Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1923, Page 10

en E ees Oe : he Casper Daily Cribune WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1923. eases Ea a fs b | us “V1 ‘ SECRET TOI i 9 BARNEY GOOGLE By Biliey De Beck E ss } < TRERE Now -YourRe By Peul and Mabel Thorne, Authors of | & Newsrarer MEN WERE Arcuns fj ace Peak Se AU SEY eI Ger on eS ” ' WEN IL GAVE You & WoRK-cUOy Tic x SOmeE REPORTERS OVER ‘The Sheridan Road Mystery A.M. ou WERE ABouT AS Moeror-CYCLE UNDER. HERS pei gta GIVE INSTALLMENT NO. TWELVE = FAST AS THE mosic our d OUR SHAWL BEFORE =\ "EM AN EXHIBITION « CHARACTERS IN TE i 10 o'clock, sees her come out} OF A HARP — 4ND SOMEGUDDY BREEZES 4 The Friends of the Poor, is an Prentice drawing room and THe RACE WITH a ganization which has preyed on the et a man A ated “SASSY SUsIE* Is : MouTHEuL- io. thal hele Next ERIDAY = Nes a rby. Sud xX Gorra. a struggle | n= flash of} Ca d two Ital-! just then Humphrey “had| ff a flash powde: The} the excitement | package d'sappeared. s photograph led to the thi confessed to riends of the} to the money.” The photograph} 1 ndmg near the tree the m € m had see ing to {iss Sturtevant. $10, nes We r the Sa . Copyright. 1923, by King Features Syndicate, Inc. rester, tries t pert de him t quiese in th Kmailers’ demand. He points out that the police have been unable to capture tho Friends of! A city detec the Poor ev ough the money has! is asp Deen taken he tree right their noses. death heir Charies Nevins w Josephine Forres| Benjamine F. Green, a ¢ no great prestige, is engaged by ive watching the trén| yxiated and Robert himself ts @ man, who flings a rub-| r his head, but fails in attempt at asphyxiation Sturtevant approaches. A i allers gives days to de- | - MY.PooR MAN’ —\WHAT HAPPENED “Te You ~” — 1 DoW Tinie Nov’RE HuRT Muct-Nou'rRe Just SCARED — CAN For down the Diack Dorie 1 Do ANYTHING =? —NES-PLEASE ‘he| Mr. Melville, ts asphyx Go AY-wan!? X\ lated. Miss Sturtevant's actions and a lie she tells concernng young Mel-| vitle's death are a shock to Forres: ter. Forrester is worried by Mary's ap parent connection with the case and puzzled when Prentice suddenly ap- pears in his house, as Green was| supposed to be on watch. Green is later found under the influence of | &85, but recovers. He abandons the search. Robert remembers Hum-! phrey's fantastic idea of ap ng the +| engineering principle of “triangula- tion” to the problem and produces a diagram involving Lucy's cottage and| \ \ rester promises to e ten thou: sand if he does so Humphreys, a reporter of the Times suggests that Forrester use his train i an engineer and tur himself. Humphreys’ the biackmailers make t ters in some more luxurious place than they are believed to have by the city detectives. Cahill and O'Connor, who decis they have traced them to a west £: age and tha they are an ordinar: “black hand” crowd of “dagoes ‘They te!l Forrester to put the package in the tree at 10:30 Saturday night 9 % 33 and they will watch. This is some. Be fio a pies Bg sib bp pais ‘pm what disappointing to Forrester, spi Sitght ‘bel fieolved dea ewe those of ed some in whoss invest!gations ireen at the tree deve teresting angles. Gre has been frightened away from a night vigil by ghostly sounds, including sighs, the clanking of chains and the weird toll- ing of a bell, and by a which rose above the tree. | Joshua, giant negro employed as r to imagine possibly that Bol- im was at the root of the mat- ter—that evolutionists were troni- cally forcing the rich to contribute to their own down-fall Determined to investigate Lucy's ] connection with the case, Forrester goes to her house, finds it empty and A gardener on the Bradbury place near| 0 the basement discovers a passage| “All over?” he gasped. “What do Jasper Lane, tells Forrester that it is that leads under ground to the oak) You mean? hot men but ghosts who haunt the| tte. Two gas tank and the parapher-| “1 know it {s against the doctor’s| tree. He attributes the manifesta-| [lla for the ghot!y demonstrations | orders to excite you,” she answered, | tions to the spirit of the husband of | @T@ discovered. A m figure ap-| but I cannot stand th!s dreadful sus-| . =z 7 a Lucy, a “bad Jamaica niggah wom-|Proaches. In tho struggle