The 1 YEAR 75--NO. 69. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1908. BAFFLES THE POLICE Victim Believed to Have Been Slain by Secret Society. § Detective Gets Instructions Over Telephone and "is Never Permitted to See i Fir of ie Paris, Mareh 21--What appeared at first to bo merely g erime of a pa ture. not infrequent in Paris has de- weloped into a mystery which is tax- fing the powers of thé most able détee- tives in the country. An aged dealer in vanilla, naméd Hanni, was, yesterday, found dead in a Barrow passage leading to bis rooms in the Boulevard Voltaire. Unwoven hemp was bound tightly round his chin and twisted strongly round his neck, I any doubt that foul - play had tak- on ce existed it was removed hy the discovery that two of the dead man's ribs had been broken as the murderer knelt upon his body and dre the Hemp taut round his vietim's throat. The case was put down as a murder for the sake of money." But nothing had apparently heen touched in Han: ni's rooms. Further, the police discov. ered that 'Pere Vauille," as Hanni was enlled, was in the habit of re- ceiving visits from a large number of people of the most suspect type. Next it wax found that Hanni had travelled widely, in India, Madagascar, South Amepica, the Cape and elsewhere, and had kept in touch 'with many of his foreign acquaintances. He was, it seems, a member of secret societies, and, the police allege, addicted to the worst vices, d pense was mysterious enough when it was rendered, vot more bafll ing by the statement of a private de DAILY MEMORANDA, The 3 Popular place For Men's Hals, Campbell Dros'. Booial Five Dance, Monday evening. Exhibition of Paintdogs by Mr. Wilkin- pon, at Kirkpatrick's Art Gallery, «Princess St. Methodist Church Choir Comet, Tuesday ovening, March 4th, tiovdl programme, +Food k Ho toni 1 Ad buy a new 1 k i From George Mills & Co." Princess "Thirt tthe Table *The Great Nandow "Foard Buys, Noted Outlaws,' Mad £ A Dog, CErench Minors, : Song, 'Waning Honey- Waonderlatd Thea ous Drunkenness," Hoes Shrimping." : "Mouse To Let." Song "Dreaming Love Of You," by Geo. B, Touhey. Theatre: A Uplgue Picture, "A ee) in Fay 3,000 Years Ago,' and Ar's Comic Boqui in the Lomdon of ? Tesbay."" J tobert Davis. sings, *When Arrah anna Married Darney Carney." WE Eo will go derby $n rott's Jeals Shortsighted "The , Deceiver," tre' Pier "Mr, Championship Game. Hockey match for junior champion- khip, covered rink Monday night, St. James ve. Midgets, Admission, 15c. BAA | WHIG TELEPHONES, oval ie 2 torial " pan Formas, wil Kinds, Tat Wai. The Dally Whi n_ sale at v oO | Gibson's Drug Square Open Lill late each evening. | Marmalade! uw are doing up Mar. ma don't forget we have all kinds of ~ Tumblers and Jars 'Suitable for that purpose i at the right price. Employer. ------------ : hing tective named Gerson. He says that on February 10th he received a let ter, signed Hanni, asking him to make inkuiries concerning a well-known and much-respected family, Gersdh agreed to do so, but was never allowed to see his client. But every day Manni telephoned, always from a diferent place, and took down the detective's pews over the wire. The detective was forbidden absolutely to give any in- formation to any one but Hanni him- self. Three days before the murder the de- tective received a telephone call from a man who said he wished to see him on behall of Hanni. A young Jew called, tried to learn what information the detective had obtaived, offered a bribe, which Was rejected, and then, losing his temper, swhre to "stop Han- ni's mouth." The detective reported the incident over the telephone to Hanai, who seemed greatly alarmed On Thursday evening Hanni tele phoned to the detective that certain information must be obtained by Sat- urday morning, 'because the steamer leaves that day." But on his way to Hanni's house, yesterday, the detec- tive read in the newspapers of the murder of his invisible client. To-day inquiries show that coftain pagers, including a diary, have van- ished from Hanni's rooms, The mys- tery, however, is unsolved, The police have onggelue in finger marks--not the dead man's--on a mirror in Henni's rooms. THEY PREFER CIGARETTES. United Kingdom Spends 75 Mill. ion Dollars a Year on Cigar- ettes, London, March 19.