The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 10, 1936, Page 3

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1986. The Wrong Murderer By HUGH CLEVELY SYNOPSIS: Ruth Fraser has Jailed to reach Terence Mahony, who has been betrayed by the kidnapper Ambro: Lawson and Ruth’s guardian Ramsden. and #0 has dashed to warn the gang Terence is leading against Lawson that the latter is about to ambush them. Ruth has hidden in the house, and a terrific fight has ensued. Fatty Bassett. Terence’s seeond in command, is arranging an escape through a pawnshop he controls, neat door to his house. For the bat- tle:has been given awony by Barney Flynn. who knocked one of Law- ) Bon’s ‘men through a window into the street, Chapter 32 THE POLICE HAT’s all right, Mr. Bassett,” said Eli. “You been in my back room smokin’ my cigars. The furni- ture van is in the back yard.” “Have it brought right up against the back yard at once,” ordered Bassett. “An’ bring me a big sheet.” He called up the stairs to Barney and Chippy: “Come on, you fellers. You got to get away quick. The po lice may want to search this ‘ouse as well as next door.” Fatty’s plans were simple and efficient. Lake’s bound figure, wrapped in a big sheet, was thrust quickly into the covered back of the van; Barney and Chippy got in with him. Within a minute of the time when the men had entered the house, the furniture van glided away from the back door and was lost to sight in the traffic. Fatty sat down solemnly in Eli’s back room, lit a cigar, and began to take a great interest in a set of pewter tankards. Ruth, hidden behind the curtain in the house next door, heard the crash as the man Barney hit went through the window, and saw some- thing dark and heavy fall past the window of the room in which she was hiding. Very cautiously she peered through the window to see what it was. Lying on the pavement out- side the house was the body of a man. The crowd which had assem- bled round her car was now assem- bling round the fallen man, and growing in numbers every minute; from outside the house came a babel of excited conversation. Very softly she left the raom and peered up the stairs. She could hear nothing. For a moment she hes!- tated. Then, nerving herself deter- minedly for the effort, she mounted the stairs to the small landing. A door was open, and she stepped for- ward and looked into the room beyond. What she saw made her shrink back suddenly with a gasp of hor- ror. On the floor were lying the fig- ures of three men. Police whistles were blowing in the street; there was a sound of banging on the front door of the house. Ruth went back on to the landing outside the room. “Mr. Bassett! Mr. Bassett!” she called. But there was no answer. She was alone in the house with the three men lying on the floor of that room. Swiftly she descended the stairs. The front door was giving; ina mo ment it would burst open. She must not be found in that house. She went down the steps to the basement and crossed the kitchen to the back door. Luck was with her; no one was there. A few seconds later she was walking quickly, along the street away from the house. UT though she was free for the moment, she realized that she was in a terrible position. The po: lice would know’ she had been in the house when that man’s death took place; her car was still outside the front door. If only, she thought desperately. she could find Mahony: he would be able to tell her what she ought to do. Perhaps he would be at his rooms by now. She entered a tele phone-box and rang up his number, but his landlady told her he had not yet returned. At last she thought of a plan. A letter written and poste1 to Mahony now would reach him by the eve- ning post. She must write to him and tell him of her plight, and ask him to come and see her, She must also find a hiding-place where she could wait safely for him in case he did not get ver letterstil! e bought a packet of note-paper and envelopes, wrote a brief note to Ma- hony, and posted it. Near the post box was a large cinema, and at the sight of it she paused again. In or der to reach the house in St. John’s Wood she had practically to cross London. Mahony would not receive her letter before about nine that evening; if he came in late Le would not receive it till midnight or later. It would be safer for her, she re- flected, to cross London after dark than in broad daylight; in the mean- time she could remain fairly safely hidden inside that cinema. She bought a ticket and entered the darkness of the picture theater. With a sigh of relief, she sank into the softly cushioned seat. Here, for five or six hours, she would be safe. AHONY waited for about a cou- ple of hours in the empty