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| FINANCIAL NEW WALL STREET | Net Last, Cha'te. —e geport Police Believe They ‘Have Unearthed Wide ‘ic: Blackmail Conspiracy. He 4 1% Fees 5 J + 1h ltl eteeeee | BRIDEPORT, Conn., Sept, %.—~Ar- | real of @ gang of men who intended - ) to terrorize and blackmail wealthy Am Locomoure Citizens of Connecticut is claimed by ‘the police as the result of their in quiry into a bomb explosion at the .jAome Shear Company's plant early .)Sunday morning. 3 f The mon under arrest are accused @ * {of plot to blackmail Durgert C. Wheeler, head of the Shear Company, whom lettors were written demand- Am Dew Svod Het e+ 0 4a | TH+ 24) On Monday the Detective Depart- | jent had mado a box in which there a revolver with a hair trigger 4 a welght which when moved jax, ighted a red flare at night. Several ota Co.. Lives carried the box to the place | Motom pelegnatea, but it in posiven and hid | Ya. Suet themeelves in the underbrush, After Emidnight 2 man walked into the lot tried to move the box. There was explosion and the flare ignited. | Puterick ‘The man was arrested, 8 eeesrerrsrrterceeses soe FPR Ser ES FHF ttes ltl teeeeeee + * inion ‘Ss. Turriniba Got Wireless © and Hastened to Respond. 4 The United Fruiter Turrialba arriv- here to-day reported recoiving the ireleas call from the Panama Line standing by the sunken 8-6 tgbout a quater to olght o'clock last she was thirty miles from The slip was turned back 11d apeeding to Join the Goethals when moasage from the Steamship Alian- jus sald the only assistance 8 that of a ship with steel cutting geter ree +1 ++ltt + +444 “3 Th + 1% Mb 3 ie & e ttttte + % 324 + 1% 70% + 1 ° a £282 z A Shipping Roard ves out of the alr saying she was ithin easy reach of the ‘crippled sub- and had a lot of ‘The Turrialba then started on to el 8. B. Hunt i : > if bee St, Joneph Lead . Bt L & San Fran, Rf Hy i i i i if Inger of the Whitehead & Hos) of Newark, was suictd utor Harrison of Hasex County nounced to-day, following a con- jee with the County, Physician, ives and chemists who dixcoy- cyanide of potassium in the dead y ch. The Prosecutor ance of a burial permit Jon of Jennis Oseler- ‘who boarded at the YY Avon Avenue, er wus found dead Tucs- nce: Peg a Fe 2 EIFE = eeeer Fe (Feel [tester tel ett * A x i were F Lf i ice Arthur 6 Tompkins White Plains 1+44441 Fe = & majority of the Board of | of the American Cyanamid from buying up the shares ‘tha common stock of the company @ share. The action was brought H. Baker of Mohogan Lake, + County, a stockholder, The manufactures » and ita princip + ere a “occa Fe ++ $4tHttH! #5 ste d guardian of Isadore Kess- Iecad O & Trane +44 , Was struck by ‘pas running trom the Mt Scarsdale, on | TRIES THREE WAYS TO KILL HIMSELF Yanked Back From Window Ledge, | Charge He Stole “Duns” From Knife Taken Away, and Caught Running to River. William Logan, Clerk of the Third District Municipal Court, to-day frus- | trated an attempt by Katie Kobary of No, 281 West Street to end her life by leaping from a window, on the third floor of the building at No. 314 West 54th Street. eared in a civil suit, trial of which ‘had been postponed, when she walked into Logan's office and told him she was going to ond her Uife, to & window and was leaping from its edge when Logan jerked her to the BILL COLLECTOR HELD AS A THIEF Inju: Miet in favor of ‘Mail Boxes and: Presented Them for Payment, Arthur Miller, 530 Saratoga Avenue, Brooklyn, was held in $2,500 bail to-day by Federal Commissioner Hennessy charged with robbing the United States :matls. Mil- ler, according to the police, fished for electric light and other services from aparigment mail boxes, then presented them in person to the addresses for *ttrday on its magazine page a photo- of Dorothy Loulse ter of William R. Bromley of N. J. superintendent, of reas of Newark, was misidentified b; hh furnished It-and of No, —————— " “Envoy” Ordered to Leave fhe had just ap- LONDON, Sept. led Ambassador of Soltial’ Republic to France, twenty-four hours by the French