Woolsey, the girl's un- ‘Hunter as she stood looking Jae Gh the saddle with its telltale | scar ‘The Reverend remained when the group broke up. He leaned low over the saddle and examined the leather binding about the horn. He fingered {t, then lowered his face close against it! For a moment he held so and then straightened slowly. He walked to-/ ward the bunk house so absorbed that he talked to himeclt and ae he passed Beck he was muttering: wolf in sheep's cloth- their queries and congratulations, He \bore himself with dignity and had an leye only for the completion of his ‘eiSpen the gate to the little corral, | pwo-Bits," he' directed and, this done, jurged the horses within. Next he dragged his saddle from the big bay and the animal's | back solleitously, let him roll and led \iam to the stable where he measured ‘out a lavish feed of oats. Meanwhile he had been surrounded by insistent questioners but he put them off rather abruptly: when he emergedifrom the stable, slapping his palms together to rid them of moist horse hair, he stopped, bitched up his chape and looked from face to face until his eyes met those of Tom Beck, who had been the last to approach. ‘Their gazes clung, Hepburn’s in chal-| were 4 jlenge, Bow, and the other’s an ex-| “Brother, when a man is honest pression which defied definition. dou ee as te ave’. paias to Haake “T brought ‘em in,” the foreman said, |that honesty evident? Does he lie to still staring at Beck and bit savagely | make people believe he does not act down on his tobacoo. “Does that mean /a Tie?” ‘ ing? "Not usually. What are you drivin Beck smiled. as though i did notjat, Reverend?” matter much, and said: phe other stepped closer. “Wor the present . . . you win.” “If you'll examine that saddle The others had not caught the sig-|horn, youll discover that the shot fooked at Tom an tled the pens in his coat pocket; then looked about to sec whetber they “That's the easiest way to take trouble on.” Just thea Hepburn came in with his report on his Visit to the Hole. “The old fellow seems to he reason- able, Miss Hunter,” he said ponder- ously, “He don't look Uke be's a permanent neighbor even if be hos bought some cows from Webb, which I found out to-day. He's poor as a churob mouse 10 begin. with”-— “And buyin’ more cattle?” oot put ia “Oh, they're old stock an’ I Webb was glad to get rid of yr the foreman said with a wave of his hand, yet he did not return Beck's searching gaze. vi “Cole told me he didn’t have any intention of fencin’ up the water,so 1 guess there ain't anything to fret you, Miss Hunter. I sounded him out on buyin’ but didn't get far. He's a shiftiess old cuss. from the levks of things, ®0 I dont anticipate amy trouble at ali. He may not even last the summer out.” ‘om left and afterward Hepbur: talked at length of the situa tiem minimizing the menace the otheps saw, urging Jane to put the matter out of her mind. But the girl was, ficance of this exchange, and when|which tore it was fired from a gun we ‘moved forward their talk broke ' held fo clone, that the smell of pow- ‘The foreman grip) der is 1 there. aed, ‘“anese te ocmnething rotten.tonk - not satisfied and the next day, with Tom, rode off toward the Hole, (Read To: Morrow's Thrilling Chapa