THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 2, 1908.
(Robert J. I.lnrlcn won undying
fame by the part ho took in the dis
covery and prosecution of the famous
Molly Majfulres who terrorised the
Rnthrarlte coal regions of Pennsyl
vania from 1S70 to 1R7B. In June,
1S75. with only 18 men under him.
he repulsed a murderous mob of 700
persons bent on the destruction of
the West Shenandoah colliery. Born
in Brooklyn In ls:lo Captain Linden
learned the trade of a ship carpenter.
He served in the Navy during the
Civil War, and after that became
connected with the Pinkerton detec
tive agency in Chicago. For his
valuable services in the coal regions
he was made superintendent of Pink
erton's agency in Philadelphia and
retained that position until he be
came Superintendent of Police of
Philadelphia under Mayor Stuart.
After relinquishing this office he
opened, a private detective agency,
which he maintained until his death,
a few years ago.) . .
NO. VIII.
OX the night o October 19, 1879, Pay
master McClure and his body guard,
Hugh Flanaghan, employes of Charles
McFadden, a railroad contractor, were
waylaid in the Luzerne Mountains, just
outside of Wilkesbarre, Pa., robbed and
foully murdered.
The two men left Wilkesbarre in a
one-horse buggy and arranged their
journey so that they might reach Miner's
Mills in time to pay off the Italian labor
ers who were working on the railroad
mar that place. They had J12.000 in a
leather satchel which was fastened to
the bottom of the carriage with a couple
of straps. The thought of personal dan
ger never entered the minds of either of
the men. They knew every foot of the
ground, and, moreover,- were acquaintd
with nearly ever man, woman and child"
within a radius of five miles.
Their coining to Miner's Mills was al
ways the occasion of much joy among
the Italian laborers and their wives and
children. In fact, McClure and Flana
ghan were looked on as miniature edi
tions of Santa Claus, except that instead
of coming once a year, they made their
welcome visits twice a month. They
were as punctual as the clock itself, and
the workmen knew to the minute when
to expect the paymaster and his assist
ant. As a consequence, when they failed
to appear at the usual time on October
20, the people were very much disturbed,
A telegram from Wilkesbarre stated
they had loft that city 12 hours before.
A general alarm was sent out and a
delegation of men started for the moun
tains. Some of the most prominent citi
zens of Luzerne County headed the
searching party. They knew that the
" paymaster and his assistant carried a
large sum of money and they were also
aware that certain parts of the moun
tain were as lawless as the most unciv
ilized section of the United States. Lit
tle wonder that they were filled with
gloomy forebodings. They had not gone
far before their worst fears were real
ized. The horse belonging to McClure
and Flanagan lay dead in the road. The
animal had' been wounded and evidently
suffered great agony before It died, for
it lay there weltering in its own blood.
Some yard3 further up the road they
came to the broken shafts of a carriage,
splintered and blood-stained. ,
They continued their sarch, nerving
themselves for the shock that was still
to come. It came only too soon. The
dead body of Paymaster McClure was
found dangling from the bar of the
buggy, where it had been caught and
hung suspended for hours. An examina
tion proved that the dead man had been
shot in the back In four distinct places. ,
It was as if a volley had been fired from
ambush. The horror of the affair was
increased five minutes later when Flana
ghan was found, face down, prostrate in
the road, lifeless. He evidently had been
shot and fnllen from the wagon.
The bodies were hurriedly conveyed to
Some Good Stories Told of Prominent People
Where Prices Run High.
f J"THE late H. O. Havemeyer;" said
I a sugar jobber of New Orleans,
"possessed in a marked degree the kindly
virtue of charity.
"On my last visit to New York it was
some months before the panic I spoke
harshly of a millionaire who had been
accused of double-dealing in connection
with a bank.
" 'Well, now,' said Mr. Havemeyer, 'let
us. not condemn this man unheard. Re
member that his guilt has not yet been
proved, nor has he yet told his own side
of the story.'
"Then Mr. Havemeyer 'laughed and said
that In the most untoward conditions
accused men were often able to clear
-themselves. He said a young girl a week
or so after Christmas complained bitterly
to her mother:
" 'Mamma, I doubi if I shall be happy
with George. I fear he is deceptive and
false."
