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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1937-07-29, Page 6Business and Professional Directory J. W. BUSHFIELDDR. R. L. STEWART PHYSICIAN Telephone 29. , Wingham Ontario telephone No. 66. e BASQUE REFUGEES VISITED BY LORD MAYOR Dan Flaherty, fall backward J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES have,” replied Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (England) L.R.C.P. (London) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. W. M. CONNELL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 19. ■"W. 11 I I.!".! i. Ulin. III! Dj*. W, a. McKibbon, B,A» PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Located at the Office of the Late Dr. H. W. Colbome. Office Phone 54. . Nights 107 you,” replied the “The position is a trifle distorted, but that may not at reasonable rates. Office, Guelph, Ont. COSENS, Agept. Wingham. R. S. HETHERINGTON . BARRISTER and SOLICITOR Office — Morton Bloqk. W. A. CRAWFORD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Located at the office of the late Dr. J. P. Kennedy. Phone 150. Wingham Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan. Office — Meyer Block, Wingham In- Ar- his SYNOPSIS; A card game is m ses­ sion in Elmer Henderson’s penthouse atop a New York skyscraper, The players are: Henderson, Police spector Flaherty, Martin Frazier, chic Doane, Max Michaelis, and friend, Williams, a stockbroker, They are waiting for Stephen Fitz­ gerald. When he fails to appear, a telephone call brings the information that he is out with a girl, Fitzgerald and Henderson are both romantically interested in Lydia Lane, the famous actress, but Archie Doane reveals that she is engaged to marry him, Doane leaves the party early when ‘Fitzgerald fails to appear. A short time later he telephones Inspector Flaherty with the frantic news that he has found Fitzgerald and Miss Lane dead in Lydia Lane’s penthouse apartment. Doane leaves the partly early when Fitzgerald fails to appear. A short time later he telephones Inspector Flaherty with the frantic news that he has found Fitzgerald and Miss Lane dead in Lydia Lane’s penthouse apartment. When Flaherty and the medical ex­ aminer reach the apartment, they find that Miss Lane is still alive. She is rushed to a hospital where blood .transfusions and care promise to re­ store her. ' :• > : All circumstantial evidence points to Archie Doane as the murderer, espe­ cially when the murder gun is found carefully planted in the chimney clean-out in the basement.♦ * * - “Why, such a thought never enter­ ed my mind, I suppose I could have done that, but it would never have occurred to me.” “I thought I knew what you would say,” said Michaelis. He turned to Inspector Flaherty. “Your man has made a thorough .search for a weapon here, hasn't he, Dan?” “What about it, Tony,” asked the Inspector of Detective Martinelli. ■“Find anything?” “Not a trace, chief,” replied the young detective. “I’ve looked into ev­ ery place where a gun could be hid­ den and there isn’t a sign of one. Ei­ ther fhe guy that did the shooting took it away with him,, or else he threw it away. The snow would hide it, you know.” “We’ll keep tliat in mind, too,” re­ plied Inspector Flaherty, as he led the way to the rear of the apartment. Under the beams of the pocket searchlights, of Detective Martinelli and the other men from headquarters the deep rear roof garden of the pent­ house apartment showed the same un. broken expanse "of fluffy snow as the narrower space in front had exhibit­ ed. The white surface was broken only by the footprints of a man, which led from the janitor’s roof door ar­ ound the elevator shaft and the kit­ chen extension of the penthouse, to the French door which gave access between Miss Lane’s bedroom and the roof. “I waiit a photograph of these footprints, and of the whole roof,” PRESENTING KEY TO CARNARVON TO KING David Lloyd George, constable of ing the visit there of the King and the castle, presents the key to Caer- Queen on their two-day tout of iiarvon Castle to King George VI dur- Wales. said Inspector Flaherty to the camera man. “You’ve measured them?” he asked the Bertillon expert. “Yes;4 and I’ve compared them with Mr. Doane’s overshoes,” was the re­ ply, “They are his footprints,” with­ out doubt." “I’d like to inspect them carefully,” said Max Michaelis, He borrowed Martinelli’s searchlight and, as soon as the camera