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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.. MONDAY,
UNKNOWN BLONDE
DAVID HANNISTER returna from Holly wood to his former home, Tremont, far For me, he has fited htm
film who him.
hotel, see the cab and rushes toward
Yout
with, him to her destination. The girl drope
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death entered the left side of the The marriage was to have been on head, Thero Were no powder important social event of the burns, eliminating the possibility Christmas season.
!
BY LAURA LOU
BROOKMAN..
past. Was it?"
Bannister grinned. "Aunt Kato,
NOVEMBER 27, 1933.
grosslye, thoroughgoing polloo, of- icial, the captain would pounce
upon. it as Brat-hand testimony What does it matter if winter
bannistar could say, "I left her
at tho Tremont some time. before
10 o'clock-",
ed
Only he couldn't. He remember- catches you unprepared?
that look in the girl's eyes
A
I haven't the faintest idea who and knew he couldn't do that. Ho of aufcido. According to Coroner "Alas Lang, when Informed of Harvay Knowleton in or what he didn't even know hor name but ho Bannister dines with JIM PAXTON, in alt Charles J. Westwood, King had her fiance's death, became Friend, now editor of the Tremont
|couldn't" bellove that she had killed proa-looks like." later he laken a cab to drive home,, Pain been dozd more than an hour bo-trated-
"Oh, that's right." The woman a man. the Shaby Arma, spartment hotel, a smile, fore the body was discovered. The tight halts the cal. A sitt omnes out the body was found by Al Drugan, also Kato Howlett interrupted herself move in after you left."
"I should think sho would!" was mollified, "I guess they did Years of nowapaper experience She reminded him. "Tho hardest ones When she see Baunlater she is eminare a member of the orchestra, and J. matter-of-factly. "That's a silly turned back to the newspaper, always look the softest." He offers her the cab and the agrees to ride A. Link, night clerk of the hotel,thing to print. I should think any "Look," she said, "hero'e a picture Even then he couldn't do it; Tho her handbar and Bannlater see that it come Drugan explained that he went to girl would become prostrated to of Denise Lang. And here's an devil of it was that the problem tains a revolver, a few minutes later she King's rooms to find out why the hear that the young mau she was other of her with Tracy King", was getting on his nervest He "Next morning at breakfast Bannister renda band leader had not appeared at engaged to had been shot and Bannister crossed-the-room' and wanted to forget the whole thing that TTLAGY KING. orchestra leader in the theatre for the 10:45 vaudeville killed. And to think it was by inspected the photographs. The but he couldn't do that either. movie theatre, has been found dead in performance. Unable to enter the another woman! What did I tell face of the pretty, fair-haired gir apartment at the Shelby Arme.
"Damn!" Bannister awore vo apartment, which is on the third you, David Bannister?”.
who smiled up at him was one he hemently and decided to buy floor, he summoned Link and to-
It was an exclamation, not, a had never seen before. The picture New York newspaper. He'd find gether they entered the three-room question. Bannister did, hot an-taken with King was a nows photomething to read that wasn't plas-
· Kate Hewlett read the words suite.
Ho had turned away and tograph, showing the couple as they tered all over with details of Tre, aloud, shock and amazement in her
"King's body was found lying was looking out through the crisp, Rat. watching £ tennis match mont's latest crime. valce, "TRACY | KING, BAND on the floor of the bedroom. He white ruffled curtsina at the maple There was another photograph of There was only one place in the LEADER, SLAIN IN HOTEL.” was fully dressed. There were no trees, almost shorn of their follage, King, probably made for theatrica city to buy a New York newspaper
"It's terrible," she exclaimed. signs that a struggle had taken at the smoothly cut lawn. Laste.
It showed him na a elender,the news counter in the Tremont. "Simply terrible.. Oh, David—1” phice but a desk in the living room night's rain had brought down dark-haired and rather handsome Bannlater went there, throw down
He was not looking at the huge, had evidently been rifled. Two of many of the yellow leaves. They youth,
a coin and pleked up the news- black banner headline but at two the desk drawers had been pulled
paper. lines of smaller type, "Unknown out and their contents was in a Blond Is Sought By Police," the disordered state. lines read,
Bannister stated at the six words. Mris. Hewlett went on, rending aloud:
CHAPTER III
BUT.
