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SERIAL STORY

The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:

By CARLETON KENDRAKE

report.

Blocker nodded, took a notebook public garage, has to submit such a from his pocket.

"In the Brst place," he said. "wa! #1 asıll don't noe,” Blesker said, found the taxi driver."

"what you're driving at.

"What does ho remenaber!"

CHAPTER XXIV Sidney Griff paused, his hand on the door. It doesn't matter about the talephone," he said. "1'il send a messenger for you if I need you."

"A. lot. He says that Morden Mordon," said Griff, "wanted to Francher followed Griff outside the engaged him by the hour on Thurs-check up on what Catbay was doing house and stood meekiy whiching a day morning; that Morden went to a in the city. Remember that he wasnt the criminologist strode down the co- garage at the corner of Robinson sent out to check up on the man who ment walk toward his ear.

street and Huntley street. ile mado had assomed Cathay's identity; he wa "That wind," Fancher sald apolo- sumo investigations thura, wint to the sent out to check on Cathay. You getically, "has made the yard look like Elle Apartments on 319 itobinson want to get something that would nut a maks. I hope you don't mind,"

street, returned to the cab within a Cathay on the defensive. Very well, "Oh, no," Griff called as he climbed matter of five minutes, wont to Ninth Morden found out Cathay hai bean Into the car. "I don't mind in the and Central streats, had the cab park here in the city on Monday night. Icost."

around the corner on Central' while, Cathay's

business was non.ewhat Defore Griff started bis drive back Morden went into an office building mysterious. Morden wanted to find to the city he telephoned the detective somewhere near the corner of Ninth out what it was. He got the licence agency that had shadowed Alice Lori and Central. The cab driver thinks number of Cathay's automobile and on the night before. From that may have been the Monadnock, checked down through the numbers detective agency he found out that building. Morden was gone for noar-thal were reported of cars stored in Alice Lorton, together with a male ly half an hour, returned, and drove pubile garages. companion; had Journeyed to the unce more to the Elite Apartments. " was probably a tellous job, but Trent Apartments on 312 West 10th He stayed there for a few minutes, he found the car number, found that streat that the couple had entered then returned to the cab and die- Cathay's car had been afored in the the apartments and had not left them; charged it, remaining at the Elite gurage there at the corner of Robin- that, nearly as tho detective could

son and Huntley. From there he got Aparintents." ascertain, the nan БУДА Kenneth Sidney Griff jumped to his feet, a lend that tock him direct to the Boone, who rented apartment 208 in dropped the cigarelle into an ash tray.' Elite. Apartments. He went there the front of the apartment house. A film lazy relaxation had vanished, asiand found that Alice Lorton or light had shown in the window for completely as a cloud wisp drifting, Esther Ordway, as the case may be, a moment just after the pair had en- from the edge of a snowcapped moun- wasn't in, so he went out and ran tered. Then a man had pulled down an out over a dry desert. the shade and the detective felt ser-] tain that the man was the same one, who had escorted the young womani to the apartment.

woman.

"And I claim to be a criminolo- gist?” ke exclaimed.

"What's the matter 1" Blecker in quired.

A

Griff swept his hand toward battery of fling cabinets which lined

ne side of the room.

dawn another lead and then returned, and either found the party be wanted In the apartment or found that the party was going to be there shortly, and decided that he'd walt. So he paid off the taxical"

Bleeker nodded his head in alow affirmation.

"Yes," he said, "when you express it that way, it's logical enough."

"Now then." Grii naid, "having

this

Grif instructed them to keep the Apartment house under surveillanco and to shadow the pair whenever they hould leave, putting sufficient men on the joh so that they could shadow both the man and the

In

1 study crime," he said. "I study also instructed them to cover the the modes and methods of operation. Hillcrest hotel thoroughly, searching study the habits of criminals. In established that this young man, Mer- for a young woman who had been those card indexes you'll find digests den, was a logical worker and a fast gistered there on Monday night, who of every major crime for half a cen-worker, the question arises why he was about 22 years of age, a brunette, try. The big embezzlements! The went to Ninth and Central."

big murders! The big hold-ups! "Probably, some other lend," Cleeker. and who had had dinner with the men crimes of passion! Crimes of do-said. "But how did he get it" who had reglatered As Frank B.

liberation Crimes of violencet

Griff shrugged his shoulders. Cathay of Riverview.

"I've concentrated for years on thei "No matter," he said. "We'll ran Ho also Instructed the detective agency to ascertain, whether the man best methods of getting quick results that down a little later. In the near-

live lead in in criminal cases, and here an' time we've got a who had registered under the name of Frank B. Cathay at the Hillcrest hotel rdinary newspaper reporter thinks garage bariness. Suppose you have run over to the and issued any cheques and, if so,

of something that han entirely escaped one of your men

garage with a picture of Morden, my mind!" what had happened to the cheques.

