The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1938, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE ARMY POST MURDERS | By Virginia Hanson ‘The Characters * Katherine Cornish, myself, vis- ting Elizabeth on a mid-western Army post. Elizabeth, Colonel Wright's daughter. Adam Drew, acting command- ing officer. \ Yesterday: The strange girl is found stabbed. The murderer ‘wore my mandarin coat. Chapter 19 Lost And Found: “Bo who is she?” Barney de- manded. “I strongly suspect that only one person knows the answer to that,” Adam answered dryly. | Barney said quickly, “Eliza- beth has been in the kitchen all See ewe were making cof- Shaw burst out eagerly, “And Mary and I were together in the lounge— don’t you remember, per heed y, you had just brought us fee’ Ismiled a little. No need to pry for alibis from now on—they all had the general idea by now. “Coffee,” said Adam. “Kay, you need a cu hte oper aoc take m; neha t and go down the Jed, way, through the dress- room, Find Elizabeth and stay her until I come, ... An drink a cup for me.” To the left of the stage a short flight of steps led to an unobstru- sive door opening on a narrow corridor. I followed it past the stage entrance, past two or three dressing rooms, and arrived lenly at the kitchen, a small, room dimly lighted by a of battered candles that had tly seen service before. The aroma of coffee, the yellow light, the general homey atmosphere, comforting. beth’s concerned eyes viewed me from head to foot, She swept a stack of paper napkins from a high stool and established me on it. An instant later my yy were chattering on the rim 2) thick tiny pa cup ang ae ding, bitter fluid was shock- me back to some sort of con- “Don’t talk,” she admonished gently. “You're all right now. ’s only Annie and me.” saw then—Annie in her decent black, the regal hat a frac- tion tilted, huddled in a corner be- the gas range, her wizened, face dismal and direful. id you get here?” I ‘Just now,” Elizabeth answered Thad intended to destroy the note. But if I had regretted that confi- lence? “T had it when I left her room,” I said desperately. “At least I think so. Perhaps it’s in the other room—the vacant room, I may have dropped it in the struggle.” “I looked there. It’s not any- where in sight. I hoped you might have hidden it—or still have it.” I showed him By the absence of poc! tume, _ “Well, never mind. Only, do you remember the name of that sani- tarium?” I nodded, and he seemed re- lieved. There were a handful of people in the lounge—Mrs. Orpington, Mrs. Flower, the Shaws, They watched us in ominous si- lence, I thought, as we crossed the empty hands, ets in my cos- dance floor. Adam paused for an | instant. “Shaw, go tell Elizabeth and | Annie to join you—they’re still in the kitchen. And please, don’t any- one go wandering off alone, Pll be with you in a minute.” He waited for me to precede him into the reading room, then closed | the door after us. | “Now—the name of the sanita- | rium,” he sai id. | I told him, and he nodded. “I | remember now.” I had noticed the telephone on a small table in the corner. He \d | spoke briefly to the soldier oper- ator, replaced the instrument. “I’m going to question them again,” he said. “And after that— I don’t know. This has got to be an inside job, I'm afraid. I mean, one of a small group. We’ve been all over those upstairs roo! There’s no one hiding there, and I'd take my oath there’s been"no one. There’s dust half an inch thick over everything. I don’t know whose job it is to look after the place—no one’s, I suspect, ex- cept the chaplain, and he’s on a month’s leave. The—the Curtis girl had dusted her room with a towel. But nowhere else, except where you were tied up, were there any marks of disturbance. And the window screens are all | ” latched on the inside. Thwarted Curiosity ley telephone pealed. “Hello—hello! Superintend- ent of Hillside Sanitarium? Doc- tor Moore calling. A former pa- tient of yours, a Miss Ethel Cur- tis, has met with an accident. .. . Yes, fatal. We'd like to notify the relatives. ...” He listened, said, “I see,” sev- eral times, Finally, “No, nothing at present, I'll communicate with jarney. | you