New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1929, Page 13

NEW DBRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 26,_19‘.‘.. 13 —— e e lible tweed, mot tne garment I wore | cried out. “My God! Martha!® Then | Then—1 looked for my letier. 1t was|sit at Harry Dorden's desk with | a black pigron that must have e ———————meeeeee s e e | this morning.” Ihc turned and run back 1o his desk | ot in lis pockets or in bis desk. | |apparent couposire.” {1iown through the open window | 1 sew” McMann agreed. ob-jand Dicked up an automatic. ) don't know where you tound it. But! en the olgk pigeon, taking after—afler Hurry was dead, flut- | viously chagrined. ow about the | think it was siark fear of me in | in my Ssewrcn tor the feller 0 sudder i roni the very spot tered up from the body. T didn't second call to Borden Saturday al-|my ‘Letty’ disguise, but of course } tound the money I took it for!where Harry hai—h tain.” Mar |realize then that it was—just a ternoon—" I can't say what was in his mind. | Paul. but aise with some vagus|tha Manning an vd. w shudder pigeon. T thouznt it was the black olgzg w NEA Serv|ce Inc ANNE AUSTIN It had just entered . I can only tell what he did. 1 aw | hope that the police would think he|of horror shaking her thin body | soul of Harry Ilorden going to meet | ward's oftice, intending 0 ma {him coung hack 1o the window |had been shot by hold-up men. | “When 1 e to close the window its God.” call on his phone and then umnh-uh the automatic. and suddemy | also took the pistol from his — his|and to look for my lefter Saturday THE K CHAPTER XLVIIJ explain how I—managed,” I shad jterruption. “N> one but Minnic | his offices—" I remembered My Hayward's gun. [ hand. | was afraid that if the *I would prefer that you begin | have to go back a bit. One evening | Cassidy knew that the new ‘cle un-’ “Wait! You knew all along that |1 stooped and 1 ked open the | police found the tired gun they your confession with the story of |carly in December—' ing lady' had scen better days, was|Hayward had a gun in the bottow | drawer. When Harry aimed his | might 100k everywhere—eien ou how ‘Letty Miller' came into ¢ xo-’ “Just @ minute, Miss Manning!” | younger that she looked. Minnie ‘umu.; of his desk, 1 suppose 2" pistol 2t me my own arm was go- |side the window although | lad | tence, Miss Manning,” the detective [the detective interrupted. "l'nulim«s a good frind. But don't Hnnl\| 0. 1 did not see it until 1 was|ing up, and 1 my hand was 1Ir. | closed it. At any rate, my instint ..! sergeant decided. “There has been |this time — 1 mean, until the as-|she suspected for a moment that || ‘Lotty Millers | ? 4 E oty opened the draw- | Huyward's automatic.” | protect Mr. Havward made me tak 9 ample evidence to prove your rela- |sumplion of a disguise — had you | killed Hurry Borden,” she added | er 1o thrust in a towel which was| “You mean o say.” McMann be- | the gun wrap it with the othe FREE vo I ING COUPON- tionship with Harry Borden — your |ever made threats, verbal or writ- guickly as McMann reached for | hanging out untidily, and saw |I|r-[gu|l sarcastically, “that limd n and hide at in my pail own stary this morning and the evi- [ten, upon Harry Borden's life?” L pencil and paper A T sl by 3 ¢ ) oo dence volunteered by Frank Ashe, | “I had not!" the woman an-| “All right.,’ McMann concedei. | week —Monday, [ believe, But even | Bit a target only cight feet away o ', s ,',I\ my l‘ oat pochets, wud . Of . are ‘ts xpotlhon Jake Bailey and Attorney Walters. |swered emphatically. “Nothing was!|“I hurdly think that Tim Cassidy MEADONS : . \ - | v, ) P : : s then 1 had 1o 1du of ever using it.