The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1912 Page: 4 of 12
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ONE OF THE ALLEN "MOONSHINE" OISTILLERIES
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SOUNDS MORE LIKE
FICTION, THIS
REAL LIFE
STORY
PLOT MARRED BY CUPID
How Highly Placed Business Man
Was Caught in a Marriage
Trap—Horace Field Parshall,
the "Shrewdest American in
London," Was Victimized and
Unwittingly Wed Another Man's
Wife.
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ONE result of the tragedy In Hlllsvllle, Va., has been the discovery and confiscation of a number of "moon-
shine" distilleries tbat had been operated by the Allen gang. The outlaws had made a fortune by the Illicit
manufacture of whisky.
NEW FLOATING CITY
Imperator, Largest of
Craft, Soon to Be Launched.
Ocean 8lant of English ocean liners, the
' Mauretania, 32,000. Each of the fun-
Shlp WW Be 900 Feet Long—Monster
of the Seas, With 50,000 Ton Ca-
pacity, to Have Many Lux-
urious Features.
Berlin—Records for size In the
ocean steamship world are not held
long nowadays. We find a new "Gol-
iath of the Ocean" of German con-
struction. The new ship now building
for the Hamburg-American line la to
be called Imperator, and will be
launched on the Elbe, Mr. Kerns tells
us, In a few months—"such a vessel,"
he says, "as hitherto man's eye has
not beheld." The Imperator will have
a gross tonnage of 50,000, outdoing the
Olympic and Titantlc (45,324 and 45,-
000). The length at the Imperator
over all will be about 900 feet. Says
Mr, Kern, according to Land und
Moer:
"It would be Impossible for a man at
the bow of the Imperator to recognize
with the naked eye another standing
In the stern. If we think of the Im-
perator Bet up on end beside the cathe-
dral of Cologne, the heavens reaching
tower would come only to the second
funnel of the steamship. To get a
'still better idea of the size of the ves-
sel, it may be compared with one of
the largeBt warehouses In the world—
'the new store of Tietz on the Alexan-
derplatz in Berlin, which, although for-
ty houses were demolished to make
room for It, could be placed entirely
inside of the Imperator The steam-
Bhlp, when complete and fully laden,
will displace 50,000 tons. The follow-
ing figures show how much larger she
Is than the vesBels which once held
the world's record for size:
"The Deutschland, once the largest
ship of the Hamburg-American line,
which at the time she was built, and
for ten years after, was one of the
wonders of the world, displaced 6,500
tons; the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria,
of the same line. 24,600 tons, and the
nels of the Imperator will be so large
that a steamer like those which ply
on the river Spree could sail through
It lengthwise.
"The term 'floating hotel,' often ap-
plied to such ships when it is desired
to emphasize their bulk, would con-
vey, In the case of the Imperator, an
impression far short of the truth. For
where in all the world is there a ho-
tel that can hold 5,000 persons at
once? None exists of anywhere near
such capacity. It Is the population
of a small city.
"One of the features of the Impera-
tor 1b entirely new and unprecedented
The first cabin passengers on this ship
will have the use of a roomy swim-
ming pool in a beautiful Pompeian
hall. Near by Is a suite of rooms for
gymnastics."
It will have a promenade deck near-
ly a quarter of a mile long, a great en-
tertainment hall two stories high, hold-
ing 700 guests, a conversation room, a
smoking room, a ladies' hall, a winter
garden and a Rltz-Carlton restaurant,
serving a la carte. It goes almost
without saying that the Imperator will
be driven by turbines What will be
the next step on the part of the de-
signers of steamship leviathans? Will
the English outbid their German cou-
sins once more; and if this keeps on,
how soon shall we reach the sea mon-
ster of 100,000 tons?
GIRL BALKS AT THE ALTAR
Mother's Ruse Successful In Prevent-
ing Daughter From Being
a Bride.
Centralia, Wash.—"Do you take this
man to be your lawfully wedded hus-
band ?"
"I do not."
This unexpected answer brought a
su 'den ending to the wedding cere-
mony which was almost performed
for Charles E. Caldwell and Mlna
Erickson, a young couple of Tono,
by the Rev. Robert Reid of Cen-
tralia. The couple had made prepa-
rations for a hasty marriage, the
bride's mother being opposed to the j and pleads for mercy while others call
union, and the wedding guests were I for punishment.
LONDON—A romance Inspired on
one side—the woman's—by a
trickster's criminal cunning, in
which sentimental mockery at
the start takes the place of love
and by degrees becomes a worthy emo-
tion; in which an unlawful marriage,
planned with calculating sordidness,
once entered Into becomes a real af-
fairs of the heart; In which a wife
acting the leading role in uer hus-
band's dastardly plot becomes a big-
amist and then, the true woman with-
in her asserting itself, becomes crush-
ed by the irraconcilable falsity of
her position and confesses. A real sit-
uation? Yes.
