New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1929, Page 17

!""'NEW. BRITAIN DAILY. HERALD, ' THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929. Maan. I'll develop these. negstives and send” you copies in an hour or 20." ‘As the two men -were leaving, Coghlan, superintendent of the bullding. pushed his “way in. “Abaut thwough with my *boya chief? My elevator service. is crippled.” ing ‘the office, from the airshaft window to the desk and hack to the window again. “Get . substitutes?” he shouted . irritably. - ““I'm | through with them and ‘won't. bk | Miami Beach, Fla., Feb. 14 (UP) —Herbert Hoover probably will set & new presidential travelling record during his administration. Before he was elected, he was one any time soon. . . . By the ‘way. Coghlan,” he :demanded suddesly. stopping at the raised window’ peering out of it, “who has !‘e' office directly opposite?” TRAVEL RECORD MeMann nad.risen ana’ was ouc. | PRESHOR-Eloct Alroady Hag 25, oo ueth che st or the Piled Up Hoary Milenge . = lji_.,h...eehn v_ag.le.v gec:l:h:n“ s time ‘ to' y Hm]vm MAY Sfl % Jw.mm:w cabinet and o Scarce, drafting of his-inaugural address.|. {now nearly completed.” " He desires to go to. Washingten jto-tie up the ‘loome 'ends: himgpelf. Jt {had been expected he weould delay. ticular reason for his departure the first of the week Ppoint to abando: ment of his fishing trip and sudden return here, followed shortly by the announcement ‘that. he would leave soon for Washington. ! Mr. Hoover decides to pull” up il’lk& and move quickly. .of which ithere is no better example than his trip to South America. : Frank Asserts $rouble with umiversily - professors, as President Glern Frank of the University of -Wisconsin finds it, is there ‘aven’t eriogh good opex. enough able and inspiring men in the teaching, profession adequately to man all ‘the universities of the | United States.” President Frank was urging legis- | Intive action to keéep professioral salaries high. He told the comm.it- tee'that the average annual salary of |a prefessor in Minnesota is $5.037, in Illinois $5.062, in Michigan $5, Madison, Wig., Feb.:14 (P — The | ered a reflection on papermen who had Gay in and day out for ne marshal. !A°challenge followed and esrly this morning the journalists met. Do Sombreuil fired into the ground, while Chapreau’s bullet went wild. The combatants shook bands then and retired to the nearest eafe to bind their reconciliation‘with a hot drink. 3. Dr. Daveniere, physician to Mar- hal Foch, was present at the duel. fof the most travelled men in the| oton 0 Base world. He travelled extensively after he had become sccretary of! A §00d deal of the president- commerce. He probably has fraw €léct's travelling has been by boat. | elled as much since his clection lagt He 18 an excellent sallor and loves, November as most presidents do n the sea. As president he is expected |their entire time in the White !0 use the presidential yacht May- 'House, his Bouth American trip flOWer more extensively than other covering 18,000 miles. He came to Presidents. Mr. Coolidge used it a Florida and - has added another 590d deal for short trips down the thousand. Potomac. Mr. Hoover is expected He is preparing today to pull up 'O use it on longer expeditions. 4 stakes again after a two day auto- “Join Hoover and see the world,’ mobile trip inspecting the Ever- One Of his attaches sald recently. slades flood district about Lake Paraphrasing the marine slogan. Okeechobee beginning tomorrow; | The president-elect was to have | he will leave early next week, preb. 28 a visitor today the “Lindbergh of ably Tuesday, on his return to ‘;’“"'v" the young aviator Tien:Lai- Washington. uang. The speculation naturally Inlnlred! He completes this morning his | by the announcement he Would re. COnferences with members of the ! turn to Washington two weeks be. ¢conomic trends committee which fore his inauguration was atill active | he appointed a year ago, after| at the dead man whose last move. | today, but no answer came from me‘;h‘ch the results :m vv;e ;:::uné;?. ments he believed he had imitated. | President-eleet nor from those about Those ({m’e me Rl duntinls “Moran! At what time did Hay- |him beyond the statement that it is C380: «l;irle;me «:hrv. Hew Tork: | rd return to his office?" merely in keeping with the word he Adolph l"'d‘;;‘, Bm "IH‘"“' “He didn’t — s0 far as I know!" | Passed to his clpse friends before he erve board and Edward Eyre 8 The’ superintendent made a wide detour to avoid the thing that:lay on the floor. “Let's see,” he con- sidered, acratching his head."