The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 27, 1936, Page 3

MONDAY, JULY 27, 1986. MURDER BY LAURENCE SYNUPSIS. 1 may very well be Lumsdale, old Arthur Burdett’s ‘manservant, who killed the old miser, But now, after a little con- versation with Dale Shipley’s housekeeper while Dale is riding with the hunt, Inspector Hylton inclined to think st may have been Dale. The truth is that almost any- body in Hope Enderton might have done it, and might have had reason to do it. Now Hylton is talking to the Reeves’ maid, and what he hears of Shipley’s lateness at their dinner on the night of the murder seems suspicious. Chapter 21 NEW CLUE *\70. Mr. Shipley he didn’t come for another five minutes, and Cook and me nearly busting our- selves trying to keep the soup hot.” “I suppose when he did turn up Mr. Shipley looked as though he’d hurried a bit?” ‘1 The maid considered. did look a bit put out, finally, and the Inspector, watching er closely, shook his head; so far she had been in the realm of ag- grieved fact and was reliable; his last question had opened up vistas of being able to establish connection with the village-shaking business up at the Court. Hylton knew from bitter experience of her sort what fantastic realms of sheer invention she would be capable of embarking on with only the slightest encour- agement. He decided to leave well alone and withdrew. He turned out of the drive and had not gone very far down the road when he met Mrs. Reeves walking her horse slowly home. She smiled pleasantly at him. “Had a spill?” he asked. “No. Coconut overreached badipy and I had to bring him back. Sick- ening wasn’t it? They're having one of the best runs ever. What hap- pened to you?” “It was too hot for me,” Hylton ‘laughed, “I just had to drop out.” She nodded and smiled again in her attractive way and they parted. Hylton kicked his old horse into a trot and went back to the Hoops. Sergeant White was waiting for him there. Presently—the worthy old hack being disposed of—they were closeted together in Hylton’s private sitting room. “Got anything to tell me?” Hylton asked. “Yes sir, | have got something, though I don’t know whether it means anything or not.” “Just one minute, Sergeant. Walk over to that door behind you and poke your head into the billiard room, will you?” White did as he was bid. “Nobody there, sir,” he said a trifle surprised. “Good, People who play billiards sometimes have long ears. Go ahead.” “It’s this sir.” The Sergeant pro- duced a small square of yellow card- board from his pocket and put it carefully on the table. “Edwardes found it. He’s our man on the back door at the Court. He was going off duty the other day and took a short cut across the bit of grass in front of the window—” “The window of the room where it happened?” “Yes sir. A few yards away from the window he saw this and picked it up.” ERC EtON very gingerly took up . the exhibit and studibd it. The cardboard had been folded in half down the middle and had lost some- thing of its pristine freshness, but all the printing on it was still per- fectly iegivie. Luxor Hairdressing Saloon. Specialists in Ladies’ Coiffeurs. Setting & Waving a specialty. Appointment Card Time. 2.30 Monday Jan. 18th. Telephone Morchester 61. Please bring this card with you. “2.30 Monday Jan 18th,” he said re- flectively. “Go to the telephone just outside, Sergeant, ring up More chester 61 and ask who it was who booked an appointment for 2.30 last Monday.” “Right-o sir.” Hylton drew out one of his thin black cigars and lit it carefully. A woman in the case? He wondered. “Did you get them?” “Yes sir; they were quite forth. coming about it, told me straight out.” “And who was it?” ee: Reeves of Ferney House sir.” The Inspector took the cigar out of his mouth and gave a long, low whistle. “Mrs. Reeves, eh?” he said. “Wife of Captain Reeves—there