HALL CASE NOW JOINS was aboard? do yoi| know? Say th&t but tfiose areTHsTeaturesall right. again oh, you wasn't on watch when West hesitated,, yet /a moment's What was Ills game?" she sailed your partner said what? thought convinced him this would be FAMOUS CRIMES PIGEONHOLED 'Con' motetly, according to the the logical course to pursue. His appealing Three men and a women. All right, ord only one. conviction though, two to the police need not necessarily yes, I got it. Say now, listen this is years in Detroit for using the malls Involve any disclosure relative a police matter, so keep your eyes AS "UNSOLVED" to defraud. Oh, yes, here is something to the Coolldge matter. He had open. It will be daylight pretty soon, It different, 'assault with intent to kill'— found this note accidentally In an alley and if you get sight of that boat, .call and Indeterminate sentence to Joliet for In "the northwest section of^ the up the City Hall station at once. Do that Nothing .heard of him since. So city his being there need require no you get me?" The Girl he is back, and at the old game again. special explanation he did not' understand He wheeled about, smiling whimsically. Do you want him brought in, Captain?" Srvir. its meaning, and consequently :'y he. placed it in their hands. That all "It's oh agkin, off again, Flannigan. "No, not. yet. I havent anything sounded natural enough. We had it, and we have it not. Dave, against the man now but-'a suspicion. He looked at Sexton, who was sleeping I am getting interested I feel the lure I wanted to learn his record, that's soundly, and" decided not to of the chase. Can you spare me for a all. This Inquiry was only Incidental. =t* awaken the man. He had no use day or two? You can? Good enough' What I'm really interested in just at for his services Just now the City By Randall Parrish we'll comb the lakes until we find out present is something picked up In hall was only a few blocks away, and who is sailing aboard the Seminole. the ailey back of Mike's place three he might not be out more than an ^jij thf You're with me, old man?" or four hours ago. It's a note in a hour himself. He would leave a note .woman's handwriting, and when I West extended his. hand silently, and so that if by any chance he should be found it, it was hidden in a small the fingers of the tyvo clasped in a delayed, Sexton would understand silver penknife, such as a lady might mutual pledge. what had occurred. He scratched carry." 1m. this off hastily,.placed it In a conspicuous bj Coprright 1922 Alfred A. Knopf, "There Is a woman lk it, then?" (To be Continued) place, and swiftly departed, after SYNOPSIS "Yes but I haven't got things extinguishing the light. He was hitched up sufficiently to talk about it. KANSASS SENATOR URGES an no longer conscious of fatigue, or the CHAPTER I.—Answering advertisement The note itself Is blind.'* calling for a young man willing EDUCATION IN INVESTMENTS pain of bruises, his mind eager to to of engage in aervlce danger, Matthew "In what respect 7" Just learn the meaning of this new discovery. West, ex-service man returned from of "Well, here it is. Can you make it Prance, where he had been vcaptaln Savings Lost to Steele Sharks Total engineers, meets Natalie Coolldge, writer out? I'll read it for you—"Please notify of It had been a quiet night ^t the City the advertisement, and without being Vast Yearly Sum. police to search Seminole quick." Instructed as to his probable duties, la Hall station, and West encountered engaged by her, and that.same evening "No signature?" no difficulty in reaching the presence IntroSuced to her friends as her fiance. Learn Ffcst, Spend After, is His Advice "None." of the lieutenant In charge. The officer to New Investor. CHAPTER II.—That night. In the Coolldge "But that Is plain enough, isn't It?" who had opened the door to the inner West startled by the appearance home, is Prlneipnls in FamooN Unsolved Mysteries. of a young woman, in his room office said rather doubtfully: "Yes, if you know what she meant Wheeler to be Natalie, but who (Left) Rev. Edward whom he takes By ARTHUR CAPPER by Seminole what is It? A street? "This guy wants to see you personally, be sure. Next escapes before he can (right) Hall (above) and Joseph Elwell morning Natalie tells West she has been Editor's Note.—Senator Arthur Capper An apartment house? A saloon? Do sir he wouldn't talk to no one Dorothy Arnold. woman, apparently her i? troubled by some A of Kansas was for many years you know of anything under that y-' double, Impersonating her. else." who has been head of a string of papers, b^th daily name?" "All right, Slavin shut the door, Is the Hall-Mills case permanently pigeon-holed? CHAPTER III.