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tion? and trade opportunities. The president said whether the moment to act upon the suggestion was opportune was o;en to serious questions tiit that when circumstances j istU'.ed it. hp intended to take advantaK of the revenue bill's provision for investigation by the tariff commission. The letter in part follows: Will I m Adiui'itiigp. "It w.is with real interest and appreciation that 1 received your suggestion for the appointment of a commission tf visit the belligerent nations for the purpose of studying the means whereby closer economic relations miuht be brought between th t'nited States and Europe. I,et me say, that when the circumstances justify it. I shall take advantage of that provision of the Kalnty bill under which the president is authoribed to direct an examination or investigation by the tariff commi.-sion of trade relations between the tnitej States and foreign countries. Including the condition, causes and effects of the competition of foreign industries with those of the l.'nited Stf. ten. "After all, what we are interested in is to ascertain all the facts surrounding our economic life and to disconnect a fundamental thim,' like the fiscal policy of the Kovernment with regard to duties on imports from party politics. We shall striw to do this through the instrumentality of a permanent non-partisan commission, composed of able and experienced men. so that when the facts are once obtained, the handling of our tariff question may no longer be made the football of politics. It ought to be possible, by such means, to make the question of duties merely a question of prr;;res and development, a question of adapting means to these endf, of facilitating .'.nd helping business and

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Investigation of Conditions in Europe Hoped to Aid in Establishing Proper Tariff. WASHINGTON'. July One r.f th" t:rst tavka as-icm-d to the tariff commis?-inn to ..- created by th pending rfvfnuf hill may e a tour of European rou ntri'y. including the r dliserents. to study th effect of the war on industrial and trad relViors f,f thf Cnited States and to r 'rt particularly information vhih rniirht aid in th adjust merit of tariff duties to in-et conditions likely ' u follow tin; restoration of J c.if p. Administration t:i ia!y l i it n known t li.it the plan to send the proposed commission abroad was öeinu seriously considered in making p.i'li Friday a Ptter from I'res't Wilson to Samuel M. Hastings n' (hlrak'o, president of tho Illinois Manufacturers' association, in reply to a telegram from Ihp association suktrevtiriR' thnt a sp'-ual corn mission le pppointed to viit all foreign nations to Investigate economic condi

