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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1919.
BOY KIDNAPED
IN YOUTH FINDS
HIS LOST MOTHER
Captured by Gypsies When 18
Months Old, He Didn't find
Parents Until War
Ended, y
Rockford, 111., June 30. Like t
page from a fiction story in a popu
lar magazine reads the life history
of Alvia Cooley, alias William Mor
, nan, private In the 103d infantry,
33d division. ,
He has just found his mother and
sister after being separated for 20
i years. . . -. '
When an infant of18 months he
lived with his mother at Virden, 111.,
near Springfield. Mrs. Cooley, a
widow at the time, resided with her
son and daughter on the outskirts
of the city. One day while she lay
iir gypsies came to her home. They
asked for water and saw little Alvie
playing in the yard. Attracted to
the boy they carried him off.
Although Mrs. Cooley instituted a
nation-wide search for her son at
the time- she was unable to locate
the child.
But in the course of time the
leaders of the kidnappers, Mr. and
Mrs. Coffinbetry, quarreled. They
separated. Mrs. Coffinberry re
tained the boyr Shortly afterward
she remarried a man named Morgan
and named Alvie William Morgan.
The trio went to Peoria to live and
Alvie grew up to recognize the Mor
gans as his parents.,
Then the qualms of Mrs. Mor
gan's conscience began to trouble
, her and she confessed her perfidy
to the jthen grown boy. She ex
plained the abduction and said she
was not his mother and that Mor
gan had no claim on him.
In the meantime Mrs. Cooley left
Virden and came to Rockford. Here
she married a Mr. McBain.
When Alvie learned of his tragic
life he himself began searching for
his mother and sister. But all ef
forts wfre futile because of the mi
grations' of the families and the
changes in names.
But fate intervened. It was or
dained that the mother and son
should meet again.
One day, not long ago- Mrs. Mc
Bain herd the name Coffinberry
mentioned in Rockford. Her early
inquiries brought the search for
Alvie up to the Coffinberrys, but
there" it ended. So when she heard
the name she made further Inquiries,
which culminated in the finding of
the Morgan family in Peoria. From
them Mrs.' McBain learned Alvie
had enlisted in the army and was
fighting on the western front. Ob
taining his address she corresponded
with her boy. Her first letter
reached Alvie in the thick of battle.
The letters that passed between the
two from then on cleared up all. the
mysterious happenings of 20 years
ed today Alvie and his mother and
sister-, are together again, for Alvie
has just been discharged from the
army, i
Former Omaha Scribe
Is Appointed Business
Manager of Iowa Paper
A! F, O'Hern, a former Omaha
newspaper man, has been appointed
business manager of the Davenport
, (Iowa) Times, one of, the largest
papers' between Des Moines and
Chicago., Mr. O'Hern, who until
1904 was connected with Omaha
newspapers, .Harf his first experience
in the' newspaper business as corre
spondent from Creighton univer
sity to an Omaha dailand various
college papers.
He was graduated from Creighton
university in 1903 with the degree
of A. B and became connected with
. the staff of The Bee, and later with
another Omaha paper. In 1904 he
became sports editor of the Daven
port Times, and occupied that po
sition until 1916, when he was, ap
pointed advertising manager.
Mr. O'Hern succeeds Ike U. Sears
as business manager. Mr. Sears will
become general manager of the
Madison (Wis.) State Journal, re
cently purchased by the Lee syndi-
r cate, a corporation with which also
the Davenport Times'is affiliated.
Malodorous Liquid
; Too Much for Judge;
' . Owner Sent to Jail
Never again! was ..Police Judge
- Foster's exclamation after he had
allowed the introduction of several
vials of malodorous liquid as evi
dence in court yesterday.
. The judge took one long, linger
ing whiff of the liquids and thought
of gas masks.
The fluids" were evidence against
William Giles, meter reader for
the gas company, arrested Sunday
on complaint of G. Kramer, man
ager 'or the Alhambra theater,
Twenty-fourth and Parker streets.
Giles, though he denied the ac
cusation of putting 'the chemicals in
. the Alhambra theater with a view to
ward emptying the house of patrons,
was sentenced to 30 days in jail,
v Kramer testified that he saw Giles
place- the stuff beneath a seat at the
front of the house. Mrs. Kramer
told the court she held a gun at the
back 'of-, Giles neck to hold him
until the police arrived.