later... . Thank you, Doctor.” He Ce ergy the instrument and turned back to me. His eyes were burning with excitement, with thwarted curiosity. “Miss Ethel Curtis has been a tient there for three years. Dur- bog that time she has had no visi- tors and very few letters. Her bills have been paid regularly by a firm of Chicago lawyers—Hunt, led | Hope and Polk. Sounds incredible, here my girl will be glad to see|I know, but that’s what he said. So here I am.” And she|She was a model patient, quiet into dark brooding. and retiring —never mentioned set down the ecb cup and | any oh Ee latives. Had improved her what had been happening} in health during her residence for her hurriedly. “She walked here from the Carewes’ quarters I was,” Atnie croaked suddenly. “That whipper- of a medico comes in and me out—me that has beret cient te 1e speakin rs, Carewe alone,’ he says. So I says, ‘Be damn, then, if I'm not ns there, was in no sense confined. had even Annie’s full atten-| Yesterday, that is Thursday, she simply walked out. She had re- ceived a letter; presumably there was money in it. One of the nurses saw the envelope. No return ad- dress. Postmark——” And he named the town five miles froin e post. He turned back to the telephone. “I want a firm of lawyers in Chica ge seubt, Hope and Polk, Yes, that’s what I said. Yes, of course they’re closed. Find out where they live, get one of them on the phone. . it will take time, so He stood, d a hand across his eyes. thing—one of those things 1 ought to remember and can’t. Well, may- be it will come back.” “The gun?” I asked. He looked at me oddly for a moment tion. Horror, unbelief, then a kind of despair registered on Eliza- beth’s face. She made that futile known as wringing one’s And Adam can do nothing?” “Maybe — the alibis | thi are . .“Such things cart be allowed to sagoen on Father’s garrison,” said th. “Oh, if he were only They wouldn't dare!” the lights were on. We blinked at each other stupid- ly_in the abrupt glare. Eliza! blew out the weak candle flames, and the acrid smell of the scorching wicks momen- tarily filled the little room. ‘An Inside Job’ AY——" I turned. Adam was stand- in the doorway. Srecling better?” * cheerfully. “Care to help me a minute?’ T rose, thinking with shame in i ioe ert pe of the PI a oy mietene before. 3 ne was looking me, round, pe-natared taco oddly reassuring. “You here, Annie? Good. Stay Elizabeth—don’t leave her a minute. I'm depending on T followed him into the narrow » “Then it was short-cir- there—in her room?” ded. “Look, what did you do with that note—the typewrit- ten note?” use would be sus- needn’t have typewriter if ty, his place ¥ Pott ore There were 32 first cabin and six second cabin passengers ar- riving for Key West yesterday afternoon on the Steamship Cuba of the P. and O. Steamship Co., and there were 13 first cabin passengers going through to Tam- pa. Key Wes? arrivals: Stanley Rockwell, Grace Rock- well, Thomas R. Thomas, Stanley M. Zuker, Ralph Hayne, Leon Moradean, Stephen H. Angell, Victory Angell, Ed. O’Brien, Har- old Robinson, Mary E. Martin, Anna E. Williams, Helen C, Wood, he asked} Siv 13 ig found it,” he said impas- He went toward the door. suddenly afrai as orribly afraid, Not Charlie's gun? But bh x He hedhit fesn to bet only | and the suitcase was locked. Tt was then that I missed my evening bag. I remembered, in a sudden, illuminating flash, that 1 had left it lying on the chest of drawers in that room where the murdered girl lay. Had Adam found it—or the murderer? Suddenly I had to know. “You're—you're sure it was the gun? Where was it?” His hand was on the doorknob. He turned and looked at me with pe expression whatever on his aCe “There had been two shots fired. And it was where I expected to find it—in Elizabeth's car. It was her gun, you see.” And he was gone before I could find my voice. (Copyright, 1938, Virginia Hanson) Dorothy Peck, W. Miller Peck, Raquel Latour, Maria Latour. Ferrest Garrison, Alice Garri- son, Marjorie Garrison, Roberts Garrison, E. Denton Price, Nor- berg Thompson, Henrietta Grace, Robeti Price, Charles Grace, Leorio L. Grandpre, John C. Mc- Genni, Edith McGenni, Jack Mc- Genni, Waldina Cervantes, M Naranja, Jr, Antonieta Rod- riguez, Rafael Rodriguez, Alicia Crespo, Gonzalo J. Diego, Ar- mando Sanchez. Listed on the manifest were the following items: For Key West, four tons of freight, two automo- biles, three sacks of mail; for Tampa, 75 tons of freight, one automobile and seven sacks of mail. m neglecting some- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SOCTAL ACTIVITIES SOCIAL C THURSDAY— | : _ Rotary Club meeting 12:15 p. ALENDAR Meeting Key West Lions Club, Stone Church Annex, 6:30 P. M. m. St. Paul’s Annex. and Solita Cobo entertaining. 