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Art Connoisseur
Remarkable Career of the Retired Gambler
Who Is Now a Picture Sharp How
Ho Recovered the Stolen
Gainsborough
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AT SHEEDY re
tired gambler
epigrammatist
and art connoisseur
Las become a phi
lanthropist He es
says to help the
needy rich rather
than the poor He
has just opened in
New York an art
gallery to be con
ducted along novel
lines The former
king of the gaming
table proposes to
Patrick i sheedy teach the new rich
how to judge the good points of a pic
ture and how to tell a masterpiece
from a mere smudge so that Mrs Par
venu may not pay large sums for chro
mos under the Impression that she is
buying old masters
Sheedy has had a good deal of expe
rience in connection with noted paint
ings and a few years ago he did
something which linked his name per
manently with that of Thomas Gains
borough the English oil painter of a
hundred years ago He caused to be
restored to its rightful owners the cele
brated portrait of the Duchess of Dev
onshire by Gainsborough which for a
quarter of a century had been securely
hidden by the man who stole it
The Gainsborough portrait has had
a history more curious and interesting
than that of any painting known to the
world In the first place it was inter
eating as to Its subject The beautiful
duchess who was painted by Gains
borough died in 1S0G just a hundred
years ago She was famous as the
kissing duchess Her husband was a
politician and when he ran for office
the duchess used to go to the polls
and buy votes for him She paid one
kiss for one vote The voters said it
was well worth the price and many of
them sighed because they had but one
vote to give for their country
Early in the seventies the Gainsbor
ough portrait was bought by the
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GAINSBOROUGHS DUCHESS OF DEVON
SHIBE
news London art dealers for 55000
Up to that time that was the highest
price ever paid for a painting by an
English artist The fact was exten
sively exploited in the press One
Adam Worth a native of New York
and a notorious criminal along the
lines of picking pockets forging and
bank swindling not to speak of bur
glaries conceived the idea of stealing
the portrait and holding it for ransom
He managed to get into the room
where the big picture was hung slash
ed the canvas from its frame rolled
it up and carried it away
For twenty five years the detectives
of Europe and America searched in
vain for the portrait Worth was liv
ing under an assumed name as a fash
ionable London gentleman In the
course of his career he had met Pat
Sheedy The gambler was widely
known as square in his profession
and in all his dealings -with men good
and bad Worth had confidence in
him Sheedy learned that Worth had
stolen the Gainsborough
William A Pinkerton was a friend
of Sheedy The gambler arranged
with the detective to restore the por
trait on the payment of the ransom
money demanded by the thief 25000
The transaction took place in Chicago
whence the picture was shipped to the
Aguews Then J Pierpont Morgan
bought it paying 150000 atfd the
Gainsborough is now in London along
with many other high priced works of
art which Morgan declines to bring
over because of the high duty
The Gainsborough canvas originally
was a full length portrait A lady in
England who had no premonition of
the fame and high price which the
picture would attain but who had a
frame of certain dimensions cut off
the feet of the duchess and a consid
erable part of her lower limbs to make
the picture fit into the frame
Pat Sheedy has in his possession an
other relic of Adam Worth who died
two or three years ago The thief will
ed to the ex gambler a canvas said
to be by Murillo the subject being a
Magdalene This picture is supposed
to have been stolen from a monastery
EDWARD H HARRIMAN
llis Flgrlit For Control of the Illinois
Central anil Hin Icrsoiialily
The contest for the control of the Il
linois Central railroad which has re
cently been a leading subject of Wall
street discussion resulted In further
Increase In the power of Edward H
Harriman as a railroad king By the
election of Mr narrimans candidate
for the presidency of the road James
T Harahan to succeed Stuyvesant
Fish It is believed that a close alli
ance will be established between the
Union Pacific and the Illinois Central
This would be in accord with the ful
fillment of Mr Harrimans long cher
ished plan for a system extending from
the Atlantic to the Pacific In this
great plan the Illinois road was the
one link missing to complete a line of
track from New York to San Francisco
and Portland Ore from the great
lakes to the gulf and from the gulf
to the Pacific again The contest is
mixed up with others connected with
the great Insurance investigation of
last year in wljlch Harriman and
Fish found themselves ranged on oppo
site sides in the matter of changes in
the Mutual Life Insurance company
It was predicted at the time that Mr
Harriman would retaliate on Mr Fish
EDWAKD H HAKRIMAX
through his railroad connections The
latter remains a director in the Illinois
Central and it is said will retain his
position in the directorate and con
tinue his fight against domination of
tho Illinois Central by the Union Pa
cific He claims the election was illegal
The incident of Mr Harrimans re
mark regarding his relations with ex
Governor B B Odell is still fresh in
the public memory It was while in
terest in the work of the now famous
Armstrong insurance committee was
at its height and Mr Harriman was in
the witness chair Chief Inquisitor
Charles E Hughes now governor elect
of New York asked liini the following
question
It has been charged that through
your relations with Mr Odell you
have political influence What would
you say to that And the railroad
magnate calmly replied Well I
