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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1931-12-17, Page 4PAGE 2 Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated TRE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription—$2:00• per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.50 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the' option of the publisher. The date to wkiich every subscription is paid is denoted on the label,. Advertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12c per count line fel• first insertion, Se for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed one incl, such as "Wanted", "Lost," "Strayed,"- etre., inserted once for 35c, each subsequent in- sertion 15e. ' Rates for display. Acle • vertising made known. on applica- tion Coprmlrnications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompaniedby the, name of the writer. G. E. HALL, e- M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor; M. 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CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE ':Trains 'will arrive at and depart"froim Clinton as fo1Iows: Buffalo and. Goderiih Div.• 4Going East, depart 6,58 am East depart -Going West, depart u u' « 3.05 pan. 11.55 -.met 9,44 p.m. London. A gn : Bruce ✓Going South 3.08 p.m d'J[1'oing North, 11.58 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD r1:2°o0 of "hanged,"words reiterated and '1'IIL' hannered on Peter's consciousness ountil he wanted- to strike out against Q i then! in unreasoable fury. o LE M FISH Tho very worst feature of being tr'ie fol rn •.; d uxder . , Peter decided M[I:�Efl ,was the torturing, abysmal !boredom of it, STORY OF A "MISSING ACTRESS AND TIS If they would only get en with it! The press correspondents'slumped in co TAXING OF y67ITS` TO EXPLAIN HER FATE. their chairs, jotting -down the names p and addresses of Jurors and crossing o them out again when they were chal- BY NANCY BARR MAVITY lenged. A "sketch artist" in t t , tine row ahead amused himself b y though the 'crowd in front of the court house. It was a quiet, even a contented crowd, content to stand and stare all day at the -familiar. outlines of the building•familiar and yet subtly dramatic now because' of the drama ofife and death opening be- hind its walls. There was absolutely nothing for them to see, Peter re- flected crossly, and yet they thought. nothing of waiting there, hour after hour. There were -women with small'. children jammed against their .skirtsi. inen carrying their lunches in 'Paper bags, Ropes guarded by'policemen cleared a lane to the door; but inside, the crowd. poured itself down the cor- ridors from wall to wall. They show- ed- no disposition to' make way fot Peter. • SYNOPSIS drawing a libelous caricature of the Don E:llsworth's wife, formerly actress Sheila' O'Shay, disappears Dr. •Cavanaugh, •erhninal psycholo gist, learns their married ,life ha been unhappy. He identifies a charred body found in the tule mars as that of iSheila. Barbara, hi mart r reporter. With one accord -the "ren and women in the jury box de- nied that they_ever read anything' in as the newspapers or had ever heard of the murder of •Sheila O'Shay. .The h i' faint slip -slip of pencils on copy pa, - s per, the chirping _ of the telegraph cricket sounded as a constantfaint m overtone to the droning of question) and answers, y There- was an indefinabi'e stir, like wind sweeping through a forest. ch" "Court adjourned until. 2 o'clgok". e "Order in the courtroom, please!0 daughter, faints whens he hears hi tell this to Peter Piper, a Herald re porter, - When Mrs, Katie, Sheila's maid, i arrested she admits that'Ellsworth marriel Sheila under threat of bred of. promise. A threatening not signed "David Orme" is found, in th murdered woman's safe. Peter trails Orme and arrests him. Then Peter sees Barbara destroy a jewelled comb belonging to Sheila, Barbara refuses to talk and Peter reap' zes she is protecting someone. CHAPTER XXXVL.