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Newspaper Page TextPSGE EIGHT rEPFOTCD WATL TRTBTjyK, MEDTOTCD, OTtEftOy, TUESDAY, JTTLY. 19. 1933. BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR Tho Story So Far: Ami Uauo, Cape Cod detective, is tntieslioatino thf murder of Marina Lome, whois hus band's pojt oflics mural hat enraged Quanomet. site wot Kmea oy a ten handed blow from the knife of tier sister Pam Frye. interested parlies are: Tim Carr. once marrted to Ma rina,- Roddv Strutt, whose alibuino plane crash loot deliberate; Peony Boone, an artist; Jennings, an Irate plumber; and persons unlenoum who burned down tnt trye-t oarn, ae- ttroyed Jack Lome's mural sketches and defaced the mural itself. Ilmmi is a 550,000 lump o) amoergru oe lonaino to Pam. Then Koddy is killed. Chapter 44 A Neat Job TWO houri later, in the enor mous living room at the Strutt house, Asey puffed on his pipe and listened wearily to the argument on between Dr. Cummings and Carveth on the subject of Roddy's death. "Mr. Strutt" Cummings dropped his angry bellow and spoke in a voice so tautly controlled that it startled even Asey, "I know that Roddy was your favorite nephew, and I know you've been upset dur ing the last day or so, and I know you've suffered a tremendous blow tonight. But Roddy didn't kill himself. He was murdered." "Roddy was driven to suicidel ' Carveth said. "Look," Cummings' voice soared again, "I've tried to explain that I know how you feel, but I know the facta In the case. That's my job I've spent the last couple of hours just finding out facts. Roddy was murdered. "The boy was driven to suicide," Carveth said with stubborn per sistence. "Everyone knows that suicides always go into a garage, shut the door and start a car "But they don't lock the garage doors on the outside!" Cummings said. "With a padlock!" "Everyone knows it," Strutt went on, "and that's just what hap pened here. Roddy was so intimi dated and so overwrought by these threats why, he went out of his mind! He wasn't responsible for what he did." "Carbon monoxide," Cummings said, "Is a favorite with suicides. But Roddy was killed. He went in to the garage, and someone either someone with him or someone waiting for him hit him on the base of the skull, hard enough to stun him. Then they moved him so that his head rested under the ex haust of his roadster, and they started the roadster, and then they went out, snapping the padlock after them. Certainly you don't think that Roddy locked that pad lock, and then crawled back through a crack!" "What do you think?" Carveth " appealed to Asey. "I don't think," Asey said, "that 1 could ever prove it was suicide." "Oh, I don t know what to do!" Carveth seemed to crumple back into his chair. "1 don't know what to do, or what to think!" Dr. Cummings, too thoroughly annoyed with Strutt to stop and be sympathetic, hammered away at his point "Sheer reason," he said, "should convince you " Asey motioned for him to be silent This was no time to attempt to reach any possible better judg ment Carveth might possess. "I wonder, Mr. Strutt" he said, embarking on his tentative plan, "about the newspaper angle. We kept this quiet up to ndw, Dut be fore long the reporters'll come. There's a lot In town, an' you'll have to see 'em, an' talk with 'em How about lettin' Elliott an' me write some sort of statement for you?" "Oh, would you?" Carveth asked eagerly. Stain On The Escutcheon THE doctor raised hli eyebrows and looked at Asey. That man could get more places with a little honey and molasses! "But you got to consider," Asey went on, "the papers' angle, an' the position you an' your family hold. I wonder if, on the whole, it mightn't be wise to call it mur der? I don't want to go against your wishes, but if we admit this Is suicide, wouldn't it sort of be a a " "Blemish," the doctor suggested. "Blemish. A stain on the family escutcheon." "Just so. Now, you knew that your nephew was Involved In the Marina Lorne business, didn't you, Mr. Strutt?" Carveth grudging admitted that he had guessed it. "An' if we say that he committed suicide, then well, folks'll start talkin' an' sayin' that Roddy prob ably had reason to kill himself. People are always awful willin' to believe the unpleasantest things they can about anyone who kills himself. They want a reason, an' I'm afraid that Marina's murder might turn out to be it. But if we say Roddy was murdered, people will be sorry. P'raps sorry enough lo forget some of the uh un pleasant incidents, an' all." Carveth thought for a moment. "By George." he said. "1 never