The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1931, Page 6

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Charters, a medical graduate in England, a charlatan and finally a gang- ster in America, has lcft Spider Schlitz and Chink Derson in jail there and returnéd to Eng- land with their, as well as own, chares of the St. Clair diamond haul. Now he the proprietor of a fashionable nursing heme, one of his tients being pretty Marjorie Lauderdell, who protests that the medicine of Dr. MacAdoo, on his staff, is making her werse. She declares that she was not ill until she moved to the home of her uncle Mr. | Laudcrdell. Her aunt, whom Charters remembers as Maud, “evil genius” of his American days, hands him a note and tells him that Marjorie’s twen- ty first birthday is September first. | { Ambassador | Caps Sizes 634 to 7% Price $2.50 Also Stetson and Knapp Felt Caps at $3.50 | SABIN’S “Everything .in: Furnish- ings for Men” | BUSY WHY Not Only Cheaper but Better | RICE & AHLERS CO. 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And what fitter place or person, for a dangerous homici- dal lunitic to come to?” “How did you get in here?” asked lil| Dr. Charters. , “Through that invitingly open window a second ago, Simon.” “How did you get into the grounds?” pursued the Doctor. “Over the 12-foot wall, iron spikes, broken glass and all. By way of the branch of a tree, Slimy Simon—not & rotten branch though,” and, before the blazing look of hate in the man’s eyes as {he thrust his cruel face into that of Dr.”Charters, the latter almost quailed. “And so you're mad, are you?” he temporized. “You've said it, Simon. And you have to say it again at the right time and in the right place.” “What do you mean? And what do you want?” asked the Doctor iperrunctomy as"he considered the /man, the past, and the situation. “Oh, lofs of things. Two for a | start—asylum and an alibi.” “Doubtless you're mad, but this is not an asylum.” “Witty Simon! It's going to be an asylum for me, though, and the alibi is going to be both physical and mental.” “I don't know what you're talk- ing about. Do you?” “Oh, yes, Shmon . . . . . Spider No. 1 Schlitz has got his.” If the expression on Dr. Charter’s incrutable face changed at all, it was in the direction of greater in- scrutability. _“And pray who might Spider | By Perowa[ C/M’M MYSTERIOUS W | got | alternatively | that, Wa, SEEMS To BE D AGAINST ITSELE WHEN (T THE LTS COLLD TELL e POLCE DEPY. /7 COMES To QVAL\\ SOME CELIEE LAbY. PLENTY (F SUE CHose . OPA TE GUY W IN ER TRAVIS,CHICAGO . W L0 AMATEGR DETEGTVE- ADAME (A MOUSSE - OPAL'S APARTMENT DID V" L COULDAT HAVE G HID THE GUM 1§ HE TRE GLILTY ONEZ Wae eoLice ARE SULRELY HE Docsm’ LOOK URE THE MURDERER /Ler When Author fop T R cnfin BEAU IDEAL Schlitz be?” he asked patiently. “Oh, come off it, Simon. Don't waste time. Cards down and hands up. Spider Schlitz is, or rather was, the dear old pal of Half-hung Simon, alias English Simon, alias Doc Sellar, alias Limey Doc, alias he Reverend, alias Soapy Sam Symor Also the dear old pal of Chink Derson, Slim Spike Sim- Chicago May, 'Frisco Fan- Gunman Gryde, Bohunk Mar- The Bad Wop, Dutch Dettin- Shorty Long, Eddie Guerin, the Kid, and the rest of the “And Spider Schlitz has got his, has he? . And you want an alibi and an aslyum?” “You've grasped it, Simon. You've to prove that I've been here scmewhat longer than I have; and ‘}our nursing home. I'm ths "1 you've got to take the utmost car: of. You've got to keep me ve happy, keep me from brooding on the past—your past, Soapy! A above all, you've got to keep m safe from the long arm of the law for if théy get me, how I shall squeak and squawk and sque Simmy! And what a tale I s have to telll' .. . i\ “So you'll take the greatest car: of me, won't you? And if fanybo wants to know, I've been here for a week, in bed. TI'm going to bad now, and I think I'll get up to-| Black Jack, Spud Hooley, Jim Crow, | MOTTow and let everybody see how | dotty—though harmless=I am.” (Copyright, 