Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1929 — Page 8

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fill,- HAS HAPPENED MILDRED LAWRENCE znet'-h STEPHEN ARMITAGE hen he re*cuf ’.r tox fur from a thief. Their friendship gro( until PAMELA JUDSON’. daughter rs Mildred’s emplorer, trier to lur him a.wav from her. HuCK CONNOR b'come* tr.fifjw.ted with Pamela ar.d she P’*~s both men. H'r brother. HAROLD. in love with Mildred, who tries to ieep him from gambling with Huck.. crowd. Whan Ster.rjan continu-s seeing Mildred. Pamela hae her discharged and alio turn* Stephen against her bv ta - ins that ah'- is trying to rr.arry Harold ‘or fil* ffioacw. Bitter at Mildred. Stephen cermtts Pamela to announce tncir engagement when she tells him tha' la the only way she can break with Huck Hack commands Harold to prevent Pamela's marriage, under fear of exposure concerning a forged check. Harold saj’t fce can t force Pamela, so H .ek plans "to dispose of Stephen. He hat one of hlf gang frame him for stealing a firm car. and the detective arre ts -fm after finding a roll of bills, a gin. and the auto keys which have been planted In bis room. Pamela ref it _ to sec Harold and breaks her engagement to a Jailbird.'’ But Mildred go's to him and promises help. Fh< beg- Harold to expose Huck ana help her free Stephen, af't he confesses Huck ha, threatened both of them. But. he cades telling her the truth and she work on alone. Finally, r-h* get’ a threa' over the phone to '•lav off” and realise it is the voice ol a. gangster. Mildred phones Harold to come over to her. bin while •< it br<mg In hi* room H> eje enters and tells Irtm to stav awav from r,->r. under penalty of being export. Maddened. Harold defies him and they fight. Suddenly Haro.d realizes his danger and tries to call he ip. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORE. CHAPTER XXXII AS Haroief opened his mouth to - yell for help Huck viciously clapped a hand to his lips. The boy fought desperately but ineffectively. It was too late to save himself now. The rest of Huck Connor’s murderous act was quickly carried out. Holding and silencing Harold with one hand. Huck dealt him a stunning blow with the other. There was not even a cry as the hurtling body left the window and rrarhed through space to death below. Then almost Instantly. Huck set himself to follow the dictates of his rapidly working brain. He flicked out his handkerchief and ran it over the woodwork of the window to remove any finger prints he may have leit on it. A quick survey of the room assured him that little was amiss. A chair overturned. He righted it in one swift, movement. His glance then fell upon the table that held the ash tray with the butt of (he cigaret lie had smoked. Hack was too vi e to smoke a special brand by which he could be traced, but he. knew that Harold did. Quickly he spread his handkerchief on the table, took up the tray with a corner of it and emptied the contents on the linen. He ran his coatsleeve over the table, and then, satisfied that he had destroyed all clews, turned to leave the room. At the door he stood listening for a few seconds while he held it slightly ajar and wiped off his fingerprints. Hearing nothing, he opened it wider and peered into the hall. There was no one in sight. Then, as silently and smothly as a shadow. Huck stepped out and made his way to his own rooms. C tt S T TAROLD’S bodv was discovered 11 soon afterward. A guest on a lower floor had glimpsed a falling object as it passed his window and instantly called the office to report his belief that it was a body.

