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taught on Rock Under Pawtuxet Falls, Alfred Jackson Dies in Sight of Two Hundred Persons, and Freezing Spray Makes Him His Own Monument. After saving his brother from drown ing Alfred Jackson, twenty-two years ?old, of Providence, was frozen to death on a rock under the falls of the Paw tuxet river in the sight of 200 persons Bear Pawtuxet. R. L A rope was rthrown to Jackson, but his feet were Incased in ice. He made a vain at tempt to loop the rope around his waist and, failing in this, literally died on |hls feet. His body was quickly sheeted iwlth ice, the spray freezing almost as .rapidly as it fell, and within three hours he was entombed in a cone of ice which rose about eight feet from Uie rock. The slow death of Jackson was at tended by pathetic scenes on both sides |f the river. There were about fifty Jvomen among the witnesses of the tragedy, and all gave way to hysteria. Tan of the women fainted, and two men were restrained with difficulty from plunging into the river in a mad desire to rescue the freezing man. Dr. Clinton Westcott and Adelard Potviu. both of Providence, almost lost their lives in an ineffectual attempt to reach Jackson. They put out in a boat, and the little craft was thrown against a rock and battered to pieces. The men had ropes tied around their Hbodies, and they were dragged to shore [unconscious and cut and bruised from In a whirlpool and was exhausted when he was thrown out and was swept toward the rock upon which his brother was standing. Alfred caught the youth by the wrist and supported him on the rock for al most an hour. The youth was so weakened he was unable to stand, and It was with the utmost difficulty his brother held him against the rush of the water. Many attempts failed before a rope was cast within the reach of the broth ers. Alfred bound it tightly under the helpless youth's arms, and young Jack sou was dragged senseless and bleed iug from the mouth and ears to the bank. He was taken in an automobile to the Rhode Island hospital, where it was said his condition was critical. It was thought there would be little trouble in rescuing the other brother, !but again and again failure attended throwing a rope to him. Ropes were flung halfway across the river above the falls, but they were always swung by the raging water far from the rock. Finally, with a tremendous effort, a man shot the end of a line close to Jackson, and with a despairing grasp the young man caught it. A cheer of triumph went up from all the watchers on both banks. Jackson was seen struggling to loop the rope frHE'ICE ROSE OVER HIS SHOULDERS AND CAKED ON HIS HEAD. {Contact with the rocky river bottom. ;Tbe spectators became almost frantic .when they found they were helpless to [assist Jackson, and many of them left the spot, -unable to endcre the sight. iWithout exception the women seemed to be held by a strange fascination, land even those who were carried away [fainting returned when they had been (restored to consciousness, i Jackson and his brother Arthur, itwenty years old, and L. P. Mathew son, nineteen years old, of East Prov idence left the Pawtuxet Canoe club In ja canoe and paddled slowl}* down jBtrean:. Approaching the falls, they 'permitted the canoe to drift and were Jtoo late In turning to go upstream. [For twenty minutes they struggled des perately to keep the canoe above the [falls, but inch by Inch the stream car jried them along until, caught in the full force of the racing current, they found themselves helpless. The canoe went over the falls and .Twas sunk. Alfred Jackson succeeded in dragging himself upon a flat top ped rock about six Inches under water and at a point where spray was thrown in clouds. Arthur Jackson was caught around his body. But his strength was not sufficient for the task, and in a last hope he waved feebly to men on shore to pull on the rope. The men had hardly tightened the line before It came away from Jack son's hand. He was frozen to the rock, and he fought bravely for liberty. He tried to throw himself into the river In the hope of being carried down stream to be picked up in the same way as Mathewsou, who was picked up little the worse for the wetting. But Jackson was unable to move his legs, and his struggles growing weak er and weaker the ice stiffened his body. His cries could not be heard above the roar of the falls. When he seemed near to death West cott and Potvin went out in the boat, only to be dragged in at the end of ropes a minute later. At times the spray drifted aside from Jackson and he was seen in clear outline through the shroud of