The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 9, 1936, Page 3

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1936. The Wrong Murderer By HUGH CLEVELY SYNOPSIS: Terence Mahony 4s tell along toward catching Am- brose Lawson,.murderer of Vincent Little and leader of a vicious gang. But Lawson, through his friend Lee- Ramsden. has tangled the skein. and now Terence is unknow- ingly waiting in @ house for almost certain death, and his gang is about to be ambushed in their hide- out. Ruth Fraser. who loves Te: ence but won't admit it, has ma aged to get to Terence's friends, aud has warned Fatty Bassett, however. Chapter 31 AMBUSH ITH that Bassett turned away and made for the stairs that led down to the basement. Ruth hesi- tated for moment. If anything was going to happen, she wanted to see it, so that she could tell Mahony all about it before he rang Bassett up. She slippee quietly into the room in which Bassett had given directions to his men, and hid behind a curtain. Bassett descendeu the stairs which led to the basement and ercssed the kitchen to the back door of the house As he was crossing the kitchen the three knocks, pause, and another knock. sounded again. “Ori right, orl right, don’t be im- petient.” he called out, and he opened the back door. Immediately the barrel of an auto- matic pisto. was thrust into his stom- ach, and a stern voice said: “Stand back from this door and stick your bands up.” ed in a chair placed against the - opposite to the cupbweri was L His hands and ankles were tied sx curely to the chair, and he was gagged. The leader of the invading part: gave an exclamation of satisfaction and hurried forward. His two men followed him. For one moment they were off their guard; their backe were towards the cupboard as they clustered round the chair, untying Lake. Fatty Bassett coughed. Then everything aappened wit incredibie swiftness. The doc™ of the cupboard suddenly flew open. and fatty’s three men sprang out, their pistols in their hands. Thes 4id not shoot, since their pistols were nut fitted with silencers, but ip the same moveraent with which they left the cupboard they hurled themselves at the three invaders. 5) es invading party, taken utterly by surprise, had hardly time tc ofer any real resistance. Before they could even aim their guns, clasped in it, had smashed one of them to the floor; Chippy had kvocked another senseless But the third man of Fatty Bassett’s party was unlucky. Just as he hit at the other man of the invading party, the man moved; the blow which had been meant for his AY 1S & Flynn’s huge fist, with a big Coi:| IFIVE CLUBS READY TO START ACTION IN SOCIAL LEAGUE ARRANGED FOR PLAY IN SEC- OND-HALF AT MEETING IN BAYVIEW PARK YESTER- DAY AFTERNOON Play in the second-half of the Social Diamiondball" League’s Split schedfile was arranged, for yester- day afternoon at; Bayview, Park. Five clubs ‘are teady' for! action in this half. They are: Adminis- tration, Sanitary Department and Coca-Cola, the teams that played in the initial half, and the new en- tries, U. S. Army and the Soda Fountain team: The present schedule adopted} calis for games on Thursday and | Friday. On the former day, Ad- iministration will tackle Coca-Cola at Bayview Park, and at the Army Barracks, Soda Fountain nine will play the Army outfit. Both games will start at 5 p. m. All games are scheduled to go just seven innings. The “home” clubs will furnish |the ball for the games. Each club will meet the other | four times as “visiting” nines and twice as “home” clubs. The games for Friday afternoon will be between Sanitary Depart- ment and Soda Fountain at Bay- view Park, and Army and Admin- istration at the baracks. Other cames scheduled for the second-half will be published Sat- urday. An official umpire will be nam- ed for the barracks’ games and one for contests at the city park. A scorer will also be named for the baracks and he will turn in the re- sults daily to the official scorer, who will be at the park. Once a player has participated in one game, he can not play with another club during the entire half. CAGE LEAGUE. