New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1930, Page 24

Synopsis: Dr. Paul Kane is mur- ‘dered by carbon monoxide gas poi- soning, and Jack Winslow, atopted son of Arnold Winslow, is suspected 6f the crime. He has disappeared. Bisa Chase, beautiful crippled girl, ~whom Jack loves, was to have been examined by Kane, in line with Yinslow’s belief she is a fraud. ‘fhorne, detective, engaged to prob her past, now is investigating Kan © Ynarder. A clipping with the words, ‘The Dancing Sikhouette,” is found | ymong the effects of Mrs. Lawrence, a woman with a secret hold over Tlsa, when the former dies sudden- Iy, The shadow of a human being. wadly dancing, has been seen {hres ** {imes at night at the Winslow home, “But its source remains undiscover- ed. It develops that Mrs, was the divorced wife of Kane Thorne learns Jack is hiding on a canal boat outside the city. Hurry- ing there, he finds Jack missing. and the boat keeper's wife, solc occupant of the craf§f gagged and bound by some one who has ran- sacked the boat. In Jack's cabin Thorne finds an empty “ire extin- guisher among some chemical ap- paratus, and it dawns on him that this could have been used to pump the gas into the closed bathroom vihere Kane died. Chapter THE MURDERER CORNERED - In the lower hall Mrs. Winslow was startled to come upon two men they the L {alking in suodued whispers; separated at sight of her and taller one advanced toward her and | - she recognized Thorne. “You are wanted upstairs,” announced none too graciously, “’he dfd not budge from her path. " “I prefer a word with you.” “Later; I am on my way to s Miss Chase. Lel me pass, please. Miss Kline entered Elsa's bed reom from hers just as Mrs. Wins- low came in through the door lead- ing to the hall. . “Where is Miss Chase?” “ I think she went out on the ter- race. It you will wait, Mrs. Wins- low, I will get her,” and she sppd away through her room as Thorne joined Mrs. Winslow. The latter gazed in anger at Getective. “Why.are you here? questioned. “I too, wish to sce Miss Chase.” The room was iarge and airy, tastefully arranged with its dainty turnishings and pretty hangings. Close at hand lay a pair of shoes and shoe trees. One of the latter caught Thorne's eyc and he looked at it more closely; then, his curi- _osity growing, he lifted it up—in shape it resembled the ones he seen in the hox in Jack Winslow's wyerkshop, cven to the smudge on the wooden tree. On.closer inspec- tion, however, he saw that what he had taken to be a smudse on the tree was a Chinese character. “I am sorry to have kept you ‘walting,™ exclalmed Elsa, as the " trained nurse pushed the chair into the center of the room. The older woman bustled forward. “4t is fmportant that I see you first, 'Blsa,” she broke in. “I must re- ~quest Mr. Thorne to leave us.” “I am sorry,” Thorne smiled at * {he irate woman. “But it is im- .-Derative that I talk with Miss Chase S before she makes her get-a-way'— peinting sigmificantly toward the steamer trunk half-packed in cerner of the room. “Get-away!” Elsa caught up the word, her face flaming. “What do you mean, sir, by using such an ex- nression to me?” His answer was deiayed by arrival of Arnold Winslow, fellowed by Ferguson and Inspector Mitchell. “So here you are, Thorne.” In- tent on his own affairs, Winslow ifailed to note the attitude of the + feur people already in the bedroom. Yfer Miss Kline had not left {.patient's side. “Ferguson here.” dicating the gardener by a jerk o his thumb, “has just told me that Jack is living on a canal boat with old Sol Smith above the Lock Tav- ern Club, and claims my offered reward of ten thousand Shall T give it to him?” Thorne swung on Ferguson. did you get that information “I got it off a note Mr. vrote to sh pointing to “Lambert left it on his pillow an’ jes’ opened the envelope an'—an—' “Stole the letter inside it.” Thorne was studying the gardener intently. “If you want that reward, tell the truth.” “I is,” Ferguson's lips parted in n \.sickly grin. “That's 'zactly how I %ot the news. I'm tellin® straight.” “Go-on,” urged Thorne “Don't be afraid. Speak up, son, and tell them why vou are entitled to that reward.” “What?" The gardener him in bewilderment, plucking at his soiled r meanin'."” Thorne spoke with biting she but the she, in- Jack softly not gazed at one hand shirt, "1 Lawrenc# | | the | her | dollars. | oW | ingenuity | Twice, ve | Fergu- | BY NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN ,sarcasm. “Then I'll tell them why | You are not entitled to that reward. | [Tt is because Jack YVinslow isn't | on the canal boat. And you know Ferguson, because you were there just ahead of me.” | | “Who, me?” | “Yes, you Thorne's voice rang out. “You've given yourself away | Ferguson, by forgetting to remove your false teeth. | With a swift and involuntary movement, Ferguson's hand went | to his mouth. In place of the to- bacco-stained, decayed teeth of thot gardener, was his full set of even and perfectly white teeth. “Hold him, Inspector.” Thorne's tene was not to be disobeved. “Now. | | Miss Chase, what's your connection | with Ferguson?” “There is no connection she declared. But the same object you.” Thorne the wheel cha Winslow. Sto between | brought | took a step nearer | r. “To rob Mr.