THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CANARY MUKDEK CASE
Þy S. S.YAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENBON MURDER CASE
CHARACTERS
PHILO VANCE
JOHN FX, MARKHAM, District Attorney of New York County MARGARET ODELL (THE
CANARY CHARLES CLEAVER, a man-
about-town
KENNETH SPOTSWOODE,
manufacturer
LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST,
fashionable neurologist TONY SKEEL, & professional
glar
WILLIAM ELMER JESSUP
telephone operator HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op-
.erator
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1928.
RELIGIOUS ISSUE
CAMPAIGN.
IN
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE'S OUTSPOKEN PLEA.
THE U.S. PRESIDENCY.
Oklahoma City, Sopt: 20. Declaring that he did not want Catholica to vote for him on re- ligious grounds and also that any one who voted against him because of his religion was not a good citi- zen, Governor Alfred Smith, the Democratic presidential nomine, to-day condemned his political enemies for using his Catholicism as a weapon against his candidacy. He directed his attack against the Republican party and against the Ku Klux Klan..
Ho particularly criticized the action of Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, assistant attorney, general, who recently addressed a gather- ing of Ohlo Methodist ministers. Mrs. Willebrand is one of the leaders of the women Republicans. He declared that Mrs. Wille- brandt and the Republienn party "dishonest" in using such. methods.
"You gentlemen wrong Mr. Presently, when there came a lull Vance, he said. "He played his in the conversation, he turned hand perfectly. His withdrawal, sharply and looked at Mannix. even with four aces, was scientñ-
"I Bay, Mr. Mannix" he spoke cally correct.
"Sure it was," agreed Allen. with only casual curiosity how "Oh, boy! What a battle that does it happen you've never ac was?"
quired a taste for poker? All good Spotswoode nodded and, turning business men are gamblera, at
heart." a to Vance, said:
"Since the exoot situation fa "Sure they are," Mannix replied, never likely to occur again, the with ponsive deliberation. But least 1 can do, by way of showing" poker, now, isn't my idea of gam my appreciation of your remark-bling-positively not. It's got too burable perception, is to gratify your much science. And it ain't quick curiosity-held nothing." enough for me it hasn't got the
"There is abundant reason to' Spotswoode put down his hand kick in it, if you know what I mean believe," he declared, "that the Re- i and extended his fingers gracefully, Roulette's my speed. When I was toward the upturned cards. There in Monte Carlo last summer 1 publican high councils have coun- were revealed a five, six, soven and dropped more money in ten min tenanced a large part of this form eight of clubs, and a kaave of jutes than you gentlemen lost here of campaign, if they have not ac- hearts.
this whole evening. But I got actually prometed it." THE STORY THUS FAR
"I can't say that I follow your tion for my money."
"I take it, then, you don't care Skeel's finger prints were found reasoning, Mr. Spotswoode," Mark- In the apartment of the stran- hurts confessed. "Mr. Vance had for cards at all."
"Not to play games with," Man- gled Margaret Odell, but Vance you beaten-und he quit." believes Skeel had been hiding in "Consider the situation," Spots-nix had become expansive, "I don't oven mind betting money on the draw of a closet while the murderer did, woodo replied," in a suave, his work. The thing that baffles the voice. "I most certainly would a card, for instance. But no two polica is the door to the alley, have opened so rich a pot, had I out of three, y understand, I want It was bolted on the inside, seem-¡been able to, after Mr. Cleaver and my pleasures to come rapid." And ingly precluding the exit or en- you had passed. But since I never he snapped his thick fingera eoveral trance of anyone through it.theless stayed after Mr. Vance had timea in quick succession to demon-are Mannix, Dr. Lindquist and Cleaver opened for so large an amount, it strate the rapidity with which he all lie about their whereabouts goes without saying that. I must desired to have his pleasures come. the night of the murder. Spots-have had either a four-straight, a
Vance sauntered to the table and a deck of woode, who had called on the girl, four-flush, or a four-straight-flush. had rushed to her door at sound I believe 1 may, state, without im- carelessly picked up
cards.
"What do you say to cutting once of a scream, but had been reas-modesty that I am too good aured through the door that noth-player to have stayed otherwise."
"And I assure you, Markham," for a thousand dollars?" Muunix rose instantly, lug was wrong. Later Sheel is
"You're on!" found strangled, after promising interrupted Vance, that Mr. Spots- to reveal the murderer. Vanca woode is too good a player to have
Vance handed the cards demonstrated how Skeel could stayed unless he had actually had
He have manipulated the side door and four-straight flush. That is the and Mannix shuffled them. Then asks Markham to invite Spote-only hand he would have been jus- he put them down and cut.
showed a king. woode, Cleaver and Mannix to his tiled in backing at the betting turned up a ten. Vance cut, and "A thousand I owe you," said apartment for a poker game, pro-odds of two to one, mising to reveal the murderer after "You see, I had opened for the Mannix, with no more concern than it is over. Cleaver wins an un-amount in the pot, and Mr. Spote: if it had been ten cents.