—(Cont'd.) "Yes," Barbara said gravely, "he is a great man, and he has been good to me. But, oh!" Sobs rose in her throat, but she fought them clown. "You don't understand—you nevelt'. can understand—I can never tell, you!" "Listen to me," Peter said sternly. "We're talking at cross purposes. You're not being frank with me. I POW you find that comb behind the seat of your car, and destroy it" Her hands reached out jn a gesture of frantic protest, but he disregarded them. "I said I didn't care what you've done. I meant it. As a matter of fact, I think that you probably killed Sheila &'Shay and that' we niay have the deuce of a time getting you out at it. Now will you marry me?" "You think that of me?" Barbara said wonderingly. "You think that I kined, her—L with these hands, com- mitted murder?" She held 'out he,: hands, palm upward, and looked at them. curiously. "You think I am a murderess, and than I may be ]ranger) for it, and still—still you want to marry me?" • Peter did not know that he had moved until he reached her and lifted her from the chair and held her close his cheek against her hair. "They shan't hurt ,lou, 13as{bara. Nclbody shall hurt you. I won't let them." Staring into the distance above her bowed head, Peter defied thn world. "I think," murmured Barbara, "that it might be worth dying for, to know that somebody ,felt like that." Then. very gentry, she slipped out of those encircling aims. "But I won't do it, Peter. No power on earth—not the power of love itself --,can make me marry you. That is the ultimate truth and you will have to believe it." Peter looked long and steadily into her eyes, lifted bravely to his, but they dict not waver. "It only makes things a littlehard- er, darling," he said at last. , "You knmv'that ell. do whatever I can, any- way. And we mustn't be frighten. ed, I was standing ie the driveway when Von got nut of your ear; I'm cure that nobody else saw you. Per, bans, when all this is over and for. gotten, you'll be willing to decide differently." ." "I can't. Please, unless Yon- want to vain me terribly, don't ask me again," "But you don't want me not to love you, do you, Barbara?" Once again Barbara's face was lighted by its elfin smile. "I don't think there's anything can r,' prevent—eithe-of us," she' said., CHAPTER.. XXXVIi, Public interest in a murder trial is as unpredictable as the success of a theatrical production, but the trial of David Orme was "sure fire" from the beginning. -- •- ""It's got everything," Jimmy as- serted with enthusiasm. "Sex appeal., mystery, big money. It's a wow of a story!" Peter glared dourly at his fellow. human beings as he fought his way THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Out, President, .7. Bennetvies, Brotlhag. en, vice-president, James Connelly, Goderich. Sec. -treasurer, D. F. Mc- Gregor, Seaforth, Directors: James Evans', Beneih- wood,; James Shouldice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesborn; 1%obt. Ferris, tlut- lett; John Pepper, Br'ucefietd; A, Bretidfoot, Seaforth; G. I. 14ieCart- nev Seaforth, Agents W. J. Yee, R.R.No, 3 Clinton; Jcrltn i'7uft*y; Seaforth :James' W'iift, B1,v'th, Ed. Plnchley, Seaforth. Any •money fo be paid' may be paid to the Royal Rank Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth",,re at Calvil Cott's Grocery; 'Goderioh, Parties desiring to -effect insur- ance or transact' other business will he pr'dcsptly attended to' on applied, tiler to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post nt'- frees. Looses inspected by the direc- tor *Ira 11:•pes nearest the •scene. "I'm sorry, you'll have to let me through,". he reiterated mechanically, displaying his press badge and .rel enforcing it with the sharp prodding of elbows. .. "There's too many of -these here press fel'ows; that's what's keeping everybody else out. Where do they get all their pull, anyhow?" " Peter shouldered the speaker, aside forcing his way forward, yard by yard. "Say, young man, how do you get in to see this boy that's killed some- body? I've been here since six o'clock this morning and I ain't no nares than when I started." Peter felt the pressure of a hand on his arm ant, turned to look down into the face of a neat little old lady, garbed in her "best" of faded black. "You don't get in," lie snapped. "And you wouldn't understand a word of it if you did. You'll learn a whole lot more if you go home and read the 'Ilerald." - "Well T never did see the inside of a courtroom," the old lady persisted plaintively. "I thought it would be kind of nice to see it once." ( they'll be telling us is that Coolid That svae what }t oat to thea" -e l never said he didn't