The Willamina times., January 06, 1944, Image 2

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 1944
T IM E S . W IL L A M IN A . O R E G O N
Tico Creatures Found
Themselves in Same float
A man applied for a job as a
keeper at the zoo.
The vacancy had been filled, but
there was an acute shortage of
apes and, equipped with a skin,
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sonate one.
This he did with great success,
entering thoroughly into his part
and becoming an adept on the
trapeze. Unfortunately he over­
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hurtled through the air, to land
in the lions’ enclosure.
“ Help!” he yelled, as a fero­
cious-looking lion approached him,
growling ominously.
“ Shut up!” said the lion. “ Do
you want to get us both fired.”
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LIFFORD K N IG H T ‘S
E lia Chatfield. Hollywood artist, I i cut
off from the «111 of her Aunt K itty, who
died from an overdoie of morphine. Hunt
Rogers. profession»! sleuth, and B a rry
M adlion. an am ateur detective, go to
M araU an. M exico, to solve - h a t they
believe to be K itty Chatfield'« m urder.
On a rriv a l they find that Kiss'» party
had preceded them by plane. During a
fiesta at Sam Cbatfield'a ranch (S am la
E lsa'« fa th e r) Rogers questloas the
guests about the death of Sam's sister.
A ll hava a m otive. They go to the court­
yard and while watching (he dancing
M a rla announces tho death of dames
Chesebro.
The M exican police arrtva
and examine the body. D eath w ar the
result of a knife th ru s t
CHAPTER X
“Why, then, did the others push
you forward as if you knew some­
thing?”
"I go over the house seeking my
pay; they do not have the money in
the kitchen, sir. It is for this reason
they push me forward."
“ So you were wandering about
the house, then?” said Lombardo.
“ What did you see?”
“ I am walking in a place, sir,
which Maria tells me is the passage­
way that leads to the room where the
gentleman was murdered. There I
see a man enter a door, sir, which
must be the door to the room. For
I have described it well to Maria,
sir.”
“ Who was the man, Pedro?”
“That I do not know, sir.”
“ Was he wearing a sombrero?”
“ Yes, sir.”
“What kind?”
“ It was large and black. I think
it was of felt. The head and shoul­
ders were in shadows, sir, but in
the hand he carried a whip.”
"Was he Mexican or American,
Pedro?”
"Sir, I do not know.”
“ What kind of a whip did he
have? You said he carried a whip.”
“ It was about so long, sir,” and
Pedro’s thin brown hands measured
a space in air about eighteen inches
in length. “ It was, I think, what
you call a quirt, sir.”
"A quirt; so?” Lombardo turned
to look meaningly at Alvarez, his
eyebrows arched, his lips parted
slightly. He turned back to the
pulque man. “ Do you see among
us, Pedro, such a man as you have
described? I warn you to be very
careful; these are gentlemen.”
Pedro's sharp little eyes, to my
alarm, were suddenly upon me; he
inspected me carefully, then shifted
to Sam Chatfield who sat beside
me. Finally he quitted our host’s
short figure and moved to Huntoon
Rogers. He dismissed him with a
glance, then came back to me, as
if some doubt lingered in his mind.
“ I did not see the face, sir,” Pedro
reminded Lombardo.
Huntoon Rogers spoke for the first
time. “ It is impossible, Señor Lom­
bardo. Señor Madison was with me
when Maria came with the news of
the m urder.”
“And all of the evening, señor?”
I answered the question. “ No,”
I {.aid. “ But the remainder of the
time I was with either Señor Rum­
ble, or Señorita Chatfield.”
"Yes, of course,” said Lombardo.
“ Pedro is wrong.” He waved the
pulque man away abruptly, saying
sternly, “ It is enough, Pedro; you
are mistaken about this man.” He
pointed to me. “ Do not make any
more mistakes.”
“ Yes, sir,” replied Pedro, spring­
ing up from the chair and vanish­
ing in the shadows near the door.
