HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
DEAD
SIR
HEZEKIAH
EPISODE 60 FROM INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK ·
"THE faked suicide,"
said brighter days, Dumbell. There's a Joshua Playfair senten- vacancy-did you know?--In the Inspectorate. However, I won't stop tiously, "is common enough to discuss your profound and subtle The point that fiction, and not uncommon in observation.
Olliphant made a good job of his real life."
not quite good "In real death, you mean," murder-though
from the enough gallows."
said Sergeant Dumbell.
"Brilliant, Dumbell, brilliant!
to
him save
Dumbell a pipe. "Left Anger- You must try that on the Chief prints, I presume, sir?"
"Fingerprints? Dear me, no. 1 Constable; they pay ho has a flair for epigram. Our Police should hardly call that intelligent. College graduates will have to No, Dunbelt. I'll tell you exactly look to their laurels."
Dumbell grinned. He
was
what he did do-seeing that to-day brain's ni its best-and you your not shall see if you can spot where his quite certain whether his leg was plans went wrong."
"Fic never not. You
air. Though I've being pulled or could tell, with old Josh,
seldom any luck with these deduc- to tell you tions." What I WIS going about" went on Playfair, was the
Playfair was mentally arranging case of Sir Hezekiah Gruffus."
his material.
Bootlegger Baronet
away,
"When the body was discovered," Hezekiah he suit at length, "Sir
had been dead for several hours. What had happened was that his nephew-whose presence at Latch-
The two men were driving down meal Manor was not suspected, till I to Caterham, where they were due checked up on his alibi and des- to attend an inquest; and Playfair troyed it--had arrived late at night
and made himself known to uncle,
was in reminiscent mood.
"Sir Hezekiah, Dumbell, was Baronet; and indeed, not unlike the Buronet of melodrama. An evil- looking man, with black moustachios,
had made who
money in ,Y bootlegging business and given some of it to the party funda.
the
Staging the Suicide
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12,
1988
Of Course You Know, But Are You Sure?
Dn English Queen. 12-Leap year. Ah, yes, leap year. That there was there was. And this English Queen, she reigned only was when the wito proposed to us. And next nine days or so--or go the history books sny, leap year will be: deart And her name was:
Caroline; Elizabeth; Jane; Anne; Boadicea; Mary I.
6-The Japanese captured a ship flying a Grock dog just outside Hongkong the other day. When Greek meets Greek they know straight away that the Greek colours are:
By The Dragoman "IT'S the easy ones that get me stumped," writes M.F.W. claiming that Lewis Carroll, not Mr. Dodgson, wrote Alice in Won- derland. Well, take the easy ones a bit slower, says I, claiming that Lewis Carroll was Mr. Dodgson.
Forty-six was the best I heard of in one last week's test-a young lady did it. Remember-two points for every coT- rect answer, and 30 is a pass.
1.-Play the piano? Then you're a planist,
Play the lule? Then (and it serves you right) you're a:
Lutanist; lautist; tuter; lutologist; lithographer; nuisance. 2.If I took a course in entomology (tch, tch ...
highbrow again!) I'd suspect some mistake it. I didn't start to learn something about:
enn
Animals; words; insects; fish; the stars; stamps. 3.--Neapolitans you take these radio songs seriously, humorously or, Indeed, any way at all--are pretty romantle people. They are naiives of:
New
Norway; Nepal; Naples:
Natal; Mexico;
Nicaragua; Bati; Abyssinia. 4-Someone once called Hongkong a "dark smell". But that was before the New Ter- ritories were added to its territory, making the total area of the Colony:
390 square miles; 215 square miles; 22 square miles; 78 square miles; 100 square miles.
5. But now, children, once upon a time
Another
ils
Minute
"He had at once gone to a drawer,
"Yes, nobody cared much for Sir in which, he knew, the old man kepi Hezekiah He'd been concerned in a revolver, had taken out the wee- some scandal on the Turf-he'd pon, and had shot his uncle through ruined the reputation of a couple of the left temple. This, I believe, was village girls the lived at Latchmeal at about one in the morning. Note
when he that the wound was in the Norfolk)-and
Jeft Manor, in
that his was found shot in his study there temple; Oliphant knew can't have been many broken hearts, uncle was left-handed.
bumping off even as big a black- "As to this, by the way, there was guard as Grulfus is a hanging mat- plenty of evidence: he wrote with his left hand, held his knife in his ter In this country."
But
Dumbell nodded sagely. "He was left hand at table, and so on. bumped off, was he?"
