The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 13, 1936, Page 3

SO TOSCDDIER SET OCESESCEES CLASSIFIED LEGALS NeTH ® ve CREDITex~ ik THE Corer: sence 1 ak, Fem Boxmee COMMODITY ROOM VS. STOWERS NINE MURDER TONIGHT BY LAURENCE W. MEY NELL av on NT Ne ares is Meerm rene te ceiontanee wa SP ’ I ; I S lbp he rd to iielp Sergeant James White on the | contained two large old-fashion Burdett murder. Burdett was the most hated man in Hope Enderton, 4 miser, cruel and given to casting leers at women although he was considerably past seventy. Nobody is sorry to have him murdered, which complicates the case a good deal. There are half a dozen who might very well have done the job. Chapter Eight GRISLY SCENE YLTON was pleased to find that White could match his more} 4. uncanny, flickering light over | 1 i |ST. LOUIS LOSES DOUBLE-| 4 than four miles an hour with ap- parent ease. The pair swung along in great style. The Inspector broke the silence with one of his unexpected queries. “Where were you educated. White?” A query which elicited per- haps as unexpected a reply. “Shrewsbury.” “I suppose you thought my voice and all that was a cut above the average board school product?” “Well, yes, to be candid, I did.” “Thanks for the discerning com- pliment. But I’m not the Public School type either, Inspector. | got there by accident really. My people weren’t gentle born. They got a bit of money suddenly and had ideas, that’s all. Sending me to Shrews- bury was one of them.” “Not a bad idea either.” James White laughed his easy, agreeable laugh. “Well, I don’t know. If you've got | to earn your living in the world I'm js he thing not at all sure it’s such an unmixed.) tenvorderst. and presently t | | on ible was shown up in a com- blessing.” After a silence Hylton said. “You don’t return the comply by be- ing curious about mé: “I try not to be curious about am body except in an official capacity,” White answered pleasantly, and the Inspector laughed aloud. He had ac- quired what seemed to be an outsize in raspberries served in as unof- fending a manner as might be im- agined. He was beginning to like Police Sergeant White immensely. “Here we are, inspector. Ender- ton Court. This is the back drive, our nearest way. There is a front way with a Lodge to it.” “Anyone in the Lodge?” “A man called Lawson and his family. People say that Burdett only let him stay there because Lawson was blackmailing him, but that’s all rot. The truth is Lawson had to pay a thumping high rent for the place and Burdett was there every Monday morning to collect it in person.” They had passed along the dark and lonely back drive now, and could see the unfriendly lump of the house against the star-studded sky. “Biggish place,” Hylton said. “Yes. Mostly shut up now, though. That you, Edwardes?” A uniformed figure moved in the darkness of the back porch. “That's right Sergeant.” The Sergeant switched on a pow- erful torch and showed a long, cold- looking passage. “That's the gun room on the right, or what used to be the gun room, so they say; noth- ing in it now; and all the kitchen quarters are beyond that baize door.” “What about putting a light on?” Hylton suggested. White laughed. “Arthur Burdett never paid to have electric light put in here, believe me sir,” he said. “There is an oil lamp or two in the place, but nothing more. This way for the hall Inspector.” INGSLEY HYLTON looked about the hall. “Fine staircase,” he said. “Yes sir, a good staircase. Here's the room, a sort of a study place.” They crossed over the bare floor of the hall and the-Sergeant, pro- ducing a key from ‘his pocket, un- locked the door. “The Chief Constable left—er— it here for you to see Inspector,” he: announced over his shoulder. “Very kind of the Chief Consta- ble,” Hylton murmured. “D'you mean to say this is all the light the old chap ever had?” “A good deal more than he had,” | 84! the Sergeant assured him, “half a candle was good enough for Arthur Burdett, let alone two oil lamps.” Hylton grunted. Two flickering il lamps was not his idea of ideal illuminati with which to inspect +the scene of a murder. He had viewed quite a number of murdered men and this was the first time that he had ever felt queer about it. The room was on the small side and almost square. The door en- tered it from one corner. The walls were practically bare and the paper, which showed several large patches