ich to leave France, ted here to-day. After O11 Cam Explosion. “Mire. Mary Smit 20 Bene Mrs, Mollie Corenstein of No, 262 South Fourth Street, culled for the) police yesterday when a man tried for the second time within a month, she declared, to collect a bill. She then ran down to the finst floor, crying she was going to kill herself, and drawing a knife from her dress. Patrolman Wnright of the West 47th Street Station took the knife away, She then ran down ,b4th Street toward the North River, erying she ‘was going to drown herself, Logan 4nd Enright followed and overpow- Detec- Joveph Kerr, ‘They chased the alleged bill collector to the roof and caught Miller as he was climbing down a chimney, Bt AUTO HITS TRUANT OFFICER. 4 Wealthiest Pablic om- olat Seriously & truant oMcer of the Hoboken public schools and re- puted to be Hoboken's weathtest pub- Hic official, was struck by an auto- “ mobile early to-day aa he was cross- Fourth and Clinton was taken to responded. f when an ol] can | caeeiaaaiaaiaemeremmmmed : Tbe: AND FINANCIAL, ont -4 ni and Sold for Cash Ree elt, rome = @ebn 81T4-5-6-7. An pital took her there for observation. CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—Opinions of Gov, Cox and Genetor Harding regarding « 1 Department of Public Works, budget system of appropriations dad development of public given tn letters fram the Presidential candidates made public to-day by thi American Association of tunswers to a ‘association, "Gov. ing the street at Streets, Hoboken. Bt. Mary's.Hospital in a serious con- dition, He was dragged about 60 feet. The automobile is owned by Champion Coat and Apron Supply Company, No. Manhattan, and was driven by Her- U6 Bast 9th, Man- inherited ICK, dieg at Beton Hos. Peaources are Engines: i—nPAULINE, Cam, fonnaire sent by the the questions you julvecally ‘yer.’ ** Harding outlined Gis views more fully, a Street, man Kaiser, No. hattan. Whalen recently brewing property in Australia from an uncle there, aaid to be yalued at He \s unmarried and has no Day Games Will Net Pally $400,000, A new record has been talien in et Police Field in Feot—Lockjaw—Gl #11, eleven years old, in Bordentown, N. J. PE the reawit of @ epiinter an in te \ aince Dead S AN + 2% Considerable — bullish . 1. to-day, per cent. Most strength was shown by off stocks, particularly ‘Transcon- tinental and ‘Texas Company, al- though the rails and equipments con- tinued to exhibit a firm tone. Cotton not only recovered all its early loas, but was able to show small gains over the closing quotations of yestenlay, The publication of | a weather report unfavorable to thé growing crop was a potent factor, Grains closed stron, ———— TODAY'S PRICES LIBERTY BONDS. Liberty’ 31-28 opened at 89.98, up 04; 24 48, 85.00, up .20; Ist 41-48 85.52; 2d 41-48 $6.20, up 10; 3d 41-49 4th 41-45 85.30; Victory FOREIGN EXCHANGE, Sterling demand, 3.54 3-4, 3.65 1-2, Frances demand cables, .06901-2, Lire demand, .0465, 90. DIVIDENDS. share on its 8 percent, and share on the 6 per cent, Oct. 1 to stock of record Sept. 18. NOTBS. ’ duction totalled — 9,904,000 against 7,500,000 in June. Mrs, Frances Catalamo father, Joseph Ribando, both of No. Bay 47th Stre! in the Coney Island Court without bail for examination Sep: on charges of homicide to-day the | Rind ‘ie was. snot through and a revolver was found in Mra. says she her Susbund had received Ge ccaarariiiiiienrsstice COLORADO HAS 939,376. Roreau Reports 140,025 in Pop’ the Census Bureau, is 939,376. renae of 140,698 or in exuberance was displayed by stock traders again It was generally anticipaTd Cmmission, in his report to Commis sioner John F. Delaney, suggests the cables, 0690 1-2, cables, .0466, Guilders demand, .8180,| cables, .3190, Canada dollars demand, ‘The Pure Oll Company declared the regular quarterly dividend of $2 a preferred stock, a quarterly dividend of $1.50 4 preferred stock and $1.25 a share on its 51-4 per cent preferred stock, all payable Chile Copper Company July pro- pounds ———w HELD. IN HUSBAND’S DEATH. Cg Brooklyn, were held 10 in connection with the deat of the woman's bus- the head the house, Catalamo, who called the police, thins’ the murder was done by the wuthors of Black Hand letters WASHINGTON, Sept, 3.