THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULJf 17, 1919.
THE
WOMAN IN BLACK
By EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY
" Copyright llf. by th TBtnry company.
CHAPTER XXIII.
"Hitherto Unpublished."
(Belnr th rport which wai net sent
'.o th Record.)
Marlstone, June 16.
My Dear Molloy: This is in
-case I don't find you at your office.
I have- found out who killed Man
derson, as this dispatch will show.
That was my problem; yours is to
decide what use to make of it. It
definitely charges an unsuspected
person with having a hand in the
crime, and practically accuses him
of being the murderer, so I don't
suppose you will publish it before his
arrest, and 1 believe it is illegal to
do so afterwards until he has been
tried and found guilty. You may
decide to publish it then; and you
may find it possible to make some
use or other before then of the facts
I have given. That is your affair.
Meanwhile, will you communicate
with Scotland Yard, and let them
see what I have written. I have
done with the Manderson mystery,
and I wish to God I had never
touched it. Here follows my dis
patch. P. T.
I begin this, my third and prob
ably my final dispatch to the Record
upon the Manderson murder, with
conflicting feelings. I have a strong
sense of relief, because in my two
previous dispatches 1 was obliged,
in the interests of justice, to with
hold facts ascertained by me which
would, if published then, have put a
certain person upon his guard and
possibly have led to his escape;
for he is a man of no common bold
ness and resource. Those facts I
shall now set forth. But I have, I
confess, no liking for the story of
treachery and perverted cleverness
which I have to tell. It leaves an
evil taste in the mouth, a savor of
something revolting in the deeper
puzzle of motive underlying the puz
zle of the crime itself, which I be
lieve I have solved.
It wijl be remembered that in my
first dispatch I described the situa
tion as I found it on reathing this
place early on Tuesday morning. 1
told how the body was found, and in
what state; dwelt upon the complete
mystery surrounding the crime and
mentioned one or two local theories
about it; gave some account of the
dead man's domestic surroundings;
and furnished a somewhat detailed
description of his movements on the
evening before his death. 1 gave, too,
a little fact which may or may not
have seemed irrelevant: that a quan
tity of whisky much larger than
Manderson habitually drank at night
had disappeared from his private de
canter since the last time he was seen
alive. On the following day, the
day of the inquest, I wired little
more than an abstract of the pio
ceedings in the coroner's court, of
which a verbatim report was made
at my request by other representa
tives of the Record; and it will be
remembered that the police evidence
showed that two revolvers, with
either of which the crime might
have been committed, had been
found one in Manderson's bureau
and the other in the room of the
secretary, Marlowe; but that no im
portance could be attached to this,
as the weaapons were of an "ex
tremely popular make. I write
these lines in the last hours of the
same day; and I have now completed
an investigation which has led me di
rectly to the man who must be called
upon to clear himself of the guilt
of the death of Manderson.
Apart from the central mystery of
Manderson's having arisen long be
fore his usual hour to go out and
meet his death, there were two minor
points of oddity about this affair,
which, I suppose, must have oc
cured to thousands of those who
have read the accounts in the news
papers; points apparent from the
very beginning. The first of these
was that, whereas the body was
found t a spot not 30 yards from
the house, all the people of the house
declared that they heard no cry or
other noise in the night. Mander
son had not been gagged; the marks
on his wrists pointed to a struggle
with his assailant; and there had
been at least one pistol shot. (I say
atleast one, because it is the fact
thatin murders with firearms, es
pecially if there has been a struggle,
the criminal commonly misses his
victim at least once.) This odd
fact seemed all the more odd to me
when I learned that Martin, the
butler, was a bad sleeper, very keen
of hearing, and that his bedroom,
with the window open, faced almost
directly toward the shed by which
the body was found.
The second odd little fact that was
apparent from the outset was Man
derson's leaving his dental nlate by
the bedside. It appeared that he
had risen and dressed himself fully,
down to his necktie and watch and
chain, and had gone out-of-doors
without remembering to put in his
plate, which he had carried in his
mouth every day for years, and
which contained all the visible teeth
of the upper jaw. It had evidently
, not been a case of frantic hurry; and
even if it had been, he would have
been more likely to forget almost
anything than this denture. Any
HEARTBURN
Caused by ,
Acid-Stomach
Tbtt bitter heartburn, belching, food
rtpeitiOK indigestion, bloat after eatini
It are caused by acid-stomach. But they
are only first trmptomt danger signal) to
vim yon of awlul troubles if not stopped.
