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WOMAN TURNED INTO LEANING TOWER OF
BOMB OUTRAGE IN 'RED' MOURNER SHOT REVOLVER FIGHT IN
CALIFORNIA.
Witness Confesses to False Testimony.
San Francisco, July 30. John Macdonald, aged Afty-eight, formerly an itinerant acrobat, waiter and night-watchman, created
a sensation at the Supreme Court
killed and forty injured.
Macdonald swore that his evi- dence had bean false and was the result of bribery and coercion, Mr. Fickert persuaded him to tell a
BY POLICEMAN.
www.
BUSY STREET.
Street Fight Sequel to Gang Violence Revived
Negro's Death.
SECRET FUNERAL.
New York, July 1.
in Chicago,
New York, July: 2. Gang violence, which had been comparatively dormant in Chiengo
A MAN.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Story.....
STRANGE TALES.
PISA.
Proposed Plan of Consolidation..
SLANT TO BE ARRESTED.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle' has made
Pisa, July 2 many statements concerning spirit- All who know Pisa and its beauti- ualism which have provoked discus ful Leaning Tower will be glad to sion, but an assertion made a few hear that it is to be consolidated at weeks before his death Is only last, and that there is every, reason paralleled in Robert Loula Steven-to believe the dangerous' alant will son's fantastic invention, "Dr. Jekyll be arrested. and Mr. Hyde."
He says that he has seen a woman change into a man-not as a slow process in the course of many years, but suddenly in the twinkling of an eye.
As far back as December, 1927, Signor Mussolini appointed. a Com. mission to examine its condition. They have now presented their re- port. First, they have discovered that the increase in the tilt of the He told this story in a chapter | Tower which was 10 millimetres be- headed "The Ghost of the Most," in a book called "The Edge of the Unknown" (John Murray, 78. 6d.). published in mail week.
Sir Arthur, in approaching the atory, gays, "I have myself encoun tered many incidents in actual fact which I could hurdly beat if I gave free play to my imagination."
that the
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tween 1918 and 1929, has brought the total till up to 4,265 metres. But they hasten to add deviation would probably have to increase by another 30 centimetres before there is danger of collapse. This opinion, of course, does not take earthquake shocks or landslides into account, and the Commission. Leather Sole Canvas Shoes ... 4.50 while saying there is no immediate Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 5,00 The woman who suddenly turned danger of, a catastrophe, strongly Crepe Rubber Backelin Shoes $10.00 into a man was Mrs. Wickland, wife recommend that steps be taken as Black or Brown Boots from ..$ 8.00 Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00 of Dr. Wickland, of Los Angeles. soon as possible to cement the sub- Chüdren's Boots or Shots from $2.00 California.
soll ́by injecting a preparation of
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Dr. Wickland in what Blz. Arthur | cement. calls "a deep student of psychic phenomena," and Mrs. Wickland "a The Francois system, a British medium who is particularly sensitive patent, will probably be used, but to spirit presences, and is ready, certain changes will be made, owing with great bravery, to allow them to to the nature of the ground, which control her so long as she thinks ajle chiefly made up of clay and sand. good purpose can be served. She The Commission experimented, is, in my opinion," says Sir Arthur, choosing two areas about 150 feet "one of the heroines of the world." away from the Tower. They in- Sir Arthur took Dr. and Mrs. jected solutions of sulphate of Wickland to see the old moated aluminium and silicate of sodium in grange of Groombridge, in Sussex. one area, placing pillars weighted He describes what happened:- with iron bars on both areas. The "As wa stood looking at the injected soil gave way for mili- Kchened brick walls a door which metres under each pillar, while the gave upon the deep moat opened, area which was not treated gave and a woman looked out. Then it way 52 centimetres per pillaz. closed again. We passed on, and I The Commission has exploded the thought no more about the mattér, tradition that Bonanno Pisano and "As we walked through the William of Innsbruck, who started incadow which led to the high road the Tower, meant it to be, crooked Mrs. Wickand kept glancing back because William was a hunchback. Presently she said. There is a Their examination, they say, proves- strange"old man walking beside us that the building was planned to be His face is sunk forward. His back straight, and started as planned. is hunched. He is earth-bound"." ; But-the-soil was watery, and the This, it may be assumed, means pumping which had to be reaorted that his "spirit" was tied to the to from the first made holes in the earth in some way or other. He gravel and mari strata. The was a ghost..
The conversation goes on: "How is he dressed?"
"He has knee-breeches, a ́striped vest, and quite a short coat.* "'Whence did he come?'
"He came through that door that; opened.'
""Then how did he
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"I don't know, and I don't know what he wants, but he is at our heels.""
The Amazing Moment. Sir Arthur and his guests | went to the old Crown Inn at Groombridge and had
A clash occurred last night beaince the opening of the investigatea there. Mra. Wickland "kept
type.
of a dozen "Reds."
streets of the city.
A man
ment:
he
ACTION OVER GIRL'S EXPULSION FROM SCHOOL.
