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THE GEORGIAN'S MAGAZINE, PAGE
“The Case of Oscar Slater”
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes in Real Life
TODAY’S IXSTALLMENT.
A t, c .x contain ng papers hail been
rrceJ open, and these papers were found
,'. re a upon the floor. If he were really
of the jewels, he was badly in
. th e S e were kept amor tl
in the old lady's wardrobe. I atar.
>ci, crest < nt diamond brooch, an arf
' , north perhaps forty or fifty pounds,
n found to be missing. Nothing else
u taken from the flat.
u is remarkable that though the fur
niture round about the body was spat
with blood, and no one would have
,oul,ted that the murderer's hands must
iv,. been stained, no mark was seen upon
half-consumed match with which he
id lit the gas. nor upon the match box,
the box containing papers, nor any other
which he may have touched in the
bedroom.
\ .. rente now to the all-important ques-
~f the description of the man seen at
, a close quarters by Adams and Lan -
'... teams was short-sighted and had
ri.u lis spectacles with him. His evi
at tite trial ran thus:
He was a man a little taller and a little
an l am. not a well-built mat.,
1.,,; 'well-featured and clean shaven, and
, n „t exactly swear to his moustache,
h >he had an, it was very little. He
a eomercial traveller type, or
. a de-’;, and I did not know but
a't he :> Ight be one of her friends. He
o on dark trousers and a light over-
I could not' say if it were fawn or
I do not recollect what sort of hat
< had. He seemed gentlemanly and
W r.l - r-ssed. He had nothing in his hand
Uli as 1 could tell. I did not notice
thing about his way '>t walking.”
H, I ■! 1 tmbie, the other spectator, cotnd
... u information about the face (which
bears out Adams’ view as to her
.ti c and could only say that he wore
I II doth ha,., a three-quarter length
~ ’coat of grey color, and that he had
, , peculiarity in his wa’.k. As the dis
tai ,o traversed by the murderer within
_.| : I.amide could be crossed in four
as. and as these steps were taken un-
. ,-ir< ini-lac,-' of peculiar agitation, it
c mffieiilt to think that any importance
, in attached to tills last item in the
th scr i pt ion.
i’m to avoid s< ir t c inment
i ihr actions of Helen La.rhie during
n»■ H - dents just narrated, which can
, i|y bt explained by supposing that from
■ i,. tirnt -lie saw Adams waiting outside
.: .. . • her whole reasoning faculty had
deserted her.
Different Tales.
First, she explained the great noise
i.ranl below: “The ceiling was like to
crude.” said Adams, “bj the fall of a.
clothesline and its pulleys of attach
ment.' which could not possibly, one
\‘<ml<J imagine, have produced any such
ifrc! She then declares that she re
named upon the mat, while Adams is
onvinced (hat she went right down the
all on the appearance of the stranger
sne did not gasp out. “Who are you?”
•• any other sign of amazement, but al
lowed Adams to suppose by her silence
■hai the man might be some one who had
a right to be there.
Finally, instead of rushing at once to
if her mistress was safe, she went to
kitchen; still apparently under the
"bse si< n of the pulleys. She informed
Adams that hey were all right, as if it
nrattered to any human being: thence she
went into the span bedroom, where she
must have seen that robbery bad Heen
committed, since an open box lay in the
middle of the floor. She gave no alarm.
However, and it was only when Adams
called out: “Where is your mistress?”
trial she finally went into the room of the
murder. It must be admitted that this
seen.s strange conduct, and only explica
ble, if it can be said to be explicable, by
great want of intelligence and grasp of
Hie situation.
On Tuesday, December 22, the morn
ng after the murder, the Glasgow police
■ irmlated a description of the murderer,
lotrnded upon the joint impressions of
Adams ami of Lambic. It ran thus:
“A man between 25 and 30 years of age,
five foot eight or nine inches i<i height,
slim build, dark hair. clean shaven,
dresMMi in light gray overcoat and dark
• loth cap.”
The Man Wanted.
