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By EDWARD BLAKE
THURSDAY, MAY
SI, 1917
D o your bit for good roads at
the ftolls next Monday.
The last day o f May and straw
hats still in cold storage.
Continue to bear in mind that
Newberg is to have a Chautauqua
the second week in July.
Women voters who believe in
the favorable results o f good
roads in the development o f the
state should be at the polls next
Monday and cast their votes for
the bond issue.
All admit that we ought to
have better roads in Oregon. The
bonding proposition gives prom
ise o f a start in that direction,
therefore get out next Monday
and help put it over with your
vote.
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Our state penitentiary is a dis
grace to the state and it is up to
the voters to say whether or not
money shall be appropriated for
building a new one. The act will
be found on the ballot Monday.
W e believe it ought to be ap
proved.!
In the appointment o f Judge
Charles L. McNary to be United
States Senator for Oregon to fill,
until the next general election,
the unexpired term o f the late
Senator Lane, the Graphic be
lieves that Governor Withycombe
has acted wisely. Mr. McNary
has made good wherever he has
been tested, he is a growing man
and a hard, consistent worker.
On two very live questions, na
tional prohibition and woman’s
suffrage, he promptly announces
that he favors both. He is al
ready on his way to Washington
to take his seat
Recently when Frank S. Myers,
the Portland postmaster, spoke
in Newberg in opposition to the
issuing o f road bonds he made an
effort to play to the galleries, by
swinging his arms wildly and
shouting: “ You people in New
berg were no doubt told when
you were being urged to pave
your streets that if you made this
improvement your property would
double in selling price. What has
the result been? What can you
sell your property for today?”
Yes, he was cheered, but who
«fid the ch eerin g?' It was not
done by those who are most in
terested, and the Graphic feels
sure that had a vote been taken
b y those who are paying for the
paving, not one would have fav
ored going back to old conditions
with a sea o f mud in winter and
flying dust in summer. Conse
quently Mr. Myers’ appeal for
the purpose o f tickling the ears
o f a class o f people who are al
ways opposed to any improve
ments falls fiat when honestly
considered. Newberg was in a
position where a certain amount
o f paving had to be done if fur
ther progress was to be made.
It has been a burden on many
property owners to meet the year
ly payments, to be sure, but since
none would want to go back to
form er conditions if it were pos
sible, the fact that property is
not selling readily is no argument
against making further highway
improvements when it can be
done as provided for in the bond
ing a c t I f Oregon is to keep
pace with neighboring states, the
main arteries o f travel must be
improved so that rapid transit
with motor-driven conveyances
may pass over them, both sum
mer and winter. Since the oppo
sition has failed to suggest any
oth er possible plan for making
such road improvements t h e
Graphic favors the bonding a c t
A lawyer, especially a criminal
lawyer, has often great difficulty in
learuing from his client the exact
facts in a case for which he ia re
tained. The lawyer should know
whether or no Lis client, if accused
of a crime, ia guilty or innocent.
Soon after I began to practice my
profession 1 was retained by a wo
man accused o f forgery. 1 asked her
if she was innocent, and she confess
ed that she was guilty. 1 submitted
a similar hypothetical case to the
judge before whom the woman was
to be tried and asked him whether
it was my duty, knowing her to be
ilty, to defend her or refuse to
o so. t
His reply was that? it was my duty
to defend her; that it was the busi
ness of the jury, not the attorney
nor the judge, to determine the
matter o f guilt or innocence.
Mrs. Rebecca Irwin, my self con
fessed client, was a very feminine
person, but back o f her femininity
was evidently a certain peculiar
strength. I would take her rather
for one to give away what she had
than to take money from another,
especially dishonestly.
She waa
somewhere between thirty and forty
years old and a very pretty woman.
I became interested in my client at
once.
The crime was forging a check
of Edgar Jones, payable to himself.
When the fargery was discovered
and reported the officers of the
bank, suspecting that some one of
the bank’ s clerks had something 'to
do with the fraud, employed a de
tective to investigate the matter.
He was at work on the case when
my client went to the president o f
the bank and confessed that she had
made the forged check and had
drawn the money.
I entered a plea o f not guilty for
my client and called in two experts
in chirograph? to pass upon the
writing. The body o f the check was
in one hand, while the signatures
were in another. My experts stated
that the writing in the body was
something similar to that o f my cli
ent, but they pronounced the signa
tures to have been made by another
person from the filler o f the paper
and certainly not that of my client.
The prosecuting attorney’s experts
declared that my client had both
filled in the check and written the
signatures.
What puzzled me was that Mrs.
Irwin manifested no interest in se
curing an acquittal. She said she
felt that she had committed a ain
and could never hope to obtain any
mental comfort in the matter till
she had paid the penalty. Her ac
tions were so strangely at variance
with her confession that I was forc
ed to the conclusion that she was
laboring under a hallucination.
Without intimating to her my ob
ject I asked her for information as
to her family record, thinking I(
might discover that there was in
sanity in her family which had crop
ped out in her. She resolutely de
clined to assist me in the matter,
hut I hunted up a cousin o f hers,
who informed me that a maternal
grandmother o f his own and Mrs.