man had set off his flash and obtained his photographs, he scrutinized the tracks for several minutes. Then he stood up and threw the searchlight beams on the rungs of the iron ladder to the penthouse roof, and the coping which bordered the main roof on all sides, and upon the chimney stack which projected above it, seven or eight feetjiigh and some twenty’ feet to the rear of the doorway in which they stood. “I’d like to call your attention, Dan, to the footprints more particularly," he said to the Inspector. “They bear out Archie’s story that he approached the door, over the roof, paused here, backed away a step or two, then re­ turned to the door and entered, There are no tracks pointing away from the door, except those which era man made just now, your cam­ The inspector poked his finger in to a tiny hole in the upholstery. “I’d also like you to note that the snow ridges on the edge of the cop­ ing, on the rungs of the ladder and on the edges of the penthouse roof and on the top of the chimney are unbroken. Nobody has gone up or down the ladder, over the ledge or the roof at any point, since it snow­ ed.” “I don’t know what that proves, Max, but I’ve noted it,” responded Flaherty. “It proves that if Archie did the shooting there are only two places where he could have hidden the gun,” replied Max Michaelis. “He could have stood here by the door where We are now, his feet pointing toward it, and tossed the pistol up on this penthouse roof, or he could have stood in the doorway and thrown it beyond the rear edge' of the main roof into whatever courtyard there is % between the'high walls all around us, “Now, I suggest that, if there is no reason for leaving the snow on the roof garden undisturbed, since it has been photographed, that we go to the end of the roof and see what the snow below in the courtyard looks like.” “Why couldn’t he have gone through to the front and thrown the pistol into the street?” demanded In­ spector Flaherty, •“It would have been harder to find there,” “Because, Dan, as you probably no­ ticed, the front door and the wind­ ows of the studio had not been op­ ened since, the snow began until we we opened, that door a minute ago. You recall how the banked up snow on the doorsill tumbled inward when you opened the door?” replied Mich­ aelis. “Did you go into the studio at all, Archie?” he asked, turning to Doane. “Not until after the men from Headquarters arrived and let me in there. I hardly moved from the chair at the telephone table, after I called up the Inspector, until I rose to open the door for the detectives." The searchlights revealed an en­ closed courtyard at the rear of the building as the party looked over the It was obvio-us that have thrown anything of any of the adjoin- and there was not a from where they get the Flaherty “Have him janitor, ordered let you there is coping and down an L-shaped wall, bounded on all sides by the walls of the buildings, nobody could over the roof ing buildings mark or blemish in the unbroken sur­ face .of the snow below them, so far as could be seen stood. “Go down and Tony,” Inspector the detective, out into that yard and see if any spot we have overlooked. “Wait a minute,” he went on, as they turned so that they were again facing the penthouse. “First run up that ladder and see if anything has been thrown on the upper roof.” “It might have been thrown down the chimney,” suggested Frazier, as Detective Martinelli hurried to obey orders. , “Hardly likely,” said Michaelis, throwing the searchlight he had bor­ rowed from the Bertillon man on the chimney stack. “See. It has a stone covering over the top of the flue, with apertures at the four sides to let the smoke out. It would have taken a good marksman to toss a pistol or anything-else from the doorway there with sufficient accuracy to hit a hole about eight by twelve inches, at an angle, without disturbing the snow on the edges of the bricks.” “That’s right,” Frazier agreed. “I hadn’t noticed the covering.” They re-entered the apartment and Dan Flaherty addressed Doane. “Did you ever play baseball, Ar­ chie?” he asked, with apparent casual­ ness. “Yes; I used to be a pretty good pitcher. Why?” “Oh, nothing. I just wondered,” re­ plied the Inspector. Martinelli, scrambling down the ladder, joined them as they took off their overcoats again. “Nothing on the roof, Chief,” he reported. “I’ll go down and look over the yard now.” Inspector Dan’Flaherty stood in the