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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH Print Shop Burned by Pontiac Prisoners :I Woman Writer Objects to Term "Weaker Sex V - ee. ftr.-.-ji." J : . .A -- ? yv y X '.. ; S: The Man Who Fell Through the Earth a gauger. going JOHNhisO'CONNOR, was of i.rrf, 1y place employment, seen crossing London bridge one morning, but after that disappeared as com" .Y pletely as though he had fallen through the earth. I !lV- :, What added to the mystery was the fact that O'Connor was very well known along the London docks. He was an expert in his line and never without a job. That such a man could drop out of ' jrHt sight without leaving a single trace ; . ; .j v f behind him seemed to be Incredible. .Yet the records of the police department show that thousands of men and women disappear every year and are never heard of afterward. The authorities in the course of their investigation made a tour of all the hospitals and morgues, but withConvicts in Pontiac prison in Illinois started a bloody riot in the course of which one of them was killed and out success. The case became famous, and it was a score shot by the guards. The prisoners set fire to the print shop and It was destroyed. generally referred to as the mystery of the man who fell through the earth. Inspector Fox was designated by Scotland Yard to follow up the investigation, and he plunged into it with a great deal of enthusiasm. His colleagues taunted him with the hopelessness of the quest, saying that nothing would ever come of It, but Fox was not discouraged in the least. He determined to use his brains as well as his feet So, after reviewing the whole affair In his mind, be put to himself this query : "Who was the woman lp the case?" Then he proceeded to answer It by personal investigations along this line. He learned that In his younger days O'Connor was looked upon as a good "catch" among the ladles. In the course of his Inquiries, the detective found that O'Connor had been smitten with a pretty jSwiss girl named Raux. She had once been in the service of the Duchess of Sutherland and thought well of herself. O'Connor Pickets of the aluminum strikers are seen gathered at the entrance of the plant In New Kensington, Pa. paid her constant attention and eventually asked her to marry him. She did not positively refusu him, ROYAL VISITORS but postponed a definite answer. In the meanwhile O'Connor discov ered that she was also receiving at tentions from Samuel Manning, an employee of the Great Western railway, The rivalry continued for quite a while, and between the two men pretty Marie managed to have a pleasant time. Eventually, however, the girl married Manning. O'Connor was disappointed, but he took his defeat very philosophically. Ee was a man, with a happy disposition, and he continued his friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Man ning. At this stage of the Investigation Detective Fox made an Important dis covery. i 1 j It was that on the August evening of the day he disappeared O'Connor had made an engagement to take din ner with the Mannings at their home In Minerva place, Bermondsey. Two of his friends met him as he was crossing London bridge on his ? K4 way to keep his appointment They Prince Tsunenorl Kaya and his wife, never afterward saw him alive. ol Princess Toshiko Kaya, members The next move of the detective was the Japanese imperial family, who an to interview Mrs. Manning. making a tour of the United States. She expressed surprise when told of the . disappearance of the gauger, but Some 15,000,000 years ago what is now the state of Wyoming was a LONGEST SICK CALL was quite willing to tell all she knew. gigantic tropical swamp, and the bones shown here were the ribs of a huge She said he had called at their house monster that waded around in the marsh grasses. Bit by bit the area dried. on the evening In question, had dined The last of the monsters huddled in a lake. The lake was dried, too, and with them and left early. proved to be their grave, now the hunting ground of paleontologists. Dr. Bar-nu"We came to the door to say good-b- y Brown, examining his "find," Is the head of the American-Sinclai- r to him," she declared, "and his last words were, 'I will go home now and get a good night's sleep, for 1 have a hard day's work before me tomorrow.' " A week later Fox returned to the Manning home and found that it was empty. I ' He made a thorough search of the premises, and in the cellar noticed that some of the tiling had been moved from the floor. He dug down Into It and found the dead body of Gauger O'Connor. Then he made a search of O'Connor's rooms and found a package of N-3YY V love letters from Mrs. Manning. -:H Eventually Mr. and Mrs. Manning were arrested in Edinburgh. A trial proved that they had Jointly murdered O'Connor for his money an1 both of them were sentenced to death. WNU Service D. Coman of Johns Hop Dr. Francis kins, has departed to the actual en First Use of Shrapnel of the world on the longest "sick call' The shrapnel shell was Invented in in history. He is bound for LIttli 1784 by Lieut Henry Shrapnel, It. A., America. There at Commander Byrd'l and was called "the spherioriginally 54 to base camp he will administer cal case shot." After considerable demen who are reported suffering frou lay this projectile was adopted by the a mild attack of dysentery. He ma British government and was appar4-stay there until the end of the expe ently first used against the