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GALVESTON TRIBUNE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1023.
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GALVESTON TRIBUNE OWSLEY, NEFF,
He died -at the home
Mrs. H. J.
SHEPPARD AND
SCHUMANN -HEINK
PREPARATION FOR WAR
the manufacture of air-
France
protective measure against any possible attack.
tural credits law and to court decisions 1 seek the six-year term, and the usual
is multiplying her airships
Gov. J. A. O. Preus, Republican who
His term as
OFFICER TO IDENTIFY MAN.
Beaumont,
in congress.
With the sweeping: victories of the
DR. H. B. HILL DIES.
Orange, according to word received by j at the point of a gun.
ter.
JOAN THURSDAY
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advantage
workbasket
“And I found this!
Vp
Grudgingly he dropped
'Well . .
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GALVESTON ISLAND
Quard’s revolver ready
OBITUARY NOTICES
waned; night
At half-past nine a noise of
Continued From Page One.
in sight!”
PERSONAL MENTION
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(To Be Continued.)
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Age Limit For
C.M.T.C. Is Cut
Down This Year
Lutcher
For 20
relatives here. ]
of his daughter,
Business Manager Cole
Makes Strong Appeal.
I speculation began cropping out today
as to his likely opponent in the Re-
publican ranks.
Pointed out as an argument in proof of more humane conditions
in Spain is the statement that at the recent fair in Seville, there
was no bull fight, a football game being made the attraction instead.
Someone will have to explain wherein football is more humane than
a bull fight.
by Louis Joseph Vance
(Copyright, 1923, by Little, Brown & Co.)
Twilight
passed.
after being convicted of the murder of
C. Abramson at Port Arthur and sen-
tenced to death. Following his escape, a
Houston airplane pilot gave out a copy-
Band rehearsal—The Galveston Mel-
ody Band and Orchestra will hold its
regular weekly rehearsal tonight at 8
o’clock at its hall, 2109 % Avenue C.
ing where the body could be found.
The letter was signed “The Great Un-
known.”
during the past two years.
Notes concerning real estate loans
no longer will be required arbitrarily
United States, regardless of the source
or their charter.” .
“Down the Island” is almost an unknown territory to most of the
people of Galveston.
Even those who travel the Island road in their automobiles
& S. F„ Galveston; H. E. Simmons, St.
L. & S. W., of Texas,, Tyler.
harvesting out of the way before he
formulates his program for action in
Washington.
He is expected to confer frequently
with his Minnesota colleague, Henrik
Shipstead, also a farmer-laborite, who
Legion Invites Many No-
tables To Meeting.
Changes Meet New Cred-
its Law.
Kearns and Rickard Make
No Agreement.
Further Farm-Labor Plans
Develope.
MAN CONFESSES
KILLING FRIEND
ROTARY REMINDED
OF COUNTY FAIR
Tied Him To Tre® To
Starve To Death.
DEMPSEY-FIRPO
BOUT UNMADE
QUARTERLY MEETING
OF CLAIM AGENTS
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FEDERAL RESERVE
RULES MODIFIED
What is it?"
Joan snatched at the ring. “It’s mine.
JOHNSON TO JOIN
LA FOLLETTE GROUP
Most of the changes were said to be
due to the enactment of the agricul-
Member of the Associated Press.
The Associated Press is exelunively
pntitied to the use for republiention of
til news dispatches credited to it or not
ptherwine credited in this paper, and
tine the local news published here"®.
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A decade or more ago, the island became known throughout
Texas in the production of some of the largest melons ever placed on
any market.
But there are other than melon farmers “down the island.”
Cattle raisers have found it a splendid pasture for wintering stock.
Hunters have learned that while it may not be a so-called “hunt-
ers’ paradise,” it abounds plentifully in winged game in season.
More recently, the bayshore of the island has come into favor as
the locatidn for lodges.
Entire families spend a portion of the heated term in these lodges
where fishing, boating and crabbing employs the day’s leisure and
the nights remind one of the mountain temperature.
Fairly good roads lead to these, little settlements, but one must
be directed aright in order to find them.
And not all the bay shore is as yet occupied.
planes as a
righted interview in which he told of the gubernatorial and other state con-
having taken De Silva to the Mexican | tests in the 1924 election, which in ac-
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obtain nothing more than a superficial knowledge of what lies west
of the city limits.