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‘‘/■""VH, Pat was a prince, as usual.” ■ Tony answered, flopping uponj the bed and hugging her knees to her breast. Her blue-diamond eyes brooded into space. ‘ Isn’t it swell that I can always count on ■ Pat? He's the model male parent, if there ever was one. Gives his offspring credit tor brains and a will of her own, doesn't pry. ■ takes the attitude that I'm essentially decent and that anything I do is pretty much all right. Oh. he sensed that T wasn't the typical ecstatic fiancee, but he riidn't ask embarrassing questions. • Just said: 'lf you re sure you want to marry the boy, Tony, you have my blessing, of course.’ I decided it wasn't fair to Dick as Pat's future son-in-law to tell him about last night. It's the first thing of real importance that I've ever kept from Pat.” Crystal found herself wishing that Pat Tamer were less the modem parent, that he would suspect the true state of affairs and adopt such promitive measures as locking his daughter in her room and feeding her on bread and water until she promised to be more selfish and less quixotically honorable. Not that intimidation could prevent Tony lrom keeping her word, once given .... Crystal sighed, then asked in a carefully casual voice: "When is Sandy coming home?" Tony was not deceived. She grinned. "Poor Crys! You re taking it harder than I am. Do you really thmk anything Sandy could do or say would make any difference now?" "1 admit I was hoping Sandy would get back in time to abduct you to South America or somewhere,” Crystal laughed. “You have got a lively imagination if you can picture Sandy Ross taking that much interest in any girl.” Tony gibed. "The only sweetheart Sandy has ever had is his plane—" "Except you.” Crystal contradicted flatly. "Me? You haven't got a sudden attack of softening of the brain, have you. Crys? It would be a treat to see Sandy 's face if he heard you call me his sweetheart. - “You know what his pet name for me is. don't you?—the pest'! Os -course. Sandy and I have palled around since he was 10 and I was 7, but it was I who did the tagging, not Sandy. Anyway he wouldn't have bothered with me for a minute if I hadn't seemed as much like a boy to him as any of the other fellows. "Oh. I admit the hardest thing about marrying Dick is that I’ll have to lose Sandy, since he feels about Dick as he does. Sandy is the best friend I ever had. the only man friend. Other boys have pmended

Mr. Dazel himself rushed to the roof of the adjoining building after a glance from the nearest window. But first he stopped to send word to the house physician. The assistant manager and several other hotel attaches followed. They found the body lying face downward. But enough of th<* features showed to make its identity recognizable. "My God: Its Harold Judson!” Mr, Dazel cried and went down on his knees beside the body. He reached out his hands. Someone touched him on tho shoulder. "Have to leave it as it is for the medical examiner, sir. He's done for ’’ Mr. Dazel sprang to his feet. "Call the police,’’ he ordered his assistant. “And you, Cummings, fetch some blankets.’’ The house physician arrived on the scene shortly afterward and pronounced the noy dead. It was dark, a glorious sapphire darkness, before the medical examiner gave permission for the body to be moved. It was taken to a funeral director’s establishment and Pamela was not allowed to view it. Up in Harold’s room the hotel detective and the police had been making their investigations. Nothing aroused their suspicions that it was more than a suicide case or an accident until they came to their scrutiny of the window. Rather periunctoriiy they went over the floor, the baseboard, the window sill and the frames. Then, suddenly, when they had finished inspecting the woodwork their superficial air vanished. They looked at each other gravely—there were three of them—and expressed a single opinion in a single word. a a a OUEER.” How could Harold have thrown himself or fallen, from the window without 'saving a finger mark there * In f alling he would have clutched at something. The curtains, had he caught them, would have been torn. And had his fingers slipped from the woodwork the marks would remain. "That just about settles the accident theory,” the house detective , s aid. One of the men regarded the window speculatively. Then he stepped forward, threw it up, and climed to the sill where he crouched as though preparing to throw himself out. When he let himself down again they all agreed that Harold could hardly have jumped from the window without touching the woodwork with his hands. "It’s a safe guess he didn’t slip." the third man remarked, looking at the thick carpet under the window. "And it's just as safe to bet that he didn’t go out of that window on his own power.’’ the man who had climbed to the sill declared emphatically. "Looks like murder, boys.” Their task became grim from that moment. The room was searched again, but nothing to support their theory was found except the fact that in going over the window a second time thev could see

to be friends, but they always meant the sort of friendship that is simply a prelude to petting, and the briefer the prelude the better. But Sandy never has even tried to kiss me. ... The result is. I think friendship is the finest, form of love in the world, but—-oh, what’s the use in trying to explain? Sandy is smiply Sandy—” ‘‘When is he coming back?" Crystal repeated. Tony shook herself out of her abstraction, but her eyes were moist and luminous as she answered: "Next Sunday. Wish I could have gone with him. Wish I could be one of their pilots, too. But I guess I’ll have to give up flying. Can't support a plane on Dick's salary. "Poor Dick! How he’s going to loathe middle-class economies. By the way. I’ve forbidden him to come to see me out here this next week. Told him I needed time for rest, meditation and prayer on the holy state into which I am about to enter.” iTo Be Continued!

