New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1930, Page 18

EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1930. S ss e ——T—————————— Synopsis: Suspected of murder- ing Dr. Paul Kane by carbon mon- | * oxide gas poisoning, Jack Winslow, qadopted son of Arnold Winslow, . disappears. Kane had come to ex- amine Elsa Chase, beautiful crip- | pled girl, whom Jack loves, to test | the elder Winslow's theory that she | is a fraud. G. Thorne, detective, is probing the Kane m Lawrence, a woman E cret hold over Elsa, dies suddenly without revealing its nature. Among her effects are part of a bil. from | Dryden sanitarium, Chicago, and a clipping with the words, “The Dancing Silhouette. he shadow | ,0f & human being, madly dane- | ing, has been seen twice in the | Winslow home but its source re- | mains a mystery. Thorne it again late one night in an room where Jack Winslow practiced chemistry. Later, on the floor below, he discovers Lucy, the * housemaid, taking an empty en- velope, addressed to Elsa Chase in Jack's writing. to Mrs. Winslow. She says she took it from the room ot Lambert, the butler. Next morning, upon learning for the first | time that Thorne spent the pre- vious night in the house, Mrs. Winslow faints. Chapter 28 A CLUE FOR SALE Totally unaware of the effect the knowledge of his overnight presence | at Oaklands was having upon Mrs. Winslow, Thorne entered the Me- tropolis Bank and sought the h- icr. George Ross examined his cre- dentials carefully, then took him in- to his private office. ! “What is ft you wish, Mr. | Thorne?” . he asked courteously. © “You know we are chary of giving information abcut any cf our de- | vositors. ” Thorne nodded. Iy questions | will not cause you to breuk your| rules or regulations. I feel confi- dent.” He pulled a pad toward him and sketched upon it a clever like- | ness of Mrs. Lawrence. “1o you re- call ever seeing this woman?" The cashier looked at the sketch | critically. “Yes,” he acknowledged She has been here a number of times. “Using what name?"” Ross looked up. “She :alled he self Mrs. Lawrence, but the bank =rdraft she wished us to cash was drawn in favor of Sara Holcombe | Kane.” “Thorne sat back and stared at his companion, Keeping his rising e citement suppressed by an effort, | he waited for the latter to continue. Ross took several documents from a letter file and refreshed his mem “ory by looking them over. “Mrs. Lawrence claimed the check was in payment of alimony <<due her.” He opened a letter as he spoke. ‘“The draft was on a Boston bank. We wrote there and in this answer,” holding up a letter, “find her statements substantiated, for our Boston correspondent states that while for personal reasons she prefers to be known as Mrs. Ben | Lawrence, she has no legal right to | that name. never, so far as he has | been able to ascertain, having mar- | ried since her divorce from Dr. Paul | Kane.” The cashier looked across at Thorne. “Was that the man who _ @ied so mysteriously at Oaklands | or Monday night? | “Yes.” Thorne rose briskly; he had learned much in their brief in- | Jférview. “I am extremely obligedl t> you, Mr. Ross.” He paused at | the door. “Mrs. Lawrence was found dead last night in her room at Mrs. | Sims' boarding house in George- | “town.” Thorne next visited Inspector Mitchell's office, to find that busy official on the point of leaving. “Some news?” he asked cagerly “Mrs. Lawrence's identity,” re sponded Thorne tersely. “She was “the divorced wife of Dr. Kane." The inspector looked at him in diimbfounded silence for a moment o that's it!” he exploded. “But— | “but her connection with Kane's _murder—1 can't quite get her in the picture. ¢ ~Thorne smiled. “Nor can I," he | admitted softly, “in that connection. ‘Why not wire Boston and get a line | on her career as Mrs. Kane and as the eccentric Mrs. Lawrence. By the | way,” checking himself at the door | as Mitchell reached for his tele- phone receiver. “what reports havc‘ ,you had from Jackson and the other ‘ operatives stationed around Oak- | lands?" Reaching fossed it self.” sees att once | | for to him a paper Mitchell | “Read for your- | | the | Thorne skimmed through several reports, conning them over | to himself. No happenings were ont | -of. the ordinary, each report but bare facts: that of the opera- | ive on duty early Thursday ev " ning mentioned no one leaving Oa lands. Was his theory wrong, then, | a5 to Mrs. Lawrence's mysterious | vigitor with the voice “soft and | | ment | “Ten thousand dollars i hi | | the head, | hands had clutched was the pictur | Ellis, the pretty stenographer, | name.” | the paper to Jim. Tell him to go to | and identify the magazine in which | his | white. He wasted no time on civili- giving | 3 7011800 AP 1RO 19141 11$ 111110 low,” admitted by the landlady daughter? | “H Wait a minute!” Mitchell | gained Thorne's side as he ran