Thursday, February 24, 1927.
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THE
POISONED
BOOTS
By H. M. EGBERT
(Copyright by W. Q. Chapman.)
SUSPECTED Louise Carey from
the first; but in that I was no dif
ferent from the farmer’s neigh
bors. John Carey had married a
second time, late in life, when his
three sons were growing up to man
hood. Jim, tiie eldest, was twenty;
Flunk, eighteen; Leonard, the young
est, fourteen.
Joi in Carey was rich, and Louise
Brand had been a poor girl in the city
when the elderly man, making a busi
ness trip there, saw her working as
a stenographer in the lawyer’s office.
Tiie courtship was brief, and they
were married three weeks after their
first meeting.
i
John Carry had been a close-fisted
man. but a good neighbor and had
been generally esteemed. He fell un
der the rule of Ids young wife. His
lous resented the stranger’s presence
In H e home. Quarrels between father j
and ^<.ns en»»ied. There was a bad
one a week bei^re the ’uruier’s death.
He du nged his will, leaving Aery- |
thing to bift wife, with reversion to |
Leonard, tiie youngest, the only one
who cared for his stepmother. Be
tween the two a devoted attachment
bprung up.
Tiie motive for murdering John
Carey? bear lest be should change
Ids will again. Three days later
Cany came In from the field, where
lie bad been binding, In high spirts,
lie had Ills supper, pulled off his boots, •
complained of feeling ill, and lay down
on tiie lounge. Nobody else wus in tin.*
room. When his wife entered, an
hour later, lie was dead, his lower
limbs and body terribly swollen.
It was like snake poison; the ex
perts said the condition of the body
rcsemb'ed that of u man who had been
struck by a rattler. But there wus no
rutin i in iln* house, though they were
plcnlilul in the livid. If Carey had
bei n killed by a make, the poison
would have taken effect before be en
tered ids home.
John Carey was buried, and the few
w’hispe/s on the part of the neigh
bors died away. Jim und Frank had
left Hie house at the time of the quar
rel. They started suit, alleging undue
induunec.
They had removed their
pt-r.-.onal effects, including some cloth- '
ing, me property of their father.
C ose-listed IHe him. they did not see
the scuse of leaving his effects to
Louise; and she offered no objection.
It was just a month later that the
sec-ord dt aih occurred. Jim Carey had
gone io the stepmother’s bouse to talk
things over with her. Louise Carey
was a sensible woman aud had volun
teered Io come to a settlement. Ac-
tording to her story, they had practi
cally reached an agreement, She had
given her stepson tea, and he laid com
plained that bis fathers boots hurt
him i nd pulled tbeuj off. A few mo
ments later be begun Lu cuiupluiu. She
run to I he telephone aud summoned
I lie doctor, r«c<-guixing tbs same symp
tom.« ¡¡« those ef which her husband
had died. Before die ductor arrived,
■Iini was dead, aud dreadfully swollen.
The boots? They were u pair of
h gh, farmers’ boots, und John Carey
h <l worn ilium for nearly a year be
fore Ins deulb. Lf there was poison iti
the boots, it would have token effect
long before. Jim had worn them dur
ing Ids lour-mile tramp from where he
Iked to his stojimotlmr’s bouse. It
was su-pt tied (iiut she had a store of
poison, which she had secretly admin
l.-leivd. The police ransacked the
lion e from roof to cellar, but could
tiiHi nothing. It was then thut I was
called In.
I insert ally suspected, universally
shunned. Airs. Carey Lived a wretched
lite, ’¡lie little boys had begun to call
out at I er her in the street. She would
have left the bouse but for Leonard,
w ho believed iu her, aud to whom she
was passionately devoted. 1 resided In
Ihe village, assumed the guise of an
Intending purchaser of real estate, ami
in li.ai capacity 1 visited the Carey
farm, to talk over the price.
Mrs.
Cnivy was willing to sell, after the
trouble had been cleared up.
She
strut k me as a sensible woman, and 1
bad my doubts as to bei culpability.
The farmer’s boots bad been thrown
nwa.v iu the attic, with tin) rest of Ills
clothing. I found an up pert unity, by
going to the house whet) Mrs. Carey
was away, to look at them. It did
occur to me that there might be some
snake venom in them, but I assured
iny-elf th it this was not the case. Be
sides, us most people know, snake ven
om nils as a toxic agent only when In
troduc'd through au abrasion. Swal
lowed, It is harmless. Aud It seemed
lmpr< b:iblw Iu thu extreme Unit, even
If there wore p«MsoB hi Che boots, |
there would have beuM am abrasion on
the foot of eaUi of the two men ex |
actly where the poisou would be free |
to enter.