| as she would have interrupted, and his voice went relentlessly on, hammerir into her ears like a miniature Niag- ara. “A cripple’s disguise was a clever masquerade for tho Dancing & Silhouette!” Opening his hand he | displayed the magazine page taken | from Sara Kane's dying grasp. | | “The so-called Mrs. Lawrence had {the goods on you, although, dis guised as a man, you tried to bribe | Fer to silence died.” You are not a cripple?” Mrs. | Winslow stepped forward, white and shaken. “So you killed Dr. > to conceal your secret.” wasn't her,” Ferguson shout- led, “but her confederate; Jack | Winslow did it for her.” A scream broke from Elsa and | she half started from her chair, only |to fall back limply as the closet dcor opened and Jack Winslow came out of his hiding place. No | one spoke as he advanced toward | Ferguson “You, Ferguson,” he little above a whisper. your proof against me?” “I went through the things you tcok from here to the canal boat. 1z was Ferguson speaking, but they would not have recognized his voice had they not been iooking at him, it was so altered. “And there, Jack Winslow, I found tRe fire extin- guisher you filled with carbon mon- ! oxide gas—can you deny it?” | No.” ilsa clutched the sides of her | chair and gazed in agony at her lover as h> pronounced the solemn monosyllable. Ferguson turned to Tnspector | Mitchell. “Go to the canal boat and | get the fire extinguisher—it's the final proof you need of who killed | Kane.” | “True,” agreed Thorne quietly. “T have it here,” and raising his hand he beckoned to Jim, his assistant. loitering in the haM, just outside | the door. Stepping past Arnold | Winslow and the inspector, Jim brought In a large package care- fully wrapped and an envelope. Thorne took the latter from him. “There is no human beast toda: | s> vile as the dealer in narcotics who stays clean himself but is will- | ing to contaminate others with the | poison he sells.” Thorne faced Jack and Elsa, his face stern, unrelent- ing. “You, Elsa, and Ferguson, | here, came to steal cocaine.” He | stopped and took from the envelope two cards. “That fire extinguisher bears the finger prints of the per- son guilty of selling narcotics ani also of the murderer of Kane. In my office, I had this copy made,” olding it up for ail to see. “That | finger print on the fire extinguisher tallied with another accidentally made in my office on Monday after- | noon by Arnold Winslow.” “You lie, damn you!” Livid| swaying on his feet, Winslow faced | them, a fiend at bay | Thorne snatched up the wooden | shoe {rec. “Here is my proof.” he exclaimed. | “Cocaine is concealed in this hol- | lew wood, imported from China. Others, like this, are upstairs in the attic. Elsa and T found your cache, | you dirty, vellow dog! The cache Kane and Ferguson were after, be- | fore you killed Kane with diabolic | last night before she | spoke in “What's thrice. Winslow tried to speak, then before anyone guessed | his intention, his right hand flew up | —the flash of the revolver was their only warning before Winslow fell | headlong to the floor, a bullet in his | brain. Chapter | ELSA TELLS HER | As Thorne ran down the at Oaklands he came with Inspector Mitchell. “I was just coming for you," claimed the latter. “They wa you in the music room.” | “We owe vou so much.” I claimed her so \-. 1 emotion, “Let STORY staircase | face to face | ex- | voice mbl me explain tre AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN “Havin’ a career ain't no easier than doin’ house work, but you do®t have to gossip with the gold fish to keep' “from gettm the lonesome blues.” “Oopyright. 1330, Puhlishers Syndicate | ’[ POOR PA BY CLLAUDE CALLAN “We put a brass plate on our church organ explainin’ that it was donated by Uncle Dave, but I can tell he's dis- appointed because his name is not in larger letter: Copyright, 1930, Putlisters Syndicae |ard Gray, | Francisco, | and | w | signment of wooden | was anxious to break away. |to blackmailing Winslow, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1930. 