Recently the island came into a bit of local prominence by fur-
nishing the people with a delicious treat in the way of some fine
watermelons.
ing provisions of the Clayton act pro- ' continued silent today.
hibiting interlocking directorates, the ' governor' expires, Jan. 1, 1925. Sena-
new regulations define national banks ' tor-Elect Johnson, was back home on
at her hand,
fell; hours
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on the part of Germany, or
Two months later Williams wrote ! By Associated Press,
to Chief of Police A. O. Van Riper tell- i
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to be cancelled at maturity, but may i -
be renewed and extended. In enforc- I met his first political defeat Monday,
Eastern Offices.
New York Office. 341 Eifth Ave.
D. J. Randall,
Chfengo, St. Louis, Detroit, San Fran
cinco and Los Angeles Offices.
The S. C. Beckwith Agency
of the leading physicians of that city, ( 1-------„ -----— t . .
died at 8 o’clock this morning at border, being forced by his passenger
England is investing tremendous sums in
Stark, after a day’s illness.
Give it to me!"
"Where’d you get it? Tha’sh what I
wanna know!”
Texas, July 18.
A Permit to erect, a one-story build-
ing at 102 Twenty-ninth street has
been issued to Tim Sullivan by Frank
Schneider, assistant city building in-
spector. The cost of construction is
$2,000. Carl Pearson is the contractor
in charge.
so as to be prepared for any come-back
s’pender button—wanted
. . .” Anger returned;
heavily. And this was even more plain
in the blurred accents in which he en-
deavored to justify himself. “I wanted
A recent commentator on world affairs points to the fact that
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 18. Several im-
portant modifications of the regula-
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By Associated Press.
Houston, Tex., July 18.—Dr. Homer
B. Hill, 74, a native of Austin, and one
former contents. “What were you doing
in my trunk?” she demanded hotly.
Momentarily his dazed expression
made it very plain that he had taken
•Deputy was elected to the senate last fall,
Sheriff Carl Kennedy left here last over Frank B. Kellogg, Republican,
night for Laredo to identify a man an- | Mr. Johnson has declared he intended
swering to the description of Newt De • to affiliate with the LaFollette group
Silva, who broke jail here last year in oonorese
—shew on
of her absence to drink
The First Spiritualist Church, Four-
teenth and Avenue E, will hold their
regular mid-week message service to-
night at 8 p. m. Thursday at 2:30 p. m.
the Ladies’ Auxiliary will meet.
Subscription Rates
Member American Newspaper Publishers’ Ass’n., Southern News-
paper Publishers’ Ass’n., and Audit Bureau of Circulations.
as “any banking, institution organized i his farm at Kimball, Minn., today,
or operating under the laws of the | ready to “pitch in” and help get the
system is governed were announced Knute Nelson; which ends in March,
today by the federal reserve board. 1925.
farmer-labor party in the United
States senatorial elections last fall,
and Monday, interest also is turning to
His friends declare it a “natural
conclusion,” to assume that he will
tions under which .the federal reserve unexpired term of the late Senator
Russia, it is now stated, has abandoned her intention of declaring
war against Switzerland. Russia probably fears reprisals by the
Swiss navy.
years he had been consulting physician
to the University of Texas athletic de-
partment. He leaves three brothers,
one here and two in Austin, and two
sisters.
“None of your business. Give it—”
“T’ hell it ain’t my business. I’m
your husband—gotta right to know
where you get diamonds!” he sneered.
“Give me the ring, Charlie, and be
sensible. I haven’t done anything
wrong. I can explain.”
Among guests (registered at local
hotels are:
Hotel Galvez—Ernest Mondell, New
Orleans; A. F. Robinson, Chicago; K.
L. Strickland, Chicago; Mrs. A. G. Eck-
man, Los Angeles; Mrs. J. C. Hecht,
F’ort Worth; Miss J. M. Brown, Hous-
ton; John W. Taylor, New Orleans; R.
L. Truitt, Fort Worth; Miss Ruth Brit-
tain, Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs. G. El-
liot, Shereveport, La.; M. F. Crigler,
Ardmore, Ok.; John H. Wankelman,
Dallas; C. F. Zinnerman, Chicago; Ger-
aldine M. Fallows, Minneapolis, Minn.;
W. H. Smith, Chicago; H. E. Fence, Fort
Worth; N. O. Pedrick, New Orleans; A.
