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' traction pretty soon." - fll it up before I could start, . most too good for a balky motor to "Sixth Instalment The play at the Old Sol- diers' Home is interrupted be- sause of a fire, the players and vetérans escaping. mOW GO ON WITH THE STORY " "Then it's all for the best," pip- ied Jim Cooper cheerfully, It is easier to be optimistic when iyou are warm. | "Maybe we had better start home," 1 suggested, thinking ap- rehensively of those thirty long fles to town, "With the snow ling fast it may get too deep for | "Youre right," echoed Jim. "Let's hurry. We can take off our make-up after we get home." i By great good luck we had left our outer wraps in the main buiid- ing. - Therefore we were able to byndle up warmily enough. I had a long, heavy fur-lined driving-coat that covered me from head to heels. The Lillielove bus got away first, although / Mrs. Lillielove herself elected to return with us. I had no non-freezing solution in my radia- tor so I had left the water out as soon as we arrived, and pow had to Grandmother responded nobly to the first turn of the crank. I men- tally thanked her for not misbehav- ing on an occasion which seemed al- miss. The old soldiers crowded to the "What's: the trouble Bill?" 'the other one queried--without, how- ever, taking bis eye or the muzzle of his gun away from us. "There ain't any electric starter on this car." Jim Coeper laughed. "You'll have to get a mew car, Tom. When even highwaymen crit- icize it you have to admit it's get~ ting out of date." "Shut up," commanded our guard. 1 mentally applauded him. "Can't you start her anyway, Bil?" ° . "Sure, I can start her all right," Bill stated confidently. 1t Is grand to approach a motor in that frame of mind, especially in cold weather; If there is anything in this theory of the superiority of mind over matter it is certainly cor- rect to hold a hopeful thought when about to crank. a car. Bill grumbled a little though at having to turn the engine over by hand, He went out in front of the car and grapsed the handle firmly. "When I get her going, Julius,' Bill said before cranking, 'you 'make a quick jump for the car and we'll be off before anybody can start anything." "All right," assented Julius, All arrangements for the get- away completed, Bill cranked the car. He cranked it several times in fact, without any definite result. Grandmother Page was behaving like a brick--1like a load of bricks, doors to see us off. Without the opposition.of the band Grandmoth- one might almost say. She would respond to none but the hand of . +... We Lined Up in the Custom ary Attitude Before Him . . for Page 'did herself proud. We started off amid a riot of sounds, similar to those made by a terrier [hunting for a rat in a pile of rusiy stove-pipes. From that I could teil that the engine was working per- fectly. I don't quite understand how the drivers of these up-to-date, silent cars can locate trouble. Every- ithing is so thoroughly muffled that as far as I am concerned it is im- possible to tell how many cylinders {are firing. With Grandmother Page there is no room for doubt. It she fox-trots I know that only three charges are being exploded; if she does a buck and wing it is alternately. two and three; but if the racket is practically constant I can rest easy in the knowledge that she is doing her very best on all four. Above the noise of the motor could be heard only the "fareweil of Comrade Pilk Henwether. He probably had not heard the sham battle going on beneath Grand- mother's hood. "Good-bye," he yelled with his excellent lungs .and highly train- vocal organs. "Don't feel bad about the fire, because it was a lot better than the show!" That man just radiated tact. It's too bad he could not have been in on the diplomatic courtesies that |preceded the European War. The trouble could have been so easily averted by having the representa- tives of the powers draw lots to see which would kill him! it was a beautiful night even if the snow was falling so thickly that it 'was impossible to see thirty feet ahead of the car. There is no jpeace like that of a snow storm, no purity like that of the earth in 'a fresh white blanket. tI seemed 2 same to put tracks in the clean, glistening expanse. . * Maryella, snugly wrapped fn arm robes, sat beside me; the car as running smoothly, and there jwas a long drive ahead of us. What more could I ask? It was all for tha hest. [TIn the