—Perclval Coolldge, Natalie's and 'weekly, the latter farm papers McAdams stood motionless thinking. and Til hear what he has to say. What guardian, apparently uncle and with immense circulations. Thousands Is West's appearance as disgruntled by Is It, my man?" "No, by thunder, I don't," he admitted of his subscribers fell victim to men Natalie's the feeling of antagontsm Two other famous cases remain nnsolved fiance, and West explained swiftly and clearly, reluctantly. "There is no street is mutual. Natalie, Coolldge, and with stock schemes and blue -sky sales mysteries- a and a visit of charity to poor West plan his manner of speech, as well as his of that name in the city. There used and thousands of them wr te" to the remote section of the city. Dee. 1i|A Dorothy Arnola disappeared to be a shady hotel over on Ontario editor and publisher asking his advice. statement as to who he was, evidently I again the In the following, he gives that advice 12, 1910. She was never seen CHAPTER IV.—Leaving West In making a favorable impression on his street called 'The Seminole,' but that car, Natalie and Coolldge enter a small to all who care to read and. as Senator avenue listener. He took the note, spread It was torn down ten years ago. I never after coming out of a Fifth cottage, remaining a length of time which Capper's entire life is indication of the/ heard of any other, did you, Dave?" causes him some uneasiness. Before out on the desk, and studied it carefully. day. book store in New York that careful advancement, superior business return, West secures Information whlcn "No," answered the lieutenant Secret search went on until Jan. 25, leads him to believe Coolldge is deceiving judgment and the confidence of his fellow "Looks genuine enough," he commented ulterior motives. slowly, sucking away at a cigar. "Maybe Natalie, and has 1911, when- the case was reported to citizens, what he has to say may be at last, "but not very clear. It's the name of a boat—seems to accepted without hesitation as the advice to the police. Since then a fortune has CHAPTER V.—On the party's return I don't know any place In this town West me I've heard some such name before, t|ie Coolldge home, Natalie informs of one who knows. been spent running down thousands of has her •he been mistaken in suspicions called Seminole. Walt a minute, but I don't just recollect where." concerning her "double." and that\she clues and it is still unknown whether though perhaps one of the boys may has his. services. NEW JERSEY KILLINGS HAVE no further need for "A boat! Well, that's a straw, anyway, Among all the. impressive evidence she was murdered, kidnaped or committed West is astounded, but helpless. He leaves. have an idea." and worth looking up." Mac TAKEN PLACE IN DUSTY of American solidarity during the suicide. He pressed a button on top of the picked up the telephone. "Who Is on CHAPTER VI.—On his way out of the PIGEON-HOLES war, hardly any was more awakening desk, and in response to the summons, grounds. a revolver shot, and For two and a half years evry effort West hears at the harbor master's office this time investigates. He finds Perclval Coolldge than the subscriptions to the Liberty has failed to solve the mystery of Joseph of night?" dead, apparently a The Inquest BUicide. (By NEA Service) Loans. The country had not suspected so determines. the city West Is visited In Bowne Elwell, bridge whist expert toy servant of the Coollages. New Brunswick, N. J., Dec. 4.—The Bexton, an pld the potential capital fund of the and turfman. Sexton him he has been abruptly tells Hall-Mills murder case has gone into dismissed, no apparent reason. for American people. It was amazed by Elwell was found in his New York He it as his belief that Ooqlldge gives the dusty pigeon holes of crime's unsolved the response of the people to the appeals was murdered, and about convinces West of apartment in the early morning mysteries. he is right. of the government for funds, June 11, 1920,dying of a bullet wound The Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and and this astonishment grew as one overheard CHAPTER VII.—Sexton has in the forehead. The suicide theory In a telephone conversation the Coolldge his choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor Mills, great loan drive followed another in was discarded, but his assassin has man Natalie's home, in which a demands gives an address, presence immediately. He murdered here nearly three months swift succession. There seemed to be never been found. his suspicions and with Sexton, West, ago, have joined the hall of fame along right strengthened no bottom to the popular purse, as of things not being Most recent of other famous unsolved Coolldge by his learning that had with such famous figures as Dorothy there was no faltering in popular mysteries, prior to the killing lied the trip to the about the reason for It is a disreputable cottage, visits the place. Arnold, Joseph Elwell and William patriotism. of the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills last saloon. Desmond Taylor. More than 21 million subscribers offerred Sept. 14, was the murder of William is taken by surprise, CHAPTER VIII.