*This murder's got me so upset I ‘can’t think right clear—" Ruth had feared that question and its inevitable answer so long that she had no power now to feel more fear as Jack Hayward inter- rupted, his voice quiet and matter- of-fact: “That is my office, McMann.” McMann looked from the corpmse upon the floor to the window near which it lay, th'n, squarely facing the window, he stood for a moment. before staggering backward. A choked screams checked his too-re- | alistic pantomime of the falling of | & mortally woundéd body. | “Stupid, eh?” he gasped, as he| ghted himself, without a glance | ¢80.93 and in Wisconsin, $5,306.76. Foes Drink Together “After Bloodless Duel Paris, Feb. 14 (M—The iliness ot Marshal Foch had an unexpected re- | percussion this morning in a duel between.two newspapermen who e e i | HAVE RHEUMATISM IN MV SHOULDER SO BAD | CANT SLEEP AT NIGHT. SEND FRED TO THE ORUG STORE POR A 35¢ BOTILE OF SLOANS UINIMENT SLOAN'S LINI- MENT WILL EASE THE AUIN IN YOUR SHOULDER. SLOANS LINIMENT 13 FINE FOR RHEUMATISM. A ‘THIS HAS HAPPENED - Ruth Leater, secretary, finds the ead body of her employer, “Hand- ne Harry” Borden, promoter of jublous stock companies, aprawled n the floor of his office. Ruth is hgaged to Jack Hayward, whose fice is just across the narrow air- hatt from Borden's. Petrified with fear, Ruth recalls hat Baturday morning Jack had hreatened Borden. Ruth runs to ck's office and, finding him out, rches for his pistol which he d purchased at the same time| e had bought an identical weapon | r her to keep in her desk. His/ n is gone! When Jack returns, he accom- nies her to Borden's suite, and hile he phones for the police Ruth, aring Jack shot Borden across the rshaft, goes to close Borden's win- pw. It is already closed! Ruth tells Chief of Detectives Mc- ann of Borden's two Saturday orning visitors: Ritd DuBois, night ub dancer, and Mrs. Borden, his ife and mother of his two chil- en, who called for her monthly imony check. Mrs. Borden comes during the questioning.’ McMann cuses her of the murder, but she outly demdes it. Ruth tells Mc ann of the pistol in her desk- but hen he lgoks for it, it, too, ‘s bae! ‘McMann finds the tiny foot- nts of a pigeon in dried blood oms e window ledge and on the floor bar the body, which indicates the ndow was open when Borden was ot. Ruth's fear for Jack increases. eMann questions Moran, the ele- tor boy, who is afraid Ruth killed r employer. OW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIV #ghe come right back up. I heard r tell Mr. Hayward she'd forgot br bank book, and aw, gees, 1.08A didn’t mean nothing by wkat T id.” Micky Moran protested un- ppily. “Honest, she couldn't a- lled him! Why, boss, you only; btta take one look at Miss Ruth sce she wouldn’t hurt a fly—" : “gtick to your story, Moran!”| leMann harked. “Miss Lester came t back up to her office, you . ¥. | r. Hayward with her?” | “Naw, she told him to wait for br in the lobby, and he did. I gk her up and was gonna hold ¢ car for her, but I got a rignal om the fifth floor and had fo oot down again. Mr. Hayward | walking up - and down in the bby nervous-like, and looked ful worried when I saw T hadn’t ought Miss Lester down with m:. “How long?" “Oh, four or five minutes, 1 guess, ybe six or seven. I dunno”| cky protested miserably. “Hon- 1 dunno! Mr. Hayward kept aggin® out his watch and lookin' it, then finally he rushed into car and told me to shoot up the seventh floor. We was nearly ere when the seventh floor signal shed on, and there Miss Lester , breathin' hard, like she'd. been jnnin’ and tears in her eyes—" McMann interrupted. re of that, Moran?" the poy affirmed eagerly. he'd banged her head against the or and hurt her lip. She was ldin’ her handkerchief up to it, d when Mr. Hayward pulicd her nd down I could see her lip was ellin® up and gettin® red. M. yward thought ‘Handsome Harry’ me it and was raisin’ an awful jughhou: but—" “Just what did Mr. Hayward say. oran?” McMann interrupted. “Gees, I dunno!" Somepin about lin® Borden for hurtin® her — Just like thought—"" “Stick to your story, Moran!" McMann commanded curtly. “Tell me exactly what happened. What Hayward said, whbat Miss Lester said, what they did.” Micky stuck out his lower lip sullenly. “‘Gees, I'm tryin' to, ain't I? Mr. Hayward atarted toward Borden's office and Miss Ruth swung onto him und held him back. 8he told him it wasn't ‘Handsome Harry' that had hurt her lip, said she'd banged it on the door, like 1 told you. "And she said if Mr. Hay- ward wouldn't believe her, she'd take back the promise she'd made him.” any guy'd say if he McMann's pencil tapped an omi- nous accempaniment to the siow, painful beating of Ruth's heart. Finally she could stand that slow tapping no longer. 8he stepped’ toward the desk. Mr. McMann! T ask you to belleve me when I say that I didn't.see Mr. Borden when I returned to my office to. look for my savings bank book. The door between the offics was closed,, Mr.. ‘Borden wi talking over the telephone.” &l McMann looking ‘up at hr from under beetling brows. “And I'm to Lelieve, too, that you . spent froj four to six minutes looking for youy bank boolk?” “I did! I had filed it in Mr. Bor- den's bank folder 'by mistake, in- stead of in the folder I use for my personal papers. I logked eyery- Wwhere beroré it ‘occurred to me that 1 had done so. .1 tell you, I didn't sce Mr. Borden, .that my lp was brulsed against the door when | swung it open.: I was in a hurry to rejoin Mr. Hayward—" “Moran, your car the main . floor all were waiting for Miss Lester, wasn't it? You couldn’t have heard & shot if one had been fired on the seventh floor? Or did you hear one?” “I didn’t hear no shot!” Moran denied emphatically. “Aren’t you forgetting, McMann, that Mrs. Borden has already told of seeing Mr. Borden alive at 20 minutes of two?" Jack Hayward in- terrupted, his voice quivering with anger. “I'm not forgetting anything, Hay- ward— thanks!” McMann grinned crookedly. .