French dltion. at the Battle of Rollca, In 1808. In 1852 the British army adopted the Will Ba Largett Cathedral name "shrapnel" In honor of its inThe Cathedral of St. John the DV ventor. There have been some changes Tine In New York city, when complet In shrapnel but the principle Is the ed, will be the largest Gothic cathe same. dral in the world, with 16.822.00C MM,,,,,,.,, cubic feet of Content Fourteen mil Petticoat Lane Hon dollars has been raised for tht Petticoat lane, London, was so The Kormandie, a "sea-goinof are whose 73,000 tons, city" engines cathedral In the last ten years, and li named lu the Seventeenth century expected to give her a speed of ever 30 knots, cutting down the transatlantic will take $10,000,000 more to com- when a colony of French weavers was crossing to four days, as she now looks In the dockyard at St. Nazalre. plete it. established there. Before that time It was known as Hcg lane. From Tb Cam of Ping-Pon- f Another Myth Valley of the Kings about 1830 It has been known as MidPing-ponThe Valley of the Kings Is on the west dlesex street It extended north from is a well organized sport "What made you quit raising hogs?" with adherents numbering In the mil"In a simple-minde- d way," said bank of the river opposite the towni High street Whltechapel, to Wide-gat- e lions. The American Plng-PonassoFarmer Corntossel, "I thought they of Luxor and Karnnk, which are clos street, Blshopsgate. For many to the site of the ancient city ol years it has been a Jewish quarter, ciation estimates that at least 2,889,-00-0 might help me along Into the big govfamilies have tables. There are ernment game. And then I discovered Thebes. The loctaion is In Uppvi and Is known chiefly as a second hand numerous tournaments. that the pork barrel was all a myth. Egypt, about 320 miles south of Cairo clothing market Literary Digest ;.!' if Vy: yy V4i -- ;l' .... e. A Aluminum Strikers Picketing a Mill A woman columlst noted for her1 keen Insight Into events and things. selects this subject for comment: The papers tell of a federal Judge In a New York courtroom who compelled the men to give women their seats. A reader sends ns the clipping, wondering what we think about It Here it is: Tn a courtroom crowded to capac ity with creditors and stockholders of the Ambassador Hotel corporation. Federal Judge J. M. Woolsey said recently: 'It seems to me that the men sitting over there should stand up and lot the ladies sit down.' "When the men did not budge, he added : Go over there, marshals, and roust them out The marshals obeyed and the women sat down while the men grumbled quietly to themselves. saying they thought the order on-fair." What do we think about ItT Well. It all depends on what we women hardly take the lead In making th gallant gesture of his own free wilt That sweet flower of chivalry, the sense of on behalf of the WEAKER sex, will have been nipped in the bud. And, anyway are we WEAKER? For my part I should feel cheap to have a man forced out of his seat for my benefit self-sacrifi- Cl BU WXU Sysdicat. Bac-vl- o. 7 Little Zion Named by Mormon Colonist Band Every once tn a while some localIs fortunate enough to be baptized properly. We can thank Brlgham Young and bis Mormon followers for the fact that we may now glibly say, "We're Off to Zion" Instead of twisting our tongues around "Mukuntu-weap- ." ity Mukuntuweap is a nice enough name, meaning, "land of the springs," according to a Utah scholar, John Wallls, who has traced the name te Its Indian source. The name was given to this national park when It was first created by congress. That may be the reason that travelers were slow In discovering Its wonders. They Just didn't know how to ask for It like the man who would like to buy a wife a fancy French perfume but has to compromise on "violet," which he can pronounce. In 1918 President Wilson went back to the name oritfnally given the region by Brlgham Young, Young and a band of his colonists looking for new territory came upon the shining domes, rainbow colors and unearthly shapes, and immediately named it "Little Zion" as ft seemed the one place on earth closest to the heavenly Zion. Chicago Daily News. want If what we want most is the seat a man occupies, then we should not Inquire too closely Into the method of taking It away from him. In this case they were, we must admit ques- tionable. Some of those men may have been more In need of a seat than any of the women to accom modate whom they were ousted. And some were probably there In the line of duty, while the women seated by the gallant Judge were merely spec tators, presumably, on pleasure bent We repeat H It's the scat only that Interests you, you will applaud the Judge whose motte Is apparently under all circumstances, "Ladles First" If it is chivalry ol the part of men .In this day and age that you care more about than the seat in court or subway or strtet car which they may have to give up to you, then you will not favor firclng them out of their seats. Ther") Is no romantic satisfaction In taking a man's seat If he has to be thrown out of It And the compulsion is hardly conducive to developing In hlwi a greater gallantry. In fact the man onte forced to get up for a woman will Blindness Fallacy The popular belief that blindness Is compensated for by Increased acutenoss of other senses is not upheld by tests ; the blind merely train their other senses and use them to better advantage than the seeing. 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