The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 20, 1936, Page 3

FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936. XS 8 SYNOPSIS: Convinced that Dr. Nicholson is the murderer of Alan Carstairs, Bobby Jones and Frankie Derwent ‘determine to prove their ease. But Bobby is cracked on the head while exploring Nicholson's place, and Frankie, coming to Tu- dor Cottage. Ch’pping Somerton in response to a «etter purportedly from Bobby, is chloroformed. They wake up, tied and lying uncom- fortably ‘on the floor of an attic room. Nicholson comes in to teil them that he plans to arrange an “accident” which will kill them Frankie says that Rover seington-french knows where ous te, Chapter 38 INSPIRATION ICHOLSON was silent for a moment. Then he said, “A good bluff—but I call it.” He turned to the door “What about your swine?” cried Bobby. murdered her too?” “Moira is still aliv id Nichol- son. “How much lon: she will re- main so, I do not really know. It depends on circumstances.” He made them a mocking little bow. “Au revoir,” he said. “You may enjoy talking the matter over. I shall not gag you unless it becomes necessary. Any calls for help and I return and deal with the mat- wife, you “Have you QOMERANG czcz Y AGArnA CHaistie: | “My God:” cried Bobby. “What is it?” “Frankie, that wasn’t Nicholson who came here just now!” was it then?” “I don’t know—but it wasn't | Nicholson. All along I felt there | was something wrong—but couldn’t spot it, and your saying ‘ears’ has } given me the clue. When I was | watching Nicholson the other eve- ning through the window I specially noticed his ears—the lobes are joined to his face. But this man to- night—his ears weren't like that.” | “But what does it mean?” Frankie | asked hopelessly. “This is a very clever actor im- personating Nicholson.” | “But why—and whc could it be?” | “Bassington-ffrench,” breathed | Bobby. “We spotted the right man {at the beginning and then—like |idiots, we went astray after red | herrings.” “Bobby, you're right. He was the j only person there when I taunted Nicholson about accidents.” | “Then it really is all up,” said Bobby. “I've still had a kind of sneaking hope taat possibly Roger Bassington-ffrench might nose out | our trail by some miracle. But now the game’s up, Frankie.” | As he finished speaking there was THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS “Have you gone quite mad? Who | BY JOVE BLACKWELL KOED "ATWELL IN THIRD FIGHT CARD PRESENTED AT NAVY FIELD ARENA WAS ATTENDED BY OVER 600; FANS; CROWD PLEASED | The boxing show presented last |night in the Navy Field Arena was very good and the fights pleased {the more than 600 fans in at- | tendance. { j The main attraction of the eve- jning was short and sweet. From} ‘the first gong until the referee | | counted Atwell out in the third round, the fans were brought up jon their feet time and again. ROUND LAST NIGHT: | other hand the guys Doings Around The Golf Links (By GRAVY) Poeccccccserscccccececes HEALTH TEN WON ANOTHER GAME DEFEATED ADMINISTRATION BY SCORE OF FIVE All those guys who played a bang-up game yesterday were! TO THREE gripeing because it was unable to produce them a free meal. On the who srent The Sanitary Department de- most of the day hunting for a ball! feated the Administration outfit were dog-gone glad that no kind yesterday afternoon by the score of a meal was at stake. However,|of 5 to 3. let that not befuddle you, gentle Stickney and Roberts pitched a reader, a golf player will gripe or} very good game and one bad in- cheer for no particular reason. | ning meant defeat for Roberts. ! M. Lopez, Stanley and Billie Demeritt played very good in the field for the Office boys and Ga- briel, A. Acevedo and Baker for the Health outfit. At bat the leaders were, E. Rob- Mr. Samuel E. 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Write Box E, The Citizen.- mar20-3t | PAGE THREE lien. two senators, amd ther | families in flights over Washing yom. Today In History 1770—Virginia Assembly, at! ‘which Patrick Henry made his| “Give me liberty, or give me}! death!” speech, met. | 1836—Col. James W. Fannin! and his some 500 Texans surren-| dered to Mexicans on condition! they be sent back to United States —330, of them slaugitered in! prison by Mexicans a week later. | | 1852 — Epoch-making “Uncle! Tom’s Cabin” came out in book form. } | ! | 1862—Willlie Lincoln, second | son of the President and Mrs.| Lincoln, died in the White House} of smallpox. } 1919—Bolshevik army said to! be officered by Germans—at this jtime American troops were allied with White Russians fighting the | Bolshevists in Siberia. 1929—Col. Lindbergh began job of making Congress “air- minded,” took up 40 congress- PALACE In the first round, Emory'g number of disparaging remarks! Gabriel and Armando, with The GEORGE WASHINGTON “A good bluff—but 1 He went out and closed and} locked the door behind him. “In books there's’ always an eleventh-hour rescue,’ said Frankie at last, trying to speak hopefully. “The whole thing's so impossi- ble,” said Bobby though plead- ing with someone. “So fantastic. 