The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 1, 1940, Page 3

MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 19 40 Tl a. Craap by Frances Shelisy Wees YESTERDAY: Gordon has eard a boat on the river at night, ring from upstream and never beaching. Michael swears Gor- don in as his assistant. Going in the vicinity. Chapter 36 The Inquest nsion at Tuck’s garden been unbearable, that at the was beyond words. The announcement that there would be an inquest on the body of Alix Lissey had thrown the cam- pus into turmoil; or, rather, those group who did not already expect it. The day was very hot. The in- quest had been called in the coro- ner's office, a stuffy little room in the court house. The windows were dusty and streaked, and the var- nish on the heavy plain chairs and tables was sticky in the heat. But} j no one seemed to notice, They filed in silently. and sat down without murmuring about the weather or scomfort. Spinster, was dead. of the effects of poi- on Sunday, at the age of o. Only Mrs. Deane ny interest as that fact | d out. coroner was an apple ed little man with a figure e a robin’s, and a high chirping ° quite out of keeping with th, and death py violence in particular, He put his questions <= rfully, with no apparent reali- n of the dreadful meaning that lie behir.d the answers. Yet >t no singie point escape him, ‘e let his gaze wan- | Jer as if by accident to the District Attorney and tne Police Commis- sioner, sitting quietly at the back of the room. Tuck was the first witness called. | “Mrs. Forrester, the deceased was your guest on the afternoon of Jay she died?” “She was.” “At what your hous: | “About quarter after four, 1 think.” “Just what do you mean? Ten er four or twenty-five minutes after?” “Aimost exactly quarter after. II had been watching the time. 1 you been watching Forrester?” time did she arrive at | act reason, please.” ation wasn’t going | .” Tuck said bravely. “I ng for a diversion, when I issey coming. 2s not place the time.” | had come exactly ‘clock.” Tuck explained. ad been there about fifteen I remember looking at my twelve minutes after, and minute Miss Lissey came.” ‘0 it was with ‘he Devoes that sation lagged?” y? “I don’t know.” “Just at was this conversa- tion that ed, Mrs, Forrester? Can you repeat it?” “Why — it wasn’t really a conver- sation at all. Mr. Devoe, I think, was talking to Miss Temple. I said something to Mrs. Devoe about the sundial and he broke in. His moth- er didn’t seem to hear me, and he explained to her.” “Had you noticed that Mrs. De- | voe was deaf before that tirse?” ‘Preoccupied’ then. It was just—just that she was preoccupied.” “There was more to the conver- sation?” ‘ “No. Miss Lissey came just then. Seating the Devoes and greeting them and Mrs. Murchison had taken the rest of the time.” “Then Mrs. Devoe was preoccu- pied when she first came to the party?” “She seemed to be.” “Did you note signs of preoc- cupation in any other of your| guests?” “No. this preoccupation of Mrs. | Devoe’s continue all through the} afternoon?” | “Perhaps | shouldn’t have called | . it preoccupation, Dr. Mayhew,” Tuck said honestly. “Mrs. Devoe is| always very quiet and self-con- tained.” “What do you mean by always?” | “Since I have known her.” | at is, within the last ten “Yes.” He paused, His round little blue eyes regarded her seriously. “Mrs. Forrester, you are ready to swear that there was originally no poison in any of the food served at your house on Sunday?” “Certainly, Dr. Mayhew!” our servant—would you con- sider her to be capable of putting poison in anyone’s food?” Charlotte Jean, at the side of the room, gasped audibly. Tuck gave her a little reassuring smile. “Most certainly not. She is the last person in the world who would do such a thing.” “She has worked for you for some time?” “Two years.” HOW THE KICKING BEGAN THAT NIGHT (By Associated Press) ROANOKE, Va., Jan. 1—Sta- tisticians calculated it could hap- pen only once in 54,000 cuttings of a deck of cards. Six married couples here, com prising the Sleepy Hollow Bridge Club, met regularly for 11 years and cut cards for partners. One night recently, the cutting paired man and wife as partners in ali | sir, b | no’ JO. I didn’t think she was deaf | “You were with Miss Lissey when she died, Mrs. Forrester. Did she advance any statement there that might throw light on her death?” “Just what do you mean, Dr. Mayhew?” “Did she quakes that she knew that: she was dying, or that she knew she had been poitsoned?