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ST. LOUIS P0ST-0I5PATCH SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1923. ST 1 01 115 PORT-DISPATCH LDVE LEnERS MAY DECLARES ZEAL IN JOB iCOAL CONCERN FILES Dedication Scene at New John Burroughs School WOMAN STRANGLED HGURE IN SHOOT mii iapi -rt irtr All! nA BANKRUPTCY PETITION I mm int.i mm GOLDSTEIN SAYS IS REAPING HARVES ROOM IN NEW YORK Sales Manager Says He Spyt Id WIDOW HOME Lists Liabilities of $258,993 and Assets of $151,181 Lost $100,000 in Year. nsurance Business, He Declares, Pays Him $2500 to $3000 a Month. Man Vho Occupied Adjoining Room Sought -Saidd Father Was Montreal Clergyman.

I. gt iter 'I 3 1 7 :3 I if ft i Money on Improvements in stead of Embezzling It. Paul Coleman, 3 9 years old, 4014 De Tonty street. In a cell at Pclice Headquarters today declare, allegation of embezzlement freVi employers that was the cause I detention resulted from his seal promote their Interests. He declared he had not converted a pennj his own use.

For two years he has been saWe- manager of the united Electric A Supply 1120 Pine street. C1M ton E. Vail, secretary of the com pany, who caused his arrest yest-day, asserted to the police that Colt-man had taken about $5000. VSl declared that Coleman's "system" was to destroy the company's duplicate records of some sales and -to s.nd out with the bills envelopes ad dressed to himself, then receive thr checks in payment an'J deposit tbem in his own bank account. Kays He Uu Receipted Hill.

Coleman's explanation to a Post -Dispatch ijeporter was as follows: "That's a 'close' company I'v been working for. I was put In charge of sales and I wanted to make a good business, but they wer -tighf in their methods. Thafa wfti. had to fight to put the business paying basis. "I used some of the coropalr money that came in on orders, anl applied it on improvements and Vts like.

The total was 'nothing lSkv $5000; it won't, be over $150'. They'll find in my office bills to cover everything. -'Figured It Would Pay. HUNDREDS AT LAYING 0 "I can think of only two caav where they might have a basis a charge against me, but nothing to them. One was They had been buying carbon paper" by the thousand sheets and I foul it would be cheaper in or 000 lots, but', they couldn't see't" that way.

diverted a $15 checV in favor of the company, whichJ" had no right to do. and lot of carbon paper. The fa? per la there all right. The otler-case was about a $65 check wltV which I bought something else for- i them. "I applied the rest" of the mon A to fitting out an office, with desk-' Nat Goldstein, who retired from office of Circuit Clerk Jan.

1 embarked in the insurance busi ness and is reaping the indirect re ward of practical politics, in that he says he, is earning $2500 to $3000 a month as compared to $416.27 a month, which was his Balary as Circuit Clerk. The storm that broke about Gold stein's head as an aspirant to the postmastership and as prospective appointee to the office of Collector Internal Revenue was not an ill wind, according to Goldstein, for it resulted in his getting out of public office and into a more lucrative business. "I am writing bonds and insur ance or all kinds on a brokerage basis," Goldstein explained to a Post-I Dispatch reporter, "and the business comes without any solicitation. My premiums and commissions this year will aggregate $35,000, not one cent which have I solicited. This is my office (in the Pierce Building) and my friends look me up and give me the business.

That is all there to It. But I am still in politics, remember that." It will be recalled that Goldstein when Circuit Clerk and one of his deputies, Robert E. Moore were christened the "Golddust Twins" in political circles because they accepted $2500 each from a fund disbursed in the interest of Frank O. Lowden's campaign for the nomination for the presidency in 1920. They returned the money.

Goldstein's support of three candidates for Circuit Judges in St. Louis resulted in the defeat of two of them after a vigorous campaign by the League of Women "Voters. As Circuit Clerk, he could barely afford a moderate priced automobile, he said, but now he has a high priced car and chauffeur. He still is a member of the Republican City Committee. French Motw Glider Killed.