" "Why. darling, what do you mean?"
the mother asked.
" 'Well, mamma,' said Uie young girl,
earnestly, 'you know that collar-pin he
gave rne for Christmas? He swore to me
that he paid $25 for It, but in Biffany's
today I saw its exact counterpart for $5.
" 'Ah, but, my child,' said the mother,
with true charity, 'you must remember
how very religious George is. Undoubt
edly he bought the pin at a church fair." "
A Quaint Compliment.
On Mark Twain's seventy-second
birthday a Hartford clergyman said of
him.
"No wonder he finds happiness in old
aao. All the aged would be happy if
they were as sympathetic and as kind
as he. He is continually going out of his
way to please others, and the result Is
that he is continually pleasing himself.
"Listen, for Instance, to the quaint
compliment he paid me the last time he
came to hear me preach. He waited f jr
me at' the church door at the service's
end. and, shaking mo by ti.e hand, said
gravely:
" 'I mean no offense, but I feel obliged
to tell you that the preaching this morn
ing has been of a kind that I can spare.
I go to church, sir. to pursue my own
train of thought. But today I couldn't
do it. lou ' interfered with me. You
forced me to attend to you and lost me a
full half-hour. I beg that "this may not
occur again.' "
He'tl Have Looked Pretty.
Robert Walton Goelet. at a meeting
of the Astor Trust Company's directors
in New York, said of a certain broker:
"The man's nerve is amazing. It
shocks me.' It reminds me of a money
lender whom a friend of mine, a great
rider to hounds, once resorted to.
" "i es.' said the money-lender to my
embarrassed friend, 'I will renew your
Miner's Mills, and then an attempt was
made to locate the murderers. For
hours the local authorities searched the
vicinity, but with no result. The moun
tains were, covered with a heavy carpet
ing of dead leaves, and it was impossible
to detect or follow footprints under such
circumstances. The theory of the affair
was that the robbery was not committed
unSil after the two men had been mur
dered and the horse had come to a full
stop. After that the assassins had se
cured the money, fled to the woods and
escaped by way of the railroad shan
ties in the i-icinity.
The inquest demonstrated nothing of
value. The funeral of the murdered
men, which took place from Miner's
Mills, was largely attended. All of the
Italians who worked on the railroad
were present. One of these was
Michael Rizzollo. He seemed to be
very much affected, and, pulling- out
his hundkerchief, wept bitterly. He
cried out:
his handkerchief, wept bitterly. His
arrest was jiiada solely on suspicion.
There was not a shred on evidence on
which to hold the man unless it was
the fact that he lived in a shanty on
the mountain-side. The expected hap
pened. He was dispharged from cus
tody. In the meantime Charres McFaddon,
the employer of the murdered men, de
termined that the assassin should not
go free, if a plentiful expenditure and
the employment of the best detective
skill In America could prevent it.
Accordingly he sent for Captain
Robert J. Linden. This famous detec
tive has been graphically described" by
no less an authority than Allan Pink
erton, who says that Linden was a man
"whose courage, judgment and discre
tion could be implicitly relied upon. A
man eminently qualified to take the
lead In a great and hazardous under
taking. A man of good personal ap
pearance, of captivating address, great
eneryg and perseverance, with more
than ' ordinary powers of conception;
tall, powerful and commanding in
frame and physique, with just the kind
of blue eyes to win the confidence of
others; the proper qualities of head
and htart, and possessed of the great
est confidence and -calmness under the
most trying circumstances."
Linden responded to the summons
at ence. - McFadden, like Allan Pinker
ton, was pleased with the appearance
of the man. He said so in as many
words. He began to describe the
tragic death of his two employes. Lin
den interrupted him.
"I know all about it."
"But how?"
"It's my business to keep thorough
ly versed on crimes and criminals.
Such an affair as this would naturally
appeal to my professional instincts."
"Then you are willing; to undertake
the task of bringihg the assassins to
justice?"
"Nothing could give me greater
pleasure."
"When can you begin?"
"At once."
Within 24 hours Linden was in
Wilkesbarre. He had been given full
power and unlimited money. His first
act was to put Mike Rizzolo under sur
veillance. After that he made an ex
haustive investigation of the scene of
the murder. At its conclusion he was
convinced of the guilt of Rizzolo. But
he lacked the proof that would satisfy
a Jury in fact, was without a speck of
evidence of any kind. A man cannot
be convicted merely . because some
other man believes him guilty of a crime.
