The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 19, 1936, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1936, RQUVIERANG cz BY Acarna CHristle SYNOPSIS: Bobby and Frankie are trying their best to determine first, whether there was murder done in the matter ell over the cli assington-ffrenci with the matter was; third, how it happens that the photograph found later in the dead man’s pocket was not the one Bobby saw there in the first place. Is Bassington-french guilty? Are the Camans mized up in it? Who tried to poison Bobby? What do the dead man’s enigmatio last words mean? Chapter 12 DEDUCTION “ ACCORDING to our present the ory it goes like this,” Bobby continued. “Dead man X is deliber- ately pushed over cliff—presumably by B. F. (pardon the initials). It is important that X should not be cor- rectly identified, so the portrait of Mrs. C. is put in his pocket and the Portrait of Fair Unknown removed. Who was she, I wonder?” “Keep to the rsiat,” said Frankie sternly. "Mrs. C. waits for photograph to appear. Then turns up as grief- stricken, sister and identifies X as her brother from foreign parts.” “You don’t believe he could really have been her brother “Not for a moment! You know, it puzzled me all along. The Caymans were a different class altogether. The dead man was—well, it sounds @ most awful thing to say and just like some deadly old retired Anglo- Indian—but the dead man was a pukka sahib.” “And the Caymans emphatically weren't?” “Most emphatically.” “And then, just when everything has gone off well from the Caymans’ point of view—body successfully identified, vefdict of accidental death, everything in the garden love- ly—you come along and mess things *up,” mused Frankie. “‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?” Bobby repeated the phrase thought fully. “You know I can’t see what on earth there can be in that to put the wind up anybody.” “Ah! that’s because you don’t know. It’s like making crossword puzzies. You write down a clue and you think it’s too idiotically simple and that everyone will guess it straight off, and you're frightfully surprised when they simply can’t get it in the least. ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans” must have been a most frightfully significant phrase to them, and'they couldn’t realize that it meant nothing at all to you.” “More fools they.” “Oh, quit@ so. But it’s just possible they thought that if Pritchard said that, he might have said something the man who more which would also recur to you |“ in due time. Anyway they weren't going to take chances. You were safer out of the wa. “They took a lot of risk. Why didn’t they engineer another ‘acci- dent’?” s no. That would have been stupid. Two accidents within a week of each other? It might have sug- gested a connection between the two, and then people would have begun inquiring into the first one. No, I think there’s a kind of bad simplic- ity about their method which is real- ly rather clever.” “And yet you said just now that morphia wasn’t easy to get hold of.” “No more it is. You have to sign poison books and things. Oh—of course, that’s a clue! Whoever did it had easy access to supplies of mor- phia.” “A doctor, a hospital nurse, or a chemist,” suggested Bobby. “Well, 1 was thinking more of illicitly imported drugs.” “You can’t mix up too many differ- ent sorts of crime,” said Bobby. “You see, the strong point would be the absence of motive. Your death doesn’t benefit anyone. So what will the police think?” “A lunatic,” said Bobby, that’s what they do think.” “You see? It’s awfully simple really.” “And OBBY began to laugh suddenly. “What's amusing you?” “Just the thought of how sick-mak- ing it must be for them! All that morphia—enough to kill five or six people—and here I am alive and kicking.” “One of Life's little ironies that one can’t foresee,” agreed Frankie. “The question is, what do we do next?” said Bobby practically. “Oh! lots of things,” said Frankie Promptly. “Such as—?” “Well—finding out about the pho- tograph—that there was only one, not two. And about Bassington- ffrench’s house-hunting.” “That will probably be quite all right and above-board.” “Why do you say that?” “Look here, Frankie, think a min- ute, Bassington-ffrench must be Today In History: Secccccccccocscees eco 1803—Ohio admitted to State- hood. 1807—Bri worth. instructed to anchor un- der walls of Constantinople, those issuing orders at home distegard- ing fact that Dardanelles was for- tified, achieved feat of running through channel and back again. 