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NEW FILM SERIAL

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Serialisations of the Warner Bros. Film Commencing at the Queen's Theatre To-day

Chapter I

BROCK'S STORY BREAKS

"Is that all you guys gotta do?"

tion. It was so that he heard the eatty Imogene Mayfeld telling group of her schoolgirl friends that Mary Clay and her teacher, Robert

Bill Brock, cuckiest reporter in Hale, were simply crazy about each town, strolled into the Police Station other.

Brock printed like the wind to

the evening after the half holiday as Griffin's office.

the Court House clock was striking "You had a date with Mary Clay

A bunch of the boys includ- ing the reporter from the rival paper yesterday at two o'clock?"

twelve.

was gathered about the Sergenal's

right"

Young Joe Turner's bravado was

desk, Ilstening while one of the num- ver read seare headings from out-of-weakening by the moment as e

town papers.

faced the fery barrege of District Attorney Andrew J. Grim-with "All of 'em about other places," Lanenrt, Tucker and the rest of the Brock yawned, "Nothing big ever plain clothes men listening

breaks in this jerk burg! It any- thing ever does, I'll show you dumb bozos what a real story is! Nothing can happen here, I tell ya! I sald to the Boss to-night there was no use

singly.

""She didn't meet you?"

"No"

Recu-

"What did you do after that?" "Now look, Mr. Griffin, I didn't didn't

In sending me out but he insisted, so have nothin' to do with this, honest here am and-out I'm going!"

i

"I asked you what you did after

He was on his way when the tele- thell, I got a little burned

phone rang.

waitin', sce-so I started

up

up

the

A frightened voice was gasping, steps, Aggerin' that maybe she "Dey been a murder to de Buxton was still in the school. Then this Bulidin

.. but, Ils'n, Mistal: O Janitor comes out-Honest, mister, I didn't do it. I didn't

I didn't have nothin' 10 do with "The voice was trailing

do it..

It

on hysterically when the Sergeant "Go ahead."

slammed up the receiver.

"Well the Janitor comes out und

In a flash the police car was off- tells me the place is closed and he siren screaming-Bill Brock hang- asked me what I wanted and I told ing onto the swaying real step and him I wanted one of the girls in noting with professional pride the the school. ever-increasing crowd that followed

in the wake of the Black Maria.

"He says "The girls all gone'--- That barned me up and I was all set to push past him and find out for white fellow

this

In the basement detectives Lancart myself-when and Tucker found the mangled body comes out and says, 'What is it, Red- of a young girl-and hovering over wine? or some such name-and the it the fanilor, Tump Redwine with white fellow, when he hears, says his never-ending wail, "I didn't do the same so I just went off and Laneart and Tucker rushed found some of the boys and shot

it

him off for grilling. Bill Brock pool! That's all I did! You can ask ed to the Star ofice where he batted em if you don't believe mel out the scoop story that had all the town aghast in an Incredibly short time. "Extra-Girl's Body Found

In Basement- Murder Suspected --

"Remember the name of this white fellow?"

Old man Buxton, head of the

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"I think he called him 'Mr. Hale. their spare time I should not Janitor Held For Grilling Prose school, awaiting his turn, started be at all surprised if many cutor Grigin Takes Charge B at the mention of the name of them replied that the

William P. Brock."

After his headlines and his preci-

ous by-line, Brock went into his

means Robert Peary Hale," he vol unteered. "He's one of the

professors in my business college study of chemistry and the

Co

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On my left

THE CRIMINAL

Morcover, it the

An arm-cuff is bound about the

dial.

measures the rate of

rofessor's in my business college reading of books on descrip-move the record doperiment that upper arm, and the pneumograph story: "At two o'clock this morning

What was Hale doing tive science or the internal modern crooks fear most, but the tube, which was grim. the body of a young girl, tentatively there after the school was closed for structure of metals was scientists. This department of police breathing, is led about the chest. identified by a slip of paper in her the half holiday?"

investigation is a very important Any change in breathing or blood vanity case as "Mary Clay" was "If can't imagine, Mr. Griffin," their idea of relaxation. factor in the battle against modern pressure is instantly recorded on a found in the basement of the build-

Some of us may consider these crime, for it is in the laborators At first the suspect is asked inno- faltered. Buxton at 12 Jeferson Street occupied by the Buston Business College and

I go now, mister." Joe pled, subjects rather academic for a that modern science, the microscope, several other ofces. Police imme.

"Can 250 white with fear."

crook; but a thorough knowledge and the camera are at work solving cent questions How diately informed District Attorney, Andrew J. Griffin, who said.

"No. Not for a while. I want to of science forms part of the mysteries that are seemingly insolu- Are you married? Do you drive a check your story first. Take him stock-in-trade of many modern down Whatever District Attorney,

to my office." Wildly protest-law-breakers, drew J. Griffin did say it was ing, Joe Turner was led out.