Headache, biliousness, rheumatism, sciatica,
that tired, listless feeling, lack of energy,
dizziness, insomnia, even cancer and ulcers
of ta intestines and many other ailments
re traceable to ACID-STOMACH.
Thousands yes. millions of people who
ought to be well and strong are mere weak
lings because of acid-etomacb. They really
atarre in the midst ol plenty because they
do not get enough strength and vitality from
the food they eat
Take EATON 1C and give your stomach a
chance to do its work right. Make it strong,
cool, sweet and comfortable EATOSIC
brings quick relief for heartburn belching.
Indigestion and other stomach miseries, Im
prorea digestion helps you get full strength
from your food. Thousands eay ATONIC
Is the most wonderful stomach remedy in
the world Brought them relief when every
thing else failed.
Our kst testimonial is what EATOSIC will
doforiou. SogetabigSOcboxofEATOKlO
today from your druggist, use it fi days
It you're not pleased, return it and get rout
money back.
ATONIC
I C roR touft XOd-stomAqC
one who wears such a removaable
plate will agree that the putting it
in on rising is a matter of second
n. ture. Speakin? as well as eating,
to say nothing of appearances, de
pend upon it.
Neither of these queer details,
however, seined to lead to anything
at the moment. They only awak
ened in me a suspicion of something
lurking in the shadows, something
that lent more mystery to the al
ready mysterious question how and
why and through whom Manderson
met his end.
With this much of preamble I
come at once to the discovery which,
in the first few hours of my inves
tigation, set me upon the path. which
so much ingenuity had been directed
to concealing.
I have already described Mander
son's bedroom, the rigorous sim
plicity of its furnishings, contrasted
so strangely with the multitude of
clothes and shoes, and the manner
of its communication with Mrs.
Manderson's room. On the upper of
the two long shelves on which the
shoes were ranged I found, where
I had been told I should find them,
the pair of patent leather shoes
which Manderson had worn on the
evening before his death. I had
glanced over the row, not with any
idea of their giving me a clue, but
merely because it happens that I
am a judge of shoes, and all these
shoes were of the very best work
manship. But my attention was ot once
caught by a little peculiarity in this
particular pair. They were the light
est kind of lace-up dress shoes, very
thin in the sole, without toe-caps,
and beautifully made, like all the
rest. These shoes were old and
well worn; but being carefully pol
ished and fitted, as all the shoes
were, upon their trees, they looked
neat enough. What caught my eye
was a slight' splitting of the leather
in that part of the upper known as
the vamp, a splitting at the point
where the two laced parts of the
shoe rise from the upper. It is at
this point that the strain comes when
a tight shoe of this sort is forced
upon the foot, and it is usually
guarded with a strong stitching
across the bottom of the opening.
In both the shoes I was examining
this stitching had parted, and the
leather below had given way. The
splitting was a tiny affair in each
case, not an eighth of an inch long,
and the torn edges having come to
gether again on the removal of the
strain, there was nothing that a per
son who was not something of a
connoisseur of shoe leather would
have noticed. Even less noticeable,
and indeed not to be seen at all un
less one were looking for it, was a
slight straining of the stitches unit
ing the upper to the sole. At the
toe and on the outer side of each
shoe this stitching had been dragged
until it was visible on a close in
spection of the joining.
These indications, of course, could
mean only one thing. The shoes
had been Avorn by someone for
whom they were too small.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Zimman to Put In Second
m W a
Iransmission Line to
Outwit the Lightning
I. B. Zimman, assistant manager
of the Nebraska' Power company,
discredits the old belief that light
ning never strikes more than once
in the same place.
During the recent series of elec
trical disturbances, lightning has
interfered six times with the power
transmission line which supples the
municipal ice plant at Twentieth
street and Poppleton avenue.