house in St. John’s Wood Road where Lee- Ramsden had sent him. The time passed very slowly; he chafed at his inactivity. All the time he was won- dering what was happening, what Lawson was doing, and whether Bassett and his band of toughs would have had time to take advan- tage of the warning Lee-Ramsden was supposed to have sent them. It was about four in -he afternoon when he heard a sound of wheels on the gravel drive that led up to the house. Looking through the window he saw that a car had trawn up at the front door. Two men were dis- mounting from it, one of whom was carrying a suit-case, Thank heaven, thought Mahony, her» at last was his disguise. He went down and opened the front door. One of the men spoke to him. “Is your name Mahony?” he asked. “Yes,” answered Mahony. “I and my friend have been sent here with directions to disguise you so that no one can recognize you,” said the man. “Good. Come along inside,” in- vited Mahony. He showed them into the empty drawing-room. “Is this job going to take long?” he asked. “Half an hour or so,” answered the man. “It isn’t easy to disguise a man in a way that will defy detec tion. Now do you mind standing here, well in the light, and keeping quite still?” He stood in front of Mahony, look- ing him up and down, while his com- panion wandered restlessly about the room. “Stand quite still," he said. And as he spoke, he made a bad mistake. His glance left Mahony, staring over his shoulder at his com- panion, who was just behind Ma- hony. and there was an expression of tense excitement in his eyes that could not be accounted for by any interest he took in transforming Mahony’s appearance. Mahony turned sharply, moving slightly to one side. That movement just save him. The clubbed revolv- er, wielded by the man behind him, missed his head and struck him a glancing blow oz the shoulder. That blow hurt Mahony; it also angered him. It seemed to him that everywhere he went he encountered treachery, and he was fed up with it. With a sharp, vicious movement he brought over his right fist in a short hook, and all the strength of his anger and all the power of his right shoulder were behind the blow. It took the man who had just struck at him fairly on the angle of the jaw. With a heavy bump the man sprawled flat on his back. And then Mahony sprang at the other man; as he did so the man sprang to meet him. There was @ brief, fierce interchange of blows, each man hitting out with all his strength. The fight lasted avout twenty seconds. A tremendous right cross to the jaw followed by a left hook to the stomach ended it. Ma- hony’s opponent sank to the ground out for the count. Both his adversaries were, for the time being, out of action. He stepped quickly across the room, and opened the suit-case which they had brought. It contained nothing but a coil of strong rope. Mahony laughed a trifle grimly at that. He turned out the pockets of the two men, then tied them securely with the rope they had brought with which to tie him. There was nothing of any great interest in their pock- ets, but both men, he noticed, had cards of membership of the Golden Centipede Club. Evidently that club was used by nearly all Lawson's band of crooks, Leaving the two men tied up on the floor of the empty drawing- toom, he left the house. (Copyright. 1936, Hugh Clevely) Mahony gets informati rom Kennedy, tomorrows "which ‘sare LEADERS WILL N THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SEEMS AS THOUGH SOCIAL LEAGUE EVER END THEIR THREE-GAME CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Or Will Never Decide Winner Of Initial Con- test; Played 0-0 Game Yesterday It seems as though Sanitary De- partment and Coca-Cola will never finish Social their three-game League first-half championship series. Or should we say, they will not even determine the win- ner of the opening contest. For the third time in as many games no decision has been reached as to the victorious team of the initial contest of the series.. The | first attempt, made last week, was | called in the fourth inning on ac- |count of darkness. The second at- tempt, also made last week, was postponed because of rain. And the third try, yesterday afternoon, went the whole route but ended in ) a 0-0 tie. The contest yesterday also went |into one extra inning and after that was played, darkness again was the victor. Both pitchers, Ward and Han- cock, were in great form. Ward allowed but three hits and Han- cock went him one better, giving up only two safeties, Only three Healthers reached second base during the contest. Acevedo got there by doubling in the first frame, Caraballo on a walk and an error by Lewis in the fifth canto, and Molina in the sev- enth stanza on a