Giles is said to be a sympathizer
with movie operators who declared
Kramer's theater "unfair."
Sergeant Off iceholder
Now Gets Even With Mayor
"Topeka Kan., June 30. The- oft
' repeated "wish", of many soldiers
that they might have one of their
former, officers or in- many cases
just an ajraxefficer under their
airectionls realised bere by iergt.
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inn srrrpsni vii nrprsea2
. ... ... . - -
fleeted a cityv commissioned
he johnow.XHe has under
- THE
WOMAN IN BLACK
By EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY
, . Copyright. WIS
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CHAPTER IX.
Murder or Suicide?
Trent had taken out a thin note
book, and as they talked he began to
make, with light, sure touches, a
rough sketch, plan of the room. It
was a thing he did habitually on such
occasions, and often quite idly, but
now and then the habit had served
him to good purpose.
This was a large, light apartment
at the corner of the house, with gen
erous window-space in two walls. A
broad table stood in the middle. As
one entered by the window the roll
top desk stood just to the left of it
against the wall. The inner door
ins in the wall to the left, at the
farther end of the room; and was
faced by a broad window divided
into openings of the casement type.
A beautifully carved old corner cup
board rose high against the wall be
yond the door, and another cup
board filled a recess beside the fire
place. Some colored prints of Har
unobu, with which Trent promised
himself a better acquantance," hung
on what little wall space was unoc
cupied by books. These had a very
uninspiring appearance of having
been bought by the yard' and never
taken from their shelves. Bound
with a sober luxury, the great Eng
lish novelists, essayists, historians
and poets stood ranged like an army
struck dead in its ranks. There were
a few chairs made, like the cupboard
and table, of old carved Oak; a mod
ern arm chair and a swivel office
chair before the desk. The room
looked costly but very bare. Almost
the only portable objects were a
great porcelain bowl of a wonderful
blue on the table, a clock and some
cigar boxes on the mantleshelf, and
a movable telephone standard on the
top of the desk.
"Seen the body?" inquired the in
spector. ,
Trent nodded. "And the place
where it lay," he said.
"First impressions of this case
rather puzzle me," said the inspector,
"from what I heard at Halvey I
guessed it might be common robbery
and murder by some tramp, though
such a thing is very far from com
mon in these parts. But as soon as
I began my inquiries I came on some
curious points, which by this time
I dare say you've noted for your
self. The man is shot in his own
grounds, quite near the house, to
begin with. Yet there's not the
slightest trace of any "attempt at
burglary. And the body wasn't rob
bed. In fact, it would be as plain
a case of suicide as you could wish
to see, if it wasn't for certain facts.
Here's another thing: for a month
or so past, they tell me Manderson
had been in a queer state of mind.
I expect you know already that he
and his wife had some trouble be
tween them. The servants had no
ticed a change in his manner to her
for a 4onsr time. They sav he was
a changed man, moody and silent
whether on account of that or some
thing else. The lady's maid says he
looked as if something was going
to arrive. It's always easy to re
member that people looked like that,
after something has happened to
them. Still, that's what they say.
There you are again, then: suicide!
Now, why wasn t tt suicide, Mr.
Trent?"
"The facts, so far as I know them,
London Newspapers
Express Relief Over
Acceptance of Terms
London, June 30. Relief, gratifi
cation and hope for a speedy re
adjustment of the world are voiced
in the editorials published by all
morning newspapers on the signing
of the treaty of peace.
"President Wilson's telegram to
America," says the Chronicle,
"struck the right note regarding the
treaty."
Several newspapers mingle thanks
giving with warnings that there
must be no relaxing of effort to
make the league of nations effec
tive. v
The Daily News mentions appre
hension regarding Japan and the
far east and denounces elements "on
both sides of the Atlantic," who- the
paper asserts, "are trying to stir up
discord between England and
America." ,
The Telegraph does not appear
to fear anything in this direction,
saying:
'"We made this peace in a co
operation and friendship with the
American people such as has never
hitherto been approached." s
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are really all against it," Trent re
plied, sitting on the threshold of the
window and clasping his knees.