10
"Having killed Sir Hezekiah, and was bumped off by his locked the study door, his heir calm-
the business the ly set about the nephew, who succeeded
of staging Baronetcy. Olliphunt Gruffus, second the suicide.
set of was as big a the routest, he impressed on and
last Baronci,
an appropriate
(He was, of blackguard as his uncle; and his title left-hand fingerprints. didn't save him from the nouse. course, wearing gloves himself.) And a very cunning murder he con- Then he placed the weapon by Sh Hezekiah's body, in a position which trived, Dumbell.
"The verdict at the inquest was it might reasonably have occupied 'Suicide while of unsound mind, had it fallen from his hand.
"Finally, he sat down at his uncle's because at that stage I wasn't quite ready to show my hand. When I desk and forged the usual 'suicide' arrested-Sir Oliphant, ten days later, letter."
caused a pretty big sensation. By "Hal" interjected Dumbell. then, you see, I'd found the missing that was
him what gave
And uway. hand-
link in my chain of evidence-I'd You called in one" of your shattered the murderer's alibl. I had writing experts and he proved that already
established that, if Sir the writing was Olliphant's." Oliphant was not the murderer, Sir "No," said Playfair. "The forgery Hezekiah had died by his own hand; was, in fact, so good that the experts but we were on the
horns of a accepted the letter as Sir Hezekiah's. dilemma.
Sir Olliphant Confesses
desk.
ان
It was written by Oliphant with the dead Baronet's own pen-an old- fashioned
black fountainpen vulcanite, which we found, of course, on the
"It was a good forgery, and a con- "On the one hand, I was pretty vincing letter too-just such a letter as Sir Hezekiah might have written. nearly certain that Sir Hezekiah had Nevertheless, the murderer made not killed himself; on the other two mlatakes. He heard some noise, hand, his nephew's alibi seemed, at nou, putting his pen down hurriedly, first blusti, to be unbreakable. When just as he was finishing -the letter, 1 broke it, all was plene sailing; he stepped to the window and looked was able to build up such a nexus out.
of circumstantal
evdence
that we
had no difficulty in securing a con- viction.
"And Sir Oliphant, who had not his uncle's nerve, subsequently con-
fessed to the crime."
Cloud in
the Sky
"Breaking the alib)," said Dumbell, "The noise proved a false alarm; I presume, the interesting pert but what do you think the murderer
of the case?"
Kilw?"
"His own footprints," said Dum-
"And he failed
"No; not at all. That was just a matter of routine, of proving-as by bell. exhaustive research we did prove obliterate them."
of
quite
Lo
that Olliphant had led in regard to "No," gald Playfair. "There were the movements
his car. No, ao footprints there was no evidence Dumbell; the interest in the case of that kind-no positive evidence was the faked suicide itself. It was against Oliphant at all. He saw, so the best thing of its kind I've seen, he told me, a cloud in the sky thin An un- and the artist responsible very near looked exactly like a noose, ly got away with it."
propitious omen, and a true one."
"You can't tell," anid Dumbell "Then how began Dumbell. stolidly, "that you haven't seen even "My dear fellow," answered Play better faked suicides-suicides so fair, "That's what you're supposed, well faked, I mean, that even you, to deduce." sir, were deceived."
What were the murderer's
Playfair looked at him in admira- mistakes? ilon. "This is certainly one of your
(Solution on Page Three)
WEEK-END PROBLEMS
By Hubert Phillips
PROBLEM I.
ETCHINGS
PROBLEM II.
INTRUDERS
There is one "intruder" in cach of the following groups. Name, in each case, the intruder-and the
"I've spent £42 on etchings,” anid Blatherskite. "They
play, were being sold at two prices-cach an exact number of shillings. If the price of each class of etching had been reduced by one shiling. I could have bought one more of cach clans."
How many etchings in all has Blatherakite bought?
Julia,
(1) Mamillus, Autolycus, Parolles, Polixenes, Emilin.
(2) Belarius, Goneril, Cornelius, Cloten, Calus Lucius.
Antonio, (3) Adrian, Eglamour, Speed.
(4) Horatio, Reynaldo, trude, Clatidlus, Balthasar.
(6) Dolabella, Charmian, Eros, Cinna, Canidius.
(Solutions on Page Three)
Ger-
Mystery
7.
Green and yellow; red and white; black, yellow and red; blue and white; red, white and black.
Thank you, thank you. But stay-only of these plurals is correct, or is it:
Ox-oxes; Crisis-crisises; talisman- tallamen; maestro-maestri; deer-dar- imps.
8 picked up a book marked 20 cents in Paddy's Market the other day, and nearly jumped out of my skin (not gulity, not guilty) when a sepulchral voice groaned over my shoulder: "That's Erce." It was, of course, Murgatroyd again, and by that cryptle re mark he meant:
A woman's hair; a funeral carri- age; a dlateet; a female centipede. 0.--Well, well
You all think you can spell, I'm sure, but I challenge your claim If you con
con't
pick the incorrect word here: Vacillation; vaccinate; acknowledg- ment; resistence; judgment, 10.-Eddie Kelly was saying the other day that he was suffering considerable pain from conjunctivitis, which la, of course, a disease;
Caused by lifting the elbow; caused by being too near to work; of the eve; caused by over-drinking; of the circulatory system.