THE "I Wr.; rlf.s : wiv. row ta.l h4i lots jlruvs c-i of ,hc c'vi-og .-iy tia;3 .i.. va?t t. c4.. tay, Ch'p," bvi i:.;iucd 's '"'c"je.e 35-var.I. .:d xa. -Ay up lM d vf k ata.'rcave 'o 4i? foiu cove. 'L--' vi"i. w -v !nj a: Vi r end of the 'our. Lvjrc-t a'i o?c.m vl: -!ow 1" dö?p a.mcl.u sra-.iii?, d ci:.iJfe"i c'rn. s and "cjaie. wo-c w't.v.ri coverts"., restch of hit :iallo. Dorr ico I " crAr!d Duff. "Afternoca:" r.id the ScoJlar.d Yard official, wir-ft'ns rounu. 'Glad io 9t2 you," ,add r.uiet ' 'cij sie! indne In moru wp haf one' Gi'd to sco you've mr.de yonrrjoJf cornfnrto.:)ic," remarked Duff, eyetr.s tho open clir2.:ctt b-x and the contents c tlie rraal! tzblc rith . r-taning smile. "l"ve Leen waiting ov.t an hcur," returr.od "e dctcctive-in:;pecior. 'Thai LT.insrucx of yours swore he didn't know v;heu yos. rould ccdi back. But I meant to hanjr oa sorr.e litti;ue longer just on the ofi-r.'i'.ac." "Anyiliins loing?" incjuircd DufT :n a casual Wliat do you make of that Fembra? case?" Ihe oiTici.il's tone was equally e-.urcal. but hi3 -jaue blue eyes, beneatli tnir b.thy white brows, shot a keen glance rt l.e c.Iucr's imtsive face. 'Tvh been sailing on ihc nrc'.'?," returned ruff with a yawn. "Haven't se w paper for .;vf. Who or where i Frr.bras he .'raw led. Tcn'.brass Is the name or a vreroan who was Murdered on Tuesday lar.i in n. lUca railed :.it:ic Horton, not far frcM .V:i3ltpn U Sur67." returned Dornton. "Wy tcry 1& cf clr-c-rnstaiuial and direct cvicr.c-. the xuVt of a n:nied Ann Eolt--a (.v; ci ccr-paalo'i ta Irs. Fembars is t stabliih-i, but" "I5ut what?'" "Bat we can't f.nd Ann Bo'.t." said tle official. "Want uie to find her?" cked Dm' v.-:i. a. faint smile. Dornton rdiook his heed. sjhö r.usht to be traced easiiv cncnili," hn fal5. irritably . "It's proved tr.ac !'.c tame to London on ?ionday; we've enough evidence to h.Mic: her twite over. I" "Why have you come to u.c?" interrupted Duff. "Bccau.-.c I took it for granted that you would have hoard of the murder. a:i ! knowing that it ,n r. cae after ycxr ov.n heart, v:m prepared to near ou had forraej a theory. Crom yor.r v'-dcriul process of logical (ie.luct'.oa. proving Ann Bolt as inncccnt r.s you tr 1." said Dc:-nton, vith a slightly rnrüonic sm?le. "lici't take thinps for grnr.tct1.. It's ? uansc-r o.: habit of yours. Dcrnton." i'.rav!M D iff. Iichtin? a cigarette. "Ar.:l vhy is it a ca:s afrrr rr.v own heart?" he added irtntirlnsiy. "Tt'3 so clear cut and dried frcra start to flni h. Ann Bolt's guilt is ro glaringly "palpable that, knowing yov.r method. I'd bet ten to one you'd And some way of tunvrr, the whole ci-e upside down cn r-rincipl." "What are the facts of the case?" asked Puff. "Hrieflv the?. Two days ao that is to sar, oa Tuesday Mrs. Pembross, an elderly vornan of eccrntrie habit?, v;ho lived alone e-n-ept for her companion. Ann Bolt. In an isolated. d;lapi!r.tf A hcu?e on Litt'.o Horton l'omnicn. wa poisoned somevhere about eight o'clock in, the evening. "The discovery wa made hy a tradesman who called on Wednesday morning about fleven o'clock, and noticed that the milk can had not been taken indoors, nor the Tr.cixing papers a most unusual proceeding. Also the back door was locked, and Mr?. i:Tibra?Vs dog was howling and scratching frantically on the inside to be let out. "ThM tradesman went round to the front ,1oor. knocked and rang repeatedly. thn he climbed on the sill of the sitting room window pr.d looked through the lace curtains. There hf saw the woman half lying, half sitting in a chair. He realized instantly that she was drad, and immediately gave the alarm. "The police broke in. accompanied by a doctor, who soon discovered that the woman had len poisoned by means of a dose of cyanide, administered in a bottle of oatmeal stout. Th1 to-tle" "Of the screw-stopper variety?" interrupted Puff. "Yes. The bottle, half full, was on a table n.ir the dead woman, also a tumbler and th remains of a light supper. There were unmistakable trace of the poison both in the dres la liic las aud in th-j ötäut iu the bottle.