middle of the bedroom and Searched every plane and angle of it with his deepset blue eyes, in silence. “We’ve cleaned up outside,” he said at last. “I’m going to comb this ap­ artment again for tile gun, though Tony seldom overlooks anything and if he can’t find what he’s looking for it usually means it isn’t there. But there afe*a 4ot of other questions in my mind before I call give you a clean bill, Archie, “First, I want to, look over Eitz- gerald’s body with the doctor, here. What’s the matter, Archie? Catch him, somebody!” be cried, as Doane, white faced, reeled and would have fallen but for Max Michaelis. The lawyer eased the actor into a chair, “It’s that," he gasped feebly, with a motion of his head toward the sheet-covered form on the floor. “I can’t stand it; never could. I’m sor­ ry.” “Drink this," said Frazier, who had poured another generous libation from Henderson’s bottle, The medical ex­ aminer took Doane’s wrist in his hand and felt the pulse. “Better go into the other room and lie down," suggested the doctor, “I’ll lend you a hand." “It’s genuine enough," he reported, as he rejoined the others. “Not un­ common for the sight or even the thought of blood to unnerve'a man who has that peculiar sensitiveness." “Wouldn’t do for a policeman," commented Dan Flaherty, grimly, as he turned back the sheet that had been thrown over the huddled form of what had been Stephen Fitzgerald, “Doc, does 'it strike you that there’s anything queer about this body?” “I don’t follow medical examiner. signify anything." * “Ever see a man shot through the heart? See the actual shooting, I mean?” the Inspector demanded. “No, I can’t say I the medico. “Well, I have,” said “and I never saw one yet. They fall forward, every time. Sitting down, or standing up, it’s al­ ways the same.” “Now, Fitz is lying on his back, and that’s been bothering me ’ever since I came in. If he was lying down when he was shot, that would account for it. I can’t see what he’d be lying there on the floor for, but I want to find out. Will you go over the body and see if the bullet went through? If it went through and isn’t under him, somebody moved the body after he was shot.” The medical examiner proceeded with professional callousness to strip the clothing from, the upper part of the body) with the aid of the two men who had accompanied Detective Martinelli from Center Street. Max Michaelis and Martin Frazier watched the proceeding with intent and interested eyes. Inspector Fla­ herty seemed to be looking at every corner of the room at once, as his keen blue eyes darted from one object to another. Suddenly the Inspector stepped for­ ward, reached across the body of Fitz­ gerald and poked liis finger into a tiny hole in the silken upholstery of the cushion of the chaise lounge on which Lydia Lane had been lying. “There’s a bullet in there, some­ where,” he said,.“or I’m mistaken.” He lifted the cushion from the couch and felt of its downy interior. “Here it is,” he said. He ripped the cushion open and disclosed a bullet which had penetrated it, edgewise, to a distance of a foot or more. ' “This is the one that went through the girl’s arrg, all right,” he said. “It’s a .32 caliber. What do you find, Doc? “The bullet went through the man,” said the medical examiner. “Missed all the ribs and came out in the mid­ dle of the back. Through the clothes and all. But it doesn’t seem to be un­ der him.” He poked about with a metal probe in the pool of rapidly clotting blood which the turning over of the body had disclosed, and upon which the Inspector now turned his attention. “No bullet there,” agreed Flaherty. “Therefore, he was not shot while ly­ ing here. The next thing we’ve got to find is where the bullet went; then we may be able to tell where he was when he was shot. If he was shot in­ side of this apartment, the bullet is still here, for there isn’t a crack in a pane of glass. Now, to speed things up, I wish you would all help.” Michaelis and Frazier agreed -will­ ingly and the two Headquarters men took the request as an order. To each of the four the Inspector assigned one of the walls of the bedroom, 11’11 take the floor and the ceiling,” he Said. “Go over every square inch of wall, woodwork, furniture, until we find the bullet.” (Continued Next Week) A HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIEE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA FUMIGAION Not so many years ago, it was gen-’ erally