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that the woodwork had been recently wiped. The second window in the room, which was closed, shewed a slight accumulation of coal dust on the sill. It was obvious that an opeh window* would have collected a greater amount of dust had it not been removed. And the removal was too thorough to have been done by the dead boy’s clothing as he was sped to his death. "How r about the door?” one of the officers asked of the hotel detective. Did Flannigan find it locked when he was put on guard?” “No.” the hotel man said “but that doesn't mean much. I've had to warn the boy and his sister time and again about leaving their doors unlocked." “Well, we can’t do anything more here,” the officer stated. “Come on, Bill, we’ll make our report.” When the report was filed it established a theory of the case that was in direct disagreement with the popular belief that Harold Judson had died a suicide's death or been the victim of a fatal accident. But the police preferred to keep their theory to themselves. They did not want to put the murderer, if such there really was in the case, on guard. A man w-as sent in haste to the funeral director's establishment and arrived before Harold's clothing had been removed. A minute inspection of his belongings was made and all metal or hard objects taken for possible fingerprint clews. SHORTLY thereafter all doubt that Harold had met a violent death at the hands of an assassin vanished from the minds of those who learned that on the boy’s silver belt buckle was a clear thumbprint that did not belong to the belt's dead owner. The funeral director was summoned and avowed that no one had touched the belt in his establishment, to the best of his knowledge. To avoid working on a misleading clew the police obtained thumbprints of all persons who might have touched the belt after the tragedy. None corresponded with the print on the belt. "The man who left that thumbprint was the last man to see young Judson alive,” Inspector Markeson said in assigning men from the homicide squad to the case. “It looks like a tough job. boys, but I want you to clear it up. Good luck to you.” The investigation immediately centered in and around the Judson hotel. It was not long before Huck knew that the hotel servants and employes were being questioned in regard to Harold's habits and associates. Word was brought to him by one of his own henchmen, the waiter who was on duty for room service during what he called the "milk wagon watch.” The information was more casual than it would have been had the man known what the police believed. His orders from Huck had been to see that as little was known of Harold’s attendance at his poker parties in the hotel as possible. "Thought you’d want to know that a. couple of John Laws are pussyfootin’ around for dope of the kid, sir,” he said, having been trained by Huck not to forget that he was a waiter serving a guest. Huck asked a few* questions and convinced himself that the police were still on a false trail. With every one saying the boy had killed himself, it was but natural the police should seek for a motive. Huck was not worried. But he knew that Mr. Daze! had received a cable from Amos Judson, saying he was flying from London > to Cherbourg to catch the first boat sailing from that port to New York. This was common knowledge about the hotel. Huck had no difficulty in learning of it. It served to heighten his determination to carry out his plans as quickly as possible. o an HE sent urgent messages (o Pamela, asking to see her. She did not answer. For the time being Huck was as entirely outside her world as though he’d never known her. Even the fiow*ers he showered upon her brought no word of acknoweldgment Apparently she was plunged into grief, but Huck knew that a number of her friends had been admitted to her rooms, which she had not left since the tragedy, and he suspected that she w*as not so crushed as her seclusion would indicate. (To Be Continued)

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the state of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. He was killed in the sack of Syracuse. What science is oldest? Astronomy is generally considered the oldest. Its early history is perhaps more important than that of any other; indeed, it may be said that a study of the state of scientific culture among early peoples amounts to little more than an examination of their notions on astronomy. Astronomy had its beginning with the Chaldeans and the Chinese, working, of course, independently of each other. Other early peoples who cultivated astronomy were Hindus and Egyptians. -7

MAY 1, 1929-

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It was to the Greeks, however, more than to any other peoples of antiquity, that the rise of astronomy to the position of an exact science was due. Who is John Bull? The personification of the English nation, pictured as a bluff, portly, good natured but obstinate fellow of the gentleman-farmer type. The figure originated in a satire by Dr. J. Arbuthnot writter in 1312 and has been popular in cartoons ever since. Is Lon Chaney an American? Yes. He was bom at Colorado Springs, Colo.

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