I*our days later, however, upon Christ
n.<is day. the police found themselves in
« position to give a more detailed de
scription:
The man wanted Is about 28 or 30
Mars oi age, tall and thin, with his face
sl-aved dear of all hair, while a distinct
ive feature Is that his nose is slightly
irned to one side. He wore one of the
pillar tweed hats known as Donegal
* ! and a fawn colored overcoat which
might have been waterproof, also dark
■misers and brown boots.”
I h p material from which these further
lints were gathered came from a young
girl of fifteen, in humble life, named Mary
‘•arrowman. According io this new evi
the witness was tossing the scene
the murder shortly after 7 o’clock upon
• fatal night. She saw a man run hur
-1 ‘dl\ down the steps, and he passed her
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under a lamp post. The incandescent
light shone dearly upon him. He ran
on. knocking against the witness in his
hfiste, and disappeared round a corner.
On hearing later of the murder, she
connected this incident with it. The gen
eral recollections of the man were as
civen in the description, and the gray
-cat' and cloth cap of the first two wit
nesses were given up in favor of the fawn
eoat and round Donegal hat of the young
girl. Since she had seen no peculiarity
in his walk, and they had seen none in
his nose, there is really nothing the same
in the two descriptions save the "clean
shaven.” the "slim build” and the ap
proximate age.
It was on the evening of Christmas
day that the police came at last upon
a definite dew. It was brought to their
notice 'hat a German .lew of ihe assumed
name of Oscar Slater had been endeav
oring to dispose of the pawn ticket of a
crescent diamond brooch of about the
same value as the missing one Also,
that in a general way he bore a resem
blance to the published description.
DELIBERATE POLICE.
Still more hopeful did this clew appear
when, upon raiding the lodging-; in
which this man at d his mistress liv-d.
it was found that they bad left Glasgow
that very night by the 9 o'clock train,
with ticket-, (over this point there was
some clash of evidence) either for Liv
erpool or London. Three cays later the
Giasgi w police learned that the couple
had actually sailed upon Decernner 26
upon the Lusitania for New York under
the name of Mr. ami Mrs. Otto Sar.do.
It must be admitted that in all these
prc.cedings the Glasgow police showed
considerable deliberation. The original
Information had been given at the central
police office shortly after C o'clock and
a detective was actually making inqui
ries at Sluter's flat at 7:30. yet no watch
was kept upon his movements, and he
was allowed to leave between 8 ami 9,
untraced and unquestioned.
Even stranger was the Liverpool de
parture. He was known to have got
away in Hie southbound train upon the
Friday ev. nirg. A great liner sails from
Liverpool upon the Saturday. One would
have iinag ned that eariy on the Satur
day morning steps would have been taken
to block this method of escape How
ever. as a fad, it was not done, am
it proved it is as well for the cause of
justice, since it had the effect that two
judicial processes were needed, an Amer
ican and a Scottish, which enables an
interesting comparison to be made be
tween the evidence of the principal wit
nesses.
Oscar Slater was at once arrested upon
arriving at New York, and his seven
trunks of baggage were Impounded ami
sealed. On the face of it there was a
good case against him, for he had un
doubtedly pawned a diamond brooch, and
he had subsequently fled under a false
name for America.
The Glasgow police had reason to think
they hau got their man Two officers, ac
companied by the ihree witnesses to iden
tify Adams, Lamble and Barrowman —set
off at once to carry through the extra
dition proceedings and bring the suspect
back to be tried for his offense.
THE IDENTIFICATION.
In the New York court they first set
eyes upon the prisoner, and each of them,
in terms which will be afterwards de
scribed. expressed the opinion that he
was at any rate exceedingly like the
person they had seen in Glasgow. Their
actual identification of him was vitiated
by the tact that Adams and Barrowman
hail been shown his photograph before at
tending lhe court, and also that he was
led past them an obvious prisoner while
they were waiting in the corridor.
