MUTT AND JEFF
I'M TIRED OF DOING) HOUSEWORK AND COOKING MY OWN MEALS! I'M GONNA ASK MARTHA. TO MARRY ME!.
MARTHA'S NOTHING MUCH
TO LOOK AT BUT I GUESS SHE'S ABOUT THE-
ONLY DAME THAT
WOULD HAVE ME!!
MARTHA,
WILL I MARRY
DARLING, YOU? JEFF),
WILL YOU
MARRY
ME?
714
Longsigh, ther
Page
By BUD FISHER
OH, YOU DARLING, OF COURSE I
WILL!
WELL, WHY DON'T: YOU SAY SOMETHING?
NEVER MIND I'LL COOK!
HERE AT LAST! 3 YEARS TO MAKE!
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KNOWN CRIMINAL
FREQUENTLY it's the most simple thing on Adam.
We know he stole
things that reveal the identity of the money, but we can't prove it. Now
a criminal. A quirk of naturo. A if the court finds Adam innocent, then, according to the terms of his bond, human trait. A virtue. A vice.
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Well, the way I figure it, we're better off with Adam out of jail and $20,000 in our pockets than having Adam in jail and nothing, in our pockets.”
Consider the theft of the tax money, we'll have to give back the $20,000 the Everyone knew Adam Perkins was the bonding company's paid us. It was a thief. And it seemed he didn't care criminal. bond, you know. much if they did know it, he was that smug, that sure of his own security,
Adam had been tax collector for nine
The selectmen thought this over and years. In that time he had filched
But, said $28,000 from the, town. A little at a decided it was a fine idea.
they, we got to prove Adam's guilt time. Driblets. Not enough to arouse somehow, on account of if we let him suspicion. And since he was keeping go free it'll set a bad example in town the books and folks generally trusted and besides, this here community will in his honesty he got away with it be the laughing stock of the nation."
So they postponed the trial and im- ported a famous detective from Bos- ton. But after a week the famous de- Then there came a day when. Bessie tective allowed that it looked to him Thayer, Adam's assistant, came into like Adam had 'em where the hair was short. The way things stood no court the affice one morning and found Adam could find Adam guilty.
For nine years.
unconscious on the floor, a sizable
his
Well, it seemed that the town was
bump on head. Bessie called going to be out. $20,000 and Adaın Henry Cartwright, the town clerk. Bes Perkins was going to be free and able sie and Henry revived Adam. Adam to enjoy the little business venture he and Sam Scott had engaged in, which said he'd worked late the night before, was erecting a hotel and lodge for the as usual. Shortly after midnight a winter sports visitors who swarmed in masked man had entered the place, on the village during the cold months. knocked him on the head, and that was the last he'd known till just now. -
The safe door was open. They look ed at the cash box. Empty. Henry Cartwright summoned Thad Fairbairn, the one and only town policeman.
It probably would have worked out that way, too, if Thad Fairbairn hadn't been a Yankee, too, and just as smart as Adam Perkins. Thad figured and figured and fretted and fretted. weeks, a month- passed, then Thad went down and arrested Adam Per- kins, and this time he had the stuff .. that would convict him.
Two
An investigation was conducted and
A second trial was held, and right that investigation revealed the rather at the psychological moment in walks startling fact that every year for nine Sam Scott and testified that Adam had
By James Freeman
ygard the tax money had been a little put up the $15,000 needed to build the bit short. Folks looked with suspi- lodge and hotel, and likewise Adam had mentioned to him that it was the tax- cion at Adam. They figured that he payers who had, in a roundahout way, felt that right soon some one was due provided the funds. to begin asking him questions, which
This was enough for the jury. They was why he had concocted the fake, convicted Adam and gave him ten holdup. But Adam anticipated every years to think the situation over. As for Sam Scott: Thad Fairbairn accost- move that the investigators made. He ed Sam after the trial and said: "Sam, told a story about storing cash of part I reckon I owe you an apology, Adam ly paid taxes inside the safe and de- didn't tell me he was fixing to filch positing it in lump sums. He told any I said. Nor did he mention it was you out of your share of the hotel like number of stories, but the story he you who put up the money for the stuck to was about being knocked on hotel and that you might have been the head when there was a sizable the jigger who snitched the funds from his safe. That was a job I put up on amount of money in the cash drawer. you just to get you to testify. You He said he guessed the thief must have see, we couldn't have Adam running been snitching money from that cash around so smug and free, and that drawer off and on for nine years. Thad of getting evidence to prove he was trick was the only way I could think
Fairbairn agreed that must be the responsible for a crime everyone knew case, and if Adam · didn't mind would he committed." he kindly stick out his paws while Thad clamped a pair of bracelets on 'em.
Sam was mad ut first, then he grin- ned and said: “Well, I guess it's best › Adam was. bonded for $20,000, and I ain't mixed up with no criminals, and the bonding company paid that amount I did wonder where Adam got that to the town with the stipulation that money, though he told me a
story Adam be brought to trial. The town about a rich uncle dying. But here's officials said that was okay by them, something I got the fiotel all built landin ante for the trial was set.. It and paid for and ready for business.
looked dead open and shut, but Thad Now what'll I do about it?"?
airbairn, was worried. And at length spoke, bis mind, to the selectmen Mary17 hatbaid, "you better stop Well in a hurry. We can't prove a
for one spell. He didn't know.
· But Thad had done enough figuring (Copyright 1
Associated Newspapers).
1988