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KANAKY“ MUKDEK CASE
.S.YAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENSON MURDER CASE
CHARACTERS
PHILO VANCE
JOHN F.-X. MARKHAM, District Attorney of New York County MARGARET ODELL (THE
"CANARY")
was
sought it was the horizontal posi- "Silly, too, isn't it? And yet, Sor- tion of the bolt-handle. This geant dear, that's how the deceased Tony left these premises last Mon- meant that the door was bolted:
'But let's go into Heath was not merely naton- day night. ...
dumbfounded. the lady's apartment, and I'll tell ished-he Markham had halted abruptly, and you a story. I so that Mr. Spively stood staring down, the empty pas- has returned from his promenade; resume his telephonic a ghost.eo he can CHARLES CLEAVER, a massageway as if he saw
about-town..
After a momentary hesitation duties and leave us free' Heath walked rapidly to the door. causerie." But he did not open it at once. He
KENNETH SPOTSWOODE,
manufacturer
LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST,
fashionable neurologist
TONY SKEEL, a professional bur
glar WILLIAM
JESSUT,
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"When did you think up that went down on his knees before the hocus pocus with the tweezers and lock and scrutinized the bolt care-string?" demanded Markham Irrl- fully. Then he took out his pocket-tably, when we were seated in the knife and inserted the blade into Odell Kving-room.
the crack between the door and "I didn't think it up at all, don't the Casing. The ELMER
point haltedy' know," Vance told him carelessly, telephone operator
against the inner molding, and the selecting a cigarette with annoying HARRY SPIVELY, telephine op edge of the blade scraped upon the deliberation. "It was Mr. Skeel's
circular bolt.
idea. Ingenious lad-ol, what?" crator
"Come, come!" Markham's ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the
There was no question that the
shaken. was at last Homicide Bureau
heavy oak casings and moldings equanimity
"How can you possibly know that of the door were solki and well THE STORY THUS FAR fitted, and that the bolt and been Skeel used this means of locking
securely thrown from the inside.himself out 7"
"I found the little apparatus in Margaret Odell is found stranHeath, however, was still SUB- gled. Skeel's finger prints are picious, and, grasping the door is evening clothes yesterday morn
ing." found in the apartment, but Vance knob, he tugged at it violently. "What!" cried Heath betigor- believes Skeel, had been lilding. In tut the door held firmly.
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CHAPTER XLIV
ently.. "You took that out of
about it?"
a closet while the strangler did At length he threw the bolt-hun-Skeel's room yesterday during the his work. The thing, that bafileside to å vertical position and search, without saying anything the police in the side door to the alpened the door. Vanco WAR "ley, which had been bolted on the standing in the court, placidly "Oh, 'only after your ferrets had inside the night before and was making and inspecting the brick-pussed it by. In fact, I didn't even found the same way in the morn work of the alley wall.
look at the gentleman's, clothes un- ing. Mannix, Dr. Lindquist and
"say, Markham," he remarked, til your experienced searchers had Cleaver all lie about their where-
curious thing. This inspected them and relocked the abouts. the night of the murder."here's a
on wall, d' ye know, must be very old. wardrobe door. Y see, Sergeant, Speiswoode, who had called the girl, had rushed back to her It wasn't built in these latter days this little thingumbob was stuffed efficiency. The away in one of the pockets of breathless door at the sound of a scream, but of had been reassured that every-beautyloving mason who erected it Skeel's dress walalcost, under the thing was all right. Then Skeet laid the bricks in Flemish bond in-silver cigaretlo case.
"I admit I went over his eve is found strangled, after he had stead of the Running-or Stretcher
ning suit rather lovin'ly. Ha wore promised to tell who murdered the-bond of our own restless ago. girl. Heath arrests Jessup, but "And up there a bit"-he point-, y'know, on the night the lady Vance promises to demonstrated toward the rear yard is a departed this life, and I hoped to how Skeel could have entered and Rowlock and Checkerboard pattern find some light indication of his left through the side door and left Very neat and very pretty more collaboration in the event. When It bolted on the inside.
pleasing even than the popular found this little eyebrow-plucker, I hadn't the slightest inkling of its And the mor- English Cross bond.
significance. And the purple twine Lar joints are all V-tooled.
attached to it bothered me fright- Markham was fuming. "Damn it, Vance! I'm not build-fully, don't y'know. ing brick walls. What i want to kuw la how you got out here and left the door bolted on the inside." "You will be so good as to reat
"Oh, that!" Vance crushed out here until you hear me knock at his cigarette and re-entered the delicate little gold affair-just the side door. Then come and openbuilding. I merely made use of what the ravishin" Margaret might it for me." He went toward the bit of clever criminal mechanism. cave used; and last Tuesday morn- archway. "Once more I personate It's very simple, like all truly ef- I noticed a small lacquer tray the departed Mr. Skeel: oo picture fective appliances-ol, simple becontaining similar toilet accessories me again en grande tenue-karlo-yond words. I blush at ita simplic-jewel case. But that wasn't all."
her dressing-table neur rially radiant..... The curtain' us- Ity. cends."
