New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1930, Page 20

IW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL §& 1930 f_ | Baffle Mysteries Copyright 1930 Dally Mirror, Ine Baffle mysteries give you Ingenious and dramatic crimes to solve ~—many of them founded on actual cases which have baflled detec- tives throughout the world in years past. Each mystery gives you the facts established by the police—what the detectives had to go upon and no more. Which are the telitale clues? What do you deduce from them? 1In short, how will you answer the question asked of you at the end of each baffle? “Wh) is guilty?” or “What was the motive?” etc. This is no contest, there l are no prizes, it is simply presented for your entertainment. Dog, Meat and a Ring Figure In Odd Mystery The Emerald Ring Mrs. Alicia Seymour tremely fond of her emecrald She had inherited it from who had secured it in India. | The stone wasn't ally in area, but deep, perfectly cut and of great brilliance | Its value was g of a diamond of the The value constantly Mrs. Sevmour hac income. She lived apartment th her Gately. Mary had co: England when she was and had worked for Mrs. ever since, She was no seven. Next to pride in her Mrs, Seymour fook pride the same maid for twenty ye There was a cook who came daily to pre meals. Mary Gately's not heavy. She took rooms, took “Connio Contucius—out for ing. Connie was a little “Pom.” Mary waited on Mrs, | Seymour, went on crrands f and made herself generally u Mrs. Watterson, a long-time friend of Mrs. Seymour, had com on from Chicago and was visiting Mrs. Seymour for a Mrs. Watterson was an wealthy woman. Ring Is Gone One morning, it was the third that Mrs. Watterson had been ther-, Mrs. Seymour couldn’t loc emerald ring. A most thorough ‘house was made. No ring, however. Both Mrs. Watterson Gately, the maid, {old | mour that she should have a detec- | tive come up. | “He might find traces where | some burglar got in,” Mrs. Watter- son declared. The detective, Charles Haskins came up and listened to the story He got an accurate description of the ring. ‘He examined the doors one to the kitchen and one to the front fover. Both had private locks and chains. They couldn have been forced from the outside, Fire escapes were from the halls, No ons could have reached t1he windows to the apartment, up nine floors. | “Have you searched your maid?" he asked. Mary Gately overheard fhis and sobbing, came out and demanded |07 them 10 be searched. cast ‘I've had Mary twenty years 1'd rather lose a hundred emcralds than suspect her—why do you de- | toctives . always suspect servants| the first thinz?” Mrs. Seymour in- | dignantly demanded Mary insisted that Mrs. Sevmour search her and that the detective search her room and trunk Mrs. Seymour had the ring her finger hours after the left. There had been no callers| Detective Galvin ard none of the three had gone|iut it's out after dinner. Hanley She Slept Alone bureau Mrs. Watterson, with her millions was also out of the question. Mrs Seymour slept alone. & a rela : | unusi arge than tha | same. weight, increased. | a comfortabls alone in an Mary | from | maid, over seventeen | Seymour | thirty- who sley duties care of hort = % Adily “She slipped off the ring and put it much petted 0B the bench before going to sleep.” his 1 down fo the veter 1 red ring the recove | vere soveral : lum AVS. | nephew o take reported, “and 1 the ri to a jeweler. {got a hunch there’s some business."” The nephew | certainly €T | ness. What was it, and what led search ‘of the | homas to be of it? trace of the want vou I've crooked m Ther: soked busi- was cor was some ¢ Bolh S0 sure SOLUTION TO YISTERDAY'S THE FIFTH ACL It wasn't and Mrs. Mary | Sey- because ble, and Usen i money was left on the would Officer > thin Recall that was a red-backed other four had bl remainder of the deck Hanley believed that would be boob cnough ring in a fi any suit w that the that madc Hanley, believe th o be a “plant one of the five acoa card and the backs, like the no on try an h ace or bacs were rent from deck they play those of t with. impler pointe of ¢ but d out rette butts. heen playing only even strong was noint e ab- 1t thoy a half hour fifteen minutes, the four would have consumed at half a dozen cigarettes. to Hanley as though the had gone up, killed 1 with a gun that had silencer, rigged up the “fifth ace wpparent card-cheating blind, left some money and departed. That is exactly At happenad. was the result of a nd the belief that d some of anley ocked Toss Ross had his old fe bet that into the detectiv long will berore SUNSHINE SOCIETY ME A ceting o e Suns e S “L left the ring on vonn”“lhu-f‘ \,w;ru]\)qu\—unu]x‘:'j»‘vno Jow bench when I went to .7 2:30 o'clock at the South Con, Mrs. Seymour said. “I always slip|iional church - Tw it off before I go 10 sleep. Connie |members were present. Mrs, George sleeps on that cushion on the other Corbin, president, who recently end of the bench.” | from Ilorida where she Haskins sized up the part of th “Your dog swallowed followi ably. Let me have an ex-rz 86 oranges of him,” Haskins said fin She agreed port that the ring was inside dog. A veterinary rave him an emetic the ring. Bob Thomas nephew, dropped in and heard the stor Mary Gately had the time. After e cevering the ring “L can't ®he said, “alt now, I'il he clze is los Mrs. Sey failed to twenty yea that tle pom win- proh- | ter, pre T mad n re ncial aid 1o The re cams fo thres the lit s voted to give hos- took the dox financial r and recovered | licf 1 . families, a number M= een eryin port. of <till eried ork Tong mour AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN POOR PA CLAUDIS CALLAN “Jones is economizin' in s office. He discharged the three pretty aivls he ployed an 's h homely girl to ¢ jokin’ when I say he's too generous to other folks, but | notice he takes it when T say T can without a new coat. 1ad em- red serious ) one t along Copyright, ——— p Vheral oth ] 1 card i gangster | took the credit. | Young | VAUDEVILLE GOUPLE IN CLASS OF MILLIONAIRES Returns as Pastor Of Trinity Church B — Bob Cook and Wife Find “Worth- less” Oklahoma Mortgage Worth Untold Sum as Oil is Found. Muskegon, Mich., The days when th April §.—(UP) y answered the three-a-day call on vaudeville stages | throughout the country for Boh Cook and Lil Oatman, his | wife. They have been | through a bit of good luck. Cook and k | took over a acre tract of homa City are passcd land in South Ol because (Cook’s sister, who held the mortgage, wanted the money. A couple of weeks ago an oil well came in on the land, whicl | adjoins the tract where the Mary Sudik ran unchecked for 11 day “We've turned down offe: { $1.000,000 for the ten acres,” said today, “preferring the roy which are running at $7.400 a d So I guess we're in clover, all right We never paid much attention 1o | the little plot of land until they gan drilling for oil in that district Trinity Cook said the oil well has mads a in dreams G be | annual alkies crowd- | East boards, 1 rches. 1 lihood the mous 1 Then of RV, WILLIAM H., ALDERSON William H. 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