THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1938.
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
NEW FILM SERIAL
THEY WON'T FORGET
Serialisations of the Warner Bros. Film Commencing at the Queen's Theatre To-day
Chapter I
BROCK'S STORY BREAKS
"Is that all you guys goltu do?” Bill Brock, cocklest reporter in town, strolled into the Police Station the evening after the half hollday as the Court House clock was striking Includ- twelve. A bunch of the boys ing the reporter from the rivni poper was gathered about the Sergeant's desk, listening while one of the num- her read seure headlines from out-of- lown papers.
tion. It was so that he heard the cutty. Imogene Mayield telling a group of her schoolgirl friends that Mary Clay and her teacher, Robert Hale, were simply crazy about each
other,"
Brock sprinted ke the wind to Griffin's ofles.
"You had a date with Mary Clay yesterday at two o'clock?"
"That's right!"
Young Joe Turner's bravado was
o weakening by the moment
ho
faced the Bery barrage of District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin-with
"All of 'em about other placcu," Lancart, Tucker and the rest of the Brock yawned, "Nothing big ever plain clothes men
listening исси-
"She didn't meet you?" "No"
breaks in this jerk burg! If any singly. thing ever does, I'll show you dumb bozos what a real story in Nothing
can happen here, I tell ya! I sald
to the Bess to-night there was no use
"What did you do after that?" "Now look, Mr. Griffin, I didn't
in sending me out but he insisted, so have nothin' to do with this, honest here I am and-out I'm going!"
I didn't
"I asked you what you did after that?"
He was on his way when the tele- toll. I got a little burned up
phone rang.
weltin', see-so I started up the
A frightened voice was gasping, steps, Aggerinthat maybe-she "Dey been a murder to de Buxton was still in the school. Then this Bulidin .. but, s'n, Mistah Of Janitor comes out-Honest, mister,
I didn't Бар ..i didn't do it
.didn't have nothin' to do it
The volco was trailing it on hysterically when the Sergeant
slammed up the receiver.
"Go ahead."
do with
"Well the Janitor comes out and
In a flash the police car was off tells me the place is closed and he stren screaming-Bilt Brock hang- asked me what I wanted and I told ing onto the swaying real slep and him I wanted one of the girls in noting with professional pride the the school.
ever-increasing crowd that followed "He says "The girls is all gone".
That burned me up and--I was all In the wake of the Black Maria.
In the basement delectives Laneart set to push past him and find out for myself when this white fellow
and Tucker found the mangled body comes out and says, 'What is it, Red- of a young girl--and hovering over wine? or some such name and The it the fanilor, Tump Redwine with white fellow, when he hears, says his nover-ending wall, "I didn't do the same-so II just went off ond Laneart and Tucker rushed found some of the boys and shot him off for grilling. Bill Brock dash- pooll That's all I did! You can ask ed to the Star ofice where he batted em' if you don't believe mef"
It
By Paul E
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On my right THE
out the scoop story that had all the Remember the name of this white IF modern criminals were
town aghast in an incredibly short fellow?"
William P. Brock."
After his headlines and his preci- unteered.
story: "At two o'clock this morning
"He's one of the young
Griffin's eyes
there
ing at 12 Jefferson Street occupied oyish face white with fear."
by the Buzton Business College and
several other offices, Police imme-bla
diately informed District Attorney, Andrew J. Grigin, who sald
0.9
and
asked how they spent
was
blc.
PUZZLE
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SCIENTIST
On my left
THE CRIMINAL
1
car? Then without warning, and in the same casual tone, comes a ques- flon bearing directly on the crime.
Ume. Extra-Girl's Body. Found "I think he called him Mr. Hale, their spare time I should not In Basement - Murder Suspected -- Old man Buxton, head of the Janitor Held For Grilling - Prose-school, awaiting his turn, started be at all surprised if many cutor Grifin Takes Charge at the mention of the name. "He of them replied that the means Robert Peary Hole," he vol-
An arm-cuff is bound about the ous by-line, Brock went into his professors in my business college study of chemistry and the
narrowed. His voice reading of books on descrip- Moreover, it is not the plain clothes the body of a young girl, tentatively was after the school was closed for structure of metals
"What was Hale doing tive science or the internal cer, or the record department that upper arm, and the pneumograph- modern crooks fear most, but the tube, which measures the rate of identified by a slip of paper in her the half holiday?"
This department of police breathing, is tied about the chest. Scitation is a lory vanity case as
Clay
very Important Any change in breathing or blood was "I can't imagine, Mr. Griffin." their idea of relaxation. found in the basement of the build-
factor in the battle against modern pressure is instantly recorded on a Buxton faltered.
Some of us may consider these crime, for it is in the laboratorics dial. 1 go now, mister," Joe pled, subjects rather academic for a that modern science, the microscope,
At first the suspect is asked inno- you? "Can I go?"
crook; but a thorough knowledge and the camera are at work solving cent questions--How tall are "No. Not for a while. I want to of science forms part of the mysteries that are seemingly Insolu- Are you married? Do you drive check Whatever District Attorney, An- down to my story. Arst. Take him stock-in-trade of many modern
my office." Wildly protest-law-breakers.
