The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 15, 1936, Page 3

MURDER BY LAURENCE SYNOPSIS: Inspector _ Hylton from Scotland Yard, and Sergeant ‘White of Hope Enderton. just have completed an inspection of Squire Burdett's deserted and forbidding old mansion. Burdett has been mur- dered, and most of the village ts secretly rather pleased that the old miser has been done in. Lumsdale, the only man Hylton yet has exam- ined, apparently has an air-tight alibi—although he #8 a curiously truculent individual, Lumsdale és Burdstt’s only servant, ; Chapter 11 NEW THEORY ‘HERE was, of course, a good deal of resret ove: the murder expressed superficially, and when- ever men or women met the worn out phrases automatically rose to their lips: “shocking ... awful. #. dreadful ... bad business up at the Court . . .” and so on; but no one was really sorry. Arthur Burdett had no friends in Hope Enderton, nor indeed any- where else; and he had quite a num- ber of potential enemies, for a good score of the cottages in the village belonged to him, and he was the absolute pattern and exemplar of all that a landlord, even in his own interests, should not be. There was a school of thought, regarded almost as disloyal by the vast majority of the villagers, that the crime was committed by some- one outside Enderton altogether, a stranger who had nothing to do with the place. This possibility was urged by Sergeant White when he called round, by order, to see the Inspector at the Hoops the morning after their first visit to Enderton Court, Kingsley Hylton kad just polished off two eggs and an outsize rasher of Wiltshire bacon and was sipping his extremely hot, though far from excellent, coffee. He lit one of his long thin cigars and pushed his case towards the Sergeant. White smiled, “No thanks sir. That one yesterday nearly did for me.” “You find them a bit strong? Well, 1 suppose they are. They help you to think, you know, especially if you've got a slow brain like mine. What makes you imagine that it’s somebody outside the village?” “I only say it may be sir.” “It’s a possibility, but how “And the last few days I've seen @ couple of rough characters on the roads that didn’t belong here.” “Tramps?” “That class sir.” “Um. Your theory is then: a tramp comes up the door to beg, forces his way in, kills the old man, grabs a handful out of the safe and disappears. “Its possible sir.” “AN things are possible.” “And, of course, as like as not anyone begging on the roads would have heard some talk about Mr. Burdett being a miser and having something worth while up there.” “Um. Let's go and see what sort of a night friend Lumsdale had.” some- OWEVER sweet the quality of friend Lumsdale’s slumber it had not served to soften in any way the pawkiness of his humor and the hardly short of truculence of his bearing. He uttered a short, derisive laugh when he heard the Sergeant's theory. “And ‘ow would this tramp of yours get in, Sergeant?” he asked. “Mr. Burdett would think it was you knocking at the door and go and open it.” “And when he saw it was some- one he didn't know, he'd ask him to supper I suppose? “A tramp might have forced his way in.” “Against the chain?” Lumsdale shook his head. “No, Sergeant. That's just exactly what the old skin-flint had the door put on the chain for each time.” Hylton was inclined to agree with sthis. Sergeant White, however, was , Bot entirely convinced, and he begged leave to prosecute a few en- quiries on his own account. “My dear fellow,” Hylton urged him in a humorous outburst, “prose- cute all the enquiries you like. Don’t think I mind overzealous subordi- nates. I love ’em.” White smiled unabashed, and dis- appeared about his business, and the Inspector devoted himself to an even more thorough examination of the room of the tragedy. It seemed clear that entrance had been gained by the door, for all the windows were securely fastened and bolted on the inside and had been so, ac cording to both Lumsdale and the Sergeant, on the night of the mur der, The noise of a car on the drive outside told the Inspector that the man he was waiting for had arrived; and presently the Chief Consiable of the County was shown into the Toom by Lumsdale. TONIGHT WwW. MEYNELL Major Thorpe was a man cast In the traditional mould of the Regular Army officer. Well-set up, spruce and evidently as fit at sixty as most men at forty-five. He was a little hot-tempered but perfectly just, and