Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost headCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost head
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
The real work of the two dogs begins at dusk, when they herd the turkeys
to the nearest shelter and keep them there until they settle for the
night. When their master has cooked and eaten his supper and has rolled
up in his blankets for his night’s sleep, it is their duty to guard the
flock from wandering skunks, stray coyotes, cats, and other animals who
are fond of young turkey. By dawn the old gobbler is stirring, eager for
a breakfast of bugs and grasshoppers.
Abrams was a cowboy before he started herding turkeys, about five years
ago.
“The range was all fenced in Colorado,” he said, “and it was up to me to
find some other job besides running cattle.”
“Big May,” Circus Lady, Dead.
Christiana Sinclair, who traveled with circus side shows as “Big May,
the tattooed woman,” is dead at her home at Baltimore, Md. She weighed
three hundred pounds.
Eyewitnesses Tell How “Audacious” Sank.
According to witnesses of the sinking of the great British dreadnaught
_Audacious_, off the coast of Ireland, there was only one fatality.
Naval men in New York unite in praise of the work of the crew of the
steamship _Olympic_, in effecting the rescue of nearly nine hundred men
of the sea fighter’s crew. All those not taken off by the _Olympic_ were
rescued by the British cruiser _Liverpool_.
Whether the _Audacious_ is still at the bottom of the sea or is being
repaired by the British admiralty and may again see service is now the
only mystery connected with reports of the vessel of the first line of
England’s naval defense falling victim to a German mine or torpedo. It
is the general opinion that the _Audacious_ struck a mine.
Two men who arrived in New York on the steamship _New York_, from
Liverpool, confirmed the stories of the loss of the warship that had
previously reached here, and added numerous details. One statement they
made was that the _Audacious_ was blown up by the cruiser _Liverpool_ at
nine p. m. on the day it was disabled. This has not been confirmed.
The men who told the story were James Rupert Beames, leader of the
orchestra on the White Star liner _Olympic_, which rescued the crew of
the _Audacious_ and made fruitless efforts to tow the battleship to
shoal water, and Hugh Griffiths, one of the orchestra musicians.
The story of Beames, who was helped from time to time by Griffiths,
substantially was as follows:
“Neither the _Liverpool_ nor the other small warship that had steamed to
the work of rescue was capable of saving the superdreadnaught.
“It was decided that the _Liverpool_ could better risk hitting a mine
than could the _Olympic_, and for this reason the _Liverpool_ made a
serpentine maneuver ahead of the _Olympic_ as a feeler for mines.
“Hardly had the _Liverpool_ cut across our bow when the order was given
to man the starboard lifeboats. Before this a call had been issued for
volunteers.
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