TELL-TALE BULLETS drew J. Griffin did say it was "Hale," Griffin was murmuring sa
Joe Turner was led out,
To understand the psychology of Bullets, for instance, are just as in- The suspect (If guilty) stiffens in violently, to the point. A small, dy-
the modern crook, we must first fallible as finger-prints as a means of spite of himself; he breathes a little namic, black-haired, beady-eyed, ho paced back forth. "Robert
realise that crime operations, like identification. Being soft, they carry needle of the recording apparatus quicker; his heart pounds, and the self-made man who had fought his Peary Hale way up from poverty—and slili beld At the moment in his furnished most things in the world, have be the marks of the gun barrel that red tells the scientist all he requires to
to his contempt for 'aristo- apartment Robert Peary Hale was come more mechanical and highly them, and no two gun barrels make know.
salentifle during recent years. And the same markings. as he did to the long cigar arranging his tie before, the mirror
When the scientist makes a test, he "HISTORY" FROM BOOTS in the corner of his grim mouth while his pretty blond wife, Sybil, crooks are aware that it is essential he had an eye on the Senate and typed a telegram. She gave it to changing order of things if they wish pect's gun-usually into a long box for them to keep pace with the fires a specimen bullet out of the sus- him and waited while he read it:
Analysis of dust found in clothes it. Andy Griffin got what he wanted. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, CAN meant to get there or die fighting for ZENITH COMMERCIAL SCHOOL to reach the pinnacle of success in stuffed with cotton wool-places 12 can also give the investigator many
their profession.
in the microscope alongside the bullet valuable clues. A few particles Detective Lancart came in to re- LEAVE AT ONCE FOR POSITION there are schools on the Continent the scratches coincide
To assist them in their ambitions in the crime, and rotates them. If could tell him that you had been port his progress in breaking down YOU MENTION STOP SPRING
In a single sawing wood, using glue, or driving
mails. the resistence of Tump Redwine, the SEMESTER OVER STOP PLEASE and elsewhere at which subjects such image then he has found his man.
Moreover, your boots can enable him," Lancart remarked subtly. "and
tricks, white slave traffic, and black- about a conviction. In one case n to record every recent move you "Swell, darling," he said, "when mail, are learnt under the tutorship portion of match was found the had made; for layer by layer he can I have a confession for ya, Andy!" I get to be a big executive you can of cx subjects, perhaps that of tlon was discovered in the criminal's the ald of a microscope find out when I
There'll be no rough stuff!" Griffin be my secretary! You know, Sybil, i experts,
scene of the crime, and another por- remove the dust and mud, and with I've got a feeling that in a few days safe-blowing bost illustrates how pocket. By employing photo-micro- ther you had travelled by train, by "You do things your way." Lane we'll be you have to give Buxton science has alded, the crook; for if he grahy, in which the microscope and car, or walked, even the part of the
to Chicagom" art growled, "and we'll do 'em ours!**
possesses a thorough knowledge of the camera combine to find clues that country to which you journey can be metals, plus a skill in using modern they cannot see, it was seen that the traced. Lancart! This isn't a pelty larceny They were sitting
If I had to give my opinion as to case that nobody cares about! It's deep chair now, his orins about her. can withstand his attack.
perfectly.
meshed
whether the law or the criminal Important! A A girl's been murdered! "Duxton won't miss me," he sigh-
So adept are expert blowers that Furthermore, science can detect
stands a better chance of winning A young girl There's a lot of
a lot of peo- ed, "And I certainly won't miss him it is now customary to have safes lle. It is no longer necessary
for criminals are severely al precaution against burglary. pect into confession. Instead, the handicapped by the gentleman who suspect is tested by an instrument makes these startling deductions from named a polygraph.
test tubes and other scientific sources,
Janitor. "Give me another hour with WIRE REPLY ROBERT HALE,” as forgery, safe-blowing, confidence Even a match has helped to bring him
glared.
that?"
Of these
wus
"Ob, no you won't! Not this time, more notice than together in the ebanicals, there are few sales that two jugged ends of the much
on
A
ple in this town that have girls, of or the school. It's been a dismal embedded in concrete as an addition- though still done-to torture a sus time would say, "The law every
that age. They want a conviction place to work since the murder of and I'm going to give it to them and when I do it's going to be the guilty party" Lancart winced,
"You talk big, Andy, don't ya?"
"And loud! Loud enough
dered al
SCIENCE, ENEMY AND FRIEND
that girl."
Horrible, wasn't it?" Sybil shud- at the thought of it and then asked quietly, "Did you know her?" Electrical time-locking devices have "Yes, as one of the pupils but, also increased the dimculties of please, dear, let's not talk about it crackamen; but, in spite of these
to let I'll send this wire right off. It's got elaborate gadgets, some experts are
the people know why the last two to be on his desk the first thing in successful in effecting this type of murders in this town are still un- the morning-I'll be back in a min- Eolved!" Griffin favoured Loneart ute--"
robbery.
