The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1936, Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1936. SY Acarna CHristvle: and Dr. Nicholson came hurrying along the terrace. “Here’s the Doctor,” said Sylvia. “He's just come. Has—has anything happened to Henry?” Then she saw the sprawling figure and uttered a cry. SYNOPSIS: Although Roger Bassington-firench has oleared himself in Frankie Derwent’s mind of suspicion in the murder of Alan Carstairs, Dr. Nicholson has not. Now Roger’s brother, Henry Bass- ington-ffrench, has consented to go to Dr. Nicholson's drug cure for treatment, and Roger and Frankie have tried to persuade Henry's wife Sylvia that this would not be quite the thing. without explaining their suspicion And she has refused to change the plan, and left them, ob- 1. through the window, and Dr. Nichol- viously in @ hu son thrust Sylvia into his arms. “Take her away,” he said briefly. Chapter 31. “Look after her. Give her some DEATH RoE looked at Frankie. “This is a bit awkward,” he said. “Very awkward indeed.” “Once Sylvia has made her mind up she can be obstinate as the devil.” “What are we going to do?” her see more than you can help.” He himself stepped through the win- dow and joined Frankie. He shook his head slowly. “This is a tragic business,” he said. “Poor fellow. So he felt he couldn’t face the music. Too bad. Too bad.” He bent over the body, straightened himself up again. “Nothing to be done. Death must They sat down again on the garden| have been instantaneous. I wonder seat and went into the matter care-|if he wrote something first. They fully. Roger agreed with Frankie | usually do.” f that to tell the whole story to Sylvia|_ Frankie advanced till she stood oe ‘stake. The best plan,| Peside them. A piece of paper with would be a mistake. The best Dlan.| . few scrawled words on it, evi uid be to tackle} dently freshly written, lay at Bas- | sington-ffrench’s elbow. Their pur port was clear enough. then in his opinion, wo the Woctor. “But what are you going to say exactly?” “1 don’t know that I shall say much —but I shall hint « d deal. At any | rate, 1 agree with you about one! 1 feel this ts the best way out {Henry Bassington- 2 written]. This fatal habit too great a hold on me for me to fight it now. Want to do the best 1 Roger struck the glass a heavy blow. can for Sylvia—Sylvi: | bless you bot Forgive me. dT ny thing—Henry mustn't go to the Grange. Even if we come right out in the open, we've got to stop that.” “We do, I know. 1 try ev ia and h, om d kie felt a lump rise in her | throat. | “We *to | Sy e whole show away if an reminded him. "s why we've got ing else first. C must she turn ob ute?” we mustn't touch anything,” said Dr. Nicholson. “There will have to be an inquest. of course. We must via, ring up the police.” just at this m i | In obedience to his gesture hows the power of the man,” | Frankie went towards the door. op Then she stopped. You know, it inclines me to | “The Key's not in the lock,” she ve that, evide’ aid. you may be right about him |” «No? perhaps it’s In his pocket.” ter alt—What s that? | _He knelt down, investigating deli whey both spr ne up. E » cazq | cately. From the dead man’s coat pols soanded ke shot,” said | pocket he drew out a key. He tried it Frankie. “From the house. | in the lock and it fitted. Together They looked <t each other, then y passed out into the hall. Dr. raced towards the building. They | Nicholson went straighi to the tele went in by the French window of the | phone, drawing-room and passed through |” rrankie, her knees shaking under into the hall. Sylvia Bassington- | hoy, felt suddenly sick. < firench was standing there, her face} * 3 e as paper | JQRANKIE rang up Bobby about an Vid you he |© hour later. a shot— eee Me SaunGees Gubean | “Is that Hawkins? Hullo Bobby She swayed, and Roger pa an —have you heard what has happen- rm around her to steady her. You have? Quick, we must meet kie went to the study door and | somewhere. Early to-morrow morn- ed the handle. i | ing would be best, I think. I'll stroll tockedsy shevsate. jout before breakfast. Say eight 1 Roger. —_| o’clock—the same place we met to- a, who was ina | ao. 6 Los ee evs, |_, She rang off as Bobby uttered his nient settee and raced out again} inirg respectful “Yes, your lady- through the drawing-room, Frankie | .4ip. for the benefit of any curious on his heels. pe They went round the house till Hobby asciccd at the senieavoes they e to the study window. | but Frankie did not keep him It was closed but they put their | \aiting tong. She looked pale and faces close to the glass and peered | 1). if in, The sun was setting and there} “triio, Bobby, isn’t it awful? 1 was not much light—but they could |. 4 able to sleep last night.” see plainly enough. “I haven't heard any details,” said = en , .| Bobby. “Just that Mr. Bassington- ENRY BASSINGTON-/e,.ncn had shot himself. That's ffrench was lying sprawled out | riont, 1 suppose?” across his desk. Tacre was a bullet |. Sylvia had been talking to wound plainly visible in his temple. persuading him to agree to and a revolver lay on the floor where | it had dropped from his hand. id he would, Afterwards, I sup {He's shot himself.” sald Frankle. | nose, his courage must have failed How ghast ue |him. He went into his study, locked “Stand back a little,” said Roger. |the door, wrote a few words on a “I'm going to break the window.’ | sheet of paper—and—and shot him- inate was him 4 | He wrapped his hand in his coat | sei, Bobby, it’s too ghastly. It’s—it’s and struck the pane of glass a heavy | grim blow that shattered it. Roger picked |“ ; out the pieces carefully, then he and Frankie stepped into the room. As they did so, Mrs. Bassington-ffrench Agathe Christie) Bobbie and Frankle, tomorrow, make plans to deal with the Cay- mans in London. ARRESTED FOR ACT TO SUBSCRIBERS if you do pct rucetve your Paper by 6:15 o'clock in the afternoon, call telephone 51 and a paper will be sent to your home. A complaint boy | fs on duty at this office from When 17-year-old John Doug- 6:30 to 7:15 p. m. for the las Flexman was fined $15 for! purpose of delivering com- ‘lying a plane in dangerous; Plaints. Help us give you 100 told an English court! percent service by calling 51 + to please his grand-| if you do not receive The Citi- zen. CINCINNATI.—James_ Carter was arrested for sell- ; of this cits ing a woman who could not read English a pair of spectacles which ! he said would enable her to do so. | a manner that he ¢ mother, 1 i a Rogers stepped quickly out again | brandy if she'll take it. Don’t let | !seore published. | Mora | lehem. Pa., Jan. 31, 1823. a course of treatment, and he had | f THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS SY JOVE Well, boys, another golfer has joined the ranks of the pros. Mr. Otto (Tax Assessor) Kirchheiner became one yesterday. It seems that the people Otto was playing with started the round on number 6 tee because of a couple of four- somes ahead and some more wait- ing to tee off. Anyhow, Otto did not do so well until he got around to number one. From then onj his score read in order: 555 354; 434 for a total of 38. By this time} Mr. Kirchheiner had reached his; limit and pulled a couple of septs ers. However, he very gener- ously beat Samuella and Bill Ma-| lone without help from the out- side. | Mr. Li Plummer wants to know what he has to do to have For his benefit; let us say that in the first place it must be a good one. They have; i ' { | {but a certain amount of type in! this printing office and cannot, afford to use too much. However, The Key West basketbaH club; has arranged a series of games} with teams in Havana, Cuba. None | other than Domingo J. Milord,' who all the fans will remember as the Cuban consul here from! 1916 to ’26 but who is now mak-} ing his home in Havana, has ar-! tanged the trip for the local Three cheers for Mr. Mi-: The players who will make! | the trip are: Wm. Cates, captain; , Pedro Aguilar, manager; Joe Hale, } | Robert Dopp, A. Smith, Ed. Wood-! J. V. Woodson, Esmond Al- Emerson Beccaise, C. John-| son, Fred Carbonell and Douglas} McCarthy, who will go as coach.