New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1930, Page 16

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930. s _Synopsis: Jack Winslow, adopted | * pon of Arnold Winslow, is suspected | of having murdered Dr. Paul Kane, | who {8 killed by carbon monoxidc | - gas poisoning. Jack, who has disap- | peared, is in love with Elsa Chase, | beautiful crippled girl. The elder Winslow suspects she is not really # cripple, and had asked Kane to examine her, while he has engaged G. Thorne, detective, to probe her past. Thorne now has turned his at- tention to Kane's murder as- well, however. The mysterious shadow of 2 human being, madly dancing, has | heen seen twice but its source is un- " discovered. “hush money” Winslow butler, and to “Mrs. rence,” a woman who has some Yold upon her. The attic room once | used by Jack Winslow as a chem- | jcal laboratory is discovered to be| locked. Ferguson, the gardene goes on Arnold Winslow's behalf, to | Mrs. Lawrence's rooms to try to| bribe her to reveal her hold on| Elsa. A human wreck and a dn\;." tiend, she dies of a heart attack | while he is there without revealing | ker secret. Chapter 22 THE MYSTERIOUS BILLHEAD | Ferguson drew in a long, hissing | breath. Death had stalked its prey | more successfully than he. TSwittly he searched the woman's pitifully few belongings, bringing | to light nothing that touched upon Elsa Chase. ‘Wrapping his fingers in his hand- kerchief, he turned the hot-water faucet, then washed his face and hands. Back once more in the tiny room. he stopped before the mirror, and using a pocket comb, straightencd his unruly hair, making it lie flat | and smooth. Sweeping his hand | across his mouth he removed ti tebagco-stained and unsightly fal teeth, exposing the gums to view. From an inside pocket he took oui another set of false teeth and slipped them into place. These were white and even and completed his transformation. His short motor coat had a reversible lining, and he slipped into it; his cap also was Teversible. ~-Going over to where Mrs. Law- rence sat, with head sagging upon her breast, he stood for a second by | the dead woman's side, but strive as he would he could not bring him- self to touch her, nor to drag her hands out from the dravwer of the | table. Ferguson had reached the first landing of the winding stairs when he heard the key turn in the lock of the front door and a woman came | ift; followed by two men. he heard her| . “We can talk undisturbed in | here,” and she led the way into the | parlor. As te door of that room ciosed, Ferguson gained the vesti- bule and passed like an evil shadow to the outer darkness. Inside the parlor the landlady | peered inquiringly through near- | sighted eyes at her callers. “Do I understand you gentlemen seek rooms?” she asked. “No.” Thorne was the spokes- man, as Jim Barker, his assistant, | kept discreetly silent. “We called | to, see one of your lodgers, Mr. John Winslow."” | “She shook her head. “There’s no- | bedy of that name here.” ~“This was the n§mber—" Thorne's | expresgionless countenance gave no indication of his sense of disap- pointment. “Possibly Winslow did not give you his full name—young men are sometimes—young men.” Mrs. Sims smiled. “But T have only one gentleman with me,” she " explained. “Dr. Sands has been my . guest” bridling a little, “for over five years, and he—he's quite el- *“My mistake” Thorne bowed | profoundly and opened the parlor | door. He had wasted enough time | that night, first in having a blow- | out and on top of that he had run out of gas on a lonely section of the highway from Oaklands. Walking to~the nearest house, a quarter of | mile distant, he had telephoned to Jim to bring gasoline. The latter had been long in coming, or so it #seemed In his burning impatience, and Thorne, locking his car, left it standing at the side of the road, and accepted a lift from a passing mo- torist. Almost at the city limits he had recognized him returning, hai ed him, and, thanking tha friendly motorist, had hastened into George- town with his assistant. With his hands still on the door Thorne again addressed the little Jandlady. “Are you acquainted with Miss Elsa Chase? he asked. “I'm sorry, but I'm not."” “Neyer heard her name before?” “I can't say I have,” she respond- ed. ‘And I can't say I haven't; seems to me T've heard her &poken = 5 From upstairs came prolonged intensity ‘Ma! Oh, Ma!" a scream of | | magazines were of a type to appeal | rcom. | natural position o7 her arm | his | ite sides had evidently warped and | BY NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN “What is it, dearic?” Mrs. Sima fled up the staircase, fear lending wings to her feet, and Thorne in- stinctively accompanied her. At the | car. Say, who is she?” head of the stairs a young girl wi The little landlady, the leaning