™: * “Yes,” Tuck said quietly, with a quiver in her lip. “She said, T know too much.’” E The clock suddenly ticked loud- ly, clearly, in the room. “You understood her, Mrs. For- rester? Do you know what she on ““Yes—1 do.” “Does that not suggest to you | that she knew she was dying?” “Yes. 1 think she knew. Before we did.” “And she knew why she was dy- ing? Why someone, let us say, wanted her to die?” “Yes” “Mrs. Forrester, did you get the sion that Miss Lissey had mitted suicide?” ”’ Tuck said ciearly. “No.” “Thank you. Chariotte Jean Soames.” Charlotte Jean, with a very white face and a nose red from being rubbed in her excitement, curtsied a little as she made her answers. “Miss Soames, did you put poi- on in any food or drink that was served in Mrs. Forrester’s house on Sunday?” “No, sir, I should say not. I don’t ow nothing about poison, sir.” ‘Well then, did anyone come into your kitchen on Sunday and tam- per with the food?” “No, sir. Nobody come into my kitchen on Sunday for anything whatever, except that Gordon Deane, eating of all the cookies, but that was after the rest had had t tea, sir. Unless you mean Mr. oe, and he only came for a | glass of water.” ‘Hardly Herself’ “ \ GLASS of water?” “Yes, sir. For his mother, he | said. She was feelin’ faint like.” “I see. Did he touch anything except his glass of water?” “He carried out a tray for me, ut there wasn’t no food on it.” An empty tray?” ‘No, sir, it was a tray of teacups.” ‘ull, or empty?” “Full, sir. Mrs. Forrester had been pourin’ in the garden, but some of them wanted their cups filled again, and the tea she had wasn’t hot enough so she sent me in with the cups on a tray to fill them in the kitchen, That was the tray Mr. Devoe carried out, sir.” “Can you remember whether or tt Miss Lissey’s cup was on that tray?” o, sir. I never knew whose cups they was.” He turned aside for a moment.to Tuck. “Mrs. Forrester, can you an- swer the last question?” “No, Dr. Mayhew, I didn’t know that Mr. Devoe had carried out a tray of cups.” “You don’t remember whether | Miss Lissey’s cup went into the house to be filled or not?” “I’m sorry, Dr. Mayhew, I can’t remember.” He turned back to Charlotte Jean, now rubbing her nose fran- tically. “None of the other guests were in your kitchen at all, then?” “No, sir.” “That will do, then.” Mr. Deane was called next, but he had nothing to ~dd to the evi- dence. However, his wife had. “No, I didn’t notice a single thing at all out of the ordin .ry on Sun- day afternoon,” she said, fumbling with her belt and pulling at the side of her strange hat. “That is, nothing that might explain at ail the terrible thing that happened there —if it really did happen, which I simply can’t credit for only ourselves were there, and I’m sure——” “I gather that you did observe something a little out of the ordi- nary, Mrs. Deane?” Dr. Mayhew broke in rather severely. “Well, it wasn’t peace im- portant, and I really don’t like to speak of it. Poor Miss Lissey is— dead, and I'm stre it seems sacrilegious.” “What is it, Mrs. Deane, may I ask?” “Must I answer, then? Somehow it seems hardly delicate. It was just something. that indicated to me that poor Miss Lissey was hardly herself that afternoon, She was so particular about her clothes, you know, so particular, and had such good taste. I used to marvel at the ‘ost | beautiful costumes she had—but of | course she had the leisure to think about those things—well, I must go beautiful mauve flowered chiffon hat to match, and I happened to notice—you will pardon the inti- macy, of course—I happened to no- tice that she wore a white slip un- derneath it. Now she has a simply lovely mauve slip that was made with that dress, I've seen it several times, and [I'm quite sure she couldn’t have been thinking at all when she dressed or she would never have appeared in the white one. Why, the mauve one made sim| ne ali the difference in the wor! MAYOR BY TOSS OF COIN JEFFERSON, O.