Still, however much one may discount
the actual identification, it can not be
denied that each witness saw a close
resemblance between the man before
them and the man whom they had seen
in Glasgow. So far at every stage the
case against the accused was becoming
more menacing.
Any doubt as to the extradition was
speedily set at rest by the prisoner’s an
nouncement that he was prepared, with
out compulsion, to return to Scotland and
to stand his trial. One may well refuse
to give any excessive credit for this sur
render. since he may have been per
suaded that things were going against
him, but still the fact remains (and it
was never, so far as 1 car trace, men
tioned at his subsequent trial) that he
gave himself up of his own free will to
justice. On February 21 Oscar Slater was
back in Glasgow once more, and on May
3 his trial took place at the high court
in Edinburgh.
But already the very bottom of the
case had dropped out. The starting link
of what had seemed an imposing chain
had suddenly broken. It will be remem
bered that the original suspicion of Sla
ter was founded upon the fact that he
had pawned a crescent diamond brooch.
The ticket was found upon him, and the
brooch recovered. It was not the one
which was missing from the room of the
murdered woman, and it had belonged
for years to Slater, who had repeatedly’
pawned it before. This was shown be
yond all cavil or dispute. The case of
the police might well seem desperate after
this, since if Slater were indeed guilty
it w'ould mean that by pure chance they
had pursued the right man. The coinci
dence Involved in such a supposition
would seem to pass the limits of all prob
ability
Apart from this crushing fact, several
of the other points of the prosecution
bad already shown themselves to be
worthless. It had seemed first that Sla
ter's departure had been sudden and un
premeditated the flight of a guilty man
It was quickly proved that this was not
so. In the Bohemian clubs which he fre
quented he was by profession a peddling
jeweler and a man of disreputable,
though not criminal, habits—it had for
weeks before the date of the crime been
known that he purported to go to some
business associates in America.
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Every Woman Can Have Shapely Figure With a
Little Care, Says Emma Francis
By Margaret Hubbard Ayer.
{{ yEALTHY! I'm too healthy!
I I Anybody would be who had
to do that every day,” panted
Miss Emma Francis, as she eatne
bounding off the stage of Loew's Amer
ican theater, followed by her small
Arabs, with their shaggy black shucks
of hair waving in the wind.
"But you wouldn’t expect every wom
an to do stunts like yours for her
health, would you?” I asked, agasp at
the mental picture of some of our fat
friends and lethargic ladies doing hand
springs for daily "physical culture" as
it’s well calk d.
“Well, no; but they could do it if
they practiced, and began when they
were children; and there wouldn't be
half as many aches and pains in the
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EMMA FRANCES AT LOEW S AMERICAN THEATER, NEW YORK.
women would keep In good physical
condition by exercising.” nodded the
pretty little dancer emphatically.
‘‘l'm never ill," she went on, care
fully knocking three times on a piece
of wood, “but then, besides my regular
work at the theater, I practice every
day. I think I'm a pretty good speci
men, don’t you?”
And, looking at .Miss Francis with a
critical eye. I quite agreed with her.
Her figure is slight, but well rounded,
and the muscles are not over-developed
as in the case of so many acrobatic
dancers. Her face, too, is round and
full and shows no trace of fatigue, but
glows with mischief and good humor.
“Since you really want me to give a
lot of advice,” Miss Francis was urged
to say. “tell the women not to sit back
and let fat and age creep upon them.
It's not necessary; and Just think how
stupid it is to let the best thing you've
got—a good, healthy body—go to ruin
just because you are too lazy to exer
cise itl
A Good Figure.
"I don’t say that every woman must
be an athlete. Heavens! no; that would
drive us all out of business. Lots of
women are not really fitted to do diffi
cult exercises or gymnastics, but all of
them could keep their figures shapely If
they would only take the trouble.
“Why, I know an old lady, almost 60
who has the figure of a girl of 18,
and she can get up any minute and do
the finest kind of a Highland fling or
a fancy dance. She doesn’t do it be
cause. she says, it isn’t dignified; but
she exercises for three-quarters of an
hour every morning and then rubs her
self down with alcohol, just as a dancer
or gymnast does.
