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“The Case of Oscar Slater”
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
herlock Holmes in Real Life
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
■ atkable that both these fe-
, hie and Barrowman. swore
i they were thrown together
rney out to New York, and
ared the same cabin, they
talked of the object of their
. .itnpared notes as to the man
about to identify. For girls
, ive ages of 15 and 21 this
.rnishes a unique example of
elf-rest mint.
then are the three identlfiea
i,, the only people who saw the
Had the diamond brooch clew!
. .-hentic and these identifications
X'e upon the top of it, they would un
ited?. have been strongly corrobora
l-p But when the brooch has been
. wn t b? a complete mistake. I really
n ,.- n,let-stand how any one could
, 1 half-hearted recognitions as
g er igh to establish the identity and
uilt of the prisoner.
There remains the so-called identifica
jor bv twelve witneses who had seen a
n an loitering in the street during the
reeks before the crime had ben com
eit'ted 1 have said a ‘so-called identifi
ation. for the proceedings wer farcical as
i real test of recognition.
The witneses had seen portraits of the
ccused They were all aware that he
ras a foreigner, and then they were
?kf , d to pick out his swarthy Jewish
.brsiognomy from among nine Glasgow'
.olicemen and two railway officials. Nat
irallv they did It without hesitation, since
his man was more like the dark indi-
Idual whom they had seen and described
han the others could be.
Read their own descriptions, however,
if the man they had seen, with the details
if his clothing, and they will be found in
nany respects to differ from each other
)n one hand, and in many from Slater
in the other Here is a synopsis of
heir Impressions:
their impresssions.
Mrs McHaffie: T’ark mustached, light
jvercoat. not waterproof; check trousers,
spats, black bowler hat; nose normal.”
Miss M. McHaffie: "Seen at same time
tnd same description. Was only pre
pared at first to say there was some re
semblance, but ‘had been thinking It
over, and concluded that he was the
Miss A M McHaffie: “Same as before.
Had heard the man speak and noticed
nothing In his accent." (Prisoner has
a strong German accent.)
Madge McHaffie (belongs to the same
family) "Dark, mustached, nose nor
mal Check trousers, fawn overcoat and
spate Black bowler hat. ‘The prisoner
vn fairly like the man.’ ”
In connection with the identification
ct these four witnesses it is to be ob
served that neither check trousers nor
spats were found In the prisoner's lug
gage As the murderer was described as
being dressed in dark trousers, there was
no possible reason why these clothes, if
Stater owned them, should have been de
stroyed. •
Constable Brien: "Claimed to know the
prisoner by sight. Says he was the man
be saw loitering. Bight coat and a hat.
It was a week before the crime, and he
was loitering I' vards from the scene of
it He picket ‘ among five con
stables as the no. 1 seen.”
Constable Walker: n n the loi-
terer across the street. i.<.. nearer,
ana after dark In December. Thought at
first he was some one else whom he
knew. Had heard that the man he had
to Identify was of foreign appearance.
Picked him out from a number of de
tectives The man seen had a mustache.”
Euphemla Cunningham: “Very dark,
sallow, heavy featured. Clean shaven.
Nose normal. Dark tweed coat. Green
cap with peak.”
M■ Campbell: "Had been with the pre
vious witness. Corroborated. ‘There was
a general resemblance between the pris
oner and the man, but he could not posi
tively Identify him.’ ”
Alex Gillies.; "Sallow, dark haired and
dean shaven. Fawn coat. Cap. 'The
Prisoner resembled him, but witness could
not say he was the same man.' ”
R B Bryson: “Black coat and vest.
Black bowler hat. No overcoat. Black
mustache, with droop. Sallow; foreign.”
. nls witness had seen the man the night
t ore the murder. He appeared to be
ooklng up a t Miss Gilchrist’s windows.)
r,’, Nairr ‘ : Broad shoulders, long neck.
.' ari< hair. Motor cap. Light overcoat
k ” ecs Never saw the man’s face.
mm • Wl " not swear in fact, but I am
~ n is the man I saw—but I will
not swear' "
Liddell: "Peculiar nose. Clear
shw eX ° n ' not sallow - Dark - clean
cna'' 1 ".-, Brown tweed cap. -Brown tweed
‘’an- edge. Delicate man,
" ra 'vn together.’ She believed
th.' J! r snr ' , ‘ r was the man. Saw him in
,j fr . immediately before the niur-
Thew a : . ( . ~ .
tijf. , p 1 twelve witnesses as to
I n Hie mysterious stranger,
whatave-'.' l> ' ai ' e ‘ there is no evidence
ba,j '' I,lis lounger in the street
der ;• '"'tiling to do with the mur
. . 1 a s probable that he had
for |, jR u a '"' amour, and was waiting
' v Ut , / r '"’ out to hi "’-
•ii -jr.i.. "' ' a 013,1 "' ln was planning
Merer-,. I ” a * n t>y standing nights
th. . ' an<l 100 yards away from
Butt'.' 1 . ”' e risrkness?
an., .v,. '■ '" K i|,al "e waive this point
( ~ ’he plain question as to
loiterer ' " as sa,ne man as the
bias, ,illd ourselves faced by a
Dr., 0 . t ' 1 ’lies ami contradictions.