—When the vote for the mayoralty of North Kingsville resulted in a tie, the candidates for the office, Gilbert H. Myers and P,. H. Boerngen de- clined a recount and agreed to leave the decision to a flip of a coin. Myers won. six couples. That’s the way they were paired for the first hand over a decade ago. Doubleheader Yesterday Labor Temple nine of Tampa, took both ends of a doubleheader | at Trumbo Field yesterday morn-| ing and afternoon. Ybor City ;boys gathered the Pirates into! ‘camp in the morning contest, 1-0, | and swamped Key West Conchs, | 8-5, in the afternoon fracas. A| large holiday crowd witnessed | the twin bill | One of the swellest ball games| seen at Trumbo Field between| an out-of-town aggregation and a club was played in the! morning. Publio “Specs” Car- bonell and Baby Morgado hooked up in as tight a pitchers’ duel! as ever seen in this city. | The score board read 0-0! through the seventh inning and! until the eighth round when! George Malgrat, relieving Car-| |bonell for the Bucs, was touched! for two consecutive hits. Pizzo- latto, first batter to face Malgrat, | |smashed a single to right; Schiro/ poled a line single to left and} Pizzolatto held up at third; Long- | |val’s grounder to Fidel Lopez was | good for a double play, Al. Ace- vedo to Castellano, and Pizzolat- ! to scored on the play. Morgado: got on-on an error by shortstop- man, and reached second on a bad play; Prieto’s line drive to! right got away from Eloy Ace-; \vedo and Morgado tried to make , home on the muff but was thrown lout by a fast relay to catcher} Manuel Acevedo. Tampa sent in Longval to pitch in the eighth and the Pirates were. held scoreless in the next two innings of play. Fans applauded Spees Carbo- {nell for his wonderful work on the mound after an absence of 13 |weeks, during which time he was ‘nursing a bruised mouth received in a game against the Conchs. Afternoon Contest The outcome of the afterhono game was never in doubt after the Tampans hammered , Jackie Carbonell all over the lot in the first four innings of play, when the visiting club tallied eight times. Baker, who _ relieved Jackie in the fifth, held the in- vaders scoreless the remaining five rounds. Tampa, on the oth- er hand, played safe by pitching Lopez. Morgado and _ Longval three innings each. Today's Doubleheader | Marvin Griffin’s All-Stars will take on the Tampa club this aft- {ernoon, and, with the series lreading Tampa two games on top, the local team will be out to win. Pirates will play first game, which started at 1:30 o’clock and ended at 2:30 o’clock ‘regardless of the score at that time. Sox Tied Tampa Saturday Saturday afternoon’s holiday jseries game between Blue Sox of \the Monroe County Baseball | League and the visiting Tampans jwas called at the end of the sev- lenth inning with the clubs tied at 3-3. The contest was halted because of darkness. Sunday’s Box Scores Box scores: ( local THE WEATHER Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time | Temperatures THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MiMi Tampa Nine Captured — MORNING GAME Tampa Player—. ABR Comporato, 2b 4 Orihuela, ss __ Pizzolatto; ef — Schiro, e+ Longval, cf-p - Morgado, © £-3b Prieto, lf Castellano, 1b . 