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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1911-06-15, Page 3RAILWAY MURDERS Some Terrible Tragedies in Great Britain —Robbery the Motive, Neerly a lifetime bele ped eince the fleet railway .inurder was committed in Great Britain. Ie was on the North Loudon Reilway, Anti the victim wits 3Ir. Thomas Brier,ge, chief clerk in the beide of ;Means. lloberte & Coe Lom- bard etreet. A German namea Franz Mailer was tried for the crime, arid be- ing found guilty, paid the full penalty of the law. This fautoue case, entitled, "The Trial of Frent Muller," forms the aecond volume of Meesrs. Wan. Hedge & Co's. eeriest, "Notanie English Tri." Mr, H. B. Irving, M.A. (Oxon), Le the editor, end his introduction to the book ie most eomprehensive. Seinewhat peculiar circumstances sur- rounded the murder. On Saturday night, Jetty, 1864, two bank clerks boarded a etileurbali train at littekney about eleven minutes past ten. The compartment they eelectee was a firat elate and emp- ty. They were hardly seated when one of tbe men drew the ether's attention to some blood. oe his hand, whereupon both alighted and called the guard. He ex - enamel the compartment and discovered blood steins on the eushiona of the seat baelting the engine. Blood was on the Ideas by the cuehion, on the seat op- posite, and on the offsidehandle of the cerriage dem In the carriage there were piened up a hat, stick and bag. Later, the driver of a train from Hackney Wick- to Fenchureh street found the body of a man lying on the six-foot way between Haekuey Wick itad 'Bow. Life was not extinct at that time, but .the man succumbed to injuries to his head, caused, presumably, by eome blunt instrument. The victim proved to be Mr. Briggs, a greatly respected gentleman close on seventy yenta of age. He Was last seen at Fenehurch street before he began his fateful Hain journey.. His stick and bag were recognized, Ind the hat found was out his. It bore the maker's name inside. MAN'S HAT A CLUE. The hat was the only clue to the iden- tity of the assailant. No weapon was found, but it was eurmised that a power- ful person's possession, the deeeasedet walking stick might have inflicted the wounds on his head. From the appear- anee of the compartment, it looked as If Mr. Briggs had been attacked while dosing. Robbery had been the motive of the crime, and the victirifs gold watch and chain and gold eye -glasses were The first eine to the murder's iden- tity was furnished by a jeweler not in- appropriately named Death, He etated that on Moaday, llth July, a German, speaking geed, Englieh, called at his shop in Oheatisitie and exchanged for a gold ehain and a ring, a gold albert chain, which Death recognized from the pub- lished deseription to 'be Mr. Brim's. He said the man was quite self-possess- ed, but stood so that he was not fully exposed to view. Importanee wae attached to the next pieta of evidence whieh came from a eab- map named Matthews Mx days later. The cabman had heard nothing of the crime until eameone mentioned the name Death. Then remembered having seen a box beating that name in his house. It had, been given to his little daughter, whose sister at one time had been engaged to Muller. This engage- ment had been broken off owing to the man's unreasonable jealousy. It wee learned that the wanted man wa tweety-five years, and had sailed on 15th July for New York by the Vin - torte. The cabman supplied another link by identifying the hat as that of Muller's, Further, he was able to give the police a photograph of the German, and the address of hie former lodginge. well-behaved. inoffensive young num, of humane and affectionate disposition." Ths landlady saki he was a "quiet, A OteaSE L1KE CRIPPEN'S. The police lost no time in following up Muller. They sailed from Liverpool for New York on the 20th July in the steam- ship City of Manchester. Their boat wait timed to arrive some two weeks be- fore the sailing ship carrying the Ger- man. The proceedings of the police in this cage bear some resemblance to those employed recently in the capture of Crippen, save that in 1364 there was no evireless telegraphy to assure the po- lice officers that the•Victoria had their man on board. They had to wait twenty days before the Victoria came into poet. By that time New York was as ee:eited as Lon- don over the expected arrival of Muller, and in their excitement some foolisa pertions all but prevented the police froin taking Muller alive. As the Victoria was waiting iu harbor for the pilot