—Population | of the State of Colorado, announced by This is per cent, DAY, SEPTR BAT D PRICES | Siam. Wit, Low, Last INDUSTRIALS 1800 Acane Coal . : ‘40 Am Light & Treo ....., 110% 110 800 AUTO Piel ose aot 00 KW Wiis 1 200 Mritish Amer Tor ..coun CORB FLUCTUA’ IN OILS AND INDUSTRIALS igo, tow. Law wt 900 Con Virrinta % 2900 Cotter Silver |... 62 ot 2090 Cresson Gold -.... 1 1 1000 Divide Kxt » a” 400 Dundee Arit 1 1 2500 Emme Silver |... « ‘ 4060 Rureke Crorsus ie a 200 Golden Gate... 4 1000 Gold Cons 1500 Gold Deve, 1200 Goldfield Florence 1000 Kewans Silver Pick 8000 Gold Zone ... 1900 Mecla Mining 00 Iron Blossom 1200 Jumbo Exte 9090 Knot Divide 8000 Lauisiana Co 2200 MeNamara 2000 McNamara Crescent 1000 Mars Min 10¢0 Motherloa ‘ 100 Mother Lode new. 200 Ntpiastung ‘ 2000 North Star, 900 Ophir Silver 200 Prince Con... 1000 Nex Cons 6 1000 Mochester Mine 8 1900 San To? : ‘ 200 Simon Siler Lead. it 4 MO we 400 ‘Toniopah Belmont. We 1000 ‘Tonopah Cash Boy. , : a 1% 1 Mee ou un 800 Tonopah Mining... Ife Iie 1400 Tonopah Mixpas 3 M8 300 Tenopah Montana, at 1200 Tonopah Rescue Bul 22 a8 00 United astern, Me 1000 Victor? .... 9 1000 Wee Bud C...... mm 1% 1000 White Caps tery 1200 White Caps Extension... 1 I 1000 Wilbert. aks 1200 Yerring an 167000 Berlin 4 Tn 10000 Hamburg 4s. ee) 10000 Hamburg 4%) 19% 10% Pall 80000 Mannheim 4s, » is fs 19000 Allied Packer 69 a oo 11000 Am Tel Gs 14. eh 1000 Armour & Co 7 0% c 8% 4% that because of the impending three 6000 Car Leh: (S day holiday the day would be given 1 Geriaud # “ns % over to what is technically termed ‘Wt? a fer * “evening up of contracts.” It seemed 4399 jodian Pacnine A "+ that most of the contracts that were — 200 Mercer Motors ” * evened up were by bears. 100 Nor Am Paper .. % e ‘ - 600 Perfection T Impetus was added to the forward a heaie ran ied a1 i movement to-day by a drop in the 600 Radio Com pt... a% call renewal rate jo 7 per cent., com-. 490 Huandard Parte ’ pared with § per cent. yesterday and 1200 Submarine Boat . 1% Wednesday. Having in mind the ud Hweets Co, 5 ‘ ” fact that the West is still withdraw- 00 0 & BiMN Speed Tuo! be ing funds for crop moving purposes. “yoo Uniied Pht Sharing % % and that praparations are being made — 100 Uitwd Ne: Candy , 1% ‘% |by banks to take care of the third 400 Warne (ost 1% +1 ‘installment of tax payment® due on STANDARD OILS * ithe 16th inst, the lower rate came! 10 Obie Oo... 320 ste a0 | ae a surprise | INDEPENDENT O14, 00 aien OU * Bears asserted that she lower rare | ns moist : yi % | ae enforced for the purpose of ald! 1199 noone Oil ne Ing bankers to do a little “window 1199 Boson Muxico ™ Ma | dressing” in the market. Assertions 2000 Bown Wyoming . 0. i ; | Were commonly heard that big bank 10 Citles Service “Botte “ wy | ers are endeavoring to create a better ; 1100 Comden & Co, % | 2800 Cushing Pet... % %| financial feeling so that ttfe public! yoy yn Henin Pet Pie will take more readily to the new 00 Tei rn French Government loan which wi!!! 12°0 Bameratda O11 % soon be floated, and to the many new | 2000 Federal Oil 24 w| railroad security ishues, principally | “ie, Gieroek On Pi % | equipment trust notes, which must} 499 101. Petro! rv | son be placed on the market. 10¢ Lone Star Gas an | Atany rate, prices of practically all eat St aah ia 4 | Issues moved upward without en-| ,{)° Miavert ie Hn countering profit tating or new) 70) Omar Ou... “% mK short selling of consequence, Rai!-| 2900 Producer @ Mefloers,.. 