New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1929, Page 16

The Crimson did have, as & matter f iict, excellent grounds for protest. iug innocence. For its action yester- day in supporting the Lampoon in the anti-House plan canipaign mark- ed the first time in Harvard history that the rival publications had agreed about anything, even the weather, Worcester to Limit Number of Taxicabs Worcester, Masa, Feb. 12 M— Fire Chief Charles L. McCarthy, chairman of the license board. said lust night that Mayor O'Hara's | stutement toduy that the number of taxes in the city is increasing .00 rapidly, will result in the refusal of the license board to grant any more hackney carriage licenses. Since the advent of the 35-cent.flat rate for cab fares & number of “free lance drivers have sprung up as well as & cab company operating more tham 50 cabs, ugh he suid “all is over between us.” . Paul Armstroug. chief of the fed- eral naturalization bureau here, put the quictus o the criticism by the “The governmant la the dnly party interested” from- a lwgal standpoint and witl not reopen the matter,” suid Armstrong, referring to the court proceedings by ‘which Madame Cha- kir regained her citizeuship in San HARVARD LAMPOON EDITION BURNED Copies of “Harkness Number” Fed 1o Bonfire Are Reprinted Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 12.—(UP) —Printing presses hummed today as a mew edition of the Harvard Lam- poon was run off to replace that which was burned last night as a re- prisal agiinst the magazine's attack on Edward 8. Harkness, Yale gradu- | ate und Harvard benefactor. | Mystery surrounded the bonfire of Lampoons which attracted hundreds of spectators to the front steps of the | publication’s headquarters on Mount Auburn strect, but there was little doubt in anyone's mind that the 500 | copies of “Lampy” were destroyed because they contained a vigorous custigation of the so-called “House plan.” The entire issue had been devoted to articles uidiculing Harkness' $11,392,000 gift and the New York multimillionaire himself. While uni- versity authoritica had adopted no disciplinary measures, it was known that they deplored the Lampoon's biting criticisms, and there also ap- peared to be a strong under-current of resentment among the student body. Severa) members of the Lampoon's editorial staff had just eaten dinner and had repaired to the lounging room upstairs. Suddenly a flare of crimson flashed through the windows and there were cries from the street below. Itushing downstairs, the editors discovered the pilo ef Lampoons ablaze on the front steps. The maga- zines had been seized by marauders who had broken into the building, it was said. Policemen Watch Fire Two policemen and a fircman were in the crowd of spectators, but it was apparent that no property would be iy s Eaed 310 “Narphy 1 L —— Columbus, Ohlo, Feb. 12 UP—A man whose identify_ has beep hidden for ' five yeurs behifd & convict's number, will walk thgpugh the gatsa of Ohlo’ poniteptiary Match 1, free 1o wage a fight to regain his place in society and to follow, if he can, in the footsteps of Q. Henry. For five years he has been on the prison’ . records as John Myrphy, alias Stewart, and prison ¢fficial have let it go at that. For almost five, years tiey, have turned over to hiny checks that-bore a name ynlike “John .Murphy, alias:Stewart,”. but the: record stands. He:.was :John Murphy, alias Stewart when he eame to the penitentiary and when he leaven he will go under that name, “Murphy” was recelved at the penitentiary from Marion county n October, 1923, canvicted of burglary and sentenced to a term of five to ten years. Assigned to the prison library, he delved into the books there and put in his spare time writ- ing. His first short story was ac- cepted with a request for more. Since ‘then he has written steadily, and not long ago his work came to the attention of former Governor Vie Donahey. The goverpor .com- muted his sentence to expire at the discretion of the clemency board. The board has set March 1 as the date. Lampoon.. The Lampoon and Crim- won offices are scparated by a scant 100 yards., y “We are cerlain that the Crimson editors are responsible for this" Lampoon editors said. “You know, in our new ‘protest of the masses’ isnue, we attacked Crimson competitions on the ground that they were unfair to organized labor and, despite the fact they agreed with ua on our stand ugainat the House plan and the se- called educational efficiency at Har. vard, we believe that they have tak- en this method to retaliate.” But the Crimson editors were dis- covered to be working industriously on this morning's issue of their vaper, They professed amazement, even indignation, when they learned that 500 copies of the Lampoon had been seized and destroyed, “We r stuonsil:lc " th innoc: Why, prepostero! e ates courts through- /bayve been granting women repatriation even thougi they come here on vigitor's pass- port. 18 has Ueg general ruling that justice sipersedes technicalities and if any: American woman wio had married & foreigner wanted to be restored to her eitizenship, she should be allowed to .do so.” The prince said teday that he wus bere to ralse capital for a $5.000,- 000 Turkish reclamaiion project. 