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Established x81.0
Head Office, Guelph, Ont.
Risks taken on all, classes of insur-
ance at reasonable rates,
eASNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham
J. W. DODD
Office
LII+E,sACCIDENT
FIRE,
AND HEALTH
.,_.. INSURANCE --
AND REAL ESTATE,,
P. O. Box 36o Phone 240
WINGHAM, ONTARIO
J. W. BUSUFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor,
Loan Etc.
Money tooan
Office—Meyer Block, 'Winghant
Successor to Dudley Holmes
R. VANSTONE
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC.
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J. A. MORTON
BARRISTER, ETC.
Wingham, - Ontario
DR. G. H. ROSS
.Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry
Office over H. E. Isard's Store,
11. W. COLBORNE, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Medical Representative D. S. C. R.
Phone 54 ; Wingham
Successor -to Dr. W. R. Hambly
Is a person culpable who commits a
crime under the influence of hypno-
tism? Scarcely, you will say, forthat
is a state in which the mind and ac-
tions are subject to the will of some-
one else. But ,suppose the crime was
one from which the party would profit
in a peculiarly satisfactory way. Sup-
pose that prior to encountering the
hypnotic influence the party had con-
sidered committing the crime. Suppose
that while in the hypnotic state there
was some glimmering of the old desire
and impulse. That would. constitute a
knotty problem, a mixture of motive
and outside influence, for the jury to
weigh.
Suppose there were other influences
to consider; that the crime was, in a
measure, justified; that the perpetrat-
or had suffered a grievous wrong and
belonged to a family whose racial cus-
tom it was to exact vengeance for all
injuries. There would then be a mix-
..
DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND
"3t .R.C.S.' (Eng.) : L.R.C.P. (Lond.)
?FHDDr. ChishomIAN N odUsandD ON
D.R. R. L. STEWART
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
�Glatan
A• of
o Collage Physicians
and
P
h sici
;
Surgeons.
Office in Chisholm Block
Josephine Street. Phone 29.
Dr. Margaret C. Calder
ner
titi0
eras. Practitioner
Gen
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Graduate University of Toronto By the aid of them most• smiling. No I've
WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES
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fancily he had and when he expected
them to arrive, Mr, Morgan answered
that he had no family and intended to
live alone, He did, in fact, live alone,
Without even the service 'of'a house-
keeper, for a nutrnber of ixionths, but
finally engaged, a respectable old wo-
man, who lived in straightened, cir-
cumstances not very far away, to
come every day and cook leis meals
and keep his house in order, He let
her, in every. morning in time to get
breakfast, and she went away every
night about seven o'clpck, after ,wash-
ing up the supper dishes.
I hate to 'see people smiling and nod-
ding behind ray old chief's back, peo-
ple, who, intellectually or socially, or
in any other way, aren't fit to tie his
shoes, He doesn't mind their smiles.
and the light-hearted emptiness of
their lives, has a mysterious sort of
attraction for him.
And when I see him across our little
table, his twinkling gray eyes glowing
with excitement, his long ungainly
arms and expressive hands working
away in enthusiastic gesticulation, his
big voice, booming out the story of
some sensational crime,'.I can't really
wonder that a. good many people nod
and wink and giggle.
'rhe thing I did wonder at some-
times, was, that Wilkins,the obsequi-
ous, omnipresent, invaluable head-
waiter, contrived to preserve his re-
spectful mask of professional imper-
turbability.
I had a sneaking fondness for Wil-
at
inheritedfact that. he
tore of motive, influence, � lips, based upon the.
traits, and impulses, and almost any l least did not underrate Doctor Mc -
"There, you'.have, practically the
story of his life in Oak Ridge, up to
two nights ago. Two nights ago the
old woman got supper'' for him for the
last time, and went home, as usual.
about seven o'clock. Half an hour
later some Passers-by saw hien striding
up and down his rickety old veranda,
smoking a pipe. yesterday morning
when his housekeeper knocked. at the
kitchen: door, there was no answer.
Then she went around to the front of.
th., house and rang the bell, also with-
out result. She walked back a little
way up the lawn and saw that one of
the windows in a sort of study he• had
on the third floor was open.
"Well, it seems that she told vari-
ous people about her fears that all
was not well with her employer, but
you know what a town of that de-
scription is like. There aren't any
police. Most of the men in the place
commute to town on the early - trains,
and with one thing and another, it
was ten o'clock, or so, before the
house was forcibly broken open.