believed that whatever it was that caused the communicable diseas­ es was blown around in the air. For this reason, when such diseases, oc­ curred, a great deal of attention was given to the air of the rooms ’Which Wdlington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840, Risks taken on all classes of insur­ ance Head ABNER were occupied by persons suffering from communicable diseases. Rooms were treated by burning sulphur, by evaporating or spraying formaldehyde or other disinfectants. The idea be­ hind procedures was the need to ster­ ilize the air. We know , that malaria..and yellow fever are not air-borne, diseases. They are caused by the bite of certain types of mosquitoes which have previously fed on persons suffering from these diseases. We also know that the germs die very quickly * outside the human- body. Their chance of, temp­ orary survival is fairly good if they are deposited in milk or other foods where they can remain moist. We -do not include tuberculosis or smallpox in this statement for reasons, the dis­ cussion of which is not permitted by the space at our disposal. We know that in the case of prac­ tically all the diseases, excluding those spread by water, milk1 and food, the communicable diseases are spread from person to person directly and not through inanimate objects. The germs of disease are carried by the droplets expelled by coughing, sneez-, Many of the little Basque refugees Who were taken 'from their war-torn native land to safety in England last Spring were moved recently to a new F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH , All Diseases Treated. Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre St. Sunday by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m., to 8 p.m. ing, spitting and loud talking. The spread of infection is accounted for by the taking in of These droplets by a second person. /Communicable diseases cannot be controlled by fumigation, by the ster­ ilization ‘of the air and of inanimate things. If a communicable disease oc­ curs in a school room, the proper method of control is to attempt to find the individual responsible for the spread- of the germs. The cause must be found and removed. The cause is always a person, not some school desk or blackboard. It is a’ waste of time and money to fumigate the room. It is money and time well spent to have the children examined in order to find the Source ‘-of the infection. During the course of a communic­ able disease all body discharges should be carefully collected and disinfected, because these frejjfci discharges contain the germs in large numbers and /o are dangerous. The patient is isolated to prevent others .from coming in con­ tact with his body discharges and se­ cretions. If such care is taken, there is no danger. It. is 'care during the course of the. disease by such coil- camp at Kingsdown, near Bristol. The ested in his chain of office as Lord Mayor of Bristol, in his tradi- did in him, tiohal robes, came out to welcome them, ’ This group appeared as inter- HARRY FRYFOGLE Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director Furniture and Funeral Service Ambulance Service. Phones: Day 117. Night 109. THOMAS FELLS • AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A Thorough Knowledge of Farm Stock. Phone 231, Wingham. It Will Pay Yop to Have An EXPERT AUCTIONEER to conduct your sale. , See T. R. BENNETT At The Royal Service Station. Phone 174W. J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham A. R. & F. E. DUVAL • CHIROPRACTORSz CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY North Street — Wingham Telephone 300./ current disinfection, that is import ant. When the patient recovers and. the secretions of his body are free of germs, there is no danger either in him or his surroundings, and there is- certainly no value in fumigation. Questions concerning Health, ad­ dressed to the Canadian Medical As­ sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. A simple Highland shepherd lad, named D.onald, was- an obedient .son and a shy lover. “Mither,” he said one evening, “can I get oot tae see ma lass?” “Of course, Donald,” replied his mother, readily. Later, on his return, she asked him, “Well Donald, did ye see Jean?” “Aye mither,” he replied, “and if I hadna* bobbed doon behind the shed she’d hae seen me!” “Isn’t this bill rather steep?” he ask­ ed his tailor. “You should know best’ sir, for it was run up by you.”