boat containing the offieers to come out to lier, a party of excureionists passing near the vessel shouted out, "How are you, Muller, the murderer?" Fortubate- ly, Muller, who was on te*, did not hear there. Had he done so, be might have evaded capture by timely suicide. In his box were found the wateli, and what was believed to be Mr, Brigediat. Muller deelared both e'er t- his own pro- 1A'riTlhad believed faitly well oti the Yoe. age out, but had eat into treithie onee or twice wt aceount ef his overbearing manner. Oa one mansion be reeeivea a Week eye for calling a felleW pitesenger a tier and a robber. He had no money with biin, but tried to reiet some by offering to eat 5 pound,' of German saw taiga He failed in this lemiable endea- vor, and was compelled to sated potter all round, a penalty be eoull only fulfil by parting with two of lies shirts. On 25th August extradition 'emceed - lugs were successfully teeee, awl Muller left with his captors for England on 3rd September. ONE WAY OF ESCA.PE. In England, Muiler's arrival was no less, eagerly awaited than that oi Dr. (trip - pen some months ago. 'For die nunneffl. news of him seemed ahost to eclipse in importance that of the Civil War. It was poiuted out by wine Englialt newn- papers that had Metier poefsessea $3,00) or $4,000 at the time ot his errest, he might have procured bail, and been quiet. ly spirited away into the ranks of the - Federal Army. During his abeenae from England the, queetion of his guilt was widely thecae -s. ed, and the weight of evidence against him had been !mule the subject of news paper correspondence. To help him to secure tne best Assistance at lila trial the Gerraan Legal Protection Society an- nounced that they had undertaken hie defence. Liverpool WS reached on the night of Friday, the 16th. Then a strange incident occurred. A evell-dreseed and apparent- ly gentlemanly dressed person walked into Muller'a room, and, going up to him, said, "..and you are nature :duller, Weil, I am glad to eee yon mid fatale bailee with you. Do you think you will be able to prove your innocenes?" To which Muller replied, "I do." "Von know, Muller," said the gentleman, in a loud vele°, "thie is it very serioui charge." Here one of the del:edit-es m- terposed and told the man to leave the room, which he did, but with some re- luctance. Hie fatuous coailtiet was made the theme of a stinging rebuke in Punch, under the heading of "An Awful Snob at Liverpool." Muller was trice', andt after an absence of fifteen minutes, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. As he left the dock his firmness gave way, and he huret into tears. He was executed on 14tit Novem- ber, and ou the ecaffold admitted the erime. 31URDERER'S COOL BEHAVIOR. England had to wait nearly twenty years before Muller's melancholy suc- cess wv.s repeated, In June 1883. Mr. Gold, a Brighton gentleman, sixty-four years of age, wae murdered on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railwity by a man neened,Lefroy. The murder occurred in a firsi-class car- riage between Croydon and Horley. When the train thaw up at Preston Perk Station Lefroy was found in the carriage dishevelled end covered with blood. He said that he had been et - tacked and robbed. A watch chain was hanging from his tame, wbieh be said he had placed, there for safety. His state- ments were ac-cepted, and he was al- lowed away. During the same afternoon the body of Mr. Gold was found near the entrance to Baleombe Tunnel, There was a bullet wound in his !leek and fur- ther wounds on his body, apparently in - fleeted with a knife. It was not until a week after the murder that Lefroy was discovered through the publication of his photograph in the Daily Tele- graph, Thie was about the Brat occasion on which the pottrait of a "wanted man" appeared in a newspaper. Lefroy was tried. found guilty and executed. 33.ARMAID'S TRAGIC END. The next crime of this character was the murder in 1977 of Elizabeth Camp, a barmaid of thirty-three belonging ro the Good Intent in Widworth. She travelled in an empty second-elas.t car- riage from Hounslow and' at Waterloo her body was found on the floer of the - compartment. Her heacl had been bat- tered in by some heavy instrument, aud her pockets had been rifled. The only, eInc was the discovery near Wanes - worth of a "Wedgwood" pestle, similar to that used by chemists, which was covered witk blood and hair. No arrest was made, however, The fourth railway murder marred on 17th January, 1901, on the London. and South -Western Railway. As the 1.