although a strict disciplinarian was popular with his men. Hylton talked with him for ten minutes or so without adding ap- preciably to his meagre knowledge, except to learn from the county criminal investigation department what he already feared, that the fatal club bore no decipherable fin- ger prints. “Pretty cold scent, eh?” Major Thorpe asked. The Inspector laughed. “It very often is, you know,” he said easily. “People have an idea that murder- ers invariably leave handkerchiefs behind with obligingly tell-tale laun- dry marks, but as a matter of fact they don't. The distressing truth is that most detective work consists of laborious questioning, usually of the wrong people.” “Well thank God you've got the job and not me,” the Major said piously, “I’ve lost a day's shooting | over the thing already. Good luck to you.” “Thauks. | suppose you can let me have two men up here all the | time to keep :ndesirables away?” “You can have all the men you want Mr. Hylton, just let me know and I'll fix it. Do you want a car?” “No, not a car. I'll just ferret about in my own way. Hylton smiled, enigmatically this time he hoped. He had no more idea than the man in the moon where the expected solution was coming from, but he kept that under his hat. IVE minutes after the Major's departure, Hylton was walking back briskly toward the Hoops. He was not yet unduly worried by the almost complete absence of clues. There was no truer saying in the world, he was convinced, than “murder will out.” Your murderer has to go home some time. Inspector Kingsiey Hylton al ready regarded the outwardly friendly and placid village of Hope Enderton as a secretive and hostile world, presenting a hundred false faces to him, lying with a hundred honeyed tongues. It was lunch time when he got back to the Hoops, and a meal was laid for bim in the small back room already reserved for his private use. Edward Perry brought in a jar of pickles as an agreeable adjunct to the excellent cold beef. “Pickles sir?” “Good.” It took Perry a full minute to put the pickle jar on the table to his exact liking. “They do say, sir,” he blurted out at last, “that the old man’s head was that knocked about you wouldn't recognize it, and that there’s over five thousand pounds missing from the house.” Hylton swallowed a_ succulent piece of beef and replied equably “Quite a considerable body of people also say that the earth is not round, but flat.” a reply which momen- tarily nonplussed the good Perry. “Quite so, sir, quite so, sir,” he said coloring slightly. “Perhaps you'll ring if you want anything further.” The Inspector undertook to do this, but as a noble Stilton cheese, weighing about sevea pounds, stood on the sideboard the question of ringing did not arise. Kingsley Hyltor was still e: ploridg the Stilton when the front door of his little room was burst open, and a wiry figure with the thin gaitered legs of the horsemen and @ green hat came unceremoni- ously in. “You this detective fellow?” he asked explosively. “Which detective fellow?” Hyl- ton replied. “Have some cheese?” “No, Damn the cheese, The ‘man looking after this murder business at the Court.” . “That’s my job at the moment.” “Right. My name’s Reeves, Cap- tain Patrick Reeves of Ferney House and I might as well tell you that I was at the Court on the after- noon of last Monday and saw old Burdett there. What are ye going to do about it?” Hylton had placed one of his long | cigars in his mouth and was search- ing vainly for a light, “Have you go. a match, Captain?” he asked. Reeves seemed annoyed rather than otherwise by this reception of his declaration of war, and he very ungraciously pulled out a box of matches and threw it onto the table, (Copyright, 1936, Laurence W. 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(Special to The ©! em) NEW YORK, July 15.