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

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1936. The Wrong Murderer By HUGH CLEVELY STHUErSIS. Lee-nKamsuen, guare dian of Ruth Fraser. had engaged Ambrose Lawson und his gaug of kidnappers to make away with his ward. But Terence Mahony. mucn to everybody's annoyance. rescucs Ruth, who returns the favor by providing Terence a false alibt against a murder he did not com- mit. Terence is on his way home from telling Lee-Ramsden things he should not have told tim when he meets a shabby individual ho claims to have known him in China. Terence does not suspect Lee- Ramsden. he knows Lawson is @ crook but can’t prove it. Chapter 20 TERENCE TRAPPED Th you still got the note?” asked Mahony of the shabby man. “Yes, 1 think so.” The shabby man fumbled in a breast pocket and produced a crum- pled envelope. “Here it is. I'm supposed to de- liver it at ten tonight if | want that job, but ['m not taking any. I'd rather pick pockets or try my hand at a cat burglary.” Mahony considered for a moment. He looked the shabby man up and down. “Ill give you a fiver for that note,” he said. “What .. .!” exclaimed Milson “But ... surely you're not thinking of trying for that job, are you?” Mahony did not answer the ques- tion. “Do you want that fiver?” he asked. Milson shrugged his, shoulders. “Of course | want the fiver; I al- ways want fivers.” he remarked. “And if you don’t mind taking a job like that. | suppose that’s your fu- neral. Here you are; deliver it to Mr. Brown, 137 Jamaica Road, Pen- nyfields, at ten tonight. And good luck to you.” Mahony handed over the fiver and received the note. He declined Mil- son's urgent invitation to come some- where and have a drink, and left him. When Mahony was out of sight Milson entered the nearest tele phone-box. The man he telephoned was Ambrose Lawson “He fell for it all right,” he stated. hat was all he said. Then he rang off. N ILSON was not altogether right in sayin that Mahony had fallen for it. At the beginning of their conversation Mahony had been ready to believe that he might have met Milson in the Shanghai Bar and forgotten meeting him. Then there had come a little dis- crepancy iw Milson’s story — the mention of Kosoff. Matony had) ‘sever knowm Kosoff in Shanghai. | But be bad mentioned the name of} Shultz as a’ dope trafficker at the Little’s that morning. And the fact that he had been a newspaper cor- respondent in China might easily | be known to Lawson; Billy Ross might have mentioned it. It occurred to Mabony that Law. son had put together ali he knew about Mahony’s career in China to try to lure him into a trap. Mahony intended to walk into that trap. not blind and unaware, bit with his eyes open, expecting trouble and ready for it. One precau- tion only he took; he wrote a note to Lee-Ramsden telling him what he Proposed doing, and the address he was going to. That note would reach Lee-Rams- den by the first post in the morning, and Mahony asked Uee-Ramsden to communicate with Inspector Ken- nedy if be should not ring bim up| before eleven the same morning. Just before ten that night Mahony Trapped at the door of 137 Jamaica Road, which was a tall, dingy. tum- bledown house, in a row cf dingy tumbledown houses. The door was opened by a bent, shrivelied old | man, who looked up at Mahony out of bleary eyes. Mahony handed him the note. “I was told to bring this here at} ten tonight.” he said. | The old man took the note and looked at Mahony suspiciously. “Wait here a minute.” he said. He closed the front door. Mahony waited. After about half a minute the front door opened again and the old man beckoned Mahony inside. His manner this time was more civil | and conciliating. | “Mr. Brown says you're to come in and wait in his room,” he said. “He won't keep you longer than he! “can help.” Mahouy’s hand was in his coat | Pocket; he was ready for anything | that might happen. sut though be! strained his ears to hear the slight- est sound near him he could hear nothing except his own footsteps and those of the old man; the house | seemed surprisingly silent, almost | (deserted. } here? { Cautiously, every sense on the alert, he followed the old man up 2 dark, tumbledown staircase to a landing. The old man opened the door of a room. “Wait in here,” sald the old man. “Mr. Brown said you were to make yourself quite at ‘ome, and ’elp your- self to anything you want.” He ushered Mahony into a room that, by contrast with the rest of the house, was surprisingly well ap- pointed and comfortable. The wall- Paper was clean and (resn; there were a couple of comfortable arm- chairs, a solid-looking roll-top desk, a good thick carpet, and on a ma- hogany table wete whisky, soda, glasses, and a box of cigarets. “'aAve a drink or a smoke if you feel like it,” said the old man, and he went out, closing the door after him. Mahony heard his slow foot- steps going down the stairs. Very puzzled, Mabony glanced round the room. So far as he could see, he appeared to be quite safe for the moment; the window was inaccessible from the road, the door was closed, there were no apertures or ventilators in the wall through which he