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HAL REID'S VARIED CAREER. which makes an easy prey to the un scrupulous." I EAT SEATTLE I -IRE TRUTH AT LA Since the disastrous conflagration of June 6 we have obtained reliable evidence and testimony of the net results of the fire as it affects safe companies and we can establish the fact that our safes saved a larger percentage of valuable property, books, papers, than any other make of safe in that fire according to the number of safes each company had in Seattle then. The Chicago Safe gave the best protection to jewelers where thousands of dollars were at stake while other jewelers with other makes of safes suffered great loss, some of them irretrievable. THE FOLLOWING REFERENCES, Being but a small portion of what we have, and more tendered every day, speak volumes: Seattle, June 12, 1SS9. Mighell Richards, General Agents Chicago Safe and Lock Co.

Gentlemen: I purchased a second-hand safe of yours a few weeks before the great fire of June 6. It was aD4. It fell two stories into the basement, and contained several hundred dollars worth of time checks. We never expected to see them again, but were agreeably surprised when the safe was opened yesterday to find everything in good shape. One of the cheeks stuck to tho varnish; our books (canvas backed) were not discolored one particle.

"We are more than pleased at the result. Send us one of your No A 2 double-door safes by the 15th of July. We will recommend your safe to all our friends. Very faithfully yours, James D. Forrest.

Seattle, June 12, 1SS9. Messrs. Mighell Richards, General Agents Chicago Safe and Lock Company Dear Sirs: You ask me how my safe stood the test of the fire of June 6. It was hemmed in with restaurants and such like places, where everything was ready for a scorcher, and we got it. The No.

F. Safe of yours I had stood the severe test splendidly; combination melted off. The inside was perfect; my books, papers, were entirely uninjured. My neighbors lost all theirs in another make of safe. I can trutlif ully say that in my estimation your safe is all that you claim it to be fireproof.

With kind regards, yours respectfully, A. C. Jackson. Seattle, June 22, 1889. Messrs.

Mighell Richards, General Agents Chicago Safe and Lock Company Gentlemen: The No. A 2 safe I purchased of you stood a severe test in the fierce fire of the tth of June. On the Saturday following the fire we opened it with the combination and found loose papers slightly discolored, but the rest of the contents all right. Everything is satisfactory to me, and if you cannot fix up my present safe I will purchase a new one from you and have no other. Yours very truly, Herbert R.

Mills. Seattle, June 21, 1889. Mighell Richards, General Agents Chicago Safe and Lock Co. Gentlemen: I had one of your 15 fire proof safes in the terriffic conflagration in Seattle, June 6, which laid in the hot ruins four days. When opened we found our stock of jewelry, pledges, all of considerable value, in splendid condition, books and papers not even discolored.

I believe we have come out of the fire better than the majority of jewelers from what we can learn, and 1 am perfectly satisfied and recommend your safes as being all you represent them to be. Yours truly, J. L. Kline, (Late Kline Ash). Second Stbeet, Seattle, June 14, 1889.

Mighell Richards, General Agents Chicago Safe and Lock Co. Dear Sirs: Your 4 safe we got from you passed through a terrible ordeal at the great Seattle fire. It was in the midst of our stock of furniture, bedding, and was red hot for a considerable time. When opened a week after the fire, we found the contents entirely uninjured (sample of paper inclosed). We are more than satisfied, and wish you to send us another exactly like the last one.

We have not yet seen contents of any safe that has come out in as good shape of any other make. Wishing you every success, we remain yours sincerely, T. Shorb Co. San Francisco Hotel, Commercial Seattle, June 19, 1S89. Messrs.

Mighell Richards, General Agents Chicago Safe and Lock Company Gentlemen: I had a large safe of yours in the big fire of the 6th of June; could not get it outside. After opening it I found my books and papers were intact. Everything I had in the safe I found in first-class condition, and I cheerf ullv rec ommend the Chicago Safe to anyone wanting a first-class safe. After rebuilding I will be ready for another one. Yours truly.

Oscar Johnson, There is not space here to enumerate Manufacturer of the only absolutely Seattle, June 22, 1SS9. Messrs. Mighell Richards, General Agents Chicago Safe and Lock Company Gentlemen: In response to your inquiry we beg to inform you that the Chicago Safe we got from you passed through the now historical fire of June b. We found everything as perfect as when placed in it after the safe was opened. We are thoroughly satisfied with the manner our safe stood the test and will be pleased to recommend your goods at anv time.

Yours respectfully, McDonald Melluer. Seattle, June 13, 18S9. Messrs. Mighell Richards, General Agents Chicago Safe and Lock Company Dear Sirs: We are pleased to say that our 4 Chicago Safe did its duty nobly on the 6th of June in the terrible fire. Our restaurant was so situated that we got a terrible heat from the surrounding buildings.