No one knew this better than Robert J.
Linden.
His assistant, Captain E. J. Dougherty,
said:
"Shall we arrest Rizzolo?"
"No; we must get either a confession
or sufficient evidence for a conviction."
At this critical stage of the game the
local authorities who had heard of the
movements of Linden and his assistants,
rearrested Rizzolo. Linden was not given
to profanity, but some of the things he
said on that occasion were unprintable.
He foresaw a trial and an acquittal a
fiasco, a miscarriage of justice. He went
to Thomas Quigley, of Miner's Mills.
"Mr. Quigley. you want the mountain
mystery "solved?"
"Surely."
"Will you help me?"
"Of coarse."
"Then go bail for Mike Rizzolo."
"Why?"
"I want to have him released and thus
lull his suspicions."
Quigley went Rlzzolo's bail in the sum
note, but only on one condition, sir;
namely, that during the next paper
chase at Lenox you scatter from your
bag these 5000 pink slips bearing my
iimna una me woras. --.Money advanced
on easy terms." Is it a go, sir?' "
He Roused Her.
Philetus M. Heifer has established a
college among the prisoners at Auburn,
N. Y., the faculty being composed of con
victs who are graduates of Oxford, Har
vard, Yale and other great universities.
Discussing his odd college scheme re
cently. Mr. Heifer said:
"But anything is good for convicts that
interests, cheers and encourages them.
Discourage them, scorn them, nag at
them, and you rouse the latent evil In
them, even as it was roused the other
day In a frail and beautiful New York
typewriter girl.
"This refined creature worked for a
rather cranky old broker. The broker
found a good deal of unjust fault with
her, but she was gentle and patient, and
put up with him in silence.
"One morning, however, he turned up
in a quite unsupportable humor.
"Look at my desk!' he roared. 'All in
disorder! All In confusion! All '
" 'But, sir,' the young girl Interrupted
mildly 'you have often told me never
to touch your desk.'
" 'Well, I don't want you to disturb my
papers,' he admitted. And then his eye
caught a sheet of postage stamps. 'But
look at these stamps. I don't want i.iem
here,' he shouted.
"She took up the stamps.
"Where shall I put them, sir?' she said.
. " 'Ah,' he snarled, 'put 'em anywhere
anywhere out of sight,"
"She flushed.
"'Very well, sir,' she said Icily: and
giving the stamps a quick lick with her
pretty tongue, she stuck the big sheet on
his bald head and departed to Jook for
another Job."
One Kind of Morality.
Senator Beverldge, during a recent
address in Boston, Illustrated a moral
idea with a story about a financier.
"Let me show you,' he said, "what
this financltr's morality was like. An
acquaintance noticed one day that he
turned his head aside as a young mil
lionaire was passing.
"'What is the matter?" the acquaint
ance asked. 'Don't you speak to young
Currantsea any more? You used to do
a lot of business with him.'
" 'Indeed I don't speak to him,' Lhe
financier shouted. 'Hadn't he the au
dacity to say I swindled him., out of
sixty thousand dollars?'
"'Oh, dear. no. he didn't." the other
objected. 'He only said forty thou
sand.' "Well, that's different. Tve been
misinformed," said the financier, in a
mollified tone; and turning, he bot.ed
Captain Linden and the Mountain Mystery
of $:000. and the Italian was released
from custody. He was delighted. . To
his mind he had been tried and virtually
acquitted of the crime. He must have
had a smattering of law; in fact, pos-
PDOI2ED IQQZET THFTQPOr '77 AT&O&OCrz jfoVBLF imDE&
sessed that "little learning" which is a
"dangerous thing," because he said more
than once to his conffdants:
"A man can't be tried for murder tw-ice.
Once acquitted, he's a freo man."
He failed to realize that his hearing
before the Alderman was not a trial, and
that his discharge was far from an ac
quittal. . But front the moment he was
released his every tootstep was smm-
to the young millionaire very gra
ciously." Rather Injurious,
Surgeon-General Kixey was talking
In Washington about his recent state
ment concerning the harm that cigar
ettes do sailors.
