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BEGIN HERE TODAY Investigating the murder of Bolitho Blane, British financier, aboard Carlton Rocksavage's yacht. Detective Officer Kettering runs inte a maze of conflicting clews. As the investigation progresses, Kettering learns from Reginald Jocelyn that Rocksavage possessed the best motive for the crime—financial gain. Moreover, he learned that Rocksavage was able to dress for dinner in four minutes, a feat conceivably enabling him to commit a murder and return to the ship's lounge without creating suspicion. Only Nicholas Stodart, Blane's secretary, has a complete alibi. Confronted with Jocelyn's revelation, Rocksavage counters that Jocelyn, too, had a good motlive—money. Furthermore, that Japanese agent Inosuke Havashi, stood to lose a million dollars had Blane lived and concluded a merger with Rocksavage, thereby killing the soap monopoly deal Havashi sought. At the same time Lady Welter becomes deeper involved when unable to account for her time when the crime was committed. Hayashi, questioned again by Kettering, admits interest in the soap monopoly, but denies murdering Blane. Then the Bishop of Bude is called in for

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vouched for as the truth and signed Detective Officer Neame’s shortand witnessed by Dr. Ackland. | hand notes of Detective Officer |

Kettering’s examination of Dr. Cy Frank Ackland, Ph. 8. D, F. C. Veluntary statement made by Mr.| g B. Carlton Rocksavage. 9-1-37. ; ho 1s responsible for —Doctor, y 0 u h ave Juss B.> mun ei vouched for this statement many millions of other people's of Mr. Rocksavage, that you went money, I have been subject to bouts | pelow with him at 8:10. You are of acute worry at times, when my | quite certain that is correct?

. well, In| A—Yes. affairs have not been going K.—But you weren't in the lounge

consequence, a few years ago, I took with him? to the habit of administering drugs | A.—No. to myself by injection; their pur- | side, enjoying the evening air on pose being rot to allay nerves but deck, As Tt, Rockness pad to key me up for further efforts at |. saw me and beckoned. I knew times when I was suffering from | severe strain. Dr. Ackland has always prepared these injections for me and, on the night in question, I brought him down to my cabin with me for this purpose, as f anticipated having to enter into a strenuous conference with Blane that night after dinner. It was customary for me to rest for 3 quarter of an hour after the injection, in order that the drug might take effect. I did so on this occasion. Dr. Ackland remained with

up without a word and followed him down.

lounge to follow companionway though. A—Yes. A few steps, in a couple of yards of the deck entrance.

to have noticed you. think that strange? A.—No. The bishop,

I was sitting just out- |

that's | all, as the companionway is with- |

at once what he wanted, so I got |

K.—You had to come into the | him down the

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K.—No one in the lounge seems | Don’t you |

Lady Wel-

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GOOD NIGHT! / LOOK AT HIM GETTIN' OUT OF A SHOFER-DRIVEN CAR’ BUT, MAYBE THAT'S HIS UNCLES - HE'S GOT A RICH

ATS RIGHT! FER OUR BENEFIT OF COURSE? NOW WE'RE THINKIN 7 FROM NOW ON, WE IGNORE HIN!

NOW WE'RE THINKIN, STID OF RUSHIN' IN, DIGGIN MINES! WHY DID HE GIT OUT ON THIS SIDE? AN' WHY DID HE GIT OUT RIGHT HERE, WHEN HIS HOUSE 1S FOUR DOORS FARTHER ?

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re-examination, Kettering confronts

him with his unsavory past and his old up to the lounge for dinner acquaintance with Blane; accuses him | .

of murder. But the Bishop protests his I could have mentioned the docinhocence—without & shred of proof. { tor’s presence before as an alibi and NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY given some false cause for his | presence in my cabin, but, in view [of this police investigation, where at +. | my habit of injecting myself with Detective Officer Kettering’s fourth | coo hiioht come to light later, I report, continued. | felt that suspicion might be cast AVING re-examined all the par-| upon Dr. Ackland’s veracity unless I ties, 1 proceeded to a new hold the whole truth now.

/me until I had changed and went| ter and Mr. Stodard were sitting | together at a table with their |

backs to the companionway and | =\ ) In

2 the deck entrance, so they would | Yr, ! 3 Ct a {not have been likely to notice me | I "i 4d inl Wn Tn Uta v2 AEE as I stepped through. Cane, the \ VAY Lat ne Sy SOL 2d fr Vt 4% lounge steward, saw me though. IAW AIT AN ONG en Iz Nyy

savage and 1 passed him in the LI'L ABNER

passageway below. K.—Thanks, doctor. If the lounge analysis of the situation and com- | CARLTON ROCKSAVAGE. A sTRANG a Has Stuns s M=MAH HAID=IT

i ac | Steward saw you I guess that will posed a fresh draft of possible mo-| The foregoing statement was, FEELS EMPTY-EMPTIER'N UAL===C-CAIN'T

tives | written in my presence and I bear | USUA REMEMBER M-MAKH ME -OR

Mtn. 4 ray £ » , “Whee! That much Just for a broken heart, Fanny?”

