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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, JfEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, HAY 16, 1934.
MOCKING HOUSE
BY WALTER C. BROWN
d, A man made up to
edmbl Pierre liufresne. eontrao.
tor and political power, and a po
liceman apparently have shot eanh
other in tJutteane'e houee. lire. )
treene hae tainted and out her
cheek at the eioht : Dutieene hae
not yet arrived from hie doumtoum
hotel. 8eraeant Harper- hoieever,
cannot Quite believe that the ehote
ieere i.red ae the evidence eeeme to
Indicate.
Chanter 13
OR. ULRICH
FURTHER Investigation was tem
porarily Interrupted by the
sounds of a new arrival at tbe
bouse. Harper went out Into tbe ball
to find out who It was, A tall flguro,
wearing an enormous tur coat,
strode toward him. "Dr. UlrlchT"
be Inquired.
Tbe tall man nodded curtly. "Are
you Sergeant Harper?"
Tbe detective nodded. "Mrs. Du
(resne Is n her room, I'll go up wltb
you."
"What are all these policemen do
ing around here and that ambu
lance outside?" Ulrlcb demanded.
"We found the bodies of two men
In tbe breakfast-room here, one tbe
policeman from this district. The
evidence seems to Indicate that
they killed each other, but we
haven't bad time enough to go Into
tbe details."
The doctor stopped dead In bis
Harper Irowueu. . . . ou won
derlng wby be Jumped to that con
clusion so readily. At tbe moment
I see no necessity for questioning
Mrs. Dufresne about anything. 1
only bope that It turns out ei be ex
pects. I'm more tban'iorry It hap
pened at all and 1 e m't help feeling
that 1 am partly to ilame."
"Nonsense," Dr. ,'llller declared,
"It wasn't your fault."
"All right. Doc, let's drop It. I'll
have something to say about that
later. Let's get on with this before
there are any more delays, you're
examined the bodies?"
Dr. Miller nodded. "SuperOcIally,
of course, but I doubt that the au
topsy'll tell us any more than we
can see with tbe naked eye. Matter
of form In a cut-and-drled case like
this."
"Well, I want a complete post
mortem report Just tbe same and
an analysis of tbe stomach con
tents. It might be helpful to know
wben and what he had last eaten
and tbe amount of alcohol con
sumed. Just a matter of record, Doc,
Is it possible that this could havt
been a double suicide, or murdei
and suicide?"
"IMPOSSIBLE. The nature and
location of the wounds maki
that absolutely Impossible. Besides,
there are no powder burns. The
TRADE SECRETS
OF GRAIN KINGS
That strange corpse.
tracks, his eyebrows arched In sur
prise, "So that was the 'little trou
ble' you mentioned over the tele
phone? Who Is tbe other victim?'
Harper shook bis bead. He had
taken an Instant dislike to tbe sg
gresslve, patronizing manner of the
medical man.
Tbe detective bad left blm and
was half-way down tbe stairs, wben
Dr. Ulrlcb, costless and wltb bis
blrt sleeve's rolled up, came strid
ing after blm and seized blm by the
arm. "You damned clodhoppers!"
be blazed, glaring down at Harper
from tbe height of bis seventy-odd
Inches, "What bave you been doing
to Mrs. Dufresne? If you've been
trying any of your dirty third-degree
methods on her I'll see that
you answer for It."
Harper pushed the restraining
arm aside. "There's no use bluster
Ing around here, Doctor. This place
bappena to be in the bands of the
police and I am In charge. You will
please confine your efforts to your
patient. Wben that la done. I'll be
glad to answer any questions about
Mrs. Dutresnes accident."
I1TITH an angry growl, Dr. Ulrlcb
'V ran down tbe steps and seized
the telephone. Harper returned to
tbe breakfast-room where Carlln
was once more absorbed In study
Ing the mark on tbe wainscoting
left by the spent bullet. The deteo-
tlve revolved slowly around that
strange corpse In the chair, study
ing the body from all angles.
A few minutes later Dr. Miller ap
peared, "Dr. Ulrlcb has sent tor a
nurse," be announced. "He says It
will be best not to move Mrs. Dufresne,
"What does he say about the
cut?"
"He thinks It can be healed with
out leaving a scar, but Mrs. Du
fresne will bave an uncomfortable
time of It for a few days. She'll
bave to be ted through a tube and
she won't be able to talk or move
about. Any sudden Jolt or move
ment of her Jaws would open up the
cut and undo all the work.
"Ha warned me that sba Is not
to be eross-oiamlned or annoyed In
any way. Wby Is be so hot under the
collar? He seems to have an Idea
tbat wa've been grilling her about
this business."
shot each other and dropped In theli
tracks."
