The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 12, 1936, Page 3

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1936. The Wrong Murderer SYNOPSIS: At least the excité- ‘ment of the last few hours has con- vinced Terence Mahony that Lee- Ramaden, Ruth Frasers guardian, és in league with Ambrose Lawson and Lawson's vicious gang. But Ruth, in trying to help Terence Sight Lawson. has got herself in bad With the police: Terence himself is suspected of a murder he did not commit. Now he has arranged with Fatty Bassett to administer drugged champagne to the patrons of the notorious Golden Centipede club—for a reason he does not ex plain to Fatty. Chapter 34 DINNER WITH ELSA ig WAS soon after six when Ma- hony left Bassett and returned to Clarkford’s. There he interviewed an assistant, obtained a few tizs about means of disguising himself, and bought the materials necessary for @ disguise. After that he returned to his lodgings and changed into eve- Bing clothes for his dinner appoint- ment with Elsa Little. At half past seven he rang the front door-bell of Elsa’s house. His heart was beating faster than usual as he waited for his ring to be an- swered. Elsa was wearing a white semi-evening frock of a soft, silky Material that had the effect of en- By HUGH CLEVELY “Oh!” said Elsa in a horrified tone. She shrank back slightly from Lim. She Lad been hoping for that admission, planning for it, and now that she aao it, it came to her with 4all the force of a’ sudden stunning shock. “This is how it happened.” weat on Mahony. “I heard, cuit. by acci- dent, that there was likely to be a plan to kidnap you at Albert Hall that night. I decided to interfere. I saw you kidnapped, ana got you away from the kidnappers, and took you home. “Your uncle let me into the house, and I carried you into his study. He ‘ollowed me in. While I was putting you down on the sofa, with my back to the door, a man hidden behind the door stabbed your uncle in the back and ran out of the house. I tried to do what I could for your uncle, but he was dead. “Then someone ranz the front door-bell. 1 went to the window and saw a policeman outside. I decided that I'd better get away quickly, and { got away.” “And who was the... the: man you say you saw kill my uncle?” asked Elsa in a half-whisper. Mahony. “I didn’t see his face at all.” sere oe ee | “So glad you could come,”-said Elsa. hancing her fair slim loveliness. She smiled in a friendly manner at Ma- hony and held out ber hand. “I'm so glad you could come,” she said. “I was afraid you might be too busy You'd like a cocktail, wouldn't you?” Before dinner, and luring dinner. they chatted on ordinary topics, and never once did she refer to the mur. der, or the events which followed the murder. With all the skill of a consummate actress playing a diffi- cult part faultlessly, she set herself out to please him and make him like her and trust her. Mahony was no mug. But it did not even occur to him that her change of attitude might be mere pretence. Since he knew himself to be innocent of her uncle’s murder, it did not strike him as unnatural that she should have come to believe in his innocenc: Elsa, an actress conscious of the reactions of her audience, was aware that Mahony was responding to her skilful pretence. That pleased her, and, in a way, displeastt her. Every now and then she felt that it was rather hateful to be pretending like this, making up to a man with the idea of luring him on to’bis own: de- struction. FTER dinner they returned to} the drawing-room for coffee, and there Elsa made her first reference to the murder. “It's funny | should have thought it was your voice I heard in the room that ... that awful night when my uncle was killed,” she said hesitat: ingly. “Bui now | kuow you better i... 1 feel that éven if it had been your voice 1 should be sure you hadn’t committed the murder. I think Ruth was right when she said that you're not the kind of man who would stab anybody in the back.” Mahony could hold out no longer. He had always hated deceiving her, ani now the impulse to tell her the truth assailed hi.o with