New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1930, Page 30

1+ house, o 5 R e A A e B S A A S T A M Baffle Mysteries Copyright 1330 Dafly Mirtor, Ine Baffle mysterics give you ingenious and dramatic crimes to solve —many of them founded on actual cases which have baffled detec- tives throughout the world in ycars past. Each mystery gives you the facts established by the policc—what the detectives had to go upan and no mor ‘Which are the teljtale clues? What do you deduce from them? In short, how will you answer the question asked of you at the end of each baffle? “Wh) 1s guilty?” or “What was thc motive?” etc. This is no contest, there are no prizes, it is simply presented for your entertainment. Tire Tracks First Clue In Cedar Park Murder | | | ! [ The “Second Step | “The Merdon wa bury, the Medron had b Pillsbury him about his work storles were greatly in vo; Pillsbury wanted to write “T should think,” Pillsbu “that the finding of the clu about all there is to a murde “Oh no—the second step is most | important. A man might find twenty clues, and be unable to run down one of them. The sccond step is important. most important, and that is in finding how to run down the clue—how to pin this clue to the guilty party.” “Aren't you talking Medron? Of course the detective, professional or amateur, has to get the evidence nst the erimina “Wait, you get what T me Take the Ovington murder case, for example. 1 didn't work on it, so i| can praise Unger, who solved it, he deserves to be praised. 1t pened a couple of years ago, out Cedar Park—you know -the suburb, ‘Quite a forcign settlement out there, “I know—it's just below that “pretty little town of Haldeau | “Yes. Well, a girl, around ninc- teen, was found murdered in her home. She had cvidently beey alone there. Her father and wmar® ried sister we ay. The girl had heen shot to death. Unger sent out from Haldean to look around Only one person had been e little cottage, & woman neighbor and she had only walked in enough to sce the dead girl rush out to telephone & “Unger arrived with polics He couldn't find a footpr . ger marR other than T of the family, not a scrap of cvi- dence. The bullet was a like those used in thousands of volvers. It revealed nothing, it bore no scratches that might link u with any particular revolyer barrel ~and a man can't round up all the 3 revolvers in the country ont 'So Unger hegan to ask qu: The girl wasn't, cng 3 was known, she knew a dozv men, but none were what called her steady sweethearts. H went outside and searched, but it . had been very dry weather ani there were no traces of footprint * cars or anything clse on the hard- ,beaten dirt of the yard this “house. “Cedar Tu st step is to find a clue,” as telling his friend, Pills- vears. was questioning Detective and was Here are the two diagrams that Medron drew. le gave away the clue that led to the solution of the | murder fn his second sketch, dia- | gram B. which shows the tire tracks he found. in circ men who had sluggeld the small aiting that Cary W of the it took did nothing of second class roads inste st ones and drove’ for papers hadn't heen ofessor Carver uscd cted he would He took two valuabl all. T He and robbed hand lu t out of hold on it, The tolen at psychology be trailed of picces never t while th cked in his bag lay carele is cha were in the hag I to. There the bag the crooks bag he seemed rack The paper paid ,no attention value Mo figured b for the whout tiv ov far and s wa 7 ng in he the vould to 1 marl: 50 anxi did ous calit : en of the X Construc- indicted. 17ouv did time. tion 1 jumped bail 4 CONTRACT USED 1 thr Heart Balm Suit Based on Al-| leged Breach of Promise of Los March 21 (P—A signed two yea ike ran wide and cemented Ttrace there. Perhaps yvou about the two highways out “Pillsbury. Here, I'll show He drew a rough outline as shown on this page, marked A. oy the “Just below the house where the murder was committed the Cedar Turnpike curves to within a quarter mile of the Haldean Turnpike, but they never meet. At this point “there is an old dirt road connecting the two turnpikes. Unger wént down there and walked across. Tt was boggy land and not well filled in. There was a long. damp