LYMPNE. England, Oct. 13. The French aviator Maneyrol, competing in the motor glider contests here. was killed today when the wins of his plane gave way.

He was attempting at the time to better an altitude record of 10,000 feet established earlier in the day. appeared fatigued as though from mental strain rather than from the journey, and her attitude was one of bewilderment when asked to com ment on the -Charges preferred by her husband in the divorce action. "I really do not know what to think of it all," she exclaimed, "and I am wondering what new paid witness will come forward to identify me as a woman with a dark past. "The most recent charge is that I had associated with Mr. Wallace in Bunceton or Boonville.

But I had never heard of either town until this divorce action, and I arn going down there to get affidavits "from the townspeople to prove that I had never been in either town. "Witnesses for Mr. Stokes have testified that I was with Mr. Wallace at Bunceton in 190j4, when, as a matter of fact, 1 1 was In boarding school at that time. I did not meet Mr.

Wallace until 1907. ani that was in San Francisco. Mr. Wallace is now there and will appear as a wit ness for me." If not delayed at Boonville, Mrs. Stokes hopes to get back to New York by Monday, when the divorce bearing will be resumed.

'I must return to New York soon," she said, "as my children need me, and I want to get this horrid thing over with as quickly as possible." She appeared to have confidence in the outcome of the case, and re marked that the charges had al ready fallen flat through the admis sion on cross-examination of certain witnesses for Stokes that they had perjured themselves. Mrs. Stokes arrived at o'clock, had dinner at a hotel with Mrs. Me-servey. and departed for Boonville at 9.

By typewriters and chairs; to buylnTT" stationery and to putting In a prl vate telephone exchange to the single phone they had had no right to do all this, butf figured the returns It would create- would pay. "1 had the postoff ice readdre my mail to my home because W1 found a couple of letters from rov1, i wife had been opened at the offlro Package of Correspondence Seized After Wounding of Wealthy Man at Sound Beach, Conn. WRITER SAID TO BE KNOWN NATIONALLY Maas and Mrs. Leslie Hold Theory Three Men Intended Robbery Suggestion Gunmen Were Hired. gj Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-lHspatch.

SEW YORK, Oct. 13. The investigation into the shooting of Milton jL Maas, -wealthy manufacturing chemist, at the home of Mrs. Ida M. lUe, in Sound Beach, Conn, Thursday evening, took a new and what promises to be a sensational turn today, when it was learned that the Greenwich authorities had taken possession of a package of letters Hrs.

Leslie's home. The letters, about 10 in number, were described by the persons keeping them as "love letters-' written to Mrs. Leslie by a man whose name is withheld for the present, but who is" said to be extremely wealthy and of national prominence in the business and social world. Among the letters te ken, ii was said, were copies of some of ilrt. LtBlie's answers.

All th-i letters, it was said, would be made the of careful examination by the authorities. At attempt was made last night to reach Mrs. Leslie by telephone and get from her an explanation of the letters and the name of the writer. A woman who said she was a friend of Mrs. Leslie answered the trie-phone and said: "Mrs.

Leslie has had a terrible night is is asleop at last," and that under no circumstances would she waken her. Widow Criticizes Officers. When the situation was espla'pi to her this friend declared that "Mrs. Leslie was asked about the seizure of the letters this afternoon and a statement." The friend did rot know, however, what that was. From another source it vas learned Mrs.

Leslie criticize! the authorities for their action toward ier. According to the Greenwich authorities, the correspondence indicates Mrs. Leslie had other male friends in addition to the mysterious tuan of wealth and Rr.niai Ir.ence, but that his name predominated. One of the several theories on nhich the authorities are working it was reported, is that the man who thot Mass. as well as his two companions, were gunmen hired to get rid of "Mass.

Abandoned Auto IleKrted Stolen. Although it did not necessarily have any connection with the shooting of Mass. the finding of an automobile coupe by the Stamford police at 7 O'clock Veslerdav mnmino- otl the Boston post road, on Have- 'neyer lane, three quarters of a mile from Mrs. Leslie's home, broadened 1 scope of the police activities. The keys -were still in the ignition lock and a Massachusetts license tag was on the car, a Peerless.

