PAGE SIX
MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1940.
Gasual Slaughters
-By VIRGINIA HANSON 'CT
Chapter 43
Bugle Call
AT FIRST I thought the Randly
child meant an automobile
horn." Gerald went on. "I took
her to a bif automobile accessory
ahop and she listened to every
horn in the house. Sae thought it
was great sport, but it wasn't like
any of those. The horn she heard
was pretty, and played tunes.
"I began to see the possibilities.
A school of music; an Isolated
teacher of wind instruments; or
limply a crowded neighborhood
where there was an amateur
looter. If I could find out what
kind of horn it would narrow
things down.
"We went to a music store. She
listened to saxophones, flutes,
clarinets, bass horns, and shook
her head. The baby has a good
ear, fortunately for us. I wis
about to give up in despair when
a boy scout came in with his
scoutmaster to buy a bugle. The
boy played mesa call on one he
was trying out, and it clicked. It
was not only the right horn, it
was the right tune, she told me in
great excitement Now could she
have the ice cream coney im
agine a millionaire's child who
doesn't get enough Ice cream
cones pitiful, urn t it? -
I laughed, and after moment
he went on.
"I made her wait a bit,' while
the scoutmaster took the bugle
and played taps. She knew that
one, too. I'd about decided I was
onto something, but to make sure
I asked the acoutmaster if he
knew The Roast Beef of Old Eng
land.' He'd heard it a few times
on an English boat and said he'd
have a try at it. He did and the
child, said ahe didn't know that
tune!
'That clinched It. as far as I
was concerned. He played half a
dor.cn calls of the American army
and she recognized them all. We
had ice cream cones, then I took
her home and was at some pains
to discover that she had never
visited on an army post, nor had
any occasion to hear bugle calls.
Then I asked l.er if, aometimes
when the bugle was blowing, she
had heard a big boom like a giant
firrrrarker, and she said yes.
"Isn't it curious how people
who have the use of their eyes
forget the value of the other fouf
tenses? Almost every kidnaped
person is kept blindfolded, and
Because they can't see they hear
things their kidnapers never no
tice. There was the man who
heard the mail plane going over
every night "
He paused apologetically. "Sor
ry, I didn't mean to deliver a lec
ture. 1 Just wanted to ten you
what led me here. With the co
operation nf the bootmakera and
the knowledge and consent of
Corps Area Headquarters, I've
been traveling about from post
to post in this vicinity snooping
into matters which did not con
cern me, hoping to happen on
omething which did. I've fer
reted out some Interesting mat
ters" here he paused with a
grim chuckle "but nothing
eeemed pertinent until I ran into
the stolen cars of Fort Michigan.
All Ears
AND now I must go back a
little and tell you another
part of the story. I'm not tiring
you?"
I assured him hurriedly that he
was not tiring me, that I was all
can, and please to go on.
"I don't want ynu to get the
Idea that I'm handling this case
alone. This was simplv my angle
of it, and in a sense I played in
luck. But the rest of the organi
sation is behind me, and because
they are it's rather like heating
a rabbit out of the brush. No, not
a rabbit. A tiger, or a jackal. The
beaters were all behind It, and It
came my way.
'The ransom bills were old and
unmarked. But their serial num
bers were taken, naturally. And
early in August thry began to
filter in. A tremendous amount
of routine work was done track
ing each one down, usually to a
harmless shop, or a prosperous,
law-abiding citizen who was at
a loss to account for his possession
of a ransom note. From all over
Chicago they began to come in,
and at last we began to get a pic
ture of the method.
"A few of the possessors
claimed they had made change
for a stranger in the elevated
station. They differed in their
descriptions of the stranger. One
said it was a little old man, an
other on elderly woman. A third
described a fat man, another a
well-dressed young woman. Al
lowing for the possibilities of dis-
uise, there must have been at
;ast a couple, man and woman.
"The method was always the
same. A prosperous-looking citi
ten usually a man would be
accosted apologetically as he left
the station always a busy oni
with the story that the ticket
seller had refused a twenty-dollar
bill, and so on, with the pros
perous citizen digging down in
the jeans and doing the favor.
Two of our most sartorially ele
gant operatives began to make the
rounds. From station to station
and back again, going out, com
ing in, watching for the little by
play. One rainy night about two
weeks ago they came down the
elevated steps together, and one
of them went into a tobacconist's
to make a telephone call. The
other was sheltering in the door
way against the rain when he
saw a little old man, his hat
pulled low over his eyes, come
out of a drugstore halfway down
the block and run spryly up the
steps to the station.
"On a hunch h. was never able
to explain, the operative followed.
A train was just emptying itself
as he reached the platform, and
the old man, standing in the
shadow of a stanchion, was hand-
ma a bill to a well-dressed, nort-
ly man. The operative pounced,
but he wasn't quite quick enough.
The fellow ducked into the mill
ing crowd where it was impos
sible to shoot, and the thunder of
the departing train covered the
shout of warning. Halfway down
the stairs he swung over the rail.
dropped into the street and, duck
ing through the milling traffic,
darted into an alley and was
gone." .
But the operative taw him!"
He did. yes. The stooo. the
thlck-lensed glasses, were obvi
ously a disguise. But the opera
tive thinks he would know him
again. And remember, we have
his fingerprints. Those two things
beat the jackal out of his cover
to new shelter where, to his un
doing, a little girl's memory of a
bugle call had already drawn our
attention."