“The quirt,” Lombardo said, “ I
do not understand. Was it the pur­
pose to whip the victim and then
kill him? The lashes on the face,
Miguel, were they made so recent­
ly?” he turned to Doctor Cruz.
“They were made much earlier,
Otilio.”
“How did he get them? Bid the
one who gave them to him return,
and this time kill him with a knife?”
No one answered the questions.
“ Is there anyone else among the
servants whom you wish to inter­
rogate?” inquired our host.
“No, sir, I am interested now in
other things.”
“ Come this way, then,” said Sam
Chatfield, leading us from the kitch­
en.
“ I think,” began Sam Chatfield
hesitantly, “ that Señor Lombardo
has a few questions to ask.”
“Only a very few, ladies and gen­
tlemen,” Lombardo said, bowing
courteously.
"The Señorita,” and his eyes
sought out Elsa in the background,
“ if I may, please; I wish to ask of
her a question.”
“ A thousand pardons, señorita,”
began Lombardo, yielding to an ob­
vious em barrassm ent that swept
over him. “ I ask the question: Have
you worn the costume of the China
Poblana all evening?”
“ Yes, of course,” Elsa replied,
somewhat puzzled. “ I put it on at
dusk."
“ Then you cannot be the one,”
said Lombardo.
Lombardo turned to Alvarez and
said in Spanish, "Fetch the sombre­
ro from the room, please." He
turned back to Rumble. "In a mo­
ment, Señor Rumble. I will show you
the sombrero I speak of." Alvarez
returned promptly with the black
felt sombrero.
“ Do you recognize the sombrero,
señor?" Lombardo inquired, holding
it out to Rumble.
"Sure. It's my hat. A while ago
when I was out that way I missed it."
Rogers answered. “ We found it in
the room where Chesebro was m ur­
dered."
A curious expression came over
Rumble's face;, the dark eyes
seemed to grow darker.
As he stood there before us the
chief of police conceived an idea; it
was first observable in a narrowing
of his large dark eyes, a cocking
“ But what do you know about the
death of the gentleman in the big
room?”
of his round head. He summoned
Alvarez with a lift of his chin and
said in Spanish, "The pulque man
who is called Pedro; bring him here
at once, Luis.”
Alvarez soon returned, clutching
the frightened Pedro by a thin arm.
“ It is lucky for you, Pedro, that
you are still here,” began Lombar­
do. "I have more questions to ask
you.”
“ I am here, sir,” replied the man,
“because I have not yet received
the money for my pulque."
Lombardo ignored the frank state­
ment, and requested the man to
look about him. "Here are other
persons, Pedro,” he directed. "Look
closely, and tell me if any of these
others is the man you saw wearing
the sombrero and carrying the whip.
Make no mistakes.”
Pedro did as he was bidden, but
shyly and with evident em barrass­
ment. Dwight Nichols stood up the
better to be viewed, and he pulled
George Rumble by the sleeve to
line him up alongside himself and
Reed Barton.
“ I see only the back, sir; I do
not see the face,” he repeated.
Lombardo was patient. He picked
up Rumble’s black sombrero from
a chair where it rested and held it
out to Pedro. “ Is this the sombrero
the man wore?” he asked.
Pedro put his hands behind him
and shook his head. “I saw only the
back, sir,” he repeated monotonous­
ly-
Lombardo had an idea. “ We will
go to the place where you saw the
man, Pedro,” he announced. “ The
gentlemen in turn will put on the
sombrero, and carry the whip, and
you will say which, if any, looks
like the man you saw. Where is the
whip?”
"There’s a whip there on the ta ­
ble under my hat,” Elsa rem arked
casually. "One I’ve carried with
me riding.” She indicated a table
against the wall near the door. Al­
varez went to the table and brought
back a quirt I recognized as the one
Elsa had used that morning in her
savage attack upon Chesebro. Lom­
bardo took it.
“ Yours?” he asked, gesturing to­
ward Elsa.
“ No; not mine. It belongs here
--a
... f.
tia v ic i
on the rancho. I found It, when I
wanted a whip, on the ruck outside
where the hats hang."
