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MYRTLE POINT, OREGON
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
JULY 3rd AND 4th, 1914
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PROGRAM OF EVENTS
July 3, 1914
A. M. — Ball Game at Fair Grounds
M. —Lunch
P. M .- Band Concert, Sixth and Spruce Streets
P. M.—Races
P. M.—Open Air Dance at Fair Grounds
July 4, 1914
4:00 A. M.— Salute of Guns at Sunrise
10:00 A. M.—Grand Street Parade
11:00 A. M. Public Speaking, Dixon’s Grove
Tom T. Bennett, Speaker of the Day
12:00
12:30
1:00
2:00
5:00
M. — Barbecue Dinner, Dixon’s Grove
to 1:30—Free Moving Picture Show at Unique Theatre
P. M.- Children’s Street Sports and Juvenile Races
P. M .- Races
P. M.—Tug of War and Log Sawing Contest
Fifth Street Between Spruce and Maple
7:00 P. M.—Street Sports
8:00 P. M.—Open Air Dance at Fair Grounds
9:00 P. M.—Fire Works and Band Concert at Fair Grounds
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Notice to Creditors
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon In and For the County of Coos.
In th«' Matter of the Estate of Mi
chael Grant, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Michael
Grant, deceased. All persons having
claims against said estate are hereby
notified to present the same duly veri
fied as by law required to the under
signed at the office of John I). Goss, 1st
Natl. Bank Bldg., Marshfield, Coos
County, Oregon within six months from
the date of this notice.
Dated this 26th day of May 1914.
Eugene Grant
5-26-5t
Administrator.
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CH A P TER XII.
1. LADLEY, you have said
M that your wife was 111 the
night of March 4?”
“Yes.”
”\Vhat was the nature of her illness?”
“She had a functional heart trouble,
not serious.”
“Will you tell us fully ¿he events of
that night?”
“I had been asleep when my wife
wakened me. She asked for a medicine
she used in these attacks. I got up
and found the bottle, but it was empty.
As she was nervous and frightened, 1
agreed to try to get some at a drug
store. 1 went downstairs, took Mrs.
Pitman's boat and went to several
stores l»efore I could awaken a phar
macist"
“You out the boat loose?"
•‘Yes. It was tied in n woman’s knot
or series of knots. I could not untie
i t and I was in a hurry."
“How did you cut It?“
"With my pooketknife.”
“Yuu did not use Mrs. Pitmans
bread knife?"
“I did not."
“And In cutting it you cut your wrist,
did you?"
“Yes. The knife slipped. I have the
scar still.”
“What did you do then?"
“I went back to the room and stanch
ed the blood with a towel."
“From whom did you get the medi
cine?"
“From Alexander’s pharmacy.”
“At what time?"
“I am not certain. About 3 o’clock,
probably."
“You went directly back home?"
Mr. Ladlev hesitated. “No," he said
finally. “ My wife had had these at
tacks, but they were not serious. I
was curious to see how the river front
looked and rowed out too far. I was
caught In the current and nearly car
ried away.”
“You came home'after that?”
“Yes. at once. Mrs. Ladley was bet
ter and had dropped asleep. She wak
ened as I came in. She was disagree
able about the length of time 1 had
been gone and would not let me ex
plain. We quarreled, and she said she
was going to leave me. I said that as
she had threatened this before and had
never done it I would see that she
really started. At daylight 1 rowed
her to Federal street.”
“What had she with her?"
“A small brown valise."
“How was she dressod?"
“In a black and white dress and hat,
with a long, black coat."
“What was the last you saw of her?"
“She was going across the Sixth
street bridge."
“Alone.”
“No. She went with a young man
we knew.”
There was a stir in the courtroom at
this.
“Who was the young man?”
“A Mr. Howell, a reporter on. a news
paper here.”
“Have you seen Mr. Howell since
your arrest?"
“No, sir. He has been out »of the
city.”
I was so excited by this time that I
could hardly hear. I missed sotue of
the cross examination. The district
attorney pulled Mr. Ladley’s testimony
to pieces.
she was.”
‘You cut the boat’s painter with
“And yet you destroyed it?"
your pooketknife?"
“A postscript said to do so."
"I did."
! “Why?”
