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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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12
15
Fo
טו
17 18
9
10. 11
דו
19
120
21
22 23
124
25
126
127
29
30 131
1632
33
35
136 37
38
що
141 12
143
44
45
146
47
48
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150
51
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153 454
55
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59 60
bi
162.
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64
166
67
HORIZONTAL
1-Fixes
4-Disease
9-Layer
12-Southam State
(abbr.)
13-Ostentatious show
14-Liberate
15-MAXI 17-True-hearted 13-Oration 19-Presses forward
with violence
21-Iron spike
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65
68
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 51-Mouraful
64-Motrio mensura of capacity (pl.) 56-Make evident 69-Middle western
State 163-Organs with which Insecte form their weba
63-Now England State
(abbr.) 64-Garrete
66-Boy's name (short)
23-One who is in want 66-Small barrel
28-Fixed one's name to 68-System of signala.
26-Variety of coal
7-Brittis
30-Prefix. Upward
32-Part of a flower
34-Girl's namB
(shortened)
35-Rave
37-Hila satanla majesty 39-President of college
faculty 40-Happen 42-Bird 44-Reformed Profestant
*
Eptacopal (abbr.) 45-Beautiful child
47-Tendons
-49-Instop
VERTICAL
1-Pouches 2-Escape privately 8-Narrative 4-Worked with a
machins
J-Dexterity
B-Floood 7-Embellish
Contradicta B-Those who present 10-Meadow 11-Sharp berk |18-Table nut (pl.)
VERTICAL (Cont.) 14-Provided with
feathers 16-Feminine name 20-Face oɔvering 22-One afflcted with serious skin disease
|24-Tap again.
26-French name for
Morocco 26-Hiding 27-Malten volcanio mattor (pl.) 29-A fundamental unit of forco (pl.) 31-German for "night" 83-Ashy pale. 88-Tower of fortifica-
tion (oba):
|38–Clemency.
41-Red oxide of iron 43 Strengthens
|46-College treasurer
48-Dam
B0-Prefix. Seven 62-Partormed
63-Tuft of hair 55-Porches
57-Biblical mountain 6B-Sert
60-Garden tool
| 62-Pinoh
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new creas-word puzzle.) -/-
2,000 REPATRIATES
RETURN TO GO ON LAND IN CANADA
Montreal, May 14. During 1929 about two thousand French-Canadians will be repatri- ated from the New England States": to take up farming in Quebec, On- tario and the far west of Canada, according to estimates of the Colonization Department of the Canadian National Railways, lu 1928, through movements in which the Canadian National was directly interested, 1,500 Canadians, most of them natives of Quebec, returned to
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Already a large party has set
“ CONFESSION ”
"JACK THE RIPPER” MYSTERIES.
VENGEANCE AS THEORY
THE CHINA MAIL,
Never in the history of crime has there been a murder, or series of murders, which struck such horror
CHARMED A QUEEN
SULLIVAN'S LOVE-.
TRAGEDY
HIS GUIDING SPIRIT.
What was the greatest influence
LICHENSTEIN
AĜED BACHELOR ON THRONE,
·OF TINY PRINCIPALITY
PRINCE FRANZ
Vaduz, Lichtonstein. → “The in the life of Sir Arthur Sollivan, Prince is dead; long live the Prince" was the recent ery of the immortal musician? -
into the minds of the contemporary It was his friendship with the this tiny principality when Johann publle, or lived into the thoughts beautiful Mrs. Ronalds, according "the Good" died and was succeeded and interest of succeeding generato Mr. Isaac Goldberg, of Roxbury, by his brother, Prince Franż.
The new ruler le 75 years of age. tions, as have those of "Jack the Massachusetts, whose "Gilbert and Ripper."