"Let them defend the cigarette as
they please," he said, "whenever I hear
these defenses I thing of the sick hdrse
and the turpentine.
"Tom met Bill on the road one day.
"Bill, I want a word with you,' he
said.
" 'Be quick, then,' said Bill. 'I,m in a
hurry.'
" 'What dJd you give your sick horse
the other day?'
" 'A pint of turpentine.'
"Tom hurried home and poured" a
pint of turpentine down the throat of
his own ailing nag:.' which at once grew
worse, and in an hour was dead.
"Then Tom, disgusted with Bill's
veterinary ability, sought him out.
" 'Why, Bill he said, 'I gave my
ihorse a pint of turpentine and It killed
him.'
" 'So it did mine,' said Bill."
Neatly Put.
.
Homer Folks, the secretary of the
State Charity Aid Society of New
York, referred in a recent address to
the awkwardness that charity work
ers feel in making public appeals for
funds.
"And few charity workers," Mr. Folks
added, "can carry off that awkward
ness with the neatness of the colored
preacher who reminded his congrega
tion that: ,
" 'Brudren, Ah kaifl't preach hyah,
an" board in heb'n.' "
A Cynic.
Upton Sinclair, the brilliant novelist,
was talking the other day at - Battle
Creek about vegetarianism, to which he
has become ,a convert.
"But do you think," said a listener,
"that every slaughterer' of animals has
blunted sensibilities?" .
"There may be." Mr. Sinclair answered,
"delicate minded pig-killers and sheep
slayers of poetical temperament, but on
this subject I am a cynic'
He laughed and resumed:
"In my cynical view 1 resemble a cer
tain grand vizier. His sultan bade this
official to prepare a list of all the fodls in
the kingdom, and to bring it to him, as
soon as it was finished.
"Well-, in due course the vizier brought
his list of fools to the palace, and lo, at
the head of the list appeared the sultan
himself.
"Liking audacity and dash, the sultan
smiled and said:
"Why, O vizier. Is my name at the head
of your list of fools?'
" 'Sun of the universe,' the vizier an
owed: every house that he entered was
marked; every word that he uttered was
overheard, and everv penny thut he spent
was noted In a little red book kept by
one of Linden's rubber-shoed sleuths.
,! J! . !
Rizzolo seemed anything but a desper
aao. He was aoout 24 years om anu
rather agreeable looking, except, for his
nose, which had a discoloration which
won for him from his countrymen the
nickname of "Red Nose Mike." He came
to America from Calabritto, near Naples.
In his own country he was apprenticed
to a barber. But he was restless and
dissatisfied with this employment and
swered promptly, 'did you not but last
week commission two entire strangers
Franks they represented themselves to
purchase six .mo'tor-cars for ydu, and did
these two strangers not depart with 100,
000 sequins from the royal treasury?
" 'Yes,' said the sultan, 'What of it?'
" 'They will never return,' said the
vizier, 'and therefore on my list '
" 'But suppose they do return?" the
ruler asked.
" 'Then, sire,' answered the grand
vizier, 'I will erase your name, and place
theirs, in its place.'"
This WouM Solve It.
St. Loufs Globe-Democrat.
A Socialist ifpeaker one evening this
week told a St. Louis audience that
trusts were the most admirable devoid
opment'of our commercial system, but
that the wrong people owned them.
Hear! hear! Wouldn't you like to own
one or two? '
Reuding the Paper.
New York Sun.
Ma reads the 'Woman's Column' an' about
the "Women's Clubs."
An' Bister reads the "Beauty Hlnta" an' of
the social dubs.
I read the "funny paper" and the latest in
baseball,
An' brother .reads the aportin pag-e the
races, flg-hta an all.
But pa skips all o' that, you bet, an' puts
in his best licks
A-readin' what the paper has to say on pol
itics! Ma reads the advertisements, an' she goes
out "bargain days,"
An comes home tired out, but, jest the
same, she sera it pays. .
An' .ale looks In the paper for the headln'
"Theaters";
They'a other things she reads, but that's a
favorite o' hers.
Sometimes I read the "flg-ht by rounds"
when there has been a mix.
But pa don't read a blessed thing' at all
but politics!