“If you want to know, here are three things I'm not for- getting:First, Miss Lester a gun to protect her- self against Borden's advances, if he ever took a fancy to your girl. Becond, that everything points to the conclusion that Miss Lester's changed’ appearance had just the effect on ‘Handsome Harry' Borden you had feared it would. that 3600 in cash—the exact amount of Mrs. Borden's separation allow- ahce—is missing from Borden's body. ' Get my point?” “I'm afraid 1 don’t” torted furiously. “All right, if T have to ‘spell it out in words. of one syllable! Miss Les- ter comes back for her bank book. Borden is alone, hears her return, comes out, tries to kiss her, does kiss her s0 hard that her Mp is bruised. 8he struggles . with hith, manages to reach her desk, gets out her gun, holds him off with it, until he backs into his private of- fice—" was down at the time you Micky Jack re- ° o o Jack Hayward laughed abruptly, sarcastically. “I was wondering how you were going to get him back in here!” “Is that s0?" McMann almost snarled. “Any man’ll back up if a BEWARE THE COUGHS THAT FOLLOW FLU! W and They May ‘:-h-Y:,ranto- X “'Please, | that you had given ; Third, | &un’s leveled at his heart! She gets him in here and thinks she's safe, but he starts for her again, know- ing she's afraid of the gun, doesn’t think she'll have the erve to shoot it. He starts after her again and she lets him have it. 8Bhe sticks the gun in the pocket of her fur coat and tears out of the office, crying and panting for breath. You meet her at the elevator. She forcibly restrains you from pounding on Borden’s door, to make ‘him let you in to beat him up—because she knows he's already dead!" Jack laughed again, harshly. “T didn't krew-a detective could have such a sense of humor, McMann! Again ‘I remind you that Mrs. Bor- den came here about 12 minutes rafter Miss Lester had left the building for the day and found her husband—" Dead! McMann interrupted. “Why not? - 8he didn't report the murgder bécause she was afraid to, afraid she’d be accused of it. The body was atill warm, you know. And she needed that $560 she found on him when she was feeling ‘his heart to see it he.was really dead. 8he knew well “enough that the check he'd written for her and left of paper, since he was dead.” “And why did Mrs. Borden close the window, McMann?" Jack asked “For the same reason that mada Ter come here this morning” Mc Mann retorted. “Because she loved her husband. No wife who loved her husband would want a Janu- ary _wind blowing in upon him, even-if‘he was dead and unable to feel. And knowing he was dead. she came here this morning to. claim his body. . Going, Dr. Nielson?", the detective broke off to inquire, as the medical examiner stepped softly toward .the door. “You can tell the chief just hew stupld McMann is, and ask him to prepare a warrant for the arrest of Ruth Lester. My only hope is that she gets as able a lawyer as Colby Lester to defend her.” Jack Hayward lunged toward McMann, trying to free himself of Ruth’s convulsive embrace, but a mild, ditfident voice halted him. “Befors, 'you arrest anyone, es- pecially Miss Lester, my dear ‘Sher- lock,” Dr. Nielson spoke from the doorway, “I advise you ‘to’ inter- view the woman who cleaned these offices Saturday afternoon. She, at least, would have no reason to con- ceal the murder. The chaps from the morgue will be here any min. ute now, and I'll phone you a re- port of my findings after, | I com- plete the autopsy. Good day—and step . softly, McMann.” Ferber, the tinger print. expert, shouldered. his camera and, picked up his kit. “I'll amble on, too, Mc- Salt shakers that won't your mashed potstoes! . . . How many times have you longed for a salg that is smooth and fine sad free-running always—ia any weather? How much would you pay for ic? such & salt and it costs only s mickel. It will mever get hard. It's guerentoed. And it's clean and pure and savory. Your srocer has it in an stractive blue-and-gray carton. on his Jesk was nothing but a scrap | Micky Moran retorted. McMann was nonplused only for &* moment. His pointing finger aimed itself at Otto Pfluger, who had been leaning, silent and sullen. against the wall during the entire {time he had been in the room.] 'You, there tow-h You run the car nearest Hayward's office, don't you? What time Saturday afternoon did you bring him up?” Ruth did not scream again. Nbw that the inevitable had happened strength and courage came to her from somewhers, possibly from the thought that whatever Jack had done, he had done for love of her. (TO BE CONTINUED) shake! Rock-like lumps in o + « International is just to opening of lett the capital for Florida. Saw Few in Florida | He has m&Ty matters incidental! 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