Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1930, Page 20

‘REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1930. Ask No Questions By Beldon Duff Copyright, 1930, by North American Newspaper Alliance. Tne. 'SANHUBER TRIAL 15 NEARING END i Testimony to Be Completed About Stopping Fist By the Associated Press, PHONY INVESTOR SUFFERS AFTER VICTIM RECEIVES PHONE BILL Chicago Man, With Long-Distance Friends, Tells Judge | 6,000-Mile Race for 60 Cents. On a wager of 60 cents two British autoists, J. A. R. Bromage and 8. G. Stubbs, recently drove their cars 6,000 miles from India to London. The jour- ney occupied 73 days, of which 41 were running and the others rest periods. The men traveled from Lahore of Business Owner. to Baluchistan, across the Persian Des- a right which Stern countered with his | BUSINESS _(First Installment Continued.) Part horse doctor, part nrcmmlncer.] the stranger had repaid his debt to the ent it had been a war of temperaments between the two: Annassa, impetuous, thoroughly ~ spoiled, but always a straight shooter; 'Abby, thin-lipped, town of his adoption by ministering to | starchy as to mental processes, never its live stock, and not infrequently to its | SWervirg in her devotion. Each had a children, reading palms, working out| Way of speaking her mind on all occa- horoscopes, forecasting weather condi- | Sions with disconcerting honesty. Each tions and predicting futures with such | Was self-centered. ~ Each _absolutely uncanny accuracy that his benefactors alone in the world. came in time to view him as one gifted | foemen. they grew in time to love each with second sight. Like many another | Other; but nothing short of death itself before him. it became his misfortune to | could have made either one admit that pin his affections on the beautiful Jane | that love was more than a passing in- Runnels. Of course, no one blamed | terest. Judge Runnels for not permitting his| At the moment there was a percepti- daughter to receive the attentions of a|ble coolness in the atmosphere, the penniless waif whose one claim to rec-{Tenting of Bride's House having pre- ognition was that he knew how to doc- | Cipitated one of those domestic tor- tor_horses and tell fortunes; but there NAdoes for which the menage was justly had been considerable criticism over the | famous. A mad enterprise, Miss Barth heartless way in which Miss Jane had | had characterized the undertaking, trified with the former bare-back riden | Outrageous! What good could come of And every one found time to be giad | AMllating oneself with the unshriven when Cranson eventually found solace | dead? Not that the good lady had any in wife. & creature as forlorn and as | PArticular fear of the unshriven dead little a part of the world as he himself | Her stout Scotch heart was proof had gTown to be—a woman who came, | AEAInst all the assaults of man or devil, {But there was something irregul s ted, forgotten ol rregular ot g Dot his” Sorgotien | g hoat this ot DI ALIE b Aok e Like all worthy | “The angel of the Lord hath un- eheathed his sword,” Cranson began in & high, penetrating voice. An uneasy movement ran through the length and breadth of the Ark. | “And behold at eveningtide trouble: and before morning he is not.” “With a sudden squeak. more of tri- umph than of fear, the little man fiat- tened himself against the wall in such a position that the door, if it opened, would hide him from any one entering | the room. “He comes” was his an-| nouncement. “The son of Sisera is at| hand!” To the undisguised excitement of all those present the swish of automobile | tires was heard, the door was flung open | and a young footman in plum-colored livery stood on the threshold. “Where's you telephone?” came the shrill imperative. “I wish to make a call for Mr. Diamond. Noah Peabodv laid his hands, fingers outspread. on the counter before him and leaned his weight upon them. | “Go roll your hoop, sonny!" he said. | “You—you better not get funny, blustered "the footman. “Mr. Diamond | doesn't like to be kept waiting.” | “Oh, he doesn't, doesn't he——" Noah | had begun when & voice from over the young man’s shoulder froze the words on his lips. “What's the trouble?” The owner of the Daily Free Press had pushed his way into the lunch room. “What's wrong, I say? Has anything happened?” “N-n-no, sir; N-n-no, Mr. Diamend— | go. nothing wrong,” stammered Noah. *“I was only tellin’ your boy here he could use my telephone an’ welcome. It's over yonder on the wall, Lifting his shoulders in an all too evident shrug of contempt, Mr. Diamond turned toward the telephone. But before he could raise his hand to