J. Speer, Houston; H. L. Corbett, Dal-
las; Harry Hoffman, New York, Miss
Don Albert, Dallas; William Duncan,
Houston; M. R. Jewett, San Antonio;
H. L. Potter, El Paso; Max C. Becker,
Houston; J. P. Murphy, Houston; Mrs.
J. B. Russ, Dallas; F. L. Sampel, St.
Louis; J. P. Gaines, Houston.
By Associated Press.
St. Paul, Minn., July 18.—With the
; United States senatorial situation set-
1 tied until the 1924 fall election, inter-
est of political observers was turning
to probable developments when the
six year term senatorship is up for
determination.
Magnus Johnson, farmer-laborite,
chosen in Monday’s special election by
a plurality of more than 80,000 will
serve under that mandate through the
dangerous or threatening attitude as a German ally.
. When it is considered that only a short time-ago the great nations
of.earth were counseling together as to the best means of averting
future wars, and had progressed toward general peace so far as to
agree upon a limitation of naval armament, it would appear that
there existed at least some grounds for the opinion that the present-
day leaders of civilization were not very sincere in their declarations
for peace.
It is now being openly asserted that the disarmament conference
was nothing more than a by-play, enacted to blind the eyes of the
people to the inci.ased war preparation in which most of the nations
were engaged. True, naval power has been curtailed, but the ac-
companying statement is made that it was a generally conceded fact
among the delegates to the. conference that war by navies had
become obsolete. They realized that hereafter wars would be fought
in the air and that the saving in cost of dreadnaught construction
would make possible the construction of a great fleet of airships.
Shortly after the signing of the naval limitation pact, attention
was called to the action of France in her naval construction program
which called for the building of a large number of vessels not in-
cluded in the limitation program. France claimed that she was well
within her rights in this respect, and this claim was recognized.
England, more far-sighted perhaps than France, did not immediately
seek to increase the number of her smaller fighting vessels and now
has that much more money for airship construction. Germany, be-
cause of her helpless condition, being denied the privilege of invest-
ing billions in air fleets, will save the money which otherwise she
would be spending in order to keep pace with France and England
in the multiplying of airplanes. What Russia is doing no one seems
to know.
Must it be that every step taken in the direction of world peace
shall be minutely described by blue print and attested by signature?
It must have already been demonstrated by the general activity in
airship construction that there exists no intention of abandoning the
old policies of peace by force of arms. Wars are not carried on by
navies alone, nor by armies alone, and to halt naval shipbuilding
and army enlistment will not stop war so long as an unlimited num-
ber of airplanes are built, chemists set to work making death-dealing
gases and electricity diverted from its service to man to be made an
instrument of destruction.
Further allowances have been made by
the war department in opening the Citi-
zens’ military Training Camp to the
youth of this state it was announced
today by the local officers in charge
of_the recruiting. All boys who . will
have passed 'their seventeenth birth-
day before Jan. 1, 1924, will now be
admitted. This increase will allow
many youngsters to enter who would
otherwise have to wait until next year
when they are just barely short of the
required age.
The maximum age is twenty-four
unless the applicant has attended a
previous C. M. T. C. This allows for
the training of boys at their most
promising ages and is designed to give
them the greatest training in citizen-
ship without stressing the military
parts except in so far as the best in-
terests of the youth himself is con-
cerned.
A display of war trophys is open to
the public at present at Sam J. Will-
iams’ store on Market street. Sergeant
Smith is in charge and will take pleas-
ure in explaining all the exhibits to
those interested.
Lieut. Frank S. Mansfield states that
recruiting is going on at a rapid pace
and that soon all the available places
will be filled.
Information and examination can be
had at Fort Crockett from the lieut-
enant or Capt. Walton.
MISS MILLIE PERNYAT.
Miss Millie Pernyat, 20 years old, 1117
Market street, died in the John Sealy
Hospital Tuesday afternoon as the re-
sult, of injuries received in an automo-
bile accident at League City last Sun-
day. Miss Perynyat was employed at
the Southern Steamship office. She is
survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Emil Pernyat; two sisters, Dorothy
and Victoria; and two brothers, Thomas
and Alexander.
Funeral services will be held at 4
o’clock Wednesday afternoon from the
home to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Imterment will be in the Slavonian
cemetery. Rev. George Palamarchuk
will officiate.