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN "Doings Around The Golf Links (By GRAVY) ENROUTE HOME Well, it seems that the golf game of last Thursday had to be called on account of wet weather; a couple of prognosticators were asked by several gentlemen what they thought about the weather and said it looked like good weath- er—it was but not for golf but fine for.corn and potatoes. WEST AGENT INCLUDED IN ASSEMBLAGE (Special to The Citizens eae, DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. At the end of the 7th hole it seems that Doc Willie Penababe! Seven thousand Ford dealers from Kemp and Charlie Salas were mop-! . ping usithedit with Eide Stuak\ ooo 8 and Melvin Russell but then since|Canada are now enroute to their 9— FROM DETROIT {SEVEN THOUSAND ATTEND | the rate of lc a word for each in-) the game had just begun you nev- er can tell how it might end. Mr. Earl Julian was going around with wet pants while a couple of his pals took theirs off but managed to wiggle into same before leaving for home because they won’t let you ride around town minus pants unless you say you have on a bathing suit or may- be you might be a nudist. Some with clothes on afound town couldn’t come within any of those categories. Mr. William Pious Watkins and Russell Kerr played five holes against Otte Kirchheiner and Sam- uella Goldsmith and were nine points up when the rain came. . . and still Willie wants to know why he couldn’t finish the game but maybe he never saw baseball played when the hometown gang were a couple of runs down and the rain starting to come down about the 4th inning. Mr. Willie wants to start the next game where it was left off. Mr. Bascom Grooms, Mr. Pete Taylor and Mr. Fred Ayala said water never hurts anybody and kept on going. Mr. Del’ Woods and Mr. Wiley Milligan played between drops but had to explain at home why it was dark when they arrived. A letter has been received from Mr. Gorge Dodge with the infor- mation that he will get to Key homes after a huge two-day deal- er meeting at which they viewed for the first time the new Ford ;V-8 cars for 1937, saw them put through the ‘most gruelling paces on the new Ford test track and watched demonstrations of their jspeed and pick-up over mile-long conerete runways. Next Saturday, November 14, the new car will be on display to the public in every Ford dealer's showroom in the United States and Canada. The dealers are over the new mode's, which com- economy and performance. In- creased mileage, additional com- | gort and’ distinctive new styling, exclusve improvements will make the new.car outstanding as the {dealers prepare for a year which will write new history in the pro- gress of America’s automobile de- velopment. The 7,000 deaiers, among whom was Frank Bentley of Trevor & Morris, of Key West, Fls., sat as a group for the first time since years ago founder, and his son, Edsel Ford, president of the company. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford both told of the company’s recognition of improved business conditions and the dealers were sent home enthusiastic | bine unequalled fatures in style, } the founding of the company 33| with Henry Ford, | CLASSIFIED | COLUMN j | * Advertisements under this head wili be inserted in The Citizen at sertion, but the minimum for the! MEETING AT PLANT; KEY | first insertion in every instance is 25e. - { Payment for classified adver- | tisements is invariably in advance, | but regular advertisers with ledger | accounts may have their advertise- | ments chargea. | Advertisers should give their street address as well as their tele- phone number if they desire Te- sults. a | YOUNG MAN with good habits to} operate fish boat and make} himself useful on yacht. 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The punch knocked Flynn across the room. and it will be sometime before the | This monster gathering of Ford: ~ “Wot the ...?" exclaimed Bassett in a tone oc utter astonishment; but he stepped back from the door, and his hands went up above his head. Three men quietly entered the kitchen, closing the door after them. They were tough, hard-bitten, evil- ‘ooking ruffians and in their hands they carried small automatic pistols fitted with silencers. Their leader, the man who had already spoken, prodded Bassett roughly with his automatic. “We've come for Lake,” he stated harshly. “You know who sent us.” Bassett’s hands, held up above his head, were trembling visibly; his ex- + pression was one of suivering terror. “Lake,” he stammered. “I ain't seen Mr. Lake, You can search the place, mister; you won't find ‘im "ere.” “I know damned well I can search the place and | shan’t find him,” re- turned the other man curtly. “If I thought I could find him by simply searching the house i'd have plugged you stra ght off.” Things were going exactly as Bas- gett had planned. at “Lead on,” went on th Me man. “And if you so mich as squawk you'll get shot where it w@j hurt like Bell, but won't kill you.” é HERE was, appayently no fight left in Fatty Bassett.” +. if I take you to Mr. Lake, you won't shoot me ifterwards,” he whimperes. “If you don’t take us to him I'll shoot you right away, through the knee to start with,” replie.. the lead- er of the invaders contemptuously. /“Get on with it.” Shivering, Bassett led the way ap ,the stairs. The three men followed close on his heels, their