1930, by Frederick A. Stokes Co.) A temple bell sounds in to- morrow’s installment and brings this strange patient to—Rose- | mary! | — you've got to prove in any case, I'm much too bughouse, far too mad to have| | known what I was doing, or to be held responsible. A mental alibi in fact.” | “And how should the second | arise, if the first one is good?” in-| quired the Doctor, humoring the | self-declared lunatic. “Why, now, Simon, suppose that, in spite of your proofs and pro- testations, I'd been seen at Spider Schlitz's place—identification, foot- prints, finger-marks—and I was for it—that’s where the looney dope would get me off. . . . Get me sent-up instead of strung-up, any- how; if not acquitted.” “And where should I be, if I Dr. Charters almost qualiled before his look ot hate. swore you were here and it was proved you were there?” asked thc Doctor. “Why, wouldn't that only be a further proof of the cunning of the madman? I must have slipped away from here and done it, and got back again, without being missed. If I were seen and they track me down and try to prove it on me, that is.” “And why," exactly, did you do it?" asked the Doctor. “Now you're asking qucsnon.,. Simmy,” and the madman with an his finger in the Doctor's face. “Did you come straight here from Witherby End?” “Ah! Got you! How does the innocent Dr. Charters happen to Iknow that Spider Schlitz's place is the Witherby End of the well- man, Mr. Theophilus Webh?" And, with a thoroughly laugh, the madman picked up &n ebony ruler and poked the unsmil- ing doctor in the ribs. “Who said Mr. Theophilus Webb of Witherby End was Spider Schlitz of the old gang?” the madman re- peated. Slowly nodding his head, Dr. Charters tacitly admitted that the time had come to change his ground. Taking that gentleman's advice, he metaphorically put his cards on the table and his hands up. Schiitz?” he asked again. A twisted, cruel smile was the only reply. “Well, who are you, pursued the Doctor. “Still inquisidve! Il tell ynu anyws ny?" who I am, all in good time, Simon. Meantime I'll tell you what I am. “I'm the most valuable patient in PO NI R sen ugly leering grin, playfully shook‘ known racehorse owner and sports- | ||g]y. “And why did you go after Spiderf Max Carey, after more than a score of years in the Nlfimal‘) League, still remembers his first big league play as the most thrill- ing incident of his brilliant eareer. “I was a youngster of twenty | when the Pittsburgh Pirates boug! me up from South Bend,” Car told me during a fanning et Miami Beach. “Tommy Leach, the regular cen- | play. terfielder, was hurt and Fred| “I'll ncver forget the Clarke, then the Pirate manager,|got that day when the crowd stood sent me out there for a trial. There was a big crowd and we were play- ing the famous old Chicago Cubs. There was a runner on second Builders’ Hardware Whether you are build- ing or only remodeling and repairing, vou should install only good hard- ware fittings. 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Johnson thought it was theé third strike, but the only gesture he made was to turn to look at Bucky' Harris and shake his head a lit- tle. “Some ime after that, I saw| Johnson and asked him what he thought about the incident. Hs smiled but just remarked, ‘Well, that might have been a strike’.” Carey’s all-around play, especially his hitting and base-running, fea- tured the 1926 series. He was| a thorn to Johnson throughouti that final game, making four! straight hits and reaching first safely on his fifth and final turn at the bat on a play that was charged as an error to Roger Peck-| inpaugh, the “goat” of the serles.l | Carey hopes to land a job as| coach with some major league uuL—‘ fit before the season starts. ’l‘wol years ago, after contluding his playing career with the Pirates, Max took over the tough job of | making base runners out of the| Brooklyn Robins and succeeded be- yvond the expectations of any of the experts. 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