Already assured of the presence of
several men of national importance at
the state convention of the American
Legion, which will be held here August
28, 29 and 30, local American legion of-
ficials arranging for the events are
endeavoring to bring Alvin Owsley, na-
tional commander of the legion, here
for the event.
Owsley is a Texan, his home being in
Denton. One of the pledges he made to
the Texas delegates when they gave
him their support at the last legion
convention in New Orleans was that he
would attend the next state meeting.
This promise was made to Maco Stew-
art Jr., and Steve McCarthy of Argonne
Post No. 20 also. Although Mr. Owsley
is recognized as a man of much busi-
ness in his capacity as head of the le-
gion, officials count on his presence
here for the convention.
Major John C. Townes, state com-
mander, will be in Galveston either
Friday or Saturday to make further
plans for the convention. It will be one
of his periodical visits between now
and the convention to complete details
of the big meeting, which, together
with the women’s auxiliary, to hold
its convention at the same time, will
bring around 3,000 convention visitors
to the city.
Major Townes has written Secretary
of Navy Denby in an effort to have
either a squadron of destroyers or some
larger war vessels here for the conven-
tion. Major Townes already has an-
nounced that a squadron of twenty-one
airplanes from Kelly Field at San An-
tonio will hold maneuvers here for the
legionaires.
Other outstanding features of the
distinctive program of the sta'te event
are addresses by Judge Kenesaw M.
Landis, baseball commissioner; Gover-
nor Pat M. Neff and Senator Morris
Slfeppard. Madame Schumann-Heink,
well-known opera singer, also will be
here for the convention, to sing as well.
as general Lewis, head of the Eighth
Corps Area, and Admiral McGruder,
commander of the naval district with
headquarters at New Orleans.
The convention plans will be gone
over in a meeting of Argonne Post No. 20
with the legion auxiliary at the post
headquarters Thursday night. The fea-
ture of the meeting will be presenta-
tion of the American Legion Women’s
Auxiliary Standards to members of
Argonne Post No. 20. Following the
business session and the presentation,
a surprise is in store for the auxiliary
members it was indicated.
“The hell you are!” In a gust of
uncontrollable frenzy, Quara struck her
sharply over the mouth. "You go—d’
you hear?—you damn’-—”
In blind fury Joan flung herself upon
him, sobbing, biting, scratching, kick-
ing. He reeled back before that unex-
pected assault, then, sobered a trifle by
its viciousness, caught her wrists, held
her helpless for an instant, and threw
her violently from him. She fell to her
knees, lurched over on her side. The
door slammed; he was gone.
She knew the man too well not to
know he would make instantly for the
nearest bar; the only question was
what guise intoxication would assume
in him, this time. It was possible that
he would drink' himself raving mad and
return fit for murder. She must make
her escape with all possible expedition.
Turning to her trunk, she took out the
tray—and passed with a low cry of
consternation. From the tumbled and
disordered state of its contents, it Was
plain that, having discovered the ring,
Quard had searched diligently for fur-
ther confirmation of his suspicions.
With quickening breath, the girl
dropped to her knees and hastily but
thoroughly ransacked and turned out
upon the floor all her belongings.
Within a brief period she satisfied her-
,self of an appalling fact; Quard had
stoeped to rob her. Her hands were
tied; she had not money enougn to
leave him.
By Associated Press.
New York, July 18.—Champion Jack
Dempsey and Luis Angel Firpo, pride
of the Argentine, still remained un-
matched today after a conference held
in the office of Promoter Tex Rick-
ard, who hopes to bring the boxers
together either in Buenos Aires or Jer-
sey City.
Just what held up the signing Pro-
moter Rickard did not state when ne
stepped from the conference chamber
with Jack Kearns, the champion’s man-
ager, Firpo, and the Argentine’s train-
er, Jimmy DeForest. Negotiations still
were on, however, and something might
be forthcoming tomorrow.
Firpo, it was learned, was strong
for arranging the fight in his native
city. Kearns, on the other hand, fa-
vored Boyle’s Thirty Acres.
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS
She uttered a cry of despair. ‘Robbed
—you mean?”-
"Yes, ma’am. He ain’t got as much’s
a nickel on him. Nothing else? Good
night, ma’am.”
