New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1930, Page 12

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1930. 7% BIG SHOT by FRANK L. PACKARD ~ Big| You didn’t know it. But he tosi Maloch for a ride last night—just | as a starter, he called it £ 3ut the paper said he was in hiding from the police,” she ob. jected. “How could he do any-| : ; thin lout suddenly, hysterically. Then, “Hiding!”. he laughed mockingly. | clas her head in her hands, Shot demands proof of her strange | T don't cocunt! Maybe she crouched down over the desk, story of how sl became from the police, but the and sobbed though her heart in the activities of ¢ den't draw any cards our vould break. He e they in i (Copyright 1 issin message? the matter with her? ncthing scemed to be smothe; lher. Her head was swimming most curiously. Roy—her brother —in love with her! She laughed at code 5! 2 1B leaves the Synopsis: - Enid leave e Shot's home and goes to her roora at Martha Debbins, with the ga leader. The future {s uncertain. Shs ia determined to save the Big Shot from justice if he s ner brother and her sweetheart, Phil Martin from his vengeful threats. The Biz ing he is ol enmeshed and is that | Kid! T hurt “He anybody i starts SRR IO ALASKAAGAN nd sowmient as wetl st Ronored Gold Strike at Poor- til Martha telephones, but I'll e | mafl GallS(‘,S New R“Sh er, and by that time you'll | ard from her -} 1 put And Ul ere so's you can give me the \ce-over to prove it. And’—he out in the hall now. and his Is came banteringly my t to dear old Martl He gone. The front door closed behind him. She heard the ¢ his car as it started away. groped v way almost 1y back to the desk chair and moment he sat listening | sat down. Her brain was in riat, word; then, with in chaos. It was her subconscions rupt injunction to hold the lin 1 that was prompting her now. i Shiften: the iver to his loit | She picked up the telephone book: B number, and called the desk, pulled the pad of blank manu- script paper toward him. - a He took a pencil from his teler “Go ahead, then ther ing into tke Lore g s or e i o ing with him now, unless Vi, Yes “sare! Gl tha, he telephaned. {oan im readviinat oo & | The silver-framed photo lying o Enid watched him with worri»J | {he desk where Roy had left it si- cves as his pencil flew across the | tracted her attention. Mechanicai paper. In code! There was some- |1y she reached out for H. thing premaenitory in that. IFroma pt her ross her ey where she stood she could not 4ee | 2£ain and she studied :t. B "hevas wolting: | but Somchow she could not sec vi that the shect was almost coversd here was a ditference, of | before he spoke ain. cou —Dbut this w the picture of | Now hold the line,” he instruci-|a youth, and the Big Shot was ove G frboi i e dond tinie) Cahila T 1t was cnly the natural chang dope it out.” that all those years would show. He set the receciver down on thc Th lelephone rang a Wa desk and began to decode the MurhiSmon Soteior perhians | sage. At the end of a few minutes She lifted the receiver. he picked up the iver once miore. “Hello!” said Dbrisk wide open that, eh? a lot of trouble! So he whole works, did he? Nobody home, eh? say the old boy evening?....Yes, on H I'rar lopes 1 1omo! convinced get rig he is her ler he i Lnid tells ter brother for him. asked nurse, 50 she brother marks. roof g ind tell id's won't be hiding long fr Lo nything —— she feels only He tells her tha Debbins, to call her lon may rtain v bore distir he her ol distance by nice 1sce * she any “Roy! expostulated fain | His mood ed s ty. | Learn to say Norry!” he g | “You'll have to before the night's Chapter BY WAY OF EVIDENCE Martha! Martha—on the tance! Enid’s ha swung aroun lifted the rec She listened a moment to the Big Shot, surrendered her Martha, It's a man who speak to you.” long dis as she sk chair and civer from the hoolk. and then ros It's not wants to prospectors are pu r Alaska's frozen trails again. ports of a gold strike ne Poorman. in central Alaska, and of quartz discoveries in the Taku rive district to the southeast, have hundreds scurrying to the scene in efforts to stake claims. Many prospectors already have reported al Juneau, deter- zo into the Taku district adverse weather conditions, (®—Optimistic ling their way as sl ani : chair £x8 s oy air turn, | whir sent picked up the rec “Shoot!” “Who is it? been mined to despite mi few mi one es she pushed ay from her. where Phil was. no way of communi- e —ua- me nand again as | she saw Ve ain. CENE OF NEW GOLD STRIKE mes- | it western Alaska men. have to Poorman, where some goli been found, and to Ruby, not rom | zone and but | tar th; arn have been issued in an influx of under- prospecting groups. It 1s planned o supply northwest sailin points with information concerni costs of quartz mining in the Taku nd of transportation betweun u and that district. At, Poorman, | 225 miles west of Fairbanks, therc lave been sev- eral reports of a gold strike. Mueh of the area near both Poorman ind Ruby, dispatches from prospec- alrcady has been staked. she said. “What “pay streak” near Ruby was el Tim to look out for Twisty | found to be worth §30 a foot a short Morgan tonigh time ago, when bedrock was speaking?” rcached. Definite word of the | strike had bezn withheld for soms time previously. One army sergeant, who re- cived a leave of absence from | Ruby to explore | in the Poor | area, said he found men rushi: stake claims when the weather vas 40 below rec \ there 2! iaan's voice again- that shot he s 1N sav found if: Good! No.” ghe said. “He's g When did y WD NI W ] ok st “Do you know where he I knew about important:” rest of the family.” He chuckl=l| “No” i T GRIE suddenly. “The been slipping | know e gone. But hell| meal tickets to Florida for the Jast | be back her | two months!....What did you “When? [ Send who othing doing! “I don't know. crab it Well, I know that, don't | hours, perhaps.” 1? Leave it to me, T'll take his| “Well, then, give place..... What o at's | what 1 said couple of look-out that'll be needed....What? Som:- thing else? lsn't that enough for | one night? Well, spill it!” For perhaps a minute, then, th Big Shot sat in silence with the | Tell him receiver to his ear. When he spokc | Mo again his grin had been replaced | by narrowed cyes and an outthrust Jaw. “Oh. he is, is he!” he snarlee. “Is that so! Well, maybe it'll he the last crack hie makes!....What? -...Stop the trucks? Not by demned sight! Curse him, he's| asking for it, and he'll get it! n show him who he’ king up against! Tl be right over! Teil the boy to stick around until ! get there. That code f can for an hour o 11 be to pull it th How's that?. I've got my car here Sure, I get you. You bet life, I'll step on jt1” He slammed the hook away. she ecven f | financed sharp. the | It" | she wher In two or threc him a message, | tors say, she mind! Just tell him that to look out for Twisty | an_ tonight. Got it?” " she said. “I'll tell him. All right.” She heard the click ceiver being hung up at the other lend of the line. Twisty. Morgaa! | That was the sccond warning with- | in few mi What did :t | mean? What was going on to- night? And what was that other thing that Roy w going to do? |t of the “re- | to Many birds, including the golden plover and the swift, can fly at the ratc of one mile o minute. Geesc estimated {o be able to fly at rate of 55 miles an hour. wait safer [ | ——— “Safest Ride in Town” i— ZERO HOUR When the entive city rests under a blanket of sleep the Yellow Cab organization is as active as mid-day. A phone call brings a heated luxurious eab to your door in less time than it takes to tell. your the receiver ind, scowlin from ‘he telepho sing to his fect, he sna the sheet of paper on wh taken Gown crumpled it in his it i ide on codc messaze, hand. and thrust pock his co: zot 1o zo! kno night befor He again. 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It was taken to suggest that when Joshua's seven Hebrew priests marched around the walls blowing cach a ram's horn, workmen were busy undermining the walls. Other finds revealed continuous evidences of destruction and confla- gration at the time when the He- Lrews cntered Palestine, about 1200 FOUR MILLION BACK TAX IS CONSIDERED Town Considers Question of Hetty Green Property Worth $66,000,- 000 Taxed for $112,000 Itockingham, Vt. March 5 (UP)— Steps to be ta n in an cffort to collect back taxcs tolaling perhaps | 24,000,000 from the $66,000,000 | estate of the late Hetty Green were | scheduled to-be considered at the town meeting which opened this morning. Because clecfion of officers and other routine business had to be conducted first, it was indicated that the tax matter would not be reached until late afternoon. Listers of the town of Rocking- ham were expected to be instructed, Hanson was given his divorce yes- terday morning from Mary Eliza- beth Hanson. 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