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It 18 the name he used over his stories, “When I lcave the penitentiary I am going to New York for a few the words were well out of This mouth, the outer door opened and the plainclothesman appeared, fol- lowed by two very young men. “Elevator operators on duty Sat- urday until five,” Covey introduced them to the chief. come to Harry Borden's widow. “T have made no confession, and will make none, for I did not kill my husband. 1 have merely relieved Miss Lester of a painful cuty -- that of telling what happened be- tween her and myself Saturday THIS HAS HAPPENED When Ruth Lester, secretary, gocs | to the office on a Monday morning | in January, she finds the dead bouy | of her employer, “Handzome Harry” Borden, sprawled on the floor be- neath the window of his private of- fice. Ruth is engaged to Jack Hay- ward, whose office is just across the rarrow airshaft from Borden's. Ruth recalls that Jack had threatened Borden. She also re- calls that when met Jack at noon Saturday with a bruised lip he be- lieved Borden had hurt her though | she insisted he was wrong. Ruth runs to Jack's private office and, finding him out, searches for his pistol which he had purchased at the same time he bought an identical| weapon for her to keep ™ her desk. His gun Is gone! McMann, a detective, questions Ruth. She confeases her engagement to Jack and also tells him of Bor- den's two Saturday morning visitors: Rita Dubois, night club dancer, with whom Borden was planning a week- cnd trip; and Mrs Borden, his wife and mother of his two children, who called for her monthly alimony. Mrs. Borden comes into the office during the questioning and McMann merci- lcssly accuses her of the murder. She insists she left Borden alive and that the only person she saw near his office was Minnie Cassidy, scrub woman, Nielson, medical examiner, arrives. When search is started for the weapon that might have becn used, Ruth tells of the pistol in her Gesk, McMann goes to get it. It is gone, too! NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XII Detective McMann's eyes were like glinting bits of steel as he turned on Ruth, They did not iniss the fact that her little hands were locked tightly together, her eyes fixed in a wide, unwinking stare of horror— upon Elizabeth Borden. “When did you last see your auto. matic, Miss Lester? Come now-- the truth, the whole truth. and noth- ing but the truth! Colby' Lester's daughter should be familiar with that phrase, and know that the truth is always the best policy.” Ruth nodded weakly, and mofst- ened her lips. “I—saw it Saturday | morning, when I opened the bottom drawer to get a new carton of paper cups. It was there then, lying on top of those clean towels. -1 never saw it again, Mr. McMann. J never touched it. Tt frightened me even to look at it.” “Who else knew you kept a gun in that drawer?” Ruth silently prayed that Mrs. Eorden would forgive her. “A num.- | ber of people. I can't. remember 2ll of them at the momant, but Ben- ny, the office boy, of course, and Mr. Borden, and—and Mrs. Borden—" | “Ah! So Mrs. Borde1 knew!” Mc- | Mann interrupted triumphantly. “And how did Mrs. 8crden know | you kept & gun there? Did she ask | you?” “8he—saw it there,” Ruth sail faintly, reaching out dizzily for the desk. A low exclamiition, that might have been either from fear or startled realization, had broken from Mrs. Borden's ashen lips. | “When?" McMann barked. | “Saturday morning.” Ruth ad mitted in a low, trembling voice. | “1 pulled out the drawer to get the paper cups and Mrs. Borden, who ! was sitting at my desk, helped me | with the drawer because it stuck, | and — and T cxplained how T hap- | pened to have a gun — about the | hold-ups in the building. you | know.” “And why was Mrs, Borden sit- tmg at your desk?* McMann caught her up sharply. relentlessly ‘You'd made h sit down hecause | she was feeling faint, hadn't you? And you were after a cup fo give bor o drivk, weren't you?