- 20 train from Southampton was enter- ing Vauxhall station, a man sprang from a third -clam earriage and fled. A woman, wounded and bleeding, appear- ed at the door of the carriage, and called to the officialto stop the man. He was putsued and captured. It then appeared that while the train was pas- sing Winchester the man rose up and shot dead a Mr. Pearson, a farmer, and began to rifle his pocket& Ire threat- ened to serve the woman in the same way. fired at her and wounded her In the jaw. He said he would do her no fur- SHOE POLISH • Won't slain the clothing. It gives a hard, brilliant and lagling polish. Shines easily, jugt one or two rubs. Absolutely free from acid, turpentine or other injurious ingredients. It is good kr your shoes. MIL To test tt polish for turpentine apply a lighted match but be careful, THE F. F. DAILEY CO., Limited, is HAMILTON, Ott., BUIrritl.0, N. V. stud LONDON, Eng, ther injury, if elie Amid nothiug ithont it. Oa the eveulug of hie arrest, Oeorge Beery Park— thet was the murderer's mime—made a full teafeeeialt of the sna We* executed three weeks later. A GIWRSOME FIND. On Sunday evening, 2.ith September, 1005, the body of Mary $0phia 3104eY, agea twenty-one, a bookkeeper at a dairy at Capitate Junction, was diseqy- re3. 1, Merethain Tunnel on the Lon- don, Brighton, and South Coast Rail- way. la her mouth was a low piece of silk veil, her ?skull wee eneethed, one of her lege severed; she hal apparently been thrown from a train. There were marks of her ben& on the sides of the Unmet, end her gloves were covered with boot, It was impossible to say whether Mi ee Money met her death by murder, enicide or inieebenee. The last railway murder that aroueed coneiderable Interest was committed on the North-Eastern Railway by John Dickman, of Newcaetle, It took place -in March of last year. when Mr, John Nie - het, cashier to a Neweastle fii•m, was shot dead, Macula'', it will be recalled, was condemned and executed. ROBBING A MAN OP HEALTH. Taking advantage of tne Texas code authorizing a court to admit a prisoner to bail when it appears that any speeiea of confinement would endanger his life, a man ireprisoued for murder sought re- lease through the Court of Criminal Ap- peals, his physicians testifying that he %vita mitering from a melancholy condi- tion, could. not eat nothiug, or If he did eat, could not assimilate Itis food, to the end that death threateue. But the court was too accustomed to these symptouee to be irapreesed, and bave thie sorry view of the physieal condition of the great mass of people who are in jail: We know, as a matter of feet, that it would bring about a weakened and lowered phytikat condition in any one who had led an active life to imprison him on a grave charge and accusation, removed from his associates, and,having eonstaatly before his mind his surround- ings and environments, and that a man would not be as healthy and robust as if he vere free to go and come when and where he pleased. The condition of relator in thi$ case is but the con- dition of three-fourths of the parties confined in jail. Can there be any better argument than this for a change in ,prison meth- ods? What those changes would best be is hard to say, but no system has a right to rob a man of his health, it Is laeking in humanity and it is too ex- pensive. From the civilized and the economic standpoint it is equally want- ing. Work and exercise there. should be for all prisoners, and work and ex- ercise in the open air so far as possible. —New Bedford Standard. FISHERMAN TELLS INTERESTING STORY Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his Rheumatism and Lumbago. Strain and exposure brought on troubles that caused five years suf. faring, but Dodd's Kidney Pills fixed him up. Clam Bank Cove, Bay St. George, June 12.—(Special)—Aniong the fishermen here Dodd' a Kidney Pills are making a name for thenutelves as a rem- edy for those ills that the cold and ex- posure 'bring to these hardy people. 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A woman bordering on hysteria one night calls up her physician by tele- phone at a. late hour, beeeeching him to give her eomething to quiet her nerves, so that she could sleep. He directed her to run hot water into her bathtub, to sit in it wed particularly to dip a. Turkish bath -towel in it and let it rest over her entire Opine. She was amazed over the reaulte soothing and comforting to the highest de- gree. A good pure water- bath is a tonic all can afford. The home woman who haa reached a "lifeless" feeling of weariness, take a bath as et bracer inlet before dinner. Business women whose life is fatiguing etppreciate its stimulation in the morning. Women with uncertain circulation should never jump into a tub of cold water, as the shook has a tendency to weak- en the heart. Sea salt makes a strengthening, home bath. A handful of salt cyre- Mks should be put ina covered 'tree- sel of hot wateri and let remain to disaolve Over night. 