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ly recetved
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ters of general
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and 18
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mame,
as
a guar-
antee of good'faith.
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‘St. Thomas News.
In
connection
with
the
robbery
comn-
mitted
at
the
Peterser’s
residence,
a
young
woman
by the
nawe of Anna Ford
has
been
taken
into custody
on
suspi-
ciom,
Guilt points
strongly it
her
direction
as
among
some
of
the
things
which
were
stolen,
@..d
hidder
inan
old
cis-
tern,
was
a love-letter of Lars from some
“beau’’ in
Porto
Rieco.
What strength-
ens
the belief in
her
guin
is, that while
she
is a regular
patron
c¢f
the
Cine
on
Sunday
nights;
she
was
s&absent
there
from
!ast
Sunday evening,
besides
lLa
ing been
seen
in the
vieinity of the
i ob-
bery
late
.n
the
evening.
Then,
too,
upon writing
a
iew lines dictated
to se:
by Chief-01-2otice
Morningstar
the hand
writing
coincided
= with
that
in
the
note found
on Sunday“sight.
She
trie”
to
implicate
a
Dboatman
Dy
the
of
William
Moses,
sayin«
was,
who had given i
%wes,
etc.
Upon
ir
as,
ho
-t, found
to
u.
develvbments
in connection
wi
“are
awaited.—St.
Th
Aug. 25th.
Anna
Ford,
16
.
Tortola,
anl
who
kL
-suspicion
in
connec!
Sunaa,
night’s robbery,
was
yesterday
morning,
sufficient
\ ..uence
not having
been
found
to
convigt her,
and a pal o’
hers
Miriam Francis,
«ted
in
her
stead.
Today,
however,
the cas.
S
EOw
versed,
Franeis
having
been
se_
.ree
and
Ford re-arrested
upon further evidence
of
guilt being
found
against
her,
Yester-
CHRISTIANSTED.
V. L U.&
A.,
TUESDAY
3lsr
‘UGUST
1920.
.
day,
shortly
a’terer
release,
she
was
{
seen
hanging
about
the vicinity of the
~«looted
residence
—¢ "inding among
the old
-~
ruins
ot
Manecke
5,
in the Garden
&nd
-~
looking
about
as i
in search
of
some-
-
thing.
This imme: lately aroused
suspi-
'
ciop} the Police
wa:
commu
icared
with,
.
4 ax%n
their
arrvival
and
the
institu-
tion
of'a
searchk
oy them,
some
of the
stolen
goods—siik ©jouses,
silk stoekings
etc.—werc found,
and
the suspect
re-
~
arrested.
Since
thien,
other
evidences
.
have been
found umat strongly
poin:
to
|
her
@as the guilty
oue.
*:
-
f
She
was arraigncid
in SSO bail; but
the
'
amount
not
being
forthcoming
she
has
.
beenincarcerated,
ending further devel-
opments.
-5t T
was
Mazl Notes, Aug.
26th.
o
g
|
. TELERAMS
-
,
.
ST.«CROIX
STA iFIN.
',
=
|
Halifux, N.
S, &ug. 26th.—One
of the
.
most
peculiar erise
whieh ever con{ront-
-
ed the
sugar
trade
is now in process
of
'
operarion,
accoid.ngto Halifax
dealers
'
interviewed
on
the¢
sugar
situation
yes-
.
terday.
A
cioud
*f uncertainty
hovers
|
over
the
whd'
‘ade, but
one
thing
!
seems
[uir]
namely
that
sugar
|
down
“e big drops
expe-
|
riep
" the
continent,
P
i
that
‘never
P
pe
Mporter.
‘I come
sown
un-
1t
|
§
o
0N
Wi
.t
18
at
‘23
su.amer,
.s fora long
present
lower
seem
cautious
‘e that
there
m in
sugar
»
he
bitten
some
means
.s-another
up-
unlikely
with
|
raws sugar
.
down
and' new.
]
Crops soon
comin;
m the
south,
a
big decrease
ir
prices
seem
as
|
anything
can be
curiain at
the
present
'
uneertain
time.
““ihe
question
is
how
-
guiekly the
slump
will come to
the
re-
|
tailer and
consumer,
Yand how big it will
"~
be
One thing that
favours Halifax con-
~
sumers geiting cheap
sugar,
is
the
65,
T
209
000
bags ‘which
are
stili
stored
at
the
Government
warehouse.
at the
ocean
ter-
"~
mirals
and
which
would
net.
likely
be
& shirped
out in
the face
of falling prices
This
is
owned by
New
York people
and
it is said
to
have
changed
hands
scver-
al
times
without
being
moved,
while
sugar
was
scacre.
and
dear
in
this
pro-
'
_wince.«
A Montreal
report
to
the
effect
|
tha& the low
price
wave
in
sugar,
was
.
precipitated
by
Arbuckle,
one
of
the
|
big
American
refiners.
He
annoanced
a cut from
26
‘0
17 ecents
in
one day.
f
Paris,
Aug.
26th.—The
destru~tion
.
of
the
Bolshevik
armies
now
may
be
.
considered
complete, according
to advices
» received
here.
Os the
host
which swept
-
down
on
Warsaw,
nothing
is
left
but
-
730,000
fugitives.
The Poles
have
taken
80,000
prisoners
thus far,
but
what
is
mbre
important,
they
have
captured
'
great
number
of guns
and
materials.
_ London,
Aug.
26th. —We
have
drawn
.
back,
but
we
wiil keep
our
forces
in-
|
-
tact and
in
ten
days
we shall
be stronger
'
than ever,
safd General
Tuchat
Schewek,
.
commander-iikchief
=of =~ the
Bolshevik
.
army
on
the
Polish
front in
an
inter-
’
view
telegriphed
by the
correspondent
|
of. the
Daijly
He:ald
at
Minsk,
d
ted
|
last, Saturdag';«
“We
can
draw
on
our
|
resources
i-definitely,”” the
commander
.
continued:
. The . popuiation
of
~ White
|
Russia
is seiMing
us
volunteers
in
tens
.
+of thousand
i
Dublin;” %ag.«26th.-
Outrages
contin-
ue
to
be
reported
from various
plates,
'
Queenstown,
overpowered
them
and
.
maleoff
with
their
arm=
Une
soldier
|
was
80
seriou:ly
injured
that
he
died
|
last
i'ght,
®-Thiee
o'hers ast
2
soldiers
.
were ™=lightly
wourtled.. -A
constable
.
was shot
at
Westmeath.
Tuesday
night
-
two_
attacks
on
members
of
the
con-
|
stabulary
were
made.near
Bantry
and
'
two constables
were shot
and killed and
|
several
others wounded.
;
=
°
»
i üblication.
|
.
.
| l}
is hereby
brought
to publie
no-
tice
that
the
Government
has,
-
thig®date,
authorized
Rev. JAMER
.
AUGUSTUS AGAARD
to perform
|
civil-religious
functions
in the Mu-
. nicipality of St.
Croix.
*
Governmentof the Virgin
Islands
of
.
“thesUnited States,
St.
Croix, 27
Auguast
1920~
2
i
C.
€. TIMMONS,
e
Government
Secretary