1 “If you will,” Thorne said. "1' Lknow you are Elsa Gray “And the only child of Rev. Rich an Episcopal missionary,” she broke in. Mo 1914 wen on Eisa, ‘“my father returned from the Orient With him on the boat was Arnold Winslow, who had visited dad on several occasions when in China. Just as the boat docked in San dad was arrested for smuggling opium; a quantity twas fcund in his iuggage; and at his trial, which followed swiftly, cer- tain influential Chinamen testified against him and he was convicted sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. “The rigors of San Queatin prison | scon broke down dad’s health. Ju | before he died, he told me that he ras morally certain that Arnold | Winslow, fearing detection, had put the opium in his luggage. “I vowed,” she went on, “to track down and punish Arnold Winslow. After my mother's death, father had placed me with a cousin “Miss Dryden?” questioned | Thorne swiftly. “Owner of the san- itarium? “Yes.~T lived with ir my school vacations, and as I grew older I took up dancing. A r ago 1 got on a vaudeville circuit in the West, and my one act. of shadow dancing, made a hit and called the Dancing Silhouette. I was in Chicago when Jack drove his car into my taxi—" “I took her to Miss Dryden the address she just managed to whisper to me before fainting —the Dryden Sani- tarium,” he explained. “When I left there, I asked the doorman her name, and, I suppose in the ex- citement he misunderstood me, and said her name was Miss Ilsa Chase.” “At first it was thought T had suf- fered some minor injury to my spine, and using that and the iden- tity of the paralytic, Miss Rlsa Chase, to cloak my plans, I—I—" she faltered. “Miss Kline, head nurse, promised to help e in my schemes and so we came to visit Mr. and M. Winslow.” She drew in her breath sharply. “Only mem- ory of dad’s suffering kept me to| my self-imposed task. Jack had | given me the key to his attic room for safe-keeping, and therc I found the cocaine secreted in the old con- oe tree: “And gave vent to your feelings by a dance of triumph,” Thorne smiled at her surprised exclama- tion. “I saw vour shadow on the curtain of the attic window." “Did you dance on other occa- sions?” asked Inspector Mitchell. “I did,” confessed Elsa, smiling. ey fainted the night T threw my shadow on the front door. You were quick, Mr. Thorne, but I eluded you by slipping through the open win- dow of the reception room and back through the front door as you raced around the house. Miss Kline re- vived Lucy and between us we got her up to her bedroom unseen.” “Why did you take such chances?" “I had to limber up. Sitting still all day was terrible.” “But how did you fool Dr. Kane when he went to make a physical examination ? He never made it.” Elsa laughed softly. “I put it off with a plea of | faintness and fever.” Just a moment.” The interrup- tion came from Inspector Mitchell. “I have here rguson’s sworn confession,” touching his pocket. “He stated that Arnold Winslow and Kane, under cloak of their re- spectable professions, were in the inner circle of the Bleeker ring, but Winslow, having made a foriwne, Kane, had resorted threaten- ing to spill the beans. Kane be- lieved Winslow had a cache of dope here, and Ferguson was sent down to steal it.” | “erguson admits,” continued | losing money heavily, “that he was prowling the house looking for a e to talk to Kane unknown to when lie came across his body on the ground. He also GLAIM PREJUDICE searched your belongings thinking L Uit ,w, cocaine | Jowishh Gongress Roused_by Re- " puoses 1] Bort on Discrimination with you. dcad seys,” you murdgred Kane. “Tor experimentil nerated carbon moncxide sing the empty fire extinguisher as | containe Jack raused “Uncle Arnold was present.” “Ah, ah, aad there his activ ‘Washington, Oct. 21 (UP)—A re- | port declaring that anti-Jewish dis- el sumed dangerous proportions” was ain concelved the use to which he | 25Sumed dangereus pImOreoIE TE8 uld put ihe gas —deadly and| T o cangress yesterday. odorless —an ideal poison.” Thorna |41 WEWIEH BORELESS o8 o e e sWivslow used YOU| o iive Director Bernard G. Rich- os a decoy o get Karc heve, 80 his| ;1 4¢ "ang included cvidence collect- nifestalc e od by committees on various pha: At as v ihan of the problem, such as are related thad pooglen i, to cmployment and the pursuit of ed somethung in ey augsionorcied hint he state of affairs is so serious,” “Hence his desire to get in touch it t S0 S8 I Te S an 1o Tong- with Kane's ex-wife, AMis. Law-| . phe tactrully ignored in the hope Thorne looked at ZZlsa curi-|ya¢ jt js merely a passing phenom- ‘ou knew her ai the Dry-|onon, and it is imperative that the Ssanitariut |investigation begun should be con- {tinued on a wider and more exten- 55 to miy. father she said. “I sug- his past life, | horribly. least I saw her ther o | crimination in the United States “has | ing a chance to ride the Gerstaeck- er lodge goat. At 11:30 the lodge members, old and new, had a feast of home made doughnuts and new cider. Next Monday's meeting promises to be one of the most lively of the winter. Grand Master Judge Edwin S. Pickett of New Haven and his staff will make their annual visita- tion and the candidates who wera ushered part way into the royal tent last