Ami. again, rattlesnakes, for all
(heir reputation, only Inflict a maxi
mum of discomfort, nut death. L think
the number of cases of fatal rattle- I
snake poisoning is less than a dozen. I
It would have been impossible for the I
men to have died in so short a time.
Quite by accident, however, 1 I
learned that a cLrcua had pa «sod
through the village six months before.
Among Ito attraction^ bad been a Hin
du snake rliarmer, who had auiu^ed 1
and astonished the people until the i
circus passed, to be soon forgotten. I I
learned (hat Mrs. Carey Imd attended
I
the circus with Leonard, and had been
seen to speak to the man.
This looked bad. After all, tf tt
was snake poison, Mrs. Carey was ths
only person with a motive to kill. I
withdrew my favorable opinion.
I
watched her more narrowly.
I hud actually Invested $200 In an
option on the property. This gave me
plenty of opportunity to visit there. I
was ut the farm one afternoon when
Leonard came out of the house; and
I saw the woman's face blanch.
“Leonard!” she gasped. •‘Your fa
ther’s boots I”
I looked and saw that the boy was
wearing the identical boots which the
two men had worn before their death.
They were much too large for him, but
they came up toward the knes, and
were very serviceable for harvest
W'ork.
“Why, that’s all right, inom,’’ he an
swered. “They’ll come in handy out
in the field. Why, mom, I’ve bad those
on for neurly two hours, and If there
was poison in them I guess I’d have
felt it before now’.“
“Take them offI” screamed Mrs.
Carey. And yet, agitated though toe
win, there was no sound of guhty
knowledge in her voice, only of fear.
“I wi»h I’d buried the things," she
sobbed wildly. “If it hadn’t been for
your fatiier und brother having worn
them, folks wouldn’t accuse me of hav
ing killed them.”
L ‘tmaid mil to her and put his arms
..bout her
by □> -in, fo ks aru liars,
that s all,' he said. He Jenched bls
lists. “Just let me see the unto who
says you are a murderess 1“ he cried.
“Ai d, mom,” he added, “1’11 take them
off right away."
He sat down in the sun and pulled
off the boots. Then, carrying them iu
his bund, he run in his stockinged
feet back into the house.
I saw tiie tension on Mrs. Carey’s
face. Presently Leonard came back,
wearing a pair of ordinary boots. He
looked very sober and paler than be
fore. He came rather unsteadily up to
his mother.
“I don't feel well, mom,” he gasped,
and fell ut her feet.
Mrs. Carey
ecreamed wildly, und I carried the boy
into the house and called the doctor.
The doctor arrived in half au hour
and diagnosed the case us hopeless.
By that time Leonard's legs were
swollen to three times their size, and
he was black below the waist. But 1
refused to accept the verdict.
Mrs. Carey and I worked ov^r him
all that day. It wus u desperate effort
to keep him awuke, und we could not
walk him on his swollen feet. But we
punched und struck him, and pulled
up his drooping eyelids. We struck
1dm and pushed him from side to side,
trundling him ubout the room. Some
how we managed to prevent the coma
of death from developing that night,
und by morning the boy was better.
The doctor, who called expecting Ulna
to be dead, wus umuzed.
The next day wus a critical quo , but
by nightfall Leonard was able to gw to
sleep, und by the Hext morning to«
swelling had gone down a Utile and be
was on the way to recovery. Thea,
only, did I think of the booth.
The story had spread through to«
village, and warrant for Mrs. Carsgr’s
arrest had already bean Issued. ft
was I who confronted to« consCabto al
the door with my evidence. For I had
slashed the boots to pieces aud dtoeev-
ered the mystery.
In the left boot was no thing. Bat to
the right boot, set near toe ankle, vac
a tiny snake fang, with a portlan of
the venom sack attached to Ik ft had
been thrust out with such vlolcnee
that it had penetrated the leather aud
carried this minute portion of toe peF
son suck with It.
It was set downward at such Mi
angle thut It would not abrade the
skin when the boot wus put oa, but
must Inevitably do so when U was
pulled off.
