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DETECTIVE BURNS GRILLED BY DORSEY (Continued from page 14). swears to the character of Maude Carter, isn't he? A..I don't know. Q. Mr. Burns, what did you say to Allen? Didn't you curse and abuse him? A. I did not. Left Money on Table. Q. Mr. Burns, tell us about the stack of money left on the table in your main office while Allen was there and while the rest of you withdrew from the room? A. No such thing happened. Q. Did you pay Allen anything? A. No. Q. Didn't you authorize O'Neal to go to Indianapolis and tell Allen that you wanted him to do some work for you in an effort to catch a negro? A. No. , Q. What authority did you have for taking Allen to Chicago and detaining him there? A. I never took him to Chicago, and I never detained him there. Paid Isom Nothing. Q. Dou you deny that Isom was paid $100 for his trip to Chicago?' A. I never paid him anything. Q. Have you a man in your employ named Charlton C. Tedder? A. I have not employed such a man. Q. He is working for some of your agents, isn't he? A. I think he has been employed by Mr. Dehorn Q. You have conferred with Tedder, haven't you? A. Yes. Q. What sort of work did you have him doing? A. Working on the Conley case? A. Yes. Q. Didn't you just say you were employed to work on the Frank case? If so.' whv did vou have TVHHpr wnrW- 1 ing on the Conley case? A. I was emloyed to work on both cases. Q. Why did you put Tedder on the Conley case? -A. I never employed Tedder. I don't know just what arrangements Lehon had with him. Q! Isn't Lehon one of your lieutenants, and doesn't he make his reports to you? A. Lehon doesn't always report to me. Q. Lehon is in charge of your investigations. isn't he, while you are traveling about the country investigating other tangles, isn't he? A. Yes. Don't Get All Reports. Q. Doesn't he make written reports to you? A. Not always. Q. Then her peorts verbally to you? A. Sometimes. Q. Eventually and ultimately, do you get all the reports from your men in every case? A. No. Q. Who does get these reports? A. Mr. Sears, the local manager, has charge of that; and our man Ilauso trnta CDmn nf fKn r. Q. Toll the court hero why it is you have been making special trips, traveling all over the country to Chicago, Kansas City, and other places, investigating various angles of the case, though you were specially employed to direct the investigation here, and still you don't get all reports, either verbally or in writing?, A. I do not get them. Q. Are matters reported to Frank's counsel before they are reported to you? A. No. Q. Don't you report everything to Frank's counsel? A. No. Q. Who does? A. Lehon and others. Q. Why do you report to these men? A. So they will know what is going on in the case. O. When von eon for? *>/! witVi M torney Smith, Conley's lawyer, yoa knew Tedder was reporting to Smith, didn't you? A. Yes. Inquired About Tedder. Q. At that time didn't you ask Smith if Tedder could be trusted implicitly? A. Yes. Q. Why did you ask thqt question ? A. I wished to know if Tedder was trustworthy. Q. Did you direct your activities toward the conviction of Conley and the demonstration of Frank as an innocent man? A. No, not if Conley was innocent. Q. When did you first know of the Ragsdale matter? A. Mr. Lehon first spoke to me about it. Q. What did he say? A. He said there was a preacher who claimed to have been in an alley?and I stopped him right there. 1 didn't want to hear any more alley propositions. Q. Then you had been surfeited with that? A. I had. Q. Who was the man in Chicago who claimed to have picked up a pocketbook and a pencil in the alley? A. I forgot the man's name. Q. Didn't you take an affidavit from him? A. No. Q. Who did? A. Mr. Haas, I think. Q. Is that affidavit in the city? A. I think it is. Q. How many of these alley propositions did you hear of? A. Three or four hundred, I think. Did Not Find Man. Q. Did you find in Chicago a man who claimed to have been in the alley and who claimed to have picked up a DUrse and a npncil onrt a .m^rwrw .???