over-master- } ing force. in the room when yoate is killed,” he said quie ’s Birthdays U.S. _ Warren R. Aust-! in of Vermeft, born at Highgate, Vt., 59 years ago. a Anne Parrish (Mrs. Charles Corliss) of New York City, novel- ist, borm at ‘Colorado Springs, Colo.,_ 48 yeals ago. $—_— William Cbiier of Bevericy _ “Hy | atte: et wv N AHONY hesitated for a fraction +" of a second. Tha’ was a question | which he simply could not answer jtruthfully. Billy Ross, his dead | friend, had been in iove with Elsa. The thing he would nave hated most would be for Elsa to learn -of -his criminal past. Mahony could not be- tray the secret, even to Elsa. ‘i heard some men talking In a railway carriage,” he answered: “I was standing in the corridor. Rither they didn’t notice ne, o: they didn't realize that | could hear what they were saying. I didn’t take it- very seriously at first; I thought it was probably a joke. Then when I heard that there had been a lot of kidnap- bing cases lately, I decided to go along to the Albert Hall and see what happened.” “Then where does Ruth come into it? Whery did you first meet her?” demanded Elsa. “After 1 got away from here, I met one of the men who'd been re sponsible for the attempt to kidnap you. I remembered reading in a pa- per that Miss Fraser was missing from home. and guessed that the same gang had kidnapped her. I made the man I met tell me where they’d taken her.” A slight smile touched Mahony’s lips. “I'm afraid I treated him rather roughly,” he went on. “I got Miss Fraser away from them, and took her home. : didn’t tell her my name, or anything about the attempt to kid- nap you. Next morning, when she stuck up for me to the police, it didn’t occur to her that I might have been here before I rescued her. Even now she doesn’t know that [ was here that night.” “Why did she tell that story about staying with a friend in the coun try?” asked Elsa. She was frowning a little, as if puz zied. But she was no longer acting. Mahony’s story had gripped her at- tention. Almost against her will, she was beginning to think he might be s~eaking the truth. (Copyright. 1936, Hugh Clevely) dia you find ou’ that the it to kidnap me was going to de?” she asked. Ruth's letter ts morrow. but oy a Pp. | Hills, Calif., old-time actor and playwright, born in New York, 68 years ago. j Dr. William S. Washington, D. C., noted Baptist clergyman, born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 664 years ago. Thomas B. McAdams of Balti- more, banker, born there, 57 years ago. Subscrioe to The Citizen—20c weekly, “I only just glimpsed his back go- | ing through the doorway.” answered ; Abernethy of ' PITCHING OF WARD FEATUR.| ED CONTEST; GAVE UP BUT FIVE RUNS AND ALLOWED! NO RUNS Sanitary Department won the ‘championship of the Social Dia- maton Jeague’s first-half yes- paaaes, afternoon at aoe Park. H The pitching of Ward featured lhe game. He whitewashed Coca- j Cola, allowing just five safeties. | Final score was 6 to 0. ! Errors again were the downfail| jof the Soda Water boys, who com-| }mitted six. | In the opening frame, three hits! jand three errors gave the Health-| ,ers three runs, In the fifth inning, the victers! 'duplicated their act of the first! j canto, shoving over three more on; itwo hits and three errors. Ward was also outstanding at! |pat. He connected for two sin-/| igies in three times up. F. Lopez,! {with two out of four, was the next ! |best hitter of the game. Emil Sawyer started on the} mound for Coca-Cola and pitched | to only seven batters. He left; three men on bases and but one | out. Hancock relieved him and; j Was touched for two hits, walked {two and struck out one before the! inning ended. In all, Hancock al- lowed seven hits. Ward struck out four and walk- ed three, In the field, Hancock and Saw-! yer played excellent for the los- ers, and J. Garcia, Gabriel and Acevedo for the winners. The victory yesterday was the second in a row for Sanitary De-! partment in the three-game se-! ries. Four attempts had been |made to decide the victor of the} jopening game. Twice the contest} was called because of darkness—} the first time in the fourth in- ning and the second at the end of | the eighth with the score 0-0—and} once postponed beci.use of rain. | The fourth try was successful with the Healthers coming out on top. Score by innings of yesterday’: contest: R. H. E./ Coca-Cola . 