"The investigators found nothing
disturbed either on the` first floor or
on the second, but in the old'.gentle
rn in
-off
too
mans study, a finished -off .
dormer
couple of dorm
the attic, with a p
windows, they found liiim dead in his
chair. He was leaning back in a
queer, unnatural attitude, and when
they looked more closely; they found
that he had been strangled with a
catgut string from an old violin of
his. An "A string," he went on, with
in ers
that
n f gesticu-
lated
d
rising voiceg
g
only about six inches from my
nose, "an A string that had been de-
liberately removed from the fiddle and
slipped in a noose around his neck.
while he sat there in his chair, and
"What
to
n taut. do you say
drawn
that, eh?" •
"I don't see. why they call it mur-
der," said L "Why isn't . suicide the
more likely explanation?"
jury would be happy to get, rid of the
matter by bringing in a verdict of
!temporary insanity and recommending
that the party charged be sent to an
cure.
institution of
Something similar to the situation
stated is the basis of the plot in this
Alister. Tonight, for instance, it was
Wilkins himself whom I saw conduct-
ing
onduct
ing him down the long -lane of tables,
to the corner of the room where we al-
t
w -a}, s
sa
"Tell . our man what to bring us,
Wilkins," he said, waving away , the
story. While a tale of romance, ac- !menu which that irreproachable func-
tion and mystery, it is at bottom a tionary offe?ed him. "You know what
mystery of the mind. Detectives and we want to eat, better than we do,"
prosecutors have a place in it, but the I Then he turned to me. "Well, have
principal figure is a scientist of the'you read about it?"
most advanced modern attainments. Oak Ridge murder?" S' asked
"The
g
n .
the
a e .' waited to get
Faculty of Mediae I struments, employing the principles f
He is a burly, confident, quiet -tem,
pered, generous -minded young chap
of about thirty, and if he keeps on as
be has begun, he will some day ac-
quire a reputation as one of the
greatest prosecutors in the country.
He was not in evening, dress tonight,
and he dropped into his chair at our
table with the air of ono who ita4 : ut
in a trying day..
"Confound these suburban trains,"
he said. "I just spent the better part
of al hour in one coming in from Oak
Ridge,"
"Ha!" cried the doctor, with an air
of the most intense satisfaction'
"Then you're just the man I want to
see. Did you turn up anything at the.
afternoon session of the inquest? The
account in the evening papers leaves'
off at noon."
Ashton laughed, "You'll not get a
word out of me about that murder,
until after the fish, If you attempt to,
I shall call on Wilkins here for help.
However," he added seriously, "I do
want to talk' about this case with you,
for I think it not unlikely that you
may be able to help us."
(Continued next week)
Office—Josephine St, two doors souUi
of Brunswick Hotel.
'3'elephonesc Office 28i,,Residence 'z5z
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DR. G. W.
DENTIST..
Office over John Galbraith's Store .
F. A. PARKER ..
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Treated
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Office adjoining: residence next to
Street.
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Sundays by appointment
Hours -9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Osteopathy Electricity
Telephone 272.
° i account of it from you."
radio, television, electric photography. "You really haven't .read a word of
and other marvels of the day he is : it,,, he asked
enabled to look into the minds of sub -
BOYS' AND GIRLS' SHEEP CLUB.
"Nota word. I know that Oak
jects and :chart accurately their ac Ridge is one of our more remote and
can en-
tions and against hisisns• Noh secretless fashionable suburbs, and that
dur'e methods: ' .
THE STORY there has been a murder there within
thepast forty-eight hours. Beyond
CHAPTER I -Dr. Ronald ?Mfc111is- that, my ignorance is complete."
ter famous in his special work—al""Youth! Youth!" cried the doctor
lied.
his lealeisurein
mock
dismay.
"What
isrt
tom
in
gt
time in the elucidation of crimemus- to? Fancy being under thirty and
teries. As the narrative open, he is
small
the
i x t
in he murder, ed t
interest
town of Oak Ridge, of a recluse, Ben -
who the story now from the beginning—
ry Morgan. With a young friend,
tells the story, and Ashton, assistant Wait a bit though.. Wilkins—"
attorney, who is vorkiitg on head -waiter looked up . from a
L district atto - , The
- i
e
he tragedy
w
t edy
waiting' all day for such a story as
•t
of i
r than read
an
account
the
that, rather
in bad English. Well, you shall have
A. R. & F. E. DUVAL i the case, he outlinesg hit
at dinner in the Meredith hotel,
low -voiced discussion of the menu
Licensed Drugless Practitioners,
CHAPTER I
Doctor McAlister has often told me
that I take life seriously because I
am young, That may or may not be
the reason, but I am convinced I
know the reason why he takes it so
light-heartedly, It is not because he
is old but because he has already won !comes in, ask him to dine with us;
fromlife all the reward he wants. In 1 then, turning to me, "There are some
J. i his own department of science—ap- i points which the newspapers don't
ALVIN FOX'plied psychology— he has achieved cover that he'll be likely to know a -
DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER i about as high a place as it is possible bout."