guns ready ifor instant action. None of Fatty’s friends appeared; the house seemed quite silent and empty. Fatty led the way through ;the hall and up a dight of stairs. There he paused for a moment on a small landing, and then flung open je door of a room. It was a long, narrow room, with a large, built-in cupvoard stretching ithe entire length of one wall. Seat- ay’s Birthdays) ‘Tod Maud Howe Elliott of Newport,! R. L, author-daughter of Julia Ward Howe, born in Boston, 82 years ago. Maj. Gen. Arthur W. Brown, Judge Advocate General; born at] Davenport, Ia., 63 years ago. ——— head glanced off his shoulder. Thé man staggered, and in the act of staggering he fired. There was 2 short muffied rap as the silenced automatic went off, and Fatty’s mar clasped both hands suddenly to his chest and, with an agonized gasp. sank to the floor. With a roar like that of an angry lion, big Barney Flynn turned and sprang; before the man had time te fire again his huge fist landed with terrific impact under the man’s chin. It was a punch that lifted the man off his feet and knocked him senseless clean across the room. With a tremendous crash of glass his limp falling body struck the win- dow, and went slap through the win- dow, falling ten feet into the street. There, was a pause of utter con: sternation inside the room. “Gawdelpus!” exclaimed Bassett. “That's dore it. We'll have the cops ‘ers in a minute now.” He bent swiftly over the man who had been shot. “Slim's got ‘is, orlright,” he went ‘There ain’t nothing we can do for ‘im. It’s up to 1s to get out of ‘ere as quickly as we can. Catch old of that bloke, 2arney, and follez me, both of you.” Barney seized the tohnd figure +i Lake and lifted it , chair and everything, in his powerful arms. They mounted another flight of stairs, and there, in a small attic, Bassett bent down and pressed! strongly on a portion of the wall Silently it swung back, disclosing 2 hidden doorway into the house next door. They went through the door way and Bassett swung thd wall to behind them. “Wait ‘ere a moment,” said Bas-: sett. He swiftly descended the stairs to the pawnshop on the ground ffocr. On. TEND SESSION AT 8 O'CLOCK results can be known. They have to wait until the cast is taken off. He expects to leave Dark Harbor and go to his home in South Ham- ilton, Mass., for a short stay. An- other letter received from Mr. Pe- ., .. |ter:Schutt of the Casa Marina o'clock, at the First Methodist! tates that the hotel will open Sn ee about December the 10th but that All managers are urged to 4t-}ne and family will be here by the toe i ow 3 first. Also that he will be very A schedule of practice glad to make the same - arrange- for he reeky follows. ments this year with the club and Tonight, Army and Busy Bees Mr. Dodge in relation to the hotel wil: hold a scrimage. The gymna-| 4, he has done in the past. Both parerlt be opened at 7:30! tetters included “regards to all % . . the golf boys and say that we ex- seria oleate Methodist pect to see them soon.” igh School; Wednesday—Busy Bees vs. Park Tigers. . Thursday—Army School. Friday—Busy Bees Methodist. PLAY AT BARRACKS; #> Good’ “aéw§ for local diamond- ball and baseball players is that Major McMullen of the Army Bar- racks has made arrangements for the Parade Grounds to be used again for the playing of games. These grounds have not been used since 1926, and the fans 1810—Thomas Bragg, North mente fee See eee ae lasiyer, seh lence sena- ¥ * or, Conteterate attorney-gener- oe cheers toremeic ee al, born at Warrenton, N. C. Died at Ralei Jan. 21, 1872. Island City Basketball League will hold a meeting tonight, games vs. vs. High vs, First Anniversaries 1788—Isaac Harby, journa‘ist and playwright of Charleston, S. C., pioneer Reformed Jew, born in Charleston. Died in New York, Dec, 14, 1828. . 1801—Robert Dale Owen, son of the noted Brit's Socialist, who settied here, Indiana congressman, social reformer, spirituclist, au- thor, born in Scotland. Died June 24, 1877. 1825. Nominally that pawnshop wae owned by one Eli Solomon: actually “Look ‘ere, Eli, I've been in your it was owned by Fatty Bassett. bacx room for the last hour,” said Bassett swiftly. “Is the furniture van in the yard at the back?” (Copyright, 1936, Hugh Clevely) ‘Tomorrow the police arrive with Ruth still in the house: (CHAMP SERIES TO CONTINUE TODA brose P. Hill, noted commancer, Lorn in ., Va. the Confede: Culverer, bettiefiel Died on Sanitary Department_and Coca- Sate Cola will make another attempt 1910. this afternoon to play the opening > contest of the three-game Social League first-half '' championship: ing Edward VI, of jin, born. Died May 6, f¢ ! Ha | 1856—Jpbn Temple noted -Géotgia newspaper Graves, editor ation editor, born Pitts- burgh, 