Dewi INK SLINGS. —Apparently Mabel Normand has gone to join the society of the un- screened, which “Fatty” Arbuckle founded a few years ago. —Last month we might well have sung “December’s as Pleasant as May.” Thus far January is bidding hard to start us composin’ something that would get it into the June class. —The New York girl who sold her forty million dollars to a foreign for- tune hound, thinking she was to be- come a Princess, will have to be sat- jsfied with a less high sounding though none the less empty title. It has been discovered that Salm isn’t a Prince at all. He is only a baron and a very impecunious one at that. —We know Mrs. Barclay Warbur- ton by sight only, and there may be those who will question our compe- tency to express an opinion as to her charms, but the manner in which she causes chairman Harry Baker and Senators Pepper and Reed to change their minds, on occasion, rather justi- fies our belief that she is a woman of very winning ways. —Spring creek got on a rampage on Wednesday and for a while it look- ed like our press rooms were in for a bath. The water rose at the rate of about a foot an hour for a while in the early afternoon and we felt about as miserable and helpless as when as a kid we knew the terrible ordeal of having our neck and ears washed was impending. The flood reached its peak, however, at twelve o’clock, when about four inches over our floor, and then the menace to the prompt arri- val of this visitor to your home be- gan to subside slowly. —A story is going the rounds to the effect that former Congressman Evan Jones, of Bradford, would like to go back to Washington and is con- sidering entering the primaries against the Hon. William I. Swoope for the Republican nomination. While Mr. Swoope hasn’t yet set the halls of Congress ringing with one of his rose painting flights of oratory we don’t recall that the Hon. Jones ever did anything during his two terms that might be recalled to flim-flam Repub- licans into giving him a third term by choking Billy off with one. —General Dawes talked with char- acteristic candor to the foreign ex- perts with whom he is sitting in Par- is to diagnose the European financial disease. Ever since the General shocked the country with his rather inelegant but certainly understanda- ble answers to a congressional inves- tigating committee that was quizzing him he has appeared an interesting character to red blooded, two fisted, he men. They were expecting more from him in his first Paris speech, but it is probable that’ Dawes is saving his hot stuff for later crises when it may have more startling effect. —The president of the Republican women’s clubs of Pennsylvania has telegraphed Senator Reed that Mrs. Warburton isn’t the big cheese, at least among her Republican sisters in Philadelphia and that there are oth- ers who want to have a say as to who shall be the woman to go to Cleveland as a National delegate. Pity the poor political leader of today. All of them know that it was hard enough to keep everybody pleased when there were none but men to squabble over places, but now that the women have come in for a share of the spoils their efforts secure it’s going to take more palaver and “bull” than was ever called into use before. —The next Democratic National convention will be held in New York. We Democrats are proverbially poor and Gotham offered to do most by way of relieving that embarrassment; so there you are. As it will not be an expensive trip for delegates from this section it is reasonable to expect more looking toward that honor than would have been the case had the conven- tion got back to San Francisco, Chi- cago or St. Louis. By way of sugges- tion to the Democrats of this District we want to say that they could have no more creditable representative in the convention nor confer the honor on a more deserving party man than Dr. F. K, White, of Philipsburg, if he could be persuaded to become a can- didate. —The average radio fan is almost an exact replica of the owners of the first automobiles. We recall many in- vitations to what had been anticipat- ed as delightful rides that in reality turned out to be afternoons wasted on the roadside while our host tinker- ed with the carburetor, the ignition or the timer. When the car was working at ity best he would have to stop to see why it was hitting so reg- ularly and tinker a bit more. We have been invited to several radio evenings and anticipated picking up something good from somewhere, but every time our host got us tuned in right he commenced working the dials and left us to listen to a bedlam of cats yowling and winds shrieking while he groped around in the ether for PDQ, SRO, SOS or any other old station he could get in tune with. We were in and out everywhere. One moment hearing Dowie’s band in Zion, the next Prof. So and So talking on child welfare down in Columbia, Mo., and the next jazz in Atlanta, Ga. We were in the air for more than an hour and all the satisfaction we got was the beaming face of our entertainer as he announced that it was his best night’s work: He had gotten fifteen stations in one evening, and we had! nothing. Gr