which fol-| pense any !onger. There ‘5 a man| OH.YES E nos NOC RE eee Nespeeian LET an,” who, Joshua says, had mur-|/ows F the gas mask! waiting dow: who can explain ’ — THA 5; z 5 s You dered him. Forreser visits Lucy in| over hi face just as he all, I will bring him up now.” REMINDS ME— H = SNAPPY CUT 7? Seren NS FITS the guise of a reporter. He obtains! himself © the released! “jn a few minutes she returned, fol-| 5 Uttle information but is astounded to, fumes. lowed by a tall, broad-shouldered man, | see in a dry aquarium a bunch of PiRI | with kindly brown cyes and streaks live snakes. He remembers that woke to find himself in| o¢ gray in hi dark hair. He! snakes are used in Voodo bg h he had smiled down reassuringly at Forres Mary Sturtevant fter the girl introduced him staying at the Bra ing to Joshua, vis’ Bhe surprises Fx On learning his name Jasper Toe she announced. happily. ‘is whom I call the ‘invis Mr. Marten was in the eret Service for many | and has had his own investi 1 service for some time. | ly noticed that the ma. y of the men victimizea by this} d band of extortioners were | prominent in banking c‘rcles. That} constituted a direct assault upon the| banking fraternity. | “While people outs'de of banking circles did not know of it, this per secution was gradually bring’ng on an actual financial panic. When. it was rumored that a banker had given up a large sum to this supposed so iety, or his murder was reported, a mild run resulted at the bank with which he was associated. shocking the whole ou probs “i “If there had been only one or two i ae cases this would have had little effect. | Breve SENT ALONG aNOTHEe Gost), SEEMS Good A Bok OF SWEETS - NEVE ITS HARD TO ADMIT but as numerous banks were brought ARmeUL OF Roses, AND | HAVE To Have You BACK Auow TH GIRLS Togo UTHOUT or into the matter there was a tendency A MOTORING DATE ToDay- OH. IN THE OLD Bus | S “EM - ATS ME ALL QUE! BuT | USED To GE to spread this fear and the germs of WEUU Here Dounce The AGAIN. LILLUMS MoRe oF @ THRILL wee best insidious'y gripping fin at . WITH THE SHEIK iN “The Midland Bankers’ Assoc'a-! His ELlivveR! tion engaged Mr. Marten to solve the RS | riddle of the ‘Friends of the Poor and the secret toll which they w imposing upon bankers. Mr. Marten has been the invisible detective, work ing behind the scenes in this cas Just how he dccomplished h's grea work I shall Jeave to Mr. Marten to tell you.” | “Your story will certainly interest me," declared Forrester, elated at the! || thought that Mary Sturtevant had been working in a good cause. “Ij had about lost faith in detectives.” “There are many able detectives.” replied Mart “You made your first mistake in not going to a b class detective agency. nsas a me | “Unllke police detectives, T do not Bs iss minwn || | !mmed’ately ascribe a crime to the lo er criminal classes. I xnow th t a pele estoy esteem | WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREADWINNER. Pat Is a Ringer through every stratum of society. first effort, therefore is to place the, possible social standing of the crim- inal, and thus learn approx!mate'y| where to look for him. ce TT susyesit BEWIND THAT \ You'Re cRAzy! STREEN AND WHEN THE | I DICTATE. | BOSSES ARE DICTATING | FIRST To-DAy! || You TAKE DOWN WHAT TLL LEAVE IT To PAT WILL YOU HELP ME QUT TO-DAY 7 MY Two | BOSSES HAVE ME RUSHED WIFFLETREE AN Co \ ages) GENTLEMEN:- WE OF SUCH HAVE SHIPPED YOU A THING! // Go RIGHT || TWO CARLOADS OF MR WALBER oo - - aes et 4 ” “In the present instance I took all) " | py! E DICTATE + ) NEVER MIND Robert, now that it is all over, I love you. tholabetdble ata ceea atatscedt ane] oO REATy MuHWORK: THE LITTLE ONE SAYS! FIRST To- {MISS WINKLE !/ NEVE WHAT? "| “AHEAD ASSORTED WOTNOTS WINCHELL @ letter from a New York woman, in-) ground passage wds recalled situation. Two points impressed mo! | ~Y | a fe: DAY! You You MEAN . AND : DUR Al wae tpt ten troducing her ‘That he should again have been{at once. One, that for approximately | SURE THING (YVR, DICTATED To ERG DICTATE RECEIVED AND Mrs. Forrester rescued by the girl possessed a sig-|a year not a single clue had been dis oie yen ex 1 GOTCHA WE CA IN REPLY - BoTH DICTATE AT ONCE? nifi which permitted of no allev-|coyered. Second, the « enormous) s doubt amount of money which had been ex Sturtevant was unquestion-|torted. This had ‘reached the sum of hand and giove with the|Mearly a quarter of a millon dollars!”