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ISS P Ask for and Rot Kre-Mo Stcriliml It ice. Acht. ' -;atü had come painfully and not very '!!:ly, for tho woman had tlcne o write a mesHhich the police found on a dctk near i.e. v. iiiui.7. The writing was an almost un-;v''!g!Ld-; criev. 1, and with difficulty it was deciphered. The message ran: 'I am dying. FiJscnt-.l and robbed by Ann Bolt.' There is r. d yubt. tli.t Mrs. Pembrass wrote that mesosc. Her fingers were stained with ink, and ti c p.n was foiind lying beneath the chair on which ihe filed. "SeRWu was at once instituted for Ann Bolt. There v.-a-; no sign of her in the house. Her bed had not been elept in. Her room was bare of auy personal belongings except come odd-an'-end photographic chemical bottles, one of which contained dregs of cyanide, which, as Ou know, is used in photograhy. Ann Bolt vä;-. an enthusiastic photographer. Inquiries were Immediately set on foot in the village, and in the meantime the police were making close Investigations In the sitting room, tnd discovered that one of the drawers in the writing desk had been forced open. It contained nothing but a check book, showing that a fortnight previously Mrs. Pembrass had -withdrawn from the local bank no less than six hundred pounds. "The police-inspector interviewed the bank manager, and learned that regularly every six months Mrs. Pembrass withdrew her entire balance, except a few pounds. Just sufficient to keep the account open. "The money wae paid In by her solicitors. Green & Green, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, who managed her affairs. From various properties she received romething like twelve hundred pounds a year. She allowed the money to accumulate for six months, then drew it out, always in notes. What she did with the notes s a mystery. That has been going on for something like ten years, and as her expenditure was less than a couple of hundred a year, it follows that she must have had a good sum hidden in the house somewhere, for except her half-yearly visits to the bank in a cab she was never known to go outside the house. "The bank manager was able to supply the numbers of the notes recently issued to Ms. Pembrass, and one of those notes a fiver was cashed by Ann Bolt on Monday evening at the railway station, where she took & single ticket to London. Fairly broad trail, eh, Major Duff ?" Dornton broke off to mix himself a drink. "Very," was the laconic response. "She went to London, too," resumed Dornton. "The police found a postcard signed y her in Mrs. Pembrass's room. It had been posted at Euston at 9:30 on Tuesday morning." "What was written on the postcard?" asked Duff. "A fake messpgc," said Dornton promptly. " 'Will write to you fully in a few days.' She had no intention of writing. Simply sent the card as a blind. What she did do was to return to Little Horton, probably disguised, on Tuesday sometime at dusk, and, knowing Mrs. Pembrass's invariable habit "of taking a glass of stout with her evening meal, watched her opportunity to dope the bottle of stout, waited till the dos-e had taken effect, then helped herself to her victim's secret hoard and got away again unseen." "Yet said that every door in the house was securely locked up." drawled Duff. "How did she manage to get out of tbc house and leave it secured after her?" A quick, hesitating look flashed into Dornton's eyes. Duff had hit upon the one weak flaw In the whole argument. "The doors- were net only locked, but bolted and chained and barred on the inside," paid the official slowly. "Every window securely latched except a small one in the "back kitchen, which was open. She sould easily have squeezed herself through that." Humph!" breathed Duff softly. "Do you honestly believe that. Dornton?" he asked a second later. "What that she got out by the window? Of course. Must have done. Couldn't have got out any other way, seeing that all the doors and windows were barred. Facts are facts" he added drily. "They are," agreed Duff in a sttll drier tone. 'Anyone benefit by the woman's death?" he asked casually. "Her nephew a man named Murglson John Murgison." "Who is he?" "A metallurgist." A quick light flashed into DufT sound eye, so quick that the other miss-ed it. "Sure he didn't commit the murder?" asked Duff, lazily getting up to stroll across to the open window, where he stood looking idly at the sunset-dyed Thames Just beyond. "Quite!" snapped Dornton, almost triumphantl. "I knew you'd ak that question. But you can leave John Murgison absolutely out of your calculations right from the start. He has never seen his aunt, never been to Little Horton, had no idea that she was worth any money to speak of. and to crown all, four days before the crlise was committed he met with an accident In his laboratory, which necessitated his detention in St. James's Hospital, from hero

employing to the utmost the resources of the country in a vast development of our business and enterprise-. Ilaie Statistic. "Through the federal trade commission we already have a compilation of the trust laws of the world, the ground with a complete analysis of the manner in which foreign governments encourage their business enterprises, and associations. A committee of the house of representatives now has under discussion a bill to permit cooperation among American manufacturers and business men exclusively for export trade, so that American enterprise may be able to meet more successfully the organized competition with which they are face to face with in international market::. Our consular representatives and commercial attaches abroad have kept us well supplied with information relative to the changing business conditions and the new financial processes which are proceeding with unusual rapidity; but it will be the privilege and function of the tariff commission to obtain and collate in an even more systematic way the information which Is desired as a basis for our future action. "We have not been accustomed to the large world of international business, but it is evident that we must get acquainted with it immediately. America is already establishing newindustries. Some of these, like the dye-stuff industry for example, are old and well established in Europe and have been for generation?. The study of such industries, trelr wages and their general organization with reference to economy and efficiency of operation, cannot fail to be helpful to the business men of the United States and to the people in general."

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importance to Ilmberg. The position on this portion of the Russian front seems to be that Gen. Kaledines, having driven Gen. von Unsingen's left wing behind the Stokhod river, has suspended his advance toward Kovel and is holding up the great Teutonic forces there, while Gen. Sakharoff is pressing on toward Lemberg which is defended by the forces of Gen. Boehn-Ermolli. Retrograd correspondents attribute the successes over the Austro-Ger-mar.s almost entirely to the overwhelming superiority of the Russian artillery and the Russian's apparently endless supplies of ammunition. Tonight's official report of the British war office shows that the British are continuing their successful progress. The whole of Longueval now is in their hands as well as the Delville wood, from which they drove the fifth Brandenberg division.