could be shot at. He had no doubt thet ke had now walked into the trap prepared for him, but what was the nature of the trap? Was it in the drink or the cigarets on the table? Pee eaNe was very quiet ex- | cept for the slow tick-tock, tic tock of a clock on one of the walls of the room. Minutes drag by very slowly when a man’s nerves are; strained and alert. waiting for something to happen. Five minutes passed, ten minutes passed. and still the house remained quite quiet. Mahony smoked; he walked up and down the room; he glanced cau- tiously at the articles on the desk. At last. very softly, he pulled at one of the drawers. It opened, and inside were a nu ber of thin paper packets. One of the packets had burst slightly at one end. and from it had spilled a little shiny. white powder. Mahony wetted one finger slightly. and tast- ed a tiny particle of the powder The cold. numb sensation on the end of his tongue told him instantly what the powder was. It was co- caine. The silence of the house was sud- denly broken. From down below at | the front door came a sound of banging, and then of men’s rough voices in the hall. Mahony closed the drawer swiftly. He had no doubt that whatever was going to happen would happen now, and he was ready and waiting for i*. There was a sound of footsteps on the stairs leading up to the room Mahony stood leaning back again: the mantelpiece in an easy altitude one hand in the pocket of his coat The door of the room was Sung vio lenfly open and a maa stepped tn He was a very large man, and very ugly. A shabby cap. pulled down at an angle over one eye. en tirely failed to conceat his shuck ot untidy red hair. His brow was low: his eyes were small and deep-set. his lower jaw was underhung like that of a bulldog He closed the door deliberately behind him and stood in front of it scowling at Mahony, a huge, menac. ing figure. “Good evenin’ to ye. Mr. Brown. he said with a kind cf savage po liteness. “I just calied in for me mone “I'm not Mr. Brown,” replied Ma hony. “Are ye not so?” said the man. He took a pace forward suddenly and brought bis huge right fist down with a toud crack into the palm of his left band. “What in hell do | care what ye're after calling yourself tonight?” he roared ferociously. “Isn't it enough trouble ye're after causing me, with the cops looking for me and all, with: out standin’ there arguing the toss about what name ye'd be passin’ by? Give me me fifty quid and let me go—or have I got to squeeze the money out of you with me bare | hands?” It was obvious that he was in a real Irish temper; nothing would have pleased bim better than a fight. The last thing Mahony wanted | was a fight with a stranger at that | moment “Don't be a damned tool.” he said sharply. “I've told you I'm not Mr. Brown. ['m waiting for him myself.” - 'bad mistake because THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BY JOVE . ¥ SPORTS Doings Around The Golf Links (By GRAVY) - e ° Well, it seems that the golf course will see the kinds of bat- tles on Saturday and Sunday that you read about in the papers but don’t often get a chance to see.| |For instance, Li Plummer has| jagred to putt the ball with the| EXHIBITION GAME ‘PLAYED MONDAY WHITE SOX FAILED TO SHOW UP AND THEREFORE FOR- FEITED CONTEST The regular Social Diamondball League game scheduled for yes- | } READY FOR PLAY) bicaies HELD LAST -_ | TO DRAW UP PLANS FOR i COMING SEASON j The scheduled basketball meet- ing was held last night at a local; bag if he cannot sink the long ones jterday at Bayview Park was for- |store, with a putter. The Biltmore crowd feited by the White Sox, who fa’ Four clubs are ready for play.; FOLLOWING THROUGH New schedule for the first-half of the Social Diamondbal! League during the remaining period of} play follows: This afternoon—Administration vs. ‘Coca-Cola. FOUR CAGE TEAMS Wednesday—Sanitary Depart-| ment vs. Coca-Cola. Thursday — Sanitary Depatt- ment vs, Administration. Friday—Coca-Cola vs. Adminis-' tration. In the following week: Monday—Sanitary Department vs. Coca-Cola. Tuesday — Administration vs. Sanitary Department. Standing of the league: Club— w. Coca-Cola Administration... 5 Sanitary Department 4 | will be in on Friday afternoon and ed to show up. It was decided at|They are: Army, High School, White Sox ae j will leave Monday morning. Thejthe same time to eject this club|Park Tigers and Stone Church. from the league. The other three} There will probably be another! foams of the games played so program and players will be pub-} lished later this week. However, ! ‘if you can play Saturday and Sun-| !day or on either day, please let the{ cam captain know. Naturally,} |those who play on Saturday will/ed team played Sanitary Depart-| miday night at the church room. jtake second choice on Sunday. | ; You will receive a letter of in-j jstructions, etc., this week, provi 4 {ed you are in good financial stand- ting in the club. + Sunday, Mr. Li Plummer ‘decid- | led that since Otto Kirchheiner was |. jto beat Winsome Willie Watkins ; with ease and thereby enjoy fried | Russell Kerr. jthat Mr. Plummer made a vel Otto had: 52-50 while Li came along with; (40-45. And so Willie and