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Show 3I0ESIXG, JUTO THEALTw-I;Al"TI?TBIEr'STnn?AT b ffff BB f j n B iff lOtldlPQ 6, 1926. 0 DUttfflfo fa And How His Dying Confession in the Bible Revealed Him as the Double of the pMx. tern' mgnmrsl . it Z$lkt.V "DOUBLE." from .41 M 0""' i. if. it '."V ::. V J PALACE. New PlnfV Manunn on Fifth York, Which Effie. Alma and AdtTie Clark Hoped They Would Inherit. hi m I Aue. TV J". r; "3 'i'-'- eek their fortune in Montana at about the same time. William A. Clark, father of the three girls, did not strike it rich. In fact, he never struck it at all. He dropped out of the story entirely for many year. But the other William A. Clark discovered an immensely lucrative vein of copper. He fought two other copper men for the economic domination of the State, battled one of them for yearg for political control and finally became United States Senator, . During all this time, the three listers, whose mother had meanwhile died, believed absolutely that the fabulously rich William A. Clark was their father. The first and last names were exactly the So was the middle initial. same. Moreover, he was the "former Missouri school teacher" just as their father had been, and though ha had not worn a beard when he loft them, picthey looked at Senator Clark's tures in the newspapers, observed'-thastonishing resemblance of the features, and said, "Of course that is father." h of the Man Who Deicription Left Hie Daughter Deluded for More Then Twenty Year. 4 i '3' J J BEAUTY. kfcl--, This YsMf Lad, Katya Minauian, the Dancer, May Be On C- the Real Heir to tit Clark ' J I '( -f Millions, Since Her. Betrothal to W. A. Clark, HI, waa Announced. H ' l-'- V l" I e U-- l , inrr CLARK'S SENATOR Photo-Sketc- - 'OPE drferrod maketh the heart eirk," sanI wise oM Kmpf Sol omon, but it was not so for more than twenty years in the caso of the three Clark Bisters, modest ladies living in genteel poverty, in the little town of Ornck, Missouri. Effie, Addie and Alma Clark are elderly women now, with praying hair, but they were pretty pirls a quarter of n rrntury apo when William A. Clark, tlifir father, left the family hearth and his small post as a school teacher to "ko V est" and make his fortune. And they were still vounp and pretty five years after their father disappeared. They heard nothing from him during that period. Apparently he had deserted them. Vague stones rame hack to the little Missouri town that he had been seen prospecting for gold and other mineral in Montana. 'irr tife M ' '. MILLIONAIRE. The Late Senator William A. Clark, Who the Girls Believed Wll Their Father. 33m INNOCENT DUPE. of Mri Addie Clark Miller, One of the Clark Sister, Who Believed She Would Inherit Million. MRS. HINES. to Believe Thai Her Lifelong Hope Are Shattered- - An Old Photograph m She " i "W" SISTER'S HOME. The Modeit Home of Mr. Alma Hines Little Town of Orrick, Minouri. Then suddenly came more- definite rumors, stories in the newspapers that William, A. Clark, of Missouri, former humble school teacher, had struck it. rich in Montana, and was making millions. That was nearly twenty years- - ago. "Now that father is rich, he will remember us," the three girls cried in joy, but the letters they tried to send him apparently never reached their destination. Effie Theastoundingthing that had actually happened was that two Clark McWilliam. a She Appear After the .Hope of Twenty Year Are Shattered. of fate resembling each other to an 'exdegree, traordinary both left Missouri to VICTIM. Another of the Sitter, Mr. To-da- y A. Clarks, William both school teachers, and by a strange trick Bolts, Bars, Broken Legs Couldn't Keep and 7 s t i - e f i ' Clark's wife, his childhood sweetheart, died. He married his ward. He became an old, old man. Still the three sisters said nothing. At eighty-- f iva he was still active. A. year later, he caught a cold and died of pneumonia. Effie and Addie and