*_ clum? A. I didn't find him. Q. Who are some of the three or four hundred people who claimed to have been in the alley? A. The operatives kept tell me of them. Q. Why, for instance? A. Mr. I,ehon and I were continually joking about the number of people who claimed to have been in tne alley. . Q. Did you dig up a man in Chicago? A. Yes. Q. Did you see the memorandum ? A. Yes, and, I doubted that the memorandum was in Conley's handwriting. |Q. Whose writing was it in? A. I think it was in the man's own writing. Q. Is that the purse you spoke j about? A. I don't remember speaking about it. Q. Have you in your safe a purse that was claimed to have been found in the alley? A. No. Q. You were credited by stories in the newspapers of Cleveland with saying that the guilty man in this case was at large. Is that report correct? A. No. The newspapers have often misquoted me. Q. Tobie is your man in Chicago, d< isn't he? A. Yes. m Q. He was employed down here in ti this case, wasn't he? A. I understand by hearsay that he was. Says Fclder Hired Tobie. tl Q. Who supported him? A. I un- c< derstand Tom Felder did. n< Q. Did Tobie ever report on the case to you? A. No. A Q. Did you ever hear of what Tobie found? A. Only through the news- N papers. Q. When did the Ragsdale matter hi first come to your attention? A. A ai week or ten days before he made the hj affidavit. Q. Who else was present when Lehon brought it to your attention? A. Si Possibly Sears. ti Q. Charley Sears? A. Yes. ai Q. When did you next hear of it? 8i A. Lehon came in and said the char- Uj acter of the preacher has been sustained?No, wait a minute; I did hear h< T 1 1 H i .1 Anna Maud Carter proposition than h( with the Ragsdale incident, are you not? A. Yes. H Q. Then you are the discovered of that, are you not? A. I wouldn't say cc that. w Q. Who deserves the credit for it? A. I first saw her in the oflice of Attorney Haas. m Q. Did you ever come in contact w with Jimmie Wrenn? A. Yes, I saw two Wrenns. y< Q. Where and how did you happen to meet them ? A. I saw them while they were working with Burke. Q. Have you ever been to see \ Frank with Burke? A. No, never. Q. Did you ever see Dr. George h, Wrenn in the Tower? A. No. fc Q. What Burns man handled this Wrenn matter? A. None, that I h: know of. Q. When did you see Wrenn? A.' He came to my office when I sent for him to get some one who was fa- Sj miliar with the letters." m Q. Was that Dr. Wrenn? A. 1 jn don't know. I twas a man about 25 or 2(? years old. y,j Q. He is the man who furnished you with the translation of these let- tj ters? A. He translated them for me, i? i? t 1 it ' (/ usii ucuuiiru fiuas Translated them, Q. When did you tell counsel for aJ Frank about the notes? A. Two of them, Messrs. Leonard and Herbert Haas, were present when I got them, q Q. How long before the first hear- . ing of the extraordinary motion was that? A. I don't know. Q. When was it? A. Wrenn interpreted the notes only four or five ,,, days ago. j, Q. How long did you have them in your possession before they were interpreted? A. Two or three days. Q. Who gave them to you ? A. C. h W. Burke. m Q. Then Burke deserves the credit ai for this? A. Yes. j-j What Burns Has Done. vj Q. Tell us of one thing you have done in the?how long is it? Sixty js days?that you have been at work on this case. A. Well, I have read the ^ brief of evidence very carefully. I went over the factory. I interviewed 3] the witnesses there. I came'to your office and examined the garments of y, the dead girl, and I made a report to the attorneys that they didn't need any more evidence than was in the a) record. Q. There were over 100 state's wit- q nesses. How many of them have you examined? A. I don't know. tl Q. Didn't you read the record? A. I read the brief. n A XT - name some ot the witnesses (]< you have examined? A. SchiflF, Darling, Lemmie Quinn, Holloway, Frank ]a himself?I don't remember the oth- f ers. Q. Did you employ Boots Rogers to w work for you in this case? A. Yes. y< Q. Have you gotten him to change his testimony? A. No. t,c Q. Did you interview Monteen Stover? A. I tried to. n, Q. Have you seen Newt Lee? A. No. Q. Did you try twice to see Mon- a teen Stover? A. Yes. h( Wanted Parents' Permission. Q. Tell us about the first time. A. That was in the office of Attorney p( Boorstein. I told Leonard Haas I a, would like to talk t othe Stover girl, n< but told him specically I didn't want jn to talk to her with her permission p or her parents. Later I told Boorstein the same thing. Later Haas (j( phoned me she and her parents were y, in Boorstein's office. I went immedi- ^ ately over there. As I reached the (j, door Boorstein said, "Come in, Mr. Burns," and the girl jumped up and q, went out of the door with her mother v< after her. I told him to let her go, j^, that I didn't want to speak to her if Hj she didn't want to talk to me. fc Q. Did you make arrangements p( with anybody to try to hold her? A. a No. Q Did you have the stenographer w try to catch her? A. No, I did not. ta Q. Did you talk to Mr. Edmondson, o> her stepfather, then? A. Yes. ti Q. Have you talked to Dr. Claude M Smith, who examined the blood stains on the second floor? A. No. n< Q. Have you talked to either of the ej iiviu uciiun ueiure men tnai me preacher was corroborated and I told \ him then I didn't want to have any- p; thing to do with a man who had that st much knowledge and withheld it so long. Lehon later came in and told me the man's character had been sustained. I told him I would have noth- fl, ing to do with it and advised him to take the matter to the attorneys and th let them investigate it and do what m they wanted to with it. in Q. When was that? A. Two or th three days before the affidavit was made. af Q. Did you ever talk with Arthur a, Thurman? A. No. Knows of No Money Paid. Y Q.Did you know that Messrs. Arnold and Rosser had talked about it? \ A. I don't remember it. Q. Do you know if any money was paid to Ragsdale? A. I do not. Q. To Barber? A. I do not. or Q. To C. C. Tedder? A. No. Q. To Arthur Thurman? A.* No. Q. Would you have known, or y would the money have been handled a in such a way you wouldn't know? p( A. If any of my men did such a ji thing, he violated all the rules of Al - me agency. ' jll Q. You are more familiar with the!.,. jctors employed by the defense to v lake an examination of the blood o lere? A. No. ^ Talked to Witnesses. Q. Did you pay any attention to a lat phase of the case? A. Why, of f >urse I did. I talked to the witBsses. Q. Did you talk to Mel Stanford? r . No. a Q. Did you talk to Barrett? A. o. I Q. Did Frank tell who was with m when he got down on his knees 1' id examined the blood spots? A. I n ive never heard of such an incident. Q. Did you talk to Lee? A. No. a Q. Did you ever examine the blood >ots found where Conley was sit- ? ng? A. I talked with McWorth n id Whitfield about them and they . lowed me where they were chipped 15 ? ?! Q. Whitfield works for you, doesn't i? A. I think he does. Q. What became of these chips? . They were turned over to the ? inkertons and thrown away, I under- ^ and. H Q. Are you sure that they were t( lipped up? A. Yes. Q. You mean there on the first Cl >or they were chipped up? A. Yes. Q. You understand I don't mean le second floor. A. That's what I ean. McWorth told me about find- e g the spots and showed me where a ley were chipped up. 51 Q. McWorth is now employed as isistant superintendent of your ? tency, is he not? A. Yes. ? Q. To handle all matters? A. n GS. Q. Did he tell you about the club? . Yes. " Q. Have you seen it? A. Yes. Has Seen Blood Stains. " Q. Have vou seen the blood stains ? i it? A. Yes. J Q. Are you as capable of looking ; spots and telling whether they are ? ood spots as you are of looking at ' man and telling whether he is a a irvert? A. I am more capable of r scerning perverts. " Q. What is this business you are irrying out of town on ? A. I am a lswering a court subpoena in Okla>ma. Q. What case? A. The case of H. ' . Tucker. Q. What court? A. The federal " >urt. The last work I did out there n as to investigate the Indian terriry? T f, Mr. Horsey interrupted. Q. I 1 erely asked what court. When . ere you due to arrive there? A. I -ll lould have been there day before ? ;sterday. Q. Are vou going directly there? . . Yes. d Q. When will you come back here? ? . In about ten days. Q. Have you any evidence you ive not reported to the attorneys ^ >r the defense? A. No. Q. When did you last report ? A. 1 ? ive kept reporting developments lily' i. Has Made Final Report. O. When vnn worn in iviv nffln.. L< >oke of a final report. Have you . ade that? A. Yes, but it is written from. - ~~~T 't\. Q. Will it be made public? A I J jve advised that it not be. Q. Why? A. It looks as if ev< ry .. me a witness is found he is bam- (| lozlcd or turned about, and I have iven it as my advice that as soon c 1 a witness of importance is found, t 2 be sent out of town. Q. Did you direct that course in the q arter case? A. I suggested it. Q. Who sent her out of town? A. ? [r. I.ehon, I think. Q. Where did he send her? j Burns demurred at answering the jestion, and appealed to the court. idpe Hill instructed him to answer. ? A. To New Orleans. ^ Sent Witness Away. Q. After she made her affidavit In ^ lis case and became a witness, you ean to tell the court you advised id had her sent out of its jurisdicon? A. Yes, I suggested and ad- ] ised she be sent away, n A* ,.,1...