Nevertheless, the modern crook with a sardonic grin, "Or would you As he came out the elevator does not always find things easy in rather have me keep what I know to stopped and the operator said to the spite of his educational qualities, for,
science now enables him to
" and two still makes four to two men who stepped out, "Dis splish crimes with greater ease |
mel"
Mr. Hale."
Robert Hale looked toward the than in the past, it also assists the "I'm glad you can add, my good forms of Laneart and Tucker. "Yes, authorities to track him down. man," Griffin replied with the utmost I'm Mr. Halc," he said, "What is
The finger-print system, Invented suavity, then sald brusquely, "Bring it?"
by Bertillon, is an infallible means in your palet"
Oh, nothin' much, drawled Lune. of recording and checking crime When the three detectives were art, "The District Attorney would operatives, but nowadays crooks lined up before him the Little Napo- tiks to ask you a few questions about rarely leave these trade-marks on the Icon dred his machine-gun com- Mary Clay, that's all, Mr. Hale.”
#cene of a crime; the wearing of thin mands.
gloves obviates the risk of detection "Mary Clay?" Tucker,
I want you to bring in "Yes, the murdered girl that was
from prints.
In this respect attempts have fre- Joo Turner, an apprentice at the Ual- one of your pupilal“
"But I don't know anything about obliterate these tell-tole ridges which versal Steel Company. Here's his ad-
quently been made by criminals to ress. Ho'll be a kid around twenty, her!" brown hair, blue eyes. He's Mary
"Don't, huh? Tell that to the are on the fingers and thumbs of all human hands: but even burning proved to be ineffectual. Dillinger. the gangster, had his fingers treated in this manner in an attempt to
to dis- guise them, but when the police plek- ed him exactly with those in omletal records. dead, his prints tallied There is no doubt that the anger- lity of criminals will never become extinct, for no matter how prudent crooks may be, there are always the unpremeditated crimes, and inevit- sideration, a small hole or tear in a
Clay's boy friend, one of them! chief What's that yaller paper in these ridges with acid has been Bring him to me
at the Buxton your hand? Let's have it? Oh, ho, Building!
plannin' a trip, huh, Mr. Hale?”* "You, Briggs-and Imogene May- "You have no right to read that Deld. She Ilves on Poplar Street Hale flared, but at the moment near Mary Clay's house went to cleaning man came upstairs with a suit Sorry, Mr. pressed
business collego with her. If she's now he said "But there's a spot | not there don't overlook that bet. II Mary had love affairs, crushes, even on the collar won't come out nohow prints system of checking the iden flctations, I want the depe!
blood or paint or sumthin'-.. Langart, go out to my car.. I'U "Let's see the "bawled Lane there in
in a minute. I'll need you art. "We'll take care of that coat! for several hours!" They stood not Come on, Halel".
ba
spot,"
an the order of their going, but went "But by wife's in there--able "slip-ups" to be taken into con-
Bill Brock, out on his own, been "Okay, go in but we'll go wil glove-finger may easily lead to a
at once and gluùmly.
wouldn't want to frighten her "
for another scoop, was in the crowds ya ́. Istening for telltale bila of converse-
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5 At the end of the holiday he has to de-camp of course (0).
1 Many in casual housework are
more than pleasant (8). This is officially binding (two words-3, 4).
10 Bird male portion (5). 11 The orchestra has made a boust
of itself (9).
13 It may interest the meteorolo- gist and no one can call it dry (8).
14 Protest by a naughty child turn-
ed out of the room? (0). cu ou
17 A wideawake hat should not
have (3).
10 This hem is not unusual in ser-
vice (3).
20 Plan on the right lines? (0),
23 As grasping as a vulgar fellow
all abroad (8).
26 A warship (9),
28 A cleric con acquire this from
merit (5).
20 No dirge makes this (7).
30 Father's weapon will get us past
the guard (8).
31 Firm indred (8).
DOWN
1 Don't apply this to our northern neighbours is certain to hurt (0).
2 The time of the master of the house should surely be gven to more
serious business (7). 3 What the shrimp has is threaten-
ing (9).
4 A little thing shows how WOT-
hippers differ (8).
3 The whole world can be mude
from the race on it' (8).
сая
Frits
CROSSWORDS
6 A "wise crack" from a cracker
maybe (5).
7 Developments following this do not always have negative results (8).
12 Scoliish town (3).
15 Extreme Incentive to loquacious-
ness (9).
16 There are men in this dwelling
(3),
18 "Any gin? No (bother!) (anag)
(8).
21 May be the cause of a party
falling through (3).
22 Sallors like to be in the start of
this part (7).
24 Archale trial or business trans-
action (8).
25 A word to waverers (0).
27 Trunk grown from roots (5).
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