of damp, was peeling off in half a eel director of the American Social at Today’ s Birthdays’ Dr. Mary E. Woolley, retiring; windows over which the curtains, motheaten and dirty, were now drawn. In the middle of the left hand wall was a rather fine old fireplace which had evidently had no fire in it for long enough. Towards the centre of the room, but rather neare to the win?ows than the exact centre, was a round mahogany table and near it a cheap chair of the ordinary kitchen kind. | everything stood one at either end of the mantleshelf. Between them | and minus one of its hands. ton asked when he had taken all this in. “Hardly a thing, sir.” “How many people have been in since it happened?” “Lumsdale and myself, of course, and the doctor and the Chief Con- stable. That’s all | think.” “Nothing been taken out | brought in?” | “Only the sheet Inspector.” Hylton’s eyes travelled slowly | back again to the principal adorn- | ment of the room, a humped-up, or over the table. “Take the sheet off, White,” he said, “and let's have a look. Care- fully.” carried out the order. “Fetch one of those lamps,” Hyl- | parative intensity of yellow light. INGSLEY HYLTON stared at it for a long time without speak- ing, indeed without moving. Then, very cautiously, he stretched out his hand and taking hold of a lock or two of the still plentiful hair pulled the head up slightly. “Rigor’s gone off, of course,” he said, half to himself. “A pretty use- ful sort of bash, Sergeant.” James White, studying afresh the ugly looking dent in the forehead, running down into the eyebrow, part of which seemed to be torn away, and thickly clotted all over with | dried blood, was inclined to agree. “Yes, a hard smack sir.” “Quite enough to kill a man, I suppose?” “Doctor Chambers said he didn’t think it would have killed a younger man, not outright; but apparently Mr. Burdett suffered with his heart, and he died from the shock as much as anything.” “Um. What the deuce makes a man’s head-weight so heavy Ser- geant? All the brains, do you sup- pose?” Sergeant White couldn’t say. Hylton let the heavy head go gently back into its resting place. Somehow he took the disquieting fancy that it did not go there gladly. It was as though the fierce, sav- agely self-centred spirit who had dignantly anxious to take up pos- session again. “Time was when the brains being dashed out a man would die and there an end of it,” the Inspector said reflectively. “But those were the good old times. Nowadays the brains being out is only the begin- ning of the matter. The question is who did the dashing? This is what did it apparently.” “That's right sir,” Sergeant White wooden club that lay on a sheet of of a pair sir, you'll see the other on dows.” The Inspector looked at the indi- eated spot and nodded. job.” “No sir.” { ése" clubs were here.” “Well, it might be that sir.” “Hallo, what's that?” White strode to the door to investi- te. “It’s Andrew Lumsdale Inspec- tor,” he announced, reappearing in the room. “Good. Bring him in.” “Rough looking devil,” was Hyl- close cropped, almost convict-like the room. The two lamps which shed such | was a clock with its glass broken | “Anything been touched?” Hyl- sheeted thing slouched in a huddle | Somewhat gingerly the Sergeant | been so rudely dispossessed of his i clay house was hovering near, in- ; said with assurance, as the Inspec: | tor picked up and examined a heavy | paper by the side of the table. “One | a nail on the wall between the win- i “Doesn’t-look like a premeditated | Unless it was someone who knew | There was a noise in the hall and | ton’s first thought as he studied the { BY JOVE } ‘CUBS SPLIT WITH GIANTS) HEADER TO BROOK- LYN DODGERS (Special te The Citizens NEW YORK, July 13.—The | Chicago Cubs and the New mal !Giants split a doubleheader, while! the St. Louis Cardinals Grouped) ja two game affair to the Brook-/ lyn Dodg. The Zoston Bees defeated the} | Pittsbury-h Pirates and the Phil-| lies divided honors in a twin bill 'with the Cincinnati Reds. ; In the Amercan League, {Cleveland Indians downed the/ Boston Red Sox, while the De-! treit Tigers went to victory over | the Athletics. The C! and jsplit a doubleheader, suis Browns def on Senators. The summaries: ! NATIONAL LEAGUE 1 At Pittsbirgh R. H. E.j i Boston _..... 