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What Has Happinsd Bo Fas:
m-.u a : aa1a Jia wumtarv
of kWed Colonel MacFay
on MrliOMf slows sata", mJc
Crok. prfcwtfjwJ nveo
to tt MaeFay - murdor. ' Mr:
BoOmm, Mmofarft houttketptr.
davpMsr tho Cokmel, ot
M l roa Jmmt '
riWnr at ia Wert inditt OM,
Hick find Me Jfora tAere,
too eomN0 obout Nlcfc talk
to Dum-Dmm, CrcV
Ca eerwmt, a4 to cm
4erworM Mnveert Coo We, who
telle , At,, ,0 , OAwcVe Jormfr
gtrf triMtiC, XAnda Jfttte. e
i ahMit tn make other
dieoloeiwoe. Dum-Dum knock
him down, and a general melee
erarte.
ooon- (Aariee. vniy uiu wu
1V aooui you.; ' ,
ald Niok... " i
Twice " XMre eeea - you dead - in
my dreamavr a wen on,
each time yotf - were meeeed up
taut the .way MeoFay wae.--.Be
glanced- t-Kora.' "M you -don't
want IOH1 WIUUW,
get him on the train tonight Be
cause I'm going to hare that third
dreanV- 't-'v't"- ''
. fl'm paoiung Wtj '
he backed toward the opn .win-
lm coverea. iuru
awawliul nut on the
the apartment
dow. keeping them covered. Turn
ing quiuKiy, ae on
tadm leadinar to
Copyi(l 19)9 by Locw'i. lac
Part Three
oMihinir (ihlni and feminine
ecreame were mixed with those of
lists colliding wltn laces, in a
minute a police whistle sounded
maAM ! In annther minute
omebody had found a way to get
the lignts on.
KTnrA found herself alone in the
middle of the dance floor with
uriMir tka Ainh waa virtuaiiv de
serted; the police alarm had sent
everyooay scurrying.
Neither Nick nor Nora observed
Via two marttiv. mil phi v drea.ied
men who were watching outside
h hniMlnff u thev came ouL
IWMc'a next thoueht waa to check
ud on Linda Milks. Speeding to the hi
rniMitevere in a cab. he asked I t
Nora to wait, then Rained per
mission from the landlady to look
TIaw mmm wa an nAA mtvturA
of Oriental furniture, rare books
end art curios. It was something
else, however, that fascinated Nick:
a bullet bole concealed on the
wall, behind the picture, and an
odd. scorched spot on the car-
pet. .
tta was bendlnar down when
.. ! friaA "Dnt 'am lin!"
The thugs who had trailed him
from the club had come up the
fire escape.
"Turn on that radio!" one of
them oommanded. "Got any
'Famous Last Words' 7"
Nick permitted himself to be
backed to a chair. All at once an
other "Hands up!" sounded. This
time It was Lieutenant Ouild and
a plain clothes man, climbing in
the window.
"Gee, Nick," said Guild, "It's a
good thing you phoned me to trail
you."
e
Some of Nick's underworld era-
nln. all t iliMn on frViA rlo-ht
elde of the law. had discoveredil
dge leading 1
cm- i('ews i1'.,'; sti
Suddenly, with a terrlfyinieharp-
ness, a shot rang out.
Nora, peering out the window, saw
th fifirun oi full utimo wo.t
momenUrtly on tte ledge, then
plunge i slckenlnglyt to f the alde-
walK, I0W' stones .oiuw. ' i -
Amid the snouts ana aiuomur
a tuin drni) was collect-
lng. Two policemen were striving
vainly to keep order. A taxi, shut-
ft
. J emm kinnee the cun. The '
threatens MacFay . . everyc-e is m - " .Mini aa a perfect
. -i i a as. nikAH whan thinra WUBr weje ea - ..
sure m uo iw AnnilCtor between me
that court scot free. - ACt1 filing through the water..
kSrThad Wbut n. mTTamxner wa.-relaa.ed. The gua
HMt want u. to know It That's went .
It away to me. Hie alibi wa. play- gjg' get an alibi. Tfcere woe
ing'potor wl": ? SlXa ofci 1
peppu at MrVogeU while the Jsu. ;Wntfi ,
WmSrand ?Snt ' He Wedlia. ld
i cried.