Russe'l) |won by 2 up. | | —— ! Mr. Cookie Mesa, Sr., carried! jhis boy around to show him the} ‘finer points of the game but Mr.' Cookie Mesa, Jr., came very near! ! beating his pa but being a dutiful | 'son, prolonged the day when he! will master the old man. Of course ithe old man still claims he is the} | best. Mr. Bill Fripp took all Saturday } evening to think about how he was | jgoing to smear Handsome Horace {/O’Bryant all over the course bu Mr. Handsome Horace had oth plans which were diametrically opposite of those of Mr. Fripp an4, therefore Mr. Professor made! 46-49 while Mr. Fripp got 53 ane | |wors> as the game proceeded. Mr. iRoy Lade, who has recover | some of the golf balls knocked \to the rou > a’so among those | present and says after a while he will have to do is walk around | the course and hit tae first ball! he comes te snce it will be one of | his anyway that was considered to } have been lost, 1 Mr, Eddie Strunk had Mr. Mel- vin Russe! for a partner but Mr. ‘last week but was better than sometimes. It seems that Charlie | Salas got Johnny Kirschenbaum }for a partner and when his club into the ground or into a tree and Mr. Salas says hereaft- jas a partner because he won't j know what time Johnny will mis- !take Charlie for a stone wall. Doc | Willie Penababe Kemp was along jon the last round to try and keep Jorder but as usval the toothache }disturbance than all the rest put } together. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half 24 Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embalmer Phone 135 The Irishman made a gesture of | disgust. “Do you think you'll wriggle out { of paying me that way. ye twisting cluricaun?” he demanded angrily. “Didn't 1 have the tip that you'd be here at ten tonight? Wasn't you | seen to come in at ten? Didn't the ould fellow below tell me you was (Copyright. 1936. Hugh Clevely) But Terence has to fight, tomor- row. DESIGN PUNCHBOWL | FOR NEW CRUISER | (By Associated Press) ; HONOLULU, T. H., Oct. 27.—} The Hawaiian lei, or wreath of | just accepted for the silver punch- | ing to the Dominion’s prisons de-| bowl to be presented to the U. S.| §S. Honolulu, cruiser to be launch-j ed in 1937. The Hawaiian legislature appropriated’ $1,000 for the gift and an equal amount is to be so-| | Prison Population In lew Zealand Decreases Presn) ited WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Oct. population in| flowers, is the motif of a design ' New Zealand is decreasing, accord- | partment annual report. AIR CONDITIONED COCKTAIL LOUNGE . COFFEE SHOP The number decreased by 370 34 percent. The daily avrage of 1,212 in} {during the year 1935-36, and since! has | 1931 the yearly decrease has seed | ‘Stoght increase for double occupancy Qrber 1B POUND Hotels licited from school children andj custody is the lowest figure for| MOTEL CAsSEN V" wore Sesor0 citizens. years. jer he will be afraid to have Kirch | killer was creating more fan gnd | teams will finish play in the first- half, In an exhibition contest, a pick- ment and defeated the Heualthers, Bto4.-. M. (Mussolini) Perez, for the jteam formed from among the in-j {dependent ranks of the city. H A A schedule will be drawn up and{ the opening date decided. All in-| Sanitary Department Sanitary, 5; White Sox, 1. Sanitary, Coca-Cola, 6. Sanitary, 12; White Sox, 4. Sanitary, 7; Administration, 6. Sanitary, 2; Administration, Sanitary, 11; Coca-Cola, 12. victors, was the leader at bat. He|terested persons are urged to at-| Sanitary, 9; White Sox, 0. }eonnected for two ‘doubles and two singles in four times at bat. | He is a new player, Goss hit a single and a double, ; # : ig such a good player and was able|driving home ‘five runs and scor-| last night were in favor of Edw ing one himself. For Sanitary. Department, J. jchicken, called upon the said Otto|Garcia knocked out a double and attitude of Mr. Trevor on this | as partnergto defeat Willie and: two singles in four tries; Molina’ matter can be ascertained. It later developed ‘hit two out of three, and Caraballo eG | was credited with a triple in the| sixth frame. Score by innings: Picked Team— R. H. E. 002 015 0—8 12 3] Sanitary Department— 100 021 0-4 7 1 Batteries: Gene Roberts and Floyd Villareal; H. Garcia and Hopkins. SETS HIS OWN ARM DUMONT, Iowa.—With know- en his arm on two previous occa- sions, Louis Clemens of this city, ‘tend this session. | An election of officers will also { be held Friday night. All present | | Trevor being the referee, but fina! idecision was’ deferred until. the | | eocccccccce secccces | ‘Today’s Horoscope} Today’s influences mal the {mind harmonious and peaceable, | jand the personality shrewd and! capable. In the stronger natures this will result in success 2s meas- jured by the world’s standard; but jin the w r ones, the disregar 'of the financial end may prov: |handicap, for the devotion to the} fine arts will be exces: ‘ledge acquired when he had brok-; | Swine growers in Duplin coun-j ty (N. C.) purchased 77,000 season. Coca-Cola Coca-Cola, 6; Sanitary, 4. Coca-Cola, . itary, 11. Coca-Cola, Administration “ Coca-Co'a, 9; White Sox, 3. 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