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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1951.

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THE CASE OF THE

HOWLING DOG

P

OBY ERLE STANLEY

ERRY Mason hung up the telephone and walked back into the library. He made of the

a hurried search

rear

"All this business of the of that. bright lights and all You aren't confusing me any." Sergeant Holcomb took a deep breath,

"Mason," he said, "there's

Now, we wunt

library, then pushed his way something about this that you're through a door which open- utding back. ed from the

of the to know what it is. A murder library. He found that it been committed, and you're around the bedroom. found prowling opened into There was a light burning place,"

"We don't

to

in the bedroom, and a sult "In other words, you think 1 is that it? Muson of evening clothes was laid shot him, countered. out on the bed. Mason walk-

know what ed across the room and into the bathroom. On a shelf think." Holcomb sald irritably. "We do know that you repre- above the washbowl in the sented a client who gave every bathroom was â safety indication of showing incipient razor,shaving cream, and a homicidal mania.

brush, to which lather still clung. The safety razor had been used.

"We know that you occupied an adverse position all the way along the line to Clinton Foley, the murdered man. We don't know what you were doing out We don't know how We don't

Around a water pipe, leading to the

a log bathtub, was chain, and near the dog chain was a pan of water. On the other side was another pan which was empty. Perry Mason, here. knelt and looked at that emply you got in the house,

pan. smeared with

GARDNER.

is about to betray another Into damaging admission, "then you know what happened, do your"

"I looked around," said Perry Mason, "the same as you did,”

Colour fight

is

TV news

By Rodney Campbell

But this project is no mero

fact

NEW YORK. WENT to the top of braggadocio. It is highly prac-

the world's highest cal, as practical as the

one in every ten Ameri building so I could go cans will view the loant a little higher.

shadowy, most clearly defined

television shows in the world.

Above and around mo Research specialists decided construction engineers in that Empire State transmission steel helmets manoeuvred would have B range of 42 themselves and fastened miles, enough to satisfy a potential TV nudlerice of mora steel struts to D rising than 15,000,000 in the New tower....with the delibera- York area.

tion of men who had nothing Only Field

but the sky-scraper and empty air between them

THIS is the only fold in Ameri- and the street, 1,350 feet there is the least suspicion of can television today where

goodwill between the six rival

below.

For ten contractors are companies.

putting up a 222-ft. £175,- American companies love to it is a partial 000 television mast on top compete, and

source of

strength. But of the Empire State Build- the companies have been fight-

Of their ing. It is a construction ing like alley-cats, using full- project so amazing that page advertisements to ridicule every rivet has to be ferried and threatening

competitive products and ideas, sult all over 1,250 feet above the street the nation. before it can be handled.

Now the new tower is 100 feet high. It will be Anished in November and the steel men will give place to the television scientists.

They will lastall priceless

fect equipment 1,500

above

the street, and begin telecast ing.

WHAT HAS CONE BEFORE

Perry Mason, the lawyer, is consulted by wealthy Ar- thur Cartright about drawing-up A will. At the same time,

he complains that a neighbour, Clinton Foley, has taught his dog to howl just to annoy him. They ace the district attorney's deputy about filing a complaint. When donies the deputy sela inquiries going, Foles, in turn, that his dog has ever howled and alleges that Cartright is insane. Perry and the sheriff accompany Foley back home to ascertain for themselves. They find the housekeeper, Mrs Thelma Benton, has been bitten by the dog. Foley also discovers that his wife has left him and run away with the man next door. Later Perry Mason goes to see Foley by appointment and finds him shot dead as well sa

the dog.

Now read on.

The issue is colour television. Columbla Broadcasting Sys- Lem won a legal authorisation recently to start colour pro- ok TV grammes. And buyers sets just did not know what to do.

They could:

| Buy a new set for black- white transmission, risk being out of dote in a tow months' time.

2 Buy A που Got with а

clumsy, wheel-like сод verter. This attachment to a regular set converts the black- white image to colour. But it costs £50, and that, too, might suon be out of date.

3 Wait and see what happens

to colour television buying.

Now it seems

the favourite.

batore

that No. 3 is

So the bottom has fallen out

of the TV set market. Shops dealing in hundreds a day re- ported soles were running in the two to three mngel Floods of

the cancellations reached

had manufacturers. Everyone

"That's the point," said Mu- inventory problems.

"No, we're not going to go over that again," snapped Sér- son, scant Holcomb. "I'm simply telling you that it's exceedingly possible

to

But Columbla planned have 20 colour programmes on air and it would take a heavy lawsult to stop it.