CHIROPRACTIC AND far a man to reach. Iii this field his Ashton, I may say, was a rising
i reputation does not have to lower its Young assistant in the district at -
colors to any other in the world; and : torney's office, and I will add that he
or1if in . his periods of relaxation, he I worked at the detection and prosecu-
chooses to be frivolous, no one can• tion of crime, con amore it was not
afford frivolity any better than he. 1 i upon his salary that he lived at The
suppose that- the very idea of frivolity I Meredith.
used in connecfibn with Prof. Ronald i The doctor leaned his elbows on: the
McAlister s name would snake most -1 table area pointed a long finger at me.
people laugh because of the`grotesgtte "Now, in the first place, all we know
unfitness of it; and the people who of Henry s14'.`brgan begins three years
know him only as a gaunt, gray old ; ago."
°Was Henry Morgan the name tit
bachelor, with a rugged, homely deep- Q
ly lined. Scotch face and a big rough the man who was murdered?" I asked,
voice, would be 'right to laugh.. I . "Yes—yes, at least it's the name he
But 1 am more an adopted son of went by during the last three years of
is than: a mere assistant, and after his life, which he spent at Oak Ridge.
Chiropractic and Electro Therapy.
Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic
College, Toronto, and National Col-
lege Chicago.
Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry
Store, Main St. 7-8.30 pm., and
HOURS: 2-3, 7
by appointment -
Out of town and night nails re-
sponded to. All business confidential.
?hones: Office 30o; Residence 601-13.
•
with the man who had special charge
of our table. "Yes, sir."
"Has Ashton come in yet?
Not et, sir, but he should be here
Y
before long. He's seldom later than
this, sir."
"Serve for three at this table, then"
said the doctor, "and when Ashton
The sheep population of Huron
County has depreciated to one-quart-
er what it was in ieoo. A decline from
92,000 head to 23,000 head in the past
27 years does not speak well of the,
industry. Surely this condition is not
altogether justified.
Huron along with many other coun-
ties in Ontario .,requires considerably
more sheep on the farms if the prof-
its from live stock are to be main-
tained or increased and if the weed
It
menace is to be met satisfactorily.
is true, no doubt, that there are draw-
backs to keeping sheep, but surely
these are minor, when we find many
successful sheep owners in the Coun-
ty. who apparently have overcome the
most
"of them.
With the idea in mind of not only
rejuvenating the
sheepeP
industry, rY,
but
also lending a helping hand to the
boys and girls on thefarms, the Do
minion Department of Agrioulture has
outlined a scheme known as •. the
"Sheep Club Policy for Boys and
Girls and
Junior Farmers".. Last year
r
a start was made in Middlesex. Four
or five clubs were formed of from ten
`to twenty boys and girls each. Ewes
of suitable breeds and grades were
bought for the members and distri-
buted at cost. A good ram was sup-
plied
and the es
tee of
plied � charge
have led the. Department to believe
that the policy shouldold be
pursued
further.
..
Huron County, through its Agricul-
turas Representative, has supplied for
some o
' clubs andit is expect-
ed
Pect-
fthese
ed that one or two will be formed in
the northern townshipstkir
fall.
In-
terested parties wouldobe well advis-
ed to get in touch with G. R. Pater-
son, Clinton, and arrange to have a
full outline of the pla spliced in their
hands.
Thureclay, Noventl
r 7th, rm.
Save
and Travel
TT
110.-re4rer,...„
Regular saving dur-
ing the year will
make it possible to
travel at holiday
time.
Bank a definite por-
tion of your income.
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A. M. BISHOP,, Mgr.
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"Oh, wise young judge," gen-locked
"Forthat
mybb
y; reason,Y,
this
just
.the end of the °string, wasn't fastened
to anything. He couldn't have com-
mitted suicide .in -that way, unless he.
could reach around after he was dead
and untie the knot behind\:the back of
z
an
d
murder,
i it's
neck.
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his
should be inclined to say a singularly
pure example of it."
"There's no Connection whatever
with his past?" I inquired. "Didn't
McCloskey ask any references at the
time Morgan rented the liouse?"
"He says he did on that first day,
and Mr. Morgan -assured him that
there would be no difficulty on that
score; he would present his refer-
ences in a day or two. As a matter.
he
of fact, he never did, but as paid
a quarter's rent in advance, and as he
signed an indeterminate lease of a
house which the agent never expected
to get off his hands, McCloskey didn't
like to press 'the matter. He used
furniture that he found in the house,
and never brought in any effects of his
own, beyond what' came with him on
the first day, in his hand bag and his
little trunk. He never got any letters
from out of town, and: apparently
never; sent off any. What his.business
was, if he had any, no ane ever
knew."
"You say that nothing on the first
or on the second floor had been dis-
turbed. That would dispose of the
theory of robbery."