In connection with his public re
lations' work, Mr. Zimman called
on General Manager R. B. Howell
of the Metropolitan water district,
to assure that official that the Ne
braska Power company will exert
every effort to eliminate as much as
possible interruptions in the opera
tion of the plant. ' Mr. Zimman's
suggestion was that a secondary
transmission line be installed to the
plant, this line to be connected with
another circuit, so that an emergency
feed line will be available in case of
trouble with the regular transmission
line.
"We intend to do everything we
can to give the best service possible
to this ice plant which is a public
institution, and the operation of
which in hot weather is of vital im
portance," said Mr. Zimman. "We
cannot control the pranks of light
ning, but we can improve the serv
ice by installing a double transmis
sion line."
Veterinarians to Meet
Again in Omaha in 1920
The 26th annual convention of the
Missouri Valley Veterinary associa
tion closed yesterday, the meeting
having one of the most successful
ever held. The attendance was un
usually large, the total registration
having been close to 400.
The sessions yesterday were given
over to the reading of papers on
technical topics, followed by discus
sions of the same.
By provisions of the constitution
the next annual convention will be
held in Omaha, and the mid-winter
meeting at a place to be named by
the executive committee.
Brief City News
Burgess-Nash Company
EVERYBODY J STORE"
folding cartridge
size 2 14x314,
Wednesday, July 16, 1019 STORE NEWS FOR THURSDAY
A Clearaway Sale of
Kodaks and Supplies
At Very Special Prices
i( T UST a moment don't move" andclick goes the
w kodak. How many good times you can have
with a kodak, and, after it is all over, you have a
picture as a remembrance of the times you have had.
Here are a few specials for Thursday: - .
1
dak, Jr., size 214x314,
$12.27.
No. 2
Premo,
$7.42.
No. 2C folding Auto
graphic kodak, R. R. lens,
2 7-8x4 7-8, $14.40.
No. 2C folding Cart
ridge Premo, size 2 7-8x
4 7-8, $13.25.
No. 3 Autographic ko
dak, Jr., size 3i4x5V,
$18.67.
No. 2 folding cartridge
Premo, size 214x314, at
$7.42.
No. 2 Au
t 0 graphic
kodak, Jr.,
K. R. lens,
$13.87.
No. 2 Pre
mo pack
k 0 d a k ,
size, $8.48.
No. 2C folding cartridge
Premo, 2 7-8x 4 7-8, at
$13.25.
No. 3A folding Auto
graphic Brownie, 31,4x512,
$13.33.
No. 1A Autographic ko
dak, special anstagment,
size 21,4x414, $67.20.
No. 2C folding Auto
graphic Brownie, 2 7-8x
4 7-8, $12.29.
Vest pocket kodak, size
1 5-8x2i2, $8.00.
Vest pocket kodak, an
ostigmat lens, size 1 5-8x
212, $14.40.
Pocket Premo, size 2i4x
314, $10.00.
Premoette Sr., R. R.
lens, size 212x414, $13.25.
No. 3A Premo, planta
graph lens, size 314x5 V2,
$14.85.
No. 1A kodak, Jr., size
213x410, $14.40.
No. 2A folding cart
ridge Premo, size 2x41,4,
$10.60.
No. 2C kodak, Jr., size
2 7-8x4 7-8, $16.53.
No. 1 Autographic ko-
ALBUMS
25-leave album, 4x5 pa
per cover, 65c.
25-leave album, 4x5
leather cover, 90c.
25-leave album, 4x5
leather cover, $1.00.
Memory book, size 7x11
and 8x14, $1.75.
50-leave albums, 7x11,
paper cover, $1.25.
A cleanup kodak supply sale, a lot of items
at 12 price. This lot includes Azo paper,
Velox paper, films, tripods, printing frames,
plate holders, dark room lamps, flash light, '
gun mounts, cameras, view camera dox, and
many other items.
V2
Price
BurftM-Nash Co. Mala Floor.
Have Root Print It Beacon Press
Eloc Fans $8.50 Burgesa-Granden
Patronize the American State
Bank. Adv.
Pierce-Arrow Ambulance Service
Stack & Falconer. Harney 64.
Four Per Cent Interest on time de
posits. American State Bank. Adv.