Njlm nn<'j''u ni " sl P reels C witnesses were
Upor. who saw the stranger
murder ' ' r ' iay night preceding the
**lt«r. !: 'Kht Slater had an un
fit! \p, , ' '“ bed, for not only by the
Ritir s.-rv'* " i,fl whom he lived, and
* # intanr P a!1 l s chmal«, hut by an ac
fitli h...’ •' ’”"•’*1 Reid, who had been
This ’ 6 ‘0 10:30.
- evidence, which was quite
r’b'pleteiv P ( ' roHß "Pxamlnation, must
-*•• witi„, s r,,y tlie Hur, nises of the
atr ’ l ’s-r utj' ! tS to ,h ® identity of the
'vitni-s. . ' , ’' l Then come iht four
McHaffie family, who
' ’ - check trouser* and
•ireaa which were never
Finan. ' lu’isoher
. 1 rom the discrepancies
'' .vie, • '•‘ he, there Is a mixture
" ! green cape, brown cups
Aliich leave u most con
bite impression In the
this kind might be of
1 olenientiirv to some
fact, hut to attempt
1,1 itlentllii al ioti alone
is to construct the whole case upon
shifting sand.
The reader has already a grasp of the
facts, hut some fresh details came out at
the trial which may be enumerated here.
1 hey have to be lightly touched upon
within the limits of such an argument as
this, but those who desire a fuller sum
mary will find It in an account of the
trial published by Hodge, of Edinburgh,
and ably edited by William Roughead,
W. S.
HIS ACTIONS.
Dn this book and on the verbatim pre
cognitions and shorthand account of the
American proceedings, I base my own ex
amination of the case. First, as to Sla
ter's movements upon the day of the
crime. He began the day, according to
the account of himself and the women, by
the receipt of the two letters already re
ferred to. which caused him to hasten
his journey to America. The whole day
seems to nave been occupied by prepara
tions for his impending departure. He
gave his servant Schmalz notice as from
next Saturday. Before live <as was
shown by the postmark upon the en
velope), he wrote to a postoffice in Lon
don. where he had some money on de
posit. At 6:12 a telegram was sent in his
name and presumably by him from the
Central station to Dent. London, for his
watch, which was being repaired. Ac
cording to the evidence of two witnesses
he was seen in a billiard room at 6:20.
The murder, it will be remembered, was
done at seven. He remained about ten
minutes in the. billiard room, and left
some time between 6:30 and 6:40.
Rathman, one of these witnesses, de
posed that he had at the time a mus
tache about a quarter of an inch long,
which was so noticeable that no one
could take him for a clean-shaven man.
Antoine, his mistress, and Schmalz, the
servant, both deposed that Slater dined
at home at 7 o'clock. The evidence of the
girl is no doubt questionable, but there
was no possible reason why the dismissed
servant Schmalz should perjure herself
for the sake of her ex-employer.
The distance between Slater’s flat and
that of Miss Gilchrist is about a quarter
of a mile. From the billiard room to
Slater's flat is about a mile. He had to
go for the hammer and bring it back,
unless he had it jutting out of his pocket
all day But unless the evidence of the
two women Is entirely set aside, enough
has been said to show that there was no
time for the commission by him of such
a crime and the hiding of the traces
which it would leave behind it.
At 3:45 that night, Slater was engaged
in his usual occupation of trying to raise
the wind at some small gambling club.
The club master saw no discomposure
about his dress < which was the same as,
according to the crown, he had done this
bloody crime in), and swore that he was
then wearing a short mustache, "like
stubble,’’ thus corroborating Rathman. It
W’lll be remembered that Lamble and Bar
rowman both sw'ore that the murderer
was clean shaven.
On December 24, three days after the
murder, Slater was down at Cook’s office,
bargaining tor a berth in the Lusitania
for his so-called wife and himself. He
made no secret that he was going by
that ship, but gave his real name and
address and declared finally that he would
take his berth in Liverpool, which he did.