The Boston police reported last 'ipht that the car was owned by Kobert F. Sproule of Winthrop, -Mass. Advices from the Winthrop authorities were that Sproule had sported the theft of his car early yesterday morning, declaring he had Wt it In his garage at 11:30 nipht before, and that it was gone when he awoke. Theory of Robbery Advanced. Mrs.

Leslie and Mass reiterated tiieir belief that the shooting was Part of an attempted robbery. Mrs. Leslie told how Mass had arrived on a late afternoon train from this My for dinner and was sitting in Bide reading when she went out o-a -e 1 ont lawn with her two Pekin gese dogs. She carried a pocket flashlight, she said, and saw three men behind shrubs. Her home is stucco, separated from the shore 'rent by the Kathemere Inn.

and both sides of a wide front porch are bar.ked with evergreen and spruce, One ef the men whom she ie- bribed as wearing a raincoat, tortoise shell glasses and a slouch hat. ribbed her and threw her on the 'iwn, she said. Tton't be afraid; we're not tr-stt harm you," she quoted the can as saving. He clasped his tand over mouth, she said, but Sot before she screamed. Mass ran Of course, some business mall a.l- i dressed in my name was readdresce i mat way.

Officials of the company could not be reached for a statement in reply to Coleman's explanation. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed today by the Missouri- Illinois Coal 1824 Railway Ex-change Building, listing liabilities of $258,993 and assets of 1151.181. i The company fo rthe last 35 years jhas operated two mines, one at entchler, the other at Wilderman, I St. Clair County, 111. Officers stated the reason for the bankruptcy was that this is not a coal year." They said that during the year the company had operated at a $100,000 1 iurB.

xia mines, tney saia, were valued at in 1920, but this vaiue naa shrunk to $100,000 In 1923. "It has cost us $1 to collect (every 73 cents in our business," one offiier said. Among the liabilities is $40,000 due the J-ederal Government for taxes in 1920 which are in dispute Some of the liabilities are notes dat ing as far back as 1912. The va lidity of some of thees is disputed. it being held that the statute of lim itations has intervened.

w. S. Scott of 4686 West Pine bdulevard is president of the com pany. been found who are willing to swear that Mrs. Stokes did visit Bunceton 1904 and came not alone but with a man.

Mrs. Cramer and Mrs Mills, now of Kansas City, and the two negroes, Ray Fields and W. Drew of Bunceton, were located by laywer whom Stokes ent here year ago. Not only these four, but Gld Meeker, Mayor and notary pub lie, have joined the plaintiffs forces. The Mayor and the negroes have gone to New York to testify.

It was said at Bunceton yesterday. To understand their case it In necessary to know the Bunceton of 1904. More life was here then. The land barons of the county had no sold their estates to move to Boon ville or Kansas City or other places The Nelsons, the Wallaces, the Leonards and the Starkes owned vast acreages about Bunceton. The Leonard place alone Is occupied now with Nelson Leonard, a son of the Captain, as Its mister.

These people kept the pace of country gentlefolk. Their farms were homesteads with pillared mansions and iron gates and yards rowed with great old trees. Withal they were democratic enough to mingle occasionally with the townsmen of Bunceton. A favorite meeting place for the young men of the families was the Bunceton Club. This club, the correspondent learned, was not a loft over a livery stable, as it is supposed in Boonville, nor yet a magnificent country rendezvous for the "fast set" of Cooper County, as it is supposed in New York.

It was a room back of a dentist's Office in a brick building on Main street. Fire destroyed it years ago. Stokes Bunceton witnesses have testified that Helen Elwood in 1904 visited the Leonard home and the Bunceton Club with Edgar T. Wal lace and Clarence McCormick. Ed gar, one of three brothers, had moved to New York years before and returned only for occasional visits.

Negroes Say They Saw Her at Club. The negroes. jid Fields, are said to claim that they were em ployed as porters at the Bunceton Club and that they saw a red-haired woman answering Mrs. Stokes' description at the club with, McCormick and Wallace. Mrs.

