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IVORGG-COURI TH INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS persons are in an lunar law Ann of Dawson, McQuir* ' at Philadelphia. A mas j 1b the divorce case of n. Rowland la under way. repreaented by her Mr. Willard; Mr. the defendant, and hia at •. Trumbull; the court Mr. Dawaon, the maater, persona. There la a new in the caae. After ay to defend hlmaelf agminat the ge of adultery in earlier hear , Mr. Bowland digs up evidence '.asks the court’s permission to nee witneaaea and resist the 'i Judge Dawson overrules the l»d objections of Mr. Willard, orders the witness brought - in. land’s lawyer goes to get the ess but finds her dead—chloro ed. She is Mrs. Barbara Keith, of a prominent Philadelphia ness man. Detective Tommy cin ia assigned to the case. He far questioning all of the parties ved in the case. GO ON WITH THE STORY in’s voice showed his tment. “The door isn’t he announced. “I was of that. Somebody in offices has fastened the which means that the world could have enter the outside.’’ was coincident with this discovery of the un door that the telephone tor appeared at the door the library to announce tt. The black*goat> coroner’s physicioan en d her. He was fol by a photographer from rs, and then by won, the fingerprint ex i As soon as introductions been made. Dr. Sackett, as sd by Dr. Clark, began his aination of the body. While won was producing an in* r»r and a magnifying from his kit for the de* . of prints, Rankin cau ed him.: ui»w!- ‘ 'ay particular attention to mobs of both doors and to windows." 0 export acquiesed with a t. rhile they’re busy in here, best continue the inhes ion in the library,” Rankin lotted. “It’s too crowded.” seempanied by the two , he carried Mrs. Keith’s tetbook with him into the room. It had been on the t before her, a fine petit t bag. the library, Rankin went te door into the main office beckoned Jenks. lore is your first job, ts,” he said. “I want you to the entire force in Jjhere learn what you can of r actions. I’m especially in sted in finding out who 9 in here today—anyone at whether employees or cli and when they did so.” r. Dawson shook his head, it's y<jur object to learn opened that door to fif -o-flve,” he observed, “I tkin shrugged and spread nns in a brief, compre 90 gesture. continued his instruc to Jenks. “See if any of taff remembers finding oor locked more recently Mr. Dawson does.” K, Tommy,” Jenks pro | “Anything else?” tkin drew out his watch tedded toward the library pr and towering strue visible across the street. Mtfs another thing we I’t overlook,” he Baid; chance that some em those offices observ suspicious acts over l to it the people on of the building are ! early in the morn ... . r u, i as Jinks departed to carry Out hia orders, he op ened Mrs. Keith’s pocketbook. Mr. Dawson and the court clerk watched him as he plac ed on the library table a gold vanity case with the chased initials B. W. K., lipstick, a key ring and five keys, a han kerchief and a nail file. An other compartment held tickets to a charity ball and a check book which Rankin put aside for future scrutiny. Beneath what appeared another hand kerchief, he found a email bot tle of clear, colorless liquid. Even before he uncorked it, a reeking pungent odor reveal ed its contents to be chloro form. The cloth was actually a thick cotton pad, still damp from its saturation with the drug. The bottle, large enough for 4 ounces, was half empty. It lacked a label and the dis tinguishing marks of any drug gist. Mr. Simpkins made the first surprised comment. “Why, that must be the . . . stuff the criminal smothered her with, Mr. Rankin!” he ex claimed excitedly. “Why do you suppose he hid it in her purse? Surely that’s a dangerous thing to do.” ,The detective shrugged. "Why not? He couldn’t carry it 8round and this is as safe a way to get rid of it as any.” Pocketing the checkbook, he returned the other articles cas ually to the handbag and ad dressed Mr. Dawson. “I think I’m ready now to in quire what the others, besides your force, can tell me of the tragedy,” he announced. “I’ll question your partners first” “Neither of them is here, Mr. Rankin,” the lawyer in formed him. “Mr. Locke is in New York dll an important case—gone since Monday. Mr, {facQuire is playing in a golf tournament this afternoon.” “Then 1*11 question the im mediate parties to the hearing, and their lawyers. One at a time; if you*ll be good enough to have Mr. Trumbull come in, I’ll start 'with him.” When summoned, Allen Row land’s attorney entered the li brary from Mr. Dawson’s office. Although still under thirty five, he looked at least five years older. Aibcx lux • x/anouu mvtvuuv ed him, the detective began without further preliminaries. "Perhaps I can best make progress with this case, Mr. Trumbull”—he motioned him to a chair—“by