Among other confidants as to the ship
was a barber, the last person one would
think to whom secrets would be con
fided. Certainly, if this were a flight, it
is hard to say what an open departure
would be.
In Liverpool he took his passage un
der the assumed name of Otto Sando.
This he did. according to his own ac
count. because he had reason to fear pur
suit from his real wife, and wished to
cover his traces This may or may not
be the truth, but it is undoubtedly the
fact that Slater, who was a disreputa
ble rolling stone of a man, had already
assumed several aliases in the course of
his career. It is to be noted that there
was nothing at all secret about hfs de
parture from Glasgow, and that he car
ried off all his luggage with him in x
perfectly open manner.
The reader is now in possession of the
main facts, save those which are either
unessential of redundant. It will be ob
served that save for the identifications,
the value of which can be estimated, there
is really no single point of connection be
tween the crime and the alleged criminal.
It may be argued that the existence
of the hammer is such a point; but
what household in the land is devoid of
a hammer? It is to be remembered that
if Slater committed the murder with this
hammer, he must have taken it with
him in order to commit the crime, since
it could be of no use to him in forcing
an entrance. But what man in his senses,
planning a deliberate murder, would take
with him a weapon which was light, frail
and so long that it must project from
any pocket? The nearest lump of stone
upon the road would serve his purpose
better than that.
Again, it must in its blood-soaked con
dition, have been in his pocket when he
came away from the crime. The crown
never attempted to prove either blood
stains in a pocket or the fact that any
clothes had been burned. If Slater de
stroyed the clothes, he would naturally
have destroyed the hammer, too. Even
one of the two medical witnesses of the
prosecution was driven to say that he
should not have expected such a weapon
to cause such wounds.
FACTS ON ONE SIDE.
It may well be remembered in this
summary of the evidence I may seem to
have stated the case entirely from the
point of view of the defense. In reply, 1
would only ask the reader to take the
trouble to read the extended evidence if
he will do so, he will realize that without
a conscious mental effort toward special
pleading, there is no other way In which
the story can be told. The facts arc on
one side. The conjectures, the unsatis
factory identifications, the damaging flaws
and the very strong prejudices upon the
other.
Now' for the trial itself. The ease was
opened for the crown by the lord advo
cate. In a speech which faithfully repre
sented the excited feeling of the time.
It was vigorous to the point of being pas
sionate, and Its effect upon the jury was
reflected In their ultimate verdict.
The lord-advocate spoke, as I under
stand. without notes, a procedure which
may well add to eloquence while sub
tracting from aecurac'
H Is to this fact that one must atti ibuti
a most futal misstatement which could :
not fall, coming under such circumstances
from so high an authority, to make aj
deep impression upon the heart rs lot
some rea-on. this misstatement 0... n.-t i
appear to have beet at Hie ]
moment by elthei Hie Judge or Hie tie. i
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Personal Charm Born of Imagination, Says Irene
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By Margaret Hubbard Ayer.
A TODERN life is doing every-
[VI thing possible to crush ro
mance out of things, but for
tunately, so long as people have imag
ination, they will be able to invest the
every-day events of life with colorful
possibilities and interest, and can live
in a world of their own making."
Thus spoke Her Royal Highness
Princess Irene Fenwick, stealing a few
minutes from “Hawthorne of the U. S.
A.” to tell why it is easy to be a really
Zendaesque princess, holding an Imag
inary court at the old sundial every
night, and a perfectly up-to-date and
equally pretty young girl living in New
York by daytime.
It is just a question of Imagination,
and Princess Irerfo has quantities t>f it.
When I saw her she was trying to close
her practical outer ears to the steady
sound of steel riveting, which came
from a nearby building, and she ex
plained that she could hear anything
she wanted to, with the fine inner ears
of the imagination.
Miss Fenwick is quite as charming as
herself as she is in the part of the ro
mantic princess, and she is equally ro
mantic. i
Behind her luminous blue eyes lies a
world of vivid imagination, and she
Advice to the
Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax.
YES, YOU CAN.
Dear M|ss Fairfax:
I am seventeen years old, and
dearly in love with a young man of
tAenty-one. I have known him one
year, and we kept company eight
months. I had a quarrel with him
and we parted four months ago. I
told a friend to ask him if he wish
ed my company, but have had no
answer. I can not live without
him L. B.
You can live without him. In a very
short time that heartache will cease
an I you will be happy again. In the
meantime, while going through this pe
riod of depression, so frequent in youth
and love, carry yourself with dignity
and don’t exaggerate either the value
of his love or the loss you sustain
in losing it. Please don't send any
more messages to him. You have made
advances enough.