lle pointed to the little vellum He took, from his pocket a tiny waste-basket beside the escritoire, He bowed and, stepping from their of tweezers to the end of which in which lay a large crumpled muss reception-room into the main hall, was tied a piece of purple twine of heavy paper. disappeared round the corner tato about four feet long. Placing the "I also noticed that piece of die- the rear passageway.
tweezers over the vertical bolt-han-carded wrapping-paper stamped name of a well-known Heath shifted his position rest-Idle, le turned them at a very slight | with the lessly and gave Markham a ques-nnyle to the left and then ran the Fifth Avenue novelty shop; and tioning, troubled look.
twine under the 'door so that about this morning, on my way down- "Will he pull it off, air, do you a foot of it projected over the sill, town, I dropped in at the shop and think?" All jocularity had gone Stepping into the court, he closed learned that they make a practice tying up their bundles with pur 'out of his tone.
ple twine.
Vance #hepherded us ceremoni- ously to claire, and cocked his eye at the sergeant.
1973
Observe!"
"I could see that Mr. Skeel didn't pluck his eyebrows; and even if he had been addicted to the practice, why the twine? The tweezers are
the
"Therefore, I concluded that Skeel had taken the tweezers and the twine from this apartment dur- visit here that eventful in his aight... Now, the question was: Why should he have spent his time sing strings to eyebrow-pluckers?
confess, with maldenly modesty, that I couldn't find an answer,
the door. "I can't see how." Markham was
The tweezers still held the bolt- scowling. "If he does, though, it handle as in a vice, and the string will, knock the chief underpinning extended straight to the floor and from your theory of Jessup's guilt."disappeared under, the door into I'm not worrying," declared the court. The three of us stood Heath. "Mr. Vance knows a lot; watching the bolt with fascinated he's got ideas. But how in hell-attention. Slowly the string be
He was interrupted by a loud knocking on the site dour. The Cane Laut, as Vance gently pulled the loose end outside," and three of us sprang up simultan- then the downword Lng began slow eously and hurried round the cor- ty but surdly to turn the boll-handle, "But this morning when you told ner of the main hall. The rear pasWhen the bolt had been thrown arresting Jessup, and ensphasized sageway was empty. There was no and the handle was in a horizontal he rebolting of the side done after door or aperture of any kind on position, there came a slight jerk Steel's departure, the fog, lifted, either-side of it. It consisted offen the string. The tweezers were he sun shone, the birds began to two blank walls; and at the end, cedisengaged from the bolt-handle. ing. I became suddenly medium- cupying almost its entire width, and fell notaclessly to the earpeted tie: I had a psychic seizure. was the oak door which led to them. Then as the string was pull- The whole modus operandi came to court.
ed from without, the tweezers disape-as they say-in' a flash. Vance could have disappeared peared under the crack between the toki you, Markham, old thing, it would take spiritualism to solve only through that oak door. And bottom of the door and the sill,
"Childish, what?" the thing we all noticed at once--
commented his case."
for
had immediately Vance, when Heath had let him in. our cycs
MOTOR ACCIDENT.
PUBLIC CAR AND MOTOR
CYCLE COLLIDE.
At 6.30 yesterday evening a Berious motor crash occurred near the Monument at Happy Valley, when public car No. 170 collided
with motor eyele No, 148.
Ilonument on the right side of the| road. The damaged car after the Incident was facing West and the cycle was lying at right angle to it,
The motor car, which was a Fiat, had its left mudguard badly dented and its windscreen broken fato many pieces. The front bumper
(To be Continued.)
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11.
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S'hai Cottons, Tis. 544 (old) b Lands, Hotels, etc.
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Public Utilities. Tramways, 124 b. Poak Trams, (old) $13 b Star Forries, $67) b. China Lights, (Old) $12,40 b. H. K. Electrics, $52.75 n. Macao Electrica, $261, b. Telephonos $6.70 b
China Buses, Tis. 11 b. Singapore Tractions, 12/-b. Industrials.
11.
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Stores &c. Dairy Farms, $22.80 Watsons, $148 Der A. Wing, .50 n. Lane Crawfords, #21 ́n. Mackintosh, $20 n. Sinceres, $9,50 Wm. Powells, $4
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(Continued from Pago 1:). Approached by Nationalists, Professor John Smith was then requested by Chinese Nationalists to concentrate on the creation of a British group that would be pre- pared to reorganize the roads, rail- ways, and transport,
In this he received the cordial assistance of one of young China's great men-Dr. Wang Chung-hul.
The British Government were approached by Dr. Wang na far back as two years ago.
He offered through the British Government to British contractors the construction of 2,000 miles of railway, 6,000 miles of ronds, and orders for moter and mechanical transport running into more than | £1,000,000.