"What is?" asked Sergeant the

"The point that should make

י

Emerging

from

comb said

"Very well," Sergeant Hol-

sarcastically, "g ahead and tell me what hap pened, if you will be so good."

your client, Arthur Holcomb. "In the first place," sald Perry Cartright, ran away with Mrs that he heard from Mrs Faley; Mason, "the dog was chained up Foley's lips a story of abuse the you suspicious about this per-IT is little less than a tragedy when the murderer went into the house. Clinton Foley went had suffered at the hands of her feet alibi of Theima Benton's, he went back, Whenever a porcon can show an out and saw a person who had husband; that

to kill Clinton Iron-clad ailbi covering entered the house, and talked determined

they've with him for a minute. Then Foley."

been doing every minute of the time it's usually a sign that they've taken a great deal of care to perfect an alibi. "And about the only evidence A person who does that either participates in the commission

Miss you say all you've got to go on is the fact of a murder and fakes an alibi, mance in the TV version of S.

that Cartright was having some trouble with Clinton Foley and or else knows a murder is going N. Behrman'e "Biography". run away with his wife. Is to be committed, and therefore was halled critically Ds a takes great pains to make a per-tour-de-force, to match дру- that right?"

fect alibi."

thing she had done on the stage.

he went back and turned the dog loose. That was when the dog was shot; and after that Clinton Foley was shut,”

"What makes

that?" asked Sergeant Holcomb, "You seem quite positive,

"Did you," asked Perry Mn- con with scathing sarcasm, "happen to notice a towel lying partially under the bathtub?"

Sergeant Holcomb hesitated it was know just who it is you're try The bottom of

ing to shield, but you're sure as for a moment, then said, "What greasy a substance, and round the ctiges hell trying to shield somebody" of it?"

of the pan there were two or three particles of what appeared to be a cunned dog food.

"Maybe I'm trying to shield myself" Perry Mason remark-

ed.

"I'm commencing to think 50," Holcomb said.

"That," said Perry Mason, In a tone of finality, "shows just exactly how good a you are. If you'd

་

"That's enough evidence to go

on."

that all this should happen when U.S. television bas shown signs of emerging lately what

Its "all-in wrestling stage."

Actors like Fredric March, Robert Montgomery And Our own Gertrude Lawrence and Sorah Churchill are bringing distinction to the TV theatre.

Lawrence's Derfor

Comedy, too, is passing from the banana peel stage, and Bob "All right," Perry Mason cald,

and Judy "I'm just going to puncture your There was a long moment of Hope, Bing Crosby

Garland combined the other theory right now. If that had silence. Then Sergeant Holcomb evening to lacerate "Goodnight happened, and Arthur Cartright sald, in a voice that was almost free

பரீ the

most "So went back, he would have gone meditative, back with the deliberate in- Thelma Benton knew Clinton satires I ever saw.

think sophisticated tention of killing Clinton Folty, Foley was going to be murder-

cu?" isn't that right?"

you

ORO

he

and murderous

Names In Lights "On that towel," said Perry

"I suppose so, yes."

"I don't know anything at all A RTURO TOSCANINI, fresh Mason, "was shaving cream.

from questioning nt the "All right. If he had done about what Thelma Benton knew "Well, what of that?”

or didn't know," Perry Mason (he told them he was

hands of Immigration Micials that, he would have gone into remarked.

not a "I merely told you "The towel was dropped the house, seen Clinton Foley, there when Clinton Foley re- pointed a gun at him and gone that a person who has a perfect Fascist), decided he was being "pushed around" by his New right away. He alibi usually has a reason for York radio company. So leased the dog from the chain, bang, bang. The fur end of the chain ter-

detective Now when a

man shaves, he wouldn't have stood around and it, I'll bet there in't a man in

postponed hals New York open- minated in a spring calch, so

use your doesn't put shaving cream on a argued while Foley was wiping the room who can prove, abso- {ing for three weeks, because of devised that a person need only

the lather from his face.

lutely, by witnesses, what he Ho

in bad knee. brains, you'd realise that the towel He only gets shaving wouldn't have stood still and let was doing every minute press the prongs of the cattil mere fact I am a lawyer repre- orcat on a towel when he is Foley go back and unchain u tween seven-thirty and eight bc- together to spread the jaws and senting interests inimical to

The only o'clock tonight," liberate a dog who might be Clinton Foley would have made wiping the lather from his face. savage police dog.

io that him very careful what he said He does that hastily, when he trouble with you guys

is interrupted in the middle of you find a dead man and im- Mason walked back to the and what he did. His manner

his shaving and wants to clean mediately start looking for some back his chair and got to his their sell-out season in New would have been library, west to the body of the toward me

the surplus lather from his fact, one who would make a good feet. one of extreme formally. I'd police dog. There was a collor

Now, Clinton Foley didn't do suspect. You don't look at the round the neck, a collar which hardly be a friend that he'd re- that when the dog first barked evidence and try to see where

the informality of a was shiny with age, and which celve in bore a silver plate. On the ail- bathrobe, with a face that was or when he first heard the in- that evidence points.""

truder. He went into the other room to see what the dog was

"Where does it point?" asked ver plate, the words, "Prince. Property of Clinton Foley. 4089

"Whoever did that job," Ser- barking about, and faced an in- Sergeant Holcomb Milpan Drive," had been

talked with geant Holcomb said, "broke into truder. He graved,

chained to it.