-- According to a regent estimate $75,000,000 are spent annually for cigarettes in the United Kingdom, L000, for pipe to- bacco, . amd 35,000,000 for cigars, It is calculated that eighty per cent. of the men use tobaevo in some form. The average consumption of cigarettes daily is eight per man. Pipe smokers consume at least six pipefuls a day. Assuming that a cigarette lasts ten minutes, and a pipe twenty, it is es. timated that cigarette smokers spend on an average twenty minutes a dav, and those smoking pipes two hours. A prominent London tobacconist, on seeing the figures said: "The cigarette has gripped Britons as it has gripped the rest of the world." The clay pipe is practically dead; other kinds of pipes are being relin- guished, for cigarettes. Even hardened pipe smokers are giving way, Cigar smokers sre coming into line. too The chief reason is the convenience of the cigarette. This hustling age does not alow the leisurely pipe in busi ness hours, In walking from one of- fice to another or in returnin~ from lincheon, there is just time for a cigarette. So the pipe ix reserved til] wight. They appeal to all classes. ---------------- Wedding Party's Adventure. London, March 21.-The carfiage in which a wedding party was returning from church yesterday, at Hording, near Yarmouth, overturned. Matthew Chapman, the bridegroom, received a bad injury to his ankle, and was tak- an to the hospital, but the bride, es- capadd with a serutched face, Mrs. Slaughter, who was also in the car riage, had her leg broken. Female Slayer Escapes. St. Petersburg, Marth 21.It is re. ported here that Mlle. Maria Spiridon- ovo, who was exiled to Siberia, two years ago, for the murder of the chief of police of Tamboy, has esc aad is now in either Australia or New Zea. land, Y Mitan, March 21.--A sensational tras Jian bour when thar popular resort] (Cl SH DESTINED FOR MUSEUM. Scientists Eat Meat 100,000 Years Old. St. Petersburg, March 21, ~The Aca- demy of Science has jst dispatched a well-equipped expedition 10 the valley ofl Santauriakh, in Northern ie. in order to excavate the rma of the mammoth which has been discov- ered about 200 miles from the village of Kasachia, The cranium and part of the right forelegs were exposed through the ac tion of water, and hair-covered flesh was found adhering to the bones. The Arctic foxes had actually begun to eat it, and water has now been poured over the exposed remains as form a protective coating of ice. The scene of the discovery is so re- mote that the journey there will oc- cupy two. months. The remains will be transported by some [Ofty sleighs drawn by reindeer, to the River Lena, and the final stages the journey, from Irkutsk to St. Petersburg, will be completed by train. Russian scientists attach the greater value to the discovery, inasmuch as the mammoth now exhibited in the Zoological Museum at St. Petersburg is known not to have reached full de- velopment: It is estimated to have attained only twenty-five years. These mammoths are believed to have lived about 10,000 years ago. The remains of the fired one discovered were in such an excellent state of pre- servation that some of the remnants of flesh, after being thawed, salted and cooked, were actually eaten out of curiosity by some Russian scientists. 80 to of A Stag Impaled. Fondon, March 21.--Lord child's staghounds met yesterday in the vicinity of Aylesbury, and at Bierton, a village two miles distant, the stag was impaled while trying to jump some iron railings, It was badly injured that it had to be kill- ed. Roths- sO Child Carried Through A Culvert, London, March 21,--Florrie Riddle, five years old; was playing, yesterday by the side of rain-swollen stream at Edmonton, and fell almost at the mouth of a culvert. She was carried under two roads for 200 or 300 yards beforé she was rescued. SPEAKS MANY TONGUES, Mysterious Burglar Leads Gems in Cave. Paris, March 21.