seems to be a devil of a lot in this business we haven't begun to get hold of yet, ‘White.” ' The Inspector left the Hoops quickly and was over at Enderton (Court as fast as his long legs could take him; he had decided to have a TONIGHT W. MEYNELL few plain words with Andrew Lumsdale before golng on to see Mrs. Reeves. He found Lumsdale in the kitch- en, sitting down to a generous high tea and reading the paper. “afternoon Lumsdale.” “How do.” Lumsdale slowly masticated his last mouthful of food and eyed his visitor in silent and defensive spec- ulation. low let me see,” the Inspector went on briskly. “Last Monday: when you went in by ‘bus to More chester you went straight from the bus to the cinema didn’t you?” “That's it.” “Without calling anywhere en route?” “Ah went straight to t’pictures.” Hylton leaned back and said quite pleasantly, “You may not like to be told so, Lumsdale, but you're a liar. You went straight from the bus to the Post Office, didn’t you?” The brooding blank eyes looked at him steadily, the lantern jaws moved steadily, but the man said nothing. “You went to the Post Office, didn’t you, Lumsdale?” “Ah might have gone to get a few stamps, ah forget.” “True you might have gone to get some stamps, and if that were all you might have forgotten about it. But it wasn’t all, and you haven’t | forgotten. You went in to get some- . thing from the General Delivery » where you are known by the name of Langley—that’s so, isn’t it?” UMSDALE said nothing, but his 4? steady ‘atal aggressively confident. “And what's more, in the name of Langley, you have been in the habit of getting small packages ! every month or so for a goodish time, haven’t you?” “Well, suppose I have, what of ates “Hylton leaned back and laughed softly. “You don’t know as much as you think you do, Lumsdale, that’s the trouble with your type,” he said. “Apparently you don’t know that it’s illegal to have a General Deliv- ery address in the same town as your ordinary postal address.” “Ah’m no lawyer.” “If you were you wouldn’t be such a damned fool, Lumsdale. You're in danger, and apparently you don’t realize it. You stood to benefit very considerably by Arthur Burdett’s death; you knew his habits; you ew. every detail about the house. We've only got your word for It, mind, that Arthur Burdett wasn’t alive when you came back on Mons day evening and dead when you went out to find the Sergeant.” “My word's as good as any man’s.” “Is it? When I look into what you tell me you were doing on Monday the first thing I find is a lie. Many a man has been arrested and held on less suspicion than that, Andrew Lumsdale.” “What do you want me to do?” “It isn’t what I want, my friend, it’s what the Law demands. The Law will find out who killed Arthur Burdett if it takes a year to do it. If you don’t want to be arrested on suspicion this afternoon, you better tell me now what all this Post Office business means and what was in those packages.” Andrew Lumsdale was silent for a full minute, and when he spoke it was in a very different tone of voice from the surly defensiveness he had used so far. “Look here, Mister,” he said, “I didn’t kill Arthur Burdett. 1 know as things look a bit black against me; I realized that from the start, but I never did it. In a way you may almost say 1 was fond of the old fool. All the same 'E don’t ‘see ‘why \ should get into trouble for some- thing as wasn’t on my plate as you may say, and that’s why I kept quiet about the Post Office business.” “Very few people have got into trouble by telling the Police the truth,” the Inspector said drily. “All right then.” Lumsdale drew a key from his trouser pocket, crossed the kitchen and unlocked drawer in the old fashioned dresser, He rummaged about with both hands for half a minute and even- tually brought out a collection of photographic postcards and these he threw down in