New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1929, Page 21

LGOLD BULLETS Synopsis: Furig traps Peebles in the Lundyi saloon and prepares to kill him. Furie believes that Peebles intends to convict him of Ogden's murder. Dillon follows Peebles and s waiting outside the room. Throw- ing Furie off guard by a ruse, Peebles lands a knockout blow on Furie's chin. Pretending to plead for mercy, Peebles fires at the ceiling, groans and slumps to the floor. Dil2 lon crashes into the room, wheels Peebles’ note-book held the amazing 1n surprise at Peebles’ voice, tries to ahoot him but Peebles’ gun is the | quicker. Dilon drops dead—Dillon, who is Luther MacNair. Chapter 47 “A SIMPLE ACT OF JUSTICE"” Jerry gave me something to drink and 1 felt better. ““Quite a family party,” I remark- ed acidly. “Can’t a man keep an ap- pointment without half a dozen peo- ple chasing after him?" | “He might have killed you, Uncle | John!"” Lucy wailed, pressing me to her again. “Hmn,” 1 said grimly. “I suppose #t was you who got Deacon to come.” “How did you know it was Mac- John?" Henry asked humbly. *“You'd have known it was Mac- ’ Nair, too, it you hadn't had your eyes elsewhere.” Henry flushed. I felt sorry for him and I turned my attention to Nathan |* Hyde, who had been eyeing me with an ironic grin, “8till looking for that mine trans- fer, Hyde?" 1 demanded. That ruffled his smoothness a bit, but he replied suavely enough. *No, we were looking for you, Peeble: and he chuckled. solution of Andrew Ogden’s murder. “See here, Uncle John!" Jerry cut in unceremoniously. “You were sup- posed to be Watson and you turn out to be Holmes. And the supposed Holmes is the villain."” “Thanks for the comparison, Jer- ry.” T said modestly. “Holmes took | upon himself the role of Watson as a matter of expediency.” “You mean you knew all along that MacNair killed Andrew!"” Henry exclaimed . “Well, since the day after it hap- pened,” I admitted. “But my evi- | dence was incomplete. 1 didn’t be- | lieve it would stand up under the attacks of the battery of criminal | lawyers MacNair — Dillon — would | summon to his defense. I waited for | him to force the issue. And he did —tonight. I'll give you the evidence {ed to his house iliberty he must NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1929 item for item.” I ruffied the pages of my little red notebook. “Item One,” T began. JToday is Tuesday. Jerry left his father at 15 minutes past nine Fri- day evening. At exactly half past nine I was called on the telephone, presumably by Andrew Ogden. The speaker asked me to come over at once. His voice was strained and .un- natural, but I had no reason then to believe that it wasn't Andrew. On the way over I saw a man in Jerry's white flannels flying down the drive. I found Andrew dead in the library with his left hand closed around the telephone receiver, The infer- ence at first glance was that Jerry had killed his father as Andrew telephoned me, then rua for his life, But, while most people hold the re- ceiver of a telephone to the left ear, Andrew was deaf in the left ear and he always held it to his right ear with his right hand. Yet I found him- holding it in his left. « “I contend, therefore, that it was not Andrew wo telephoned me, but the man who killed him; that his murderer was not Jerry, because Jerry would have known which hand to place upon the receiver; and that the murderer telephoned me to come over so that I would see him escaping in Jerry's clothes and con- | clude that Jerry had killed Andrew.” “Item two—after Furle left the Ogden house and before he called Jerry into the library, Andrew wrote a card to MacNair. MacNair return- shortly after the card was left there, and not several hours later, as he pretended; he left for the Ogden house at once; saw a light in the Ogden library and a sense of danger sent him there in- stead ‘of to the front door; he over- heard Andrew telling Jerry the story of his Torridity days, without, how- ever, disclosing to him Dillon’s pres- ent identity. MacNair realized if he would preserve his own life and make away with Andrew as soon as Jerry had gone. There was no moon and he ehsily stood on the little railed-in balcony without being seen. “My evidence of this is flimsy. MacNair was having a stucco sun- room built on to his bungalow. T found traces of plasterer's cement on hfs shoes and a deposit of it on the balcony. Item three—my den was entered | before dawn the next morning. 1 am not sure why MacNair wantéd the pistol I had bought from Hyde and which he had overheard Jerry and Andrew talking about. Peraps the Here is the lubrication you should use for As it happened, I went in and caught MacNair. We struggled. Lucy and Mrs. Moffit came as I was about done for. MacNair took himaself off, pretended to collide with some one outside, fired a couple of shots through his hat, and returned. And then MacNair made another mis- take. He said he was in the Ogden grounds and that he heard me call out. “I did not call out. MacNair and 1 fought in silence. . “Item four—Polyandria followed me into the den. Somehow, &he got tangled up between us. 1 heard her yowl and I was sure she lashed out with a paw. After the struggle | found a tiny drop of blood congeal- ing on one of her claws. 8he hadn't scratched me, so she must have drawn the blood of my opponent. “Ther§ was a scratch on Mac- Nair's right wrist. He at once pulled up his sleeve and showed it to me —obviously to disarm suspicion. “Item five—MacNair examined the cartridges before I did. A few minutes later, when I called his at- tention to the nicks on the one that contained the note, he pretended he had ot seen them. That was non- sense, He couldn't have helped see- | ing them. I held up the little red notebook. “Item six—some of my conclu- sions are written here. When Mac- { Nair and I were in my den Saturday night, T put the notebook down on my desk and leftgthe room for a minute or two. en 1 returned I found the book had been disturbed —as I had expected, ] wanted Mac- Nair to know I believed him guilty. “Item seven—Sunday morning MacNair stopped his car at my house and told me he was going to Los Angeles. T purposely glanced at his apeedometer. It registered &.825 miles. Last night, after the car was supposed to have covered a distance of 250 miles, it registered 7,010 miles —an increase of only 185 miles. MacNair went to Torridity to plant Jerry's flannels. “Items eight and nine—Ilast night T telephoned an old colleague of mine in Los Angeles and asked him to get information I wanted. He called me back this morning. He told me, firat: “That MacNair was involved in the Phalean oil swindle and that he had to return $100,000 before the end of this week of face a criminal court action. 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