| ‘Friends of the ‘Poort? Forrester|. “I considered those po'nts,”. said) closed his eyes and groaned. He| Forrester, “but they gave me no loved her—would have redeemed her | ®lue.’” from their clutches—but she had not Ah, because you lacked two Sturtevant| listened to him. things,” returned Marten. axper! | ence and the outside viewpoint. that her riend 1 write to her very much attra OUT OF A JOB KID I! ANYHOW tt y says, Mis s to be a guest. Friday t while} Now the whole terriblo secret was pr | Mpbert waits alone in the town housél within hie mnt aca a vit] “Now, in analayaing the first point.| the . ir Witt "ap vee Salter hin grasp and vet that love forly seriously doubted the existence of| present the | dook speek ia fest c a group of men as implied by the| ro Not long comes ow expose tho “Friendsiname ‘Friends of the Poor.’ When} an| 0f the Poor” and drag her down in the/a gang is operating {t is difficult to f woman Pest ; a A, find out ne For-| C8h?_ Bolsheviki they might be—/nola the men together. To have at oe Dims -cwcase reveie, et Branhle ~ % murderers they surely were. Public! tempted to split so vast an amount! opinfon, aroused now to fever. hest,|among a number of ordinary crim- : als sami als ean’ would see that not one escaped the|inals would surely have led to dis-| ‘Another point to consider was that| make a list of the victims and all/Itials were F. P.—the @ initials} supposed first victim. The man was|in a private itarlum for the in- tells full pena'ty. sensions and exposure. the dead victims were all asphyxiat-| their business and social acquaint-| that might stand for ‘Friends of the) mentally unsound. The successful|eane. ‘This showed @ possibility that \denly he felt a cool, soft hand] “Then, {n considering this second|ed. To accomplish this asphyxiation, | ances. I then compared these lists} Poor, : aN ania tact taals e his scheme became an | Prentice’s mind might be affected, and his forehead. He opened his|point by itself. T saw that we had to|T reasoned that the victim must be] to ascertain the men known in com- Sueh @ clue might seem fantastic. | obsession. Although he had achleved|in its weakness assume a criminal | 1 ibe 3 the majority of the]In criminal investigation, however,|h's original purpose of recuperating | t ned ad. M deal with no ordinsry cr'minal It|lured to some place for the purpose. | mon to all, or = saree ds'de, easing |was a vast sum. and the ordinary| “If only one man were engaged in| victims in this way T discoverel alcluce are gtten the result of inspira-| his broken fortunes, he continued his , with bright eyes as sheleriminal type does not think in such{the work, it was obvious that he was| certain number of men wnown to ail/ tion, and Mould not afford to let this | threats and killing for the sheer in- head, large figures not only acquainted with the victims'| the victims. coincidence pass. I made a moro|eane joy of playing with his victim a “I found that Prentice's father had willed him the p'ece of property upon which the o; tree stands. Prentice and tur hi stonished dor a note evant ® at h DP reproach:| “The result of this analysis gare| habits, but probably sufficiently well] “The lives and habits of these men ee ana Goi atcmecatiar Pree: enero hce ostensibly sold this property to a man j “ e itt? me two clues. first, that we prob-|acquained with the victims them-| were investigated in search of n pos-} tory and actions o| derick Pren-| "Go on with your named Hans Eckmeter, who in turn ft had to deal with not more r confidence. All| sible clue. No definite results tice. Bi gets 4 Uap | to Lucy r a ad i eect over the case] “Frederick Prentice!” gasped For © were Panie et iat ne a woman "i Sone Spat " that of high social Finally, ponder over Z FA s which I. dis-| jal resources which I : Ae my itthal one day, the Initialx of one man {m-| rester pee ee | cov nued| could locate. This indicated prepar wes Forreste 1 pik efore, was to! pressed themselves upon me. His in ‘Exactly, returned Marten, ‘the! Marte ago! 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