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Gasual Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON
Chapter 44
Her Excellent Brain
"I BELIEVE that tht murders
1 were done without Felicia's
knowledge," I laid. "At least
about Sandra. I saw her face
when she learned ot it, and she
was shocked"
"But why did sha worm her
wsy in here three months in ad
vance? It was a carefully thought
out plan, and here was the brain
that conceived it, in my opinion."
"And I shared her room last
night! Gerald, sha wasn't the one
who a tucked me. Who teas the
man?"
"The Imposter at Tort Michigan.
I had my eye on him from the
first, but Sandra threw me off.
That poor girl that poor fool!
Did she think sha could pit her
self against "
"Ceroid fell me at once!"
"You asked me two questions.
Who was the body in the csr?
And who was tha man who at
tacked you? The answer is the
same. Only not the same, if you
follow me."
"Either tell me or go away. If
that's your idea of soothing a sick
person try it on the state hospital
for the insane. Maybe they'll ap
preciate you. I don't"
"Kay. my dear, forgive me.
Only it seems so obvious. I keep
forgetting your head is probably
hazy yet It was the chaplain, of
Course."
I stared at him.
' "I guess my head fa hazy," I
admitted. That doesn't seem to
make sense."
'Think it over a bit and you'll
let it Chaplain Henry, the chap
lain Sandra had known in Texas,
was ordered to Fort Michigan. He
wrote to the adjutant You were
present in the mess hall when
Felicia told about the letter. She
probably thought if she didn't the
adjutant would, so it was good
strategy. The letter asked, you re
member, about rooms, and also
detailed his program of action, in
eluding his plans for purchasing
a new Ford in Jhica.o and driv
ing it here.
"He even asked where he
ehould stop for dinner. Dollars
to crullers, aa the saying goes,
aha wrote back and recommended
Fieldstona Inn. I say again that
hers was the mind behind this
coup, and I have plenty of rea
son to think so. Her husband,
after that near escape from the
elevated station, was in need of a
hide-out She knew of his sus
ceptibility to poison oak. and
there was enough of it around
tha post to give her the idea. The
chaplain delivered himself into
her hands.
The husband call him Bride
well for the sake of convenience,
though it's probably not his name
lay in wait at the Inn. You were
with me the night I tried to find
someone who had seen him. I
haven t been able to prove it, yet.
But I know how it was worked.
It's the only possible wsy. An
scquaintance struck up, a casual
mention of Fort Michigan, and
tha offer of a lift. Once in the
ear, events probably took place
much as described later, but with
important omissions. The real
chaplain was murdered, by
chloroform, carbon monoxide, or
aome similar method which would
leave no trace after the body was
urned.
"Felicia had been to Chicago
that day. It was the following
day, after I arrived, that she told
you she had to po back as they
had sent her the wrong girdle. I ll
wager she really bought that
girdle, really exchanged it the
next day. It gave her all the ex
cuse she needed to make two
trips to Chicago on consecutive
days.
"The first nleht she met Bride-
well by prearrangement on seme
deserted road. The body of the
chaplain was transferred to the
luggage compartment of her car.
Bridewell drove the chaplain's
car back to Chicago, checked all
his luggage st the La Salle Street
Station and drove back to the
place where the car was later
found abandoned. Felicia picked
him up there, drove him to the
edge of the reservation, where he
stripped "
"W hy? Why strip?"
Two Reasons
TWO reasons. Felicia's excel
lent but misguided brain
again. I'm sure. First reason, the
chaplain's clothes U'ould not fit
him. Second reason, he made him
self a laughing stock, and there
is nothing quite so disarming to
suspicion as that. Oh yes, one
mora reason the poison oak
That mas the most essential part
ot tne disguise, lie had been seen,
and his fingerprints were known
And. while Felicis had made
careful Inquiries and found that
no one on the post Knew the real
chaplain, there was always the
chance of some accidental meet
inglike Sandra's. The poison oak
was meant to take care of that.
I think he must have rolled In the
EXPOSITION LURES
WONDERLAND REGION
Treasure Uland. (Spl.1 Tour
ist and vacation parties ranging
from two to five persons each.
79 parties In all. have been rout
ed Into the Shcsta-Cascade Won
derland within the past two
weeks by the information and
travel depattmrnt of the Shasta
Cascade building. The vacation
lata were from 20 cities In Cali
fornia, the tourists from five
different states. Utah, Illinois
New York, Wisconsin and Min
nesota. After spending an hour in the
Shasta-Cascade building and the
stuff. Captain Jones had admitted
that he was much too concerned
about his wife to observe the
phenomenal extent of the Irri
tation. Otherwise his suspicions
might have been roused."
