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Newspaper Page TextPAGE STX MEDFORD MAIL TRTBTJNE. MEDFORD. OREGON1. TUESDAY. ,TWE 22. 1937. r By GLUYAS WILLIAMS PUDDDD UNFINISHED BUSINESS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tar further proof addraea th Mthor, lncloalng a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. B. Fat. Off. tW6 I -M HI a I k I III ' i"i I - a mm mm stassawasi M a aw mam rtrmi ..CtOPSlS. T inuu.lni .jotinp to dcth 0 Juda filin iiop. my old tarns, optni our jtormy wecktnd at Farrinoton Bluff, home 0 Michael' aunts. Jlter a series ot itrano attacks, we find tht body of Michael' mad father below the bluff. Aunt Mar tha is shot in the shoulder, then nearly drugged to death with sleeping powderi. The Skipper, Mike's tall and tweedy younger aunt, disappears and we search for her frantically. Finally I talk with Cook, William, the chauf feur, and Annie, the maid, who strongly suspect Higgins, the elderly butler. Chapter 41 Queer Action JCOULDNT decide whether Wil liam was rambling In an attempt to gain time or because he really con sidered the. details of his story impor tant There was nothing to be gained from the (aces of the others. They were both seemingly engrossed In the story. "Is that all?" William plunged on eagerly. "All? Gawd, no! After we'd went to bed, we couldn't get to sleep, like I told you. The noise was awful and Annie was pretty scared. We wee In my room. Along about 11 o'clock or a little after Annie got so excited I went out to see if 1 could get something to make her sleep. Cook didn't have nothing, so 1 knocked at Hlgglns' door, "There was a light Inside, but no body answered. 1 figured ha couldn't hear me on account or the wind, so 1 open the door and walks In. Hlgglns wasn't in that room and neither was anybody else. 1 didn't thlni. nothing of It then. 1 figured he was out fasten ing up blinds and things, and thought ha was a stubborn fool not to ask me to help him. But next day 1 dona eon . siderable thinking when he tells you he went to bed at 11 o clock. 1 restrained a snort of Impatience. "But that doesn t mean a thing, wll liam. Higgins only made a rough guess at the time. It would really be suspic ious if he'd hit It right on the dot" William shook his head stubbornly "Not for Hlgglns. That bird wouldn't think of rolling over In bed without looking at the clock to see If It was the right time for it" There was an Idea In that "Just how does it happen that you ara so sure of what the time was when you went into nis room?" "That's why 1 went out at all. I'd been kidding Annie to make her think there wasn't nothing wrong in her not Being asleep yet She made me turn on the light and look at th clock. And then I went out" William was no slouch himself as an alibi artist "Anu you think you can turn liiggins over to the ool ce, said, "because ha happened to be a few minutes off in his calculation of the time he went to bed? Use your nead. "I am using It!" doggedly. "Annie Anally got to sleep, but by that time I was Jumpy myself. 1 thought 'Maybe I'd oughta go out and help the old cuss. This Is a hell of a night and no mistake.' So I got Into my pants and snirt ana started alter him. "There'd been a light on In the hall before, mind you, but It was out now. You couldn't see your hand In front ot your race. I was looking for the light and I hear a door downstairs bang hard. I turn toward the stairs. thinking that something had been blown open and better be fastened, and all of a sudden I hear someone coming down the main hill like a house afire. "1 thought someont was sick or something, but before I could more than turn around, the door into our hall swings open and Higgins comes tearing through. There was a light in tne big nan and I could see him plain as day. He had all his clothes on and he