down | the steps of the Municipal Building. “Have you had any results from this?” holding up a morning news- paper and pointing to an advertis with its flaring display type. a big sum to pay for news of Jack Winslow's hiding place.” “Large rewards bring results gen- | erally,” retgrted Thorne. “Winslow is mcst anxious for mews of the bov." . Thorne found only his stenog- rapher on duty at the Universal De- tective Agency. She met him at the door, telegram in hand. Tearing off the yellow envelope, he read the typed message from Captain O'Brien of Clicago police headquarters. home small good repute. Dryden convalescent private sanitarium in Interviewed tant manager. She never heard of Mrs. Ben Lawrence. Elsa Chase paralytic patient there “Wire O'Brien o ascertain when a Chase was a patient at Dryden sanitarium,” he directed. “I wish specific dates and name of surgeon who attended her. Ask for an im- mediate reply. Just a moment,” a| thought occurring to him as the | stenographer gathered up her note- book and pencil, “before using the last sentence. ask O'Brien to find | out if a woman ~alling herself either | ra Holcombe or Sara Holcombe {ane was ever a patient there; if so. when and why. That's all.” In searching for his tobacco pouch to refill his pipe, his hand touched wn envelope and he took it out of his pocket also. Opening drew out the papers Inspector Mitchell had removed from the drawer in front of the erstwhile AMrs. Ben Lawrence. Thorne spread the papers careful- ly in front of him on the desk and with infinite patience fitted the pieces together. They formed a pic- ture, evidently a group of people, taken from some print paper maga- zine or Sunday supplement. There | was an inset, but the cheap quality of the paper and the numerous creases, giving evidence of much | handling before it was torn, made it difficult to picce out the picture. The inset in particular was unrec- ognizable. As the upper part was missing only a draped figure, minus was decipherable. Fitting | and cvidently part of | the caption, came the words in fancy type: “The Dancing Silhou- | ette.” | Thorne caught his breath sharp- ly; the words aptly described what he had seen the night before Oaklands. Was it possible the und: cipherable picture was the key to | the mystery surrounding Chas and not the torn bill head he had found in the dead woman's poss sion? The last thing her dying | | pieces underneath Feverishly he reversed the of paper; joined together they ca ried the slogan of a nationally known advertisement, but the name ol the periodical from which the | page must have been taken was on | neither side. “Beg pardon, Mr. Thorne,” Miss | had | ccme into the room so silently that In his preoccupation he had failed to hear her. “There is a man out- | side who wishes to see you private- | 1yl “Ah, indeed? H “Lambert — he name?" gave no other | Thorne's eves brightened “Paste these pieces on the paper just as they lie there now,” he di- rected. “When pressed and dry give the Congressional Library and t this page appears. I would suggest on a gue a theatrical or motion picture journal, but not to confine | ‘h to that type only. But fir: horne leaned over and took what appeared to be a small radio from the drawer of a cabinet and placed it on top of the latter, turn-| ing a switch, “Miss Ellis. listen in | on the dictograph and take dowi Lambert's conyersation en yc can attend to the picture. The Winslow's butler came into the private office a second or so later, somber of dress and deport- ment, his face gray rather than ties. plugging at once into his er- rand *1'd like this, sir” pointing to Winslow's ment in the morning advertise- paper “I mean the ten-thousand-dollar re- | d for news of Mr Not news of him corrected Thorne, never taking his eyes from Tambert masklike countenarce. “The reward is offered for reliable information as to young Winslow’s BY NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN | his ground. | niouth closed ominousl | when he took the things |ir 11y he annovaced, | 1 Mrs. recommended him to Wins- lew.” Thorne smothered his surprised cjaculation. Lambert was, indeed, telling nim news, So Ferguson knew Dr. Kane in the past?” He stroked his chin while never removing his gaze from Lambert. “Did he see the doctor privately Monday night?” No, Lambert spoke with pesitiveness; “only when the doctor was dead. You remember, he found {the hody lying on the ground.” “Why did Winslow attack uncle on Tuesday afternoon? No lies,” striking the desk a resounding blow with his fist. “They quarreled over Miss Chasa al least that's the part I overheard, mumbled Lampert. “I—T was pass ing and—and— the door - -as open and they were both lond-spoken Mr. Jack was broken up cbout it when he came to his senses.” “Oh, so Mr. Jack has brain storms, has he?” Lambert —nodded sorrowfully. Jikg his father before him, sir, | derstand. Mr. Jack