New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 14

THIS HAS HAPPENED ‘When, on Monday morning, Ruth Lester, secretary, finds the body eof her employer, “Handsome Harry” Borden, sprawled on the floor be- neath the airshaft window of his private office, she runs at once to the office of her fiance, Jack Hay- ward, His office is just across the narrow airshaft from Borden's. Finding Jack out, Ruth searches for his pistol which he had purchased at the same time he bought an ident- ical weapor for her to keep in her desk. His gun is gone! She recalls Jack's incriminating behavior of the past Saturday afternoon and his threats against Borden. Rlth, fearing he shot Borden across the airshaft, goes to close the window above the body. but it is already closed! McMann, police detective, learns from the elevator boys, Micky Moran and Otto Pfluger, that Saturday afternoon passengers to the seventh floor were Benny Smith, Borden's office boy; Mrs. Borden, his wife and mother of his two children, who call- ed for her monthly alimony check; Rita Dubois, night club dancer, and Jack Hayward! The first suspect is Mrs. Borden, who denies all accusations. When McMann finds footprints of a pigeon in dried blood on the window ledge and on the floor near the body, which indicated the ndow was open during the murder, he says the job was done from the inside and turns suspiciously to Ruth, She tells him of her pistol, but when he looks in her desk for it, it, too, is gone! Ruth is petrified with fear when McMann learns the office across the airshaft is Jac Jack admits his return to the office on Saturday | afternoon. He also tells of his pistol and McMann goes to look for it. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XVII After what seemed an interminable | time to Ruth, but probably was not | more than 10 minutes, McMann re- | / saved the necessity of a reply by bury, the suburban property 1 rep- the entrance of Bill Cowan, the|resent. I advised him to have Mi real estate man, ushered in by Bird- |Lester resign her position well, who immediately retired to |Borden, and to get married imme- his duties in the outer office. | diately. He said that's just what Ruth, clinging to her sweet-|he'd do. and agreed to talk with heart's arm for much needed sup- | Miss Lester that evening about port, turned to face the man who building a home in Grandbur it t undoubtedly had in his power | appeared, calling over his shoulder |to send Jack Hayward before | to someone in the hall; Wait outside | rrand jury. She saw a medium- here till I call for you — and don't | sized, foppishly dressed man of 35 | tatk. or 40, running an embarrassed hand | “All right. Cowan.” Mc! prodded the unwilling witness. along to the telephone call.” As the detective strode across | the reception room of the suite to- ward the private office, he com- | manded the couple to follow him. “Well, Hayward,” he opencd with | one of the short, ugly barks that served him as a laugh, “spin your yarn! You've had 10 minutes to think up a good one. Where's the gun? We'll find it, you know. sooner or later, and you might as well come clean!” Anger gave way to startled sur- prise on Jack Hayward's fade, upon which Ruth’s blue eyes were fixed | in an agony of suspense. a shuddering sigh of relief; his sur- prise was as genuine as the anger which had preceded it. “What do you mean, McMann? The gun is where 1 told you it was —in the bottom drawer of my desle.” “I don’t doubt it was there Satur- | day, Hayward, but I guess you weren't taking any chances on cleaning it and/ putting it back,” McMann retorted. “All right! I'm waiting—what did you do with the &un, my lad?” “I tell you, McMann,” Jack an- swered furiously, his face very pale | now, “I have no more idea where that gun is than you have! All 1 know is that 1 had a Colt's auto- matic, that T kept it in the bottom drawer of my desk, and that | haven't seen it for at least a week." McMann's short laugh barked again. “I told you I'm open-minded, | Hayward, I bite: when did you see it last?" N | i The young man flushed at the sneer in the detecctive's voice, re- turned the pressure of Ruth's cold little fingers, then answered read- ily: “When Miss Barnes, my secre- | tary, gave me a stack of fresh towels last Monday morning. The delivery man for the towel service makes his rounds every Monday. Miss Barnes usually puts my towels in that drawer herself, but last Mon- day I happened to be sitting at the