midst of such pleasant ruminations I noted hastily a dark object in the road. I turned quick- 1y to avoid it and my lights illumin- ated another object directly in our path. I put on the brakes and stopped just in time to escape run- ming down a man who stood ime movable. - CHAPTER VII { More Trouble * "What was the matter with him? The answer flashed upon me when I noticed that in either hand hel. held a revolver. It was a hold-up! 1 grasped with surprise. Sosdid Grandmother Page. I had fjrgote ten to feed her gasoline enough, and the motor stopped. "Get out," directed the man with the guns briefly. Needless to say we did, and lined up in the customary-attitude before him and his fellow highwayman with our hands eleyated above our heads, ' Instead of going through us as we expected, one of the men climb- ed into the front seat and adjusted the spark preparatory to starting. ° Then I knew who they were and why they had stopped us. They were escaped-convicts from the pan- itentiary, and they wanted the car to get away in!® It was a good scheme. They would leave tracks hard to 'd'stin- guish, and could out-distance local pursuit. "Cass!" exclaimed the highway- man who was in the car, - +- _-- tn 228 (2%, "4 .lt~ hava her master, and to the ministra- tions of another she only gurgled. ! '""What's the matter, Bill? Can't you start her?" questioned Jim Cooper sympathetically. "Probae bly it is all for the best, Bill. This will teach you to be patient, and will likewise develop the muscles. If you would devote the same amount of energy to the pursuit of 'an upright and noble life you would doubtiegs become President of the United States some day. Think, Bill, of how this life of crime has aged your poor old mother, Think of your mother, Bill!" Bill exploded at last. - "It that guy lets out another chirp, Julius, plug him!" Jim subsided, but from time to time thereafter' he writhed with eagerness to offer suggestions and comments. He just naturally can- not keep from lending a helping hand in everyone else's business, He means well, too. I do not doubt but that Jim Cooper is one of the best heartéd men in the world; but by the time he has helped half dozen times in something you want to do by yourself you get to dread his appearance on the scene. ; Bill's temper had not been ime proved any by Jim's earnest advice. He twisted the crank savagely and then delivered a violent kick on the radiator. : "Who owns this plece of junk anyway?" he demanded, at last ap- proaching our group. "It it yours?" He pointed at Jim, "It 1s not," Jim disclaimed hast- ily. 'You couldn't give it to me on a bet." '1 made a ment& resolve to gquare up with him sometime for his scornful comment. No man likes to have the things that he owns ridiculed.. Grandmother might not have all the modera at: tachments, but I loved every boll in her body. "Then you must be the guy," Bil sald indicating me, 'You com here and start your car." Now, I had no particular desire Grandmother Page kid a Srey em ------ i BSS Swany napped. It seemed simple enough to make a perfunctory effort and tell them it would not go. So I monkeyed with the levers aimlessly, and cranked a couple of times, I did not prime the cylinders with' gasoline and stuff a glove in the air intake, as I knew I would have to do to get her to respond. | 'She won't start," I announced. Bill swore, * : Jim Cooper smothered a strident laugh. ; "What are you laughing at?" Bill demanded harshly. | "Because," Jim returned, "Tom says he can start that car in any kind of weather when no one else can." : How cheerfully I could have throitled Jim .for that asinine rep- etition of my footless boast! "So you've been stalling, have you?" | ; Bill turned upon me savagely. "Now you start her; understand? No monkey business! If 'she's run< ning in two minutes we may not blow your brains out." Something in his tone convinced me that Bill was in earnest. I lifted the hood, primed the eylin« ders, stuffed my glove in the intake and turned her over. ! Grandmother responded feebly;' "Phut!" ¥ "The batteries are a little weak," I commented. "They don't give a very good spark when it's 50 cold." I 'adjusted the spark-coil to op- erate on less current and tried cranking. There was no. explosion THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, SUGUST 19, 1929 J case in the Cotirt of 'Appeat,* speak," 8 ty is generated to make a spaek. It is one of the most heart-breaking exercises 1 know of, es when