The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1931, Page 6

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GOOD PLUMBING il “We tell you in advance what job will cost” et not kill her aunt but was him- ‘solf poisoncd and accused by a forged confession. To her he reveals an appointment with Richmend in the Dutch garden at 10 p.m. and suggests that she asks friends over for the evening. They include most of | those who were in the house on the night the chauffeur was poisoned in the garage. Jim- mie and his cousin, Donald, hide in the shrubbery cof the garden and cvercome and bind a man who otealthily pushes cver a ’ wtatue on what appears to be a man on the seat below it. Then Jimmie hastens to the housc and, joined by the wait- ing Richmond, breaks in the door of the music room. Inside, they find Evelyn alone and trembling. Chapter 28 UNMASKED MURDERERS The song went on—the Duckworth’s powerful voice— as his eyes took in the scene. deeds of evil. band?" shrank into the corner. where he is. I will fetch him.” A ; onin SHEETS Before you start Building \ see the, i NEW PERFECTION PLASTER BOARD at Hardware Co. “Mrs. Dalton, where is your hus- With a ecry of terror, Evelyn “Guard her, Richmond. I know He strode back into the dark- ness and re-traced his steps to the Dutch garden. He soon returned. With him came Donald Wade and|await his return, the room door between them they carried the| limp, corded figure of the singer,| Lionel Duckworth, or, as he was more correctly called, Lionel Dal- ton. During the few minutes of Jimmie's absence the bridge play- ers, startled by the commotion, had our Plaster Juneau-Young | decerted their game. They stood, |an amazed group, while Richmond a chair. |1 |had ended its song and was scratching on unheeded. Jimmie and Donald deposited |their prisoner on the floor. Jim- ‘m)e turned to the little company |of friends. poisoned Edward Green, by his side a confession Ito that first crime. Tonight he |sought to take a third life so that ithe truth about the others should 'not be known. It might have been hard to prove his guilt, but I laid la trap, and he fell into it.” ; No one replied. The only human cound was a moan from the girl in the chair. | “In the Dutch garden you will find a- dummy figure dressed in my clothes. This man pushed over |the stone image on it, just as he did when Miss Querdling sat in ng in the other seat. ‘Roses of memory, roses of September.” Yet he was not in the room, nor married Captain Stirling, but her was there any one playing. Rich- sister Evelyn married Lionel Duck- | mond stood for a moment amazed Wworth three months ago. They told “Two weddings have been an- nounced tonight. Marjorie Blake {no one, but planned to kill Miss In the drawer of Evelyn's desk Querdling to get her wealth. there stood a graphophone, used| “Their method was simple. There while its owners were busy on their are graphophone records of Duck- worth’s voice. They said they de- ted such machines but had one nevertheless. They would enter the room and he would sing one ng. Then, at its conclusion, the graphopi e started another while he crept out to do his evil deed. Those outside would swear he was, Isinging all the time. Behind the curtained doorway, his wife would meanwhile being locked. To reach the Dutch garden, throw over the figure and come back was the work of a few minutes. Then at his ireturn the graphophone would be hidden and his own voice would |take up the song.” E As he paused there were moans | from the two accused, but the oth- lers remained silent, dazed by what | Jimmie was telling them. He told of his proof that Green had been poisoned and related how he had informed Evelyn of his dis- covery, observing her alarm at his words. She had received the news of Green's death and was happy at the termination of her fears that he might recover, repudiate the confession and deny his suicide at- tempt, but Jimmie’s disclosure stir- ther to believe that he had told no cne else her fatal plan was born. “I said that I would sit in the !Dutch garden tonight beneath that |other stone figure and wait for Richmond. T knew she would tell her husband and figured that they |would attempt to remove me. The party I suggested was to bring to- ! gether those under suspicion. When “Duckwonh threw the figure on what he thought was my head, we seized him. You know the rest.” But Richmond’s curiosity was not |satistled, as Jimmie learned next rning when the superintendent mo HOERTREREATKRTROCRRAARERREREATMNDOR catedt on him at the Wade home. KIRK COUGH BALSAM For the treatment of Coughs and Colds—Guaranteed. 