THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1919.
DROP CONTEMPT
GASES AGAINST
THREE STRIKERS
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Lack.of Evidence Forces Court
to Dismiss Charges Against
Teamsters Charged With
Assaults. '
Contempt of , court charges
against George Nebe, F. J. Kelly
and J. Smith, striking teamsters
charged with assaults in violation
of the injunction, were dismissed
yesterday in district court before
Judge Troup.
Ttl mMT kv t c 1 1 a urn a m
great surprise. Attorney Aiirea
Munger, appearing for the state,
said the case was dismissed without
prejudice to the institution of an
other suit, for the reason that Nebe
has disappeared.
"It would not' be just to go on"
,with the case against Smith and
Kelly when Nebe goes free," was
the only explanation he offered.
The three men were arrested a
few days after the teamsters' strike
began, because they interfered with
teamsters who were at work, and
they were charged with contempt of
1 v, wivgv.u awiiuua
were in violation of the injunction.
The case was continued several
times in district court. It was
finally set for hearing lask Wednes
day. At that time Nebe failed to
appear in the morning. A court
order was issued for him, but by
afternoon the sheriff had failed to
locate him and a further continu
ance was taken to this morning.
Nebe was- still missing. .
He hai been in Omaha only about
six weeks, it was stated, and little
was -Known about him by the other
teamsters.
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of a Wife
How Madge Brought. Her Interview
with Mr. Stockbridge to an end.
,1 could not help but seethe words
which Milly Stockbridge scrawled
spitefully across the envelope she
sad discovered in her husband's pri
vate desk. Indeed, when she had
finished she shook he envelope
before my face.
"There, tell that to your dear
Kenny." she snarled as my eyes
read the words. "Which I hope
will be soon," written underneath
the request Mr. Stockbridge had put
upon. the envelope holding his pri
vate papers.
She threw the envelope down
upon the desk back of her, advanced
truculently toward me.
"Now you get out of here!" she
said,, ph, you needn't worry, I'm
not going td break uo any furniture,
although I ought to take an axe to
this thing. And oh, what I ought
to do to you and that other snake
in the grass that I've trusted all
these years! But I'll get even
with all of you in a bunch, don't you
worry. And first, you'll vamoose
out of my husband's office. I'm
going right now myself, but I wbn't
be spied on and ordered around by
uiy such "
I closed the door softly between
. ne and her ravings.' I saw that she
vas fast r working herself into a
,'renzy in which she would be cap
ible of anything. Perhaps if I
enough to keep her word and leave
the office. I had seen enough to
be able to tell Alice Holcombe to
inf6rm,.Mr. Stockbridge that she
had been tampering with his desk,
and had opened the envelope he had'
marked not to be opened until his
death. How much she had gleaned
of its contents I had no means of
knowing, or what she might do with
the papers her husband had cher
ished, now that I was safely out of
the room. " .
Oh Fro Afraid"
I listened, intently for any sound
within the room, but heard nothing,
save one rending tear as of stiff
paper, a' click of a lock, and the
slamming of the desk drawer. At
the last sound I wisked into the
nearest vacant classroom, and from
its vantage heard Mrs. Stockbridge's
high heels click viciously down the
stairs. A few seconds later, from a
wiifdow, I saw her hurrying down
the path to the street.
I lost "no time in reporting to Alice
Jolcombe the result of my
encounter. She looked exceedngly
troubled when I had finished.
"Oh, I'm afraid she'll do some
thing dreadful this time!" she said.
"She's jealous of every thought
Kenny has. and to find out that he
had been keeping any momentos of
which she knew nothing- will drive
her wild. I wonder what they could
have been surely he isn t still
cherishing keepsakes, of that girl
who threw him over and yet did
you say there were kodak pictures
in that envelope !"v
Why Madge Knew.
"I saw two," I returned, but those
might have beeiKof anybody or any
thing, , you know what an enthuias
tic ' amateur photographer he is.
Probably the things are most com
mon place. It is only her vivid
imagination that makes all the
trouble."
. "Perhaps," she said doubtfully.
