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The young man was interested, but ateur detec« ive, that she believes Lad- It might not have been. There was such a town, according to Mr. Graves, not convinced. lie had her story taken lev has killed Jennie Brice. down and she signed it. He was H olcom be finds In crim in atin g evid en ce but apparently lie had made nothing in L a d le y ’s room. A n o n y x clock is m iss­ of it. Was it a town that was meant? smiling as he bowed us out. I turned ing. Mrs. P itm a n ’ s k n ife has been stolen The dictionary gave only a few in the doorway. and broken. “ This will free Mr. Ladley, I sup­ words, beginning wdth “ horn” —hornet, Mrs. Pitm a n reca lls that H o w e ll, a im­ hornblende, hornpipe and horny—none pose?” I asked porter, w as w ith Jen nie B rice and L a d ley “ Not just yet.’’ he said pleasantly. of which was of any assistance. And s h o rtly b efore Jen nie disappeared. then one morning I happened to see in "This makes Just eleven places where L a d le y is arrested, but as no uody nas been found he is released fo r lack o f e v i­ the personal column of one of the Jennie Brice spent the first three days dence. newspapers that a woman named Eliza after her death." “ But I can positively identify the Shaeffer of Horner had day old Buff H o lcom b e believes L a d ley is gu ilty. L a d le y retu rns to Mrs. P itm a n ’s. H o l­ Orpington and Plymouth Rock chicks dress.” com be w atches him throu gh the ceilin g “ My good woman, that dress has for sale, and it started me to puzzling A w om an ’s headless body is found. again. Perhaps it had been Horner been described to the last stilted arch H o w e ll w as seer, w ith a veiled w om an re ­ and possibly this very Eliza Shaeffer— and colonial volute in every newspaper sem b lin g Jennie B rice the nigh t she dis­ I suppose my lack of experience was in the United States!” appeared That evening the newspapers an­ In my favor, for, after all. Eliza Shaef­ N o one can id e n tify the headless body, fer is a common enough name, and the nounced that during a conference at w h ich has an odd sca r on the b rea st L a d le y la re a r res ted. “ Horn” might have stood for “ horn- the Jail between Mr. Ladley and James sw’oggle” for all 1 knew’. The story of Bronson, business manager at the CHAPTER IX. the man who thought of what he Liberty theater. Mr. Ladley had at­ H AVE said before that 1 do not w’ould do if he were a horse came back tacked Mr. Bronson with a chair and know anything about the law. to me, and for an hour or so I tried to almost brained him. * * * * * * * I believe that the Ladley ease think I was Jennie Brice trying to get Eliza Shaeffer went back to Horner =&££«# was unusual in several ways. away and hide from my rascal of a Mr. Ladley had once been well known husband. But I mude no headway. I after delivering her chicks somewhere in New York among the people who would never have gone to Horner or to in the city. Things went on as before. frequent the theaters, and Jennie Brice any small town if I had wanted to The trial was set for May. The dis­ was even better known. A good many hide. I think I should have gone trict attorney’s office had all the things lawyers, I believe, said that the police around the corner and taken a room in we had found in the house that Mon­ had not a leg to stand on, and 1 know my ow n neighborhood or have lost my­ day afternoon—the stained tow'el, the broken knife and its blade, the slipper the case was watched with much in­ self iu some large city. It was that same day that since I did that had been floating in the parlor terest by the legal profession. People and the rope that had fastened my wrote letters to the newspapers pro­ not go to Horner Horner came to me. boat to the staircase. Somewhere— testing against Mr. Ladley being held. The bell rang about 3 o’clock, and I w herever they keep such things—was And I believe that the district attor­ answered it