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THE BENSON MURDER CASE:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928.
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Batayla case isn't simple. Lord, nol-I say, "Damn it!" he muttered at Inst. when Nias Mahomed, Indian Guards Galesita how would the equation work out "The whole scheme seems idiotic No. 417, was charged with being a if we used, algebra, or spherical
.... And yet, you really want asleep op duty on board the ca. Haiphong JOHN F.-X. MARKHAM, District trigonometry, or differential cal-game of poker with these men, I've Tat Hing at 1 am on September Kobe
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culus? Let's cast it in the fourth no special objection. It'll get you 2d. The charge was made London MARGARET ODELL
Maglia (THE dimension or the fifth, or the nowhere I'll tell you that before Captain Owen Wilkes "CANARY")
sixth... He held his temples hand. It's stark nonsense to sup-
World CHARLES CLEAVER, a man in both hands. "Oh, promise, pose that you can find the guilty
Markham-promise me that you'll man by such fantastic means." KENNETH SPOTSWOODE, a hire a kind, gentle keeper for me."
"Ah, well," sighed Vance, 'n manufacturer
little futile recreation will do us no LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST, a
fashionable neurologist TONY SKEEL, a professional bur
glor WILLIAN
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HARRY SPIVELY, telephone on ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the
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"I know how you feel. I've been in the same mental state for sharm." week."
"It's the quartette idoa that's driv, inb me mud,” moaned Vance. "It wringa me to have my tetrad lopped off in such brutal fashion. I'd set my young trustin' heart on that quartette, and now it's only a pair. My sense of order and proportion has been outraged.... I want my quartelte."
"But why do you includo Bpots- woode?"
"Really, y know, I haven't the slightest notion-except, of course, that he's one of my quartette. And] we'll need an extra hand,"
same way the next morning. Man- All lines are curved; they tran-wer such heresy, but the lank ha nix, Dr. Lindquist and Cleaver all scribe circles in space. They look gave Vance was most expressive.
(To be Continued.) He about their whereabouts the straight, but they're not. Appear- night of the murder. Spotswoode, ances, y' know-sg, deceptive!.. who had called on the girl, had Let's enter the ailence, and substi- NEW TURBO-ELECTRIC
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The police officer in charge of "Well, don't tell me afterwards the case stated that the as. Tai that I'm to lock him up for mur- Hing was absent from the post der. I'd have to draw the line, and would not return until Thura-
Lerlin, Aug. 29. Complete success attended the Strange as it may seem to your day evening. "I'm afraid you'll have to be layman's mind, I wouldn't care to
His Worship ordered a remand first experiment made to-day with the target ship Zahringen which, satisfied with two of them," Mark-prosecute a man, knowing that it until Friday at 10 am THE STORY THUS FAR
ham returned wearlly. "One of was physically impossible for him
has been elaborately equipped, so Margaret. Odell in found stran- them can't qualify, and one is in to have committed the crime."
that its movements can be controll- gled. Skeel's Anger prints gre bed. You might send some flowers "As to that" drawled Vance, Three sampan mistresses charged ed by wireless with the samo pre- for one year or shorter periode is LOCAL AND STERLING S to which will be quoted on applientiem. found in the apartment, but to the hospital, if it would cheer"the only obstacles that stand in the with loitering within 100 yards of cision as if it contained a human QURRENCY Vanco believes Skeel had been you any."
Hongkong, 25th Pabruary, 1928. hiding in a closet while the "One is in bed-one is in bed," way of physical impossibilities the, Naval Yard pleaded not guilty
The ship was towed out to ses strangler did his work. The repeated Vance. "Well, well--to be material facts. And material facts and the case was withdrawn at
are notoriously deceivin." Really,
the crew was replaced by a wireless
The Busines of the shore. Bank, la con: thing that baffles the police is the sure! And one from four leaves y'know, you lawyers would do bet the request of the prosecutors, by two tugs to a given point, where HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. side door to the alley, which had three. More arithmetic. Three! been bolted
DANKING CORPORATION, on the inside the ... On the other hand, there is ter if you ignored them entirely being stated that the boys to which apparatus in the engine-room con-
Markham did not deign to an-the boats were tied up were controlled by a transmitter in a dis-dacted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI Bills of Exchange and Cab
obtained on application. night before and was found the no such thing as a straight line.
