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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917.
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STAR TOMORROW
"Sudilcn Jim", the mw Triangle
play starring Charles Ray, is a
dramatization of the story of the
same name by Clarance Budingt)n
Kelland, which was read as one of the
beat novels of the year. This picture
will be shown at the Star Theatif
on Thursday and Friday. Following
s a brief synopsis of tho play:
Charles Kay has the role of jim
Ashe, the son of a wealthy clothe.) pin
manufacturer, who is told by his
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SYNOPSIS.
Arnold, dlerlmrged station agent, forms
a band of robbers and by use of & double
robs the Deer Head station. Tha aKflnt
.. .u... u. i ... . n minor 01 neien uoimes is convicieu
father that he can .have "Jus f hoico 0t theft.
of fifty thousand d-llars or the
clothes pin business. He takes the
business and starts for the factory
in a small lumbering town in Michi
gan. The first thing he doei is to
firo the (grafting foreman, ann from
tho speed with which ho docs it he
earns the nickname of "Sudden Jim"
The modern methods of Jim threaten
the failure of tho clothes pin trust in
which Moran if heavily interested;
and Moran docs everything he can to
interfere with the young man's suc
cess. Finally Moran uses his influ
ence on the company that supplies
tho raw material to Jim's factory, and i
refuses to give him trains to cany
the timber. Things look bad for Jim
until he discovers a clause in the con
tract which gives him authority to
put his own crow at work at the
hardwood plant and operate the trains.
The action which follows, involving
a pretty school teacher, with whom
Jim is in love, a tremendous fight, a
blown-up railroad trestle, and some
more things, affords Ray opportuni
ty to show himself at his best, and
to carry Jimmy triumphantly through
his difficulties.
SECOND EPISODE
A Double Steal.
"Ton are sending up an Innocent
man," declared David Holmes to Mor
ton Webb, the chief special agent,
when leaving to serve his sentence for
the Deer's Head express robbery. "All
that I ask of you, Webb, and this I
have a right to ask, is that you pro
vldo a position for my daughter Helen,
where she can earn her living until
my Innocence is proved."
WMii), very doubtful himself of
after some confused flunking 'asked
Burke, his assistant, to go west to
meet them. Webb, himself, went
home.
While nolmes was being tried for a
crime he had no knowledge of, Arnold
had been heading his railroad raiders
with continued success. From his
camp lie one duy watched a train crew
use aa emergency telephone kit and
saw how the device might be utilized
for further depredations on his part.
Camp was struck. The gang headed
for the outskirts of Mountain Springs.
They rented an old house adjoining
the railroad truck. Under Arnold's di
rection they ran a wire from the rail
road telegraph and telephone lines
into Its second story and Installed ap
paratus by which he could take every
railroad message. Masters, Holmes'
double, remained Arnold's chief con
federate. It was In this way that the
"ex-railroad agent Intercepted the Mel
rose message. "Melrose," he explained
to Musters, "Is governor of Cantu Is
lands and he packs his Jewelry over
the road every year.1'
Preparations were speedily made to
get possession of these valuables, and
nnder Arnold's directions, Masters pro
cured In town chemicals for preparing
explosives.
But a second plot was under way
for the very same purpose. Burke,
Webb's assistant, was, in fact, a for
mer crook and only waited bis oppor
tunity to make a new stake. When de-
i tailed for the Melrose train he hurried
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UoIuil's' guilt, but forced by clrcum- : to a pawnshop. With the pawnbroker
stances to prosecute him, gave his J he looked over a book of well-known
promise to look after Holmes' daugh- i family Jewels. Reaching the Melrose
ter. He took Helen Into bis own oltlce I collection, he spoke:
as his secretary, and here her frank,
honest ways made friends for her on
every hand. Capable man though he
was, Webb's weakness for whisky at
times fatally Impaired his efficiency.
On the very day that Helen took up
her new duties her chief came
back from luncheon tipsy. The office
force seemed to take It as a Joke.
Helen, greatly shocked, was urging the
unfortunate mun to go home when the
telegraph instrument sounded his call.
Helen took tho message. It was from"
headqunrtcrs, notifying Webb Hint
Lord Melroso and party would cross
the division thut night on a special.
Webb was asked to detail a good man
to accompany them. The unsteady
chief glanced at the pink message, and
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Last Day
Railroad Raider"
with
HELEN HOLMES
Chapter 2--"Double Steal"
Tomorrow
CHARLES RAY in
"Sudden jim"
From the Saturday Evening Post Story '
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"Duplicate these. I want them to
night. I've a trick that will set us up
for life."
' The pawnbroker worked fast, and
that night as Burke boarded the west
bound train, he smuggled the paste
Jewels Into his hand. Helen, the same
evening, walked Into a Mountain
Springs drug store for a magazine. A
man, passing out, looked strangely fa
miliar. In a moment she realized that
this man was her father's double. The
thought flashed over her that he might
be connected with her father's trag
edy. She followed him. He swung
aboard a passing street car, but Helen
stopped a motorcar nnd gave chase.
She trailed him to the quarters of the
railroad raiders.
Keen with suspicion, she climbed a
tree and peering through an unguarded
window saw, within, men mixing, as
she believed, explosives. Hastening to
police headquarters sho enlisted a de
tull of officers to raid the place.
