New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1922, Page 10

10 /|~ m"‘ %abal BEGIN HIRE TODAY Mystery surrounds the sudden eentricity of three wealthy and sedate brothers, one of them the father of youthful PATRICIA DRAKE cause of the evident terror which has gripped the trio, Patricia asks the advice of her guardian, ATTORNEY JOHN WELLS, and tells him that two weeks ago her fatha HOBART DRAKE, a Wall G&treet broker, clothed himself in a sheet and went to the town square where he delivered a mock oration A few days later her uncle ROGER DRAKE, an eminent tist, made a burlesque of a tific address That morning third brother, her uncle ANDREW, was found seated on the floor playing with toys The three are sane, sober and respected men Wells asks | OWEN MILES, detective sergeant, to investigate, ec- Alarmed be- scien scien- the GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II. 'Yl have never encountered strange a case,’” John Wells remarked when the office door closed behind thelr young client | “I have been the attorney for Ho- | bant' Drake and his sister Jerusha for| the past twenty vears and their affairs are in perfect shape.’” The attorney| eat back in his chair and placed the tips of his fingers together reflectively. ‘‘Roger's brilliant sclentific career speaks for itself and Andrew made a big filnancial success of his sheep| ranch. I had known the family years | ago, but not intimately. ‘“They held themselves aloof from the neighbors with the bitter pride of poverty which resents the memory of past affluence. “I should like to know how impressed you before prosperity re turned to them,” the detective asked. | “T want to gauge what changes the past twenty vears have made in their several characters. It's evident from | the widely different careers which | they chose that the three brothers| are as far apart in temperaments as| the poles.” “They always were," ‘marked reminiscently. oldest of the family—he must about forty-eight—and except in out- ward appearance, he has changed the least, in my estimation He was al- ways a dreamer, a shy sort of youth Andrew, two years his junior, was| just the opposite; boisterous and| fun-loving, and more sociable than | any of the rest. Jerusha—DMiss Drake—comes next. She was digni- fled and austere even as a mere girl." “What of the third brother, the father of the young lady?” “There you will find the greatest change, Sergeant.’” The attorney spoke hastily and in more confidential tone as if to make amends for his im- plied suggestion. “Hobart was a| drab, colorless young bank clerk at| twenty-three, wholly without am-| bition to get out of the rut. Now he| is a dynamic force on the Street and | until this unfortunate episode the leading citizen of his community. I cannot believe that his sanity is in| question, much less that all | S0 Wells re- three | brothers should be attacked at virtu-| ally the same time! T feel that there | must be some other explanation!” The attorney pushed back his chair | and rising, moved to the window where he stood for a moment. Then | he wheeled: ‘‘Sergeant, I haven't a theory, a suspicion, an idea of a possible solution! The whole thing; is monstrous, incredible! If I were. ignorant and superstitious, if I be- lieved in the Evil Eye—! He left the sentence unfinished and Owen Miles smiled slightly once more “But science has proved the istence of the modern equivalent the Evil Eye, hasn't it, sir? that what you're getting at?" “You mean hyvpnotism, of course? ¥t seems too bizarre a thought to en- | tertain serfous If these | of Isn't three brothers are not the victims of some etrange . drug, self-administered o otherwise, which is slowly driving! them mad, what possibie alternativa explanation is there?" | The detective rose also and picked up. his hat from the desk. *‘We shall| see.” ‘The afternoon was well advanced when Sergeant Owen Miles approach- ed the long lines of glistening green- houses near a country club and then paused as a hearty voice hailed him from the golf links. Turning he be- held a stocky, robust figure clad in golfing clothes striding vigorously toward him “What the dickens—!' as they clasped hands cottie, | what's come over you that you are fooling around with the idle rich at| & country club?” “Didn’t you hear, Owen, my lad?" Fergus McCredy beamed joyously on | bis youthful friend. “This commun- ity has seen fit to take me up social like, and I've taken up my own na- tional game to keep in shape.” “I've got a bigger game on than golf, Scottie, and I hoped you would like to take a hand in it with me.” He paused suggestively and Scottle rose to the bait. “'What is the case, laddie?"” ‘When the story was concluded he remarked briefl "“P'm with you. It may be a mad- house we're going to but it sounds to me like something very different CHAPTER III Just after the dinner hour that| evening, Sergeant Miles, alias William | Brown, the new houseman, presented himself at the kitchen door the | square old Colonial house in which so many generations of the Drake family had lived. ‘An’elderly butler made his appear- | ance. “The new houseman? M will see you in the servants room." Almost immediately a baired woman entered “My niece engaged you at our usual | agency?’ Her voice was deeply con- | tralto and it seemed to Miles that her | bright, 'dark eyes beneath the strong| brows were attempting to bore him| theough. “‘Did she explain the duties ~hith would be requh-ed of you?” Miles stared s Drake sitting- | tall, gray-| ex-| ¢ si’mnd@r\’ ©1972 NLA Service, Inc, “Everything is Willlam," she said, swered the routine questions. “We will have some supper prepared for you in the servants' dining room." Carter, the butler, reappeared and led the way up two flights of back stairs to a small but immaculate room at the side of the house, Miles waited until he heard the other's foot- steps descending the stairs before he extinguished the light and raised the shade As he looked across the grounds, a | shambiing male figure strolled down the drive. It was assuredly neither the rotund chef nor the elderly, dig- nified butler. Could it be the ‘outside man' or there eavesdropper, | an interloper hanging about the| place? | Descending to quite satisfactory, he had an- was an the ground floor,! | Miles wandered out through the entry and across the driveway. i The hour was growing late and it| was probable that he would have no opportunity that night to encounter the three brothers. Miles turned just as the shambling figure came saun- | tering around the bushes | “What are you doin' here?”" The negro's teeth were chattering in his| head, | “Who are you?" Miles countered amiably. “I'm Willlam Brown, the new housema | “Dat's de truf? I'm Ripides Lunt, Rip for short, night watchman till midnight an’' most eve'thing else out- doors in de daytime.” “W what's the matter?’ Miles laughed “There can't be any dan- ger of tramps or burglars.” Ripides chewed ruminatively for a moment “There's thieves can Some mighty dan tramps an' sashayin' ‘round things goin' more come funny on | | was slain was given | | “IS THERE ANY JOKE IN WHAT HAS DESCENDED UPON US?" in dis here neighborhood iately an’ hen de next comes off it's goin' to be where Rip Lunt ain't—I got to be movin'!" CHAPTER 1V. Without encountering the reluctant night watchman again, Miles entered the house and made his way up the back stairs to his own room * All was dark on that side of the house now save in the room just below his own, Someone was pacing the floor of that room below wi a measured tread which told of deep concentra- tion. | Drawing on a dark bathrobe and | slippers Miles opened his door noise- and down one flight of making or which he alculated as being directly under his own H it oa few steps when the door the hall opened with a jerk, and a short, almost burly figure with touseled brown hair and a heavy L ed countenance lessly crept stairs, for the door and turned [ The Phillipses and Mrs. Meadows and | m———— the knob softly Miles was close enc subdued, vet urgent t 1gh to hear the s of the new- I want to speak er, let me in! “What is it, Andrew? Am I never to have any peace?' The closed be ind the nd laid his door ARair 1 Miles crept to it ust it to the panel this, Roger, re not c sligh aggressive Drake were louder affectionate You gave| tonight to that gathering nut, He seems to your best friend, but even he'll to think | and talk like the rest of the town if | you don't help to pass the whole thing, off as a Joke e—r——— e e———| L( areless Soap should be used very carefully i¢ you want to keep vour hair looking | its best. Most and prepared shampnos contain too much alkali This drie - p, makes the hair brittle The hest Mulsified cocoanut (which is p! and is better than thing else ear It's pieces hearty, drew vou'll go to arefu The tone of An- now, but | hly Grayle be begin joke." repeated Rc in vflm»" Shampooing ] Spoils the Hair s0aps steady use is oil shampoo greaseless), and you can ing for fied in a cup little warm water is sufficient to cleanse the thoroughly. Simply or glass with a hair and sca'p | the dead girl. | startling NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, bligg tones, “Is there any joke In| what has defcendedgupon us?" “Look here!" Andrew spoke the patient, incisive emphasis of one | imparting a lesson, "Hobart had a | drop too much aboard when he went out and made that Julius Ceasar speech, and your lecture was an ill- advised bit of pleasantry, while 1 was | only playing a trick this morning to scare that fool Edward, Got that stralght " | A moan was Roger's only answer and Andrew growled “What's your idea, then? Do you | want the whole town to think that we | are—afflicted?" There had been a | palpable pause before the last word, | “Aren't we®' Roger's voice was | vibrant with sudden tragedy. | “Haven't we been for years, even | though we three have managed until now to conceal it from all the rest of | the world? What is the end going| to be? I can see the writing on the wa!l and I tell you I am not going to | with lendure it until uttter madness comes! | There 18 a quick way out, quick and | sure- (Continued in Our Next Issue) AGGUSED WOMAN IS AT HURDER INQUEST Mrs, Phillips Indicted for Brutal “Hammer Killing” Los Angeles, July 18.