To understand the psychology of Bullets, for instance, are just as la spite of himself; he breathes a little "Hale," Griffin was murmuring as violently to the point. A small, dy-

first fallible as finger-prints as a means of quicker; his heart pounds, and the namic,

black-haired, beady-eyed, he paced back and forth, "Robert the modern crook, we must

realise that crime operations, like identification. Being soft, they carry needle of the recording apparatus self-made man who had fought his Peary Hale ..." way up from poverty-and still held At the moment in his furnished most things in the world, have be the marks of the gun barrel that fired tells the scientist all he requires to as firmly to his contempt for 'aristo. apartment Robert Peary Hale was come more mechanical and highly them, and no two gun barrels make know

crooks are aware that it is essential When the

crats,

it,

glared.

An-

TELL-TALE BULLETS

markings.

toll are you?

car? Then without warning, and in the same casual tone, comes a ques- tion bearing directly on the crime. The suspect (if guilty) stiffens in

as he did to the long cigar arranging his tie before the mirror scientifle during recent years, And the same scientist makes a test, he "HISTORY" FROM BOUTS

for them to keep pace with the fires a specimen bullet out of the sus-

In the corner of his grim mouth while his pretty blond wife, Sybil, he had an eye on the Senate and a telegram. She gave it to changing order of things if they wish pect's gun-usually into a long box Analysis of dust found in clothes meant to get there or die fighting for him and walled while he read to reach the pinnacle of success in stuffed with cotton wool-places it can also give the investigator many

"ZENITH COMMERCIAL SCHOOL,

clues. A in the microscope alongside the bullet valuable

few particles: Andy Griffin got what he wanted. HICAGO, ILLINOIS. CAN their profession.

To assist them in their ambitions in the crime, and rotates them. If could tell him that you had been Detective Laneart came in to re- LEAVE AT ONCE FOR POSITION there are schools on the Continent the scratches coincide in a single sawing wood, using glue, or driving port his progress in breaking down YOU MENTION STOP SPRING

molls. the resistence of Tump Redwine, the SEMESTER OVER STOP PLEASE and elsewhere at which subjects such image then he has found his mon.

Even as forgery, safe-blowing, confidence

4 match has helped to bring Moreover, your boots can enable janitor, "Give me another hour with WIRE REPLY ROBERT HALE." him," Laneari remarked subtly, "and

tricks, white slave traffic, ond black- about a conviction. In one case a him to record every recent move you "Swell, darling," he said, "when mail, are learnt under the tutorship portion of a match was found on the had made; for layer by layer he can I'll have a confession for ya, Andy!" I get to be a big executive you can of experts.

scene of the crime, and another por- remove the dust and mud, and with "There'll be no rough stufti" Grimn be my secretary! You know, Sybil, of these subjects, perhaps that of tion was discovered in the criminal's the aid of a microscope find out whe I've got a feeling that in a few days safe-blowing best illustrates how pocket. By employing photo-micro- ther you had travelled by train, by "You do things your way," Lane we'll be on our way to Chicago'

selence

has alded the crook; for it he grahy, in which the microscope and car, or walked even the part of the art growled, "and we'll do 'em oursi" "Won't you have to

"Oh, no you won't! Not this time, more notice than that? give Buxton possesses a thorough knowledge of the camera combine to find clues that country to which you journey can be

metals, plus a skill in using modern they cannot see, it was seen that the traced. Lancarti This isn't a petty larceny

They were sitting together in the chemicals, there are few safes that two jagged ends of the match meshed If I had to give my opinion as to

whether the law perfectly.

or the ense that nobody cares about! It's deep chuir now, his arms about her. can withstand his attack.

criminal stands F better chance of winning Important!

"Buxton won't miss me," he sigh- A

Furthermore, science can detect a girl's been murdered!

So adopt are expert blowers that A young girl There's a lot of peo- ed, "And I certainly won't miss him it is now customary to have safes lots no longer necessary through I would say, "The low every

criminals ple in this town that have girls of or the school. It's been a dismal embedded in concrete as an addition though still done-to torture a sus

are severely that age. They want a conviction place to work since the murder of al precaution against burglary.

pect into confession. Instead, the handicapped by the gentleman who and I'm going to give it to them that girl."

suspect is tested by an instrument makes these startling deductions from test tubes and other scientific sources. "Horrible, wasn't it?" Sybil shud- SCIENCE, ENEMY AND FRIEND and when I do—it's going to be the

named a polygraph. guilty party!" Laneart. winced.

dered at the thought of it and then

Electrical time-locking devices have quietly. "Did you know her?" "You talk big, Andy, don't ya?"

also Yes, as one of the puplis-but, !