Say. CUNT VOL. 69. Revolt or Reconciliation, Which? Governor Pinchot has announced his candidacy for the honorary office of delegate-at-large to the Cleveland National convention, but it is not cer- tain whether it represents a declara- tion of war on the machine or a tok- en of reconciliation. As has previous- | ly been stated in these columns, a place has been reserved on the slate for the Governor on conditions. That is he and his friends have been assur- ed that he will be chosen for the cov- eted honor “if he will agree to go along with the leaders.” In announc- ing his candidacy, therefore, he may be accepting the conditions, thus avoiding a bitter and expensive fight. It is fairly certain that the “party leaders” would prefer to put that con- struction on the event. But on the other hand the Gover- nor may mean that he will be a candi- | date for the office in spite of the lead- ers. That is the attitude he assumed when he aspired to the nomination of has party for the office of Governor two years ago, and he won out, though at an enormous cost to him- self and his family. Mr. Pinchot has strong faith in himself. He believes that he is a real reformer and that the people of the State are in accord | with him in that opinion and highly appreciate his work. It may safely be added that he prefers independ- ence of, rather than servility to, the machine. But he is ambitious and a defeat of his present aspirations would work complete consignment to : obscurity. It is life or death. Two years ago Mr. Pinchot beat the machine at its own game because he completely fooled the managers of the opposition. He spent money as free- ly as a drunken sailor but obscured the operation in such secrecy that it was not suspected. If it had been known that he was buying the favor he would probably have been outbid. Posing as a political purist, however, he was practically without competi- tion in the vote market and scored heavily. That is not likely to occur again. Lightning seldom strikes twice in the same place and the re- sources of the machine are quite as ample as those of the Pinchot family. In the next fight between the same forces there will be less pussy-footing and more hard hitting. Within the next few days the at- | mosphere will be cleared and the facts developed. There are signs of other troubles in the ranks and insurgen- cies impending and in the event that they grow sufficiently to menace the machine Governor Pinchot might make up his mind to lead the revolt. He has the inclination if he had the! moral courage to become a crusader. ‘But he is cherishing an ambition for future honors and is not likely to take | a step that would destroy his hopes. He is outclassed in political exper- ience and intellectual force by any one of half a dozen of the machine lead- ers, but it may be doubted if he is equaled in caution. In any event it is an interesting situation well worth watching. — The big dirigible, Shenando- ah, broke from its moorings at Lake- hurst, Long Island, on Wednesday evening as the result of a seventy-two mile gale and was adrift for eight hours. One report had it drifting west but this was a mistake, as it got no further away from its base than BELL ' sels on the matter until the question Newark, N. J. In breaking loose from its moorings the nose of the ship was torn away and one of the experts on board hurriedly emptied the water | tanks in the other end of the big ship which enabled it to attain an even keel, then turned it tail to the wind and simply rode out the storm. When the wind subsided the ship made its way back to Lakehurst where it was again moored at three o’clock yester- day morning. The only damage was the destruction of the nose of the ship when it broke its moorings. —1It isn’t the fact that Governor Pinchot has decided to go to Cleve- land that is worrying the Republican organization in this State. It is what he might undertake to do after he gets there that is causing them the sleepless nights. —— After all the adage, “when rogues fall out, honest men come by their own,” may not have had any- thing to do with the existing Ku Klux quarrel a ——— A ——————————— ——General Dawes has made his first speech to the Reparations Com- mission and singularly enough he used no “swear words.” A ——— A ——————————— ——Hearings on the Mellon tax bill have begun in Washington and it is a safe guess that most of those heard will favor the bill. ——Secretary Mellon’s heart bleeds for the poor millionaires mainly be- cause he is among the foremost in that group. ——If it isn’t in the “Watchman” this week it isn’t true. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. EFONTE, PA., JANUARY 18. 1924. NO. 3. Chairman Baker Greatly Surprised. i Mrs. Barclay Warburton, of Phila- | delphia, presented chairman W. Har-| ry Baker and his colleagues in the management of the Republican ma- | chine of Pennsylvania, the surprise of | their lives, the other day.