1930-01-22 — Page 11

Avenging Parrot

by Anne Custin

CHAPTER XLVII

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

Because he knew that Cora's NEIGHBOURS AT LAW. jealousy would lead her to probe

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AMUSING EVIDENCE, ON CHRISTMAS SCUFFLE.

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an accusation. she made Tuesday night and which he denied," Duns des answered. "I heard a little of it, knew Jewel was mixed up in It Later that pvoning Mrs. Rhodes went up to speak to Cora, but didn't Hearing was resumed, at the. for she heard Jewel and Cora quar-Central-Magistracy yesterday after- rcling.

noon before Mr. Grantham, of the "Corn was necusing Jewel of hav. wing been in Bert's room at mid-case in which Mr. G. H. Blók, of the,

night Thursday of the week before, editorial staff of the Hongkong with telling how you found out Said she heard Bert say to some Bert Magnus wasn't Bert Magnus. girl-and who could it be but Daily Press, is summoding Mr. "What do you mean?--"the per- "That part was ensy, Dundee Jewel? Go to it, sweetheart! The H. A. Botelho and others for as- fect stenographer' 7" Lieutenant admitted. "I should have been sus-perfect stenographer! Of courar

for using provocative Strawn demanded, as Detectives picious of la identity long before he was not talking to a girl at all. sault and Payne and Wilkins devoted their was, because there was plenty to He was gloating over the perfec- language. Mr. Blok is also named entire attention to subduing and make me suspicious all along. tion of his mechanical device, the as defendant in a number of alimilar handcuffing a raging maniac who his ille collection" of trash bag eencocting of what would be a 'per-summonses taken out by the other had been known as Bert Magnus, exhibits and ranged them along the feet alibi. Naturally he WILA "Is there a girl in there?"

deste top. These are pages of a frightened stiff, felt he had to kill parties. "Reasure and scatter, those poor scenario, entitled, "More To Be Corn before she could. charge folks cooped up in Styles' room, Pitied. While paper, typing per- jewel with tl., 'scandal,' and thus and then I'll show you," Dundee fect. The last page shows signs of let the eat out of the bug. promised. "Will you come in now nge, so it must have been written "Remember he testified at the in Ogden?" he called to the keen-several years ago by the real Bert quest that he took a long walk eyed, sharp-faced young man whose Magnus, and, lyped by a profession-Tuesday night: I have a hunch he lean body had cast the shadow al stenographer. And these are saw Sevier, who was also taking the open door of 'Styles corresp:nding pages of the 're a long walk, trying to screw up his vision on which Bert--which we'll courage to go to police headquar Five minutes later Lieutenant call him still-was working on the ters, and thought he saw a finë Strawn knocked and was admitted night Mrs. Hogarth was murdered. ebance of pinning the Barker mur to the room which Jind been occu-|- "There are no changes! Get der on Sevier, as well as the Ho pled by the man known na Bert that? If I'd my wits about garth murder. That first was very Magnus, The typewriter was still me. I'd have stumbled onto that carefully planned to incriminate tapping away steadily, but no hu- significant fact days ago. When Sevier at every turn; the second" man hands were touching the keys.1 did discover it, i asked myself was impromptu, I was afraid Cora 'Well, I'll be-1" Words failed the why a poor man, with one hand told him, just before he strangled chief of the homicide squad as he crippled, was fling away retyp her, hat she had already had It planted himself before the desk, ing a manuscript of which he had out with Jewel, which is why I took with its strange equipment "la that destroyed a perfect copy. The an-palas, to guard Jewel's life."- all there is to it? What makes it swer was, obviously, that he was work?"

using "his typing as a blind; that Dundee Jaughed, jerked an elec-[he had typed and retyped merely trical card, and the tapping censed to accustom people to hearing his suddenly. The little plunger slopj3- typewriter going, even Inte ed, hovering just over the letter q.ht"

ncross room.

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The case arone out of an in- cident which occurred on Christmas' night at Wongucichong Road be tween Mr. Blok and his neighbours, the Botelhos. Mr. Blok said that in the result, he received severe in- juries to his face inflicted by both Mr. H. A. Botelho and Mr. N. B. Maler.

Mr. Leo D'Almada, for the Botelhos. contended that it was a fight between Mr. Blok and Mr. as both parties Maher inasmuch

were engaged in it, and pointed to certain expressions alleged to have been uttered by Mr. Blok provocative

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Dr. Grácn Ozorio, yesterday, gave evidence an to the finding of marks that could have been caused by a "slogging blow" on the person of Mr. H. A. Botelho..