—The St.j ; Louis Cardinals went to victor; ever helecookiyn (pdccrs, wile ‘the Chicago Cubs defeated HARD-FOUGHT CONTEST »| ante 2 A hard-fought and exciting ’ the} Administration defeated Com- 3 i New York Giants to keep ahead ; game wili be played today at) (+ the Redbirds. jmodity Room yesterday,.9 to-4) Bayview Park when the Stowers} he Pittsburgh Pirates won int ‘ipl hile th ark and Sanitary Department from the Boston Bees, and the, ° 8° to Second place while vhe mee determine which team! Phillies downed the Cincinnati’ Commodity boys are safely rest- meet to 5 ly cha ispute: ssi — 2 eball shold) undiaputed||anbasession | 2077 2 American League, the ne in the cellar: of first place. OS | : Bos-| In the very first frame the Of- fice outfit went into the | Cleveland Indians beat the The last contest these two clubs ton Red Sox, and the Athletics game payed resulted in| many argu-! won from the Tigers, while the é ietarauned 5 ERE Is " Senators came with a determination to win. ments, causing the fracas to be! W gton Senators came out - : ‘victorious over the St. Louis They scored four runs on two held up at various sta In the; H - | Browns. walks, two hits, two wild pitches cighth the contest was halted un-|” ‘There was no other game play- til another umpire could be found. ! ed in the American League. The f nal score was 7 to 6 in fay-| The summaries: or of the Health nine, NATIONAL LEAGUE The game ‘today will be called} At P:ttsburgh R. H. E. 5 op. m | Boston ais Aneto ey? The line-ups will be: | Pittsburgh Beet ee ceasecises qj Sanitary Department i —-— : ( and one error. | The Commodity club came back iin their half of the first scored two runs on threq hits and a wild pitch, In the second frame. the and Ad- p, Ministration added one more and Hale, 8b; At Cincinnati 1S 5 Philadelphia 9 12 4 another in the third. They dupli- fs Cincinnati 8 10 8jeated this scoring in the seventh Molina, If; ' ——— and eighth innings, bringing the Griffin, 1b; | At St. Louis R. H. E. total to total runs. F. Lopez, 2h; ; Brooklyn 7 9 4) The Commodity outfit added C. Sands, ef; St. Louis = 11 16 0 cne more in the fifth, and one in M. Hernandez, ss; | — ithe seventh. Poor base running Ward, p. 4 oe! At Chicago R. If. E./on the part of the losers stopped Gates will be held in reserve) yo york lk 1 7 them from scoring at least four to pitch and Arias for Omer” Ghicags 6 13 more runs. Two runners were duty. i | i ee ‘thrown out at the plate and two Ane | AMERICAN LEAGUE f ‘at third, and at least a couple at Sunihee ihe | At Boston R, II, E. second. Renee \ | Cleveland d a seaivace 12 2; M. Tynes seeurea two hits in Titan oe Boston 1 3 © three times at the plate. J. Vil- PARK JUNIORS | DOWNED CUBS GOT REVENGE FOR DEFEAT Point, N. Y., ix and took the OF DAY BEFORE; SCORE, 8-6 | Bayview Park Juniors got sweet ' | i | | |revenge yesterday when they de-! |feated the Young Cubs, 14 to 6. first to down the Park the latter team’s last 12 games. It was a good contest after the first inning. boys The score was tied in the sixth S. Griffin hit a double and two singles, and Collins conneted for a triple. Score by innings: | Young Cubs— { 400 000 002 Bayview Park— 300 001 40x—8 14 Batteries: Sawyer and C. Ros- am; A. Griffin and Torres. R. H. E ‘Today Ss Horoscope Today's is a sympathetic ture, fond of home and parents, with a secretive, sensitive disposi- ition and a certain lack of energy, the if born in certain parts of jday. The characters blend wv the general tendencies of the | or the following days, if the native :is born in the earlier or the later j hours, past derful running catch in the ninth on a hit by Lowe. 1 S. Stickney was touched for leight safeties in five inni | Score by innings: E | Administration — 411 000 120—9 12 1 ; Commodity Room | 00 010 100—4 & | Batterie: M. Tynes and Car !bonell; C. Stickney, J. Villareal and O. Pita. Standing of the league: The Cubs, a new club, was the’ M frame. Then in their half the! Park nine scored four runs to win the game, as_ results later on proved. ! 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Goss, Rob- | Sanitary Department 2 1 Stanley, rf; | Detroit 2 erts and Carbonell got two out of! Stowers Park 21 Hpkins, ¢; | Philadelphia 10 five. iS Administration ae a, GhAUes, Te ane | Frank Stickney made a won-|Commodity Room 1 Floyd, areal, Woodson and) At Washington R. —- - oe ee a Jasper Walker will be in reserve }St. Louis ... 3 in case of a pinch. Washington 13 No other games played. TODAY’S GAMES | AMERICAN LEAGUE H A AMERICAN LEAGUE aoe yee ee ‘0 at Washington, i New York 205 527 A663" = x A q sj{ St. Louis at Boston. Detroit . 44 36 550 Sees Boston 43 39 524, Detroit at New York. | Washington, 4d 87) bdp |e) evnendy at ee bliadelohia : Cleveland 44 38 .587 NATIONAL LEAGUE hi 39 40 .494) Boston at Chicago. Philad 51 Brooklyn at Cincinnati, St. Louis we 25 51 New York at Pittsburgh. } Philadlephia at St. Louis. i NATIONAL LEAGUE ' Club— JOHN C. PARK St. Louls ea oS if 328 SIMONTON sr. 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