The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 4, 1936, Page 3

‘4 TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1936. P®ASOCCCOOOOOOCOOOOOOOO® MURDER BY LAURENCE e e SYNOPSIS: Bit by bit, Inspec tor Hylton has eliminated every person he suspects of the murder of old Arthur Burdett, until 2 Dale Shipley. Burdett’s half ew, is left. And he evidence to fustif; Dale; poet of it acquired by an ac dental meeting with a tramp. Hyl- ton has hurried as fast as possible to Shipley’s cottage, after talking ei the last of his “suspicious Chapter 28 FLIGHT ‘HE door of Shipley’s cottage was opened a foot or so by Mrs. Som- ers who, when she saw who the visitor was, showed no inclination to increase the aperture. “Mr. Shipley in?” he asked. “No—he {sn’t in.” “Do you know where he’s gone?” “I can’t say that I do.” “What time did he go out?” “Well—I” The faithful Mrs, Som- ers seemed nonplussed, and a wild inspiration, such as had saved him more than once before, came to Hylton. “I suppose he slept last night here, didn’t he?” he asked. Mrs, Somers turned brick red. “I never siid he didn’t,” she stam- mered. “No, you don’t.” Hylton frustrated her determined effort to slam the door in his face py a lightning-like forward movement of his foot. The Inspector forced his way into the . ball. “Now look here Mrs. Somers,” he said, “you're acting like a fool. You know who I am and what business Ym here on. If you won't talk to me here I shall have you taken to More- chester Police Station and we'll keep you there until you do talk; so make up your mind.” The embarrassed and indignant red of Mrs. Somers’ countenance had suddenly given way to dead white. “What is it you want to know?” she asked woodenly. “{ want to know everything you know about Shipley’s whereabouts.” “I've no idea where he {: “But you know something,” Hyl- ton said brutally, “and you'll tell it to me—now.” “Mr. Shipley went off yesterday evening.” “Went off?” Hylton was on the words like a ferret, “Where to?” “TI tell you | don’t know.” “Tell me what you do know, Mrs. Somers, and quickly please.” “About six o'clock yesterday eve ning, it was, Mr. Shipley said he was going up to London for a bit ,and didn’t know when he'd be back. That's all I know.” Hylton almost gasped with de light as he stared at his reluctant informer. Young Shipley had bolt- ed, always the most foolish and desperate thing a criminal can do. Hylton’s brain was working like a fury. SPECTOR HYLTON.” He wheeled round astonished. Nancy Featherstone in her best tweed coat and skirt was standing at the open front door. “Hallo Miss Featherstone.” “Good morning.” Nancy looked the picture of calm collectedness, but appearances are apt to be deceptive sometimes. “I was looking for you, Inspector Hylton.” “For me.” “Yes, I wanted a word with you, please.” “Right—O. There’s a telephone call I want to make first, but it—” “I think, perhaps, you'd better hear what I've got to say first—" “All right, Miss Featherstone.” “If we could have a minute or two together.” Hylton stepped out onto the gravel drive and Nancy silently led him a dozen paces or so from the door, then she turned and faced him. “I couldn't help hearing a certain amount of what you were saying to Mrs. Somers,” she said. “Apparent- ly you are looking for Mr. Shipley. You needn't look far, Inspector, he’s at my house.” “At your house?” “Yes, @ matter of fact he—he Spent last night there,” Nancy said calmly. Hylton actually blushed, he cer tainly had no desire to pry into the affairs of Enderton except in so far as they concerned his business. “Well, I should certainly like a word with Mr, Shipley,” he said. “You can come down and see him now, can’t you?” “Yes, I suppose I can. He’s still there then?” “Oh yes, rather. Won't you walk down with me now, Inspector?” “Yes, I rather think I will.” ONVERSATION flagged on that half-mile walk. Hylton was in tensely relieved when they into a drive gateway ano =:arte t! TONIGHT WwW. MEYNELL | way to a solidly built, square house | standing well back amid evergreens | and trees, j Nancy produced a key from her bag and opened the front door. “My maid’s out for the day,” she said, “go will you let me get you a glass | of sherry or something?” t ‘It's very kind of you Miss Fea-- therstone, but I won’t bother you, ! thanks; all 1 want to do is to have a! word with Mr. Shipley.” They were in the hall now at the foot of the stairs and Nancy hesi- | tated. She stood there