HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1907-12-26, Page 2IS JESSIE MAY BURKE ALIVE?
WAS WRONG BODY BURIED?
Strange Story of Two Burke Girls Who Went to
New York to Go on the Stage.
New York, Dec. 23.-1s Jessie May
Berke alive or dead[ That is a question
that is worrying the g'irl's mother and
incidentally causing the Metropolitan
Idfe Insurance Company to make an in-
vestigation. Three years ago, when she
was sixteen, Jessie ran away from her
me in Rochester. N. Y, and coming to
ew York, obtained employment on the
•cage. That wee all her mother heard of
her until October last, when she saw in
•'New York paper of the death of a
young totrem, Alla May Burke, Jessie,
even as a child, did not like her name,
and often said she wiehed ehe had been
named Ella. Mrs. Burke telegraphed the
morgue, where the body of the girl was
being held for identification, aid asked
if the body bore certain narks, such as
moles and dimples, which wadi surely
identify it if it were that of Jessie. Phe
marks were found, and Mre. Burke enure
to Now York, positively identified the
body and had it removed to Rochester,
where it was buried.
A few days ago Mrs. Burke's sister re•
oeived a brief note, presumably from
Jessie, saying she was in New Orleans.
Mre. Burke at once communicated with
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com-
pany, which had paid a email policy on
Jessio'e life, and ie aiding the company
in attempting to find out if Jostle is still
alive. The searchers have discovered
that about the same time Jessie Burke
ran away from her hone to become an
acuses Ella May Burke left her home in
Chicago and came to New York, aleo
with the idea of going on the stage, She
succeeded, but in her stage work as-
sumed the name of Mignon Worth, The
inveetigntors now believe that the body
buried as that of Lossie Burke was In
fact that of Ella May Burke.
MINE HORROR.
SCORES ENTOMBED IN WRECKED
MINE.
az Bodies Recovered— One Hundred
Men at Work When the Explosion
Occurred—Rescuers at Work Trying
to Locate Dead and Injured.
Birningliam, Ala-, Doo, 23,— Advices
last night from Yolanda indicate that
about sixty men met death by au explo-
slou in the mines at that place early yes-
terday. The work of recovery is slow,
and, while hundreds of miners from ad•
jacent mining camps are present to as-
, fants it is thought that all of the dead
cannot be taken out before to -morrow.
Only twelve bodies have been recovered
up to dark. Fewer than 100 men were
in ,the Mine.
The cause of the explosion has not
been offidiaiy determined. The mine
has been pronounced free from gas by
State inspectors, and it is supposed
' that the eitploeiou was caused by dust.
Por two hours after the explosion it
was impossible to venture even near
themouth or the (nine, so hot was the
air that rushed out,
The explosion waa below the second
right'etibrentry, The mines go down
aemething like 1,500 feet. There was
, , a terrific explosion, the force wee made
alOwn outside by the dust and timbers
„ that were blown out ht great quantities,
destroying small buildings nearby end
landing some dietance away. There was
a terrific heat near the shaft after the
explosion.
Offline of the mining company im-
mediately took steps to start a rescue
psrty to got to the men on the inside.
The fans were started and ether means
employed to eliminate the bad air.
Within an hour fourteen men had
Drawled out of the mine and their de-
soription of the interior conditions was
terrible, Several of these men were
severely burned.
Yolande mine is a few miles from
Virginia City, where rf similar explo-
/lion occurred about two years ago,
when 112 men were kilted, Yolande is
thirty-five miles south of Birmingham,
The Yolande Coal & Coke Company,
owner of the mine, is headed by Dr. C.
B, Crowe, of Birmingham.
The Yolande mines were among the
model oollieries of the Birmingham re-
gion. Non-union men were employed ex -
elusively, but everything possible had
been done to ensure the euntontment of
employees. Yolanda is situated on a
beautiful hill, and all the houses are
painted white with green trimmings,
giving it an air of picturesqueness and
hsslkhfulnese unusual in mining quar-
ters.
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DENY CONSPIRACY.
THREE MEN SAID TO HAVE AR-
RANGED "FAKE" ACCIDENTS,
Witneaeea TestifyThatThey Were
Asked by One of the Accused to
Fall Off Cars and Then Put in
Claims for Damages.