--The police of Pon- toise have had under lock and key for the last six months & mysterious prisoner, whose identity they cannot discover, He was caught red-handed in a burg- lary, and on being examined declared that he is a manof good family, for | the sake of whidh he will Bot allow his name to be divulged. The police call him Marius Durand for want of a bet ter name, Durand told his jailers that he could show them a grotto in which treasure was hidden which had been taken from a house in Maisons Lafitte, near Paris. He led the poliee to a eave near the village of Sartrouville, and there they found a quantity of jewel- ty. He confessed that he had hidden the proceeds of twenty-seven robberies in half a dozen hidi laces which the police could never ed, Durand = soeaks ~ Fremgh, German, English, Italian, the Alsatian patois and other languages. He days that he has worked on traneatiamtic steamers and has lived in Marselll:s, Naples, Algiers and New York, He has been in prison in Strasburg; in Colmar, and several other places, but his name is still a mystery, to ---- --. Irish Surgeon's Feat. Belfast, March 21.-- While working in a laundry at Ballymena, county An- trim, a girl named Gordo was caught by the hair in a maching and com- pletely scalped. She was taken to the local hospital, where the scalp was sewn on, and she is makitlg good pro- gress. Thieves In Black Silk Tights. Paris, March 21.--Thtee notorious hotel thieves. who were dressed in black silk skin tights, wee taken red- handed, last night, as they were col- lecting valuables in the Bedrooms of a San Remo hotel Beri-Beri At Glasgow. Glasgow, March 21.--Seven lascars were, yesterday, admitted to the Glas. gow hospital sufiering feom beri-beri, They were removed from & liner which had arrived from the cast. Suflicient mfluénce has been brought to bear upon President Fargo, of the American Express company; to have the charge against "Kid" "McManus, of New York, of stealing bonds from its sale in Paris, France, withdrawn, and it is fndetstood that the extradi- tion proceedings now in process 'at Montreal will ve dropped, unless the French 'authorities have other charges against the noted burglar. I is known that a clergyman here inter- ested himsell on behalf of McManus, who declared that the stolen bonds had been destroyed, and no longer ex- CHARGE WITHDRAWN Against "Kid" McManus the Noted Burglar. President Fargo of the American Express Com- . pany Will Not Press Charge---Sheriff Foley Gives $5,000 in Bonds. nn-- ar isted, The clerovman was impressed with McManus, and believed that the truth, and made an afli- davit to that effect. The reverend gentleman was also instrumental in getting a relative of President Fargo 16 use influence to have the charge of the express company withdrawn: Fur: thermore, Sheriff Foley, of New York, whom McManfis once befriended, has given personal bonds to the extent of £5,000 to vouch for the truth of Mo Manus' statements that the express company's stolen bonds were destroy- ed by the pal of the New York burg- he spoke Art Exhibition. The exhibit of paintings that are now on view, are attracting much at- tention, chielly because they are iv rect from nature, sunshine and at- mosphere, blending softly together, while the drawing is vigorous and the coloring is foreefal and full of har mony. this is a rave t for all who are fond of art, as porLrays na ture in its many moods. Kirkpatrick's Art Gallery. Table full of remuvants for Monday at Weese's wall paper sale. Newman & Shaw's to-night. BRUTALITY URGED | - recklessly the coun ill-treating her and stepehildren, so that recently a tion became tite. @ The Vitahi. declares that da the deed ving lea home to execute his teand embraced i JACK THE BURNER. Bombay, March 21.--The Pioneer Mail publishes details of a terrible series of murders which have been re- cently brought to light in the town of Bangalore. A A gang of five men are under arvest, having, by their own confession, ad- mitted to a number of gruesome crimes, the victims all being young men. According to the miscreants' confession, no fewer than eight youths have been done to death in various 'parts of the city. In each case the bodies, after being stripped of all valuables, were buried in the court yards of houses or otherwise disposed of, and three graves which have been dug up by the police, acting on the information supplied by the murder ers, have been found to contain the remains of five corpses. The aecused men admit that after they decoyed their unsuspecting vie tims they gave them poison, then chloroflormed them, and, after