THAT DEPENDS ON THE GIRL.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am working In the same office :
with a girl with whom I have been
very friendly. She pays me mucn
attention, but I am three years
younger than she. If 1 asked her to
keep company with me. would it
be right to ask her to wait three
tears be foie I married her?
ANXIOUS.
It is not wrong to ask a girl to wait ,
three years while her lover saves for a .
home for her.
Why not let her decide? If there is ,
any selfishness in su*h a plan, a wom
an's love is usually such that she over
looks it.
PUT YOUR MIND ON YOUR WORK.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am deeply in love with a young
man. All day at work 1 do nothing
but think of him, I send him pos
tals (|iiite often, and he asks me if-
I send them and I say no. Do you
think 1 ought to tell him? I never
sluiwed hint that I eared anything
for him. I ait) seventeen ami he is
twenty-twfc J love him verv much.
LOVESICK
\ii you n«l risking the substance In
pursuit of the shadow'.’
Try to keep your mind on your work,
dear, ami don’t -end another eird.
Yuli .tic celling, too COUUK Io make the
inning of a man who doesti t <ai< lot I
con \ oin lift '<■ uuibl< ion.
frankly admits that it is peopled with
non-existent shadows that to her are
as real as you and I.
“Having an imagination," said Miss
Fenwick, "seems to me one of the
greatest gifts in life. I think possibly
an imagination could be cultivated,
though of course there are certain peo
ple who disapprove of imagination ut
terly, and who only see life as a series
of hard, cold facts. They are the Grad
grinds of life, and. oh, how much they
miss!
"Fortunately, no matter how prosaic
our modern life may become, there is
always a beautiful realm of dreams and
romance where each one of us has a
kingdom all her own.
"Do I think the modern young girl
romantic? Indeed I do, and fortunately
for her, too. In ‘Hawthorne,’ when Mr.
Fairbanks and I come to the charming
love passages of the play, we often
hear the gurgling little ‘ohs’ and ‘ahs’
and the gasps of the girls in the audi
ence, and it's sweet and encouraging to
realize that all those young people are
living the story through while we are
acting it/'’Every girl is a princess with
a Hawthorne for a lover, just as every
girl imagines herself in the role of the
heroine of each book that she reads,
providing, of course; the heroine is to
her taste.
"The romantic Imagination is a great
deal more than being able to see your
self playing a particularly attractive
role in life. The person with real im
agination can invest every incident of
life, no matter how trivial or how hum
drum, with the glamour of their own
fanciful thoughts. And probably the
women who go through the dally rou
tine of prosaic, uninteresting work
cheerfully and with a gallant spirit,
have really the great romantic imagina
tions.
“These are the women who preserve
their charm despite misfortune and
drudgery, whose minds have a wonder
ful flavor and fascination no matter
how ordinary their lives may seem to
the outward eye. These women have
real charms. Everything they do is
colored with their personality, and your
personality is the sum total of your
thoughts and actions, isn’t it? And, of
course, there are more thoughts than
actions."
"The woman with imagination is sel
dom If ev<*r very lonesome. Generally
she finds some outlet for her mental
activity, or if not she retires Into that
dream world of her own creation.”
“How much power does a romantic
imagination possess in counteracting
the jarring effects of everyday life?” I
inquired of the fanciful Princess.
" X good deal more than people would
suppose," she returned quickly. "Most
of the people who have succeeded after
a life of hard and bitter struggle have
had imagination. They may have only
been able to imagine along one line, but
they have built up an ideal, often a|
purely visionary one, and then they’ve
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"The romantic imagination helps tide
over the hard places of life by showing
the infinite possibility which the future
holds in store for one, and in ordinary,
everyday’ life, imagination covers up a
multitude of those daily disagreeable
happenings upon which the matter of
fact person dwells with apparent relish,
while the imaginative person escapes
from them, to hide in her fanciful ro
mantic world of dreams.
"I am always sorry’ for the girl whose
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Imagination has been stunted or whose
romantic fancies have been so laughed
to scorn by’ older people that the door of
that fanciful world is closed to her for
ever. She has lost a refuge from lone
liness. a home of inspiration, and some
of that intangible thing called personal
charm, which is born of imagination.”
Household Sug
gestions
Bamboo furniture should be scrubbed
with water and salt. Don’t make wet
ter than is absolutely necessary, and
dry in the open air as soon as possible.
Before you use a new gas mantel,
soak it in vinegar and hang it up to
dry. In this way a brilliant light is
obtained, and the burners wil last twice
as long as usual, even in a drafty room.