—The hammer murder of Mrs. Albert Meadows, 20- | vear-old widow, was charged to Mrs. | Clara Phillips by a coroner's jury fol- | lowing a brief, dramatic inquest here yesterday. The verdict was that deatl was due | ‘to a fracture of the skull by a ham- mer blow at the hands of Mrs. Clara Phillips in premeditated murder.' Officials called for the presence at the inquest of Mrs. Clara Phillips, charged with the crime; Mrs. Peggy Caffee, chum_ of Mrs. Phillips, who gave the county grand jury the eye- witness story of the slaying that re-| sulted in the indictment against Mrs. Phililps; A. L. Phillips, oil promoter, husband of the accused woman, who told the sheriff of her alleged confes- | sion of the crime to him, and Dr. A, | F. Wagner, county autopsy physician. Mrs. Phillips, who was brought back here Sunday from Tucson, Ariz, where she was taken from an east-| bound train, surpriggd officers and all coraing in contact with her hy her| smiling demeanor. She smiled at everything from the time she left the | train until she was placed in a cell | adjoining that of Mrs. Madalynne | Obenchain, on trial for the second time for the murder of J. Belton Ken- nedy. | Law Suit Threatened. | Confirmation of the statement ofi Phillips that he had accidentally met | Mrs. Meadows the night before she | by Miss Genorai Tremaine, the dead girl's sister | Miss Tremaine stated, as Phiilips! had, that the meeting occurred in a | traffic jam. Sh» and Mrs. )Ira‘inn's‘ were riding in the latter's automo- bile; Phililps was riding in his. Both | cars were drawn to the curb a few minutes, | “There was absolutely nothing but | accident in that meeting,” said Miss | Tremaine. “We were greatly surprised | when we saw Mr. Phillips. We chat- | ted for a few minutes and then drove | away in opposite directions. We | made no reference to any future meetings." | F. A. Tremaine, Mrs. Meadows'| father, declared that if possible he| would bring damage suits against any | persons responsible for gossip about | Mrs. Julia McElroy, mutual quaintance of Phillips and Mrs Metadows, told officers of an alleged visit by Mrs. Phillips to her home five | days before the murder. i ‘She talked wildly about her hus- | band intending to go away with an- other woman,” said Mrs. McEiroy. “She told me he had purchased a trunk and a suitcase and said he was going to pull out of this mess’ She mentioned Mrs. Meadows' name and said: ‘For reaven's sake, Clara, don't do anything crazy. You know you haven't anything, to base your sus- picions on.’ And she said, ‘Well, I Jknow this is the only woman he sees.'| ac- her sister sometimes happened to call at my house at the same time, but I! never saw anything out of the way Mrs. Phillips used to complain to me that her husband was unfaithful to her. Mrs. Meadows once accompanied me and my boys on a little trip and before we returned home we dropped in at Mr. Phillips’ place, where he was working in his garage. 1 introducedq | him to Mrs. Meadows. That was a! few months ago.” ! Mrs. Philkips' counsel stated a di- rect plea of insanity would constitute her defense. They saig they were mak- ing a “most exhausted probe of their client's life, and would determine after its completion whether the plea would be permanent or temporary in- sanity.” They added they were pre- paring a lengthy statement for Phil- Hps that would “divulge new and revelations appertaining to the case.” Stories Don't Jibe. Officers said they had discovered apparent discrepancies in the story told by Mrs. Caffee. She declared the day of the slaying she and Mrs. Phil- lips met Mrs. Meadows at the down tewn automobile park, where the lat ter had left her car, and that she was introduced to- Mrs. Meadows thers and then for the first time. Opposed to this, employes of the park eaid that the previous day Mrs. Meadows had told them “two girls"” might ca and ask for the use of her car. She said they were to have it if asked for it. And the "two g cording to the park employes, Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Caffee ing from pictures published newspapers. But the emploves the one they believe was Mrs, sald they would take a taxi they ac judg- added Caffee | they | moisten the hair w th water and rub it in. It mak n abundance of rich | creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing every particie of dust, dirt, dandruff and oi! The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves | the scalp soft, and the hair fine and | silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy | to manage | You can get Mulsified cocoanut oil | shampoo at any pharmacy, it's very cheap, and a few ounces will supply every member of the family for months. Be sure your drugglst gives you Mulsified. . excess | there,” and the one they belisve was Mrs. Phillips asked them to “be sure and tell Mrs. Meadows they had used her car, as we don’t want to hurt her L RPN TR O S DR Palace—Thur., Fri.,, Sat. Katherine MacDona!d Wesley Barry in | “Stranger Than Fiction” §| JULY s, 1yzs. An 0dd Lot of In this collection are SUITS and SKIRTS that have high ns 825, The the garment you're looking fo able for eyeryday wear—and ridiculous price of only gooid merchandise from stock, While they last ‘our Choice our Wednesday Morning Onl “MEN- A ‘Clean-Out Entire Stock COLLARS All good staple styles of lars. ment—there's your chance. a supply for future use. 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