Roti db indy ong a "Out of the High Rent District." O'Connor's Ladies' Exclusive Out They Go 'Every garment of summer wear in the store must be cleared this week sure. 'Regardless of Cost Fall shipments have started to arrive and we must make room at once. WE NEVER CARRY OVER To another season no matter what the loss. SEE WHAT YOU CAN SAVE HERE T.J.O Connor 260 Princess St. Telephone 800 Higher up street but always lower in price. - Cook's Cotton Root Compound. reliable regulating maiofe refta in three Si Fees of an , $3; No. 3, $5 pe thos by sll rvplate or sent - dd by oa receipt of of Jrice. Prog pumphict, Address: THE COOK MEDICINE CO, TJOROKTO, GT. (Fermerly Windsor.) THE Ansco Vest- Pocket Speedex catches swiftly moving figures without a blur. It gets into action quickly when every second counts. You can change the focus, the speed and opening of the shutter instantly and accurately while viewing the image in the fiider. Let us show you this camera. Other Anscos $2 to $55. WILL YOUR EYES CARRY "THE LOAD? At forty man is in his prime, yet his eyes bes gin to fail at this 'age. If your eyes need help, let us fit you with pro- thew wae SARGENT'S Drug Store Phone 41 i Annes oie & Porter A Pleasant Smile With Every Glass Ring Phone 645 for a Case. A. TYO, 473 Princess St. . Kingston. Hi HA ping To $28.00 Tweed Rain Coats. Large stock of all wool and worsted suitings, Indigo blue a THE DAILY AILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1918. THE MYSTERY I$ S GROWING ' WAS MAJOR SHARP WITH WO- MAN ON FRIDAY.NIGHT? A Statement Made by George Cox- worthy, Who Folind the Clothing oni thie Bank of the Oataragui Bay. {| That a man answering the de scription of Major W. the Outer Station on Fri- walking with a woman dressed in a checked overcoat and traw hat and that near the place where his clothes were found there were the footprints of a woman plain- ly imbedded in the gravel, were among the startling disclosures made in an interview with George Coxwor- Hickson avenue, who discovered major's clothes neatly folded on bank of Cataraqui Bay on Satur- day morning last. As the new de- tails have been learned the complex- ity of the mysterious disappearance grows and the reasons for the re- moval of Major Sharp from the fade of the earth without a trace as to {kis whereabouts are more difficult to ascertain. The various surmises that have been drawn as a solution to { i i { een near y night, thy, the the a mystery which has few parallels in| { the hisiory of the city simply demon- 'strate the futility of reaching a de- | finite conclusion. Unless the woman who is.alleged to have been with the major can be found or some of the officers who are suid to have been fJeith him on the night previous to his disappearance will speak, it is 1 evident that no solution can be found for the mystery, { On Tuesday alternoon, when giv- ing the British 'Whig his version of the occurrence, George Coxwor- thy said: "1 left my house on Hick- son avenue about half past nine to go fishing, but as there was a heavy wind from the east I did not hurry. On the way down with my little boy, George, 1 met Ward Payne, aged eleven, coming up the road, He turn- ed around and we went down to the water together. We went to my boat- houses and 1 noticed a canoe near- by. 1 thought it Belonged to some of the campers on the other side of the bay In the meantime my son and young Payne noticed some clothes on the wharf, but I thought that they belonged to the campers. But when 1 found that they were of- ficer's clothes 1 sent the boys to the camp in a boat and when they re- turned they said they had been told that the clothes didn't belong to anyone over there, "When they came back I left them lin charge till I notified the police. I telephoned to Sergt. Nesbitt and he sent Officer Clark and 8. 8. Corbett, the undertaker, out. They took the clothes and searched them and found a watch, fountain pen, cards, letters from his mother," thirty-five cents and a few other articles. © In his clothes were his bathing towel and his walking stick was nearby with his hat and Sam Browne belt. socks were placed in his boots,which were very clean, His clothes were laid as if he had been in swimming, but his boots had no dust on them, When 'Mr. Corbett came he got grap- pling 1rohs and my boy and young Payne grappled for him until they. gat tired. Then Fred Davies took the oars and grappled for hours with me. How those clothes came there between the time that the campers were over and young Payne and 1 went down is a mystery." "How did the canoe come to be there?" "Well, the campers on the other side of the bay came over and went up the road to the street car to go to Queen's Military Hospital. They often leave their canees near my boathouses while they are away. They never noticed the clothes at eight o'clock when their canoe came over, and the canoe was still there." "Could they have seen the. clothes from where they landed had they been there?" ---- "Yes. They couldn' t have helped seeing them. Hundreds swim where he was supposed to have been drown- ed and it was only about three weeks ago that I had two military police- men come there to take two deserters from the dock. The campers are go- ing around all the time and they would have seen the clothes if they were there." "Then you think the clothes were laid between the time the campers landed and when young Payne saw them when he went down with your: "Yag't "If someone had overpowered Ma- jor Sharp and stolen his money could they have escaped in the interval be- tween the time Payne went down at first, and he says that he didn't see | the clothes then, and the time that they were found?" _ "Yes, there is a train coming In at ten to ten and a man could hans gone out on that, There were al lndy' s footmarks where the cloth a ay." "Did you notice the tracks of a taxi?" No." "Did you notice anyone answering to a description of Major Sharp on | Friday night near the outer statfon?" "Yes. There was a man of his de- scription going out Montreal street on Friday night about twenty to ten with a lady with a black and white check coat, a large black