000 000 0—0 5 6; Sanitary Department— 300 030 x—6 9 0 Batteries: E, Sawyer, Hancock and F, Villareal; Ward and Hop- kins, wereceooesseoes PEOPLE'S FORUM Pecccccccccccsccseooonos URGES ELIMINATION i OF CORRUPT ELEMENT \ Editor, The Citizen: When prosperity comes to Key West, when cars roll in over the new highway and new ships dock} and big buildings replace old structures rapidly, will Key West keep her head? Or will\her head! be turned as the once beautiful Miami Beach’s was, and corrup-| tion seep through from the under-| world and the fly-by-nights of the/ North come to roost here? It is! ‘not unreasonable to predict that} wealth will come quickly, as) |vapidly, even, as it came to Mi-) ami. The pre-boom “Magic City” j Was a straggling town until the | Dixie Highway cut the path that was to bring all the states to her door. But here there is even} ;More charm, greater _ possibility! for a small and well-balanced jcity. Shall it be spoiled by the; intrusion of the slum elements of} New York and Chicago, as was Miami Beach? One of the very; }reasons why you may _ expect ; many people of substance to come {here to reside will be that Key! | West offers escape from the Coney Island that Miami Beach has be-! come. Anybody who is fond of the! wonderful fishing opportunities} | this city affords will follow. the! jexample of Mr. Hemingway and’ others who found here the sort of! community for living abundantly.| | Rest Beach and the Roosevelt} j boulevard, a fresh sweep of sea and land, will soon throng with |tourists and hum with the din of! , building and now is the time, to! | safeguard the future of Key West by discouraging the wrong kind of purchasers. The choice of the’ Island City 'as an important link in air and/ jocean transportation i between; Cuba and the islands will ne} \turally follow. Where land is |timited it will be valuable and} here we stand on the threshold of| ind immediate needs of Key West, are adequate water and sewage™ jmaking but include THE KEY WEST CITIZEN [SANITARY DEPARTMENT WON SOCIAL LEAGUE'S FIRST-HALF CHAMPIONSHIP CAGE LEAGUE TO GET UNDER WAY ON DECEMBER 1 FIVE CLUBS READY FOR AC- TION; TEAMS PRACTICING EVERY AFTERNOON AT SCHOOL GYMNASIUM The Island City League will get under way Decem- Basketball ber 1. The five clubs that have enter- ed the league are out practicing every afternoon and they are in The Army five has a good bunch of players and to the writer it seems they are a little out of prac- tice but will be going strong by the time league play begins. Busy Bees are a good team and fast. They inclule Rosam, Fred Mathews, Jack Thompson, F. Car- bonell and Cooper. The Park Tigers, last year’s champs, are minus two of their players, Dopp and Albury, but have added two other basketball- ers who may come through for them. Remaining on the Tigers from last year are Cates, Hale, Smith, Johnson, Becaisse. First Methodist is just in the some very good players—E. Pinder, Allen Curry, Joe Pinder, Archer, Rob- erts and a few others who played basketball years ago. The High Schoo! five, with Wickers, J. V. Woodson, Saunders, Domenech and Jock Lopez from last year and three or four new piayers who have made the varsity this year, will have a club to com- pete with any of them. So far no girls’ teams have been organized but it is sincerely hop- ed that at least two or three quin- tets will get together and play this coming season. The High School could form a team, the Convent and an inde- pendent outfit. Start the ba!l rolling, girls! systems, steps towards which are underway, and the banishment of mosquitoes (as was done in Colon, Panama Canal Zone). Wide and mutual benefits will come te Florida’s other cities through the addition of picturesque Key West to the list of points on the high- way South, In all progr there is a grow- ing responsibility evolving on members of a community