The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, December 21, 1939, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextTHE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON I SERIAL STORY 5 WOULD KILL ' BY TOM HORNER - copvuisht, MS. NBA tRVICK, INO. Yaatarlari Xn. aatfcaraa aa mil awaaraalp ( Ik aat, ex plains fear aetlMU m4 laa aorllaa f B.ataaraa'a aata Malloata laa Mt. After aaa adatlta aaar nlltf Tlalrallr wllk arr anab.aa, Dimoa aeoaara kar of alaltlaa: 4a kill Drntharar. a aaaka It look Ilka aalaUa. Wklla ka trai-aa kcr aaaalala aellaaa a aket akaltara aa allllaaaa al Ik roam. CHAPTER XXIV KJNherel In here!" FJynn yelled ' u he leaped toward Alston's door. Dawson pushed put Helen Benthorne and followed. , ', There mi thin, blue wisp of moke over the bed u they crashed through the locked door. Alston lay there, (ace down, as it asleep, Just as Dawson had seen him before. His right arm hung down to the door, and his finger tips rested on a small blue-black revolver. A vivid stain spread over the white pillow as blood flowed from a wound In his temple. Dawson bent over Alston,; pressed his ear close to the old man's back, but it was a futile gesture. As he straightened up, he noticed a paper, tightly clenched In Alston's left hand. "There's nothing we can do,! now, Flynn," Dawson said in a: low tone. "Call the coroner." It was not necessary. He wasj standing directly behind Helen! Benthorne, In the doorway. As Dawson tuned away from the body, Alston's daughter rushed to ward the bed, but Dawson caught her in his arms and led her, gently, to a chair. "Dad! U" she screamed, again; and again, then wept, hysterically.' The coroner entered on Daw-: son's unspoken order, made a brief examination of the body. He: lemoned the paper from Alston's j hand, reed the address and handed.it to Dawson. "It's for! you, Captain." Krone, the coroner's deputy, I filed into the room and Ara and' John, still handcuffed, followed.: All were watching Dawson as he read Alston's message. Mrs. Ben thorne's sobbing was the only sound in the room. Dawson bent, whispered to Mrs. Benthorne. Her sobbing subsided a little. He cleared his throat "You all are interested in this letter Mr. Alston has left far me. It concerns all of you. "Dear Captain Dawson," he read. "1 trust my decision to , solve your case for you will not )upset too many of your excellent! tbeorles. It was inevitable that you should ultimately reach this! final conclusion, and I have taken' it upon myself to anticipate you. -i lulled Arnold Benthorne. ' " 'Any man who strikes my j daughter forfeits his right to live.! "'Helen's happiness has been my sole aim in life, since her mother died, and if killing Ben- tnoroe will remove a cause of un- happiness I am glad I was able to do it "'it was not difficult I came in the rear entry, went directly to Benthorne's study, killed him and then ran to the rear stairs. I was in the upper hall as Helen went down the front steps. ' " 'Much of the time I was sup-j posed to be asleep, I spent in Ar-I nold's room, directly over the study. Your voice and those of the 'others were easily heard Arnold lhad special openings Just for that Purpose so I knew far more; t about the progress of your inves tigation than you guessed. What jyou did not know, or possibly overlooked, is that there is a com-; imunlcating bath between Arnold's room and my own. That simplified matters considerably. It would ,have been even easier if I could I have entered Helen's room by the i same route, cut her door was al 'ways kept locked. "'I chose di Torio as my most likely suspect and tried to fasten suspicion on him by finding one of on cigareis in uie passageway. But he had obliged me by carelessly dropping one there Mmaaif. " 'I was listening, upstairs, when: no guinea to tell you that he had seen me, so I had to kill him too. I probably would have done the same for the girl Ara if she had not suggested a better way by tell ing you to iook lor the gun under Mrs. Benthorne's mattress. You shouldn't have let her scream that soioudly. But you arrived just in time to prevent my putting it there. " "You've been searching all over! nor tne gun that killed Benthorne and di Torio. It will be found in my hand with three of its five shells fired. " 'I had hidden It in a mnrf r.