the motor: pression such as 'Grandmother e boasted. The perspiration. dripped from my brow and my arm seemed like a leaden weight that was 'about tc drop off. I paused for breath, "Now you quit your kidding," snarled the highwayman, shoving the muzzle of the revolver unde: my nose. "Tske off that coat and make her go. Take it off, I say!" I obeyed, Neither of us was pre- pared for what followed. I had for- gotten the white tights, which were all I wore beneath my overcoat, and he, of course, was not expect: ing me to look as pale as I did. His jaw fell and his arm dropped limp at his side. ""W-w-what are you?" he asked. It was probably the only oppor: tunity that I would have, and I made the most of it. As the muazle of the gun dropped I jumped for him and pinned his arms to his sides, We rolled over and over in the snow, the revolver exploded as we, fell. Sometimes weight is an advantage This was a case in point. In two minutes I was sitting on his chest and had taken his weapon away from him, Finger on trigger, ready to fire I Jooked around for the other ban- dit. "Where is he?" I asked. "Gone," replied Maryella. "He ran away when he saw you were winning." 'It's all for the best," Jim assert. ed. "You couldn't fight him anc sit on this other gentleman at the same time anyway." ' | I rose from my seat. "Get up!' I ordered my prisoner, EXPLOSIONS ROCK OLD PICCADILLY Causes Injury to Three Persons London. -- There were amazing scenes . in Dover street, Piccadilly, recently, when three persons were in- jured in a series of underground ex- plosions, believed to be due to bitu- men gas, produced by the fusion: of an electric cable. The first explosion occurred about 11 o'clock in a cable tunnel in a pas- sage leading to Dover-court, which street, It was so violent that the roof of succession, ribbons of flame along with fantastic speed, Club, Dover street, 2 boy was the Tube station for: shelter. Struck By Ice Chest The injured persons were: Thumwood, a porter at the fered chiefly from shock. ed site Paquin's, the Art Club, Tube Station. the ground. the women staff at the by the police. « At the Arts Club the door of the es and flung some distance. A shopkeeper in Dover street said: off the counter. I thought the wholg shop was falling down, and rushe out into the street, "As I got to the door manhole cov- ers blew up simultaneously, being hurled six or seven feet. whole of Dover street was alight." Early last month the fusing of un- 2000 telephones lines being put out of service. ~ At'the inquest held.in the city the jury found that the fire was caused by sparking at a defective poreclain connector temporarily -used by the L.C.C. They recommended that the Exchange Telegraph Company be re- quested to replace the gutta percha insulation of their cables. by a more whatever, STN recognized and 'efficient method of in- sulation, : '|. London. -- Three sisters staked avery peany they had to win a for-|' 'statutes of limitation: connects Dover street with Berkeley the passage 12 feet high was splint~ ered, and bricks and mortar flew in- to the road. Following this, several manhole covers in Dovert street were shot several feet into the air in rapid raced a- fire broke out in the basement of the Aris blown off his bicycle carrier, people in the street rushed into shop deors and Lilian Pye, housekeeper at the Arts Clup, who was struck by an ice chest flung across the basement of the club by the force of the explosion; Charles Arts Club. George Brown, a page-boy at Paquin's the dressmakers, who sui- All were taken to St. George's hos- pital, but only Miss. Pye was detain- Separate explosions occurred oppo- Batts Hotel, and near the Dover street The great doors of the Albemarie Club were temporarily closed as fur- ther explosions were feared, and all bootmakers were escorted into Albemaric street} "The windows rattled and ghings fell some Densc black smoke emerged from the holes, and for a moment I thought the derground electric cables on the Vie- toria Embankment resulted in nearly DOLLAR CLAIM - LOST BY SISTERS the estate should be them, Marie béen secretary to A The_sisters' claim fook the form of a Petition of Right against the ' : called th reporter on the sisters af. ter the court decision and foun that even now they had not given up all hope. Staked Every Penny on At-|% tempt But 100 Years Too Late tune estimated to amount to between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000. ~~ After finding