ice growing upon him. The Ice rose over his shoulders and caked on his head. It fell down the sides and took the shape of a giant cone until the body was almost hid den from view. Lived Five Months on Lizards. fLong Island Sailor, Returning Home For Christmas, Teils Awful Tale of Shipwreck Near the Equator. Enduring privations mure remarka ble thau those of Robinson Crusoe. KMate Donald Morrison of the long lost 'Norwegian bark Alexandra Oubis re turned to his home in Southampton, tN. Y., for Christmas, i He and nine other sailors from the ibark were marooned for five months of the present year on an uninhabited Island near the equator in the Pacific ocean. They were compelled, after a few meals of turtles, to live on the meat of lizards. The captain of the bark went insane from suffering, and [the survivors were near death wheu finally rescued by a sloop manned by other members of the crew who had reached the mainland. "We were compelled to leave the Ibark after drifting for two weeks when becalmed." said Morrison. "We entered two small boats and kept to gether for a few days, but finally sep arated. We landed on Indefatigiblc island without water and little food. '"Our one luxury was a solitary pipe, which we smoked by turns, using dried leaves and the bark of trees in lieu of tobacco. Wheu we landed on the is land we had eighteen matches. We found no water on the island at first and were compelled to strip the skin from cactus leaves and drain the juice. Later a small spring of brackish water was discovered. "We left our first camp and had to swim around a cliff to another section of the Island. An American member of the crew refused to go. and I under stand a party is still looking for him." Three Persons Killed In One South Carolina Duel. S. W. Welsh and T. W. Clyburn were fkilled and Berry Mobley fatally wound ed In a duel which took place at Ker shaw. S. C. The tragedy grew out of a difficulty between Welsh and Mob [ley, which was settled by u fist fight. ?The men shook hands and made up, (but a few minutes afterward Welsh. I angered by a remark by Mobley, drew his pistol and opened fire at close range. Clyburn stepped in between the combatants, receiving two of the bullets and falling dead at Welsh's feet. Mobley returned Welsh's fire, killing him instantly. Mobley received four bullets from Welsh's pistol. Passed Examination Successfully. James Donahue, New Britain, Conn., writes: "I tried several kid ney remedies, and was treated by our best physicians for diabetes, but did not improve untl I took Foley's Kidney Cure. After the second bottle I showed Improvement, and five bot tles cured me completely. I have since passed a rigid examination for life insurance." 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For five days Old Bailey was crowd ed with women of fashion and men of prominence in drama, literature and the arts, and outside the court daily gathered thousands whose tense inter est led them to indulge in demonstra tlons that have recalled the days when the whole population of the usually staid city went mad over the news of the relief of Matching. After nein;; out only fifteen minutes the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in favor of Robert Wood, the young artist who was charged with the murder of Phyllis Dimmock. a woman of the street. The demonstra tions began in the courtroom Itself, cheer after cheer greeting the verdict and even the barristers joining. In fact, the only man in court who pre served calmness waa the prisoner him self. If the ease was remarkable, still more remarkable was the man around whom it centered. Throughout he was cool, calm and collected, showing no emotion. Cheerfully he answered the searching cross examination by Sir Charles Mat thews and quite held his own with that practiced barrister. While the jury was absent deciding the question of his life or death he sat back composedly In the dock, mak ing a pencil sketch of the Judge. "You must not do that," said an usher, tapping Wood on the shoulder, and the prisoner shrugged his shoul ders, crossed oue knee over the other and smiled. Miss Dimmock, the murdered wom an, lived at St Paul's road, Caden Town, with a man named Bertram Shaw. Wood stated that the first time he ever saw the girl was In a public house in Easton road on the evening of Friday, Sept. G, when they had a conversation about a picture post card which he promised to send her. On the following Monday evening the two met again "at the public house. On Wednesday morning Miss Dhumock received a letter inakiug an appoint ment for that eveuiug. She went out during the evening, presumably