—West nearly 7 billion dollars for Failure of the grand jury to indict Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, separated' from Sexton, knocked out, senses to find himself the government bonds. This was the and comes to his anybody in the double murder suggests Feb. in his Ios Angeles home and confronted bound and helpless, culmination. The fifth loan was for to criminologists the question: 2 of this year. by a Hobart. whom West man named who had rented the knows to be the man a smaller amount which was oversubscribed, Natalie visited. The man house which tells is interfering with like all its predecessors. him he (West) what capital is, and what investment LIBRARY CONTAINS his will be done plans and If he persists Here, out of the income of two away any compromise. is. They unstintingly deny themselves VOLUMES TO AID IN with. West refuses Natalie, hoping Hobart sends for years, a minimum of 21 million persons luxuries in order to save, and AMERICANIZATION •he can give up his quest. induce West to had subscribed for some 22 billions billions of this saved capital, of incalculable CHAPTER IX.—Natalie releases West of war loans. value to the nation and all The public library announces thai Drom his bonds and assures him that she has no need for his assistance. Her actions Only Books Showed. its industries, regularly are wasted in persons interested in Americanization almost convince West she has guilty Until this exhibit of the potential knowledge of Percival Coolidge's murder. speculation. and the spread of American doctrines He defl~« Tlohnrt. and the thug, with two savings or capital fund of the people companion?, attaints to may now obtain the following volumes 1HU him. After a Many are Ignorant fipln West leaps terrifl from the window. the only concrete indication of this from its shelves: Students of this subject report that fund was the books of the savings Allen—Americanization. CHATTER X.—West succeeds In eluding it is not the untrained mechanic and his p"r""prs. finds Sexton bound and banks, which prior to the'war showed Bok Americanization of Edward aggtd, releases him, and the two escape. artisan alone who is ignorant of the upwards of 11 million depositors with up a lady's penknife, the alley Sexton picks Bok. A of investment, but among the which he gives to West balances of above 5 billion dollars. Boyd and Catt—Woman Citizen. victims of promotion are merchants, And it may be remarked incidentally Bryce—Citizenship. 'I'll Be Just Behind You." professional men and even bankers. CHAPTER XI here that three years after the war, Cabot—Course in Citizenship. Billions of dollars wisely invested notwithstanding the huge Liberty Goitteau—Preparing for Citizenship. a side door opened, and a man In What the Telephone Told. "The Lad, is Here, All Right." every year which heretofore have been Bond payments, savings deposits not plain clothes entered. Hagedorn—You the Hope of the All West's indifference vanished Instantly. Are dissipated in speculation will evidently "You rang, sir?" only have not declined but have increased He had to pry the paper out, "VSTlnchell, usually, and hell have a World. 1 have a capital effect in mitigating •'Yes, McAdams this gentleman so closely had it been wedged In beneath by a billion dollars, with an record there." Riis—Making of an American. panics, business depression and unemployment. here—" the closed blade, and it required The detective Jiggled the receiver increase net of 300,000 depositors. Roberts—Civics for Coming Americans. An increase, such as it "Captain West, as I am a sinner!" a moment in which to straighten Impatiently. The effect produced by this extraordinary seems there is an opportunity to secure, he exclaimed. "Gee! but I am glad to it out so that the writing was dis*cernible. "Yes, this is police headquarters demonstration of the savings Smith—Training for Citizenship. see you again, old man! Say. By Even theu the marks were calling. Give me the harbor master's in the annual increment of capacity of the people is seen in several Talbot—Universal Training for Citizenship Gad! you don't remember ine." so faint, and minute, he could not office, please. Oh, Is this you, Dan? saved capital that will be permanently organizations, governmental and and Public Service. "Oh. but I certainly do. Mac," and really decipher them until he made Bob McAdams speaking. Do you saved by sound investment, will by private, since formed to promote