6% Gt Ot | Pod shares first acted as Jenders dnd | 100 Red Mork on ut wt at ™X% — \/when these showed signs of Hesi-| 1% Byam Con oo. Wa we ane tancy the ofls and equipments were | 6400 simms Pet mtn taken in hand, By mid-day gains in) 1100 Skelly ou ~% 8% | the favorite speculative stocks ran all| 200 Superior OW 1% 18% | 200 Texas Rangor 4% the way from substantial fractions to| 99 mnie on here % | more than threo points, 1060 United ‘Tex O11 * 4 4% ‘| Tt is said i banking circles in a| 700 Victoria O11 new, Mm 1 1% %| position to know tho facts that gold} 1080 Yalan ou ue as importations during tho next month : SES ‘4 will reach a total of not less than| 1800 Alas-tr cot ' " {2 | $100,000,000, ‘This will come from the| 1300 at wee Dd French Government and will be ap-| jij pean gt og” plied toward the payment of that! 9400 Host & Mont. oor Government's share of the Anglo-| 1200 Caled Min 20 French toan, which matuges on Oct, | 100? Calumet %| 15. Receipt of any such amount of gold will, of course, do much to re- tf! Meve ‘the current money stringency, 1%4| and it is nearly everywhere admitted % | in Wall Street that the mopey situa- 1 y 2 | tion ts the biggest single factor against ay/@ broad upward movemeyt in stock 1 | market prices. It seems to be the consensus of opinion that any possible 2 | business depression has. been dis- counted. He, Commodity markets again displayed an erratic tendency, Liverpool was a : | neavy seller at the opening, presum- Se | ably because of the thredtening labor! Transit Commission Engineer situation on the other side, Initial ' ‘ - declines ranged from $2.60 to % per} | Wants Link to Be Bridge 2%| bale, half of which were luter re- 2 | gained. Corn and wheat, after early Instead of Tunnel, 1%] hesitancy, displayed a firm tone. 4 | Forelgn exchange rates were practi- Mea tention te tedace fem oneekcren lrrctertnd by jocks ms a connecting Staten Island with the ex- - , Poe tn ne ee inte nates tog | ‘ting rapid transit system of Greater New York, is a@ bridge across the Narrows. Daniel M. Turner, chief en- gineer of the Transit Construction bridge as proposal No, 7, The other mx are for tubes under ‘the Narrows. | In support of the bridge idea Mr. Turner writes to Commissioner De- laney in part as, follow: “None of the other plans for rapid transit tunnels contemplates joint freight_and passenger service. For the proper development of Richmond, interconnecting facilities must be pro- vided, not only for rapid transit traffic, but also for pedestrian, trolley, freight, railroad and vehicular traffic. “A bridge woulé provide for all these facilities, Four tracks for rapid transit service, four each for railroad traffic (passenger and freight) and four for trolley service, making a total of twelve track: A rough estimate of the construction cost of such a bridge would be between $75,000,000 end $100,000,000. tion ten years.” Time of construc- Mr. Turner's report states that tunnels providing for equivalent facil- ities would cost three times as much us the proposed bridge. The expense of the bridge, Mr. Turner says, could be borne jointly by the various trunk Une railroads, rap id transit companies He also sug- that such a bridge would serve as @ suitable memorial to the departed erved and the muntelpality, gest heroes from New York who the World Wi wei thik AQUITANIA MAKES thelr country in FAST EASTERN TRIP Oceanic Sailing on Same Day From This Port for Cherbourg, Fifteen Hours Behind. A wireless received at the Cunard steamship offices this afternoon reads 99 | us follows: “Aquitania duc Cherbourg 8 [P, (Sogned) “CHARLES.” & The Aquitanta of the Cunard Line |" and the Olympic of the White Star passenger- carrying ships now in service in the world, left here last Saturday after- Line, the two largest noon, thirty-five minutes apart. ‘The wireless shows that the Aqui- gpnsiderable lead tania has gdined a over the Olympfe, for af the office: of the White Star, Line at No. 9 Rroadway it was stdted that a wire. | ,* less from Capt. Hayes of the Olympic | a had been received stating the Olym- ° would arrive at Cherbourg at 6 |! D o'clock to-morrow ‘Turkish Ambassador to M. | to-day, making gain of 5 hours 2 | minutes over list trip. TURKISH WAR FUND IS SHORT $95,842 Hussien Bey, Former Ambassador, Speculated in Wall Street With ‘Charity Cash.