place Over this damp place Unger found his first step—tire car tracks—you know, automobile fire ftracks. It wvas a common sized tire of a popn Jdar make, thousands of abouts were tires. Here, ger saw Medron dre the tire t Tound in the d “Well, Pills ger's first step. ‘out his second Pillsbury, solva it. Can you? past th Not know there you - marriage contract before Tthlyn former Fol- lies dancer, wa orced from her hushand included in dance nst Leon (ilasor, thy broker, asking $3 for The contra and Miss Gi public on November Gibson was divoreed West comedian, Suit was filed yesterda In the phr prom before a nota:y Micis from Billy screen 9 contract Glaser is ed to “love et, idolize foreve . to the end of ated that Mi ed as to make worship, r Ethlyn ternity.” respe cars the equipped with I'll show you what l n h s Gibson “is the marriage « ible.” but at divorce, to do, inposs of thr < Gibson, ce to love, ler immedhtely 2 his wish meeting sail Ethlyn Gibson, as Leon Glaser love ind worships Lithlyn Gibson as hi Mis their agr v Cohen, calthy her, a 1 mp dirt road ((B) ury, here How did e the author, rough Detective Glaser hereby honor was i, he Un carry o conldn’t Gibson declared in ement Glaser ma A. B hant, in spite of ricd Bet Coher D daughter of SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY'S Too Sure diamond mer 1920 The it means not to Jump at con<lus title A r obtained from a ‘it opers small sor for spraying paint to light Ur com- the, cnough to b ng ci ates a entire being light hand. toviee iin one car- PATSE—- AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN “A man could listen an talk at the same time, like a woman does, but it hurts his feelin's if ever'body don't set with their nmul}h opel while he's talkin.’ Copyright, 1930, I’ My lumbago wtin® me, but Ma don’t mpathize e with bend up IN GIBSON ACTION 0,000 | d breach of proni- | vas signed by Glaser | RUMOR BERGDOLL EHILDREN’S FATHER ralt Dodger Alleged to Have| Married German Girl Weinsberg, € March F)1—1It the villages of this little placc right in “heir surmises, Grov Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia’s t dodger, is. married and the | father of two children. Fugitive from America and onc | hounded by kidnapers from his own | country, Bergdoll came to Weinsbers | aboyt four years ago in search of a for shattered nerves. There is no record here to indi- but the tight lipped villagers that shortly after arrival Fergdoll marrizd Bertha, youngest | daughter of Emanuel Frank, head ardener at the sanatorium. Ths natives understand the ceremiony was performed in Switzerland. | Two Children Born At any rate, two children consii- cred as bearing the name of Be doll now live in virtual scclusion ith Bertha's pafents. The children are guarded with such secrecy that villagers do not w whether they are boys or girl gdoll and his supposed w travel constantly. Occasionally th visit the Frank home. 4 The old gardener will never men- tion the gardencr when he gocs ‘o Lthe village main strect to shop. [ responds in no way to the attentions of stranger: His tall, many, cate it, helieve 'y rect bearing unm ably marks him as a pre-war Ger | man ofticer of the reserve; his attire | consists of an old hunting jacket | high leather hoots, riding breechus, Wife Never Away | 1fis wife never leaves the hou i:xm] exercises cternal vigilance over [ the children. The only outsider tie { 0ld couple receives, it is said, is Mrs. Emma Berzdoll, Grover Bergdoli's other, who has been he times. It is her, the vill who supports her sop and his ily | Berzdoll apparently has convineed | village authoritics that there is da ger of Kidnape | ehildren, for the constable, |lage burgomaster and his décline to divulge information cor | cerning whereabon s an attempt the yil- | or s0 *lto have bheen made to kidnap Ber, doll and return him to Americ The former Philadelphian, whosc | property valued at $1.500,000 | confiscated by the American govern- MONTREAL CXCURSION Friday, March 21 | | sgQ-o0 ROUND THIP FARE GOING FRIDAY. MARCH 21 Stamford So. Norwalk | Eridgeport ‘ New Haven | | Meriden Hartlord ue Montreal NING | R | SLNDU STARCH = Montreal Limited number of tickets good only || on special