Vance waited without speaking, usually large stake from Vance,woode had to put up, half the beating four kings with a straight amount of the money on the tablo fund Mannix eyed him, craftily.
to-one bet-Now, these odds are thousand this time. Yes?"
non-opening! not high, and any
Vance raised his eyebrows. hand smaller than a four-straight-"Double?
By all means."" About half an hour later Vance flush would not lave warranted the He shumed the cards, and cut a again took out his handkerchief risk.
"As it was, he had, with a one-
Mannix's hand swooped down and and passed it across his forehead. As before, I noted that it was Al-card draw, two chances in forty-turned a five, len's deal, and also that the hand seven of making a straight-flush,ell, that's three thousand I a jack-pot which had been ino chances in forty-seven of mak-owe you," he said. His little eyes twice sweetened. Allen paused to ing a flush, and eight chances had now narrowed into slits, and take a drink of his high-ball and to in forty-seven of making a straight; he held his cigar clamped tightly light his cigar. Then, after Vance so that had nineteen chances in between his teeth. had cut the cards, he dealt them. forty-seven-or
flush.
Was
CHAPTER XLVII
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over,
Governor Smith referred specifi- enlly to the Ku Klux Klan, term ing its members persons who "have the effrontry to refer to themselves as 100 per cent, Amer!. cans." He said of the Klan that it "breathes into the hearts and souls of its members a hatred of mil- cause of religious belief." lions of fellow countrymen be-
The governor deplored the in- jection of the religious fasue and the "whispering methods" of the campaign. Defending his New York record, he appealed to the voters to make their choice solely upon the ground of what best pro- the Republic.
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Washington, Sept. 4,
London, Sept. 4. more than one "Like to double it again-ch, chance in three-of strengthening what? Vance asked. "Four There is indignation in naval and
The last British headstone for Cleaver, Markham anit Spots his hand into either a straight-thousand this time?"
Government circles over the small woode passed, and again Vance flush, a flush, or a straight."
Markham looked at Vance insum devoted to the official reception the graves of our dead has been Franco. Tho Now opened, for the full amount of the "Exactly," assented Spotswoode.
Year will see the silent cities of pot. No one stayed except Spots-However, after I had drawn my amazement, and over Allen's face of the officers and crew of the shipped to
Washington. woode; and this time it was one card, the only possible question there came an expression of almost cruiser Australia on their visit to struggle solely between him and in Mr. Vance's mind was whether ludicrous
Congress appropriated £150 for the battlefields finished. Enclosed
Vance,
or not I had made my straight-flush, ene present, I believe, was astonish- this purpose, but £140 will have to Spotswoode asked for one card; "If I had not made it or had ed, at the offer, for obviously Vance be used to pay for the transporta-by English hedgerows and border- and Vance slood pat. Then there merely drawn a straight or a flush knew that he was giving Mannix tion of the ship's complement fromed with English flowers, they will followed 3
moment of almost Mr. Vance figured, and figured tremendous odds, by permitting suc- Annapolis to Washington, the be tended by a small permanent Potomac being too shallow to admit staff of war comrades, directed breathless allence. The atmosphere rightly, that I would not have seen cessive doubling.
In the end he was sure to lose. of the cruiser coming up river. So from London. seemed to me to be electrically his large bet and also have raised
At the London office of the Im- charged, and I think the others it the limit. To have done 80, I believe Markham would have pro- £10 is left to give the officers and sensed it too, for they were watch-in those circumstances, would have tested if at that moment Mannix men a good time.
The Washington Post ways: perial War Graves Commission is. Ing the play with a curiously been irrational poker. Not one had not snatched the cards from the strained, intentness. Vance and player in a thousand would have table and began to shufle them. "Naval officers stationed in Wash-to be seen a map on which were Bpotswoode, however, appeared taken such a risk on a mere bluff.
"Four thousand it is!" he an-ington recalled with a certain bit-hundreds of tiny flags, following frozen in attitudes of superlative "Therefore, had Mr. Vance not nounced, putting down the deck and terness the magnificent welcome the line of battle, and thickest calm. I watched them closely, but laid down his four
Australia in great fighting areas. By the end neither revealed the slightest indi-raised him, he would have been cutting. He turned up the queen accorded the American Fleet by the round the Somme and the other
1926." extreme, It of diamonds. "You can't beat that Commonwealth of
of this year they will represent! foolhardy ention of any emotion.
