Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1931, Page 26

INSTALLMENT XXIX, O did lots of gugs that landed 66 "in the.Tombs before you, doc. Meyer Zahn, I'm puttin’ you under’ arrest as an accessory ‘before and after the act in the purder of Tasker Thayer. Anything you say—" “Please—please—I know the formula! Need we have all this melodrama? Pt “Anything you say may be used against you,” Charley went on. “T shall say nothing here—naturally,” said Zahn. “The charge is obviously, absurd. But—" He shrugged 'his shoulders. “Best way to take it,” Charley agreed. 'You!” his voice was full of scorn. “You're a doctor—a big man, like you say. You was makin' your 50 grand a year—clean enough money, I guess, | the way money goes in this man’s town. | But that wasn't enough for you. You| wasn't satisfied to have half the women in town witih too much money and too little to do to keep them busy for pa- tients. “No. You soaked in all they told you about themselves and their hus- bands and their. boy friends—and r.ed it on to the scum that did your lackmailin’ for you! And when you found one that was decent you tried to get her in wrong—like when you set this Ross here on to makin’ love to— oh, hell, never mind that! We knew what was goin’ on—oh, we been on| your trail a long time, doc! But we couldn’t get to you because the suckers you was bleedin’ was too scared to come to us. And you was smart, doc—I'll hand you that. You covered yourself pretty well. Only you wasn't smart e h to know you was bound to get caught in the end, was you?” “Really—this is edifying!” said Zahn. “A lecture on ethics from a New York policem: “Yeah—that's right. That gives you & laugh, don't it, doc? I'm a cop all right. Listen, I don't say there ain't cops that'll take graft. But not for heipin' a blackmailer do his stuff, by God—and not for coverin' a murcder! It's because I'm a cop that you're headed for the chair this minute. You can sneer all you please—but who's the sucker, doc, you or me? “You pick a rat like Ross to work for b because you've got somethin’ on —and you ain’t got sense enough to &ee you're given' him twice as muc! you—nor to know that the first time e's in & hole he’ll turn himself inside out. And you use a sap like Benny for a ocollector—who's so dumb he takes a watch off & Ei\.y after croakin’ him and l'? it in find!” own pocket for me to Now, for the first time, Zahn flinched. | ope! Peter saw a look of venomous hate in his eyes—but he saw fear, too. A po- liceman came in. “The wagon's downstairs, sarge,” he | said. “All right,” said Chazley. “Take the | doc here with you. Take the three of | them over to the house—I'm sick of the | sight of them. Zach——" He turned to the bar. “Go along, you. You're clean- as_a witness. Il need | for blackmail. on | every one was that night. you to testify to Benny's being out here ayer was killed. Il b2 along pretty quick and attend to the complaints.” “Zahn, quiet, unresisting, let himself be led out to the elevator. Zach, look- ing bored, followed. Charley sank into & chair, wearily. ““Very nice,” said Purdy. “Very nice, indeed. Of course, it's pretty much a Chinese puzzle to me, but I haven't been in on it” He smiled. “Benny came through, did he?” “I'll tell the world!” sald Charley. “He's to burn, and he knows it— and he don't want to go alone. Pete— you better beat it. You don’t want to go over to the house—it'll be crawlin’ with reporters 10 minutes after the squeals are booked. Your sister down at your place, is she?” “T suppose so,” sald Peter. “Look here—do you think I know what it all | means? Because I don't!” “It's as plain as the nose on your face!” said Charley. “I've got a few | little things to clean Gp. One of them is seein’ that what Ross tells the D. A. | don’t drag the madam in—and, by God, | Connolly and Barclay owe her some- thin’ for the deal they tried to hand her! Get hold of Bouton and go on down and tell her it's O. K.—I'll be along if I can, but I've half a night's work ahead of me yet.” Bt “Oh—want me to spell it out for you? The doc was usin’ what he found out Benny was one of his | collectors—we’ll get the others. He had | Ross sewn up, dnd he used liim to start somethin’ with a dame that hadn't started somethin’ herself first. Like he tried to with Mrs. Thayer." Only she was straight, as it happened—and, be- sides, Ross fell for this Gould woman and had to do ‘soms two-timin’ on his own account. “They tried to work the Thayers both ways. Benny was gettin’ all he could from the madam to cover up that check business—and at the same time he was workin’ Thayer on account of Ross and the madam. Only Thayer was to0 smart for them. He pretended to be fallin’ ‘for it, and he came across—but all the time he was workin’ to get back to the doc.” He did it, too—that was why he was put out. The doc was smart. He figured out that he was in & jam from what Benny told him. The doc was the one planned the killin'— that was why he had to know where nny gave the check back to Thayer. Then he trailed him home, went up the fire escape, and got in and shot him~ It was Benny burned thos® papers—Ilittle