1 wish an eleventh-hour rescue were possible, but I can’t see who's go-| ing to rescue us. Frankie, do you know what annoys me most about | this business?” “No. Wha “That even now, when we're go- ing to be hurled into the next world we still don’t know who Evans is.” “Let’s ask him,” said Frankie. “You know—a last-minute boon. I agree with you that I simply can’t die without having my curiosity satisfied.” There was a silence, then Bobby | said, “I've got you into an awful) mess, Frankie.” “Oh, that’s all right. You couldn’t have kept me out. I wanted to come in. Bobby, do you think. he'll really pull it off? Us, I meat “I'm terribly afraid he will. He so damnably efficient.” “Bobby, do you believe now tha’ it was he who killed Henry Bas- sington-ffrench?” “If it were pogsible—” “It is possible, granted one thing—that —Sylv Bassingt6n- french is in it too. “Frankie!” “] KNOW. I was just as horrified | when the idea occurred to me. But it fits. Why was Sylvia so dense about the morphia? Why did} she resist so obstinately when we wanted her to send her husband somewhere elsc instead of the} Grange? And then she was in the| house when the shot was fired—” “She might have done it herself.” “Oh, no—surely!” “Yes, she might. And then have given the key of the study to Nichol- son to put in Henry’s pocket.” “It’s all crazy,” said Frankie in a| hopeless voice. “Like through a distorting mirror. There ought to be some way of telling| criminals—eyebrows or ears or| something.” 1 q Ao looking | s cali it,” said Roger. a sound overhead. The next minute, with a terrific crash, a heavy body tell through the ‘Skylight. It was too dark to see anything. “What the devil—” began Bobby. From amidst a pile of broker a voice spoke. B-B-Bok it said. , I'm damned,” said Bobby. “It's Badger!” HERE was not a minute to be lost. Already sounds could be heard on the floor below. “Qui Badger, you fool!” said Bobby. “Pull one of my shoes off. Don’t argue or ask questions! Haul it off somehow. Chuck it down in the middle there and crawl under that bed. Quick—I tell you.” The key turned. Nicholson—the pseudo - Nicholson — stood in the doorway, candle in hand. He saw Bobby and Frankie as he had left them, but in the middle of the floor was a pile of broken glass and in the middle of the broken glass was a shoe. “Very clever, my young friend,” be-said drily. “Extremely acrobat- He came over to Bobby, examined Ptigrropes.tkat bound him and tied uple.of extra knots. He looked riously. I knew how you managed nrow that boot through the sky- light. It‘ seems almost incredible. A touch of the Houdini about you, my friend.” He looked at them both, up at the broken skylight, then shrugging his shoulders he left the room. “Quick, Badger.” Badger crawled out from under the bed. He had a pocket-knife and with its aid he soon cut the other | two free. “That's better,” said Bobby, stretching himself. “Whew! I'm stiff. Well, Frankie? What about our friend Nicholson?” ht.” said Frankie. “It’s Roger Bassington-ffrench. Now that I know he’s Roger playing the part of Nicholson, I can see it. But it’s a pretty good performance all the 36, Agatha Christie) , The three do a little table-turn- ing, tomorrow. Berwick, Maine. Died at { Maine, June Blackwell, light-heavyweight top-|. . .all of which caused our genial ,notcher of Key West, and Baby | Postmaster to make a number of} ; Ray Atwell, challenger, exchanged | remarks to himself but also loud few blows. A few jabs were| enough to be heard by aforemen-}| |landed by Atwell and Blackwell) tioned Hiram and Mortmorency).| , retaliated with a very hard right: Anyway, Mr. Harris had his usual | that staggered Baby Ray. jopponent, the Duke of Rock | In the second round, both threw, Sound. It has come to light that; fa number of solid blows at each! ji was not associating with hoi: other’s face. In this round, it | poli that caused Mr. Sands to have began to show that Blackwell was|a pain. Nor should our genial the more experienced fighter of. Postmaster be credited with los- |the two. He landed some hard) ing his democratic ways. It has blows toward the end of the round. } developed that Old Bye ate some | Atwell also exchanged a numberi green apples with the undrstand-j of jabs but always his guard was! ing they would improve his game.! open after the punch. | They didn’t improve anything so! hits. Score by innings: Sanitary Department— 001 400 000—5 9 2 Administration— 200 000 001-3 6 2 Batteries: C. Stickney and Sal- inero; E. Roberts and Goss. SOFTBALL GAME THIS AFTERNOON The recently organized girls’ diamondball teams “Convent” and Eliot, The thrid, and what proved to H be the finel round, opened with’ both boxers coming out of their corners fighting and exchanging| telling blows. Battling Blackwell | londed a hard right to the head, which made Atwell wobble. Em- ory followed with other telling By this time the fans ed that Baby Ray was fight- ing a losing battle but he kept on. The boxers worked around to a neutral corner and Blackwell janded a straizht right. to the olar plexus and Rey want down! for the count. He was picked up by his sec- fonds and by Blackwell's seconds ond carried to lis corner. SHe was tout for about 10 minutes. Bob Spottswood was the eree. The opening event of the