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^•1 REX BEAC+^
tmliar with £Uiri4g«'s habits; you
know how dtives home that back
way every.4ujrht af^r he’a been to see
her, so nob^y will'get wise, and you
know ’he has to get out to open that
gate. You know* every inch of the
ground out there, having been raised
on the spot. You buy a cheap car so
you can get around—people on trpl-
> be
at night.'
like ydh, a picture-painter, want of an
automobile, eh? All right. One night
j leys are likely to be seen and recog
nised late at night.' What’s a guy
Power Offers For
Clerk Of Court
J. Herman Ptf^er, of the Barksdale-
Namie section, . fonnally announces
himsetf in today’s paper as a candi
date for clerk of court in the August
primary.
Mr. Power is now completing his
fourth year as member of the board
of county commissioners. In placing
when Ethridge has a date with your j his announcement yesterday he '^t-
|gal—his gal—you beat it out to see ed, “Upon my record and experience
I am asking promotion at the hands
of the voters.” He is a wid6ly-kno\^'n
your mother. You’re a nice, dutiful
mammals boy, only you’re not living
at home. No, you’ve got your own and popular citizen of the county, and
place in town and you leave her alone his many, hi^
with the chicks. Totf park ybiir tttv;7 candidacy. ^ *
• EIGHTH INSTALLMENT , |liquor in her bottio and felt her Uut-!''"' the lane; then,
S,iK>p6i3; Ainoe Ethridge ii found lened nerves relax, felt a grateful
murdered in a country lane with a'ease and contentment creep through
crude cross of~twigs on his^reast and
a scented slieet of note paper in his
her.
When the matron came to awaken
pocket. He was the ricbeot man in the 1 her charge in the morning she found
atate with power and influence enough, her lying across he^ bed with her
tot Jn*ke himself a candidate for gov-’clothes on, arid with Vn empty flask
«mor.‘'With his death came hints of J beside her.
an unsavory private life, of sandal
that might co^ to light if t^ mu^- Holmes did not confmu-
riicate with his mother that night; he
was, for the time being, out of com
munication with anybody. Even whiM
the evening extras were in process of
printing he had been taken to police
der is inves£i|:ated too closely. Mary
Holmes, SL^former opera singer whose
career was wrecked at the birth of
her son, called “the goose woman” by
newspaper reporters, lives nearest the
scene of the crime on a small chicken
farm where she ekes out a poor living
and tries to find in drink the forget
fulness of past glories when she was
. Maria di Nardi, world-renowned op
era singer. ^ . . tJerald Holmes, a tal-
~”ented youn^artist, is hated and loved
by his mother who is embittered be-
old lady. But you take pains to duck|
just before Ethridge is due hdme.
Fine! It’s a wonder you 'didn’t set the,
clcwk back when she ^wasn’t' looking t
and call her attention to it. They us-i
ually do. ^ }
J But you get a bad break—one in a
Ttsandr-‘Your mother goes up the
There w^ jk perfectly good reason | m time to see you give Ethridge
the works. Tough for you she wasn’t
close enough to recognise your voice,
or see your face; she’d have kept herj
mouth closed if she had, no doubt.
Women are like that. But, not know-;
j ing you ha<l a car, she .spills every-'
headquarters and there put through thing to Mr. Vogel, and he plays her!
an examination sufficiently rigorous I just right. We have you covered be-!
to be termed the “third degree.” Atifore'he brings her into town. And by
the way, remember .the two wops that
talked to you the night you went
first he was humiliated and bewilder
ed, although scarcely alarmed; he an
jiwered questions frankly and fully, ^'bac^t to hide your tracks in case she
not realizing in the least that Cvei-y sus{>ected you? Your right headlight
i.- u _*u 1 1 # u uttered closed the net more was out that night, too. Why, man,
cusv h.s hirth wusejith, loss of her lightly .bout him. I everythin* checks u,., even to the
voice .nd wrecked her operxtic c..| .^hin*' hinj white robe, or •mantle,' ... .he call.
about his relations with Hazel Woods, *tl We find this light-colore<l dust
land he told them of his engagement coat in your car. It ain’t exactly
to her. He also admitted ownership] white and it ain’t a’‘robcT’-hut it’.s-
of an automobile and ideiftified a close enough. I never saw a cleaner
D. E. Tribble Co.
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Magiatrates, Laurens and
CNnton $5.00
AH other Magistrates........$3.00
Strictly payable in advance!
