The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TUESDAY, MARCH 65, 1929 Bank Deposit Guaranty Repealed and Substitute Is Rejected | the pale-faced widow slipped into |tective nodded, frowning slightly, and Wj BILL POR REVISION [L_stDe-ctancus —--— by George Cink) [TA BLAGK PIGEONS Sts2e areas: 4 4 { { - from the time you left your hus-|to think of such thi now, tet band, I mean. About 10 minutes of|won’t you please tell Mr. © NRARLY KILLED 700 By NEA Service, Inc. ANNE AUSTIN - Sim iodes angered ina qu geiney a wom with «perl lcontrolled voice: “As I told you, sir,| arly beautiful contralto voice? S| After Defeating Shafer Pro- posal House Leaves Loop- THIS HAS HAPPENED wouldn’t have paid no attention. I’d)Cowan have heard Harry Borden’s|I had left my children at the Ches-/ Color flamed suddenly in ad ned ‘(HANDSOME HARRY {have said to myself, I would—That’s| voice bellowing in rage at 10 min-|ter Hotel, while I came to see my—| aristocratic face of Harry len’s BORDEN, promoter of dubious | another of them dratted automobiles, | utes past two, when he—Cowan—|my husband. I had left them in the/ widow. She drew in her breath stock companies, ix shot between | €xplodin’ like a pistol shot’—” had called Jack Hayward’s telephone | !adies’ parlor, in charge of the maid|sharply, and her eyelids fluttered, one. and four o'clock Saturday “Which is exactly what you did|number and been cut in on a busy |” duty there. She had told me she | before she answered, almost haught- afternoon. His secretary, RUTH | say to yourself sometime between ajline? Unless, of course, Cowan had|Would be on. duty until two o'clock; /ily: “I am afraid I can give you lit- LESTER, finds his body Monday [quarter to two and three o'clock!”/been mistaken as to the voice. , .|When she would be relieved by an-/tle help along—those lines, Miss morning, sprawled beneath the | McMann pounced triumphantly.|But he had been positive that Bor-| ther maid. I promised to be back by |Lester. Naturally Mr. Borden's in- | airshaft window of his private |“When was it, Minnie Cassidy? Re-|den had referred to himself by|tWo and I was, for she was still/timate women friends were not hole by Bare Vote fice, member that Tim. Cassidy gave his “Whi i there, though she left immediately |known to me—socially. et OTMEMANN, detedtive sergeant, |life in the service of law and order|Borden whet hevcae dei". Tort? |after I had tipped her for her serv-| “She opened the door, passed into questions the following suspects: and that I’m in that service now!” But what if Mrs, Borden had re-|ices. I took charge of the children |the outer office, closed the door be- [ MRS. ELIZABET turned? . . Was i | myself then, and was with them con- /hind her. Borden's setrwabee vie aie nied sible that ‘he tiscaraad wires bake tinuously until they went to bed in| Ruth shrank in her chair as if the. mother of his two children, who |. “I'd tell ve if I knew, Tommy Mc-| mitted at that interview to God only |the evening. The three of us attend- | widow’s words had'been blows in her admits calling on him Saturday |Mann!” Minnie Cassidy defended|knew what further humiliation at|¢d ® motion picture downtown—a|face, But beneath the throb of hu- afternoon but who insists she |herself spiritedly. “But if such a|the hands of her hustang, had brood-| War picture that my little son was |miliation two things clamored for left him alive; RITA DUBOIS, {noise I heard, I have no recollection jed upon her wrongs, remembered the |C®get to see. recognition—the fact that Mrs. Bor- {h ‘DUNN GAINS ITS BRIDGE Fi One- Man Fish and Game Com- x mission Is Enacted by a of it now, and thumb screws andj pistol in the bottom drawer of the| “I see,” McMann commented non-/den had not really answered her ’ : night club dancer, who says she i i ici Straight Party Lineup called on Borden Saturday aft- [hot irons couldn’t make me say I|secretary’s desk, and returned to kill|commitally. Then, in rapid succes-/question and the suspicion, amount- ernoen to get the torn-Walt OF a “ae him, walking up the stairs so