Mr. Omar Ismail, a suopoenaed witness, stated that on being called out of house No. 89, he heard Mr. Blok insisting that he did not call Mr. Botelho a loafer, and Mr. Botelho threatening to give Mr. Blok a "good licking" for calling him, such,

"I guess he figured that if Jewel blabbed about a perfect steno- grapher in his room at midnight on Thursday, the police might won- "Not quite all, chief. The rest "I see," O'Brien nodded. "Amloer it that same perfect steno- of the perfect stenographer' is in four people swore he was in his grapher' wasn't providing him with this old trunk of electrical 'junk' room whm Mrs. Hagarth was muran

alibi

on Saturday night," which Arthur Wheeler left here." dered, because they heard him typ- Strawn elucidated wisely, as if the "Then Wheeler was mixet up inling. But how did you get onto conclusion were original with him. Dundee grinned. "Right!" his not being Bert Magnus?" it?" Strawn usked keenly.

"Not that he knows of," Dundee "Well, as soon as I had reason "There was just one other clue, but grinned. "His only crime was in to doubt Bert's perfect alibi, i had 1 overlooked it at the time. The beating his board bill, so that he ample reason to check his identity, fuses blew out at the Rhodes House had to leave this trunk behind, thus sine couldn't get that bad three times last month. Bert test putting ideas for a perfect alhi in-penny business out of my head."ing cut his invention, of course. He had the parts made at various to the wicked head of Dan Grif-Dundee explained: fin, allas Herbert S. Magnus. Meet "H. was ridiculously easy do electrical shops-a piece here, a Mr. Clarence Ogden, electrical engi-check up on him, for Bert had plece there, but he made the con- neer, Lieutenant Strawn."

broken his glasses and I had been tact plugs in the bakelite disc him- "Glud to meet you," Strawn lucky enough to find the broken self, I think. One of my wires, by mumbled. Then an iden shook lens in a trash bag in the base the way, brought out the fuct that other Grifin had had one year of electri- him: "Say, Dundee, you haven't ment, along with these gone off half-cocked, have you? things, I simply wired to the optical engineering before he went in Got it into your hend that Magnus elan Whose nume. I had seen on must be guilty, and thought up a Bert's glasses case. He was keep- way to smush his alibi, without any ing the real Bert's case, all right, real proof that he ever used such a but he wasn't wearing contrivance?"

Bert's glasses. He couldn't have "Hardly, chief Every item of worn them, or he'd have gone blind. letiers-" this contrivance was found in this] When the optician wired me the room, as Ogden can swear. Even prescription of the real Bert Mag-f eventually falling heir to half this," and he snatched a disc from nua's glasses, I dook it, along with of the Magnus fortune," Dundee be pulled in as he was having the smell motor which lay in the the broken feus, to Sharp's oculist

trunk.

a"minute

"And so you

for banking."

"He sure played the Bert Magnus a trick," game without missing

admiringly. the rent Strawn commented

"Fooled the Magnus family with his "Because he had every intention

suppose

hen-

Good Advice.

!!

To Mr. A. C. Botelho, Sur., who was making hurriedly for the Reene, witness gave the advice that he must keep cool and net get into trouble on & Christmas night

ness also

Inter suw

"Got it from Botelho."

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Mr. C. V. Marques, avoiher wit ness called by Mr. Blok, said he was in No. 89, when he heard a feminino volce urgently ask for Mr. Blok

Mr. N. B. explained. "But of course he didn't trouble outside on the street. WIL here and asked him: Could the dare show up until the father was Maher, who used certain

Dr. A. G. M. Severn, who has re- man who wore this prescription dead, and in the meantime he hap which witness did not like

cently "Look like a little phonograph five yours ago, wear this lens now? pened to run across his wife, Sally afterwards apologized for it.

been appointed, medical officer of health for Pontypridd, record," Strawn commented. "Ex-And his answer was, 'Not in a mil-somewhere, somehow, I

he'd nursed his rage against her "Amusement was caused when actly! But it isn't. It's a baklion years!"

han had an experience of floods knew who Bertall these years and when he tracked witness admitted he could not re- lite's dirt. See these 14 Bittle metal

which must be unique, says the plugs? I can't explain very tech Magnus wasn't-but you didn't her in her apartment, he killed her member what the words were for

Western Mail and South Wales nically, but this dise regulated the knew who he was," O'Brien summed in a red rage when she wouldn't which Mr. Maher had apologised; given him the money. And when he' but he conceded that where neces-

Kets. During his period of ner tapping of the key, so that it would. Wagging his head.

