1938-04-02 — Page 10

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

THE CASE AGAINST

HUYLER

EPISODE 67. from INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK

BIG black car-n 14 h.p. Victrix-drove into Scotland Yard. It contained a police inspector, uniformed, constable, and Mr. Cherwell Huyler. Mr. Huyler was the owner of the car. He had been "invited" to bring it along to the Yard, at the request of Inspector Joshua Playfair,

Cherwell Huyler was on ugly-looking man, and he was suspected of commercial a more than ugly crime. At about eleven that morning traveller, an elderly fellow named Walderby, had set our from Nixworth along the Northampton rond. A few miles from Nixworth, something had

with gone wrong his car. He stopped the engine, got out and opened the radiator. Absorbed in his inspection, he took ittle note of what was happening on the rood. He had (so he later affirmed) a vague impression of seeing, out of the corner of his eye, a big car coming in the opposite direction. He did not hear the car atop; he was oblivious of the blow on the base of the skull that deprived him temporarily of conclousness. He "came to" In hospital, two hours later; apart from his personal injuries, he had been robbed of his purket book, which contained between seventy and eighty pounde.

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The assault on Mr. Wadderby-which might well have cost him his life--took place at 11.20. The crime was reported to Scotland Yard at 11.55. By 12.30 police stations throughout a wide area hod instructions to make preliminary inquiries.

At 2.30, after Wadderby had told lils story, the scanty information available was amplified. And Just before three the Nixworth police were on the phone to the Yard. They had something which might conceivably prove of value.

What they had was the evidence of a garage proprietor named Jennings, who operated two or three petrol pumps at a village a mile or two south of Nixworth. At 11.35 (no Jennings reported) a big car-a Victrix-had stopped at de garage; the driver was a tall, youngish man; he was in a hurry, he said; he wanted petrol and water. Jennings, unfortunately, had hardly seen his face; ho gave his orders from inside the car. Nor hnd Jennings noted the number of the car. He had supplied petrol and filled the radiator and his customer! had driven of.

Put till afterwards when he heard the story of the crime, li two things strike him an suspicious-the customer's insta ("Burry up, man," as he serowed on the enp of the radiator) and the fact that the car had stopped at his small, out-of-the-way garage and not at one of the larger establishments in Nixworth..

Playfair had phoned: "Bring Jennings up to town at once."

In the meantime, Mr. Cherwell Huyler had been pulled in" on sumpleinn. He was the only "tough" who was known to the Yard to own a hinek Victrix car. "That's something to go on, wald Pinyfair hopefully to Sergeant Dumball. "If he admits he drove through Northampton and Nixworth there'll be, at any rate, a enue for Investigation. if he denies it, and Jennings can identify him- and that, I renture to predict, is what will happen-there be more than a Cast for Investigation. There'll be every reason for thinking that we're on the track of the criminal."

TRUCULENCE

Huyler, when "invited" by the police to report himself at the Yarl, had brea in town about an hour. There was, of course, not the slightest chance of his having Wadderby's pocket-book in his possession. "That's in a ditch nome- where, you can bet your boots," anid Playfair. "And the money?,idden enfely away."

By the time Playfaly Interviewed lm, Huyler was, not unsaturally, lan truculent mood. When shown in, he was talking volubly about Habens Corpus, Magna Carte, und damages for wrongful arrent. "You can keep all that for your solicitor," said Playfair. "Want to send for him? Not You haven't been arrested yet, you know. You'ra here voluntarily and you're making a voluniary statement. You don't have to tell as anything. Only we happen: to know you, Mr. Huyler; so you'd better be on our side."

Thus admanished, Mr. Cherwell Huyler admitted that he had came up through Northampton? No. from the North that morning. Had he come Through Nixworth? No. lie detailed his route. He had not been within forty miles of Nixworth.

BLUSTER

Pinyfair's phone rang. A message from below: Mr..Jennings had arrived. "Pix up an identification parade, right away. My. Huyler, you'll co-operate, l'in mure. There's n witnene below who might identify the man we're looking for."

Hoylernt blustering, agreed to take part in the parade. Twenty minutes later he was lustering more leadly than ever. Jennings had failed to identify kim.

Playfair, however, was shrugging his shoulders. "The faol," he said to Dumbell "to tell us all those lles. I've another string to my bow, Dumbell: I know now that Huyler's story in all, hooey. And that means, we shall and, that it's he who knocked out Wadderby."

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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938

Of Course You Know, But Are You Sure?

By The Dragoman

ERE we are again, by popular request,

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with the series of questions that

seem so easy-until you turn up the answers. Ready? Get your pencil.

Two points for each correct answer, and 30 is still a pass. From that you graduate to the Highly Improbable, which is GO!

1. If you've ever lived in the Hub of the Orient (them were the days!) all your letters were addressed to:

Shanghai; Vladivostok.