* ..I *.t? r\ H. nuui (jiuci- in i>e\v urieans a she? A. I don't know. Q. Isn't she at 314 Lower Line? ^ . I don't know.' j. Q. Do you know anything about 14 Lower Line? A. No. Q. Isn't she working for you or jur agency there? A. No. I Q. Are you sure of that? A. Yes. v Q. Is she working for any of your v agents or representatives? A. No. a Q. What did you pay Annie Maude c arter? A. Nothing. Q. Don't you know what, if any- ^ ling, was paid her? A. No. Q. Was any money given her by r. Wrenn for her notes and evi- . ince? A. I don't know. Q. Who handled the Carter woman * st before you got hold of her? A. a he Messrs. Haas. Q. What was it you told the Carter Oman's mother when she came to >u about her daughter? A. I told ?r I would arrange for her to go i see her daughter. . Q. Did you do it? A. No; she sver came back. Q. Who attended to the details of , etting Annie Carter out of town? t T llnn't If DAW PorVintvo WT- T ? . _ ?w.. v ..a.w?. A \-UIOp 1UIV 1 it'" >n. v No Other Evidence. Q. Mr. Burns, have you in your ^ jssession or within your knowledge ^ ly evidence of a physical nature, . >t already before the court, tender to expose the murderer of Mary hagan? A. No. t . Q. Have you any documentary evi- . mce in your possession or within M >ur knowledge not already before ^ le court tending to expose the mur- . ;rer of Mary Phagan? A. No. Q. Mr. Burns, I want to put those lestions a little differently. Have >u in your possession or within your ~ lowledge, any physical evidence not ready turned over to the lawyers ^ >r the defense which tends to ex>se the murderer of Mary Phagan? . No. A Q. Have you in your possession or e; ithin your knowledge any documeniry evidence, not already turned s rcr to the lawyers for the defense. F lat tends to expose the murderer of y ary Phagan? A. No. ti Q. Have you knowledge of any wit- u ?sses or other evidence tending to cposg the murderer of Mary Phagan il /hich you have not already turned ii ver to the lawyers for the defense? L No. a Q. When did you make your full n nd detailed report to the lawyers c or the defense? A. I am report- y ng every day. o Q. When did you make your last I eport? A. Probably a day or two c go. Q. Be more specific. A. I can't; tl don't recollect. v v Q. When did you talk last to the t( awyers for the defense? A. This aorning. s Q. You talked to them last night ii nd this morning? A. Yes. p Q. Have you seen and read a copy y f the defense's motion and amend- n lents in this case? A. No. Q. Do you know of any evidence or E ssue not already in the hands of E (lose men and already reported to (ie court? A. No. a Arnold Questfons Burns. Here Mr. Dorsey finished his cross- a xamination and Attorney Reuben R. unold, for the defense, began to uestion Mr. Burns. p "Mr. Burns," began Mr. Arnold, d haVe you found it difficult on ac- \\ aunt of the attitude of the public a j make an investigation in this case? cl l. Extremely so. C Q. Have you in all of your experi- n nee ever encountered more stubborn n nd unreasoning prejudice? A. I lost certainly have not. h Q. Have you in all your experinee ever found people so unwilling n > tell even the simple truth ? A. I tl ever have. n Q. Have you not found it difficult n > hold a man's evidence after you ave obtained it? A. I have. w Q. Did you ever know of anything n lore outrageous than the Albert Mc- c Inight case? (Mr. Arnold was re- A srring to the Frank witness who cl jrnished an affidavit to the state re- ii anting his repudiation of his trial A jstimony, while locked up in a ceil p t police station). A. I have not. rv xr ... - v- iou read Albert McKnight's af- h davit? A. Yes. fi Q. You went to Albert McKnight fter he gave the defense this afH- n avit? A. Yes. h Q. What did he tell you? A. He s< >ld me the evidence he gave on the land was untrue. That he had been p lduced to give this evidence by a lan named Craven. Kead Conley's Evidence. <1 Q. Did