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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, AfEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY 10, 1934.
eyMwuUx at
MOCKING HOUSE
BYNOFSIS: rum Uuln
afler receiving a series ot threu
ening letters. It shot at on a lone.,
road. Sergeant Harper, aeelonea
to protect him. doce not understand
Dutresne's hint that someone close
to him may have ambushed him.
' They decide to open Dufresne's
Powhatan Terrace house oe bait
for the hitler; Harper is talking
' with Sheriff Doyle, a reporter,
when word comes that Officer Ham
ill and another man have been
found dead in Duresne's house.
Chapter Eirht
CRIME SCENE
r ET us to back a abort tlnio and
follow the adventures of Bandit
Chaser No. 18.
With Hllleary driving and Con
nail; calling the turns, tbe speedy
little car beaded for Officer Ham
Ill's territory. They bad to drive
(lowly, for the headlights could not
cut very deeply Into the teeth of tbe
storm and tbe automatic windshield
wiper just about held Us own against
the fiercely-driven snow.
Connally kept a sharp lookout, but
In vain. At every street Intersection
Hllleary sounded tbe whirring siren
call, familiar to every patrolman's
ar as the signal of the "Flying
Sauad."
Hllleary brought the car to a halt
beside the call-box from which Ham
Ill should have reported. It bore a
conical cap ot snow, leaning cranlly
ts one side from the force of tbe
wind. All around was a wblte wilder
ness. Inches deep, and gaining stead
ily. Unbroken In Its smooth, wind
drifted reaches, only a gentle bulge
bowed where the curbstone was
set
Connally borrowed the heavy
flashlight from the car's equipment
and got out of the machine. The po
liceman turned on the beam and
flashed It In a circle. Here and there
were unmistakable ridges and filled
ln hollows which roughly outlined
the Imprints a shoe had left earlier
In the storm.
By going - little farther afield he
could distinguish two sets of tbe old
tracks, presumably made by Ham
ill's coming to the pillar for bis
arller "pull" and his subsequent
departure.
' There were a few tire-marks In
the street, but no otber tracks along
tbe sidewalk, and, having struck tbe
cent, Connally automatically start
ad along the trp.ll. Hllleary drove tbe
ear at a snail's pace on a parallel
line. For two blocks they continued
o, when, upon- crossing an Inter
vening street, Connally found that
be bad lost tbe trail.
Retracing his steps, be found that,
a radical alteration bad taken place
In Hamlll's course. The old tracks
howed that Hamlll had crossed
bout a third ot tbe width ot the
street, when something bad Induced
him to set off at a sharp angle. Tbe
almost obliterated footprints led
along tbe intersecting street.
The trailars followed this tangent,
but had not proceeded very tar be-
fore they became aware ot a boom
ing sound. Futzled, they came to a
bait, awaiting a repetition of tbe
noise. When it came again, tbey reo
egnlied tbe sound at once. The
front door of one of the nouses near
tbe far end of the block was un
latched and thn wind was banging
It to and fro with thunderous force.
SOME prompting ot Instinct In
duced Connally to break into a
run. He pulled up, panting, at the
ntrance to the front lawn, a flat,
desolate level of virgin snow, bound
ed by bare hedges and skeleton
bushes. The flashlight showed that
the footsteps had turned In there.
It also picked out tbe bronie nu
merals, "34," on one ot tbe stone
pillars ot the gate. Tbe massive
front door, after Its fitful booming,
stood open Invitingly, due to a lull
In the wind.
.Hllleary go, out of the car, and,
side by side, the two policemen
walked up the path and scanned the
front ot the house, a three-story
tone mansion standing In Its own
grounds. There was no light, no
sign of life anywhere about tbe
place. Tbe ball beyond the yawning
door waa merely a black cavity lead
ing Into tbe unknown.
. 1 "I guess we followed the wrong
tracks," Hllleary suggested; "these
are just from somebody going
home."
"What about that doort" Connally
countered, "People don't leave tbelr
front doors banging In a storm. We'd
better look Into this. Come onl"
Connally pulled off a glove and
pressed the electrlo bell button,
holding It down with bis Anger.
