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Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- N, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1915 stejwf fewrkf The i-;--'. TOci of jr-Crt- iC,l - K:. Fork's ?rcz Men Vas Robbed of $100,000 Worth of Jewelry, Securities and Money by the Beautiful Adventuress, Nell Wilson? iYem And Why Was He Willing That v , . I ;t - . o . ! No Harm Should Come to Her? Amazing Story of a Detective's Accidental Discovery. fiw ( f&t v y ... k:Y d was surprised to notice Nell Wilson and lier husband, on the vessel, but pretended not to see, them, and after reaching Bremen thought no more about the couple. New-com- e Before returning to America to visit decided to make a brief Palace . at the Elysee Paris. He put up afternoon of the Hotel, and late on thereceived a note arrival his of day call him signed "Wilson," asking No. 5 toat No. at apartment that evening 27 Kue de Miromesnil. ' r 4 riJ' At the Pistol Point. The note stated that if the detective the inmade the call he would obtain formation he was seeking. Considerable mvKiified Newcome called at the After being ushered into apartment. .. d.nkened room. the lights wet up n,i he found himself gazing into the muzzle of a pistol held by the Wilson woman. Her husband came forward while the mi At ucn-vm- r. with the wom- vo wns narleving 1 on.i wwcome saw that Wilson was hf stages oi cunsuuuJLiuii lst the tfipr Wilson hadforexammea a weapon and toctive's pockets found none, the woman lowered the P'Then ensued a conversation that almost took Newcome' s breath ofaway. the name Without mentioning the Wilson woman the man she had duped, set.s.oun tiv saving that the and the jewelry turitles and money." Idea vpwcnme hadn't ine iiat-h was talking about. but by nuestloning her, learned that ship thev had seen him on the them to rehe was following cusInto the cover the securities given American an woman by of the tody millionaire. Nell Wilson frequently referred to her victim as "the old hypocrite." as to the Newcome. stUl in the dark said that woman's dupe, Identity of thecall at the hotel the next If he would would not dav with the securities, he the woman and further, her bother promised. agreed upon the Promptly at the timehotel and handed the at woman called was Newcome a packagen which millionaire to a American. deThe detective, in telling his story, on the name at the clared that a glance r. k ji dumfounded him. in me pacK- 5SO.00O worth of age were more man .Milrorid stocks, and some shares of tteel common. and-believe- Nell, had fate been more propitious In the beginning, might have been productive of things of benefit and blessing to their fellows and this with no derogation to what they may be doins now in tiie way of sustaining society. How would the millionaire have developed If he had had their beginning? And. in the end. who will do the greatest amount of human good? sushantl. "IMH" Wilson. U collese- Ird. widely lead and traveled; a student of iycholoy, and when not I uttin tbo law at defiance "from beer personal necessity," ho used to tho ri at of wo ra- say thejf was nothing mote to his AMONG l.o are army n'ir:ir.i the liking than to give himself up to the raa. and ;be sick if tho companionship and instruction of hla These are questions that naturally I arise In studying what meagre facts iU?. prrat w.ir is cri' vho?; fia' lie a became crook by philosophy, are known of the mysterious $100,000 strlkinclv enhanced by t'.so v hitu ir.il if ho has rensoned wrong. robbery of a man who did not know Hvery of loving service and w hi'? J U onrrh brilliantly, he must know It he had been robbed and the unexpectUcvc: jnn ed and amazing fashion in which the thf v.otk has the by tnis time. For his predatory inan sisns!i-tancLave he is and ceased found jrr or. a' and property was recovered by Louis A. ittual a valid "at. where in o! Newcome, formerly a postoffice Inh it attacf.es to any act France," point hfs beautiful wife shares her time spector In charge of the New York atonement, rflm was at ciu- timo men biai and the stricken city district, but now a detective of styled "ilui nest beautiful and re-" s International reputation, his busi- from tbp battle front. rnarkalle adventure.-- of the a;e And tint is a distinction net lightly Klve;:. for the life story of Nell '. I;-- ! - A S.V " w ed it -- rs ac-t:Jli- e j- -; T be-twec- - n & the ir.ost extravagant Cetlon of a time when melodrama runs rict In tho literature ar.vl uiov-ipictures of the day. Then there is the ' masked mdliou-aire.who never may be revealed, but whose part in the story ia a baffling mixture of studied stealth, fearful anonymity, old age fatuity and a bread unselfishness at variance with all tho other c!:raonls. He It is who, unknown to her, could teM eec" detail Isof her r resent activiwho hr.s stcn her, ties, lie it invoked by his vas; through powets of in the world every part wealth, ehe has visited since she left America about three years nzo. The Witchery of Nell Wilton. She never has been out of. his fight. Oceans, van distances, inaccessible and untraveled place', ttrane environments, and even the hushed seclusion of the haunted fugitive offered no