Toronto despatch: On a charge of eon-
orpireaty to defraud the Toronto Railway
Company, three"' ,young men, Norman
luyil tea, Ii. J, Hopkins and Cecil R. El.
tt, prem penced on trial in the Session.
ay. `Phe charge mese out of two
for street car accidents which
e put in by the men.
nI September of last year Cecil R. El-
liott sent in a claim of $200 to the
oompany, alleging that he had fallen off
the back of a Broadview oar through
the breaking of is chain, and the com-
pany settled the claim, In March last
Norman Hopkins sent in a claim for $200
for n similar atacideut said to have hap-
pened while travelling on 'a Bathurst
oar. Albert Hopkins appeared as wit-
nees in both cases, and is said to have
written tip fer hie brother au accident
policy in the Employers' Liability' In-
aurtnce Corporation, upon which a claim
w{e`tlso made.
tliott had a policy in the Imperial
Guarantee & Accident Insurance Cone
many at the time of him accident, and
troth eoenpatdos became parties to laying
the information against the amused.
Evidence was put in by the Crown
to show that after collecting $200 from
the street railway company and $760
from the guarantee company, Elliott
had boasted that he waa not badly
hurt- A young woman with whom ho
was friendly testified that he has
taken out a. similar policy for her nod
tried to induce her to fall froon a ear
in order to recover damages, and a man
named Organ said that Elliott hod ask-
ed him to go to tinnti1ton with him
ami perform the same trick there,
Albert Hopkins went into the box on
his own hohalf shortly before the ad-
jourttntent lent night. He said that
ho was acting as sub -agent for the ac-
cident company at the time ho wrote
up his brothers policy. In addition to
being a witness of the accident it trans-
pired that he also wrote the .gout's con-
fidential report on the claim and for-
warded It to tis company,
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BELGIAN KING'S LEG SEVERELY BURNED.
WANT CANAL.
A 12 -Foot Waterway From Pittsburg
to Ontario.
Pittsburg, Dec- 29.—"A 12 -foot wets
erway from Pittsburg to Lake Ontario,"
is the slogan of a delegation from the
Rochester New York Chamber of Oorn-
morce, which le meeting with the Rivera
and Harbors Committee of the Pittsburg
Claanmber of Commerce today. 3. Y.
Me0Sntook, a prominent engineer of
New York, and Assemblyman Geo. L
Meade, come an epeeist representatives
of the Rochester organization. `We are
euro the plan is predicable," said Mr.
McClintock to -day, "but want to be
sntiefied of the interest and support of
representative men here,"
RADIUM CURES CANCER,
Satisfactory Results Have Been Ob-
tained at Middesex Hospital.
Chicago. II1., Dec, 23,—During the season of
paper. which recently published an article
saying that the hopes of doctors when radium
Woe first dleaovered have received no meas-
ure of fulfillment vest (tont. some'aenoa on
skin dioceses, 81r William Ramsay says:—"I
must ask lou to give publicity to the tact
that rodent ulcer, a terrible disease, wht,b
chiefly attacks the taco can be cured with
certainty by exposure fora few minutes at
intervals to rage emitted from radium bro-
mide," In this connection It may be men-
tioned that the authorities of Middlesex
Hospital, who are pursuing investigations re-
garding cancer, are extremely well satisfied
with the results Obtained by radium in the
treatment of this dleease. They do not claim
It to bo a specific in all cases, but the per-
centage of successful treatments le notable.
Rerun despatches state that Professor Feer
at Heidelberg has obtained striking results
from several hundred experiments with the
tuberculosis serum discovered by Professor
Paque[ of Vienna, Professor Peer le said to
have demonstrated conclusively that the eer-
um enables tuberculosis to be diagnosed In
young children with certainty.
KILLED IN FIGHT WITH A COW.
Animal Turns on Farmer, Knocks Him
Down and Gores Him,
Eastport, L. I., Dec. 23,—While engag-
ed in milking hue cow, Nathaniel Howell
was eavagely attacked by the animal
and suffered internal injuries from which
he died a few hours Inter. The cow turn-
ed upon hint, knocking him to the ground
with its hone. Before he could regain
Itis feet the beast charged again, goring
hits with her hone.
Mrs. Howell, attracted by her hus-
band's cries for help, seized a pitchfork
and drove the vicious animal away,
MURDER AND SUICIDE IN AUTO,
Brooklyn Telephone` Operator Shot Elsie
Kerlin Through the Head.
