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The Exploits of Elaine
A Detective Novel and a Motion Pictarw Drama
By ARTHUR & REEVE
TheWell-Known Noveliit and the Creator of the"CrugKennedy M Stodet
PrtMnhd in Collaboration With the Pathe Ph;«i aad
tli* Eclectic Film Company
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CONTINUED
. They pressed each other's hands and
, Meanwhile In the front room Long
Bin was on his feet again, brushing
fcinuelf off and mopping up the blood.
"It worked very well, Sam," he said
to the servant.
They were conrersing eagerly and
laughing and did not bear a noise in
Che back room.
, A sinister figure had made its way
ky means of a fire escape to a rear
Elaine, Too Horror-stricken Even to Scream, Dropped the Knife and Bent
Over Him.
■window that was not barred, and si
lently he had stolen in on them.
They turned at a slight noise and
•aw him. Genuine fright was now on
their faces as they looked at him,
open mouthed.
"What's all this?" he growled. "1
am known as the Clutching Hand. I
allow no interference with my affairs.
Tell me what you are doing here with
Elaine Dodge."
Their beady almond eyes flashed
fear. The Clutching Hand moved me
nacingly. There was nothing for the
•stute Wong Long Sin to do but to
fcubmit.
With a low bow, Wong spread out
bis Sands in surrender and submission.
"I will tell you, honorable sir," he
•aid at length.
"Go on!" growled the criminal.
Quickly Wong rehearsed what had
happened from the moment the idea
of blackmail entered his head.
"How about Mary Carson?" asked
Clutching Hand. "I saw her here."
Wong gave a glance of almost su
perstitious dread at the man.
"She will be back—is here now,'/ he
Added, opening the door at a knock
*nd admitting her.
Adventuress Mary had hurried back
to see that all was right. This time
was genuinely scared at the for
bidding figure of which she had heard.
"U is all right," pacified Wong.
"Henceforth we work with the hon
orable Clutching Hand."
• ••••«#
At home at last, Elaine sank down
Into a deep library chair and stared
•traight ahead. She saw visions of
•frest and trial, of the terrible elec
tric chair with herself in it, bound,
of the giving of the fatal signal
for turning on the current.
Were such things as these going to
happen to her, without Kennedy's
help? Why had they quarreled? She
buried her face in her hands and "wept.
Then she could stand it no longer.
Bhe had not taken off her street
clothes. She rose and almost fled
from the house.
Kennedy and I were still in the la
boratory when a knock sounded at
the door. I went to the door and
opened it. There stood Elaine Dodge.
It was a complete surprise to Craig.
"What is the matter?" he asked.
She hesitated, then suddenly burst
out, "Craig—l—l am—a murderess!"
I had never before seen such a look
on Craig's face as suddenly came over
It
Then she poured forth the story sub
stantially as I have set it down, but
without the explanation, which at that
time was not known to any of us.
• "Oh," expostulated Craig, there must
be some mistake. It's impossible—im
possible."
"No," she asserted. "Look—here's
my handkerchief all spotted with
blood." /
She opened the bag and displayed
the blood-spotted handkerchief. He
took it and examined it carefully.
"Elain?," he said earnestly, not at
All displeased I could see, that some
thing had come up that might blot out
the past unfortunate misunderstand
ing, "there simply, must be something
wrong here. Leave this handkerchief
With me. I'll do my best."
"Thank you," she said simply as j
•he left the laboratory.
Craig went to work abruptly without
A word.
On the laboratory table he placed his
splendid microscope and several cases
of slides, as well as innumerable mi
cro-photographs. He had been work
See " Exploits of ElaineTwelfth Episode,
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ing ror some time when he looked up.
"It Is dog's blood—not human blood,"
he said simply, "but what's the game
back of all this —that's the main ques
tion now."
• ••••••
It was not much later that Blaine
received a Second visit from Mary.
"Do you know why the servant al
lowed us to leave the apartment?"
whispered Mary with a glance about
fearfully, as If the walls had ears.