that|sion, he fired half a dozen questions |ing to a certainty, that the widow Nickie te tee genera a $500 bill he promised her; JACK: “All right!” McMann shrugged, {her ‘second visit should be unknown | designed to pick a flaw in the wid-/had known only too well the answer ni fables: B. Blister, Nobth HAYWARD, Ruth's ‘fiance, {frowning at the notes on the case|to the elevator operator? ow’s alibi, his flying pencil making |to that, question. = x Shafer, h whose office is across the nar. |Wwhich he was shuffling through his ew notes of the detailed information) But why should she try to shield, me Dakota he Tepealed ts ni c guar row altakiit trom Beeden's, big, thick hands. Suddenly a memo ; she gave him as to the name of the | by cor enak, her name, one of the is ron fund law ‘The lower h t Hayward explain is veut is own handwriting caught his} Apparently Detective Sergeant |theater, the time she and her chil-| women who had undoubtedly posses- Bill for its repeal by a vote of 81 to the seventh floor Saturday |eye. “When you were coming out of|McMann’s logical brain had reached |dten had arrived there, even the mu-/sed Harry Borden’s love—temporar- ‘of & “Ts Leta Don oh ee afternoon by saying he left his |Feldblum’s offices you saw Mrs./the same conclusion, for he strode|sical and dancing numbers of the/ily at least—after his wife had lost pa The measure was earlier e and Ruth's matinee tickets on Borden leaving. That's right, isn’t]to the door and directed Birdwell, in|Prologue which had introduced the] it? Ruth suddenly felt too tired and er oy pias velliraied tte stand “of his desk. MeMann’s belief that |it? She’s already told me a scrub- the outer. office, to send for Mrs. | feature picture. bewildered to bear any more, but Pe; relterated its, stand Jack is guilty is strengthened |Woman saw her.” orden, who was being detained| Ruth knew, as the detective left/she raised her head, listened wear- td es urday (ce hawaii hy the testimony of MICKY “I did see a lady come out,” Min-|down the hall by Detective Covey.|the private office for a conference |ily as McMann concluded his inter- te F iy ah cred yy ae ied a bie MORAN and OTTO PFLUGER, |nie acknowledged, “but I didn’t] While awaiting the arrival of the | With Birdwell in the outer room, that | view with Minnie Cassidy. . veonsider a Fea ben elevator boys, and of BILL |know it was Mrs. Borden till I saw|newly made widow, the sergeant re-,every detail of that alibi would be xk * fh deposi ooh - “ state ti oa COWAN, Jack's friend, who un- |her pictures in the papers. One of|sumed his questioning of Minnie|carefully checked, that even Harry " ¥ st Death of an admi atra titer aba: willingly tells of having heard |the cleaning ladies had all the pa-| Cassidy. Borden’s children would be pitilessly| “That's all, Minnie,” McMann was coi a anh Gee Jack threaten Borden's life when |pers, and I pointed to Mrs. Borden’s| “Now think hard, Minnie,” he di-|cross-examined, but she had little|/saying. “How's the baby, by the te RR was narrowly averted. By a vote . | Jack saw Borden Saturday |picture and told her I'd seen her|rected, with brusque kindliness. “Did|hope that Mrs. Borden's alibi would/way? I remember Tim was always gt ; a to tee ies. pivana i morning struggling with Ruth in |leaving Mr. Borden’s office when Ij you see anyone else at all enter or |be shaken—and, looking at the sad-| bragging about his girl child—' P gms ae * egarding ; = ed , the opposite office. was coming out of Mr. Feldblum’s|icave these offices on Saturday aft-|faced, bereaved woman, Ruth could} “Baby?” Minnie cackled. “Ye e Aelations failed to ia ‘Atte! 7 tt. “e” ‘ pb ern ya M0. U8. PAT. OFF. Detectives are sent for CLEO |Teception room down the hall.” ernoon?” not but be glad... . should see her now! Growed up on (a corded paella aoa ao Sptwanthe mulliganvatae Goniet? : GILMAN, Borden's discarded | Ruth suddenly leaned toward Min-|. “Do ye think I had nothin’ to do Lapointe me, she did, Tommy McMann. Twen- N aoe ‘econsiderat ce ee ie mulligan stew today mistress, and BENNY SMITH, |nie