night will receive further degree work. 14 Get Whist Prizes At Social by D, of A. Fourtcen members of Martha Washington council, Daughters of America, won prizes at the first fall whist party held last night by the council, in the council rooms in the Junior A. O- U. M. hall on Glen street. The whist followed a short business meeting of the council, at which plans were discussed for. th: next social time on November 17. The prizes were won last nignt by Otto Keller, Mrs. George Ohlson, William Gelssler, Florence Burr, Anna Keller, Mrs. F. Carswell, Mrs. Edward Wiegand, Mrs. Ellen Hinch- cliffe, Mrs. P. Thompson, Miss Anna Carlson, Mrs. Theo Swanson, Mrs. Leona Lane, Mrs. Francis David and Mrs. Walter Bradle; CITIES ALSO FEEL EXPENSES RISING Hartford Spends More Than Min- neapolis Figures Show Washington, Oct. 21 (UP)-The mounting cost of municipal govern- ment is shown in a survey of finan- cial statistics for cities of the coun- try issued by the department of commerce here. General property taxes for the 250 cities of 30,000 population or more silowed an increase from a per capi- ta levy of $47.04 in 1927 to $48.33 in 1928, The 1917 average was N or operatioh, maintenance and interest. the same cities jumped from a per capita average of $52.26 in 1927 to $54.28 in 1928, In 1917 the | sum was .70. | As a result the larger cities paid a |1arger tax, although the Hartford javerage was $51.90 in 1928 and that of Minneapolis, a much larger city, was $50.10. While the average was highey/ in 1928 than in 1927, New York and Chicago showed decreases. The per capita levy in New York in 1927 was $65.22 and in 1928 was $63.59. The Chicago figures were $62.34 and $59.31. The assessed valuation of property in New York was $37,070,- 330,000 and in Chicago $4,250,43 000. For operation, maintenance and interest, Chicago showed an increaso while New York lowered the per capita cost. In 1927 the figure in New York was $72.72 and in 1928 it was $70.19. In Chicago the figures were $62.06 and $53.16. motor vehicle has the Munich, h one to every 24 inhabitants, greatest proportion - of W $20.70. automobiley of all German cities. iz {announced | Thorne they to once, unconsciou when brought her in after the injury Ler head,” explained Elsa. sa turned impulsively to Jack “Tell us what happened Monday night.” “Knowing that Gope, I was pretty sic he was to see Elsa. Anyway an excuse to go upstal bedroom was in darky cculd see through the keyhole of the closed door. Going over to it, T knocked my foot against somecthing and switching on the light, I saw a fire extinguisher. Picking is to my room. And when finding Kanc was in a daze. 1 looked at the fire extinguisher and recognized it as the one | had used t6 store the carbon imonoxide < “What next?” prompted Thorne. “I hunted around the next morn- ing for the key to the bathroom door, for T dimly ing up such a key and [ thought I pitched it out of the window."” “You must have,” broke in . “It fell in a pile of manure. rguson, in climbing over it to open the bathroom window, caught the key in a hole in his rub- Fer bhoot.” “There isn't Jack sighed Kane peddled learning | I made Kane's but I “erguson body, gas.'! much else Gaehiaron slurringly of in our last inter- view on Tue and T mearly choked him to death; then holtcd like an idiot, taking my laboratory things with me, for back in my mind 1 was convinced [ would be charged with the murder, and 1 realized the chemicals and fire ex- tinguished would he damning evi- dence. 1 came back tonight to see Flsa, face the music, and prove my innocence.” “Good boy!" ejaculated Inspector Mitchell. “Now buckle work—for her.” spoke “T will.” Jack’s voice carried con- | viction and Eisa laid her hand in his with a half-shy, wholly tender glance. “We are to be married to- morrow."” Thorne rose, “Mrs. Winslow——" “I will look out for her,” Jack hesitated. “I know you will not break a confidence — my aunt was planning to divorce her husband. Jack clasped Thorne's hand. “[ ean't voice my thank some day I will prove tude.” “Your thanks are due Miss Gray," said. “Good-bye.” At the front door with him. “When we first met “I feared you—-" “And now “I desire your friendship.” For an instant he stared at her as she stood — the epitome of young vomanhood — her lovely eves up- ised. With a swift, gracsful move- ment Thorne lifted her hands and Kissed them. “Always your pered softly. bless you.” by she began, friend.” he whis- f00d-bye and God THE (Copyright, D. END Appieton & Co.) a light in the bathroom | it up, I took | 1| Rushing to my room | remembered pick- | ] ) | didates, the degree team putting on | to say.” | down to | a caught up | |sive [meeting Sunday. scale.” The congress opened a two-day On the program yesterday was a visit to the White |House and a reception by President Hoover. 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