“Then how do you account for Mrs.
“1 do not know. An extra precau
Pitman's broken knife, with the blade tion probubly.”
in your room?“
“You were under the impression that
“I have no theory about it. She may she was going to stay there?”
have broken it herself. She had used
“She was to have remained for a
It the day before to lift tacks out of a week.”
carpet"
“And you have been searching for
That waa true; I had.
this woman for two months?”
“That early Monday morning was
He quailed, but his voice was steudy.
cold, was it not?"
“Yes," he admitted.
j “Y’es; very.”
He was telling the truth, even if it
| “Why did your wife leave without was not all the truth. I believe hud it
her fur coat?"
gone to the Jury then Mr. Ladley
j “I did not know she had until we would have been acquitted. But late
! had left the house. Then I did not that afternoon things took a new turn.
¡ ask her. She would not speak to me.” Counsel for the prosecution stated to
“I see. But is it not true that, upon the court that he had a new and im
a wet fur coat being shown you as portant witness and got permission to
your wife’s, you said it could not be introduce this further evidence. The
hers, as she had taken hers with her?" witness was a Dr. Littlefield and prov
“I do not recall such a statement."
ed to be my one night tenant of the
“You recall a coat being shown you?" | second story front. Holcombe's pris-
“Yes. Mrs. Pitman brought a coat ! oner of the night before took the stand.
to my door, but I was working ou a
play 1 am writing, and I do not re | The doctor was less impressive in full
member what I said. The coat was | daylight—he was a trifle shiny, a bit
wink!, i did not want it. i piobably i bulbous as to nose and indifferent as
said the first thing I thought of to get to finger nulls. But his testimony was
I given with due professional weight.
rid of the woman.”
“You are a doctor of medicine, Dr.
1 got up at that. I’d held my peace
about the breadknife. but this was too Littlefield?” asked the district attor
much. However, the moment I start ney.
“Yes.”
ed to speak somehqdy^pushed me back
“In active practice?"
into my chair añil "1(71(1 IneTo TFqulet.
"1 have a cure for inebriates in Des
“Now, you say you were in such a
hurry to get this medicine for your Moines. In. 1 was formerly in general
wife that you cut the rope, thus cut practice in New York city."
“You knew Jennie Ladley?"
ting your wrist."
“I had seen her at different theaters,
“Yes. I have the scar still.”
“You could not wait to untie the and she consulted me professionally at
boat, and yet you went along the river one time in New York.”
“You operated on her. 1 believe?"
front to see bow high the water waa?"
“Yes. She came to me to have u
“Her alarm had excited me. But
when I got out and remembered that name removed. It had been tattooed
the doctors had told us she would nev over her heart.”
er die in an attack, 1 grew more com
“You removed it?”
posed."
“Not at ouce. 1 tried fading the
“You got the medicine first, you marks with goat’s milk, but she was
■ay ?"
impatient. On the third visit to my
“Yes."
office she demanded that the name be
“Mr. Alexander has testified that you cut out.”
got the medicine at 3:30. It has been
“You did It?"
shown that you left the house at 2
“Yes
She refused a general an
and got back about 4. Does not this aesthetic and I used cocaine. The
show' that with all your alarm you name was John—I believe a former
went to the river front first?”
husband.
She Intended to marry
“I was gone from 2 to 4." he replied again."
calmly. “Mr. Alexander must be wrong
A titter ran over the courtroom.
about the time I wakened him. I got People strained to the utmost are a I
the medicine first."
“When your wife left you at the
bridge, did she say where she was
going?”
“No.”
“You claim that this woman at Hor
ner was your wife?"
“I think it likely."
“Was there an onyx clock in the sec
ond story room when you moved
into it?"
“I do not recall the clock."
“Your wife did not take an onyx
clock «way with her?”
Mr. Ladley smiled. “No.”
The defense called Mr. Howell next.
He looked rested and the happier for
having seen Lida, but be was still pale
and showed the strain of some hidden
anxiety. What that anxiety was the
next two days were to tell us all.
“Mr. Howell,” Mr. Llewellyn asked,
“you know the prisoner?"
“Slightly."
“State w’hen you met him."
“On Sunday morning, March 4. 1
went to see him.”