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LONDON". July 25. While th" battle of the Summe is continuing with methodical success for the British forces, the Russians are able to announce another important victory in the capture of Brody. Tiis Galician town. ÖS miles northeast of Ilmberg Is a great railway junction, and it had been expected the Austrians would retain it at all costs. The swiftness of the new Russian stroke was unexpected and may lead to the capture of Ilmberg itself. The Russians, according to a report from Retrograd, also have broken the whole Austro-Oerman front west of Lutsk. In this success they are reported to have captured two generals, 9,000 prisoners and 4 guns. The fall of Brody is a serious threat to Lemberg and the rapid and successful advance of Gen. Sakha roff's forces menace the whole Aus-tro-German line of communications from the north to the south. Go to Lcniber. For the present, Kovel yields in

t ri i k s co x c i :.ti i at i i LONDON'. July J9. A Turkish army estimated at 70.000 strong, now is concentrated on the Hungariar. plains for the defense of Hungary says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Lausanne, Switzerland. The dispatch adds that the Austrian emperor has gone to Buda Rest, where intense excitement prevails.

HAID i:ST I'OAVT. LONDON. July 29. German airships raided the east coast of England early this morning, according to an official statement just issued. "The number. of raiders," says the statement, "has not yet been established. The reports as to the raiders crossing the coast come from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Bombs were dropped, but details are lacking."

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he was released only this morning to attend the inques-t, which he did, his left arm in a sling." "What was the verdict at the inquest?" drawled Duff. "Postponed for a week. During that week we've got to find Ann Bolt." "From your point of view," said Duff, "she is as good as condemned. From my point of view there isn't a single roint which tells against her." "What!" s-aid Dornton. Then, in a tone of self-congratulation: "I told you you'd turn the argument upsldedown." "Of course!" yawned Duff. "Look at the facts of the case," shouted Dornton. ticking them off on his pudgy fingers as he enumerated them. "She lived alone in the house with Mrs. Pembrass1 for eight years. Not a soul other than she could have an inkling that the money was hidden there. No one else rould have any opportunity to discover the old lady's hiding place. No one else knew of the nightly bottle of lout. The dying woman, almost with her last breath, accused Ann Bolt of robbing and murdering her. Ann Bolt cashed the five-pound note. No one but a very thin girl, such as Ann Bolt is, could have squeezed through that scullery window. "Ann Bolt has disappeared, and though I forgot to mention it before, it is common knowledge in Little Horton that Mrs. Pembrass and the girl were frequently at daggers drawn, and no fewer than three charwomen, who at various times worked in the house, testified to frequent rows and bitter quarrels between the two." "All of which, I grant you, tells directly against Miss Bolt." said Duff blandly. "But if she were guilty of such a cold-blooded crime, why did she, after committing the murder, replace the cyanide bottle in her room the one tangible evidence of her guilt? Why did she openly cash part of the illicit proceeds at a village station where the first bobby who came along making inquiries couldn't fail to trace her? Why didn't she walk out by one of tho doors of the house Instead of squeezing herself through a small window. She gained nothing by that. It was nothing to her knowing that the house was In an isolated position and that therefore the crime would not be discovered at any rate till morning to secure a few hour's Mart by locking all the doors and windows. "Why didn't she poison the bottle of stout on Monday before leaving? To return from London, even if disguised, was running totally unnecessary risks. No, Dornton, your argument won't hold water. To my mind, the odds are more in favor of the girl's innocence than of her guilt." "What, about that message left by the dying woman?" snapped the official. "There's absolutely no doubt that Mrs. Pembrass wrote it. Her handwriting is most peculiar no dots to the i's, no loops to the long letters. The message was written on a half sheet of paper corresponding to a torn half sheet found on her desk, with blue-black ink and a quill pen. The pen was, as I told you, found beneatl the dead woman'3 chair. There was blue-black ink on the desk. No man or woman on the point of death would leave on record a deliberate lie." "I've no doubt that Mrs. Pembrass thought that Miss Bolt was her murderess," said Duff slowly. "But she may have made a mistake." "Pshaw!" snorted Dornton in supreme disgust. Duff left his Idle contemplation of the Thames and paced restlessly up and down his big room. Chin-Chin came In. noiselessly as a shadow, placed a bundle of evening papers on the table, and disappeared. Duff, pacing to and fro, caught sight of a double-column headline on the front page of one of the evening papers: "Accident to the Scotch Express. Full Casualty List." He halted for a few seconds, frowned at the paper, then resumed his pacing. Once he stopped before a book shelf, from which he abstracted a topy of the A B C time-table and flicked over some of the leaves. He ran a lean forefinger down a certain column and closed the book with a snap. "If that girl is innocent, why doesn't she come forward?" puffed Dornton. getting up from his chair. "Perhaps she can't." said Duff enigmatically, his sound eye swinging back to the paper. "Well, I'm glad I've talked it over with you." remarked Dornton. preparing to depart. "By the way. did Mrs. Pembrass leave a will?" asked Duff as his visitor gained the door. "Yes found it in a drawer, dated eight years back. I've got it in my pocket. Like to have a look at it?" D.iff nodded. Dornton produced a folded sheet of paper from his notebook and handed it over. It consisted of a couple of lines the date 1908. The sheet of paper was yellowed, the ink faded. "I leave all I possess to my rophew, John Elias Murgison." it ran. There followed signatures of two witnesses, flanked by the signature of the dead woman. "Entirely in order," said Dornton. "Yes." said Duff. "Can joj wait a few