"Exactly. Of course the next step found she didn't have it after all,sury. Mr. Maher could always be

vice medical officer at Hong- not be too stendy-intervals of dif-

kong and at Smethwick both dis- ferent length between the tapping, was to wire Miami, Florida, where he came on here, as bent on having relied upon to apologize."

his revenge, on the old laly as on

tricts suffered from devastating Mr. Rendall (for Mr. Blok) hav you know. » As soon as I put the Bert Magnus had been hurt in

flooda, particularly the Far Eastern Authorized Capitel 840,000,000.00 problem up to Ogden, he said it tracedent four years ago, getting the money. But if it hadn't

Prlice there were able to supply been for Cap'n and his harping on ing intimated that his case had

port. Hardly had he commenced ve Funds .... sub- was mechanically possible, even

his duties at Pontypridd than he easy for a man with some know-me with descriptions acquired at the words, nd penny. I'm not at closed, Mr. Leo D'Almanda

was called upon to deal with the ledge of electrical engineering to the time of the dead and injured, all sure Dan Grillin would be in mitted that on the evidence there

was jail now."

was no case against Mrs. Botelho

sanitary problems at Trehafod, rig up an outfit like this. Some was Bert Magnus who

"Well, he is, and I'm due to take und Miss Botelho in respect of the

which has now been made by thing the major portion of which killed, and Dan Griffin, usine an-

floods the worst spot in the coun would be hilden from sight, and other name of course, whose hand my turn at the third degree," alleged use of "provoking, abusivo

try from the point of view of which could be unrigged in less than was badly, ent. Bert had told a Strawn said as he rose. Rather and insulting words and of be-

in his chummy way, all about the awkwardly he thrust out a handhaviour."

housing and sanitary conditions. Watch!"

me how he'd and. Dundee gripped it. "By the His Worship concurred, and dis- And Dundee Infd violent hands accident: even told

door, minged the summonses against the upon the visible parts of the de- wired his parents in Riverside to way," he called from the

When I got copies "What about that other bad egg, twe Indics. vice, throwing them into the trunk. Fessure them. The dismantling of the portion in of their wires and his 1 under Henry Dowd ?"

"Not a bad an egg," Dundee At the request of Mr. D'Almada, the trunk and the parts attached to stood why he needed to reassured

laughed. "I got the dope on hint his Worship also struck out the the machine took less than two them."

this morning. Name of. Heury stammons taken by Miss Botelho mlaules.

"You're ahend of me," Strawn Dibble, In contempt of court for against Mr. Blok in respect of a "What are you trying to do!

similar offence. destroy evidence?" Strawn demand-j prowled. "Do you mean Grifin unpaid alimony, poor little

decided then and there to take on pecked devil. Probably his wife ed, outraged.

"Oh, Ogden can have it in work-the dead man's identity, belongings has seen his picture in the paper und is hot-footing it after him this

The case for the Botelhos was ing order again in an hour, if you and family ***

then opened by Mr. D'Almada. Jiku," Dundee explained easily. "Exact! He was Dan Griffin, minule."

Half an hour later Strawn re- Mr. A. Sousa, subpoenaed, stated "When I brought him to look remember, and a fugitive from jus through the trunk he immediately tice. Probably he had made friends turned, triumphant, to the office that he met Mr. Blok the following apotted everything required but with Magnus, had heard all about where uncle and nephew still sat. morning in Ice House Street, out-

and his ambition to "Left Griffin calling for a stenogra-side the Club Lusitano. .this baklite dise. Of course we his family could have duplicated it, knowing write scenaries, etc. When he was pher." he exulted. "He's admitting ing the condition in which Mr. dara well that Magnus must have taken to the hospital he knew the everything-after I told him what Blok was, witness asked, "How him. Told me a guy came?" and Mr. Blok replied that used one, but I was lucky enough real Magnus was dead, and he sim- we had on

ply claimed his name, suitcase, and named Williams helped him rob the he got it from Botelho." to find it."

everything. Had time, undoubtedly, bank-". "Where?"

Mr. A. C. Botelho, who was next "Williams?" Dundee cried. He "Inside this tie rack," and Dun hurt though he was, to switch coats dec took from the wall a round Lle with the dead man, in all the con- knit his brows, then quoted from called, said that he was Secretory holder, fitted with a hand-embroi- fusion. At any rate, the papers de-memory an excerpt from Mrs. Ho- of the Fumigating and Disinfect- dered linen cover, to which were scribed the dead manus unknown, gurth's diary: 'Our good friend J. Ing Bureau, and owned the house sewn half a dozen long ribbon loops, with dark-brown hair. small red-W. Is dend... I often wonder in which he and his family lived still crowded with Lies. "Look Pdish moustache, and eyeglasses, The "how S. and I would ever have got at No. 93, Wongnelchong Road.