| “His a accurate,” Martha | tupe them out with me that after- | “RABY NEW BRITAIN” CONTEST I think perhaps yours visits to Mr. [ further from my wish or intention | widow would conmive at a murder | But 1 rememmered 1etater. | Munning answered quictly, “but 1t |nson. But I remembered that Mrs, | RA !E Hayward's office, ostensibly to in-| V\I{[lvn, him. I mean.. 1—loved | But—go on. You laid your pluns, “On urday afternoon 1 en- | deflected vy a4 white pigeon I.‘.f,;\. has Keen cye for Suspi- quire about insurance, would be | him s | to Kill Borden tered Mr. Hayward's office at five|alighting on his hand just as he | cious hulges in coat pockets wler “,:1 starting point. YA .\hnl‘:“" ,\',Iv\:’:‘ltmx‘l_"';’{.""';"_:Ir';“rl\l L ONott Again that flashing denial. | minutes 10 two, 10 telephone Harry [tulled the rizger. The bird [ghe cheeks us out of the buildin, T Not o-le_nmhl) Martha Man- € -] X- N ‘., A l~\'| I merely wan to be near him, 10 as he had requested. 1 was happy. | thought he was offering food—not [ | didn't knew what to do. | was | Address ik - v S ning contradicted. “I really want. |reminded her CBut go on, Miss| him cusy ace fo his office, so I thought he wmeant to listen to me | death. The shot meant for we | ufraid to keep the guns and atrvaid | 3 U 4 nd filed out with the name of @ ed to take out a small policy on | Manning. 1 belicve you said some- that 1 could see him alone somwe at last. Mr. Hayward came back | went wild, but mine, fired befol to throw them away. | pened d ¢ e popularity contest will b my life in favor of my son. I|thing about “on: cvening early infnight and make him listen. T be-|for bis theater tickets, and because | Harry could aim again, did not. |to be alone in the supply room | E . v Ten (16 ex by the Contest Committee. Mail hoped to save enough from my finy | December licved he stjil cared for something | the telephone was ringing, 1 leit| “The flat nreast rose on a great | before four o'clock — somchow 1| J " ontest Manuger, ¢/0 Kaphael's Big Store, salary, and to carn more in some| One evening early in De-f—for the boy. at least. but Jake him alone. I waited in an office | breath — possibly of relicf. Then, | forced myself 1o do my work; it | posit allot I est Headouarters. Cast these other part-time job, to pay the pre- | cember when T had followed Harry | I was always waiting when {across the hall and as soon us Mr. |l think that's all. 1 killed him— | was a relief 1o be busy—and my | for rite Laby. Have your friends clip thew miums, to the Starbridge Building, with- | Harry worked at night, and oy | Hayward was gone 1 re-entered his| before he contl kill me.” ! searching desperately tor i n for ) e not restricted in any way in “The idea came 1o me when 1/0ut getting a chance to speak With|chance for an interview did mot|effice and put in my call. 1 knew| “AIL" MeMaan esploded. “Where [4iding place for the pistols, caugt / had followed Harry into the Star-|lin. and was waiting for him to| come. Not cven Friday night, for it | Harry was in. for T had stepped 10| are the gu What about the | sight of an old puil wijhoul a THIN . COUNT TOWARDS WINNING TH bridge Building one afternoon. He | come out, a small army of cleuning | was nine when Juke Ieft, and 1| the window and had seen him sit | closed window? The $500 in small- | die. much less deep than the one THESE COUPONS MUST BE MAILED OR D did not see me until we were both | Women pourcd out of the building. had to leave the building, or be ting at his desk. He answered. 