should think Mr Odell had political
influence because of his relations with
me
ON BOARD THE LOUISIANA
Presidents Quarters on the Panama
Trip and the Ships Mascot
The Panama canal will In a physical
sense cut two continents asunder but
In a broader sense it will unite them
in the bonds of commerce and friend
ship as they have never been joined
before In going to the isthmus to see
how the work on the canal is getting
along President Roosevelt decided to
travel by the new warship Louisiana
and suitable quarters for him and his
rxcaQiftJLr iy
A SEAMAN OF THE LOUISIANA AND THE
MASCOT OP THE SHIP
wife Surgeon General Rixey and As
sistant Secretary Latta were fitted up
The presidential suit is in the stern
of the vessel and was originally de
signed for the admiral of a fleet It
consists of a breakfast and smoking
room combined a dining room three
bedrooms two bathrooms and a re
ception room The Louisiana Is in
command of Captain A R Coudeu
and her navigator is Lieutenant Com
mander Carl Vogelgesang The bat
tleship is one of the best in the Amer
ican navy has a speed of seventeen to
eighteen knots an hour a tonnage of
1C000 and twenty four guns In her
main battery Officers and men are
very proud of the honor they received
In Laving the president and his party
on their ship When the president
started they felt confident all would
go well if nothing befell the ships
mascot an animal now Whown as a
kid which Is fast developing Into a goat
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BEGGS CHERRY COUGH
SYRUP Cures BRONCHITIS
In the County
Court of Red Willow count j
Nebraska
Tn the mutter of tho estate of Mary A
null deceased
To all person interested in said estate ion
are her by notified that on tlu 2ltli day of De
cember llOG Catherine OConuell executrix cu
tho estate of Mary A OConnell deceased
filed in said court her final account as said exe
cutrix and that said final account will be heard
on the lnth day of January 1907 at the hour of
10 oclock am at the county courtroom in the
city of McCook in aid county you are hereby
cited to appear at tho time and place above in
dicated and show cause if such exists why such
account should not bo heard
It is hereby ordered thatsaid CatlierineO Con
nell ive notico to all persons interested in said
estate by causinp a copy of this order to be pub
lished in tho McCook Tribune a newspaper
printed and published in said county for three
successive weeks prior to said liearinc 12-28-at
Dated this 23th day of December 1906
seal J C Moore
County Judge
Notice to Creditors
In the County Court State of Vbraska Rtd
Willow county ss
In tho matter of the estate of Angelo P elles
deceased
I J C Moore county judgo of f aid county m
said state hereby notify all persons having
claims and demnnds against the estate of the
said Angelo P Welles deceased that I have set
and appointed tho following days for the recep
tion examination and adjustment of said claim
and demands as provided by law at the county
court room in McCook Red Will w county and
state aforesnid to wit the fourteenth day
of January 1907 and the seventeenth day of
July 1907 And all pertons so interested in said
estate will appear at said time and place and
duly present their said claims and demands in
the manner required by law or show cause for
notso doing and in case any of said claims
shall not be presented by tho sixteenth day of
July 1907 the same hall be forever barr d
Given under my hand and seal of tho county
court this seventeenth day of December A D
1906 J C Moore
seal County Judge
PUBLICATION NOTICE
Gilbert B Nettleton Charlotte Nettleton his
wife Albert C Nettleton single Asahel New
ton Nettleton Sarah Nettleton his wife Louisa
Johnson Edward Johnson her husband Amelia
M Swartwout Nelson F Swartwout her hus
band defendants will take notice that on the
first day of November 1906 William A Nettle
ton plaintiff filed his petition in tho district
court of Red Willow county Nebraska against
the above named defendants and A Stella Fitch
William S Fitch her husband Charles H
Meeker Agnes Meeker his wife and A- Stella
Fitch administratrix of the estate of Edward
L Nettleton deceased defendants tho object
and prayer of which are to obtain a finding of
said court that ono Ella E Nettleton described
in said petition died intestate unmarried
without issue previous to the deatli of ono Ed
ward L Nettleton therein described that said
Edward L Nettleton died intestate unmar
ried without issue and seized in fec simpio of
the south half of the southeast quarter and lot
eight of section 29 and lot five of section 23 all
in tovn 3 north range JO wet of the 6th P
in said county that plaintiff and defendants
Gilbert B Nottleton Albert C Nettleton Asahel
Newton Nettleton Louisa Johnson Amelia M
Swartwout and Florence Johnson are tho only
heirs at law or Ed ward L Nettleton deceased
and are the only persons interested in said land
that plaintiff is the owner of tho undivided one
serenth iuterost herein Plaintiff further prays
for a decreo of said court in his favor quieting
his title in ad to one seventh interest auaint
each of the defendants for an accounting by
defendant Charles H Meeker for the rent- and
profits of said land received by him Tor a de
cree confirming tho ban in said land of the
said only heir of wild Edward L Nettletou for
a partition thereof according to tho respective
richts of the parties therein and if said land
cannot bo equitably divided that tho samo he
sold and the proceeds of suchsalobedistribnted
among the parties in intere t according to their
re jpectivo rights and for Mich other relief a
may bojut nud equitable You are required
to answer said petition on or before tho four
teenth day of January 17
Dated December l t 19C6
William A Plaintiff
By W S Morlax
His Attorney
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