saving West grasped the extended hand The above books are ©f especial interest use of a magnifying glass lying on know of any boat on the lakes called steadily enlarging the national capital and thrift by publicity propaganda. the desk. A woman's hand, using a heartily. "It's a devil of a surprise, the Seminole? What's that? A lumber and value to persons who are fund at a greater rate than heretofore that's all. Saw you last at Brest, the The treasury department conducts pencil, had hastily inscribed the schooner at Escapaba? Never makes about to apply for first or second lower the cost and price of capital, words on a scrap of common paper, day you sailed for home. \So this was this port, you say? And you don't such a publicity campaign, the citizenship papers, and no doubt will give to every kind of legitimate enterprise apparently torn from some book—the your job, sergeant?" know of any other by that name? Reserve Banks also and one or two be made use of by si^ch. a greater sense of security and "Been with the department ever inspiration of an instant, perhaps a Sure, I'll hold the wire look It up." private organizations, all urging the since I was a kid. Put me in plain courage, tend to a steadier employment sudden hope horn of desperation. He "Not a very promising lead," he people t^ save. DRY NAVY MAY GO TO fairly had to dig the words out, letter clothes since I came back. Lieutenant, said over his shoulder, "but Dan will of labor and to a lower price level Campaign is Needed. NEW ORLEANS TO STOP by letter, copying tlieni on an old envelope this is Captain West, officer across the have the dope for us in a minute." and cos of living, consequently a While the government and other pond with the engineers we were until he had the message complete He suddenly straightened up, the higher standard of living. ILLICIT LIQUOR TRAFFIC agencies are very active in endeavoring buddies for about two months. What :. "Please notify police to search receiver at his ear. The countrv should not permit the to induce people to save, it is evident Seminole quick." was wanted, sir?" 4 "I didn't quite get that, Dan. A medium-sized opportunity slip by which the West read this over, word by word, "Well, Captain West has Just been that such a campaign is directed New Orleans, La., Dec. 5.—Prohibition yacht, you say? Where Is Liberty Loan experience opens to it li again and again. What did it mean? telling me a rather peculiar story| and Commissioner Haynes says tllis it? Oh, at the Jackson Park lagoon. to the non-savers, and the only of adding yearly to the capital fund Jld it mean anything? Had it any wanted some information I thought I see, and who did you say owned it? systematic campaign to help the savers city is one of the big smuggling centers the great savings of the people. A possible connection with the case In perhaps you could give you know the Coolidge? What Coolidge? Exactly for the importation of liquor. to preserve their savings by judicious wheh he was interested? There was old town right better than I do. First systematic, intelligent, organized attempt the fellow who killed himself out Hayns said that there was a possibility investment is a constant campaign no signature, nothing to guide him of all, do you recall any crook by the south. Hold the wire." should be made to conteract of having the dry navy stationed in behalf or Treasury notes, short-time yet in some way the plea sounded name of Hobart—Jim Hobart?" He swung about to face West. "This the/ propaganda of promoters, not investments. here to aid in overcoming the real, was a cry of distress, an appeal "Hobart? Hobart? No, not off hand, mean anything to you?" merely in the negative way of legislation On the other hand, there is uninterrupted present situation. He declared that at for help. It could be given no other I don't. How old a man is he, Captain "It surely does," eagerly. "The girl against criminal practice, but the present time there are hundreds meaning, yet how long had It been bombardment of savers by I stoke of was Natalie Coolidge. By by positive propaganda setting forth lying there in the alley? Not any "Middle-aged, anyway an active fellow swindling stock promoters and an of vessels stationed off the three mile all the gods, we are on the right the superior attractions of Safety great length of time surely for. the enough, but his hair is quite gray." track." limit along the entire coast loaded even more injurious crusade by well First in investment- polished silver was far too conspicuous "Do you know where he hangs out?" "All right, Dan," resuming his conversation. meaning but ill-advised promoters of with liquor. to escape notice. It must have "The last I saw of him was In a "What's that? Coolldge had Beware Promoter new enterprises, wholly