* Abdul-Hak Hussein Bey, Avting the United States prior to the break of diplomatic relations, during the term of his official Ufe at Washington collected large sums of money for the Turkish Red Crescent and speculated with the greater part of these funds in Wall Street, it was dis- closed today, when Surrogate James A. Foley directed that §2,000 be paid out of ‘Hussein's estate to Purrington & MoConnell of No. 52 Wall Street, , Hus- sein died In February last year, Before the United States broke with the Ottoman Empire due to the World War, it was shown in an affidavit sub- mitted to the Surrogate by Frank J. MoConnell of counsel for protecting we interests of the Ottoman Empire, Hus- sein collected $114,364. An Inspection of Hussein's books shows that he actu- ly tranamitted to Constantinople $18,- 722, leaving $95,842 for which there has been no accounting. Mme. Hussein, widow of tho diplo- matist, of No. § West 92d "Street, con- wented to waive her rights as adminia- tratrix in favor of Gebastlan Romero, Spanish Consul General, who was ap- It you don't me for supper.” street. ‘ By Focer (Copyrignt, 1980, by Roger reaching Omining at 3 hautieur presumabiy scot by hie he baa forgorten col up He calle fm that his sister went to ‘hat there must CHAPTER IX, + Continifed), 66 bonr “Neither do 1, Joe. I'm sure she went. ue: (Eu ring her up and make sure, and if they aren't there I can get an ex- press home at about half-past two. it must,” he agreed. “Well, hear trom me, expect His call to his astster's house, which was on the outskirts of the town, brought no response. Puzzled, he left the booth and walked to the His car was gone xa “Where did that chautfeur go?” he asked the clérk, who was standing in the doorway. “thought it was funny,” replied the clerk. “He was listening to you telephoning, and all of a sudden he rushed off and drove away like he Was going to a fire,’ pomlered O'Connor. the police stutian?” he asked suddenly. + “*Bout quarter mile up the street. Any trouble?” inquired the clerk curiously. “1 don't know, but I'm going tq find out,” replied O'Connor, as he started up the street. At the station house he found the chief sititng at the desk, pipe in mouth, ‘Theloca! dignitary was im- Dressed by a visit from a Now York official, and jumped up when he heard of the affair. “Might a been tryin’ to rob you,” he uggested. “T hardly think 80," averred O’Con- ner, with a laugh. “Still, I don't think it could have been a joke, or the chauffeur wouldn't bave acted so queerly, tirely In your hands, and I can find out if any one “You said something, flattered chief. “Dll leave my address and you can call me on the phone comes of it. York now.” He gave a geod description of the man and the automobile, card, and started down tthe hill to- ward the station. heard the chief ring a bell insistently and shout orders in an excited voice, “This may not be New York,” he told himseif, “but there seems to be plenty of action. If it were a prac- tical Joke, the jokers may find the laugh the other way, and if It's some- thing else, well—we'll see,” he con- uded. pointed administrator of the estate. The | ciideg, books of the accounts are in a bad way. peolincasnie ecko MINERS PREPARE MORE DEMANDS Ask to Have Agreement ‘With Operators, Signed Yesterday, Reopened. BORANTON, Pu., Sept. 3.—A com- mittee of thirteen wi of making new demands. ’ —>———— BELMONT RESULTS. olds; FURST RACE—For claiming; purse $1.0 furlongs; atraight, Silence, 110 (Kum mer), 7 to 1, 2to1 and to. 6, first; two year Ruatler, 110 (Johnson), even, 1 to 3 and out, second; King’s Belle, 104 (Mooney) 18 to 6 even and 1 1:07. Wise 6 to 1, also ran. Dove, 7 ee BELMONT ENTRIES. FURST BACH Hor maiden fillies; uwo-year: gl: ite fa ho mo : cee. Lie: bMtattep'e Waller" Gallant Wwe, LIZ Bias 1 Retite, 112; Ai 2 yy, be Stable Sapolen Wt in Winton Seon Handicay, tor ehrce-year-alde ain aman tages, 144; Infidel 1, ‘the Nureny Hand: lad, ‘Tie’ nat on SE. Aiichewt b—Tue Lawrence Realization ‘one mile and fire furlongs. Sea Mint, 116, for M3; "Brink ens £108; Tippity Witehet Brighton, MT, Land appointed by tbe General Scale Committee of the anthracite mine workers to-day to take action with a view of heving the agreement signed yesterday by the United Mine Sorkers and the cperators re-opened for the purpose ; five and a half 2 to 4, third. Tim to 1 and Runmic, tree Mac ‘alae ‘Banksia, (DAM, JL, Sctewarts wat, fuciudes = gunaity Unree-yeur- olds teooth. —Shiltelah 9b, allowance claimed Weather clear: | 8! | eee At five o'clock, Bill Whiting rushed into the Rivington Street settlement | Bryant in the house and found’ Mi office, preparing to leave. Betty he demanded exclaimed Miss Bryant, “Why are you so excited?" “Did you see this?’ He thrust the newspaper Into her bands and pointed to the head-lines. “Tt isn't true,” she cried incredu- lously. “Why, he wouldn’t*—— “Of course he wouldn't, sent it over the wire, at her office and they down that she was responsible that there was no mistake. wouldn't send in such a story any- way, would she?" “Mo, she wouldn't, Bryant with decision. [ know Betty too well, before she'd hurt Joe. “Well, where la she? want to know,” demanded Whiting. “I've been wondering myself," re plied Miss Bryant. “She was to hav been here at four, and"—she looked watch—"here it's after at her wrist five “It won't Whiting. A‘s called me at my office. hated to believe it, No’ situation: help to wonder,” practical joke. But, whatever to find out, He told me he ing this mbrning. He's on the back now, and will come the migute he arriv high and low for Bett no one haa seen her, down and see what's happened “You see,” he explained, as_ the! taxicab went down Lafayette Stre “ip looked bad for Joe. explain he'll be ruined. even if she did send { couldn't have made it up.” “How about Judge Mc suggested Miss Bfyant. “He went on leave this afternoon, the ste yonough 2” by the thme we get thé: As their cab drew up at the Frank. of the Criminal lin Street entrance Courts Building, Howard, the Dist 17: Attorney, was just leaving his. limou- ‘ine. “tielto, Whiting. O'Connor said you! * BR Barahelder, ing in his pockwt for rs hat ie lum taken the Keye. tO bie a * ‘New But be under: ud” suid O'Connor in a puzzled yoice. But It must I'm gMng to leave It en-) if anything I'm going back to New wrote his address and telephone number on his He smiled as he Whiting interrupted. “But the thing is—Betty verified {t ore up and and She answered Miss | “She had some kind of a tiff with him, but—— No, She'd resign —that's what | sald! n “Let's go down to the D.| supper. He was simply frantic when he | He sald he/port—the District here's the Mrs. O'Connor told me Joe was in Ossinning as the result of a that means, I don’t know, and | didn’t stop as go- | ve searched and sent messengers ull over town for her, but So we'll run If he can't And Betty, The D. A. sald he'd call him up, and he'll probably bave matters adjusted TCHELDER. all seeeas ‘| Were one of his best friends, | bu | wanted you fo help,” he “Besides, the biggest story ing) break, and {t shoul re call Up MoDonough,” Me ass serted some moments later, why j Were tn hig private office. “Bigren’s had a chance yet.” He calied Cqegtral. | “Morningside, 94772 Judge Mc-= | Donough, please. District Attorney Howard speaking, Teil him it's very important, What? No chance of ge ting him ag all?" After listening te | the explanation, he replaced the ree cyver on the hook, and sank back into his chair 5 “Damnation! Beg pardon, young lady,” he apologized hastily, “but th Judge left this afternoon on a s months’ cruise to Heaven knows where. He had leave of absenoe—{ remember seeing it in the paper#now —as his nerves were in bad shape; he went with his doctor, who djd not allow him to leave any addr The servant didn't know whose yabht It was, but heard the doctor sa tha? the wireless should be removed be- tore ney. started, Well,” he, con- cluded abruptly, “we've got tq wal) fer OComnt ot pone oot ries nm, judge yo LS s her yet judge you ven't Prom Whiting shook his head, and! How~ ards hand again reached for aa telephone. } > ‘Connect me with the bu- reau,” he commanded. “Hello, Tier- nan? e some information from them.” ig Four men knocked at the} door shortly, and entered. One of ythem saluted. { “AI here, sir,” he reported. 