remov- ing the jewelry, cut their throats and buried :them. Several more missing lads Bave yet to be accounted for. The greatest excitement prevails amdng the, native populace, and the police have had to take special pre- cautions to prevent the murderers be- ing lynched by the infuriated mob. After the five bodies were unearth- ed the police were enabled to take YOUNG MEN VICTIMS | Poison, Opiates and Knife Their Weapons. Gang of Five East Indians Confess to Series of Brutal Marders---To Be Investigated. resulted in the discovery of two more unfortunate victims. The accused, alter interre- gation, conducted some officials to a house in Cavalry road, signated to a well-frequented permanent police beat, and pointed out the floor of the kit- chen, under which they stated a boy was buried. Ou digging down six feet the corpse of a youth was discovered, who had seemingly, from the position of the body aud the contortions of the limbs, been interred alive. The murderers related that the lad was decoyed to the house, and, as usual, dosed with poison, this time chloral, which, not taking effect sufficiently, they tried chloroform. Before the boy was sufficiently unconscious the men were disturbed by a noise in the street, so they hurriedly: buried him without cutting his throat, after re- moving all valuables. For the offi- cials' inspection the miscreants pro- duced from a cupboard in the wall a bottle containing chloral mixture, with which they had dosed the de ceased. The body was later identified by the parents as their eichteeu-vear old son. It is now awaiting a post- mortem. This murder, it is alleged, was committed as far back as Octo ber 9th Further investigations are being made, and the greatest excitement prevails in the city. further steps, which GANANOQUE TIDINGS, The Tigers Defeated By Trenton Hockey Team. Gananoque, March 20.--<At Belle ville, Thursday evening, the Tigers hockey team of this town, met defeat at the hands of the Trenton team for the secopd time this season. At half time the score stood 2 to 1, jn favor of 'the Tigers, und at full time 4 to 3, in favor of "Prenton. A The Shamrock basketball team, of the Young ladies' Literary Athletic Club, went down to defeat before the Gananoque high school team at the former's club rooms, King street, Thursday evening, by a score of 11 to 10 The Young People's Society of Grace church held a "temperance" meeting in the church parlors, last evening Walter 8. Abbott, South street, has been confined to his home for several days past,' seriously ill. Robert Lip- man, late of the firm of "Lipman & Deir, has removed to Smith's Falls' where he has purchased a moving pic- ture show and will in future conduct it." Mrs. 'Jobn Dickey, of Rockport, sperit some wvime this "week in town, the guest of her son, I. Dickey Mrs. Frank Lent, Market street, is visiting ' relatives in Boston. Mes George Hamilton, of Calgary Alta. spending -the-past-few months in town the guest of her father, William Ed- wards, King street, has left for her western home. A. Gillies spent a short time this week in Kingston. E. H. Carnegie, of Montreal, is spending a short time in town with his pa- rents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Carnegie, Sydenham street Victor Stunden, corner Wellington and Charles streets, left this week for Calgary, Alta., to spend some time there with his uncle, Mr. Crawford, of fe At Berlin a Firetug Keeps Police Busy. March 21.--Berlin being searched high and low for a myster- | ious Jack the Burner, who has been setting buildings on fire in various districts of the city during the past fortnight. Thirteen fires, involving considerable loss and danger to life, are attributed to his incendiary habits. The entire fire brigade is kept in 'double alarm' and many fireiien and horses are stat- ed to be on the verge of exhaustion. The latest outbreak ocewrred *yester- day at noon, exactly twentydour hours after the preceding one. Although in. cendiiarism in every case has heen found to be the cause, the guilty per son or persons have so successfull covered up their tracks that police and fire - puthorities confess themsglves completely balled. Whe hunt for the incendiary is ren. dered difficult because the fires persist in breaking ofit in