obstacle to the man of gold who watched. it was as though he gazrd Into a magic mlirot fated to reflect her as Ions as she lived, and so could h hoM her at any time the de?he ; ;ovrd him. Strange infatuation, a fittint; highlight for rto of thr strangest of strange 1 -- 4 v.. Wil-BC- n outdo-- t , " s v ' i A v ' v , 4 Louis A. Newcome, the Detective Who, Under Extraordinary Circumstances, Recovered the Loot. " he You may ask her about the "masked millionaire." but no matter what the Inducement count bj dollars would be futile she would hold to uncompromising silence. "Bill" of but this Wilson, course, knows; st crie3. would another fact, which, at lime, There Is a corupelHrsi: spell in the have afforded him a golden oppo; Is now one that Is mutely put sray eyes of Nell Wll-fodirk, tdul-dwho is net q litr IQ ye' ; a Crip-rd- e aside. Creek blacksmith's datuhtcr who There arc some things about a milran exrecS breellnsr, culture and lionaire, after all. which the meat thf moat advanced refinements Jlkf callous of us might be forced to apa duchess "born to the purple. Her preciate and honor. For "Bill and tu-nit- n. reveal the identity of the woman's rich victim. Otherwise, the history of the case is given in full. Th woman who flsure3 as one of the principals Is Nell Wilson, one of the most notorious adventuresses in the world, and a woman whose lecord as an expert postoffice thief is second to none. The' most unusual point in the story roneetns the recovery, by I)etectlv Newcome, of the stocks. This, ho freely admits, was the result of a remarkable coincidence and accident, and he takes but little credit to himself for the part he look in it. The girl was still goin to school when of 13 at the met her husband I5!1V Wilson. They eloped and went to Chicago, following which they engaged In the rubbing of posloffico boxes. Their manner of working consisted of the use of falsi? keys, and for years the postoffice inspectors despaired of capturing them. Finally Detective New-com- e, who vas then an inspector, and acting under especial orders of James, caught them and succeeded in . sending the man to jail for three years. Nell Wilson, who was little more than a girl at that time, excited Nowcome'i pympathy, knowing as he did that the man was really responsible for her cilnio career. The inspector, therefore, sucreded I A having her sentence suspended. At the time of the $100,000 robbery Newcome journeyed across the Atlantic on the flteamshlp Ainerika. bound for Bremen, on a mission for a client. He ... "The lights went up and Newcome found himself gazing into the muzzle of a pistol held by the Wilson woman." y. ness having to do with Investigations, often of a delicate kind, required by big corporations. For the object of giving this strange narration versimilitude and adding to It the strength of uncolored lecord, there is hero presented the newspaper account of how the robbery was revealed, how the masked millionaire made his entrance, and a brief epitome of the careers of tho Wilsons: In disclosing the story Detective Newcome stipulated that he should not Post-masler-Oene- ral red-hand- ed The Masked Millionaire. "But the srrangest pun of this adventure has never been made miblic. and I am now telling e it for the first time," Detective arI told the writer. "When rived on this side of the ocean one of the first tflings brought to my attention at the office was a, letter from the late James B. Dill, styled In the newspapers as the man who formed the Billion Dollar Trust. Without mentioning, names, he bold that a client of his had been robbed of $100,000, and asked me to take the case. mere was no neeu. ul mai, however, for I had unwittingly taken it at the behest of Mr. and Mrs. , Wilson." The millionaire, having been appraised of the whereabouts of the beautiful woman who had duped him, and still under the spell of her fascination, at once set agencies to work bo that he might continually "heep New-com- ? n d well-know- c : 't Is a shame to see so much brilliant ability go that way.-AnI shall Keep my eye on her from now on. Poor little sirl!" When "Bill" Wilson had served the sentence imposed by Judge Benedict in the United States 'court he was met by Nell at the prison door and they vanished from New York. Detective Newcome heard that they had gone to Boston. Business took him there three or four years later. At an exclusive reception one evening he was surprised to see them, Nell brilliantly fascinating and "Bill," who had taken on more of the air of the artist and the student, one of the most entertaining talkers at the his eye on her.", A man less impressionable or less imaginative would have been content to recover his stocks and jewels, mark the missing amount to credit and loss and consider the transaction well closed. But being keen of mind himself, in spite of his years, and dangerously adroit in all matters except that of this one woman, he was compelled to yield her the admiration that one appreciative craftsman gives to another. ' She is one of the most remarkable women in the world, I am sure," he estimated her to the detective. "And I hold her in no enmity in fact. I admire her profoundly 'and would be sorry to see any