The safe was smashed on top by falling on a monster boiler below. We had to break the safe open and were gratified to find our books and other contents in such good condition. Barring the covers the books are first-class. Should we require a safe at any time, which we may expect to, you may count upon us for the order. Yours sincerely.

White Wade. Frisch jewelers, state that their watches and jewelry came out of the Chicago Safe after the great fire equally as good and in some instances better than our competitors who had other makes of safes. All our goods were in as good condition as we could expect. In fact all gold goods were in good shape. Wholesale Liquors and Cigars.

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"Have you heard from her at all cn the subject?" "Yes, I received a letter from her stating that the young man would write to us and ask our consent to their mar riage. He never wrote, or at least we never received a letter from him; but I am afraid he made her think not only that he wrote to us, but that he received a reply." "Have you communicated with her since hearing of the marriage?" "We have telegraphed and tele graphed, but have received no replies We don't know where she is or what has become of her." 4 'How did she secure an engagement with the Herndon company?" "Throusrh John W. Norton. He sent the company's representative out here, and it was only on his recommendation that we let Bertha go. We thought the company a good one and believed she would have an opportunity to learn a great deal about the business from Miss Herndon.

The day after the com pany left town I was sorry she went with them and would have given 000, if I had it, to have had her with us. It was a terrible mistake to let her go, and now we don't know what danger she is undergoing." Mr. Westbrook and the entire family were very much affected by the strange adventure of Miss Bertha May and had evidently suffered greatly on her account. Reid is a native of Cedarville, O. His father is a prominent practicing dentist of Minneapolis and the young man is a cousin of Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune.

Reid's parents removed to Cincinnati when he was a youth, and there as a young man he first came into notice by a runaway match with Miss Ida Withers, a beautiful Kentucky girl, daughter of Colonel Withers, a well known tobacco dealer. He treated his wife most shamefully, and on one occa sion ran her around the house with a butcher knife. His cruelty forced her to desert him and he kidnapped the child, which he was finally forced to surrender to its mother when she obtained a decree of divorce. Reid went from Cincinnati to Minneapolis, leaving a large number of creditors. In the northwestern city Reid was known as a would be actor and poet.

He left for Ohio after the alleged assault on Miss Compton and was arrested there. JThe new testimony produced for Reid's par don was quite voluminous. Governor Merriam positively refused to make public the names of the persons who had made the affidavits, stating that they had been secured only after a dis tinct promise in each case that they would never after be made public. The new testimony was well corroborated by the fact that it was several days after the commission of the crime before complaint was made, and that it was then urged by Mrs. Williams, the sister of Miss Compton.

Mr. S. S. Phillips, of this city, was a resident of Minneapolis at the time the trial of Hal Reid was in progress. He was personally acquainted with Reid and with his family.

"Nearly everybody in Minneapolis knew something about Hal Reid," said Mr. Phillips to a reporter for the Times last evening. "His familv stands hisrh. but Reid himself was regarded as fast and inclined to be rakish. He was al ways to be found around some place of amusement.

His father being wealthy, he dressed foppishly and with a disregard for expense that made him a sort of hero in the eyes of a few of the sports, but he was not recognized in good society. When ho was tried for assaulting an actress the papers published columns of the disgraceful details. "I was surprised when I learned that he had attempted the role of a heavy villain on the stage. He never could in Minneapolis attempted minor parts in the museums. I did not regard him as clever enough for an author.

He was always striving for cheap fame in the amusement world, and on one occasion when a friend of mine had composed a clever song and dance, Reid gave him $300 for it and claimed the authorship. "When his case came up for trial public sentiment was against him by reason of his numerous escapades. Only two or three weeks before he had figured in a quarrel with a woman about town who jumped from the third story of a building to escape him. This case was called for trial in the police court and was talked of by everybody." Tho actress on whose testimony Reid was convicted and on whose subsequent corroborated affidavit he was released, is now keeping a cigar store in Chicago, which she started with the fund raised for her by the charitable ladies of Minneapolis. A special to the Times last evening from Horton, where the Herndon company appeared last night, says: In answer to questions of the Times correspondent Mr.

Preston, (Hal Reid), said to-night: Governor William R. Merriam pardoned me with these words: "I find that a great injustice has been done Hal Reid and that he is not guilty of the crime of which he was tried and convicted." My parents are worthy citizens of Minneapolis, I being a cousin to Whitelaw Reid, present minister to France. My trouble was caused by a dissolute character who blackmailed me. Governor Merriam said to my sister, Mrs. Lerening, of Minneapolis, shortly after my pardon: The state should pay your brother a large sum as they do in England for what he has innocently Mrs.