take the receiver off the hook, the bell shrilled clamorously. Just why that tinkling, familiar bell should strike a sudden chill to each man’'s heart, not one of them could have told; and yet, as Noah, with a | y conscious that his heart had missed a beat. * * * “What's that?” Above the crash of the first thunder clap, the unloosed downpour of “the rain, Noah's voice reached them, high and thin with ex- citement. “W-w-what are you saying? Bpeak louder, man, speak loudetr!” A aus®. Then, “Hey, wait & minute. n't cut me off, Centrall” Frantically Jiggling the hook up and down, “Don't —Holy Cbristmas!” The proprietor of the Ark dropped the receiver. He turned at last, his face white as chalf, his eyes popping. “B-b-boys,” he stuttered, “somepin’ terrible’s happened over to Bride's House. That was a young feller talking from Westport—said a red-headed girl stopped his car on the Wood road about half an hour ago—told him to call up here—that she needed help. " With a gulp that sounded like a sob, “Central butted in, but I think—I think I heard him say—it was murder. SECOND INSTALLMENT. O go back a few hours, the morn- ing of that never-to-be-forgotten Saturday, had dawned over Bride’s House opal clear. A turquoise sky thinly veiled by shell-pink clouds. In the air was an ominous stillness, a poised suspense that carried with it a promise of electrical disturbances at no far-distant hour. Since her arrival at the farm the new tenant had employed every waking mo- ment in trying to get settled. Eight ponies to house and feed, not to men- tion the trouble with the New York, New Haven & Hartford over Dracula. ‘The big, bald-faced sallion had elected to register a last-minute protest against the traveling accommodations afforded him by kicking the side out of a box car—an_aspersion on its efficiency to which the railroad had taken exception in the form of a threatened suit for cdamages. Six days of work, worry and turmoil! It was enough to make even the most modern of Brunhilds look a | bit_wilted. Dressed in_the same gray-flannel shirt and English riding breeches which | had so outraged Mr. Noah .Peabody's sense of decency, Miss West stood, at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, with her stable boy, Otto, inspecting the boarded- off inclosure which a carpenter, working with obvious haste so as not to be over- taken there by nightfall, had built the afternoon before and reinforced with on_bars. k"Thlt, ought t(ia }lmld him,” she said, but without conviction. Otto dubiously agreed that it ought. “But we'll keep him on a double halter for a day or two,” pursued the stallion’s owner, “until we see whether the fl_our beams are going to bear his weight.” This was no suggestion born of an idle moment. As on all New England farms, the outbuildings of the Runnels place were connected with the house proper by a covered passageway. They con- sisted of a white barn, honestly built and still sturdy, & cow shed, pig pen and chicken run. But there was a red barn, a crumbling relic of better days, standing some 50 paces from the others: and it was here that Miss West had elected to imprison the turbulent Dracula, hoping against hope that, once geparated from the mares, the stallion might settle down to good behavior, “I'm going to ride you, my beautiful, she crooned to the pink velvet nose which made savage passes through the bars at the handle of her riding crop. “I'm going to ride you this Summer even if I break your neck and mine | doing it.” | It being the ease, if you asked Otto’s opinion, Miss West's neck was as | good as broken already. Dracula was e bad horse. ‘m"A T'm one bad lady! Isn't that so, Abby?” The braggart grinned over her shoulder at the third and last member of the oddly assorted household—a white-aproned, high-bosomed ~Scotch- | woman of 5 and 40, who had at that| mioment appeared in the open doorway | of the barn. | Miss Abigail Barth, fresh from the heath and heather of her naitve land, had stepped into thé West household on the morning after Rachel West had been carried out of it. She found the orphan she had come to mother—a red- ‘headed, wild-eyed small girl of 4—en- trenched behind ‘an armchair in the library, from which point of vantage she held off a corps of terrified servants, bombarding them, every time they sought to dislodge her, with beoks snatched from the lower shelves. With- out waiting to remove her small black Barth haa camp, tlons, something underhand and, there- fore, quite unworthy of a West. Hav- ing failed to make any impression on her young mistress with her prophecies of death and disaster, it was charcater- istic that she should refuse either to haul down the flag or remain at home But she came, be it understood, as a martyT to duty and wearing the air of one Who says clear enough for all the world to hear, “If it's going to happen, it can’t happen any too soon to suit me."” Appealed to now on the question of tempefament, her nose rose an inch or two higher, but she remained silent, “AD, come, Abby!" The red-haired one had had her own way and was dis- poeed to kiss and make up. “Snap out “Miss West,” Abby always said Miss West when she-was in one of her dis- :r)':g)rlr(»\'mxnomoods. "I'x\'ehunpncked the inks. 