limply against the wall, her | enter, found courage to speak. "Mrs. trembling knees barely holding her | Ben Lawre she stammered upright. through white lips. she's been | “Mrs. Lawrence,” she gasped in- | here going on two months, as nice a coherently. “It's awful in there, |lady as ever I want to see. Oh, is Ma. 2 there nothing I can do?” and she The landlady stopped. “Awfur| WTUNg hgr hands. what?” she demanded. “Talk sen-| ' We'll let you know, sible, Mary; aint’ nobody going to | “ingate spoke sympath Hathyou | you will wait downstairs, w The girl shuddered. “But [ o you later™ tcuched her,” she moaned, **’cause she didn’t look up or answer when I put the coffee on the table by her. Ch, her J Thorne by Mrs. Sims. y here with your daughter,” he Jim and I will see what's and he and his assists ant sped through the dark bedroom and into the tiny sitting room be- vond. Both halted oy the threshold the open door at sight of Mrs awrence. The sightless eyes turned upward the ghastly twisted mouth, toli their own tale without spoken words. Reverently thd two men tip- tced to her side and stopped. Both her hands still lay concealed in the tly open desk drawer. Call the coroner ? sick in be interjected tried to get a message to early today.” hen phone the deputy coroner, Wingate; he lives in George- town, and, Jim,” the man halted at the door. “Tell Mrs. Sims not to come in —it's no sight for a deli- cate woman. Explain who we are|about a twisted piece of paper, to and we'll stay and aid her.” | which they stull clung. Mitehell Left by himself Thorne struggled | picked up the strip and put the to control his rising excitement. Ly- | torn edges together. ing dead before him was the one| “What's this —'The Dancing Sil- woman he wanted to see— the houette, he read aloud. “And | blond woman in blue whose ac- | that's all,” turning the strip over. [tions had so bewildered Arnold | As he lifted his head to glance up | Winslow and had aroused his curi- | ar his companions, his eyes fell on | | osity as to the link connecting her | Mrs, Lawrence's arms from which | | and Elsa Chase. the loose sleeves of her tea-gown | Thorne made no attempt to touch |had dropped back. From shoulder | | the body, once convinced there was (o elbow the flesh was covered with | | no sign of life; only in the presence |red needle scars. “Hello, so she ool | | of the proper officials could Mrs. | dope!” | | Lawrence be moved. Paying her no “An overdose?’ The questioned, | | further attention, he examined the | pointing to the dead woman. | rcom, little more than a large It was not Wingate who replied | closet with its one window. Only |but the stranger. “I am Dr. Sands, | one door opened from it and that | Inspector Mitchell” he explained. | led to the bedroorh through which | “Mrs, Lawrence has been ill off and | he had entered. The tfurniture. on since her stay in Washington | | while shabby, was neat and clean. |and I have attended her. 1 warned | as were the walls, bare except for | her of her dangerous heart condi- the mirror opposite the door. tion. Angina.” he said significantly. In only one corner of the room | “I see.” Wingate nodded. “That was there any sign of disorder; | would explain this” with a pitving there, a half dozen or more maga- | glance at the dead woman. “How- | zines lay scattered about and |ever, there will have to be an in- Thorne , dropping on one knee, |quest and a post-mortem examina glanced ‘through them swiftly, to |tion. You will be callcd, Dr. Sands. find nothing of any interest. Evi-| Thorne lifted the dead woman in | dently Mrs. Lawrence's taste had |Fi» strong arms and carried her | run o lurid literature, as all the |to the large brass bed in the next | As he laid her down and | | withdrew his supporting arm from | Thorne | ynder her head. the button on his the un- | ecat sleeve caught in her wig and | aught | dragged it off. held his attention. Were her | «Holy mackerel!" kands jammed in the drawer that |starfled “out she had mot withdrawn them? _ |When he saw the woman Thorne stooped down and 100ktd | head and the hide under the chair and the table, t L o woman'’s feet and legs were twisted, not lying straight before her, con- | firming his theory that some con vulsion, no matter how slight, must have occurred. Then why were her Pands still in the table drawer? The drawer appeared quite deep and Mrs. Lawrence's hands were thrust far in it, although it was open only a little way. Thorne slipped his hand in the opening along by her arm, papers rustled vnder his fingers; something soft, possibly a handkerchief, lay to' the right as he groped about—a touch of her chill skin made him jerk back involuntarily as their hands came in contact. He was still on his knees usine | elec torch when he caught sight under the table of a piece of paper protruding from under the | phoned,” explained Mitchell, taking a comprehensive look at the dead woman. “Brought him over in my madam.” My, *If "1l talk Wingate's examination pleted quickly Mitchell “Help me move her chair back from the table,” he suggested, but 1t was Thorne who came to ance, while Jim drew drawer at the same lime, so that it | and her hands moved back simulta- neously with her body in the chair. With. intense curiosity the men | hered about and zed down | into the drawer. 