-n. venlent location immediately after i niiiea eenuiome. . . , The latin. dry chute. Your man didn't find it When be searched through the clothes because I hung it within easy reach inside the chute. Ewn if he had looked up, from the bot tom of the chute, he could not have discovered it unless the door on the second floor were open and I paid particular attention that it remained closed. He might have seen it had he flashed his llight up, but I doubt it Anvwnv. that was one of the chances I had' to take. You would have found no fingerprints on it, at any rate. " 'How did I hang it there? I thought you might guess when you saw me with the wire clothes hanger in my hand. Simply in sert the hangar upside down diag onally in the laundry chute, push it downward, well out of sight The spring of the wire keeps it from slipping down. Then hang the gun by the Digger guard on the hook of the hanger. " 'It was simple to get the gun out, shoot di Torio and return it after you had gone downstairs. It I had been caught, I would have said I was merely disposing of a used towel. " "But I've been afraid, through some trick of circumstantial evi dence, that you might try to blame Helen for killing Arnold. That is why I chose this way out " 'Full control of Alston Motors will revert vto Helen. Perhaps she will forgive me, as she has always Insisted she already had, tor sug gesting her marriage to Benthorne. I urge her to make some restitu tion to the girl and boy for the damage Arnold has done them. " 'And by the way, Captain, if this case has given you any head aches, please try those sleeping, pills I gave you. You'll find they are Just ordinary aspirin. I will have a long, and peaceful sleep now. " My bank will attest my signa ture. I am sound in mind, and know what I am writing. "'WILLIAM ALSTON.' aaa TJAWSON was back at the desk in the study when Ara and John entered. "How about taking off these bracelets?" Douglas asked, laugh ing. Dawson smiled at their happi ness. "I'll give you the key, Ara, at the City Hall, when you're Mrs. Douglas. Then, if you're afraid you'll lose him, you can throw away the key." And as they turned to go, he called after them: "YouH find Nick Smith and his cab out front Make him take you down town." He stepped to the window to watch them go out the front gate, out into the sunshine. He smiled again as he saw Douglas kiss his bride as the taxi sped away. e tTTTELL, Captain, that winds up another one," Flynn said as the front door closed behind them. "Yeah," Dawson agreed. "Now maybe I'll get that vacation. But you know, Flynn, this one had me puzzled. With this suicide and written confession, we'd never stand a chance in court but, per sonally, I'm not convinced that Alston killed Arnold Benthorne." (TUB END.) Says Blueblooded Hubby Socked Her OUT OUR WAY BY J. R. WILLIAMS OUR BOARDING HOUSE With MAJOR HOOPLE . am. THE PEEPER. "TRAP Jf?NHLlMS li-XI E6AD. THERE'S THE DOORBGU. JASON, 1 3TEP ALONb- 6EE WHO IT 16 DOM'T LfeT ANVONu M P IT SHOULD BE TlMlfi&S OR A POLICEMAN- MAK-MAKf EXPLAIN! THERE IS A CA"5.OP 6MALL POX 1 IN THE NSSIflHBORHOOD AND t HAVE 60NE TO PERNAMBUCO TO INSPECT AV SUGAR PROPERTIES IT A. 6HWT MAM- KlNOA CROSS LOOKiN - AT TH'OOOB.MISTAH WAOOR.'' W MAB A ONIFAWM CAP HAVE A 6WBBT OF PAPAM IN HIS HANV AH CAINT TELL l HE'S A DEPPlTV 4m&'PF OR M&VSGr A SOJE' I Ml rem RED RYDER At ARM. 'IT'S TH6 L AUNDRvMAN ,'. HafMittf. BY FRED HARMAN k Jeanne Jordan, ex-" Vanities" I girl, dances scantily clad in a: New York night dub. Her Phil-' adelphia socialite husband, Fred-! erick Steelman Bain, 45, didn't! like it So, she declared in an' assault complaint, he burst into! the club, punched her, tore out a handful of hair, later followed her home and repeated the pejM formance. ! BATTLIWa THE BUSHIMO TORBEMT, THUNDER. GUIDES HIS MASTER'S BODY TO SHALLOW VWTER- AMD PULLS RED RYDER, FROM DEATH IN THE; RAPlPS FLAPPER FANNY Lmtarmtmccaja. T. K. wc. a . wit. ot. By Sylvia LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE OnCB MORe RVPER. LOSES vSv. -v A ' ' aiT' M CONSCIOUSNESS.. J lfrV". ' HHH THUNDER CANNOT UN" , j S1"aljil W jUj II l 'JaTBl Tl TI6 THB ROPES THAT 1 Jt!?j2.fa 1l I' (I IfVi BINO HIM.. UNLESS fLwl ,jfZ )Va5st l I' I C&s- n.t, aLlWr BY HAROLD GRAY, V THERE -THAT RATHER SHABBY-BUT SEEMS UKH A NICE. QOIET NBGHBORMOOO- MAYBE TAUX ROOMS THERE UH-HUH- MAYBE SOON FIND OUT- z 7 FUNNY- NO ONE TV COMES TO ANSWER 6HADBS THB DOOR BELL- ARB DRAWN- t SOMEBOOYS HOME- MAYBE THEY'RE fj 6MOKITS COMIHO ALL IN TH' f. OUT OF THE ,b4 BACK O TH' Jb I OOKT LIKE TO PROWL. BUT MAYBE I OUGHT TO TRY THE BACK POOR THOUGHT I HEARO VOICES INSIDE - X Vt OP COURSE- WET.L AU. CO A AROUND TO I THE BACK I MAYBE THE BELL'S OUT OF ORDER- I HRMlfT .S irrr Ju . I IA1I.I I JILL? ANNIE I , YOUVS COMB I YOUYOOVB COMB' I 1 IP3 Tit". FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS BY BLOSSER Jnng him over sometime Mac gets awful lonesome all the other dogs in the neighborhood are too big for him to lick." 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