| It is expected the boys will leave | here around the 19th and return Today’s | Anniversaries 1@eeecoccccsccccooesoooec! 1743—John G. E. Heckewelder, } n missionary to the Indians | of Ohio, recorder of Indian life, born in England. Died at Beth- 1758—Jesse Lee, pioreer Meth- list preacher, Apostle of Meth- m in New England, early his- torian of Methodism, born in Vir- !ginia. Died at Hillsboro, Md., Sept. 12, 1816. Canadian journalist and political reformer, born in Scotland. Died in Toronto, Aug. 28, 1861. 1801—Joseph Francis, New York inventor-builder of life-; } boats, and life-saving apparatus, | born in Boston. Died at Coopers-} town, N. Y., May 10, 1893. 1831—Ciement Studebaker, one of the South Bend, Ind., brothers whose blacksmith shop started inj | 1852 on a capital of $68.00 grew | into one of the largest wagon fac-! jtories in the world, born near Gettsburg, Pa. Died Nov. 27, 1901, ‘ 1835—Simon Newcomb, _inter- nationally-famed astronomer of ithe U. Naval Observatory, jborn in Nova Scotia. Died in Washington, D. C,. July 11, 1909. 1858—Adolph S. Ochs, noted publisher of the New York Times, born in Cincinnati. Died April 8, 1935. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c} weekly. OVER-SEA HOTEL CLOSE TO THE BUSINESS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER Away From the Noisy Stream of Traffic Its Quiet Rooms and Wide, Hos pitable Porches Invite You 919 FLEMING STREET --PHONE 9104 DOINGS AROUND THE GOLF LINKS — SRB VGRAVE)? | | practicing diligently. FOLLOWING THROUGH ' DOUBLEHEADER OF BASKETBALL AT GYM FRIDAY CONVENT GIRLS AND ALL- STARS WILL BEGIN CUP | SERIES IN OPENING CON- | TEST i | let it be known that if any golfer} in town breaks a 40, then the column will gladly publish same and add a few bouquets, too. Mr. Horace O’Bryant has been Mr. Melvin Russell plays against Mr. Pete Taylor every afternoon. It gives Melvin that “superiority feeling” but on Thursdays and Sundays Doc} The Convent girls and the All- Willie Percival takes that away|Stars will play the first of a from him. | three-game series for a silver lov- ing cup that is being offered by ; the San Carlos Institution, tomor- jrow night at the High School | gymnasium. This series should have start- ‘ed a week ago but the girls de- icided ta postpone the opener in Lorder to get in shape for the bat- Strunk says that lately his profits have been so small that it has become necessary to wear glasses to see same. Mr. Winsome Willie wishes he lived in some Central American country where you have three holidays a week. His wife says that if they did Mr. Watkins would j #e- not be allowed to play more than; The C. M. I. club will have the twice a week unless he promised ' three “'Brantiey sisters, Misses to win every time. (Ramios,;" Hernandez, Moffett, Me- dina, Valdés and ‘a few others. ‘@| The ‘Stars'will use the Yates sis- ‘ters, Misses Ida Kerr, Edna Gomez, Edna Roberts, Fay Adams, Niles |and others, eeccessecccccccscocceees: = The contest will get under way on the 23rd of this month, -Bor | at 7:30 o’cloc ; voyage, and do not forget to In the nighteap the Pa Ti- . ‘ : : lgers, champs of Key West, will bring baek the bacon for good, old meet a new club called the Inde- Cayo Hueso! | | pendents, composed of some of the best players in the city. James This afternoon at Bayview Park|Csoper will be in charge «! the the Sanitary Department will play | newly-organized five. the Research Department, begin-| The Independents in-iude ning 5 o’clock. Tomorrow the! Players as L. Curry, Wicke Bayview Parkers will meet the Ad-; Pinder, J. Lopez, Saunders, ministration ten. nandez and others. These have been practicing for the past Standing of tea.ns in the so-| week, and a hard-fought and ex- cial Diamondball League follows:! citing game is expected, sentry Deraiment S301 HEAT TH TEN WON OVER FERA TEAM Research D. -666 Administration Bayview Park | SCORE IN GAME PLAYED AT BAYVIEW PARK YESTER- DAY WAS 9 TO 6 wat 2 42 ~452 4.4 Today’s Horoscope Today gives a curious mixture, with a strong but conflicting mind. There is quickness of thought and action and great ex-| - The Sanitary Department ii ecutive powers. The determina-j creased its lead in the Social Dia- tion will often bring results, but} ™ondball League yesterday after- they are not always of the best.