- Mrs. War- | burton has been a source of some anx- | iety to the managers for some time. A few years ago Mrs. Warburton was | made vice chairman of the Republican | State committee. She is a daughter | of the late John Wanamaker and | probably a liberal contributor to the | slush fund. But she disappointed those who bestowed the favor on her by supporting Mr. Pinchot for the nomination for Governor, and in some other ways, and the managers have been secretly trying to get rid of her ever since. This fact has not escaped her atten- tion, though she kept her own coun- of slating delegates-at-large to the National convention came up. Mrs. Warburton demanded that a woman be placed on the list and the managers paid no attention to her demand. In resentment of this slight she assem- bled a number of the leading Republi- can women workers and told them her troubles and disappointments, wind- ing up with the declaration that be- cause the managers were opposed to her re-election as vice chairman and their unwillingness to slate a woman for the convention seat, she would not be a candidate for any office. This aroused the women, including Mrs. Pinchot, and they sent a committee to chairman Baker to express their pro- test. Of course Mr. Baker was surprised and amazed that any one should think that he is opposed to Mrs. Warburton for the vice chairmanship, or that it could be imagined that the list of del- egates-at-large would be without a woman member. Mr. Baker is the most gallant and courteous of men and lays awake nights thinking out plans to honor the women workers of | his party. It is true that his list is made up, all except the place left for Pinchot, “if he will be good,” is com- pleted. But he assured Mrs. Warbur- ton and her sister complainants that it has been the settled purpose all along to put Mrs. Warburton or some | other woman on the list. The state- ment is not consistent with the facts, but no matter. ——The approved plan for the Bok prize is probably not the best that could have been made, but according to the judges is the best that was made, and as it is disapproved by the bitter enders ought to be favored by all others. Moral Improvement in Philadelphia. The marvelous progress which the new Mayor of Philadelphia and his imported Director of Public Safety has made in “cleaning up” that “cor- rupt and contented” city, must be gratifying to every right-minded cit- izen of Pennsylvania. A great many saloons have been closed up for vio- lating the Volstead law, the number of murders and Dbanditries have greatly diminished and vice and crime almost eliminated. During the week- end, a period so prolific of crime, scarcely an arrest was made and, greatest achievement of all, nearly all the crooks and thugs on the police force have been removed or demoted. Philadelphia’s crime record has been a blot upon the escutcheon of Pennsylvania for many years. The haunts of vice have been under the protection, rather than the condemna- tion, of the police and the gravest crimes were perpetrated with immu- nity for the reason that however no- torious the offender political influence and agencies were able to guarantee him freedom from punishment. The last Mayor, Mr. Hampton Moore, made an earnest effort to correct some of the evils but the councils, un- der the control of the machine, antag- onized him at every point and made his efforts futile. The chances are that as soon as Mayor Kendrick an- tagonizes the “gang” his work for re- form will end. But the people of Pennsylvania would have greater reason to rejoice if the reform energies of the city gov- ernment were directed in the right channel. Philadelphia has been bad in every variety of crime but the worst feature of its criminal record lies in the corruption of the ballot. From one to two hundred thousand fraudulent votes are cast in that city at every election and the necessity to protect the perpetrators - of those crimes from punishment is the princi- pal cause of all the crimes committed in the city. If the new Mayor will turn his attention to prosecuting bal- lot crooks he will have solved the problem. ——Some fellow fond of figures has discovered that more money is spent for chewing gum than for books in this country. But he hasn’t the cour- age to ascribe the fact to the suffrage amendment. Mr. Mellon’s Tire Punctured. The Senator from Michigan, Mr. Couzens, formerly an automobile builder, was a fit instrument to punc- ture the tire of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Mr. Couzens is a Republican and a multi-millionaire. He knows all about paying income taxes. Within the last ten years he has paid $8,223,679 tax on income, nearly all of which was surtax. If the proposed Mellon tax law had been in force during that time he would have saved $4,000,000 of the amount, quite a fortune. Senator Couzens has challenged Secretary Mellon to de- bate the question in the open. He believes that he can prove the fallacy of Mr. Mellon’s theory that the tax rate on big incomes is crippling the industrial life of the country. Mr. Mellon contends that the tax rate on big incomes forces capital to accept tax-free securities of less pro- ductive power, thus robbing industrial enterprise of an essential element. Senator Couzens declares upon the ev- idence of his own experience and ex- ample, that rich men invest in tax- free securities, “for the