Irwin’s had in her old age fancied
herself to be troubled with malig
nant spirits.
Acting upon this, I called in
alienists, hoping to prove by them
an abnormal mental condition on
the part of my client. The first
alienist who examined her pro
nounced her in perfect health in
every respect, including her mind.
The second, after a great deal of
cross questioning, in which he was
endeavoring to fulfill a theory, gave
it as his opinion that she had re
ceived at some time a severe shock
which might have produced mental
aberration.
Never did an attorney get hold
of a more pnxzling case, and both
judge and jury were similarly affect
ed. As fo r me my sympathies were
so far enlisted for my client that I
could not fix my mind on any other
subject. I f she were o f sound mind
and guilty of the crime there was
something unusual, something no
ble, in her desire to expiate it. I f
«he were not o f souna mind and
not guilty, the mystery o f the case
was sufficient to enlist one’ s deepest
interest.
The result o f all this was that I
fell in love with my client. She
was fully ten rears my senior, a
widow, and living on the slenderest
income. None o f these considera
tions was in itself sufficient to pre
rent my loving her or marrying ner,
but to feel that my happiness was
dependent upon a union with a self
confessed forger was sufficient to
drive ms to insanity.
The jury wag obliged to bring in
e verdict o f guilty, but recommend
ed the culprit to mercy. The con
sequence was that in sentencing her
the judge gave her the lightest sen
tence possible within the law. Hs
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condemned her to serve a term of
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Patterns.
We
carry
a
very
complete
six months in the state penitentiary.
Children. These were bought early be
stock o f them and you are especially in-
That a woman I had come to love
fore the raise in price and we are offer
• \ ited to come and study the style books
should spend one minute behind
bars was not only abhorrent to me,
ing them to you now at the old prices.
and we know you will like these patterns
but it unbalanced my equanimity.
I at once moved for a new trial,
then when alone with my client
confessed my love for her.
She was strangely moved by my
confession. It seemed to give her
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both happiness and misery. -«When
Dresses. We have a nice assortment
new corset Let your next Corset be a
I asked her as to her feelings to
Parisians
style—they
will
please
you.
o
f pretty patterns in large checks and
ward me she broke down, weeping
We
have
them
in
all
styles
add
the
rofusely,
but
gave
no
answer,
stripes
at special
Pr
W! lien she had quieted she begged
p rices range from $ 1 .0 0 to 9 3 .0 0
prices per yard....
me to let the sentence o f the court
stand. She would serve her term
and the suspense would be ended.
I would not agree to this. I ob
tained a new trial, which could not
be brought to . pass for several
months, but the judge was willing
to accept bail, and I furnished the
necessary amount myself, so that
my client’s liberty until the case
was finally closed was not in ques
tion.
One morning the president o f the
bank on which the forged check
had been drawn sent for me. I
went at once to see him. 'H e took
me into his private office and said
to me:
‘T h is case o f yours in the matter
o f the state against Mrs. Rebecca
Irwin is a very singular one. Do
you know that your client is not
guilty?”
“ I believe it, but I can’ t prove i t
See our line o f Ladies’ Fancy Silk Hose
For thin Summer Dresses. A big as
And this fact is driving me mad.^
—the newest thing in hosiery.
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sortment o f patterns, 36 to
“ Y ou don’t need to prove it. We
have the proof here in the bank.’1'
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40 inches wide. Per yard.....
“ What do you mean?”
“ Listen. From the first we have
had a detective working on the case.
When Mrs. Irwin confessed I told
him that there was no further use
for his services. He replied that
the case would prove to be a mys
You will always find a com plete line o f fresh vegetables, fruits and
tery and that he had got hold o f a
staple and fancy groceries at Baird’s. It is our constant aim to try
clew which might lead to its solu
tion. O f course I told him to go
and please you in this particular line. W on’t you let us serve you?
ahead. He claimed that Mrs. Ir
Everything is fresh and we make deliveries promptly. W e pay the
win’s confession, turning suspicion
highest market price butter, eggs and produce.' Phone us your order
from the real culprit, would aid him
(the detective) greatly in prosecut
ing his investigations.
“ Well, he has just made a report.
It is this: One of our clerks named
Dixon, a youngster of twenty, is the
forger. He has been friendly with
Julian Irwin, aged sixteen, the son
1
Newberg Lodge No. 104 A . F.
Coined in Bedlam.
of the self accused woman.”
A A . M. Regular meeting
The
phrase
“
to
sham
Abraham”
“ W hat!” I interrupted.
“ She
/ V ' Second end Fourth Thursday
wsa coined in Bedlam, or Bethlehem
The Civic Improvement Club evenings o f each month.
never told me she had a son.”
“ Young Irwin was one day scrib hospital, when* there waa at one ha# planned a meeting in the city
Visiting brothers always welcome.
bling on some blank checks. Dixon time an Abraham ward, the inmate* park next Saturday at 1:30 p. By order R. J. Moore W. M.,
o f which upon certain day« were
got hold o f one of those checks,
G. O. Keeney Secretary.
m. for cleaning and putting the
the body o f which was filled in, the permitted to go out as licensed beg
grounds in good condition tor
name o f the drawer of the check gars on behalf of the hospital.