In this strange way are the Inci-
dents worked out In the trapping at
the altar of Horace Field Parshall,
chairman of the Central London rail-
way and known as the shrewdest
American in Ixindon, relates the New
York World. Sent forth under threats
of death to do the criminal bidding of
a man to whom she had linked herself
in girlhood, the impulse of love for
him who becomes her victim at the
end makes the woman's part In the
plot little short of a soul tragedy.
As for the man—for Parshall—it Is
the story of an honorable dupe who,
when the truth is made known to him,
is compassionate instead of rel ntless,
assembled in a hill back of Tono.
A carriage was in readiness to
convey the newlyweds to this city,
where they were to take the train
for Puget Sound points.
The mother, learning that she had
been outwitted, pretended to take
poison. News of her mother's at-
tempted suicide was conveyed to the
bride, who called the wedding ofT
just as the pronouncement of "man
and wife" was on the lips of the Rev.
Mr. Reid.
Wore 69-Cent Hat Three Years.
Chicago.—Telling the court her hus-
band used all his money for gambling,
Mtb. David O'Keefe showed a 69-cent
hat she had worn five years and a $3
coat that had served three years.
O'Keefe was held.
Give Bachelors as Prizes.
Chicago.—Four handsome bachelors
are prizes to be distributed to winners
of a series of card parties for un-
married women members of Carna-
tion Lodge K. of P One bachelor Is
reserved for the booby prize.
INDIANA HORSE A SUICIDE
Animal Drowns Itself In Swollen
Stream Following a Severe
Sickness.
Jeffersonvllle, Ind.—Suicide Is what
Charles Pangburn, a veterinary sur-
geon, pronounced it when he saw a
pain maddened horse dash into the
swollen current of Fourteen Mile
creek here and with no appearance of
a struggle sink to its death. Dr. dem police court.
Parshall High in Business World.
With an Income ci considerably
' more than a hundred thousand dollars
a year, and dukes and lords and oth-
er British money men as his business
associates, Horace Field Parshall Is
well known In London. He is forty-
six years old and a widower with two
1 children, a boy and a girl. His wife
| was a Miss Rutty. He came from Mll-
| ford, N. Y., and entered railroading in
London during the days of Charles T.
j Yerkes, being an engineer who com-
I mands money by his genius.
The woman—the real victim if one
measures consequences—is Mrs. De-
borah Jeffreys, wife of one Herbert
Harrington Jeffreys, whose name sug-
gests respectability but whose record
does not. She Is thirty-three years
old, comely, of gentle manners, and
her life well ordered except In so far
as it has been warped by her husband.
The first setting of this strange
story Is at an English summer resort;
the last, with final curtain, In a Lon-
Horace Parshall
loved her, and so with each passing ] to be forever frea of the claim that
day the struggle went on within her j one man had on her.
until unable longer to bear the strain Parshall had proposed. She accept-
or her own duplicity, she planned to ed him. The marriage followed
escape it by the o^e means which j Venerable Sir Albert De Rutzen,
women who halt at suicide adopt—she chief magistrate of the metropolitan
confessed police court for more than ten years,
Mr Parshall's business hao taken heard the case when it passed for
him away from home. Conscience- j court jurisdiction Sir Albert Is keen
stricken she wrote to him, telling of , and kindly but not an emotionalist,
the wrong she had done him and. It is fifty-odd years since lie was
while admitting his own weakness graduated from Cambridge. He l.nows f
and the part she had played, placed the world. He knowi its people, he
the larger blame on the man v. ho had j heard as much of the story here told
forced her Into it.
Blight on Parshall's Life.
One may not here tell the meeting Stroked his wig now and then and
of Parshall and his false wife follow- I more than once peered over his spec-
I as falls within the questioning and an-
! swers of a self-accused woman. He
Pangburn had just been treating the
animal for a severe ailment with
which it had suffered several days.
He was driving away when he saw
the sick horse gallop furiously toward
the stream and watched It unhesitat-
ingly plunge In and end its misery.
ing this confession. What happens un-
der such trying conditions is seldom
for outside eyes to see.
The only course open to Parshall,
having an honorable position to main-
tain. was to seek a prompt annulment
tacles at the woman In the dock.
No Plea for Mercy.
"And what have you to say for your-
self?" he asked, with kindness In hla
tone.
5 With no tearful byplay, but looking
of the marriage. This the high court the dignified chief magistrate straight
Chokes Dog to Death.
New York.—In a struggle with a
dog that had bitten him In the face
arms and body. Edmund Lith, aged
67. choked the animal to death.