12 1} j Pittsburzh { the, the Yankees} and the St. d the Wash-/} First Game At Cincinnati Philadelphia Cincinnati — } Second Game , At Cincinnati Philadelphia Cincinnati 9 First Game ! At St. Louis . Bt Brooklyn 2 St. Louis 3} Second Game At St. Louis E. j Brooklyn .... : 5 2 St. Louis - : 1 First Game At Chicago New York Chicago New Chicago AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston ROA | Cleve.and —o4k Bo:ton ee ae i At Philadelphia Detroit ois | Philadelphia _... First Game | At New York > Chicago 0 ;New York 0 Second Game At New York a: Chicago - 0 New York “ abe | At Washington | St. Louis ... Washington TODAY’S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at New York. Louis at W: Detroit at Washington. Cleveland at Boston. NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston at Pittsburgh. Brooklyn at St. Louis. New York at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. | 0 head and the surly expression of the | man who followed the Sergeant into | Andrew Lumsdale was a power. | fully built man of, between forty and fifty. (Copyright, 1936, Laurence W. Meynell) Hygiene Association, iQuicy, Ill, 62 years ago. born Carl E. Milliken, secretary of president of Mount Holyoke Col-jthe Motion Picture Producers and born at JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA Sve Sorgen me nee reer j to give j remainder | All-Stars ) St. E.! ‘COCONUTS WON DOUBLEHEADER HERE SUNDAY’ ;DEFEAT=ED GOODYEAR IN CPENER, 1 TO 0; TOOK FIN-| AL GAME FROM ALL-STARS, 9TO6 club Navy The Coconuts’ baseball won a doubleheader at the Field yesterday afternoon. The from the opene Goodyear nine by the lseore' fo 1 to 0. Malgrat pitched for the lose and pulled the iron-man stunt of hurling the second game, also. John the victors, Adams, on the mound for twirled an almost perfect game allowing no runs and gi y, a sin- Alonso to left field in the struck out ing up a lone fifth. He also batters. Ma_grat ‘allowed in this game and R. Valdes threw the the Coconuts nine; but five fanned thr ball their hits run. Score by innings: rxconuts . 000 001 0—1 Goodyear 000 000 0—0 1 2 Batte : Adams and V. Dean; Malgrat and Soldano. the Coconuts in the firs: 9 to 6. In the nightcap, defeated the Ail-Star of a five-game serie: Malgrat was hit hard in this contest, but not until the last frame did he weaken enough t« how that he for the day Was concerned. In the ninth he was for a couple of singles, snd a triple that produced thre uns, broke a 6 to 6 tie and gave ; ' vietory to the poposition. Storr relieved Adams in tho ning and did not allow th: a hit or,a run through the of the game. With two doubles, a triple and. as pitching r as touched} was the star at bat. Score by innings: R. H. E. Coconuts 200 103 008—9 15 2 002 040 000—6 5 7 Batteries: J. Adams, Storr and F. Dean, V. Dean; Malgrat and Gabriel. ‘LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN. LEAGUE Club— New York .. Detroit Boston Cleveland Chicago Philadelphi Louis . NATIONAL LEAGUE Club— Ww. i. St. Louis Chicago _. | Pittsburgh .... | Cincinnati iNew York =... t | Boston | Philadely Brooklyn y Make Dollars Biqger | SWE carry Carey Roofings and Shingles in styles «and varieties suitable for every building, from the fine residence to the small poul- try house. These roofs, made ‘by a manufacturer with over 60 years of successful ex- “perience, cost no more than ordinary roofings. That’s why your dollar gtows when you buy roo! contest was taken; about finished | © a double! FOLLOWING THROUGH Our friend, Mario Pena, left} {by plane for Hollywood, Fla., to ‘play first base with the Holly- wood state champions in the East [coast League. Mickey Ubieta is iplaying short and Ludy Acosta is centerfielder on the same club. iThe writer hopes |good. Others boys like Sterling, jAlbury, Higgs, McCarthy, Hale, j Acevedo and others could make igood away from here if they were: lgvien a chance. | The Miami Herald of Sunday, jJuly 12, carried an article in the | port section which shows that Cheta Baker won the majority of} honors in the Miami City League. | jHe was at top in runs batted in| j With 11, most triples with three, {most doubles with five and total | bases, 28. He was second in hits j with 19, runs scored 14. He was; also at bat more than any other player in the league with 60 times; up. He was the leading shortstop | :pleyer in the league. He finish- led the first-half with an averaze | lof .316. Gopher Gonzalez also} . 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