Cramer was a member of the Bunceton "smart set" at that time. She has testified she saw Mrs. Stokes with Wallace on a tallyho owned by Nelson Leonard. Leonard did. own a tallyho in 1904, but he told the correspondent yesterday fhat Mrs.

Stokes had never ridden with him or with Wallace, and that he had never seen her in his life. His mother, Mrs. C. E. Leonard, said she knew Edgar Wallace well, but had never heard of Helen Elwood until Stokes named Wallace in his suit for divorce.

Arthur and Wilbur W'allace, brothers of Edgar, who now reside In Boonville, said they did not know Mrs. Stokes and had never seen her. Couldn't Swear It Was Mrs. Stokes. The correspondent could find but one man in Bunceton yesterday who would say that he had seen a red- h2.irri woman answering Mrs.

stnirsa' Afsr rintion here in 1904. He was Frank Force and he Bald" he would not swear it was Mrs. Stokes Little can be learned of Edgar Wallace here. The older resident savs he has stayed closely to New York. When he visited his brothers in Boonville or came to Bunceton he always traveled alone until hi marriage, they asserted.

xt Ktnkca Pars St. Louis Brief Vlsft on Way to Boonville. Mrs. Stokes passed through St. Txiuis last night on her way to Boonville, accompanied by Isadore Shapiro of New York, one of her at torneys, and Mrs.

C. A. Meservey of Colorado Springs, traveling coi na.r Ion- She was clad in a black gown with nleated skirt and embroidered pan ellack fur trimmed cape and turban. She is of rather slight stature; has auburn hair, frank blue-gray eyes, and a personality tinged with becoming reserve. She has two children, a boy, 8 years old, and a girl, 7.

At Fnion Station last night fbe TIRES ON TIME PAYMENTS Independent Tire Co. 3152 Locust BL the has of of Is th Aiocite4 Pre. NEW YORK. Oct- IS. A systematic search in several States 'and parts of Canada has been started by the police in an effort to get the mftn who yesterday morning strangled to death Estelle Phillips, department store saleswoman, after an apparent maniacal assault.

Miss Phillips body was found by a girl friend early yesterday in her room on Ninety-Seventh street, with a towel knotted about her neck and her body clad only in an' undergarment, showing evidence of an attack and struggle. The police are searching for a man who occupied a room adjoining that of Miss Phillips and disappeared with his belongings shortly after the murder was discovered. He had given his name as Frank Collins and had told associates at a hospital where he was employed that he was the son of a Montrealclergymah. Miss Phillips had been employed at a local store for 15 years. Ac quaintances told the police she had no men friends.

While the search for the suspect la being made, police are assembling from bits of evidence in the room and on the body a connected story oi tne murder. They believe a man entered the room while Miss Phillips was asleep and strangled her before she could call for help. A handbag containing four cents. found open at her feet, investigators believe, was left by the murderer to give the appearance of robbery as tne motive. There were signs of a desperate struggle.

Detectives said a man closely answering the description of the suspect was seen boarding a train for Montreal at the Grand Central Sta tion at 8:45 o'clock this morning. INJUNCTION AGAINST INSURANCE RATE REDUCTION CONTINUED Move by Hyde to Dissolve Tempo rary Order. Denied by Judge Westhues. Special to the Poet-Dlnpatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Oct.

13. Circuit Judge Westhues, in Circuit Court in Cole County, today declined to dissolve a temporary Injunction obtained by insurance companies to prevent Ben C. Hyde. State Superintendent of Insurance, from putting into effect a 15 per cent reduction in Missouri rates on fire, tornado and related kinds of insurance. Hyde cited the companies to appear here in July to show cause why he should not cut rates 15 per cent) based on the operations in the years 1918-1922.

The companies then got the injunction to prevent that hearing, which is to be held before Judge Westhues on Nov. 10. Hyde last year attempted to put Into effect a 10 per cent reduction, based on operations of the corrf-panles during the years 1917-1921, which also-is tied up in another suit. 6AYE PURSE C0NTAININ6 $36 TO GYPSIES TO BE 'BLESSED' The doorbell at 706 Marion street rang yesterday and when Mrs. Ada Browning went to thedoor two Jyp-sy women w-ere there.