™ Nuth stared her azement at his conrate deduction. “Mrs, Borden | aid not 10ok-— well. so 1 thought “Look here, Miss Lester,” Mann interrupted her stumbling speech. hiss you | know, and somecone committed th murder, and T Dere to find out | whe did . 1f you 're trying to | shield Mrs. Borden “I'm grateful who had risen and was holding 1o Ler chair, finished his sentence for | him. “And T don't tyou fo bully this child. 1t is troe; 1 did sce the weapon, T was fecling s1ck | and faint becanse T heard a ond my hushand raughing loudly to- Kether.” “You manded, through he the medteal Me- | s murder Mrs. Borden \ for woman | | MeAtann de hou' | called to | 1ner. who was stil ice with the Mr. MeMann!™ Mrs. Hor commanded, and TNuth ad nired the calm courage which ha:l admit that 2" “T Euess . doctor.” we're e coryse den | arrest ha [heen dend | nesses morning. “1 admit ous, if you will — because my hus- band was so evidently finding hap- piness with another -voman. But for many years he has given me cause to be jealous, and I have borne it uncomplainingly for tha sake of my chitdren.” McMann nodded, his lips twist- ing in a bricf, cruel smile. “But on Saturday you reached the end of your rope, didn't you, Mrs. Bor- den? You quarreled with him about this other woman, had given you your check—" “I did not!” Mrs. Borden inter- rupted firmly. “We parted as amicably as usual, and my hus- band was alive. I did not even re- member that Miss Lester had a pis- tol in her desk. My husband gave me no cause to0 remember, and 1 was thinking only of getting back | to the Chester Hotel, left my children.” Again McMann grinned, but he suddenly switched his glinting, hard eyes upon Ruth again. “Did Borden buy the automatic and in- struct you to wuse it on bandita, Miss Lester?” “No.” Ruth breathed the rather than spoke it. “I bought the gun for Miss Les- ter, Mr. McMann.” Jack Hayward spoke up. “As I told you we are en- gaged to be married. I bought the automatic seteral week ago, after there had been two hold-ups in the building, but she was afraid ‘o learn to shoot it.* McMann scowled at the young man, thought deeply for a moment, hen pounced upon Ruth again. If you were so afraid of the gun, Miss Lester, how did it happen that so many people knew you had e The memory of past humilia- tions painted Ruth’s cheek scar- let. “Mr. Borden made me get it out sometimes and show peopie that we—we were armed,” she fal- tred. “It — amused him to ses how frightened of the gun I was. Beveral of the stock salesmen were in his office one afternoon, and "1~ made me bring it in — and—an1i pretend T was a bandit.” “Swell sense of humor! Mec- mann commented. “You weren't so crazy about your boss, were you, Miss Lester?” where 1 had word, ——iay Ruth stared at the detective with frightened blue eyes. “I—he was nearly always a considerate employ- {er. T had no cause at all for com- plaint, until the day of his death.” She could have bitten her tongue after she had again uttered that vhrase of double meuning. but ap- parently it had made no impression upon McMarin, or he had accepted it at its face value. “You scem pretty sure that Bor- | | den died Saturday, Miss Le ter,” the detective ‘Let's see what the medical ex- aminer has to say. He must be able to give some sort of report by now. . . . Oh, doctor!” Dr. Nielson appeared in the doorway between the two offices. his pale ecyes blinking mildly be- hind his thick-lensed spectacles. “When was Dorden killed, dee. tor? Of courss 1 know you can't say to the minute or even the hour. before you perform the autopsy but It wonld help me in my work it you could when death took place.” The doctor cocked his thin-hatred Lead and smiled quizzically. *You Fave so little regard for the nice < of MeMann, Tt s truly deplorahle, on condition that you shall not hol-l me to this opinion or u d upon it 1 that the Aween 41 and 1 draw my conclusions from — MeMann waved away the n ical explanation. “So he was after one o'clock know lafer. doe, the time more course we may on commented seiene shall sav to you n » hours me you ecan fix acenrately. mve a dozen wit among the cmployes and tenants of the building as fo when the shot wus fired. And sav. doc, phone me as as von extract the bullet, won't you” TNl het you a hundred 38 caliber, r vou're in a hetting frame of mind “Not this morning.” the dector vepudiated the offer dryly, “Now i1 mav. TN phone the morgue send for the hody ™ Where the devil is Cove Me Mann began to fume, but hgforc P its a to that T was hurt—jeal- | after he | tell me approximately ! But, offhand, and | ke