11,Manners makyth manne-and if you are polite and you do the thing properly when introducing a man and a woman to each other, you should first:
Introduce the man to the woman; the woman to the man; both at same time; get someone else to do it.
GARAGE
How good a detective you?
MIDNIGHT: Bob Anderson was alone. He closed the back door of his garage, locked it, braced a pine timber on the concrete floor against the knob, and with a satisfied look wondered why he hadn't thought of that before. He then padlocked the front door and went home.
Two o'clock: Young Police Constable Turner yelled at and chased a man running from the back door of Anderson's garage.
The man turned, dropped a bundle, fled down an alley, and escaped in a waiting lorry.
Two-ten: "Don't go near the garage, you stay back here." Turner commanded the small crowd which had quickly gathered. "I don't want anything-dia-- turbed. That door's not as heavy as it looks, and-"
"Naow that was an easy job," interrupted Fred Murray, one of the neighbourhood boys. "All any one had to do was turn the knob back and forth until the board fell, then give the door a good hefty push. That'd do the trick." "Believe you're right, Fred," nodded Turner.
Two-fifty: Anderson arrived and, after a hasty look around, lamented his hard luck. "Got a new shipment of tyres in just to-day, and they weren't covered by insurance," he told the policeman. "Looks like they got all of them and a lot of other stuff."
Later: "Hope the professor doesn't hear about this," muttered Turner to himself, after reporting the theft. "Didn't get the licence number of the getaway car. I don't even know how many were in the gang.'
Just then the professor entered the station. He made Turner tell him the whole story, and the recital provided a vital clue.
What is this vital clue?
Solution is on Page Three.
Bridge Problem
No. 46
North
AAKJO 43
+AQJO
❤ Q10 2
Weat
East
Q 100 5
J
QJ 108 32 K 10 5
2
40 7 0 3 2
South 2
❤AKIA 3 AKD 7 8
Spades are trumps. East lenda Diamond Queen. North and South to make the Grand Slam.
PROBLEM NO. 45
The solution to last Saturday's problem is:
South
K
West North
J
D
10
Q
At this point West is squeezed,
Correct solutions from R.E.L... E.M.A., Emjay", "20015", A.E.G.,
·Mrs. A.K., J.K., A.E.C. N., N.E.
cra,
LAY SERMON
the
By HUGH REDWOOD CHRIST, who started us on our race, will be waiting for us 19 the finishing-line. That what the writer of the epistle seelts to bring home to his read-
I like, how- Jesus...
ever to take Anisher HEBREWS, Xil, his words and their amplify
I rec meaning. a father, distraught and weeping. "Lord, I belleve," I hear him cry. and Jesus the finisher comes at once to the help of his unbeller. I see St. Paul, penning his great Bonk of love. "Now I know part,"
he writes, and Jesus the Anisher waits to
nll give him knowledge. Shakespeare Bita thinking out his Immortal lines
lives, about rough-hown
and before Jusus the Anfaher slands film, shaping their ends to God's purposes.
llard-pressed,
puzzled,
In
un-
worthy, what an encouragement it is to think of Jesus as Finisher. It is the effort that counts with Him; the will and the love be- hind it. He who bids us bo per- fect is our perfection: He who bids us endure is our endurance, We can make a verse of it. "Look ing to Jesus, let us abandon ain: the race is ours to stay, but His la win."
1038; 1030; 1940; 1941; 1942. 13. "Well, I don't remember much about wo galiled Stanley," said Murgatroyd,. 05 forth for a little quite ante-cracking, "but I do know that Devil's Island-where the French have a penal settlement-is:
Near Helsingfors; of the nori? coast of Africa; of the coast of South America; off the coast of Mexico; in the Mediterranean; in Lake Geneva. 14. Of course you were right again, but don't let that excite you... Just put your- self back in your Sunday School class and earn two points by saying the Bible records Janah as being swallowed by u:
Shark; giant salmon; whale; great fish; hungry minnow. 15-It's a pity to drag Hongkong into these questions again, but it should be an easy two points to answer quickly that longkong will celebrate Its centenary in January:
1988; 1950-1975; 1941; 1951; never. 10-It's all very well to say that you were pretty good at geography at school-but you didn't learn much if you didn't learn that the capital of Portugal is:
Bilbao: Madeira; Lisbon; Oporto; -- Madrid; Cadiz.
