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BLACK BKSJ2, 1929 By NEA Service. Inc. ANNE AUSTIN phoned from the neighborhood, sfr." "The boy, Benny Smith is sick in bed. Cnllahan says the doctor has been there, and won't let the boy out of the house until the middle of the afternoon, if thon." "What's the matter with the boy?" McMann barked impatiently. Birciwell coughed.

"Upset stomach, it seems. The boy was sick this morning, but insisted on coming down to the office, Callahim says, leaving the house about half-past 10, At 11 mother of his two children, who ad-! o'clock was back, and seemed so mits calling Saturday afternoon for sick that his mother had a doctor her monthly alimony check. The second suspect is Ruth Lester, THIS HAS HAPPENED "HANDSOME HARRY" BORDEN, promoter of dubious stock companies it murdered some time between half- past one and four o'clock on Saturday His body Is found sprawled on the floor of his private office Monday pretty secretary, The scene of the investigation is the office of the victim. The first suspect questioned by POLICE DETECTIVE M'MANN, is MBS BORDEN, Borden's wife ami morning by his RUTH LE'STRR. admits Borden's attempted fain iliarity with her on Saturday morning 'but denies any knowledge of thn crime.

The elevator boys, MICKY "Benny sick!" Ruth marveled to herself. "Why. he has the constitution of an ox! I Whatever it was she was about to nsk herself was cut short liy Mc- and PFLUGKR, un- I Mann's next question, aimed at Bird- willingly cast suspicion on Ruth, well: "What about Rita Dubois They tsll of her joining her fiance, Any word from Clay?" JACK HAYWARD at 1:20 Saturday, "Yes, sir. Clay has traced her her almost immediate return alone to home of a friend of Miss the Borden suite, and her subsequent departure with a bruised lip. The Will Rogers Picks A Story for This Spot By WILL ROGERS Worst Joke I heard today was told to me by Benjamin Lloyd Belt Jr.

His Daddy is President of the Lorillard Tobacco Company and he is a mighty fine boy; I run onto him in Moscow, Russia. He and I did a lot of messing round Russia, we went up to Len- together. He was going on next suspect is Jack Hayward, whoso office is just across the narrow air. shaft from Borden's. Jack admits the office across the nirshaft is his aivl explains to Mo- Mann he returned Saturday afternoon for theater tickets left OTJ his desk.

BILL COWAN, a friend of Jack's, under questioning tells of hearing Jack mutter threats against Borden Saturday morning when he saw the Wilbur. Another dancer, living with her mother and he consulted a memorandum for the address. "Then why doesn't he bring her in?" McMann demanded impatiently. Birciwell refused to be hurried. "The girls are out sir, according to Mrs.

Wilbur. She says Miss Dubois spent the night with her daughter and that after breakfast this morning- the two girls went downtown together to do some shopping. They expected to have lunch with Mrs. promoter in the opposite office at- Wilbur, and mentioned that they tempt familiarity with Ruth. He also tells cf telephoning Jack Saturday afternoon and being plugged in on a busy line and of hearing Borden quarreling violently.

Jack denies tho conversation with Borden'. PHILLIPS waiter, who served Jack and Ruth on Saturday at luncheon, is questioned. (BE'NNY SMITH, Borden's office boy RITA DUBOIS, night club dancer and friend sent for. of Borden's arc NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XX "Well, what about the office boy, Birdwell? Why the devil hasn't hs shown up?" McMann demanded of his subordinate, after the waiter had ibeen dismissed. traced the Smith family to their new address and has just THEATRE 9 Prices Always Sat.

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that Rita was wanted by the police, did he?" smiled slightly. "Not Clay! He is watching the house and instructed the central office to plug in any calls from or to the Wilbur number on the phone I am holding down out here. Just in case Mrs. Wilbur might try to warn thi2 girl, you know." "Good!" McMann applauded. "That is send Covey in to me.

He is in 715 down the hall, you And now, Hayward, another question if you can spare-the'time," he called out sarcastically to the young man who stood at one of the two front windows, his. 'arm about Ruth Lester's shoulders. "Yes?" Jack wheeled. "You've said you and Miss Lester attended a matinee. Which theater? When did the curtain go up?" Ruth saw the drift of the question befort it was apparent to Jack, but there was nothing to do but to stand quietly in the circle of his arm as he answered: "The Princess Theater.