The door closed. Of a sudden, Joan
jumped up and ran to the bed in the
alcove. Quard’s condition was pitiable,
but in her excited no compassion. With
feverish haste she unbuttoned his shirt
and tugged at his undershirt. Then
she sobbed aloud, a short, dry sob of
relief. She had discovered the money-
belt. In another minute she had un-
buckled and withdrawn it from his
body. She took it to the other room,
to the light, and hastily undid its
fastenings. There were perhaps two
dozen fresh, new bills, for the most
part , of large denominations, folded
once lengthwise to fit into the narrow
silken tube. Calling the hotel office
by telephone, she requested that a doc-
tor be sent to the room, then slipped
down the stairs and through a side door
to the street. Within an hour she was
in Oakland, purchasing a through
ticket to New York.
“Galveston business men should be
vitally interested in the forthcoming
county fair at Dickinson because it. is
one of the means whereby the proper
development of the mainland areas of
the county may be brought about.”
This was one of the declarations of
E. M. Cole of Alta-Loma, who is in
active charge of the management of
the fair, in the course of an address
before the Rotary Club of Galveston
at the regular weekly luncheon at Ho-
tel Ga’lvez Wednesday afternoon.
“Furthermore,” he said, “the fair, if
given the support of the business men
of this city will bring them into closer
relation with the residents of the main-
land communities. We need the finan-
cial and moral, as well as co-operative
support for the fair to the end that
the vacant spaces in the mainland ter-
ritory may be brought under cultiva-
tion.
“There is need for the better spirit
of getting together, working together
and understanding one another. This
will be profitable all around.”
Mr. Cole took occasion also to dwell
upon the development of the fig in-
dustry in the county and declared that
with proper financial support and
more people the mainland could be de-
veloped into a most productive terri-
tory. His address was received with
enthusiastic applause.
Capt. Martin C. Walton, command-
ant at Fort Crockett, spoke briefly on
the Citizens’ Military Training Camps
and asked that members of the club
assist in securing a goodly represen-
tation of young men for the camp to
be held at Fort Sam Houston begin-
ning July 28 and lasting for one month.
R. M. Tevis presided at the luncheon
and Dr. W. B. Fletcher led the club
singing.
scuffling feet, gruff voices and heavy
breathing in the hallway, following the
clash of an elevator gate, Brought her
to her feet. Answering a knock, she
threw the door wide . Two porters
staggered in, one with the shoulders,
one with the feet of Quard. The bell-
boy followed. When they had lugged
to the bed that inert and insensate
thing she had once loved. Joan tipped
the men and they departed. The boy
lingered. "Is there anything more I
can do, ma’am?”
"Where did you find him?”
"Down on the coast. I don’t know
what wouldn’t 've happened to him if
you hadn’t sent me after him. He went
up an alley—had been stuck up by a
couple of strong arms. I seen ’em
making their get-away just as I come
Joan Quard of today, woman, actress,
wife; with a gold ’band around her
finger; mature, initiate of mysteries,
ripe in wisdom. To begin witn, she
was very nappy. Fond to distraction
of her husband, sne never doubted that .
he worshiped her; he gavs her quick his voice mounted:
wits no cause to entertain doubt. They
were together always, inseparable.
Their route from Trenton took them
the ring into her palm. "Now, you
tell me—”
"Very well,” she interrupted patient-
ly. "It’s my engagement ring! I was
engaged last summer to Mr. Matthias,
before we began to rehearse the sketch.
I meant to marry him until you and I
met the second time.”
“And if that’s true, how’t happen
you didn’t give’m back his ring? Eh?”
“I meant to, Charlie, but he was out
of town and I didn’t know his address.”
'“That’s likely!” The actor laughed
harshly. “Tha’sh good one, that is!
You going to marry him, and didn’t
know his address. I say, you’re a liar !
‛F you’d ever got a chance to marry
that feller, you’d ’ve jumped at it.
You’re a liar, a dam’ dirty little liar.”
Joan’s color deserted her face en-
tirely. "Charlie! don’t you say that
to me again.”
"And what’ll you do? I know what
you’ll do, all right, because I’m going
to make you do it. I know now who
gave you that ring. I was fool not to
guess it before. Vincent Marbridge—■
tha’s the feller ’t give you the ring.
He’s the feller ’t could do it, too—got
all the money in the world—enough to
buy dozen’r rings—enough to buy you
all them good clothes you got hold of
after you threw me down and before I
was ass enough to take up with you
again!”