What do you mean? Blecker Find out if Marden wasn't there Having set those wheels in motion, asked. "I don't see it. I don't get making inquiries about the car that Independently of the investigation

the sketch."

was registered in the name of Frank which was being made by the news-

"The garage," said Grif, striding B. Cathay of Riverview. You can get paper, Sidney Griff yawned, climbed back in his car and started the long up and down the long room, flinging that registration number by checking ride back to the city. When he had the words over his shoulder without up the records in the Motor Vehicla

new city Registration department. You arrived he went directly to a Turkish turning his head. "It's a bath and remained there until morn- Ardinance, of course, but I should, put through a telephone call and get ing, when he had a leisurely breakfast! have thought of its possibilities."

"I don't follow you," Bleeker re- and then strolled to his apartment.

marked. "Do you think you know what Morden had in mind? What he was doing?"

news.

·

that Information.”

"Now ?" asked Bleeker, Griff nodded.

can

"Let's get that disposed of," he aid, "before, we go any farther. I

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"Of course I know what he had In want a check on that. It's going to mind and what he was doing!" Grift make quite a difference in the way we How Children Should Be Kowloon, hence delivery can be

It was approximately 10:30 Monday morning that Bleeker telephoned and announced he was on his way to Griff's Apartment with

Important said, turning on his heel and striding handle this thing.” He arrived less than 15 back toward Bleeker, making fierce. He jerked his head toward a desk minutes after the telephone call had impatient gestures with his hands as telephone. been completed.

he walked, omphasising his words,

You can use that telephone," he Griff, looking fresh and rested, re- with little jabs of his extended right said. clined in the large lounging chuir. forefinger. "It's that new city ordin- There was a glint of lazy humour in once, the one that requires garages

(To Be Continued). his cold, blue eyes-eyes that could, to turn in the Hcense numbers of^ali) upon occasion, become as penetrating cars that are stored in the garage over

In the next instalment Dan Bleeker an twin searchlights. Now he seem- night. It Was sponsored by the ed utterly relaxed, completely at ease. automobile insurance compan.cs in comes across a love letter that seems "You've got important Informa- order to give the police a chance to, to have played a part in the murder tion?" he asked.

check up On stolen cars. Every mystery.

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In by us in any case whatever, thrilling battle with the tiger, amid the first time on the screen during vain. nraging fire in which the entire camp their respective careers, The film is ""It won on a doctor's recommen- is converted to ashes, Arlen and his said to present with fidelity the pers. Jation that we gave her Dr. Williams' true love move away into happier, sonal de ails of the career of Russia's When Irvin Cobb's daughter, Elisa surroundings.

"Holy Devil." from his birth in A beth, skyrocketed to literary fame with

peasant community in Siberia through her novel, "She Was a Lady," he

his rise to power, his association with precipitated a justifiable scramble by the studios for the motion picture! All the laughs, tears comedy and the Czarina and his mys.erious control rights for her widely-discussed work, tragedy of the alive drab doughboy of the Romanoff court. John Barry.

the part of be seen at the Oriental, Chegadieff, intimate friend Fox Fil

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niore, is seen as Rasputih. The rule opens to-slay at the Alhambra Theatre. Tracy, who has gained unusual poput of the Czar is filled by Ralph Morgan, nerve bait for men and women, Dr. Consignees of Chrgo are hereby With the Penerosity of a Lady Bourtilarity through his recent fast-talking and that of the little Czarevilch by Williams' Pink I'll are equally informed that all Goods are being Tal, "She Was a Lady" presents Helen characterisations plays the title rod Tau Alexander, Bath Morgan and splendid as a bulider for run-down landed at their risk into the hazardous Twelvetrees with an armful of un-in the widely discussed play. The Alexander were recently seen in hidren, and particularly valuable and/or extra hazardous Golowns of portunities. And little Misa Twelve- picture is said to provide the dynamic Strange Interlude.". Other impert-after measles, whooping cough, du The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf nkes the most of them; for netor with his greatest tole since ant roles are played by Diana Wyn- and commen colds. For teen-age and Godown Cn. Lid, whence and/or trees the rises tu new dramatic heights is coming from sensational successes on her absorbing interpretation of the Broadway to Hollywood. He is aup-1 yard, the English stage star, C. Henry weakness in girls, and the debility of from the wharves delivery may be

Gordon and Edward Arnold,

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No claims will be admitted after heroine of Bliss Cobb's novel. Sharing ported by Glorin

the Goods have left the Godowns, the acting honours with Bliss Twelve Churchill, Russell Gleason, Frank

