1935-12-23 — Page 11

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THE CHINA "MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1935

Over And Done With

{Continued from Pags 10.J.

[fram" "the" fame, so he shimad his nets to an immense burow, and Before half-past seven he was off in his pony-cart, Floss trotting put his cooped ferrets in. Then daintily beneath the tailboard tip came the time for the Ene ferret, the village should be left behind, the burrow and pricked her dainty while Floss scruffled gently above and a hiss from her master or a j "He over there!” should send her like a streak through a hedge gap to hunting a fuze belt or a field

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ears at what was inaudible to her: master the sound at sa „under-

round strike.

Then--when Francis began his

It was a dry, clondy day, and dissing, the nose of the bitch told the air was keen out there on the him merringly the spot beneath open heath when Francis resumed which ferret and rabbit lay, his warrening where the previous though it were five foot under the

*Good evening had left it. First he tied heath

old

the pony in the shelter of a tall hitch" he would say to her when hedge where a field of small, at last the book of the diging scrubby swedes adjoined the lone spade brought out ferret and rab-

heath. and he donned his bit together. hessian smock against farze pricks and briars.

The morning shiped away til the time came to fight a furze fre Then he put down 200-yard by which he could eat his meal lengths of rabbit netting partly and it was only when he had it round a huge clump of furse, and alight that all at once he missed set the bitch to a methodical hunt the bitch. He looked out across ing while he watched the nets. To the open heath and then heard the and fro she worked, nosing here rush of a dog's feet. MAIL STEAMERS

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started a rabbit.

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FRAGMENT OF

PAPER CONVICTS A MURDERER

Victim's Identity Unknown

ATTEMPTED INSURANCE

SWENDLE

Berlin

the bitch slinking mare sound. and somehow, she bearer,

and some deep instinct and left the chase.

than must have missed it. But before must have warned her, for sudden- Francis chuckled. More anc dog he had owned that had he whistled her back to heel he she was bellying her way to-

The rackets are a substitute clean into the gave the pony its nose-bag and wards him. His eye fell on the for bootlegging as an outlet for followed a rabbit

energies net and nearly ruined it, but Floss brought his own food to the fire stake he had hurled and he heard the

of organised | Bombay, Marseilles & London,

to the last As he spread the dry bracken for again the thods as it flattened criminals. Taken Beparately, Marseillies, Havre, London, Ham- could time her rush

burg E'dam. Astuce & Full. inch, and as he picked the struga seat his eye caught a movement against her ribs. He licked his lips none is so rich a source of in- Bombay, Marseilles & London.

there was Floss coming once more, and now she was almost come as the beer or whisky ring Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-gling rabbit from the net he calland

through the hedge and a rabbit in on him to the brown, gentle of prohibition days. Taken to- burg, R'damm & Hull.

nd approvingly.

pools of her eyes he saw a pitiful gether, they are a gold-mine for A fragment of paper found six: Bombay, Masselles & Lendon.

"Good little old bitch..... Hie her mouth

But there *Was something

once she was the powerful and unscrupulous years ago near the body of a mEN appeal, and all at Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamon back there!"

burg, R'dam. Antwerp & Hal "But Floss was already loping to peculiar about her approach. It puzzling his fingers and licking racketeer. That is why the who had been murdered in a wood Marseilles &Toudan.

the furze, and as he stood back was her way to come loping quick them.

gang leader of today is general in the Wittmannsgeranth Valley Marseilles & London. -

Then a something gathered inly not a specialist, but has his (Turingia) has resulted in Hein- Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham from the net, John Rowley, the ly up, but now her gait seemed

of a crafty side. And as his throat so that his jaws queer-hands in several rackets at once tich Alberding being sentenced to burg, Botterdam, Antwerp & farmer, suddenly appeared. He more

his experienced ly weakened; and as the poignancy and is trying constantly to death at Rudolstadt Kall

was carrying his gun and seemed she drew nearer,

eyes saw a strangeness about the and the shame rose to choke him, "spread out," to enlarge his field The identity of the victim was remarkably put out.