Smitty
nft.siu
circle of tense o
gjne th s JMCSgn. ! uptfc Mother woman, TCottwe
said. "His bed over : rAnniT with Church and Dum-
newspaper . . . giass m ww ; . . jjum .TBat, why yottrdog e!
nglng th.fcv replicas
Nick tookout 1 owngun. ,nd
proppea it vl" showed, with his paws on; the
EFThenCOirreacd2or gJK!tf ..
floor lamp, and rtW., "Sf0 you -ayiiigr; cried
Lois, apparenuy tne picture r oi
maligned innocence. ,
t redaie, Wlia-eyea una uvaujjr
pale, rose and faced Nick.
It. a lie: n cneu. n-uou -MacFay
... I did It!"
Nick pursed his Hps. "Careful
Freddie!" he warned. . "Remember
what happened to worn wnen ne
tried to protect her." ' '
"What . . . who do-you mean?"
stammered Freddie.
"Horn must have Known ene
committed the murder," continued
Nick. "He knew If it was pinned
on her, his chances tit' marrying
her and her money were gone. Bo
ne naa to protect ner. tu . was
frantic -to get me off the case.
When I went out on the grounds
looking for Asta and that knife,
he felt It would be fairly .ore to
shoot me." ' 1U - ' '
were afraid of Horn of the fact
i twie ife mSi yon. .
deed in iny drttvmi,
'immwwww-W9M&&w--wwiw--r
Everything in Uiis "entire stock of over $50,000
drastically reduced, except nationally adyer
tisedgoods. : The values are so compelling.
the assortments are so great ... thjg quality in
each price range is so meritoriousiTr,thftt we
sa with conviction; Thisis one gale jm'Vaact
afford to miss.,, .These are oiUy a fewf)fj;he
values that are in store for thrifty .shoppers
So, come expecting the higgesjt bargssins of
the year! . , ' - r-
1 Because we are reducing bur entire regular
stock to such extremely low prices, ho mer
chandise will be charged and no trade-ins will
be accepted at these prices.
CASH SALE!
tlmg past, .topped abruptly, while
Van Slack and Lieutenant Guild
g0"What'. going on?" Cried Guild.
"Phil Church was Just shot. Land
ed in the alley here. We nabbed
a man ana woman, inoy warn
the only one. around."
The prisoners were ommy
Dum-Dum. the latter crying as
though his heart would break.
Both denied any Knowieage vi un
firing of the fatal ehot.
Within a few minutes Smitty
wwwA nttm-Thim Ha hlrthHav nartv
having broken' up, had Joined an
oddly assortea group m pcapm iu
the Charleses' living room . . .
inp that included Lois, Mrs
that he might break and give 'you
I await TIoaMaa- vml wre PAflllv
I stuck on somebody olse Freddie.
So you let Horn go Out to get me.
then you ran on ahead and warn
ea me, so j. a nave tune to araw a
mn on nlm. Then volt nuaned me
J : .;. -u-w,, !( of Way of hte bullet, feel-
rrom tne socaet. iiuw tw ing I'd ehoot him in seu-deienee,
ends of the wire, he placed one That's Just what I -was going to
in contact with tee cap of the do when the police stepped In
shell, the other half an inch away. a ma k 4nh tor hnth. At us
- 'This trick .hpuld .'work," he Lois g tared at him. "What sens.
aaM . "T!hiirch TtlAnned It ind ....u v. Vint..
saio. vuurvu j,uu - - - could inert oe in my suiting
vnurcn was an enKiuwr. .un. Father 7" .he demanded. '
hA t namnAnpr will ill. . . .1 iit-i via .
J9t3VUBV JTUU WOUW MIA UWUv,
. . -. 1 . M
ad you wanted it now."
"Why, Father
WaIIiiVi Freddie, and "Diamond
It ,weNlckJ Jr. first . blrthdayABack Vogel, who had been brobght
Tele liMrom&ta oartv thev nad deitA ti hotel bv Lieutenant Guild.