'ou want I sl m}:he .mc?)"' ould put them ler young mistress smiled, one of those inverted, speculative smiles which had so disturbed Alva Cropsey, editor of the Free Press. “Put the trunks any- where you ltke, old darling. Only let's have luncheon'early. I'm starved.” ‘Hum!” sniffed the self-appointed martyr. “Abou’ -time y¢ T A e you fed summat Miss West took hold of the plum shoulders and gave them a gentle glx'lak: S0 you have noticed how busy I've been. Come, that's better. Now say you're SorTy you've hectored me o before you But Miss Abigail Barth could n cajoled intd any such -dmlaslnn.mlgg- stead, she inquired in a voice as crisp as‘;:x;u:mvge it th;l.l one—meaning spared lon; chop some undu:‘g. e Miss West said, “Yes,” rather indig- nantly, and waited until Abby’s high- pitched Scotch burr and the stable boy's plattdeutsch gutterals had blend- ed themselves into the harmony of distance. Then she closed the door of the barn behind her and strolled off to make a somewhat delayed inspection of the outlying portions of her rented demesne. With an eye to the possi- bility of breaking Dracula, she headed first for the south pasture, a little more than half an acre of red clover fenced off from the vegetable garden by an old and, in many places, crum- bling stone wall. Between it and the red barn was the rock-bound pool Where one of the tragedies of Bride's Hflzze was supposed to have taken Pl . At the edge of this pool Miss West paused, and with her riding crop tapped great boulder which perched on its rim. Perched, because its point of con- tact looked as precariously small as that of a juggler's ball balanced on the lip of a cup. Appearances to the con- :n!iry,blglwever, t{’fd l;ggl:e{h was im- ovable—more 50! e groun beneath her feet. . R Whistling a snatch of “The Elking” she let down a bar of the pasture gate and stepped into the fleld. Ever since her arrival at Bride's House a group of willows at the farthermost end had excited her curiosity. They were weep- ing willows, drooping over the old stone wall in picturesque attitudes of woe. Closer, she saw the reason for this. Like the Pines of Rome, the willows were sentinels of death. They had been planted by a careful and discrim- inating hand to screen from the casual eye a family burying ground. ‘Twelve mounds in a disorderly grass- headstones, on each of which the name of some Runnels made its link in the history of this morbidly clannish family. Joshua! Ezra! Saul! Two more Joshuas. Where did they bury their womenfolk? Ah, yes, around on the other. side—back of the monument. Elspeth! Eliza! Prudence! Jane! With the consciousness that every nerve in her body had started to tingle, the new mistress of Bride's House leaned over the low stone wall. ‘The grave that had held Jane Run- nels was open. It yawned up at her, loose-mouthed, leering. A grave dese- crated, and recently. As proof that the ghoul had done his work but a few hours before, the pile of earth was still the silver glimmer of a writhing worm. ‘With rather more curiosity than fear, Annassa West took up.the strip of board laid so purposefully across the hole. On its smooth white surface, smeared large in red ink, was a grim reminder of the forbidden clause in the lease: Ask no_questionsi (To be conunued.) Baltimore Seeks Convention., The Real Estate Board of Baltimore, Md., has started a movement seeking to have the convention of the National Assoclation of Real Estate Boards held in the Monumental City next year. The invitation will be presented at the con- vention of the national body next month at Toronto, Canada. Building to Be Remodeled. Extensive remodeling work has been started on the building at 1415 H street, from plans by Robert F. Beresford, local architect, which will convert it into an office structure of modern design. Structural changes are to be completed by September 1 Is 15 Minutes of Your Time Worth $1,000? In just that period you will be convinced casily that 3703 Windom St. N.W. for ¥13,950 —is at least $1,000 underpriced. You will marvel at the beauty and permanence of construction | of this new sixroom and two- bath semi-detached home. Locat. ed in North Cleveland Park—a convenient and attractive com- Robt. W, Savage 717 Union Trust Bldg. Nat’l 6799 turning her over one knee endeavored there and. then to spank some sense into her. From that day to the pres- AN r # Or Any Broker grown row met her eye: 12 crumbling | black and moist, with here and there 1 Monday and Jury May Get Case Tuesday. