The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 3, 1939, Page 3

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1989 FRE ARMY POST MURDERS Bv Virginia Hanson The Characters Katherine Cornish, myself, vis- iting: Blizabeth on. a mid-western. Army post. Elizabeth, Colonel Wright’s daughter. Adam Drew, acting command= ing officer. Vesterday: Barney is found un- ¢onscious. Was he knocked out? J pick up a notebook in Barney's room, Chapter 29 Missing Persons DPMBERATELY, to rid myself af those hellish, mocking faces, I forced myself to consider something plain, unalarming—the little brown notehook. Adam had said oa was motive there; and motive, | the abstract, was some- to puzzle over. Motive and the brown notebook. Tentati I tried _to get some order out of chaos. Did someone know of that notebook and what it. contained? that someone stolen inta Barney’s rooms for it? Had Barney heard a betraying sound, a pyle the intruder h: attacked? In the s le the pe might have eluded them both, lain almost concealed under the bookcase where I found it. Did y. believe his attacker had succeeded in escaping with.it? But why his silence? Was he deliberately shielding someone? And how could anyone have counted on reaching those rooms un ted? Except for the short interval of time while both Adam | small, and I were with Charlie, there had ne constant going and coming dam to the bar, the Flowers departing, Adam tc the telephone. But wait—the porch roof was under that front window of Barney’s, and below it there were trellises and vines. Any active per- son could have reached that win- dow. Barney had said it was closed, but suppose he had been "at aping, afterward, that some- one would have heard, through the open front door, the voices of Adam and the sentry. There were flawar beds around the building, each outlined with whitewashed stones. How simplc to pick one up, to throw it at the man silhouetted against the light—the man wha was saying something about a loon. “It was just a silly thing. There ‘was a balloon——” I puzzled it over. in my mind and could make nothing of it. He couldn’t have meant the balloons tied to the women who were dancing. He might have seen that from the street, but he wouldn't have mcntioned it. Or would he? Eee he had never seen a bal- lance; perhaps it had struck i as a Silly thing. Could it have ee nothing more important than I brought up short. The killer had known it was important... . von telephone was pealing inside the building. pon pbrupty and my sperula~ tions with if Again I was waiting for something—something I could not name. at next? What new abomination? Sick with that sense of fore- boding, I wat dam leap down the front steps. I opened the car door for him, waited until we wens under way before I voiced juestion. mY at was Mary Shaw,” said Adam grimly. “Shaw let her and Lou out at their door and went to put the car away. That was nearly an hour ago, and he hasn’t come in yet. Lou, Too eee she say why she waited so long to call you?” Adanr sopotiated a sharp turn before he answered. Palixics aves Say 8 driveways be- poe. Guatars ; they were bunt before days’ ike automo- biles. You have to Cned length eee ha = ‘on that Shaws ave about in the middle of | PT oe. tow. He let them cui in front. ane a few minutes her dog that 8 poh shut in the house, couldn’t be sure that the oor bat between the kitchen and the front the house was closed, ere were her new Chinese that they got, on foreign ice last rok eee He pa th. “You. mean i say they went out Joy en eee ne,” he resumed FY ont ‘Then when Sy Biat come in Mary y thought Te’ ‘d en- countered Lou and gone with her. ited quite a while before to call Lou’s quarters, ea ral 4s out of ae We could see the ba each with its neat gar- out for the morning As in front, each door was identified by signboards GREAT FLOW OF = GOLD INTO U. s. RECORD AMOUNT EXPECTED| TO ROLL I§ DURING PRESENT YEAR «By A Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Gold im- ports last year are expected in fi- ;| Elizabeth was ccna black-lettered with the name of the. officer occupying the quarters. There was no, light at the iy am fis ateearee th “Slee; cP t Adam fins bit Rene ca are next.” He stopped the car. The double garage - posites showed one space open. a “He ‘didn't eet this far then,” said Adam and drove on slowly. Almost at the end of the back behind. someone’s back porch, slumped over the wheel. ‘with hig habitual jack-rabbit speed Aden was out of the car and jerking open the door next to the driver's seat I saw Shaw lift his head. “Whassa matter?” he mumbled. “Time for stable call?” The name on the steps was “Chaplain Weaver.” Someone had said he was away on leave. For the of the chaplain’s sensibilities 1 hoped it was true. Adam’s language would have pained aman ‘od. Even Shaw seemed to find itun- | ealled for. “Well, I ran. out of gas,” he ex- lained plaintively. “So I thought Fa just rest awhile before I walked home.” No Time For Steep E STOPPED at his front door and Adam let him out, then, after a hurried word with