desk when she brought them in and 1 pulled open the drawer, shifted | the automatic slightly to the front, | and placed the clean towels behin i it. That is absolutely the last time| 1 saw the thing.” “Used one towel all week, ch?” McMann sneered. l “No.” Jack was obviously fight- ing for self-control. “Miss Barnes | puts out a fresh one for me rach“ morning before 1 get to the office. We have a cabinet with towel rack above the stationary wash basin in the outer office. just as this suite | has. Miss Barnes can tell you Whether the gun was there Satur- | day or not. 1 don't know myself, for 1 didn't open the drawer.” “She says it was there, all right.” McMann assured him. *“Real handy | for you when you had your quarrel | with Harry Borden.” “I had no quarrel with Harry| en."* Jack denied quietly, wear- | “I have never spoken a word | 0 the man in my life.” “Is that so?" McMann exclaimed | fnmphantly. “Birdwell! Bird-! 12" he shouted till the room re- | berated with the sound. When subordinate opened the door, detective sergeant barked out | orler here's a chap named | van waiting outside in the hall. | £ him in!" | He turned to the couple who wer zing at each other, the girl's eyea inkly terrified, the young man's| fa very pale, but under better | control. “Your good friend, Bill Cowan, Hayward! Won't you be| glad 1o see him? I found him wait- | ing for you in your office—said he made an appointment with you for | this morning. Made it urday | morning when he was your otfice—remember “Yes,” Jack answered quictly I thought you'd remember,” Me ; Mann agreed significantly. “1unny bt your friend Cowan didn't know his old pal, Borden, had been mur dered. 1 had to break the news to lim, and [ wonder if you can im- agine why Cowan wasn't as prised as he might have been The badgered young man was| in sur She drew | ¢ Jack and Ruth both started, and |stared at cach other for a moment in obvious bewilderment. Then Jack spoke directly to Cowan: “I had no over sleek brown hair. “Lord, Jack, I'm sorry I stum- bled into this! Tough brea old boy! If I'd scen a paper: Cowan | cul) from you, Cowan.” began nervously, apologetically. | McMann let out his harsh, short “You wouldn't have kept your ap- laugh. “For a very good reason, pointment,” McMann finished his | Hayward! But tell him exactly sentence for him. “That right? |what yoa told me, Cowan, I'm anx- You'd have becn pretty sure that jous to wind this business up.” your friend. Jack Hayward, was in| “You see, old man,” Cowan be trouble, wouldn't you?" !gan reluctantly, turning to Jack “I—1 wouldn't say that,” Cowan and the girl who clung to his arm. hedged miserably. “But no man "I was at the station, just a block wants to get mixed up in a murder |aWay, to see my wife off for a week- cnd at Winter Haven, when 1 re- membered that 1'd left my blue- print of the Grandbury property on your desk. 1 knew I'd need it to show my Sunday prospects, so 1 took a chance on finding you still in your office and called you on the phone. The line—" “Just a minute, Cowan,” Mec- Mann interrupted. “Exacctly when did you: make the call?"” “At 10 minutes after two,’ an answered unhesitatingly. “r'd put my wife on the train, and when 1 was crossing the waiting room on my way toward the tele- phone booths I noticed the clock — nine minutes afetr two, and glanced at my own watch to see if “I'm afraid you are mixed up in | one, Cowan,” McMann interrupted. “And I don't need to remind you | that it's the duty of a citizen to aid justice in any way possible, when circumstances force him into | the unpleasant role of witness, Just repeat the story you told me, Co an. 1 may as well tell you, Hay- ward, that your friend gave you | away by accident when 1 told him you were being questioned concern- ing Borden's death.” Cow- “That's right, Jack, old man,” Cowan assured the grim-faced young man anxiously. “God knows 1] wouldn’t for the world—"' NEW FEATURES OF THE ESSEX 76 Dilerent Mochanical and, Body Improvements ‘While the new Essex, the lower- priced of the two cars built ny Hudson Motor Car Company, is tag- ged with a iist of 76 different mechanical and bedy improvements, the makers lay so much stress on the car's outstanding performanca, that the new issue has been ~iven the officlal name of “Essex the Challenger. There is speed—70 miles and more—and abundant power, because | the output of the motor has been in- creased 24 per cent,to an actual b5 horsepower. Among the changes to