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Show visage, the coincidence moved bee to speak. Her story, at first discredited a childish imaginings, and finally believed be-lieved brought to mind other happening, happen-ing, and link by link the chain of evl. dence i welded against the school lea-her. So carefully was the matter kept from "Miss" Sears that when Detective Irving of Baird. Texas, arrived ar-rived with his warrant he rounded up his prisoner without a moment a delay. When Sars was searched a belt con-tal-iing I3.0O0 was found on him. The illfraiT In Huntsville knew no bounds. At firvt lynching was threat-end, threat-end, but Irvine carried off his prisoner prison-er successfully. Sears laughed cynically cynic-ally when asked why be bad worn womnn's garb, asserting that It was easier to make a living as a woman than as a man. HE KELT A SECRET. MAN WHO POSED A3 A WOMAN "OR SEVEN YEARS. Am Wka Tkl SVrhaoi Darlw the TIM U biMM y r.pu-. ' (hnUllei r(l'W for A"'"1 ! MurOor. j A kiss is the new factor In criminal j reeordt. It bas brokn the seal of a j seven years' secret, brought a mar- j derer to Justice, and revealed the man j In woman's clothing who bad for sea- j sons deceived an entire community. . "Jennie" Sears of Huntsville, Ark., who was arrested recently as the man wanted for a crime committed in western Texas, was betrayed by a kiss, j The ethics of the kiss masculine and j the kiss feminine does not so much ' enter Into the evidence as the simple physical fact that "Miss Jennie" bad I so long neglected the barber. There- i fore, when a little girl carried away j the excess of her affection for the j sweet young school ten her, threw her j arms about her neck and planted her j rosy lips full on "Miss' Sears' mouth. I she became conscious of a curious prickling sensation. Being a child of an Inquiring turn of mind, she medi-i medi-i tated on the phenomenon till she erolved a theory, and It was ber explanation ex-planation of this unique discovery that led to the detection of one of the cleverest clev-erest deyperadixs that ever eluded the j sheriff. As has been told. "Jennie" Sears had I for seven years played the woman to ' an admiring audience in the little rural ru-ral settlement of Arkansas. Her appearance ap-pearance was the Immediate sequence Ml ! "JENNIE" SEARS, j of singularly cold-blooded murder Id : the Lone Star state. The victim, an I Innocent young country girl, had been done to her death by a Jealous lover, one Albert Sears, of whom all tiace had been lost. EncK4 to TMrh rhol. When a petite blonde with sky blue eyes and curly hair, armed with a good education and musical accomplishments, accom-plishments, sought pupils In Huntsville, Hunts-ville, she was accepted much as a gift from a benignant Providence. Charmingly Charm-ingly confiding young women, with vast possibilities In the social line, are not an every-day occurrence in that region, and Madison county presently rang with her praises. When a peitlon was circulated asking ask-ing that she have charge of the county school, the susceptible trustees yielded without a dissenting voice. "Miss Jennie' Jen-nie' entered on her duties In an atmosphere atmos-phere of worship from the gallants round about. Her manner of handllag what might have proved an embarrassment embar-rassment of beaux to any less astute damsel, however, only won her fiesh encomiums. She bestowed her favors with such unerring discretion that each thought himself the favored one. The school prospered. The pretty young school-ma am was eminently fitted fit-ted for her task. She ruled her pupils by love, and for several years her life moved on like a peaceful tide. The disturbing element which suddenly sud-denly roughened the current was a ttKj ardent wooer, who in the person of a local politician, pressed his suit In and out of seajson. The hesitation of "Miss" Sears was met with a hint that her suitor's influence might be brought to bear against her in her school appointment appoint-ment This forced her hand. She promptly resigned. Tnoa Com tho KUo. The little drama, which had if course been witnessed by the entfre country, only raised -Miss" Sear higher in public estimation, and tbe private school she presently opened was widely patronized. The youthful principal made her home with her patrons pa-trons and was a figure at all the social so-cial gatherings. Two years passed and her reign was undisputed. Then came the kias and the denoument. It was during recess one day that little Mary Hancock, the 12-year-Old daughter of a farmer, bestowed upoa "Miss" Sears the fateful caress and received In turn the prickling sensa-n sensa-n already alluded to. Mary made no comment at the time, but when that (enlng she climbed upon her father's, knee to give' him a good-night kiss, and experienced the aame stinging of her Under skin from his unshaven |