"Can you fix tbe time of death?"
The police surgeon approached
tbe murdered stranger. He moved
the dead man's arms slightly, bent
tbe ringers, and tilted the bead a
little to one side. He went through
mucb the same performance wltb
Officer Hamlll's body.
"I'd lay tbat death occurred
somewhere between seven and nine
o'clock. As you know, Sergeant,
rigor mortis sets In anywhere from
three to twelve hours after death,
depending on the aurroundlng tem
perature, tbe physical condition of
the subject, and so on. In each case
tbe muscles sre Just beginning to
set. Tbls tallies wltb the coagula
tion of the blood at the wounds."
Harper nodded. "We've net bad
much of a chance to trace things."
he explained, "and of this one man
we know nothing whatever. We do
know that Officer Hamlll 'pulled
his box' at eight o'clock. His failure
to ring up at nine led to the discov
ery .of the crime. Tbe search party
that went out after htm beard tbe
door of this house banging In tbe
wind and Investigated. That was
about ten o'clock or a few minutes 1
after."
Dr. Miller tucked away his watch.
"That fits In all right. Yes, It is my
opinion that they died at the same
time."
"Well, then, what about this.
Doc? Carlln thinks that the wound
In the bead could only have been
made by a .45 caliber steel-Jacket
bullet. The one we found was a .83
blunt-nose."
"Nonsense," he snorted In con
tempt. "You can't tell offhand, that
way. Bullets are tricky thlnga. no
matter what the caliber. Wben they
strike a bony surface there'a no
telling what course they'll take. Be
sides, you've got the bullet, haven't
you ?"
Yes, we have It We assume thai
It's from Hamlll's gun." .
"That ought to settle the argu
ment," Miller's voice took on
shrewd pitch. "Have you turned up
anything that looks fishy t"
"No, I haven t," Harper was
forced to admit.
(Copyrtoht. mi. bv tfolter 0. Brounl
Tomorrow, tht tsnglt growl sud
denly wort.
Bare Driver Din
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. May 19
(AP) Bern Palmer, well known Pa
clflc coast automobile racing pilot,
died In a hoApltsl this morning from
Injuries he suffered when his ma
chine turned over nesr hero lsat
wefk. Palmer waa hurt while driving
to Loa Angeles from Oakland.
electrical energy converted Into
heat whhln the tissues of the body
la now uaed to heat deep-lying tis
sues of sick persona.
CHICAGO, May 18. (AP) Pur
ported trade secrete of the master
minds of grain speculation were dis
closed today as the - federal govern
ment continued Its Inquiry Into al
leged secret wheat deals by which
the department of agriculture charge
Arthur W. Cutten, prominent trader,
manipulated the market in 1830.
Secret number 1 was .the part
numbers play In the opening of
trading accounts with brokerage
houses. Cutten, for lnstsnce, car-
rleri ajl rtf hi aCAiint ft num.
! ber Instead of under his name, one
broker testified.
The broker, Richard P. Uhlmann,
secretary of the Uhlmann Oraln Co.,
said Cutten opened an account with
his (lrm May 19, 1030.
"Mr. Cutten asked that the ac
count be carried as number S," said
Uhlmann.1 "We already had a num
ber 07, but no other number would
do, so we created account Q7 spe
cial." Uhlmann was the flrat witness at
the second dsy of the hearing, in
which Cutten Is cited for disbarment
from grain .markets of the United
States on the contention of the gov
ernment that he failed to report
grain holdings aa required under the
grain futures act.
The number system, said the brok
er, was a characteristic of Cutten's
market strategy.
"When Cutten was trading heavily
In 1031, frequently making deals of
more than 60,000 bushels, he used
this kind of account," he told tbe
court.
Leo F. Tlerney, government coun
sel, asked why Cutten's accounts
never exceeded 496.000 bushels. Ac
cording to the law, accounts over
600,000 bushels must be reported to
the government.
"He probably wanted to limit his
rlak," sail Uhlmann. "Every man's
blood pressure rises at a certain
point."
NEW . YORK, . May 19. (AP) A
I aid Coggeshall, former University ot
j Oregon Instructor, was today ap-
pointed an assistant professor In Jour
nalism at Columbia university. Ho
will Join the faculty this fall.
SECOND CLOUDBURST
HITS OLD TIBERIAS
CRIB RATTLING
JERUSALEM, May 19. (AP) A
second cloudburst within 24 hours
struck the 1900-year-old city of Ti
berias at noon today shortly after the
17 persons drowned In yesterday's
deluge were burled. '
Another heavy death toll among
children, 10 of whom were killed yes
terday, was feared as a result of to- j
day's rain.
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