which the greater speed and power are due are a larger bore, higher compression, increased valve lift, new eylinder head, improved valve timing, new location of spark plugs, new lubrication system, larger radia- tor, new type cooling fan, new muf- fler, higher gear ratio of the final drive and other features. The development of the power plant to an engine dellvering 55 horsepower has led to the adoption of new main and connecting rod tearings of new design patent applications are pending. In the improved main bearings th> lower half is without the conven- tional lubrication grooves and 1n the connecting rod hearings the up- | per halves are angrooved. On the other hand, the upper main 1earings and the lower connecting rod bear- ings are grooved in accordance with a new system that provides copious lubrication in spite of the fact that the bearings themselves are adjustel with closer clearances than are com- mon practice. Essex the Challenger now com-3 with a new steering gear, adjustable for which | for the driver's height and operat- ing on roller: bearings throughout the entire mechaniam. A new four- wheel brake system has been pro- vided. 1Tt is of the two-shoe type, completely covered. Seven body types are furnished, namely—roadster, phaeton, coupe, convertible coupe, coach standard sedan and town sedan. The con- vertible coupe and the town sedan are newcomers to the Essex line. The front seats of sedans and the driver's seat in coaches may be ad- justed forward and back by means of a large worm screw located be- tween seats. The lengthwise movi ment is accompanied by an auto- matic adjustment varying the tilt of the seat cnshion in accordance with the change in the position of the seat. Of considerable interest in the line of mechanical aids to driving security is a *fuel booster” incor- porated in the carburetion system. ‘The booster acts independently of the regalar vacuum tank, its pur- {pose being to insure adequate fuel delivery and to take care of excep- tional demands on the gasoline sys- tem, such as occur in climbing long Lills and in very fast driving. ‘The gasoline system is augmented by a visible fuel fiiter. Clutch and ‘hrake control pedals are larger and jshock absorbers are provided all {around. The cowl ventilators are so l‘r-onntrnvled that neither rain nor | water splashed upon the hody dur- ing washing can reach the interior !of the car. 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Y. 7 GREATER HUDSON acclaimed by the smartest buyers the outstanding value above *LO00 The secret ballot recast whal that fo The Greater Hudson was first shown to groups of motor dealers who were asked to examine it from the standpoint of general attractive- “That's all right, Cowan,” Jack 1 was with the railroad time. Then 1 stepped into the booth and called ness in lines, appearance, comfort, fittings, performance and value, and interrupted, his pale lips twitching into a faint smile. “Naturally it's your duty to tell anything you know which may seem to have any Hayward's number. The line was b “If it was, it was someone elss bearing on this case. But I want you to know, Cowan, that T had no more to do with Borden's murder than you did.” ““That's fine, old man!" Cowan thrust out a hand with eager friendliness, and seemed much re- lieved when Jack shook {t. “As Mr. McMann here has just said, Jack, 1 spilled the beans accident- ally. 8ald something foolish and hasty about being afraid Saturday that there'd be a row. He wouldn't let up on me till I'd shot the works, of course.” The embarrassed real estate man mopped his brow. ord! 1If I'd only learned to keep my mouth shut! . I had to tell him, Jack, about that nasty little business Sat- urday morning, when you saw Bor- den struggling with the young lady here—" “Pardon me, Cowan. This is Miss Lester, my fiancee.” Jack in- terrupted “I believe T told you Saturday that Miss Lester and 1 were to be married soon.” “Glad to meet you, Miss Lester,” the embarrassed man acknowl- edged. “T told Jack S8aturday that T didn’t blame him for going off his nut when he saw Borden getting fresh.” “Both you and Mr. Hayward were mistaken as to Mr. Borden's inten- tions,” Ruth =said, in a clear, calm voice. “Mr. Borden was merely trying to take off my spectacles, and 1 was determined to prevent his doing so."” “Get on with your story, Cowan. We're wasting time,” McMann or- dered curtly. “You told me that both you and Hayward, standing in that window