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The Isaacs Her. hrecht clock is ou view at the British Museum, and two clocke well worth a visit ma- be seen at the Soane 14fuseum, The uppertvorks of one of theast revolve once in twelve months and require to be wound only once in every two years. Intereetingold clocks are to be found in private houeee. One a these may be eeen at Lutterworth. Thts is a long clock, which haa 811 Oval face, a hand that points to the daye of the week, completing the round la seven daya, another which ehowe the true dead beat, and a third which points to the chimes and quar- ters. On tate upper part of the clock le a small orchestra, whieh includes a flute, a 'cello and two violins, and a boy and girl and also three aing- ere. The hours and the quartem are struck, every three houre a tune is played three times over, while the three figures beat time and the boy and girl dance to the music. • ** THE FLY NUISANCE. (Niagara Falls Gazette.) 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The larger or these is called the women's car'a place where the women travellars rziay retire and rest In the luxurious easy chairs. The color echoes° of the decorations le a delicate shade of green and the apartment Is kept camfortable by an automatic ventilating "itoter p'ass.engers who have a hobby for ecoking, or whose health requires that their meaie shall be eeepared in a special way. an erectile gein has been added to the women's ear. The newest and most efficient electric cooking appliances, with a hoed and fan to carry away any fumes, allow the fastidious to prepare dainties as easily as they could over the chafing Welt In their own homes. Of- ficials of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company say this in- novation, contemplated for some time, has been hastened by the constantly increas- ing patronage of women travellers, The meaner part of the new ears is a loung- ing room for mem The two trains on which the women's ems have been installed are the Missile- SOta Llniltcd, whieh leave e Chicago at CM in the evening. and the Chicago Lim- ited, leaving $t. Paul every evening at 18al. asItitt117 eixitplieacTietPilti viP•rift"bao aelteled. thrOligh the entire Barliugton service. The new plan Is already being watched by other railroads which are, it is said, ceesidering the installation of /drafter ex- elnvively women's cars. 70 -DAY'S JOKE lid BLACK AND WHITE. "1 ortee askett a little New York 64.44i. Mn-. I'ltilip ;Snowden the Engliii sueirdgette, "if elle knew aliat leiso.re we 'Sure,' she replied, 'leisure is the place where- married people reeent.' 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A., will send poet -free to any address, a liberal sample of each, with a 82 -page book on skin health. 'Write for a set to -day, even though you have suffered long and hopelessly sued have lost faith in everything, for even the first use of Culture Soap and Clint - mem is often suffIcient to give instant relief when all else has failed. ••••••1•100,...••••••• THE CHEERFUL IDIOT ON ADVICE. "See my` new motto," said the Cheerful Idiot. "I shall hang it over the wire centre of my desk, and hereafter I hope Antreio todliead R!, irly peaceful life. Don't you The Chronic Feminine Bore read: "Please take your adviee elsewhere; 1 have an oversupply—besides, I want to retain Your good win." Then she ex- 1""deod. Syou are preparing to insult Your friends?" "By no means," grinned the Cheerful Idiot; "merely preparing to keep my friends from insulting Inc. It is it bit of an Inselt, Isn't it, for your friends to assume you are too SWIM to be able to fun your own affairs?" eaBlaaely)e7 .s.teea due'sa e'at entit ed thlete etepln itill•toentie: Femininof other people." "I know it; that la why you hoven't any concerning ycur own affairs and are able to devote so much valuable thne to discussing the affaire of' other people, When you meet a difficulty you call on someone else to find out how to over- come it. When someone else meets a difficult), you are 'Johnny on the spot' to tell them how to settle it, forgetting you could not thistle your way out of your own." eltrctconeeit 1akefc141kettrrifet:ntt aryoneeisetsai4 the Chronte Feminle 4Gre,splteit. ce'l'eliOintricimotinegr apneyopoliteesi, anfg,atirs, yes; eon - "1 suppoae that sign Is an announce - you please, without regard to the opinion neitetaitrotleJante?;,:mi hitenct to run your life as , "No. only without regard to the opiniops ot the gratuitous adviser." "I suppose YOU mean that for me?" "I have had your valuable opinion on most subjects," replied the Cheerful Idiot, with a bow. "I have never noticed that It mule any difference in your conduct." 