The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1931, Page 6

] rFgwn THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB, 19, 1931. ' POLLY AND WHY, DARLING, I DO DELIBERATELY TRYING TO HURT YOLR DEAR GOVERNESS/ o The murder of Annabelle Querdling, crushed to death by a statue in her levely garden, remains shroud- ed in mystcry. Her niece, P Iyn Blake, had previously con- culted Jimmie Maswell, young London lawyer, concerning sev- eral death threats against the cccentric spinster. Marjorie Blake, her sister, returning to the garden, which she and Dr. Netherton had just left, finds her aunt dead and summons Evelyn and her fiance, Lionel Puckwerth, whe have been in the hous> singing. Supcrinten- dent Richmond, conducting the investigation, hears their stor- jes and that of Janet Raynes, the maid, confirming them. Major Gresham explains his presence near the scenc by tell- ing of his uncuccessful propos- al of marriage to Miss Querd- ling. Green, the chauffeur, who, with Joe Allen, arged gar- dener, is under suspicion, tells of a strange car he saw parked near the house, while Constable Roscoe alsy recalls sceing an- ether mysterious automobile and a stranger beside it. Dr. Nether- ten reluctantly relates Miss. SYNOPSIS: Quer: ; threat to him to dicinherit Marjorie should she marry. Ct “OLD LADIES ANCIES” “When Marjorie married,” Rich- mond repeated slowly the words Dr. Netherton had just spoken, “she would not get a penny of her aunt’s money. Why did Querdling say that to you?” “That is question only could answer,” replied Bill cooly, continuing when the superintendent insisted that she must have had a reason. “You know how old ladies are” said Bill with a shrug. ‘“She also said that the ‘singing fool,’ as she called Duckworth, hoped to per- suade her otherwise, but would be disappointed.” “Why should Miss Querdling couple you with Marjorie?” the superintendent persisted. “Are you engaged?” “We are not,” the doctor retorted “Look here, you are on the wiong track altogeth Marjorie Blake and I are nothing more than old friends, If her aunt wanted to make silly suggestions, there is no need for you to. Bill revealed under questioning that Miss Querdling had been ill so rarely that she had no regular physician and that his call on the night of the tragedy marked his third professional visit to her estate. He denied emphatically that he possessed Miss Querdling’s intimate confidense. “Then why,” asked Richmond, she to serve {our BUILDING NEEDS 'OME OWNERS and builders will find our catalog a splen- did help in building an attractive, ‘eomfortable, convenient home,or in making the old home modern. Consider these home-building itema ..l.m:‘o.; random from our cat: note W nuol;my everything is priced: SRR $2.66 Two-panel doors, 2 ft. 6 2.52 Five -cross - Smdmraislt 3.65 D erea e 6.50 C“‘!u&'u-' 46 x7fe mlernateiii, . 1.98 , 5.00 Consult us regarding your build- ing —we can add inx6ft.6in.. . . . ,2n.ain.-?l’:l6‘|.n‘.m: 2.00 , 15 lights, Bl 7,00 at an ettractive sav- ing. Write for free catalog. 0.B.WILLIAMS CO. { Sash and Doors 1943 Pirst Ave, So, Seaitle, Wash Miss HER PALS BELIEVE YOURE ) ARE YOU GONNA SET THERE ) WITHOUT LIFTIN' A FINGER AN’ ALLOW ANGEL TO KICK ALL THE BARK OFF'N MISS SAVAGES she “should tell you that private matter concerning her niece and the money?” “I told you I could not account for old ladies' fancies.” son for her to think there was anything between you and the girl Yet you went off together stayed talking in the lane for quite a while. Miss Marjorie told me that. How long were you there?” ly as in anger. “What were you talking about?" “What the devil has that to do with you?” king, or immediately after you had talked, some one killed Miss| Querdling. She evidently thought y and Marjorie were lovers and she had just warned you if you married you would get none of her {money.” The young man went white, v {might have been with anger. He |controlled himself with an effort. | “As I told you, Marjorie and I |are old friends. Is it strange that !we should talk together for a few |mmulua?" | “But you cannot you lwere talking about?” | ' “No,” returned Bill. Perhaps,” suggested Jimmie, “if you will positively assure Mr. Rich- say what |mond that your conversation had Inothing to do with Miss Querdling {that will satisfy him.” | “will it aid Netherton in a ather contemptuous tone. “Sup-| pose 1 say we wera discussing last month’s agricultural show, or Far- Brown’s prize pigs “I should ask Miss Blake and see if she said the same. “Here's my peint,” Richmond said. “If Miss |Querdling warned her niece and her niece’s lover that no money: was to be expected from her, the !might think it better to remove her before the threat was carried into effect. It is a hypcthetical | shows there is a matte: to be satisfied.” Netherton's coolness had returned. “Now, I will put my point,” he said defiantly. “Marjorie and 1| are nct lovers. Either we were plot-i ting Miss Querdling’s death or wel |deny it. Nothing else concerns you.” Richmond returned his stare. “Very well, doctor, I will take that answer, but your attitude is| ill-advised. How long did you| |talk with Marjorie | “perhaps a quarter of an hour.”