The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 23, 1951, Page 10

re a Ba. 1353 D SNUFF THe KEY F se ae pea STIZew ‘TF BARNEY GOGGLE A Shiu HESH, SNUFFY!! SWOWw!i THAT JES’ STARTED iS a BOWERFUL DIVININ' TWIG LAWSY SAKES !! MAYBE IT'S A { GOLD MIN Te VIBRATIONS (S GITTIN’ STRONGER AN’) STRONGER ‘ -- a iby Wred Lasswell €@ LOW-DOWN, - GOOD-FER-NOTHIN' SO CISCO HAS THE SECRET OF THE LOST LODE? THE (T'S SIMPLE! WELL KILL HIM... AND TAKE THE MAP! SORRY.’ TEDDI PACKED UP AND WENT BACK TO THE CITY.“ DON'T LOOK SO YES, 17'S NICE TO RELAX > SUMTIMES-~ JUST RELAX ne i IF HE WANTS ME 70 | i1 | Pay FOR THE CALL Ht] HEMUST BE ONE | || | OF Macce's J | THERE'S A GENTLEMAN ON THE PHONE - HE JUST TOO BAD ?4# WANTS YOU RELATIVES - TO PAY FOR SO HES NO THE CALL! GENTLEMAN - VLE TALK TO Him # ($083) TWO OUT AN NOBUDDY ON iN TH LAST UF TH NINTHE 0 AN US BUGS ARE ONE RUN BEHIND... g NOTHING /~ MY HEART BLEEDS FOR You / HOW'S ') WELL-ALL My | | RELATIVES CAN'T VISIT. US ~ BUT. AUNT KATY AND HER HUSBAND AND MY BROTHER HORACE WILL~ aN AFTE SHE DECIDES WHICH OF YOU SHE REALLY; LOVES, SHE'LL SEND BACIC THE ING SHE DOESN'T WANT. = COLLECT, H tu BET = Sf PEOPLE ARE USING TO MUCH (C WATER, OR MY NAME AINT viuss a a eS PAH 76 McManus WELL-YOUR AUNT MAY GIT HERE - BUT HER HUSBAND WON'T- HE TRIED TO MAKE A SHORT CUT THROUGH A BANK~ SO HE'S IN TS' WELL“THINGS ARE TURNIN' OUT FING! OF ALL. MAGGIE'S RELATIVES ~ ALL. opt i981, King Fastuie Spediate a World sighs revetved TE a A 2OUBLE INTO THE LEFTFIELD CORNER +» AND THE TYING RUN sy2t nde? wasn't and the hofsé kept backing a taking up the slack t as made it. Cliff was moving along the rope at a crow his -— glint- ing. but the black h was indistinct blur against the ground and he could not be sure of: his target. Brent gave another heave ee more the: ro) went slack, Cliff yelled agai “Back, boy!” but this time t came a bump’ and-the horse: gave a squeal as it backed into the rear of the barn. It had gone-as far as it could, any Cliff bent and snatched;:up the rope, taking up’ the slack him- self. Brent ame to his. knees and snatched the’ rope himself. He got ue quickly and leaned back; Sige! ing in with his heels, and Cliff. was pulled violently forward. He stumbled and Brent gathered in a few feet of slack before Durham regained his feet. Once more the marshal leaned back on the rope. He swore viciously, grated, “Just for that Tn blast you clean outa that nightgown you're warin’.” Glutch- za ing the r with his left hand, he put all his weight upon it and the barrel of the Colt arced through the air and steadied. Brent: let go the. rope and leaped, tering. 30 are with Cliff efore he get in a crippling shot; and as the race Cliff fell backwai and hit the earth so hard that the gun he had cocked exploded, Brent heard the bullet cut the air over his head, a landed sprawling atop Dur- a went :|him, He rolled it into a bundle! »| midnight QUTCAST OF DESTINY PAUL E. AN LEHMAN He found the gun hand and | twisted the wrist, but Durham | squirmed, his arm giving with the twist as a boxer rolls with a punch, He clung to the gun. Brent | bake oF ape erect and drove) a bied-up Knee into Cliff’s| in; he heard an agonized grunt force itself from the marshal’: ips. He started yunding the’ which clutched the gun against the hard ground. | Cliff struck ith his left) wi fist and there wrist with his right hand drove his own fist hard Cliff's chin, and Cliff's head struck the ground with a) Brent gripped the gun wrist 1e in 1! sin and twisted hard and. this | time the Colt dropped from Cliff's | fingers, Brent sprang. to his feet and) kicked Durham in the head and the marshal went out to stay for a while. He was heaving with exertion and his head still swam from Cliff's blow. He got into the saddle and sent the horse loping | into the road, and after he ha covered a mile he Sulied to a halt and stripped the black robe from} and tied it to his saddle. He turned his horse away from the road and spent the next three ‘hours: confusing the trail. As- sured’ that- it would take Cliff many tedious hours of daylight to untangle the snarl, he found a poe hollow, staked out his} orse and lay on @ blanket to} smoke and think. Pe whole thing had started! with the death of his father.) Benjamin Hollister operated a) gold exchange in an Arizona min- ing town. He employed one clerk, a man named Harvey Stoat. A shipment of currency had been) received and Hollister had locked | it in the vault, planning to check it after supper. } He went to the office abou eight o'clock, met Stoat_ ther and a witness had seen the two) men enter the building, had heard the bolt shot and had seen light show through a window. When. at ollister had not re- turned to his home, his wife, be- coming alarmed, notified the mar- shal. The marshal went to the banking rooms and found the rear door unlocked. The lamp still burned but neither of the! two men were there. The vault was open and the gold gone. They found the two men lying in the road a few miles trom town. Hollister had shot in the back and was dead; Stoat had a bullet through the lungs and never regained consciousness. Fafther on they the wagon, but the horses were Hi cage re Stoat kept mutteri in his delirium two words which sounded like Sheil and Destry. Brent and his élder brother i ferent to gathered ail the information available and reconstructed the crime. Aa tanks Since entrance to the ‘ing : forced they conspired with er to steal cur- rency and had unlocked the rear door before leaving for supper. His partner had concealed him- self until the vault was opened, | then had forced Hollister to carry the gold to a wagon he had driv- en into the alley. Stoat, they be: lieved, had been shot because his partner did not trust him or did not wish to divide the loot. The murderer had then used the two horses for his getaway. They assumed that the words Shell and Destry were the mur- derer’s names, probably Sheldon Destry, until Cole had Jearned that there was a town in New Mexico named Destiny. When he found that several outlaw bands operated out cf that town he had the hunch that the killer's name was Shell and that he came from Destiny. The only way to check on this was for one of them to go to Destiny; they tossed for it and Cole won the toss. He decided to take the name of Slim Cole and promised to write Brent when he neéded his help. Then Brent got a letter which had been mailed at Juniper, sixty miles from Destiny. Cole had not located anybody named Shell but believed he was on a hot trail. He asked Brent to meet him in Juniper. Brent had gone to Juniper, but ‘ole had not appeared. At the end of a week he set out for Des- tiny. There he had heard two men talking about the mysterious murder of Slim Cole. 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