"No—why?" inquired Elaine anxious
ly-
"He's a tobg man who has been
chosen to do away with the princq.
He followed me, and says you have
done his work for him. If you wll>
give him ten thousand dollars for ex
penses he will attend to hiding the
body."
Here, at least,was a way out.
"It is the safest way out of the
trouble. Yes, I'll do It. I'll stop at the
bank now and get the money."
They rose and Mary preceded her,
eager to get away from the house.
At the door, however, Elaine asked
her to wait while she ran back on
some pretext.
Our telephone rang in the middle
of our conversation on blood crys
tals, and Kennedy himself answered It.
It was Elaine asking Craig's ad
vice.
"They have offered to hush the
thing up for ten thousand dollars," she
said in a muffled voice.
She seemed bent on doing it, and no
amount of argument from him could
stop her. She simply refused to ac
cept the evidence of the blood crys
tals as better than what her own evea
told her she had seen and done.
"Then wait for half an hour," he
answered, without arguing further.
"You can do that without exciting
suspicion. Then go with her to her
hotel and hand her over the money."
"All right—l'll do It," she agreed.
"What is the hotel?"
Craig wrote on a slip of paper what
she told bfm —"Room 509, Hottfl La
Coste."
Hastily he threw on his street coat
"Go into the back room and get me a
brace and bit, Walter,' he said.
I did so. When I returned I saw
had placed the detectascope
and some stuff in a bag. He shoved
In the brace and bit also.
"Come on—hurry!" he urged.
We must have made record time in
getting to the La Coste. It was an or
nate place, where merely to breathe
was expensive. We entered, and by
some excuse Kennedy contrived to
get past the vigilant bell-hops. We
passed the telephone switchboard and
entered the elevator, getting ofl*at
the fifth .floor.
With a hasty glance up and down
the corridor, to make sure no one was
about, Kennedy <fame to Room 509,
tMsn passed to the next room, 511,
opening the door with a skeleton key.
Quickly Craig went to the door
which led to the next room. It was,
of course, locked also. He listened a
moment carefully. Not a sound. Quick
ly, with an exclamation of satisfac
tion, he opened that door also and
went into 509.
This room was much like that In
which we had already been. He
opened the hall door.
"Watch here, Walter," he directed.
"Let me know at the slightest alarm."
Craig had already taken the brace
and bit from the bag and started to
bore through the wall In Room 611,
selecting a epot behind a picture of a
Spanish dancer —a spot directly back
of her snapping black eyes. He fin
ished quickly and inserted the detecta
scope so that the lens fitted as an eye
In the picture. The eye-piece was In
room 611. Then he started to brush
up the pieces of plaster on the floor.
"Craig," I whispered hastily as I
heard an elevator door, "someone's
coming!"
He hurried to the door and looked.
"There they are," he said, as he saw
Elaine and Mary rounding the corner
of the hall.
Across the hall, although we did not
know It at the time, In room 540, al
ready Wong Sin had taken up his star
tlon, just to be handy. There be had
been with hia servant, playing with
his two trained white rats.
Wong placed then up his capacious
sleeves and carefully opened the door
to look out. Unfortunately he was
Just In time to see the door of 609
open and disclose us.
We hurried Into 611 and shut the
door.
Kennedy mounted a chair and ap
plied his eye to the detectascope. Just
then Mary and Blaine entered the
next room, Mary opening the door
with a regular key.
"Won't you step in?" she asked.
Blaine did so and Mary hesitated
In the hall. Wong Sin had slipped
out on noiseless feet and taken ref
uge behind some curtains. As he saw
her alone, he beckoned, to- Mary.
"There's a stranger In the next
room," he whispered. "I don't like
him. Take the money and as quickly
as possible get out and go to my
apartment."
At the news that there was a sus
picious stranger about Mary showed
great alarm. Everything was so rap
id now that the slightest hesitation
meant disaster. Perhaps by quick
ness even a suspicious stranger could
be fooled, she reasoned. At any rate,
Wong Sin was resourceful. She had
better trust him.