shnose to. THURS•, DEC. 17, 1931 Keep your seats!" "`l'u'st ;juror chosen in Orme Mur.. der 'Tia]"—it would be shouted in "e,xtras" on every .coiner within' tho hour. ' Stumbling and pushing, tho reporters crowded the aisle, breaking for the telephones is the witness room outside. "Bet you two bits they don't get a jury in a week!" "Not with Judge Harvey — • he'll speed 'em. Say, do you remember in the Cogswell case he told 'em he-watj going to begin trying it by Monday noon, jury or Ile jury?" Peter grimaced over his shoulder at the "Q and A" twins of the Her- ald staff. They sat it adjacent' seats, one of them °taking down in short- hand the questions and the other. the answers to. the testimony. Be twee" whiles, they invariably engag- ed in a "spirited conflict over the ex- pected progress of the ease in hand. As he turned, Peter for the first time.. had an uudbstructed view of the chairs' set back from the table, within the enclosure. (To le continued.,, f A' western man dropped dead while talking to iris banker. We have for the past two years tried to avoid conversations with our banker, and this event shows that the pre- caution was wise. Indeed, there ought to be a law prohibiting bank els from talking to their customers in such times as these, Several San Francisco newspapers are strongly opposed to the release of Tom hiiooney. One of 'them says his refusal of parole and demand for full pardon is pure bluff. But Lib- erty's in every "blow," as -Burns puts it. i• Dr. A. G. Doughty, Dominion arehivist, doubts the story that Gen- eral Wolfe at the taking of Quebe'r asked "Who run'!" Next thing show. It weliid be Scitrally a show ii 4°14 L'' • °^'--. -. it were 'Benham inside instead of Police Judge Bryson of Deno, N Otmre. vada, has fixed 810 as the penalty' A pastil erect ed fence e of unpaint- - u arnt- p ed laths walled off the entrance t - Department 24. Peter ran the gamut of six policemen, holding :fast to his card cf admittance: "Press Pass. Ad, "tit J. A. Piney representing Herald to all Court Sessions of Orme Trial. Attest A. W. Moore, Clerk; Charles Harvey, judge. Seat number' 031 It was his ticket to the arena, where the gladiators would lunge at one another with -their . word -lances. where the judge would loll in his chair "thumbs up, thumbs dou7n." And outside, the blindly 'patient crowd, waiting hungrily for its crimebs of vicarious excitement. Peter feting himself, worn and (Pshevelled. into seat 53. Inside the courtroom it was very quiet. In one corner ai muted telegraph instrument ticked sharply. like the Sound of an industrious cricket. Behind the rail- ing whieh divided the Gout -teem in half, Peter recognized the roll of fat on the back of the neck of the district attorney, the serubbled blondeness like a mall boy just out of the tub, of the young defence lawyer, the stalwart, motionless shoulders o1 Dr. Cavanaugh. Orme himself was overshadowed by the huge figure of the deputy. sheriff from the homicide squad who sat beside him. Twelve amen and women ranged in two rows along the side wall contrived to look et the same time blank and self -con - hat perched high above her sallow seines. One of them wore a green face. Peter decided that a hat tike that deserved a peremptory chal- lenge. "The case of the people against "Tt must be admitted," 'says e David Orme ... as alleged in the in- writer of ceonomies, "that gold fel, dictment . That Ise dill wilfuliv down at the very "chit where it and feloniously murder one •Shesla should have stood up." Vire alway', Ellsworth ... " intoned the district attorney. - ..... The judge, with a face all share angles. like a cubist drawing, topper) by hair that glistened tike spun Sug- ar. rapped out 'questions. ' "Conscientious sernples against the death penalty in a proper case Any preiudice for or against the de- fence of insanity . The criterien•of accountability is this." Questions. Quertions.•Questions. "The people will excuse Ma Wer - ren .. The challenge is with the de- feeee .. That was the woman in the green' hat. Thank heaven he world (not have to face that hat in the juey bov day after' deal - The peraonnrir in the,fualv,s Chairs ei ;Fted. rule ba1lI ' nulled drips (1/29 saner nut of a r'ovolvfne tin hex and beemed new ;tames. nee by one, Orme —Peter coeld see‘liire new. over i'he eheetrler of the sheriff—Rat ' with fielded paras, etat4,,o dee reil,r . into 'room+, leis nee•File •,+ „tipple.. ia. ,n[ r:e{. a.'