harm befall her. She is a creature of circumstance, adverse, may be, but she has boldly shaped it to her benefit. -- NELL WILSON The Beautiful Daughter of a Cripple Creek Blacksmith, Whose Notorious Career Included One of New York's Strangest Mysteries. woman, in the alluring fulness of maturity. "Hello, Nell!" exclaimed the detective as the Imperious woman stood before him in the drawing room of the mansion, icily regally defiant. Her wit overmatched that of the detective in the battle, while the head of the house wa3 an absorbed, silent spectator. function. "You cannot be the legal wife of How later on a millionaire with imthis gentleman's son, for you are the posing home in Fifth avenue called wife of 'Bill Wilson," said the deon the sleuth to look into the past of a pretty woman whom his son had tective. How She Triumphed. m;irrjprl in san "J " UViOV,U ClllVJ. VY11U "You will have to prove the prewas plunging him into all sort3 of debt, is a separate romance all by posterous charge," she coldly reitself; but briefly was this : plied. "And I won't submit to this Her demands for money to get her outrageous proceeding any longer," "father" out of debt that threatened she added, starting to go. him with dishonor were readily met "Well, you'll be arrested for bigby the infatuated young man at first; amy, just the same!" but when he sought to procure large "Not that!" interposed the millionsums from his father the matter be- aire, coming between them. came difficult. "I suspect there is There was a flash of triumph In something wrong," said the elder the eyes of the woman. She had man, "but I do not want any scandal, won. and we will not risk any extreme It was arranged that she should measures." go to Paris and procure a divorce, He was asked to produce a photo- after having $50,000 settled upon her. graph of the young wife, but said to the credit of her and that of there were none. His son never had And, her scholarly accomplice, this part one. Finally a servant, seizing an of the bargain was carried out, and opportunity when the young woman the skeleton in the closet of a Fifth was out, carefully went through her avenue palace never has been revealed. trunks, which yielded up three that of a charming young Wilson took sick in France and country' miss with hair down her was far from being a well man when back and the most winsome of he and Nell returned to America smiles; another, showing her several several years later. It was then that years older, and the third of the she met the "masked millionaire." self-possesse- d, , pro-tograp- The Blue Cross and s INCE the commencement of the pixsent European war a great deal of work has been accom plished by the Blue Cross on behalf of army horses. This organization has sent nary requisites, medicaments, and other comforts for horses engaged in war to nearly 300 regiments. These supplies have included such things as humane pocket killers, portable forges, clippers, waterproof rugs of a special design, many thousands of calico bandages, also flannel bandages and wither pads, woundveteri-particul- ar syringes, pocket cases of surgical instruments and a very large number 0 fly uets. In many cases regiments are receiving weekly, fortnightly and monthly supplies of necessaries for their horses. At the London headquarters of the Blue Cross may be seen hundreds of letters from cavalry, transport and veterinary officers testifying in most enthusiastic terms to the value of this work. In the early days of the war. the Blue Cross offered its services to the French government, which gratefully accepted and officially recognized them. It now has four splendid depots in France divided into 12 hospitals, and a very excellent and valuable work is being done, 211S horses having been cured since the hospitals were opened. The Earl of ' Lonsdale, a very active member of the Blue Cross fund committee, visited the hospitals and expressed his appreciation of the work in the following terms: "I visited also the Blue Cross hospitals, and I heard all the French authorities had to say on the subject. All are delighted, but no one so highly delighted as myself, at the beautiful way in which the Blue Cross hospitals are run. The cleanliness, the care of the animals, and the work of orses any employe is an object lesson to those devoted to animals. I looked at every detail medicaments, instruments, corn, hay, straw, sheds and fields; in fact, everything connected with the welfare of the animals, and I have no hesitation in saying that no human effort could improve on the kind and valuable aid which Is being accorded to the horses." Making Uniforms Less Visible of the latest conceptions rendering military unf. forms less visible on the field of battle is to use material in pronounced irregular alternating patches of contrasting light and dark colors with wavy outlines. Some of the darker patches are outlined in a still darker color, and smaller spots of contrasting color break up the color effect of some of the patches, so that the effect oZ uncertain light and shade is produced, to cause the garment to lose ONE its identity by mingling with the background. 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