Mary, who greeted him whitefaced at the door, he rejoined me hurriedly. io word from Lou,” he said, turning the car. “We'll stop by her quarters——” The brakes squealed. Our head- lights had pieked out the strolling figure of a woman, at her heels a nondescript white “Lou!” Adam's voice was sharp, accusing, “What are you doing out here alone?” “But I’m, not. alone,” bree “Here’s Toodl ad changed her r Plesrette costume for something white and ee said tailored, something exactly right | for a well-built, athletic woman whose face was no longer her for- tune, “I suppose you know Mary has been nearly crazy, telephoning x ju and not getting an answer. ‘ow going back to Mary's?” “Don’t know why I should. Fine help she was in an emergency— wouldn’t ¢ome with me to see about Toodles. Figure I’m as well off alone.” Adam said implacably, “You're not staying alone. If you don’t want to stay with the Shaws I'll tale you along to Elizabeth. We're on our way there now.” She peered through the heavy darkness, seemed for the first time to see that he was not alone. “Oh—you've still ec it Kay with you,” she observed brightly. She appeared to ponder. “Well, I migh? do that. Elizabeth ought to have some responsible person with her. Just wait till I put Toodles back in the house.” She summoned the reluctant dog and dispppesred with it into the surrounding darkness. “Sorry,” said Adam, “but I can’t eee the chance of Yetting her stay “She hasn’t a single alibi,” I ob- It! served dispassionatley. “I realize that—it’s one reason I don’t dare leave hep alone. . I wondered shat he meant by that. Did he think she was the murderer—was he afraid to give her the opportunity for further crimes? Or was ue remsmbering Captain Flower’s diffident words: “Murder often made to leok like suicide?” And suicide could be made to look like a confession of guilt. “How about you, Adam? Are you going to get some sudden memory smote me. “Oh, ou poor riba! You should have een in bed hours ago!” His laugh had its old, carefree ting. Don’t try to make me out a Spartan. Pll admit that when I lean over I'm perunaee to steal it~ again; ™ not suffering, sad Pn not anticipating ep for the present.” ae hesitated, resumed rather een wae Pee permission I pay Sentries are all ery well when uu know. eagle it we're still in nee dark, ‘and ‘i dont like it. I have » With ¢ old-fashioned courtesy that was so necessary a part of her ip for us. She rested son cordially, without but she was helpless in the f: epee: aperacted poli Honallty, Lou oct come to sleep; it was lon therefore, Ne tea =! with, pace oie Prasenfly Adam joined me in ~ hall. He ENG oeuaes to talk to on smartly y Ree- ing the aor of sidewalk in front of the house. “Just as I thought,” he rey with a half-humorous grimace. <The sentries have orders to detain ay seats or other suspicieus- ig persons.’ ” Creo helpful!” He shrugged. “At least they'll be here if they’re needed.” (Copyright, ‘938, Virginia Hanson) Tomorrow: A session with Adam, ' | nancial circles to reach a. new | record high of around $1,850,000,- 000. This would compare with $1,600,000 in 1937 and $1,740,000,- | | 000 during the previous peak pe- | riod in 1934. | Back of the huge inflow of yel- low metal, of course, lies this country’s record-breaking export | balance—which foreign countries | | must pay for—and the unsettled | condition of markets abroad. De- | | spite the recession, | found investment ‘here ' tractive than at home. foreigners more at-; |CONCHS GAINED REVENGE FROM PIRATES, 5 T0 4 , | } | | | REVAMPED CUBAN CLUB DE- | EEATED TROJANS IN FIRST | GAME, 8-4; ARMANDO ACE-/ | ¥EDQ STARRED FOR K. W. } P eri oral bezel Key West Conchs gained sweet’, | revenge in, the second: game of a | Monroe County League baseball | | doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Navy Field. Conchs downed | | Roadside Pirates, who defeated; |Key West the previous Sunday, | by a score of 5 to 4, with Ar-) {mando Acevedo starring. Re- | vamped Cuban Club downed Tro-| | jans in the opener, 8 to 4. | Gates started on the mound for the Cubans but after three | innings was relieved by Diaz. Wickers went the route for the Trojans. Joe Navarro was the leading | hitter of the game, collecting two | safeties in as many trips to the; plate. J. Garcia poled three out ‘ of four, one-being good for a home | run—the first of the new year. | Domenech hit the second four- bagger and a single in three tries. Woodson and Joe Navarro starred for the losers, and G. Gar- cia and Fidel Lopez for the vi | tors. | “Score by innings: R. HH" | Trojans —..... 020 101 0—4 6 2 Cuban Club .. 