a heap on the table in front of the Inspector. “That's what came in the pack- ages,” he said. Kingsley Hylton picked up half a” dozen of the photographs and etud- ied them slowly, a curious conflict im ais mind. Principally he was thinking how true it is that with human nature you never can tell what will happen. (Copyright, 1936, Laurence W. Megnsil) Hylton feeds the flames, tomore row. “lIndians divided honors in a two-/and Bolton, Mi “| Mungo and Berres, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS CHICAGO SPLITS -- |LEAGUE STANDINGS WITH PHILLIES: | cecostervescos Elub— WwW OG New York 62 Cleveland 53 Boston 52 Detroit Chicago ... Washington . Philadelphia {St. Louis i Peti -660 +558 1547 2533 1522 | Fe BY JOVE | | | BUCS LOSE TWO CARDINALS DIVIDE HONORS IN TWIN BILL WITH BEES; YANKEES TAKE TWO CON. TESTS FROM CHISOX +52 333 326 | H | NATIONAL LEAGUE (Special to The Citisen) Club— WT NEW YORK, July 27.—The Chicago 33 Chicago Cubs split a doublehead- | St, Louis . er with the Phiilies, while the St.!New York ........ ‘Louis Cardinals divided honors in| Pittsburgh a twin bill with the Boston Bees. | Cincinnati... The Cincinnati Reds and the} Bostoa New York Giants also split a Philadciphia 3 doubleheader, and the Brooklyn’ Brooklyn... is 363 | Dodgers took two games from; the Pittsburgh Pirates. ilies; Hogsett, Liebhardt and In the American League, the liani. ‘New York Yankees took _ both| games of a doubleheader from thei Second Game Chisox, and the Washington Sena-; At St. Louis ors split with the St. Louis’ Washington rowns, j St. Louis The Athletics Cleveland; Batteri 506 Giu- RHE: “8: T 2 ~9 @ +t om, Appleton Van Atta, and ply affaic, and the Boston Red Thomas and Giuliani. {Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers. | The summaries: | NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game York First Game At Cleveland _ {Philadelphia R. H. EF.’ Cleveland een O62 410 0, Batte Ross and Hayes; -5 12 1) Harder, Hildebrand, Feller and Brennan | Sullivan. Castle. | | Rk. 13 IL. E. 20 0 At New Cincinnati New: York ...... Batteries: Derrinjer, and Lombardi; Hubbell, man and{ Mancuso. Second Game At Cleveland | Philadelphia ......... R. H. E.| Cleveland 2 -5 10 1, Batteries: Rhodes and 2 - 210 1) Allen and Pytiak. Batterie: Hollingsworth and! Campbell; Gabler, Cofiman, Schu- ! ;macher and Mancuso. Second Game At New York Cincinnati New York 0 At Detroit R. H. E. Boston <a. 410 13) O | Detroit ars Batteries: W. Ferrel and R. Fer- rell; Auker, Lawson, Kimsey and ‘Hayworth, Myatt. eats A 2h O: 71 Haines and Davis,! Bush, Chaplin and) First Game At Brooklyn Pittsburgh Brooklyn Batter 51 A cee 6 3 Lucas and Padden eo Second Game At Brooklyn Pittsburgh Brooklyn ‘Batteries: Hoyt and Finney; Gautreaux, Berres, First Game At Boston St. Louis - Boston Batter Ogrodow: Lopez.’ R. H. E Second Game | At Boston R. H: E.: St. Louis sii 1{ Boston et oe 5 11 2) Batter J. Dean and Davis; | Cantwell, Lanning, Reis and Mueller. i First Game At Philadelphia Chicago ; Philadelphia Batterie: and Hartnett; Walter wood. 0} 0; Henshaw and At} Second Game At Philadelphia Chicago Philadelphia ~ Batteries: Warneke and Qdea;} Bowman, Jorgens, E. Moore and Grace. : AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game At Chicago Ne . E. Broaca and Jorgens; Cain, Chelini, Evans and Sewell, Grube. | \ | { { } Second Game At Chicago |New York 1135 6 Chicago 814 a Batteries: Hadley, Malone and Glenn, Jorgens; Whitehead, C. Brown, Dietrich, Evans and Sew-, R. H. E. ! | YESTERDAY: TOOK | 1! -tpote, batting for J. 9 fanned. COCONUTS WON. ~~ CHAMPION SERIES, { DEFEATED ALL*STARS BY | SCORE OF 6. TO 4; WAS | GOOD GAME FROM START | To FINISH | | Coconuts won their — third} straight game yesterday afternoon: and are now champions of the} | It was a very good game from} start to finis i All the victors’ runs were