An' uncle reads about 'the crops an' what
the prospects la
Fer gittln' bumper harvests, for he'a in the
farmln bix.
An' auntie sea the "Home and Health" de
partment takes her eye.
'Cuz there she a-lta the new receipts for
makin' cakes an' pie.
An'"'vousin Henry reads the "Poultry News"
he's raisin' chlcke
But pa don't care a durn fer eriything but
politics!
An' gran'pa reads the story that'a "contin
ued in our next."
An' gran'ma reads the sermons, an' remem
bers ev'ry text.
She hunts the "dally puzr.lc" up an' sits
there half the nlRht
A-figurin the answer, an' she alius gits it
rlKht.
tVe have to g-ive the paper up to pa from
five to elx
'Cuz he comes home to supper then an' jest
reads politics!
The column called "Home Beautiful" ma
ses she moat enjoys;
The "Juvenile Department" Is the bully
thing fer boys.
An' then there Is the "Art News" sister's
interested there
But fer the "Fashion Notes" they print ma
doesn't seem to care.
An' as fer pa. he wishes that the editors
would fix
Things in the paper so they'd print a lot
more politics!
wanted to come to the United States,
where, he had heard, money was to be.
picked trp on the streets. On his arrival
tn America, ne worked ior awnne in
Newark, N. J., but eventually drifted to
Wilkesbarre. where lie secured employ
ment with the railroad contractors.
Two days after Rizzolo was discharged
from custody, he went to Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., where he started a commissary
department for the be-nefit of his fellow
Italians who were employed by Mr. Mc
Fadden. who had a railroad contract in
that section of New York.' Mike still
I had a passion for making money quick.
MORE than 7,000,000 bushels of home
grown peanuts are consumed an
nually by Americans, at a cost of
$14,300,000; but one cannot wonder at these
startling figures after an Investigation in
the very heart of the peanut industry
Suffolk, Va the largest market in the
world for the most valuable? nut which
grows in the earth.
Suffolk has the largest peanut "factory"
In the country, but there are other fac
tories in the state at Norfolk, Smith
field, Wakefield, Franklin, WaA-erly, Pe
tersburg and other places. It Is an all-the-year-aro'und
industry, lasting from
one season to the next, and It is not dif
ficult to realize that the peanut is now
one of the biggest little articles in our
American trade.
The extent of the use of the peanut by
Americans can better be appreciated
when it is understood that this heavy
annual consumption does not form a part
of the regular articles of food, but are
eaten at odd times by young, old, rich
and poor, white and blacK. It is an in
teresting fact that the peanut almost
universaly known in the South as the
"goober" and "plndar" did not come
prominently before the American people
until after the trying days of the Civil
War, during which period the boys who
wore the blue and the boys who
wore the gray found that the peanut sec
tion of the Southern states furnished a
most satisfactory camping place of those
who- were short of rations, and in this de
plorable condition the. boys of both sides
not infrequently found themselves. It
was then that the hungry soldiers made
meals of the peanuts and feit thankful
that such hunger-satisfying food could
be obtained by a little "foraging." From
these troublous days until the present
the rapid spread of the culture of peanuts
has been continuous and once where only
a small "patch" was planted there are
now acres a 100-acre peanut farm in Vir
ginia. North Carolina. Tennessee and
other Southern states being not uncom
mon. Peanuts of Many Vtrielies.
Possibly the finest peanut grown is the
"bunch" variety, but the Virginia "run
ning" is the most widely known and most
popular witu the trade, and may be' taken
as the typical American peanut. The
pods are large and white and will weigh
about 22 pounds to the bushel. In point
of flavor size, and hardness of shell or
hull, these are the finest peanuts raised,
and the "selects' from these are known
to the trade as the "Jumbo."
Tennessee produces the white and red,
and both are excellent nuts, but not so
large as the Virginia. North Carolina
has what is known as the African variety,
small and full of oil, but pleasant to
the taste. The African peanut is claimed
by botanists to be the original. r but ex-
l cellent authority gives it as a native of
Consume Seven Million Bushels of "Goobers"
His prospotcs looked good. But all
the while Linden had two employes
at the elbow of Mike Rizzolo. Both
of these fellows were Italians. One'
pretended to bo half-witted and man
aged to be in the company of Mike all
the while. He not only worked with
him. but he ate and slept witli him.