myself, for with times the headless body of a woman, wdth n ney in taking him before the grand hard and only two or three roomers all winter 1 had not had a servant except hand missing, and with a curious scar Jury hardly hoped to make a case. across the left breast. The slip of But he did, to his owu surprise I Terry to do odd jobs for some months. There stood a fresh faced young girl, paper, however, which I had found fancy, and the trial was set for May. behind the baseboard, wras stilt iu Mr. But in the meantime many curious with a covered basket in her hand. Holcombe’s possession, nor had he “ Are you Mrs. Pitman?” she asked. things had happened. “ I don’t need anything today,” I said, mentioned it to the police. In the first place, the week following Mr. Holcombe had not come back. Mr. Ladley’s arrest my house was till­ trying to shut the door. And at that He wrote me twice asking me to hold minute something in the basket cheep­ ed up with eight or ten members of a ed. Young women selling poultry are his room, once from New York and company from the Gaiety theater, very not common iu our neighborhood. once from Chicago. To the second let­ cheerful and jolly and well behaved. “ What have you there?” I asked more ter he added a postscript: Three men, I think, and the rest girls. H a v e n ot fou nd w h a t I w anted, but am agreeably. g e ttin g w a rm . I f a n y new s, address me One of the men was named Bellows, “ Chicks, day old chicks, but I ’m not a t D es M oines, la., gen era l d e liv ery . H. John Bellows, and it turned out that trying to sell you any. I —may I come It was nearly th e end of April when lie had known Jennie Brice very well. In?” I saw Lida again. I had seen by the From the moment he learned that It was dawning on me then that per­ Mr. Holcombe hardly left him. He haps this was Eliza Shaeffer. I led her newspapers that she and her mother walked to the theater with him and back to the dining room, with Peter were coming home. I wondered if she had heard from Mr. Howell, for I had waited to walk home again. He took sniffing at the basket. not, and I wondered, too, if she would him out to restaurants and for long “ My name is Shaeffer,” she said. send for me again. street car rides In the mornings, and “ I ’ve seen your name in the papers, But she came herself, on foot, late on the last night of their stay, Satur­ and I believe I know' something about one afternoon, and, the school teacher day. they got gloriously drunk to­ Jennie Brice.” being out, I took her into the parlor gether—Mr. Holcombe, no doubt, iu his Eliza Shaeffer’s story was curious. bedroom. She looked thinner than be­ character of Ladley—and came reeling She said that she was postmistress at fore and rather white. My heart ached in at 3 in the morning, singing. Mr. Horner and lived with her mother on a for her. Holcombe was very sick the next day, farm a mile out of the towm, driving in “ I have been away,” she explained. but by Monday he was all right, and and out each day in a buggy. “ I thought you might wonder why you On Monday afternoon, March 5, a did not hear from me. But, you see. he called me into the room. “ We’ve got him, Mrs. Pitman,” he woman had alighted at the station my mother”—she stopped and flushed. said, looking mottled, but cheerful. “ As from a train and had taken luncheon “ I would have written you from Ber­ sure ns God made little fishes, w e’ve at the hotel. She told the clerk she was muda, but—my mother watched my got him.” That was nil he would say, on the road, selling corsets, and was correspondence, so I could not.” however. It seemed he was going to much disappointed to find no store of No. I knew she could not. Alma had New York and might be gone for a any size in the tow n. The woman, w’ho once found a letter of mine to Mr. mouth. “ I’ve no family,” he said, “ and had registered as Mrs. Jane Bellow», Fit man. Very little escaped Alma. **i wondered i f you have heard any­ enough money to keep m<\ If I find said she was tired and would like to rest for a day nr two on a farm. She my relaxation in hunting down crimi­ was told to see Eliza Shaeffer at the thing?’ she asked. ‘I have heard nothing. Mr. Howell nals, it’8 a harmless and cheap amuse­ postoffice, and as a result drove out was here once, just after I saw you. ment, and—it’s my own business.” with her to the farm after the last mail I do not believe he is in the city. He went away that night, and I came iu that evening. “ Perhaps not, although—Mrs. Fit- must admit I missed him. 1 rented Asked to describe her—she was over the parlor bedroom the next day to a medium height, light haired, quick in man. I believe he is in the city, hid­ ing!” school teacher, and I found the peri­ her movements and wore a black and “ Hiding! Why?” scope affair very liarnly. I could see white striped dress with a red collar “ I don’t know. But last night I just how much gas she used, and al­ and a hat to match. She carried a thought I saw him below my window. though the notice on eacli door forbids small brow'u valise that Miss Shaeffer 1 opened the window, so if it were he cooking and washing in rooms, I found presumed contained her samples. he could make some sign. But he she was doing both; making coffee Mrs. Shaeffer had made her welcome, moved on without a word. Later, who and boiling an egg in the morning, and although they did not usually take ever it was came back. I put out my rubbing out stockings and handker­ boarders until June. She had not eaten light and watched. Some one stood chiefs in her washbowl. I ’d much rath­ much supper, and that night she had there, in the* shadow, until after 2 this er have men as boarders than women. asked for pen and ink and had written morning. Fart of the time he was The women are always lighting alcohol a letter. The letter was not mailed looking up.” lamps on the bureau and wanting the until Wednesday. All o f Tuesday Mrs. “ Don’t you think, had it been he, he bed turned into a cozy corner so they Bellow’s had spent in her room, and would have spoken when he saw you?” Mrs. Shaeffer had driven to the village can see their gentlemen friends In She shook her head. “ He is in trou­ in the afternoon with word that she ble,” she said. “ He has not heard their rooms. had been crying all day and bought Well, with Mr. Holcombe gone and from me, and he—thinks I don’t care Mr. Reynolds busy all day and half some headache medicine for her. any more. Just look at me, Mrs. Fit- On Wednesday morning, however, the night getting out the summer man. Do I look as if I don’t care?” silks and preparing for remnant day, she had appeared at breakfast, eaten S h e looked half killed, poor lamb. heartily and had asked Miss Shaeffer ! and with Mr. Ladiey in jail and Lida " H e may be out of town searching to take her letter to the postofflee. | out of the city—for I saw’ in the papers for a better position,” I tried to com­ It was addressed to Mr. Ellis Howell, that she was not well, and her mother fort her. “ He wants to have some­ hatl taken her to Bermuda—I had a in care of a Pittsburgh newspaper. thing to offer more than himself.” That night when Miss Eliza went "1 only want him,” she said, looking home, about half past 8, the woman I at me frankly. “ I don’t know why I was gone. She had paid for her room ! tell you all this, but you are so kind, and had been driven as far as Thorn- j and I must talk to some one.” ville, where all trace of her had been She sat there in the cozy corner the lost. On account of the disappearance schoolteacher had made, with a por­ of Jennie Brice being published short- 1 tiere sind some cushions, and I saw she ly after that, she and her mother had was about ready to break down and driven to Thornville, but the station cry. I went over to her and took her agent there was surly as well as stu­ hand, for s h e was my own niece, al­ pid. They had learned nothing about though sh e didn’t suspect it. and I had the woman. never