Show MYSTERY IN HIS LIFE HALL WAS A SCHOLAR RANCHMAN AND philanthropist self ballod froba davd 1116 arl 11 d tu u tf taa bar II 11 its tir the hiams nills T town tr r OralD lil asylums sj J C streeter apt san antonio letter 1 remarkable cheater ch rater passel awa ben bell cul cut hall flail scholar ec holar ranchman and died a at few day days ago in texas much vas promised to art in texa texas by this strange man hobby wa as bachl lecture under hia his supervision bupt supt old analo saxon losers toners vere beginning to the plains of at NN veat eat texa texas ornamenting I 1 the asylums that be car gave to ithe the poor and the chapel chapels he gave to the its church at the time of his hi death he had bad mapped out the restoration ot of the old medieval spanish tower towers ot at san antonio and when dying be he left a handsome bequest for the execution a of the project with fill which he wa was bu bulled 3 up to bl his lait last moment moments but stranger than nil all of hia his life in texas was wa hi his life in his native iceland england it Is the lory story of the polished 0 scholar and barrister ban inter breaking into parliament participating la in an intrigue held up to hie his constituents an a a political forger defeated ruined and finally melt exiled to what hit be he believed to be socially the farthermost farther moil end of the world colonel hall fail as educated at oxford and arid his attainments were those of a and 1 lover of at art ilia profet training was that of at a barri barris ter in which he rose to eminence among the brightest ren of his hi time under Glad gladstone stones a second administration itsou he served both lord justice james a aej ud lord justice jessel ilia A pallia parlia counsel he ile was cot riot only successful oil cc eta ful AS its an attorney at law but he was as an ardent and practical roll rull at as well ilia record in office Is a most strange strang 0 one from what can be learned thia th in I 1 ir how bis his political hopee hopes were blasted thre was a villair 1111 num political intrigue and he knew all of its secrets secret the forgery of letters that were to blast a great reputation was ibaan born of the intrigue ahva he contested woodstock Wooda tock with loid laid randolph churchill tho the secret leaked I aked out and colonel hall half was charged with the I 1 IC 1 I 1 11 V 14 1 0 7 IN 1 I if V Z A 9 F ri t T 7 I 1 2 a W t sr HALL AND OSE ONE OP OF HIS ITS CHAPELS forgery he ile protested ils Ms innocence but be he went down in ignominious defeat the wife of the barrister and politician did not survive the stigma of the exposure hm she died h was 16 years ago colonel hall halt began to close up as far as practicable his b 13 state his ilia seven children scattered to zia parts of the world each with at sum ot of money calculated to start lim or her on an honorable ble bu business anesi ceo carls reer three settled in various ous parts of england one went to australia and three came caine to america an soon as he could do so colonel hall left the scenes of his triumphs and reverses and eirl errig grated rated to texas that was 11 years ago his ills avail able bank account approached 1200 with landed estates in esex london and the vest indies southwest texas appealed to bis his fancy and in the Tor variegated legated e atry na try hills dales and rolling prairies in kimball Kira ball county be he fettled settled down for a new life A tract of land 59 acres in extent was acquired by him this he stocked with ith cattle that required the care of CO 60 cowboys and ranch hands then be he began the construction construct lon of bb country bomea bome a mammoth bronstone bro astone building covering one ace ac e of ground g to it U he gave the name of bramblette Bramble tye an ani I 1 an architecture in vi which the ancient saxon towers of Bramble bramblette tye and sompting ting are strangely blended with norman castles of later feudal days Dramble tye however ap appealed caled to ithe the benighted denizens of the west ranches not in an artistic joens but in a philanthropic light i the cowboy the farmer the beggar from the little oui ot of the way country coun i places barely observed the moat or the draw nor did the olid old towers mean more to them than a momentary subject for surprise they knew only that the brownstone walls a hundred rooms lu in almost my any of at which they could find shelter ll 11 when ben they needed it and food and medicine from the bends hands of the queer old englishman all that was required in exchange was a little light work on the ranch in time times ot of drouth and in the mid winter months dram bram was a veritable pauper settle ment under the ml I 1 but eccentric centric rule ot of this strange str anice man the lord of this brownstone man lion sion flied like ahn poorest in la hl bis charge not a bedstead was wits permitted in the house ut each room had bad a it mattrass and clean bedding and cowboy master matter and pauper went from I 1 la a the chap chapel to hi his respective room whiled away an hour or so by a 4 flim dim oil light and then retired to the couch couth on the floor in his will hia his first bequest was to his hi CO GO faithful cov boy to each he be lave save double the entire amount that e each ab c man bad received in as wa while la in big hi employ to his ranch foreman he bequeath hod a I 2 SOO acre farm tarm and and one b half a if of the ranch went to hi his son fred hall now living oa 01 on the ranch his ills sona son on ln a law I 1 mexican named 1 morale If tell fell clr heir to acres of the texas estate alt last paragraph in the will dalt dealt 1 I I 1 with the b political eart secret ehlt 1 h hb b n a v e co county u nt y a and n d t took ok t ro m b him 1 m til i i h hope 0 alpe s a and n d a mb i ti on s ati and d r robbed ob b e I 1 hia him of all the hap with which lit ff gif and pow r at bom home were fra talat 1 I hare have sealed arid stamped lam he be said aid to his lawyer r an envelope ad akl dosed to judge I 1 will encio enclose it in the hlll ill and you can direct tha thal it hall shall be b MOW immediately apol ray my death I 1 ill curry tho the secret to the grave but tills till letter will tell eng laid land who forim forge 11 those letter letters the culprit la in named right bore hero A and nd the invalid thumped the envelope |