65¢ per bottle “Tomorrow’s Styles Today Special Values IN HOSE—Service. Weight $1.00 Pair NEW SHIPMENT OF Silver Fox Hose All Shades and Sizes $1.50 Pair Juneau’s Own Store dad the girl who had collapsed| “A graphophone needle!” ex- The graphophone claimed Nancy. the man,” he said, “who |house I was struck by the general| Miss Annabelle Querdling. |red fresh fears, and when he led| | }“I'd like to know what first made you suspect Lionel and Evelyn, and how you guessed they had a phono- graph.” | “If Duckworth hangs,” said Jim-| 'mie, bringing out a small shining yesterday my case was not com- plete. Even then it fell far short of absolute proof,” he said, smil- ing at Richmond, “and you had already shown me you would take a lot of convincing. I was able to object from his pocket, “it will be|demonstrate that Edward Green because of this.” “Yes. That first day in the young | ladies’ room I noticed this om the| carpet and picked it up. Then I {thought it strange that there was| ' no graphophone in the house. When 1 heard the stories of those in the |agreement that Lionel and Evelyn, were busy in that room with their singing. I saw at once how a igraphophone would answer all re- quirements of the case. Real singing at first, then a record turn-| ed on while the singer slipped out | for a few moments. Then real sing- ing again. I could see it was| possible, but you cannot say more than that.” 1 “I thought you were worrying about the car at the bottom of the garden,” observed Donald. “I was. While that factor re- mained unaccounted for, it was im- {possible to pin cne's faith finally' to any definite theory. Green, Gresham, Netherton, Vincent, Mar- | jorie—there was suspicion against |each of them, but I was not satis- fled with the case against any. I |felt—we all felt—that Marjorie and Netherton were keeping somethinz back, and while the mystery re-| mained as to Stirling’s car, doubt was inevitable. At the same time I kept the other theory in mind. I asked Duckworth what, as a sing- er, he thought of graphophones. He condemned them heartily, and Eve- lyn, with just a shade of excessive warmth, said she would never have one in the house.” | “There wasn't one when we| searched for the will,” said Rich- mond. “If there had been I think | I should have noticed it. I went through the contents of the desk.”| “I agree there was no grapho-! {phone there at that time,” said Jimmie. “Obviously they would not let it remain. As you saw it wag) |a very portable instrument—Duckk {worth’s T suppose—and he brought | it over when it was to be used. You will perhaps remember that Janet told us she listened with delight to the song ‘To the Desert.” After that i she heard a song she did not like so well, ‘September Roses’.” “We ourselves heard Duckworth sing both of them,” said Nancy. “Heard him and saw him,” said Jimmie. “I had the curiosity to np-r proach the graphophone people and I found out that Lionel Duckworth had done only one record for them. | It was of ‘To the Desert’ and onj the back was ‘September Roses’. } “You will agree the discovery wul significant. Duckworth could have committed the erime while a graph-~ {ophone record was being played, and the songs that were heard while the crime was done were the ! conly songs of his which grapho~ phone records existed. But it was not proof. Who had been in that empty car at the bottom' of the! garden? I had told Richmond that his theory was inconclusive whilé that doubt remained. Why, indeed, should not Duckworth sing his great successes?” “You saw the truth, but couldn't | believe/it,” remarked Donald. | “Yes. In a way that is so. Untfl P ————— A COAL FOR EVERY PURSE AND PURPOSE CALL US DIRECT i Pacific Coast Coal Co. Phone 412 had never written that confession and had never attempted suicide. “But that was a very different thing from showing who had killed him or Miss Querdling. Evelyn fand Duckworth acted last evening exactly as I anticipated they would. |1t is entirely due to that that their guilt is so clearly established.” (Copyright, 1930, J. B. Lippincott Company) In tomorrow’s concluding in- stallment Jimmie shows the real cignificance cf the face at the window. Selh gy . SAVE THE DATE St. Patrick’s Day Dance, March 17th, Elks Hall. Admissioft $1.00. —adv. 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