looked like all hell was after him. Before 1 could open my mouth, ned tore into his room and I could hear him locking the door." William paused for breath. Hlgglns' Pretense "pO ON!" said Annie and I slmul vJ taneously. William frowned. "1 didn't know what to do. If he'd needed help he could of woke me easy as not And he hadn't He'd locked his dnor. 1 think, 'He's cracked for fair, that's what and I'd better tell Miss Farrlngton first thing in the morning.' So I start to go Into my own room, but before I could close the door 1 hears someone else tearing down the main hall. I opens my door luit a crack and sees Mr. Michael come rushing In and begin to pound on Higgins' door. He was soaking wet and pretty excited. I open my mouth to ting out and ask what's up and lust then Higgins opens his door. Damned if he ain't In his night- clothes, blinking like ne'd been asleei since noon! "I wasn't going : i get caught listen ing, not with Higgins the way he'd been lately. 1 closed my door, but I stood there listening, and the first thing I hear is Mr. Michael saying, 'Wake up everybody in the house. I can't find Miss Barbara and Miss Blinjhop!' "I knew right off that the first thing the old boy would do would be to come through the bathroom after me, and there wae Annie sound asleep. 1 routed her out quick and got her over by the door. The minute she hears Higgins' door close, she skins across the hall Into Cook's room. With Mr. Michael only halfway down the hall, it was a tight squeak, but it worked!" William," I said roughly, "If you'd told this story in the first place, you might have saved at least one life. Do you realize that?" The man's lace was troubled. "Jobs la scarce. "Lives are scarcer!" I snapped. "Is there any more?" . . It was a stupid attitude to take, and realized It the minute the words were out of my mouth. William's lips set lu a grim and stubborn line. H was silent He ain't been withholding no facts!" rumbled Cook Indignantly. "He has been withholding' facts- important ones," I said. "Now look here, William, I'm not blaming you. You ve had a rough time. But your negligence has caused plenty of trouble. The best thing you can do now is to be sure that you haven't overlooked anything." William's voice was sullen. "1 don t know nothing more." I took a wild chance. "It will be In teresting," I said, "to find out what fingerprint expert thinks about who locked Mr. Michael 'and myself in tht cellar." There was dead silence. William's eyes were fixed on the floor. "All right," he said at last "1 ain't denying it 1 went off my nut It it seemed like you was the guy that konked me, and 1 thought you'd just tried to bump off the old lady. When we was looking for Miss Btrbara you acted like you was stalling, and Well, you didn't say nothing about where you was going." I stared at him. "You're not very consistent" 1 said. "I thought you were Just now accusing Higgins?" "I was!" His expression was mulish. "I was wrong about you maybe. I got to thinking while I was sitting with the old lady, and 1 admit 1 was wrong. But there's too much fishy business about Higgins." "Such as 7" 1 knew he was ready to continue. 'Well, yesterday, when ha was sun- posed to stay in the kitchen till you sent for him when you were in the living room and the rest was in their rooms he went upstairs. I saw him. The Key Case CO Higgins slaughtered that cat! My throat tightened and there was Ice at my back. "Why didn t you say so?' His eyes were stilt on the floor. Where I've been. sir. If vou don't learn nothing else, you learn to keep your mouth shut" "Not when it may cost you your life!" 1 said savagely. 