The insult ate like an acid into the
pride of the girl. “That will do!” she
said bitterly. "You’ve said enough—
too much.”
"And what’ll you do, eh?" he shouted
violently.
"I’ll leave you—”
"You betcha life you’ll leave me. I
knew that before you came into this
room—”
• “And I’m sorry X didn’t go long
ago—"
CHAPTER VIL
And then,' suddenly, the face of life
was indescribably changed; Joan
Thursday seemed but a memory, in her
place another creature reigned, the
south through Philadelphia, Wilming-
ton, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond
and Norfolk; whence they doubled back
by steamer to New York, took a Sound
boat to Fall River, played Boston, and
drifted through New England, eventu-
ally striking westward again via Al-
bany, Buffalo, and the middle country.
Sometimes she thought pityingly of
Matthias, and wondered if he knew she
was married and what she was doing;
and whether he were angry, or heart-
broken, or eaten up with morbid jeal-
ousy; and how he would act should
chance ever throw them together again.
She ceased to worry about the ring.
She meant to return it some day, per-
haps. Though she did not wear it and
had never so much as mentioned Mat-
thias to Quard, it remained a posses-
sion whose charms tugged at her heart-
strings. Meanwhile, the ring lay per-
due at the bottom of a work-basket of
woven sweet-grass which she had pur-
chased shortly after her marriage;
twisted in on old, empty needle paper,
its hiding place was well calculated to
escape detection.
And then, the night of their opening
in Cincinnati, Quard escorted her from
the theater to the hotel, left her at the
door, and turned back to “see a friend”
who happened to be playing on the
same bill. This was quite the usual
thing, and Joan went contentedly off
to her room and in due course of time
to bed, confident that Quard would re-
turn within an hour. It was broad
daylight when Quard staggered in,
drunk, with the assistance of a bellboy
and his negro dresser. His eyes were
glazed, his face ghastly, his mind wan-
dered; he was as helpless as a child.
With the aid of the boys, Joan managed
to undress the man and put him to bed.
His remorse when he awoke was touch-
ing and, as long as it lasted, unques-
tionably sincere. Joan accepted with-
out comment his lame explanation and
gave genuine credulity to his protesta-
tion that it would never happen again.
But three weeks later in Chicago he
repeated the performance. These ex-
periences continued at varying inter-
vals.
They reached San Francisco the third
week in April. For some time Quard
had been drinking rather methodically
but stealthily. A threat made by Joan,
while he was sobering up from his last
debauch, to the effect that on repeti-
tion of the offense she. would leave
him without an hour’s notice, and
frighten the man to the extent of mak-
ing him hesitate to add one, drink to
another except at intervals long
enough to retard tne cumulative effect.
On Wednesday afternoon of their week
in San Francisco, the girl did a bit of
shopping after the matinee; it was half
after five before she returned to the
hotel, and walked Into their room to
find Quard, with his coat off, seated in
a chair that faced the door. His eyes,
wide and blazing, met hers with a look
of inflexible hostility and rage. The
air was pungent with his breath, but
she divined that it was not drunken-
ness alone which had aroused his tem-
per. Abruptly he shot up out of his
chair, strode to the door, locked it and
pocketed the key. His face as he
turned was terrible to see. She shrank
away. “Why—Charlie!—what—”
He took a step toward her, and shook
his hand in her face. Between his
thumb and forefinger glittered some-
thing. “What’s that?" he demanded in
a quivering voice.
’ She staggered to recognize the sym-
bol of her broken troth with Matthias.
Instinctively her gaze veered to the
trunk. Its lid was up. On the floor
lay her work-basket in the litter of its
By Associated Press.
San Antonio, Tex., July 18.—"I tied
Will Browley to the tree and left him (
to die,” Clarence Williams, negro, 25, 1
of San Antonio, confessed to police and
city detectives late Tuesday night.
"He begged me not to leave him, but
I was afraid of him after our fight and
I drove off hearing him plead for his
life.”
Williams has been held by detectives
for several days in connection with the
killing of Browley, whose headless
skeleton was found tied to a tree east
of the city last Friday. Browley disap-
peared April 17.
It was a lone job. The two negroes
had an argument over $50. Browley,
Willlams said, shot at him and he hit
Browley with a rock, then tied him to
a tree.