1864—Knights of Pythias eooe! ain’s Admiral Duck-! above suspicion. He must be all clear and above-board. Not only must there be nothing to connect him in any way with the dead man, but he must have a proper reason for being down here. He may have invented house-hunting on the spur of the mo- | ment, but 1 bet he carried out some- | thing of the kind. There must be no ! suggestion of a ‘mysterious stranger | seen in the neighborhood of the ac- cident.’ I fancy that Bassington! ffrench is his real name, and that he’s the sort of person who would ! be quite above suspicion.” “Yes,” said Frankie thoughtfully. “That's a very good deduction. There will be nothing whatever to connect Bassington-ffrench with Alex Pritch- ard. Now if we knew who the dead man really was—” “Ab! then it might be different.” “So it was very important that the body should not be recognized. Hence all the Cayman camouflage. And yet it was taking a big risk.” “You forget that Mrs. Cayman identified him as soon as was human- ly possible. After that, even if there had been pictures of him in the pa- pers (you know how blurry these things are) people would only say, ‘Curious, this man Pritchard who fell over a cliff is really extraordi- | narily like Mr. X” “There must be more to it than that,” said Frankie shrewdly. “X must have been a man who wouldn't easily be missed. 1 mean, he couldn’t have been the sort of family man whose wife or relations would go to the. pol qtjonee gud-report him missin, as 48 “Good for you, Frankie. No, he must hy } jast going abroad, or perhaps Just ‘come back (he was marvelously tanned, like a big- | game hunter—he looked that sort of person), and he can’t have had any very near relations who knew all about his movements.” “We're deducing beautifully,” said Frankie. “1 hope we're not deducing all wrong.” “Very likely,” said Bobby. “But I think what we've said so far is fair- ly sound sense—granted, that is, the wild improbability of the whole thing.” Frankie waved away the wild im- Probability with an airy gesture. | “The thing is—what to do next?” she said. “It seems to me we've got three angles of attack.” “Go on, Sherlock.” “The first is you. They've made one attempt on your life. They'll prob- ably try again. This time we might get what they call a ‘line’ on them. Using you as a decoy, 1 mean.” JO, thank you, Frankie,” said Bobby with feeling. “I've been very lucky this time, but 1 mightn’t be so lucky again if they changed the attack to a blunt instrument. 1 was thinking of taking a great deal of care of myself in the future. The decoy idea can be washed out.” “I was afraid you'd say that,” said Frankie with a sigh. “Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays. Fa- ther says so. They don’t enjoy being uncomfortable and doing dangerous and unpleasant things any longer. It’s a pity.” “A great pity,” said Bobby, but he spoke with firmness. “What’s the second plan of campaign?” “Working from the ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’ clue,” said Frankie. “Presumably the dead man came down here to see Evans—whoever he was. Now, if we could find Evans—” “How many Evanses,” Bobby in- terrupted, “do you think there are in Marchbolt?” “Several hundred, I should think,” admitted Frankie, “Atjeast!, We might.do something eet way,.but I'm rather doubtful.” Me, al vanses and visit whe a $s “And ask them—wiat? “That's “te “difficulty,” said Frankie. 2 <4 tas" “We need to knows little more,” said Bobby. “Then that idea of yours might come in useful. What’s Num- ber 32” “This man Bassington-ffrench. There we have got something tangi- ble to go upon. It’s an uncommon name. I'll ask Father. He knows all these county family names and their various branches.” “Yes,” said Bobby, “we might do something that way.” “At any rate we are going to do something?” “Of course we are. Do you think I'm going to be given eight grains of morphia and do nothing about it?” “That's the spirit!” said Frankie. “And besides that,” added Bobby, “there's the indignity of the stomach Dump to be washed out.” “That's enough,” said Frankie. (Copyright 1933-35-36, A, Christie) Frankie gets some Information from her father, tomorrow, and a Short lecture besides. (Washington Lodge, No. 1), | founded in Washington, D. C., by Justus H. Rathbone and _ three other government clerks. 