I3 , 1. wJJ . .1 wwM V-J.Zl tnK-wf i..a,.U www. v. ' Ti.1r -
cided j hofdt consisted of bringf Uf
lng a dozen youngster up to the that If
hotel, and loading the dining-room MacFay
taoie witn saiamL piciues, um
burger cheese, and other indiges
tible tidbits. Nora, trying to keep
Nickle Jr. from grabbing any of
these articles, seised a lull In the
excitement to ellp Into the next
room with Nick.
"I think you'd better order some
tee cream," she said.
Before he could answer, a voice
boomed out from behind the
draneriea
"Get your hand, up!"
Nick recognized the voice, though
It .startled him as much as Nora.
Tn AnntnAf Hlnmant Tht1 rhiiAli
a gun held In front of him, etep-
w 1DHJ view.
This is Mr. Church, darling,"
Mild Nick casually;
-iiFwl? that," commanded Church.
IT mat no 'time to waste." He
IJacod Nick -menacingly. "I told
.Jim rd be seeing you, but X dldnt
huneh," began Nick, -ls
wa fln1 nut who Kined
MacFay, well find out who killed
Church. He looKeo at van siaca.
MTU m, tVila I VAlf mm trvtns'
a MAt fi mnnlttli Anfl hi AllllriAnlV
produced an airtight alibi, what
would Happen :
"Jieo go iree, saia van oiaca.
-Suppose after you freed him,
you found out he was guilty . . ,
that he'd planned the whole thing
what viilrf von do?"
"Not a thing," admitted tne
"You mean you'd let him get
away witn 117 lnterposea rtoru.
"We'd have to." said Van Slack.
Vmi n.n'f wwv a man for fhe
same crime twice. If he's acquit
ted, ne could even coast ne uia it
nd we couldn't touch him."
' 'AVnWA. Ma rtnU.rtA nl AA A
Nick. -His Idea was to advertise
himself as the murderer, wnne ms
accomplice aid tne ainy wora.
takes a honsa ah tHa
inansa . . . now lur ui wwt. . i and
Nick poured the wnoie giassiuii whv. Father arave me every-
on the newspaper, directly oyer thing I needed." said Lola, She
the hammer of the gun. it rested hesitated, eyes darting back and
there in a pool, between tne eup-iforth
port of the books. "That wasn't your kind of, life,"
"MacFav didn't fire the shot I 4nini nir Tni, irinil of iff
l.r.w.A o.M TJIlr "Wo 1 . Jr, . i ..,,T
-w i is tne una xains mis.
dead wnen it went on. ;ine T,rnda Mills?" Interjected Van
"Yes. L.M. for, Linda Mill, and
. . . in
score h
a bullet
where this
Ha
murderer staged this whole thing I Slick.
. . . just tne way um, w uiojm "XeS. L.M. for. Unoa Mill
Mk look as If there' d been -a, row. MacFay. Linda Mill. .
The trick provided the charts for whoi, apartmentthere's a a
wm . vv or her , v , .to get away ed epot blde the bed and a
and establish an alibi. ' i..u i. v. Mil . k
"Tftii Mti these '
cried Freddie. ,
"It s easy enougn to
thing.!"
prove,"
and establish an alibi." ' iii. in tvi. wall . v
That broken wrist eliminates I clt was rehearsed."
a woman, aoeent it: wna vita
BiacK.
"If. easy enougn to nreaa a xrw. a- hmi
J.. J mim A MIaV TT I Zw, 7 . " " i
ubbu A w . . wv ii. . v. i ..in mtwwwr pjih, -AA aaav u, iinin
turned to Mrs. Bellam. Tou were a. ft 7 u that you .hot Church.
yMr. - wi u rust nun - oec aver to see
Fav. What time was that!" k. t... -f rniAAAArMN
Cabout midnight" 'Suddenly rtia Realijing at lart that she was
lost her vaunted self-control. "But Uaaimmmi. Tnl. dmnnad all further
you cant aay I did It!" . . I nretense and. with H her naive
-you were going to get anunr manner. Her voice was cold and
dred thousand when he died," cut catenating- as she turned to Van
in Van Slack. Iu.nv !r . -..,,
1 . dldnt ' know it," protested r nv he id -lefa m ions-.
Mrs Bellam. A. the others shook themeelve.
