The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 22, 1937, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937. SYNOPSIS: Wealth:, flashy Prescott Fanning kidnaps Janet, a Baltimore girl, aboard his yacht. She sends word to Neul, a young federal agent «sho loves her. Rushing to Absalom’s Har- bor, ie boards the yacht and finds, in'a locked cabin, Fanning shot deird*axd Janet in a-faint, a gun bekide. her.Neill rows her to the distigedlinezs’kept-up the river and tides fer in therBest suite. Back“at the village’hotel, he re- sumes his fisherman role to watch developments. The village is hos- terically excited over the muticy. Button Billings, justice of th peace, is called. H Chapter 15 Blood On Your Knee TALL gaunt old man in de- cent Sunday blacks came down the companionway behind Neill and pushed through with an air of authority. He had a thin gray beard that waved with every movement and an expression of grim piety. He looked like a pic- ture out of an old book. This was Mr. Button Billings, justice of the peace. Neill breathed a little easier. No special danger here. As a matter of fact, as soon as Mr. Billings entered the after cabin a conflict of authority arose. “What's this? What’s this?” he wanted to know. “Why didn’t you wait for me?” Virgil looked at‘Hitn with a mix- ture of respect and exasperation. He tossed his badly chewed coger through the porthole and stuck a fresh one in his mouth. “We are just looking into the evidence, Mr. Billings.” “That is my job.” Virgil let him have his way. Mr. Billings stood in the middle of the cabin stroking his shaven upper lip, looking down at the body, looking all around. He frowned at the stricken steward on the sofa. “Did he do it?” he asked Virgil. The man jumped up with a cry. “No, sir! No! It was me who found ne He was stiff and cold then. Mr. Billings silenced him with a wave of the hand. “All in good time. We’ll sit on him first.” “That’: not the way they do it,” Virgil burst out. “They collect the evidence first, and then hold the inquest.” “It’s nothing to me what's done in other places,” said Mr. Billings. “We have our own ways, Always when a body is found we sit on it immediately.” “We don’t know who he is yet,” said. Virgil. “He called himself Barrett, but there’s no proof of it.” “Well, if we don’t now who he is, then he’s an unknown person,” said Mr. Billings crushingly. “They'll call us hicks in the Papen Smee tivet Virgik. he old man ignored the re- mark. “This place is too small to hold it here,” he said. “We'll carry him ashore.” “The evidence is here.” “What evidence?” “The gun; the bullet that was shot out of it; the smashed door.” “I will swear in a jury from among those present, and they can view the evidence.” “We ought to take steps to catch the murderer first.” Mr. 3illings flattened him with a gesture. “We will proceed in due order, Virgil.” A jury was duly sworn in—Mr. Billings had a testament in his tail pocket—and with difficulty steered around the little cabin. Twelve , solemn-faced fishermen and clerks, they took their responsi- bilities seriously. Mr. Billings then requested them to carry the body up on deck and to lay it in one of the skiffs alongside. The Jury’s Verdict A hye sce, desperately rolling the cigar between his teeth, made another plea for delay. “Anyhow, wait till Mark Bonniger comes.’ Mr. Billings drew himself up. “What's Mark Bonniger got to do with it?” “I have requested him to take charge of the cage?’ “Mark Bonnj js not an of-/} ficer!” ‘ “He's a studeht and a traveler,” said Virgil. “He knows how these things are done.” “You have gone beyond your- self in this matter, Virgil,” said | Mr. Billings severely. “We all re- spect you as a citizen, but you hold no office. I am the representative of the law in this district.” Virgil flung up his hands. The cigar tossed like a ship at sea. Neill was well pleased to see the body carried ashore. The officious Mr. Button Bil s was doing all could to make the finding of Longcope’s ted as the place quest. The solemn jury ne witnesses disap- peared inside Slosed the door, While he wa , Neill unobtrusively among a list to hold s Birthday Today I we N. H., nove E eane AL Ww to death by person or persons un- known.” Neill could