!'aieef the p7..,4er M 71'• .,,,,,,i),n, lien t1 Ise gra„!„ taW-,s' i 1l,n 'ncry bc^r.. The nuestione and cher: lnn:.n.:i '1"nteel. ""a"be"d nno.v hid l'en.(l. -"TM- nano ,Ve. $,, 0„„1. ri. +he words, "mnu•der,” "Sheiht EllsWorth," 1 British Columbia has suggested to amembers of his staff that they re- • frain from wearing spats while on official duty in rural districts. We • ltnew a candidate once who wouldn't wear spats during . the campaign, but he might just as well,have worn , them, because he was beaten in the • cleotion anyway. Just the same, to wear spats and swing a cane when you are seeking popular suffrage is to fly full in the face of triumphant democracy. And to • do it at a Rowing match, of all places! We have already called attention to the circumstance that Al Capone wore pearl gray spats during his trial, and see what he got. Even in go a city as large as Chicago there's a ' limit to what people will endure. 'e_ The dale of illation is not uvea, for although a miiket letter says tires 1 1 each shot fired at a human being in anger. If you can keep your tem- per while :firing you may get off for, say, a dollar and meth. A man arrested in Hamilton f carrying a wooden gun said he w n Spy of the United States govern- lttent, The court paid him the com- pliment of Considering him a liar hr a lunatic.• •• will be cheaper nest year. Gandhi is jolt like other agtator4. , if he bicpres83d himself as satisfied he would tali himself out of a job 05 that hd dearth loves and that has AS made him famous. Ifaving a lot of ready nuniey band, Standard 011 of New 3'el'S treed twenty millions of it to retic bond issue. and next day the new papers had all about it, If a d bites a man that's no news, but if "ran bites a d-og it is..Jt's news whe large corporation instead of floc ing a new issue retires an red one. Frank Barris in his life of Ber- nard Shaw says that Shaw is fading N, doubt. But it is wonderful how di/ his voice holds out --and his impu- 07 donee. • ea 1 5- Ars agent for a magazine resents do the rudendt of women who slammed a the deer in his face. Some allowance en should be made. Perhaps he would- t- n't take no for an answer. Perhaps thev wanted to resume housework. Perhaps, ton, they would have pre- ferred to ilo something else to the (sees of the publishers who employed the . agent. •Cnrnerie ra Vanderbilt is advertis- e1 Mg a sort of divorce ranch in Neve& o iwhere Ins inn get divorce for 85.00! ivin li ;nniurla, heard, lodging. and I.Irfir. fees, !Boor vears ago, Dakota 1 sirs the 'rats in th e U1tltod Stateh e where tin mprripd state could he y annna last„ rliceolvpd, and its prh;neome, i•n were celebrated by e n„redv nn .l eas•f+llow. l"Tial" tienp,•te,l Flta,vat1, 1 Tn the loon rs 1.1," nakatas, 1 Tn rho lanri of handsome women, And in si'eta, Apes returning ' A rt1,-' c-,-' "t be hreue•ht with him. Tn 151, •„rife. hp "rave. the ha-ha, rent her hank into her mamma On the outskirts of Chicago." The rin•mininn of Canada asked for A 1',imn-e,1 Anil fifty millions and got sxty-f1v,, millions more. Try this on your ban,rer, (Cophwn•ight, 1931) Ili fares the land (to vary Gold- smith's phrase), Where men accumulate and wealth decays. Great Britain did not really g back on gold. All she did was t "lark down the price. Mayor Walker of New York wen to California to intercede with th governor to release Tom Moore from orison but oven at that Mooney may be innocent, When railway eorpot'atiols were mending money madly they niet with less opposition than they are meet- ing now in their enforced eeonomien, noticed- there was something yellow abort it. The minister of agriculture of Corporation of the Town of Clinton ABSTRACT 071 PEC'PIPTS FROM JAN.; 1, 1931 TO SEPT. 30, 1931 W, 7, McCoy B&'Co Auditors 1931 Jany. 1. Balance in Bank . 5137.18 Sep. 30 Arrears of taxes 2,086.14 1931 Taxes • 22 045.55 .licenses , 220,00 Dog Tax .......: 161:00 Market Scalcs . 90;95 Stock Scales 98.80 Cemetery 1,482.56 Bank Loans 16,500.00. Public Utilities Commission, inter. on Debenture 1,850,00 Refund on street lighting 026,54 EIal1 Rent 772;01 Statute Labor ........ .......12.00 Fines 10.00 Poll, Tax . 1 4.00 Building Permit ,. 1.00 Village of Bayfield . 