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|:t 17 (X AMIVBA&iKR , BTBfimfflKffi £' . 1wwe'*? x%r£/wc&¥m&r o- f - ' ̂ * '< />\r • i i - ' «**"> in' b '< r 'c «' " .'>'••'• ^v^v^.vsiv- «;v';-*•• *• «>, ,<- . . • • ' . • • • <:><>. ' . - | "BP NEWS NUGGETS FROM ILLINOIS - .UC •€&*< lOi >OOOOOOQa0! lail ream from ox of Mrs. It 13 OC- s necklace tis nil ovei^ bruxton ? Mia- : WOld ;ele- Hln- •""•• An stc.ies of tvse he rooi.i com pan- arrested, •ner's belief In an up- ivho are in Fvranee, dls- irltz takes peratlon of i r» running , learns that diamonds order of Brit* is Hindoos. He 'ted house, but discovers an In- ,om lie believes Sands of Gris- Its of the Misslon- i mates that Sands ire. Two Hindoos f Sands and are i one of them he lilllcent" and ad- STER XIX. ilous Mtllhcent. , Jrom Sands' apart- jttle den of a shop of a downtown le of the Bky- Ir century before, ledlous to cjlmb drs to the sixth (in. an express ele­ git of the Singer was too hot cm ch attention to his the stairs lightly, fy outer door that !ii cement of his coin­ ed a Mt of paper toward r*of modern physique and who was working at a |paper was the note be- dear," and ending with of the mysterious Mil- lachronistic young man jiquiringly through steel- leles. jidred copies of this, Bur- I/,. "I'll send for them In lur3." re seated himself on a le bench,'and for several jer! the photo engraver mind was hot behind rer. He was busy with unfolded by the little he had found in the 's possession. The lm never was in a hur- clew at its face val- he felt he had at t'hich, If not a direct knowledge and his go far toward con- lat the note was £d- Griswold he had squired small effort k'lude that the East- Sands' apartment iriawold. But this enough to raambt scholar ion of the : was--to get ^anyway, if }longing to patient, lid pieced of the Inew all in the the ! the jew- ai ac- spionage Td his sub- time. That covered every- Ii* ever- distantly, n*v. it was apparent to was working agalnBt not trained detectives ial sense, were fuiiy as heir quest as himself. . j,estion the Swaml had til the "energies of the East- »hich the detective had follow- tedly throughout their vari- ifegtatifna. Britz was con- t he hhd thesBrahmln priest for his own kidnaping; and [ually certain that the same i of brothers had searched i of Bruxton Sands and Cur- 4d. He was not given to at- iuch weight to intuition, re- tat faculty as a pale and us- rective feminine reflection of t logic. [mething told him he must be- even H#ore vigorously than to date, it he was to trace oner diamonds before the from the East could put them forever be- i of any Westerner. !ii his favor. Undoubt- >ken the Swami's line < -n. by seizing the spies t'd report the finding of (e in Sands' apartment. se^se that the scrap be of immediate value c Brahmin--that if he p itted it, the scholar by been closo upon the 1 diamonds. It remain- iself to ascertain the reabouts of Millicent ^.-ntal prisoners could th chief. Those safe enough for the present in the Tenderloin Police Sta­ tion; but. although it was in the de­ tective's power to prevent their im­ mediate arraignment in the Night Court by a word to the precinct com­ mander, he could not long keep them In cells. They were entitled to a speedy examination before the rnagis trate, and he was certain that unless theh* failure to report to the Swami should alarm that gentleman sooner, steps jvould be taken in the morning *o have the prisoners produced in CCTirt. They were sure to be arraign ©d in Jefferson Market at next day's afteriioon •-ession, if not earlier. Fritz felt that, oiiefe in their presence, the Swaml, though be olght be separated from them by the lengtu of the room, would find means to learn . they knew, to the last microscopic detail. . He must find Millicent that night That done, he had little doubt fie would be close to the Missioner jew­ els,* and probably to the person who had taken them from their snug har­ bor In Mrs. Missioner's library. "I'll send for the copies, Hurlen," Brit* Bald, as he slipped from the stool and started 'to the door, "but don't let the original leave your hands until I call for it myself." The detective was so absorbed in his thoughts as he walked down Higtit after flight of the dark stairs that he did not see a pair of eyes gleaming from one of the lower halls. Those eyes were as black as the darkness that formed their background, and the Headquarters man would have been even more than ordinarily on the alert if he had seen them glistening In the remote recess. As the detective