"Of course '.ha chsplsin kept
tha brief case in order to prove
his identity." I said. I couldn't
seem to get over celling him tha
chsplain. "What was Felicia do
ing all this time?"
"Going quietly about her busi
ness. She drove home, locked her
car in the garage and waited for
the wrong girdle to arrive.
"I rode as far aa the Post Ex
change with her that afternoon."
I recalled, shivering a little, - uer
ald, you don't mean "
"Tha body waa unquestionably
in the back of the car. Was she
nervous, not anxious for your
company?"
"Yea. I suggested going In
with her and she put me off. She
went to see the the chaplain, too,
in the hospital. Sha was going to
buy him some underwear."
"Very cool. Sha made use of
everything. Even Immerman. I
think ha really inspired her. Of
course sha stole his second In
signia and planted it in the
burned car what? Did you say
something?"
"Nothing go on." I was re
membering what the orderly had
said the night before that rang
a bell in my brain. That his uni
form blouse always hung in the
kitchen when he wore a white
coat to wait on table.
The Authentic Touch
"CHE made people laugh at tha
3 chaplain's panties, and they
couldn't take the chaplain seri
ously. Same way with the girdle.
Always' the authentic touch. How
could anyone question the pre
dicament of a woman caught out
in public clothed only in her
girdle?
"She drove that car out beyond
the target range herself and
ditched it, first having arranged
the corpse In the driver's seat
remember, he was a smsll man,
and Felicia no weakling. A little
kerosene spilled here and there,
a candle sheltered from draft
that would take an hour or mora
to burn down until it could ignite
the soaked cushions, or oil-soaked
rags "
"She was scared white when
she got back to the club."
"I don't doubt It Suppose she
had been seen suppose the can
dle had gone out They must have
used carbon monoxide on the
chaplain, in case the fire failed
and the car was discovered too
soon. Or she could always have
gone back, in the small hours
when everyone was asleep and
made certain the second time."
"Gerald, who was Felicia? And
why should she plan two awful
crimes like that? Not Just for
money. I can't believe anyone
would do auch things lust for
money. The theft of a child and
the cold-blooded murder of
good man "
"The worst crimes are for
money," Gerald said with quiet
bitterness. "And thev are usually
committed by people who have
convinced themselves that they
have a grudge against the world.
Like Sandra. You read that part
of her document didn't you? The
rest of it the incriminating part
told how they fooled her, too.
At least the chaplain did: she
never knew Felicia was in it. She
simply knew Bridewell was an
impostor: but when she confronted
him with her knowledge he
claimed to be a friend of the real
chaplain. The story they hatched
was that the chaplain had been
refused leave to ay to the bedside
of a dying relative and that he,
Bridewell, had agreed to attempt
the harmless deception."
"And Sandra believed that?"
"So she said: but perhaps sha
didn't really. At any rate, she
saw a chance of turning a penny
and hadn't the wit to make the
obvious deduction when the car
was burned, or to realize that she
was playing with dynamite. The
nearest she came to the truth was
to think he might be a spy.
"But that was later, after Ivan
was killed, when she didn't really
care what happened. Ivan had
been In Hollywood nd, penniless,
had hitch-hiked or bummed his
way as far as Chicago. He came
to her for money probablv not
the first she ad given him. When
you and Julia interrupted them
on the barge yes. Colonel Pen
nant told me all that they made
an appointment to meet there
later after the party broke up.
That was why Sandra was so
long In giving the alarm.
"She waited until Miml was
asleep, borrowed her car and
drove back out to the beach, ex
pecting to find Ivan waiting for
her there. He was there, all right
but she didn't find him. He must
have been killed by Bridewell
while you girls were absent from
the bsrge. And it was undoubted
ly meant to look like an acci
dent "
Te he cantinnea'
Wonderland Court, viewing the
exhibits and seeing the natural
color motion pictures of Won
derland counties. B. H. Alfred
of St. Paul, Minn, came to the
information desk for Informa
tion as to how to reach the Won
derland and what to see there
! "This exhibit is surely a lure
for the tourist," he said, 'and
it has made me want to see the
Wonderland region."
I Mrs. E. Ronald Foster of
i Berkeley was so enthusiastic
I over her sluhtseeing trip through
the Shasta Cascade Wonderland
that she returned to the Shasta
Cascade building to tell mem
i bers of the staff how much she
enjoyed it.