PLAN NEW "ELECTRIC RAIL"I ARMY AUTO TRUCKS BACK
Railroads and Steel Men Trying Hard
to Find a Solution of Baffling
Problem.
' New York.—An open hearth steel
fall finished by an electrical process
being perfected by the United States
Steel corporation is the chief present
hope of the steel makers and railroad
men, who are looking for a solution
of the baffling rail problem. In the
mills the new rail Is known as the
"electric rail," and a statement by one
of the railroad presidents who at-
tended the recent rail conference ex-
plains:
"If this electrical process does not
contain the secret, then we shall have
to rely on a rail heavier than that we
have been using. We shall have to
put In a hundred-pound rail at a cost
of more than $30 a ton. At the con
ference with the steel men last week
we demanded that more be cut off ^
the ends of rails after they had been j
rolled and more cut off the ends of
the ingots before they were rolled I
The Idea of this is to prevent air
holes and other tiefectB. The steel
men were averse to this unless we
consented to pay more for the prod-
uct. However, in the end they agreed
to make a concession and to cut off
a little more from the endB, although
they declined to go as far as we
naked at the present price, which we
think ample.
"Unless this electric rail Bolves the
problem, my belief is we shall have
to put in a heavier rail if we want It
uh hard as those now In use. If not,
we shall have to use a softer one,
which will wear out In half the time.
Return of Machines From the South
—Cross the Ohio River at
Louisville.
Louisville, Ky.—Capt. Alexander
Elliott Williams, U. S. A., and his
party, almost famished after an all-
day run from the crossroads town of
Magnolia, Ky., where for five consecu-
tive meals they had dined on biscuit
and pork, arrived In Louisville on
their automobile trucks in the army
efficiency test.
The party consists of Captain Wil-
liams, Capt. H. A. Hegeman, who
joined them at Atlanta; W. C. Sterling
of New York and four mechanics.
They left Bowling Green, Ky., Satur-
day, hoping to reach Louisville Sat-
urday night, but they were forced to
halt at Magnolia. They made the run
to Louisville during the day and
crossed over the Ohio river to JefTer-
sonvllle, Ind., Betting out from the
COURT SEES 'GRIZZLY' DANCE
Assistant City Attorney of Minneap-
olis Gives Terpischorean Illustra-
tion and Convinces Judge.
Minneapolis.—W. G. Compton, as-
sistant city attorney, danced the "griz-
zly bear" in Municipal court here to
show Judge C. L Smith Just how It
was done. With his arm over the
quartermaster's depot there this
morning for Fort Benjamin Harrison,
near Indianapolis.
Captain Williams declared his ex-
perience with the three trucks on this
trip has convinced him that automo-
bile trucks will prove more satisfac-
tory and economical In transportation
of army supplies than wagons. He
left Washington February 8, journey-
ing to Louisville by way of Richmond,
Raleigh, Charleston, Atlanta, Chatta-
nooga and Nashville. He will turn
east from Indianapolis.
Molasses as Dust Layer.
Washington.—The people of the
United States may be riding over
roads of molasses In the near future.
The bureau of good roads is makinn
experiments near here with a verj
cheap grade of molasses, mixed with
lime water, as a duBt laying cover for
roads.
being done In a local dance hall when
two girls were arrested for dancing
the "grizzly bear." The judge decid-
ed that the dance was "disorderly and
ordered the two girls to promise to re-
main away from dance halls in the fu-
ture and report regularly to the po-
lice matron.
Pat Crowe Is Arrested.
Chicago.—Pat Crowe of Cudahy kid
shoulders of a bystander, he swayed i naplng fame was fined $1 and sent to
rhythmically from side to side to :he Bridewell hospital for treatment
the strains of the San Francisco tune, lor the drink habit by Judge Rooney
and, according to police witnesses. The former outlaw was In a pltiabl-
gave a fair Imitation of how It was condition.
granted on the statement ol the
facts.
It left Parshall free, but with a
cynical view of life. It left the wom-
an a heart-torn wreck. By lier own
admission she could not sleep and was
so convinced of the necessity of ac-
cepting punishment for her wrong-
doing that she made her way to Bow
street police station and to'.d her
story in detail, knowing full well what
it meant to her.
First she told of her marriage to
Herbert Harrington Jeffreys, a cos-
ter type, ranging always on the fringe
of the underworld, with a constitution-
al objection to work and a fixed de-
sire for tawdry finery. Then she told
of her meeting with Parshall, the great
railroad man, "the shredwest Ameri-
can in all London" In matters of busi-
ness, but otherwise like mankind In
general.
The calculating Jeffreys, knowing
well the position occupied by Parshall
In the London transit world and of
his very considerable Income, there-
upon, according to the wife's frankly
told confession, urged her at first and
afterward by threat made her pose
as a widow in the hope and belief that
by this means she might secure money
from Parshall.