"Her skin is fine and white and clear,
because she perspires freely, and I think
if she goes on this way she'll live for
ever and not look any older.”
“How would you advise a beginner—
some woman who has let her figure
go’ and who wants to begin exercising,
but hasn’t got too much time to spare?"
Miss Francis was asked.
“Not too much time; that’s what they
all say," she answered with a comic
note of despair. "A woman who
weighs 250 pounds generally wants to
lose a hundred of it within a week.
Well, it can’t be done, so there. Any
thing that will reduce you too quickly
is bound to lie harmful, and as for
building up a lot of relaxed and flabby
muscles, why it takes a long time, but
that is usually the condition in which
the average woman finds herhelf when
she realizes that she has let her figure
‘go,’ as it is called.
Dancing Exercise.
"Rut about those exercises. She
mustn't expect to do too much. I
should begin with fifteen minutes ex*-
ercising three times a clay. The first
five minutes before breakfast in the
morning, ‘the second five when she is
changing her clothes either for din
ner or before she goes out, and unless
she is too tired, another five or ten
minutes’ work before going to bed.
"It's perfectly useless to exercise in
tight clothing; that ought to be un
derstood from the very beginning.
And a woman shouldn't exercise after
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she is really very tired, but sometimes
she can rest herself by sitting on a
ehair and exercising the upper part of
her body if her legs and feet are
weary from over-much standing. But
if she is depressed, unhappy and loggy.
dancing exercises are the best things
in the world for her. They will re
fresh and invigorate her.
"Most women know enough about
dancing to bo able to practice without
any further instruction, or they can go
to the theater and watch a good
dancer and come back and imitate
her. All that is good for the figure.
"What the average woman needs is
limbering up. Her muscles are either
so undeveloped that she can hardly
use them, or they are so tight that she
is muscle-bound.
“All exercises consist in contracting
and relaxing the muscles of certain
parts of the body. You have to use
your will power just as much as force.
The best exercises are those that
strengthen the back and waist muscles,
forward and backward bend of the
body, swinging the body forward, bind
ing at the waist, and twisting it from
side to side.
"One of the most difficult steps 1 do
is the Russian dance step, which ■ xer
cises every muscle of the lower part of
the body; this is very easy for me to
do because I am trained to it. But
while doing that step, I accomplish al
most every gymnastic movement prac
ticed to develop the legs and knees and
waist.
Russian Dance.
"This step consists of bending the
knees, bringing the body to a squat
ting position, hopping on one foot, lhe
kfiees still bent, and kicking with thi
other foot; then reversing lhe posi
tion. bringing th extended Lot bad;
under the body, and stretching out the
other leg. Then alternating, hopping
first ‘on om foot ami then on the
other.
“Any exercise ill,-it doesn’t strain
tile muscles and th:i:"*Tsn’t continued
after one is overtired is good, whether
it is walking or swimming, darn ing <n
calisthenics.
"The trouble with most nom>n is,
though, that they will only work for
about a week, and then give up be
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sults. Though I dance twice a day, I
practice every morning to keep myself
i in trim.’and the woman who wants to
keep her figure—while, of course, she
I doesn’t have to devote as much time
to it as I do—has got to be just as
systematic. The reason why actresses,
as a rule, have better figures than
women in private life is that they
take more pains about it. They can’t
afford to let themselves ‘go.’ ”
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A clerk was sent to call on Mr. C .
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get him?” asked the man
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MOTHER LOVE.
THERE is no limit to the number of
delicate, refined, perfectly lady
like ways in which a woman may
rebuke her husband.
A sigh, the sigh of recent tears and
a refusal to tell why she shed tfiem; a
wistful, far-away look when the hus
band Is present, and, above all else,
the look of a martyr, will make the
gentlest of husbands feel as if he struck
a knife into his wife’s heart and twist
ed It around.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton has
her favorite way of telling her husband
he is a brute, as have all women.