you read Jim Conley's evi- v ence ? A. Yes. Q. Have you ever heard of a court, ci lry or community accepting such an si xplanation for such a crime? A. 1 tl ave not. v; Q. From your investigation who tl o you thing is guilty of the murder f Mary Phagan? A. Unquestion- 01 bly Jim Conley. p Attorney Arnold here asked Mr. ir urns if he had read certain trial tes- d mony relating to Conley's changing w f his statements. The detective re p lied that he had. Judge Hill then interrupted, tell- t< lg Attorney Arnold he would have j discontinue that line of questions, a "It seems to me, your honor," said ittornel Arnold, "that you are giv- c Teethe solicitor a wider latitude in tl is questions than you are giving d le." a "I won't permit you to ask ques- t< ions which reflect on the jury's verict or the ruling by the supreme d ourt," replied Judge Hill. ti Attorney Arnold resumed his ques- tl ioning of Burns. n Q. Mr. Burns, did you ever talk to h lonley? A. No. Q. Where is he held? A. He's kept )ckcd up in jail. S Q. Is any one allowed to talk to ti im? A. No. ti Q. Why didn't you embrace the tl rivilege offex-ed you by W. M. Smith, \a 'onley's lawyer to talk to him? A. d lecause of Smith'? terms. Q. What were those terms? A. b Vhy, Smith defanded that he be pies- p lit and a reporter be there. g Q. Under such circumstances could t< on get any information out of Conjy? A. I didn't think so. n Q. You arrived at your conclusion 1< hat Conley was a pervert from the b haracter of the letters he wrote to o tnnie Maude Carter and the manner n ;i which the dead girl's clothing was E xutilated, didn't you? A. Yes. 1 Letters Were Vile. Q. What were the contents of those A etters? A. Why, they were very ile. They showed the writer's mind /as saturated with lust. I never saw S n instance more filled with that haracter of pel-version. Q. Mr. Burns, did you ever attempt 0 get anything in this case except he truth? A. No. Q. Did you ever by the offer of ribes, intimidation or coercion or any ther improper methods seek to obain evidence from witnesses? A. I ssuredly did not. Q. Were you besieged by people rotfering absurd things as evidence? l. Yes, by hundreds of them. Q. And you foupd it difficult to stimate the motives actuating them? 1 I rlirl With this question, Mr. Arnold t) nded his examination and Solicitor t )orsey took up a redirect examina- c ion of Detective Burns. s The solicitor said: "Mr. Burns, d fhat instances can you cite where oh- c tacles were thrown in your way? c l. I consider the Jim Conley situa- p ion and the Monteen Stover situa- t: ion as perfectly outrageous. Q. Why did you consider it out- I ageous for private individuals to reuse to submit to a cross-examina- * ion by four or five different men K ,'ho were in the pay of a convict or k is friends? A. I supposed the obBct of everyone was to bring out the eal facts and to find the murderer. n Q. What caused you to change our supposition? A. The altitude , f many persons, including some lawers. Refers to Solicitor. t, Q. What lawyers do you refer to? f l. Why, you refined to discuss the t ase with me. S "After you told me," quickly anwered the solicitor, "you thought 'rank innocent, and After you told me n ou would report in a few days and hat your report would state Frank ras innocent and Conley was guilty." * "Yes,', said Burns. "You told me J. f that was true, there was no use ti n discussing the fase further." The solicitor said: "But you made n appointment with me. You told le I could have the opportunity to onvince you of Frank's guilt. I told ou that you were attacking a verdict f the court, and that if you wished would give you an opportunity to onvince me of Frank's innocence." "The solicitor's attitude led me to hink he would not discuss the case dth an open mind," Burns explained 0 the court. Dorsey asked him to give other intances where he had been hampered 1 his investigation, and Burns relied that he had been told by lawers for the defense that certain witesses were impossible to get at. Q. Who gave you such advice? A. loth Mr. Leonard and Mr. Herbert laas. Q. Did Mr. Arnold give you such dvice? A. Perhaps so. Q. Did Mr. Rosser give you such dvice? A. Maybe he did. Knew Conley Was Pervert. Q. With all your ability to discern erverts tell the court how you could etermine that Conley was a pervert rithout ever having heard him