“Oh, sure; the less sentimental a girl is, the higher value she puts on love letters.”

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(To Be Continued)

Save this instalment as evidence to help you solve the crime.

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to its entire truth. (POSSIBLE FRANK C. ACKLAND, 9.1-37.

Ph. 8. D, F.C. 8. B. Mrs. Jocelyn—Nil, as far as is | known at the moment, but she is In| collusion with her husband, sup- | porting his statement that he was | in his bath at 7:45, when we know | that he was not, and she may or may not have been in her own cabin at that hour. |

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jels—A motive, in that he admits that is was through Blane's agency that he was sent down for his first term in Sing Sing, and that Jocelyn brought him on board with the deliberate intention of giving him

the opportunity of getting even with |

Blane. It is even possible that Jocelyn may have paid him to do the

job, or that they did the job be- |

tween them. His alibi depends on kis being able to prove that Mrs. Jocelyn was in his cabin from 7:45 till 8:10, and this she denies.

Mr. Rocksavage—Strong motive, and it is now proved, owing to his capability of changing in under four

minutes, that he had ample time to |

commit the crime between 8:10 and 8:30. The Bishop of Bude—Strong motive. In the Bishop's previous statement he said that he had only met Blane casually in an English country ago (1929), whereas he does now deny that he met Blane France in 1917. Blane's letter shows

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It now seems certain that this was in connection with the savory business that is so anxious should not be made public. The probability is that Blane was holding this over and, as there tunity for the Bishop to the crime, he now comes strongly under suspicion,

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as though she would completely bankrupt if the Rocksavage companies had gone under and no longer in finance the group of papers which are her principal life interest.

Mr. Hayashi—Strong motive. It now appears that he stood to lose 2 considerable sum of money if Blane and Rocksavage had ever got together. Mr. Jocelyn—Strong motive. Lady Welter's bankruptcy would have thrown him back into the precarious existence which he was leading between 1923 and 1931, with the additional burden of a wife to support. It is now proved that he told a direct lie in his early statement, where he said that he was in his bath at 7:45, since Mr. Rocksavage met him in the passage still unchanged at 8:10. Moreover, “Slick” Daniels’ evidence gogs to show that Jocelyn had deliberately invited him nn board in the hope that he might square accounts with Blane,

Miss Rocksavage—Nil, as far as is known at the moment. The foregoing examinations and the writing of the report have occupied me all morning and at the moment I admit that I am completely baffled. Only the two stewards, the ship's carpenter and Stodart are conclusively ruled out, it having been quite impossible for any of them or any other member of the crew to commit this crime. Against Miss Rocksavage and the Hon. Mrs. Jocelyn we have no evidence of motive, although both of them had opportunity. On the other hand there was motive and, in many cases, very strong motive against Count Posodini, Mr. Rocksavage, the Bishop of Budg, Lady Welter, Mr. Hayashi and the Hon. Reginald Joselyn; and all of these had opportunity. A further report will follow this evening. ' KEYS KETTERING, Detective Officer, Florida Police. 1:35 p. m, 9-1-37, on 8. Y. Golden Gull. = = Ld

Detective Officer Kettering’s fifth

report.

FTER lunch today Mr. Rocksavage came to me and said that he would like to see me privately. We went to the small waiting room together and he told he that our interview of the morning had greatly upset him. He again protested his complete innocence of Blanes death and said that, in spite of any unpleasantness which might arise for him out of the matter, he had decided to inform me of certain facts which would clear him altogether. He then sent for Doctor Ackland, his personal doctor, who always travels with him, and in the presence of the doctor, Detective Officer Neame and myself, he made the following voluntary statement. + This statement has been duly

house once about seven years |

that there | was some strong tie up between the |

un- | the Bishop |

him | was ample opporcommit

WELTER—Strong motive, | owing to the fact that it looks | have been |

a position to |

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[In his numbed brain. Munson had | brought him here only to torture

ATER! Water!” |rode away, his raucous laughter Sheriff Dent's hands dug | floating back to the half-crazed man into the loose, hot sand, and his | tied to the tree. | bloodshot eyes looked dully up at] # 8 4 | the horse and rider. S Dent again against the tree, he felt a

| “Water!” he croaked again, then | Y | sprawled unconscious at the horse's sharp jab in the small of his back. | By tugging and twisting, he man-

fingers on the sharp object. a rusty nail. For an hour, he worked the rope back and forth across that nail, parting the strands and severing them one at a time. For an hour, he hung on to consciousness by sheer nerve. | At last, the rope broke, and he The squat man caught him by ths | was free. He fell to his hands and | shoulder and shook him. | knees and began crawling toward | "Look at me, Dent!” he rasped.| the pool. | “Look who's found you!” | He heard a horse clatter up beSlowly, recognition crept into the | hind him. (had returned gave Dent | strength. He lunged to the edge of | the basin, and thrust his head down toward the water, but again, before he could drink, he was pulled away.

