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MUTT AND JEFF

WELL, IF IRELAND HASN'T GOT A NAVY WHY DID YOU AGREE WITH THAT BIG IRISH- SAILOR YESTERDAY WHEN HE SAID IRELAND HAD THE BIGGEST NAVY IN THE WORLD?,

TO KEEP FROM GETTING A PUNCH IN THE SHOOT, You BOOB! ANYBODY, KNOWS IRELAND IS A FREE STATE

AND HAS NO

NAVY!

WOULDN'T IT BE RICH

IF IRELAND HAS GOT. A NAVY AND MUTT DON'T KNOW IT! MAYBE IRELAND,

HAS, I'LL ASK THAT IRISHMAN TO TELL ME WHERE IT IS!

NOT THAT I DOUBT YOU AT ALL, BUT ON THE LEVEL, HAS IRELAND REALLY GOT A NAVY?

CERTAINLY!

THE GREATEST IN THE WOR-RULD!

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"CLIPPED"

This is one of the stangest murder: They checked and found R. N., was stories I have ever heard.

a Mr. Nason living in a suburb. They

dental.

Quint, naturally,

Oakes called at Mr. Nason's home

Then Detective Oakes went to the

A man named Tinklington was run found that Mrs. Carson lived in 'an- down by an automobile driven by a other suburb.

The man named Quint, and killed.. state made inquires. It wanted to know whether the killing was purely acci- and learned that Mr. Nason had gone to California and wouldn't return for a month. He called on Mrs. Carson, claimed that it and Mrs. Carson claimed she never was. Tinklington had been an ice wrote any such letter. cream vendor. He had a small re- frigerator rigged up on rubber-tired wheels, and he had a tricycle rigged district where Quint lived. He made behind so he could propel the refri- inquiries and he found that Tinkling- He ton also lived in that district. gerator about the streets.

learned also that over A year ago Tinklington had a regular beat. He Quint had almost gotten married, but went up Main street at 9 o'clock in the something happened to stop it at the morning, -turned-right at Pleasant last minute. He learned that Quint street, turned left and went over the and the girl had been seeing a lot of Pleasant street bridge, and followed each other lately.. the River road until he came to the end of the row of apartment houses.

more

Detective Oakes asked many questions, but discovered only that

The crash had occurred at the north Tinklington and Quint were ostensibly end of the Pleasant street bridge, good friends.

Then Detective Oakes returned to Quint claimed that Tinklington was.

a warrant out in the middle of the street where headquarters and issued

murder of he shouldn't be.

charging Quint with the Tinklington.

The state, was interested and im- pressed, especially BO when, after Oakes had had a long talk with Quint Being no hardened criminal, Quit broke down and confessed to the crime.

he

"I couldn't help hitting him," Baid. "No one could under the cir- cumstances."

"Can you prove neglect on Tinkling ton's part?" the state wanted to know.

"I can prove that a lot of other peo- ple were annoyed at the careless way

Bon."

"

The facts of the case are as follow Tinklington had stolen Quint's gifli and Quint had sworn to get revenge.”

By James Freeman

He

must pretend he was, always driving that cart of He knew that first he' his," Quint said. "Why, there have friendship for Tinklington. Then he even been pieces written about him began planning. During the year that and published in the papers."

followed he laid his ground work, He wrote the letters to the newspapers, The state was interested. At its re- signing the initials "R.N... and “Mrs. guest, Quint produced three newspa- Carson," because he had seen those pers. In one there was a letter in the signatures used and he knew the forum column written by a person paper, having the real names in file, who signed his named "R.N." com- would publish the letters. plaining about the way a certain ice didn't sign any name at all when he cream: vendor operated his car and wrote to the columnist. Then he call- warning the vendor to watch out heed the attention, of several of his didn't get clipped. In a later issue of friends to the fact that Tinklington the same paper was another letter of was negligent, în driving his cart. He similar nature signed by a “Mrs. Car- figured, those friends could and would testify later if necessary. Then Quint In a third paper Quint showed the deliberately ran down Tinklington, state a paragraph in a column written making it look like an accident and by the paper's leading columnist which hoping he had killed, the vendor, stated: in part::

The ice cream

The word "clipped" was the key to vendor who crosses the Pleasant street bridge, every morning about 9:30 had the state's suspicion. It appeared in better be careful; Some day he's two of the three published newspaper items. And when Detective Oakes going to get clipped."

called the colummist's attention, to the The state read these items and pon-word, the columnist stated emphati- dered. Obviously, Tinklington was at cally that he had never used that word least partly at faulti But the state in all his writings, and probably never wanted to be sure. So detective. Asa ..

uld use it because he didn't like It. Oakes was assigned to, the case.

Detective. Qakes first called on the spapers, columnist and asked him. questions. The columnist thought hard" but fin- ally had to admit he couldn't be, of the much help. "I don't remember the item at all.. I write so many.

"Do you remember” seeing the ice cream vendor crossing brid

No. Someone pro ibly mails item in to me. thought it 'stuff landą use

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