London, July 11. Criticisms of schoolmistresses by of California by declaring that thetween the New York police and tion into the murder of Mr. glancing,"
szys "at the girls In the dormitories of schools then District-Attorney, Mr. Fickert, "Political Reformers" of a radical Lingle, the crime correspondent chair in the corner beside her," and at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, occupied induced him to give false testimony
then she said, "He la there."
the attention of a jury of the King's of the Chicago Tribune, broke out in 1916 when he was instrumental Gonzale Gonzales, who i
They drove from Groombridge to Beach Division during the hearing in sending two men named Mooney described as a Mexican Communist, again last night, when an attempt Sir Arthur's place, and were sitting of a libel zetlen brought by a nise- and Billinge to life imprisonment was shot and killed by a policeman to assassinate a potential witness on the veranah when Mrs. Wickland teen-year old giti, Miss Molly Hunt in connection with a bombing out- | named Edmund O'Brien, who ob in the Lingle case led to a révol- rage in which ten persone
Sir Arthur then made this state- a pupil at a school, against the head- were jected to an unauthorized parade ver battle in one of the main start and asid. "He's here." of Guernsey, who until recently was mistress, Miss Damon. Mlas Kunt named Jack. Zuta, to- The alleged "Reds" were walking
"Then came the amazing moment. complained that she was wrongfully discongelately to an undertaker's gether with two other men and a
"Before our eyes she changed in expelled from the School as Miss establishment, where lay the body woman, had been arrested and
an instant into a heavy-faced, sullen Damon, wrote to her mother and of Alfred Laro, a negro Radical, taken to the police headquarters old man, with bent back and loose, aunt alleging that she had been
for examination "pack of lies."
in connection sonile lips." He had never seen who died of a fractured skull' on
guilty of disobedience and dis- Billings or Mooney until he was Saturday night after an assault by with the Lingle murder.
Sir Arthur says that "she" choked loyalty. taken to their cella by the police and | a policeman.
Zuta has for a long time direct- and spluttered "in, an effort to ex- Miss Damon's complainta of Miss told to identify them. Now, four- The police say that Luro wased the policies of the North Side press the thoughts of the control" Hunt's conduct included charges teen years afterwards Macdonald injured accidentally and O'Brien gang-the chief rival to the gang The alleged old man is said to that she ridlenied the headmistress confessed he was "worried" by the declared that Gonzales, a
"big, controlled
by "Scarfaced" Al have atated that his name was David to other girls, especially a new girl, responsibility of the couple's life husky fellow," struck at him when Capone. Capone, Mr. Lingle and Fletcher, and that he looked after to whom Miss Hunt was alleged to sentence and had decided to clear he tried to atop the parade. Mr. Russell.: the former Police the horses. at Groombridge. He have used the Inelegant expression O'Brien stated that he was knock-Commissioner, formed a close al- asked "What year is it? Is it 1808 Hold-cat" in a reference to Miss ed to the ground by a blow over lance partly directed against the or la i 18097 What d'ye say, Damon, the head. His policeman's club North Side gang. was taken from him and with diffi- culty he fought his way to his feet. “Like A Mad Bull”,
his conscience.
LESSON-SERMON
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
"Soul" was the subject of the Lesson Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientiat, on Sunday, August 17.
·
13277 Well, well, that's a good un." Miss Hunt, In evidence, agreed
It is now a generally accepted: Why an earth-bound ghost doesn't she told other girls that she theory that members of the North road the newspapers and know the thought Miss Damon was unjost, Side gang shot Lingle in order to year he is living in the old man of but denied that she stated she in- "Just as Gonzales was coming at create an explosion of public in Groombridge did not explain, What tended to do as she liked in her last me like a mad bull,” sald O'Brien, dignation sufficient to blow Mr. had he been doing for a century term.
managed to snatch my pistol Russell out of office, and thus that he did not know the years? The jury found that Mies from its holster, and in the nick of break up the alliance, p
Sir Arthur reports another couple Damon's letters were not defama- Zuta, though under arrest, ap of pages of alleged statements by tory and written without malice, time dred a single shot, which pierced the Mexican's heart, kill-parently secured his release by David Fletcher..
but that Miss Damon expelled Miss ing him almost. Instantly. With giving more information than the Then Dr. Wickland tella David, Hunt without cause." the fall of their leader the others gang code permits.. When dia who has a hump-back, that You can The jury awarded one farthing
charged last night he said to a do anything now by the power of na damages.CEN dispersed." The Golden Text was: "My soul Now It is proposed by all sections Folice Lieutenant: "I shall never thought if you know how to use it. The Lord Chief Justice intimated shall be satisfied as with marrow of reform organization and by the get home alive. Get me across the
Hump Vanishes.
that he would bear the legal argu- and fatness; and my mouth, shall socially discontented to give Loop, can't you?" The Loop is the This hump of your," he adds, ments arising from the verdict be- praise thee with joyful lips" (Ps. Gonzales & great public funeral as business and theatre district of "Take It off, I say. Your back is fore giving judgment
fovat a protest against police “brutality”, Chicago.e
as straight as mine Among the citations which com- and murders Permission, has, The Reutenant agreed to drive And Sir Arthur addr simply prised the Lesson-Sermon was the however, been withheld on the Zuta with his three companions The bent figure began to straighten following from the Biblo: "No ground, that such a parade would from the police headquarters to up and bit erect in the chair. man patteth a piece of new cloth. Inevitably lead to street fighting the north side of the Loop. The unto an old garment, for that and possibly to more killings car was moving slowly behind a car which blocked, the; tricks, was which is put in to fill it up taketh- In all probability Luro, the negro train under the brilliant lights of hit in the neck and killed, and a by from the garment, and the redt is: Communist, and Gonsales, the State Street when a saloon car, stander was badly wounded; made worse. Neither do men put Mexican "Reformier”, will be buri- which had been following, drew The police and the men in the now wine into old bottlen: else the Led secretly on Baturday, D Bottles bresk, and the wine.run
nath out, and the bottles perish:
but they put new wine into new Eddy "Divine Selenco does not put bottles, and both are preserved" new wine into old bottles Soul into ́ ́(Mátt. 9:16,17)
'nor the infinite
The Lesson-Sermon also included Inte
alongside. A man in a panama saloon car continued to fire till hat opened the door of the saloon their ammunition was exhausted.
car
The poli
stopped
car and began aring into the police In the meantime Zute, and his three companions disappeared in the hoir.
confusion. The police lieutenant the firebirder the saloon car up the was delayed by a
itte lumped? must be Kiother
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