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PAHi! SIX MEPFORT) MAIL TRTBTTNE, MTTF0TID, OT?"ROQy. MQyp AY, OCTOBER 26, 1936 ' Of ff The Wrong Murderer SYNOPSIS: Lte-K,., guai dlan of ItHth Prater, had engaged Ambroee Lawaon and hi gano of kidnappera to make away with hi ward. Hut Terenoe Uahony, much to everybody'a annoyance, reecue Ruth, who return tht favor by providing Terence a fata alibi againjt a murder he did not com mit. Terence ie on hi way home Irom telling I,e-Ramaden thing he ehould not have told him when he meet a ehabby individual who claim to have known him in China. Terence doe not tuevect Lee Ramaden; he know Lawaon i a crook but can't prov U. Chapter 20 TERENCE TRAPPED "TTAVES you still got th noter asked Mahony of the shabby man. "Yea, I think io." Tba ahabby man fumbled In a breaat pocket and produced a crum pled envelope, "Here It It. I'm auppoaed to de liver It at ten tonight It I want that Job, but I'm not taking any, I'd rather pick pocketa or try my hand at a cat burglary." MaLony considered for a moment He looked the ahabby man up and down. "I'll give you a fiver for that note," be said. "What . . .1" exclaimed Mllaon "But . . . surely you're not thinking of trying for that Job, are youT" Mahony did not answer the Ques tion. "Do you want that flverr' he asked. Mllson ahrugged hit shoulders. "Of course I want the Over; I al ways want fivers," ha remarked. "And if you don't mind taking a Job like that, I suppose that's your fu neral. Here you are; deliver it to Mr. Drown, 1 87 Jamaica Road, Pen nyfloids, at ten tonight. And good luck to you." Mahony banded over the flver and received the note. lie declined Mil son's urgent Invitation to come some where and have a drink, and left him. When Mahony was out of sight Mllson entered the neareat telephone-box. The man he telephoned wae Ambrose Lawson. "He fell for It all right," he stated. That was all he said. Then he rang off. MILSON was not altogether right in saying that Mahony had fallen for It At the beginning of their conversation Mahony had been ready to bellove that he might have mot Mllson In the Shanghai Bar and forgotten meeting him. Then there had come a little dis crepancy In Mllson's atory the mention of Kosoft. Mahony had never known Kosoff In Shanghai. Hut ha had mentioned the name of Shulti as a dope trafficker at the Little's that morning. nd the fact that he had been a newspapor cor respondent In China might easily be known to Lawson: Billy Ross might have mentioned It, It occurred to Mahony that Law son had put together all he knew about Mnhony'a career In China to try to lure him Into a trap. Mahony Intended to walk Into that trap, not blind and unaware, but with hie eyes open, expecting trouble and roady tor It. One precau tion only he took; he wrote a note to Lec-Rnnisdon telling him what he proposed doing, and the address he waa going to. That note would reach Lee-Rams-den by the first post In the morning, and Mabony asked Lee-Ramsden to communicate with Inspector Ken nedy If he should not ring him up before eleven the same morning. Just before ten that night Mahony rapped at the door of 187 Jamaica Road, which was a tall, dingy, tum bledown house, In a row of dingy tumbledown housea. The door was opened by a bent, shrivelled old man, who looked up at Mahony out of bleary eyes. Mahony handed him the note. "I waa told to bring thla here at ten tonight," ha said. The old man took the note and looked at Mahony suspiciously. "Wait here a minute," he said. He closed the front door. Mahony walled. After about halt a minute the front door opened again and the old man beckoned Mahony Inside. Ilia manner this time was more civil and conciliating. "Mr. Brown says you're to come In and wait In his room," he said. "Ho won't keep you longer than he can help." Mahony's hand was In his eoat pocket; he was ready for anything that might happen. But though be atralned his ears to hear the slight est sound near him he could hear nothing except his own footstops and those ot (he old man; the house seemed surprisingly silent, almost deserted. Cautiously, everr sense on the FIND 11 GUILTY LOfl ANOKIJS, Oct. 21. (AP) A Ruprtor court Jury today convicted 11 of 13 defendant who I.ava bwn on trial for a month oharged with conducting a coatitwlde I'lfwsl surg ery ring. Tht j u ror a, a ( t cr m vc n h ou ra ot actual deliberation, agreed on 117 c pa rate verdict, covering all count charged to the defendants. Court Attaches aaid this - was the largest total ever recorded In criminal trial In Los Angeles county. K, L. Rankin, who the prosecution contended waa the buMncaa head of the opera Hon- ring. a convicted of conspiracy tu.il complied;. Jcwep;i fihlnn and John Creeth wrt eon By HUGH CLEVELV aiert, he followed the old man up a dark, tumbledown staircase to a landing. The old man opened the door of a room. "Walt In here," said the old man. Mr. Brown said you were to make yourself Quite at 'out, and 'elp your self to anything you want" He ushered Mahony into a room that by' contrast with the rest ot the house, waa surprisingly well ap pointed and comfortable. The wall paper was clean and fresh; there were a couple of comfortable arm chairs, a solid-looking roll-top desk, a good thick carpet, and on a ma hogany table were whisky, soda, glasses, and a box of clgarete. " 'Ave a drink or a smoke If you feel like It," said the old man, and he went out closing the door after him. Mahony heard hla slow foot steps going down the stairs. Very puszled, Mahony glanced round the room. So far as he could see, he appeared to be Quite aafe for the moment; the window was Inaccessible from the road, the door waa olosed, there were no apertures or ventilators In the