scarcely be- lieve his ears. Was it possible they were going to drop the whole thing? No such luck. When he saw Virgil Longcope’s shrewd eyes and active cigar he knew it wasn’t go- ing to be sropped: ‘irgil was the only source of in- formation as to what was really peppening. Neill was unable to get hold of him again, but the nature of his activities leaked out of the little’ “office from time to time. Mark Bonniger, it appeared, was away,from home, and they were telépioning all over for him. Meanwhile Virgil had got the gov- ernor himself on the phone, and had arranged that as soon as Bon- niger was found he should be sworn in as a special officer. Thus he got ahead of Mr. Button Bil- lings. Virgil had a keen sense of the value of publicity. He telephoned the news to the Washington and Baltimore newspapers and it was said that the reporters were rac- ing down in a fleet of cars. “I’m going to have this matter handled right!” Virgil was heard to shout. “I’m gonna put Absalom’s on the map!” Neill’s breast tight- ened, hearing this. He dreaded the reporters just now. This Man Bonniger JEILL felt an anxious curiosity 1 concerning this Bonniger whose name was on everybody’s lips. His fate and Janet’s depended on the kind of man he proved to be. By keeping his ears open and asking an occasional question, he built up a mental picture of Bon- niger. A quiet man. A widower in his middle forties, and the last rep- resentative of a family that had been prominent in the county since it was first settled. The Bon- nigers were not the sort of people that money stuck to, and the fam- ily estate had declined since the Civil war, but Mark still had good tobacco and corn Jand and blooded riding horses. He lived alone in his old house, “Lordship’s Grace,” 20 miles up river. Mark Bonniger’s neighbors re- arded him with a_mixture of ‘familiarity and awe. They felt that he belonged to them though they rarely saw him. He was a great traveler and would be away for months at a time without anybody knowing of it until he got back. He never went around, but he had good friends. Like Virgil. Virgil thought the world of him. Virgil had been trying for years to get him into public life, like all the Bonnigers before him. Chiefly, however, the men spoke of Bonniger’s insight into char- acter. “You can’t fool Mark Bonniger! He will let you think you are fooi- ing him, but he is fooling you. . . Vitgil Lofigcope, he made no mis- take when he picked Mark Bon- niger to solve this case. ... Mark Bonniger can see further into a stone wall than most men.” And so on. And so on. All this was disquieting. Neill saw that in remaining on the spot he had cast himself in a difficult role. His thoughts turned to Janet. He wished that he had her hid- den further away. Too dangerous to try to move her now. He longed to be with her. Later he learned that Mark Bon- niger had been found and was be- ing rushed to Annapolis so that the governor could swear him in. As he was circulating in the hotel lobby, picking up a word here and there—it was only idle gossip to the crowd, but to Neill it meant everything — he hap- pened to glance at the letter rack behind the desk and was surprised to see a letter in his box. Upon his asking for it, a plain white en- velope was handed him. Nothing but the room number was written on it. Inside he found a half sheet of note-paper with a note pencilled in a clerkly hand: : You been going round all morning with blood on your knee. You better wash it out before the investigator comes. It was like an unexpected icy shower. Paking care to keep his face, Nefll went quietly up the stairs. In his room he stared at his reflection in the mirror. It true! There was a brownist stai his left knee as bi | nust had knelt & in the cabin of the ys breeches were an « and one spot m notice. The thoug brought the s ined sleuth, it s jbe as blind a foo! | when it came to emed, cou! any crook g his own breeches in n ugly anx- s jaw. Who e? It brought unexplained night before, {order to was! jiety mad had wri | back to by Maidert Footmer) Mark Bonniger takes charge of the rer on, tomerrew. A P ‘CUBS CUT GAME OFF GIANTS’ =LEAD BY DEFEATING THEM CARDS TOOK TWO CONTESTS FROM DODGERS; TIGERS AND BOSOX SPLIT TWIN