Rizzolo on his part not' only gave the
man his confidence by day, but he
poured his incoherent drt-ams into bis
willing ear by night. Detailed reports
were sent to Linden with religious reg
ularity. A few weeks after the crime Rizzolo's
sister was married, 'and he made her a
present of $600. A month later he pre
sented his brother-in-law with J1000 to
set him up in the bakery business. Aiso,
at sundry times he displayed treat rolls
of greenbacks, which were certainly not
the profits of l'lis business in Pough
keepsie. Finally, about the 12th of Jan
uary, Ttizzolo made elaborate plans for
a trio to Italy. He arranged to sail on
the 20th of January. Linden resolved
that the Italian should never leave
America. He had ample evidence. He
resolved to arrest him at once. So he
laid a trap to entice Mike to" PhiladeU
phia. thus bringing him within the juris
diction of the court.
The Italian responded. As he alighted
from the train. Linden came forward
to meet him. Rizzolo was somewhat
taken aback at the sight -of the detective,
but his nerve did not desert him.
"What do ,5'ou want?"
. "I want 'you to help me out on a little
case I am Interested in," was the signifi
cant response.
They drove down to the Philadelphia
office of the Pinkerton agency. Linden
immediately escorted his man into his
private office.
"Walt here," he said.- 'Til' be back in
a minute."
Mike felt uncomfortable. That was
Linden's purpose. The Italian looked
about him nervously. His glare rested
upon a large portrait of Allan Pinkerton.
the founder of the agency. The eyes of
the veteran detective looked down on
the murderer accusingly at least he
thought- so. He turned around and was
greeted with the motto of the agency,
"We Never Sleep." He was very uneasy
now. Linden re-entered the room carry
ing a legal-lookir.g document in his
hand. It was a warrant for the arrest
of the Italian. Linden looked very
solemn.
"Michael Rizzolo, stand up."
The suspect arose, curious and fearful.
"What is It?" he cried.
Linden put his broad hand on the man's
shoulder.
"I arrest you for the murder of Mc
Clure and Flanaghan."
Rizzolo sank to the floor -a shapeless
heap of crushed humanity.
It whs some moments before he re
covered his nerve. When he did so, the
detective said:
"You are not compelled to tell me any
thing. You can keep quiet if you wish."
"Oh. no." ho cried. "I must confess.
I can't keep quiet any longer."
And there in that little room, in pas
sionate words, he poured forth the story
of the atrocious double -murder on the
Luzerne mountains.
"it was greed for gold," said Mike,
"that was at the bottom of it all. The
scheme to waylay and murder McClure
and Flanaghan was first concocted on
Sunday. September 2. Gulseppl Beven'no
and Vinrenzo Villella and I thought what
a good time we could have in Italy If we
could get this money. We talked It
over for a long time and finally con
cluded to carry out the sceme. We
scoured the woods thoroughly to find a
good place to conceal our firearms and
the money In case we succeeded. After
looking about for more than two weeks
we finally located a place that suited our
purpose. Then I bought a rifle at a
store in Wilkesbarre, and we were ready.
On the morning of Friday. October I!1.
I saw -McClure go away from the works
I followed him to Miner's Mills. Villella
and Bevenlno did not come to Miner's
Mills that morning, hut remained in the
woods. After leaving Minor's Mills, I
passed McClure on the road."
"What did McClure say to you?"
said 'Hollo, Mike!' "
"' .!:nt did you say?"
"t said 'Hello.' and nodded my head."
"Then what followed?"
"As soon as McClure and Flanaghan
passed me in the carriage I quickened my
pace, but they naturally paid no atten
tion to me.. We were now close to where
the other two men were in ambush, and
I began to get a little nervous.
I Brazil. Louisiana finds the Spanish a
small but prolific nut best suited to that
I region, and immense quantities are
' grown. The "goober grabblers" of Geor
! gia and South Carolina like the small
j white and red peanut, the same as grown
; in Tennessee, and each succeeding year
J shows an increase in production. Other
! Southern states grow different varieties,
I and in every instance it has proved a
' profitable crop.