July 29. The Russians have occupied the important railroad junction of Brody. 5S miles northeast of Lemberg, in Galicia, broken throuch the entire firs, line of the Teutonic allies west of Lutsk, and driven the AustroGerraan forces from the line of the rivers Slonevka and BolJurovka. southern Volhyni. according to Unofficial communication issued tonight by the war office. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Austro-Ger-mans, more than 9,000 men were taken prisoner and a large number of guns were captured.

Great of g i:i :m an s 1 i i :ir lm :i . PARIS, (via London). July 2 9. An attack by the (iermans against French positions south of Sainte Marie Pas-?, in the Vosges resulted in their gaining a lodgment in the advanced Frenci trenches, says the official statement given out tonight. The statement adds however, that later the Germans were driven out with the bayonet. Progress for the French on the right bank of the Meuse is reported. PAKOLK FOR 'WOMAN. INDIANAPOLIS. July 2 9. Gov. Ralston has granted a parole to Lydia Hartman of Nappanee, so that ehe might help her family which is in dire neei of assistance, she was sentenced to jail for ninety days for improper associations. XOTICi; COLFAX CAMP. SSO M. W. of A., special car will leave Interurban station, cor. Mich, and Wash., Sunday July T,0, for Hudson Iike at 10 o'clock to attend Royal Neighbors held day. Come all, with well filled baskets; bring family and friends. Advt. LIQUID GLASS Keeps eggs nicely. 15c and 25c bols. at Coonlev's. Adv. London minutes? "What for?" deriwided the other brusquely. "Give me fiv; minutes alone with this," said Duff. "I'll give you my word I'll not tamper with it in any way." He vanished through a mall concealed door into a secret laboratory, where he snapped on a powerful light, and to the words "My last will," on the front page of the folded sheet, he applied a weak bleaching tigent. As if by magic sections otthe writing slowly faded. He subjected the result to a microscopic test and nocded. Then he folded up the wilhand took it back to the inspector. "You'll find," he drawlec. "that that is a forgery." His cool, assertive tone -paralyzed Dornton for a moment. "A forgery!" he said dull. . "Yes. Of course I can't experiment chemically with the body of the will without the express permission of the president of the Probate Court, but I've tested the words on the cover and proved that they have been written in ordinary ink to which has been added a mixture cf Indian ink, which gives the writing the appearance of age. Under my test the iron-gall pirt of the ink faded away, leaving the carbon basis of the Indian ink, which can be plainly seen under the microscope, and which proves that, as the outside sheet of the will is a forgery, the body of the will is a forgery, too." "Looks like it," breathed Dornton slowly. "But on the face of things it's impossible. No one benefits by that will except John Murgison, and he's out of the question entirely." "Is he?" queried Duff doubtfully. "Has it occurred to you that a metallurgist, equally with a photographer, has access to cyanide of potassium? A metallurgist uses it for gold abstraction. Murgison would use it in assaying his specimens. Murgison, and no one else, benefits by the woman's death." ' But the notes the money that ought to be in the house Ann Bolt's disappearance?" spluttered Dornton. "Murgison could not possibly have poisoned the stout." "Did you find any other bottles in the house?" inuired Duff. "Yes, a case containing five empty bottles In the back yard." "Ah!" Duff thoughtfully polished the gla?3 that masked hi3 blir.d eye and as thoughtfully replaced it. "It would be easy enough for any one so inclined to tamper with the bottles screwstoppered as they stood in the case in the back yard." he said slowly. "Suppose for the moment that Murgison. having carefully watched the house, did tamper with one of the bottles. Suppose after doing so he arranged that accident in his laboratory, in order to giv1 himself a cast-Iron alibi. Imagine him while he was watching the house taking the opportunity to hide the faked will In the drawer of Mrs. Pembrass's desk, while the latter and hr companion were out In the grounds. "Suppose that just by chance the woman took the faked bottle last of all from the case, and having locked up the house securely, sat down to eat her supper" "One can suppose many things," interposed Dornton shrewdly. "But Murgison has never been near the place." "You have only his word for that." said Duff. "But how are we going to prove your theory?" Jerked Dorrton. "So far, we haven't a single fact to go cn except your discovery about the will, whica I'll admit tells directly against Murgison." "I vote we go to his place and interview him," said Duff grimly. As he spoke he rang the bell, and when Chin-Chin answered the summons he told him to get the car out of the garage. "His place is in Telpham, near Wimbledon," said Dornton. "Won't take us long to get there." replied Duff. "Got a revolver about you? No; thn take this." He handed across a neat automatic pistol from a locked drawer, and slipped a second in his own hip pocket. "Just as well to be prepared." he remarked casually. They reached Telpham in silence, Duff urging the car at top speed, once clear of London's traffic. John Murgison's laboratory proved to be a many-windowed shed-like sort of place, attached to a small, rarashackle house on an isolated strip of common land. There were no lights in the place, and after repeated knocking3 or. the door, which brought no response, the two men directed their sterrs to the annex. They met with no better result there. "We must come again to-morrow," said Dornton. -No fear!" jerked Duff, producing a tauch of