purpose of avoiding business cares and risks.” As corroborative evidence he shows that there are only $11,000,000,000 in tax-free securities on the market whereas there are $125,000,000,000 taxable securities available to invest- ors and that bankers say “there is no shortage of funds to capitalize indus- trial enterprises.” Smaller investors are always ready to accept the care and risk of business. Congressman Tague, of Texas, a member of the House committee on Ways and Means, estimates that the adoption of the Mellon bill by Con- gress would save Mr. Mellon $2,000,- 000 a year in income tax. That is, the able Secretary’s tax bill would be decreased that vast amount annually by the decrease on big incomes as proposed in his bill. It would require an increase in the taxes of ten or twenty million smaller tax bills to reimburse the government for this loss of revenue. . But it reveals the real reason for Mr. Mellon’s anxiety to translate the bill into law. It makes equally clear the duty of Con- gress to substitute the Democratic ill, which is framed in the interest of taxables least able to pay. Former Secretary Fall has been caught in one lie in connection with the Teapot Dome transaction and the investigation is not finished. Confession of Imbecility. The election of Senator Smith, of South Carolina, to the important of- fice of chairman of the Senate com- mittee on Interstate Commerce was a real surprise. That corporate influ- ence would prevent the elevation of Senator LaFollette, ranking Republi- can on the committee, to the chair- manship, was certain from the begin- ning. That Senator Cummins would not be permitted to hold the chair- manship of that committee and the presidency pro tem. of the body at the same time, has been equally obvious. But it was fully expected that some arrangement would be made that would result in the selection of a chairman who would satisfy the cor- porations and preserve the ascenden- cy of the Republicans. : If Senator Smith were a servile agent of the corporations his election, notwithstanding his well defined po- litical faith, could be understood. The Republican majority in the Senate, in that event, might have made his elec- tion a useful party expedient. Cer- tain legislation is contemplated that will be sharply resented by popular opinion and a Democratic committee chairman would have served the pur- pose of a “goat” admirably. But Senator Smith is not that type of a Democrat. He believes in the real gospel of the party and can neither be fooled, frightened nor bribed into a betrayal of his party and Senator- ial obligations. That is why his elec- tion is the big surprise of this ses- sion of Congress. As it is now the election of Sena- tor Smith to the chairmanship of the Interstate Commerce committee is a public and official acknowledgment that the Republican leadership in Congress is utterly and irretrievably incompetent. With a clear majority of seven there is not sufficient cohe- sion.to function as a party organiza- tion and the proceedings are certain to drift with the tide of contention in whatever direction passion leads, It is the most abject confession of imbe- cility that has been revealed in Wash- ington within a generation. As a matter of fact it may be doubted .if there has ever been a parallel case. If Senator Penrose had been present it would not have occurred. em rer—————— es ——— ——Japan is still shaking at inter- vals but not because she is afraid of any army or navy in the world. A ——— A —————————— ——One good reason for encourag- ing air service is that they have with- drawn favor from the submarines. Irrigation in New Mexico. From the Philadelphia Record. Former Secretary of the Interior Fall leased the Teapot Dome naval oi reserve to the H. F. Sinclair interests | while he was still functioning as a | member of President Harding’s Cabi- ! net, for which act Fall became the subject of ugly criticism, followed by an investigation by the Senate Lands Committee. The inquiries of this committee developed the facts that Mr. Fall, previously believed to be without financial resources, had be- come affluent enough to arouse the cu- riosity and perhaps the suspicions of his New Mexican neighbors. Some of them compared Fall’s change of con- dition to a withered plant that has been refreshed by copious watering. But the unabashed Mr. Fall was ready with a very plausible explana- tion. He told the Senate committee | that he was in funds because he has procured a loan of $100,000 from Ed- ward B. McLean, the millionaire Washington newspaper publisher, It was obvious that on funds furnished : by McLean, as Fall testified, he could | put up quite an impressive front after | a long and lean period of unprofitable | office-holding. Then Fall went South ' to Palm Beach, where McLean has a magnificent villa. He found McLean | already installed in his Florida home. Fall had notified the Senate inves- | tigators that he was too ill to appear for further examination; McLean gave ‘the same excuse. Then the commit- | tee voted to send Senator Walsh, of | Montana, to interrogate McLean. On { Friday McLean testified that he "agreed to make a loan of $100,000 to Fall on his notes, and that he drew two or three checks, totaling that amount, payable to Fall’s order. But within a few days Fall returned the checks—unused—with the statement that he had gotten his funds else- where. The astute and resourceful Walsh then went after Fall for fur- ther explanation, and Fall conde scends to corroborate McLean, there- by contradicting his own testimony. If millionaire McLean did not water this dusty New Mexican plant, who was it that performed the generous act of irrigation? In the Pan-Slavic Tide. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Recognition of the Bolshevist gov- ernment of Russia is the bitter pill governments of the Little Entente nations are preparing to swallow: In their conference at Belgrade the statesmen of Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo- slavia and Rumania are trying to sugarcoat it as much as possible. As misery loves company, the three governments want to do the same thing at the same time and in the | same manner, lending each other mor- al support through the ordeal. Russia has brought a tremendous economic and political pressure to bear upon these three border nations. One of them is a republic founded upon conservative lines; the other two are monarchies. All of them have to put up with a heavy bombardment of revolutionary propaganda from Moscow, and they can get no assur- ance that it will cease even if they knuckle under and accord political recognition. So much for the governments. The peoples of these countries are pre- dominantly of Slavic extraction; of the 50,000,000 combined population, 37,000,000 are bound by ties of race to the Russian people. This accounts for the close sympathy they feel for the great mother of all the Slavs, a sympathy that does not take into ac- count Bolshevist political institutions. The crux of the matter is that the governments of the Little Entente are closely related to those of West- ern Europe while the people are look- ing toward the East. The issue is the old one of Pan-Slavism. That the government cannot avoid the recogni- tion of the distasteful Russian regime brings up the old problem: . Can Western Europe resist the tide of Pan Slavism ? Distribution Again. From the Pittsburgh Post. As the case stands the farmer has proved that his prices are too low and the milling interests seem to show through statistics of operation that they are paid a minimum for the con- version service. Yet a spread exists, measured by 1% cents per pound the farmer receives for his grain, and the 10 cents per pound paid by the con- sumer for whole wheat flour. The difference is accumulated between the flouring mill and the consumer—in the cost of distribution. And obvi- ously a distribution which costs al- most six times the charge of produc- tion is too high. If the farmer suc- ceeds in advancing the price of his wheat he may be placing it on a level where the ordinary consumer cannot reach it with comfort. In that case the wheat grower may be in worse fix than at present. rm — A ———— Something Wrong Somewhere. From the Altoona Tribune. Something is wrong somewhere. One hundred and fifty farmers in Im- bler, Oregon, sat down to a banquet at a meeting there and the meal cost them just sixteen cents each. Nearly everything on the tables was the pro- duct of the farm and the cost a plate was computed at the price the far- mer was paid for the products, plus the labor cost of preparing the food. The same: menu then was computed at Portland @ restaurant prices and amounted to $1.55 a plate. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ‘—While all the members of the Erie po- lice force were in conference with Mayor J. C. Williams, last Wednesday afternoon, discussing law enforcement, two bandits entered the Lincoln bunk, in the business district of that city, held up the cashier and three girl clerks, and escaped with $2800. —Mrs. James Silverthorne, aged 62 years, of Titusville, died in about half an hour after being taken to the city hospital last Thursday afternoon. When her cloth- ing was removed nurses found in salt bags sewed to the inside of her skirts $6,617 in cash, Liberty bonds and bank se- curities. —Stabbed in the abdomen during a street fight at Altoona, early on Monday, Benedetto Laporte, a Pennsylvania Rail- road workman, died four hours later in the hospital. Alfonseo Damico and Domi- nick Nagniso were arrested, and each ac- | | cused the other of the crime, both being held for trial for murder at the next regu- lar term of court in Blair county. —The Pennsylvania railroad on Tuesday awarded to the Bethlehem Steel company a contract for erection of two two-track bridges over the Susquehanna river from Sunbury to Packer’s Island and from the Island to Northumberland. This will make six tracks crossing the two branches of the river to the yards there. The con- tract price was said to be $1,600,000. —While she was bidding Frank Kip- horn, her lover, good-bye over the tele« phone, Miriam Orr, aged 19, of Lancaster, collapsed from the effects of poison tablets which she took in an attempt to end her life. Kiphorn notified the police