Mary followed Elaine Into the room,
where she had seated herself already,
and locked the door.
"Have you the money there?" she
asked.
"Yes," nodded Elaine, taking out
the package of bills which she had got
from the bank during the half-hour
delay.
All this we could see by gazing al
ternately through the detectascope.
Elaine handed Mary the money.
Mary counted It slowly, At last she
looked up.
"It's all right," she said. "Now, I'll
take this to that tong leader. He's in
a room only just across the hall."
She went out.
Mary had Just succeeded In getting
on the elevator as Kennedy hurried
down the hall. The door was closed
and the car descended. He rang the
push bell furiously, but there was
no answer.
He dashed back to the room with
us and jerked the telephone receiver.
"Hello —hello—hello!" he called.
There seemed to be no way to get
a connection. What was the mat
ter?
He hurried down the hall again.
Down in the hotel lobby, with his
follower, the Chinaman paused before
the telephone switchboard, where two
girls were at work.
"You may go," ordered Wong, and,
as his man left, he moved over close
to the switchboard.
Just as a call from 509 flashed up,
Wong slipped the rings off his little
fingers and loosened the white rats
on the telephone switchboard Itself.
With a shriek the telephone system
of the Coste went temporarily out of
business.
• • • • • • *
Kennedy had succeeded In finding
the alcove of the floor clerk in charge
of the fifth floor. There on his desk
was an instrument having a stylus on
the end of two arms, connected to a
system of magnets. It was a telauto
graph.
Unceremoniously Craig pushed the
clerk out of his seat and sat down
himself. It was a last chance, now
that the telephone was out of com
mission.
Downstairs in the hotel office, where
the excitement had not spread to ev
ery one, was the other end of the elec
tric long-distance writer.
It started to write, as Kennedy
wrote, .upstairs:
"House Detective —quick—hold wom
an with blue chatelaine bag, getting
out of elevator."
The clerks downstairs saw it and
shouted above the din of the rat-bait
ing:
"McCann—McCann!"
The clerk had torn off the message
from the telautograph register and
handed It to the house man, who
pushed his way to the desk.
Quickly the detective called to the
bell-hops. Together they hurried af
ter the well-dressed woman who had
just swept out of the elevator. Mary
had already passed through the ex
cited lobby and out, and was about
to cross the street —safe.
McCann and the bell-hops were now
in full cry after her. Flight was use
less. She took refuge in Indignation
and threats.
But McCann was obdurate. She
passed quickly to tears and pleadings.
It had no effect. They Insisted on
leading her back. The game was up.
"Here," cried Kennedy, "take her up
in the elevator. I'll prove the case."
• ••»•••
"Now—not a word of who she Is in
the papers, McCann," Kennedy con
cluded, referring to Elaine. "You
know. It wouldn't sound well for the
La Coste. As for that woman—well,
I've got the money back. You can
take her off —make the charge."
As the house man left with Mary I
handed Craig his bag. We moved to
ward the door, and as we etood there
a moment with Elaine, he quietly hand
ed over to her the big roll of money.
If be had been less of a scientist, he
might have understood the loolc on
her face, but, with a nod to me, he
turned and went.
Ab she looked flret at him, then at
the paltry ten thousand in her hand,
Elaine stamped her little foot In vex
ation.
"I'm glad I didn't say anything
more," ahe cried. "No—no—he shall
beg my pardon first—there!"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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edy acts on BOTH upper and lower
bowel and is so THOROUGH a bowel
cleanser that it is used successfully in
appendieitis. ONE SPOONFUL' of
Adler-i-ka relieves almost ANY CASE
of constipation, sour, or gassy stomach.
ONE MINUTE after you take it, the
gasses rumble and pass out. O. A.
Gorges, druggist, 16 North Third street
and Pennsylvania Railroad Station.—
Adv.
NEW CODE PROVIDES FINE
FOR FISBINC ON SUNDAY
Game, Food and Bait Fishes of the
Commonwealth Are Classified and
Methods Prescribed for Taking
Them From Public Waters
The new fish code, as agroed upon
in the Senate Committee on tiame and
Fish, will very likely be tho law for the
next two years. It prevents Sunday
Ashing, except in boundary waters, un
der a penalty of $25.