"But that doesn't make the danger of
what she'll do any less threatening.
The worst of it is that one can never
predict hep actions .with any accur
acy. Sometimes she flies into a
rage at once, and raise all the Cain
possible right then and there. At
others she will brood over a fancied
wrong for days, and evolve some
fantastic revenge of her own: But
at any rate Mr. Stockbridge will be
forewarned this time. Tell me
again what she said."
I repeated Mrs. Stockbridge's
words faithfully. Miss Holcombe's
eyes widened at one clause, "that
other snake in the .grass that ' I've
trusted all these years."
"Now whom do you suppose she
meant by that?" she said. I'm the
only other person she's known -for
' years, and surely
. -"2 doubt fth caat h hjo.
THE
WOMAN IN BLACK
By EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY
Copyright, 1111
- CHAPTER VII
Handcuffs in the Air
A painter and the son of a painter,
Philip Trent had. while yet in his
twenties, achieved some reputation
within the world of English art.
Moreover, his pictures sold. An
original, forcible talent and a habit
of leisurely but continuous work
ing, broken by fits of strong crea
tive enthusiasm, were at the bot
tom of it. His father's name had
helped; a patrimony large enough
to relieve him of the perilous im
putation of being a struggling man
had certainly not hindered. But
his best aid to success had been an
unconscious power of getting him
self liked. Good spirits and a lively,
humorous fancy will always be pop
ular. Trent joined to these a gen
uine interest in others that gained
him something deeper than popu
larity. His judgment of persons
was penetrating, but its process was
internal; no one felt on .good be
havior with a man who seemed al
ways to be enjoying" himself.
Whether he was in a mood for
floods of nonsense or applying him
self vigorously "to a task, his face
seldom lest its expression of con
tained vivacity. Apart from a
sound knowledge of his art and
its history, His culture was large
and loose, dominated by a love of
pcetry. At 32 he had not yet passed
the age of laughter and adventurue.
His rise to a celebrity 100 times
greater than his proper work had
won for him came of a momentary
impulse. One-day he had taken up
a newspaper to find it chiefly con
cerned with a crime of a sort curi
ously rare in our country:' a murder
done in a railway train. The cir
cumstances were puzzling; two per
sons were under arrest upon sus
picion. Trent, to whom an interest
in 'such affairs was a new sensation,
heard the thing discussed among
his friends, and set himself in a
purposeless mood to read up the
accounts given in several journals.
He became intrigued; his imagina
tion begain to work, in a manner
strange to him, upon facts; an ex
citement took hold of him such as
he had only known before in his
bursts of art-inspiration or of per
sonal adventure. At the end of the
day he wrote and dispatched" a long
letter to the editor of the Record:
which he chose only because it had
contained the fullest and most in
telligent version of the facts.
In this letter he did very much
what Poe had dime in the case of
the murder of Mary Rogers. With
nothing but the newspapers to guide
him, he drew attention to the sig
nificance of certain apparently neg
ligible facts, and ranged the evidence
such a manner as to throw grave
suspicion upon a man who had pre
sented himself as a witness. Sir
James Molloy had printed his let
ter in leaded type. The sameven
ing he was able to announce in the
Sun the arrest nd full confession
of the incriminated man.
Sir James, who knew all the
worlds df London, had lost no time
in making Trent's acquaintance. The
two men got on well; for Trent
possessed some secret of native tact
which had the effect of almost abol
ishing differences of age between
himself and others. The great ro
tary presses in the basement of the
Record building had filled him with
a new. enthusiasm: he had painted
there, and Sir James had bought at
sight, what he called a machinery
scape in the manner ' of , Heinrich
Kley.
Then a few months late came the
affair known as the-Ilkley mystery.
Sir James had invited Trent to an
emollient dinner, and thereafter of
fered him what seemed to the young
man a fantastically large sum for
his temporary services as special
representative of the Record at
Ilkley. "You could do it," the
editor had urged. ' "You can write
good stuff, and you know how to
talk to people, and I can teach you
all the technicalities of a reporter's
job in half an hour. And you have
a head for a mystery; you have im
agination and cool judgment along
with it. Think how it would feel if
you pulled it off 1" Trent had ad
mitted 'that it would be rather a
lark; he had smoked, frowned, and
at last convinced ' himself that the
only thing that held him back was
fear of an unfahiiliar task. To
react against fear had become a
fixed moral habit with him, and he
had accepted Sir James' offer.