Reid, who is a handsome lady of 22 years of age, but looks much younger, said: "I knew all about my husband. He did not deceive me but told me his entire life. I knew he was pardoned and vindicated. I love him. I would do it all over again." J.

B. BROWN, Notary Public. TIIK EX-CONVICT WHO MARRIED MISS WESTBBOOK, ACTRESS. Released From the Minnesota Penitentiary Last February, lie "Writes a Play Which is Produced by Miss Ilerndon The Mar riage with Miss Westbrook All for Love (Kansas City Times. The marriage of Hal Reid, whose theater nom de plume is Henry Pres ton, and Miss Bertha "Westbrook, both members of Agnes Herndon's theatrical company, in this city last Sunday even ing, after only a week's acquaintance, was reported in the Times, only to be followed by the publication in these columns yesterday morning of an inter esting sequal, showing that Reid mar ried the girl through spite.

In love with Miss Herndon, or Mrs. Jessell, as she is known in private life, and piqued at her refusal of his attentions, Reid turned to Miss Westbrook, a St. Louis beauty, who joined the company as an amateur only a week ago. Possibly in experienced in love as in theatricals, Miss Westbrook was captivated and captured. That she made a bad play is apparent, in the light of Reid's his tory, and that she was deceived in the man she knew as Preston is probable.

Reid's acquaintance with Miss Hern don began in Minneapolis early last spring. On February 25 last he was released from the Minnesota peniten tiary at Stillwater, being pardoned by Governor Merriam after serving thir teen months of a fifteen year sentence for outraging a variety actress named Maud Compton. The pardon was rec ommended by Senator Washburn, Congressman Charles A. Snyder, and other gentlemen of prominence. Governor Merriam was convinced that Reid had been unjustly convicted, as were perhaps a majority of the people of both St.

Paul and Minneapolis. After the pardon he returned to the latter city. He had had some stage experience in minor characters and set about writing a play. For the production of this, near or after the close of the regular dramatic season, he engaged Miss Herndon and a competent dramatic company. The actress went to Minneapolis and for a fortnight or more was quartered at the West hotel superintending rehearsals and whipping the play into shape.

The proposed production provoked a great stir, as had Reid's conviction and later his pardon. After his trial a number of charitable ladies, and probably a good many fanatics among them, raised a large purse for the actress Reid was convicted of wronging. These opposed his pardon and raised a great ado about the matter on the ground that there was no protection for the sex. Governor Merriam, however, is not a man to be moved by clamor. He was satisfied that after the conviction Miss Compton, had made statements and admissions impeaching her testimony at the trial, and that while Reid had been crimi- nally intimate with her there had been no outrage.

Hence the pardon. Reid mot with much sympathy and encouragement on his release. But as soon as liis play was announced he again came in for a storm of abuse from those who stood by Miss Compton. The play was announced as a partial story of Reid's life and was widely advertised as such by Reid, ex-convict. Its production was a success.

It had little about it of the wild melodramatic element which the public had been led to expect, and only slight objectionable features entered into its construction. After a week's run in Minneapolis the play was produced at Stillwater and other places in the northwest where Reid was known, tho ex-convict playing a leading part. Reid's connection with Miss Herndon continued to the present. In this city last week he de clared his love for the fair Agnes. His passion inspired no corresponding spark and he thereupon turned face about and married Miss Westbrook.

This young lady's parents reside in St. Louis and from there she joined the company only a week before her marriage. How the news of her marriage was received by her parents is thus by the Globe-Democrat: It was a sorrowful household at the Westbrook residence on Nicholson place last night. The members of the Westbrook family were anxiously awaiting news from Miss Bertha May which might throw some light on her rather hasty and unexpected marriage with young Reid. "This morning I received a short telegram about the affair, but if you knew' my daughter you would know that she had not sent it," said Mr.

Westbrook. "What was the telegram?" "It was addressed to me and read:" Married to Hal Reid; happy; telegraph me theatre at Atchison. Signed! Bertha. "I am confident she never sent that dispatch. She would never have married without our consent, of that I am sure, and I don't believe she is married." "You fear foul play, then?" "I certainly do.

I think that some devilish plot is being worked; that my daughter is the victim of a base conspiracy. If you knew the circumstances as I do you would understand that it is cruel to take advantage of her, as I fear these people have. She is very innocent and artless, knowing nothing at all of the wickedness of the world, ESTABLISHED 1872. ruins and bricks until the eighth day and stood a terrible ordeal. When opened we found some of the papers discolored, leather curled, but everything was as good as it was possible for the contents of anr safe to bo after such a terrible fire and laving so long ia the ruins.

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