New York, Dee. 23.—Bernard E. \Val-
laa telephone one operator, aged 18, shot
and fatally injured his companion, F1
sie Kerlin, and then killed himself to-
night in an auto -cab, in wheh the two
ware driving on the eastern parkway,
Brooklyn. Startled by the report of a
pistol twice disehergcd'+`;tit chauffeur
stopped his cab and, hotel} ddl'o'ppinngg to
the ground, threw open the dootofind
one of his pacxeni;crs dead and t'he.her
dying,
KiNG LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM,
Brueaele, Dec, 23. It is rumored here bath treatment in Paris recently,Tho
that 'King Leopold 1•e0eived a severe King's private physician has been sum -
burn on the leg while undergoing o heat atoned to that city,
DEAR BREAD.
AVERAGE PRICE OF WHEAT IN
BRITAIN STEADILY RISING.
Is 34 Shillings 7 Pence a Quarter, Com-
pared With 26 Shillings 3 Pence a
Year Ago—World's Crop eo,000,000
Quarters Short of 1908.
London, Del. 23.—The wheat crop of
1907 will fall short of that of 1900 by
60,000,000 quartere, accenting to the
calculations of the Coro trod urs here.
On en sides high prices and reonn'se to
reserve stocks are considered ,neeitahle,
According to one authority the year's
harvests will amount to 382,000,000
quarters, ae against 411,000,000 in ]908
and au average of 392,000,000 for the
laet tour years,
Por the season from August 1, 1007,
to July 31, 1908, it is (*iodated the
wheat -importing countries of Europe
will require 88,000,000 qurarters, where-
as it seems probable the wheat -export -
Ing countries of the world will have e
surplus of only 81,800,000 quarters,
making a deficiency of 1,400,000 quar-
ters,
In the United Kingdom, where twen-
ty -oven loaves are made of foreign
wheat for every six made of native
wheat, a shortage of crop ha a serious
matter.
The average price for elngli'in wheat
has been eieadiy rising for the last
year, For September, 1908, it was 27
ahlHlntts 6 pence; s year :alar it stood
at 93 eltipings 2 pence, and now, for the
third week in sucoesaion, tha price
stands at 34 shillings, 7 pence, Dom -
pared with 28 shillings 3 penoo In De-
cember, 1900.
In- fact, the prediction is l.n':arded
that before very long the present level
of prices will be looked back upon as
moderate and it also is predicted that
England is returning to the conditions
of the early seventies, when wheat cost
38 shillings a quarter.
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BURNED HIS FORTUNE,
Aged Farmer, Before Death, Destroyed
Swoop in Bills,
New York, Dee. 23 The Herald has
reeeivedt he following despatch from
Marion, 0.: John Gordon, a wealthy
farmer of this county, burned $10,000 in
bills to -day a short time before he died.
The charred remnants of the bile were
found by members of his family, but as
they wore mostly ashes, no attempt will
be made to have them replaced.
Gordon was 85 years old, and in the
last few weeks lad grown childish. He
had steadfastly refused to put the $10,-
000, the savings of years, into a bank,
but kept the money under his pillow.
He amused himself this morning by set-
ting fire to the kills and watching them
burn. Shortly before noon, when ono of
his sons entered the room, the remains
of the bills were found and Mr, Gordon
was lying dead on the bed, He had suc-
cumbed to heart disease.
PRAYERS FAILED TO SAVE,
Priest Pleaded for Three Hours With
Woman Not to Leap.
Deblin, Dee. 23,—An extraordinary af-
fair, culminating in a tragic death, occur-
red In the village of Sagart, county Dub-
lin, Sunday. ant two in the afternoon
to young woman., Minnie Hunt, was seen
to enter the tower of the Roman Cath-
olic Church, and a' few minutes later •s-
peared on the root, 120 feet above the
ground.
A large crowd gathered at the foot of
the tower and attempts were mode to
rescue her, but she had locked the door
behind her and threatened to fling her-
self down if any one came near, The
Rev, alether Seaver, however, succeeded
in reaching the top of the tower and
cane within a few yards of the girl. Each
time he hproached her she rushed to the
parapet.,
He hn knelt down and prayed, hold-
ing aloft a crucifix, which he implored
the girl to take hold of. Her anly reply
was, "We shall meet on the ground."
Father Seaver continued to pray for
three hours, when the girl suddenly gave
a loud cry, threw up her arms and fell to
the ground.
She received terrible injuries, which
caused death, end a verdict to this ef-
fect was returned at the Inquest,
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MR. W. L. M. KING IS BACK.
Report in Japanese Question to be Pre -
tented Shortly.