|"00n by defeating the Adminis- You should always work in hea outfit at Bayview Park, strong light and in dark moments oe z do not brood over perplexities. lin ote ea ee areas gues bes inning, he vic- e eeeee; tors put over three runs in the EMS j ninth while the losers failed to score and copped the game in easy or | Cocccccccccececesceeeese With a triple and four singles I have never committed the} iM five times at bat, J. Garcia was 1795—William Lyon Mackenzie, | lnastonigdicr 40) God tet i have | ©asily the outstanding hitter of | the aftergoon. He also scored {three rdfgs. J. Roberts ‘@nd M. Lopez Money--dishonestly aéy ig; nected for three*out of five. never worth its cost, while a good! Baker, Ubieta amd Stickhey conscience never costs as much as! starred in the field for the Health it is worth—J. P. Senn. ae = ABS so the hander Him who bears up the world.—Richter. not had reason for infinite praise. con- r; 5 How calmly we may commit; Florida Motor Lines. Florida’s largest trans- portation company. announced inaugura- tion of DAILY BUS SERVICE to Miami and all of Florida from Key West. Large, com- fortable streamlined buses . . . direct con- néctions in Miami for the West Coast, New York and the East. Chicago and the Mid- West. Light Express shipments accepted to and from Key West to anywhere in the state. LEAVE KEY WEST. 5:45 A. M. ARRIVE MIAMI ——..- 4:00 P.M ARRIVE JACKSONVILLE 4:50 A. M. Miami $3.75 f= $6.75 "m3" ‘Tri Jacksonville $8.75 9% $15.75" STATION: 210 DUVAL ST. PHONE 242 a, mJ sree FLORIDA MoTor|INES | Administration— | i) HARRIS SCHOOL ROLL OF HONOR COVERS SIX WEEKS’ PERIOD ENDING ON MARCH 6, 1936 The following shows the esi on the Honor Roll at the Harris School for the six weeks’ period ending March 6, 1936: i 6A—Oscar Albury, Bill Carnes, Raymond Ovide, John Thompson, | Verneta Albury, Onedi pact Betty Ann Pierce, Copeland Ram-| sey, Wilma Russell? 6B—Julius Napoles, Johnson, Ellen Wharton. 5A-5B—Roy Rogers, Pinder, Billy Helseth. 4A—Albert Johnson. 4B—Everett Rosam. 3B—Billy Ladd, Donald Pearl-| man, Laurette Bethel. i 2A-3A—Jimmie Singleton, Pat- sy Albury, Ruby Wharton, Am- para Ovide, Marion Solano, Charles Pellicier, Lauriette Russell, Patty; Duane. ig { 2A—Emily Helseth. | 2B—Katie May Roberts, Vir- ginia Williams, Betty Jane Cot-| trell, Kermit Roberts. 1A-1—Lois Adams, Carrie Go- mez, Eddie Diddle. 1A-2—Edith Brown, Archer, Joy Ball. Barbara} i Margaret | Rose team, as did also Rueda and M.} Lopez for the losers. Seore by innings: Sanitary Department— 103 020 003—9 14 R. H. E. 5 000 302 010—6 16 3 Batteries: C. Stickney and Hop- kins; E. Roberts and F. Stickney. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME|. Serving Key West Half Century 24 Hour Ambulance Service Night 696-W | IIIS SALSA A Boiled Egg, Waiter, I'll Be In Next Week (By Associateé Press) Ethiopia, March 12.—If an Ethiopian wants egg for Monday's break- fast, he puts it to boil im the family pot on Thursday night. There it cooks for 80 hours —in Friday's cabbage or soup, Saturday's meat stew and Sunday's grain mash—un- til “well done” by Monday morning. The Abyssinian claims that the three and a third days’ cooking softens,.mellows and sweetens the egg. He's right, at least one war correspondent found. At 95 Geore Isaac Hughes of New Bern, N. C., is enjoying life with his fami! and their 1-year-old son, Franklin Roosevelt Hughes. 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