I It has been successful')' demonstrated
1 that on suitable soil the p-nnut will grow
in any latitude where Indian corn win
thrive, but a good crop depends entirely
on the climate conditions which are
found on the Atlantic seaboard from New
Jersey southward, in the M.ssisslppi Val
ley as far north as Southern Wisconsin,
and on the' Pacific coast south to the
Columbia River.
Harvest Ins the "Goober."
In the Virginia peanut section, and it is
a very extensive one. It has been found
that when the land is properly prepared,
pulverized and made porous, and free
from grass and weeds, there is little to
be done in the way .of cultivation after
the seed is placed in the ground. Most
planters have adopted the "drill" of
"ridge" system, which renders cultiva
tion easy with plow. made for the pur-
I pose, and requiring very little use of the
hoe. It is always a mp-and-tuc-k . race
with Jack Frost to get the crop harvested
before he gets in his work, for a biting
frost injures the nut and lessens the value
of the vine for forage purposes. Peanut'
farmers have plows made especially for
harvesting the crop. The plow is long
and keen and goes deep Into the soil, thus
preventing the bruising and cutting of
the nuts. As the plowmen loosen the
vines from their beds, laborers with
pitchforks follow and remove the vines
from the earth, shake off the loose foil
and pile the vines with their roots laden
with nuts in great piles. These pitchfork
workers are followed by others in a few
hours who take the nut-laden vines and
"shock" them around seven-foot pole?,
care being taken to keep the vines off the
ground by placing plankand wood around
the poles. When the shock is finished it
is capped with fodder or hay to keep out
the rain, and tiien the shock is left un
disturbed until ready for the "pickers."
generally women and children, who are
paid so much per bushel for picking the
nuts from the vines.. Pic.k'nir the nuts
furnishes a great deal of work for the
colored people, and Santa Claus and
Christmas-time money for tnem comes
mainly from this source. It is slow arid
tedious work and Is one of the largest
items of expense to the grower. Some
peanut planters do not shock their crop
hut store it in barns and lofts. Other
farmers have invented in peanut thresh
ing machines, hut the nuts gathered in
this way are not as marketable as the
hand-picked. the machinery sometimes
cracking and breaking the hulls. In
"Who fired the first shot?" I
"Bevenlno. He did the principal shoot-
ing. He wns an expert shot. He was oil
the right side of the road going up."
"Who was shot -first?"
"MeCTlure."
"Who tired the next shot?"
"Kevenino."
"Wher are these men now?" ,
"They are both in Italy. They left
three weeks after the. murder."
"How far up the road was Villella from
Bevenlno?"
"About E0 yards."
"When did you shoot?"
"I shot from the rear. I fired four,
shots altogether at the men in the car
riage. After MeClure and Flanaghan had i
been shot the horse started on a dead i
run. Villella got frightened and ran'
through the woods to the shanty, where I
he deserted us without warning. At !
one time it rooked as if the horse was I
going to get away and we thought we
had only killed the men for nothing. .
Bevenino was fleet-footed, however, and '
he chased the horse at a breakneck speed. !
He finally caught up and grabbed him by 1
the rein. He then shot him in the head..
Then we cut the strap that held the
satchel fast to the carriage, and hurried
to the woods to the hiding place. The
money was "buried as- wU as the weap-i
ons, and I arrived at my shanty a little
before 12 o'clock. You know the rest,
how I was suspected, and how I was
folowod to Poughkeepsie. The trouble
came when we quarreled over the divis
ion of the spoils. The. other two men
were so anxious to get back to Italy that
we took several trips to the woods and
dug up part of the money until now
nothing remains there but the silver
money and the weapons that were used
to commit the murder."
Linden datermlned to test Rizzolo's
story at once. The Italian told him pre
cisely where the money and the rifles
were buried. Linden started for Wilkes
barre at once, accompanie'd by the self
confessed murderer. They reached
Wilkesbarre at 8 o'clock in-the evening.
It was too late then to get a train to
Laurel Hill, where the money was hid
den. The night was dark and stormy,
but the d.etective resolved to pursue his
search in spite of all obstacles. He mado
up his mind to walk to Laurel Hill rather
than risk helng followed. He was ac
companied by one of his detectives and
the prisoner, who was not handcuffed.