Who Was He?'
"VOU mean here?"
I mean here. I was a long
time puzzling it out, and I've
been a loncer time orovinn what
I grew to suspect. There were the
charred bills. At first it looked
like the end of the road, and that
our kidnaper and the ransom
money had both Bone ud in
smoke. That was the way it was
meant to look, those twcnty-tlve
hundred one-dollar bills were a
burnt offering to fate. But it
didn't work. Bad luck for the
murderer. Triple murderer. For
of course the man in the car was
murdered, too."
'vho was he? Immerman?"
"Immerman turned himself In
at Corps Area Headquarters this
morning, after he rend about the
last murder. He admits to having
robbed the taxi driver. He was
stranded in Chicago without
enough money to pav his way
back to the post, and if he staved
overnight he wouU be marked
AWOL. That was his way out of
the dilTlculty. Ha says he meant
to pay the driver back, anony
mously. Then he heard Adam tell
ing you about the insignia. He
had missed one, but had no idea
where he lost it. That scared him.
But when he went to put on his
uniform blouse to go back to bar
racks that afternoon, there was
another one gone. And when vou
saw him buying a pair at the
Post Exchange, he decided the
only thing for him to do was go
AWOL in earnest."
But if the man In the ear
wasn't Immerman. who was he?"
tie looked at me. "You oucht
to be able to figure that out for
yourself. There's only one person
it could have been. There'll be
dental records to prove it there
was a plate. Of course, we don t
actually need those records. We
have also a b.iggnce check which
was found under the insolo of one
of Felicia's shoes "
"Felicia? But you said It was a
man! Gerald, are you telling me
that she you don't mean, vou
can't mean that it wasn't her
niece?"
"I think it was. at first The
little girl Julia talked to they
wouldn't have dared let the
Handly child talk to anyone. Then
Felicia took the niece to Chicago
and put her on the train for home,
and it was the Randly child she
brought back with her. Remem
ber, Julia said .hey didn't come
out to the beach after that, and
only took walks in the evening.
Some sort of removable dve on
the child's hair, and a pair of
thick-lensed glasses with bows
that were taped with adhesive
under her hair, so that she
couldn't take them off. The little
girl told me about that herself
when I thought to ask her. No
wonder she couldn't see very
well! Arrgh!" There was savage
ry in the fringed eves now. "That
Bridewell woman will go to the
chair, too, if I have my way.
She's been groveling said she
agreed to the thing only because
her husband was going on with
it anyway, and she wanted to he
sure the child came to no harm.
But that the murders were done
without her knowledge"
T kt nUna4 '
DASH TO ALTAR NO
DRAFT INSURANCE
Washington, Aug. 13 'T
Young men who take their best
girls' hands and rush to the
marriage license bureau to be
come husbands before Uncle
Sam ran draft them for mili
tary duty, have no assurance
they won't be called for a year's
active training under terms of
the Biirke W'adsworth conscrip
tion bill now brfore the senate.
The measure contains no rpe
cific exemption for married men.
They will be required to regis
ter for service, Just as any other
male citizens from 21 through 30
years of oge. If It becomes law.
The President is authorized,
however, to defer the training
"of those men in ttatuj with
respect to persons dependent
upon them tor support which
renders their deferment advis
able." The mcasuie con'ninn
no definition of "dependents.
UNLAID EGGS PROVIDE
Waldport. Ore . Aug. 13. '.-n
A couple of WaUlpirt turkeys
belonging to Mrs. O. V, Hurt
would be plrnty embarHsyed
she believes, if they knew they
were hatched from eggs never
laid.
Two months ago two unlaid
eggs were removed fnm dead
fowls after they had been in
cold storage for two weeks. Mrs
Hurt, curious, placed them un
rier a hen. The peculiar turks
she said tixiay, are norma! and
healthy.
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Wednesday.
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Replying to Gen. John J.
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His topic, ' Navy for Our Own
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Bend. Ore., Aug. 13. (JV
Hungry and near exhaustion.
Melvin Jack Williams, 46 year
old negro farm hand, was arrest
ed near here Monday in connec
tion with the slaying of his for
mer employer's wife and wound
ing her husband.
) State Police Sergeant L. L.
, Hirtzell said Williams admitted
shooting Mrs. Jim Vaseliu, 53.
I as she fled across field, and
wounding Vaseliu in a leg.
A posse organized by Sheriff
Claude L. McCauley found Wil
liams in a railroad cut 20 miles
south of here about 1:30 a. m.
He was not armed and offered
no resistance.
Hirtzell said Williams quit
work Saturday and was paid off.
There apparently was some dis
pute over wages. Williams re
turned to the house, the officer
said, entered through a window
and obtained a shotgun. Vaseliu
said Williams fired at him from
a haystack, and then opened lira
on Mrs. vaseliu.
FAMED FRENCH PILOT
AMONG WAR VICTIMS
Vichy, France. Aug. 13. (ft
Maurice Arnoux, celebrated
French airman, was reported
today to have been killed in
aerial combat against Germany.
Arnoux. a world war pilot,
was referred to as the first man
to fly at more than 500 kilo
meters (310 miles) an hour.
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