had a oiit having traced Jennie beyond doubt the prisoner*» guilt.” as I had seen Mr. Holcombe do. I I Brice to Horner? (To be continued next w eek) would sit down and write things out | I did ns I thought Mr. Holcomtx» . » as they had happened and study them would have wished me to do. I wrote O ct y our butter w rapper» at the over, and especially I worried over down on a clean sheet of note paper how we could have found a slip of all that Eliza Shaeffer said—the de­ HpraM office. S Y N O P S IS # I K. E-SHIM , V . - P rea. I. H. HAZARD, C ittì,, ___________________ 0. C SANFORD, /Uot.Coohler Notice is hereby given that the under- ' signed Administrator of the eatate of David J. Lowe, sr. deceased has filed his final report with the County Court op C O Q U I U I i B , O H B G O f t . of Coos County State o f Oregon, and that the judge thereof has set Monday the 6th day of July at the County Court T r a n s a c t » a G e n e r a l B a n k i n g B u e i n e « * - room in the Court House Building at Coquille City Coos County Oregon, at Soord of Director». | Correspondent*. the hour of ten o’clock A M . of said day as the time and place for the hearing R .O . Dement, A . J. Sherwood, ! N ation*) I'.¡ink o Commerce, New Y ork Cl o f objections thereto and o f the settle­ L. Harlocker, L . H . Hazard, Crocker W oolworth N ’ lBank, Han Franci ment thereof. Now all persons having Isaiah Hacker. R. E. Shine. ! First N a t’l Bank of Portland, Portland. objections to said final report and the settlement thereof are hereby notified j to appear and file the same on said date and at said time. Dated this 9th day of May 1914. R. S. K n o w lt o n , President G eo . A . R obinso n , Vice-Pres. F r a n k L. L o w e , R. H. M a s t , Cashier. Administrator of the estate o f D a v i d J. L owe Sr. deceased. 5-12-5t < IN TH E C O UNTY COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON IN AND FOR TH E CO U NTY OF COOS. C O Q U IL L E . O R E G O N F IR S T N A T I O N A L B A N K Farmers S Martha i r f J. i S Noa- rl z J *"»™ ler, Deceased. J E sta te Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of authority given me, by an order of the County Court for Coos County, Oregon, duly made and entered o f record in the Probate Journal o f said Court on the 5th day of May, 1914, I shall from and after the 10th day of June, 1914, offer for sale and sell at private sale, the following described real estate belonging to the estate of Martha J. Nosier, deceased, to-wit: a 6-10 interest in the N W ‘4 of the SE‘ g, and Lots 6 and 7 in Section 7 Township 28 South o f Range 13 West of the W il­ lamette Meridian in C'oos County, Oregon. Also Lot 3 in Block 3 in the Town of Riverton, Coos County, Oregon, as per plat thereof on file and of record in the office o f the County Clerk o f said Coos County. That the terms of said sale shall be for cash or credit, to-wit: eithbr all cash, or one-half cash at time o f sale and one-half in not more than one or or two years time, with interest at not less than 6 per cent per annum, interest payable semi-annualty. That any offers for same may be pre­ sented at the office of Geo. P. Topping at Bandon, Oregon, or sent there by mail. This notice is published in the Co­ quille Herald for four successive weeks or five times, the first May 12, 1914, and the last June 9, 1914, by order of the Hon. John F. Hall, County Judge, as above mentioned. Dated this 12th day o f May, 1914. FLORENCE URQUH ART, Executrix o f the estate and last Will and Testament of Martha J. Nosier, deceased. GEO. P. TOPPING, Attorney for Estate. 