Husband Threatens to Kill.
Bnt Parshall, with honorable Intent,
fell In love with her, thus making the
situation complicated. This unlook-
ed for turn in affairs did not make
Jeffreys halt. As the story was told
to Divisional Detective Inspector
Gough, the husband, reaching out for
a fixed and permanent Income as a
result of his wife's debauchery, sent
her forth to lure Parshall Into mar-
riage, holding over her a threat that If
she failed in the undertaking ho would
kill her.
All that was necessary was the de-
ception on her part—only this—and
moved by fear none the less than by
the awakening of a real affection for
the man who was to be her victim,
she did his bidding. She had near-
ly $3,000 In the bank. This sLe gave
of Jeffreys. She had some rings and
pins, baubles of no great value, and
these she gave to Jeffreys He want-
ed them. Ordinarily women do not
part with their money and jewelry,
suburbs of London she met the chil- j hut In this strange case It would seem
dren They, too, became fond of her, I that she had thrown aside the trinkets
In January a year ago Mr. Parshall
was Introduced to a young woman
known then by the name of Miss
Bertha Johnson. She seemed a person
of refinement. She was well gowned
j and of charming manner. Mr. Par-
| shall met he. not Infrequently there-
after, and one day asked her to marry
blm.
It wa3 not until along In the sum-
mer faat she accepted him. The young
woman had gone down to sunny Folke-
stone, which vies with Brighton as a
fashionable resort, and was guest at
the Pier hotel. Thither, at week-ends,
went Parshall, seeking relaxation from
the exacting duties of chief executive
of the "tupenny tube," or London sub-
way. The shrewd business n.an and
the young woman, the latter ever then
playint her part in the design to en-
trap him, motored about among the
quaintly picturesque Kentish towns,
which still stand a monument to
Caesar's Invasion, visited the ancient
Roman ruins und enjoyed moonlight
walks along the leas, which follow the
crest of the ocean side chalk cliffs
back of Folkestone. To Parshall it was
a romance without a shadow. To the
woman it was a shadow without the
romance. It soon became to each a ro-
mance with a shadow.
Seemingly Happy Marriage.
On August 5 they were married.
Parshall, unsuspecting and happy,
formed a little party at The Piers,
and with his bride at his side, motor-
ed to the sleepy littlo hamlet of El-
ham. lying midway between Folke-
stone and the famous cathedral town
of Canterbury, where, at the registry
office, the ceremony was performed.
Mrs. Martha Judd of Folkestone was
one of those present at the mar-
riage.
Many a plan of the mind has before
now been upset by the heart of a wom-
an. It was so in this case. The false
wife found herself the center of con-
flicting emotions. At the Instigation
of a man who would willingly sacri-
fice her for his own financial benefit
she had married a man whose tender-
ness and kindness had made her truly
happy. But the relation was impos-
sible.
At the Parshall country place In the
in the eye. In all seriousness she an-
swered :
"I am deeply, deeply sorry for what
I have done, and I would not have done
it If my husband had not made me."
London magistrates do not overlook ^
wrongdoing, but now and then a man
like Sir Albert De Rutzen Interprets
the law with the end In view of real
justice. He permitted the weman to
depart upon payment of $25, to appear
for trial before the central criminal
court at a later date.
The concluding scene la this case
was in historic Old Bailey, where sits
the London court of sessions. A bond
of $25 does not hold a person desiring
to avoid trial here any more than it
would in the United States. Still Mrs.
Jeffreys appeared.
The confession which she had vol-
untarily made to the police authori-
ties was read to her and she said it ,
was correct, adding only one thing,
that Jeffreys had at his direction been
Introduced by her to Parshall as her
brother-in-law. Jeffreys' plan was to
get Parshall's money—only that.
Still loving Mrs. Jeffreys perhaps,
certainly pitying her, Mr. parshall,
through his counsel, pleaded that she
be treated with mercy, even as the
record of her duplicity was being writ
into a court document.
Her Punishment Nominal,
The recorder expressed the court's
admiration of Mr. Parshall's magnan-
imity and accepted the spirit as well
as the letter of the woman's frank con-
fession that she had been forced by
her real husband, from whom she was
separated, to marry the rich Amer- *
lean.
But punishment was necessary to
complete the record. This was Im-
posed—one day's imprisonment, a sen-
tence which was purely nominal. The
effect was that she walked forth free.
Hand clapping and other manifesta-
tions of approval are rigidly forbid-
den within the walls of a London court
room, but once outside, this woman
who had been made to suffer through
the sordidness of another, who had
borne the brunt of the wrongdoing,
and, moved by an Impulse which wom-
en alone know, had confessed, there
being no other way by which she
could bare her heart, was followed
by pitying glances as w'th bowed head
she was lost in the throng
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