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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1928.
THE
KANAKY“ MUKDEK CASE
S. S.YAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENSON MURDER CASE
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CHARACTERS.
PHILO VANCE
JOHN FX, MARKHAM,
trict Attorney of New County
MARGARET ODELL "CANARY")
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'
CHARLES CLEAVER,
a man about-town'
KENNETH SPOTSWOODE, a 'manufacturer
LOUIS' MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST, fashionable neurologist
TONY SKEEL, a professional JESSUP
burglar
"Easy enough to say 'find 'ém,"** agrumbled Markham. "The trou- ble is to know where to look."
WILLIAM ELMER telephone operator
HARRY SPIVELY, telephone operator
ERNEST HEATHI, Sergeant of the Homicide Bureau
Heath relighted his dead cigar and made an Impatient gesture.
TO-DAY'S FILMS.
"TITANIC" AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE,
A tramp steamer crashing into a} river bargo and an-ocean liner sink-
ing after colliding with a monster fceberg are two of the big thrills in "Titanic," which comes to
Not an embarrassment of riches." | "What is the meaning of this the Queen's Theatre to-day as "I wouldn't any your Informa-new outrage?" he demanded cold-the chief attraction until tion was exactly negligent," ob-ly. "Is it your prerogative to Dis-served Vence, taking a chair be-force a citizen to leave his private Saturday, New York's famous York side the sergeant. "It may 'all affairs in order to be bullied?" "Ghetto," complete with bearded prove devilish valuable if only it "It's my duty to bring murder-Jews, voluble Italians, and mis- (THE could be put together properly.ers to Justice," replied Markham,
The difficulty, it appears to me, is with equal coldness. "And if any chievous children, all recruited that certain parts of the puzzle citizen considers that giving aid from the locality, forms the colour- ful background for much of the are missing. Find 'em and 11 to the authorities is
an outrage, action in this tale of a boy's strug warrant everything will fit beauti-that's his preorgative. If you gle to conquer the great city. The fully-like a mosaic."
have anything to fear by answer-picture contains many spectacular ing my questions, doctor, you are scenes, the most thrilling being the entitled to have your attorney sinking of the "Titanic," which has present. Would you care to phone been staged
with remarkablo him to come here now and give realism. "Titanic" was directed by you legal protection?"
Allan Dwan, who also directed such na Douglas "You can't get away from Skeel.
Doctor Lindquist hesitated. "I notable productions
"Rabin Hood" and He's the boy that did it and if it need no legal protection, sir. Will Fairbanks
Tho wasn't for Abe Rubin, Fe sweat you be good enough to tell me at Gloria Swanson's "Zasa." the truth outa him. And by the once why, I was brought here?"
principal roles are filled by George way, Mr. Vance, he had his own "Certainly; to explain a few. O'Brien and Virginia Valli, and private key to the Odell apart-points which have been discovered there is a large supporting' cast ment, all right." He glanced at regarding your relationship with which includes J Farrell Mac- Markham hesitantly, "I don't Miss Odell, and to elucidate if Donald, Holmes Herbert, June The jewel case In the apart-want to look as if I was criticis- you care to your reason for de- Collier and John Miltern. ment of the murdered Margareting, air, but I got a feeling we'receiving me, at our lust conference,
wasting time chasing after these in regard to that relationship.”. Odall had been opened" with
friends of Odell- steel chisel after a futile hatter gentlemen ing with a poker. This leads Cleaver and Mannix and this here Vance to the theory that Skeel did doctor." not commit the crime, but was hidden in the elaset while the strangler did his work. Vance shatters Cleaver's allbl that he and been in Boonton the night of the murder. Alya La Fosse tells him Mannix but been in her apart ment from ten-thirty until two the night of the murder. Vance traps her in a falsehood and she admits Mannix did not come until after midnight, which was after Margaret. Odell was strangled.
· THE STORY THÚS FAR.
CHAPTER XXXI.
Vance,
"You have, I Infer, been prying unwarrantably into my private affairs. I had heard that such practices were once coinmon
Russia
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"A Woman of Paris.”
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"A Woman of Paris," the famous im written and directed by Charle Chaplin, will be screened at the "You may be right." Markham
World Theatre from to-day to Saturday, Chaplin's method of seemed Inclined to agree with him.
working is unique, and in "A Wo- "However, I'd like to know why
of Paris" he ably de- Lindquist neted the way he did."
"If the prying was unwarrant-runn "Well, that might help some," ed, you can, Doctor Lindquist, monstrates his remarkable know- of the human mind, Heath compromised. "If the doc easily convince me on that point; ledge
unerring akili was so far gone on Odell is to and whatever we may havo learn-depicting with threaten to shoot her, and if heed concerning you will be instant-the lives of several types of went off his head when you asked by forgotten. It is true, is it not, people who literally seem to breathe him to alibi himself, maybe he that your interest in Miss Odell on the screen. The title role is could tell us something. Why not went somewhat beyond, mere Played by Edna Parivance, who ap peared with Charlie in some of his throw a little scare into him? His paternal affection?" record ain't any good, anyway."