reeled out of the den and begged me to help im get away. 1 a confidential thought he'd ambert,” the detective spol slewly, 1apressively, “was it before this scene with his uncle or after it that he arranged with you to get Lis belongings out of his workshop i the attic “Before, spoken with truth “And why in his earncstness, “did not Jack | Winslow take his personal belong- ings with him—his clotifes; appar- ently he brush “He the canal boat “You mean ° “for a quick get-a-way? your words imply murder.” Chey r on “Quite s0." Lambert came closer, ‘I can tell you that.” Chapter A CONFESSION “And you know some other things too. Right?” prompted Thorne Gftly. ‘The hutler nodded. “Then why not go to Mr. Wins- low?” questioned Thorne curiously. IFor the first time Lambert did not look directly at the detective. “The ad says to come to you.” he peinted out. ‘Besides, Mrs. Wins- low wouldn't let her husband give me any money, if she could help it.” The man passed his tongue over his lips. “She’s not generous, and. though she pretends to be fond of Mr. Jack, she really hates him.” Secing the unbelief in Thorne's ex- pression, Lambert added hastily: “Oh, T can prove what i say, but on one condition. 3 “I don't bargain, Lambert,” re- tcrted Thorne with stern emphasis. what vou have to say quickly whispe choked his uncle te¢ Say oc 1 i Lambert hesitated. At least promise s leave my name out of the Hills-Mercer stock hrokerage affair,” he pleaded. in genuine agi- jon. “It will kill my chances of another vlace if they found I played the ponies and —the stock market. I don't know how you got wise to my being in with the bucket-shop gong; just keep it to yourself, sir, nd vou can have half of this ‘ere ward.” Thorne sprang up. “Get out,| Lambert,” he ordered, throwing open the door; but the butler stood the the response was promptness alread swiftly, Lambert, “It not for my sake, promise for the sake of young Miss Chase.” he begged, his watchful eyes trying to read his companion's face. “I've seen you looking at her when sho{ wasn't noticing. God knows, she | needs a friend.” | Thorne paused. Lambert with unerring instinct advanced the one plea he could not refusc. “Go ahead, Lambert,” he dirccted. “But recollect, T make no promises, and it vou lic to me’ his firm “I'll make you suffer for it. Where is Jaclk | \\‘n\slo[“""“ ] e | auestioning, the butler added swift- Lambert came closer and. unin- ]y “Mr, Jack wasn't in shape to sec vited, took a chair at Thorne's fl".n\\ one, least of all his sweetheart. how. [ He told me to tell her she would L on an oh](!m\.'xl]ho{;r uwl'; .L]nn‘\’;ym\r from' him in a day or so and ren. above Great 5. The bpt-fnot to worry.” ler spoke rapidly, casting frequent, | @y, gave her that message neasy glances over his shoulde did.” he old couple who own the boat| «pig you are devoted to Mr. Jack: he be-|pLad gone?” friended their only son. The boat| “No. Lambert is berthed in the canal ‘l‘m_\\_md Lock | grugf monosyllable in some haste, Tavern Club. T know,” with more | rcading the scorn in Thorne's cyes. emphasis, noticing Thoine’s skep- | “Mr. Jack said he would write her tical air, “because I went with him | v here he was and full particulars from his|now to get to him.” “Did he do s0?" Lambert nodded. “The note me last night, under cover of one to me. “And vou gave that note to Mis ase?” persisted Thorne, sternly. Again the butler averted his eyes was in the devil's own hu get away.” he admitted, swallowing hard. *Then. too Miss Chase had { made me mad—-" “Ha, in don’t neither, the butler hotly. “You words 1n my mouth I didn’t s That there bag's been on ti boat for a month or more Jack’s very fond of fishing had | canocing and he used | beard the Jenny when*fishing lat down this way. “Did Mr. Jack see Mi fore leaving Oaklands afternoon?” he asked. No, Forestalling further protested to sleep on and the boat was Chase b Tuesday he si tell her that Mr. Jack supplemcented the boat." did he do that?” TLambert shook &Lis head. L i rot sure,” he admitted evasively “We smuggled them into Mr. Jack's | car that nigit, Tuesday, I mean and 1 brought the car back to the garage without Peter. the chauffeur, being any the wis “And the other servants, didn't | they see you taking the things away in the car?” “I doped their food at supper: oh, not to hurt, but by eleven o'clock they were all asleep, dead to the world, and Inspector Mitchell didn't have any one watching Oaklands then, so we got off unseen.” Thorne leaned forward. “How about Ferguson? He doesn't sleep the house.” “No, but he eats there, and he got his share of dope along with the vest.” Lambert laughed mirthless- Che dirty dog!” “You don't speak admiringly of your coworker,” commented Thorne, dryl ealous, eh?” [ v.orkshop to {he “And why c 1 a cat watches a mouse, ready to spring. “You tricd to extort moncy —his jaw shot out—"you cur!” Lambert winced. “She gave me of “Twasn't that. prejudice nd got me ney | whined. |uying to ainst me, She's been a fired.” | note “No, T didn't, it on my pillow her the next by now."” y DU | Thorne shook his head. “Lucy Ot him? Say, what are YOu |preferred to have .