Sullivan" was published in mail Like his brother, he is a bachelor and these two factors have already The type of women who were the week. victims, the ruthlessness and "Mra. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds started gossip as to nis successor. brutality of the murderer, the ap (born Mary Frances Carter), of It is said that a youth of 18, Prince Franz Joseph, a grand-nephew of parent lack of motive, and the un-Boston, Massachusetts, was by two the elderly ruler, has already been failing regularity with which, in years," writes Mr. Goldberg, "the spite of the open manner in which senior of Sullivan. She had made selected as the next occupant of the
old throne. the crimes were committed, the as- her debut at sixteen, and at once had sassin eluded arrest, have all con-assumed in Back Bay society a fore spired to awaken the lively interest most place for her voice and for her of criminologists, amateur and pro-beauty." fessional, down to the present day. Back Bay is the aristocratic area
Thousands of theories have been of Boston. advanced, dozens of "confessions" have been made, the mystery is still as deep as ever.
Couple Separated
Mrs. Ronalda had four children, but within less than ten years of
A completely new recapitulation her marriage she and her husband of the crimes, analysis of the discovered their "incompatibility, theories, and an advancement of one!
of the most plausible explanations: and identification of the murder, are published by Messrs. Hutchinson-- "The Mystery of Jack the Ripper," by Leonard Matters.
The Criminal
At one time Mr. Matters was
PLEASE DON'T
WASTE WATER
editor of a Buenos Aires newspaper. and, while travelling in Europe, "More good crime stories are to be agreed to separate. picked up in Buenos Aires thanberg adds:-
Prince Franz is a tall, aristocratic appearing man who for years was Austro-Hungarian ambassador to in St. Petersburg. He is a patron the glittering cout of the czars
of fine arts and bas other tradition al characteristics of royalty.
But the proclamation he address-. ed to his people while it recalled that providence had conferred on. his brother the destinies of the realm, made no direct reference to any divine fight of his own. He promised to try to administer faithfully the heritage of his ances- tors, to reapset the rights and liber- ties of his people and to trive with all his might for the welfare of his country."
He did not use the old royal for-
Mr. Gald-mula that he had been "chosen by the grace of God," nor did he refer to his people 25 "subjects."
anywhere else. in the world that 1 Ronalds went back to America; know.... he writes. "It was his wife continued to Algiers, and Democracy has been growing in while in Buenos Aires that I came eventually, established herself in Lichenstein and the people are upon a confession that, if genuine, London.
It was her fondness for hoping that Prince Franz will turn would help to dissipate much of the the British capital indeed, that had
out to be a "parliamentary ruler." mystery of Jeck the Ripper.*"
been one of the real causes for the break with her husband.
Mr. Matters spent many months in investigating the facts, and he was approached by a woman, who, as a girl, met "such a man as that de- scribed" in the confession.
"By discarding one theory after the other, particularly as to motive, we have arrived at certain inevit able conclusions. was not a homicidal
he may have been
What becomes of the four children
does not appear, Mr. Goldberg, however, presents a few more facts about Mrs. Ronalds which are un known to most people. He says:-
In her early days she had roused the jealousy, in Paris, of Empress The murderer Eugenic. Napoleon III, had pen- lunatic, though sioned her when, in 1870, he was a monomaniac. deposed from the French throne. Robbery never could have been his She had followed him to London, motive, therefore he was not some and had been introduced by him to
He the Prince of Wales. desperate, penniless criminal. Was not a slaughterman nor a King Edward).
He had no confederates or sailor. confidants. He was almost certain ly a person in the upper stratas of Society. Was he a surgeon ? Al- most positively, yes."
Mr. Mutlers asks and answers the following questions:
all his victims Why were moral women?
Why did he bill only in the End of London 7
Why?
(This was
Quickly she made the acquaint- ance of the Duke of Edinburgh and Sullivan,
The Duke of Edinburgh, King Edward's brother, was an 'en thusiastic musician" and violinist.
By this American lady-the per- immanent ambassadress of the United
States at the Court of St. James even Queen Victoria was charmed out of her etiquette.
East
London could not forget that the Why did he desist from murder Queen had granted Mrs. Ronalda a after the death of Marie Kelly ? private presence, and that Victoria had thrown all Court procedure to His answers are: Among the immoral women of the winds by receiving her standing London "Jack the Ripper" was and chatting with her confidentially She was among of for half an hour. determined to find one woman
to conquer whose existense he had good cause the American women
English society. Her salon at No. to be positively certain.