Thar, was no answering sound. Af
ter waiting a suitable time, Connal
ly stepped gingerly across the
threshold. The Inner vestibule doors
were closed.
He turned the knob and peered
Into a still deeper well of darkness.
"Hello! Hello!" he shouted, and
.BY WALTER C. BROWN.
jded against tbe framework ot
jo inner door. One of tbe cold glass
panels shivered under tbe vibration
and came jingling down over the
floor.
Still there was no answer. A dead
silence reigned within. Tbe flash
light, sweeping from side to side,
gave fugitive glimpses of a wide,
deep hall with paneled woodwork
and richly turnished. But there was
something eerie about this silent
place with Its teetering door and
the snow seeping over the sill.
They looked at each other, then
started as tbe door thundered shut
behind them. "Prop that damn tblng
open!" Connally shouted, and Jerk
ing out bis service revolver, ad
vanced warily Into tbe ball. He bad
glimpsed a taint line ot light under
a door farther down tbe ball. He
tried the knob cautiously, then flung
the door back with a quick motion.
Hllleary bad found tbe electric light
switches near the front door, but
could get no response from any of
them.
Armed and alert, Connally peered
Into the room and stood rooted to
tbe threshold. Over his shoulder
came the sharp bias of Indrawn
breath trom his companion as he,
too, saw.
Connally's brain was swift In re
action. A moment's examination of
the gruesome burden of that room
confirmed his worst fears. "Don't
touch anything here," he warned,
backing away toward tbe door. "1
saw a telephone out In the hall. If
It's disconnected you'll have to
drive back and report this." To bis
satisfaction, when he lifted tbe tele
phone receiver he beard the familiar
buzz, and In a tew moments his call
was through to the Fourteenth Pre
cinct. CONNALLY had no sooner re
placed tbe telephone receiver
than the clammy silence ot this trag
lo bouse weighed down upon them
again. The wind went whistling
down the deep ball, stirring up tor
tlve rustlings, as of unseen draper
ies, while the silent snow sifted tar
ther and farther over tbe threshold.
The one room In the house they had
entered bad been fairly warm, but
the exposed hallway was as chill
and biting as the outdoors.
Hllleary swung his torch In ex
ploring circles. The questing beam
discovered a refectory table bear
Ing several bronze candelbra with
tall, tapering candles. These sput
tered and flickered a great deal be
fore they consented to burn, turn
ing the ball Into a place of leaping
shadows and shifting visibility.
"Ton take one light, and I'll take
the otber, and we can make sure
there's nobody hiding on this floor.
anyway," Connally suggested. "We
can let the upstairs go until the
others come." .
A rush of wind extinguished the
'candles In one swoop. "We'll bave
to fix that front door," Hllleary said.
"You light the candles again, I'll
attend to tbe door," Connally re
plied. There was a sturdy Yale lock
on the Inside, but he found that tbe
lock bar had been releaaed while
the door was open, and that, conse
quently, tbe door could not be closed
until that was aet back. He did this
and It locked automatically. He also
noticed an old-fashioned koy bang
ing beside the door jamb, and, on
trying it, found that this was tor tht
ordinary lock below the knob.
Ouns In hand, tbey lifted tbe can
delabra and looked In all the rooms
opening trom the central hall. Ths
search was quickly made and yield
ed nothing In tbe way of Interest
There were two doors In the rear ol
the house. Each was not only locked,
but bolted on the inside. Connally
found a key that fitted botb locki
and put It lb bis pocket. There wai
also a short corridor that led to
side door. This was locked, but thi
key was not present. The door to th
cellars had no lock, only a latch, but
was bolted at the side and top, s
It was left as found, after Its securl
ty had been tested.
Connally was just returning from
this survey when there came
thunderous pounding at tbe fronl
door. The policeman hastened to
open the door. He was surprised
when be saw that the first mat
to cross the threshold wore civilian
clothes, but soon recognised Detective-Sergeant
Harper, and saluted.
Next came Officer Clymer, then
Smith, and lastly a figure In a gray
overcoat slid jauntily past just as
he swung the ponderous door shut.
Once Inside, Doyle was all eyes, as
alert as a pointer In the middle of
tall grass field.