passed on toward the street, the eyes ad­ vanced along the dusk of the hall, and in the faint glow of a lowered gas-jet at the foot of one of the higher flights of stairs, there became visible behind them a man who, in most respect^, was a counterpart of the two Orientals at that moment detained in the West Thirtieth Street Station. The owner of the eyes, while Britz walked down­ stairs, as quickly and far more quietly went up. Britz turned his steps toward 300 Mulberry Street. In his own office, after a glance into Manning's room that showed him it was empty, he call­ ed Dr. Fitch on the telephone and made an appointment to meet him In two hours in the bar of the Holland House. "It's one of the quietest places in Manhattan," said the detective, "and I want to talk to you very privately. They are not likely to know me there." Britz pushed a button, and when a Headquarters attendant appeared, sent. him fdr the Central Office man, whom, next to himself, he trusted most. "Send down to Burlen's place in an hour and a half, Rawson," said Britz to the other detective. "He'll have a hundred facsimiles of a letter signed Millicent. Have as many men as pos­ sible get busy among the hotels. I want to trace the woman who wrote that signature. They will have to look through every register for a year past. It's got to be done thoroughly, and I want it done quickly. Here, I'll give you a list," and he hastily scribbled the names of a half-hundred hostelries of a class such as he thought the fair Millicent might patronize. "What time will I see you?" asked Rawson. "If I'm'not back in three hours, I'll call you up," said the detective. Then, having arrived at a pause In the pursuit of the jewels, he hastened to a Turkish bath, where, being a lit­ tle weary from much metropolitan Journeying and muscle-bound from loss of sleep, he had himself baked, steam­ ed, chilled, kneaded, and pounded into shape. The great detective's indulgence in that luxury all unknowingly gave to the other side an advantage in the race for the Missioner jewels that well might prove fatal to his success. Long before Britz reached the hot-air room of the bath, the man with the glisten­ ing eyes who had passed him in the hall of the tumble-down loft building was at the door of Burlen's workshop, straining the angle of his vision to fol­ low the photo-engraver at work. Those glittering eyes forcused their gaze t h r o u g h t h e k e y h o l e o n a p i e c e p a ­ per which Burlen had fastened with thumbtacks to a board, and which, in the glare of an arc lamp, confronted a big camera with a powerful lens. Al­ though the eyes followed Burlen as well as they could about the roqm, their owner was not so much interest­ ed In the artisan's activity as he was in the small white sheet of paper on which he could discern lines traced in a woman's hand. Patiently waited the owner of the eyes. He was of a race that had cultivated patience through the centuries. Soon or late, undoubt­ edly, the man inside would go from the bench beside that great white light to another part of the room. A few yards would suffice for the man with the eyes, and even while Britz still was talking to Rawson in Police Headquarters, Burlen briskly covered those dozen or so feet to get a chem­ ical in the row of bottles in the rack at the far end of the shop, fhe man outside, crouching until he was little higher than an upreared cobra of his ^native land, slipped through the door- tway, crawled across the intervening fPace between the threshold and the camera, whisked the Millicent note from the board, and as silently made Ms escape before Burlen had replaced the cork in the bottle. By the time Detective-Lieutenant Britz was en­ veloped in the fog of the steam room, that little note was In the possession of the Swami and Prince Kananda, anl those worthies were studying it so swiftly and so profitably that ere Blitz took his cold plunge, the sage the Maharajah's son made a shifter, deeper dive toward the heart of; the Missioner mystery. It was ae a result of what they learned from ivflllicentvs missive that the Swaml aad the Prince wont separately to the ^pilroom Doris Missioner's most fashionable frleod. It was also in consequence of the information glean­ ed from those petulant feminine lines that the Swaml found Mrs. Missioner's society so Interesting, and that the Prince, before and after that tete-a- tete, experienced keen curiosity con cerning ' the doings, characteristics, and state of mind of Curtis Griswold. The third result of Mlllicent's little letter and the Easterners' joint visit to the Fifth Avenue ballroom, was their dash in separate cabs to a bach­ elor apartment in a side street just off Central Park, where, shortly after the y wvyv.3.ip. Htffv virprfv j.'