Would she have her fortune told. She was willing, eo one of them entered. First, did Mrs. Browning" have any money. Mrs.

Browning had. Would she get it? She and did. It was $36 in two pocketbooks. The Gypsy took the poketbook34 and tied them together end waved a yellow handkerchief In front of Mrs. Browning's face, which made her' dizzy.

The Gypsy looked into the future three months and saw a lawsuit looming for Mrs. Browning. But she would win it if the Gypsy took the pocketbooks home and blessed them. When the Gypsy and the pocket-books had gone and Mrs. Browning had recovered from her dizziness she told the police.

m4 na the hie hi; to I a 7 ON FOOTBALL TEAM ILL ') Ptomaine Poisoning Causes PolHti; Ing of College Game. 'y vw Aot intd Prraa. ALBUQUERQUE. N. Oct.

Seven Montezuma College footb; players are ill today from 'I poisoning, and the football gain'--scheduled for this arternoon wftiw( the University of New Mejlco ha been called off. The plavera becajn' sick last night after their and after eating supper local restaurant. Four were In serious condition last night, but are r.p--nvrlne today. WAITS ON STOKES WRANGLE AT BUNCETON, MO. Continued From page One.

Stokes, at the Bunceton Club one evening in August of 1904, and that you' were present when she was introduced. Is that a fact?" asked Mrs. Stokes' counsel. Xever in Bunoeton Club. "Positively not; Mrs.

Stokes was never in the Bunceton Club," was the reply. "Was Clarence McCormick?" "I did not meet Clarence McCormick until 1909 and 1910 and then were in New York." "Then you have never seen Clar ence McCormick in Bunceton?" "Absolutely not." Wallace described the circumstances under which Stokes paid the alleged visit to his home in Boon-ville. He said that Stokes called one evening as he and Mrs. Wallace were preparing to leave for dinner engagement. Stokes stated that he was writing a hostory of Cooper County, Wallace said, and mentioned that he had been referred to the Wallace family as one rich in the lore in that part of the State.

"I explained our engagement to this man, whim I afterwards identified as Mr. Stokes," Wallace con cluded, 'and he left with apologies. A few days- lated Paul Wagner stopped on the street and said Stokes had given him $25 to point out my home." Physician Testifies. The second witness was Dr. Porter E.

Williams of St. Joseph, superin tendent of the State Hospital for the Insane. He was a former resident of Bunceton. practicing medicine there from 1880 to 1895. Question.

Wrere you a member of the Bunce ton Club, doctor? Answer. Yes. My office was right across the hall. 1 went to the club frequently. Ques tion.

Did you ever see women at its meetings in the club quarters? Answer. I never did: it was a men's club. Question. Have you ever seen Mrs. Stokes beforec Did you ever see her in Bunceton? Answer.

Ab solutely no to both questions. Q. Now doctor, Mrs. Mills and Miss Cramer have testified that Mrs Stokes' aliased visit to Bunceton was common gossip. Did you hear such gossip jf Never heard the name Hel- en Ll wood; isitor.

never heard of such a Q. In your opinion, could Mrs Ktokes have visited Bunceton with out your knowledge while you were livin there. A. It would hardly be possible. The testimony next presented was that of Mrs.

Nannie Wallace, wife of Arthur Wallace. Ques. Mrs Mills has testified that you were on the st ret in Bunceton with her in September, 194, when you both saw Mrs. Stokes. Is that a fact.

Ans. It is not. I never saw Mrs. Stokes in Bunceton. Mrs.

Wallace stated that she lived in Bunceton from 1894 to 1906. Ques. Could Mrs. Stokes -have visited your home in Bunceton without your knowledge? Ans. I would say it might be possible, but not George Brownfield, acting as Stokes' attorney, broke in on 5ach witness to inquire.

"Might not Mrs. Stokes have been in Bunceton without your peeing her?" Thy all made answer to the effect that Bunceton was a small town and it would be highly improbable that anyone could 'visit there without everybody knowing it. W'ilbur Fallace. Iris wife. Mrs Louise Wallace, and Mrs.