3 Lopez, rf 1 0 0 0 SrHoooMHoMm women rn eof cooocorce cooNnsoourDy Totals— Pirates Player— ABR Hernandez, Ib _ 4 Lopez, ss i... 4 Al. Acevedo; 2b 4 M. Acevedo, c _ 3 M. Her’ndez, 3b 4 P. Carbonell, p 3 Malgrat, p Garcia, cf Ogden, lf - xSalinero _.. HPOAE 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 COMRCrCHNOS oo4rocounwn eoow~Scormoe Totals— 3 x—Batted for Ogden in ninth. Score by innings: R Tampa 000 000 010— 1 Pirates .. 000 000 000— 0 Runs-batted: in: Longval; double play: Orihuela to Comporato to Castellano; pass- ed ball: Acevedo; struck out: by Morgado 2, by Longval 2, by Car- bonell 7; bases on balls: off Car- bonell 3, off Malgrat 2; hits: off Carbonell 4 in 7 innings, off Mal- grat 3 in 2 innings, off Morgado 3 in 4 innings, off Longval 2 in 5! innings; winning pitcher: Long- val; losing pitcher: Malgrat; um- pires: Acevedo and Griffin. AFTERNOON GAME Tampa ABR | Player— Comporato, 2b - Orihuela, ss _ Pizzolatto, c - Schiro, lf _. |Longval, rf-p |Prieto,. cf ____. ,Artman, 3b-ss (Castellano, 1b _ Lopez, p - | Morgado, i | Totals— i Key West C | Player— AB {Baker, 2b-p = | Villareal, If-rf _ Acevedo, ss - |Albury, 3b Griffin, ¢ Barcelo, lb _._ !Carbonell, p-2b ‘Torres, cf... Steve, rf |Garcia, If HOOONP RE HEE AOOwWOHOONND ecoooocooone+H oo a o SOnoNNOUHE ME v fo} SCOnSCSHHOnMY POROSWONNN the | Totals— Score by innings: Tampa 113 300 000— |Key West Conchs 200 111 000— 5 | Runs-batted-in: 4 R 8 to 2, Schiro, Barcelo; two-base ‘hits: Longval, Prieto, |Pizzolaito; three-base hit: Villa- real; double plays: Artman to Castellano, Comporato to Artman to Castellano; left on bases: Tam- pa 9, Conchs 8; time of game: 159; umpires. Vidal, Griffin and Acevedo. | Principal 1940: Holidays | Come in Middle of Week { Unlike the- past year, 1940 won’t | | have many long weekends. All prin- | cipal holidays fall in the middle of | | the week. Memorial day, July | | Fourth, Thanksgiving and Washing- | 2/ Acevedo,. Vil- | jlereal, Longval, Prieto, Pizzolat- | Morgado, | | Highest | Lowest |Mean last 24 hours ——.. last night 69 | ton’s birthday all fail on Thursday, 60 | Christmas and Valentine's day come | ..64| on Wednesday. It won't help your | _69 income to get paid on either Fri- on—it was just that she wore a | dress on Sunday with a horsehair | {Normal | Precipitation | Rainfall, 24 hours ending | 7:30 a. m., inches - Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Saray! Deficiency since Jan. 1, inches 2 sa |Total rainfall since January 1, inches | Deficiency inches a Ses Se Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 7:13 a.m. | Sunset 5:50 p. m. Moonrise .. 1:30 a. m. Moonset eatin 1:07, p. m. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. - 9:05 10:14 . 3:04 3:39 m.. today 0.00 0.05 since Jan. 1, 0.05 PM Low — High _— a Barometer at 7:30 Sea level i FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and light to moderate variable winds, mostly northerly. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Light to moderate variable winds, becoming north- erly, probably fresh at overcast weather tonight Tuesday. and G. S. KENNEDY, Official In Charge. _ 30.01! Tuesday; |’ times; | | day or Saturday, because there’s | only 52 of each. But there are 53 | Mondays. 00 onday: | LEGALS IN THE COUNTY JUDGE'S COURT IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA. IN PROBATE. E In e of TELLE ROBERTS, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS To all creditors and all persons i ims or demands against IZA | You, and each of you, are hereby notified and required ‘to present any you, or either of you, may_ have against the estate of Eliza Estelle Roberts, deceased, late of Monroe County, Florida, to the Hon. Ra: mond R. Lord, County Judge Monroe County, at his office in the County Courthouse in Monroe ‘County, Florida, within eight calen= dar months from the date of the ifirst publieation hereof. Ali. claims and demands not presented within the time and in the manner” pre- scribed herein shall be barred as | provided by law. |" Dated December 16th, A. D. 1939, ‘ THEODORE B. J. ROBERTS, | As Administrator of the Estate ‘of Eliza Estelle Roberts, Deceased. decl8-25,1939; jani-8,1940 | “Key West's Qutstanding!”