David H. Law of Dixon 111.,
wants word at once from his
brother, James E. Law, last heard
from at Moline, 111. Adv.
Grain Corporation Order The
United States Grain corporation an
nounces that on account of only a
limited quantity of the wheat of this
year's crop having started to mar
ket, no premium over guaranteed
price will apply prior to August 15.
Rail Official Returns W. F. Za
bel, for many years connected with
the general offlceB of the claim agent
of the Union Pacific, but who four
years ago was sent to the west end
of the system, has been returned to
Omaha and will work out from the
offices of the corporation and under
the direction of General Claim Agent
Peterson.
"No Accident Week" Figures
Union Pacific figures on "No Acci
dent Week" have been compiled in
the office of General Manager Jef
fers. They show that during the
week on the system there were two
persons injured, as against 25 dur
ing the corresponding week of one
year ago, or a decrease of 95 per
cent.
McMillan Makes Change F. D.
McMillan, formerly of O'Neill, has
taken a position in the city selling
and rental department of the Iowa
Nebraska Investment company, with
offices in the Bee building. This
company has sold four residence
properties the last week, and will
shortly begin the construction of a
number of moderate priced res!
dences north of the Skinner Pack
ing company's plant.
Sues Former Tenants Robert A
Templeton and Sadie Templeton
were unprofitable tenants, according
to the allegations made in a. suit
filed against them in district court
by Jennie Parrott. asking i5Z3.u
for the damage she says they did to
the house at 2956 Harrison street
while they occupied it the first five
months of this- year.
Welfare Board Busy Twelve do
mestio relations cases were reported
to the board of public welfare Tues
day for investigation, three being
cases of wives deserted by soldier
husbands, according to Superinten
dent T. H. Weirich. . One of the
cases was disposed of by sending a
mother and four small children to
Alliance, Neb., where relatives will
care for them.
White Girl and Four
Negroes Arrested In
Morals Squad Raid
One white girl, one negresi and
four negroes were arrested early
yesterday and a quantity of mor
phine and cocaine seized in a raid
by the morals squad on the home of
Charles Diggs, 1522 Webster street.
Mildred Johnson, the white girl,
613 North Sevententh street, was
charged with vagrancy. Diggs and
Lon Townsend, 811 Pacific street,
were charged with violating the
Harrison drug act. Mattie Brown,
negress, Joe L. Evans, 1503 Cuming
street, and H. Oreenway, 618 North
Fourteenth street, were charged
with vagrancy.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
A Most Opportune Sale of
SILK GL 0VES
FASHION has decreed that women shall
wear gloves and just at this time when
they are in need of new ones to go with the
dainty summer frocks comes this sale of
3ilk gloves, at
2 Pair $ L00
They are extraordinary values. There are
black, white, gray, tan, brown, purple, etc. in
the assortment. Every pair has double finger
rips and are of splendid quality of silk.
Thursday, choice of two pair, $1.00.
Main Floor.
Burgess-Nash
Company.
'eVERYBODYS stork"
RARE
Bargains
In Used Pianos
You must see these Pianos to
appreciate their real value.
Kimball upright
$ 85
Beautiful
Walnut
Case
Behr Bros, upright
$150
A splendid
Toned
Piano
Hinze upright
Exceptionally AlnA
nice MtHJ
condition
Sergerstrom opr.
$225
Almost as
good as
new
H.P.Nelson upright
$245
A
wonderful
value
Schaeffer upright
$235
Good
as
new.
In addition to the above, we are
also offering some new upright
Pianos this month at remarkably
y low prices.
Terms Arranged to Suit Your Convenience
Burgess-Nash Company.
'EVERYBODY STOW"
wess-Iash LONBUff
everybody!? store"
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1919-
-STORE NEWS FOR THURSDAY. DOUGLAS 2100.
A Daily July Feature Sale of
Drugs and Toilet Articles
CHECK off what you need for present and future needs from this list and then
bring it with you Thursday, the day of the great sale.
I V
Creams
Pond's vanishing cream, tube,
19c.
Gem theatrical cream, lb.,
1 9c.
Daggett & Ramsdell's cream,
1 9c.
Daggett & Ramsdell's cream,
medium, 29c.
Pompeian day cream, 39c.
