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Newspaper Page Text1 iaatVaiVi-jh'.;-. TirErDFOTTO TVfATT: TRTBTTSTK, rPTDFORD, OTJEHON'. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936 CI Jy The Wrong Murderer SYNOPMBt Terence Mahony c..i. already resetted one girl from Am. broae Laweon's gang of ktdnappert Elta Little, the ttlm ttar. But when he took her home he became the leading euspeet for the inur derer of her uncle. Vow ilahony hoe learned from Hulgrave. one of Lawaon'e men, where Ruth Fraeer le being Mifdan and ie determined to releoee her aleo. He ha battered hie wait into the hideout. and ie o, Ing inleroeplei by one of Jflw Fraeer' guard. Chapter 11 GIRL WITH GUN MAHONT turned on him like a ti ger, grabbed him by the collar, Jerked him nearer, and raited his plitoL "Where's Miss Fraser? Answer Quickly or I'll knock your brains out," he ordered harshly. "Eh I MIi Fraser. She's locked In room upstairs," answered the man. He had a bleary, bloated look, It he had been sleeping In in arm chair and wai not yet properly awake. ' "Thanks," laid Mahony. : Hli pistol-butt eime down with a harp rap. The ileepy-looklng man Joined the fat man on the floor. Mahony sprang for the italn and ran up them two at a time. At the top was a corridor with doors on either aide of It. Half-way along the corri dor a man was sitting as It keeping watch, a pistol In his hand. As Mahony gained the top of the stairs, he rose from his seat quickly. Again there cam the sharp ear splitting crack of a shot, and some thing twitched Mahony's sleeve, in stantly Mahony Orel back; the re ports of the two shots followed one another with hardly an Interval. The man clntched it hit shoulder, pun round on his feet, and sprawled on his back on the floor; his pistol slid from his hand across the carpet. Thin wisps of acrid smoke formed slight base In the corridor. ' After the report of those two shots the silence, for a moment, seemed al most nnnaturat. Than Mahony shout ed: "Miss Fraterl Miss Fraserl" From behind a closed door came clear, defiant voice-a girl's voice. "What do you want!" "Are you locked lot" shouteu Ma bony. "I'll hare you out of that In a jmlnute." . He ran for the door and put his hpulder to It In a football charge. The timber cracked. He was about to have another go at It when the girl's voice came again, warnlugly. "I shouldn't try that If I were yon. rve still got four shots left." Mahony didn't know what she was talking about. Anyway, she spoke too late. He had already started on another charge. Again his shoulder struck the door with all hit weight behind It. There was a rending crash, and one of the timbers caved In slightly. From behind the door came the crash of a shot, and a splinter of woodwork Jumped from the door and grated Mahony's face. He was amatcd. The girl was ahoottng at him from behind the door. It occurred to blm that It was probably she who had shot at blm from the window. j "It's all right," he shouted. "Don't boot. I've come to rescue you." i "Go and tell that to the Marines," 'came the girl's voice from behind (the door. "Ton won't catch me like khaU" "Hell and damnation!" sstd Ma hony In a tone of Inteuse annoyance. ' A S yet he hardly understood what was happening, but the fact that the girl whom he had come to res cue was trying to shoot him arouied In him an acute exasperation. The Ash-faced little hntf-wtt, he thought; that waa the kind of thing an In trepid young airwoman would do. He did not try to argue with her or persuade her; be a.'ted. He drew back slightly, and then longed forward with hit right foot, with all his strength behind the lunge. The sole of his shoe struck the timber In Its weakest part, where It had