who went to the house, found the girl uncon-~ scious and a note addressed to her lover on the table. In the note she denied alle- gations which caused an argument be- tween the two. Kiphorn is a baggage agent at the Pennsylvania railroad sta- tion in that city. : —The rod was upheld as a necessary aid to the cause of education when a jury that tried Eugene Moyer, a school teacher of Lehigh county, acquitted him on charges of assault and battery, growing out of a whipping that he was alleged to have in- flicted upon two sons of Ray Geary, using a razor strop. The outcome of the trial hinged entirely on the ancient question whether a teacher has a legal right to flog pupils for breach of discipline. The jury divided the costs between the teacher and father of the boys. —A record for speed in the disposition of court trials was established at Lewis- town, on Monday, when Walter Smith, a Harrisburg negro, who was charged with having held up and robbed a local grocer on Saturday night of $44.35, was sentenced to not less than two and not more than four years in the western penitentiary. Less than an hour and a half after he had staged the hold-up, Smith was arrested as he boarded a train at Miflin, by J. B. Ei- senhart, of the Middle division police de- partment. He was taken back to Lewis- town in an automobile. —Division and district engineers have been ordered to remove immediately from State Highway routes all signs or adver- tising matter illegally placed within the limits of the highways, Paul D. Wright, secretary of highways, announced last Fri- day. He pointed out that under the law no advertising matter of any kind or di- rection signs erected either by individuals, an association or municipalities, may be placed on a state highway route, and said attention of the engineers had been called to violations of law by candidates for of- fice at the spring primaries. —Mrs. Ray and her niece, of Mauch Chunk, while on their way home from a neighbors on Saturday night, were con- fronted by a highwayman, who stepped in iront of them and ordered them to stop. Mrs. Ray, a powerful woman, did no such thing as stop, but let her right arm swing with all the effect of her strength, and landed a crushing blow on the hold-up man’s nose, which made him reel and beat a hasty retreat. Mrs. Ray hit the high- wayman so hard that she knocked several of her knuckles out of joint, but other- wise she was unscathed by the encounter. —Registration of the Templer Motor Car company, of Lakewood, Ohio, for the sale of $2,500,000 worth of stock in Penn- sylvania has been refused by the State se- curities bureau. A syndicate of the officers and directors of the Templar Motors com- pany, which went into the hands of a re- ceiver in October, 1922, has taken over the affairs of the old concern and are now rep- resented by M. F. Bramley, who was presi- dent and general manager of the company ; W. M. Pattison, who was vice president, and Newton D. Baker, of Cleveland, the Secretary of War under President Wilson. —“That represents matrimonial content-: ment,” George E. Diehl, business manager of Penn Hall, explained to members of the Rotary club, of Chambersburg, when he drove up Lincoln way in his roadster. The right hand sille of the body of the au- tomobile is painted blue, while the left- hand side is painted gray. The wheels are done in bright red. Mr. Diehl further ex- plained that his wife likes blue for an au- to body color, while he prefers gray, and as they like to go riding together, the col- or problem was satisfactorily solved by using two kinds of paint. But it does cause the curious to ask many questions. —The sum of $250 for information as to her whereabouts has been offered by the parents of Miss Verna Rhodes, a McVey- town girl who mysteriously disappeared on the night of December 22nd at Wer- nersville, Berks county. Miss Rhodes for the last five months had been a patient at the Wernersville sanitorium, where she was receiving treatment for nervous trou- ble. The week before Christmas she de- cided to go to McVeytown to spend the holidays with her sister, Mrs. S. B. Kiner. She was taken to the Wernesrville rail« road station, where she bought a ticket for Harrisburg and checked her baggage. That was the last seen or heard of her. —_Shot through the heart as he lay in bed, Gabor Trott, 45 years old, was killed instantly at Erie, last Friday, by one of four bullets fired at close range. Police arrested George T. Kocik, 35 years old, a boarder, and the holding him for the slay- ing. August Jonies, 56 years old, is being held as a material witness. Kocik told po- lice that he and Trott were quarreling over money and that the latter had attack- ed him with a knife when he shot. + This is the second murder to occur in the same house, while a boarder recently fell down a pair of stairs and killed himself through breaking his neck. Four men paid with their lives in the electric chair at Rock- view, for the killing of John Florain, dur- ing’ an attempted robbery. The house is known ‘by neighbors as the ‘black cat,” because of its record for killings.
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