The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 7

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There is not a woman in the city who would not be crazy to have it, $11,000. THE BIGGEST bargain in the city, two story house with 100 foot, east front lot, worth $2500, only $1100. | BUILDING LOTS—I don’t know how eid hundreds of them I have in all parts of the city. INSURANCE—Fire, tornado, auto- modern four-room apartment. Al- so partly furnished two room apertment and single room for| light housekeping. _ City heat. CoNege building. Telephone 183._ Ok RENT—Two room apartment, gas range and mstly new furni- ture. Also small sleeping room and garage for rent. Hazelhurst, 411 Fifth street. Phone 273. four room and nfurnished apartment for ye We jansee Apts. nicely furnished small Q nt for one lady. 807 Fourth street. 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CITATION HEARING PETITION FOR LICENSE TO SELL REAL ESTATE Mtate ok port Dakota, County of jurleigh. ‘ In, County. Court, Before Hon. I. C. Davies, Judge. In the Matter of the Estate of Carrie D. Taylor, also’ known as Caroline Donnelly Taylor, Deceased. J. L. Beli, Administrator, Petitioner, ve. John McCrory, Sarah Preavey, Susie Day, Katic Gardner, Florence Cochran, Emma Salzer, Edith, Harnts, Will McCrory, Sarah But- ler, Anna Butler, Eliza Terhune, Frank Chesrown, Will Chesrown, Joseph Chesrown, Guy Chesrown, Clitten D. Hollister, the Admin- the estate of Susie d, Alice E. Miller and Sara E, Gardner, the executrices of the iast will and testament of Katie Gardner, deceased, and all other persons ‘interested in said estate of Carrie D. Taylor, also known as Caroline Donnelly Tay- lor, deceased, Respondents. The ‘Stato of North Dakota to the above Respondents: You and each one of you are here- by cited and required to appear be- fore the County Court of the County lot; choice fifty foot building lot]of Burleigh, North Dakota, at the of- on Sixth street, and other lots. VERY desirsble site for business| i building, close in, between Third and Fifth streets. GEO. M. REGISTER. a MISCELLANEOUS fice of the County Judge of sald coun- ty of Burleigh, North Dakota, at the jurleigh county, North Dakota court house in the city of Bismarck, in Bur- lelgh county, North, Dakota, on the 26th day of March A. D. hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to show cause, if any you have, why the petition of J. 1. Bell, the administrator of the estate o! Carrie D. Taylor, also known as Car- oline Donnelly ‘Taylor, doceased, on FOR SALE—Pure-bred single comb] file in sald Court, for ‘license to sell buff Orpington hatching eggs 15, the following described real estate, and any part thereof, belonging to ‘ 65 cents. Also almost new 1,000) saia estate of Carrie 'D. Tayor, also \y | ehiek size ofl brooder. Mrs. Carl ‘yro eee Poenet art pd N ae eg ot Be beer ted 28 ate Northern » N. D. 4 In’ bloc] of the Norther ONAL CASH REGISTERS— ithe he cit if styles and .izes. We have to] Lots 11 and 32 in block 74 of the tl of Biss 5 Ree inn, NE saat eigen eet Rena Denotes ve. Hotel,| "Lots 1 to 6, both inclusive, in block itin’ ition to the city of bumGees SEEE ‘Suins, Nerds 6 and 27 in block 11 in Sut- Jon to the cit 0 the c! y, ot Bismarck, of sect! ship 138 north, of e me yn in Baty of sectioe eae fan, in. Bur- end 6 ‘ond “the mean jarter CA north west y $1.00 hel. De- mane? known. a Geeas’ Bon: toes at $1 lor, 10 = livered in small lots. telly "taylor, “decen eb. ts io tH known as Caroline Donnell; ‘aylor, )R SA! plete econ d, was Bismarck, North Da- cafe, Snap if taken at once, Let service be made of this citation ‘1 3: i ate taBpted this bth day of March A. D. Cor OR SALE Columbia, phonograph geal’ "9. Davin, 1300 Thayer. Phone 720. , Judge of naid' County Court. (3/6-13-20-89-4/3-10) PALMIST and Phrenologist street. Phone 1230, — For LOST—A white gold wrist watch Mad- am Lattimerelle. Helps find lost articles. See her today. 115 First y owner 50 ft. lot, east front, 800 block Seventh ° street. Call at Apt. 2, Person Court. 10 Lost i between Lutheran church and Fifth street stationery. Finder please return to Tribune for re- ward. Programs in Central Standard time. letters, kilocycles on right, :00—Palmer Symphony 6:00—Concert Orchestra 1,00—Dance (2 hrs.) 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Music ch 468.5—KFI Los Angeles—640 $:30—Krutt Growers’ Program 9:00—-Symphonet 10,v0--Orehestras (3 brs.) | 836.9--KNX tos Angeles—S30 9:00-—Maygoers Club 9:30-—Courtesy Proerams“(2% bre.) {etme $.$.