straw hat ne was your atienion drawn to "Because my boy and Payhe were carrying some long sticks from the boathouse and they were on the side- walk neap the station and the people had to get off the street because hey were swinging the sticks. You know. Boys are." "You Sian' know Mayor Sharp J. Sharp was] His | "Were the clothes right at the end] of the dock? "They Were over the end." "If the major had undressed there! at the side near jt would have been in full view ati the end of the dock and not in the |S bushes negfhy?" "No. ¢ would have undressed right there, 'When We found the clothes there 1 st the boys all through the bushes to find out. if he I speared all around try- ing to find anything. When there was nothing and the Boys said no one was missing from the camp I notified the police." "Phat is the first time there has ever been a disappearance in that vi-| einity?" "Yes, There are always a lot of people around and [ am renting boats all the time. The way the clothes were found would point to the fact that he went in for a swim, but his boots didn't have any dust on them and he couldn't have walked far. How he could get in in the morning without any person noticing him is the mystery, for there are always people around If anyone had put the clothes there they would have gone away before we reached the place. They could have slipped through the orc hards and caught the train going west.' "Did he have his r button on his coat?" "No, They say gone." "And he could have gone anywhere with that," interjected Mr. Coxwor- thy" s son, George, a bright little lad. "if he had changéd his clothes there, would he have Thad much time?" "It 'would be over twenty minutes between the time we met Ward and when we found the clothes, If they were placed there it would have to be' done very quickly." "There were no blood marks?" "No. There was no sign of a scrimmage or anything. We dragged all around the place and: I am still out every day trying to fing/him, But if he isn't around the place I guess | he has slipped away." The story of Mr. Coxworthy amply tends to deepen the mystery for if, as he says, the major slipped out for what reason nobody knows, as he was not financially embarrassed,' he | must have left on an early train for the west, and if he had done so he would have had to change into etvil- fan clothes, procured from the vicin- ity, in the short space of twenty min- utes. The only indications of his departure from the city are the ab- sence of his returned sol@ier's but- ton, by means of which he could tra- vel to the United States without ques- tion from the immigration author- iies, and his money belt, containing, it is said, about four hundred dol- lars, ; 'was there, returned soldier' 8 that that was TO SAVE OOAL By Introducing the New Electric Pump at Waterworks. The new electric pump has been put in operation at the waterworks and has demoustrated that it is of ample capacity, 4000 gallons per minute being pumped. This is con- sidered eminently satisfactory and the Utilities Commission is placed in! a position to effect a great saving in coal. The Underwriters' Association requires that the fires in the boilers shall be banked continuously, so that an auxiliary power in the event of emergency may be available, This, however, will - not consume much coal, so that a great saving will be made. } on Was A Former Kingstonian, Victor M, Drury, who was recently elected a director of the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, Limited, Montreal, is manager and a director of the Royal Securities Corporation, Limited, general financial agents, of Montreal, Mr. Drury is also a direc- tor-of the Porto Rico Railways, Lim ited, Crossen Car Company, Limlited, Calgary Power Company, and Cana- dian Steel 'Foundries, Limited. He was born on February 20th, 1884, | and is a son of Major-General | Charles W. Drury. He began his financial career. with she Bank of Montreal, at Kingston, in 1902, and held various positions with that bank from coast to coast. He was ap-/ PAGE FIVE ENREENNNNREE. ES ---------- $3.00 LADIES' WHITE CANVAS PUMPS 1» High and medium heels. These are new goods just received. Special Price . $3.00 Abernethy's Shoe Store "Where the ys Shoes Come From.' All our Ladies' Pan- amas and Children's Straw Hats Off All our Men's Straw Hats and Panamas CAMPBELL BROS. Kingston's Largest Hat Dealers Fe Hot Weather Specialties Grape Juice, 10¢, 80c and 55¢. Lime Juice 25¢ and 45¢ Neilson's Ice Cream Bricks, 35¢ The hot season will soon be over, so relieve your thirst and do not sulrer. PROUSE'S Drug Sto e Opposite St. Andrew's Chi Phone 82. investments during this per- iod 509% your purchases. you. have you call. Reid High Quality JAMES REID'S "* Big Mid-Summer Furniture Sale! By making your furniture 0 you can save 20% to on your purchase, If you prefer we will store J 3117 iL 1 tr] je (83 F Opportunity beckons 'to We will be pleased to and Reid's Low Prices. Phone 147 For Service. Wm.ClarkLtd, Will demonstrate their famous 'Delicacies In our store every week. 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The Parks/ Committee should lose no aging relentless warfare king of the civic authorities in the campaign. Neglect, even for a short period, is liable to result in very serious loss to the treedom which contributes so largely to mak- Ang this city so beautiful, Are Y Deceived ? Have you been | believe that the the only eure for piles? If so, it is Wnlorunate, for many 'being cured by the. use ay Dr. Chase's Ointment. pometimes after anion tions have failed de when doctors hu to is A very appropri- ate symbol for those who are doing their bit overseas. Sterling silver, en- jameled, with one to four leaves, J 50 Cents. 'Choice Meats Special low prices on all steaks and fresh meats for one week. "-- ments carried In stock, Charles Phone 11924, Geet The rush is now to the @® UNITED GROCERY for all kinds of the best FRESH FRUIT Customers go away daily ads | vertising our business. The very best fresh and enred Prompt Delivery Quick 112 Clergy St. 188 Princess St. BEN LEE, Mgr. 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