42 years ago. in 3 ™ hh Arthur O. Wharton of Chicago and Washington, D. C., president of the International Association of Machinists, born in Kansas, 63 years ago. Burton E, Stevenson of Chill cothe, O., librarian and author, born there, 64 years azo. Edward P. Warner of New York, consulting engineer, former Mae Marsh, film star, born at Madrid, N. M., 39 years ago, series. ‘ Two attempts were made lat’ and oratof, i week but both were called off. | S.C. Di Batteries today will be the Vil- larei brethers for the Soda Water} 1873—Marie Dressler, the ac- boys, and Gates and Garcia for|tTess who became a movie star at the Healthers. " 57, born at Cobovrg, Canado. Died The battle will get under way | near Ho‘lywood, July 28, 1934. tat 5 o’clock. SEERA A JOE ALLEN Notary Public THE CITIZEN OFFICE Aug. 8, 1925. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West “Half Century dealers taxed Detroit’s available hotel facilities and many of the; visiting dealers were quartered in Pullman cars parked in various railroad stations. They met in the Colisseum at the State Fair grounds outside Detroit. Friday, as they gathered in the huge arena, the new models were driven in for their inspection. All body types moved slowly before | them and these types were shown jin all colors. After viewing the cars actually as they will be seen about the srteets of the country during the coming year, they “were shown giant models of each type in a setting designed by Walter Dorwin Teague, noted industrial designer. This display showed each dealer in detail the outstanding points of the Ford V-8 for 1937. Information on the new” cars and plans for the forthcoming selling season were presented by W. C. Cowling, director of sales, and ty J. R. Davis, assistant di- rector of sales. Ford factories at Dearborn have been enlarged, factory crews have been increased and the entire plant’s equipment has been gear- ed to a speed to take care of this unprecedented business that is ex- pected next year. The dealers were enthusiastic about the improve- ments in all models. A highlight of the gathering was the presentation from the dealrs to Henry Ford of a 300- year-old Cape Cod windmill, built by the Pilgrims in 1633, a land- mark of the Four Corners at West Yarmouth, Mass. The dealers bought the windmill more than a year ago and it was moved, timber by timber, and re-erected in Green- field Village, that famous collec- tion of historic American buildings on which Mr. Ford has spent time, money and effort in a successful attempt to preserve some of the background of early American civilization and the American mode of life. ta in Abbeville Co., division of the State duly ¢ ing under the laws of the of Florida, by and through Chairman, ‘THOMPSON, and NILES, as and Board of County of Monroe County, tituting the mmissioners Florida, Petitioners vs. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, Defendant NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS AND CITIZENS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIL AND ALL OTHERS IT MAY Co? CERN: Please take notice th: of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit © Florida, in and for Monroe County, for the purpose of obtaining a de- cree of said Court validating and! ing Road and Bridge Three Mil lion One Hundred Sixty-nine The sand Dollars ($3,169,000.00). to dated July 1, scribed in said petition for valida- tion, and that the Honorable Jeffer-| son B. Browne, one of the Judges} of said Court, has issued an or requiring that cause be shown, if] any there be, at the Court House} in Key West. Florida, at ten 16th day of November, said bonds shall not and confirmed; and y: notified to show have, at the time fied in said order, 3 should-not be' validated and eon-| firmed. H notice shall be published in} The Key West Citizen, a newspaper) published in Monroe County, F) | ida, once each week for three (3)| consecutive weeks prior to said hearing, the first publication there-| of to be at least eighteen (18) days) prior to the date of said hearing. 4 WITNESS my hand and the offi seal of said Court, at Ke: West, Monroe County, Florida, this! 26th day of October, 1936. (SEAL) Ross Sawyer | Clerk of the Circuit Court, Elev- enth Judicial Circuit of Florida. in and for Monroe County be Erfective December 22nd, 1935. S. S. CUBA Leaves Port Tampa P. M. arriving Key West for on Sundays and 7 A. M. Mondays Lea West and s20A Mw wes Key Mondays Thursdays Vednesdays at 230 and Thursdays. Leaves Key West Tuesdays and Fridays § P. M. for Port Tampa, Fla. For further information and rates call Phone 14. J. H. COSTAR, Agent. LT ASASAZLZLALALALA AAA Add For Sale 5 Bundles for 25 in bundle * E e : A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A