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was to t tried was received. th foreign office immediately sent si note to the American amtatfadr, Waller H. Page, rquf tlng that American diplomatic representative t.ike all necessary step to provide for his defense, calling attention. t th fact that the Wrexham' at in j..ring toward th submarine and forcing her to dne was essentially defensive and precisely the sarn as if ihe had used the defensive ami which the Fnited States and Great Britain hold to be an undoubted rigid. No reply was received from Ambassador Gerard. It is their theory that the trial and execution of Capt. Fryatt was hurried even more than in the case of Mls Edith Cavell. Besides the original Inquiry the foreign office sent two notes on th subject to Ambassador Gerard.

HELD UNJUST Britain Receives News Death of Capt. Fryatt With Regret.

News-Times Special Servi e : LONDON. July 2?. News of the execution of Capt. Fryatt of the British steamer Brussels, caused a painful impression at the British foreign office. Fnder the instructions of Viscount Grey, the foreign secretary, a note was despatched immediately to the American embassy requesting that James W. Gerard, the American ambassador at Berlin, procure complete details of the affair. The first intimation of the trial of 'apt. Fryatt was called to the attention of the foreign office by press reports on Julv is to the effect that he was to be tried as the result of finding on him a watch containing an inscription reciting his efforts to ram a German submarine. From inquiries made of the owners of the steamship Wrexham, which Capt. Fryatt commanded when the alleged incident took place, the foreign office learned the captain had with him neither a watch nor a letter to the effect that he had attempted to ram a submarine with him, when he was captured, there fore officials here say. the charge must have been based on press reports. When the news that ("apt. Fryatt

NO REPORTS ON NAVY BILL

Will Ik Two Weeks Before llult of Deliberation i Known. WAS I IINfi TON. July 2 . At their first meeting today, houae and senate conferees on the naval bill adopted a resolution to make public no report. on their deliberation until nnal agreement Is reached. "This is one of the most Important legislative measures eve- befor congress" said Sen. Tillman. "If we give out from time to time, what we are doing to reach an agreement, we will be harras.ed from all slde by people in and out of congre who don't asree wdth us.' There are 250 senate amendments to the house bill. Today the conferees considered nd paused on one hundred of them pertaining to minor matters. Members of conference predicted tonight that their deliberations would require at leant two weeks.