"You,” she will say in a tone of thin
ly veiled contempt, “are not a moth
er!”
And Lysander John will realize that,
not being a mother, he lacks all the
finer perceptions, is incapable of un
selfish devotion, devoid of sympathy,
and, in brief, is a brute.
Chauncey Devere had scratched the
new piano. The day before he had
broken a window light in the parlor,
and the day before he had knocked the
wings off Mercury. Candy stuck to the
best parlor chairs. And, as a proof
that there was a daughter in the house,
there were wads of chewing gum plas
tered on the parlor carpet.
Lysander John complained. He paid
Advice to the Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
NO! BY ALL MEANS NO!
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am a girl of twenty and am
keeping company with a young man
five years my senior. I merely like
him. I know he would provide for
me and be kind. Do you think it
would be fair to marry’ him?
ANXIOUSLY.
There is more to wedded life than
bread and butter. If that is all you
want, why marry’ for what your own
two hands can earn? There is love
and all the joys of work and sacrifice
that go with it. In Justice to this
man. refuse him, and don’t make your
refusal an undecisive one.
MAY MEAN LOVE.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am seventeen years of age and
deeply in love with a young man
six years my senior.
At times this gentleman shows
that he loves me. but at other times
he hardly' talks to me.
HEARTBROKEN.
When a man is silent when with a
wmnan it usually means that he feels
that their friendship is based on solid
grounds. He doesn't have to be “enter
taining." He likes her and thinks she
likes him just as he is. If I were you,
I should regard that silent companion
ship as a very high compliment.
ASK HER HER REASONS.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am 21 years old and have been
keeping company’ with a girl 20 years
old for three years. I have pro
posed to her, but she refused. From
her actions I judge she refused on
account of financial affairs. 1 am
receiving S9OO per annum, with
prospects of an increase.
L. K. K. K.
A love like yours deserves better re
turns. Ask her if she refused you be
cause of your limited income. If that
were her reason, and she refuses to be
persuaded to wait for brighter days, she
doesn’t love you. I am almost con
vinced that this is the real obstacle. In
that event she has not been just to
you in accepting your attentions for
three years, and you must try Io for
get her.
the bills, and felt that this gave him
’ the right to complain.
"You don’t Love your children,"
sobbed his wife, the fountain of her
Mother Love boiling over, "or you
would be Glad to see those Little Marks
made on the Piano by your Only Son’s
Precious Hands.
"If you had the Tender Heart of a
Mother you wouldn't want to Drive him
away from Hie Hom<; to eat a mouthful
of candy. You would Rejoice that it is
the tvings of Mercury that are broken,
i and not his darling Head.
"You don’t Love your Only daugh
ter," the fount of Mother Love bursting
all bounds, “or you would be glad to
see that she Enjoys her home by drop
ping her Chewing gum on the carpet.
Many a Father" —it seemed as if her
tears could’ not let her continue—
“whose Daughter is Married and Gone
Far Away, or who Lies Cold in the
Tomb, would be Glad to Find Chewing
Gum on his parlor Carpet.”
I Thea she sobbed so wildly at the
picture she had drawn of a Desolate
, Father looking in grief at a carpet with
, no chewing gum plastered on it, that
f Lysander John put on his hat and left
the house.
"You,” was the last reproach he heard
as he slammed the door, “are not a
i Mother!”
YOU WERE THE OFFENDER.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
1 have known a young man for a
good many years; in fact, we play
ed together as children. He came
to see me very often and also too.<
me out. About two months ago I
heard he said something I did no!
like and I asked him about it. He
denied it, but gave his denial in a
peculiar way, so I told him I doubt
ed his word.
I know he loves me as well as 1
do him, bitt we are both stubborn
and won’t advance any.
UNDECIDED.
You doubted his word and for no
other reason than your suspicious na
ture. You owe him an apology. I hope
you will be fair enough to make it. But
1 beg of you that, having eaten youi
just due of humble pie, you do no
make it a regular diet. That is wom
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