-.1* ters man had ordered. Remorse spurred him so effectively that all the hundred impressions were ready when Rawson sent for them. H*lf an hour afterward, as many detectives were comparing the halftone prints with the signatures of all the Mlllicents In the registers of New York's more fashionable hotels, Britz, as fit as a fiddle after his par­ boiling, walked briskly :o the marble lobby of the Holland House and join­ ed Fitch in the bar. That hotel is not patronized by the Bright Light set, one reason being that it sturdily re­ pels all attempts at such patronage. Half a dozen men of m ioubted fash­ ion were in the cafe when Britz fend Fitch draped themselves over one end of the bar, and began absorbing long, cold drinks tn punctuation of their in­ terested talk. "We're getting warm, as the young­ sters say," said Britz. and he told him of all that had happened since their last meeting. "Your ^oung lady won't have to stay In the Tombs much longer, I'm thinking, unless we have a stroke of bad luck. I'm puzzled on one point, however, and that's what I wanted to see you about What do you know about Bruxton Sands?" know he's all right," Fitch re- jnled. "One of the best ever." "Known him long?" "Several years. I was fortunate in wsc, rtf fx Ms, and that stt-v. '•, ^ IlKjO" yi Was a Counterpart of the Two Orien tals. close consultation for an hour or more with Ali, the supposedly devoted re­ tainer of the rich Mrs. Missioner. For the second note to Curtis Gris­ wold that fell into the hands of the Hindoos--the one Prinze Kananda in­ tercepted at the door of the Fifth Ave­ nue mansion in which the great ball was held--was written on a letterhead that revealed to Nandy and the Swaml an address they very- much de­ sired to know. Had that address found .its way to Detective-Lieutenant Britz as soon, it would have eaved him much delay, and would have spared a large part of the city's detective force the necessity of a laborious search through Manhattan's hotel registers. Burlen was one of the most aston­ ished young men in lower Manhattan when, turning from his row of bottles, he found the note entrusted to him by Britz had vanished. At first he as­ sumed he had fastened it carelessly and that it had fallen to the floor. A quick hunt showed him he was wrqng. He extended his search to every part of the room, and it was not until he had disturbed the dust of ages that he realized the scrap of paper actually was gone. His sensations following that realization werq not of the pleas- antest. Britz was one of his. best cus­ tomers, and he knew from the detec­ tive's earnestness the note was of ex­ ceptional importance. It solaced him only in part to find on taking the pla|e from the camera and putting it through a developing process that the lens had done its work more faithfully than he. He held in his hand a perfect duplicate of thfe letter. That would not satisfy Britz, of course, but it was better than it would have been if the note had disappeared before the photo­ graphing was complete. Bufrlen hast­ ened to subject the little plRte of cop­ per to the acid bath, and as ttte minute points of the halftone came out with gratifying distinctness, the yxmng man rejoiced thmt he at least was able to produce the facsimiles the Headquar- made me pretty solid with the whole family. Bruxton has done 'me several good turns." "You think that square look of his is not a front, then?" Inquired the de­ tective. "No," said the doctor, who talked more at his ease with the detective than he would have dreamed of doing with any of his fashionable patients. "He's 'the goods.'" "Well," rejoined the slenth, "I'm glad to hear you teay so. I don't mind telling you he made me a little sus­ picious this evening. I must say that for an honest man his attitude was a little queer." "In what way?" "Well," said Britz, "he wouldn't let me see a bit of paper that might have helped me a whole lot in this matter; and just for a moment I began to won­ der whether he was as > ager to haye the Missioner mystery solved as he pretended to be." "There's no pretense about Bruxton Sands," said Fitch v»ry positively. "He does want this thing straightened out, and he wouldn't do "anything in any way, if he could help it, to hinder you." Britz then told the physician more fully how stubborn Sands had been in regard