1]er bills (hat Borden bad on his |1 was using. An ides came ' BEFORE 900 1. M. SAT. RCH 30th, A the lobby, and he refused to It Was just after nine. One of the sougit for apd discovercd by Mrs | pleaded with him to create a trust | dead body 2™ {1 triea placing he old pail (No Bulk Suies of this Newspaper Permitted.) stop and talk with me. When he|Wonien —— it wis Minnie Cassidy. as| Pellow. But ¥ admitted Harry 10 His | fund for the boy, told him that 1| Martha Manming answered obe- | mine and found that the circ had rushed into an elevator, I stood | | lvarned luter—iooked 5o il that foffice that night with my passkey | was ill and might not live long to|diently. “I wrapped Mr. Hayward's | ference was the same, so that e in the jobby. gazing blindly at the !l followed her into the strect. She 1 he did not recognize me support Paul myself. He called me | £un in a dusting rag and put it in | pims met all around, but that 4| bulletin board, as if 1 were looking |almost fainted. and 1 1ook har “Friday afternoon 1 wrote one all sorts of numes — liar, purasile, | the lm'om of my serub pail. Au- . bottom was formcd—a com- | tor the room number of a tenant, home, wsing the Jast cent 1 had jast uegent appeal to my son's fa- | and worse, When he finally refused | tomatic I think. But after a partment decp enough to hold the | After a bit 1 saw the words ‘Insur. |for the taxi. r. und on urday morning 1 pointhiank, 1 told him a lie->1 said ‘lo'vx white—or what secied a long two phiols. 1 place them ther 1 ance Broker’ after the name John | “On Christmas day, when 1 was telephoned to ask for his decision. | I had already put the case in the | while — I remembered two things: | still wrapped in o dusting Tug | C. Hayw . and the office number | desperately casting about for a way | He wias not in, or would not ta ids of a lawyer. who would file |the letter T had written Harry Fri- | just as Minnie --742. 1 did not know llarr of- [ to see Harry alone, I remembered |- ould not now which. 1 suit Monduy it he retused to settle day and which must still be in his [ the other wor fice was visible from Mr. Hayward's | Minnic Cassidy's gratitude, remen- A Jater at hall-past one, from out of court. He was frightened. | possession. 1 wanted it, of course. | noticed nothing— window, didn‘t know it until I was|hered, 100, that she worked on the an office | was cleaning 1 Min- | finally agreed to see me n his of. |1 did not ant my son's .nother| “And where are actually standing at that window. scventh floor of this building. | herself answered the phone. T fice that atternoon. When he hung (10, . . . But Ili g0 on. | remem- | MeMann demand: ¢ 1 saw Harry at his desk, but he did went to see her. 1 told hor Toam Sure that Minnie had no idca up I stepped to the window and [bered also that I had shot Harry | “There!™ And Muartha Mann not sve 1 {needed work very hadly, woula 'she was talking with ‘Letty Mil- | looked at him. His face was black [ from Mr. Hay ice, and pointed to the serub pail which si “Later, a physician in a free |take anything. She told mi that|ler’ Harry gave her a m with hatrd and anger. that he had N kind to me. 1 had st just inside the door elinic told me that 1 had tubereu- [one of the ‘Cleaning ladies’=—hor | for me. 1 was to call aguin in 15 did not want the crime traced to | she had opened it upon h losis, and knowing that insurancs | ‘bartner’ on the seventh floor, as|or 20 minutes, 1—" [ “Whie 1 wml the a girl came him or to his office. It sevmed vie | trance would be out of the question, “H;m]" called i ‘rwri just quit.l “One momeat, please. How did Rita Dubois. He was apologetic | tally necessary that 1 close Har. | “Good God!" McMann went in persod 1o pass the news toland that her plice had not been!yvou manage your transtormation extrenmey —atfectionate He | 1¥'s window, <o that no one wouid | ed, when hie had ated the pe 03 2 : Mr. Hayward, rather than write | filled cach day from Martha Manning. | #ave her, at her request, us 1 fook- | Suspeet that b had been Killed [and stood with the tics | 3 M"‘"’P‘“}“"“ Decide 2 him a detter. 1 did want to see| “It was Minnic who took me to|switchbourd operator at the Acrop |ed on. the torn half of a bill and |across the irshaft. 