scor- jed in two innings—four in the third and two in the eighth. | In the third canto, Suare |gled to right, was sacrificed to i by Gallagher. Albury; tripled to deep right field) Suarez | ored. MeGee fanned, A, Dean! hit to third, who made a wonder-} {ful stop and threw low to firs i and Albury scored. MelIntosh hit ‘the ball to deep left center for aj home run and A, Dean scored} ahead of him. Your four 1 sin-| ' second runs, hits and one error, | In the fifth the Molina singled to cen-| Carbonell also singled to! J. Carbonell fanned. Ca: | Stars scored jone run. Ps | center. iter. Roberts, sin-| Igled to right and Molina scored | ;Machin fanned. One three hits, no errors, | In the eighth the Coconuts, cored two more runs. A, Dean,| MeIntosh singled to cen-; ter. Gonzalez singled right. | V. Sands walked, Bases are full. ;V. Dean hit to second, who fum- run, to jand Soldano for the ‘one error, ‘but Machin fanned and {two singles in four times up. Al- COMMODITY ROOM 'NORMAN ARTMAN | VS. HEALTH NINE OUTSTANDING IN SOFTBALL GAME KEY WESTER KNOCKS HOME RUN AND TRIPLE; ATTAINS OTHER CREDITS IN GAME PLAYED IN NEW JERSEY This afternoon the Commodity Room will cross bats with the Sanitary Department. Batteries will be J. Villareal Commodity boys and C. Gates and Sawyer for the Healthers. The game will start at 5 p. m. sharp. ‘ Norman Artman, sor bled the ball. McIntosh and Gon-'and Mrs. L. P. Artman zalez scored. Suarez fanned. Two’ West, who is now summe runs, two hits and one error. New In the same frame the Stars came in for a whole ed three. Machin and Ga-'it in a softball briel went out on infield balls. A.! cently. Acevedo singled to right and A. Among his attain Rodriguez to Acevedo| the spirited and stopped at third. Rodriguez stole|‘**t; *#* # home run, ax triple, besides Malgrat hit bad throughout the Point Pleasant, ot « ping game _ center. om playing second from A. second. to and the ball got away Dean. Both runners scored. Mo- The follow a doubled to left. Malgrat scor-'from The Leader, and Molina was safe at third) published at Point Pleas when V. Dean dropped the ball. P. Carbonell popped out to sec- ond. {position at sh op. chpping the story “A rip snorting Three runs, three hits and was witnessed by a goodly c ‘of local and Bay Head walked! fans at Clayton field last Gabriel where the Bay Head popped out for the last out. and the local Fire At bat, Molina ‘hit a deuble and team battled it out tie in an eight-inning was called gn n “Norman Artman, a Key softball player, whe the summer here, and pied the shortstop position the smoke-eaters, played a pt inent part in his team’s victory. “Artman, who batted in th clean-up position, socked ‘horsehide for a homer and a during the evening wh responsible for the three runs ahead of his ¢ “Not only did Artman p whale of a game the position but ha his credit down at of the infield. “Both teams were hits off the who pitched for the Voorhees who toed the the Bay Head lads “The big inning f ers was the seven softbai g In the ninth, Capote bury hit a triple and two singles account in four tries. McIntosh hit homer and a single in five chan- ces. In the field, A. dled six| chances at short. A. riguez handled eight chances the plate and Gabriel at first ac- cepted nine without an erre:. For the Coconuts, Gallagher. McGee and McIntosh were _ the stars in the field. The game was played fast and lasted but one hour and 50 min- utes, j Gallagher, A. Dean and Mc-; Intosh pulled a fast double play. Suarez struck out six, Griffin two and Malgrat four. Bases on balls, off Suarez 1, off Grif- fin 1, off Malgrat 2. Hits off Griffin 4 in three innings. Earn- ed runs, Coconuts All-Stars Score by imnings: R. H. Coconuts 004 000 020—6 9 All-Stars 000 010 030—4 10 Batteries: B. Suarez and Joe McGee; M. Griffin, Malgrat and A. 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