to keep it clean. “We have seen what hap- pens when outside elements take over a city and abuse it for per- sonal gain. It is to be hoped that Key West will keep her head, and enjoy full measure of the patron- age she so well deserves, Respectfully C. GROVER FLINT. Key West, Florida, Nov. 11, 1936. LEGALS . LEGAL NOTICE Pursuant to Chapter 15891, Laws of Florida, the undersigned will re- ceive until 10:00 a. m., E. S. T., on Wednesday, November 25, 1936, at the Governor's Office in Tallahassee, Florida, sealed offerings of ma- tured ‘or unmatured Road and Bridge, Highway, or Refunding Bonds of MONROE COUNTY, FLOR- IDA. All offerings submitted MUST BE FIRM FOR TEN DAYS SUBSE- QUENT TO THE DATE OF OPEN- ING, i. e., through December 5, 1936, and must state. full name, de- scription and serial numbers of bonds, interest rate, date of issue, date of maturity, and price asked. Bonds that are in de- fault of interest must be offered at a FLAT price, which price shall be anderstood to be the price asked bonds WITH ALL OF PAST DUE, DEFAULTED OR UNPAID COU- PONS ATTACHED, and is hereby given that if any coupons have been detached prior to delivery of any bonds accepted ndjor purchased hereunder, the face value of such missing, coupons will be deducted from purchase price; and offerings must be submitted on this basis. Sealed envelope containing such offerings shall plainly state on its face that it is a proposal for the sale of Monroe County bonds. The right is reserved to reject any and all offerings or portions of offerings. STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRA- TION OF FLORIDA, David Sholtz, Governor, as Presi- dent, J. M. Lee, State Comptroller, Secretary, ‘W. V. Knott, State Treasurer, as Treasurer. novi2-it FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half Century _ Licensed Embaimer Phone 135 LEGALS NOTICE OF MASTER’S SALE Notice is hereby given that un- der and by virtue of a certain or- der and decree of foreclosure and sale made and entered on the 22d day of October, A. D. 1936, in_and by the Circuit Court of the Elev- enth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, in and for Monroe Coun- ty, Florida, in Chancery, in a cause | therein pending wherein First N: tional Bank of Key West, a cor- poration organized under the laws of the United States, is plaintiff, and J. Roland Adams, Constance Irene Adams, Benjamin N. Mary Adams Lowe, Charl Jackson Grain Company, a corpora- tion organized under the laws of the State of Florida, and Southern Dairies, Inc., a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Florida, are defendants, foreclosure of mortgage, the undersigned Spe- cial Master in Chancery will offer for sale and will sell at public out- ery, for cash in hand, to the high- est and best bidder at the front game S. Lowe, | boys, door of the County Court House of Monroe County, Florida, in the City of Key West, Monroe County, Flor- lida, during the legal hours of sale, on Monday, the 7th day of Decem- ber, A. D. 1936, the following de- scribed land, viz: In the State of Florida, Coun- ty of Monroe, and the City of Key West, and is known on the Key West Realty Company's Subdivision sumber 1 of tract 21, and Salt Pond Lots num- bered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 3, as Lot Number 8’ in’ Block 6, ac- cording to a diagram of said subdivision recorded in Plat Book 1, page 43, Monroe Coun- ty, Florida, Records and more | particularly described as fol- lows: | Commencing at the SW. corner of Staples Avenue and Sixth Street and running in a Westerly direction along Stap- les Avenue Seventy-Four (74) p. m. That made te inches; thence at right angles in a Southerly direction One Hundred (100) feet to an Alley; thence at right angles in an Easterly directiqgn along said ixty Feet (60) two and one-third inches (2 1-3); thence in a Northerly direction along Sixth Street One Hundred (100) feet to the point of beginning. 936. 