Don't ask us to deviate from
this rule, as all must be paid in
.advance. :——
from Ward 3, subject to tlw rul
regulations of the, Dempcrati
rmx
FOR SHERIFF
I thereby announce myself as .a can
didate for Sheriff of Laurens County
and pledge myself to abide by the
rdes of the Dmocratic primary.
'• CALDWELL WEIR.
CLERK OF COURT
i—I hereby announce myself'as a can-
i didate for Clerk of Court of Laurens
County and pledge to abide by the
rules and regulations of the Demo
cratic primary»^
’ “^ HERMAN POWER.
mary.
rulea aai
‘ Ward Four
I hereby announce myself as a cnk-'
djdate for re-election as AldemuK
frem^ard 4, subject to the result^
the Democratic primary.
F. M. BOLAHD.' 1
Ward Five.
/ I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Alderman from Wand 6^
for the To^ of Clinton, subject to
the result of thes^^mocratic primary.
JOHN N. BIGHAM.
I hereby announce m
didate for Alderman
elf as a can-
-Ward 6^.
Den»o-
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reer. He has been befriended by the
murdered Ethridge, and is engaged
to another of Amoa Ethridge’s -prote
ges, Hazel Woodsy lovely and brilliant
young actress. She has been helped
to success J)y Ethridge. She lives in
a smallj cottage owned by Ethridge.
Ja^b Riggs, eccifrttric old-time actor,
now a doorman at the theatre where
Hazel Woods plays, has appointed
himself her guarrdian and livef In a
room over her garage.
(Now Go On Wth the Story).
Watch Your
Kidneys/
linen du^t coat as his property, al
though why the police had taken
pains to filch' it from the car and
bring it here he could not imagine.
With equal readiness he admitted
having driven* out to his mother’s' make me believe and that’s what you
farm on the evening of the murder say about—Miss Woods.
set-up. Better call it a day and sign
on the dotte’d line.”
Gerald .spoke, quietly, listlessly:
“You almost make me believe I did
it, but there’s one thing you can’t
Vogel had made her bring her
scrap-books of yellowed clippings and
her photographs; he had also ar- ., i. .. n
i»n*4 for pre.» photo»r.pher, .nd 1
camera men from tW news weelfKe.s,
and having left the car iji the pine
grove Mar the entrance ot the Eth
ridge fane. Yes, his right headlight
had been out of commission.
To Gerald it seemed inconceivable
the screen
a
reviews.
That night while his mother greed
ily read about herself in the papers
and drank herself into a^triumphant
stupor Jerry sat on the edge of a
bunk in the city prison.
We-stland was in a furore. There
pect -him' of complicity-in the , :^'' but ^one Jopic of conversation,
crime. Not until he had gone over and ;^j?'^ Ethridge ca.'^e had broken fin-
for here was a subject suitable ^o^jover the'story' of hilTr’ip out' and!
When Mrs.
' for nothing so fantastic as the true
Why should .he wish to harm the man
who had done more for him than any
body in Westland? What possible mo-
^thni gouM be -have for deetroying his
benefactor ?
They told him why, in language so
plain, so brutal, that he was stricken
dumb. Miss Woods had been Amos
Ethridge’s sweetheart and,the cottage
she occupied was thefi* love nest. She
was the’ writer of that “Thursday”
note which had been found on his
body, and, after the show on the night
were out and Mrs. Holmes heard | of his slaying, he had called upon her,
thefh being shouted. 'They contained j as was his frequent habit. He had
Jittle but headlines and a brief state- gone directly from her anns to his
ment of facts, but she read them [death.