On the night in question, he was He ripped out the stitches he him- family was frantic, put in River-away that day if J. W. aelf had put there the day before, side, of course, and immensely re- helped us pack." Yes, J. W. and drew forth a small phonograph lieved when the new 'Bert Magnus' was a good friend, indeed," he said called out of the house by his record. "When I first talked with wired them that the papers had bitterly. "It's plain now that ac- younger daughter, and came upon Magnus, he told me a lot about his maken mistake, and he ha suf-complice James Williams found Mr. Blok, whose first words ad- family; said his little sister had fered nothing worse than a crippled and took the $10,000 while the two dressed to him were: "Botelho, go were packing. Double and fumigate yourself. You are made this for him before he left hand. Here are all the wires, if women

crossed his pal, Griffin, and lived the uncle of the loafer,"

Cross-examined, witness said ho home five years ago. Yesterday, you care to see them." when I was looking for a good place

"No, go on," hit uncle directed. to be cashier of the bank! Tell that of concealment for a round, flat ob- "What made you think of the type Dan Griffin, Strawn, and make never challenged Mr. Blok to go Ject I remembered it. He had re-writer being worked mechanically?" him feel real wood. It ought to over the way to have another fight

"There," and Dundee showed him cheer him up," he added with sud- with him.

Replying to Mr. Rendall, witness membered it, too, when he wanted the two grease-stained wads of pa- den boyish savageness, "to know to get rid of the baklitos disc. presume there was a round piece per and the yellow sheets with the that he killed three women over a said that he stood bond for Mr. of thick cardboard in it before, for letter 4 struck over and over until measly $10,000 that neither his N. B. Maher when the latter was

Maher had with Mr. Blok,SANA stiffening. He simply removed the paper was cut. "Of course I wife nor his mother-in-law, poor bound over in the last case Mr. Inserted the disc, and sewed it up thought of a girl accomplice, at things, had ever laid eyes on!"

it wouldn't wash. I "Where are you going, Bonnie?" again."

studied these things over a lot, and his uncle asked, as the young de- when I found a q cut through the tective rose and started for the Half an hour later the police paper in the middle of a page of door. rommissioner, the chief of the ho- scenario, I had the trail. The "To shod: a little sunshine and micide squad, and the squad's new-mechanical thing operated only claim my reward." est recruit ant about Lieutenant upon the letter a, you know., And

"Reward?" Strawn' and O'Brien gehoed. Strawn's desk in his office at "Head-7 knew it was typewriter of on quarters,"

these wada. He used them to wedge. "After I tell Norma Palge that Well, shoot the works, boy," the carriage so it wouldn't move she's heiress to $2000 instead of nothing but a parrot she doesn't Commissioner O'Brien commanded, and knock over his aparatus.". a broad grin of almost paterrini "But what the devil did he ki like, I have every hope that she pride on his Irish face. Begin Cora for--if he did?" Strasyn asked. Isten to reason when I explain that

first, but

hadn't

H

4

Observ.

"

After Mr. H. A. Botelho had given evidence, the case was ad-

purned until to-morrow,

I need Cap'n, the avenging parrot, in my business. He makes the Flickest Watson, you ever saw, Uncle Fat!"

And he strolled away, whistling very cheerfully, for a young man suffering from unrequited love...

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KUALA KANGSAR ZAMBOANGA

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Forelyn Exchange and General Banking business transacies.

Correat Accounta› opened mad Fixed De posils received for one your or shorter periode As rate which will be quoted an application.

A. IL YERGUSON,

Manager. Hongkong, 24th April, 1929.

THE NATIONAL CITY BANB

OF NEW YORK..

HEAD OFFICE:. 55, Wall Street, New York.

Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profis ...... U.S.$290,650,283-

Branches in:

ARGENTINE

DELGIUN

BRAZIL,

CHILE

CHINA

COLOMBIA CUBA + DOMINICAN

REPUBLIC

INDIA

ITALY

JAPAN

LONDON

MEXICO

FANAMA

PELU

PORTO 2100

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ters of Credit, Travellers' Cheques Bille of Exchange and Cable Transfers bought and sold. Car.. rent accounts and Savings Bank accounts opened and Fixed De ponite in local and foreign curren cles taken at rates that may ha as- certained on application to the Bank.

We are also able to offer our Customers the services, of the Branches of the International Banking Corporation in San Fran cisco, Spain and the Philippine Islands, and also of The National City Bank of New York (France). SA., in Paris. and Nice,

F. McD, COURTNEY,

Manager. Hongkong, 2nd July, 1929,

THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED. 1913.

Head Offices-Hongkong.

Authorised Capital; Fall-Up Tent

Bénaire Fund.

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