BILL (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Chi- cago Cubs cut a full game {game lead. Playing on the Bruins’ home grounds, the Windy City Tribe defeated the New Yorkers in the opening game of the “crucial” series, 7 to 4. Both teams used three moun The Giants collected 15 , including two doubles and a triple and the Cubs poled 14 safeties, including two doubles and three triples. St. Louis Cardinals \third place by a double over Brooklyn Dodgers. They ‘have a three point lead. Scores were 8 to 5 and 6 to 3. Three rookie pitchers twirled for the !Red Birds, two in the first game. Pittsburgh Pirates defeated Poston Bees, 9 to 2, behind a 13- jhit attack. Tobin hurled ‘seven- hit ball for the Buccos. Phi'adelphia Phillies and ‘ Cin- jcinnati Reds divided a twin bill. The Phillies lost the opener, 3 to 9, and copped the nightcap ~ by the overwhelming score of 10 to 1 regained victory Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox won and lost with each oth- er. Cochrane’s men fell victims to the Bosox in the initial fracas, 7 to 12, as the Tigers staged a hit attack. With Gill pitching eight-hit ball, Detroit barely missed blanking the Red Sox in the final jgame, 4 to 1. Chicago White Sox and Phila- delphia Athletics played 11 in- nings before a decision was reached. The A’s finally won out, 5 to 4. (Cleveland Indians and Wash- ington Senators each hit 10 safe- ties but the Indians made better use of their bingles and won, 6 to 3. Allen went the route for the Tribe and Wes Ferrell for the Nats. The summaries: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago R. H. E. New York 515 2 Chicago a cee ee Batteries: Gumbert, Coffman, Smith and Danning; French, Root, Lee and Hartnett. R. H. E. PGR RBC ass sceseennecesse re Be aes | Batteries: Gabler and Lopez; Tobin and Pedden. At Pittsburgh Boston .............. First Game | At Cincinnati [Phi adeluhia ; Cincinnati paiva Ow Batteries: Walters, Burkhart and Awood; Kleinhans, Mooty and {| D. Moore, R. H. E. S88 Second Game At Cincinnati Philadelphia ... 1014 0 Cincinnati . + eke OS. Batteries: La Master and Grace; | Cascarella, Hallahan and Chozen. R, H. E. t Game At St, Louis rooklyn Louis Batteries: Hoyti/ Henshaw, sey, Oantwell? tna Phelps; inke! and Ogrodowski. Second Game At St. Louis Brooklyn S._ Louis Battteri jand Phe | dowski. R. H. E 0 0 ! ~8 j | Cantwell, Kleinke and AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game At Boston R. H. E Detroit ... Liiinssstassion Ska oe Boston ..., 1215 2 Batteries: Poffenberge Coff- man, McLaughlin and York; Grove and DeSautels. | Second Game | At Boston Detroit R. H. E | Boston B tteries: Gill and York; Wil- i Berg At Philadelphia Philadelphia (11 Innings) | Batteries: Cox, Brown, r and Sewell; Williams, s and Hayes. At Washington Cleveland Washington R. . 6 . H. E 10 1 10 rell and R. Ferrell doubleheader tomor- off! New York Giants’ two and a half} THE KEY WEST CITIZEN DOINGS AROUND THE GOLF LINKS (By GRAVY) Be (. GRIFFIN STILL | LEADING SOCIAL _~ LEAGUE HITTERS ; GONZALEZ, AT BAT ONLY SIX TIMES, AVERAGES _ .666; GRIFFIN, IN FIFTEEN TRIES, HAS .600 C. Griffin contin.es to set the Dia- pace at bat in the Social mondball League. Going to bat 115 times, he hit safely nine | times, for an average of .600. Gonzalez, who took only six lchances at the plate, poled the ball safely four times, for an javerage of .666. Ward is hitting at a .533 clipj and J. Roberts and Gastro are each batting .500. The list below carries who are hitting .300 or better in} the afternoon league: | Player— | Gonzalez Ce Griffin | ......... Ward J. Roberts Castro Sterling McCarthy’... F. Tynes ... Demeritt Stickney E. Albury Stanley J. Russell Barroso C. Gates Carabalio Most Time: Stickney, 30. Most Hits J. Roberts and Stickney, each, i players | Ave. aw? AK ARABIAN A HE O Bat Most Runs Scored Gates, 8. Most Two Base Hits Ward and Stickney, 3 each. Most Three Base Hits Caraballo and J. Garcia, 1 each. Most Home Runs Solomon, 2. Most Times Struck Out Hopkins and E. Roberts, each, H. 3 Most Times Walked Ed. Sweeting and Domencch, 7 times each, Most Sacrifice Hits Stan! - Pitchers’ Record Pitcher— Stanley Ward Castro E. Roberts E. 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