These
mendicant
lunatics
were
SHILOH RELIEF CORPS NO. 28.—
the events which are planned to
and the person to whom it was
known as “ Abraham inen,” and their be held there. This invitation is Meetings held the 2nd and 4th Thurs
made payable alone being wanting.
success in invoking the pity o f the
Dixon filled in the,name and made
to every loyal citizen. Come day o f each month at 2:30 P. M. in the
charitable waa such that they had
L 0 . 0 . F. Hall.
the indorsement and a long while
armed with rakes, evthes and
many
unlicensed
imitators,
who,
Mrs. Elisabeth Clemens, Pres.
afterward asked Irwin as a favor to
wheelbarrows and help to beau
Emma L. Snow, Sec.
when
discovered,
were
said
“
to
have
draw the money.
■hammed Abraham.”
tify and make the park a credit
“ When Irwin, though innocent,
to the community. On behalt o f' The Graphic and Weekly Orego
found himself implicated iu the
Wanted to Convert Utopia.
committee.
nian, one year, $2.00.
matter he went to his mother and
When the “ Utopia” waa first pub
told her the circumstances. An at lished it occasioned a pleasant mis
torney was consulted, who told the take. This political romance rep
mother and son that if Dixon waa resents a perfect but visionary re-
prosecuted Irwin must stand trial
blic in an island supposed to have
for forgery, with the probability of
en somewhere in the Atlantic,
oonviction, for Dixon would doubt near these western shores.
less try to throw the whole respon
“ As this was the age o f discov
sibility on the boy he had made his ery,” says Granger, “ the learned
tool.”
Budaeus and others took -it for gen
“ I see it all. But go on.”
uine history and deemed it expedi
“ T o hush the matter up, thus ent to send missionaries thither to
saving her son from a blighted life, convert the people.” — “ Book of
his mother confessed herself a for Queer Things.”
ger.”
“ God bless her!” I exclaimed.
Tha Tarantula.
“ She tried to conceal her nobility
The sting o f the tarantula (a name
from me, but failed. My client has derived from Taranto, a town in
not yet been informed of this dis Italy), the most venomous o f spi
covery?” I asked.
ders, was popularly supposed to pro
“ No. You are the only person duce a disease called tarantism,
thus far, besides myself, to know which could be cured only by music
it.”
or dancing, and the dance which
Hundreds o f people are taking advantage o f the
Getting from him the address of cured it was called tarantella. Yon
young Irwin, I called a carriage and can see the peasants dance the ta
Great Savings, so com e and get your share
drove to where he was employed rantella now, but without waiting
and told him I wished him to go for spider bites.
with me to his mother. He did so,
A Bird Mystery.
and I announced to both that there
was no necessity for further mys
A fter years o f study devoted to
tery, since the case had been work the topic Professor Alfred Newton
We offer nearly all our Silks, Wash Goods, Wssh Dr
ed out to a finish. Their first set o f Cambridge stated that without
'Toweling and Corsets,
after the announcement was to doubt bird migration is the greatest
A lot o f Men’s last y0ar’s Summer clothing at big discount
spring into each other’ s arms. Mrs. mystery in the entire animal king
Ladies’ Coats and Suits, all this season’s goods, at a dis
Irwin had persuaded her eon to dom, “ a mystery,” he added, “ that
count
o f from 1® to 20 per cen t
make no opposition to her course, can be no more explained by the
assuring him that she would never modern man of science than by the
All our new Silk and Woolen Dresses at off, and hundreds
have to go to prison.
simple minded savage o f antiquity.”
o f other lines at a big sacrifice, as we must reduce our stock.
And so it was that I fell in love
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On# Day.
with a confessed forger and married
a noble woman.
Finish every day and be done with
it. Y ou jiave done what yon could.
Earttaat Oaem e f Vitality.
Some blunder« and absurdities no
The microscopic dot or earliest doubt crept in. Forget them as
A lot o f Ladies’ Silk Suits in black and navy,
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germ of vitality is the marvel o f soon as you can.— Emerson.
values to $27.50, special at................................. $ 1 0 . O D
science today.
Everything that
m e elder Booth, tne .tragedian,
lives, whether the giant oak or the had a broken nose. A woman friend
monster animal, lias each to begin once remarked to him, “ I like your
For full price list refer to last week’s p ap er.f
its individual growth from this mi acting very much, Mr. Booth, but
croscopic do'ff is Iiich actually con to be perfectly frank with you I
tains all tlm past story of the liv can’ t get over your nose!”
ing growth and every part In minia
“ No wonder, madam,” replied
ture of its future frame.
ft/with* “ the hridire ia eone.”
PictoHal Patterns
Cool U n derw ear
Parisiana C orsets
Fine Beach Cloth
25c and 50c
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L adies’ Silk H ose I S u m m e r V o ile s
25c
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Forced Unloading Sale!
W ill Close Tuesday Evening June 5
Tremendous Reductions Now
Prevail on Summer Goods
In the Dry Goods Department
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