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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 They Make Good who keep themselves in fine physical condition. Regular bowels, active kidneys and hver, good digestion, and a greater natural vigor follow the timely use of the reliable BEECHAMS PILLS Sold everywhere In boxe. 10c., 25c. tetter ' 1 1 MeOuiiirtv Hea ' l wtiat Mrs sajs W'llddj, Estill Springs. Tenn., A leadlna nhJ.l 1 tln^ lly tlot helpless. 1 decided fl tn h *’ C T n knew of no cure, my Utter f., 0IV< ; Tetterinp a trial. To *°rke d a ,atl,,action “ Use Tetterine « |>il"’ ' Kroun<'l‘'if 1 oh tK,, a'' r 5 B ’ itch ' •lies ground Itch and all skin nmla- '-'HtRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. GA. (Advt.) 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. Continued In Next Issue. Prompt Relief for the palm which only women know - head-ache, •ide ache, b ark-ache, and utero-ovarlan pallia—ia found in ANTI-KAMNIA TABLETS Not a rtimulant, intoxicant or habit forrnar. Try them snd you will never be without them. All Druggist* Sell A Uta Voat-Poakot. 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 world nor half as many grouches if _ 'L-a • v ® JU I ' fflmPWßmßra ill Dr ’ ' IMWW •• A. M ' \ ' • > , z; . v. J /X / 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 jffl- - ffisOT? * 4 T **■ • if M . T At & k 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 cause they don’t feel the immediate re- a Just Say” HORLICK’S It Means Original and Genuine MALTED MILK The Food-drink for All Ages. More healthful than Tea or Coffee. Agrees with the weakest digestion. Delicious, invigorating and nutritious. Rich milk, malted grain, powder form. A quick lunch prepared in a minute. Fake no substitute. Ask for HORLICK’S. Others are imitations. 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.’ ” VERY CAUTIOUS. A clerk was sent to call on Mr. C . the meanest rich man in the town, to try and induce liim to purchase a burial plot in the new cemetery. In half an hour he was back again. get him?” asked the man ager. "No,” said the clerk. "He admitted that the plots were fine ones; but he said that if he bought one he might not get the value of his money in the end.” "Why." said the manager, “there’s no fear of that. The man‘will die some day, won’t he?” “Yes." said the clerk, "hut he says he might be lost at sea." £. Cottolene at Cake-Baking Time It is mighty hard to obtain uniform results in cake making if you »‘M'Ok: use b utter or lard—because both of these products vary so in quality. Cottolene is always uniform—always produces good results. 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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 an’s most fatal mistake. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Save F Delicious at any time. An ap- W I petizing touch to aoupa, graviea 1 and saucea. L CORNFILLE DAVID ft CO., S.I. Agni. 1 L Dnt. F 2 » N.rtk Hama St. N.r T«k A eSk In tin.— 4 cube. 10c A] —lO cube. 25c CUBE TO A CUFTUL ijtfrj A CUPFUL IN A MINUTE |