to keep the appointment. It was 11:30 on the next morning that Shaw, entering the room on returning home from a uight's work as a train attendant, found her lyiug dead on the bed with her throat cut. The finding of the post card led to Wood's arrest. No other evidence was found against him. When he left the court a free man. 10.000 voices hniled him as a hero. He bowed his acknowledgments as if he had beeu a monarch accustomed to the somewhat fervid enthusiasm of the populace. Society Girl a Shoplifter, Pittsburg Belle, Wooed by Many Millionaires, Elopes With an Al leged Bigamist, Who Makes Her His Slave and Teaches Her to Steal. Only nine months ago a leading fig ure in the younger set in Pittsburg so ciety, Miss Mabel Hall, nineteen years old, daughter of Professor E. A. Hall, was recently locked up In Plttsburg police headquarters ou a charge of shoplifting. The girl was arrested iu a flat with Frederick Allerton, also known as Clarke, with whom she eloped last spring, and another wo man, who said she was Georgeue Al lerton and who is alleged to be Aller ton's first wife. Miss Hall eloped to New York with AUerton, and follow ing their return to Plttsburg she said her bridegroom coufeseed he already had a wife and Introduced Georgene AUerton as wife No. 1. Miss Hall also told the police that the Allertons had taught ber to steal. Many of the old social friends of the young woman called at police head quarters to offer their assistance, but she refused to see any of them. Sev eral said they would provide ball to any amount There was an affecting meeting between father and daughter. Soon after the elopement Professor! infatuation, but all in vain, and the climax was reached with the elope ment to New York. Miss Hall went away with $500 in cash and Jewels valued at $1,500. She charged that AUerton had got both money and Jewels and that almost from the day of their elopement she was absolutely dependent upon him. She said her happiness was unclouded until she returned from New York. She imagined her husband loved her dearly, and she was filled with a hope of winning the approval of her father to her choice. She said it was her greatest atobitlon to prove to her fa ther that he had been mistaken In his judgment of AUerton, but hardly had she reached Plttsburg from New York than her dreams were dispelled. AUerton drove to an apartment and the girl found a woman there. A trag ic scene followed, and Miss Hall, de manding an explanation, was Inform ed that she had been the victim of a plot She told the police her humilia tion and remorse were so great that she could not summon courage to go to she-was fbLLDWED fe? he? roms SHE WAS OBSERVED STEALING A MUFF VALUED AT $100. Hall, it was said, forbade his daughter to euter his home, and they did not see each other again until they met in police headquarters. Professor Hall conducts one of the most exclusive private schools in the city and has pre pared the majority of the Plttsburg young men of millions for the univer sities. His daughter, possessed of un usual beauty, was the object of atten tions from many young millionaires, and her engagement to a member of a family known in the steel trade was reported when she eloped with AUer ton, then posing under the name of Clarke. Miss Hall met (he man in a private dancing school. He paid court to Miss Hall from the start, and Ihe girl Invit ed him to her home. Professor Hall met AUerton and took an Intense dis like to him. He Informed his daugb- j tor she would have to cease encourag ing him. and in reply she declared her Intention to marry the young man. J Hall tried to cure his daughter of her| ; her father, particularly as he had closed the door against her. She took the advice of Allerlon and the woman and, as she said, decided to "make the best of a bad case." A few weeks aft er the first revelation she discovered that Georgene AUerton was a shop lifter, she alleged, and she tried to leave the flat. But, she asserted, she was held a prisoner, and finally, aban doning hope of a return to her old IIP?, she decided to cast her lot completely with the Allertons. The girl said that, for nearly six mouths she had been in structed to steal, with a view of reap ing a harvest in the Christinas shop ping season. The girl was observed stealing a mult valued at $100 in a Plttsburg de partment store, she was shadowed to the flat in Durand street, and de tectives kept watch upon the place un til the next day. a raid was made us soon as AUerton had entered the flat. The police said that a large quantity of stolen goods was fouud. 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