to the note the millionaire himself had taken from one of the Hindoo burglars. "I'll admit it seemed strange," said Fitch. "But if you go on the assump­ tion there is anything wrong behind it, you'll lose your point Sands is as square as they make 'em." "Yotf don't think, then," asked the detective, "it is possibly his infatua­ tion for Mrs. Mission*, r would lead him to do anything to qaeer his riv­ als?" . "Most assuredly not," replied Fitch. "In the first place, he is not infati ed. Bruxton Sands le geuuitij love with Doris Mission «r the kind of man wh< of woman he wants Test of Good Man top t« Let Boys Hitch kSleds ite His ' ragorjr- good man who will [boys hitch their sleds kre saw one the other that seemed to busid broke from his for the boys to iter they made and - v their happy voices were as music to his soul. Then he drove on, looking back to see that all was going well. He re­ membered he was a boy once, and how much delight there was in hitch­ ing on and being pulled. At times he would laugh outright He forgot the $72 he had in his pocket, the pso- eeeds of two swine that he had hauled ia. His heart was on bigger things-- , Ms making others happy. And be thought of his own boy back at hour*), how he would enjoy being with ttwse boys, and he wished he was. And so he rode on, smiling and look­ ing back, and occasionally tf It ting the horses to make the sleds fefk, and hear the boys shout their happiest, when they held on the tighter or dropped off in the snow and raced again to get a tighter grip. There ia a scene that beats a banqpet or an inauguration out of all reckoning, and there is in that wagon as old man who is one of the kind.--Ohio State Joid Contradictions In Rus| One Bees in this rei more contradictory ti : than in any other. Tu| person Is as much of whole peoplfe; good sacrifice, yet withal cil compassion; Qlever &>| 11 ant mind, and at the ble of doing the m J stupid things; couragl place he wouldn't dream of doing any­ thing underhand, even if he saw that the other /ellow was undoubtedly win­ ning out. He always plays the game." "Well, maybe he does," said Britz; 'but, from what I've observed in my journey through life, this love game Is one that is played without any rules. I've known men who would take a million if it were handed to them on a platter, yet who'd go pretty close to a mix-up with the Grand Jury to cut out a fellow who was after the same «bt- "You talk as if your experience in the heart line were all second-hand," said Fitch, smiling. "Never been in love In my life and never expect to be," tiaid Brita. "But I have eyes in my head and ears be hind them. I also know what women can do to a man's common sen£e even when they don't know they're doing it. The, lady who gety the loot Isn't always a party to the crime." ' "Well," responded Fitch, "I won't undertake to pit my experience against yours;* but there's nothing of that sort in this case. Sands loves Mrs. Missioner about as much as a, man can. He was fond of her before her marriage, and most of us thought he'd win her then. I don't know why he didn't, but I do know that from the day he learned of her husband's death, he had been twice as attentive to her as before, and even In the days when she was the star bud of Auntie Paran's beauty show, his fondness for her was pretty noticeable. I remem­ ber particularly one Patriarchs' Ball when he grabbed every dance on her card, and got her to sit out most of them." 'But he knows Griswold Is trying to win her, too," said Britz, "and if he has $ny reason to think the other fel­ low has a good chance he might be tempted to put him down and out, even jf he had to go to such lengths as taking the Missioner diamonds, and then throwing suspicion on Grlsr wold?" Britz raised his glass and drank slowly, meditatively, until the Ice chilled his nose. Then he sat the tumbler firmly down on the bar, faced Fitch, and eaid with an air of finality: 'If that's the case, Griswold's the man! He may have had assistance from Blodgett,. but I doubt It, He's too foxy to trust his neck to a serv­ ant As for All, I thought he might have turned the trick, but he didn't, because If he had, he and all the rest of that Calcutta bunch would be well on their way toward their heathen temples by this time. There is now only Mr. Curtis Griswold to consider." Fitch looked at him with a per­ plexed air. "What causes you to suspect him?*' he asked. 'I've had my eyes on that young man for some time," Britz said.