a hasty | ased has | “All right, boys. Come on fin," McMann invited. “I'm not going to arrest you—yet,” he added with grim humor, as the boys continued to hug the wall, “Guess this room's getting & little crowded. I'll take you boys Into the private office and |treat you to a sight you'll never forget.” Micky Moran and Otto Pfluger, whom Ruth recognized as the si- lent, tow-headed boy who ran the car nearest Jack Hayward's offices, | stumbled nervousl; across the out- |er office in the wake of the detec- tive. Covey, chuckling, indicated by pantoniime that the boys had no idea what had happened. Micky did not close the com- municating door behind him, and the young lovers dared take their place within it. McMann, seated at | Borden’s desk, glanced up, but did not object. Possibly, Ruth thought, he wanted to observe their faces as the elevator operators told their stories. “Which of you runs the elevator Jjust across the hall?” McMann de- { manded “You? All right” as { Micky Moran stepped toward the | desk, his eyes turned backward to |that awful, huddled thing on the | ticor. “Henry P. Borden was mur- | dered Saturday afternoon, and un- | doubtedly, or rather, in all proba- | bility, his murderer—or murderess —rode up and down in your ele- vator, my lad. What's your name?" “Michael Dennis Moran,” Micky answered automatically, then: “Gees! Murdered! Do 1 have te stay in here, boss? Honest—ow!" “What the devil—?" McMann sprang to his feet, as the boy's howl of fear followed upon an ecerie sound. Ruth enlightened him, her eyes vpon the black pigeon which was | flving about the uirshaft window. us If sceking admission: “It's just a pigeon, Mr. McMann. Sometimes they fly into the glass, thinking the window {s open.” As she spoke, McMann strode to the window and peered out inter estedly, just as the black pigeon |settled upon the white stone ledge and began to strut up and down pecking at something— “Lord! And I nearly missed it!" McMann shouted. “Here, Ferber! Look! Have you photographed this window for fingerprints? Fine! 1 can open it then. . gone? Hey, doctor!"” | horror and fear, black pigeon. She would again call him “Ratan." name was Nemesis. . . . (TO BE TINUED) rechristened Bloody pigeon to Borden's chapter. tracks, murder. the clew In the nex: 'JOHNSON NOT MENTIONED Commission Ignores Commu From Mayor Paoncssa Aiming Criticism at Clerk. 1nnte session of the hoard works was held last eve- | dresses her hair. of pu | ning. Commissiuer John ed as chairmuan to his homw I of N oncerning Johnsen. Permission \wfor was nted for the of a gas station at 21 shington street from the Atlantic OIl Co. to LW the estension of the s on Corbin avenue from dow avenue north about 100 feet Petitions for illuminated signs at 95 Arch strect and 248 North street were faid over to the copted. | Perkins Will Not J Be Cahinet Member |0y Westwood, Ma Thomas Nelson | Feb, Kins, Aternate for Owen D, Young, on he reparations commission, [ four words at | night 1o put an used just his home here last end to a rumor that he was to he named attorney general Jin 1 Herbert Hoover. |1 voted for Smith,” he said. cubinet of BY PUBLIC WORKS BOARD | ation | o0 gan act- | in the absence of | cverything to keep their appearance | Dobson. who 5| pleasing.” says Miss Manners. “But Miness. No |1 lead such a busy lfe that T can or Pao- Dwyer. A hearing (it stays in place wonderfully. was ordered on a pretition asking for iitary sewer neat meeting. | Danderine O The monthily bilis were read and we- | keeps away all traces of dandruff. | 12 (P—|its natural color; makes lawyer and days to discuss business matters with my publishers.” he said. “But.I ex- pect to return to Columbus to make my home here or In one of the small towns nearby. For five years 1 have been ‘John Murphy, allas Stewart.’” When T return to Colum- bus that name will belong to the past. “Before T cntered the penitentiary 28, 23 Ellis street; IFerdinand Bois- [endangered by the flames, and they sonault, 31, 27 Pearl Court. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS I never attempted to write, 1 got my background from the storles available to me in the prison library, building on their suggestions and my own experience to make the plote for my stories.” “Murphy” said his writing brought him more than $7,000 in 1928 and estimated his earnings since January 1 at $300. His writing was carried eon through the aid of prison officials. who permitted him to work at night and purchased materials for him with money he earned through MI: | writing. CHARTR FAILS T0. 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