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- SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1922
;BEGINS CAMPAIGN TO REMOVE DISCRIMINATORY LAVVI.f
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- VICTIM OF SUBWAY ACCIDENT WHEN GAS FUMES FILL TRélN. ‘
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Ambulance calls were quickly sent out when the extent? of the East Side subway accident and panic
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Over a hundred persons. were infurc»
SUBWAY sucks VICTIM- ascslvm.
fumes when a short circuit fired a car on
of the Lexington avenue line in New rm; :
rate of speed sixty feet underground. Tr.
train conductors, exhausted by his edit-rs : 1 .r .
the imprisoned passengers, being rcvix-UE . .
been carried to the surface by rescuer: "
s sixty—five foot climb up the laddem
which occurred in New York city was realized. Hundreds of persons were overcome in the panic which
followed a short circuit. Scores of frenzied persons, many of them women and children. were hurt in the
rush to escape from the darkened tube, fifty feet below the level of the street. The photographer snapped
this ambulance surgeon treating a woman passenger just after she had been brought to the surface.
Miss .\lauil Younger. national legislative chairman of the National
,’ W'omnu's party. has just liq-gun n countrywide campaign to purge the
‘ statutes Ui' laws lull in Le .ll.<r~~iniinatui‘y to the feminine Hex.
A FLAPPER IN FLIPPERS.
These swimming gloves are made
on the principle of the duck's
Web feet, and they are a great i-iil in swimming,
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LAISDELL thinks it must have
been shortly after midnight
, that he fell asleep. Horrible
,nightmares racked him as be tossed
upon his bed and one of them was so
'Wtful that he woke up with a
. cam—or thought he did. At any
" rate, he suddenly found himself in the
cantor of his bedchamber. dressing
.with feverish haste. And here is the
queer part of the narrative: for he af-
firms that, while he was dressing. an—
other man lay in his bed——an exact
Donntorpart of himself.
“an the time he was dressing, Blais-
floll says he seemed to be impelled to
' m by queer promptings that were
is: insistent as if some person were at
his elbow smut "Burry! Hurry!" He
Inland his dressing in mad excite-
‘ mm and then hurried on} of the room.
. . Once outside his apartment house .in
M rum. Blalsdoll hurried
lions. his persistent mentor seeming
_wnlk It his elbow. A puzzling fea-
of this nocturnal prowl was that
”It a sense of familiarity, a feeling
' howls onhlswaytokeepanap-
----~--nt that could not be post-
twirhepsusedinfrontofuold.
to”, brownston- n'ont rad-~miflsrabootthoflospoc.
with the air of one who has
reached his destination. lle walked up
the steps and let himself into the house
with a. pass—key. Nor did it seem
strange to him that ho had a pass-key
for a house that he had never visited
during his waking moments.
Blaisdell quietly mounted the stairs.
He found himself in a large, square
living-room, tastefully furnished and
lined with built-in bookcases full of
handsomely bound volumes. Every-
where he looked. he saw bizarre weap-
ons of defense and men in Chinese and
Japanese armor looked throateningly
at him from dim earners of thé room.
It was either the apartment of an art
connoisseur or a globetrotter with a
propensity for the unusual.
From this room he stepped into a
bedchamber and then started back with
a little gasp. It was a luxuriously fur-
nished room that appeared to have
been transplanted by Aladdin's won—
derful lamp straight from the per-
fume-scented Orient. To one side of
the room was an old-fashioned four-
poster bed. topped by a crimson can-
opy. In the exact center of this bed
lay a man asleep, with his mou
Open. "
There was something Muh-
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Photo by t'n '.‘_l\\il d O Underwood.
The mongrel dog slmwn nimve is the property of Jacob Silverman.
I Russian. who is living at tirviile. l'a. Under the l‘cnnsylvaniu law a
foreigner may not keep :1 (lug. l’res..lcr.t Harding inicrcnlml with Gov.
Gprmll. and Dick. who was condemned to die. still liws.
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He was an oldish man with a sallow
complexion and a wisp of a beard that
was slightly tinged with gray. The
ghost of a smile lingered upon his lips
—a cruel smile that sleep could not
make gentle nor mirthful.
And as he gazed upon the sleeper.
rage grew in Blaisdell's heart, a rage
so furious that it almost suffocated
him. 'Without a moment's hesitation
be seized the sleeper by the throat and
began throttling him. The man strug-
gled furiously.
Blaisdell's fingers sank into the
throat 'as if it were satin, and then,
suddenly. there were no more strug-
gles. The body fell back inertly as
the steel-like fingers relaxed.’ Blaisdell
.puiled the bedclothes over the mask of
horror and stole quietly from the room.