altogether different parts of the town. the Berlin, is academy, may lead sults, no adler how. 161 oF how | Fier aw, M0» ot ho that. place, and will, in all probabil. ity, settle there. Albert Richards, Hickory street, is in Ottawa, where he has secured a situation with the M. J. Wilson Harness company. Mrs. Richards and family will remain here for some time longer. Mrs. W. MH. Jackson, spending a few weeks in To- ronto, and other western points, has returned to town Mr. and Mrs. John James, Hope: ding on April 13th. Mr. and Mrs. George Bond, Lanark, will celebrate theirs on the 135th. town, will celebrate their golden wed: | WAS A FINE CONCE w-- RT Given in Napanee on St. Patrick's Night. Napanee, March 21.--E. J. Roy has sold his new steamyacht to a western firm, who wili use her on the Rideau this summer. The purchasers careful- ly examined a number of yachts offer- ed for sale but found none so much to their liking as Mr, Roy's yacht, The yaeht is built of cedar, has a half- cabin, finished in mahogany, and a canopy forward of the cabin. The decks and combing are finished in | black walnut, quartered oak, and] maple, and are first-class in every par ticular The St. Patrick's day concert, held in the opera house, on Tuesday even ing, was well attended and proved an angualified success. Mrs (Dr.) Lock- ridge acted accompanist in ler usual able manner] Mayor Ming was chairman. The following local talent took part in double quartettes : Mes- dames W. 8S. Herrington, D. '. Mae- | naughton, A. Wartman and he Misses Herring, Wartman, Hall and Light. Their reidering of the "Harp Of Tara" and "The Minstrel Boy," | was excellent. Charles Fisher also | sustained his high reputation. in al souple of numbers | The talent from a distance was also | of a high order. Mrs. James Bawden, | J.-B. Doyle and J. D. Hayes, «ll of | Belleville, wero heartily encored. Mis. | James Grant, soprano, sang "Car- men' very sweetly. Miss Kate Baw- den, brought down the housd with her | singing of "Rory Darling." The con | cert was one ol the best ever heard in Napriee { Swanley. Norris, of the : Dell Tele phone stall, underwent an operation, last week, for a rupture of the bowels | He is progressing as rapidly as could | be expected. Mes. Allan Wagar, South | River Road, slipped "on the ie on | | Thesday last, breaking her arm. Mrs, | { George Daly also had the misfortune | j to fell and break her wrist one dav | {this week i FE as i | Francisco sold his matched team | {of bave to D. Jenkins, of Belleville, | jfor 8500. They were dandies. Mrs. E iA. Rixen, Deseronto. spent vesterday | { with her brother, John Gault. | | ! compound, syrup | of hypophosphites, in 25¢. bottles, at | ibson's Red Cross Drug Store ------_ rio "A spring tomic," London, March 21. --Teetotallers have been roughly shocked by the publics- tion of the report of the government analyst on the analysis on the so called temperance drioks which an astonishing percentage of in certain favorite teetotal The liquor laws make beverages con taiging more than two per cent. ales hol taxable as intoxicants, but of 1,165 samples of temperance drinks, ------------ STUDENTS STRIKE. Out As a Protest. I tested within the past four years, no ! er ¢han 3008 excesded the limit, | un several of the samples ar much as | ght per cent. of alcohol was found, ile Inu few, nine and ten per . was revealed. The chief offending drinks were ginger beer and herb beer 'The temperance pint 'of some of the testotal beverages Consumes more alcohol than is con tained in half a pint of © ; [PAT (=) March 21, Ottawa Valley and Up- per St. Lawrence {10 a. m.)-South- west winds, fine and milder. Sune day, fair and mild. IO 000000 O00000000 J WOU 1) WEI We could fill this page with good reasons whv You should choose your New Spring Hat here, and not half try, but 'we're going to suggest your coming instead and while passing to and fro to the Millinery Parlors We would ask you to and investigate the we're offering in the Ready-to-Wear Section We offer you largest } able quality, stop values pee ee positively the selection of unbeat- and we offer you price fiving. The easiest way prove any or all of these statements is to come and see THE BEAUTI. GC. 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