Cassidy, forestalling McMann’s} but to watch Mr. Borden’s offices,| McMann returned, sat down,|ty come June, and as pretty a lass (to carry by one vote and the bill was Borden's office boy. Benny ad- next question with one of her own:)Tommy McMann?” Minnie demand-/again faced the widow, who was|as ye'd hope to see. Ain’t that right, st in iieiitieny' tor reconsideration today to require automobile owncrs to mits returning to the office Sat- “Was there some reason why you/ed indignantly. “I had me work to|standing, with one hand clenched Miss Ruth?” t Pi By straight party vote, the bili | fasten license tags to thelr cars by a urday afternoon to get Ruth's |noticed, Mrs. Borden particularly, |do—” tightly upon the back of the chair) “Rose is a little beauty,” Ruth . “to create a one-man game and fish | Patented locking device failed. The gun for target practice but says | Minnie?” oe 4 “Answer the question, please,|in which Minnie Cassidy sat. She|admitted, as heartily as weariness b on the Mouse. ‘The | Dill was killed by the house last week. the gun was already gone. McMann leaned back in his chair,| Minnie,” McMann interrupted impa-|had refused a chair for herself. “Mrs.|and discouragement would permit. Py aie Sane of the Tad: | ‘The house passed 17 bills and con- ASHE, Borden’s manservant, | tacitly giving his consent to question | tientl __|Borden, MinnieCassidy here has cor-|“And a good girl, too. She helps : rt ¢ majority and passed 63-46, | !dered four in the committee of the tells McMann of a woman. with | and answer. “Haven’t I answered. it?” Minnie|roborated what you said about your | Minnie here-with her work, when the . sey | ae | tiie, a beautiful contralto” voice: of Minnie hedged. “With so few com-}was curiously truculent. seeing her when you left your hus- rheumatism is bad.” 4 = Is expect sign whom Borden lived in. fear. Migrate on Sat'dy ean “Did you see the dancer spice band’s office about 10 minutes to i “A good girl itt ae . a oo MINNIE. CASSIDY, scrub- y 1 picture is in the papers, too?” Mc-|two on Saturday. But—she also says|tears springing into her watery ol r+ n “senha of rt Tpridge acre the INCREASED T Il Public Scales Report Big Busi-| woman, says she emptied Bor- |don’t believe for a minute that the|Mann tried a new method. “Rita|that she saw a8 wiping tears from |eyes. “I'll tell Rose ye was askin’ B 3 for Feb: I den’s waste baskets at 1:30 Sat- | Poor lady would shoot the father of |Dubois, her name is. She’s admit-|your eyes. Is that true?” for her, Tommy McMann. It’s been —( w iacead Missouri in Dunn county also : ness for February; $36.90 urday and while he was out for | her two little children—” ._ {ted she was here, so you needn’t bej The pale, once-beautiful face quiv- | hard, with Tim gone and all, but I've ; “ Passed. cass Fines Collected a minute answered his phone. “Was Mrs. Borden crying?” Min-|afraid of getting her into trouble,”|ered, but the leaf-brown eyes were|tried to do everything for the chil- a ms Crow Bount Del sates ee It was a woman speaking, “with |nie?” McMann suddenly interrupt- jhe added, with somewhat weary sar-!steady. “It is true. I don’t think I|dren that Tim woulda done.” d Beis nppendnainel ve one to : Perens a heautiful contralto voice.” Me- ed. “I must have the truth—” casm. The scrubwoman’s reluctance|ever left my husband’s presence—| “And I’m sure you have,” McMann a7 x vs See ee The city commission, Monday eve-| Mann asks Minnie. what the “Well, cryin’ she was then,” Min-|to give any information which would |after our separation—without tears|agreed absently, his eyes on his x other a es Hides a ning, reduced the assessment on &/ woman said when: Borden re- |nie admitted belligerently. “And incriminate another was undoubtedly |in my eyes. I loved him, and grieved {notes again. “What’s the name of Despite the general intnebat poaied Committee Refuses to Make|new house of Mrs. C. B. Rosen from] fused to talk to her, but asked |Why shouldn’t she be? Separated | wearing his patience thin. that he would not return to me and|the woman who cleans Hayward’s a F aeciti nh R dation Eith $4,000 to $3,500, after considering @/ that she call again in 15 min- |from her husband and still lovin’| “That I didn’t!” Minnie retorted |our children.” offices? . . . Letty Miller—that’s 3 ig ie, Darts saensures and the ecommendation Either request for a reduction by comparing} utes, him, like the papers say. Not takin’|/emphatically. “When I finished Mr.