untried, usually been dropped during the night, within saloon known as Mike's place over on the boat up the river a few weeks It is a large undertaking to get COAL OPERATORS MEET in such specu­ undercapitalized, •a very short time of its discovery. But Wray street." ago trying to sell it. That's how you TO DECIDE NEGOTIATIONS to the people the Safety First idea, lations as oil and mining and similar what did the words signify? •'Notify "Off Milwaukee yea, I know. Mike is happened to remember the name—I but worth whatever effort is necessary. ON WAGE SCALES ventures. police" was clear enough, but "search a big Pole, but has never had any serious see. Say, is there any one, out at Jackson The promoter appeals to raw cupidity, Seminole" meant absolutely nothing. At a hearing before the Judiciary trouble so far as I know. However, park I could talk to at. this hour? What was "Seminole"—an apartment to that propensity to speculate, to Chicago, Dec. 5.—The union of bituminous being there is no special recommendation Who? Oh, yes, the life saving station. committee of the house in the present house? A hotel? A saloon? Perhaps accept a chance, to gamble on the future, coal operators of the United to a guy, but I don't believe Sure somebody will be on duty there. of congress the Federal session the police would know evidently the this man Hobart h^s been pulled Thanks, old man—good night." which is instinctive in all of us. reserve board asked for additional States, gathered to decide some method writer so believed, or she would never since I've been on the force." He hung the receiver upon the He is no mean hynotist and endeavors of negotiating a wage scale witb legislation to protect savers from have used the name with such confidence. "Look him up in the index, Mac." hook, and reached/ for the telephone to put caution to sleep and by suppression soft coal miners next January, went swindling stock jobbers, the board A familiar name to her, she McAdams drew out a thick volume directory. of all conflicting impulses and into their second session, which will making the statement that in the last assumed that the police would have from a nearby cabinet, and ran his "Some luck, I say. Jackson park— ideas intensify the passion for quick be their last separate meeting before year these swindles had taken form no difficulty In instantly locating the fingers swiftly down a long column oh, yes, here It Is. All right, Central gain. His propaganda is alluring, but going into a joint conference with the American people more than half a place meant. The haste with which of names, indexed under the ^er sure, that Is the proper number. This the message had apparently been written, Probab­1 there is enticement also in other inI the miners. billion of their saved capital "H." Suddenly he stopped, Is the City Hall polices headquarters Its short, sharp words, bespoke stincts, in self-preservation, in security, ly injudicious speculations took a very excla^lon. again hustle It up, please. Hullo, urgent need, the consciousness of Imminent in retaining what one has. These TIMOTHY HL VY much larger sum. •K. "Thfc ad Is here all r!^*~ Jackson Park life-saving station? peril. Plainly the writer had are also primary human instincts and PROBABLY FIRST GOVERNOR ment offense, fifteen years at Private institutions engaged in legitimate Good this Is McAdams speaking from used the only means at hand In a hurried are capable of being played on effectively IRISH FREE STATE bond, mortgage and other the city detective bureau.. Is there desperate effort to gain assistan arrest mugged number 28113. Let's if one can get the knack of it. a yacht out there ,In the lagoon called investments, it seems to me, should look him up, and see If he Is the the. Seminole? belongs to a man named play-IofLondon, Dec. 5.—The appointment awake to the duty of educating the 21 "The police." The request had been same man. Come over here. Captain." Coolldge medium-sized boat, with gas Cambridge. Mass., Dec. 4.—Mrs. Josephie Timothy Healy, proponent of Irish million savers of capital in the for the poi'ee then why jiott appeal "Is tbat the fellow?" he asked.v engine. Yes what's that? Not there Prest lark., poet and autonomy in the house of commons, to olkfc? Why not take the note United States-in caring for their capital, West studied the face seriously. now went out into the lake about two now directly to headquarters, and let wright, died at ner home here early as first governor general of the Irish '"Yes, I believe it is, Mac," he said once saved. The people need a hours ago. The h—11 It didJ Who them solve Its mystery? At I first at length. "He .looks much olflpr now. today after several months of illness. Free State is regarded as a certainty. cantpaign of primary education on N