\Iv’.\]\\' !1.%]0\\;‘ ”(»: talking about?” The scorn in the |j¢ first,” he announced softly man's voice was unmistakable and | with a bound Lambert zaimed hi Thorne’s eves twinkled. “That | fcat his face H\mu --mf\n‘w double lobster! Why he wouldn't have | crogsed me! The lying been kept on but that Dr. Kane | g exactly. for Lucy to take to mornfng. She of | Thorne leaned closer | left without even a toothK had a bag full of things on | premeditated | the probability . | ed out. and | alcoholic Wren sometimes | alcohol for a moment, curses rip-, ping from his lips. “Lucy's beaten me to the reward by giving Mr. Jack’s address to Mrs. Winslow.” For a minute the two men stared at cach other; then Thorne also | sprang up. “Perhaps she has, but T'll see Jack Winslow first,” and before the | butler could gather his scattered wits, Thorne was out of the office and in his car. (Copyright, D. Appleton & Co.) Will Thorne get there in time? He meets with a new surprise on hoard the canal boat in tomorrow’s | chapter. | BREWERIES READY | 0 RESUME WORK. | Owners Gount on Return of Four| Per Cent Begr raved on | _ | suspect,” speaking in | | “Mr. Jack | Milwaukee, Wis,, Oct. 18 (UP)— | | Milwaukee's million dollar breweries | | soon will be producing pre-prohibi- | tion beer for retail sale at ten cents | a pint, I'red Pabst, Sr., whose name | has been known in the brewing in- | dustry for years, predicted yesterday in an interview. | “I have gambled $§00,000 in new |equipment on my belief that the 18th amendment will be modified to | permit manufacture of beer,” Pabst | | said. Svery one of Milwaukee's | other six breweries is ready to start operation on a moment’s notice.” | Pabst recently said that the equip- imported from Germany, could be used for making malt syrup |as well as beer. He admitted, how- ever, that the machinery would not have been installed “‘were it not for | of beer coming | | | ment, | back | All of the larger breweries in Mil- | brew, have been producing near- | | beer since prohibition, Pabst point- | In manufacturing the non- beverage, he said, “regu- | lar beer” first is produced and the | later removed. Brewerdes Prepared | If beer of stronger alcoholic con- | tent is legalized, he pointed out, the | breweries can keep on making near- | beer and simply neglect to remove the excess alcohol. i | “Under present regulations,” | | Pabst said, “the alcoholic content of | | beer is limited to one-half of one| per cent. I and other brewers are | convinced that the Wickersham | { committee on law enforcement will | | make a recommendation to congress | | during December that three and | four per cent beer be allowed. “I fecl that the public wants beer back, and that congress will listen, | it not mext December, then in De- | cember of 1931. I am willing to stake | to | pabst what way?" The detec-| -papst tive was watching his companion as | would provide employment for thou- | president at a date not yet set. her “own free will,” he | Mr. Winslow | fro “And so you held back Mr. Jack’s | paper from rice siraw. But T left [ the cxploitation of thi has it | ing” | make fine book | 7 He)| T | all my money on my expectations so | that my company may be ready.” | Other evidence of Pabst's faith in | the return of beer is seen in im- | provements which his corporation is | making to its malt house and boiler | rooms. | The seven story malt house, con- | taining germinating bins, belting and | | cleaning machinery, has been re- | modeled at a cost of $125,000. The | corporation has stocked its | warehouse with between $300,000 | and $400,000 more grain than or- | dinarily would be carried. | said the return of beer | nds of men and increase the prices | of grain crops. | RICE & W PAPER me—Italy, which has been pay. high duties on paper imported other countries for years, now ablishing an industry to make | The min- | istry of agriculture has charge of | industry and scientists are now at work develop- machinery and processes to paper from the in is « straw, Great Britain’s Royal Mint Tas | branches in Melbourne and Perth in | Austrelia, Ottawa in Canada, and ctoria in South Africa, | { “we must prevent hunger and cold [to those of our people who are in | some of the governors in develop- | | was reinstated as an eclectic doctor | about INCREASE METHODS T0 HELP JOBLESS Hoover Names Cabinet Group to Draw Up Program Washington, Oct. 1§ Govern- ment measures for reducing unem- | ployment will be given increased ef- | fectiveness to meet the prospect of increased suffering this winter. President Hoover, following a meeting with his cabinet vesterday, announced