* "There were two or three things con­ nected with the arrest of MISB Hol- comb that didn't please me a little bit. I didn't like the satisfaction he show­ ed when suspicion was directed to­ ward her." "Did he seem pleased?" inquired Fitch. 'More than pleased--he seemed re­ lieved," answered the detective. "Maybe Donnelly and Carson did some real work, after all, without knowing it. If they hadn't arrested Miss Holcomb, Griswold mightn't have shown his hand so easily." "Have you, any other evidence?" asked the doctor. He appeared to be gratified by the trend of the detect­ ive's thoughts. 'Several things," said Britz. "One of oip* Wall Street men tells me half a dozen inquiries abotit 6riswold have been Bent to the financial agencies lately. I had that end worked up, and I found out Griswold had been bump­ ed by a bear raid." "Hurt much?" "Pretty badly. He tried hard to sell a block of suburban real estate soon after that" "These things are only straws, how­ ever," said the doctor. "Of course, we'll have to have much more sub­ stantial evidence Jbefore we can do anything." "Well, for jOne, thing," returned Britz, "I expect to know in a few hours just where the diamonds are. At any rate, how they were taken out of the city, if they are not in New York. I've got a hundred men work­ ing the hotels to find out, and if you'll come down to Headquarters with me in a little while you can see the re­ sult." The detective stopped short In his words as Curtis Griswold entered t bar. The clubman went to ih< counter, lighted a cigarette, the Impatient gesture with snatched it from his H it to the floor, he that he hat; ai>i>li' cork tip. Hit- his fee© slig trembled from t ui I Then he called for an envelop when the messenger came, he hani|ted It to him with a bank note, with a few words spoken in a low tone. The messenger gone, Griswold called for a brandy-and-soda, gulped it down in ft way that showed his state of nervous excitement and.- still without seeing the doctor or tho detective, hurried out of the barroom. Britz gripped the doctor's arn^. "Go after that Boy!" he said. "Find out where he Is going, and join me at Headquarters. Make it quick, doc!" Fitch hastened In pursuit of tfao messenger boy. Britz walked with quick strides to the subway, where he boarded a local for Bleeker street. The physician's pursuit of the dis­ trict messenger who had carried the note from Griswold ended at the Thirty-third Street Btation of the Sixth avenue elevated railway. All Fitch wanted to know was the destination of the note. Fitch, though an ama­ teur, had acquired so much skill from association with the famous Head­ quarters man In efforts to free his sweetheart that It required no prompting to look over the boyis shoulder, as he stopped * to buy a ticket. While fishing in his pocket for a grubby nickel, the messenger momentarily held the envelope In such a position that Fitch was able to read bolli name and address. The doctor hastily jotted both on the margin of a newspaper, and then he crossed to the downtown station, and In 20 min­ utes knocked at the door of the de­ tective's room In Police Headquarters. "This must be the woman," he heard Britz say to Rawson, as he en­ tered after a sharp "Come in!" "Hello, doc!" said Brits. "I guess we've found her, / These are the full names of all the Mlllicents registered in New York hotels, and my man re­ ports this signature is exactly like the name attached to the note I found In the Indian's clothes." . "What's the name?" asked Fitch. "Millicent Delaroche," answered the detective. "That's the lady," answered the physician. "The same name is on that envelope Griswold gave the messen­ ger. She lives in the--" "Hotel Renaissance/' said Britz de­ cisively. 'Doctor, I tell you we're get­ ting warm. As the kids say, 'We're burning up!"' A conference followed, in the course of which Britz, Fitch and Rawson elaborated a plan to ascertain whether the jewels Millicent Delaroche men­ tioned in her note to Griswold were tbe original Missioner diamonds, or merely gems the clubman had bought for her. To learn that fact was not so easy as It sounded. With weeks at his conunand, Brits could have gained the niowledge in a roundabout way, but he had no such time. There were not even days to spare; there were not even hours to waste. Britz knew as well as if he saw it in black and white that the Orientals, both of high and low caste, were centering all their subtlety, skill and ingenuity upon the possession of Mrs. Mission­ er's jewels--anyway, the Maharanee diamond--and he sensed the impor­ tance of anticipating them before the night