WAS American officers who made the nearly 700,000 headstones, quar- It was Vunce's first bet. Without turned out, of course, that I was lady-positively not!" He
"I fancy you're right," murmured cruise to Audealia remember how ried in England and in France, speaking he moved a stack of yet-actually bluiting; but that does not suddenly jovial.
the leading clubs were thrown open Vance; and he cut a trey.
Want some more?" asked Man- to the visitors, who were allowed to approached and divided by broad nix, with good-natured aggressive-pay for nothing, and how, at dances the prettiest and nicest girls were measured another alack Mr. Spotswoode snys, not one player Tint's enough." Vance acemed their partners. They are making
too. excitin'. I up the defielency themselves, alongside of it. Then he coolly and in a thousand would have wagered bored, "Par deftly counted the remainder of his the limit without having filled his haven't your rugged constitution, chips, and pushed them all forward straight-flush, knowing I had a pat don't y'know." with the palm of his hand, saying hand. Indeed, one might almust He wont to the desk and made say that Mr. Spotswoode, by doing out a check to Mannix.for a thou- quietly:
10, has added another decimal point and dollars. Then he turned to ""The limit," Vance shrugged almost impercepto the psychological subtleties of Markham and held out his hand. the game; for, as you see, he an- tibly.
"Had a jolly evening and all that The pot, air, is yours." He alyzed my reasoning, and carried, smiled pleasantly at Spotswoode, his own reasoning a step further." sort of thing... And, don't for- Spotswoode acknowledged the get: we lunch together tomorrow. and put down his hand face up, to
New York, Sept. 3. Markham hesitated. "If nothing establish his openers. He had held compliment with a slight bow; and one o'clock at the club, what?"
Cleaver reached for. the cards and
A vivid description of a murder interfüres." began to shuffle them. But the ten- sion had been, broken, and the "But really, y'know, it mustn't," being committed startled an im- menso audience listening-in to a Insisted Vunce. "You've no idea wireless broadcast yesterday after- gume, was not resumed.
noon. Something, however, seemed to how eager you are to see me."
Over a radius of hundreds of have gone wrong with Vance. For
low chips to the centre of the table alter the fact that the correct and -it was by far the largest wager logical thing was for Mr. Vance to that had been made during the quit." game. But immediately woode
four aces!
Spots- "Quito true," Vance agreed. "Asness.
"Gad! That's poker!" exclaimed Allen, chuckling.
"Poker?" echoed Markham. "To lay down four aces with all that money. at stake?"
He was unusually silent and
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Cleaver also grunted his aston-a long while he sat frowning at hu{thoughtful during the ride home. miles they were enjoying a plano/officers and men of the Mercantile OUTWARDS' FOR SHANGHAL YORKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJL. Lhment, and Mannix pursed his cigarette and sipping his high-ball Not one explanatory word could 11 solo played at Dallas, Texas, when Marine, who died as the result of
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In troubled abstracted. At last he "I don't mean any offence, y' un-rose and walked to the mantel, get out of him. But when he bade the announcer at the broadcasting known graves, are to be com derstand, Mr. Vance," he sald. where he stood studying a Cezanne me good night he said: ̧
"There's a vital part of the puz- "But looking at that play from a water colour he had given Markham strictly business standpoint, I'd years before. His action was a zle still missing, and until It's typical indication of his inner found none of it has any meaning." Bay you quit too soon."
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(To be Continued.) Spotswoode glanced up.
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He looked idly from the window. design by Sir Edwin Lutyens fa a The music stopped abruptly, and the great vaulted corrider, in whose heard describing three bays the names of the 11,000 announcer was what was happening in the street are being inscribed." beneath.
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Attracted by the shots, the police But now the old fortress, already
dashed up and arrested the assailant dominated from the north by the fhuge bulk of the Grosvenor House Mr. Wallrock has agreed with after a florce struggle.
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Pursuing him relentlessly as the is to be the special memorial to Mr. Wallrock, who has spent crowd scattered in all directions for this missing members of the Royal some months discussing the pro-safety, was a man who fired bullet Air Force in France. feet with the Duke of Westminle after bullet until the bank official
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"Within 15 years," said Mr. It is his intention to make the Samuel Wallrock, who is carry new Park-lane not only the best, Ing out the conversion scheme, but the most beautiful shopping of Devon, died at Bishops Tawton, "Parklane will be shops and bus!- centre in the world.
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