Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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dressed to a woman I have since learned is his sister-which con- tained the disguise he had used. In his trunk I found a single shot pistol equipped with a Maxim silencer which explained the absence of any report. In the trunk was also a box of forty-nine good cart- ridges. Mr, llerrington had played for luck. lle risked the chance of missing, taking only one shell. which was automatically ejected after he had pulled the trigger. Familiar with this fact in the open, in the excitement of his intention, he forgot all about it. lle dared not come down again immediately to hunt the shell. and I came soon after and found it. His motive. I have said, was love and jealousy. Though he pre- tended to be a very good friend to Mr. and Mrs. Ifntanow he hated the former, and only abided the time when he could marry the latter after the death of her husband. Mrs. Entanow was hard to convince that this was true, and she only broke into tears when he confessed and told a story similar to the above account. Did she love him? llad she ever regretted her choice and by word and deed eomnumicated her regret to the unsuc- cessful rival? How otherwise can the boldness of llerrington in taking apartments at the same hotel in which the Entanows lived be accounted for? llow can his forgetfulness of the peculiarity of his own pistol be explained except that. buoyed up by some assurance from Xlrs. Entanow. he had risked all-and lost all? Yet in all justice it must be said that never has she communicated with the murderer of her husband since that fatal ball and yet-F I my Twenty-three

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The result of this information led to another interview Hllfl after an hour's busy action the coroner's inquest was held. just before the jury was to consider a verdict, I made my way through the crowd, seized a tall, blonde, young man by the right hand, and in an instant had the handcuffs fastened on his wrists. I led him forward and said to the jury: 'AThis is the man, who killed Edwin Entaitow. His name is Jerald Herrington, and his motive was revenge and jealousy. VVhen called upon to explain, I stated the following facts learned from my investigations: ' XVhen I saw that Mr. Edwin Entanow's body was visible from the stairway and knew that hve had been shot just a few moments after he sat down in that place, I knew that the murderer had stood on that platform, when he did the deed. The empty shell was only further evidence of the fact. f'Among other things, I learned from Mrs. Entanow that her hus- band had had a rival for her hand, and that he had seemed to be in great favor until Mr. Entanow appeared. Furthermore, I learned that, when the couple had come to New York, Herrington's business suddenly called him to the same place, and he had taken a suite of rooms in the same hotel! To be close to friends in a strange place, he had said. At once I became suspicious. A boy who had been near the staircase, when he heard the cry of the victim's wife, told me that he clearly remembered seeing two women on the staircase at that time, and that both were descending. I at once inquired for thvese women, but strange to say, I could only find one of them. '?From her I discovered that as she was coming down, she saw a heavily veiled, young-looking woman coming up. This woman hesi- tated a moment on that first landing. Then she came on. XV hen they passed she noticed that the stranger wore a high necked and long sleeved gown, the only one of the sort in that great throng! I knew at once that this woman was a man in disguise. and that he had shot Mr. Entanow. Now. I was told that the victim had had no enemies. but when I was informed that Mr. Entanow had had a rival in love, and that this rival had followed them to New York, I felt that little remained to be solved. So when Mr. Herrington obtained permission of Mrs. Entanow to sit by her husband's body-a thing which would seem very natural, under the supposed circumstances-I gained access to his room, where I found a package-wrapped ready for mailing, ad- Twenty-two

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FRESH MAN YEAR. As we were about to make our debut into ,lligh School, the pros- pect of becoming members of that venerable institution seemed ex- ceedingly inviting to us. Our hearts were filled with noble aspira- tions as to what great deeds we would perform, and how we would make the name of the Class of June, '15, illustrious. Then came the day, in September of 1911, on which, over a hun- dred strong, we actually entered the portals of that building. VVe had all been inside it before, but this was different. It was as if we were entering it for the first time. We were suddenly seized with fear and trembling, and a sense of our insignifrcance and greenness, which our upper-classmen helped in convincing us of. But this did not bother us very long. XVe soon discovered that we were not the only martyrs to the cause, and every incoming class had had to go through the same experience-that of being the jest of the other classes. XYe did not possess that green quality, generally attributed to Freshmen, to any greater degree than any who had come before us. At this period in our careers, we were not allowed the privilege of having seats in the Assembly room, but were scattered about the building, in any place there was room for us. For this reason, we did not see as much of our superiors, for which we were truly thankful. We were an extraordinarily bright bunchf' or at least that was our opinion of the case. XVe soon became accustomed to the school routine, and always did as we were hidden, making only a few mis- takes. Part of our studying was done in the Assembly room-that is we studied when we had learned to keep our eyes off of the daring Seniors cor tinually going to and from the dictionary. One thing which we persisted in doing, was getting up on the right side of our seats fwhich we then learned was the wrong sidej. Mr. McCracken kindly aided our poor memories, by gently reminding us that we should arise tignill-ffEi Si SS f SSS SSAS if S