thought of that! I think you're right Vou and Elliott fix up some thingperhaps this will be the way to get Jennings. Ves. Ves, in deed." "Now why," Cummings asked as he and Asey walked down the hall together a few minutes later, "why aid you twist him over to our way of thinking, lust to let him go off on a tangent about Jennings? He'll talk with Hanson, and you can't tell what will happen. You're sure Jennings didn't kill him. aren't you?" Asey nodded. "But 1 don't want two conflictin' stories on thi," he said, "and 1 do want Hanson an' Carveth to provide a distractin element Anyone would do, but Jennings is handiest" "In other words, you want the right hand In action, while the left brings forth rabbits. 1 see. Asey, are you so sure about Jennings? He certainly menaced magnificent ly last night if you can believe Carveth. And biffing Roddy over the head has a touch of Jennings about it" "It's neat," Asey said. "The whole thing is neat so much neater than I'd imagined at first that it makes my spine curL" "Can vou alibi Jennings?" the doctor asked, as he paused to pick up his black bag trom tne nan ta ble. "I can.'' Asey said. "I done some phonin' an' checkin' while you was busy cut in the garage. Jennings is alibied by time, an' the Methodist minister. You see, noddy d disap peared just a little while before Elliott an' 1 come here, that was around seven-thirty this evenin or maybe a bit after. At just about that same time, tne minister was .... TBnninrt, aknul 1 rtfl yards from the Pochet hospital At a quarter to eight, Lome claims tnat Jennings was spankin' him So you see, Jennings didn't have time to come here. The nurses can prove he was in his room at the hospital about fifteen minutes before the minister picked him up. They got him on a chart There you are." A Red Herring '1DUT where will Jennings be, D when Carveth and Hanson get going?" "He's safe. I'll get him out, tl they get him In too deep. 1 want a red herrin' here, an' it won't harm him to be it He can take it. An' 1 hope he'll keep everyone busy" While you sneaK on ana terret out the murderers? Cummings asked. "The murderer, Asey corrected. "Just one." "Forgotten Marina?" "NoDe." Asev said. "Oh. I know what you're goin' to say. Doc. The first murder was a stabbin' an' this is a carbon monoxide by force, an they don't seem alike. But they're alike in one thing. The knife they used was Pam's, an' the idea here, I think, is for us to land on Jen nings." Cummings set his bag down. "Then you think that Roddy was being menaced, but not by Jen nings?" he asked. "I thought," Asey admitted, "all this menacin' was a yarn, at first Now 1 wonder if perhaps Roddy wasn t bein threatened all right An' of course when Jennings turned up last night, naturally the Strutls thought that he was the menacer. Only he wasn't." The doctor sighed. "It gives you an unknown menacer to start with, I suppose, but I don't feel that's much of a foundation. How would anyone knoto that Jennings was the basher who went after you and the rest?" They wouldn't have to know, Asey said, "about that business in the woods, or any specific bashin'. Jennings has a reputation for vio lence. Everyone Knows what he thinks an' how he feels about Rod dy. An' they know he's mad at the mural. He's a nice, likely per son to pick out, just as Pam was Are you ready? Then we'd better get goin'." Elliott met them as they walked down to the garage where the doc tor's car was parked. "Hanson's come and gone," he said, "and he left two messages for Asey. That he'd done all the checking, and It was okay. And what you wanted is on its way to you from Boston. Look, why did you check on me? Don't look so guileless, Hanson made a break!" "The nicest people," Asey said, "do the strangest things. Elliott, you got to compose a statement for the press an' then will you hang around here? Carveth's in a state, an' if you're helpful enough, you might get a new school. Besides, someone ought to be here who can make decisions." The Congressman took copious notes on the backs of envelopes "There," he said. "Wherc'll you be?" "Octagon House," Asey said "Got anything, Lane?" he askeo the officer who came over to them "No prints on the Dadlock. the car keys, the wheel, door, or any thing, hverythma s clean, wioec. off. He got hit with that piece ol wood you thought, but that s clean too. And the padlock was not forced. Asey, 1 don't get this ai all!" tCtvtitl. 