The explanation wus au obvious cue,
and It cleared Mrs. Carey, who new re
sides, with Frank and Leonard, on to«
old pluce, esteemed by «veryeae. The
deadly poison was IdeutlAed wMh fhaX
of the Indian hooded cobra. He «Make
had escaped from the charmer and
bad struck at the farmer’s leg, with
out his knowledge. The fang, rwmato
Ing In the tough leather, had done ne
injury until Johu Carey pulled off hie
boots. Then It hud killed him.
VERNONIA EAGLE
PASTORS’ CHILDREN
TO HONOR PARENTS
Alma Urie,
Memorial Takes Form of
Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
Chicago.—“Silver key» to golden
memoria*.*' In these live words are
epitomized a national movement, with
Its headquarter» here, which ha» as
lta objectives:
Creation of a sunshiny, life and
health-giving memorial to the spirits
of thousands of America's best-loved
men aud women, and
A lasting and complete refutation of
the old theory that the majority of
mltgstera' chlldreu are ne’er-do-wells.
The “golden memories" are those
which all of us treasure of the kindly
ministrations, the heartfelt sympa
thies and the helping hands extended
to us la times of stress by pastors or
our acquaintances.
The “silver keys" are the dollars
that are pouring Into the Methodist
Ministers’ Sons' and Daughters’ asso
ciation. tor the memorial which that
organization has planned and on wli'ch
construction zls expected early this
year.
Plan Great Sanatorium.
That memorial Is to be the Method
ist Ministers’ Memorial sanatorium at
Colorado Springs, Colo. It Is planned
us th» principal unit of the National
«Ikttaod'ít Episcopal Sanatorium for
Tuberculoid»-* p.eject »mbraclng al
most a million dollurs tu búllalas» and
equipment.
“Qur unit,” says Rev. J. W. Irish,
D.
executive secretary of the asso-
(fiattOB. “will cost about $800.090 and
wlU afford u*—the sous aud daughters
of Methodist ministers—an opportu
nity net only to honor our fathers and
mothers, but also to assist Iu caring
for the more than a million persbns
la. America who are afflicted with tills
drend disease. The service will be non-
Meterían and will be provided with
out cost to those who are unable to
pav the cost of their fights for heelt'a.
Doct.or Irish added that probably uo
piovement Iu the history of Metheá
Ism ever has struck such a popula"
cljprd of appeal and that the success
of the venture Is assured, In his of-
flees at 740 Rueb street, he airee1"
hus the names and addresses of ID''*',
eons end daughters of Methodist mln
Istcr«.
“Our greatest concern now," he o-n
tlnued, “Is that of obtaining as necr’-
as possible a complete list of the sons
and daughters of Methodist mlnlst""«
and their wives.
The opportunity
which our association afford» these
fotlrs of memorializing their parents Is
such that we have Issued a general ap- |
peal tv th» public everywhere to »cud
fts BaissM aud adtlrus«><M ef auy knows
■ea* BT iMjkhri ut esu- pastora.
’’•o «*»1 hi the tabereet La ear ac-
Mvllg Wat the OaiMbw ef Commerce
st Daierade tpvlsgs duaated 38 acres
•/ taad wMiia the city HuUts far the
kesmIHM e< ear bHlIdlagM. The site
*<JeU>* M m 4 St Beth 4B Ueueral bos-
aKwT. B*ttu*»Uy kaewu fcr lta achtave-
bm *B> Bi earalsal »ad geaeral siedlcal
traataaaiC.
“Vt®» salt ef ear saaaterlum, a beat
tag ptaat and laanftry large eaeugh te
previd» Ser tarare expaBaluu. already
have beeai erected oa eur sit*.’’
IHnlater»* Sene Rank High.
htavaiepiueut ef the hospital memo
rial to children of preacher», has
kreagM to light an almost startling
array ef prominent personages wbe
were the son* or daaghtera of mlule-
tere.
Jaba Hancock, flrat »Iguer ef the
D»P!»ratl*a ef Independence, was a
greacber’a oea. as were eight ethers
wbe Mgued that doemneut. Oss ef
every atoe ef ths Presidents of tbs
Ualfed State» bars been ministers’
•en». wliUe la eae ef every feur ad
wawloCreOoB», America’s Presidents
ba* gMghtor* ef mlalsters as the na-
MeM'a Beta balp?