Increased the difficulties of In spite of these "And loud! Loud enough

please, dear, let's not talk about it. cracksmen; but, the people know why the last two to be on his desk the first thing in successful in effecting this type of tiet f'il send this wire right off. It's got elaborate gadgets, some experts are murders in this town are still un- the morning-I'll be back in a min- solved!" Griffin favoured Lancart ute"

Nevertheless, the modern crook with a sardonic grin, "Or would you

not always find things easy in rather have me keep what I know to stopped and the operator said to the spite of his educational qualities, for, myself?"

Two and two stil makes four to two men who stepped out, "Dis is though selence now enables him to

mel"

in

As he came out the elevator |

Mr. Hale."

Robert Hale looked toward the "I'm glad you can add, my good forms of Lancart and Tucker. "Yes, man," Griffin replied with the utmost I'm Mr. Hale," he said, "What is suavily, then said brusquely, "Bring it?"

your pols!"

""Oh, nothin' much, druwied Lane- When the three detectives were art, "The District Attorney would lined up before him the Little Napo- like to ask you a few questions about leon fired his machine-gun com- Mary Clay, that's all, Mr. Hole."

"Mary Clay?"

Ho's Mary

mands.

"Tucker, I want you to bring in "Yes, the murdered girl that was Joe Turner, an apprentice at the Uni- one of your pupiial" versal Steel Company. Here's his nd- "But I don't know anything about dress.

He'll be a kid around twenty, herl" brown hair, blue eyes.

"Don't, huh? Tell that to the Clay's boy friend, one of them! chieft What's that yaller poper in Bring him to mo nt the Buxton your hand? Let's have it? Oh, ho, Building!

plannin' a trip, huh, Mr. Halo?"

You have no right to read that!" "You, Briggs-and Imogene May--- feld.

She lives on Poplar Street Hale Jared, but at the moment a near Mary Clay's house went to cleaning man came upstairs with a business college with her. If she's newly pressed Bult. "Sorry, Mr. not there don't overlook that bet. If Hale," he sold "But there's a spot Mary had love affairs, crushes, even on the collar won't come out nohow flirtations, I want the dopet

blood or paint or sumthin "Lancart, go out to my car. I'll "Let's see the spot," bowled Lane be there in a minute. Fil need you art. "We'll toko care o' that coat! for several hours!" They stood not Come on, Hale!"

robbery.

does

accomplish crimes with greater ease than in the past, it also assists the authorities to track him down.

The finger-print system, invented by Bertillon, is an infallible means of recording and checking crime rarely leave these trade-marks on the operatives, but nowadays crooks scene of a crime; the wearing of thin gloves obviates the risk of detection from prints.

In this respect attempts have fre- obliterate these tell-tale ridges which quently been made by criminals to

are on the fingers and thumbs of all these ridges with acid has human hands; but even burning proved to be ineffectual. Dillinger. been

in this manner in an attempt to dis the gangster, had his fingers treated guise them, but when the police pick- ed him up, dead, his prints tailled exactly with those in offlelal

records. There is no doubt that the f prints system of checking the tity of criminals will never become extinct, for no matter how prudent crooks may be, there are always the unpremeditated crimes, and inavit- sideration, a small hole or tear in a

on the order of their going, but went "But by wife's in there--able "slip-ups" to be taken into con-

at once and glumily,

wouldn't want to frighten her...”

Bill Brock, out on his own, keen “Okay,, go in--but we'll go wil glove-finger may easily lead to ar-

for another scoop, was in the crowds ya listening for telltale bits of conversa-

́(Continued To-morrow)

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5 At the end of the holiday he has to de-camp of course (6). & Many in cusual housework are

more than pleasant (8). This is officially binding (two words-3, 4).

10 Bird male portion (6).

11 The orchestra has made a benst

of itself (0).

13 It may interest the melcoroto- gist and no one can call it dry (8).

14 Protest by a naughty child turn-

ed out of the room? (0). 17 A wideawake hat should not

have 1 (3)..

10 This bern is not unusual in ser-

vice (3),

20 Plan on the right lines? (0).

23 As grasping as a vulgar fellow

all abroad (8).

26 A worship (9).

28 A clerle can acquire this from

merlt (5).

29 No dirge makes this (7).

30 Father's weapon will get us past,

the guard (8).

31 Firm Indeed (0)

DOWN

I Don't apply this to our northern neighbours--it is certain to hurt (0)

2 The time of the master of the house should surely be gven to more serious business (7).

3 What the shrimp has is threuten».

Ing (9).

4 A little thing shows how wor-

shippers differ (8).

The whole world can be made from the race on it (8).

CROSSWORDS

⚫ A "wise crack" from à cracker

maybe (5).

7 Developments following this do not always have negative results. (8). 12 Scottish town (3)..

15 Extreme Incentive to loquiicious-

Dess (9).

10 There are men in this dwelling

(a)

18 Any gin? No (bother!) (anag)

21 May be the cause of a party

falling through '(3)....

22 Sallors like to be in the start of

this part, (7).

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Archale trial

or business trans- action (8)...

25 A word to waverers (0). |27 Trunk grown from roots (5).

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