¥, CHARACTERS PHILO VANCE JOHN MARKRAM, District Attorney of New York County MARGARET ODELL (THE “CANARY") CHARL CLEAVER, a man- bout wr NETH SPOTSWOODE, « manu- iS MANNIX, an importer AMBROIBE LINDQUIST, a able neu iat ‘SKEEL, @ professional ber- AM ELMER JESSUP, tele- rator Y SPIVELY, telephone op- EATH, Sergeant of the Homicide Burea ee HR. THE STORY THUS FAR had Vanee lev: hiding tn a closet while the gler di@ fis work. T! strane he subse- quent murder of Skeel, after he he murderer ext ¢ names Spotswoode! eee CHAPTER L VANCE paused and looked up. “You perhaps recall the circum- stances? It was a jack-pot. Allen dealt Cleaver a four-straight-fusb and gave me three kings. The other hands were so poor that every one else was compelled to drop out. “I opened; and Cleaver stayed. On the draw, Allen gave me another king, and gave Cleaver the card he -Meeded to complete his straight- flush. Twice I bet a small amount, and each time Cleaver raised me. Finally 1 called him, and, of course, he won. He couldn't help but win, d’ ye see. He was betting on a sure thing. Since | opened the pot and drew two cards, the highest hand 1 could possibly have held would have been four of @ kind. Cleaver knew this, and bav- ing a straight-flush, he also knew. before he rais- my bet, that he had me beaten. At once I realized that he was not the man I was after.” “By what reasoning?” “A poker player, Markham, who would bet on a sure thing is one who lacks the egotistical self-con- fidence of the highly subtle and su- Premely capable ‘gambler. He is not a man who will take hazardous chances and tremendous risks, for he possesses, to some degree, what the psychoanalysts call an inferior complex, and instinctively he grasps at every possible oppor- tunity of protecting and bettering himself, “In shdrt, he is not the ultimate unadulterated gambler. And the man who killed the Odell girl was & supreme gambler who would stake everything on a single turn of the wheel, for, in killing her, that is exactly what he did. And only a gambler whose paramount scorn, through sheer egotism, to bet op & sure thing, could have com- mitted such a crime.—Therefore, _ Markham was now listening tn- “The teat to which 1 put Spots self-confidence would make bim | jpmi 1:20—NBC Programs $:80—Studio Concert 10:00—Ford and Glenn 222.4—WHASB Loulavitle—930 S—Frederic W. Wile ‘0—Great Moments in History 00—Ipana Troubadours 0—CGoodrich Hour 0—National Grand Opera S16.8—WMC Memphis—680 7:00—Studio 8:00—Ipana. 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Nelson was killed and Mrs. Torkel Johnson severely bruised when the car in which they were ridng tipped over on the highway north of Bowman. The other occupants of the car were Mrs. Johnson’s two sons, Clifford and George. MASONS PURCHASE SITE FOR HOME Watford Clty—Fort Union lodge No, 128 A. F. & A. M. of this city has purchased a building site upon which the lodge will eventually erect a lodge home. D. That under of Salo granted . Davies, Judge of Burleigh coun- dated the 29th day 1928, the under- or of the estate br signed, t of Andre ship in dece dministr private st bidder, for cash, ation by’ the Judge n (18) in township nd forty-one (141) north, yenty-six (76) west of the pal meridian in Bureligh ‘orth Dako’ and — bain ng the office of Geo. 5 North Dakota, or filed dge of said County Court to the undersig per- {sonally at his residence on the south of range 77 west of tha in Burleigh nd A. D, 1928, 1, or of the estate Niva, deceased. Ey) himself held nothing. It was tre-! mendous—superb! It was probably | the most remarkable bluff ever} made in a game of poker. | “I couldn't help admiring him when he calmly shoved forward all his chips, knowing, as I did, that he held nothing. He staked evety- thing, d’ ye see, wholly on his con- viction that he could follow my reasoning step by step and, in the last analysis, outwit me. It took courage and daring to do that. And it also took a degree of self-confi- dence which would never have per- mitted him to bet on a sure thing. “The psychologica) principles in- volved in that hand were identical with those of the Odell crime. { threatened Spotswoode with a pow- erful hand—a pat hand—just as the girl, no doubt, threatened him; and instead of compromising—instead of calling me or laying down—he outreached me; he resorted to one supreme coup, though it meant risking everything. . . . My word, Markbam! Can't you see how the man’s character, as revealed in that amazing gesture, dovetails with the psychology of the crime?” Markham was silent for a while; he