5-12-5t In the C iicuit Court of the S t.te of Oregon in and for Coos County Robert Dollar, Trustee, ) Plaintiff, I S U IT IN vs. E Q U ITY Seeley-Anderson Log- t ging Company, a cor­ NOTICE TO poration, ana E. O. CREDITORS Clinton, Defendants. Notice is hereby given that all per­ sons having claims against the Seeley- Anderson Logging Company are here­ by required to present same to the Circuit Court o f Coos County, Oregon, duly verified, and with all proper and necessary vouchers and proof to satisfy said court o f the validity of said claims, within six weeks from the date of this notice. That this notice is published by the order of the Circuit Court for Coos County, Oregon, which said order is dated the 12th day o f May, 1914. Dated this 12th day o f May, 1914. R. S T A N L E Y D O LLAR, Receiver o f Seeley-Anderson Logging Company. 5-12 and Merchants Bank Op ned fo r B u s in e s M a r c h . 1 8 9 0 co rrespo nd ents Ladd & Tilton Bank, Portland National Park, N ew York 31 : First National Bank, San Francisco First Trust & Sa"ings, Coos Bay O LD R E L IA B L E — EQ UIPPED W IT H W IR E LESS ijj STEAMER BREAKWATER A L W A Y S ON T IM E Sails from Portland at 8 A. M., June 2ifd, 7th, 12th, 17th, 22nd, 27th. Sails from Coos Bay A t 1 P. M., June 4th, 9th 14th, 19th, 24th, 29th. W. L. K0LM, Agent [4 : V? , -t Phone M ain 181 C P 4SM 9I C S : : - l i ^¿3- ;£) ,V_F-n_e i ri. r ;> oqqc *$<> o < s » c o o <> o o o o o o o o o o o < Fred V o « Pegert KIM E C. I. Kirne & V ON PEGERT COQUILLE, OREGON Roseburg M yrtle Point S tage And Auto Line Leaves Myrtle Point 5 a. in. Arrives Roseburg, next day Leaves Roseburg..... 6 p. m. Air. Myrtle Pointby 10 p. in. Make reservations in advance at Ow ] Drug Store, Marshfield. Carrying Baggage and United Stales Mail J. L. LAIRD, Proprietor Office at L a i r d ’s Livery Barn, Myrlle Poi nt , Bolb Phones REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Reported for The Herald by the Title Guarantee and Abstract Co. May 7 i Bertha Brooks et vir to Maggie Neil- son war deed lots 11 & 12, blk 12 plat A Coos Bay. $750 I C. F. Thielmann to Dell Saunders c deed placer mining claim described 8lj of n\vl4, se^4 sec 25 tp 26 » r 14 w m. I q as w $1 Herman Fisk to Lillian Saunders q c deed placer mining claim described as 0)2 o! nw 54 of sej^ sec 25 tp 26 s r 14 w w m. $1 I i 60 C E N T S Why not have an extension telephone installed in your residence, the price has been reduced to 60 cents per month. Think of the un­ necessary steps this will save you. Coos B a y Home Telephone Co. Main Office Marshfield, Oregon Henry Sengstacken Co. to H. H. Winter, war deed lots 1 & 2 blk 16, Steamboat add to Yarrow. $10 Albert V . Baird et ux to Margaret Marshfield Hill, war deed lot 10 blk 36 Woodland U. F. Snow et ux to W. M. Nay war ad to Bandon. $1 deed part o( lot 2 hlk 61 Elliotts Add to Paul. K. Perki s to Emma Osborn Coquille A parcel adjoining same $10. war deed lot 4 blk 18 Dunhams add to May 12 1914 Bandon. $1 John H. Stadden et ux to Oscar Ro­ Reynolds Development Co. to City of sen war deed lot 17 blk 7 Bunker Hill Marshfield, dedication of Easement, Add to Marshfield $10 00 oyer lot 15, blk 10 First add to Marsh­ C A. Smith Timber Co. to Frederick field, A. Warner trustee war deed right of May 8, 1914 way lor railroad up South Fork of Co­ Matilda Isaacson et vir to Hattie L. quille River $10,00 Hale, war deed lots 23 & 24, blk 61, It. E. Shine et nx to Mary Eugenia Railroad add to Marshfield, $10. Loren7, war deed e 12 of lots 7 At 8 blk 44 Walter C. Hill to Jeremiah Pacific Elliotts Addition to Coquille $10 00 Keeney, war deed lots 9 4 sec 27 tp 23 s r 12 w w m H. P. Howard et ux to Howard Farm Co. war deed 800 acres o f land in secs 11 14 15 22 tp 24 s r 13 w w m $10.00 John M. Smock et ux to Ray Wyland war deed lot 5 blk 27 Border & Benders Add to Myrtle Point $200.00 M. O. Stemmier et ux to Henry A. Schroeder war deed lot 4 blk 27 Border & Benders Add to Myrtle Point $10 00 j ! ] Wm. A. Border to Henry A. Schroe­ der et ux q c deed lot 4 blk 27 Border & Benders add to Myrtle Point. $10 Esther 'fann et vir to Sarah Costello war deed, parcel o f land in Bandon. $2000 A Little Circle. Ethel-This craze for gold seems t< me very foolish. Now. a very lttth would make me perfectly happy. Jack-H ow much? Ethel—Just enough to reach around mv finger.—Boston Transcript