Hayden Moore, also testified. Ily a Staff Correspondent of the Post Dispatch. BUNCETON, Oct. 13. The Stokes divorce case has made testi- fvinc the principal industry of Bunceton.

A few of the older citizens remain to do such whittling as seems neces- and to keep the chairs in front of the postoff ice warm. All their contemporaries who believe they re nit 111 Ur I ui, rttji vuwk 1 fnnrr tl pretty red-haired woman here at Fi Ceremony Held at John roughs Institution M. President a Speaker. Bur-U. -The joint cornerstone laying and dedication of the John Burroughs School, Price road and Clayton car line, was held at 3 p.

m. yesterday with several hundred patrons and pupils in attendance. The ceremony differed from sim-iliar exercises in several ways. First the cornerstone was the last part of the structure to be put In plac, the building having been completed and classes opened Oct. 2.

Secondly, Mrs. Hugh McKittrick Jones, who laid the stone, was not content with merely applying the formal dab of mortar, but liberally plastered the stone with the mixture. Third. Dr Stratton I. Brooks, president of the University of Missouri, principal ppeaker at the cerejnony, avoided the high-sounding of the educator and delivered humorous, understandable talk on the values of education that frequently caused outbursts of laughter from his audience.

Would Seal lp Misunderstand! nrs. In laying the cornerstone Mrs. Jones hinted at differences of opinion among the group sponsoring and financing the institution when she said that she hoped that all misunderstandings would be for ever in the stone with the usual documents. Ir. Brooks his talk classified himself not as an educator but as "the business manager of an educational enterprise." He told tnt.

75 pupils that education is a matter of learning to hear, see, and think. "Tou cannot become an intellectual aristocrat unless you learn these things." Dr. Brooks said. "To earn this honor you must acquire facts, intellectual habits, and good judgment. Common hors-sense makes for success.

Making the right deci- Rlon tile most important business Brooks declared that the e3ucational system was being re- vamped, but warned against the adoption of hasty innovations. Mrs. Elias Michael, speaking for the St. Louis Board of Education of which she is a member, promised the hearty co-operation of the board and praised the democracy of the new in stitution in offering scholarships to pupus uname to meet the tuition as sessment. The ceremony closed with refreshments and an inspection of the building.

Former Got. Bavid R. Francis was among the sponsors at- vSutpua: Built at Cost of $180,000. The John Burroughs School was named for the famous naturalist. It is built on an 18-acre section of ground west of Price road.

The ground cost $36,000 and the build- ing, with a gvmnasium nea rin? mm- pietion, cost $180,000. The structure i ig mission stvle of arrhitpr-tnri. twn stories with sloping roof. The e'xter- lor is stuccoed, and present plans call for the erection of additional buildings so as to accommodate a total of 300 pupils. The plan is co-educational, embodying the last two grade school years and the first two hfgh school classes.

Tuittion is $50f annu- ally, with scholarships on a basis of 10 per cent of the enrolment to worthy pupils. The purpose of the John Burroughs School is to put into practice in a sane manner modern educational methods. A board of trustees, headed by Louis H. Egan. was formed late in and contributions solicited both in St.

Louis and St. Louis County. Prof. Wilford M. chosen as director, and selected the! faculty, eight men and four women! teachers.

The school has six class rooms, two laboratories, a librar; nousenoia ai ts rw.m. siuny nau. am Tou i i SCHOOL CORNERSTON we i Boonville today, far outnumber those for Stokes. "Although Mayor Gid Meeker, two former woman residents and two negroes are in New York prepared to swear they saw Mrs. Stokes in Bunceton, the majority in the town are of the other opinion.

The dominant view would seem correct to anyone who has beheld Bunceton. No Place for Intrigue. Facilities at Bunceton for an escapade or an intrigue are abominable it is hard to conceive why any one would select the place for such purpose. Only the air at Bunceton Is ever exootic. Yesterday it blew over ripeend cornfields and into little swales where damp autumn leaves lay and swept across the rolling Cooper County prairie, carrying odors of fruited spaces to the town.

For the rest, Bunceton is certainly r.o environment for such escapades as Stokes attributes to his wife. Old residents of Bunceton stamped up and down Main street furiously yesterday. "Why, man," said "Col." R. L. Harriman, "I've lived here 43 years.