“ Ah, so?” Lombardo turned the
quirt about in his hunds, examining
it. It interested Lombardo who stud­
ied it for a moment. Finally and
without releasing his hold he held it
out toward Pedro. “ Is this the
whip you saw, Pedro?"
The pulque man took one quick,
fascinated glance, then looked away.
“ I do not know, sir; there was a
whip in the hand.”
"Come; the gentlemen, please;
the ladies, no. Follow m e.” Lom­
bardo spoke quickly. He led the way
toward the somber room where the
body of Chesebro still lay In its huge
mound within the dim pool of can­
dlelight.
"Where were you when you saw
the man enter the room?” Lom­
bardo demanded.
"I am here, sir,” he onswered.
pointing with a trembling finger to
a tall piece of furniture against the
wall. “ I hear the man coming, and
I feel I have trespassed where I
I not go. So I conceal my­
self there and wait for him to pnss."
“ Very well, Pedro; you stand
there now, and one of the gentlemen
will put on the sombrero nnd carry
the whip and walk past you.”
"I did not see the face, sir; I see
only the back," the pulque man re­
minded him as he took his station.
“ Now, which of you will be the
first?” Lombardo asked, ignoring
the m an's remark.
Reed Barton stepped forward, still
dressed in the costume of the Char­
ro, except for his own sombrero
which he had left among the others
on the rack near the front door.
"Ah, so? Thank you, sir." Lom­
bardo gave him Rumble's hat, which
Reed set atop his head, greatly in­
creasing the height of his tall figure.
"Now the whip," said Lombardo,
and that was given him. "And now,
Pedro, the gentleman comes from
this direction and walks to the door,
opens it and enters, is it not so?”
"Yes, sir.”
Reed withdrew and began a slow
but steady walk down the dim pas­
sageway to the door behind which
lay the body of the murdered man.
I drew back against the wall beside
Rogers, whose body was crowded
close against mine. I felt a tense­
ness in his muscles and realized
with what extraordinary alertness
his eyes followed the tall figure of
Reed Barton as he re-enacted the
dread prologue to the death of
Chesebro. Slowly, inevitably, he ap­
proached the door to the room. Rog­
ers had become so intent upon this
re-enactment that he was drawn a
few steps after him, studying the
figure, his every action and move­
ment. As Reed touched the door­
knob, when we all were intent upon
this last act before we should turn
to demand of the pulque man his
verdict, there was a sudden rustling
sound behind us. It was followed
by a rapid shuffle of feet in loose
guaraches, and before our aston­
ished gaze as we turned, Pedro, the
pulque man, was running away as
fast as his thin legs could carry him.
Nor did we find him later that
night after the police had taken their
departure, their questions exhaust­
ed, their plan of re-enactment of the
murder scene abruptly ended by the
departure of Pedro, although, direct­
ed by Sam Chatfield, we searched
diligently. There was an old moon.
The others at last had scattered.
Only Huntoon Rogers and I lingered
in the patio.
“ What do you make of it, Hunt?”
I inquired, meaning the night's trag­
ic happening and the comic opera
exit of the star witness. He was
slow to reply. At last he said:
"Did you see the whip at any
time during Reed's walk down the
dim passageway? He carried it in
his hand, you know.”
“ I saw him fake the whip.”
“ Docs that not strike you as inter­
esting?”
“ It means much, I think; it ex­
plains what has happened. In the
kitchen when Pedro described the
appearance of Chesebro’s murderer,
he put the whip in his hand. Pedro
took his stand at the spot where he
says he observed the death march,
so to speak. But the whip is not
visible carried quietly at the side.
"Therefore, Barry, it is simple to
reason that Pedro either lied when he
said the man carried a whip, or he
saw him elsewhere in the house at
a time and place where the whip was
plainly visible.”
We sat together in the patio turn­
ing over the possibilities that lay
close to the fact, the corollaries
that might flow from it. Did Pedro,
therefore, also hold the secret of
that other murder far to the north of
us in California and distant now in
time by more than a year?
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