Nick Carter Stories No. 148, July 10, 1915; The Mark of Cain; or, Nick Carter's Air-line CaseCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 148, July 10, 1915; The Mark of Cain; or, Nick Carter's Air-line Case
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
Dean Cummings had difficulty removing the body from the cliff dwelling,
his Indian guides and other native Indians objecting on grounds that the
body might have contained one of their sacred good spirits. The find is
now in the University of Utah museum.
“Bill the Bum” in Downy Bed.
The story of Mrs. Cook’s adventure in the home of Mrs. Hodkinson, a
neighbor, was much like the experience of Goldilocks and the Three
Bears. Both women are residents of San Francisco, Cal.
The Hodkinson family has been in New York for some time, and Mrs. Cook
promised to look out for the house. She went there the other day to see
that all was well.
She didn’t know that “Bill the Bum,” who says his address is Everywhere,
was there in the role of Goldilocks. Bill had made himself at home there
for three days. He had crawled through a basement window and had sampled
things as he went along till he got to the top floor, where there was a
nice cozy bedroom and a soft bed.
He had found bread and wine and was filled to contentment. Just like
Goldilocks in the home of the Three Bears he had a fine time. Then he
got sleepy and dozed off.
Mrs. Cook found him stretched out on a bed upstairs, snoring like a
trooper. She tiptoed downstairs and called a policeman. The officer made
so much noise climbing the stairs that Bill the Bum was awakened and
took a header through an open window. He was captured after a chase,
taken to the city prison, and charged with burglary. Among the things
taken and not recovered are two cherry pies, three bottles of wine, and
half a box of fine cigars.
Girls in Men’s Togs Foil Prison Guards.
Until three girls were arrested in Bridgeport, Conn., all of them
wearing articles of men’s clothing, it was not known that they had
escaped from the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills,
Westchester County. They employed Harry Thaw’s method of escaping,
walking out the gate when the milkman opened it.
They told a remarkable story of hardships while being sought by police
and guards in automobiles. They slept in woods and ravines during the
days, and traveled and foraged at night.
The girls are: Ida Oakley, formerly of Danbury; Mildred Doyle, of
Manhattan, and Alice Kilcoyne, of Brooklyn. They said they were about to
be placed on a bread-and-water diet at Bedford Hills, and decided to
escape. They had covered several miles in the prison garb of
gray-and-white uniforms before their escape was discovered. They kept
far back from the roads, and at noon hid in a ravine. At night they made
a raid on a farmer’s chicken coop, and, over an open fire, they broiled
three chickens.
Early the next morning they made a raid on the clothesline of a
housewife, and obtained enough clothed for Ida Oakley to discard her
prison garb. Then, while the others hid in the woods, she went into the
village and begged food and clothes, telling a story about a husband
with tuberculosis and several hungry children.
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