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gtel - , r ■ “ 11 hHE GEOiaOIAM’S MAGAZINE PAGE “The Case of Oscar Slater” By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes in Real Life I T(( n.\Y ’S INSTALLMENT. KI "HP really damaging alle- |i| „ damaging that had I myself the jury and believed It to ■H .. j aid have recorded my ver flL,.. 1 ag.di.st th- prisoner, and yet this , j had no substance at all in fl ■. >s incident alone, there seems fl ~ lie good ground for a revision Ha sentence, or a reference of the fl .. , , 5 ,,me court or committee of ap fl " . is die extract from the lord- fl , , speech to which 1 allude: damaging statement El ,• lids Ilme he had given his name f1.,, people in Glasgow as Oscar fl„ , rl . I)t | December 25th, the day he ■ I as ... gl , back to Cooke's office—his fl. a „. mid Ids description and all the flresr ■ : a appeared in the Glasgow papers flsees that the last thing m the fliwrl.l that he ought to do, if he studies H , ~wn safety, is to go back to Cook's E I .as 1 'scar Slater. He accordingly R I , r .„ w . : , pack up all his goods and B l •;> "11 the 25th. So far as we know, E.l never leaves the house from the time I f . s»es me paper, until a little after 6 || 5. when he goes down to the Ueta- ■B tral Suition." fcd 11,.. r e -lie allegation is clearly made and it B:l . opi ited later that Oscar Slater's H wnif was in the paper, and that, subse- U qnently t" that, be tied. Such a flight l.'l i till, I dearly lie an admission of guilt. E| Tnat point is of enormous, even vital importance. H m,.: yrt on examination of the dates, L I vid be found that there is absolutely I foundation for it. It was not until the evHriig 1 ' ,lle 25th that even the police K heard "f the existence of Slater, and it I wn.- nearly a week later that his name I appeared in the papers, he being already ■ "lit upon the Atlantic. E ..i,,; . ,:,i appear upon the 25th was the EM .s.Tiptioii of the murderer, already B "With his face shaved clean of H ij ; ;.ir. etc., Slater at that time having I ~ iiiarkei mustache. Why should lie take H sim a description of himself, or why ill Gniilil h" forbear to carry out a journey I I which be had already prepared for? The K ;.i.ihi goes for absolutely nothing when I examined, and yet if the minds of the jury were at all befogged as to the dates, B '.n (Infinite assertion of the lord advo :, I ran. twice repeated, that Slater’s name : I had been published before his flight, was I bound to have a most grave and prej- ■ udlcial effect. Some of the lord advocate's other state- I ments are certainly surprising. Thus he •fl says: "The prisoner is hopelessly unable fej to produce a single witness who says that LI he was anywhere else than at the scene I of the murder that night.” / K Let us test this assertion. Here is the ■ evidence of Schmalz, the servant, ver- E| batim. 1 may repeat that this woman El was under no known obligations to 81a- SI ter and had just received . notice from E him. The evidence of the mistress that si slater dined in the flat at seven on the Id night of the murder I pass.Ybut I do not I mderstand why Schmalz's positive cor £ luhoraiion should be treated by the lord fl advocate as non existent. I The prisoner might well be “hopeless” ; if his witnesses were to be treated so. Could anything be more positive than this? Q. “Did he usually come home to dinner?" A “Yes, always. Seven o'clock was the usual hour." "Was it sometimes nearly eight?” A "It was my fault. .Mr. Slater was in.” Q. "But owing to your fault was it about eight before it was served?” A "No. Mr. Slater was in after seven, and was waiting for dinner.” seems very definite. The murder was committed about seven. The mur i-rer may have regained the strßßt about ten minutes or quarter past seven. It nas some distance to Slater’s flat. If he ad done the murder he could hardly oave reached it before half-past seven the earliest. Yet Schmalz says he was in at seven, and so dees Antoine. I'he evidence of the woman may be good or bad, but it is difficult to under stand how any one could state that the prisoner was "hopelessly unable to pro- r~~ How To Be Beautiful (Ella Ellis in the Arch) —* l "“ much moisture causes hair roots '" lose vitality, so washing the head often and streaks the hair. Dry shani- |ps’ ''leans the scalp, vitalizes the hair '"ve- it wavy, fluffy and beautifully •i- reus. To make a six months’ supply ' ‘i’ l ' iliampoo powder, mix fours ounces "i i - root with a package of therox. Hany actresses noted tor their smooth -• .’m-llke complexions use daily a lo ma.io by dissolving a package of I a.-" one ui a half pint of witch hazel, sallowness and that ‘shiny’ . !H '”' ,V ” S . blemishes, prevents the ' hair and keeps the skin soft, uno youthful looking. 