on his knees, of activities often at the ex-nerer established, but the paper "Have ye seen anything-of that rabbit itself and the way it huns he was all at once old black and white dog o mine. and had the jaws held it Then and where his cheek lay for a pense of rivals.

as he took it from her mouth, she moment along the pulsing neck of It has been said that slunk away, and so startled was the little bitch ber coat was warm than 50 per cent of the pur-There was no further direct he at what his fingers held that and wetted.

chases made by the public evidence... whether of foodstuffs, clothes

The Court found that Alberding "The old davul! He'll get me he almost let the rabbit fall H

or such services as laundering had committed the crime with the Hocker? up afore he's done. I was dead-but only that minute allust keep him on the chain-he's killed. for its fur was warm. a rare good house-dog-and that fool of a man o mine must have let him off."

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Charlie **

That I hain's sin him,'

Francis.

said

[THE END]

was a fragment of Alberding's passport. WAARS

For one horrified moment must 97 DEGREES BELLOW for trucking-help to swell the object of swindling an insurazice.

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IN DEATH

breath was held at the thing the bitch had done. Floss, on whom he'd have wagered his life and *What do you mean-be get

about whom he boasted--and yet you locked up?”

less he joins their trade associa BRAG THAT ENDED "Once he get loose, he run over it couldn't be! His fingers felt

tion, or recognises their "Imap": APCAR SAILINGS, half the county," Rowley said the rabbit's back, and ther he

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In order to gain valuable into his customers at least part 8,000 4th Jan 10,000 18th Jan Singapore, Petang, Rangoon and fields and it cost me daval-and-all marked the teeth-jags in the ribs

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Law Enforcement Blocked 8,000 1st Feb. Calcutta.

to square it up"

"Killin' rabbits Francis look-sidling bitch, a rage came to him and the temperature of the strato-

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In a flash he had hurled the/of Calgary has Seen releasing bal leeches that is preying on thefing in a village, near Troppen, *Yes, be've got a month like a mouth is just that hard that being about à net-stake. Now he/ternational programme adopted law enforcers find the gas boast about their courage. One urule. But he don't eat em His rabbit away and his hand was clos-loops, in accordance with the in-channels of legitimate trade some of those present began to

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her

Strange Fatality In A Cemetery

Berlin: At a festive, beer even-

The

When his friends went later to

man, to demonstrate his lack of the gang characteristic of suap his jaws on 'em and they're had the bitch by the tail and lash-by meteorological stations through difficult in the extreme. It is dead in a second. Then he leaveeen his teeth when she yelped

ed her ribs and growled savagely out Canada.

These balloons reached great leader of to-day that he does fear, said he would spend Francis clicked his tongue." with the wicked pain of Then heights and the highest altitude little except with the advice of night in a cemetery.

Lever reached in Western Canada a competent corporation coun-ļ I had a jolly dog like that I'd put from very tiredness he let her 8 was registered on a balloon resel He strives, as much as fetch him, they found him dead.

and hurled the stake after

His coat had apparently caught Ja charge o' shot in him—”.

He stopped

A rabbit had slip where she alunk beneath the cart. leased from this city recently, possible, to put a legal face on

from whom the which registered an altitude of his activities. He hides his ex- on a headstone cross, and with the ped-away on the open side, and was making for the burrows scarce savour of life has gone, he began 91,000 feet with a reading of 67 tortion proceedings behind sudden jerk he had collapsed from fifty yards away.

Half-way to his meal, but the food stuck in his degrees below zero showing on labour union or trade organisa

tion set-ups. He pays hirelingsle throat and he packed it away the altitude thermometer.

A height of 74,000 feet and 91 to do his rough stuff for him, safety the bitch turned it.

A black rage was in his "She'll lose it!" Rowley's eyes again.

beart and a bitter hurt in his degrees below zero was register He may pull a gun quickly he can. If he cannot, his testi- were bulging.