Dr. T. N. Goodson, assistant county
physician, declared Browley died from
starvation and exposure following the
discovery of the skeleton.
Williams, life long friend of Brow-
ley, told officers he contemplated get-
ting married and had entrusted Brow-
ley with $50 to save for him for the
occasion. Browley refused to return it.
Williams said he planned Browley’s
death and induced him to go to the
pasture on the Kirkner road. He had
a heavy stone with him with which he
Intended to hht Browley. Browley sur-
prised him, however, by drawing a pis-
tol and firing. The bullet passed
through his coat sleeve.
AMONG THOSE PRESENT.
Agents in attendance upon the meet-
ing were: W. G. Humphrey, chief
service supervisor, Texas & Pacific,
Dallas; A. A. Sims, supervisor of
freight claim prevention, Southern Pa-
cific lines, Houston; C. P. Kennedy, lo-
cal freight agent, Southern Pacific,
Galveston; H. S. Buescher, freight
claim agent, Texas & Pacific, Dallas;
John L. Douglas, general claim agent,
G. C. & S. F., Galveston; Z. R. Kirk,
freight claim prevention agent, S. A. &
A. P., Yoakum; H. G. Watts, superin-
tendent of freight claims, I & G. N.,
Palestine; C. C. Blosson, prevention
agent, M. K. & T., Waco; H. M. Smith,
manager moorhead inspection, St.
Louis; D. R. Swain, agent Galveston
Bus lines, Galveston; W. B. Keenan,
freight claim agent, F. W. & D. C., Fort
Worth; C. E. Bingham, freight claim
agent, Kansas City Southern, Kansas
City; J. G. Lynch, freight claim
agent, L. R. & N. Co., Shreveport; C. G.
Webb, freight claim agent, Southern
Pacific, Houston; D. S. Culwell, live-
stock claim agent, G. C. & S. F. Ry.,
Fort Worth; T. G. Roemer, superinten-
dent of transportation, Gulf Coast
lines, Houston; W. F. Cowley, inspec-
tor of freight claims, Kansas City
Southern, Kansas City; Bowman Jarott,
claim agent Pan Handle & Santa Fe,
Amarillo; R. L. Truitt, superintendent
freight claims, Frisco, Fort Worth; Joe
Marshall, American Railway Associa-
tion, Chicago; J. T. Gallapsy, trans-
portation inspector, F. W. & D. C., Fort
Worth; A. W. Durham, G. C. & S. F.,
Galveston: Gus L. Wagner, G. C. & S.
F., Galveston; R. E. Floor. Southern
Pacific, Houston; L. C. Overland, G. C.
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It was Quard’s,practice to carry his
money in large bills folded in a belt
of oiled silk which he wore buckled
round his waist, beneath his under-
clothing—with a smaller fund for run*
ning expenses in a leather bill-fold
more accessibly disposed. But Joan had ■
adopted the shiftless plan of secreting
her savings in a pocket contrived for
that purpose in an old underskirt. And
since she had always held her husband
rigidly to account for her individual
$50 per week, she had managed thus
to set aside about $300. Unfortunately,
it had been their habit to carry dupli-
cate keys to one another’s baggage by
way of provision against loss. So that
now she was left with less than $20 in
her pocketbook.
She paced the floor in wrathful med-
itation, pondering means and expedi-
ents. Then she rang for a bellboy. The
youth who answered had an intelligent
look. She opened negotiations with a
dollar tip. "I want you to find my
husband for me,” sne said. "If he’s
anywhere around tne Hotel, he’ll prob-
ably be in the bar. But look every-
where. and then come and tell me.
That’s all. Hurry.”
As soon as the boy had gone she
turned again to her luggage, selecting
indispensable garments and toilet ar-
ticles and packing them in a suitcase.
By the time a knock sounded upon the
door, she had the case strapped and
locked.
“He ain’t nowhere about the house,
ma’am,” the bellboy reported. "He
took a cab. The driver’s stand is in
front of the hotel. If I can find him
I can find where your husband went.
Anyhow, it ain’t hard to follow up a
gentleman as—”
"As drunk!” Joan put in when the
boy hesitated. Taking a $5 gold-piece
from her scanty store, she gave it to
the boy. “Go find him,” she said. “And
if he seems to know what he’s doing—
just hang around until he doesn’t; he
won’t keep you waiting long. Then
bring him to me.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
Supperless, she sat down to wait,
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