Japan; Nanking:

Hongkong;

2. You shouldn't have to live in a boarding-house to know that, strictly speaking, rhubarb is known as at

Vegetable; herbaceous plant; fruit; palm; shrub; weed.

3. An astronomer told me (so I know what I'm talking about) that a light year is:

A drought year; a period of time; a year with only 364 days in it; a measurement of distance; a year with a short winter.

4.If you engage a lawyer next time you're sued for not paying your chits and he asks you for a refresher, you'll be obliged to give him:

Something with a kick in it it; a brain tonte; further evidence; an additional fee; an occasional Teminder,

:

5-I hope you've heard of Baron Munchausen-If you have you'll know he was famed as a:

Saint; love; explorer; liar; soldier; politican, 0-Ho, hum! We've mentioned that Victoria is the capital of Hongkong so often that everyone must know by now that it was named after:

A Queen; A Princess; A Duchess; A Country: No Lady.

7.If you weren't day-dreaming when the teacher told you what singlass is made from, you'll know it is made. from:

Animal's marrow; cows' hooves; fish; a tropics! berry; tree gum.

8. Maybe you don't wear a Panama hat-but that doesn't excuse you for not knowing real Panama hats are made form:

Millet straw; a fine tree bark; a South Ameri- can water reed; the leaf of a palm. D-You'd be justifiably surprised-nay, astonished!-if you went to a dog show and saw among the entries a:

Keeshond; Dalmatian;

Basenji; Harrier; Caracal.

Samoyed;

10. Next time there's an eclipse of the moon or sun, rush out and have a good look at it because the most eclipses you can ever see in one year is only:

Fire; three; one; six; two; seven.

11. Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire, and you needn't mention mui-tsai, because we're not count- ing them. Year of abolition was:

1865; 1902; 1764; 1834; 1666.

12-As every schoolboy knows the seat of Government of one of these countries is changed every year:

Bridge Problem No. 52

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Japan; Australia; Yugoslavia; India; Canada; Holland.

13-Now and again you see the word sultee used in the newspapers, and when you do you immediately think of:

An Indian delicacy; a birthday ceremony;' a sort of divan; a form of suicide. 14-It was a great relief to me to know that when a sailor boxes the compass he only:

Hits lightly with gloved fists; stows it away in a case; repairs it; repeats its 32 points in correct oriter; tests it.

15.-Doesn't matter about flotsam-but I do hope you know jetsam la:

Cargo carried free of duty; cargo lost in ship- wreek; cargo in quarantine; cargo thrown over- board to lighten a ship; contraband cargo.

10. Next time you see the Woolsack referred to, think quickly and remember the Woolsack is a:

Cushion; judge's wig; lawyer's gown; sherifs

badge.

17. Met a naval officer the other day who told me his rank was the naval equivalent of an army captain. I didn't believe him until he told me he was a:

Cushion; judge's wlg; lawyer's gown; skeriff's Ileutenant-commander.

10.Doubtless you've heard of the Fourth Estate-but do you know that the term refers to:

The clergy; the House of Lords; the Civil Ser- vice; the Navy; the House of Commons; the Press. 10.If you were in a ship and the look-out yelled, "Ahoy - porpoise to starboard!" you could show off by telling everyone that a porpoise

a:

Mammal; animal; Ash; repille; amphibian;

agurian.

20. Scratch your head, bite your nails, purse your lips... if you must; but for heaven's sake don't confess to not knowing that Alfred B. Nobel, donor of the famous Nobel Prizes, made his fortune through the invention of:

cure; the spark plug;

Hairpins; hiccough dynamite; brilliantine.

21. When you were knee pants and SHE had pigtails, you were reckoned a dufter if you didn't know the number of yards in a furlong were:

2240; $280; 110; 1700; 112; 220.

22-Speaking of Auld Reekie, that's the name for:

Loch Ness Monster; Robert Buras; Edinburgh;

L. A1. S. Rallway; River Tweed; Peak in the Grampians: Robert MacWhirter.

23-It's a dismal possibility, but one of these days you might meet your end by being garrotted meaning you might be:

Decapitated; bludgeoned; shot by your bridge partner; strangled; prished over a clif. 24. Do you really know when words are synonymous Good-then you are certain to pick out the one pair here that is synonymous:

Mendacious-avaricious; chevron-epaulet; per- tinacious-tenacious; protege-prodigy: a la carte-

table nilors are real dogs, they are. And any of you

25-These

girls who have cocktails on H.M. ships (we forgot they don't have cocktail parties now!) must know that the frat dog watch at sea is from:

4 to 8 a.m.; 19 a.m, to 2 pm; 3 to 7 p.m.; 4 to 6 p.m.

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South makes the last three Club tricks.

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