utter word. A. I knew this from the haracter of the notes he wrote the larter woman and also from the lanner in which the dead girl's garlents were mutilated. Q. How do you know Conley ever ad his hands on those garments? l. The manner in which these garments were cut indicates that it was tic act of a man with a perverted lind such as Conley betrays in the o*es." Q. You say many absurd matters ere reported to you Tell us of the lost ridiculous report made to you. laimed that they were etaoinshrl Why, all the men who have laimed that they were in the alley i the rear of the pencil factory on ipril 2<J, 1013, would make up a retentious parade. Q. Did anyone tell you that they ad heard screams from the pencil letory? A. No. Q. How about that Salvation Army lan in Chicago? A. I questioned ini relative to the report that he had jen Conley in the alley. Q. Then you were directing your rincipal attention to Conley? A. No. Knew of Affidavit. Q. You knew of Mary Rich's nffiavit before you talked with the Sanation Army man? A. Yes. Q. And you were endeavoring to arroborate her affidavit? A. No; T imply sought to find out what truth lere was in the report that the Solution Armv man had seen Conley in ic pencil factory alley. Q. Tell the court of any incidents p. the part of the people showing rejudiee. A. I refer to the manner 1 which Albert McKnight was hauled and to numerous statement hich I have read in the public rints. Q. Does that include Burke's effort ) send McKnight out of town. A. No. <}. Does it include Helton's spiriting way of Anna Maude Carter. A. No. Q. During ydtir investigation what luminal act did you ever discover uat Conley had committed. 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Pursuant to an order of the Court of Probate, heretofore made in the above stated case, I will, on Monday, May 4, 1914, during legal hours of sale, before the court house door in Union, S. C., sell to the highest bidder, at public auction, the following real estate, to wit: All that lot of land, situate in the City of Union, said County and State, bounded on the North by lot of the Peoples Supply Co., East by Thos. McNally, South by Aetna street, and West by lot of Belue .fronting GO feet on Aetna street, and running back 180 feet, being a part of the Harris Heights land. Also, all that certain other lot of land, in City of Union, said County and State, fronting one hundred feet on the West side of South Pinckney street, and extending back, along Henrietta street, two hundred feet, containing the former home of the late J. W. Meng and a frame store room, with proper outhouses. Terms of Sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for papers. W. W. JOHNSON, Judge of Probate. 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SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. State of South Carolina, County of Union, Court of Common Pleas. E. V. Going, PlaintilF, against Belle Smith, Lawrenco Smith, Jasper Smith, David Smith, Robert Smith, Bonnie Smith, Christianna Smith, Cornelia Smith, Edward Smith, Felian Gallman and Ophelia Gallman. Defendants. To the defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and required to Answer the Complaint in this Action, of which a Copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to said Complaint on the Subscribers at their offices, Rooms Number Four and Five, Merchants & Planters National Bank Building, Union, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. To Jasper Smith, Edward Smith and David Smith non-residents, Take Notice, That the complaint in this action, together with the summons and notice of which the foregoing is a copy was due tiled with the ClcrK of the Court for Union County on the first day of December A. D. 1013 and the same can be found in the office of the said Clerk of this Court in Union, S. C. I. FRANK PEAKE (Seal) Clerk of Court. YOUNG & BEATY, Plaintiff's Attorneys. Date, 21 day of March A. D. 1914. 13-6t. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS. All persons having claims against the estate of Mrs. Ann E. Hill, deceased, are hereby notified and required to present the same to the un dersigned, duly probated according to law; and all persons indebted to her estate, are hereby notified to make ? , immediate payment to the undersigned. April 14th, 1914. J. CLOUGH WALLACE, 16-3t . Executor.