1t was filled, ap- parently, with odds and ends, hand- kerchief: and feminine knickkna Toward the front and | directly under Mrs. Lawrenc hanls were scraps of paper, torn | and twisted. Mitchell picked up the | | pieces and spread them out but the pictures and type were so mutilated, | so creased and worn that they were | unreadable and unrecognizable. | “Some ¢ clippings,” he announced. poor soul must have destroed them in her last con- vulsion. What's that in her hands?” | Wingate and Thorne turned the wands over and loosened the fingers | was com- and he looked up at i out the Dr. | to that class of resder. his feet the bod; on to Once more stepped over and ed Jim, silence shaven | FINEST QUALITY" Lenses and 4 Trames uwu, i ""Iu“'qn ALBREN., Inc. 282 MAIN STREET his assist- | £ | month in advance “A burn, evidently,” Wingate. “It's vived it.” _ “Ever héar her tives, Dr. Sands ’ physician wrence remarked a wonder she sur- eak of any rela- asked Mitchell, shook his head. was not communi- he explained. “While waxed voluble at times, discussed herself.” he she never Mitchell scratched his head medi- | we cdn't | that case relatives.” Thorne. tatively. “In netify her suddenly to brought you here quisitive He turned “‘Say, what eyeing him in- Ignoring the tepped once sitting room through the the table drawer. the Dryden Sanitarium bill was not it, however. After 2 Dr. Sands question, Thorne more into the little and went quickly in few courteous words to Inspector Mitchell led the way downstairs, but while he stopped to speak, to the landlady, Thorne accompanied Jim to the lat- automobile. “Send this | | wire to Captain O'Brien, Police Department, Chica- he explained, scribbling the | sage even as he spoke and tear- | ing out tI t from his notebook. | “Then go through the Rogues Gal- | at headquarters and sce if Mrs. was ever mugged.” s almost whispered in I get ye,” he mum- bled in reply, stuffing the paper in Lis pocket. “But what about tak- ing this “Do that later, n join me at Oaklands. Park the car on the highway near the entrance and wait for me.” Thorne furned back te the boarding house as Jim started on his errand; gate he met | The last Jim's | Mitchell just leaving. n I give you a lift?” the latter | inquired Jim drive from the “Thank and before Mitchell could say more Thorne bolted back into the house. He found his hat where he had dropped it near the staircase, but instead of joining Mitchell imme- diately, he stepped again into the front parlor. sims looked up at his en- nce and struggled to rise, but horne stopped her. “Here is my card,” he took one he spoke from his bill folder. Iy phone number is there also: please call me if you need assist- ance, t is, as to money,” noting her startled look: “funeral arrange- ments for Mrs will have to be made.” . “That is what distracts me.” ad- mitted Mrs. Sims; she liked Thorne instinctively and placed confidence in the big, silent man. “To think of her being put in the potter's field — the poor dea She wrung her hands. “I have no idea where she was from, what part of the country, nor the names of any relatives.” seeing curhb, Lawrence “You took her in on faith alone?” | with a sharp, questioning look. The landlady colored to the roots of her hair. “Mrs. Lawrence paid a d didn’t ques- tion the price,” she said simply. “Was Mrs. Lawrence amply sup- plied with money “Lately, p'raps she was more careful,” she acknowledged. ere was some hitch two or three days ago at the Metropolis Bank about some check.” “I sec.” Thorne smiled down at the nervous little lady. “Tell me, Mrss Sims, did Mrs. Lawrence re- ceive much compan The landlady shook her “Tonight.” Mrs. Sims." Mary, the latter's daughter, who had been a rapt listener, broke into the conversation he told me, after you went out, Ma, to let who- ever come and asked for her right upstairs,” she volunteered. ‘“‘And sc when the gentleman came about cight ‘o'clock, 1 showed him right up.” “Ah!" Thorne looked young girl, much pleased what was he ke—this caller The girl shook her head much light.” disappointment, she add- “He was 'bout middle height ind wrapped up in his coat. He had teeth, though, and a pleasant | rle—that's all T saw —just his | head. insinuatingly. “‘Thin at the “And There | Observing | tumbled contents of | The other half of | away | ves: let me get my hat,” mouth.” 