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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1932.

TRIAL OF AMERICA'S BLUEBEARD: WOMAN CRITIC OF MAHATMA GANDHI.

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A picture of the "courtroom" scene in the theatre at Clarksburg, where Harry Powers, the "West Virginia bluebread," was tried for murder amid stave xtures which had often formed iše is the setting for mysterious make-believe tragedies, Powers is indicated by the arrow.

facing the jury, court stenographer and attorneys.

Part of the crowd which fought for a glimpse of the West Virginia "Bluebread," when the man found xuilty of the murder af five women was brought back from luach to the Clarka burg theatre where bia trial was held.

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Unshaken by the jury'a verdict that he must die on gallows, Powers is shown right, with Sheriff W. C. Grimm in the sheriff's car as he went to the county jail at Clarksburg after boing found guilty of brat degree murder.

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The jury in the murder trial of Powers, confessed perpetrator of five "love murders," is shown leaving the theatre at Clarksburg, a State tropper preceding them. The trial was trans

ferred to the theatre to accommodate the crowds.

this time and to Mary's surprise De Loma abruptly turned back to her again and asked her to dance, Ami this other puzzle, of his ne Her heart plunged once, then La- jquaintarren with th Countess. Igan to thump mally. She felt quita, Where had those two known cách leold and numb but somehow she other" The Countess was making out to her Teet, lifted her arms to was

A her first visit to America, osten-him. Then, incredibly, she

mistaker of Dir Fly. Fr tells Mur The

people are realitat tervele

wody sibily, and Mary knew definitely, moving off with bim, his armi about

why if the Koen to Mean on the Jupiter

whe wore, he ate them that America had been the scene of her, her hand in his. It was..

Pater, who is trykem be way by

we kase taj operations of The Fly Tar soverad horrible. She, Mary Barkatess, inj Cumming at Ideal

flick a ne!

past, at least! Was the the arms of this murderer, this tentin his former act, Porodin: $urs

The Countess other when be had thief! For one awful instant sh* |

taken in at some time or other? | felt her knees give way under her, Or was the, as the ustate Bates as. Then she was dancing, she fell thei serted, a criminal herself?

head of the music, she wrenched

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CHAPTER XXIV

Mary resolutely It Hee her mind away and kept it away j Chou: sede lest they show in from the man beside her. Grabmal- Mary tried to speak, brom a dry bee fare an ale and Bruce returned is the black, dizzy whirlpool before throat but could not. She meres to the table. The Countess had ly nodded. She must get hold uci herself, she thought wilds, ur helst her strained look and was gay.

joven cupirttish again.

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her eyes efeared.

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he his

He danced beautifully for than any man she had wht give the whole thing away.

danced with. There was something What was George Bowen bad Mary stabbed at the frozen fruits sinuously graceful about said "Now's your big moment in her ice unsesingly, She was lithe surunuss that must Gloria Swanson, do your stuff?""¦

isa absorbed that it disconcerted her|Latin heritage. She had nover. when she glanced up and saw her danced so well in her life, that was De Toma drew up a chair at the table companions all looking at her.jcertain. Countess urgent invitation. She looked aroned at them rather

She relaxed smiling a little.

sail reprovingly, "All that is past, wildly, frightened at having beenj A quick spatter of applause broke

titles

Louise. There are no

inenight off guard America remember." Was there wi "What is It?" she asked. warning in his tone! Mary could i

for

Spain's new president, Senor Alcala Zamora, a farmer's son who rose to be the "father of the Spanish republic," is shown here in a characteristic speak- ing pose.

Miss Cornelin Sorabli, the first woman to become an at- torney in India, caured a senza- tion in Congress circles by de- claring that Gandhi is nothing than a publicized op-

portunist.

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nat FL: they finished. Looking about in surprise, Mary saw that The Countess lowered her eyes. Í they were almost the only couple

facts from the have sworn his words were more "Enrique was merely saying that on the floor. The others had

man for a while, But he could significant than they appeared. you look exquisite" she murmured moved away to make room

hardly have made a more unfortu- Mr. Jupiter ate his dinner, paying throatily. "Not at all the jeune them. It was impossible not to be

nate remark if he had really in- no attention to the conversation, fille. It is perhaps the dress? He pleased. As she walked back to

Lended to. And as if that were not Thank God, thought Mary, emarkable, the flair for dress the their table, she felt sure of herself. ¡of coloured lenses from his pocket enough, he blundered on: doesn't suspect. Now if I can only young Amerlean working woman Those treacherous feelings were and offering them to her, "You will "La Moscal Why, that's-" be nure of myach...

possesses. By day, the grub, slay- well under control now; the admira-need these if you are here long. But De Loma was not looking at ing away at the typewriting ma- tion of all those people, evenThe sunlight is very strong."