1 took my in his hands. “And ot . Girls’ Greatest Loveliness Harey again, if only from a dis- | Mrs. Pellow the following Monday, | olis Hotel, to Letty Mill the i by her cxpression of joy and the | broom and pail and went to Har- | when ‘Letty Miler! ne lugging HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — 39 movie tance, and 1 so tonely the pros- |but lute Christmas daoy 1 had en- | scrubwoman? MeMann asked. Kisses she gave him | knew it was | 0¥ office, letting myself in with | that sevub pail 1nto iy prosen directors say that the secret of a girlls peet of talking with so kind a man |gaged a room ina horrible old| It was comuvaratively vasy. De- | @ banknote of very lurge denomina- | My basskey. 1 forgot o pull on | ayt | 4 attractiveness is exquisite skin, “It as Mr. Mayward was pleasant al- [ rooning hous . ame o8 L partiment store rest rooms in the ton I—ncarly went mad then — [the rublier zloves T always wore R vt thin isa first essential for the screen star,” 0. Tt 1 4 no plans, then [hetty Mill e the guise of vrnoon and place o the | possibly guite mud.” wvhile cleaning, so that Mart do o with 7 i | L says Clarence Badger, Paramount SAND Plans!™ MeMann commented 10y il Just for a week, i dark— doorwa nywhere, It was | "I Insanity defense!™ Me. | Manning’s hands should not be con- |admitted we . 1 director. **Only marvelously smooth dryly, with a keen glance at Luti {¢ase Mrs v checked up on my fmercly a matter of 1 on or Mann commentod grimly. CBut-- | Spiguously mar with manual ta | come b ety ler! bot skin carries over to the audience,” Sue 45 aho lt Slie s (ling cvery dress gray wig and this, taking off the ’ 1 making up | 8o on." bor. That for the ger- [to a e suspicion which 1 Carol explains.* Lux Toilet Soap leaves word of the confession down in ross” ie 1ooked down at theior removing make-up, according 10| I don't think 1 shall need an | Prints. T thi t Just gfter 1] have upon I f she my skin gloriously smooth.” Nine out shorthand. “Just when were those |faded cal ing she wore—"had [ the role T was 1o assunie. This af. | insanity defens Martha Man- | had pushed oper oor hetween disappeared, and . o5 of ten screen stars are using this w!ite plans made, Miss Manning?” {been giver me us @ sort of souvemirfternoon I owalked into a depart- | Bing rdftorted, with a strange smile | e two offices 1 remembered them, | pails under Wneye, U - - Jrogrant soap. And all the t “On Christmas day, after my hu. |0l my part in Stairs’ a play v ment store rest roem as Martha | “When the had left, Yarey | UL hem on Then—1 went in,' could f Wi f dispos e O el sl studios have made it their miliating interview with Harey on | Which 1 had nade - rather notabl and 1oft it as Letty Mil-|came to the window and stood - of the pistols.” y in all dressing rooms. Christinas 1 Martha Manning | Success just at the time I met Har- r, without your man, Carlson, | there, drinking in great breaths of The slizht hody 1 wi “And you'd have told him, the exquisite, throaty con- | torden. . . . L 1 was an{suspecting that the two were the the cold air. 1 forgot then that I, @ Shudder of horror atter it (oo, if it hadn't tralto faltering shightly. “1 felt that |ac |samie person. This aftornoon 1 1 on the gray wig and this dress | oment she continued: *The first | Lester,” McMar somchow 1 must be in a posigon to| * aplains a o, MeMann [ chanzed hats — careying the extra | and spectacles, 1 called out to him. | thing T forced myself to do was to admiringly =1 v it e him alone—not with his hody- |coni grimly one in my coat pocket, and turned |1 don't know what 1 was going to | ¢lose tie w. 1 did not notic: | derstand 1z why you fainte I | SLIPPED ON THE FRONT STEPS AND SPRAINCD guard, Jake Bailey, present. 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