YOR THE HONGKONG Obedient to the invisible com- siderably outside the distance tant torpedo-boat.
the oil engines began to BANKING CORPORATION. Four junk mistresses charged mand stated in the charge. with lying inshore during dark move. The ship advanced, re- hours pleaded guilty and advanced versed, veered round, accelerated, various excuses for their prosence, retarded, and carried out all kinds fines of $10 being infileted in each of evolutions at any desired speed. of a scream, but had been rena- He, gazed up out of the great
On command she sent rockets into sured through the door that windows into Fifth Avenue. For DOLLAR COMPANY TO BUILD
A boatman charged with board-the air and concealed herself in a everything was all right. Then several moments he sat smoking
TWO SHORTLY,
ing the 8.8. Kut Sang without por-thick white smoke screen rising Skeel is found' strangled, after thoughtfully. When
spoke
mission, pleaded guilty and was from fore and aft, promising to reveal the murderer, again, it was in an even, deliberate
San Francisco, Sept. 18.
Indeed, the only thing which this Vanco tien demonstrates, in Bup-voice.
Captain Robert Dollar, president mulcted in the sum of $25, with port of his theory that Skeel had
was to train her guns on a-target "Markham, would it be difficult of the Dollar, Steamship Line, an- the alternative of one months' im- uncanny automaton could not do HONGKONG OFFICE 11, QUEEN'S ROLU, been hiding in
and fire. closet, how for you to invite Mannix and nounced to-day that the company prisonment with hard labour. Skeel could have left through the Cleaver and Spotswoode to spend would build shortly two burbo-elec side door and relocked the bolt on an evening-this evening, let us saytric linera for trans-Pacific service, i
A Self-Steering Ship. the inside.
-in your apartment?"
These will be patterned after the The Hongkong Technical Institute
The all-electrical ship Brunswick Markham got down his cup with Panama Pacific liner California, a will re-open on Thursday, October a clatter, and regarded Vance nar- 22,000-ton ship, but will be finer, Students joining classes held at (9,000 tons), built by Messrs. rowly,
Queen's College will be enrolled at Scott, of Greenock, for the Atlantic costing $7,000,000 each. "What new harlequinade is this?"
Captain Dollar said that the two the Education Department only; Oil Shipping Co., Philadelhia, ran "Fie on you! Answer my ques-new liners may be followed by an those inining classes held at the its trials on the Clyde last month. entire fleet of electrically driven Central British School, Kowloon It in the largest of its type yet built. "A crook, no matter how elever
"Well of course-I might arships like the California for the will be enrolled at that School.
The ship steers automotically, he is, always overlooks something."
copies of the and does not require engineers to "Why single out crooks for your range it replied Markham heri-Oriental service. Ile said that the Entry Forms and criticism, Sergeant 7" naked Vance tantly.. "They're all more or less enactment of the Jones-White mer- Prospectus may be obtained at the start or stop the engines. Onco lazily. "Do you know of anybody under my jurisdiction at present."chant marine act made possible the Eucation Department or the Cen- the course is act it does not requiro
"So that such an
tral British School on October 1. invitation building of the two new liners.
R
CHAPTER XLVI Heath nooded his hend ularly.
1
orac-
Lion.'
ho
in this imperfect world whe doesn't would be rather in line with the
- always overlook something?" He gavo Heath a benignant smile. "Even the police, don't know, overlooked the tweezers."
Heath grunted. His cigar had
situation-ch, what? And they wouldn't be likely to refuse you,
old dear-would they?"
"No; I hardly, think so. "And if, when they had assem-
gone out, and he relighted it slowly bled in your quarters, you should and thoroughly.
"What do you think, Mr. Mark-propose ham ?"