| ‘When Bill said that he had gone | home upon leaving Marjorie, Rich- mond disputed him, saying that when the chauffeur called for him| he had not returned. The doctor explained that he had not said he! had gone straight home. “I went| for a walk,” he added hesitantly. “I | went to see Captain Stirling. He | was not in.” “You went to Captain Stirling's house? His servantss will, of course, confirm that?” | Netherton looked annoyed. by did not say I went to Stirling’s house but that I went to see Stir- ling. I was on my way to his house when he passed me on the road. He was in his car and ran by on the main road just before I reached it. I saw him, but he did not see me. It was useless to pro- ceed, so I turned back.” Since there were few people about that late in the evening, Bill said that, aside from Marjorie, no one could confirm his movements from the time he spoke to Miss Querdling until he got home. Captain Stirling, he explained to the superintendent, was in a Mor- ris two-seater, headed toward Mer- row Craig, though he could not say he was going there. Bill declared that he had not seen the empty Morris which Green had reported stopped on the golf course. “If I met Stirling a mile away, how could it have been there?"” Jimmie smiled. “If there was no car there when you passed, and lyou saw him going in that divec- |tion, it might have been there at !the time the chauffeur suggests. |1f it was, is it likely to have been | stirling’s?” “How the dickens can I tell?” Bill clearly resented the inquiries. . “Is Sterling a friend of Marjorie lor of Evelyn? Is he likely to have been calling on Miss Querdling?” |questioned Jimmie. | “Why ask me?” replied Bill “Why not go to the parties con- “You suggested there was no rea- |turned “I don't know,” Bill spoke shon-,‘motive. and think of his ust this,” said Richmond dog-|w “While you say you were |is =4 cerned? I saw Miss Querdling at jabout 9:15 and she was alive and well. I saw her an hour later and she was dead. As a doctor I can itell you my belief as to the cause of death. Otherwise I know noth- ing and shall say nothing.” | From this attitude he refused to |budge, but his manner was more genial as they left. Jimmie Richmond discussed him as the) toward Merrow Craig to iquestion Marjorie. “Not too helpful, was he?” com- and |mented Jimmie. “The old lady said Marjorie would iget nothing when she married,” said Richmond. “That supplies a and Mar- jorie’s opportunity. On their own showing they were lady or near her for about half an {hour, including the moment she killed. And their behavior spicious.” “There is something they have fully ling that they wish themselves.” threat of disinheritance Have you made him?" inquiries until he found he could sing, then changed to Duckworth. fairly well known. Nothing against had told her of his conversation with the superintendent. “Just had a.telephone call, hav- n't you, Janet,” asked Jimmie. Dr. Netherton to speak to Miss Marjorie?” “Yes, sir.” Her tone showed irprise, but he made no comment nd she left them “Well, I'm jiggered!” exclaimed Richmond when she had gone. “I thought I should be in time to pre- vent their putting their heads to-' gether. Now do you believe they are innocent?” “Of course there is something e- is it? That is the question.” (Copyright, 1930, J. B. Lippincott Company) Jimmie, in temorrow’s in- stallment, discloses the mysteri- ous cleaked woman, while Joe Allen provides a startling de- velopment. FRANCES ORSON WINS {CONTEST PRIZE AGAIN Frances Orson, eighth grade pupil in the Juneau elementary school, for the second time this year, is among the prize winners in the “Our States” contest conducted weekly by the Current News, a publication of national circulation devoted to the interest of public schools. The latest award to Fran- ces was on her contribution to the contest of the week of January 12- 16. It involved outline maps and information about Minnesota and Mississippi. e Old papers at the Empire office. 