The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 16, 1936, Page 3

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, The Wrong Murderer 1936. _— By HUGH CLEVELY SYNOPSIS: Terence 4ahony has conceived a strange plan to trick Ambrose Lawson and his gang, kidnappers and dope runners He has provided himself with an enor- mous quantity of drugged cham- agne. and he plans to put every- ody in Lawson's favorite night elub sound asleep including Law- son himself. He has also brought along some thugs. who are taking care of the front and back en- trances of the club—and he hopes devoutly that the evening will pro- vide a clue to the whererbouts of Ruth Fraser, who has tried to help Mahony, and got herself into trou- Chapter 37 LAWSON ‘HE ugly intruder carefully bolted the club door so that nobody else could come in. Then with expert fin- gers he securely bound and gagged the commissionaire. Mahony and his followers made their way unsteadily to the middle of the dance floor, and placed their big bottles down with the exagger- ated carefulness of drunken men. Everybody looked at them. Mahony stood up, swaying slightly, and spoke. “Ladiesh 'n’ gentlemen. Todaysh my birthday. Wan’ you all to have a drink with me.” From the tables round the dance floor came a sound of laughter and cheering. The secretary of the club came forward angrily. in a last punch which finished the fight. Lawson fell, bringing over the; table in bis fall, and Mahony and| Ai few of the boys were unable his gang of toughs were left in com- jto play golf Thursday on account mand of a night club containing be FS tween fifty and sixty unconscious | °f they shad ee ee people. ‘few of the other boys just were Mahony would have liked to spend | Unable to play go'f, try hard as some time in that club, searching the ‘they might. But they report hav- premises and all the people in it./ing a good time just the same, He did not do so because of the | what with all the remarks passed urgency of Ruth’s danger. jabout their respective golf form, But certain things had to be done. {ability and so on. He gave directions to his band of ruffians to put out all burning cigaret | ends and to extinguish all the! Mr. Bascom Grooms, who is kitchen stoves. While this.was being ' generally conceded tu be an easy done he went to the club telephone! ark for all other electric em- we se | ployes. (but they don’t te!l him “1 want you to give a message at | where he can hear), showed a once to Inspector Kennedy,” he said. | couple of his friends just how to ‘while Al Hewitt came along with Centipede Club at once. he'll see; = something that will give hima shock, |®" ¢ven 50. Another gentleman And if he'll search the club, and; Who has failed to indulge in the everybody in it, he may possibly find ; usual sport got lost on the first out something about the dope and | several holes and when he finish- blackmailing gang he’s so inter- jed he had a total of 60 strokes ested in.” ! which was enough to almost put With the help of one of his ruf-,2 frown on the otherwise hand- fians he swiftly bound and gagged jsome face of Mr. Freddy Ayala. Lawson, carried him down the stairs,| But afterward it was another (By GRAVY) Seccccccccccoccocooocece and pushed him into one of the |story since Freddy beat the other waiting cars. Half a minute later !two on the last round. |, Mr.'Cookie Mgsa lost his shirt ;to Charlie Ketchum and Mr. Earl | Julian was busy showing his Uncle }}Willié’ how to hit the ball but in “I don’t want your damned wine,” said Lawson. “What's the meaning of this fool- ery?” he demanded. “You can't bring your pwn drink into this club.” Mahony blinked at him. “Whatsh good of shaying I can’t bring my own drink into thish club when you can shee I've brought it in?” he asked. “Thish feller says you can’t have drink with me on my birthday. What you all say?” They were all in favor of drinking Mahony’s champagne. They said as much, loudly. “'m willing to pay for use of glashes,” Mahony declared. “Tell waiter to bring table and pour out drink. Everybodysh getting thirsty.” Rather ill-humoredly the secretary took the five-pound note and com- plied with Mahony’s order. “Take shome wine to the band; take shome to kitchen sthaff; every- bodysh got to drink on my birthday,” he ordered drunkenly. . Gradually the wine went round to all the tables; the waiters, kitchen staff, and band all had their glasses. Mahony lurched across the floor to- ward Lawson's table. the two cars were away, bound for the East End. Ata rendezvous in Canning Town he was met by Bassett and Slippy, the little bow-legged man. There he paid off his band of ruffians and they departed rejoicing to rejoin their ship. By daybreak they would be out on the open sea, The two cars were stowed away in a small garage, and Lawson was taken into a little office behind the garage. Five minutes after Mahony and his band of toughs had left the Golden Centipede, the police, led by Inspector Kennedy, arrived hot foot in a police car. As Mahony had Promised, the sight of the interior of that club gave the Inspector a shock; he had never seen anything like it in his life before. But he did not lose his head; immediately he grasped the situation he began to issue swift orders over the telephone. Great interest was aroused that night in Soho, and a crowd col. lected in the narrow streets to watch what was to all intents and purposes the meantime was doing consider- ‘able’ ‘structaral damages to the various portions of the golf course hich dre meant to be impervious ito all golf playing. Mr. Russell Kerr and Mr. Wi!