1 was certain that Higgins had re moved those letters from Wllliam'r room. All the years that 1 had known the old man. all the years that 1 had considered him as much a part of Farrlngton Bluff as Long Island Sound Itself, lell away from me. Higgins owned the only revolver known to be on the Bluff. He had lied about his whereabouts on the night of Jude's death, and certainly he ha been out of his room when It occurred. He had had opportunity for mutilating the cat and dismantling that bedroom. The Skipper was missing, and she would have followed him anywhere. Poor Norman Farrlngton would have trusted him Implicitly. He had been among the first on the scene of the shooting of M. Farrlngton. 1 had found him with the gun in his hand, and he had almost tricked me into planting my own nngerprlnts on It. My head was spinning with the mass of evidence. I again asked William if there was anything else. Oetting slowly to his feet he plunged a hand Into his back pocket and drew forth a leather case which he flung upon the table. That!" I picked the thing up gingerly. It contained about two dozen keys of all sizes and descriptions. Ther conveyed nothing to me. "That fell out of his pocket when he was getting the dinner and 1 nailed It. Higgins always carries a key to every room In the house," said Wil liam slowly. (CcwHiht. HIT, tllktr Tvltr) We Imprison Hlgrlns la ftfi tomorrow. OFFICERS ELECTED BY TOWNSENDITES ROSEBURQ. Ore., Jims 33. (AP) Mrs O. C. ThomM of Vernon I a wu elected president of the eieciuive bourn for the first congressional dis tiict of Town send clubs t the dlt trtrt congress held In Row burg Sun day. More than 1.000 persons Attend ed the sll-day sessions of the con vent ion. Dr. E. H. plev. 51 em, wss made rlcepresldent; Charles L. Paine, Eu Irene. -as re-elected secretary, and Judge C. J Novel Oregon City, s re-elected treasurer Each of the officers will represent his county on the lS-msn executive boarn William Perry was elected director from Jackson county. The convention re-employed Ar thur Moore of Monmouth district manauer. Debates and visitors were Ad dressed t the morning session by District Attorney J. V. Long of Rose burg end In the afternoon by win E. Mi honey of Klamsth Falls, Resolutions adopted carried ; ususi expressions of spprtcistion tot 1 hospitality: reaffirmation of confi dence In Dr. Prune is E. Townsend. author of the pension plan, and an appenl to cogrena to substitute the Townsend plan for the present aortal security act. An Invitation from CorvAl.lt for the next district meeting was ac cepted. The next convention will ne held In December. Carson and Bride Leave For Beach PORTLAND, June 33. t AP .May. or Joseph K. Carson and his bride wera at an unannounced destination along the Oregon beachea today on their honeymoon trip, leaving Satur day night following the wedding eel. emnhed at the White temple. Portland's most-talked -of wedding in rent years, we, a consummated oe fore 3.000 Invited guests, when the mayor took as his wife Miss Myrtle Cradirk. daughter of Mrs. Minnie Belle Furlong of Heppner. Sle wwa given In marriage tty Will A. Kntgnt. MISSING WOMAN'S BODY DISCOVERED IN DITCH 8T A VTON, June 33 . AP I Tne body 91 Mrs Minnie Ac h warts Miss ler. 53. mlMing Stay ton woman, waa found In Bhelton ditch about five mile? from here and a mile above Aumsville Sunday afternoon. St: nd d!apprrd from her home Saturday morning. Mrs Misler had oecn in ill heslti, for some time fth a pt offlcei of thr tViT'st-'i '.. Cm Mall Tribune ant s4s. ite Motf&MeRN w infrie u., JL fi r COCKROACH let? fo Trie forced convicTiom MOftan&ociflioH Of wbwx v&n IN nib, W b KlPMP-NUlRPER ttf tthP COMMITTED . 