The new code classifies the game,
food and bait fishes of the Common
wealth and provides that game fish
may be taken only with rod, hook and
iine, with not more than three hooks
to each line during the open seasons.
Bait fish may be taken at any timo
with hook and line, or with minnow
traps or dip nets not over three feet
square, and food fish maybe taken with
hook and line and outLiue at any time
of the year. All other methods of ta
king fish from the public waters are
forbidden.
The trout season is left as it is, but
the size limit is abolished and a creol
limit of 40 is established, it beiug made
illegal to return to the water any trout
that has been hooked.
The seasou for other game is from
June 15 to December 31, inclusive,
and size limits arc established as fol
lows:
White bass, rock bass, grappie, of
calico bass, six inches; small-mouth,
large-mouth, yellow bass, striped bass,
rock fish, lake or salmon trout, nine
inches: blue pike, eight inches; wall
eyed piko or Susuqeh&nna salmon, pick
erel, 12 inches; muscallonge oj- western
pike, 24 inches; sturgeon, five feet.
The creel limits established are as
follows:
In possession at one time 12 largo
or small-mouth bass, 25 rock bass,
white bass, calico bass, crappie, pick
erel, blue pike or pike perch, 4 muscal
longe or western pike, 50 sun fish.
The only fishing with nets in the in
land waters will be in tidal streams or
in the Susquehanna below McCall's
Ferry dam. Improved provisions are
included to govern dams and fishways
and inlet pipes and better regulations
and larger "powers for commercial
hatcheries. The sale of game fish, ex
cepting lake trout, blue pike, piko
perch or wall-eyed pike, is prohibited
except by licensed hatcheries.
The pollution section is a repetition
of the existing law..
The Commissioner of Fisheries is
given power to distribute fish to the
streams on forest reserve lauds, to the
public schools and educational institu
tions and to individuals for planting in
streams, the banks of which are sub
ject to private ownership, on tho writ
ten application of one or more of the
owners or lawful occupants of such
lands, if the waters are suitable and
if the applicants will agree to permit
lawful fishing in said, waters by the
public, the persons fishing being liable
for any and all damage done, and also
to distribute fish to waters where ad
joining land owners are non-residents
or who by habit or custom have permit
ted the public to fish therein.
The Commissioner also is empowered
to make plantings when he deems wise
in waters for which no application is
made.
it is made unlawful to apply for fish
If the prohibits or prevents
fishing by the public in water flowing
over his land and the obtaining of fisV
by false representations is made pun
ishable. The Commissioner of Fisheries
is given pover to designate nursery
streams in which all fishing shall be
prohibited after public notice in at
least two papers in the county and aft
er the posting of notices at the outlet
and at intervals of 300 yards along
said streams. Violation of the sanctu
ary of a nursery stream calls for a fine
of SIOO.
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turn a trial package containing Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs,
colds and croup; Foley Kidney Fills,
for pains in sides and back, rheumatism,
backache, kidney and bladder ailments;
and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a whole
some and thoroughly cleansing
cathartic. Stout people enjoy them.
Geo. A. Gorgas, 16 N. Third St. and
P. R. R. Station. —Adv.
, Rob Home of York's Ex-Mayor
York, May 6. —A daylight robbery
took place yesterday at the residence
of ex-Mayor M. B. Gibson, diamonds
and money being stolen, while members
of the family were in the house. Mrs.
Gibson met the intruder leaving the
house by the front door. He told her
he had gotten into the house in mis
take and she believed him.
Eight Years For Hold-up Pair
Pottsville, May 6.—John Snyder
and James Martin, identified as the
masked highway robbers who had been
terrifying Tamaqua, were convicted in
court list evening and sentenced by
Judge Koch to each serve years
in jail. The masks, a pile of money
they took from hold-up victims and a
razor were among the exhibits in the
case.