On bonrd the special, Burke now was
nwuitlng his chuiice. It cniue when
the governor's party went Into dinner.
Entering the washroom. Burke slipped,
Itiilliinllke, through tho window and
climbed the roils to the governor's
stateroom. Here It was only the work
of a moment to steal the diamonds and
leave the imitations he was even able
to re-enter the car undetected. A3 ar
ranged, the pawnbroker was waiting (
on the plntform at Mountain Springs I
fur Burke's parcel. Burke saw him I
outside the cur window, but was ufrald
to drop the diamonds; the governor's j
staff was pacing the plntform.
He motioned his confederate to the !
other side of the nir. All would then '
h:ive gone well hud not n car-tink :
pushing nn Ice curt passed the window '
Just abend of the pawnbroker. Where
he sat Iturke could see only the man's
lint. It was, miluelilly, a duplicate of
the pawnbroker's, and Burke, unob
served by the Ice man. Incontinent!? .
dropped the box Into the enrt. The
pawnbroker halted in turn under the
window, but Burke hud slipped back
to his old seut. The perspiring con
federate waited In vuin for a falling
parcel and the train pulled out, leaving
the puzzled man at hlspost and with
Burke satisfied that all was right.
But the Melrose troubles hud" only
begun. Arnold and bis raiders secret
ing themselves at a lonely spot out
side Mountain Springs were waiting to
waylay the special train. They had
planted under the track a charge of
dynamite. The special left Mountain
Springs twenty minutes late. The
night, though dark, was clear and the
train was running very fast when, to
the engineer's amazement, a tremen
dous explosion shook the track a mile
ahead of him. A dull red glare lighted
the sky, and Jamming In the throttle he
threw on the emergency air, and the
shoes wrung a stream of fire from the
burning wheels. The engineer then
discerned men ahead flagging him
down. The train stopped and the
guards made ready to fight. They had
already put out the car lights when a
lantern crashed through a window of
the observation car. A note was fas
tened to It und one of the men handed
this to Melrose:
Tour train has stopped over a mine.
Turn on the lights and leave the car with
in thirty seconds or we shoot the charge.
Tho conductor peered out of the
window. Consultution followed, but
resistance was plainly useless. The
lights were flushed on and the party,
hands up, climbed, one after another,
down from the car. Leaving them un
der tho guns of the gang. Arnold
sprang aboard, hurriedly searched the
staterooms and cume back carrying, as
he believed, the prized diamonds. In
reality, he had only the spurious coro
net und necklaces that Burke had put
in their place. Backing away from the
utigry and humiliated trainmen nnd
their frlgliteued guests, the gang scat
tered In the darkness.
Arnold was first to get back to the
quarters. His followers Joined him
and all started pell-mell upstairs Ar
nold leading, and nil In high spirits.
Tho cx-rullrond man flung open the
door and swaggered Into the den, the
others close at his heels.
Probably no party was ever more
dumfounded than the raiders when, as
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Arnold Hurriedly Searched the Stateroom.
they were congratulating themselves,
n detail of police sprung from vnrlous
hiding places nnd covered them with
their guns. Helen, with the officers,
carried away by her excitement as her
eyes fell on Masters, the personntor of
her father, sprang at him, reckless of
danger. In the very thick of the me
lee the girl struggled with the scoun
drel. To kill her, Masters tried to get
his revolver Into piny. Before he could
use It, Helen smashed his head against
the wall. The gun fell from bis hand,
but Just ns the plucky girl thought she
hnil him subdued, he writhed from her
clutches nnd dashed away. Helen
grabbed the revolver from the floor
to give clinse. Masters ninde for the
stairs, Helen after 111 in.
In the room, n desperate fight went
on. Arnold dropped the .Melrose box
out of a window, nnd fighting his way
through the mix-up, got to the stairs.
Masters, too fleet for Helen, dashed
from the house Into the darkness, but
not until the girl had fired a shot after
him. Arnold, leaping down the stairs
nnd dodging the gun-fire behind, ran
round the bouse to pick tip the box.
Helen fired, nnd dropping the box, Ar
nold Jumped n way. Returning, he tried
again to pick It up, but a second shot
broke the dtr-t close by, nnd Arnold
took to bis heels. The police, with j
two of the gang captured, came down, (
nnd Helen picked up the disputed box !
herself. j
The special, unable to go nliead. had '
baclied up unlil the track coukl be re- '
paired. As it slowly approached the
raiders' lieaibpiarters. Helen, lighting
a piece of pa per, ran forward. The :
engineer, serins her signal, stopped, j
In the nl!crvail''n car, everyene ex- :
pected niMjIier hold-up. but. the coo- i
dlirter peering t!irot:;h (he darkness
saw Helen, nnd the car party put up '
their ci'.ns. As the train slopped, Mel- ;
rose stopped down. Helen handed him i
the Jewels ami Melrose (hanked her.'
But b!s wife examined them and whls- '
perod to hep husband. She had dlscov- !
or!! the suhniiutien. Melrose looked !
at them again und turned to Helen:
"Those nro excellent Imitations,"
was nil he said.
(END OF SECOND EPISODE.)
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