He had' pulled it off. For the
second time he had given the author
ities a start and a beating, and his
name was on all tongues. He
withdrew and painted pictures. He
felt no leaning towards journalism,
and Sir James, who knew a good
deal about art, honorably refrained
as other editors did not from
tempting him with a good salary.
But in the course of a few years
he had applied to him perhaps 30
times for his services in the un
raveling of similar problems at
home and abroad. Sometimes Trent,
by th Century company.
busy with work that' held him, had
refused; sometinmes he had been
forestalled in the discovery of the
truth.- But the result of his irreg
ular connection with the Record had
been to make his name one of the
best known in England. He had
imposed absolute silence about
himself upon the Molloy papers; and
the others were not going to ad
vertise one of Sir James' men.
The Manderson case, he told him
self as he walked rapidly up the
sloping road to White Gables, might
turn out to be terriby simple. Cup
pies was a wise old boy, but it was
probably impossible for him tevhave
an impartial opinion about his niece.
band." I said shortly, for -I did not
wish to add to my friend's worry
by telling her that I was quite cer
tain Mrs. Stockbridge had meant
her and no other by the vicious
words she had used. .
"OK, do you think so?" she
returned, palpably relieved.
I nodded an emphatic assent.
"I wonder when Mr. Stockbridge
will be back," she went on after a
minute's thought. He ought to know
thiss soon as possible, before be
goes home at any rate. Will you
watch out for him and tell him as
soon as he comes in, or if he tele
phones ask him to be sure to come
back to the schoolhouse before
going home?"
"I will tell him you wish to see
him," I said fiNjjly, "or deliver the
telephone message from you to come
back to the school before going
home, but, my dear, you mustn't ask
me to make any accusation of Mrs.
Stockbridge to her husband."
' "Forgive me," she said with
prompt contrition. "I should not
have asked you. But I am nearly
crazy with all of this you don't
know."
As she turned and went swiftly
into her classroom I said sadly to
myself that I did. not know just
what she was suffering. My eyes
had noteen blinded since I taught
in the Bayview school. x
. (Continued Monday.).
Yet it was true that the manager
of the hotel, who had spoken of her
beauty in terms that aroused his at
tention, had spoken even more em
phatically of her goodness. Not an
artist in words, the manager had yet
conveyed a very definite idea to
Trent's mind. "There isn't a child
about here that don't brighten op
at the sound of her voice," he had
said, "nor yet a grownup, for the
matter of that. Everybody used to
look forward t her coming over in
the summer. I don't mean that she's
one of those women that are all kind
heart and nothing else. There's
backbone with it, if you know what
I mean pluck any amount of go.
There's nobody in Marlstone that
isn't sorry for the lady In her trou
blenot but what some of us may
think she's lucky at the last of it."
Trent wanted very much to meet
Mrs. Manderson.
He could see now, beyond a spa
cious lawn and shrubbery, the front
of the two-storied house of dull red
brick, with the pair of great gabfatj
from which it had its name. He
had had but a glimpse of it from the
car that morning. A modern house,
he saw; perhaps 10 years old. The
place was beautifully kept, with that
air of opulent peace that clothes
even the smallest houses of the well-to-do
in an English" country-side.
Before it, beyond the road, the
rich meadow land ran down to the
edge of the cliffs; behind it a
woody landscape stretched away
across a brbadVvale to the moors.
That such a place could be the scenei
tastic; it lay so quiet and well-ordered,
so eloquent of disciplined
service and gentle living. Yet
there beyond the house, and near
the hedge that rose between the gar
den and the hot, white road, stood
the gardener's tool shed, by which
the body had been found, lying
tumbled against the wooden wall.
Trent walked past the gate of
the drive and along the road until
he was opposite this shed.,
(Continued Tomorrow.)
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