Asks SIO,OOO For Husband's Death
Reading, May 6. —Mrs. Annie M.
Stitzel, of Hamburg, started suit in
court here yeeterday against Neiman
&. Saul, operators of a foundry at
Hamburg, asking SIO,OM damages for
the death of her husband, Frank Stit
zel, following injuries he received
while working at the defendants'
plant.
Dr. Nlles H. Shearer Dies
York, Pa., May 6. —Dr. Niles H.
Shearer, senior member of the firm of
N. H. Shearer & Co., wholesale and
retail druggists, died at his home here
yesterday. He was for many years, a
director of the York First National
Bank. Dr. Shearer was 73 years old.
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Workman Buried by Fall of Rock
Taken Out Alive
Wilkes-Barre, May 6. —'Buried be
neath tons of coal and other fallen
debris for nearly one hour, Jacob Dom
brow yesterday was rescued alive from
the mines of the W'Anamie colliery of
the Lehiigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal
Company.
Dombrow was at work in his cham
ber when the roof suddenly caved in
carry down tons of rocks, coal and
dirt. Workmen in an adjoining chamlber
heard his cries and 'a first-aid corps
was quickly organized to attempt his
rescue. After working one hour, Dom
brow was located and dug from be
neath the fall. He warn unconseious but
still alive. He was removed to a hos
pital suffering from several fractured
ribs, numerous lacerations a,ml severe
bruises, but will recover.
General O'Neill a Dinner Guest
Allentown, May 6.—Surrounded by
the friends of his boyhood, General
Christopher T. O'Neill, recently pro
moted by Governor Brunnbaugh from
command of the Fourth regiment to
that of the Fourth brigade, was guest
of honor Tuesday night at a dinner
tendered him by the Knights of Colum
bus and the Ancient Order of Hibern
ians. Following the dinner, General
O'Neill was presented with the com
plete accoutrements o fa brigadier. The
presentation was made by Junes F.
Gallagher. Hugh E. Crilly presided.
Fink's XXX Derby Ale is especially
strong in hops.—Adv.
Aged Churchtown Woman Dies
■Marietta, May 6. —Mrs. Peter Fore
man, of Ohurcfotown, 77 years old, died
last night from t'he infirmities of age.
She was a lifelong resident of Church
town and her father helped found it.
Besides her 'husband, a num'ber of chil
dren and grandchildren survive.
Amos W. Diesem Dies
New Holland, May <5. —Amos W.
Diesrm, KS years tfld, died yesterday
from a complication of diseases. He
was for many years connected with r'ne
Downingtown and New 'Holland 'Rail
road Company. He was a memiber of
"the '.Methodist church.
Missionary Society in Session
Marietta, IMlay 6.—T'he thirty-tfhird
annual session of the Woman's Mission
ary Society of t'he Presbyterian church
is 'being held here for several days. The
Rev. Arthur Ritfhards and the Rev. An
drew Brown are speakers. Many coun
ties arc represented.
Aged Landisville Woman Dies
Landisville, May 6.—Mrs. Henry F.
Stauffer, 80 years odd, died from the
infirmities of age. She was a descend
ant of t'he first inhabitants of this I/a-n
--caster oounty village. "Besides 'her 'hus
band, four children and a num'ber of
grand children survive.
Mothar and Tot Falls Down Stairs
Holtwood, 'May 6.—While descending
t'he stairs at her home yesterday <-a Try
ing her two-year-old son, Mrs. James
Armstrong was injured internally he
sides breaking her left leg. The child
was also seriously hurt. They fell to
t'he bottom, a distance of fifteen feet.
TUNNEL FOB HISTORIC MINE
Drowned Portions to Be Regained—
Supplied Monitor With Fuel
Hazleton, May 6. —The Lehigh
Valley Coal Company, which drove a
mile lomj tunnel to save the coat of
pumping' water out of Oneida mines
and which will do the same for the
Hazleton basin, h'3s ordered surveys
for a drainage tube that will free the
drowned-out portions of the Eckley
aud Buck Mountain collieries.