"First, of course, no weapon is to
be found. ' I've searched and you've
searched, and there's no trace of
any firearm anywhere within a
stone's throw Of where the body
lay. Second, the ' marks on the
wrists, flesh scratches and bruises,
which we can only assume to have
been done in a struggle with some
body. Third, who ever heard of any
body shooting himself in the eye?
Then I heard from the manager of
the hotel here another fact, which
strikes me as the most curious de
tail in this affair. ' Manderson had
dressed himself fully before going
out there, but he forgot his false
teeth. Now how could a suicide
who dressed himself to make a de
cent appearance as a corpse forget
his teeth?"
"That last argument hadn't struck
me," admitted Mr. Murch. "There's
something in it. But on; the strength
of the other points, which had oc
curred to me, I am not considering
suicide. I have been looking about
for ideas in this house, this morn
ing. I expect you were thinking
of doing the same."
"That is sOi It is a case for ideas,
it seems to me. Come, Murch, let
us make an effort; let us bend our
spirits to a temper of general sus
picion. Let us suspect everybody
in the 'house) to begin with. Listen:
I will tell you whom I suspect. I
suspect Mrs. Manderson, of course.
I also suspect both the secretaries
I hear there are two, and I hardly
know which of them I regard as
more thoroughly open to suspicion.
I suspect the butler and the lady's
maid. I suspect the other domes
tics, and especially do I suspect the
boot-boy. By the way, what domes
tics are there? I have more than
eneough suspicion to go around,
what ever the size of the establish-
My Heart and My Husband
ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of
"Revelations of a Wife" -
Why is Lillian Underwood's Mes
sage so brief and Startling?
Madge?"
Lillian's voice was crisp, business
like. I knew at once that some
thing of urgent importance had led
her toNsummon me. Lillian at lei
sure and Lillian at work are two dis
tinct personalities.
"Yes," I answered laconically.
When Lillian begins a telephone
conversation with that intonation in
her voice I never waste her time by
even the most 'causual of greetings,
ings.
"What's the next train you can get
to the city?"
There was not even an apology
for calling me during teachingliours.
The omission made me realize more
than ever that some emergency con
fronted my friend, for despite her
sometimes brusque mannerisms,
Lillian is punctilious in the little
amenities of life. ' v
."Good Work!"
For an instant panic seized me.
Had anything happened to Dicky in
the city? Then my knowledge offat the cafe to her. My father had
Lillian told me that she would have
adopted a far different method if her
message was one of disaster" to me,
and I pulled myself together.
"Hold the line a minute until I get
a timetable," I requested. "The
trains were changed to the summer
schedule this week."
A quick survey of the time card
told-me that I could get a train
within ten minutes of the school's
closing. I disliked leaving Alice
Holcombe alone with the duties
devolving upon us because of Mr.
Stockbridge's unexpected absence.
But I knew I could make it up to
her in after times, and there was
nothing vital demanding my atten
tion, nothing with which she could
not easily ,cope. It simply meant
piling extra work upon her, and I
knew that I could explain matters to
her so that she would neither
resent nor misunderstannd my
absence.
I went back to the telephone, con
densed my message into the fewest
possible words.
"I will reach the station waiting
room at 4:35."
"Good work!" Lillaln's voice
held a relieved note. "Now you
may have to stay all night, so bring
your big sweater or come moder
ately heavy wrap with you. And
tell the folks at home that I am ill.
and have sent for you to come in
and spend the night with me. Dicky
was called out of town today, will be
gone tonight the message is prob
ably at your house now, so we won't
a New Clothes Shop Opens
for YOU Tuesday, July 1st
Carrying a full line of
Shirts Hats
Sox
Underwear
ment; but as a matter of curiosity
I should like to know."
"All very well to laugh," replied
the inspector, "but at the first stage
of affairs it's the only safe principle,
and you know that as well as I do,
Mr. Trent. However, I've seen
enough of the people here, last night
and today, to put a few of them out
of my mind for the present at last.
You will form your own conclusions.
-As for the establishment, there's the
butler and lady's maid, cook and
three other maids, one a young
girl. One chauffeur, who's away
with a broken wrist. No boy."
"What about the gardener? You
say nothing about that shadowy and
sinister figure, the gardener. You
are keeping him in the background,
Murch. Out with him!"