203 003 x—8 11 1 Wickers and Joe Navarro;, Gates, Diaz and A. Castro. Home runs: J. Garcia, Dom- | enech; three-base hit: J. Navarro; | stolen bases: Rueda, J. Carbonell, Domenech; sacrifice hit: Rueda; struck out: by Gates 1, by Diaz 1, by Wickers 6; bases on balls: off | Wickers 3; wild pitches: Gates 2; | hit by pitcher: J. Carbonell, | Rueda and Joe Navarro by Gates; | hitse off Gates 3 in 3. innings; umpires: Albury, Lucilo; time of game: 1:45. | | Armando Acevedo stole the show in the nightcap wheny he blasted a simgle, double, triple and home run in four times to the plate, scoring three runs and driving one home. Esmond Albury followed Ace- vedo with three singles out of | four tries, and Cates poled two , out of four. These hitters, with the rest of ‘the Key West Conchs, combined their power to gain sweet revengé! from Roadside Pirates, who had defeated them 5-4 last Sunday, but saw themselves on the short’ end of the same score this past | Sunday. ' Joe (House) Casa limited the Conchs to 10 hits again, but this time they were more effective. Pirates scored all their runs one at a time, the same as they did | in the previous game. Puby Car- bonell limited them to eight safe- | ties. | Conehs started the scoring in | the very first inning when they shoved over two runs. They add- ed two more in the third inning, and in their half of the ‘ same frame the Pirates scored a lone run. The losers brought the | count to 4 to 2 in the fifth stanza and then 4 to 3 in the seventh in-, ning. Conchs put over their last and winning ryn in the eighth frame, making the score read 5 to 3 at that juncture. In a final! effort for victory, the Pirates be- gan to score in the last-half of the ninth but were held to a lone! tally. Leading Pirates were Joe! Casa, who hit two out of four and? etn extreme north portion and scored one run and drove home | one; G. Gareia, who scored two runs and stole two bases. Score by innings: R. H. E. ‘Conchs ... 202 000 010—5 10 2} , Pirates 001 010 1014 8 1! P. Carbonell and C. Griffin; J. Casa and I. Rodriguez. Home run: Acevedo; three- base hit: Acevedo; two-base hits: | Acevede, Cates; stolen bases: G. Garcia 2, Atevedo, Bareelo; sac- rifice hit: Alfonso; double plays: ; Acevedo to Cates to Pena, C. |Garcia to A. Hernandez to M. Hernandez, G. Garcia to C. Gar- | eia to A. Hernandez; passed ball:! Griffin; hit by pitcher: Lucilo by Casa, Barcelo by Carbonell; time of game: 2:00; struck out: by Casa. 10( P. Carbonell 3, C. Griffin 3, M. Griffin 2, F. Carbonell 2), .by | P. Carbonell 8 (C. Garcia 2, Bazo, | Barcelo, I. Rodriguez, G. Garcia, | Alfonso, Torres);)kases on_ balls: | off Casa 1, off Carbonell 2; um-it pires: Molina, Al. Acevedo. Standings: MONROE COUNTY LEAGUE (Baseball) Club— Cuban Club - Key West - Trojans Pirates THIRD HORN ON DERBY, Eng.—A grew from the head ae jowned by C. M. Griggs \city. | of 1939, ‘REGULAR TWIN BILL SET FOR SUNDAY ‘is scheduled to be played this} | | ‘playéd&: | Way promptly at 7:30 o’clock. YOU'LL FIND IT HERE TUR Testy | DEFEATED ROADSIDE PI-; RATES IN EXHIBITION CONTEST ee Ee eae DUE a DONE EEE GD Cuban Club defeated Roadside {-Pixates,/4-3 yesterday, afternoon | at, Nayy Field in an exhibition | game, ws AS) was the third in a row for the Pirates after copping| six straight vietories and tying | one game. The Pirates lost the! final contest . of 1938 and the a Score By, innings: R. H. EL Pirates -... 001 000 002-3 9 5) Cubans -. 021 100 00x—4 10 2) Malgrat, Sanchez and A. Her-} nandez; M. Alfonso and A. Cas-! tro. Regular doubleheader of the} Monroe County Baseball League | coming Sunday at Navy Field. Teams that have won one game ‘aha‘lost none so- far .in ‘the: sec- | orid-half will meet thosé’ teams that have lost their oniy Baros Key West Conchs, in a ‘tie ior! first-place with Cuban Club, will! play Trojans in the second game | Sunday. This contest should be} hard-fought and anteReeting from strat to finish. The opening fracas wall fea- | ture Cuban Club and Pirates. BASKETBALL TILTS AT GYM T TONIGHT | Basketball games will be etl ed tonight at the High School Gym’ by teams of the Island City | League. High School Varsity tackles | Lions , Club in the opener, with | Park Tigers and Seafood Grill} tangling in the nightcap. Curtain-raiser will get under- | Qecegovceqnevaseaseeosoos ' THE WEATHER - Temperatures” Highest e Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation *Thin reco ern 24. nding at 8 o'clock thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises _. 7 Sun sets Moon rises Moon sets... High _. Low . cs Barometer 7:30 a. m. today: Sea level, 30.14. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: . Gen- erally fair tonight and Wednes- day; little change in temperature; v, light variable winds. i i#lorida: Fair, slightly bwarm- OfF'the east-central coast tonig! Wednesday fair and mild. Jacksonville to Florida Straits {and East Gulf: Light variable winds; and fair weather tonight and Wednesday. DEFERS RELEASE OAKLAND, Calif. — A judge! ee ‘about to grant probation to’ ysta, serving a jail sentence | in ob is city when Costa mention- ed that he was the only barber amofig the prisoners. The judge postponed release to give him | time to train. i Subscribe :to The Citizen—20¢ | weekly, ———-— | j “THE KEY WEST: “CITIZEN © iN EXTRA—SELECT CHESAPEAKE BAY OYSTERS Fried on order and delivered anywhere OPEN’ ilv the Best Sandwiches in NEW YORK | BUSY-BEE DAY, and NIGHT town and Short Orders. 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