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after the 8th December, 1934, will be two handle the love scenes with Duan in other lending rolen under the

subject to rent. masterly adroitness, imbuing them expert translation of Director Russell with tenderness-but no false senti Muck. mentality or straining for effect. As for background the film is rich and colourful broad canvas, Indeed, From a Montana ranch, it traces the girl's career to a circus, to an English castle, to New York-and always with A note of genuineness. Prominent also in the cast, besides Miss Twelve- Dor Mulloy. Miss Stanwyck has romantic impulses. The Scarlet Em-Included in the trees and Woods are Monroe Owsley shooting gambler who plays the game, any standards of judgment. It goes

goy and sporting role of a square presa" must be rated a spectacle by sterling performers ES George All broken, chatod, and damaged Barbier, who shares a large portion of Goods are to be left in the Godowns, and Ralph Morgan, in addition to Paul of life with a courage few persons beyond lavishness of production and the acting honours: Nat Pendleton, where they will be examined on the Harvey, Doris Lloyd; Harold Goodwin, | Barbara Weeks, Karol Kay, Ann Fossa, even to tossing away love to artistic beauty, however, in that it is Grace Bradley, Alan Dinshart, Grant th December, 1934, at 10 am, by

save her husband from a crime_of, one of the most gripping dramatic Mitchell, Fred Warren, Warren Messrs. Goddard and Douglas Howard and that sterling boy actor, which she knows he is innocent. The stories yet to reach the screen. Miss Hymer, J. Farrell Macdonald, Edwin No Fire Insurance has been affected. picture is not in the gay gambling Dietrich, as Catherine, offers a Maxwell, Frank Sheridan, Fuzzy Bill of Lading will be counter "She Made Her Bed" halls where the idle rich are taken characterisation which compels atten- Knight and Vince Barrett. These signed by

over the jumps for their money by tion throughout the picture. John voteran performers comprise probably GIND, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Richard Arlen, popular leading man, syndicate of gamblers that holds the Lodge, a comparativo newcomer the biggest supporting cast over to

Agents, and star of many of the past season's city in its grips. The story is climax among leading mon, spores decisively appear in a Harold Lloyd pleture. In

Hongkong, 30th. November, 1034. acreen successes, tops the cast ined by a cold blooded murder carried in the role of Count Alexei. Sam bringing the Clarence Budington' "Shu Madu Her Bed, the Paramount: cut by the syndicate for which an Jaffe as the Idiotic Grand Duke, Peter Kelland story to the screen, Lloyd story a motive is definitely established pleture produced by Charles R, Rogers Innocent man is arrested. There is and Louian Dresser 43 Empress determined that it should follow na and which comes on Thursday to the talented cast in which Joel McCrea Elizabeth likewise make the most of closely as possible the original plat, and it threatens to hang an innocent Queen's Theatro. In addition to and Pat O'Brien hare honours as colourful roles. More than forty sup. and, in fulhiment, he picked players another motive, the real one, Arlen, the picture features: Sallymasculine loads and rivals for the love parting players portray the various whom he felt could admirable carry cunning of a "master mind." Krager is carofatly concealed by the expert Ellers, Robert Armstrong, Grace of the gambling lady. Claire Dodd personalities of the Imperial Russion Bradley, Rosco Ates and Charley plays the homewrecking role, a society Court of 1750. Produced by Farethe spirit of the story,. Grapewin. Another important player girl who steps at nothing lo steal mount, "The Searlet Empress” is u is lttlo eight months old Richard another woman's husband. Others in final analysis of the year's produ Ralston Arlen, Richard Arlon's brand the cast include auch talented players tions, inevitably must attain recogni new son. It's his first screen appears C; Aubrey Smith, Phills. Reed, lion at, the top of the preferred list. ance and fram all reports, ho plays Philip Favershom. Robart Barral,

Jackie Searl.

"Gambling.Lady"

*The Scarlet Emprèsa" "The Scarlet Empress" which more than Justifies its advance heralding ax Marlene Dietrich's greatest starring opportunity and Director- Von Stern- berg's most pretentious production is Barbara Stanwyck will be the stallar enjoying a most successful run at the attraction at the Alhan.bra Theatre queen's Theatre. Based on a diary Thursday, in her latest Warner by the glamorous Catherine the Great Hros, picture,"

,"Gambling Lady," a film of Russia, who ruled hor country with hused on the thrillingly dramatic story an Iron hand and yet was ruled by

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will be seen in the role of the world's "The Crime Doctor"

greatest detective who,pinys a most jamazing part in the strange murder, Find the motivo for a murder, and Miss Morley portrays his- alluring. you have gone, a long way toward wife, and Nils Aather has the part finding the killer. That's an axiom of a young auther wrongly accused of the man-hunting business which of the killing. John Robertson direct Ilgurce: Importantly, in the plot of ed the production, which was adapted, the Crime Doctor," REO-Radio pic from a story by Israel Zangwill, and ture which comes to the King's Coptain Don Wilkis, former -ace "of is not carrying the entire burden of Theatre an Thursday, with Otto the United States Berret Survien, comedy as he has dena in the wKrugur, Karen Morley and Nils served as technical director of the "Rasputin and the Empress," prob- but, has surrounded himself with a

his rolo liko a veteran trouper. The Robert Elliot, Ferdinand Gottschalk, picture was directed by Raphy Murphy Arthur Vinton, Willard Robertson and and depicts the dramatle romance that

Arthur Treacher, develops between Arlon, raco-horse trainer, and one-man medicine show and Sally Eilers, as Lura Gordon, the wife of a brutal animal trainer, who

"Rasputin Film"

The Cat's Paw"

In "The Cat's Paw" now playing at the King's Theatre, Harold Lloyd

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