Pompeian night cream, 39c,
Sempre Giovine, 44c.
IPalmolive cream,
29c.
Mercohzed wax,
74c.
Mulsified cocoa
nut oil, 44c.
'Espey's fragrant
cream, 19c.
Cocoanut oil, shampoo, 32c.
Holmes' Frostilla, 19c
Pond's van
ishing cream, jgff
smau, ic
Pond's van
ishing cream,
large, 39c.
Pond's cold
cream, small, 18c.
Miscellaneous
Liquid dress shields, 35c and
65c.
Odorono, small, 29c.
Danderine, small, 29c.
Hand scrub brushes, 15c to
50c.
We are pleased to announce
that we have in stock a complete
line and will feature exclusively
the well-known Turner toilet
goods.
Turner's cleansing massage
cream (two creams in one), 50c.
Turner's complexion cream (a
greaseless cream), 50c.
Turner's complexion powder,
50c.
Turner's antiseptic dental
cream, large tube, 50c.
Turner's natural tint, 50c.
Turner's lip stick, 50c.
We have a complete line of
Melba toilet goods in stock at
, all times.
Bacabelli pure castile soap,
bar, 12c.
Physicians and surgeous soap,
10c.
4-lb. bar pure olive oil castile,
$2.00.
Large bar imported bocabelli
soao. S1.60.
Colgate's cashmere bouquet
soap, 10c.
Colgate's cashmere bouquet
soap, large, 25c
Cuticura soap, 20c
Resinol soap, 23c.
One lot of toilet soap assorted,
20 cakes for $1.00
One lot of toilet soaps, large
square bar in violet, rose, sandal
wood odors, also some transpar
ent soap in this lot; special, 10c.
Drugs
4-oz. peroxide, 9c.
8 oz. peroxide, 19c.
16 oz. peroxide, 29c.
4 oz. glycerine, bay rum and
rose water, 19c
1 oz. spirit camphor, 25c.
2 oz. spirit camphor, 40c.
4 oz. spirit camphor, 65c.
2 oz. castor oil, 15c.
1 pint ammonia, 20c
1 quart ammonia, 35c.
Vi. lb. epsom salts, 10c.
Vi lb. epsom salts, 15c.
-oz. bayrum and rose water,
19c.
4 oz. Chappedine,
19c.
1 pint witch hazel,
50c.
1 quart witch
hazel, $1.00.
2 oz. tincture
arnica, 20c
1 pint Hydroil,
50c
1 quart Hydroil,
90c.
Hinkle's Pills, 1 dozen in box,
18c.
Aspirin, Bayer's, 1 dozen in
box, 18c
Jreezone, 19c.
Calocide, 19c.
Sal Hepatica, 22c.
Bromo Seltzer, 44c.
Lysol, small, 19c.
Lysol, large, 79c
Lavoris, large, 84c.
One lot of transparent and
white handle tooth brushes, a
number of styles to select from,
15c, 20c and 29c.
No. 48 Hughes' multiple bris
tle hair brushes, $1.25.
Face Powders
Dorins No. 1249
1251 rouge, 50c.
Palmole face pow
ders, 19c.
Jardin de rose face powder,
42c
Burgess-Nash rice powder, 25c.
Woodbury facial powder, 19c
Ambre Royal face powder, at
$2.7f
Quelques fleuers face powder,
$6.25.
Houbigant's ideal face powder,
$5.00.
Palmolive face powder, 39c
lip)
Djer Kiss face powder, small,
62c.
Djer Kiss face powder, large.
$1.05.
Djer Kiss talcum powder, 38c
Djer Kiss toilet water, $2.00.
Djer Kiss perfume, oz., $1.75.
The standard, well-known line
of Hudnut, we have all items in
the line at all times.
Three-flower powder, 50c.
Rouge, 50c
Gardenia face powder, $1.00.
Violet Sec toilet water, $1.00.
Violet Sec talcum powder, 25c.
Gardenia talcum powder, 25c.
Rose Omar talcum, 50c.
Violet Sec vanishing cream,
50c.
Dentaluxe tooth paste, 25c
Gardenia toilet water, $1.00.
A Great Sale of Bathing Caps
Big selection of styles and colors from which to choose.