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 28.—Attorneys in the trial of Otto Sanhuber, “attic charged with the slaying eight g0 of Fred Oesterreich, wealthy manufacturer, announced today they would complete the taking of testimony Monday, and the case probably will be given to the jury early Tues Ad- Journment for the week end was taken yesterday. strenuous _cross-examination, jury confession. of the confession, pertaining to his life in darkened attic rooms and to his love for Mrs. Walburga Oesterreich, widow of the manufacturer, were true. The actual story of the slaying, how- ever he said, was “put in my mouth by Herman Shapiro, former attorney for Mrs, Oesterreich, to save the woman. “The truth is” the attic man said “Otto Sanhuber did not kill Fred Oester reich August 22, 1922. “When did you first decide to tell what you call the truth about this crime?” James Costello, prosecution at- torney, asked. “It was hard to keep away from the truth,” Sanhuber replied. “This is the first time I have told what I knew of that awful night.” Step by step Costello took Sanhuber back over the recital of events on the night of the murder, but on every ma- terial point the witness held to his Charming Colonial 2:car garage. 1707 C 1—Seven large rooms. 2—Natural chestnut trim. 3—Paneled papering. 4—Artistic lighting fixtures, 5—Abundant closet space. 6—Tiled baths with showers, A very substantial, cozy home. Has been recon- ditioned throughout, and offered at the above price for a quick sale. Investment Bldg, CHICAGO, June 28.—Something ver: chin. Today they were to tell the judge | | as 1" Sanhuber .underwent another day of | * during | which he again repudiated his grand | He said certain parts | | telephone and call up persons in dis- | tant cities, | he would sa. | Nice day, isn't it? | shrewd business man, spoke to ‘Stern mous intersection of State and Madison streets yesterday who should come face Fridstein and Mr. Emanuel Stern. 6 West Aspen Street Chevy Chase, Md. 14,850 6 large rooms, 2 baths and sleeping porch, Beautiful lot 70x120 ft. Qpen every day until dark To Inspect— Drive north on Connecticut Ave. to Aspen St. Turn left to house. For Sale by G. F. MIKKELSON & SON 200 W. Thornapple St., Chevy Ch;se, Md. Phone Wisc. 4255 Thousands of persons have told us the features they want in homes— You get them dll at For a Reasonable Price and on Convenient Terms Note This Is a Restricted-to-W hite Community. | Drive North From 17th and East Capitol Streets. Robert W. Savage 717 Union Trust Bldg. i Nat’l 6799 or your broker JUST THINK! TWO DETACHED HOMES $7,450 EACH OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY F. ELIOT MIDDLETON REALTOR about it. Stern charges assault and funny—spelled phony—has - happened | ";L‘m,ry_ to Abe P\‘ldltf‘ln.l i% Mr. Fridstein is a contractor an 1 him there came one Emanuel Stern, | Pire affa Mr. Stern had what is sometime re- - ferred to as a gocd )ine, which in this case_turned out to be 8 telephone line; but Fridstein found that out later. NEW YORK, June 26 (#).—The en- “I have $50,000 to invest in a nice | |gagement of Miss. Janetta McCook :mg.m. said Mr. Stern to Mr. Frid- | whitman, daughter of Malcolm D. “Your contracting business in- | terests me greatly, but before I will con- | Whitman of New York, and Douglas B. sider investing my $50,000 In it, I must Lewls, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delancey investigate. I think I will sit’' around | Lewis of Menlo Park, Calif. was an- your office for a few weeks to Observe |nounced yesterday. Mr. Whitman was if you are a shrewd business man, the | American’ tennis champlion for three years. is very phony. . Betrothal Announced. This seemed plausible. so Fridstein sald it was all right by him. | So Stern sat around. From time to | time he would pick up the Fridstein ity IN PET He would get his party and “Hello, how are you? It's pretty hot here, too, but'I guess we can't complain. Well, T'll call you again some time, | good-by.” Priceq _ After a while Mr. Fridstein, being a about the long-distance telephoning. “Oh, that's all right,” said Stern. “Don't let it worry you.” Then came the phone bill—$150. 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