idea of his own, that was. He had another bright idea, too. Thayer had . that. safe back of the fireplace n, and Benny wiped the gun clean and stuck it in there. But it was the doc figured out how to use that to frame the madam. That line Benny pulled on you was a stall—they never‘ | figured on gettin’ any five grand out of you. They wanted 1o tell the madam about the gun bein’ there—and then they was going’ to tip Connolly off; s0 | he'd give her a chance to get it and pinch her as she did it—when it wouldn't have any prints on it but| hers—see?” | “¥ou got to hand it to the doc. He's | full of smart ideas. He might have pulled a fast one there but for two things. One was that you and me was workin® ther, and the er Was that Connolly was ready to pinch Mrs. ‘Thayer without any tip from him. But the thing that beat him was what al- ways beats that particular kind of smart guy—that he has to_work with dumb ones like Benny. 1 had Benny sewn up before I ever found the watch.” | cal “Something to do with that stunt you pulled down in Mercer street—firing that gun at the pillows?” “Right. I got & break there—two or three breaks. But I had them coming to me. First off, I wanted to check up on whether that gun was the one that had been used to kill Thayer. Then there was mmethin%eeln, I'd been fig- uring on Benny's being the one who bumped him off. And I had some- thing up my. sieeve. There was & shootin’ up here a while back. Benny plugged a guy one night. Self defense— no argument about that. I didn't pinch Benny, an’ I even let him keep his cannon. But I got the bullet out of the fella’s arm that was shot. Seemed to me it might come in handy some time, Benny lwing the sort of gorilla he was. “Maybe you don't know it, but every bullet that's fired carries the signature of the gun that fired it. There's markin's from the rifiin’ of the barrel that's as easy to read as fingerprints when you know how. So this afternoon I had three bullets—the one we knew had killed Thayer, the one I knew Benny had pumped into this guy's arm —and the one you saw me shoot into those pillows. I had them all checked up while you walted for me, before we ate. We got a lot of experts down at uarters that can do anything from read a Chinest laundry ticket to tellin’ you was a button sewn onto & pair of pants here or in Scotland. They eat their heads off mostly, but they come in handy every so often. “Well—I had Benny the minute I DRY RASH (TCHED BADLY On. Head and Neck. Lost Sleep. Cuticura Healed. “ About a year ago I had a rash on the back of my head and neck. It was dry and itched very badly. Sometimes I scratched until it was very sore, I could not help it, and then it burned and pained so that 1 could not sleep. ““I sent for a free sample of Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment and got relief after using it. I purchased more, and after using three boxes of Cuticura Ointment and three cakes of Cuticura Soap I was com- pletely healed.” (Signed) M: Amelia Stafford, 218" W. 6th St., W. Liberty, Iowa. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and. Talcum are all you need for daily toilet uses. 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But keep the treatments up until the very feel of your hair tells you it is in perfect condition. You can get Danderine at any drugstore. It is a marvelous medicine for sick scalps. WATCH YOUR GLANDS! WHEN Lazy glands won't open, the hair is starved and faded. WHEN lazy glands don’t close, scalp fouled by secretion; ::Y(E:Mml s o n the hair gland Mll‘.l-nh&‘. > DANDERINE knew those three bullets was all fired by the same gun. But I didn’t have the watch. took somethin’ like that to make Benn; crumple up and come across. He'll tell & story now that all the lawyers the doc can hire can't break. “Thayer—well, I guess he had his faultts. But his number went up be- .use he was game enough to go against & blackmailin’ gang that was tryin’ to do his wife dirt. When you come down to it, he was the one broke it up, too. ‘They’s & lot of women in this town can breathe easier after they read that the doc's in jail. That's the lowdown, Pete. Chase yourself now. Tell the madam me she can quit worryin'. Youll be seein’ Connolly before I get there, may- be. Gentle him along. A bear with sore tooth’ll be nothing beside him when he finds out what I've put over on him this night!” g (To Be Continued.) FLEETS OUIT.‘FIGHT’ AREA | Scouting Group to Engage in cmb.; bean Maneuvers. U. 8. S. ARKANSAS, March 24 (®).— ‘The United States Battle and Scouting | Fleets, which have been united for joint maneuvers off the Panama Canal, sep- arated today and went their own ways. The Battle Fleet sails at 6 p.m. for San Diego and San Pedro, Calif., while the Scouting Fleet will complete its| passage through the canal and leave by | detachments for Guantanamo Bay, en- | gaging in Caribbean maneuvers en route. | to have & new 000. GOV. HARTLEY VETOES “GIN MARRIAGE BILL” ‘Washington Governor Says It “Im- pugns Integrtiy” of All Who Perform Nuptials. By the Associated Press. 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