17. This one seems so easy that it's hardly worth while putting in, because you've nearly alt visited Singapore, where they're opening the new Naval Base on Monday. So there's no excuse for not knowing that the narrow passage through which your ship passes, and which Singapore guards, is the:
Java Strait, Malacca Strait; Stralis Settlement; Federated Malay Strait; Sumatra Strait; Macassar Strait;
Hainan Strait.
18-One of these days you may take up roldlering (oh, yeah?) and if you don't skip nny ranica you will become a Lleutenant- General after being at
Brigadier: Colonel; Major-General; General; Field Marshal.
10-People who go down to the sea in ships must get the right time somehow, so they have their day's duty cut up into watches middle watch, dog watch, wristlet watch, and so on. And you get the rope's end if you But anyway, the total don't watch out.. number of watches in a sea-dog's day is: Three; five; seven; right; twelve: twenty-four.
18:
20-Now let's be serious. Not counting Australia-because Australia is a continent or Greenland, the largest island in the world
Great
New Borneo; Britain; Guinea; Bain Land; Formosa, 21. Ever seen a clock with Roman numer- als on its face instead of figures? Belleve it or not, the number of V's on such clock is:
One; two; three; four; five; six. 22-Talking about Roman numerala-it a dyed-in-the-wool you got a letter from
date no-ma VIII/II/MCMXXXVIII on the classical scholar it might have the numerals and you'd know it had been written.
Aug, 0, 1887; November 18, 1227; July 10, 907; last Tuesday. 23.--The year the Great War started in too easy, so I'll ask you to nominate the year of what is called "the offcial termination of the war"that is, when the peace treaties were zome dates to help or ratifled. Here are hinder you;
1017; 1018; 1019; 1020; 1021; 1922; 1066. 24-Notice those new ten-cent coins with
the Security Rims, or don't you ever have any money, either. Well, anyway, are made of:
those colns
Silver; cupra-nickel; silver and nickel; nickel. 25.-There's a lot of people in the world. To be more or less precise the total popula- tion is about:
A thousand million; a trillion; two thousand million; five billion; so many you couldn't count 'em. (Answers on Page Three)
TWO GREAT PARABLES
The Prodigal The
Som
Read as Literature From the Bible Designed to be.
CERTAIN man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, "Father, give me the portion And he divided unto them of goods that falleth to me." his living.
Good Samaritan
AN
ND, behold, a certain lawyer
stood up, and tempted him saying, "Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
unto him, "What written in the law?. readest thou!"
He said
is How
And not many days after the young son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and And he answering said, “Thou there wasted his substance with riotous living.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that -the swine did.cat:.and.no_man gave unto him. “
And when he came to himself" he said, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will Bay unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants."""
ND he arose, and came to his father. But when AND
he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and ldssed him. And the son said unto him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son."
Can You Solve This Problem? A
FARMER is being sued for matches at Graasten, Denmark, says Reuter.
While haggling with a dealer over the price of a horse, he offered to pay one match for the first nail in the horse's shoes, and "double up" on cach suc- ceeding nail.
There were 31 nails. How many matches must he pay?
The answer is in Page 3.
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But the father said to his cervants, "Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the failed calf, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry: for
this my son Was dead, and is alive again; he was lost and is found."
And they began to be merry..
No
TOW his elder son was in the
feld:
саме
and os he
and drew
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neigh- bour as thyself."
And he said unto him, "Thou hast answered-right:-this-do, and thou shalt live."
But he, willing to justify himscif, Baid unto Jesus, "And who is my neighbour?" Jesus answering said,
And
"A
certain THEN went down from Jerusalem to Jericha, and fell among thieves, which atripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain
These two parables are related by St. LUKE, the physician and com- panion of St. PAUL His work breathes a cosmopolitan and humanitarian spirit.
nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of "And
the servants, and asked what these things meant.
And he said unto him, "Thy brother is come; and thy father bath "But killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound." And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out and Intreated him. And he answer- ing said to his father, "Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy com- mandment: and yet thou
nover
gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends; but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the falled calf,"
And he said unto him, "Son, thou art over with me, and all that
priest that way: and when ho saw him, ho pusred by
on
the other side.
"And likewise a Lovite, when he was at the oame place, and looked on him, and pass”. cd by on tho
other side. likewise a Lovite, when ho was at the place, camo and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
a certain Samaritan as he Journeyed came where ho waar and when he saw him, he had compassion on kim, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own bedst, and brought him to an inn, and took caro of him.
"And on the morrow when ho
I have is thine. It was meet that And
wo should make merry and be glad:
for this thy brother was dead, and is
departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, "Tako caro of him; and whatsoever thou spendent more, when I come again, I will repay theo. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?"
he said, "He that showed
mercy on him"
alive again; and was lost, and is Then said Jeaus unto him, "Go,
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