eyeing the In- | spector in a curiously speculative | way. ! “Of course,” she said, coming to | life with a sudden snap. “But it’s a little awkward; you see, I’m afraid | he isn’t quite sober at the moment.” Miss Featherstone at the door. “Er—oh—I—um.” “But perhaps he’s well enough now for you to see him and ask some | questions—you want to do that, | don’t you?” “Yes I do.” Nancy nodded brightly. “Come along then,” she said, “and we'll ; see how he is.” Hylton followed her upstairs, turning over in his mind the old, old truth that queer though nature may be in parts there’s nothing as queer as folk. Nancy led him along a corridor off the main, jan jing, and halted op- posite a door Half way down it. She stood to one side.)'/ “If you wouldn’t mind going in there,” she said, “and seeing what you can do with him, I'll be down- stairs whenever you want me.” Hylton smiled at her. “Right-O Miss Featherstone, thank you very much.” He found himself in a small com- partment with a faintly musty smell about it; it was in semi-darkness, being lighted only by a narrow slit of a window very high up. Over in the far corner was something that might be a bed, but which turned out to be an old-fashioned ottoman with some apparently discarded clothes on it. Except for this the room was empty, and Hylton, slight- ly surprised, went back to the door to seek Miss Featherstone’s advice. A sudden stab of recognition went through him—although he must give no indication of it, he all at once felt convinced that Miss Feath- erstone knew perfectly well that the room was empty when she admitted | him. He wrestled with the door. | (Cotsrreht, 1936. Lawrence W. Meynell) | S ; 440-21 The Inspector finds himself In @ tcht place. tomorrow. ecogece e i jer for the jlarge number of newspapers texception of seven. | interest. | HOTEL LEAMINGTON N. E. Ist Street at Biscayne\Boulevard OVERLOOKING BAYFRONT PARK AND BISCAYNE BAY THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS f BY JOVE FUNERAL HOMERS. | WHIP OFFICE BOYS WON BY ONE-SIDED SCORE) OF 16 TO 3; PUT OVER NINE RUNS IN THIRD BILL CATES, THIRD SACKER, SHOWS BIG LEAGUE PROMISE i | i YOUTHFUL INFIELDER HOLDS! eee e ° DOWN HOT CORNER ABLY;) - ound: The STICK WORK FOR 1935| _ - | ‘ HITS .279 AVERAGE i 0! —— | By JULIAN STENSTROM | | (By GRAVY) Cecccccvoncsvecececceoes el Just a few of the boys got out | Sunday but those few made his- tory, as far.as scores are con- jcerned. But they may have {different idea than you so let us (In The Sanford Herald ! Bil. third seems from Cates, young Lookouts, have received publicity in a the Eastern states. Bi.l was admitted to the Brook-; |. lyn Dodgers’ training camp at (Pee? Orlando in 1935, and there he} made a great showing and was; nearly taken to the Big Show, but} for a major league rule it was im- possible to take him up. i | | Mr. Li Plummer has hied him- self away to Miamj (to play in some tournaments, so he has told! ends) and therefore Cates was sent to Leaksville’ numerous f L to ho'd down third put he did{the usual foursome of Li and > not like the place and asked for! Ker ainst Pious William and: lhis release to play in the south, {Otto K. had t8 be called off.| He signed up with Gainesville | Without the smooth playing of Li of the Northeast Florida League, #0ng to offer resistance, the but due to a sore arm he wa, Watkins boy made a couple of 45’s which beat Russ on one round and lost on the other. However, Mr. Watkins made a neat par on: number 8 which has him released. Cates was hired by the ; Sanford club last year and play- ed every game until the last three weeks of the season when he was een because he was not against Win- some Willie. fore it was destroyed by & hur cane, @ates fniished last year hitti -297, which was a good average } for this league, and he secured! Mr. Berlin Sawyer got a 52-43 base hits in every game with the{and had Valter Vinson as helper | With 103. And so they were not At the beginning of the 1936, quite good enough for Geo season he received a letter from; Liera’s 97 combined with Hartley Bert Chapman, temporarily man-|Albury’s 103. For a while it | William Cates a product of! the sand lots of Key West, hav-j Mr. John J. Krischenbaum ing played diamondbali and base-; wishes to announce that anyt.me ball for a number of seasons. He! he feels in the mood he can beat! was the pride of the local fans at! Doc Willie Kemp, Melvin Russell! that time and they are still fol-!and Charlie Salas together or sep-! lowing his activities with much; arately and can also make Hurri-| lcane Eddi end himse]f to the! | limit. ch turned in¥an 87! | which was better, than any of the | |three mentioned and nearly as} MONTGOME W. Va.