сп

half-shaven."

this

"Hell"

Sergeant Holcomb

DARREL FANCOURT Fand MARTYN GREEN and fellow- members of the D'Oyiy

Carte scraped Opera troupe relaxed from

1

Haven, Connecticut, and went

to Lalong

Univeralty Yale asked to sing "When dance. Immediately they were

Really Ruled the

Wala and "The Virgin Sturgeon." brought the house down, made thousands of new friends for Britain.

mem-

am going to let you go. You're "You win, Mason," he said

pretty well established here in lown, and we can put our finger on you whenever we want you, I don't mind telling you that don't really think you did the the house. The first thing that person, and, while he was talk-

murder, but I sure as hell think SOMERSET MAUGHAM, in happened was when the dog ing, he was wiping the lather

associato said Perry Mason you're shielding some one, and receiving an towel. the Naturally, off his face onto heard the intruder.

one is a client of bership of the National

In- the dog would have ears that Then something happened that wearily. "I've done dama near that some A

were more keen than those of made him go back and turn the all the detective work on this yours. I'm just going to tell you stitute of Arts, said this: "Az I'm not going to that in place of chiclding your soon as the novelist sets out his master. His master let the tog joose. That's when the care so far. he dog loose, and you had to shoot person fired the shot. You can do. all of your work for you ellent, your conduct has made to be a preacher and a propa- gandist, he ceases to be an caught sight of a towel. He the dog in self-defence. At figure it all out, from the fact You're the one that's drawing me all the more suspicious,"

arilat, and wo all know what pulled out the towel and noticed the sound of those plots Clinton that there's lather on that towel, pay for the job: I'm not"

happens to his novel then." that it was still damp. He Foley come running into the if you want to use your brain room to see what was the mat- to think with, Instead of think- ter, and you let him have it." ing up a lot of foolish questions."

Mason went back to the bed room, through the bedroom to the bathroom, and made second inspection.

Underneath the bathtub

raised the towel to hla nostrils, melled it, and caught the odor of shaving cream,

As he straightened and push ed the towel back into the "posl. tion where he had found it he heart the pound of a siren in the distance and the noise made by the exhaust of a police car.

Bright Incandescents - beat pitilessly down upon Perry Mason's thee. On hin right, seated at a little table, art hand reporter took Hown every- thing Mason said.

"You're satisfied of 'that?"

asked Perry Mason,

"It's commencing to look that

way."

"From all wo can under- stand," said Sergeant Holcomb "you've drawn pretty good pay to date for everything that you've done in the case,”

Ferry Mason gave an audiblo yawn.

Thero was a moment of silence in the room, then a voice "Then why don't you arrest sald, from the shadow which "How about Thelma Beaton?". formed a circle beyond the he asked. “What was she do- beating Blumination, of the ing?"

me?"

shaded incandescents: "Yes, I "Bho's got a complete alibi.

saw that towel”.

"Well, then,"

Stio can account for every Bald Sergeant minute of her time,"

"By God, I'm going to if you don't come clean on this thing Holcomb, "where's Arthur Cart I never in my life ran onto a right?"

man in a murder case who was

HIS

no delightfully indefinito. You "I don't know. I tried to and say you had an appointment him earlier in the day. with Foley at eight-thirty. But housekeeper Bays ho's you don't produce any evidence away."

Across from Mason Detective- to prove it." Sergeant Holcomb stared

40

.

"By the way," said Perry Mà- son, "what were you doing at

the time, Sergeant?"

Sergeant Holcomb's

gons showed surprise.

volco

"I was on my way up to the "Thelma Bonton says, that he office here,” said Sergeant Hol- Minson with eyes that showed a "Hell, not I tell you I don't ran away with Mis Foley," comb. "I was in an automobile.

ali those details. Sergeant Holcomb remarked."

somewhere between the mise combination of puzzled bowild remember erment and a vast irritation. I'll tell you something else, too.

and the offico." Senteil around in the shadows. As a detective, you're a fala were three men of the homicide alarm. The WAT YOU recon- squad.

struct the scene of that murder

happened:"

"How many wilnemes can you bring to prove it?" asked Ma-

“Yes,” Bald Perry Mason, fold and that.”

"And that's what Clinton

Both

"You don't need to pull an shown that you don't know what Foloy told Pete Durcan"

“Nono, of course.. I con chính "So I unterstand," ' Muson, when I wan at my house, and

at the office."

that hokum,” sald Porry Mason WAN," multi Sergeant Holcombi, kald wearily. "Are we going to I. can show the time I arrive

"What hokum?” Sergeant. Holcomb sakod,

In the purring tone of one who · gp kll over that again?"

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