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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1005.

THE

"Watch this stuff, Tex-Pop's liable to get you in the traps on Formosa."

FLORADORA GIRL AND THE ERRANT HUSBAND

AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY. ONE OF

T

erd

clear Air

HE steamer Germanie Bowered

the

teurments at the fol

od. West Fulton Street

through

E

Th

New York morning The clock over Jari nt master's office show

eid ten tu mine as the ship prepared to leave. Mrs Frank.

Young watelist her hravÝ Juggage

abowd

$14 patiently waited for her husband, He was never a

punctual man but he pro imised faithfully when, just after seven that morning ha left the house to get a shave

hat. and a new

that he would meet her on the pier before nine.

He never came, Al ten to alne. on that glorious June morning in 1804 he was riding along West

Brodway

hanson ear

The

hud

WC21

In A

extiman, and Mietinels. nhead stuck nfter

sight's heavy drinking that he unable in his own Inter

to

Inke any profound. interest" when a stoi rang out hiside the

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even failed to INLAN the leap to sear what was going on lest he kin self got what But he and Te collect the young lady in the

in the col dive to 1

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Ital

teliung nearst themist quite sure at the time who wns shot ner dių be much care must have been some hanguver

But there were many pissters- by who hureed krward at the sound of the sol They found

within the cab a dying man

in the pocket of his eval

And

they

found the still-hot pistol which had killed him. He bad stump- the knee of the fair ed in Possi

rexdure who shared the cab with him, his bleeding head on her lap, while she, elusping and and fran- wringing her hands tically kissing his face, stum- mere: "Caesar, Caesar, did you do this?"

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London Express Dervios

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in the cab, the direction of the she fainted at the terrible words ballet, the powder-mark- the of Me Rand, the State's grip on very variety of the trung notion its victim was practically fost all pulme to her

On the next day other wit Now's

nesses testified to the grief Nast defence

the great

in steel grey Abe Lavy, HIW

silk.--had hands of punchy i humble, a master displayd at the hospital after at nunding that he too mught the incident in the cab: she rarily by sitting atmong the juris Brew herself on the dead body pasessed of no more integerse and declared that life without thun a ordinary 172 171 the Chesar was not worth living. streel.

She even asked a policeman to kill her with his truncheon.

But all wis

not yet Yan'a case received a consider- able t-back when Mr Rand Abe levy got quickly to bus- produced the coroner, Mr 1.59.

He made much of Nan's O'Hanlon, who at the previous faded old papa lling there in trials had maintained the case court, read the passage from the was one of suickly to declaro hu Bible about the woman taken in had "changed his mind." He adultery, then went to toyo un had not known before he now Nan's cri de coeur "Caesar, said, that the revolver was found Caesar why did you do this?"

"Do you believe," Abe asked Jury, that this

the

Spell-bound

In Young'a

Mr

pocket.

over.

This brought the best out of

Rand who many times empty-frivolous, if you like throughout the trini bad shown pleasure-loving girl could cont

of losing his normally

rakt

kill, ation to kill,

ceive the plot that would per- leech-like grip. In a great

ho described

have flutterod

ine foor

in

at one second arred in the next ste

second to cover that must the act by a subtle invention? Is Man's heaving

bosom as her there ossibility that within lever atrounced his intention to two seconds after the shot she return to his wife. She had lost. could have been so comunmate Her rival had won. At that moment, Mr Rand declared she saw red. The murder in her "A heart flamed into action. litle crack, a puff of smoke a dead man prostrate On woman's knee, the wages of sin were paid!" he ended,

an actress as to have been able deliberately to pretend

the horror which showed itself in her

DEATH IN A

HANSOM

By Julian Holland

won froppled for ever by a cles- pairing praecution.

CAB

and bought a new hat. Mr Rand, face at that moment?" No ac- the District Attorney, could tress, Abe insisted, possessed only lamely suggest that Non such ability. had worked very quickly.

were

sme-

Discharged

For 14 hours the jury de- literated. The foreman" "con- sulted each juryman individual- Jy in un attempt to get verdel. It was said that at one moment I were ready to bring a verdict of guilty, while the twelfth obstinately held out for acquittal on the remarkable. grounds of sentiment. But in the end all were discharged, still

able to nyree. Throughout

no

how.

It was in November that the

the long hours of mental State began its ense against the

Mr Rani was dry in reply. Nan was In a state why beautiful show-girl, Fovide her

physical collapse: Mr Rand promised to prove He suggested that his opponent, and throughout The proceedings Fit that the pistol that had killed though no Edwin Booth, had not smiles, no conquelting her nged father, pothelle Caesar Young had been bought

"When will, they come back?" spectacle In, mutton-chop whis- by the prisoner's brother-in-law made a bad job of the line, "It all she equld moan.

does not require the greatness was kery.