Harper pulled off bis gloves.
"Where are they?" he asked, sim
ply. "In there." Connally pointed to
the closed door on the left.
(Copyright, JtJ, by Walter C. Brown)
Tomorrow, Harpsr Invtitloitos a
gruaiome crime.
CLEVELAND, May 10. (AP) Five
former bankers and a former county
official were Indicted by a federal
grand jury today on charges of mak
ing a false statement end using tht
metis to promote a scheme to de
fraud. The latest Indictments, climaxing
a year of investigation by department
of Justice agents, center around al
leged "window dressing" of state
ments of condition ot the Union
Trust company and Guardian Trust
company, which waut into liquida
tion.
Those Indicted today were Joseph
R. Nutt, former chairman ot the
board pi the Union Trust company..
INCREASES APRIL
R E L I E FSPENDING
Federal Report Shows More
Families On List Than
Same Time Year Ago
Resources of Many Gone
WASHINGTON, Mh? 10. (AP)
The department of commerce report
ed today that the number of famil
!ea on relief aa of April 1 was larger
thla year than at the same time last
year.
In Its monthly survey of current
business, reporting generally Im
proved conditions In most sections
of American business and Industry,
the department noted:
"Notwithstanding th progress
made in recent months in absorbing
Into Industry a portion of the unem
ployed, the number without work
remains large.
"The exhaustion of Individual re
sources, together with the - demobil
ization of the CWA workers, has re.
suited In a substantial Increase In
the number of families on relief as
of April 1 la estimated to be larger
than a year ago."
The survey reported substantial
galnc In employment and payrolls be
tween the middle of February and
the middle of March, with 79 out of
90 Industries studied showing Im
provement In this line.
Statistical Information on other
aspects of the business scene for
March and early weeks ' of April
showed expanding productive activi
ty, a gain in retail sales, higher for-1
elgn trade and an advance In distil-1
button. 1
Only the construction Industry,
characterized aa the "outstanding ex- j
ceptlon to the general trend," failed
to go along with other Industry and
trade, its index falling 23 points be
low December. '
Manufacturing production increas
ed during March by more than the
usual amount, and stood at 85 per
cent of the average for 1923-1925,
taken as normal.
JUNIOR AT THE MOVIES
HAMMOND, Ind.. May 10. (AP)
Prosecutor Robert C srstm of Lake
county, whose picture taken .with
Desperado John DUUnger caused na-!
tlon-wlde comment, today conceded j
victory In the Democartlc primaries ,
to his opponent State Senator Fred j
A. Egan of Gary. i
On the basis of early returns, Es
till was running far behind.
I On the basis of early returns, Es
till was running far behind. j
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(Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
S MATTER POP-
By C. M. Payna
By Hal Forrest
snd former treasurer of the Repub.
Mean national committee: Wilbur M
Baldwin, former Union Trust preal- j
Hnfr .T Arthur Mimim fftrmw final.
dlan president: A, R. Frawr and
Harry C. Robinson, former Guardian
vice president, and Alex Bernstein,
former chief deputy county treasurer.
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BRINGING UP FATHER
By George McManuj
TYPEWRITER MAKERS
WALK OUT IN STRIKE
BYRACU8E, N. Y., Msy lft.(AP)
Mors thsn S.OuO men snd women em
ployes of the Remington Rsnd Type
writer company walked out on strike
here snd st lllon this Afternoon In
whst their leaders described ss n pro.
test agtlnst failure ot the company
officials to recoRnllse their union.
RALEM. May 10. (API Salem gro
cery store operators met today with
Ma Oehlhar, director of agriculture.
I In an effort to fix minimum retail
potato pilot.
VILL YOU HUT UP
COr-lPLAlNIMG?
THt HOUSE HAft
TO SE CLEANED
AMD YOU'VE GOT
TO DOOUt
WARS'
FSOM THE
AMOUNT or
WORK I'VE
GOT TO DO
I MUT
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The
SHARES
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OLHE.T?THERE.t
VERY LITTLE
TO BE DONE
NOW- I'VE GOT
EVERYTHING
PRETTY WELL
CLEANED UP-
WELL,
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