Quickly, desperately, Mary set her. After the first swift glance chine at night, voila! She is though she knew it was not due to So that was how she had missed her French-heeled slipper on his did she imagine it or had his eyes la

stopped-hard. Bruce ma's extraordinary skill as a part- half hidden with the glasses on: looked at her angrily, his mouth seeking the necklwe?---he gave his The scratch was in that, as usual, ner,

had infected her with just the and it was his eyes that one could open to protest but something in attention to the Countess, chatting but Mary was saved from replying feeling of confidence she needed, not mistake-as black and soulless her face stopped him fortunately. with her in a manner at once re-when De Loma, suddenly leaning She was sure now that she could as marble.

"Yes, yes" she teased, In loud, served and intimale. Mary looked forward on his arms, asked bluntly:play the game out to the finish, un- "Give them to Miss Harkness," brother-and-sister style, "that's the nt Bruce to see how he was taking "Haven't we me: before?"

afraid of De Loma er anyone else.the Countess grumbled. "She is (Continued on Page 11.) it. He was calm enough. No travé It was a challenge, but its swift-The worst was over. of jealousy there, at least, apparent ness found Mury ready to meet it. Mr. Jupiter beamed upon her and

"You were at Shay's, weren't Bruce applauded mildly,

strayed to her throat involuntarity (Amazi dressed like a queen!her directly, but rather to De Lo him, Mary declded. He face was foot and

to the eye.

The music sturled and with one you?" She laughed, as at an irre- "Excellent!" be felicitated there accord the two stood up and danced sistible memory. "If I'd known both. "You should really be in the away, almost forgetting to excuse then-"

cinemas." themselves in their absorption. The "Known? Known what?"

Mary laughed, good-humoredly. Countess was anxinus to get De Mary looker straight at him with "We're considering it." Loma away, or so it seemed. Bruce just the right degree of wide-eyed, The Countess was twisting bread immediately turned to Mary and innocence.

between restless fingers, affecting they followed the others to the

that you were a count, of an indifference Mary knew she was dance floor,

course!". She held her lower lip far from feeling.

the one who takes us there. Sho likes the reces; I do not."

"You like racing?" De Loma asked quickly, looking sharply at the girl.

Mary shrugged. "It is a famous track, and I had never seen a race. don't like it much, no. Why should I? bet on the horse every- one says fill win, and he falls down. I have hardly the luck to make a ring enthusiast, should

Mary's thoughts were racing, with her teeth, as if to control her "Уен, YOR make a very well you say?"; Once she thought of throwing the jammusement. We thought you were matched pair," the older woman ob- "Ah, the clumsy fool!" De Loma whole thing on Bruce's shoulders. [n-you know.-a_racketeer! Weserved dryly. And only Mary, per-lexclaimed before she had finished. There is, the man who killed practically ran from the place. I hapa, was fully alive to the venom-| Plainly Itjenraged him merely to your mother" Bruce would be Didn't you notice it?"

ous implications of that remark. remember the afternoon's debacle.

minute! If Bruce had been a trifle seared off now

equal to the emergency; he would The beady black eyes did not But she had no time to waste in "She's a inx, that horse. She al- know what to do. And she could change expression. As they bored resentment of Loulae caltiness; ways brinis me bad luck. Well, sho run away and hide, where this into hers, seeming to probe her who was wondering how soon she won't anymore, damn her!" trembling of the knees would not very soul for guile, Mary met them could manage to leave without "Why don't you change her threaten to conquer her ni anyateadily, unwaveringly, (if he were arousing De Loma's auspicion. Hojname?" Bruce suggested Indiffer

if he didn't seemed to have joined the party untly. "metimes that helps." more approachablo she might actu-believe her

Her heart al-permanently. Just why, she did Mary law the remark was Inno- ally have done it. But this frozen most stopped for a moment of tar-not know.

cent but he held her breath. De calm of his was more than she riblo suspenso.)

But the Countess made it easy Lama maht not take it so. Sha could break through.

The Innocent confusion that for her. She professed a headache, began to fegret that Bruce had not There was no doubt in her mind showed in her face apparently batia-

From watching those silly been tak into confidence about that it was the same man she had fled him, for he broke into a grin, horses," Bruce remarked. "Nover the identy of the man they were scon at Shay's. She would know and turned to the Countess to again for me!"

aftor. Earful of Bruce's head-

him anywhere. The same smooth speak of something else. The "You should have worn glasses,” strong fabulsiveness, she and Mr. Mellow skin, the same jet black muste began again, a dreamy tango De Loma chided her, taking a pair Jupiter at decided to keep the

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