'roronto, Dec. 25; -"I thick we got to
the bottom of things," said Mr. W. L.
Mackenzie King, Deputy Minister of La-
bor, who returned yesterday from his
study of the Japanese question on the
Pacific want.
"I always kept Hon- Mr, Lemieux in-
formed by cable about the inveetigatton,
go that he was always in fairly clone
touch with the Canadian situation while
in Japan," he said.
When asked anout what the Japanese
in British Columbia thought of the in-
vestigation, Mr. King stated that he be -
Demi tete Japanese were at least of the
opinion that the investigation had been
a fair one. He had gone to San Francis-
co and other places along the western
coast of the United Status to gain infor-
mation regarding the immigration from
the Hawauan Islands. Replying to an-
other question, Mr. King stated that the
people of British Columbia seemed oath.
fled with the industrial diapatea act,
FINE OR JAIL.
Police Captain Guilty of Contempt
of Court.
New York, Dec. 23.—Justice Burr art-
tencod Acting Pollee Captain Kohne to-
day -to serve thirty days' imprisonment
in King's County Jail and pay a fine of
$250 for contempt of court in failing to
obey a writ restraining him from taking
Bertlllon measurements of Frank Jen -
kine, recently indioted on charges of
forgery and larceny, in connection with
the euepcnsion of the Jenkins Trust Co.
This is another step in the effort of the
Jenkins brothers to --have their Bertilion
records destroyed.
MEAN TRICK.
Chicago Girl Falls Victim to Bogus
Bachelors' Club.
Temple, Okla., Dee. 23, —Unlawful use
of the malls is the charge to be prefer-
red by the Federal authorities against
the Randlett Itaelteloo' Club, of Rand -
lett, Okla., who, by writing letters to
eastern girls under fictitious names,
have moused a dozen or more young
women to come to the big pasture town
in quest of husbands and fortunes, Not
able to find the men with whom they
corresponded with a view of marriage,
they now are left stranded.
Several of the victims are being cared
for by persona in this town. Among
these is Lois Bamberger, a 17 -year-old
Chicago girl, who arrived here last StGn-
day. She spent four days in quest of
the man she exiseoted to me¢ry, but
could not find him. Money has bean
raised to send her book to her parents,
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DIVORCE RUMOR.
Said That Countess of Yarmouth Will
Sue in Court.
London, Dec. 23,—It is rumored in
Lon, -el society that the Countess of Yar-
mouth, sister of Harry K. Thaw, is about
to begin proceedings to nullify her mar-
riage to the earl. 1t is stated that the
countess will allege in effect that there
has been no marriage. General sympathy
is wholly with the countess in her report-
ed intention, which is regarded as per-
fectly juatifiabie in the peculiar circum-
etances of her ease. It is stated that
she hap acted with remarkable tact and
devotion under trying conditions, and
that oho baa never taken the position
socially or otherwise that she had a
right to expect as wife of the -Marquis
of Hertford's heir.
UNION LEAGUE.
New Baseball Organization in
• Eastern States.
Philadelphia, Dee. 23. --At a meeting
held here yesterday a new Menem'
league was formed with clubs in Phil-
adelphia, Brooklyn Newark, Patteraon,
Baltimore and itoadfn with Al. W.
Lawson as President, Phe organization
is to be known a the Union League of
Professional Baseball Clubs of America.
Representetive" from the following ei-
tles were present and [tech was aseesosd
$100 as a working basis for the new
league,
A. W. Hussey, Brooklyn, A. P. Kondde,
Newark, Frederick Paige, Paterson; H.
Walter Schlieteher, Philadelphia; Dr.
Francis Fe King, Baltimore, and Ed, J.
Koyle and A, W. Lawson, of Reading,
Irlr, Lawson was elected President and
Mr, King, Vioe•President.
Three cities of the old Atlantis
League, Brooklyn, Newark one Read-
ing are incorporated in bite new organis-
ation, and Philadelphia, Ba1tfmore\and
Paterson with two other cities to be ad-
mitted will make up the new league.
FATAL DUEL.
This Man Bragg Apparently Bragged
Too Much.
Laurel, Miss., Dee. 23,—A deliberately
planned duel oocurred in the main street
of Laurel today, in which Edward Bragg
was killed and B. W. Sharborough, for-
mer State Senator, was wounded.
