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PAGE FOUR se@ds Resurrection Lilies,lhen - Slays Widow He Could Not Guide MYSTERY SURROUNDS DEAIR Os BEAUEIFRL ■M. M SEDNE Attractive Young Woman Was Strangled In Room Where Potted Flowers Found **SENT WARNINNG LETTER Missive Signed ‘Bill’ Figures In Investigation of Killing At Los Angeles By JACK JUNGMEYErt LOS ANGELES, April 17.—A death bouquet presented the most tangible clew in the mystery mur der of Vera Stone, attractive po liceman’s widow who was strangled, police assume, by one of scores of suitors who had more or less casu ally wooed her within the past year. Did the slayer of Vera Stone in tend, to say it with flowers? If Stent by the killer, were they a macabre-- portent of his plan, or part of an occult rite devised k>£ 'deadly jealousy? The flowers were potted lili< *, annonymously sent from a public stand to Vera Stone’s apartment on "the evening preceding the murder Chaste resurrection lilies. She had placed them on a stand near her bed. They nodded above her bat tered, garoted body when a sister . ;m;ide the grewsome find. A strange, white, symbolical clew po lice believe, to the identity of the man who slew the woman he loved. Thirty days before the death date Mrs. Stone had received a writ ten warning, signed “Bill,” adjur ing her to “Be careful, I will b<» back in a month.” The floral gift arrived as the allotted periods waJ expiring. And a few hours later, ; apaftment neighbors testified, Vera r Stone was shrieking from her room ““‘Bill —you are killing me!” Under the lilies, with the corpse, lay three scarlet little address books K VTOU’LL enjoy drinking 1 Banq'uet Orange Pekoe Tea; and ybu’ll take pride igt" t serfring it. Like many others f you "ill marvel that it costs no y ’■’S'J more than less palatable teal W/Esii Your grocer can supply you, in ll ffa ? t^lc a ' r_,t 'S^ t: orange canister, w IWwJB I McCISRMJCk & CO., Baltimore, Md, I Tea Blenders and i'ackers BANQUET : ORA ;‘*.9. 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We give the borrower the privilege of making payments on the principal at any interest period, stopping interest on such payment. We also make loans on choice city property. Write or see R. C. Ellis, President, or G. C. Webb, Vice-Presi dent, in charge of the Home Office, Americus, Georgia. Empire Loan and Trust Company Americus, Georgia 4!WrjiW *z %. • L Bw « Swyramv JI 4 ■■ j I I ’ ” ■ - J Mw|i ■ MRS VERA SONE 'ln them the names of some 300 ! men, from high social levels to mors I modest stations, investigators as |Sert. Among those inscribed in the red roster of Vera Stone’s acquain tanceship, there were a dozen or more “Bills.” The homicide squad • said it might require weeks to com i plete a systematic theck up on the i list. 1 To most of these men, business - men and professional, police offi cers, taxi drivers and those uniden- . tis ied by calling, the pretty young | widow was was known as Mae. Lyn, a name she had adopted after the death of her husband. ) With the new name acquaintance ) assert, come a changed attitude toward life, a pendulum swing from ■ grief, an inclination toward more gaiety. Mae Lyn became the oh . ject of competitive interest among I scores of men. Most of them, po lice declare, were content to accept her as an agreable companion of; the hour, their names and phone numbers inscribed in the little scar let covered roster. One man, however, officers say Mrs. Stone told them, declared a deep affection. He was unlike the others. He refused to join her parties, tried to dissuade her from her favorites. He told her he would rather see her dead than indulge in the mode of life he disapproved. This man's name she did not reveal to her con lidanteSj.-, of' his earnest ness with, a sprt of dreadful re speefr. q Was, he, “Wh 0 would rather see her dead,” the. man who sent her the white ressurtection lilies as H reminder, or for a symbol above the throat so soon to have its en circling purpie welt? “The man who loved her best is the man who killed Vera Stone.’!' Such is the consensus of most of the officials ravelipg at the mystery although other conjectures based jon meager were also being foi loWiitl—that she may have been victim of a fiend, or •of under worldlings who believed her an in formant of police. Murder enigmas, once they are solved, usually fall into a few typi cal patterns of motive and mani pulation. And so may this one.. But at least the resurrection lilies, mysteriously provided as a death corsage, will remain a macabre ad dity, whether they prove of special significance or merely a symbolical coincidence in the killing of Vera Stone. HARDWICK RESIGNS HIS PLACE IN DEPARTMENT ATLANTA, April 17. —Former Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick gave out the information here today that he has tendered to the Attorney Gene ral of the United States his resign ! tion as a member of the advisory council of the United States Depart ment of Justice, and that the resig nation has been accepted effective this date. It was tendered several days ago. The increase of his private prac tice and other private business in terests, he said, have become such that he cannot longer divide his time. He was appointed to the post in I the Department of Justice by former I Attorney General Daugherty im mediately following conclusion of | Mr. Hardwick’s term as Governor. I ; LITTLE BOYS Middy Hats, lim ited supply. See them.' Mis s Till .nan,—l7-3t OUCH! BHEUNWr RUB IHEJIN ■ Stop drugging! Rub soothing, penetrating St. Jacobs Oil right into your sore, stiff, ach ing joints, and re lief comes instant ly. St. Jacobs Oil is a harmless rheu matism liniment which never disap points and cannot burn the skin. Get'a 35 cent bot- I tie of St. Jacobs Oil at any drug store, and in a mo ment you’ll be free from pain, soreness and stiffness. In use for 65 years for rheumatism, sciat ica, neuralgia, luin sprains, i bago, backache, THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER PEPPER’S SPEECH TORN TO PIECES Robinson Criticises ‘Blame It It On Harding’ Address Be fore Maine Republicans WASHINGTON, April 17. Responsible Republicans in the ad ministration, in Congress and in their party’s national organization are still chagrined and dispirited at .he aftermath of Senator Pepper’s' keynote” speech before the Repub-, lican state convention Maine. Their j liscomfiture is due not only to ■ former Attorney General Daugher-I ty’s cynical retort with tne a ugges 1 tion that the Coolidge administra tion is trying to save itself from the consequences of recent expos ures of official corruption by the slogan, “Blame it on Harding,” but also because of the opportunity that the speech gave Democrats in the Senate to disprove Senator Pepper’s charge that the investigations of various Cabinet officers had not im peded legislation. Senator Robinson, Democratic 'eader in the Senate, taking Sena tor Pepper’s speech as a text, chal lenged the Republicans, including Mr. Lodge, to point to any bill that had been delayed because of the in vestigations. The Republican rank and file in the Senate were hushed to silence by Senator Robinson's philippic against the propaganda that has been started to mislead the public into the belief that the inves tigations were art of a Democratic plan to block legislation and dis credit the Coolidge administration. He made Senator Lodge admit that there had been no delay in passing appropriation bills as Senator Pep per alleged. Turning to President Coolidge’s responsibility for the misdeeds of Republican officials, high and low Senator Robinson said: “What has been the course of the head of the administration, Presi dent Coolidge, for whom the Senator THIS Studebaker Light-Six is the supreme value in the “thousand-dollar” class. It offers, not a few, but scores of ♦ 1 advantages. In its chassis it repre sents the best that modern engineer ing knows. In its steels and quality of construction it is identical with the costliest cars we build. This is to offeif you proofs. 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