walk and a field- er’s choice. The Soda Water boys had a num- ber of chances to score. They had runners on first and second in the first three innings, and in the fourth frame, runners had reach- ed third and second with no outs. Cates handled five assists and made two putouts in the field. Julius caught three flies in cen- ter, and Hancock handled six as-| sists in the box. For the Hea'thers, handled five assists, and Hale, Lopez and Hopkins played good. Cates was. credited with an in-} field hit and a single through third base in four times at bat. Lewis beat out a roller to short and bunted safely in four times at bat. For the Healthers, Acevedo | doubled in the first and Ward sin- gled in the fourth inning for the on’y hits off Hacock. Acevedo committed two errors and Lewis one. Cates stole a base. Ward struck out five and Hancock two. Ward walked three and Hancock two. Left on bases, | Healthers, 5; Soda Waters, 8. The eight innings wree played in one hour, Score by innings: R. H. E. Coca-Cola— % 000 000 00—0 4 1 Sanitary Department— * 000 600 00-—0 2°2 Batteries: Hanco¢k and lareal; Ward and Hopkins. Today’s ‘Birthdays troller of the Currency, born at N. H., novelist, born in St. Louis, 65 years ago. Fred A. Howland of Montpelier, Vt., insurance president, born at Franconia, N. H., 72 years ago. Lt. Com. Donald B. MacMillan of Provincetown, Mass., explorer, | j born there, 62 years ago. Hernandez , and. Vil- & James F. T. O’Connor, Comp-; Grand Forks, N. D., 50 yecrs ago. | Winston Churchill of Cornich, | ARMY DROPS OUT OF SOCIAL LEAGUE} A change has become necessary in the schedule of play for the sec- end-half of the Social League. The Army outfit has backed out of the race and only four clubs are! left. | Coca-Cola and Administration will play the first game and the Soda Fountain outfit will tackle Sanitary Department in the second contest. These games will be played Thursday and Friday of this week. : H i CHANGE IN CAGE PRACTICE GAMES In the future, the Army cage jteam will practice on Tuesday \nights and Busy Bees on Wednes- day nights. This leaves Thursday nights for First Methodist and Fri- day nights for the Park Tigers. The different clubs will use their own ball and before the sea- son gets under way, several exhi- bitions games will’ be played. The Island City Basketball |League, consisting of five clubs (the four above named and the High School varsity) will begin play early in December. eo7eerecceee CLASSIFIED COLUMN VOSCoeccccosvecceseeeses Advertisements under this head wili be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of 1c a word for each in- sertion, but the minimum for the first insertion in every instance is 25c. Payment for classified adver- tisements is invariably in advance, but regular advertisers with ledger accounts may have their advertise- ments chargea. 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Ma- and Duval streets. nov10-2tx WANTED ae Pees Cementiee aN TES VETTE WANTED—Assistant” truek' dit, er and general helper. Must hav: good reference. Apply in per] son. Cabrera Wholesale Grd+ cery Co. nov10-1t FEMALE HELP WANTED LEAGUE LEADERS WILL TRY AGAIN ! This afternoon, Sanitary De- }partment ‘and Coca-Cola, leaders in the Social League at the end of play in the first-half. will make another attempt this afternoon to determine which team will win the opening of the three-game championship series of which three tries have already been made. The contest will start at 5 o’clock, The same line-ups as used yes- terday will be on the field today. PEOPLE'S FORUM | Pececccvccvvecocsecosses LE STYLE, C’EST L’HOMME | Editor, The Citizen: Your worth-while editorial, “Don’ts for Wr.ters” is brief but to the point. Too much advise is offered beginners in this art, about “copy-desk” methods” and the '“techniqugsin modern journalism.” If your wh@le idea in writing is to get in the “big money” I fear for your future. There are p'enty of smart boys, but to write is a labor of love and synthetic writer’s stuff is the same as spitting in the wind’s eye as far as his fame is ‘concerned. The best set of rules {we have run across concerning lit- jerary high-lights is from the hand jot Ernegt,.Hemingway, in a past issue of ‘‘Esquire.” You get the ideare: t itigeall about from = man WI ‘his own style —which is what every writer |should aim for. The best invest- ment for a potential De Maupass-+ ' ant “tsa_ second-hand typewriter. “qe achine is alright after the} epted but I have} knowtt fiteurs to badly bend their Coronas. Key West is ideal to cultivate the muse, whether of brush or pen, for I note that no- body is ever in a hurry here and a writer must ripen lazily. 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