"The whole appearance of the house
and its condition would contradict the
theory of any ordinary robbery," the
doctor said. "No one would break into
that dilapidated old structure for such
a purpose, unless he lead knowledge of
some secret and unusual sort of treas-
ure there. But to my mind, the man-
ner of -killing disposes even of that
alternative.' The house is situated in
a lonely spot, remote from all other
1ra17itatio'n. If a robber had found
himself in a position where he was
obliged to kill, he could have risked a'
pistol shot, and, he caul:dn't have gar-
roted his victim- without taking him
unawares, No, I believe' it to be a
ease of tnuirler, pure and simple—
murder committed for its own sake
and not the by-product of some other
result. And these cases,' yott know,
are rather rare-•"
"Here cdtnes Mr. Ashton now, sir,"
said Wilkins °from where he stood not
far away. "I'll have dinner served at
once, sir."
Both the doctor and I like Ashton,
and he; often dines with tis, even when
there is no particular excuse such as
was offered by the Oak,: Ridge Mtn-
der,
iur-
der,,fox' doing so.
DRUGLESS PRACTICE
ELECTRO -THERAPY
Phone rex.
Hours:, io-i ern., i-5, 7-8 p.m.,
by appointment.
D. H. MCINNES
CHIRO?RACTOR
ELECTRICITY
Adjustments given for diseases of
all kinds; specialize in dealing with
children, Lady attendant.,Night calls
responded to.
Office on Scott St., Wingharn, Ont.
Phone iso
GEORGE A. SIDDALI.e
kri Ontariod ng the daily number r f hours in He got off the train there one morning
Your
NALi
Operator .
—Broker— ••
phone 73. Luc ow, spend i ,
Money to lend on first and second his labratory, watching him work his, with a hand bag and a check for. a
Mortgages on farm and other real
tate properties at a reasonable rate of
snterest, also on first Chattel mort-
gages on stock and on personal notes.
few farms on hand for sale or:to lielikes the dailycapers—the yet- office of one James 14leC�la
A he said he t, an u1 to
r: both well-worn
irac]es, I see his great mind relax,small steamer true ,
vcrith 2.nv 'initial
and find that he is just ahoy, more of " and both ttnrnar
a boy than ever I was in my life, I He went straight to Abe real estate
utvr v a.rir1,
° C. S +• t rent a house,
rent on easy terms:
lower they are, the better, and.r„lllct�lraskcy took him house -bunting
3 v' ur a perfectly incredible 'number
�.�.5 His ad:light ever a warn] one i:, al -brise, the only place in town that took
most st pathetic. M<,rfan's fancy, was a 'large, dilapi-
Sr, when'I read the headlines in t1'le . dated old house in one of its remoter
waning papers that Clay, I knew per-! quarters. The old place was in a state
r • d-li er
elf e Lair, and it con
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of d t ctive stories, good, and bad,and, much to that gentleinan's sur -
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Phone 23x, Wirighans reedy well that when wt,rk svgs -WA'S r,r cunarc rrc e t
; and eee root at s,ur special little table., tained a lot of rattle -trap furniture
'11'• dining which the owner .had never moved
M1'-.,.
• w�' ; should he away. McCloskey had confessed •' to
r
2 Z4 r t lust-” he had never expected to
r. ant for it, :the question o' re
rnur
FURNITURE DEALER der.
ati• It was easy indeed, to prefigure tit
DIRECT Celt
ONTARto enacts d 5o many antes -before, I
W I1tilCe]FT,Ai1d,
f nrnnr,r ! 7n a cr,l ner +,f ttic brilliant t In ' that
Office rob, Resid, , room of l lac Msr.,lit}t, It d find a ten-
Phones: ] d with thrilling
J. WALKER a .ast10 .CC0ulrt of the Oak Ifidl,t,
FUNERAL
.net, c.r t
1rcga a wr ers Ing f parrs did
-
Motor
whole scene. Similar ones had bee
Motor Egttipntettt di
tit,
n't: secin til interest 'Mr. Morgan much
patch or two in the roof and new
P
lights of glass in the broken windows
comprising all he asked.` for.
"When 1u1;cCloskey asked him what
gctli r, reiielt the prospect, for
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Your telephone operator is a mul-
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tance -- with signal Hoes to het'
sisters " at the other end" ready
. track for any
thet
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oiled utiaccom
aniedfroth lontrealtms
'The
four and three respectively, Who s � tt ,, ,
- liner Atbenla, boundfor Liverpool,, . We are
week, on the Anchor -Donaldson , ,, • els mother
going to' see but other grannie in Northumberland," they said. Th I t aril
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t at Co tI eeial
at Cobalt after leaving �ialleyhtticy, Ont.,, 'and the chtltlrera wxll; be the esl�: , ,
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