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At the moment China needs, and The Budget, Introduced. by Sir 1s demanding immediately, brid-World Earl Beauchamp, Lord Warden Frederick Lugard, provided for regos, dock-yards; public utilities, seription transarted, was put out of position and there of the Cinque Ports, recently venue of $6,227,890 and expendi-iron and steel work, harbours, and was also damage, to the bonnet. opened a splendidly equipped club- ture, apart from Military Contribu-all types of heavy constructional The damage to the cycle, which house which has been provided by tion, of $4,092, 903, The motor cycle in question was was a Douglas sporta model; was Mr. Justice Charles at Deal for the
The more robuilding operations The Harbour Swit was won by will be stupendous, exceeding by being driven at the time by Re- comparatively small.
far any of those in the long hia- venus Officer Pierce with Mr. F.
The injuries to Mr. Arculli were Kingsdown Amateur Rowing Club. A. E. Thomas, of H.M.S. Tamar M. el Arculli, the well-known probably due to his being thrown
tory of our industries. It means; With the development of the
The Wharf and Godown Com-in short, the partial rebuilding bowler of the Indian Recreation against the broken windscreen. coal mines in the area behind the Club, riding on the million. Both His right arm from the shoulder town, said Earl Beauchamp, there any increased its capital from two and the partial creation of a new were injured, the former being downward was severely cut, the was every reason why Deal, with to three million dollaro. ¿
world which is destined to take slightly cut on the right knee, bone showing in certain parts. It such facilities for sport na the
The Douglas Steamship Com-its place among the leaders of whilst the latter was so badly cut In the right arm, that he had to be was a lucky circumstance that both clubhouse, should make a place pany reported a profit of 8117,488 humanity... removed at once to the French Dr. Sir Eric Stuart Taylor and where the Kent workers could and recommended a dividend of 8
Bunje happened to be at hand and come for their amusement:
per cent, Hospital for medical attention. medical attention was rendered on The clubhouse was decribed, as
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Before he left England Profes- sor Smith said: "I am going to China to bring my mission to ita From the position of the two the spot to Mr. Arculf. The in- the finest along the coast by Major
H. E. Chow Fu, Ciceroy of the conclusion. For three years' I machines after the accident, it juries were of such a character, Beddington, president of the Coast Two Kwange, made an official land- have worked under the most an appeared that the motor car, which however, that Mr. Arculil'e Instant Amateur Rowing Association. ing and called at Government palling and heart-breaking condi- was proceeding along Morrison removal to hospital was посеа- Sir Ernest Charles eaid that he House.
tions to cement Anglo-Chinese re-la Hill Road, intended to turn into sary,
lations, which alone, I am con- Morrison Gap Road from the Monu- The light at the time of the had received a letter, from the
The Hon. Mr. W. Chatham was vinced can bring prosperity to le ment. Apparently the motor accident was quite good but when Marquis of Reading, who had been cycle, which was proceeding atong traffic officere arrived later to take a generous contributor to the club, invested with the C.M.G. decora both nations." Wong Net Chong Road from the in measurements and other detalls regretting his inability to be tion at Government House.
present.. direction of the Jockey Club of the damaged machine there was
At the end of the ceremony Lard atables toward the Monument, did practically no daylight left. The not sure on the car cutting across car and the cycle were later ro- Beauchamp christened wis The crash occurred on moved to the compound jutelde the racing regatta four in the
the side channel in line with the No. 2 Police Station,
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L BERNIA, Manager, Hongkong, &rd August, 1928,"
THE BANK OF CHINA. EPECIALLY AUTHORIZED. BY PREZIDEN TIAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIQ O
CHINA ON THE UND OF NOVIKEER. – 1917, Authorised Capital ............$50,000,000LIŲ Fald-up Capital ELE, STI PRA Reserve Funda ...........................oh 9,639,433H HHAD OFFICE PERING, BONGKONG BRANCHES.
Branch
1. Quem's Road Central,
and Sub-branche all over. Chlo and currepondente in Europa, America other parts of world.
LONDON BANKEZŐ |--
The National Provincial 'and 'Union', Bodh of England Limited, Nat
The Guaranty Trust Company of How Tagès - NEW YORK BANKERS1
The Irving National Banks. The Bando able Trust Company of Diew Teck
Interni allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits. Terras on kaplleatios..
Every desertetios of Danking - beslaand transacted.
Loans granted on approved sestreiten. Special facilitia, fey, Home Kashango.
BHOU J. CHEN,
THE HO HONG BANE, LTD.
(Mainkilabod· 1915) GAFTAL
FRANCE-Complete National d'isompta de Paris: Gredit Leonas Banque de Antboriend Capital insie Parla ut des Page-Bay | Boolaka Gusarai LONDON The National Provincial and Pair O Union Bank of England, Indi Comptoir | tmerrs. Lärbiliti National d'Escompta de Paris, Credit Ironnais,
In NEW YORK!--J, P. Morgan & Os,
Internet allowed 'on' Current Aboranta and Fixed Depot according to arrangement.
Every description of Banking, and Exchange business transated.
Bate Deports Boras to lot,
bolders ever Farpins'............
- HEAD OFFICE 100SINGAPORN.
·Branchée, sæencios and Opiruspèndents in' the principal cliías of the waride pub
Erary description of Banking and Beskaras Spalnew transacted.`)
NO LECKO MOR,