15.00 Interest, Sinking Fund, Debentures and Bonds1,883,86 Overdraft Bank of -Montreal • .. • $2,085.40 Less cash. deposited Oct, 8, 1931, found in vault , . $141.60 41.,948.80 Cash to be recovered from ' D. L. Maopherson' Estate 149.42 1,794.38 849,285,56 ABSTRACT OF'RECEIPTS PROItI OCT: 1, 1931, TO DEC. 15, 1991 1937 - . Arrears of Taxes . , Taxes, 1931 . Do Tax . Market Scales , . Stock Scales . Cemetery Bank Loans Hall Rents . Fines Poll Tax Building Permit . Interest on Sinking Fund Debentures 'Collegiate Institute Advances returned Co2egiate Institute Sinking Fund and Interest on Debentures Clinton Hospital, Sinking Fund and Interest on Debentures . D. L. Macpherson Estate refund London & Lancashire, Security 'Bond Miscellaneous , 460.92 18,084.09 g 25.00 46.75 39.35 409.50 5,000.05 73.00 40.00 28.00 1.00 1,820.27 3,400,00 2,431.48 691.45 291.02 157.12 67.23 $33,072.18 38,072.18 Receipts from January 1, 1931, to Sept. 30, 1931 49,285.56 Total Receipts Jany. 1. 1931 to Dec. 15, 1931, . $82,357.77 ABSTRACT OF DISBURSEMENTS FROM 7AN.1 , 1931 TO SEPT. 30, 1931, Sep. 30 !Salaries and allowances Law Costs Printing, Stationery and Postage Tire Department .. Insurance . Street Account Charity . Dry Vertlt Cleset Account Public School . Grants.. Public Library • i Sinking Fund Interest deposited "' lin Isar rontreai . $100,05 , -.,.•• ,":^ „- . Onyal Bank .. , ... , . , . ,1.,18L.u1f 1,$33,65 ' Telephones . 00.80 Debentures, paid 1,091.04 ,Getaasral Municipal expense . P3044-5274.98 Cemetery •814.72 ¢street Lighting , ),119,511 In�..rest on Debentures . 8,612,26 - Bank interest charges 9,500.00 14,000.00 405.92 $1,698.78 18.00 174.17 886.19 115.15 1,277.47 75.08 520,00 0,100.00 p75,lit 011" 1931 Co1iegiate Ins.` -'tote . ank Loans paid . .sw Miscellaneous . , .. .... - 'y' -t , 349,285.56 ABSTRACT OF DISEUR•SEMENTS PROM OCT, i, 1no'1 Tt) fE.C. 15, 1931 Overdraft Bank of Meb6retti ... ...:......... 2,085,40 Salaries and Allowances ' - • ,, 757,43 Law Costs . 29.50 Printing and Stationery , 148.61 Fire Department . 86.82 Insurance . 306.87 Street Account .. 49$.42 Charity 6.00 Dry Earth Closet .. 195.00 Public School . 1,100.00 Grants 636.8$ Public Library 800,00 Sinking Fund Interest deposited 1,820.27 Telephones . 86.10 General Municipal Expense . 73.39 Cemetery . 237.2:1 Street Lighting . 642.53 Interest on Debentures 3,228.00 Rank Interest and Exchange 16.50 Collegiate Institute 2,700,00 Property Account . 386 05 Board of Health . 150.00 Interest on Cemetery Debentures Depd. ..., 104.06 Refund„Hall Rent . 40.00 Provincra.r Secretary re. M McLeod 38.50 Public Utilities Com Hydrant Rental 2,494.1.1 Postage , . ..... 3.75 W. J. 11fcCoy & Co. for audit 297.20 Selecting Jurors 9.011 Bank Balance 318,033.67 14,438.51 332,072.18 Disbursements Oct. 1, 1931 to Dec. 15, 1931.... 318,6.33.57 ' Disbursements ,Ian. 1, 1081, to Sept. 80, 1935 .. 40,285.56 Total disbursements Jan. 1, 1931 to Dec, 15, 1931 867,019.23 Bank Balance , . 14,438.51 382,357.74 WOODEN CHRISTMAS CARD CARVED BY A E ING Natives and Tourists Along Tropical Canadian INatiomtr Steamships Route Greeted Annually By King George V. Few people receive Cluistmas cards from Kings. But the natives of Antigua, cal -hail of the Leeward Islands and visitors there each Yuletide read the per. sonal greetings of King ,George V. of England. King George, when he was a sub- lieutenant in the British Navy vis- ited Antigua. lie must have been tilled :with Christmas fellowship. With a knife he carved in large let - tors the following ona wooden pan- el which is carefully protected where ell who come may reead: "A. Merry r'.lu•istmsis and Happy New Year 2 You AIL" Time has aged the plaque, though the semi -tropical climate has pre-. served it. The years have darkened and emphasized the letters carved by King George. A thousand seritiblings by lesser personages have mellowed the area that was unscratched by the King, "Our saucy ship is a beauty" wrote one sailor who proudly inscribed his sentiments alongside those of his Sovereign. The Leeward Islands are British Colonies along the route of Canadian National liners uniting the West In- dies with Halifax and Boston. HEADING THAT WAY The Boca (who has 11ust dropped in on the football game)—So thi's is your uncle's •funeral, Perkins? Office Boy (with great presence of mind) --.Looks like it, :gr. He's. the referee.