"Don't give me that You knew fr)m the spell -they had - beeri
rrhiiM.1i Vim nlenned If with nlm. I -a i a
Didn't you? Didn't you?" heard from the next
Mm. Bellam shook her head wild- room." Nora darted for the door.
ly. "No! I didnt!" ; - TQtcuse me," .he explained.
"Look, Nick!" cried Nora, sud- "That's the siirnal that It's time
demy pointing to me paper. s tor the baby's next bot41e."
moklng!" 1 ...
EveryoM turned. The water had l - TUB END.
gone tnrougn vno
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3-piece Poster Bed Room Suite with Large
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newspaper, by I
Larceny Leads In
Charges Against
Children in Jail
DO YOU KNOW
Most of the. children put in county
; MnrtH Carolina during the
four-year 1936-1939 period were tak
en into custody on cnarges i i
ceny and breaking and entering, W.
C. EaeW, director of the djvsion of
institutions and corrections of the
State Board of Charities and Public
"Welfare, said, this week.
Jailed in 1936 were 1,C31 children
under 16; the- number lowered to
1,070 in 1937; dropped to 883in 1938
and last yeax,wftS down tc 784. ,
Said Mrs W.' T. Boat, Stat Wel
. .v .xmmlgiiinnM. in commenting on
the decrease: "This reduction .
very" gratifying to the SUte Board
' of Charities and Public Welfare, but
it has not been made without great
effort. Even yet many children are
put in jail without the knowledge o(
the county welfare officials ..,
JThe 784 children uniier- 16 jailed
' last' year "includes 97 in Buncombe
: eourtty held i in what the; Juncombe
' juvehil court calls 'detention quar
. ters' but-which ;afe termed a jail in
'view of the interpretation4lplaceo on
the law. by the State's attorney $en
eral,"iEzell explained.
nthAv counts on which v incarcera-
made ranged from murn
( w... . , . t
der, arson and forgery to ylolabon of
the liqwor- law and' investigation,
, with the largest number other than
the larceny: groop- falling under the
.ri.;lrdtnn classification. sJ
One whiter boy "by ,th name of
Chureh was booked because of 'dia
ling rel:-iou woreiup uunng
- ti lant three years a total
117 cY""?t. rtider 10 yeara of
- ! M quarters where
, r , contact with
f
fr-
at Stain. accowlins to
the census completed
March 31st and announced
recently, has a population
of 22,127,699 The last pre
vious census figure, in 1920,
was 21,347,335-nearlv a
gain of a million . '
. 8? iO..
Guard, Portsmouth, Va., spent the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sammie Rid
week-end with hia parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Baicer. f " "
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Lane visited
Miss Miriam Lane, in Norfolk, Va.,
last Wednesday. ' if '" '
Mr. and Mrs. Milton CuHlijiher, of
Merry; Hill, spent Sunday with, her
dick. -
. Mrs. A. U. Winslovr spent Satqr-j
Hav nlirht and. Sunday in Norfolk,
Va.; with relatives. Miss ; Gemma
ms,.nm mhn liad been viBiting xela-
tives in Norfolk for the past two
weeks; accompanied ner oaca
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hardened criminals, the director said.
Boys and girls 10 years oW and
under were placed in county, jails
last year in the following counties:
Cabarrus, Carteret, Caldwell, - Cleve
land, Craven, Cumberland, . Edge
combe. Gaston, Greene. ; Polk, Pitt,
Randolph, Robeson," Rockingham,
Rutherford, and Wilson, ;
WHITESTON NEWS
Ming Miriam Lane, of Norfolk, Va.:
was the. week-end guest: of her; par
ents, Jar. ana Mrs. Jonn r. wine. r
Mm ,'nW!tt WiimW. Mis Edna
Winslow and Alvah Winslow visited
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lane, in Hemora,
Thursday evening. ' ' wi
Mrs. Kate White and children spent
Monday in Hertford with Mr. and
Mrs. Lindsay Winslow. r
Leverette Winslow and Pat Mc
Cellan. Of Norfolk. Va- BDont Sunday
night . with Mr,' and - Mra. -A U.
Winslow. J '
, Willard. Baiter, of " U.'S. Coast
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