across the airshaft, saw Harry Borden struggling with Miss Lester, his arms about her, and that she scrcamed. Is that right?” We-ell — —that's what it looked like,* Cowan stammered and flushed. “But 1 guess it doesn’t take much to malk: a girl scream.” “In this case, there was enough to make Jack Hayward want to jump across an eight-foot airshaft and kill the man who was forcing | Lester,” took all Hayward, he swore it he laid again, didn't his attention upon Miss McMann pointed out. “It your strength to hold didn’t it, Cowan? And he'd kill ‘that beast’ hands on Miss Lester he Cowan his glistening forchead again. “Something like that. I can't remember his exact words. I asked him why he was 50 ‘het up’ ahout Porden's making love to his secretary, and he fold me then, after Il got him away from the window. that he was in- terested in buying a lot in Grand- mopped trying to get me on the phone, Jack interrupted, his voice steady Yut emphatic. “For I rejoined Miss Lester at the Chester Hotel at 10 minutes after two.” “That would be a perfectly swell explanation and I'd be the first to congratulats you upon it, Hayward — except for one little thin Me- Mann chuckled. “And that is?" Jack demanded. ‘Wwith angry contempt, | “The accident that happens to nearly every ‘perfect alibi,’"” Mec- Mann retorted. “Cowan didn't get |the busy signal. He was plugged in on a busy line!" (TO BE CON TINUED) Borden's angry voice was what |Cowan heard over the telephone. Read the next chapter. | TELLA REBEKAHR LODGE | Stella Rebekah lodge Sewing clul will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Walter Brookman, 738 FEast street, members taking the ant street bus. At the meeting Friday evening the following delegates were elected to represent tha lodge at the Rebekah state assembly, which meets in New Britain April 17 as the guest of Martha lodge of Plain- ville: Mrs. Beatrice Juengst, Mrs. Alma Bengston, Mrs. Louisa Brown and Mrs. Tillie Hoffman. The de- | gree will be conferred at the next tneeting. “WORTH WEIGHT IN 60LD” Verdict of Woman Who Tried Pinkham'’s Compound Tully, N. Y—“Tt hurt me to walk or sit down without help and I felt sick and weak. My mother-in- law took Lydia Pinkham's cgefable Com- pound and she induced me to take it. 1 am now on the fourth hottle and have also used Lydia . Pinkham's Sanative Wash. The mndiines that will do for me what the Ver table Compound and Sanative Wash have done are certainly worth their weight in gold. T think T have given them a fair trial and I expect o take two more hottles of the Vegetable Compound.”—\gs, Cn i Mog- eax, K. F. D. 1, Tully, N. Y, all motordom is now saying - - - then to cast a secret ballot on which they checked their indi praisement of every detail. idual ap- The idea was to obtain an advance indication of what the public might think-of the Greater Hudson. Successful dealers are sensitive as to what the public will favor. They are critical as to what constituges genuine value. Self-interest dictates their choice of the cars they want to sell. It was the first time in history that a manufacturer has allowed his product to speak for itself in this manner. No claims were made. No high-powered sales pressure was applied. These expert judges of automobile values with their own future and millions of dollars at stake registered their appraisal with the sole influence of individual self-interest. Ordinarily dealers do not decide what cars they will sell until they know exactly what cars the public will favor. But the vote by these many dealers gave a true indication of public acceptance with the result that twice as many dealers have contracted for Hudson this year as had signed at this time one year ago. And 1928, by the way, was Hudson's biggest year. Now by tens nd tens of thousands automobile buyers are likewise casting their secree and unanimous vote for the Greater Hudson. You will see the score in §,000 salesrooms. Itis conclusive proof that the Greater Hudson is the public favorite of all cars selling above $1,000. Won't you, too, go to your nearest Hudson dealer and make your appraisement s 50 many thousands have already done? A advantages and these ustounding prices ConvertibleCoupe$1450 Standard Wheelbase Coach - $1098 Standard Sedan. 1178 Coupe 1195 Roadster . 1250 5-Pass. Phaeton - 1350 Town Sedan 1378 ot factory Landsu Sedan Victoria Long 5-Pass. Club Sedan 1850 7-Pass. Sedan 7-Pass. 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