1938. fM4 ittvted Tlat Monday: Asey reproaches hlmselt. Foree Acquitted Of Burning Plant DALLAS, Ore., July 19. (V) Lisle Foree, former president of the Salem Teamster's union, was found Siot guilty of arson early this after noon when he appeared before Cir cuit Judge Arlle O. Walker. Foree, who was tried without a Jury last week, was charged with arson In connection with the burning of Mie West Salem bos factory last Novein- Sudden Auto Stop Cracks Lady's Hip ALBANY, July 19 p Mrs. And rew Han-sen, 83, of Eugene, auffered a broken hip last night when th? automobile operated by her son-in-law, Leonard L. Good of Eugene topped suddenly to avoid a collision with bicycle. Ths aged pswener fell forward to the floor of the cr.r. Eagerness For Job Costs Seeker $23 PORTLAND. July 10. &) Wal ter Jarmer's eagerness for woik made him gullible Sunday. A stranger asked him If he wanted a truck driv ing job and took 50 fnrm him to get him "bonded" and equipped with a chauffer's license. The man ftava him a note to a trucking firm auth orizing the placing of Jsrmer on the payroll, and signed "All McCllnnls." The drayase company had never heard of "McOlnnls" and had no Job. Trooper Succumbs To Bullet Wound PORTLAND. July 19. ,yr Injuries he Buffered in November when an Infuriated Terrebonne. Ore , chicken rancher shot him at close rane, yi terday took the lire of State Patrol man Ray Pyle. Pyle and another state policeman STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof addreu the author, inclosing tumped envelope for reply. Beg. TJ. S. Pat. Off. Qtth PoSTCtlRD. -lis-- I -a lond.tjkklhrp ualkPK WW M m &E7TERSP BY 29 Hours A Rtcm WluftHV, M&.-fo CHICAGO f VbTei KV WAS 27YbarAfTRThs f HoTSL PlIRNEDPoiNN -Matins- ' 7b XSSPZNGlAND FROM LOSING. Tti ROCK OrGIWnuhR IN rfsO, PWINDUNG M0NKSV fWlMOr which nmw wueveo w&& 'vsW?mSH RULE ir x ", . mm ,s r?0 7-7-38 MeNiuftit SyodboUa. tat Gibraltar's Monkeys Strange as it seems, mighty Gib raltar, Mediterranean fortress noted for Its Impregnability, was saved for England In 1930 by 30 Barbary ape? Imported from Africa. Involved In the superstitious be liefs of Spanish natives at Gibraltar, England's hold on the rock wa& ne lleved dependent on whether or not the Barbary apes could live there under British rule. When the last ape died, natives whispered, Eng land's flag would no longer wave over the fortress. In 1930, the monkey popxtlatlon of Gibraltar had dropped off until there were but two left a pair ol old females. Natives passed the word that the British hold was weaken ing. Fearing possible revolution or other trouble with the Spanish natives, military strategists stationed at Gib raltar saw the necessity of taking steps to replenish the stock of Bar bary apes. Consequently Captain D. A. Smith was commissioned to bring new ones from Africa to quiet the superstitious natives. He captured 30, ferried them across the strait and turned thum loose to clamber over the tower.ng rock mountain. Today, strange as It seems, It Is a crime to tease these peace -preserving monkeys of Gibral tar and high treason to kill one! For 234 years England has held this strategic fortress which stands guard over the entrance to the Mediterran ean, yet oddly enough Gibraltar was not taken by England for England In 1704, but for Archduke Charles of Austria, pretender to the Austrian throne 1 During the War of the Spanish Succession, a British squadron was. sent to the Mediterranean under Sir George Rooke who, after cruising about, decided to attack Gibraltar. Although the rock was fortified with 100 guns, Sir George took it in three days, In the Interests of Archduke Charles. However, Charles was defeated in his attempt to gain Austria's throne, so Sir George, on his own responsi bility, caused the British flag to o raised over the fortress and took possession In the name of Queen Anne. Tomorrow : Tiny sheep of tha Cameroonsl went to the ranch of Gust Olson and Andro Dalsgard on a tip Olson had killed Dalsgard. After shooting Pyle, Olson killud news breaks from 1881 to 1938 pro vide a unusual wall covering In a hotel here. Because It would be Im possible to duplicate most of them, himself. Dalsgnrd's body was dlflcov-the owner Is negotiating for their ered later. insurance. History lepers Room ROCK ISLAND,. Ill (UP) Front pages of newspapers showing big Horseshoe Strikes. WORCESTER. Mass. -UP) Proctor R. Currier is convinced that horseshoes don't bring him luck. While walking past a horseshoe pitch ing court. Currier was hit on the head by a wildly-tossed shot. LOS ANGELES (UP) District At torney Buron Fltts reports that this city is freer from payment of trib ute to racketeers than any large community in the country. 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