0 dSFORE -Nevi York City- KecoRp iKiae srwe year- ev I aSJn it ill A. a" nrm - 1 h M Sl)6tES-fS "TO EDDIE SEMES, WITH WHOM HE 16 PiaVlrte WORK OH HIS $H0Rf WAVE SE LEADS "ME WAV IK, IEAVIN6 BBSE8BU. EGUmMENfOr) TROtK LAWN IK A fEW MlNO-fES HAS O0L AffD RADIO PARTS S"tRtWN OtfEfc CEUAR ROOR "-rM vilrid -i NOT MAKIH6 MUCH W06RESS, COVER BEDROOM RDM? Stf66E6f$ lHAf EDDIE RUN OVER Wlfrl SAMR5,-fRADIN(j AMD (SET HIS. STAMPS ASD fWO OF THEM fHEV'H IftADE (OopyrWit, 188T, by Tin, Bell gymUeata, Inc.) tir-ide Th -Their BifVcift RlTiF -fHFM FOR A FEW MINUTES. AND, LEAVING HEM N DRIVEMftJ 60 IN 10 tWIt'D 10 BUs sunt COOKIES 8 MATTER POP By 0. M. PAYNB Key West Of all cities In the United States south of the Mason-Dixon line, Key West, Florida, was the only city that waa not taken at one time or an other by Confederate forces during tha civil wnr. Yet, strange aa It seems Key West waa and still la the most scuthern city In the United Statra With Its harbor defended by the firbiddlng guna of Port Taylor which waa built In 1846, the city managed to hold off Invasion throughout the war between the states. In the Spanish-American war. the Seminole wal and the Mexican wur. Key West waa of considerable mili tary importance. The Fatal Corkroach On June 3. 1928. little Orace BuJd, of New York City, was reported min ing. A short while later, newspapers headlined the atory of finding her body murdered by a person or per sons unknown. Not until eight ycurs latar did the clue come to light that led to the electrocution of the child's murderer. A letter waa received by Grace's parenta one day In 1934. Police were summoned to examine It. The envel ope In which It arrived was ldent. fled a, the same type as that used by tha chaufteura' license bureau. A check-up waa made and It was fout.d that un employee of the bureau fcsd taken home several ot the envelopes. He had recently moved, leaving ihe envelopes In his vacated room. Police hurried to hrs old address. Therj they found Abraham Ft':h, Questioning established him aa tne murderer. Asked how he had come to use the license bureau envelope for the letter that tracked him down. Pish revealed a weird story. Lacking an envelope after writing the letter he hao searched the room. Not find ing one, he was about to give up when he noticed a cockroach crawl ing up the wall. As he got up on a chair to kill It, his head came level with n shelf. On It were some envel opes. He took one to use for nis letter. The cockroach had directed him on the road to the electric ch.tr. Tomorrow: Horseman of the Air! PORT ORFORD RAINFALL HEAVIEST SINCE 1852 POKT ORFORD, June 22. f AP) A .Sail foot of rain the past 48 hours Mnt this coast point's drenching to the greatest depth for June since 1853. when records first were kept The gauge here showed 10.18 Inches to date. The nearest approach to this record was In 1906 Then the figures read 8 67. The average rainfall Is a. lb inches. LARGEST PEACH CROP EXPECTED THIS YEAR BAKER, June 22. (AP) W. E. Baker, reputed here to be the largest orciiver in th PAlfl(? north west said he expected to exceed all prevl- I ous records because of perfect crop conditions this year. His largest previous crop on his orchard 16 miles below Huntington was 72.600 boxes In 1935. SALEM. June 22. f AP) County Agent Vantrump said recent rains did heavy damage to both strawberry and cherry crops in Marlon county. He said that 50 percent of the cher ries wpic crocked. ltr ; ; VB10epyrltht, 1937, by The Bell Byndicsts, Inc.) Q jj TA1XSPIN TOMMY Tommy Bluffs It Out I By HAL FORRESX Tommy was just OONGRATULATiriG HIMStLF- THAT Ht WC COMVIMCt-D JUSTiriA, MErMBt-R Of- THfr ESPIOMAGf GAMS, THAT Ht IS TONY LACEY SLAIM SPY PILOT AMD BOY F-RIE-MD OF- THE tXOTlC GIRL, WHOM she- hao mot se-eri fOR SIX MONTHS j WHt-M 8C-TTY-LOU and SKt-ers trrrreeo THE" BLUE- LANTERN INN TO DANCe-, AND THtN it HApPt-ne-o ! , (tommy. mm 1 p 2843 WHO IS THIS ... TONY? ikz Jft 1 1 . Aa. . 'I 51 1 TOMMYS insTRUcrioNS ARt. .nOT TO RtcosriiZE apiy or- his PRIE-MPS... BtCAUSt- IT WOULD Ruin the secret se-rvice-'s PLAC1 TO APPRtHEMO THE" SPY LE-AOtR ... 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