= 2 ” | UNSON. outlaw and killer. | Hopelessly, he looked up to see

grinned. “I reckon, Dent, your | jo hi , ) : | him a canteen, time has come,” he said. “I reckon | :

une. frantically and, at last—drank. youve chased me out of Marvel when he had finished, he saw | Desert for the last time. Dent, I .

, . that the old prospector was silently hate you! I'm goin’ to finish you!” ea \ The words were wasted upon the pointing toward the tree. Dent's

: : . | eyes fixed on a er ar sheriff. His aching eyes were fixed | Sets that Vor i Te Cartoniy

how on the two canteens hung on | ai that had set him free. On it

the outlaw’s s N st slid | ; | over le His tongue slid | 4, 4im letters, was scrawled, “DAN-

lips and his arms ; reached toward the canteens. | EO AN oamNaTED, .“ “1 4 Water!” he gasped. Dent remembered that Red Mun-

The outlaw drew his gun, paused, ; | then slowly returned it to the hol- on Bal drgnk the Watersslots of

| ster. A crafty look came over his face. THE END “Dent,” he said softly, “I'm goin’ ; BY to take you for a ride.” YoupyHInt, Svnticate ted With powerful arms, he lifted the | | sheriff to the horse's back, then

| the sheriff sprawled to the ground

| within six feet of the water's edge. | The smell and sight of the cool | liquid threw him into a frenzy. With | a choked cry, he crawled frantically | toward the pool. Just as his mouth came within an [inch of the water, rough hands , caught his shoulders and hurled him | | back. He fell against a tree. Munson laughed. “I'm surprised at Dent. Why, you ain't even thanked me for the ride. Ain't you | got no manners?” Dazed, Dent stared blankly at the | outlaw, Slowly, the truth dawned

It was

| sheriff's dazed eyes and, for a moment, hate replaced the look of torture on his lean, sun-browned face. “Red Munson,” he muttered.

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Q—What is the source of the proverb, “to gild the lily?” A—Shakespeare's King John, Act IV, Scene 2; “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or | add another hue unto the rainbow,” The reference is to a futile attempt to improve upon naturer.

Q-—What was done with the $150.« 000 allotted by the Public Works

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him, | The outlaw led his horse to the | pool and let the animal drink | thirstily. “My poor old horse was just dyin’ | for a drink,” he said, “and to think | you'd want to drink before he did. | Dent, I'm ashamed of you.” | Suddenly, Dent lunged toward the | pool. Munson caught him by the | hair and held his face a few inches | above the water, | “Now, now, Dent!” he laughed. “I [didn’t think you'd act this way.” | With a powerful heave, he again flung the sheriff against the tree. Stunned, and too weak to fight back, Dent slumped as he had landed, his back against the tree, his arms limp at his sides.

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UNSON took a rope from the saddle and swaggered toward him, “I reckon I'd better tie you, Dent. Seems as though you've lost all your politeness.” When he had bound the sheriff to the tree, he returned to the pool and drank heavily, then splashed the water over his ‘ace. Dent watched in helpless agony. His swollen tongue lolled out of his mouth, anti he tugged vainly at his bonds. Laughing uproariously, Munson unhooked the canteens from the saddle and carrizd them to the pool. “Reckon I'll fresh these up,” he said. Grinning, he let the water gurgle out of the canteens to the ground. He refilled them at the spring, put them back on the saddle, and turned to Dent.

the library and the kitchen, and the purchasing of a new set of china.

Q—What is the Negro population of England? A—There are so few Negroes live ing in England that they are not classified separately in population statistics.

Q—What is the name given to the cradle in which Indian women carry their babies?

A—It has a great many different names, each tribe having a name in its own language. Some of the names are Gaashosa (Iroquois); Timigan (Chippewa); Urhasta (Tuscarara). The papoose is fastened and carried in a device called the papoose frame.

Q—Is the United States a member of the World Court?

A—No. Q—Who fixes the salaries of Jus tices of the U. S. Supreme Court? A—Congress fixes their salaries, but under Article III of the Constitution it may not diminish the salary of justices during their continuance in office. j Q—When was Ellis Island established as an immigrant station? A—In 1801. Q—-What does the name Zelislaw mean? A—It is a Slavic name means ing “wishing glory.” Q—What is the Chinese and “Sorry, but I must be leavin’ you. | Japanese population of California?

Have a njce afternoon, sheriff.” A—~The 19 He swing into the saddle and | 07,456 Japanese arid $1361 Chins.

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