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THE CHINA MÀIL, DECEMBER 12, 1938

By BUD FISHER

MUTT AND JEFF

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

ROUTINE STUFF

"How do you know that?”

Just then Neville swung the patrol

THE patrol car was two miles north of Fayville when an announcement

short wave set that car out of line and, with siren scream- came over the three armed bandits-had-held-up-and-ing, we began passing cars that had

been stopped. We came to the -head- robbed the Fayville Trust Co.

me of the line and Neville swung to Lieutenant Neville glanced at and smiled. "This will be an excel- roadside. Three state troopers lent opportunity to prove the common peering into cars and then letting sense of what I've been talking about" them pass. Every time they came to "Do you mean you think you can an old Ford or other small car they made the occupants produce their pa- catch the robbers?" I asked.

the

were

Neville and I approached-just-asa

"I'm sure of it. The Fayville bank pers. is one of many that are co-operating with the police. The bandits don't know Ford touring car was drawing to a halt. Inside were three country boys. that"

scarced, Curiously,

I wish I could have felt as confident They looked as did the lieutenant,

Minutes later Neville stopped

I

- knew before a single question had been the asked, that here were the bank rob-

white patrol car in front of the bank. bers. Quite a crowd had gathered outside.

I was right. The three youths were They of the business. It was then 11.45 a.m. When the lo- not veterans cal police saw Neville they looked re- cracked almost at once, whimpering:

and pleading for mercy. lieved.

Neville waited until he was sure all "Come on," he said to me, and led the way inside. The bank's staff, a the stolen money had been recovered man and two girls, looking scared, and the three bandits placed under were answering questions around look- guard, then he led the way back to ing things over and seeing nothing the patrol car. that might offer a clue. Near by two officers were talking, One of them the starter, told the other that the cashier hadn't had a chance to set off the newly in

I pro- stalled tear bombs. I smiled. bably wouldn't have a "chance" either

"Routine-stuff," he said, stepping on

I stared at him. "If that's routine, my gosh what do you call a real, ex- citing case?"

Neville laughed. "The way the po-

By James Freeman

if a man with a gun in his hand was lice have things under control these looking at me. Tear bombs, to my way days, capturing three bandits like of thinking, were a waste of money in those boys is nothing more than a mat- ter of formality. You saw how the banks.

I noticed that Neville had left the bank at Fayville had co-operated. The group he had been taking with. and information they gave us, coupled with Presently he what we know of criminals, made it gone to the telephone.

comparatively easy." came toward me.

"So I noticed. Now what do you "There were three of them," he said, know of criminals?" consulting a slip of paper.

"Pro-

"Plenty, Real dyed-in-the-wool crim-

only There

bably all farmers. One was about six inals are like the rest of us, victims of

other habit. There are, for example, feet tall and dark-haired, the two were about five feet eight, medium three types of bank robbers. complexion. One walked with a limp are those who hold up a bank just They're probably driving an old Ford after it opens in the morning when few or some similar small car."

people are about, there are those who I stared at him in amazement. "How hold it up at noon when some of the do you know all that?"

employees are at lunch, and there are "The cashier and the two girls have the greedy type who operate just be- Each, in fore three o'clock when the bank closes The had previous instructions. case of a holdup, is detailed to watch and the cash drawers are full. everything that goes on in a small area fact that the Fayville job was pulled near where he or she works, remem at about 11.30 in the morning indicat- bering such things as peculiarities of ed that the bandits were not veterans, speech, gait, dress, etc., of the ban- but probably local boys. And if they dits. Near each window where they were local boys that meant they were work are marks on the wall, begin badly in need of money and would per- ning about five feet from the floor and force be driving an old and small car." "I see," I said. The short wave an- going up three inches at a time to six and one half feet. Thus the person nouncer began to speak. A man had the been killed in a fight-in a pool room behind the window can judge height of a man on the other side, down at Thompsontown Neville sight-

ed. That's what I meant when I said this:

"More routine," he remarked, step- bank was co-operating with the police. Come on; we'll go pick up the rob- ping on the gas.. bera."

The patrol car swung into highway. No. 3. Traffic was heavy in both: dí- rections.

"Do you think this is the road they took?" I asked.

Neville

Ho, hum!" said Ï; not to be out- done.

- (Copyright, 1938, By The Associated Newspapers).

They' MRS. LINDSELL'S

LOSSO

nodded. Sure. keep in the thick of traffic, knowing that all roads will be blocked and cars stopped. They'll figure there are so many cars on this road that the police can't hold them up for long, and they can slip through.”

"Sounds like smart reasoning. What makes you think they won't slip through?"

"Because," said. Neville, "this trio will be in an old Ford or some other amall car, as I mentioned before."

E.

the

It is reported: that Mrs. R. Lindsell, wife of the Acting. Chief Justice, shortly after leaving main entrance of the Hong Kong Club at, 7.46. p.m. on. Saturday, lost gold finger-ring set with five pearls valued at $250. .