appeared to be pondering the matter. “But you yourself, Vance, were not satisfied at the time,” he sub- mitted at length. “In fact, you looked doubtful and worried.” “True, old-dear. I was no end worried. The psychological proof of Spotswoode's guilt came s0 dashed unexpectedly — I wasn’t looking for it, don’t y’ know. After eliminating Cleaver I had a parti pris, so to speok, in regard to Man- nix; for all tho material evidence in favor of Spotswoode's innocence -that is, the seeming physical im- possibility of his having strangled the lady—had, I admit, impressed me, “I’m not perfect, don’t y’ know Being unfortunately human, I’m still susceptible to the malicious animal magnetism about facts and appearances which you lawyer chaps are continuously exuding over the earth like some vast as phyxiating effluvium. And even when I found that Spotswoode's psychological nature fitted per- fectly with ali the factors of the crime, I still harbored a doubt in regard to Mannix. It was barely possible that he would have played the hand just as Spotswoode played it, That is why, after the game was over, I tackled him on the subject of gambling. I wanted to check his psychological reactions.” “stil, he staked everything on one turn of the wheel, as you put it.” “Ah! But not in the same sense that Spotswoode did. Manniz is a cautious and timid gambler as co pared with Spotswoode, To begin with, he had an equal chance and an even bet, whereas Spotswoode bad no chance at all—his Land was worthless. : “and yet Spotswoode wagered the cations, that Spotswoode had done away with the lady.” “You make your case theoretl- cally plausible. But, practically, I’m afraid 1 can’t accept it.” Markham was more impressed, I felt, than he cared to admit. “Damn it, man!” he exploded after a moment. “Your conclusion demolishes all the estab- lished landmarks of rationality and sane credibility.—Just con- sider the facts.” He had now reached the argu: mentative stage of his doubt. “You say Spotswoode is guilty. Yet we know, on irrefutable evidence, that five minutes after he came out of the apartment the girl screamed and called for help. “He was standing by the switch- board, and, accompanied by Jessup, he went to the door and carried on a bricf conversation with her. She was certainly alive then. Then he went out the front door, entered a taxicab, and drove away. Fifteen minutes later he was joined by Judge Redfern as he alighted from the taxicab in front of the club here—nearly forty blocks away from the apartment house! “It would have been impossible for him to have made the trip in less time; and, moreover, we have the chauffeur’s record. Spotswoode simply did not have either the op- portunity or the time to commit the murder between half-past eleven and ten minutes of twelve when Judge Redfern met him. And, re member, he played poker in the club here until three in the morn- ing—hours after the murder took Place.” Markham shook his head with emphasis, “Vance, there's no human way to get round those facts. They're firmly established; and they pre clude Spotswoode’s guilt as effec- tively and finally as though he had been at the North Pole that night.” Vance was unmoved. “I admit everything you say,” he rejoined. “But as I have stated be fore, when material facts and psy- chological facts conflict, the ma terial facts are wrong. In this case, they may not actually be wrong, but they're deceptive.” “Very well, magnus Apollo!” The situation was too much for Mark- ham’s exacerbated nerves. “Show me how Spotswoode could have strangled the girl and ransacked the apartment, and I'll order Heath to arrest him.” « “'Pon my word, I can’t do It,” expostulated Vance, “Omniscience was denied me. But—deuce take it! —I think I’ve done rather well in pointing out the culprit. I never agreed to expound his technic, don’t y’ know.” “So! Your vaunted penetration amounts only to that, does it? Well, well!” Vance looked at him with wag- gish reproachfulness, and sighed. “Recognition of my transcendent genius, I see, is destined to be posthumous. In the meantime 1 it on a pure bit of mental calcu- lation. That was gambling tn the higher ether. On the other hand Manniz was merely tossing a coin. with an oven chance of winning. Furthermore, no calculation of any kind entered into it; there w: bear the taunts and jeers of the multitude with a stout heart. My head is bloody, but unbowed.” He looked at his watch, and then seemed to become absorbed with some line of thought. “Markham,” he said, after sev Ro /eral minutes, “I've @ concert at