A new ibreaker is to be built at
Buck Mountain to prepare the coal for
market. The mine supplied fuel for the
Monitor when it fought the Merrimac
in 18'63 and is still able to make the
fortunes of those who operate it.
MADMAN AGAIN LOCKED UP
Man Who Murdered Child 20 Years
Ago Sent Back to Asylum
Norrisrtown, Pa., May 6.—Armed
with a heavy pair of shears anil threat
ening to kill those who interfered with
him, William Ijock, who more than 20
years ago murdered his baby by cutting
its throat on the roof of his home at
Harmonville, in Plymouth township,
was picked up on the streets of Norris
town yesterday and recommitted to the
Norristown Hospital for the Tnsane.
Lock was acquitted ofi killing his
baby on the ground of insanity and
sent to the Norristown Hospital for
the Insane. After being a patient
there for years he was discharged as
cured and up to a few days ago, when
he resigned, was attending the other
patients.
Rearrested as Prison Sentence Ends
Lancaster, Pa., May 6. —Detective
Broome, Lancaster, yesterday met • W.
A. Wenrich, residing near Pottsville,
at the door of the Lebanon county
prison, where he had just finished a six
months' sentence for stealing a horse in
iMyerstown, and rearrested him on the
charge of stealing W. H. Shirk's team
at Ephrata ibefore his arrest for the
other theft. He is now in the Lancas
ter county prison awaiting a hearing.
Old Invitations As Relics
'Marietta, I May 6.—William Hoover,
of 'Lancaster, who 'is a retireil clerk,
having served in that capacity for fifty,
two years, is the [Assessor of old in
vitations of which he is proud. They
are of the (cried of the Civil war*and
are quaint and neat in appearance. He
has refused flattering offers for many
of them. They include military and
dance halls, picnics, et,e.
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O. U. A. M. PICKS PHILADELPHIA
State Council Selects H. O. Hotatein
As Secretary
Punmutawney, May 6.—Philadel
phia was selected as the 191(5 conven
tion city by Pennsylvania Council, Or
der of United American Mechanics, ad
journing here yesterday. The following
officers were elected:
State councillor, E. M. Dersheimer,
Beaver Falls; State vice councillor, O.
E. Schmader, Adamston; State coun
cillor's secretary, H. O. Holstein, Har
risburg; State chaplain, A. P. Barnum,
Allenport; State inductor, Paul M.
Fink, York; State eraminer, ,T. L.
Sturm, Pittsburgh; inside protector, F.
S. Reeser; outside protector, John Lon
don, Big Run, and national delegate,
J. Hillwick, Larendale.
2,700 QUIT AT MINES
Nonunion Men and Wage Orievance
Cause Trouble at Collieries
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., May 6. —Two
thousand men and boys at the Button
wood and Parrish collieries of the Le
high and .Wilkes-Barre Coal Company
were idle yesterday because eleven men
refused to join the miners' union.
Meetings of the local unions have been
called to settle the trouble.
Pottsville, Pa., May 6.—Seven hun
dred miners went on strike at the Oak
hill Colliery, at Minersville yesterday.
At a meeting held yesterday afternoon
the employes decided to remain away
until the wages are raised to what
they claim is a scale equal to other col
lieries. The miners also say they are
being overcharged for powder furnish
ed by the company.
Aged Shenandoah Resident Dies
Shenandoah, Pa., May 6.—Charlei
O. Palmer, 76 years old, one of the pi
oneer residents of Shenandoah, died
yesterday. He was born in England and
came to Shenandoah in 1870. Mr. Pal
mer serveit as Justice of the Peace and
a Borough Councilman for years, and
in 1902 was elected Representative of
the First Legislative District. He wa»
one of the charter members of the
Welsh Congregational church and a
prominent Oda Fellow.
$17,."500 Gift to Library
Pottsville, Pa., May 6. —Trustees of
the Pottsville Public Library announced
yesterday that' they have received a
gift of $17,500 for the library. The
name of the donor was not made
known.