he had formed a com- mittee, composed of six cabinet members and Governor Meyer of the federal reserve board, to draw up a program for continuing in strengthened form the federal em- ployment activities. “As a nation,” the president sajd, honest difficulties.” The government will seck to in- crease direct federal employment in | public works, but the emph of the presidential program will be placed on cooperation with gover- nors and employment organizations in regional measures for relief, and consultation with the principal in- dustries on methods for keeping up their output and their employment. Praises State's Work Hoover stressed particularly the importance of state effort and | praised the initiative displayed by | several commonwealths in meeting | their problems. He pointed out that | the governnfent for 10 months had | maintained organized efforts to in-i crease employment with consider- able success, while state agencies established at the same time already had shown fine results. “The present conditions of organi- zation,” the president said, ‘very greatly in different states. In the great majority of industrial states i | Mr. | ¢ putting | waukee, the city made famous by its | the governors have on their own in- itiative taken steps to reorganize or develop or further strengthen their organizations for the forthcoming winter. During the past few weeks I have been in communication with | ment of methods by which the fed- | eral government can further supple- | ment assistance to their organiz tions. Wants Business Help | “The cabinet committee will| further discuss these conditions with | governors and state agencies and | will again seck the cooperatlon of | our business leaders and our nation- al industries which we have had on so generous a scale during the past vear. We shall also review the feder- al situation of public works and the | situation in construction among the national industrics, together —with other methods by which we can con- tinue to be of assistance.” The president praised several state and city efforts, which he said indicated “a strong feeling of local responsibility and determination to meet the situation.” He mentioned especially new un- employment plans in Illinois, New York. Ohio and Detroit. | The cabinet members on the com- mittec are secretaries Lamont, D: vis, Wilbur, Hurley, Hyde and Mcl- lon. representing despectively com- merce, labor, interior, war, agricul- ture and treasury, which are the governments departments in a posi- tion to create employment or aid in- dustry. They are to report to the DOCTOR REINSTATED New Haven, Oct. 18 (# — Dr. Simeon Cohen of Meriden, whose I cense was suspended during the “Di- ploma Mill” investigation in 1924, { in Connecticut by Judge Carl Foster | in superior court yesterda His ap- | peal had been pending since that time. The state agreed by stipulation | that he had not obtained his license by fraud. | Engtish language contains 700,000 words, of which about 250,000 are dead, obsolete or no longer in general use. There are about 210,000 w s in the French language. The BELIEVE PRISONER IS GEORGE PERRY Harrison Police Puzzled at Iden- tity of Suspect Harrison, Ark., Oct. Search along the eclusive George (Jiggs) Perry, phantom lover, today led into north- ern Arkansas, where an uncommun- icative prisoner was held in jail sus- pected of being the Wisconsin fugi- tiv Frankly puzzled. and made cau- tious by two previous false identifi- cations in this state, Boone County officers sought to learn through questioning if their prisoner is Per- ry, whom authorities accuse of slay- ing one of “five or six wives."” Appearing out of the south aboard a freight train, the stranger, who gave his name as Roy H. Thompson, was arrested after spending vester- day here. Sheriff L. 158 A — trail of Milwaukee M. Martin said his pri oner steadfastly has refused to talk “If you think you can get any- thing on me, go ahead,” the sheriff quoted him as sa Perry's trail disappeared at Blytheville, Ark., two weeks ago | with the discovety there of an auto- imcbnc formerly the property of [ Mrs. Cora Belle Hackett. one of his | “wives” found slain in northern | Wiscon in. | pANBURY HIT BY ORM| | Danbury, Oct. 18 (P — Stréets | were flooded and traffic seriously | impeded last night during two se= re electrical storms. | Wire overheated to incandescent | intensity on the Danbury-Norwallk | branch of the New Haven railroad ‘as a result of a short circuit called out the fire department. THAT 1S ODD Havana—When it's necessary to | lut salaries and the president cuts | his first, it's news. That's what | happened here recently when Pre | dent Machado of Cuba, finding the | country in difficulty in trying ta | keep within the §76,000.000 national | budget, cut his salary from $25.008 {a year to $12,000. 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