2 - UILTTUTUUTH U ;The home where health rules is the home where milk is used in large quantities. Pure Milk Is Substantial Food THE MENDENHALL DAIRY Telephone 985 LT LT T | | } YOU AMAZE ME, MISS SAVAGE ! HOW DARE YOU PERMIT PRECIOUS TO KICK YOU WITH HER NEW SHOES 2 DOUGLAS NEWS DOUBLE HEADER OFBASKETBALL 1S ON TONICH with the old/Two Teams of Douglas, Two from Juneau to Meet, Natatorium Two games of basketball will he not told us,” said Jimmie thought- played tonight at the Nat the first “There may be things hav-|between the Douglas High School, ing nothing to do with Miss Querd-/and Juneau Firemen and the sec- to keep to cnd between the Douglas Firem and the “You may be right,” he added.rgunlcs will be worth while seei: “but you must remember that the!The High School team has yei to applied |taste defeat equally to Evelyn and Duckworth. players feel that they can over- about ;ride | neau. “Yes. Real name’s Dalton. A clerk the leaders on the Juneau side of and the Channel and are confident of He's taking the school boys for their first defeat. Juneau JAlumni. B this season and the the smoke-eaters from Ju- However, the firemen ar: The first game is called for 8 o'clock. A bouncing Mr. family night and son are doing nicely. arrival him. Duckworth and Evelyn com2, out cleanest. She says he was | with her singing, Janet and the NO FIRF MiEETING TONIGHT other maid heard them, Marjorie! On account of the basketball ays she came in and told them.!games to be played at thé Nat Are they all lying?” this eveni: the regular meetine When they arrived at Merroy of the Douglas Fire Departmen: Craig, the door was opened by for tonight has been cancelled. Janet, the dark-eyed maid. H(‘rY —_——————— manner seemed unfriendly and| NEW ARRIVAL FOR M'GEES Jimmic guessed that Ted Green; S baby boy was born ¢ Sam McGee aty the shortly after mid- Both mother The new makes the third child for| Mrs. home last night. and the couple. OPERETTA CAST INCLUDES EIGHT LEADS WITH CHORUS ater tonight. S eee { In the High School Operetta to |opcns at the Douglas Coliseum the- By CLIFF STERRETT CHARGES MADE “BY BLAINE AT INVESTIGATION Says Postal Building Lease | Blocked for Grand Jury Probe | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19— | A charge there wsa collusion to lp:cvent a grand jury investigation |of the St. Paul, Minnesota, postal | leases was made today by Senator John J. Blaine, Chairman of the Senate Postal Investigating, Com- mittee, while cross examining for- mer Postmaster General New. Senator Blaine's charge followed | a clash between New and Blaine!| in which New said Blaine was in- sulting. New refused to answer Senator Blaine's question that inspectors were sent to St. Paul to place construction on evidence that would discredit future investigations. Senator Blaine made a number of statements that he would show attempts had been made to hush up the St. Paul lease investigation because it was feared it would harm the 1928 Republican pros- pects. He claims the lessors of the postal building paid huge sums for the Republican campaign. Feero, Wilhelminz; Bernice Ed- wards, Hilda; Albert Wilson, Bob Yankee; Tauno Niemi, Hans; Rosie Africh, Franz; and Enne Kron- quist, Katrina. There are two choruses, the girls representing farmers’ daughters and the boys, the workhands. Doris Cahill will do a special dance as| part of the operetta itself. Betty| Sey will dance a clog between cur- tains, B | “PARIS” AT COLISEUM Irene Bordoni is the featured| star in “Paris” the new bill which I APOLOGIZE, MRS. | [MEEK, BUT L CANT PERSUADE HER £X APOLOGIES, AND 'fl-lERE’S 22,1255 Associated Press Photo Win Day, 15-year-old Chicage boy who after winning one winter golt championship, seasationally in Florida meets. He I NEVER ACCEPT Golf Sensation continues s shown here at Miaml. REMEMBER THE DATE The Martha Society will hold a musical concert in the Presbyterian} Church on Friday, March 20 at 8) The purpose of the concert| s to raise funds for the payment| of the pipe organ p.m. stalled. DU — i Experts ot the Montana State be given February 21, there am:r“ish and Game Commission have' eight talking and singing leads. determined the average number of Billy Cashen plays the part of| eggs produced by a cutthroat trout Mynheer Hertogenbosch; Helen Pus-|is 1,850. The grayling produces ich, Vrouw Hertogenbosch; Geneva i12,000 eggs per trout. - were not. 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