5 | “Thorne, oh, Thorne?” Inspector | Mitchell's voice boomed through | the house as he poked his head in- side the front door. “Come along.” “In 4 second!” Thorne turned | swiftly back to mother and daugh- ter and addressed the latter in a low voic re you quite sure Mrs. Lawrenc visitor was a man?" The voung girl's eyes almost popped out of her head. “Why, eh, why, ‘eh,”” she stam- mered, “his voice was very soft and | low—that's all I know. (Copyright, D. Appleton & Co.) Who was Mrs. Lawrence's first | visitor? Read tomorrow’s chapter. Elks to Honor Martin, New District Deputy Henry Martin night will be by New Britain lodge, B. tomorrow evening after the regula business meeting of the lodge. Dr. Martin is the newly ap- EXPORTS DECREASE FROM LAST YEAR September Figures Give Favor- able Trade Balance, However f— ‘Washington, Oct. 14 (P)—Septem- ber exports from the United States amounted to $318,000,000 and im- ports $227,000,000, leaving a bal- ance of trade favorable to lh91 United States of $91,000,000. P However, the commerce depart- | ment reported today, both exports and imports for the month were smaller than those of any: like months for more than a decade, but wete higher than like figures for | August of this year, when exports pointed district deputy grand exalt- | were $298,000,000 and imports $218,- ed ruler for this district. | 000,800. - Refreshments will be served and a | In September last year exports program of entertainment will be|amounted to $437,000,000 and im- provided. ports $351,000,000. — Commerce department specialists DOUGAN BADLY HURT who assembled the figures comment- South Manchester, Oct. 15 () — | ed that the fall in commodity prices William Dougan, secretary and |during the last year, generally esti- | treasurer of the Dougan Dye Works, | mated to average about 14 per cent, Inc., here, was badly injured when | accounted in part for the decline in | struck by an automobile driven by | foreign trade. Miss Kathryn Newton, of 218 Col-| Gold movements in September lins street, Hartford, on East Cen- | were of less magnitude than those of ter street today. At the Manchester | earlier months this year, but result- Memorial hospital, it was stated that!eq in a net gain of monetary metal Dougan has a possible fracture of | for the United States. Gold im- | the skull and that his condition 1s|ports of $13,671,000 were recorded regarded as critical. Dougan was in |in September against exports of the road talking to the occupant of | §11,135,000, while for the year to another automobile when struck. | date the United States has gained No arrest was made. | $185,815,000 in gold by the ac- { cumulated monthly excesses of im- | ports over exports. For the same period in 1929 the | net accretion of gold by the United States was $245,142,000. Silver exports for September were | Dr. observed 2,10. 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Jim Barker, Thorni assistant, ered the room, with Dr. Winga the assistant coroner, Inspector Mitchell, the landlady and an older pan in a worn suit of clothes “I was with Wingate when | te. | | | Jim PALS TSAY THIS B HERE 1S A SNOOTIER AL MY 2 AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN “I love my kin folks as anybody does, but if they come visitin' me in hot weather an’ don’t help with the cookin’, they get corn- flakes for breakfast an’ pea- nut butter sandwiches for dinner.” Copyright, 1330, Publishers Syndicate ————— s well POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN HYACINTH HAUGHTY, When the firm's safe was opened yesterday In the presence of repre- sentative’s of Washburn's office and officials of the brokerage concern, only a few securities of minor value were found. The $6,000,000 worth d to have been kept there issing and all the files con- taining the names of investors and data bearing on the conduct of the business also had been removed. Feared Violence The broker's family has received no word from him, it was said by Arthur L. Bob, a son. He added that his father had feared violente for some time prior to his disappear- ance, but did not reveal why. Mem- bers of the family think he has met foul play in Chicago, the son said. The broker's attorney, Ferdinand Pecora, believed, on the other hand, that Bob merely was seeking seclu- sion to ward off a threatened nerv- ous breakdown. Bob was said to be heavily inter- ested in Metal and Mining Shares, Inc, and Rainbow Luminous Prod- $3,908,000 and imports $3,461,000 as compared with exports of $4,274,000 and imports of $4,111,000 the same month last year. The figures at- taching to the silver exchange for the month were muach smaller than those of any other month recorded in five years. NEW YORK BROKER REPORTED MISSING Securities Not Found in Safe| in Office New York, Oct. 15 (UP) — The disappearance of Charles V. 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