The two had a quarrel over a business
matter, during which Bragg is said to
have advised Sharborough to go and get
his gun. Sltarborough went to a nearby
store and purchased a ehotgurt and
shells, while Bragg waited, When Shar-
borough reappeared Bragg (petted fire,
hitting his num three times without dan-
gerously wounding him. Sharborongh,
in spite of his wounds, advanced till so
close that Bragg seined tie muzzle of the
shotgun. Sharborough fired, ending the
duel by mortally wounding Bragg. A
boy epectator was slightly wounded,
BAD WINNIPEG HOTELS,
Vice -President Whyte, of the C. P. It,
Litters Complaint Against Them.'
Winnipeg, Deo. 23.—A conference., be-
tween the Board of Control represents,
Lives of the railways was fnebd this
morning to insanes the problem of the
unemployed. The possibility of the rail-
ways increasing the number of man en-
gaged on construction work was ddscuas-
ed, Tho giving of "knockout" drinks to
sten coming in at hotels in the vicinity
of the C. P. R. depot received much at-
tention from the meeting. It was the
general impreasiion of the meeting that
it le the Local 'Government's duty to
see that all Weaned hotels are operated
properly.
Vice -President Whyte, of the Q P.
R„ epoke very strongly on this question,
decla•Ing the licensed dbvea there were
a ace to clvlltizailon. iie estimated
that Iully fifty per cont. of the destitu-
tion among laborers coming in from
summer's work was due directly to their
being doped and robbed in certain ho -
tele, which he named. He ventured the
aeaertbon that he would regard it as a
Godsend when the wave of prohihrtion
now sweeping over the United Status
would eboleeh the ealoons of Winnipeg.
arTse dpbhakioeof since. hcrgte.
day,
A delegation from the Children's'
Aid Society waited on the Government
to -day and asked that a probation of-
ficer be appointed and a juvenile court
instituted
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NEW USE FOR EPSOM SALTS,
Will Produce Either Local or General
Anaesthesia,
New York, Dee. 23.—Announcement of
the discovery of a new anaesthetic, ao
cording to the American, will Boon be
made by the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research. The new anaesthetic
ie nothing else than plain, common Ep-
sem salts, or, to give it its scientific
name, sulphate of magnesia. It was dis-
covered by Dr, Samuel J. Meltzer, one
of the Rockefeller experimenters. Its
greatest value is that it permits any
sort of an operation without any danger
to the heart of the patient.
Either local or general anaeathesia-it
is said, may be produced by the injec-
tion of a twenty per cent. solution of the
familiar drug into the nerve tract gov-
erning the sensations of the part to be
operated upon,
COCAINE TABLETS CAUSED DEATH,
A Traveller for Toronto Firm Dies in
Montreal,
Montreal, Dec. 23,—Alfred M. Lynch,
a traveller for Andrew Darling, manu-
facturing clothier, of 'Threat.), died at
the t>nepital this evening from the ef-
fects of at overdose of n.idi'oine.
Lynch had been euffering from route
bronchitis, and a local ph,ysieotn pre-
scribed some cocaine tablets.
Lynch was found unconscious in his
room rot the Queen's Hotel this merit-
ing, end on the bureau was found an
empty box that had contained twenty-
five of the tablets. When removed to
the hospital it was found that hia
symptoms were those of opium poison,
and he gradually grew wino until he
died shies everting. ru,tou1 of billow-
ing the doctor's directions 1;1 had taken
an overdose of the teloiett.
BUSY BURGLARS.
SHOTS EXCHANGED IN A MONT
REAL -p'URNITURE STORE.
Three Men Who Were Robbing the
Store Got Away— Mr, Gregoire,
Restaurant Keeper, Follows An-
other Gang That Robbed His Place
��•yl and Secures Their Arrest.
a�1jE�dia::.
il'ontretl, Dee, 23,—A battle in which
jrevolvers figured on both sides took
place lust eight between some residents
of Mount Royal avenue anti a gang of
three thieves, whose description has
been given to the police, At midnight
\lr, Befiele, who lives on Mount Royal
avenue, nenr Papineau avenue, saw
three men in n furniture store kept by
\lssrs.Gattltir &Lalonde, Mount Royal
avenue. Thinking that something was
wrong, ell-, Belisle went to Mr. Gam
titier's residence, not fat' from there,
had toll him, 'Ile two, together with a
friend of Mr. Gauthier, armed then-
eelvee with revolvers end proceeded to
the store, but the visitors heard tltent
coming, and decampee through a back
card. A doges shots were fired, butt the
thieves escaped,
When (idlers Gregoire, restaurant
keeper on St. Lawrence street, opened
his place early this morning he found
money on the floor, and on investigation
foidel that the till had been emptied.