already begun to give. With a splintering crash a panel spilt all the way down and the door flew open. At It opened, Mahony dropped to one knee, ducking at low as possible. "Crarkl" went the alrl's pistol viciously, hut the bullet pasted harmlessly over Mahony'a head. Be fore the could Are agmi ha flung himself forward, thrust out a long arm. grabbed at her anklo and gave a vtgoroua pull. She uttered a yell and tat down suddenly. The pistol went oft again, but this time the bullet went Into the colling. Iletore he could (ire again Mnhony grab bed the barrel and wrenched It from her hand. "What the devil do you think COAST STEEL PLANTS SINCE BOOM OF 1929 SAhf KRANC1BCO, Oct. 16. (AP) Steel plants t.ong th Pacific slope r doing more buMnens In construc tion tinea than ever extvpt In 1929 the record your. BuMneaa picked up At the steel mills in September. That Is, orders Uicreused. The plants, ot most nf item were already working at ca September orders totnlcxi 42.02A This included structural iipea. reinforced bars, cast pipe and steel plates. The September total rose from 85. 170 in August, and 30. tons cot) tracted In September. 1034. . Business done In the 11 far west ern suits so far this year amounted By HUGH CLEVELY ) you're doing?" he asked. "You might hare ahot me." "That's what I meant to do," she said. Sitting on the floor, they examined one another bad-tern peredly. Ruth Fraeer wai a slim girl wl h a boylah figure, candid, slightly freckled fea tures, a small determined chin, and very clear dark eyes. She looked at Majeny with great acorn and dis like; It was evident that she dis approved of him strongly. Mahouy sighed. "Didn't yon hear me aay I'd come to rescue you?" be asked In a brave, patient voice. His tone seemed to Indicate that the probably did not understand tbe meaning of a long word like "rescue." "Of course I did," the answered. "But t didn't believe you. Why should I? I thought you were one of them. They've been promising me all sorts of things It I'd come out." ' I see," said Mahony. His annoyance vanished; he laughed. Do you believe now that rve come to rescue yon?" he asked. "Yes," she said. He rose quickly to his feet, and held out his hand to '.elp her to rise. She grasped It, and he pulled her upright.- "Come ou, then; we'd better get out of here," he said. "That will suit me," she an swered. SHE) swayed slightly; of a sudden she looked verv weak and tired. i Mahony took her arm aud helped her along the passage and down stairs to tbo hall. No one tried to stop them. In the front doorwa' the fat man was sitting up, leaning back against the wall and groaning loudly. He looked rather like a fat expiring flab. He watched them, glassy-eyed, while they got Into tbe car, Mabony started the engine, and with a loud roar thay were away. It was not till they were well clear of the honse that either of them spoke. The girl broke the silence between them. So you came Into that house after me alone," she observed. "Yes," said Mahony. She appeared to consider tor i moment. Then she went on: I'm torry 1 was such a nuisance. I mean, trying to shoot you, and all tha, sort of thing." "Thit'a ill right," said Mabony. "How are you feeling?" "Tired," she answered, "and hun gry I suppose you naven't by any chance got a bam sandwich or a piece of chocolate about youT I haven't had anything to eat since the day before yesterday. There was some water In my room, but that's not frightfully sustaining" There was no trace of hystorla or terror about her; she spoke quite simply and seriously. Mahony liked her. A nice kid, he reflected. "I'm sorry, 1 haven't" he said. "But I'll soon have you back at your own home, and you'll be able to get all you