5 p. m. Woman’s Clubhouse. | RS | sUNDAY— Christmas’ Party auspices Ladies’ Aid Ley Memorial Church. 7:30 p.m. Residence of Mrs. Mary Weatherford. i —o— Annual Christmas Festival of Fern Chapter No. 21 with visiting members invited, 7:30 p. m. Scottish Rite Hall. age | Concert, Key West Hospitality Band. 5 p. m. Art Center Park, | MONDAY— Center. by Junior Woman’s Club. | TUESDAY— Sens Annual Christmas Tea Dance honoring college students, given! 5 p. m. Habana Madrid Club. ead ios CAMERA CLUB HAS MEETING | Social meeting of Junior Woman’s Club with Miss Juanita Mayg| wEMBERS ENJOY ILLUSTRA- TED LECTURE ON | PHOTOGRAPHY Regular meet Monday nighi of the Key West Camera Club was well attended, and the club mem- 'bers were entertained by an- other of the illustrated lectures Regular Camera Club meeting. 8 p. m. Key West Federal Art on photography which are fur- |nished by the Eastman Kodak | Co., as a part of their service to, | enthusiasts. | | The lecture was particularly | Stone Church Service Club supper, open to winter visitors. 6:00: appropriate at this time, :touch- p. m. Church Annex. | | Miss Claudina Machin | |Weds O. S. J. Roberts | Miss Claudina Machin, daugh-| (ter of Mr. and Mrs., Thomas Ma- | |chin, and Oliver Samuel Joseph | | Roberts, were married last eve-|ernoon on ihe Steamship Cuba, |ning at the home of the groom’s| |parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman | |Fillmore Roberts, 704 Olivia | | street. H A number of friends and rela-| | tives of the couple were present} jat the ceremony which was read | | by Justice of the Peace Enrique! | Esquinaldo, Jr., Clyde Roberts, | |brother of the groom, acted as/ |best man and Miss Viola Valdez| was the attendant to the bride. Following the nuptials a de- |lightful reception was held. The | newly weds will make their home ; |in this city. | Callahans Are Leaving On Trip Lieutenant Fort Callahan, U. |S. N., officer in charge at the) naval station, and Mrs. Callahan, will leave over the highway to- | morrow morning en route to the family home in_ Bainbridge, Georgia. | | While on the outward bound! |trip Lieutenant Callahan will |stop at several communication stations of the navy where in- spections will be held. Return- |ing he will be accompanied by: his mother who will visit at the home of her son in the station. The lieutenant told The Citizen | this will be the first visit he has ‘been able to pay his home city | in 22 years. | | DePoos Spend | Holidays At Havana seers H Dr. and Mrs. J. J. DePoo will} |leave on the Cuba boat for Ha-| pete to spend the holidays. | | Their son, John, will accom- pany them and will be enrolled {at Havana Military . Acadea: | Dr. DePoo’s secretary, Miss Rea-} |trice Moreno, was also in the party. | Well-Known Syniphonic Conductor’s Son Here | Boris Sokoloff friend of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smirnoff of Key) West is the son of Nicolai Soko- \loff, counntry-wide known sym- phonic conductor. Mr. Sokoloff was planning to leave today after a pleasant visit in the Island City. He stated he expected to return again next year. Conductor Sokoloff is at present in Seattle, Washington, on a tour of the country. Christmas Festival Friday Night Fert’ Chapter No. 21 will hold its annual Christmas Festival ‘riday night at 7:30 at Scottish 6 Hall. Visiting members are invited. ANSWERS TO TEN TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers fo test questions printed on Page 2 — At the tip of the tail. 480. Rome. Ceferino Garcia. Montana. No. American Civil War. Philip of Macedon. Philadelphia, Pa. No. Settee td PERSONAL MENTION eo! Norberg