75c
One lot of diving or skull
caps, 15c
25c
One lot of diving or skull
caps, 25c
49c
One big assortment, your
choice, 49c
Other caps, 59c to $1.25.
Lov-Me face
powder, 75c
L o v-M e tal
cum powder,
25c
Pineywood tal
cum powder,
25c.
Melba rose talcum, 25c
Melba skin cleaner, jar, 50c.
Melba vanishing cream, jar,
50c.
Melba dry rouge, (dark), 50c.
Melba bouquet face powder,
50c.
Melba powder, 50c.
Melbaline, 25c.
Lov-Me toilet water, 75c
Perfumizers and toilet water
sprays, 59c to $1.75. '
Holmes' Frostilla, small, 19c.
Espery fragrant cream, 19c
A big lot of Lux, at 10c.
Talcum Powders
Colgate's talcum, 18c
Violet, Monad Violet, Cash
mere Bouquet, Doctylis, La
Jb ranee, Rose Eclat,
18c
Colgate's splendor,
florient radiant rose,
25c
Squibb's carnation,
25c
Hudnut's, about 10
odors, 25c to 50c.
Massatta talcum, 15c
Williams' violet carnation and
rose, 18c.
Babcock's cut rose talcum, at
25c.
Mennen's borated talcum, 25c.
Armour's baby talcum, 25c
Lazells field violet, 20c.
Quelques fleurs talcum, $1.00.
Pivers' talcum, 45c.
Armour's bouquet, 50e.
Listerine, pocket,
USTMIN
lie.
Listerine, - small,
19c.
Listerine, medi
um, 39c.
Listerine, large,
69c
1
Shaving Specials
Durham Duplex . demon
stration razors, 15c.
Ender's safety razors, 89c.
Gem safety razors, 89c
Durham Duplex razors,
89c.
Gillette safety razors,
$4.45.
Auto Strop razor, $4.45.
Ei
Dixogen, medium, 42c
Sloan's liniment, 21c
Carbona, 19c.
Analax, laxative, 24c.
Brushes
A large selection of
Hughes' Ideal water
proof brushes, in
cluding ivory and mahogany
backs, with pure white, black and
black and white, single, double
and quadrule bristles, $1.00 to
$5.00.
One lot of pure bristle, 9 10
and 11-rowhalr brushes; very
special at 25c.
Sponges! Sponges!
All sizes, all kinds, Y off.
Whisk Brooms
One lot of whisk brooms, 30c
to 85c.
1-lb. roll hospital cotton, 49c.
Woodbury's soap, 19c.
Williams' ye Old English, 12c
No phone or mail orders ac
cepted. We reserve the right to
limit quantities.
Prophylactic tooth
brushes in hard, medium
and soft bristles cRild's
size, 25c; adulti iiz, 35c.
Nail files, 15c up.
Buffers, 65e.
An assortment of Maderite
Bath Spray, $1.75.
F o u ntain
syringe and
bottle, $1.25,
$1.50 and
$2.50.
Fountain syringe and bottle,
$1.25, $1.50 and $2.50.
Combination syringe and bot
tle, $1.95 to $3.00.
Thermos Goods
Pint size Thermos
No. 11, $2.50.
Quart size Thermos
No. HQ, $4.00.
Pint size Thermos
No. 15, $3.50.
Quart size Thermos
No. 15Q, $5.25.
Pint size Thermos
No. 6, $3.75.
Quart size Thermos
No. 6Q, $5.75.
Leather case for quart Ther
mos, $2.50.
D-shape Thermos case, $3.75.
Have you tried the new Ther
mopak for taking home ice
cream? It is also fine for pic
nics. Quart size, $1.25.
Tooth Preparations
Euthymol tooth paste, 19c
Senreco tooth paste, 29c.
Colgate's tooth paste, 10c
Colgate's tooth paste, large,
23c
' Euthymol tooth paste, 19c.
Dr. Lyon's tooth powder, 21c.
Sanitol tooth paste, 29c
Arnica tooth soap, 19c.
Calders' tooth powder, 15c
Sozodont liquid, 29c
Pyros for pyorrhea, $1.00.
Pebeco tooth paste, 39c
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