| The detective looked at her stead-|right. Send her in to me, won't you, b and fish commission, none of theeh Way on Measure oe | Donen -GaReRenen? “WEN EPO * ek O* on, jist dabbin’ at her eyes with her|Feldblum’s offices I went around|ily for a long minute, then said | Minnie?” re = ae others. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |handkerchief, then pressin’ it hard|into the other wing of the building, |abruptly: “That’s all, Mrs. Borden.| | Suddenly Ruth remembered some- 3 ‘caused discussion. lowing third A request of J. C. Swett for a re- CHAPTER XXX against her mouth.” and was busy there until about half-|You may go home to your children, |thing—something which might be z reading, they went immediately to} whether standardized high schools duction of a personal property assess-) «fot me see now,” Minnie Cas-| Cold logic, however, prevented | past two, then I went to the supply |but of course you are not to leave |of vital importance to Jack Hay- a Siri ty “Ail eates. man may charge a $2 per week tuition fec}ment was granted in part, the items) stay considered leisurely, immensely |Ruth from taking any joy in this|room again, to rest meself a bit,|town and are to hold yourself avail-| ward. Her weariness routed by hope, ~ of students from other school dis-/on household furnishings and musical! enioying the fact that “Tommy” |confirmation of her theory that the|though ye needn’t be tellin’ Mr./able for further questioning at any|she eagerly awaited the arrival of a near. killing of the bill to pro- | tricts, as provided in a bill considered | instruments being eliminated. McMann, who had once been a| interview between Harry Borden and|Coghlan I said that. He thinks us| time.” Letty Miller. ... © commission to study bank-|by the house education committee of] The report of the police judge “rookie cop” with her husband and|his wife had not gone so smoothly, /girls is all wheel-horses—” “Thank you,” Mrs. Borden said in (To Be Continued) 1 " Teport recommendations | the state legislature last night, will|showed fines of $36.90 collected in| who ‘was now a detective sergeant, |80 amicably as the widow had testi-} “I shan’t tell on you, Minnie,” Mc-|a low voice, as she turned toward — next session of the ren be reported to the house without rec-|February. These were on five charges|was hanging on her words. “Jist fied. Mann chuckled. “Oh, all right, Bird-|the door. The parade of possible suspects “ surprise. ommendation from the committee. of disorderly conduct, ten traffic vio-| what did the sweet-voiced lady say?|. If Mrs. Borden had shot-her hus-|well. Show Mrs. Borden in... Sor-| “Please, Mr.* McMann,” Ruth|conti Has the murd ee ty in the commit-| pr. J Wahpeto! red be-|lations and one case of drunkenness. j tae fe i i r . : uestioned yet or has MeMam pa Cntat ts jones, Wahpeton, appeat +1 Seeing as how she was on the tele-|band between 20 minutes of two and|ry to bother you’ again, Mrs. Bor-|begged urgently, “may I ask Mrs.| questioned yet or has McMann far- came e | fore the committee and declared that| The city scales report for February’ phone, and not here to kill the poor |10 minutes of two, how could Bill|den,” he apologized brusquely, as|Borden just one question?” The de- ther to seek? the bill would work an additional and | showed 3,224 loads weighed and feesjman, I reckon it won’t do her no : : = . Shp iome on a ne sends | of ae , colleaeee on q Papel harm for me to tell ye what she said, ss ch n out of is ict to high weighe inclu ive ol ice, ol . «, ect * . P| n z » » ee a. Measure, i met the virtually solid! school. Senators Lynch of La Moure|hay, 51 of hogs, 12 of cattle, ‘two of Borden that if he is, wise, he. wil pea eo ionvartisans, and county and Atkins of Towner county | wheat, 20 of oats, 47 of corn, 11 of talk to me when I call again? Then eight “aoa dependents voted maintained that it is unfair to one|potatoes, three of speltz, two of she hung up the receiver, and I told i ite school district to ask it to pay for|bromus seed, seven of old metals,/Mr, Borden what she'd’ said, and upon defeat, J. H.