was over. That realization was based on the assumption that the contents of the Millicent note as yet were unknown to the more important of the Hindoos. Britz knew the men he had caught In Bruxton Sands' room could not get word to the Swami nor to Prince Kananda before the morn­ ing. He had taken care to prevent that by rushing a note to the captain of the Tenderloin precinct, requesting that the prisoners, instead of being taken to the night court, should be beld at least for the morning session in Jefferson Market. His zeal led him to lose no time in heading off the Ori­ entals, even with the burglars bottled up for twelve hours or so. Had he guessed he himself had helped to con vey the letter from the Hindoo cap­ tives to their Brahmin master, he would have been twice as zealous though it is doubtful he could hav worked more rapidly than he did a, his talk with Fitch and Raw the seclusion of his own offic; In pursuance of the p. in that conference Hi the Renaissance management aii concerning M, was Mrs widow could. ho. • 3 • >*• !• " i - , Duquoin.-r-At the December mee%fJ nig of Perry County Mfedieal 'aah ; ,, Hoclation, held at Tamaroa, these offl?*T';:'. 7 cers were elected for the year: Prei> * 1 Went, Dr. Max Adles, Duquoln; first ' 'th, ^ vice-president. Dr. James T. Leigb»i Duquoln; second vice-president, Dr. Jl';. S. Cleland, Swanwlck; third vice- president, Dr. J. W. Smith, Cfitlerj- fourth vice-president, Dr. T. A. Holt^J# man, Rfce;, secretary-treasurer, Frank F. Glllls, Duquoln. ^ "*•* •*"* - Vl-3/L! v i1'- Granite City.---While trying to sho# f ] he had lost tbe forefinger of hi# right band, Francis Lotoeky, em­ ploye in a Granite City foundry, put the forefinger of his left hand on whirling saw and It was cut off. Hi# right hand stjll was bandaged and he was talking to an agent of an accfr dent Insurance company in which h#/ ^ ., was carrying a policy when the seaw.)$ ^ ond accident happened. Identically the same thli Instance. * / ify Springfield.--Ftnger-priipt ,/ in murder trials was sustained by the Illinois superior court in j. " the case of the People vs. Thomai|ir ?• Jennings, convicted of murdering C l a r e n c e ' B . H i l l e r I n C h i c a g o , S e p g ^ ' > ' tember 19, 1|>10, largely through in|v t , troduction as evidence of a blood3^:C.).;v^^.:^:J finger print. After reviewing'th^ dence the Judgment of the lower courf -Kf d , !'5 is affirmed. Jennings mustosuffer th# ^ death penalty on February 16 next. ^ " V" 'j Springfield.--By tlitt . decision of/ ... the United States Supreme cdmt\: 1 *"6 sustaining the Illinois riot act f\.; ^ , "r^ of 1887, Springfield may lose ovef^* *• ' $100,000, as suits aggregating ovef t1 tr4 that amount are pending as thevout*., " - • • •*.^ f 4 growth of the race riot here In Oo 'i tober, 1908, when several negroe* were lynched and much property dei»v['-- stroyed. One hundred suits against. y'» \ % the city for recovery of damages wllf " " ** be pushed. - •• . • mmm Elgin.--Frank Btklch antf 3o*f£ Postovic, who have been employe*! r •£ " M "*** at Dekalb, were formally Charge^ -«> ^ by a coroner's jury with the mur.jJ'"-., der of George Chapallonis, al'6; -• -" Lithuanian, also of Dekalb, who dle«$*T J at the Elgin State hospital. Chapall** /• ^ ^ onis died • of exhaustive insanity, sultant from injuries received attacked by Brkich and Postavip. .Jnf-V , , *J Dekalb on November.U6. - -- ^ v / ft* 4- . Peoria.--Following an - operation " %, './ r *1 for the removal of her * tonsils,^ , J Elizabeth Starr Robison, age^ii * * '"1^ eighteen, the only daughter ot;j „ . • v'- Charles W. Robison, died at the Proc*1:- . 2 tor hospital on the operating table*5® ^ -Vs The operation was so slight and tho"' r. t ^ vitality of the patient so perfect thai » ^" *> ' t/S nn anvwttliAM*lAii r no apprehension was felt Anna.--That southern Illftras continue to claim the bannet^H for fruit culture 'was demonstrated^./; at. the state horticultural meeting^;-' which has closed at Champaign^^ where O. H. and Lynn Casper of thisi/i: ,l"s* ^ city entered forty-two exhibits of ajM?/ pies and captured thirty prizes. ' Springfield. -- Public schools this city may have a course Instruction by means of moving tures. A proposition to teach pnplli^^ in certain of the grammar and hlgW^s'|vJ^M'|^ schools through the aid of the fllmsg^ « ' has been made the board of^^Juga-^; i&m tlon. It is the cates of the pictures that | classes studyij i Tamaraa.- Institute oj Teachers' and wait mittee ws the varlc school county Illinoisj spokej "'t-V 'Hi m::.