"The garden is attended to by a
man in the village, who comes twice
a week. I've talked to him. He
was here last on Friday."
"Then I suspect him all the more,"
said Trent. "And now as to the
house itself. What I propose to do,
to begin with, it to sniff about a lit
tle in this room, where I am told
Manderson spent a great deal of his
time, and in his bedroom; especially
the bedroom. But since we're in this
room, let's start here. You seem
to be at the same stage of the in
quiry. Perhaps you've done trie
bedroom already?"
The inspector nodded. "Ive been
through Manderson's and his wife's.
Nothing to be got there, I think.
Very simple and bare, no signs of
any sort that I could see. Seems
to have insisted on the simple life,
does Manderson. Never employed
a valet. The room's almost like a
cell, except for the clothes and shoes.
You'll find it all exactly as I found
it; and they tell me that's exactly
as Manderson left it at we don't
know what o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Opens into Mrs. Manderson's
bedroom not much of the cell about
that, I can tell you. I should say the
lady was as fond of pretty things
as most. But she cleared out of it
on the morning of the discovery
told the maid she could never sleep
in a room opening into her mur
dered husband's room. Very natural
feeling in a woman, Mr. Trent. She's
camping out, so to say, in one of
the spare bedrooms now." "
(Continued Tomorrow.)
have to bother about him. Anyway,
it's your father whose attention I
don't wish to attract."
No Terrors?
"Then you've, found " I exclaim
ed "I've turned the trick," Lillian
interupted hurriedly. " "I'll see you
at 4:35 at the station. Good by."
The click of the receiver told me
that she had taken the most effec
tive mode of ending a conversation.
I hung up my own telephone
receiver in a mental condition cor
responding to that of a person sud
denly hit upon the head.
"I have turned the trick," Lillian
had said. This could mean but one
thing. She must have been success
ful in tracing the woman who
was hounding my father, the woman
whose evil sneering face I had seen
upon the unforgettable evening of
the "celebration" dinner my father
had given me.
I had never had any confirmatiion
of the surmise concerning" the
woman's identity which Lillian had
made when I related the incidents
ucvci mcuituitcu uic iidpycuiug iu
me again, and though I was sure
from many indications that someone
was demanding and receiving money
from him, I could, find no scrap of
paper, no realproof of the source
of the blackmail the word is none
too strong which was being levied
upon him.
I had seen him growing older,
thinner, more haggard, and feeling
sure that he was only submitting to
the extortion because of some
Quixotic idea of shielding me from
the knowledge of his past which the
woman typified, I had been exceed
ingly worried about the matter.
Yet I had dared to hint no word of
my perplexity to my father, much as
I longed to assure him that the
secret that he was cherishing so
desperately was an open one to me,
that I more than suspected' the
identity of the "ghost from the past,"
and that the woman who had ruined
my mothe's life had no terrors for
me.
Noterrors? I saught myself up
at the thought, knew that though I
might put on a bold front before
Lillian, I was nevertheless terrified
at the prospect of facing the woman
whose very name I did not know,
yet whose personality, had been
anathema to me from the time I was
old enough to understand my
mother's tragedy.
And in all probability I was to see
her in a few hours Lillian's mes
sage could mean nothing else!
(Continued tomorrow)
Shoes
Traveling Goods
Delayed Honeymoon to India
to Be Started in Nea!r Future
Miss Mabel Kahn Gets Passports Through Efforts of
Council Bluffs Correspondent of The Bee and Will
Accompany Foster-Sister and Brother-in-Law to
Orient.
The wedding trip around the
world of an Omaha girl and her
learned Hindu husband, delayed by
the difficulty of securing passports,
will begin July 10.
The passport was secured
through the efforts of W. H.
Lynchard, Council Bluffs' corre
spondent of The Bee.
Mr. Lynchard and his wife called
at the home of Isaac Kahn, 2015
Sherman avenue, where live Dr.
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Labor Shortage Impeedls
Car Shortage Predicted
By U, S. Director General of Railroads
nay YoMr Coal Now
Listen To and Heed What Your Gov't Officials Say
WE are telling you the coal situation as we know it. Moreover, everything we are -saying
is based upon the official statements of the highest government authorities,
Forty thousand foreign-born miners are returning to Europe. There is virtually no '
immigration; consequently the men cannot be replaced. Their departure alone means a
reduction of forty million tons in the coal output of the year twenty million tons for the
remainder of 1919.