Thompson, who was visiting his pineapple plantations in Cuba, returned yesterday aft- from Havana. Miss Elizabeth Lowe, actuary: for one of the large companies in , New York, arrived yesterday to spend the holiday season with her mother, Mrs. Virgil Lowe, and other relatives. Mrs. Melvin E. Russell and two! sons, Melvin, Jr., and Pat, were passengers leaving on the Steam- ship Cuba yesterday afternoon to spend the holidays with relatives at Wauchula and Fort Myers. Mrs, Ben Miller, wife of Rabbi ing as it did on the making of Christmas cards by photography | which is an instructive and fasci- | nating pastime, which affords | the artist an opportunity for cre- ating personal and ‘beautiful: cards which are ever appreciated. { Members of the Camera Club; {extend a hearty welcome to all, persons interested in photog- .Taphy to attend their meetings} ‘which are held at regular inter- vals and are productive of that feeling which is so dear to the lover of art in all its forms. | The meeting was held Monday night at the Community Art Center through the courtesy of F. Townsend Morgan, the direc- tor, and is part of the cultural ; Service rendered the community by the center. | Henry Brewer, ardent photog- i rapher for pleasure, added to the j interest of the meeting held ; by a showing of several subjects |made on colored slides, with a {pleasant explanatory talk on the) subjects shown. | Country’s top notch golfers fish the Key West reef in Raul Vas- quez’ charter boat for a prize of} a Pfleuger rod and reel to go to} the golfer getting the biggest fish. Fishing tournament is sponsored by the Key West Golf| Club and Junior Chamber of} Commerce. ¥ 2: BSEREY LEK Annual Community Christmas Tree, sponsored by Lions Club, WPA Recreatigm:>;, Department, NYA group, Girl and Boy Scout troops. VO Mt First nice fed Seafood Grill and Lions Club~basketball teams meet in a city league game for league leadership. High School and DeMolays in nightcap. 7:30 p.m. High School Gym. Sponge Sale at Municipal Sponge Dock, corner of Caroline and William streets. 9:30 a. m. Temperaiures* Highest Lowest - Mean - Normal Mean Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipita ia Normal Precipitation 05 *Thin record covers 24-1 “hiding at S$ o'clock thin morning. { Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises us Sun sets Moon rises ___. z . Moon sets ~ C479: Tomorrow's Tides A.M. High 10:49 Low -. 4:08 Barometer 7:30 a. m., today: Sea level, 30.11. a 3 WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy tonight and Thursday;,) lictle change in temperature; gen- tle variable winds. | Florida: Partly cloudy tonight} OVER METZ-BUSH (Continued from Page One) bi® himself on the finger to see if he couldn’t wake up. The 11th hole, all were down left side of fairway with Burke nearest flag on 2nd shots, Metz, Bush and Burke were down in 4’s but Wood was unable to sink a 12-foot putt and took a 5. Burke-Wood In Par-4 On 12th On the, 12th hole, Burke struck the top of the bunker 200 yards away, while Bush and Metz were down the center, 275 yards. Wood was almost on the green on his drive but in pitching was short and had to be contented with a par-4, Burke was on the edge of the green and rimmed the cup for a par-4, while Metz and Eddie putted but missed. The hoodoo 13th found all near the green except Billy, who was off to the right but played a run- up shot and nearly holed out when he missed the cup by a frog’s hair. Wood pitched on and had a “gimme” 3. Bush and Metz tried to hole out but missed | and all took par-3’s. On the 14th, Burke, Metz and Bush were down the center 250 yards; Wood, with a 300-yard drive, was off the left in the | edge of ithe rough in rocky soil. On his recovery shot he was still 100 yards shy of the pin but | placed the next one three’ feet _| ffom the can. Every one: was on in 3 and only Burke was able to | sink his putt for a birdie-4, which put his side l-up. This was the turning point of the game. 1 Tries For Eagle On the 15th, Burke was in the “| rough to the left. Wood was on bepet the right side edge of the green. Metz was 20 yards to the left and Bush was beyond near the trap. Ond 2nd shots, Dick was