™ | Subscribe to The Citizen—20¢ | 2 weekly. claims and demands which | { | |; = THE ISLAND ¢iry iday early this morning and it :Roses, and were having a very There was every- It was New Year’s Eve. ‘good time. }thing: o |And everybody had turned out. :You could have picked every character out of every psycholog- ical novel there. You could have ; found all the colorful characters the cruise pamphlets rave about jin tropical ports. Everything from gapes to white coat tux. Anyway, Mr. Howard and party were enjoying themselves im- mensely. Came the zero hour and the whistles blew merrily ,and the crehestra blared forth ‘and there was kigsing and wish ing of happy neW year. Later, |when all the excitement calmed idown, somebody discovered that Mr. Howard’s birthday had also been ushered in with all the mer- \riment. So it was nothing less |than happy birthday singing to him from the orchestra and all assembled. Now, Mr. Howard got a real kick out of all this. He was beaming all over. At this time someone in the aud- ,ience picked the opportunity of trying to get a pack of cigarettes out of a machine just behind Mr. Howard. So with Howard beam. ing, the orchestra blaring, every: body singing, the gink bumpin; Howard’ in the head while trying to get the cigarettes out, the New Year coming in, Howard had his birthday. THE SUTTON LINES yacht Florida arrived yesterday after- noon from Tortugas with a party of Washington officials and their families, who came here in a group just to make the trip. They were very enthusiastic over the entire voyage. It was a nice day coming back and the yacht look- ed very neat making port. The Florida will begin its Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays sched- jule within the next week or ten days. It is awaiting final okay ‘from the steamboat inspectors. ‘Returning trips will be made Wednesdays, Fridays and Sun- days. The price of the trip over- night is $15, which includes room aboard yacht Nirvana, passage to TID ITIZAPDAHAIPAAILIAPZPLAILAZLALLL AZAD in fe pear celebrated ‘with all the sin-| [St s cerity and friendliness of a Key; CUBAN CONSUL Berardo/°f other growers with 100 bush- ‘meals. E |West toast. Mr. Howard and )Rodriguez was looking forward Q'party were at Pena’s Garden of to a good yachting season through Key West to Cuba. He and vice NO FOLLOW THROUGH (By Associated Press) GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Jan. | ROY HOWARD had a birth- and from Fort Jefferson, and all ,!—Three times, Richmond Rob- ison of Delavan, Ill., was Mlinois! corn king. He topped production | els plus per acre. This year hi: record was 154 bushels an acre. |But on his quarter section Ne- ‘braska farm, which he owns consul Jose Perez state that it isinear here,’ Robison raised not a easier than ever this year to clear single ear of corn this droughty ‘for Havana and very inexpensive. | Year. So if you have a yacht; you need | lonly get clearance papers from | the consular office in the Carlos building on Duval street, | ‘for which there will be a fee of | five dollars, lowest in the city. | ; When you get over in Havana it! will best to see a_ broker and | ‘have him arrange for entry, for | ee @ecveresccesa — THY IT TODAY — San | The Favorite In Key West STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS }e coe PAGE THREE ee - Gary Cooper—Andrea Leeds THE REAL GLORY also SELECTED SHORTS essen For Fifty Years a NAME! in Coffee in Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION NO NAME LODGE Directly on Beach _ Famous Bahia Honda Fishing Reef — Tarpon — Fishing Bone COTTAGES $2.50 AND UP Permit Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty PHONE NO NAME KEY NO. 1 which there will be another $5 | *@e#eeesseneescesscooese | Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Craig, Owners fee. 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