8 Clerk In the State of Florida, County of Monroe, and on the Island of Upper Matecumbe, and being a part of Govern- ment Lots Two (2) and Three (3) in Section Thirty-Two (325 Township Sixty-three (63), South of Range 37 East, and a part of Lot One (1) ‘Section Five (5), Township Sixty-four (64), South of Range 37 East, and better known as Lot (4) on a_map or plat of a § of the above made by Geo. bdivision described Lots E. McDonald, C. NOTICE be issued thereon. embraces the following roperty Lot 1, Twp. 65, Re. 24, 5% A B-3, The assessment of said pr under the said property sold to the highest court- day in the 1936, which is the cember, 1936. Dated this 29th day (SEAL) County, JOE THE CITIZEN OFFICE —_—_——___ SECOND-HALF PLAY’ WILL BEGIN TODAY Coca-Cola will play Administra- tion this afternoon in first Social the of play in the League’s second-half schedule. Batteries will be “Speedball” Adams,| Roberts and Goss for the Office and Julius “Dodo” Villa- real and his brother, Floyd, for the | Tomorrow, Administration will tackle Sanitary Department. Both of these games thrillers from start to finish. Each fracas will start at 4:45 will be ——— NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR, TAX DEED (Senate Bill Ne. 163) Is HEREBY Bernice M. Goetz, Tax Certificate No. 1 3ra@ day has filed same in my office an of September. application for a tax 4 Said ce des in the County of Mc to wit: Key of Florida, Channel Pages 320 and certificate redeemed according t described ther bidder house door on the first of Dec 7th day month of Oct Ross C Sawyer of Circuit urt of Mon Florida. oct no} "ALLEN | Notary Public t the tables of millones. Gid Quaker has careed 2 ple of bonor—becaux « 5 Ole Gam that has handed w a8 Amen E. recorded in Plat County, Book 1, Monroe Flor- page 41, ecords. ida, Ri Commencing at a point dis- tant Four Hundred and Sixty- Five (465) feet S. W ly from the N. E. boundary line of said Lot Four (4) at the intersection of the shore lin thence in a S W Two Hundred (200) the shore line of Ocean; thence at right angles in a N. Wly direction Three nd running direction feet along the Atlantic a barre! of quainy wuthoer Gere ing 2 barrel of money’ Aad sow Old Quaker bands ou 2 eee Hoot Gibson in barrel of quaisty thas ews — 50% FRONTIER JUSTICE . Comedy and Serial ee: 5-10c; Night: 10-15< more age—but sot 2 single penny more i prace Sutreducc vourseti wo Otc Qumcr be ox Hundred (300) feet; thence at right angles in a N. E.’ly direc- ion Two Hundred (200) e at right angi y direction Thr G feet ginning. parian ing. T singular ments, tio feet; in a S. Hundred to the point of be- Toget with all ri- rights thereto belong- all and heredita- appur- premises anywise ap- D. 1936. URRY HARRIS, aster in Chancery LONE, ntiff. Special WILLIAM H. Solicitor for I (Sei NOTICE That Bernice M. Goetz, Tax Certificate No. 150, issued the 4th day of June, A. D. 1917, has filed same in my office and’ has made application for a tax deed to be issued thereon. Said certificate embraces the following described property in the County of Monroe, State of Florida, to wit: Lot 1, Channel Key, Sec. 9, Twp. 65, Re. 34, 6 12-100 Acres, Book Z, Page 293. The assessment of said property under the said certificate issued was in the name of St. Clair and Amelia Crain. Unless said certificate shall be redeemed according to law, the property described therein will be sold to the highest bidder at the court-house door on the first Mon- day in the month of December, 1936, which is the 7th day of De- cember, 1936. Be say this 29th day of October, (SEAL) Ross C Sawyer Clerk of Circuit Court of Monroe County, Florida. oct 29; nov5-12-19 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED (Senate Bill No. 163) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Bernice M. Goetz, holder of Tax Certificate No. 131, issued the 3rd day of June, A. D. 1913, has filed same in my office and has made application for a tax deed to be issued thereon. Said certificate embraces the following described property in the County of Monroe State of Florida, to wit: ts , Knights Key, Sec. 17, Twp. 66, Re. 32, 45 Acres, Book W, Page 612. The assessment of said property under the said certificate issued was in the name of Amelia Crain. 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