Francis smiled ironically. Once pride. Dogs he knew only too welled by another balloon released in enough on a rival, but he avoids (mony is often vague and incon- more the rabbit had turned and Once they killed they could never October by the Calgary meteorolo- cut back to the burrows, and then, ha cured, till the thing became a Maybe he could make with the mouth of a hole a baremania.

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gical station.

yard away, the jaws of the bitch some plausible excuse and get rid COWS AND ACORNS

Cause of Children's

Death Traced

direct contact with his victims.sistent and of more help to the In addition, he pays for and defendant than to the State's or gets political protection. It district attorney. has been charged that, an occs War Made On Rackets

sion, he gets police protection

Nevertheless, who had offered

the

fight Shake-ups of the defective divi suddenly closed. Francis chuckled. of her to the man

sion in the Bronx by the rehired thugs goes on.

against the racketeer and his "Til give re five pound for that that ten pounds, and hope against

Thomas hope he would never find her out;

sent police administration have Dewey, who successfully bitch," Bowley said

been linked by observers to prosecuted Waxey Gordon and *No, nor yet ten, you won't. A and as he thought that, a new rage man would have give me ten the was on him so that had she been

other gang leaders, is pain. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS Pro bad I wouldn't look at wear he would have thrashed her Caney, Kansas: A cow with a Shultz's record as beer haron of

{takingly building up cases again and cursed her home out of passion for searns has been dis- that borough...

In the face of these circum against racketeers that will not covered to be the cause of the sud- The bitch was loping up, and be his sight

Then as he tumed his head to-den deaths of two small children.stances, evidence against the took the rabbit from her proffered

A doctor who examined the clever racketeer is difficult to only warrant indictment by his mouth, holding it by its struggling wards the dart where she lay a

will stand up before a petit back legs and drawing his hand something black and white came children declared that they had obtain. And things are made special "zacket" grand jury, but

jury. fato his field of view and there was been poisoned by milk from an even more difficult for the pro- He explained secutor by the unwillingness of caressingly down the far

His grand jury men have Look at that!" he said "Didn't Rowley's old dog loping across the acom-eating cow.

been meeting several times know she'd picked it up. heath. It was about two minutes that cows occasionally develop a witnesses to testify clearly and eat nothing else. The acorns do ter victim, fearing reprisal, will how I like a dog to catch and bring through the hedge in pursuit.

"Which way'd he go. Charlie" not harm the cow, but contamin avoid testifying altogether and there are indications that [Continued at Foot of Next Col) at least some of the testimony an old rabbit!”

it has heard touched upon "Test into that fit over there"ate the milk.

Schultz's activities. It is ex Francis told him.

pected that Mr Dewey will be ready to art shortly de

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Rowley went off again in search of his dog, and Francis resumed his work. No more rabbits bolted

ROW

GOLD DIGGERS of 1935

THE STARS

Rowley was out of breath and. [spluttering with rage wa [“Let me get in range of him and Tload him up with shot, zod have done with I saw him kil

a fally rabbit on them swedes, only

I was too far away to shoot.”

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After Five Days Silence Albany, are warring against the

On he went again, swearing to Port Moresby (New Guinea).

had Francis's band himself. moved out to stir the fire-but

gangster in the only way they canas opportunistä. – The and swamps in the region where man who carries a gun without fa permi or with a permit that After disappearing in the wilds he disappeared.

He let here to return to the has not been approved by Com Fly River Survey Camp, and land

Valentine, can be now it drew back again. The hand of New Gaines for the second fell, and the flaring red of shame time in less than four months ed at Kerema, 160 miles further picked up by police and sent to ran across his cheeks Rowley's Flight-lieutenant Stuart Campbell, up the coast. Later in the day be dog had Elled that rabbit, and the fan Australiar. – sirman, arrived left for Kikori, some 110 miles further westward round the Galf bitch had brought it as her duty sately at Fly River Cam

But he did not reach

was. And she had zidied away He had hear delayed by a forced of Papua. because of the strangeness of it, leading to make adjustments to that she should carry a rabbit that his

note

Found

This line and his eyes bezen 2 vessels

double

Investigations -

ests follow each

hid feral