- iliam Pious Watkins ganged up on 'Samuella Goldsmith and came out {@ the topside of a nice score but {Mr. Willie failed to make as few shots as Mr. Kerr and thereby did jnot have a cup running over as he | might have wished. The four horsemen who also had Johnny Kirschenbaum going along | were able to play 16 holes but how {they kept track of which holes they were playing was as much a mystery to them as anybody. They started in on number 6 but wound up on number 9. Due to all this meandering Mr. Charlie Salas got 42 strokes, which was three bet- ter than either Hurticane Eddie er Doc Willie Penababe but was a lot better than Melvin Russell jbut not much better than the two tholes Kirsch turned in. After the first round, you couldn’t tell what the scores were or how they were jmade but all played the last hole: in the dark which accounts for manyg strokes that were not . ac- counted for and if you don’t. be- lieve me, just ask one of the play- ers. ‘CAGE MEETING ‘there will be a basketball yaedt- ing Tuesday night at recreation Hall. All managers or captains of _ TUESDAY NIGHT, 8 p%lock at} jthe First Methodist ‘ape church | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | ADMINISTRATION PLAYS COCA-COLA | ETERNAL RIVALS, SODA WA- TERS AND HEALTHERS, MEET TOMORROW | i This afternoon at Bayview Park ithe Administration outfit will play Coca-Gola. in their first. game of the second-ha’f. Batteries wilh be Speelbal! Rob- erts and Goss for the Office boys jand the famous Villareal brothers for the Soda Water gang. The contest is scheduled to get| under way at 4:30 o’clock. Play-; ers are requested to be on time. j Tomorrow «afternoon at the park the eternal rivals, Coca-Coia and Sanitary. Department, will cross bats. The Healthers won the first-half and-are out to clinch this half. However, the Beverage out- fit claim that they will capture ithe second-half honors. | Hancock, «the no-hit, no-run | pitcher, wi!l be on the mound for ithe Soda Waters, and Gates or {Ward for the Cleanliness boys. | PEOPLE'S FORUM secccecesccoesovsoosooes | DON’TS: AND DO’S FOR WRITERS | ' Editor, The Citizen: | To the worthwhile editorial, |“Don’ts for® Writers”, and C. G. | Flint’s praise of it, may I be al-j lowed to add the following: The style must depend on the subject and circumstances. A cer- tain reporter started in a newspa- per office to write elegantly. Fre- quently the editor met him with unprintable language, adding, “Cut out the educated stuff. Dumb it down.” : Even in other compositions sim- plicity is to be sought for. Henry Newman, master of English, when asked in 1870 by a group of stu- dents for advice in writing dis- !courses, replied, “A man must ‘creep before he can fy. Use un- | derstandable language. He who jtries to say exactly what he feels or thinks, . .what his subject de- jmands, will be eloquent, without intending it.” , “Preference must be given to jthe short, simple Anglo-Saxon word,” says Grenville Kleiser in his ‘ chapter ‘How to build up a vocabu- ary.” “Do not.-aim at word- {hunting or Sesquipedalian lan- guage. Edmund Burke frequent- ily discloses this fault in his speech- ‘es. ‘The ¢harm of the Gettysburg dress lies chiefly in its simpli- lcity of language, which Lincoln, jself-made man, had cu'tivated in his‘ dictionary habit in early days.” The occasion helps. What pro- iced “Maryland” worked inte- riorly in Randall: the expression. jless night, he arose and dashed off the poem. | /A KEY WEST CITIZEN. PALACE Randolph Seott-Heather Angel | —in— i THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS ‘Low ... flowed, as when during a sleep-j | Highest Lowest . Mean Normal Mean . _Rainfatt- - Yesterday’s Precipitation .0 Ins. Normal Precipitation .06 Ins, “Thin record covers 24-hour period ending at-8 o'clock thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrises 6:45 a. m. Sun sets . m2. Moon rises .- m. . m. 32, 11:21 4:40) High: ...... Barometer 8 A. M. today: Sea level, 30.15. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 8 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair} and continued cool tonight; Tues- day fair and somewhat warmer; moderate to fresh northerly winds, diminishing somewhat and becom- ing northeast. Florida: Fair and cold tonight with light to heavy frost in extreme north and scat- tered light frost in low places in interior of central portion, pos- bly as far south as the Lake Okeechobee region; Tuesday fair with rising temperature. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate to fresh northerly winds, diminishing some- aie Today's Anniversaries fink By LE MARS 1753—James McHenry, soldier] secccecccesssecesecesess of the Revolution, one of the fram-|.,. atti ers of the Constitution, Maryland 4] statesman, Secretary of War un-} der the first two Presidents, born in Ireland. Died in Baltimore, May 3, 1816. 1798—Persifor F. Smith, New Orleans: lawyer, a noted American | soldier in the Seminole and Mexi- can Wars, born in Philadelphia. Died May 17, 1858. 1811—John bright, Britain's famed Radical Quaker statesman, born. Died March 27, 1889. 