what seemed conclu- sive proof in an ancient parish regis- ter they devoted the last five years to fighting their case in the courts.' Then recently they were told that they were 100 years too late and their claim was dismissed under the So ended the romantic case of the L'Epine millions, one sensational actions of modern' times There 'were ten claimants in all to the L'Epine millions but three sisters --Miss Amy Mason; Miss Jessie Ma~ son and. Mrs, Harrison--were the leading' spirits and bore both the bulk of the work and expense in the search for fortune, They sought to establish their right to the estate of £45,000 left Marie L'Epine; a lunatic, who died intestate in 1798. They also claimed interest on this sum, he estate lapsed to the Crown on aric's death, and George III. pre- sented it to Admiral Lord Howe with the stipulation that should the heirs of the most} Entry in : i "It seems nl after 'we have worked so hard. We were 50 sure of success. when in 1921 we found, in the registers of St. Mar- S0i-the- isis, a J attiage entry prov t. Maria L'Epiné not, 'as had previously: been assumed, ille- gitimate. . "After that, we threw all our energy and money into establishing by | our 'claim. We spent hundreds of pounds in search fées and went through thousands of «musty docu- ments in _ the Record Office and Somerset House in search of further proof. ; "In 1927 we lost our case before Mr. Justice Romer. Money was run- restored to Lv ¢'s husband had | ing Howe at one time for over two' bours, but we lost again, "My sister . Jessie then took thé ee, and got afy exten- on the fight. So today we have had only now recovering from a three am . months' illness." Before the judge Miss Amy Mason appealed that costs should, not be awarded t the petitioners. _ 'Mr. Stafford Crossman, for the At- torney-General, said he must ask for an order for costs. \ Mr. Justice Romer: You ask for it, | therefore I must make it. ------------------------ MURDER ON SEEING Young Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Child London.--That a young woman was led to confess prendihs o: H to drown- ing her child by the effect on her mind of seeing a harrowing film about murder was suggested at the Old Bailey recently, when Margaret Gertrude White, aged 20, a domestic servant; was indicted for the murder of her two-year-old daughter, She pleaded not guilty. of the L'Epine line later materialise ning short, so I conducted my own The child was found dead in a pool matter to the House of Lords Ap-|: HARROWING FILM; sion of time, but we were unable to}: d| find the necessary $10,000 to éarry to submit. to the aption being dis-| _ . | missed with costs. ,- . The nerve strain of the whole |' business has been tremendous, and I|° HEAT With all the bran | of Two biscuits with for the hot days and are so n breakfast or near Brentford on June 23;and evi: ence was given by George Hill that White told him she" had drowned the baby. He said the conversation took place at a picture theatre at Ham- mersmith, and that he could not gét h a coherent statement from White, He did not believe what she said, the "picture they had' seen was a harrowing one about murder, and' it worked on the woman, Two days later Hill saw her again at the pictures, and she then said she had better give herself up. _ She then went to Notting Dale Po- lice Station and. handed to the in- spector a piece of paper, on which she had written: "I drowned my whole milk and gome fruit, and easily digested the whole wheat Ax] of baby Friday afternoon near' Staine: in 'the river." z She afterwards stated that she '| threw the child into the river after returning from Ascot- races 'and watched her drown, She had no: where to sleep, no food and was uii- appy. Mr. Batt, defending, said the" de- ferice was that the woman and the child 'were wandering near the pond and that the child while playing ac- cidentally fell in. The woman was mentally defective, and her state- ment that she had drowned the child could not be relied on. The jury found White not guilty and: she was discharged, It was sta- ted that the probation officer would take charge of her. FE Watch Tomorrow' Fusion of Electric Cable For News Issue of From These Oshawa A pageboy at the Albemarie Club and Miss Wright, a girl working on the premises of a firm of bootmakers in Dover street, were both flung to Merchants basement was wrenched off its hing- $ Community Shoj S| Thursday, Friday and Saturday This Week 5