"are not even a man's sacred most famnus comedies. Adolpht "An excellent idea," chimed ingentiments respected by the police Menjou, now known and admired
passengers yesterday evening on Authorised Dagital Guilder 150,000,000. of this country" There was in the world over as the screen's most any decorations, was among the HONGKONG OFFICE! II, QUEEN'S ROAD,
it scorn in the doctor's lone. polished villain, appears in aboard, the steamer Stad Antwer
Undier some conditions, yes; lending make part in this propen. The police are said to have rald-Up Capital Guilders 60,000,000. under others, no." Markham conduction which first brought himlestablished, the fact that this Wasserre Fond verde... Gutidars 40.000.000 "I'm fairly free this afternoon,trolled his fury admirably. “You so suppose you bring him down need not answer me, of course; here, Sergeant. Get a subpoena but, if you choose to be frank, you if you have to-only see that he may possibly save yourself the gomes. And make it as soon after humiliation of being questioned lunch as you can."
publicly. by the People's attorney He tapped on the deck irritablyn a court of law." "The primitive Alya rather ap-
(To Be Continued.) he said. "She's "If I don't do anything else, I'm peals to me,' much too good for the leaginous going to eliminate some of this Mannix....Women are so shrewd human flotsam that's eluttering up the case. And Lindquist is as and so gullible.
Woman can read a manood as any to start with.. 1'11 with almost magical insight; but, either develop these various sus- on the other hand, she is in picinus circumstances into some thing workable, or 1 root them expressibly blind when it comes to her man. Witness sweet Alys's up. Then we'll we where
stand,"
"I like you more and more, Bald Vaney; and when she gave him her hand at parting he lifted It to his lipa.
As we rode downtown Vance was thoughtful. We were nearly to the criminal courts building
before he spoke.
"A
Markham looked up sharply. Then he consulted his appoint- ment book,
We
faith in Mannix. He probably Heath shook hands pessimisti told her he was, slaving at the office Monday night. Naturally, cilly and went out..
she doesn't believe it; Int
"Poor hapless man!" sighed whe Vance, looking after him. "Ile
knows-knows, mind youthut
her Loule just couldn't have been Kiveth way to all the pangs and
concerned in the Canary's death.
fury of despair."·
"And so would you," snapped "Ah, well, let us hope she's right and that Mannix is not Markham, "if the newspapers were apprehended at least not until butchering you for a political her new show is financed. My holiday. By the way, weren't you word! If this being a detective to be a harbinger of glad tidings
this noon, or something of involves many more revtex, 1
sort?" shall have to resign. Thank Heaven, though, the lady didn't
▸
the
"I believe I did hold out sonde attend the cinema Monday night!" auch hope. Vance sat looking When we arrived at the district meditatively out of the window attorney's office we found Heath for several minutes. Markham, rand Markham In consitation. this fellow Mannix lures me like Markham had pad before a magnet. He irks and whirrets He infests my slumbers. him, several pages of which were me, covered with tabulated and anno- Te's the raven on my bust of tated entries. A cloud of cigar Pallas. He plagues me like stanke enveloped him. Heath sat banshee.”
facing him, his elbows on the "Does this jeremiad conte table, his chin resting in his der the head of tidings?" hands. He looked
but disconsolaté,
pugnacious
i
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("f kha'n't rest powerfully," pur- sued Vance, "until I know where between "I'm going over the case with Louey the furrier was the sergeant," Markham explain-eleven o'clock and midnight Mon- was somewhere he ed, with a brief glance is our day. He direction. "We're trying to get should not have been. And you, all the salient points down in Markham, must find out.
some kind of order, to see if there "Please make Maunix the scc- ard any connecting links we've ond offensive in your assault upon overlooked. I've toll the sergeant the flotsam. He'll parley, with about the doctor's infatuation and the right amount of pressure, Be his threats, and of the fallure of brutal, old dear; let him think Trafle Oflear Phipps to identify you auspect him of the throttling. Cleaver. But the more we learu, Ask him about the fur model the worse, apparently, the jumble what's her name?-Frisbee-" He stopped short and knit his brows. grows."
"My eye-oh, my eye! I wonder.
He picked up the sheets of paper and fastened them together with a clip.
J
Yes, yes, Markham; you must question him about the fur model.
"The truth is, we haven't any Ask him when he saw her last; real evidence against anybody.and try to look wise and mysteri- There are suspicious circum ous when you're doing it. stances connected with Skeel and
Doctor Lindquist and Cleavor;
"See here, Vance"-Markham
been
and our interview with Mannix was exasperated-"you've didn't precisely allay suspicions harping on Mannix for three days. What's keeping your nose to that scent?"
in his direction, either,
"But when we come right down
to it, what's the situation? We've payche
"Intuition-sheer intuition. My temperament, don't y
I hadn't
got some finger-prints of Skeel, know." which might have been made lato "Td, believe that if Monday afternoon, Doctor Lind-known, you for fifteen years." quist goes berserk whien we ask Markham inspected him shrewdly him where he was Monday hight, then shrugged his shoulders. "I'll and then offers us a weak alibi.have Mannix on the tapis when He admits a fatherly interest in I'm through with Lindquist." the girl, whereas he's really in We hunched in the district at- lovo, with her a perfectly natural torney's private sanctum; and at bit of mendacity."
two o'clock Doctor Lindquist ac- "Cleaver lent his CRY to his companied him, and, from the ex- brother and led about it, so that pression on the sergeant's face, it I'd think he was in Boonton Mon- was plain he, did not at all like day at midnight. And Mannix his companion. gives us a number of shifty un-
The doctor, at Markham's
rc
swers to our questions concern-'quest, seated himself facing the ing his relations with the girì .. district attorney's desk.
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
fame.
Otto de Bency.
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Expelled from England after "Irish Hearts."
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Irish girl and her sweetheart who Otto de Beney is alleged to have leave Ireland for America. Things been sentenced last December by do not run as smoothly na the pair the Lewes magistrates to nine would wish, and hard times descend months' imprisonment, with ex- when the boy looses his job. The pulsion, for swindling, a clergy- hot Irish blood of the couple get
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