The play was The curtain rose at 2:45." "Murder! Rather a neat coincidence eh? I hope you 'both lenjoyed the show Ruth, remembering how she had wept uncontrollably during the second act because the district attorney reminded her of her dead father, did not answer except with a nervous flicker of her eyelashes, and 'Jack's only response was a tightening of his arm about the girl's shoulders. "Two forty-five curtain, eh?" McMann nodded, his eyes narrowing to point's of steely light. "You say you were not in your office at 2:10 when Cowan was plugged in on a busy line after he had called your number, that you were rejoining Miss Lester at the Chester Hotel at that moment. Right?" "That's correct," Jack retorted curtly. MpMann shuffled his notes, pretending to consult them to refresh his memory.

"And yet, Hayward; you were in such a hurry to leave the hotel that you did not take time to read the figures on your check, and started off in a rush without your briefcase. According to the waiter's story, you did not have dessert after you got back to the hotel. If, as you say, it was only 10 after two when you returned, what was your hurry?" "I was not in a hurry," Jack contradicted. "I had a cup of coffee, sat talking with Miss Lester for a few minutes, and left the dining room ar 2:25. We were both under the impression that it was a 2:30 curtain and walked directly to the theater, which is four blocks from the Chestei Hotel." "Hmm!" McMann considered.

Then, "So you were among the first The doorman and usher would be likely to remember I suppose, and could corroborate your story?" Jack's hand closed so tightly over Ruth's shoulder that she winced, but his voice was steady as he answered: "No, we were not among the first the theater itself, that is. There was a notice on one of the boards in the lobby, giving curtain time, and we turned away, walking ahout in the neighborhood of the theater for 10 minutes or so." "Really?" McMann was politely surprised. "With Miss Lester suffering from a cold, you walked her about in Saturday's high wind? I'm surprised at you, Hayward." "I was not cold any longer. I had had two or three cups of hot coffee while waiting for Mr. Hayward!" Ruth cut in determinedly.

"I prefer MOORE'S THE HOME OF GOOD FURNITURE Moore Furniture Co. South 7th Indiana, out into the: Gold Fields towards Siberia. He just troops around everywhere. He located him a Princess over there and she personally conducted us around in and out of the moss of beards. I had a great time with this kid and I hope I run onto him again somewhere.

He told me the following yarn. An Englishman was traveling in Spain in behalf of a Humane Society for prevention of cruelty to Animals. He met a very influential old Grandee in Madrid and told him fchat he wanted to raise some funds for this particular pet Charity. The old Grandee replied, "I am you English call 'hard up- pish' at the present jtime, but I should be glad to try and arrange 'a Bull fight in aid of your Charity." American News Inc. Then THE BON TON WILL BE CLO FOR ALTERATIONS walking to sitting in a clrafty theater." "I suppose you checked your briefcase, Hayward McMann demanded after a brief, measuring glance at Ruth.

Again that convulsive pressure on Ruth's shoulder. "No. I kept it with overcoat also." "Not talcing chances on the check room girl's curiosity, were you?" McMann insinuated. "I don't think she would have been interested in the insurance literature and lists of prospects," Jack answered evenly. "There was no gun in that briefcase, McMann." "That's your story, and you are going to stick to it, eh?" McMann growled.

"Listen, Hayward, you must realize that I've got the. goods on you! Three elevator operator, Moran; Cowan, a friend of yours, who would have lied to protect you if he had dared; and Phillips, 'the told substantially the same story; you were in. a white-hot rage against Harry Borden and threatened to kill him. "By your own admission you returned to your office where you kept a gun. Your secretary says it was still there Saturday morning, and it's not there now.

Cowan hears Borden defying your interference and the threats over the telephone at 10 minutes after two. I submit that- Borden came to the window on the air- shaft, directly opposite your own window, not knowing that you had been telephoning from your own office, that you saw him, reached for your gun and shot him down before ho suspected his danger; that you then came to his office, opened, the outer door with the key so providentially placed in your hands by the waiter, closed the window without taking time to notice that one of the Digepns had already betrayed you by eaving tracks of blood outside the window as well as on the floor inside the room; that you then robbed dead man's body of the $500 so it would look like the work of a hold-up man, or because you needed the money. That's my case, Hayward, and if I were a prosecuting attorney I would ba willing to take it to court as it is!" "Just a minute, Jack!" Ruth cried peremptorily, as the furious young man started forward. "Listen, Mr. McMann.

Remember that you have got to find someone who saw him in this wing of the building after returned to his office. There were cleaning women and undoubtedly other tenants on the floor, and Rita Dubois was certainly here about the time you insist that Jack was in Borden's office. I know he wasn't, for he could not have got in, and my evidence about the key would not be ignored in court as you have chosen to ignore it." There was a flicker of admiration in McMann's eyes as they studied the girl. "When did Hayward return your key, Miss Lester?" he asked at last, very nuietly. "The key to Borden's office?" "He did not return it, because he had never seen it or touched it," Ruth denied passionately.