•ne eg ev«*y $v» persea, to the
Bail ef Fame to New York elty Is the
■eu or daughter of a preacher.
to the todaatrial field, la science,
toveuMoa. literature and the arts, many
of (lie eatataudlag uatuea are those of
»delator»* son,
Rlutiep Edwin Holt Ungke* ef Chi
cago lb pranMeot ef th* association;
Duchesse d'Uzes Leads
Rev. Merle N Bngllsh. D D., et Oak
in Aristocratic Chase Pert, 111 I» vice president. Other I
The Duchesse d’Uzes Is on* ef the agleen, kealdes Decter Irish, the ex-
most characteristic and picturesque eontiy* »»cretnry, Inclade L. O. Jones.
figures In that French aristocracy Ijrfeeia. Neb . secretary, aud Dr. C. 8.
which pays mure attention to ft« com Weed«, Cleveland. Okie, treasurer.
try estate than to Faris and ths r*
publican government. The dneheoe, SnapghoU of Cruiser
opined the season with hsr pack ef
Emden Stir Germans
steghounds on St. Habert’s day.
hi
pink riding habit and with ths threw
Wtlbelmskavea. Germany. — There
cornered and braided bat which ra was excitement amoug member» of the
called the Eighteenth century, aha led Garman uavy whan th* cruiser Em
her huntsmen, the large brass bunt den departed on a world tour. For
ing horns encircling their bodies, and aaliera ea board a British (auk »hip
her guests to the pursuit ef the were »toiarved to ba photographing the
quarry. But, first of all. a maw ef tierwaa naval veeael as »he steamed
St. Hubert was celebrated In the all oat ef pert
W1H raanaaa bogs a to »irentete to
Ince church. huuUag haras batag »,
eluded tn the atwaleal part ef <ha Ma htoSte». MMtotag the network at
service.
After uhv meae Ma ewre a k1( HatgM ,^linage syeteta.
*ul th »** aMrdag »terlea a er»
accompanied by the <to«to and *e
“sulsse." came outside and la ths hrs qtostog dtetogated by the Frankfar
dltlonal manner .olonuxly ktoeead Ale ter Kaltaag, which wrote: "Nowaday,
pack of hounds, who theft, duly edified there ar* few Jobs for forelgu »pies. i
no doubt, proceeded In a t'hristlan Th» plans ef th» Emden are known to i
■plrft to the performance of their task. members ef th* luterallltd military
—Pierre Van Pnassen, tn Atlanta Con control commission better than they
ar* to th* builders la Wilhelmshaven."
stitution.
Bouquets for Judges
Bouquet of dowers aud scented
herbs are given, every urorsia^ to th,
summer, to Judges bearing mses tn
London's central criminal reost. o»
la a survival from the days when the
eourta were made unhealthy by evil
doeia from the underground cells.
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In the Circuit Court of the State dissolution of the bonds of mat of being on the 27th day of Jan
of Oregon For the County of
rimony between plaintiff and de uary, 1927, and the last public-
on the 10th day of March,
Columbia
fendent, and for such other and ation
Dentist Cheaper
Moecew. W g. 8. R.—American
tewthpasle ftsats deaifty In Bessie. 311
tHfww ta he mailed ta ho Americas
newapapcr man here were held up at
the soviet poet oftlrv for minute n
sailaaUoft and then the corrgspoedeM
was asaeoaed a duty of Sil a tube
(Plaintiff,
SUMMONS
vs.
Charles H. Uri«, Defendant.
To Charles H. Urie:
In the name of the State of
Oregon you are hereby required
to appear and answer the com-
plaint filed against you in the
above entitled suit on or before
the 12th day of March, 1927, and
if you fail to answer or otherwise
appear, the plaintiff will apply to
the Court for the relief demanded
in the complaint, to-wit: for the
1927.
further relief as to the Court may
J. Mason Dillard, Attorney for
seem just and meet.
plaintiff.- -Postoffice address 40-1
Service of this summons is made Failing Bldg., Portland, Oregon.
upon you by publication thereof
F24A7
in pursuance of an order of the
Honorable J. E. Eakin, Judge of
the above entitled Court, made,
Tell us a news item and we
dated and entered on the 25th day
will tell the public. Drop it in the
of January, 1927, ordering such
publication in the Vernonia Eagle box outside the door, or phone at
once each week for six successive your convenience.
weeks, the first publication there-
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