13 hours before the murder. of histrionic talent," said Mr

doctor declared The prison Some of the testimony War And there

threatening Rand, "o pretend that

her condition in bo serious and overwhelming. It appeared that letters sent by the prisoner's thing has happened which has prescribed a long period of rest. the belle Nan in the last few sister to the dead man Against not." But Abe had done enough. But as soon as the district at months of Cacsur's ill-starred all this Non set her prettiness;

of The jury disagreed. Nan was torney moved the quashing he tried every trick from the by far her strongest trimp,

time the indictment it was brought to trial a third

(LD)- vapours to pretended pregnancy Only Mr. Randomi un-

the following April,

nounced that Nan would open to regula her parasitle hold affectés. He denauered Nan, as

Pubile sympathy was now with in a fortnight's time in Pennsyl- over her reformed lover,

conspirator, a parasite, a mur On the night when cab-driver dress and a winton. It was in Nan. And when on the first vania in a musical show called Michaels was hitting it up in possible, he end, for Young to day of the new trial, pale and The Lulu Girls." For this the

Bowery tavern, Caesar lave shot himecit while seated pretty in a black gown and hat, was to receiver £300 a week.

Meanwhile Caesar's wife-for were Caesar and Fank Young

one and the same had decided to let the Germanic ge on with-- out her, even though it was too late to retrieve her luggage.

Frank Young was a guy blade of the race-tracks, born, a gambier and

of the

English

como a horseman,

und Nan held

his good looks and easy money farewell in Flannery's

[1 clutidestine

quickly made him one of the sharper guys of Manhattan. For

saloon

Sot

on West 125th. Street. But one two delicious years Caesar-m of Caesar's brothers-in-law, sat

clay carefully the ruclog

within earshot. he was known among

tlisgrace fraternity was enslaved the ng aside the bitter

by lovely eyes, the pretty smile being done to his wronged sis- the timely cavesdropper and the pneumalle gure of a ler brunette from the sexlette of a must have enjoyed the drams- ties in Flannery's that evening. When Caesar offered to lay But in 1904 Caesar gave up hundred

*Floradora" road show.

fifty dollars against

his pretty churmer-Non Ratter- son was her name-returned to cents that the protesting

for

4.

Nan

the could not even pronounce

a loving family 4rip to trouper she was);

The day before the inleaded with a hold big enough or dark departure Mrs Young went with enough for you to his Her seemingly reformed husband from me tomorrow morning,"

Don Juan May Become A Saint

D

'By CHARLES WARRINGTON

Rome. Spanish poets and play all the good things he had done riame in their ON JUAN, the fabulous wrights, inspired by his adven and how he had repented. They

tures, created a character of the Invoked his character famed for famous scoundrel and ro- proyer and asked their bishop Hirit Don Juan to begin the procedure for beat!-

fication. the, forgiving booom of his wife name of the shilp that was to centuries for his way with christened

him, and, to insure against his own carry him away from her for women, his duels (mostly Telorid.

(like the over women) and his drink Mozart oven wrote an opera the Valleen.

Songs were sung about

Soveral such pleas reached waywardness, booked Hlekets ever, she answered

But the Vallcán the about him and two hundred Europe for the morning of Juno "Caesar Young, there isn't aing bouts, may be on

year after he lived Byron never acted. best that sally the seven neus way, to becoming a saint,

wrote an ople poem about a Now, after three centuries, Løgt week Vatican fellow of the same name and the Vallcap has decided to hold officials started probing the with a similar way of life. an Inquiry into his life and find nuti whether In fact his virtude history of & Don Juan who really....

lived thumbing But Don Miguel, wasn't al outweighed his vices...

The probe is being carried out through musty old docu- way's bad, after he killed as in Rome by the Sacred Con- When Nan and Caesar parted cerning the exciting life of turn, cthbarked on 1

ments and testimonies con- in a duel, he saw the error of his

Wade, made complete, about gregation of 'Bites.

Tite of Should It prove favourable to the mid of Hamar Young It Was not ne Irlands C the gentleman from Seville, penatice, gave dway his wealth Ropo would proclaim ondial and that was never to be used words he should not havi satisfactorily explained.

used, struck her in the face and

to the poor, forgot women, and ly. Don Jean's "Herola virtues. Nan Patterson was immo- thrcnterad worse. Hub on the Don Juan really deleted His founded Big hospital which After that, if the Congregallon hathe was Don Miguel de ull exists in Sevile every is gelisted that Don Juan after alebze charted with the murder events of the fateful moriling

Then he died 18, an odour of his death has perforthed at low of her lover. It looked for all the prosecution's case was not Ménare, a very wealthy follow the world and still does po good. It was difficult to who lived in Spain Seville in hellykket that a hla, lomb two miracles he will be beatle like casuper-and-chut casuggest how Cacme and Nan the vententii contury other fond jonkwri

many

first to the races at Sheepshead

Bay then to hot sister's at West

104th Street where they stayed

the night. The following day at

dawn began the brief events tilat

Baw

Not Friends

n

hart throw New York Juriós, in hack arrivell at a further meet He spent the Arst part of his lion, the tuned succession were unable to agreeing. Chomat hnd not left his with life chasing woman, playing har error { s to how Cheng Young lost his 15 7:20; 10 was only

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