wall through which he could be shot at. He had no doubt that he bad now walked Into the trap prepared for him, but what waa tbe nature ot the trap? Was It In the drink or the clgareta on the table? EVERYTHING was very QUlet ex oept for the slow tlck-tock, tick tock of a clock on one of the walls ot the room. Minutes drag by very slowly when a man'a nerves are strained and alert waiting for something to happen. Five minutes passed, ten minutes passed, and still the house remained quite quiet Mabony smoked; he walked np and down the room; he glanced cau tiously at the articles en the desk. At last very aoftly, ha pulled at one of the drawers. It opened, and Inside were a num ber of thin paper packets. One of the packeta had burst slightly at one end, and from It had spilled a little ahlny, white powder. Mahony wetted one finger slightly, and taat ed a tiny particle of tbe powder. The eold. numb sensation on the end of his tongue told htm Instantly what tbe powder was. It waa co caine. The alienee ot the house was sud denly broken. From down below at the front door came a sound of banging, and then ot men'a rough volcea In the hall. Mahony closed the drawer swiftly. He had no doubt that whatever waa going to happen would happen now, and he waa ready and waiting tor It There waa a sound of footsteps on tbe stalra leading up to the room. Mahony atood leaning back against the mantelpiece In an easy attitude, one hand in tbe pocket ot hla coat The door ot the room was flung vio lently open and a man stepped In. He waa a very large man, and very ugly. A shabby cap, pulled down at an angle over one eye, en tirely failed to conceal hla shock of untidy red hair. Ills brow waa low; hla eyes were small and deep-set hla lower Jaw was underhung like that of a bulldog. He closed the door deliberately behind him and stood In front of It scowling at Mahony, a huge, menac ing figure. Good evenln' to ye, Mr. Brown," he eald with a kind of savage po liteness. "I Just called In for me money." "I'm not Mr. Brown," replied Ma hony. "Are ye not so?" said the man. He took a pace forward suddenly and brought hla huge right fist down with a loud crack Into the palm ot his left hand. 'What In hell do I care what ye're after calling yourself tonight?" he roared ferociously. "Isn't It enough trouble ye're after causing me, with the cops looking tor me and all, with out standln' there arguing the toss about what name ye'd be passln' byT Give me me fifty quid and let me go or have I got to squeese the money out of you with me bare hands?" It was obvious that he was In a real Irish temper; nothing would have pleased him better than a fight The last thing Mahony wanted waa a fight with a stranger at that moment. "Don't be a damned tool," he aald sharply. "I've told you I'm not Mr. Brown. I'm waiting for him myself." The Irishman made a gesture ot disgust. "Do you think you'll wriggle out of paying me that way, ye twletlng elnrlcaunr he demanded angrily. "Didn't 1 have the tip that you'd be here at ten tonight? Wnan't yom seen to come In at ten? Didn't the ould fellow below tell me you waa here?" (Copyright, llll, Hugh OUveiy) ut Tsrtncs tin to light, tomer row. vtcted of consptrscy. waa William Byrne, former state medical board Investigator. Doctors Valentin St. John. Jesse 0. Roe and Oeorge C Watt and Mlaa Ortoe Moore and Mia Lillian Wilson were found guilty of con spiracy, Wife Mayer In Cell PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 3(1. (API Cell bar replaced a hospital cot to day for Frrd Weldner. saserted by police to have attempted suicide by firing a bullet Into his brain after the strangling of his wife, rrauces. In their Burn aide street beer purlo Sep tember 23. Pioneer Editor Passe ST. HELENS, Ore., Oct. 3fl. (AP) Oregon lost one of lt most, colorful plonwa and newspaper men with the death of Emmanuel H FIngg at hla home here. Hi nee coming to the stt from South Carolina in the '80s. Plagg had been Identified with nu merous ncUNpitpor entcrprlM In western Oregon, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN KLK For further proof address the author, tndosto; a stamped envelope tor reptyt. Beg;' TJT8. PtOff. 'inMrfc? iSp5s Dematsonltfcobn mr Tf3 MEN, Of ItOOMBN April 21, i83b- 20-Mlnuntc Battle A checkered career waa that of Sam Houston statesman, military genius, school teacher and patriot. Running away from home at 13. be crossed the Tennessee river and took up lire with Indians ot the wild region, being adopted as a son by one of the chiefs, Oolooteka. Houston returned to hla family tn Tennessee, 1811, opened a school, gave It up two yeara later and enter ed the army as a buck private. With in year he rose from the ranks to win his commissions aa a lieutenant. Veteran of many an Indian war, he became fed up with the army in 1817 and went to Nashville to study law. Here he became consecutively district attorney, major-general of the mtlttla, U. 8. congressman and governor of Tennessee. In 1830 Houston resigned aa gov ernor when his bride of three months, Etlra Allen, deserted him. Arrived In Texas, 1B33, he waa elected com- mander-ln-ohlef of the Texan army at the outbreak of the Mexican war. The campaign was short lived. Meeting the entire force ot the Mexican army under General Santa Anna In surprise attack, Houston re- TAILSP1N TOMMY On the !(M A3ECRET RADIO CONTACT WITH THE PHAN TOM.. PAUL AGREED TO LAND AT THE ABANDONfD COMET AIRPORT AND LEAVE A NOTE INSTaucT- ING THE GHOSTLY PILOT OP THE WEIRD 5H1P WHERE THEY WOULD MEf-T IN AERIAL COMBAT. OVERHEARING THIS . TOMMY AND .SKEtTE-R KIDNAPE-D THEIR. CHIEF ..TO SAVE HIS LIFE... AND ARE NOW ONTHE TRAIL OP THE PHANTOM FOKKER,. 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