Markham's Wh8
a few hands of poker, they'd probably necept, without "The situation doesn't become thinking the suggestion strange
"Probably," said Markham, non- much clearer,"
phussed at Vance's amazing request. gloomy comment.
Spotswoode both "My theory isn't exactly a blindin" "Cleaver and Illumination, suid Vance. "Yet I play, I know; and Mannix doubt- game. But why wouldn't say that it left things in less knows the pristine, darkness. There are cer poker? Are you serious, or has tain inferences to be drawn from your threatened dementia already my vagaries. To wit: Skeel either overtaken you?"
"Oh.
deuced I'm
serious," know or recognized the murderer; and once he had made good his es- Vance's tone left no doubt as to cape from the apartment and had the fact. That game of poker, d' regained a modicum of self-con-ye are, in the crux of the matter. fidence, be undoubtedly black- knew Cleaver was an old hand at the game; and Spotswoode, of mailed his homicidal, confrere.
"His death was merely another course, played with Judge Redfern manifestation of our inconnu a bent Inst Monday night. So that gave for ridding himself of persons who me a basis for my plan. Mannix, annoyed him. Furthermore, my we'll assume, also plays," theory account for the chiselled jewel case, the anger-prints, the
"Nine-tenths of poker, unmolested closet, the finding of the gems in the refuse tin-the per-hum, is psychology; and if one un- son who took them really didn't derstands the game, one can learn want them y'know-and Skeel's more of a man's Inner nature at a Bilence. It also explains the un-poker table in an hour than during side year's casuni association with bolting and bolling of the door."
He leaned forward, speaking earnestly.
Mark-
him.
"You rallied me once when I raid "Yes," alghed Markham. "It seems to clarify everything but the I could lead you to the perpetrator one all-important point-the iden-of any crime by examining the fac
torn of the crime itself. But natur- tity of the murderer."
"Exactly," said Vance. "Let's ally I must know the man to whom go to lunch."
I am to lead you; otherwise I can- Heath, morose and confused, dénot relate the psychological indica- parted for police headquarters; and tions of the crime to the culprit's Markham,, Vance, and I rode
The case now
to nature.
Delmonico's, where we chose the "In the present case, I know the main dining-room in preference to kind of man who commitled the the grill.
crimo; but I am not sufficiently ac- would seem toquainted with the suspects to point centre in Cleaver and Mannix,' out the guilty one. However, after said Markham, when we had finish-our game of poker, I hope to be ed our lunchicon. "If your theory able to tell you who planned and that the same man killed both carried out the Canary'a 'murder." Skeel and the Canary le correct, Markham gazed at him in blank then Lindquist in out of it; for he astonishment. He knew that Vance certainly was in the Episcopal HOB-played poker with amazing skill, pital Saturday night.""
and that he possessed an uncanny Quite," agreed Vance. "The knowledge of the psychological ele- doctor is unquestionably eliminated. ments involved in the game; but ... Yes; Cleaver and Mannixhe was unprepared for the latter's they're the allurin' twins. Don't statement that he might be able see any way to go beyond them." to solve the Odell murder by He frowned and sipped his coffee. means of it.
"My original quartette is dwindling Yet Vanco had spoken with such and I don't like it. It narrows the undoubted earnestness that Mark- thing down too much-there's no ham was impressed. I knew what scope for the mind, as it wore, in was passing in his mind almost as well as if he had voiced his only two choices.
was recalling the What if we should succeed in thoughts. He eliminating Cleaver and Mannix? way in which Vanco had, in a Where would we be-ch, what? former murder case, put his finger Nowhere pimply nowhere,, And unerringly on the guilty man by a yet, one of the quartette is guilty; similar process of paychological de- duction. And he was alas telling. let's cling to that consolin' fact.
"It can't be Spotswoode and it himself. that, however incompre can't be Lindquist. Cleaver and hensible and seemingly extrava- Mannix remain; two from four gant Vance's requests were, there leaves two. Simple arithmetic, was always a fundamentlly sound what? The only trouble is, this reason behind them.
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