When tired of sweet jellies and jams,
try’ lemon honey for sandwiches and
tarts. Beat well together one cupful of
sugar, one egg, and butter size of a
walnut. Add juice and grated rind of
one lemon. Stir well, put into a double
boiler, cook slowly till thick, avoid stir
ring after it begins to cook. Add tiny
pinch of salt.
Often when children suffer from
headache it is an indication that their
sight is weak. If they are constantly
frowning, you may be fairly sure that
such is the case. In such cases an
oculist should be at once consulted. If
defective sight is attended to In time,
It can often be cured In a few’ years,
while if it is neglected it may mean
that glasses have to be worn for a life
time.
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Playing With Love
By Beatrice Fairfax
p OVE," said Napoleon, “is the
| occupation of the idle man, the
amusement of a busy fltie, and
the shipw’reck of a sovereign.” And he
might have added that it was the play
thing of the thoughtless,
A young man, who was thoughtless
so long that he has had to begin to
think most seriously, writes me that
last January he became much interest
ed in a young lady, and secured her
acquaintance.
As time progressed they became very
intimate, and she became much at
tached to him. He says he has no se
rious intentions, as he is barely able to
support his widowed mother, but en
tertained such a strong friendly feel
ing for the girl that he couldn’t keep
away.
His visits became so frequent that
other young men, thinking he had a
prior right, stopped going to see her,
and it became understood among their
friends that they were engagred.
He had playbd w ith love all this time,
and when the girl’s affections became
seriously involved, he decided that he
must make his visits less frequent. He
told her why; that he didn't love her.
and couldn't marry her. To this rather
cold-blooded decision after so many
months of pleasant intercourse, she re
plied that it would break her heart If,
he ceased coming, and he continued his
calls "four nights a week out of sym
pathy and duty."
After calling four times a week, “out
of sympathy and duty." for several
months, he decided to end it. and didn’t
go again.
Then she wrote to him ‘ that if he
didn't come back, she would do herself
bodily harm.
Because of this foolish declaration on
her part he has resumed his visits.
“What." he asks, “ is to be the end?”
No one asks himself that question in
the beginning. Those who have had
the years that should stand for wisdom
are just as foolish as this young man.
They deliberately play with matches,
and when a blaze results, turn to their
friends and ask. “What is to be the
end?"
There are many endings to an affair
of this kind, and the right end depends
on the rationality of those concerned.
If this girl is foolish and hysterical, as
her declaration to him implies, his pun
ishment is all the greater.
He will merit all he receives. It is
with the girl I am most concerned. It
is to her that I make the plea to be
sensible and act like a rational being.
He doesn’t love her. Can she prove
that she has lost much? By forcing
his attentions she lowers herself in her
own estimation, and feeds the flame of
his vanity.
She can’t live without him. He may
be frightened by such a statement, but
he is of the nature that is also flat
tered.
She can live without him! She must!
She will! If instead of looking at the
long evenings without him (an appall-
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she will find such profit and pleasure in
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will be that it was such a deplorable
waste of time.
She must forget him. She must not
feed his vanity by picturing a desola
tion of her life without him. She must
learn for her own good that there are
better men in the world; men more
worthy of such outpouring of affection.
She must learn that if she spends the
time In waiting for such a man in im
proving her head, instead of a hysteri
cal waste of emotion, it will mean her
greater happiness.
As for him: One of the great mys
teries of life is that a man so little
worth love as he should awaken so
much of it.
Up-to-Date Jokes
Employer—So you want ma to mIM
your salary? Can you gtwe tna bat two
good reasons, even, why I should do aoT
Meek Employee (sadly)—Tas. etr
Twins.
"Pa, wtiat. does it mean wban H aay«
a man has arrived at years of dlaara
tfon ?’*
“It means, sonny, that he*a too roang
to die and too old to have any fun."
He—They say that tha fhoa <a an In
dex of the mind.
doubt that. It doe«n*t follow
because a woman 1 * face fa made up that
her mind is.
Mother (whose daughter to enpaged
to a young farmer) —Don't you find
Bob rather rough?
Daughter (blushingly)— Tea, ma. And
yet he says he shaves every day!
At a very convivial dinner a man
with a preternaturally solemn face
arose, wineglass in hand, to propose a
toast.
"May we never,” he said, in deep,
measured tones, "drink any more of
this stuff" He paused, and there
w;ts a horrified silence for several sec
onds. “Than is good for us!"
Old Gent —Well, Tommy, did you take
your dog to the “vet." next door to your
house, as I suggested?
Boy—Yes. str.
Old Gent—And what did he say?
Boy—He said Towser was sufferin’
from nerves, so Sis had better give up
playin' the planner.
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