coach train now on sale at || Station Ticket Ofices. | Excursionists sheuld carry with them || identificatibn papers and "documentary evidence of United States Citizenship. as immigration officials are required to see_such papers upon reentry to the United States. THENEW HAVEN RR. | AR He | | | Action of | | | | | | | went to Philadelphia to seizing him or h's | gcour between S | Friedrichshafen to Selville was | | higgest hauls in the | the old soft hat and coarse walking stick. | 21t 0Pt | formed the ||:r‘ln in 1927, is shunned by most ot his German relatiy who disan- pl’o\l‘\l of the notoriety growing ont Of charges aaginst Bergdoll in 1924 that he abducted a Heirelberg gicl. I D”O\\Hl., hl‘i acquittal several [ mo later, Bergdoll FE vl fe iy flict with the law. Villa, also hear that Berthu I"rank oldest sister, formerly postal clerk at Weinsberg, recent as coni- panion to Mrs, imma Bergdoll - BREWERY VI CALLED ILLEGAL {Claim-No Warrant Used in New Jersey Seizure N. J., March cight special 21 (UP)— prohibition | the dircetion of Cap- . Golding, special | agent for New FEngland and all Ne York except New York city, in raid- | ing the Superior Munufacturing | Company, without a warrant, may be questioned. Shortly after they had rounded vp persons alleged to be implicat=d in the manufacture of what was al- leged to be real beer yesterda alt- torneys for the defendants said H‘» would contest the legality of th move. Captain 1ding admitted his men did not a wa ant al- though he d it was not needed in this ¢ federal p(\llnl to manufacture cereal bever The 1 Newark, agents under tain George id in one of th history of New resulted Jersey’s prohibition After they literally plant behind a big as a battering ran the agents sa they found 4,000 barrels of bes more of which was being piped un- | derground from a nearby building. |Graf chpelm to LCd\C For South America Soon ¥Friedrichshafen ermany, March “aptain Ernst Lehmanu in- A ciated P s that take-off of the Graf Zeppelin in it first South American flight would | May 10 and May 15 with return by way of Lakechurst, ! The projected itine “rode” into truck usel v is from Rio J eciro, Perambuco, the Wes ands, Havana, Lakehurst, nd Fredrichshafen. Go about getting Talke it in a busiy crn method. advantage of casy repayment schedule covering. charge Is threc and onc-half per blamed | because the concern had a | N.| n-| | Flashes of Life l By the Associated \pr Chicago — Professor Alfred A. | Michaelson hopes an absent-minded ntist will be forgiven. He gave luncheon at the Quadrangle club, { University of Chicago, for Dr. | DeForest. Various scientists waited for the professor. The soup got cold. Finally the luncheon proceeded withiout him. He forgot about it. | New York—A committee on pro- longing happiness among ‘exccutives has an idea, to wit: A return to | heart shaped penwipers. The com- | mittec submitted its report. at the annual jollification of the Interna- | tional Guild of Former Pipe Organ | | Pumpers along with another sug- stion that the contents of the treasury be used to buy cast iron lacorns as lure to further the pro- gram of wild iron and wood animal life conserwation. Wash.—The slogan here “Spokane, Wash!" A dust storm made everybody and every- ing in need of it. i New York—Pleading for suitable | airport, Amelix Earhart told at a Spokane, is ha "o ‘Chlldren Well Growing children need a mild pleasant remedy to cleanse the stomach and bowels and ward | off minor illness. [ 1 your children toss in their NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1930. e = luncheon of the difficulties of wom- en fliers in a race from Los An- geles to Cleveland in finding land- ing places. Gencrally landings were in cow pastures, and the fliers com- posed a little prayer: “Dear God, let them all be cows.” London—John Bull will break precedent, it.need be. Commander Bevir of the Renown is seriously ill, and the admiralty .permitted Mrs. Bevir to accompany him from Gibraltar on the battleship. A wom- an passenger on oné of his majes- ty's ships ordinarily is one of those things which ish’t done. Reduced 10 to 209, For Sat. Only Casserole $1.50 Reg. 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