I have never seen the woman. Never laid eyes on the woman, sir." His gaze swept along the road as much as to say. "I have watched life Bass on this street. She did not go by." He tapped his cane along the walk" to the postoffice. "Col." Harriman's arger appeared to be Justified.

Had Mrs. Stokes come to town, these Buncetonians argue, they would have seen her, wouldn't they? They Can't Believe the Storr. Are the men of Bunceton blind Has Bunceton no memory of tradi tion, no recollection of history? Would citizens who recolelct accur- tely how Capt. Leonard's mare broke the hitching rack before the pump in March of '86 forget the visit of a comely, fiery-haired woman in 1904? W. E.

Kerns, who has watched from his drug store window for more than 30 years, cannot believe the story. Neither can Joseph Popper, whose general store commands an excellent view of the town. John Stephens, the stock trader, and H. C. Biltz, who always is on Bunce-ton's street when not at work in his fields, doubt very much that "Mrs.

Stokes could have come and they know nothing of it. No sir, she did not appear, say the conservative citizens of the hamlet. Andt as for the scandal attached to the alleged visit, well, just take another good look at Bunceton. There -are but two ways of ar riving, either one gets off the Missouri Pacific short line at the blue frame station, or else one comes by the lone highway which leads into Main street and out again over the hill. To arrive in either manner unnoticed yesterday would have been impossible.

There were 15 men on the station platform when the early morning train got in and 12 men and six women when the train came back through Bunceton In the after noon. Figures as to the number of dogs present are inaccurate. Let no one attempt to steal into Bunceton by highway. Foolish mortal. Yesterday Bunceton citizens on the curbstone in front of Joe Pop per's store tossed pebbles at every tumble bug or cricket who dared to cross the street.

Could a red-haired woman of startling beauty ever have come to Bunceton without creating an epoch at night? Would anyone dare to etir the re-nose of Bunceton after dark? How wild and garish a phonograph record would sound at 11 p. how a lighted window at such an unseemly hour would bring neighbors with mustard plasters and other home remedies. When Bunceton sleeps it must gather itself snugly in its cradle between the hinocks. The sound of the anvil that clanged yesterday would be stilled. Such a quiet would pervade that not even a desperate possum, driven by dogs, would dare to seek refuge by tiptoeing into It is a quiet and simple town, with two banks in fresh brick buiidings, two rows of one-story a b'racksmith shop around the one corner, a stock pen for loading freight cars.

An engine in a grair. elevator puffed monotonously yesterday afternoon. Doors bar.god up and down the street. Feet scuffled along the pavement. A little town with square white church spires pushing above lh trees.

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A. Krana, rmMnrt IL Mmr, hrftry 1921-2S-25-27 Ixw-uvt Ibxtletartl, St. IawI. MIkwmiH luncheon r-h HavU04 hare been subpenaed W. of'1'- Stokes, millionaire hotel owner of Tcrk Clt' who has namd p4- rice at him.

Mrs. Leslie was firm in her as- unions that she believed the three sien were bent on robberv. but a d-aniond ring and diamond bracelet platinum wrist watch, which wore, were not taken. Another that Interested the authoriti" that Mass weiprhs only 113 Hounds and is only 5 feet 7 inches height. He Is 52 yea.rs old.

No was made by the men to overpower him. They shot him di-rtratly. Mrs. Leslie said, and 'i. Mrs.

Leslie volunteered with itr robbery theory the opinion that men must have W-en novices. i i and compulsory ath the program for both ort in Warsaw Citadel IUow. I p. flv 'h Vr-ri. WA RSA Oct.

1 3. i he fourth fort of the War saw citadel, in which i tirf-d blew KB to- day. caiiHins grt-ai dajuv The citv h'etw'are par' bovKandVrls.iie gar i. waiiace oi -ew a. resident of Bunceton, as corespondent.

Those who recall just as distinctly that no Titian beauty visited Bunoeton have been subpenaed by o.i. 1T-1. tnr the Aa- line-. are giving deposition 1 00.