Alma at once, in absolute good faith, entered a elaim for full shares of the $75,000,- 000 estate. What might have happened in that astonishing lawsuit is problematical, but a few weeks ago the other William A. Clark also died in And when the scratching had ceased and the pen dropped from his tired, stiffening fingers, t h 8 mystery of the two William A. Clarks had been dispelled, for ha swore positively that h was .the father of Effia and Addie and Alma-N-o one has suggested that the sisters ever acted in anything but ithe best of faith buF apparently their bubble has bean shattered. A queer but perhapf naturally human detail, V He Montana. that they refuse to believe Butte, statement decided he would not die with his secret. it now. They have issued So a few hours before his tangled life through their attorney that they mean to came to a close, he laboriously inscribed go right on with the suit, still believing a full "confession" in the family Bible. that they are in the right. , Annie" in Prison "Cat-Ey- e - . soon as she was put on crutches go the would be sentenced to the Once there, sh "solitary" cells. stole a kitehen knife, dug through a brick wall, limped across a yard at midnight, climbed another wall on a plank and dropped to freedom front a rope made out of ii - jjmj.mm ima Mrs n m t r II t V r Chapman had several confederates "Cat-Ey- e Aanie' in his getaway. worked alone. However, afUr her second escape, she hid for twenty-gt- x hours in a hay stack in a oria-zlin-g rain, without food or water. Her escape rivaled Eddie Guerin's sensational break from Devil's Island. s. i 4 rich. Senator k than .men? endurance became a Gerald Chapman romantic legend because of his At lanta prison escape. But Mrs. Lillian McDowell, alias "Cat-Ey- e Annie," woman thief, puts Chapmaa in the shade. Annie" Last .October "Cat-Eyjumped two stories from a Buffalo prison and, though her leg was broken, hid away for a day and a niKht untd she was found. Taken to Auburn Prison, 'she turned "bad" as all would be immensely Since Eddie- Guerin Most Amazing Jail-BreaFled from Devil's Island AVE women really more nerve w Mother As the years went by the three sisters made no effort to force themselves upon the attention of their supposedly rich father. At first they seemed to have a sweet, simple faith that he would recogdue time. Later it the nize them in were advised to wait appears they, ami claim a snare oi wie esuvuo after the Senator's death, on the theory that if he were forced to recognize them, he might cut them off with smaller bequests. A queer feature of the story is that the other William A. Clark the "fake millionaire" seems to have been cognizant of what was" going on of his daughters' hopes, and that his saturnine silenee helped "bunco" them into the belief that they would one day inherit a great fortune. Consequently for more than twenty of Cinyears, the three sisters led a sort one day derella existence, believing that the golden chariot would roll up to their door and transport them to the great New York mansion. All three of them married their real modestly, but their real life andwhen they dreams centered in the future ' " KATE CLARK of the S latere Who - -Tried to Break Millionaire Clark'. WilL Refue ... II 1 r m !77n .a 7.-- v - . '' ...If a ' 1 t J' r 1 i -; . - ., : . " , - - tr- - 7 ANNIE." Official Police Photo of "the Moat Notoriou Woman Tbief in America." "CAT-EY- E - ' - ....- - HOW ANNIE COT AWAY. Oiafrim of the Ejcfpif rom Auburn Prion. Arrow Show Annie' Profres from Her Cell to the Prle Yard lo the Greenhou.e, Where She Got a Plank, to the" Outer, Wall and Over to Freedom. , - t- urw1 fwa i tu nwm I aruala B4ca 1 mw CAUGHT BUT UNDAUNTED. An.ie" After She Waa Snapshot ef "Cal-ERecaptured When She Broke Her Leg a Leap from Prieeev y Two-Sto- ry ANOTHER FAMOUS "ESCAPE." Clara Phillip, the.. Hammer Mardereea, Whoae Getaway from a Lea Aaieiee Priaee. "Cat Eye Annie" Sarpateed, |