1823—Henry Gassaway Davis. West Virginia’s U. S. senator and railroad builder, born in Balti- more. Ded March 11, 1916. 1827—Charles Eliot Norton, Harvard’s famed scholar and au- continued | thority on Dante and art, born at} Cambridge, Mass. Died there, {Oct. 21, 1908. | 1852—Minnie Hauk, dramatic | soprano, vorn in New York. Died abroad, Feb.'6, 1929. i 1861—Lemuel H. Murlin, presi- what and becoming northeast, and|dent of Baker University, Kans.,/ weather fair tonight and Tues- day. WEATHER CONDITIONS The disturbance that was over east-central Canada Saturday morning moved eastward, and is central this morning over the Canadian Maritime Provinces, and pressure is low over New Eng- land, Boston, Mass., 29.50 inch- es, with gales resulting on the north and ‘middle Atlantic coast, New York City reporting 52 miles an hour from the northwest. The western high pressure area ha: moved eastward to the Mississip- pi Valley, Little Rock, Ark., 30.50 inches, and overspreads most sec- tions of the cvuntry from the Plains States eastward, except New Eng'and, and generasly fair weath- er has prevailed throughout these districts during the last 24 hours, the only measurable precipitation and Boston University, born in| Mercer Co., Ohio. Died June 20,/ being light snow in portions of the | North Atlantic States. Tempera-! tures have fallen from the middl and lower Mississipp Valiey cast-| rd, with freezing as far south | as northern Georgia, and have ris-{ en somewhat in the northern Plains States and extreme upper Mississippi Valle: Temperatures range :t 8 a. m. this morning from 20 degrees at Duluth, Minn., to 66 degrees at Key West. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. || MONKOE THEATER Joe E. Brown-Joan Blondell ieee SONS 0’ GUNS Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- tra, 15-20c; Night: 15-25¢ i born between OCTOBER 22 TO nO VEMBER 20 SCARPIO.—k: endows the sab jects born during this period with |= mind, at the same ume shrewd. fickle, capricious, dreamy pect ical and often religieusiy meimed; temper 1s ficty and casily ateus ed, somewhat rough and ever =o — lent, but never unkindly so; skew Seen to move to anger, but mever te fer- i cag give; they keep 2 deep fecimg of ee Wann@y eee © oct oem we jresentment. They are skilful end S82 Gah oo © Sum Tae patient in all kinds of work, are —— es fond of country pleasures 225. Giup eee Octs gee eens fhe Se ) withal, a thirst for heners toa JOE ALLEN | many will be their friends; they, Netary Pama : | will asso nave enemies meng thet jdaily associates, both secu! and = business. Scarpio people ave = | ways well provected £ om accotest: or attacks. Long journeys wil be undertakes both by imme anc sea but will net be particularly Ser + KEY WEST COLONIAL HOTEL the Center of tue Busnes end Theater Dusumc First Ciass—Frrepsei— Senso Ree Garage THE COTIZES OF FE SOMNVELLE FLORIDA : bb SQUARE DEAL RESTAURANT ALFRED KNOWLES, Prop. 1020 Fleming Street —Our Specialty— Let us prepare a ACTIVITY IN REAL ESTATE WILL BE THE RESULT WHY NOT INVEST NOW BEFORE PRICES ADVANCE DELICIOUS LUNCH clubs are requested fo be present} favitis meeting as matters of much Comedy and Short Reel “Drink up, ole cocky,” he said.| 4 fleet of ambulances were See For you to take on your next Lasge See: Graces the Goldén Centipede Cinb; Don’ be a spoil shport on my birth- day.” “I don’t want your damned wine, and I’m not going to drink it,” said Lawson. Mahony smiled. “Just as you like.” he said. “There are more ways of killing a cat than by drowning it in cham- pagne.” Lawson looked up in a startled manner and then sprang to his feet. | Peed @ moment Lawson simply stared at the club, full of sleep- ing people, thunderstruck by what he saw. Then he uttered a lurid oath, and his hand flashed to the side pocket of his dinner-jacket. But Ma. hony was too quick for him; the noise of revolver fire was the one thing which he wished to avoid. Like a panther he sprang across the table. and slap, slap. slap his fists thudded in quick succession into Lawson’s face. A spurt of red eame from Lawson’s mouth as his lip split; he flung up one hand in a feeble effort to protect himself from that smashing, relentless attack; move body after body. The Inspector and Sergeant Daw- kins remained in the club. They stayed there a long time, prying, searching, examining. What they found interested them greatly. and then Mahony’s right came over MN AHONY placed Lawson’s uncon- scious figure in a chair in the little office behind the garage. His first action was to go through Lawson’s pockets. As he had an- ticipated, he found nothing in them that was in the slightest degree in- criminating. But he found what he was looking for—a bunch of keys. He handed the keys to Bassett. “1 want an impression taken of all these keys; take it in wax, or soap, or anything that’s handy,” ordered. “And get a move on, cause I want it done before h covers consciousness.” While this was being do Ma- hony replaced all the articles Be had taken from Lawson in the gocket: in which he had found (Copyright. 1936, Hugh © Te Lawson make: morrow. Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company Erfective December 22nd, 193! S. S. CUBA Leaves Port Tampa on Sundays and Wedyf P. M. arriving Key West 7 A. M. Mondays a Lea: West’ Mondays and Thurgida: wes. 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