At the nearest cob stand he 'was told'
that three men had a few hours before
token u cab end driven up the street.
Frani the deseription given nt` the snit
stand Gregoirethopght elle three were
men' who had beim in saloon the
night before with sanely a cent.
He followed thorn, and in a hotel` not
fur ovate cause uipou Albert Lapointe,
irarbe', 5811 Sanguinet street, whom after
a. hong these he captured, Later I'a•
pointe admitted he had stolen money in
his possession: Emile Lapointe, a brother
of Albert, and Wm. Sanderson, printer,
were also arrested,oppearcd before Judge
Lafontaine to -day,' 'pleaded not guilty to
the charge of burglary, and were re-
manded.
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FIRE 0I THE VIGILANT.
Danger of an Explosion on Government
Cruiser.
A \Vnnlsor despatch: The presence or.
mind of several sailors on the Govern-
ment rruieer Vigilant, leidyp here, pre.,
vented what might have been n serious
explosion on Monday, An engineer had
placed a kettle of grease on the galley
stove to thaw it out, and it boiled over
and was ignited. In a short time the
galley was n mass of flames. The fire
ate Bs way through the partition to the
room in which a sem'e of powder eases
were stored, anti the members of the°
crew turned their attention to the pow-
der, some of ,which was thrown over•
board, snit sone carried to the (leek to
anfety. The fire did about. , $100 damage,
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FIRST-CLASS MIRACLE.
It Has Created a Sensation in French
Village,
Paris Dee 23.—What appears to be
u fiat class miracle is reported from the
French h tillage cif linin, where during the
celebration of tones to -day, a priest sud-
denly noticed n perfect Mingo of Christ's
heal in the monstrance, Doubting his
senses, oe flt'at called his assistant, who
also saw the itnngq; then be suntnfoned
mdny.mefnbers of the congregation, who
likewise testify that there WAS a miracle,
The witnesses of the strange- pheemite--
mut include the Mayor, 0 number of the
town me -millers, and otlret netahles-
'1'hc image disappeared shortly after the'
service. The affair tuts created n pro -1
found sensation throttgitont, the region.
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GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY.
Elliott 'and the Hopkins' Brothers
Convicted.
Toronto Despatch: Aftera very brief recces,
the Jury of the Court of General Scssious
brought ht a verdict of guilty against Cecil
Elliott, Norman Hopkins and Albert lioneine,
yesterday evening. The prisoners were
charged with conspiracy to defraudtwo ac-
cident insurance companies and the Toronto
Railway Company by means of. damage
claims for alleged accidents.
Elliott took the stand, andadmitted col-
lecting $700 on an occident insurance policy,
and ntiiit. from the Toronto Railway Contently,
the latter also paying Ods doctor's hill of
:1Norman ltopkbns told of fatting from a
Bathurst ear and being lull up In mese-
nuencc? Ole. Forrest, the demosagent of the
Railway Company, called, and the witness
agreed to settle wltb the Company for $200
and his doctm•'s bill,
The prisoners were remanded for sentence:-
ball
entence;bail being accepted for their appearance when
called on,
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ROBBERY AT UNIONVILLE.
Property to Value of About $1,500 Car-
ried Off by Burglars.
Unionville, Dee. 23,—A robbery at tie
stere of Messes. Padgett & Marys, hard-
ware (feelers here, is seder investigu-
tiwn by the authorities of Yorke County.
Burglars obtained articles to the value
of $1,500, and consisting of razors,
knives, spectacles and tools, while the in-
mates et the apa•imcuts above the store
remained undisturbed. The burglars gut
in by cutting a hole in the window of
;the front dour and left with aluut'0
wagon load of booty. The robbery is one
of tie most extensive ever pr rpeti'nttvl
lin this section,
The schoolhouse 00105 also entered the
:nine night, but nothing was taken, the
thieves apparently breaking fn just to
warm eeives 3' the furnnee in the
hareemtlts.n,sAn ins1pection of the base-
ment after the rubbery showed the
thieves satbeside the fire aid smoked
their pipes,
Mcs>ro, 1'adgett & Hays, they store-
keepers, followed tracks in the 'snow for
some utiles, but as yet there is no clue
to the whereabouts of the thieves or
the property,
A