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r I I NEBRASKA'S - SELECT - HARD-WHEAT - FLOUR WILBER AND DeWITT MILLS THE CELEBRATED Little Hatchet Flour Rye Flour a Specialty TELEPHONE US BeU Phone 200; Auto, 1459 145 So. 9th St., LINCOLN, NEB. It WORKERS UNION J UNION STAMP , ractoryNa 4- , Named Shoes are Often Made in Non-Union Factories. Do Not Buy Any Shoe no matter what the name unless it bears a plain and readable impression of this Union Stamp. All Shoes Without the Union Stamp are Non-Union Do not accept any excuse for absence of the UNION STAMP Boot and Shoe Workers Union 246 Sumner St., Boston, Mass. JOHN F. TOBIN, Pres. CHAS. L". BAINE, Sec-Treas. I Lyric Theatre MATINEES Wed. & Sat. 230. NEXT WEEK "GIRLS" I .THE LYRIC STOCK COMPANY Evening 8:30; 15c, 25c, 35c; Matinee 15, 25c. Farmers in? Merchants Bank C W. MONTGOMERY. President. H. C. PROBASCO. Cashier Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent b o mm One "year ago this Saturday night our Bank was opened from 6 to 8 the first time. This has been an accommodation to many w u f in n 4" v-i "i n r J j nn(1 Vi i o Vifiin nrVi 1 1 . a very satisfactory amount of new business. Having increased our facilities by the addition of safety deposit boxes we are pre pared to offer every banking ser vice to our patrons. Every Banking Convenience Open Saturday Evenings 6 to 8 F. & M. Bldg., 1 5th"& O Sts. Attend incoln Business College AN ESTABLISHED AND RELIABLE SCHOOL Courses: Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Type writing, Penmanship, Commercial .Law, Office Practice, etc. Catalog Free. 13th and P Sts., - Lincoln, Nebraska ....The Reimers-Kaufman Co.... Successor! to THE RE1MERS & FRIED CO. Sidewalks, Sidewalk Flags, Building Blocks, and Tile Floor Office and Yards, 12 th and W Sts. Both Phones. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA AN ERROR OFJUSTICE By BERTHA D. ALSOP Copyright. 1910, by American Press Association. gOC)0OSX000&C'00 O O 000000000CX- First Trust B Savings Bank g Owned by Stockholders of tho First National Bank THE V3AKTK FOR THE WAGE-EARNER INTEL' EST PAID AT FOUR PER CENT Tenth and O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska lSo0&0000030&00d00&0&0000000 The Lyons mull coacb was bowling along over a road flanked on each side by a wood. ' Among the inside pas sengers was a gentleman notable for a white wig. He chatted freely with the others, making himself generally agreeable, so that when be alighted at a village midway between Paris und Lyons he was greatly missed. Not half uu hour after be left the coach a man riding a black horse left a thicket beside the road, shot the courier of tha mail. rolTbed him and made away with the booty In the di rection from which he came. , Several of the passengers, bearing the shot, put their heads out of the window and saw the robber. "Great heavens!" cried one. "It Is the gentleman who was riding with us awhile ago. I would know him any where, especially by his white wig." "And I would know him without the wig," said another. The courier was dead, having been shot through the heart. His body was left at the house of a peasant, and the coach proceeded. Arriving at Lyons, tie murder and robbery were reported and mounted police sent back to scour the country for the man In the white wig. He was found in the town at which be had alighted. A couple of gendarmes ran up to him and seized him while drinking a glass of wine in a cafe. "What does this mean?" he cried. "You think to throw the police off the track by assurance," said one of the gendarmes. "You got off the Lyons mail yesterday at this village, rode ahead by a circuitous path, stop ped the coach, shot the courier, robbed him and dashed away. What have you done with the plunder?" "This is a mistake!" cried the man. "You can prove the mistake before the magistrate. Come along." The magistrate asked the prisoner a number of questions as to his busi ness, what be was doing on the mail and his name. He said that be was a wine merchant of Paris and traveling for the purpose of buying wine. His name was .lean Lesaurques. The mag istrate upon a statement of the facts attending the crime concluded to send the suspected man to Lyons for trial. Lesaurques was thrown into prison to await trial for murder aud robbery The driver of the coach identified him as one who had traveled inside for some distance and as the man who had committed the crime. Several of the passengers who had caught sight of the murderer testified to the same thin: Lesaurques claimed that on reaching the village where he had left the coach he had mounted a borse black and ridden out among the vineyards. Unfortunately he had not stopped to speak ejicept with one vine grower. but as he would have bad time to rob the coach and talk with this man aft erward an alibi was not proved. The prisoner was convicted and was about to receive sentence when a wo man rushed into the court and said to the judge: "Your worship is about to send an innocent man to be guillotined. This man is not the murderer." "How do you know that?" asked tha Judge. "Because I know the man who plan ned the robbery, and be told me all about it. The man who committed the murder is one Dubosq. The prisoner very much resembles him." "Where is this Dubosq to be found?" asked the judge. "That question not easily answer ed. He is a professional criminal and the worst of the gang that conspired to commit this robbery." The judge thought for a time and then said: "The testimony of this woman is not admissible. She admits that she bas the confidence of the gang that did the murder. It is a very natural de vice for them to send ber in here to tell this story in order to save the mur derer. This case must rest on the tes timony of those who rode with the prisoner in the coach and those who saw him shoot the courier. Jean Le saurques, have you anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon you?" "This woman's story is doubtless true," replied the prisoner. "1 never saw her before in my life. In reject ing her testimony you are condemning an innocent man. This Dubosq will in time be captured, and it will then come out that he committed this crime." Lesaurques died protesting bis inno cence. Four years passed, during which several members of the gnng who were implicated in the murder were captured, and it became known that there was such a man as Dubosq among them and the prime mover and executor of their crimes. Finally Du bosq was captured, but be escaped. He was captured a second time, but the slippery eel escaped again. A third time be fell into the bands of the po lice, and this time they held him. Dubosq was tried for the murder for which Lesaurques had been executed. Some of the witnesses who testified on the former trial were present, and the judge ordered a white wig to be brought and placed upon the prisoner, The likeness between the two men was remarkable. Then those wbo bad sworn that Lesaurques and the robber were the same person knew that they bad sent an innocent man to death. Dubosq was executed, and thus two men died for the commission of a sin gle crime. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND By LEONARD MALLOW Copyright, 1910. by American f-vess Association. "1 saw Jenkins the other day." said Brown to the old customs inspector who bad exposed more smugglers thau any other man in the department. and be told me to ask you the next time I saw you to tell me the romance of your marriage." Oh. he did. did he?" replied the in spector, scowling, but in spite of him self puckering up. the corners of his mouth in a smile. Yes. He said there was quite a story connected with your courtship." "Courtship be hanged!" "Oh. go on!" Brown offered the inspector a cigai. telling him to light up. The bribe was accepted and the story given. You know that tradesmen,, abroad are interested in learning ways by which their customers may evade pay ing duties on goods, because if the goods can be got in free of duty It's very much easier for the tradesmen to sell them. Some of these people know more ingenious tricks for evading du ties than the regular smugglers. Well, one day the boss called me into his private office and. taking up a letter a friend of his had received, read it to me. It was an offer of a Jeweler in London to deliver goods in America free of duty. 'How do you suppose it's doneT he asked me. " 'I don't know, I replied. " 'I tell you what you do. Go over there, get in with the jeweler and find out I'll get you a letter of introduc tion from bis correspondent so that he'll feel obliged to show you some at tentionperhaps invite you to his bouse. You can't find out anything in his shop, but you may run across something at home that will give away the trick.' The result was that I took the next outgoing liuer and within a week was In London. We had a good many trunks in storage held for some reason or other that had been all over Eu rope and were covered with hotel la bels. I had taken off a dozen of these labels and pasted them on my own trunk. I did this because I intended to appear as having been traveling on the continent. I delivered my letter to the Jeweler, an elderly man named Hicks. He received me very kindly and. as it was stated in the letter that I wished to bring borne with me some Jewels for my sister, offered to show me his stock at once. To this I replied that I was In no hurry and I would like to see something of London before my re turn. As I expected, he offered to show me around. He took me to theaters, the Tower, the abbey and all that, but I didn't see the inside of his home. Then I began to ask him about bis family we bad got pretty thick by this time and he asked me to dine with him and his family. I met In this way his niece, who lived with him, and it wasu't long after that when I dispensed with the services of the jeweler for a guide and took the niece. I was getting to that age when a man feels Battered by a young woman's attentions, and the first thing that I knew I was dead set on taking her back with me to Amer ica. English girls, you know, have a very pleasant ' accent, and many of them can show the finest complexions in the world. Emily Robinson was one of that kind, and her kittenish ways were just the thing to catch an old bachelor like myself. She was glad enough to get a husband who would make her independent, and before I left London we were not only engaged, but married. , "Of course I felt guilty at trying to find out bow ber uncle got goods free of duty into America, but anyway I could only stop his doing it. I could not punish him, he being an English man and in London. So I added matri mony with his niece to a detective ruse with him. We were married a few days before the steamer sailed, and I bought about the same time $10,000 worth of diamonds, which my uncle-in-law agreed to deliver in New York free of duty. "I took my wife with me to my ho tel, and the loneliness of the place was dispelled at once. She was very prac tical and insisted on packing my trunk. I always' hated that part of traveling and was glad enough to turn the mat ter over to her. We dined the day before sailing with ber uncle and aunt and had a very jolly time. When we reached home my wife put my good slothes on the top of the other things already packed In my trunk and lock ed it. Then she began to look at the labels and said how she wished we had met before my tour Instead of after it. as she would like to visit those places herself. I kissed her and promised her a trip Just as soon as I could arrange to be again absent from business. "When we reached home I told the boss tbat some diamonds were to come to us and we would have no trouble tracing bow tbey reached us. My wife said the day after we got borne that she didn't feel well and must ask me to unpack my trunk. I did so' l at the bottom found a box I didn't recognize. I opened it and was astonished to see the diamonds sold by my British uncle-in-law. They had been put there by my wife. "I looked at ber. "She burst out laughing. " 'You wouldn't wish me to go back on uncle, would you?" she said. "It was five minutes before I replied. Then I put my arms around her. with tte remark. "You're a Jim dandy.' " it IBERr : H.O.BARRFR a,am V Nuff Sed Read THE WAGEWORKER m I D WARM WEATHER WORRIES Are now beginning. They'll multiply unless you divide them. While you are dividing them we will subtract! We Take Away Discomfort We Add Comfort A Gas Range in the Kitchen adds to the Housewife's joy of living. A cool kitchen maketh a good-natured cook. Take out the steel range and cast-iron cook stove that broil the cook while boiling the food and SUBSTITUTE a Gas Range. MAKE HOME HAPPY By making the Housewife comfortable. Fuel Gas is cheaper than coal. It is cleaner, easier to handle and .safer to use. Four Thousand families will bear witness to the facts. Once used, never abandoned. Let us figure with you in replacing your steel range with a Gas Range. We furnish the fuel You touch a match. We court investigation. Lincoln Gas & Electric Light Company Open Evenings The Wageworker Publishing Co. Does Fine Commercial Printing 1705 O St Auto 2748