As he went back over the route that
he had just pursued, he felt again that
weird sense of familiarity that had at
first possessed him and this feeling of
strangeness increased as he neared his
own apartment house. Once inside his
apartment. be rushed into the bedroom.
but his. counterpart was gone.
Blaisdell undressed
fingers. but his
head .bad scarcely
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STRONG vWiTH THE BAT.
CLARENCE WALKER.
Clarence Walker of the Phila-
delphia Athletics. whose hitting is
the feature of his stellar playing.
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By Joella Johnson
dell‘s face and he awoke with a shud-
der.
“Ugh! W'hat a horrible nightmare!"
he said aloud. "I feel as if I actually
did kill that man!"
Then he yawned and rang (or his
valet. After a casual breakfast he
was glancing through the newspaper
when he received the shock that
changed him from a careless clubman
into a nervous wreck.
QUEER MURDER IN WASHINGTON
SQUARE ~
That was the headline he read. And
then followed an account of the crime.
A private policeman, while 801118 111'
Wanda. had found the front door of
an old brownstone residence oven “d
had investigated. - 0n the second floor
he had found another door A!“ and.
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queer bed that was overhung by “ "d
canopy. He was about to steal quiet-
ly out, when something in the huddled
attitude of the sleeper attracted his at-
tention and he then discovered tint
the man had been strangled, themarks
0‘ fingers being. plainly visible upon
,wml manual-throat. ' Thopomo investigation
but ambushed the not that than-It's
cult phenomena had attracted much
attention in scientific! circles.
"My God!" said Blaisdell, as the pa-
per fell from his trembling hands.
“My God! Did I go to that man’s
apartment while I was in the grip of
that nightmare and murder him?”
Blaisdell aged after that. He look-
ed ten years older and his friends
were alarmed about him. Dr. Hamil-
ton advised a change of environment
and rigorous physical exercise, other-
wise he would not be responsible for
the consequences The man jumped at
every sound and had a mortal terror
of the night. He would put on going
to bed until the latest possible mo-
ment and then always slept with a
light in his room. Sometimes his valet
would come quavoring to-this bedside
in the night. frightened out of his wits
by frightened screams from BMdolL
Things {went on like this for months,
and then one day Blahdell read'anoth-
or item in a newspaper that dumb-
founded him. It detailed the arrest of
aman named Franklin Sears. whowas
charged 31th the murder of Stephen
B, Rollins. ,
"39:31 couldn’t have mnrd
Franklin Sears—and Blaisdell cried
aloud in new fright.
For the face that stared back at
Blaisdell from the front page was his
own face. Yet Franklin Sears' name
was under it!
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Later Sears confessed to the mur-
der. He told the police that he and
Rollins had been chums and college
mates. Rollins had fallen madly in
love with Sears’ beautiful sister and
had persuaded her to go away with
him under promise of marriage. They
had gone to South America, where
Rollins had amassed a fortune, and
had then visited the Orient. She
begged Rollins to make her his wife
but he refused and finally deserted her.
A serious illness followed and she
sent for her brother, who promised her
that he would not rest until her be-
trayer had been brought to book. She
died. assured that he would avenge her.
And he had kept his word, although he
had to trail Rollins all over the world
before he finally. ran him down in
Washington Square.
Blaisdell followed the developments
in the Sears case with absorbed atten-
tion. He had decided to visit Sears the
next day, when the last queer thing
happened in the tragic series of hap-
0n the morning. of Blalsdell's in-
tended visit, Dr. Hamilton read in m-
mornlnz paper that Franklin Sears.
the murderer of'Stephen B. _Rollins.
had committed suicide in tho Tombs
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David Lloyd Georwe seen as he (hoping .
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oner’s watch was found :
and that it had steppe-i
It was just a few minutes r
the body Was discover»? ,.
Dr. Hamilton had scar.
reading this account “12- ’-
phone bell rang. The may» .1 .1,
Blaisdell's valet asked him to a: .
once to his master's aparimiw -,
something terrible had happffle‘f‘
Blaisdell was dead, and it Wit: ‘73;—
evident from the stiffness of 1212:. ~
that he had been dead for many h“?
' “It ain't his bein' dead that's s_~ ..
rible," said the trembling valet-
—it’s—well, look there!” a ,W . ‘
He pointed to the throat of thevfég
man. There was the distinct mi"; ~v
a rope upon it and this mark 8W" ',
clear around his neck. '
“He—he couldn’t have hung "a ‘
self," quavered the valet. We”); .
was the first person who saw , ~
and there ain’t any rope!" in!
some unaCCOuntable unwise-ml ,3,
Dr. Hamilton pick up 313" ‘ :
watch from the dresser. inn“ m:
It had stopped running. the ~-
recording the hour of 3 o'cloCk-
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