clearing up what happened here this after noon before the meeting. But first I <ieed information about Mrs. Keith. You stated at the hearing, I believe, that she is connected with a leading fam ily in the city?” “So she is, Mr. Rankin,” Mr. Trumbull returned. “Mrs. Bar bara Keith is the wife of Mor timer Keith and lives in Chest nut Hill at the Aldwich Apart ments.” Obviously impressed, the de tective raised his eyebrows and vented a low whistle. ' “Mortimer Keith,” he repeat ed, “the silk .manufacturer?” Once more, he could plead an offhand familiarity with a name involved in the tragedy. Few indeed, in Philadelphia, had not heard of the Keith family, distinguished histori cally since the American Re volution. Mortimer Kettn was the last of his lice, molded in the family tradition, austere, upright and reserved. When his ancesters’ estate was threatened by depletion, his dominating personality and en terprise rebuilt both. He was well into middle age, Rankin vaguely recalled, when he mar ried a beautiful woman much his junior, about four years earlier. Whatever the previous im portance of the crime, because of the prominence of the di vorce action, it paled into in significance before this new revelation. Murder was always murder; but the identity of the dead witness—no plebian cit izen or mere menial—gave it additional promise of being a genuine cause celebre. “Yes, that’s who she is,” the lawyer replied to his query, “Mrs. Mortimer Keith.” *Tfhen her husband will have to be notified of what’s hap pened at once. I’ll want to question him about Ure. Keith as promptly as possible.’’ He Summoned the remaining policeman from the outer room and imparted directions for communicating with the manu facturer. “Now, Mr. Trumbull,” Ran kin continued, after the officer had gone, “how long before the meeting began today did you arrive with Mrs. Keith?” Mr. Trumbull shook his head. “I didn’t bring her at all Mr. Rankin; I came here alone and Mr. Rowland accompanied her into town. It was arrang ed that he go for her to her residence in Chestnut Hill, and join me here. I reached here about two-twenty-five; they drive in with Mrs. Keith’s chauffeur five minutes after ward.” “At half past two, eh? And at what time did you leave her in that office to wait until you were ready for her testimony?” “About ten minutes later, I should judge”, the other re plied. “Then Mr. Rowland went down to the street to dismiss the chauffeur, who was park ed outside the building. She had ordered him to stay. Row land suggested we let him go and use my car to get home." “Are you certain,” the de tective probed, “he really went downstairs to speak to the chauffeur?” The lawyer replied vigor ously, in tones that brooked no doubt. “Positive Mr. Ran kin; in fact, I walked into the hall with him and saw him take the elevator. He was gone only a few minutes, less than five; I was phoning in the out er office when he returned.” ‘TThen two-forty was the last time either of yoil Blw Her alive?” Rankin eyed h|im searchlngly. “You didn’t en ter fifteen-o-five again, through either this library or the door from the hall, while you wen out there?” "Not until I found heir dead,” he returned. "We left her com pletely alone. Mr. Rowlanc and I went into Mr. Dawson’s private office for the next ten minutes, where we could' dis cuss today’s . . . strategy with out being disturbed. I can vouch that he never left me the entire time, nor I him. Then Mr. Dawson arrived and we assembled for the hearing.” The detective bent forward, | toying with a pencil he took from the table. I "Why was it arranged, Mr. , Trumbull, that Mrs. Keith wait apart in there, instead of outside in fifteen-o-s even? ' Had you some special reason for that?” | “It was done for privacy and to spare her all possible dis tress,” the lawyer explained. "She was doing us a service in offering her evidence, but na turally, in her position, she , desired no publicity. She ev er dressed inconspicuously. In main office, under the eyes of employees and casual visi tors, she would have felt un comfortable. And she couldn’t stay in the library with Mrs. Rowland and Mr. Willard; that would have been even more em barassing.” “Then they had already ar rived before you?” “Yes, I suppose so since they came earlier than I and waited for Mr. Dawson here. In fact, they were here when Mr. Rowland entered fifteen-o jfive with Mrs. Keith; he came .out at once and closed this | door between the rooms. So they saw us leave her at two forty.” | Rankin nodded. “Had they any idea in advance that it was she who would be Mr. Row land’s leading witness against them? That is, before she ar rived today? Was her name mentioned, for instance, in your written defense?” Mr. Trumbull’s forehead wrinkled in a frown of uncer tainty and reflection. "No, the answer I filed was purely formal and withheld all the