Cecil Hayter misshapen keys from his pocket Attrr a short delay he fitted one to the lock, turned it, ar.l swung the door open. "Illegal proceeding," mntUryJ Or,mton. "Illegal be hanged! Cine !n clonttLk? door after you." , Duff switched on an electric !ifch andutool looking around. The place presented the nnal Rp.)eaLranc-oi a workman-like lufttvllurjiat' la&ci"T There were specimcnu of orr- littered -i where, test tube, retorts, ruicrcfcopcs, ecalek, chemicals and EcUatifle instruments. Duff eyed them ca.s'-eJ!t and wa'JvFd th far enö, whers a dck atood b&iVde a .riudow. On the dek he notc a bottle of liidlr.i tüt, cf. in the waat papr baet bezlue the desk numerous BCTfcps of torn paper. He duU: L extents of th bajkrt ü 'jt the floor s.1 tune4 over the scrawl, sorted cut some cf them, anJ laid thm on tho desk. Here and there he found consecutive vvcriie "possess," "nephew," "Head," repeated ove and over again. "Trial trips," said Duff tersely. "Practisln tho forgery for the will." Dornton nodded. "Who are those people named He3d, who rc supposed to have signed it?" asked Duff. "Man and wife old servants both died eigfct vears ago. Ann Bolt replaced them." "Ah! hush!" Duff snapped out his light, and sprang aside out of the patch of faint moonlight that flooded In through the window. A heavy, quick step sounded outside, the door was flung open, and a sharp voico demanded. "Who the deuce unlocked this door?" There followed the snap of an electric switch and the laboratory was flooded with light, revealing a tall, burly man, and Duff's carele?s figure flanked by the little Scotland Yard official. "What are you doing here?" thundered Jorm Murgison. "Looking round, drawled Duff. "This is & friend of mine. Detective Inspector Dornton. cf New Scotland Yard. "And what do you want, both of you?" The man's blazing eyes focused on Duff's imperturbable face. . . "Looking for proofs." "What proofs " "Of your connection with the murder of .Tlrs. Pembrass. We've found enough to convict you." The man ground out an oath. "Have you Take that, then." He flashed up his right hand and a spurt of flame, followed by a harp report, echoed through the room. The shot missed Duff's head by th fraction of an inch, and spent itself harmlessly In the wall behind him. Before Ihe man could fire again. Duff, dropping low, loosed off his own revolver. The man spun half round, staggered forward a couple of paces, then collapsed on the floor, a thin, red stream welling from his right leg. "Secure him, Dornton!" said Duff, pocketing his revolver. "Got him secure? Good! I've a fancy to search the drawers of this desk." The locked drawers presented little difficulty to the bunch of skeleton keys. In a lower one he found a letter from Mrs. Pembra??, its date a year old. engaging a man named James Harte aR a Jobbing gardener. Also a wig and moustache, and several thick bundles of bank notes, the value of which, at a rough guess, he estimated would amount to 6ome thousands of pounds. "That letter eiplains bow he obtained a ropy of his aunt's writing." said Duff to Dornton. "Also how he was able to familiarize himself with the house, suitably disputed as a gardener." The handcuffed man writhed lmpofently on the floor, muttering horrible threats and curses. "You case is complete, Dornton." went on Duff. "There's enough evidence here to tang him twice over." "I still can't mrke out what happened to Ann Bolt." aid Dornton. some hours later to Daff. "It's my firm belief she wa-? killed in that Scotch express di.-aster." said puff. Among the list of unidentified victims there is a girl answering to her description. "Remember, she sent off her post card from Euston on Tuday morning at 'j:Z0. The express lfft London ten minutes later. Whfre she was poins to probably will nver be disclosed. But it is safo to presume that Mrs. Pembrass owed hr money for wagps, to which the girl helped hr.-elf. That would explain the post card mssa'je, 'Will write to you fully in a few day?.' ' "I believe you're rifrht.'' faid Dornton slowly. Subsequent investigation proved that Duff was. The body of th girl was identified by her si?t'T. a woman living in Edinburgh. John Murgi.-on was duly tried, attempted io contest the charge, but ultimately waa proved guilty and kuffered the extreme peualt of the la.

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