short and on the edge of green, Burke was, beyond the hole and Eddie was short. Craig Wood made a beautiful try for an eagle-2 but stopped on the edge of the hole for a birdie-3. Bush and Metz were unable to sink and that put Wood-Burke 2-up. On the 16th, Wood and Burke were on the old green. Bush was near the stone bench and Metz was short. On the 2nd shots, Wood made a nice pitch to the green and stopped one-inch from the hole. Burke took a 3 and Bush pitched up near and was also down in 3. The 17th, with Metz-Burke dormie, all were down the center except Wood, who was in the thick grass on the left edge of the fariway. On the 2nd_ shot, Bush and Me‘z were on, while Burke and Craig were beyond the green but Dick and Eddie were unable to sink for birdies and all took par-4’s. The match ended here with Burke and Wood 2-up and 1 to play. The last hole, all had good drives and were on the green in 2, but only Metz was able to sink | for a birdie. | The Wood-Burke team had a | best-ball of 29, while Me:z-Bush had 31 against a par of 31. For the 17 holes, Wood and Burke | had’ a ‘best-ball of 64, while Metz | and Bush could do no better than | 66, which was exactly par. | LONG TIME TO PAY NEWORK, N. J:—A judge in j this city gave Harry Garfinkle | the right to pay $2 a week on @ | judgment of $104,720. ‘ TIO TIPIOLCPPPCLLLLCL OF ATTENTION— OPENING SALE PRICES KEY WEST PAINT COMPANY We Deliver -— 512 Fleming Street Painters—Home Owners—Tourist Houses THE——— Phone 118 | Miller of B’nai Zion synagogue in | Key West, left over the highway this morning on Florida Motor; | Lines bus for Baltimore, Md., for | the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Géorge Hilson | and son, Harry, who were spend- ing a few days in the city, left; over the highway this morning! ‘for Miami. ; Mrs. Clara Higgs and daughter, | Miss Ruth, left this morning by years ago. \ | Seeecccccccovecvece | y ? 4 Today’s Birthdays ee @eccecccecscocesceoee portion and near east coasi to-| Dr. Edward C. Elliott, presi-| Might; slightly colder in extreme | dent of Purdue Univ., Indiana,|7°rth portion Thursday. born in Chicago, 64 years ago. Albert Payson Terhune, noted | a author, born in Newark, N. J., 66; Sow hwest shifting to northerly | may bus for Miami where they will spend a few days with relatives and friends. Mrs. G. L. Lowe and son, G. L. Lowe, Jr., arrived yesterday to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives and friends and are guests at the home of Mrs. Lowe’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Roberts, at the home, 526 Francis greet. Mr. Lowe is expected to join the family on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hudlow and | daughter, Erma Mae, of Georgia, | arrived over the highway this week for an indefinite stay with Mrs. Hudlow’s brother, Benjamin Demeritt, and family on Francis street. Oliver Griswold, who is con- ‘nected with the administration in the publicity department, arrived ‘in the city this week from Wash- ington and will spend the holi- day season with his mother at the home on United street. Miss Winnifred Shine, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Shine, assistant editor of the Roosevelt Roundup, published at Camp Roosevelt, Ocala, arrived this week for the Christmas holidays. W. Roger Watkins, field audi- tor with the State in the tax de- partment, is in the city for the holiday season, and is the guest of his mother and other relatives at the home, 1012 Fleming street. Today’s Horoscope Today gives a somewhat lavish disposition which may cause the native trouble. The mind seems to have considerable force and there is a strong sense for a di- rect and honest course in life; but there is a twist in the condition which, under adverse aspects. overthrow all the benefits that have accrued from; honest and patient effort. Ralph Richardson—Edna Best SOUTH RIDING Gen. David L. Brainard of Washnigton, D. C., survivor of | the 1884 Greely expedition, born at Norway, N. Y., 82 years ago. David A. Reed of Pittsburgh, | lawyer, ex-U. S. senator, born there, 58 years ago. Edward Hungerford of New York, author, born at Dexter, N. 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