'The most convincing piece of advice, ' replied the Cheerful Idiot, "is the silent advice of a successful Me. Succeed at any one thing and you will never need to thrust your opinion concerning it tti:ieortn:nyone. Men—yes, and women, too -.win sit in throngs at your gate to be told how you did diffictply that is too much for you, what "Anti If your mightinees meets with a "Then I shall seek out the moet suc- cessful person in the llne where I have mei my Waterloo,. and shall humbly ask him to show me rey.way out; and 1. shall not choose hint because he is my friend or relative, but because he is posted on the subject." The Cheerful Idlot took his seats and tent off down the street whistling merrily. TO EXPIATE HIS SINS MAN OF 75 GOES TO SERVE EXILED LEPERS. Peter Ariz, aged75, hale, hearty and active, will go to the Louisiana leper colony And devote the remainder of his life to waiting upon the stricken exiles. "I don't want any fuss made about my going," eaid Arta. "I have never committed murder and from a legal view -point my sins are not particular- ly grievous. I have never commit- ted a felony, but even at that my soul is far from being pure white. "My father is still lying he' -Rel. glum. He is 90 years old. •I have written to tel lhim that he will never see me again—that I am going to gve the rest of my life to the lepers. "Why ehould I be afraid if the good eiaters in charge of the colony are not afraid? I am old, but I am healthq, and as strong as some men of 50, and I can be -of great earvioe. "I have tsravelled all over the world. I have been an editor, a sol- dier, a teacher, but ,moat of ell a wanderer. I have a good record for my service in the Spanish-Amerlean war." The leper colony is 80 miles above New Orleans on a peninaula fanned by a curve of the Mississippi River, PET ER ARIZ, New Orleans. ---In the hope of ex. plating his sina—and there are no cardinal ones among them either -- AN OPTION ON GLADYS, Gladys Helen Montague, her trans- parent red -gold hair glittering hi the sunlight, sat at a mahogany desk writ- ing her answer to Reginald Fitzmata rice's proposal. illadys' calligraphy was of the style which makes three diame- ters perform the duty of twenty-six. In reply came; "My Dearest Girl—Your answer has made me the happiest man in the world. How did I dare to hope thet you wonld me to your side, My letters will be forwarded from my elub.—Faithfully your, Reginald leitsinaurice." "Dear Gladye—After n sleepless night spent in the vairi endeavor to decipher your tote. I have written those two answers. Will you kindly return im- mediately the one which does tot fit? I cannot stand thie strain.—Your ataxic 4 • St DA UN K ENN ESS AND EARLY CLOSING. stoop to bless Well as I? 1 pray that It there has been Mare drunitehnest in that The Recorder of 'Montreal says that may be worthy- of you, my darling. i city settee the bars were ordered to close long to pees!) you to my heart.—Thine, ' Reginald." a little earner at night. He is rather flaored, however, by the arm guent of one )titeh"deruinvih,eomuiersgsedntlehaensin chanogree,, that as "My Dear Mies Montague—or On Wed- qu o ra limier I start on a tour round the Bola It is rather etmege that bptIt the krilt,ontersesaiie sitoldri!etaadgiliangirr dealersto your Mind a word from you will being eld houre of zaftig xesuited. have the world, If at any time you should ehange . ' MADE IN CANADA Castro, who le in Portugal, Is intitt to he planning a coup to regain power in Venezuela. Does he think it werth while to riek it whole skiu IJL each a cause! Judge Page, of the Supreme Court, of New York, has decided that Sunday opera is unlawful, and that the marts will not enforce a contract to violate the law. Canticle Omani: not be made too ,pleae- ant for law -breakers who seek refuge here. They should not even have prison - room; sena them baek to the country Whenee they -came, John D. Rockefeller, "An Inquirer" is informed, hi seventy-two yeave old. Ail Standard