When they reached the first house on
the side of the mountain he borrowed a
miner's lamp and then began the Journey
over the mountains. Several miles from
Wilkesbarre and two miles from .the
scene of the murder, at Laurel Run
Creek, they found the various" articles
Just where Mike said they had been hid
den. He was their guide from the begin
ning to the end. He knew every Inch of
the country, which was weird beyond the
wildest stretches of the imagination. The
rifle was found as well as the silver
money. They were hidden beneath a
heavy rock. The money was in a large
bag. and wrapped, in the paper packages.
Just as it came from the bank. The
satchel in which the money was carried
by McClure and Flanaghan was found In
another place, buried about a foot deep
between two rocks. All of the things
were hurled in such a way that they
could be reached readily by the removal
of a lot of leaves that were strewn
over them.
Linden directed that each article should
be dot buck exactly where it had been
found, except the coin, which he put in
a satchel and took back to Wilkesbarre
with him. Irony of fate Mike Rizzolo
was the messenger who carried the
satchel containing the coin which was
to be used as evidence to send him to
the gailows. It was very heavy. There
was J2!U.ri In dimes, 5-cent pieces and
pennies. They walked over the railroad
track back to Laurel Run. which was
reached shortly after midnight. Through
the kindness of a telegraph operator at
Laurel Run they were furnished with an
engine which took them back to Wilkes
barre.
Little more remains to be said. Riz-!
zolo was tried, convicted and executed.:
Requisitions were issued for his aecom-'
pllces. but through some flaw in interna
tional law they could not be honored, j
Later, however, through the activity of
the government. both received longi
terms In an Italian prison. Thoso who
were best .acquainted with Captain Liu
den's achievements in the great moun
tain mystery declare that it was as keen
and artistic a specimen of detective work
as has been developed in any country in
modern times.
(Next week: "Captain Donaghy and
the White Case.")
former years nearly all planters had
their nuts cleaned before sending to mar
ket, but since the establishment of the
peanut factories the nuts are brought in
just as they are taken from the vines.
The factories, or what are In facjt; re-j
cleaners and graders,, buy the output of
the planters as farmers' stock, and afterl
a treatment of cleaning, polishing and'
sorting by both" hand and machinery, tho
nut is( ready for the consumer.
In a Peanut "Tactorj;."
Owing to the construction of the ma
chinery, it is necessary for the factories
to be four-story buildings, but the ma-i
chinory is neither costly nor complicated,
consisting of fans, brushes, polishers,
sifters and separators. As the great;
'loads of nuts are brought to the factoryj
by the planters the sacks are carried by
elevators to the top or fourth floor, where
the nuts are dumped Into hoppers,
passing into large cylinders on
the next floor, where they are
cleaned by attrition, fans taking
out the dust as they pass in anil
they are cleaned by attrition, fans tak
ing out the dust as they pass in and
around the cylinders. From this floor
the nuts pass to the second floor, where
they go tnrough fans which blow out and
separate the lightweights, and the others
pass on to tables In the form of endlessl
movable belts, at which tables the hun-
dreds of women end children pick out thai
Cjlseolored and faulty nuts and allow the,
better ones to pass into a grader, whlch
grades the nuts as to size. Through nllj
this machinery the nuts have been pol-j
tehed until they come out looking asj
smootli as a pearl. In this condition they'
are placed In chutes running to tho lowcrj
floor, where they are sacked in burlap
bags, stenciled with the names of the
several brands. They then are ready to
be shipped to the cities throughout the'
countij.
The Sailing of the Ships.
New York SUri.
UnhafUinur and unresting, day and niRht.
Tho Kreat ships speed upon their Orient
way:
They little herd if waters ruge or piay.
They little care if skle are dark or bright.
Concentrate power, clad In the robes of
white
Which symbol peace, wherever man holds
sway.
Bearing no menace, seeking not for prey.
They onv:rd sweep, in calm, majestic
might.
What do they seek, embodied ' death and'
power.
In the far seas that meet an eastern 1
strand ?
Alert, unsleeping, keeping, hour by hour.
The part that saves full many a helplefs
. land:
Long miy they show, till war Itself shall,
cease.
How strong the hand that ke?ps the true
of Peace!
Ninette M. Low a tar.