“Will you tell us the nature of that
visit?"
“My paper had heard be was writing
a play for himself. I was to get an
interview, with photographs, if possi
ble.”
“You saw his wife at that time?"
T h e D oc to r Mad e a Car efu l D r a w in g .
“Yes."
“When did you see her again?"
ways glad of au excuse to smile. The
“The following morning at 6 o’clock laughter of a wrought up crowd al
or a little later. I walked across the ways seems to me half hysterical.
Sixth street bridge with her and put
“Have you seen photographs of the
her on u train for Horner, Pa."
scar on the body found at SewickleyV
“You are positive it was Jennie Or the body itself?”
Brice?”
“No; 1 have not."
“Yes. I Watched her get out of the
“Will you describe the operation?”
boat while her husband steadied it."
“I made a transverse incision for
“If you knew this, why did you not the body of the name and two verti
come forward sooner?"
cal ones—one longer for the ‘J.’ the
“I have been out of the city.”
other shorter for the stem of,the *h.
“But you knew the prisoner had been There was a dot after the name. 1
arrested and that this testimony of made a half inch incision for it.”
yours woula be invaluable to him."
“Will you sketch the cicatrix as you
“Yes. But I thought it necessary to recall it?"
produce Jennie Brice herself. My un
The doctor made a careful drawing
supported word"—
on a pad that was passed to him. The
“You have been searching for Jen drawing was much like this:
nie Brice?”
“Yes. Since March 8."
“How was she dressed when you
saw' her last?”
“She wore a red and black hat and
a black coat She carried a small
Line for line, dot for dot. It was the
brown valise.”
scar on the body found at Sewickley.
“Thank you.”
“You are sure the woman was Jen
The cross examination did net shako nie Brice?"
his testimony
But it brought out
“She sent me tickets for the theater
some curious things. Mr. Howell re shortly after, and I had an announce
fused to say how he happened to he ment of her marriage to the prisoner
at the end of the Sixth street bridge at some weeks later.”
that hour or why he had thought it
"Were there any witnesses to the
necessary on meeting a woman he operation?"
claimed to have known only twenty-
“My assistant. I can produce him at
four hours to go with her to the rail
any time."
way station and put her on a train.
That was not all of the trial, but it
The Jury was visibly impressed and was toe decisive moment. Shortly
much shaken, for Mr. Howell carried after the Jury withdrew, and for twen
conviction in every word ¡ae said. He ty-four hours not a word was heard
' looked the district attorney in the eye, from them.
and once when our glances crossed he
(To be continued next week)
even smiled at me faintly. But I saw
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why he had tried to find Jennie Brice
T h e Real Te st .
and had dreaded testifying. Not a
“Is she an obliging musician?"
woman in that courtroom anil hardly
“Very. She will always sing when
a man but believed when be left the
stand that he was or had been Jennie you ask her to. She doesn’t have to
Brice’s lover and as such was assist be coaxed.”
“I know, but will she also stop when
ing her to leave her husband.
“Then you believe." the district at- you’ve had enough?”
j torney said at the end—,fcyou believe,
Mr. Howell, that Jennie Brice is liv
O V E R 66 Y E A R S ’
E X P ER IE N C E
ing?”
"Jennie Brice was living on Mon
day morning. March 5,” he said firmly.
“Miss Shneffer has testified that on
Wednesday this woman who you
claim was Jennie Brice sent a letter
to you from Horner. Is that the
T rade M arks
D esig n s
case?”
. . . .
C o p y r ig h t s A c .
“Yes."
Anyone eendlng n sketch and description may
“The letter was signed ‘Jennie
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Brice’?”
t t o n « s t r ic t ly c o n f i d e n t i a l . HANDBOOK o n P a t e n t »
utMif f r e e , (» b lest a g e n c y f o r s e c u r i n g p a te n t* .
“It was signed *J. B.'* "
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s p tr i if u n tie s , w i t h o u t c h a r g e , i n t h e
“Will you show the court that let
ter?"
"I destroyed it."
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cu la tio n o f a n y eelentlttc J urniil. T erm «. 93 a
“It was a p rsonal letter?"
r e ir - fo u r m o n th s, | L gold by all new sdealers.
“It merely said she had arrived safe
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