1878—Edison patented the TIGERS DEFEATED | High School five last night at the | Wickers, Knowles, Hale and Wood- ithe second inning when THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS BY JOVE FOLLOWING THROUGH Sceeccccsesscooseses Everything is getting shaped up WIN SECOND-HALF ALSO CAPTURED FIRST-HALF tween the Cuban Navy champs OF LEAGUE; SCORE WAS 65] and the Key West All-Stars. The TO 38; BAKERS WON OVER| field is being put in first class condition for the games and the WPA QUINTET, 54 TO 24 | local players are practicing for the! series in ea:nest every-day work-| outs from 3 to p.m. Sunday will! be the last practice. Monday the} first game of the series will be i i played at 3 p. m. Tuesday and; school gymnasium by the score of , Wednesday will witness the other | 65 to 38 to gain second-half hon-' contests, * | ors of the Island City Winter} i Basketball League. They pre- H viously came out on top the first-half. ; Leading scorers were Cates' with 19 points, Saunders with 13,| Dopp with 12, Smith with 13; SCHOOL TEAM TO | The Park Tigers defeated the ; The girls’ basketball team from, |; Tous Academy in Havana will ar- lvive on the P. and O. boat Tues- day afternoon. y will meet the locals in a three-game series, the; first of which will be played Wed-1 nesday at 5 p. m and the other s vii ii eae j games on, Thursday and Friday. ee a |The All-Stars, High School and| The guarding of Lopez and Al-| Convent sextettes will play the bury were very good. Saunders, visitors. made five free throws out of six| chances, Score by quarters: High School .10 15 4 9—38 Park Tigers ..20 13 12 20—65 in Totali The aquatic events will be bet-| ter this year than ever before. Aj few new entries have been made! recently and some are very good.! M M. Kramer will be in the} diving contest. In the workouts! she looks like a sure winner. Miss} Berkowitz will enter in the 50 100 and«200 yard events. She one of the favorites. Eloise Guito! will be seen in the and 100: yard free style races. She is out: In the other game played last! night, the Busy Bee Bakers de-| feated the WPA five, 54 to 24. The Workers, as usual, played a great game up to the last half and from then on were complete-| ly routed by the Bakers. 1 RG Se Kath. (At the jeudiok thobtiet haitithe| Coe eee ee ee erine Hughes will also compete in} Office boys were lead but | ve 7 after that it was too bad for the! WPA quintet, as the Bakers scor-) ed 38 points in the last-half, while} the Workers rung up only seven. Leading scorers were Gilmore! Parks with 21 points, Woodson; with 14 and Curry with 11. Lewin and Perpall, two new members of the WPA five, play-! ed the best game for them, Seore by quarters: Total a very good swimmer and will give | any of the entries a race “for! their money.” Mrs. Dopp will give| an exhibition of fancy diving and} will compete in all events. — } Friday night the Fort Lauder-| dale “FiyIng L” basketball club; will be in the city to play the; = - Key West High School quintet. | la ae = iS ar |The Flying L’s were state cham-' ji ; Pions in 1932 and 1933, and that) spirit still prevails in the school. | | They are out to regain that title! onsale: {this year. So far they have de-! Clubs— “!feated Homestead, Palm Beach, | rare) Siecrs Lake Worth and the Ida M. Fish-! High School er fives. The Ft. Lauderdale! Busy Bee Bakers team is composed of: Cox and! Deblois, forwards; Jeffcoat and Ash, guards; Kayhandell, center; | Crabtree and Fleming, subs, | i Standing at the end of the sec-} Next Tuesday night the Bakers| will play one game with the ABC quintet and the winner will meet the Tigers in a three-game series. The WPA fiye will tackle the Perk Tigers in the nightcap Tues- day night. RESEARCHERS WON OVER HEALTH TEN . |For Representative to State | Legislature ij T. S. CARO Sa" Qe ea eS For Representative to State Legislature BERNIE C. PAPY For County Judge In the Social League yesterday W..CURRY HARRIS afternoon at Bayview Park, the Research Department whitewash-;| Supervisor of Registration ed the Sanitary Department ten. JOHN ENGLAND Joe Hale pitched his third —— straight victory of the, second-| For Justice of The Peace half. Altough he allowed 10 hits, Second District POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELEC.| TION, JUNE 2, 1936 e SANITARY OUTFIT WHITE- WASHED IN GAME AT BAY- VIEW! PARK YESTERDAY J The Researchers scored two in Esmond Abury and Albio singled and Pe- ter Varela came through with a one-bagger which scored both run- ners. Wickers and A. Caraballo, with two safeties in three times at bat, were the leaders. i A. Castro connected for two Albury, one ort of two. | | D. Lopez, Kelly and Esmond, featured in the field for the win-{ ners, while J. Garcia, A. Castro| and Albio Acevedo were outstand- ing for the losers. R. HAE. | Score by innings: Research Department— | 020 000 000—2 9 1 | Sanitary Department— t 000 000 000—0 10 2, Key West SATURDAY Batteries: Hale and O. Carabal-/ phonograph, most original of his | many inventions. 1918—Reciprocal army draft treaties between Great Britain, Canada ana the United States signed, lo; C. Stickney and A. Castro. This afternoon the Stowers} Park and the Bayview Park tens} will hook up. Both clubs are in the cellar. The team that wins } will be out of it, of course, and that is the reason a hard-fought! game is expected. his teammates played a great game} ENRIQUE ESQUINALDO, |j Phone 135 for him. | R. 1 OPEN SWIMMING | MEET PLANNED | EVENTS TO BE: STAGED: AT, ‘SUB BASE DURING WEEK. OF JOY ‘ Thursday afternoon, Feb. 27th, during the Week of Joy .a swim-| ming meet will be held at the sub- base, sponsored by the WPA recreation department. There will be seven events (in- cluding low-board diving) open} to senior boys, four events open} to young ladies, and a fifty yard} swim for junior boys. To every first place winner a gold medal will be given. First places will count 5 points, seconds 3 points, thirds, 2 points. High-point girl and high-point boy will each be given a_ beautiful silver trophy. Members of the Key West Beach Patrol are not eligible to contest. Also scheduled to take place in the afternoon is a catboat race. A trophy will be awarded the win- ner. Outside boats are invited to compete, but they will be rated according to the ten foot cla A water polo game will be just after the swimming meet. The teai expected to engage are those of the Cuban Club and the City Dolphins. held Today’s Birthdays Coocccccccccsccccssccces Dr. Thomas J. J. See of Valle- the 50 and 100 yard races. She is|J0, Cal., famed astronomer-math-j — ematician, of the U. S. Navy, born near Montgomery City, Mo., 70 years ago. Newcomb Carleton of New York City, chairman of the board, the Western Union, born at Eliza- beth, N. Y., 67 years ago. Rt. Rev. Robert E. Jones, Methodist Episzoral bishop of New Orleans, born at Greensboro, N. C., 64 years ago. | sun bathing. | games all afternoon, SIIB IIILaSD COMING EVENTS The following events cover the week of February 16 to Feb- ruary 22: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Bayview Park—2 P. M. until 6 P. M., diamondball, tennis, handball and shuffle board. Stowers Park—All kinds games all afternoon. Colonial Park—Checkers and reading and writing all afternoon. Yacht . Basin—Swimming _ in- structions and deep water bathing. Foot of Duval street-—Sun bath- ing, dominoes and different games, and swimming. Rest Beach—Swimming and Sail boat rides. of THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Bayview Park—2 P, M. until € P. M., all kinds of sports. Stowers Park—All kinds games until 6 P. M. ‘Colonial Park—Checkers and reading and writing all afternoon. Coral Isle Casino—Skating. Coral Isle Casino—2 P. M. un- til 4 P. M. Boxing and wrestling instructions. Yacht Basin—Swimming structions. Rest Beach—Swimming aun bathing. Sail boat rides. of in- and FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Bayview Park — Diamondball, tennis and. other games all. aftr- ernoon, Cutan Club—Dance with Joha Pritchard and his boys at 9 P. M. Rest Beach—Swimming and sun bathing. Saif boat rides. High School Gym—Basketbali games. Stowers Park—All kinds Colonial Park—Checkers reading and writing all afternoon. 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