"As I explained a while ago, the key the waiter found on the floor could not have been the office key. It was my apartment key, the only one that could have fallen out of my bag when I dropped it. He returned it immediately to my bag, for it was there when I reached the apartment Saturday evening, and the bag had not been out of my possession after I returned to the before Mr. Hayward left for the theater tickets." But as Ruth was concluding her Wm. E.

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Like a scrap of motion ture film a scene passed before her mind's eye; Jack and herself in the bank Saturday evening; Jack, waiting for her to make her deposit, and holding her handbag for her; Jack's guilty flush whqn she rallied him on having opened it: "Peeking to see what kind of lipstick I use, darling." "Haven't you remembered something you'd like to forget, Miss Lester?" McMann asked, almost kindly. "No!" Ruth denied. No, no! She had told him the truth. It must have been her apartment key which had fallen out of her purse and which Jack had been returning. hadn't he explained then? "Detective Covey, sir," Birdwell announced, and the peppy, jolly little detective swaggered into the dead man's private office, "What about the cleaning woman, Covey?" McMann demanded impatiently.

"Haven't been able to find either one of Cassidy and Letty Miller are tho names, sir," Covey answered cheerfully. "The Cassidy 'woman left home at 10 this morning, according to her daughter, to visit some friend of hers in another part of town, but the daughter CURED OF ECZEMA I Am Often Laughed At for being such a strong advocate of San Cura Ointment. "I had 'doctored four years before getting San Cura Ointment and Soap and was suffering intensely at the time I started to uae them. In a few moments I was very much relieved. I continued using them and was completely cured of Eczema.

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"All right, is it?" as his other subordinate again appeared in the communicating doorway. "Dr. Nielson on the phone, sir," Birdwell answered. As McMann reached for the extension on Borden's desk, Ruth's cold right hand went involuntarily to her throat. If the caliber of the bullet which had killed Borden matched the caliber of the pistol missing from Jack's (To Be Continued) In the next chapter: The report of the medical examiner.

WANDIN Mrs. Hubert McCullough of Shawnee was a Clymer caller on Saturday of last week. Miss Ida McCreary was a Clymcr caller on Saturday. Ira O'Neill who has been on the the sick list is able to be out nt the present. Dick Buterbnugh of Shawnee was a caller in Indiana on Monday evening.

Dean Barbor and.wife of Wilkinsburg spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Harbor's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jud- Eon Perry of Pine Flats. Elmer Weston of this place was a EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE Letters Testamentary on the Estate of George Ray, late of Ind Borough, deceased, having been granted the undersigned, those hav ing claims against said Estate are requested to present them duly anthen ticated for settlement, and those knowing themselves to bo hdebted are requested to make prompt pay mcnt.

Erna M. Ray, Executrix, Washington Street, 2-9-1Q-33-2-93; Indiana, Pa, Spangler caller on Saturday. R. J. Hincs and family of Indiana took dinner at Mrs.

Bines' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel McCnllough. Florence and Jean Ferrier spent Monday night with Miss Stella Lydic of Wandin. On Saturday oL' last, week Miss Roberta Weaver, xvas married to San- Cord Frampton of Diamondvillt 1 W.

N. Hickervricrgtr spent several days in Wilkinsburg and Pittsburgh last week. Ho returned on Tuesday. Ed Burnheimcr, wife and son John were Dixonvillo callers one day last week. Andy Shank and family were callers at the home of Harry Weaver on Sabbath.

P. M. Sickenfoerger and wife, son Wil'ber took supper at Luther Sickenberg-ors of Commodore on Sunday. Marriage Licenses Marl P. Deyarmin, Brushvalley Twp.

Flora B. Anderson, Brushvalley Twp. Earl R. Myers Gracoton Stalin F. Edwards Coral Ralph McQuown-T.

Clymcr Elsie Householder Penn Run Jack Bash Dixonville Gladys Conner Dixonville Emursun Klingensmith Blacklick lona M. Huston Blac'diek Sunford R. Frampton, Dmmondvillo Roberta K. Weaver, DiamondviUe Jesse E. Fleming Elderton Thyia R.

Timblin Gastown Martin 1. Eamigh Vintondule Anna Morgett Vintondale Beam M. Gromley Starford Roxia G. Leusure, Glen Campbell Alfred Henderson. Fairfield Westmoreland Co.

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