This woman he knew definitely to 7, Cadogan Place, was for years re- be resident in the East End of Lon-nowned as a sort of unofficial annex
to the Court. don.
Marie Kelly was that woman, and The glamour remained long after when he had killed her he was the Queen's passing; long after
Her visitors en-1 satisfied.
was the Sullivan's death. His motive direct one of personal vengeance joyed the thrill of never knowing upon that woman, and when she just when King Edward and Queen was dead at his hands he was con- Alexandra might pay her, as was tent.
their wont, an informal visit and
Mr. Matters tells the story of a thus transform her modest drawing-
"Dr. Stanley," the name admittedly room into the momentary pivot of being fictitious. Dr. Stanley was a the kingdom, and brilliant surgeon, well known for
From the moment they met, Mrs..
She
the daring and skill of his opera- Ronalds and Sullivan conceived a tions, A widower, he was pas-high regard for each other.. sionately fond of his only son.became, indeed, his guiding spirit. That son, after celebrations in the Not a day but brought word from Not to West End, terminating at a cafe, him wherever he might be. became acquainted with the woman hear from her, in turn, was to him Marie Jeanette Kelly, and sub cause for depression. sequently died of a malignant The Lost Chord" disease..
Mrs. Ronalds made the first "All Ought To Be Killed phonograph record in England, Dr. Stanley swore vengeance on singing Sullivan's song. "The Lost this woman, and the story of his Chord." Mr. Goldberg recalls that search for her in the West End is Sullivan left her the manuscript of vividly told. He ultimately dis- the first notes of the song, jotted covered that she had gone rapidly down at the bedside of his dying down hill, and was to be found in mother, and that when she died in 1910 abe directed that the manu- the East End, p
During his inquiry at the cafe he script be buried with her.I
The relation between Mrs. became acquainted with a young woman, stil alive, whose story to Ronalds and Sullivan are known only Mr. Matters is also retold, sud in alctchy outline. What has be affords confirmation of the account come of the hundreds and hundreds of Dr. Stanley's life, which comes of letters that passed between them? Mrs. Ronalds husband filed paper from the confession.
Dr. Stanleyla alleged to have for divorce thirty years after his said of the unfortunate woman" separation from his wife. He
that they all ought to have been withdrew charges of desertion on billed, and the story in the confes Mrs. Ronalds agreeing to certain sion tells of how, in his search for changes in the property," and Mr.
them. When he found Marie Kelly question of marriage between and killed her bis work was com- Sullivan and the dark lady of his plete
out for the west. A still larger For the information of visitors body is expected to make a similar the following list of some of the the girl Kelly in the East End, be Goldberg adds that "so, from the Journey in June, taken
Although many of these French highest points on the Island and picked up other women and killed legal standpoint, there could be no Canadians originally left their Mainlands published homes to take up industrial work in the United States, most of them, it is pointed out, welcome a chance to return to the soil. For these the new settlement taking place in the Abitibi, Lake St. John and east- ern regions of Quebec, and the es- tablishment of new parishes in the Peace River district of Alberta hold forth strong inducements. Others will be coming back to their homes in Quebec
party of 200 of these repatriates Alberta recently travelled
and located on a new parish at Kathleen,nest McLennan on the
Iver Railway
Victoria Peak Signal Station Mt. Parker
Island.
Mountain Lodge The Eyrie. Teak Hotel
1823 177-4 1784 1725 1725
1805
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1000
877
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Bowen Road (altarbeds). 297
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The "confession was made in This suggests that Mr. Ronalds Buenos Aires by "Dr. Stanley to dropped the divorce proceedings and. a former medical student of his, that they were based solely on the who was then practising in the grount of desertion Argentine capital de
One result of Mr. Matters in which throws sont
esti
the re
Mr. Goldberg suggests that it is not impossible that Sullivan died a disappointed man. "Love he says, |"had passed him by, though it had touched his loos with the cup of Tantelue
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