| the education of children from an-|eight of old paper, two of merchan- then. I took my things— : , Bioux county, made a motion | other district whose parents in no|dise, 151 of wood, 33 of buttermilk, “Just a minute, Minnie,” McMann ther consideration of the | way contribute to the school. five of cabbage, two of chickens and|interrupted. “What did Borden say ie ealek urged. that the pen aa aot eg ion ges be einen district |one auto. when you gave him that threatening 3 Albert Van Berkom, | of court in the same county if rec,| WAS A GOOD GUY Lop 4 inty, defended the motion, | ommendation of the house judiciary WHEN HE HAD Ir_|,, UC, ‘idn’t, say, nothing—just ; - 3 e Howry ju elery. ~|srunted and slammed the door be- : copoegees : repor' for passage - —. fe: |hind him when he went. back into his | a ef * Wichita, Kan., Mar. 5.—(NEA) private office. And that’s the last ya Divided report. will be made by the A “stranger in town” and his sight I ever had of the poor man, so ri house insurance committee on a bill money are soon parted—and so help me God!” Minnie answered fer ire revises the state hail insurance| were J. F. Hicks and his dough. vently. ‘ 4 WS as recommended by the state Hicks, 82, on his way to Tulsa, “an. ., " 6 , : i hail insurance department. Okla., to make his home with his see nee nae ene as y : eae ’ daughter, was invited into a for- |vator or knocking at Borden's outer Yi : if 4 4 ai 2 . Miele 2 ety) = tune-teller’s, In the establish- | door?” Y : | Big acksonville, Fla., March 5.—There | ment he was relieved of $47, his ny, sant Deine 5 ' may have been one of those “Watch | entire bank roll. I tence oe qriinle, auawered: rs Your Hat” signs in the food dis- Hicks told his hard-luck ‘ale {left them just outside the door of * cate sae ee the i pcan «oe Pherae Jacksonville | to a stranger standing an ® cor- | Mr. Feldblum’s office till I could go \ , Hosa og eal ball ‘Mrs. Ppl reporter, c er es to worry ner outside the fortune-teller’s |to the supply room, where us clean- < repeal fe nue DD about. He was interviewing Jo-| house. He called police, who re- ing women keep our pails and Miss Billie Burke, ; J gegen neki panies it sephus Daniels, ex-navy secretary,| trieved the old fellow’s money. | brooms ‘and tags and: suchlike. My ped ics wort! paper and had hung his hat on a conveni-/ Then the new-found “friend” |pbottle of furniture polish was empty Popular American Actress wr oper nts sue tabling at Cast ent hook. Someone evidently took a} asked Hicks to accompany him and Mr. Feldblum is mighty partic- Stage. z fancy to the topper, for when Massey | down an alley. There the stranger | ular about his desk, so—” ee Pe ehane returned the hat was gone. Politely lifted the $47, handed “Could you have heard a shot fired More watches were made in Switz: Bike Tee eran 2 We oon? Met Fay aoe } a v 1 z= . fj su room?” .McMann de: 5 i " fe eens sete was Te-|erland last year than in any previ-| Radium bearing ore has been dis- as I couldn't, Cie ees je J ae 4 .. The ous year in the history of the in-| covered in Turkestan, it being be- dT didn’t!” Minni i - dustry. lieved that the deposit is extensive. sae aa ach as et ae g comment on the guaranty bill came in the re- swered emphatically. “If I had, I representatives in ex- votes. Mrs. Craig said am a Hilo ap iar | OUT OUR WAY. By Williams LESSEE, WHUT ONE, O' THEM RARE! O05 THEY CALL. fer | ATHOUSANY. LAIG THEM NOW ? {THEM HIND. CENTIPEDES WES [ey ‘tL EAT |-HEY LUNE BAS Piven 08 Jauutuing BuT|IN A BiG ‘ 1B) = VERN WHER'O HE Gry / CH GUMOROPS [CANS Tt ALCOHOL TT’ PICKLE IM IN ? Ll i iy i f Qa z ili le i