show | was a battle royal by five colored boys, who gave a fair exhibition. The first bout was between ng Sawyer and Young Rus- draw resulted. g Rivas and Young Jew ry batiled next, with Harry g2'ning the decision. Yeung Smitty and Kid ~Lones | tangled up in the third set-to. ; Lones knoeked out Smitty in the {third round. Smitty lost a tooth. It was a very good fight while it lasted. Joe Soldano gained a technical knockout decision in the fourth round over Kid Garcia. Garcia started out like a house afire and kept it up for twg rounds. He tired and Soldano got the best of him from then until Referee Jack- son stopped the fight. H In the semin-finals, “Bobby Waugh and Kid Pelican, who have fought each other 100 times, gave | another good exhibition of the art of self defense. Harry Sylvester refereed for three rounds and Ernest Hemingway the other three. At the end of the fight Mr. Hem- ingway raised the hand of Bobby | Waugh as the winner. The American Levion wishes to | thank the fans and anyone else j who helped to make the-show the \ grand success that it was. [RESEARCHERS PLAY HEALTH TEN TODAY ref- This afternoon at Bayview, Park the Research Department ten will | play the Sanitary Department out- | rit in the final game of the week } for the Social League. ee The, contest ,willstart..at.. five o'clock, : ees j Stowers tried to keep Mr. Sands claims. However, Mr.| “Bayview” are scheduled to play Swinky Swanky still managed to} this afternoon at Stowers Park. beat Mr. Sands by a nose and also | The teams were organized un- by a couple of nays. {der the supervision of the recrea- 2 | tion section of the local WPA or- Mr. Lionel Plummer cannot} ganization, and a great deal of in- FOR SALE Johnny Mack Brown in —— LLEY OF LAWLESS BIDS WANTED_—Bids wilt bel YAUAEY OF THE Serial and Comedy ; considered on purchase of 2-story house on lot 45x120/§ Matinee: 5-10c; Night: 10-15¢ and separate lot 650x120 on ; Caroline street between Eli- zabeth and William streets; also lot corner Seidenberg Ave- nue and 7th Street. Bids close 10 o’clock A. M. Monday, March 23, as owner leaving city. Chas. W. Sawyer, 419 Duval strect. mar16-6t 40 SPRING HENS at $1.00 each| for the lot. 1902 Seidenberg Avenue. mar18-4tx PRINTING—Quality Printing at) the Lowest Prices. The Art man Press. TYPEWRITING PAPER — 500 Key West aug? conceal his whereabouts. He and Charlie Ketchum started an argu- ment on number one tee. It did not end until Mr. Plummer got into his automobile to go home.! Charlie looked at the fast depart-| AT ing car and said, “Mr. Plummer, you are still wrong.” But of course by this time Li was out of ‘argufying’ distance. Grandpa Bob; the boys: straight but it was too much of 8! There will be a doubleheader of job. The scores seem to run 94/,,seball Sunday afternoon at the for Charlie, 95 for Li and 96 for | Navy Field. 3. R. In the opening game of the new- ly-organized league, the Acevedo Mr. Bascom Grooms was out! Stars will meet the White Star playing against Freddy Ayala, the| Cleaners, and in the nightcap the sartorial expert, but as usual was| White Stars will play the Key unable to make any great im-} West nine. pression 6n Fred’s score. As bal- raiser will get last they had the Woods twins,} way at 1:30 o’clock sharp. Clump and Thicket although part of the time it was only high grass they were in. jterest has been created in the ; two teams. A large crowd is ex- pected to witness the game this afternoon. under ;part is Bill Malone, who was helping Samuella Goldsmith hold Ss ae the Willie-Otto gang to a tie, Louis Cruickshank and Earl Ju-| made more strokes than anybody lian had a comparatively easy time} else. Bill says that he cannot get taking’ Cookie Mesa and Ammy the game of golf straight. When Hewett. Of course, Cookie let his; he played baseball the, idea was to score on the first round get away; make as many as possible. Along} from him. Most of that was due| comes the same sort of a game} to the eight on number three hole; (only different) and Bill says the} and the seven on the eighth hole. better player you are the fewer} And when you get just two pars|times you hit the ball. He says in the day, you can’t shoot anyj the game was invented by a bunch 89. of Scotchmen anyway and in order “ not to wear out the feather ball Doc Willie Percival Kemp had ‘the idea was to hit it fewest times. his pal Charlie Salas for a part-| Therefore the guy who hit the ner and Charlie had a brand new | most wore the ball out the soon- set of wood clubs for a_ helper| est, the game cost him more and and together they started off with| therefore more pocket book ache. two points on the first hole, after! But that is not all that Bill said. Charlie got a birdie. From that/The rest is too sad to mention but time on Hurricane Eddie Strunk | the inventor of the game, if he and William Curry Harris were} isn’t in heaven now, he never will unable to head the opposition in-!be if the Lord was listening to to anything near a tie. Eddie had|him (Bill). his revenge tho. He got five} ae skins, Chas, four and Willie three. | | If the Kemp guy doesn’t get re- OVER-SEA HOTEL paired. 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