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He hesitated, then started to- vard the writing room. He had to cross a short passageway that was rather dimly lighted. Bannis
er took a dozen steps forward and; then stopped.
lay in a senttored, irregular pat- "Ie WER real good-looking, torn, still wet and glistening in wasn't he?" Kato Hewlett conced- the sunshino.
ed. "I suppose that's why Dentac Lang wanted to marry him- "Occupants of nearby suites.) It was a morning sorene and annister picked up the nowa when questioned, anid they had not chudless but, instead of the blue paper. There was more of the ac heard the shot. Mrs. Lucian Fraser, sky and golden, sunshine, David, count of the Tracy King murder "Tracy King," orchestra leader who occupies the sulte directly annlater saw dark, drizzling fog.but the rest was made up of rather Just ahead, directly facing him. and master of ceremonies at the neross the hall, from King's, sald, He saw a pair of wide set gray eyes inconsequential details. An at- was the girl of the taxi ride-the State theatre, was found dead from that her radio had been turned on in a white, girlish face-half-hid-tempt was underway to trace fin-girl in the green suit! a bullet wound in his head in his most of the evening and that part den in the depths of a taxicab, lips jgerprints. Police Chief Henley had
(To Be Continued) apartment at the Shelby Arms hoof the programme was a drama of that moved tremulously; a small given out a statement. There were tel shortly after 11 o'clock last underworld warfare. Mrs. Fraser gleaming revolver in the woman's interviews with Link, the hotel night."
maid she might have heard the re-handbag.,
clerk, and with n switchboard op- Over her spectacles she eyed her port of the gun that killed the Good God, no-it couldn't belerator. There was a roview of nephew. "That's why he wasn' orchestra leader and thought it was That girl was no murderesa. She King's career as a musician. at the theatre!" she said excitedly. a part of the radio drama.
looked more as though someone Bannister read if all through has- "My staral Think of that! The "C. A. Nelson, living directly had tried to murder her. Fright-tily, then tossed the newspaper poor young man was lying dead all above King's apartment, reported Jened within an inch of her life, aside. Hia nunt had begun stack- the time. Oh, but isn't this terri-that he reached home about 10.30 he had decided, seeing her clearlying up the breakfast dishes, getting ble!"
and had heard no sounds of any for that moment just before she ready to take them to the kitchen. "Rend the rest of it," Bannister dort from the rooms below.
| disappeared into the hotel. said abruptly.
"Two employees of the hotel are Mra. Hewlett vad on, "Police said to have given police descrip-any woman who had just killed a There was a point, too! Would who believe King was the victim tions of King's mysterious femi-man walk calmly into the largest "It's all of two miles down to of a murderer are searching for annine visitor but that description hotel in town? She might as well Broad street,' his aunt warned. unknown blond woman, suid to has been withheld from publication. have called at polico headquarters "Exercise will do me good," he have visited the prehestra leader The employees sald they saw the and said "Arreat me!"
I told her. during the evening.”
woman enter the building but did Again she looked up. "A wo-not see her leave.
But there was the headlinc— Į "Unknown Blond Is Sought By Po-i By 11 o'clock that moring David man!" she exclaimed. "What did I "A. B. Kauffman, manager of the ice." He could not shake the Bannister was still wrestling with tell you about that fellow not be-State theatre, could ascribe no pos- words from his mind. She was his problem. The walk down town ing good enough for Denise Lang?sible metive for the crime, King's blond. She had come out of the had in no wise eased his mind, Denise is a blond, too-"
absence last night, he said, was the Shelby Arms some time after nine He could, of course, stroll over to The words trailed off and she first time the orchestra leador had 'clock. She had carried a reval Central headquarters and say to continued reading: "Captain Olf-missed performance. During thever in her handbag.
Captain McNeal, "I think I can ver McNeal of the homicide squad 10 months in which King was cm- "Oh-sorry, Aunt Kate!" Bannis-identify your unknown blond mur- said a detailed description of theployed at the theatre he had be-ter's voice was apologetic. "I'm deres I think I saw the weapon woman's appearance is in the come widely known in musical cir- afraid I wasn't listening. What she used and helped her escape. I hands of the police and that she clea of the city. His engagement did you say?"
think I know. the time of the io,certain to be apprehended within to Mias Denise Lang, daughter of "No, I should think you weren't | murder—” 24 hours.
Arthur J. Lang. 4862 Sheridan listening! I asked if that
He could tell McNeal the story "The bullet which caused King's Rond, was announced last week.. Harvey Knowleton who just went and he was certain that, as an ag
was
***Think I'll take a walk down
"It's One morning......” town," Baunlater said casually.
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The force with which the British stosmár Silverpalm atrock the U. S. cruiser Chicago is graphically shown in the above photo, takow after the light curis er had limped into San Francisca, The hole in the sue le 40 foot wide, and nearly halfway through the huli.
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While the British fraighter Silverpaim hit the U. 5. 8. Chicago baw on in their collision în fog 100 miles south of San Francisco, the 'freighter also: raceived damage. Photo shows the prow of the Silvarpslm; amashed back several fest by the Impact that „drove her half through the Chiềngo...
Misa Ishbel MacDonald and Prof. C. King Gordon, who have dealed their reported engagement. They're shown together an they watched a football match during one of fchbel's visita to the .U..S.
With three officers dead and a gaping hole, 40 feet wide, torn in her prow, the U. 5. arulder Chi- cago limped into San Francisco Bay after a collision with a British froghior, Damage is shown above. where the prow of the freighter drove through armour plate to almost "amidships and scrapad one of the gunar pictured soar top. Officers declared that a "ghost ship" loomed out of thick for to throw the cruiser off her course into the position where the collection occurred,
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