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No further reference appears to have been made to the matter, and his promise was there fore never fulfilled, though it is clearly of the utmost importance. iLater. he stated, that from the appear ance of the wounds, they must have been done by a small hammer. There is no “must” in the matter, for it is clear that many other weapons, a burglar’s jimmy, for example, would have produced the same effect. He then makes the good point that the prisoner dealt in precious stones, and could therefore dispose of the proceeds of such a robbery. The criminal, he added, was clearly some one who had no acquaintance with the inside of the house, and did not know where the jew els were kept. "That answers to the prisoner." It also, of course, answers to practically every man in Scotland. The lord -advocate then gave a summary of the evidence as to the man seen by va rious witnesses in the street. “Gentle men, if that was the prisoner, how do you account for his presence there?” Os course, the whole point lies in the above phrase. There was, it must be admitted, a con sensus of opinion among the witnesses that the prisoner was the man. But what was it compared to the consensus of opinion which wrongfully condemned Beck to penal servitude? The counsel laid considerable stress upon the fact that Mrs. Dindell (one of the Adams family) had seen a man a few minutes before the murder, loitering In the street, and identified him as Slater. The dress of the man seen in the street was very different from that given as the murderer’s. He had a heavy tweed mixture coat of a brownish hue, and a brown peaked cap. The original identification bj‘ Mrs. Lid dell was conveyed in the words, “One, slightly," when she w’as asked if any of a group at,the police station resembled the man she had seen. Afterward, like every other female witness, she became more positive. She declared that she had the clearest recollection of the man’s face, and yet refused to commit herself as to whether he was shaven or mus tached. AVe have then the recognitions of Lam bie, Adams and Barrowman, with their limitations and developments, which have been already discussed. Then comes the question of the so-called "flight” and the change of name upon the steamer. Had the prisoner been a man who had never before changed his name, this in cident would be more striking. But the short glimpse we obtain of his previous life shows several changes of name, and it has not been suggested that each of them was the consequence of a crime. He seems to have been in debt in Glas gow . and he also appears to have had reasons for getting away from the pur suit of an ill-used wife. The lord advo cate said that the change of name “could not be explained consistently with inno cence." That may be true enough, but the change can surely he explained on some cause less grave than murder. A GREAT LIAR. Finally, after showing very truly that Slater was a great liar, and that not a word he said need be believed unless there were corroboration, the lord advo cate wound up with the words: "My submission to you is that this guilt has been brought fairly home to him: that no shadow of doubt exists; that there is no reasonable doubt that he was the perpetrator of this foul murder.” The verdict showed that the jury, un der the spell of the lord advocate’s elo quence, shared this view, but, viewing it in colder blood, it is difficult to see upon what grounds he made so confident an assertion. Mr. McClure, who conducted the de fense. spoke truly when, in opening his speech, he declared that "he had to fight a most unfair fight against public preju dice, roused with a fury I do not remem ber to have seen in any other case." Still he fought this fight bravely and with scrupulous moderation. His appeals were all to reason and never to emotion. He showed how clearly the prisoner had expressed his intention of going to Amer ica weeks before the murder, and how every preparation had been made. On the day after the murder he had told witnesses that he was going to America, and had discussed the advantages of various lines, finally telling one of them the particular boat in which lie did even tually travel, curious proceedings for a fugitive, from justice. Mr. McClure described the movements of the prisoner on the night of the mur der. after the crime had been committed, showing that he was wearing the very clothes in which the theory of the pros ecution made him do the dped, as if such a deed could be done without leav ing its traces. He showed incidentally (it is a small point, but a human one) that one of the last actions of Slater in Glas gow was to take great trouble to get an English £5 note in order to send it as a Christmas gift to his parents in Ger many. A man who could do this was not all bad Continued in Next Issue. Health and Beauty the Expression of Thought, Says Bessie Wynn M. 'tw'..'- «7/' lafawEiß /Si] // \u (■ .’0 ipY*) JwW 1 1 \\ kKI wmv O. X a aaggpy A i k\ ' OW7/ . By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. TIME was when the beauteous ac tress giving an interview to the faithful scribbler assumed one of her most photographed attitudes and then announced languidly that she al ways had her teeth filled with dia monds, washed her hair in champagne and her face in rich cream; took sand and milk baths, etc., and continued as long as the imagination of her press agents and her own memory served her. Fortunately these times have chang ed, and when I called on Miss Bessie Wynn at the Broadway theater I was thankful that only vague memories of former interviews haunted the dressing room, and that I was face to face with a charming example of the new kind of stage beauty, who is as sensible and practical in her methods of preserving her health and good looks as the old time beauty was absurd In her way, at least in such methods as she deigned to make public. Surrounded by all the pretty frocks she wears in “The Sun Dodgers,” with the glittering head-dresses and hats on her dressing table, and the yards of dia monds that make up the train of that beautiful black-and-white frock, form ing a background to her dark and win some beauty, sensible Miss Wynn went back to the first principle of health, the power of mind over matter. “I think everybodj- accepts the fact that our lives are largely the result of our thought, and that health and beau ty are the expression of healthful and beautiful thought, but the great Double is that few persons are willing to take the trouble to control and direct heir minds in a consructive and helpful way,” announced Miss Wynn, thought fully. “Thinking Beauty.’’ “We have heard a great deal about ‘thinking beauty,’ or putting one’s thoughts on any definite subject: but how manj- people can do it? Every body realizes the power of thought, and Up-to-Date Jokes Barber —Try a bottle of this prepara tion, sir. 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I r II 1 : iHt tl I i’Sflh ' g I(W \ ■>< Whll w iflV ' \ WWSwjRi • \\ iwAtEfl, j I v ft i r * i Miss Bessie Wynn, with “The Sun Dodgers,” at the Broadway theater, New York. probably each persons has had some experience in a small way of the power of the mind when It is directed and concentrated on one subject by the force of the will. “But how many people can focus their minds on any subject for even a minute at a time? “Now, if one really wants to make any radical changes in one’s way of thinking, this concentration is abso lutely necessary, and it can only be ac complished by a regular mental drill, by taking hold of the thoughts which you want to •express and dwelling on them systematically and regularly, just as you would exercise your body if you were taking a. course of physical cul ture. "There are two things which are ab ; solutely destructive both to health and to beauty, and which, to my mind, are the cause of people’s growing old and ugly. These two things are worry and fear. “Women grow old from worry and from constant anxie*" and fear. Two thirds of the time they worry about things that don’t happen and are afraid i of accidents or misfortunes which nev er materialize. But while they are worrying and Daring these things, they are using up thought, en ergy and health. They an creating for themselves faces and bodies which re flect the state of worry and fear. “Women particularly get into the habit of worrying. It is a thought habit which makes one grow old and ugly, and it is a habit which is not nec essary. Worry and fear lune never done the slightest bit of good, on the contrary, they decrease the mental and physical capacity which one needs tor dealing w ith trials when they do come. "Women get into the habit of wor rying about every little thing, and they wonder why they grow old, why their faces are lined and seamed with the cares which they have anticipated long 11 . 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"The woman who is worrying over :,L endless succession of small Irrita ti-ns. which is what most women's worrying consists of. is simply scatter ing all her force and she is creating for herself the thought habits which are destructive to youth and happiness. An Attitude of Mind. “Happiness is the greatest factor in retaining youth and beauty. And hap piness is an attitude of mind, for we find it among the. poor as much as among the rich, showing that it is not a question of mattrial wealth or ma terial power. "Many women are so occupied with worries, so fearful what the morrow will bring forth, that they haven’t time to be happy. You see such unfortunate people everywhere about you. and orc wonders w hy such people can not get in tune with themselves, and create the beautiful spiritual harmony which they were intended to give out. “Please don't set me down as say ing that it is an easy thing to demonstrate the power of mind over matter. It hasn’t been easy for me. and 1 still have to drill myself daily in overcom ing destructive and harmful thoughts and substituting constructive, helpful and happy ones. I have been aided by different teachers of mental science and by' the Circle of Unity, but I know 1 am on the right path.” concluded Miss Wynn, and her happy smile, her quiet, reposeful manner, would have assured one of that even if she were not a bright and successful light on the the atrical firmament. The Quickest, Simplest Cough Cure Easily and Cheaply Made at Hume. Saves You (2. This recipe makes a pint of cough syrup —enough to last a family a long time. You couldn’t bur as much or as good cough syrup for $2.50. Simple as it is, it gives almost instant relief and usually stops the most obsti nate cough in 24 hours. This is partly due to the fact that it is slightly laxa tive, stimulates the appetite and has an excellent tonic effect. It is pleasant to take- —children like it. 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Now. what are you grinning about? Oh, I see. Mister Wisefish, you was taking a sly slam at my age and appearance. WeH, maybe I was never no Venice or Orleans or Joan of Milo, hut I think that I am at least young and girlish and graceful to bring a lot of trade Into this barber shop—fellows that would go where they could get a good shave if it wasn’t for me. "Anyhow, this club woman I was speaking about when you horned in with your mean remark was quoted as saying that most of the young girls nowadays that thought themselves well dressed was really uglier sights on the streets than a. lot of gaudy posters. She said that there was nothing more lovely than a lovely girl, and that it was too bad most of them had to go and get themselves up like frights.” “Most of the chickens that goes bj here looks kind of neat and nifty," said the Head Barber. “Maybe the old club girl isn’t hitting no .300 in the Lovely League herself. I’ve seen ’em that way. 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