avidly and coqld scarcely wait for the j Gerald leaped to his feet. “That’s
least impressing them did he begin to!7® begin with, the
appreciate the seriousness of his sit- ■ Ethridge s love nest and
nation. Why should they suspect him charnung occupant-which, by the
of the munter, he demanded to knowT"!**^’ .P^P**** featured in scream
Holmes keft the building, she faced on ^that ^gbt ^it^ut'^*^ the j conceived in the most
battery of still and moving-picturel. . . * . Tw .i...
cameras, and a way for her had to
be cleared through the curiosity-
seekers. . —
Word quickly spread that an ac
tual eye-witness of the Ethridge slay
ing had come forward with an in
credible story and a mob followed
Mrs. Holmes to her hotel. It swarmed
into the lobby and up to the elevator
gates, Reminding her of the crowds
that had followted her in Paris, in Vi
enna. She would have liked to step
out of her room to some balcony, with
her arms full "of roses, and throw
kisses to the street below.
In a surprisingly shori time extras
CITY ANNOUNCEMENTS.
/ „FOR MAYOR
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for re-election as Mayor of
Clinton, subject to the result of the
iVemocratic primarj’.
SILAS BAILEY.
FOR ALDERMAN
Ward One
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Alderman from Waird 1,
Mubject to the result of the Demor
cratic primarj’, •
DR. T. J. PEAK
subj^t to the result of
cratic primary.
L. M. EVANI
Ward Six
I hereby announce myself as a
didate for re-election as Aldermaa
from War<^ 6, subject to the rules and
regulations of the Demooratic pri
mary. . • JOHh( W. HEDSPETH.
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Alderman from Ward 6^
subject to the result of the Demo
cratic primary.
C. F. OAKLEY.
6t Surt They Proporly
Qtmtn tht Blood
VOUR kidacvi art
I ing
strain. ^ Idanayt 1
a can-
derman
e result
Una ye« any nffar
^ eyasj fail tmnm,
Ward Two
1 hereby announce myself
j didate for re-election as
i from Ward 2, subject to
*Jof_the Democratic prima
1 PET ? : ADAIR.
Ward Thr^
I hereby announce ^yself as a can-
I didate for re-electiOn as Alderman
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JAMES W. CALDWELL
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Doans Pills
fuller accounts and for the arrival
•of the big Cbickgo dadlies the next
morning. It fed her vanity to realize
that in nwiny quarters upon type
writer keys andtelegraph instru
ments fast-rflying fingers were pound
ing out her life story and that it was
being cast into molten metal for the
world to read. Those old photographs
whiich had lain so long in the daric
were, being reproduced and new ones
finished! Mary Holmes, “the goose
woman,” had set the presses of the
country a-epinning; Maria de Nardi>
the forgotten darling of grand opera,
was being ‘ reborn.
* Sustained emotion, such as she had
undergone today, demanded relief,
aod again she appealed to the matron
for ffcnne whiski^.--But the lattea-wae- Jiava>that. Slw’errebfl’4t.4iiOt. aUogeth-
finpi Mrs. fioimes was too excited to
eat any supper, nor ^old she sleep
wtwn bedtime came. Habit/had
come fixed, reetraint had ^bet
ted keener her desire lor di&k, and
her outraged eyatem clamored Heroe-
iy for its aocuetotned anodyaa She
paced Utf floor until lon^ after her
companion;! bad ratired.
She wohdered why Jeny did not
with^her. He muet hare
heard those bewaboya bawling “ex
tra” by tUe time and— But ol eourae
he was nmd at her fer getting into
prist; he ebhorred notoriety. A
ahrinldpg vMet, thet wae Jerry! Bah!
He had offered to make,her over if
she’d let him! WelL ehe had made
hemelf. over. She wikbad he could tee
her tonight.
. Ifia. Holmes rang for a bellboy and
aisked him the eerlieet possible mo.
ment he couldsecure .for her'the
morning pap^ru. The boy voiunteered
to'go to the offleee and fetch the first
copies off the preee; that would prob-
wMy be about three o’clock. ’Hiis gave
the-woman an idea, and ehe inquired
if by any chance, he could at the eame
time secure for her a liede stimu
lant, preferably wliiakey, although
gin would do. The hoy assured her
he could. He did.