want there." "I didn't really think you had," she said. "But I thought you might have, If you know what I meal ." She looked at him with frank cu riosity. "By the way, who are you?" ahe asked. "And how did yon happen to butt In this evening?" ' Mahony bad no Intention of dis closing his Identity to her. He did: no! want to have to explain to her; relatives, or the police, how he had 'oitnC out that she was in that house. "Don't bother about who I am," he answered. "I'm not going lo an swer any questions. Hut I'd like you t tell me about yourself how you i.ere kidnapped, and what was going on Inside that house when I turned up." . "I waa kidnapped about three daya ago. when I was with a friend of mine named Billy Ross," she an swered. "He met .ne as I wss com Ir out of my guardian's house, and asked me It I'd like to go with him to see a marvellous fortune-teller named Rachel. "I went with him, and while I was looking into a crystal somebody came up behind me and pressed something ever my mouth. I think It was chloroform; It smolt like It. Of course I kicked and struggled like anything, but It was no good, '-"hat's all I remembei till I woke up In that house. There were three men there, and they kept me locked In a room. They didn't Ill-treat me, except for not letting me go, but I believe they put something In my food." "Some drug, you mean?" asked Mahony. (Copyright. Its', Hugh CUvely) Tomorrow. Ttrfnet telle Autri thoy muat part forovtr. to 4B,VE33 tons, compared with 349,. 735 In the first nine months of last year. Plants worked stciuttly on tha &t& accumulation of unfilled orders on hand. Thee orders In nine months hate already topped tha total for 1035, the whole year producing 448,. 703 tons of now buMn-M. While 1038 sales are Already enough to make tht the second best year In coast history, and whil there Is considerable new business in sight in all lines. It will take more thau can nw be looked for to place this yoar'i awards ht$h enoh to threaten the 600.000 tons booked In 1939. haling leTfn ed " ALFRED. N. Y.. Oct, IS. ( AP) A "date" la defined at Alfred univer sity m "Any caniul or pre-arranged meeting ItiMlng more than in min utes with a man alter Op m Under the college's ntswiy-itvjsed "date book, freshmen can t & dated Sunday evemrutA. The definition was glvwi to eliminate ,ny mis under ."landing. Phone a4i rte h ,;jui a taj yoUJ rtilusa City SanlUrf Semo. PRINEVTLLE. Oct. 18, (AP) Sheriff Bn Oror said today that two brothers, Harvey and Ban Puett, were 5hofc and killed her nhortly STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By Far farther proof address tbe author, foetoctmr a stamped enrelope tor A'TftTufi of UPrT.lDTHl5 jfij A Family imtdi'd Numerous are the oocounta of con- fllcta between father and son, friend against friend, and brother against brother In America's Civil war. Llttla remembered, however, ore the tragic consequences that affected the White House family Itaelf, Strange aa It seems, threo sous of Abraham Llns ooln't father-in-law were killed fight ing In the army of ttie Confederacy, championing the cause their half sis ter's husband defeated. They wexo: Samuel Todd, killed nfr Shtloh; David Todd, fatally wound ed at Vtcksburg: and Alexander Todd, killed at Baton Rouge, The Hiinmn Towbont Swlmmlm? a mile off shore from 1AILSPIN TOMMY Herb Reasons With Paul I WOtlCEALEO ABOVE THE LOW CEILIMG Of CLOUDS THAT ENCIRCLE THREE POiriT AIRDROME, THE PHAMTOM FOKKER SILEflTLT CIRCLES. WHILE ITS GHOSTLY PILOT TAUMTS PAUL BELOW... CHALLEMGIMG WIM TO AERIAL COMBAT. .. THE NEBBS New Flnshes I 0 J I I IV vraaas .j jsnar-- i Y1I I i mt T, vr'lWm T , 1 I laLn u. ff .. rial BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Porcy ' Spotted I t By EDWIN ALOES f nwe lad eteu . : . W&vS&smsSm I Mf "rmtAVA- ri weasteR T rve got n.' that mau mK 1 : FOR.TEVJ I . - . . Ki qga "S5s l?,? : W3 BOY'4 006, AND I'M iURC I'VE ft I p . A WORKER A THE ORPHAUACifc ' r I I MIVJU'TE'i - I HOVE J ' ' ; i pt J'miST - K1 THAT MAU SCfORt-THC I mh WELL, MR. CinHBERT TUTTLE YOU'VE I J S Ut, 66TTIU f "V: ... &-vl 80Y MU S6 IWflMS FWD! wB30T A REAL TtOSVT To 9AM OMbSM ' ;oMt FLftceJ v lr fp '. "r 5SJM- mml . j ami " oio sco mesTV f vEV-U.TWAr vv.iu.ar "Ml f weu i teosc mdu A njeve heard " TUtt WEBBS ACiE Nl'-'E GETS FC LETTING A -rue KjeBSS W A WCD BUT 1 ... (E-PACATEDfedKl'S A WJOMANl SrT AHOLAJD 11 Ua.ve SEPARATED? ITS SaimY SURPRISED. U Y..I SUH. .IUS7 URS AMY IHtfra lHt KlrOU Mrtl O, iC..tvvJl--l.U XJU U&CO.Ll " w ' "wr"L.Y V.: Y I Pv ?.jk J,-, . V; r-Ktepris. .n.fcLJ. $iti. V I I 1 I " L- ,A II - i ll tlU 3 "":' -t V -Wv- before midnight after they had re fused to admit Whitney Taylor to a boarding bouse room. Sheriff Oroff said Taylor killed both men. firing seven shots Into their bodies with a .46 calibre auto matic pistol as they stood on the front porch of the boarding houM. After the killing, Taylor submit ted to arrest by Ray Putnam, night watchman, and was held ' In the Crook county Jell here pending an Inquest. mr 'fteRE ftRE TMCls fVS MAW JftrBNcSE. INThc U.S. AS THEKE Itl YETIHeffE &RE OVER hi MftNY CHINESE IHTHE VJORLP ftSTHEKe &RE OWfcNESE, it Ft. liutnliioi), wfc York Bay. In Aug ust, 1919, Charles Atlaa came to tho aid of five persons In a small pleas ure boat who had lost their onrs Undeterred by rough water caused by an approaching storm. Atlas at tached the anchor chain around his waist and towed the boat, with Its occupants, tho mil mile to shore. Chinese vs. Japanese According to the latest figures ob tainable, there are approximately 73, 000 Chinese living In the U. S. and about 130,000 Japanese. The total number of Chinese In the world 1 more than 400,000,000, while the number of the Japanese Is somewhat under B0 5O0 000. . k. r-v-vvO-Vt--v--v-"X frOMMY.. SKEETS.'.. WHEEL OUT') A M GOING UP M IlkTlHlfrL WHY DO YOU DELAY, .) MY BLUE STREAK .. BOLT OM ) (WHAT ARE) THERE ... AMD hMk 4' i ll'l"'!1 ll ijK captaim paul SMITH?"jd ,THE PORTABLE MACHINE GUM-j, rYOU GOING -yS I BLAST THAT 1 1 : !I ' rtMfl I" I ''iniilVls ,T BECAUSE. YOU Jl vtiVlS-i', .ajfcil V D0- frXl-r ( BRAGGING ) I j ' Taylor, employed by a largo cen tral Oregon stock concern, advanced no reason for the shooting, the sher iff eald, but witnesses told tha offi cer that Taylor apparently waa Intoxicated. WINDOW GLASS We sell window glaaa and will replace your broken wlLdowa reasonably. Trowbridge Cab inet Works. Ose Mall Tribune want ads. JOHN HIX reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat- Off. yft? oF Abnafam 'liftcoh, MP 3 Hfttf-PfSweite vWo wepfietfflNGiNTrt& j CotifEDmTzFiRW JBJ From Statue (o Bullets Shortly after the announcement of the Declaration of Independence In New York, a Jubilant crowd of pa triots marched on Bowling Oreen. There they demonstrated their sup port of tho cause by pulling down an equestrian statuo of King George lit of England. Upon hearing of the Incident, Oeorgo Washington voiced his disap proval of tho action as being "a re version to mob rule." Load con tained in the statuo was later melted down and coat Into 46,000 bullets as ammunition for ttif American forces against the British. Tomorrow: The IIfhe Monnt THE NEW PURSE AOOWAHIES VKrftfER1& ' L05TSW(tf?EST ItfErt- SUNDW SCHOCil ElfER- ItWAIrWEhh' WJD ffclHMEHf, PROUDLY B&MINES P0R.6E Ifr- CBRRV1H6 HEW PiW&E SDE AMD 00 -or MCrtMER iEVA HER. HftStftf 0 SfoP. 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