essential details. And con sidering the nature of Mrs. Keith’s evidence, 1 don’t be lieve his wife was in a position to learn her identity.” (Continued Nest Week) I NOTICE OP TRUSTEE’S SALE Notice is hereby given tha1 under and by virtue of the power of sale conferred on the undersigned Trustee by a cer tain Deed of Trust, executed by K. C. Carter and wife Lenor Carter, to Mrs. Eva Sholder, Trustee, dated April 1, 1981, and recorded in Boole 340 Page 182, of the Duplin County Reg istry, default having been made in the payment of the indebt edness secured thereby, and the holder of the notes having demanded that the said Trus tee exercise the power of sale therein conferred, the under* signed Trustee will therefore, on MONDAY, THE 1ST DAY OF JULY, 1935, at 12 o’clock, noon, at the court house door in Kenansville, N. C. (Duplin County), expose for sale to the highest bidder for cash the following described lands, to wit: Situated near the Town of Wallace on plat of property owned by Jonathan Murray and now known as the M. M. Murray place, as surveyed and plotted by Paul King, C. E., which said plat or map is re corded in Book 216, Page 32 of the public registry of Dup lin County, and being tract Number 2 as laid out in the said map and contains 19.51 acres, more or less, the same being the property where K. C. Carter now lives. This the 31st day of May, 1935. MRS. EVA SHOLDER, Trustee Beasley & Stevens, Attys. June 6-13-20-27 —788 NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the power of sale in a mortgage deed made by T. W. Fussell and Annie Fussell, his wife, to W. H. Hall, dated April 1, 1925, and re corded in Boole 258, page 478, default having been made in the payment of the bonds thereby secured, the under* signed will offer for sale at the courthoOse door in Ken anaville, Duplin County, on MONDAY, JULY 8, 1935, at 12 o’clock noon, to the highest bidder,, for cash, a certain tract or lot of land in Ros« Hill, N. C.f described and de fined as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stake at the intersection of the western ed ge of Pine St. with the north ern edge of Center Street and running thence with the nor thern edge of Center Street about S. 75 1-2 W. to a stake, Isaac Cottle’s corner; thence Cottle’s line about N. 11 1-2 W., one-half the distance from the northern edge of Center Street and 150 feet at right angles from the southern edge of Ridge Street; thence Ward and Mallard’s line parallel with the center of Main Street, about N. 75 3-8 E. to the west ern edge of Pine Street; (thence) about S. 14 3-8 El 150 feet to the beginning, contain ing the lower lot of the land purchased by Maury Ward and J. C. Mallard of D. T. Carr and wife, on the north side of Center Street and the west ern side of Pine Street, and land conveyed by said Ward and Mallard to T. W. Fussell by deed dated May 21, 1914, and recorded in Book 164, page 111, of the registry of Duplin County. Advertised this June 7,1935. W. H. HALL, Mortgagee. Oscar B. Turner .Attorney. June 13-20-27 July 4 —730 NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of power of sale contained in the Deed of Trust from J. J. Tew and wife, Sidie Frances to W. T. Wallace, Trustee, dated Aug. 4, 1930, book 887, page 4, Registry of Duplin County, default having been made in the payment Ov™* the debt secured thereby, the undersigned will sell at the courthouse door in Keaans ville, N. C., on MONDAY, JU LY 1, 1935, at 1 o'clock P. M. to the highest bidder for cash lands situated in Rose Hill Township, Duplin County, said State, described as follows: First Tract being lot No. 8 in block 10, as per map of town of Rose Hill, east side of A. C. L. Railroad, showing C. M. Sftienmeftz property, and con veyed to J. J. Tew by Macon Cavanaugh and wife, book 207, page 82, Registry of Duplin County. Second Tract, containing 6 79-100 acres, and being lands conveyed to D. P. Tew by Charles J. Newton, book 251, page 27, Registry of Duplin Counfty. Third Tract, containing 17,* 000 sq. feet, more or less and being the lands described in Deed from John Newton to J. J. Tew, book 284, page 524, Registry of Duplin County. This May 24, 1935. W. T. WALLACE, Trustee. Geo. R. Ward, Atty. June 6-13-20-27 —726 RHEUMATISM NCLIUVS MIN IN • WNUTUS T» Um tortoriaff twin of ITln—il. I ttm. MiwOS. ItanMiitatMhl »ii»u«. ni th« kaamMm Maim, iitwini, Hh m* «■<■>», >• ill NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS llll TOWN OF WALLACE |||| I have been ordered by the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the Town of Wallace to collect all delinquent, taxes and water, bills due the Town on or before July 1. Please ■»»!» an effort to settle your taxes and water Mils on or before the above date and save additional cost and in* convenience. F. L. Boone, Town Tax Collector. 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