This is of Intimate Personal
Concern to You
Coal consumers have not bought for Fall and
Winter uses. Result: Production up to June 14 is
short 64,000,000 tons or one-eighth of the total
amount the country must have if it is to escape shut
down factories- closed public utility plants dis
comfort in the home
The movement of crops is impending. When that
begins the opportunity to make up the shortage in
coal.will be gone. Cars and motive powernust be
shared with grain and other export products.
Coal cannot be stored at the mines; its produc
tion must keep pace with the capacity of cars turned
over to the mine operators. Cars cannot be sent to
the mines unless the coal has been ordered. The
orders must come from YOU the coal user.
Gov't Chiefs Warn YOU
Government chiefs have issued warnings to buy
coal now. Harry A. Garfield, United States Fuel
Administrator, warns:
"Buy NOW in August or Autumn will too late.
A big coal shortage is coming."
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Keshiva Deva Shastri .and Mrs.
Shastri, who until her marriage a
month ago, was Miss Minnie Jen
sen, foster daughter of Isaac Kahn.
There they learned of the diffi
culty in getting a passport for Miss
Mabel Kahn, bosom friend and foster-sister
of the bride. Her father
had offered to pay her expenses on
a trip accompanying the brde and
groom to Hawaii, Japan, China,
Persia, Egypt and India. But the
Washington authorities were
"stingy" with passports. Senator
-Says U. S.
Says U. S. Secretary of Labor
National Coal Association
Commercial Bank Building, Washington, D. C.
Hitchcock had been appealed to in
vain. . '
" Mr. Lynchard went back to his of
fice and wrote letters to Senator
Cummins and Congressman Green
of Iowa, stating ihc facts and re
questing issuance of a passport to
Miss Kahn.
He received telegrams last Thurs
day from these men sta'incr that the
passport for Miss Kahn had been
issued and was ou its way.
"I'm the wappiest girl in the
world," said Miss Kahn. "Mr.
Lynchard was very kind indeed and
:t was wonderful h.Mv quickly he
got them to giVe.fhe passport.
"We have been fortunate also in
securing accommodations on the
steamship Persia Mam which sails
from San Francisco July 24. We
will leave Omaha about July 10 and
proceed by easy stages to San Fran
cisco and then for the big trip and
the wonderful sights."
Dr. Shastri has been here with his
bride ever since the wedding, waiting
for the passports for Miss Kahn. so
that she could accompany her
Fuel Administration
Director General Hines, of the United States
Railroad . Administration, warns the coal consumer
that:, "Unless he buys his coal this summer, he is
going to find it difficult to get it this Fall and
Winter." '
Secretary of Labor Wilson says: 'Those who
postpone buying coal in
are speculating in the
nation."
Remember your plight
1918 the coal shortage
comfort and industrial loss.
Remember the action that averted a duplication
of this distress in 19l the early buying and storing
of adequate stocks for home and business use.
Then" face this fact. You must buy now if you
are to have coal to operate your factory, heat your
home, store, school and other buildings.
Dealers in your own community will tell you
facts that concern the local situation. Let nothinjr
delay you.
BUY YOUR COAL NOW!
friends on, the trip to the pa! t
Dr. Shastri in Benares, India. .
Makes Rapid Progress.
Many Omaha' citizens, and
pecially the ' farmers of the
rounding territory are taking
vantage of the compressed gat
steel cylinders for cooking, ligh
and other purposes, which is 1
nished by the Omaha filaugas c
pany. This company, 'incorpoi; '
but a year ago, has done an ei
mous business, the officials of
firm state.
Monster Bathing Pool.
"Just to give an idea of (he wate
surface of the new bathing 6ecjj at
irug parK, saia sianiey Make
peace, engineer in charge of hs
construction, in commenting on Ah
new attraction," we used over 2,000
gallons of white enamel to paint the
inner surface of the pool. There it
in reality over an acre of water sur
face which will require over one,
million gallons of water to fill it."
the hope of Ipwer prices
future misfortunes of the
in the winter of 1917 and V
that caused personal dis- I
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