5 ‘Trimble, did’ you got anythitg to day?" asked Howard abruptly of w burly young man with alert black yee. Yea, sir—vory Wie ane it up.’ Vhy didn't you report?" s Htowend. y P napped It happened at two-eleven, sir, Tt called you, but you had gone. You ordered me," he*reminded, “to give these reports to no one except your~ self.’ : “All right. Let's have them.”! The detective quickly pred some typewritten sheets, “I the wires, air. We have been them as ordered. These are tel conversations.” Howard read the first cow |. “The first,” he sald, “le pne appar ently sent by Mies Billingsley to her of It correaponds exactly to the article her paper printed. ‘The replies from her office—a man od O'Brien at the other end—indsgate that there could have been no dgivbt concerning her identity, Let me seo” — +o He read a second sheet. “Herg is what it says," he volunteered. “Phe Parties concerned are called Abe and 6. ’ dmportant, I think. wees on) ping ne report with a - 1ke—Hello. Abe—Hello, Ike; this is Abe. Everything go well? Swell like everything. They have just went out with her. Any trouble? , Not a bit. Say, i extra sniffs? Nope. Jake got all I had. , What are you going to-do? Beat it right away. So long. So long. I'll report 0.°K. “That,” observed Howard,. régiting from the report, “took place at'$.10. The call was from a pay-statti to the third floor of a tenement. off Rutgers Alley, East Broadway. What did you do?” he asked, turning to Trimble. +l “Sent Callahan there, but the-mait had gone. No information at the pay station, We've been ‘watching, the tenement, I placed a patrolman there permanently. No one in the vieini heard or saw anything. We thought the man was a dope and also notified the Narcotic Squad to keep on the watch. ‘That's pretty far-fetched, though.’ A “Anything else?" inquired HoWard. ‘The other men shook their heads. “Any reason to connect it with the big men we've been after 3 “None at all, sir, |. “Take two men, Trimble; and go our |for supper. Be back in fifteen min~ utes, Callahan, go back and cover the taps on the phones. Watch Zaunstein, Hpsteln, Stern and Cassidy dn’ par cular, “I'm afrald something has hay to the girl,” he continued, after the man had left. “I'll send out a genéra) alarm from Headquarters, Whiting, | suggest that you take the young lady to a cab, and come back. I may need you here.. I'll have eome supper sent up.” i “Td rather stay if I might,” pre | tested Miss Bryant anxiously. “Betty |1s a dear friend of mine and I wane to know at once Sf anything happeits.”* ."As\you wish," conceded Howard: An hour later, police headquarters reported that no results had come from the general alarm, but that the entire force was on the alert, and detectives were watching the sta- tions, tubes and bridges. When Mrs. O'Connor was called again shé’ re- ported that Joe had sent some keys by a messenger, with a note suyti |that he had met a friend in the ter- inal, and would not be home for In response to het anxiou questioning—for he had seen the re- Attorney sasured jher that everything was “all wy “Spring $100,” called Howard. “Give me Congdon. Hello, Lieutenant; How- urd again, Send out a general alarm \for Joseph O'Connor, Deputy Assidt- ant District Attorney. If you. jet lain-clothes man with joward then description of his subordinate. You aren't arresting him? tested Miss Bryant, “Not exactly,” said Howard, “bue#m king no chances, Frankly, I believe it is all wrong, and that something has happened to @ girl. I don't want to make any wholesale round- jup of the men I suspect until I've get the goods on them, It would giveithe .|(Mng away, But this general alarm | will get O'Connor here in the shortest | time,” he added in extenuation, At 7.30 Detective Walters of the East 34th Street Police Station knock~ ed at the door, I have Mr. announced, got any pre O'Connor here," he (What did District Attorney Howard do? Read to-morrow’s thrilling Instalment.) = sie ‘)