Oil holdings are 274,092 shares, the market value of each sh,are was on May 15 given as $672, • ,• • I. It SROMG to be regarded; as the correct thing for lawyers engaged tO deferid murderers to put in an insanity plea. One of tbe best eines for insanity that makes its appearance ie a good, strong hempen Tope. The actilel Cereal:aloft will take place on June 22. That will be a legal holiday throughout the Unitea Kingdom. On June 23 the King and Queen will make their procession through South London, that day having been proclaimed a pub- lic holiday for the county of London only. The spread of race.traek gambling and the evils arising therefrom are no great in Bombay that the Governor retuses to permit the Turf Clan to hold its meet- ing unless it be limited to ten days and. bookmaking be abolished. Noet, will it be claimed that the abolition of book- making in Bombay wiU discourage horse -breeding? • The British National Poultry Society says that eggs for market ahold aver- age 2 ounees each, or 15 pounds per 120 egg, It also warns shippers that "a, dirty -shelled egg is useless for the best trade." Infertile eggs keep better than fertile ones, and, if guaranteed, would bring in the market a better figure. —aesesee--- Another new word is about to be in- flicted upon a suffering public, if some United States newspaper writers are sueeessful. It is "leprosarium," intended to be a substitute for "lazeretto," a Owe for isolating lepers. If the Eng. Heli language need this addition to its vocabulary many persons have over. looked the fact. e• • a- , The Cleveland street railway ha,ving now a surplue of $200,000 in the ire terest fund, the fare has been reduced to three cents, under the sliding aes.le agreement. This is done in the face of a claim that the operating expeuse tee serve and maintenance fund bliOW large deficits. A short test of the 'educ- ed fare will probably show whether iti- creased traffic will follow the cut. Judge Archambault, of Montreal, has administered a deserved rebuke to the officers of the law who resort to sweat - box methods. He refased to admit au alleged confession obtained by putting a suspect through the "third degree" and declared such questioning to be illegal, no matter whether the prisoner had been warned or not. It is well to find the courts upholding the law and defend- ing the citizens in this matter. 4.• The publication, of,the fact that there are several chewing gum ',concerns in a merger capitalized away up in the mil - Rots leads a curious one to wonder how much jaw energy is wasted by the chewers. He says that "by harnessing the jaws of travellers in public convey- ances enough power could be generated to run all the railroads now operated by steam and electricity, and possibly light and heat the homes of the `plain people' as well." And if the millions of "exercise" hunters who make miescle by non-productive exercise, tired them- selves at useful work, how much of comfort the world might enjoy I A Chicago alderman is conducting a campaign against the roller towel. Am- ong the diseases which it is alleged to spread. are: "Pink Eye"—An annoying disease of the eye 'which is frequently epidemic. ConeunctivItie--;Contagious eye dis- ease frequently resulting in absolute blitidnese. Trachoma—'A. Seriotts contagious dis- ease from which 90 per Cent. of the people of Egypt suffer. Varioua Skin Diseaees—As ,for in - stoke, limaa (tuberculoste of the skin), lice and !tell, diphtheria, measles, in. Mena, searlet fever, The indictment is a severe one and probably inany of the charges tin be stuitained, Avoid public roller toWele. Apple shipping in bores seems to be peeing in favor; bat if Canadiaos are to hold their owe, they must exhibit Intenigence and exetelise fee. ltt packing the fruit. A Glasgow authotity stiveit tbis timely hint: If Ontario oreliartliete ere going to capture end retain it poi tion of tide higet eines box trade, deeeledly more &dent/fie care of mallards and more eareful setee- tine of fruit in peel:hoe are amential. I ate fiAtNfiekl that an inereaeed quantity if leaael Ontario epl Ire be aistiorbed !etre. etel it lies with the Oetalio peen - we to eater for the Semieli entiennietee ee as well as his ealete. n4)1)11141' lly of the Xing, Sey atid 111111eili On it admitted un and, craniing the flaVar (if tliatie verietiest buyers are influtteal hy uni- formity of Hiee, tvnies nf eolor and elealiness of akin. The meet potetler tize if Oregott Newi nit pippitte bete is P.A1 OiI ta 112 applospr 4t1 ponnA e,ssi, tee letter siee ere -fared.