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SMART ^ (A Short Story) By RICHARD HILL WILKINSON It looked to me like a prettv Hopeless case and I said so. ' "That’s because you ain’t a detective,” Moriarty said. ‘‘Thank the Lord!” I told him. See that!” he said, pointing to the marks made by a tire HjL^the soft earth. **»Sure,” I said. “I’ve been look ing at it for a couple of hours. "So’ve you and nine other cop pers. So what? Jack Newbury is still dead and the killer’s still at large and you’re stuck as to how to catch him.” ‘‘That’s the imprint of a Brim stone tire,” said Moriarty. “We know that whoever killed New bury brought him here in an au tomobile and left him, figuring the body wouldn’t be discovered for weeks. He figured wrong. He forgot that the hunting season was open and that a couple of sportsmen might happen along ==JI —* aikl find the body.” "Smart,” I said. "Where do we go them here? I don’t imagine there’s more than. 10,000 auto mobiles in the city c.f Hayden and surrounding country using Brimstone tires,” "Will, we know the automo bile was blue,” said Moriarty. "See that tree. The car scraped it and rubbed some of the paint cif.” “My, my,” I said sarcastically. "Blue’s such an unusual color. I’ll bet not more than 5,000 oI those lOi.OOO cars using Brim stone tires were painted blue.” The next morning the murder was spread all over the front pages of the papers. I read the account and discovered that Mo riarty had been holding out on me. The son - of - a - gun! He had checked up and discovered that there was only one parti Protect Your Family by becoming a member of Reins-Sturdivant Burial Association DIAL 4411 W. JEFFERSON, N. C. A 25 cent fee is charged upon joining, after which the following dues are in effect: Quarterly Yearly Benefit f *0ne to Ten Years_ .10 .40 5 50.00 * Ten to Twenty-Nine Years .20 .80 100.00 Thirty to Bifty Years_ .40 1.60 100.06 Fifty to Sixty-five Years — .60 2.40 100.00 Wanted Hickory Logs Effective immediately our prices are increased to: NO. 1 LOGS — $50.00 PER 1000 FEET NO. 2 LOGS — $27.50 PER 1000 FEET BRING YOUR HICKORY NOW! Can use any quantity delivered between now and November 1. Hickory Fibre Co. .NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. 4? __ _ Dr. D. E. Hightower Veternarian announces the opening of his office in West Jefferson at Farmers Supply Co. Residence: Dial 3661 Office: Dial 3201 Many Guests At j Healing Springs Guests at Healing Springs Ho tel last week include the follow ing: Rev. and Mrs. L.'D. Ussery, Mouth of Wilson, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Osbcrne, Mr. ar«f Mrs. Iisac Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Greene and son, Robert, Gwyn Gamibill, and Mr..and Mrs. M. F. Rhodes, all of North Wilkesboro; Mr. and Mrs. Roland Pope, Claremont; Mr. and Mrs. Doyt Owens, Statesville. Marvin Sasser, Frances Sasser, Clinton Sasser and P. D. Watts, Indian Trail; Mr. and Mrs. Ira T. Johnston and Mr. and Mrs. cular year that the Brimstone people made tires bearing the pattern that was found in the imprint near the body. And tha* year the Chalmers automobile company had equipped all their cars wltlh Brimstones. The order was a big one and, coming unex pectedly as it did, the Brimstone people weren’t able to meet the demands of retail dealers. Heine, in that particular year only Chal mers cars had Brimstone tiree, and most all of that model were blue. It was easy,, of course, to find out all the blue Chalmers of that year that were registered in and around Hayden. It narrowed the list of possible suspects down to 250. Even so, the next time I saw Moriart.v I snorted at him. "You’ ve got a fat chance of collecting this guy,” I said. “Suppose he came from out of town? which is likely. Suppose he came from Detroit or some place like that? How many blue Chalmers of that year do you thitik are register ed in Detroit? Oh. my! Or sup pose he borrowed the car or stole it or something?” "We’ve aueady got the guy,” he said. We went into the inspector’* office. The inspector was there 1 and two other coppers that I | knew fairly well. We sat Sown j and waited, and pretty soon a couple of piain-d'othes guys came in bringing a big husky, good looking chap with them. The husiky was mad and indig nant. He yellet a lot about this being an outrage and that sort of thing, but you could see Re wasn’t quite sure of himself. None of the coppers said a word. They just sat around and stared at him. Pretty soon She husky stopped yelling and look ed from one face to fRe other, and you could see he was scared. I felt sorry for him. He asked in a quiet voice what they’d brought him here for, and the inspector said for the murder of Jack Newibury, and opened up his desk drawer and took out a hammer and laid it on his desk. This was the hammer that killed Newbury,” he said. “We found, it in the tool-ikit of your car. Your fingerprints are on it.” The husky stared at the ham mer a minute and then leaped out of his chair with a yell and began running wildly for the door. “We figured he'd break Like that,” Moriarty told me later. “You have to try dif ferent systems on different guys. This one was easy.” “Smart, aren’t you?” I said. "New tell me how you did it?” "Why, it was easy,” said Mo riarty. It was that Brimstone tire mark. We simply gave out the story that the Brimstone peo ple only made tires with that pattern for a particular year and that Chalmers automobiles of that year were equipped with them. Blue Chalmers. Then' we waited.” “Waited for what?” I said. "You mean that srtory you gave out wasn’t true?” Moriarty shrugged. “I dunno. We gave it out anyway, and the papers printed it. Then we kept our eyes on all the paint shops around, and after awnile a guy with a blue Chalmers with Brim stone tires that fitted the pat tern came in to have his car painted. And that’s how we .hap pened to pick up this jigger,” he grinned. "Smart, aren’t you?” I snort ed. "Yeah,” said Moriary. And we both grinned. We have a Graduate Registered Pharmacist At your service at all times TELEPHONE 2761 Roberts’ Drug Store West Jefferson, N. C. Thomas S. Jonnstcn, Jefferson; Mr. and, Mrs. B. L. Mauney, Taylorsville; Mr. and Mrs. Bax ter Hayss, Taylorsville; Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wharton and daugh ter, Nancy,, Raleigh; Miss Betty | Ruth Shepherd, Crumpkr; Ho- i mer Williams, New Hope. 1 Sidney Gambill, Pittsburg, Pa.; Cqrnelia Spoeltstra, R'owayto, Conn.; Fred J. Roberts, Miss Grace Bishop, Miss Lelia Bishop, all1 of Galax, Va.; Mr. and Mrs, P. V. 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