Nick Carter Stories No. 154, August 21, 1915: The mask of death; or, Nick Carter's curious case.Carter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 154, August 21, 1915: The mask of death; or, Nick Carter's curious case.
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
Harvey O. Dysinger, aged forty, a rich Hardin County farmer, shot and
fatally injured his wife, killed his daughter, Esther, aged fifteen, and
wounded his son, Herbert, aged sixteen, and committed suicide at his
home one mile north of Forest, Ohio. The only member of the family to
escape unscathed was the youngest child, Kenneth, aged eleven, who was
rescued by Herbert. The latter is not seriously hurt.
Herbert was awakened at four-thirty in the morning by several shots, and
was just climbing out of bed to investigate when Dysinger entered his
room and fired at him. The bullet wounded him in the head. Dysinger was
also armed with a hatchet.
Herbert, stunned and bleeding, grappled with his father, and the two
wrestled about the room. Finally the boy disarmed the crazed man, and,
grabbing the gun and hatchet, ran downstairs, where he pulled his
younger brother, Kenneth, from bed.
While he was gone, Dysinger obtained a revolver, and, lying down on the
bed beside his wife, shot himself through the heart. He is thought to
have become insane.
Noted Mission Worker Dies.
Walter B. Moorcroft, of Paterson, N. J., for twenty years a prominent
mission worker among drunkards and fallen women, died following a stroke
of apoplexy.
Twenty years ago Moorcroft owned a resort known as “The Hole in the
Wall” in New York. He dropped into the John Street Mission one night,
and what he heard caused him to close the place at ten o’clock.
Railroad to Bar Liquor.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad officials have announced that every train on
the entire system will be prohibited from selling liquors.
The Only Way.
“What a lively baby!” said Brannigan. “Have ye had his picture took
yet?”
“Not yet,” said his proud father. “I’ve tried to, but afther an hour’s
lost labor the photographer advised us to go to a movin’-picture
studio!”
Crosses Ocean for “Story.”
Eliezer Ben Jehuda, editor of the _Haor_, a newspaper published in
Jerusalem, has arrived in New York from Patras. Ship-news reporters who
welcomed him at the pier were beset by mingled emotions when they
learned that the _Haor_ has four editions a year and no extras.
The _Haor_ means in English, “_The Light_.” Mr. Jehuda has come to New
York on a rush assignment, and he was gravely concerned lest he would
not get his story in for the October edition.
It was learned there are no vacancies on the editorial, reportorial, or
business staff of the _Haor_.
He Poisons Milk to Get One Dollar.
John Kelly, eleven years old, admitted in the Brooklyn children’s court,
Brooklyn, N. Y., that he had put a quantity of lye in a bottle of milk
for the use of his eighty-one-year-old grandmother, with whom he lived.
“I only wanted to make her sick so she would have to go to bed,” he
explained. “That would give me a chance to go through the house and get
hold of some money. I needed a dollar awful bad.”
The boy’s parents died when he was an infant, and his grandmother reared
him.
Cyclone Plays Odd Pranks.
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