—.Aft-i good as Strunk’s 85. But Melvin ; er he and his ister Buby, 6,! was the favored child with 3, watched other children shoot at| skins, better ‘than any of the oth-| irds. Orie Ha‘l, 7, got his fath-| ers. Mr. Russell admits the se- | :’s shotgun and dragged it across; cret of winning skins is to watch | the floor toward the window where! your opportunity and when the | the little girl stood, The gun/others slip to come through inj discharged, the load striking the! style. BOY, 7, KILLS SISTER, 6 He has almost taught that ! jgirl in the back of the neck, fa-| to Kirch—Johnny says, “Can you tally wounding her. 'fancy that?” BLUE | RIBBON —e | VALUES every one! Big, Husky, Safe GOODYEAR SPEEDWAYS, 30x30) $4.95 Opposite Union Bus Station One Block from Shopping District and Amusements LOWEST RATES EVER QUOTED Single Room with Bath Double Room with Bath ALFRED SIMONS, Manager COCcenecceseasesseoosaaeeeseeeesese $1.50 . 2.00 | Lopez Funeral Home defeated | Administration yesterday after- ;uoon by a one-sided score of 15 to 4 | The Office boys scored one in !the third and two in the sixth and NO OTHER GAME PLAYED IN were blanked in, all other innings. ! The Embzlmers put over twe EITHER MAJOR markers in the second frame, nine in the third, three in the fourth and one each in the fifth and sixth innings. Sterling connected for a homer, q}@ double and a single in four jtimes at bat. | Z 2 | M. Arias hit two out of three! land Indians went down in de-i ang Watkins two out of two. feat to the Detroit Tigers, 9 to 4.! Brass Sweeting, who was um- No other games were schedul-: piring, got hit in the head by a ed. {ball thrown by Sterling. Then Tie semis Stanley hit a liner which struck AMERICAN LEAGUE | Sweeting in the back and he quit; TIGERS DEFEAT INDIANS, 9 TO LEAGUE (Speetal to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—In the} only major league game yesterday afternoon, the Cl playe i > |the game. j At Detroit R. H. E. : es . Cleveland 4 Hi 0 . Score by innings: R. H. E. Detroit 9 13. go: Administration— i 001 002 000— 3 6 Lopez Funeral Home— 029 311 00x—16 11 2 Batteries: E. Roberts, M. Tynes, es and H. Gates; J. Walk Batteries: Harder van; Rowe and Myatt. No other games played. and Sulli-' F. NATIONAL LEAGUE er, Kerr and Hopkins. | No games scheduled. ig HEALTHERS VS. LEAGUE STANDINGS,“ coMMODITY NINE AMERICAN LEAGUE cailed to Key West by his fam-/¢nough pleasure that he is still’ yyy W. L. Pet ‘ Pi x ily. Cates was on the last train bubbling over with stent dey Mes New York ............. 66 34 .660 Bs [aire seared ~~ to go over the oversea bridge be Kirchheiner usual played pun Cleveland) 57 45 jo’clock, Sanitary Department wil -559) play Commodity Room at Bayview 540 ti | but regular adve {ment The Citizen wil CLASSIFIED COLUMN By LE MAES Cece eeeesececesserccses The character and talents these born between JULY 24 TO Advertisemen’ will be inserted the rate of le a w sertion, but the first insertion in every AUCUST 22 Payment for cla ments is invarial Advertisers street addre: phone nw sults. With each classified a Autestrop Razor Ow it, MALE HELP WANTED MAN, re mobil “JOE ALLEN Notary Public FURNISHED HOUSE, Garas W venience mm co one biock ROOMS THE MUNRO. street, Mi orida. ROOMS single, $ $3.00 weeks double, $3.50. $4.00 k . Close in. = = NOTICE 7 OUT YoU . 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OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—Twe re pars time, asking him to return to the Show the boys a thing or two'cpicags _. _59 38 .608| Cleveland at Detroit. | bundles for Sc. The Citizen Of ae Sanford club again this season, When he birdied number three’ oy 0 60 39 Philadelphia at Washington. | giee which he did. He was hitting followed by a couple of pars but/*™ “00's ee New York at Boston. j ; = .441 at the end of the first three the strain was too much. Vinson New York - 55 45 | PREROMAL CARDS—100 pr weeks of play. jhad a birdie sandwiched between ' Pittsburgh . 48 NATIONAL LEAGUE \" an $1 25. The Ar Although Cates has been in a|a couple of Hartley had | Cincinnati 48 50 Boston at New York. | eae. batting slump lately, his defense; couple of pars while Georgie had! 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