IHuy Hidmes found pictures of her
self on the damp front pages. The
atories that went with tiiem were aH
that she could have desired. She
smiled, to be sure, at Vogel’s positive
aseertion th^ he was on the trail of
'“the Twmn in the robe” and that his
arrest was merely a msittw of hours.
Vogel was a great gmndxtander. Be
jttwhmmdi the reader. She lowered the
a lie!” be shouted. In a fury he struck
at the speaker. No attempt was made
to quiet him; op the contrary, his in-
quisi^rs undertook to capitalize his
agitation. They goaded him; they
taunted him with being a fool; they
told him things about Ethridge and
the giri that would have driven any
lover frantic. Vogel came in” while
this was going on, but he took no part
in the proceedings. When Jerry re
fused to..bo convinced, when again he
called them liars and defied them to
shake his faith in his fiancee, they
shifted their tactics and read him his
mother’s deposition. He listened while
incredulity changed to despair.
When ' they had finish^ he told
them, misentoly: “You shouldn’t be
ing headlines—was sufficiently scan
dalous to delight the prurient minded.
Then, too, the identity of the slayer
was a genuine surprise.^^ A wicked
roue, a seductive actress, a Cupid's
bower, and a jealous young lover! It
wa.s the oldest, the most hackneyed
situation'known to newspaper report
ing: it was hokum of the highest
quality, sure-fire stuff. Anybody!
could write it, everybody would read
it. To have the lover prove to be a
base ingrate was an added touch and
a tasty morsel. But the thrill, the
drama, lay in the fact that the in
grate’{9 mother had actually witnessed
the murder and, in absolute innocence
of the part she played, had brought
him to justice. Here was something
stunning; here was a coincidence
truly uncanny; here was the hand of
God. Yes, xnd the final denouement,
coming right on top' of the discovery
of her real identity, was piling up
sensation upon sensation.
(Continued Next Issue)
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er responsiMe. Bhe drinks more than
she should add there are times when
she’s apt to do or say ahnoet iray.
thing. She’s m>t a credible witness.”
“She wasm’t *drunk when she swore
to this.”
“But — don’t you see, there’s juist
enough • troth 'to what she ^says to
make it all sqund plausiMa? She
doesn\ know that I have an auto-
mobUar T'^tidnT toll her boeaufo—
wril, because she would have oonaid-
orod it an axtravaganeef so she does
n’t realise it waa my car ahe aaw pass
the house. I did leave it at the gro^
and it did have only one headlight.
Yea, and she saw the tracks there the
next nmming. But she didn’t actual
ly see the murder, or she’d have t<Hd
me. Why, we talked it over when I
got baric from Chicago and she never
said a word about it! Bring her here.
Taka me tocher. •Stae’U^set this thing
MtraigiiL”
“You’d better come
the detectives trid him.
lot of trouble and you’re not/doing
fbunelf any good caving this.
You may save yoursrif from the gal
lows.” In spite of himtelf, Gerald
flinched. “IVet^ rottep^to kiH the
man who befriendedy^^ou. The jury
won’t be out twentjr mimitee. Why,
listen to this and a little thinking
for yourself. Bthndge likes you, pays
your way thrcHi^ art school, and one
day he introduces you to his gal; Y<m
fall fcMT bei^like any sucker, and i want
to marry/her until you discover she’s
his sortie. But she knows a good
thing/when bho’s got it and she stalls
AH those J^nes havoayoungfeL
<Mi the side! Of course y^’re fa-
Mr. and BtrS. S. A. Kem ^nd daugh
ters, Margaret and Agnte, of Green
wood, spent Sunday wi^ the former’s
mother, Mrs. Agnes Jtem.
Ben Anderson o^Columbia, spent
the week-end witjr his mother,. Mbs.
B. M. Anderson.
Mr. and Mps. Charles Jones and
Miss MirianyJonea of Chester, spent
Sundsy wito Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Jones, Jiy ^
Mr. aiM ^rs. B. P. Copeland and
shildrpa, ami Mrs. H. Spears of
Cha^tto, N. C., spent the week-end
wtm_JKra. Ban Copriand and other
rRelief
of
hRWgtift
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