"We received Information
and directions about the things
to see In the Wonderland when
we visited this building In June."
I she said. "Sirce then we have
toured thu Wcrdrrlnnd and en
joyed it Inunciuely."
MEDFORD MAIL
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eh?
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8:30 Symphony Hour. KPO. KOW:
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all right,
GEE, THANKS
HERE'S YOUR ,
MR. CLANCV-
FIRST WEEK'S
BUT YOU
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FIFTEEN"
PAV IN
ADVANCE
DOLLARS
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OREGON. WEDNESDAY.
MODEL HOI TOWNS!
I BE OFFERED ID,
Washington. Aug. 14. OI.P'
The government disclosd plans
today to pass on to community
ownership its three model
towns of the future "Green-
belt. Greenhills and Green-Jale.
Plans expected to be complet
ed soon, call for sale of the
three communities to homestead
associations formed by residents.
Community ownership rather
than private will replace gov
ernment ownership.
Tha three communities repre
sent an initial government in
vestment of $35,000,000. Green
belt, near Washington, cost 13,-
394.406; Greenhills at Cincin
nati, cost $11,508,001, and Green-
dale at Milwaukee, Wis., cost
$10,113,404.
The projects were under
taken to prove the practica
bility" of model homes for low-
income, white collar workers
and Induce private construction
to expand in that field. They
were begun in 1933 and com
pleted in 1938.
fiy CLUYAS WILLIAMS
TAKES MOTHER PIECE CF
BATTER AMD SPREADS
-TORSI"
REALIZES THIS COULD SO ON1
FCREvTR, AND WISHES ,
int nttt ur itrw nut
WllUftftSI
IT'S NOT HERe.V-- IRO&&IR.1II.. SILENCfc MIM.
TONY.' HE MUST I THIEVES J I TONY HE'LL
BE CARRYING J f VH-HELP.' J I HAVE EVERY-
VlT WITH HIM. Nr. m I lONE HERE IN
yi i X U MINUTE.'V
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AUGUST 14, 1940.
The farm security adminis
tration, successor to the resettle
ment administration which be
gan construction, said the com
munities have operated success
fully. None of the capital in
vestment, however, has been re
paid. Rangoon, Burma, Aug- 14
ii Four persons were killed
and 21 injured when an express
train to Mandalay was derailed
last night 120 miles from Ran
goon. An investigation showed
spikes between the rails and
ties had been removed.
Cee Mall Tribuna want ads.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
OneJfaMrs. Oscar 'William.
PeltiammanonW.
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AMP Rl4&1bTHS "SURFACE,
Homm mine
SHARK'S AMU oTHSR fH
Moid IT t
ATHLETE'S HEART
According to modical science, ihera Is no convincing evidence ihat a gcod heart is dam
aged by strenuous or violent exercise. Early athletes with already damaged or abnormal hearla
competed in strenuous games and athletics undoubtedly harmed these hearts.
ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY
Oiling his lawnmower for the 1930 season, Paul E. Tignor, field engineer for tha Glenn
Martin company, spilled some oil on the red clay. Today the company's flying field is covered
with 150.000 tquare yards of oil surfacing as a result.
TOMORROW: Man Who Laughsl
WELL, QUIT GCOWLIrT THEN!
AN' REMEMBER, NO CLANCY
WORKER, MAN OR BOV,
GITS
OTHER THAN THE TOPS IN
WAGES I WANT A FIGHTlN',
GO-GITTIN CREW AROUND
ME.1
ANTI-DRAFT LETTERS
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 14.
(JP) Walter M. Clist, Spokane
apartment hotel manager, as
serted today that his name had
been forged to letters sent to
Senators Bone and Schwellen-
bacti of Washington, urging
them to vote against the con
scription bill now before the
senate.
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nM AN' HAVE HIM TELL YOU I
YOUR DUTIESJr
Clist said he found out about
the forgeries when the two sen-
l ators acknowledged receipt of
the letters.
i He asserted he had neither
written nor wired the senatora
either for or against the bill.
"I wonder how many other
of the 'pressure' letters received
by congress had names signed
as mine was?" he added.
Roseburg, Ore.. Aug. 14. (Pt
Frederick H. Nagel. "9. a res
ident of Canyonville. was killed
late Monday when he waa
i struck by an automobile driven
by Bradford W. Wynter, Myrtle
Creek.
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At SHATTERED wuta rvue
LOOSE ITS HAlL fr DEATH.'.'
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