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Home My WebLink AboutThe Signal, 1934-6-14, Page 6• Thurelay, June 14th, Mil IIHeadquarters PLUMBING 'tun TTiu'In 1NS�ttQaa�a jaauNG GENERAL REPOS... Carl W. Worsen t Phone 476 1 Ken's Black and White All Leather poit— Oxfords —Prioed for quick selling— Very newest styles in all - leather heels or rubber heels Sizes 6 to 10 PRICED AT $2.95 M. Robins AGENT ter TIP TOP TAIILORB Phone 384 Goderiob THE SIGNAL GODERICH, ONT. 1 1.--- :: THE MAY DAY MYSTERY :: By OCTAVOS ROT WHEN (costrtsbtt (]HA1'TIER X1 hanvey gated at the gray walls of the jail anu u."i.1 I as though baying reached a startling conclusion. '•1 believe our next mare, John, is to have a talky -talk with Mister Max - taw .Varna"--... "Oood Lord! Han ft to Ton iii this time to thlak of that?" "Uh-huh. M7 brain was never strong on speed.." Reagan was earnest. "Quit klddin', Jim. Why did you leave this pslooka for the last?' .'Because 1 wanted 'to hear what everybody elae had to say. F you tell me, Vernon is Tying high, wide handsome,and ed to some Idea about what was truthform and what wasn't." "Sen ble rack into �o the u -Rack fotbrilliance of the war- den's office, and thence down the dim- ly lighted corridor on wich were the rooms used for those prisoners Oester seemed entitled to something r than the ordinary cells. The turnkey admitted them to adoomTid Pedentleal with the (meg occupte ton and Larry Welch. They stood to the doorway and Hanvey regarded the occupant through sleepy, lf- eloeed eyes. Vernon was nested on his cot. He had doffed cost and tie, and his shirt wee open at the throat. Hi* long Dltck hair was somewhat ton*led and Ms chubby face wore an expression " belligerence No? Not even PetThayer'• r. His whole manner— • Max was trembling. Boyishly, he wan struggling to ,keep actual tears from hip eyes. "You're trying to trap me! I know! And I'm not going to say anything. Not anything at all!' -That'a up to you, Son. But sup- pose you tell me this: What hap- pened between you and Thayer in the fraternity house day before yesterday somewhere about one o'clock In the a fternoou ?" wwww 1 *Things been happening pretty fast, ain't they, 8onr Vernon looked up sharply. "What thynp?" "Oh, plenty. "1 don't know what you traaL" "Shute! Sure you do." Max rose and tried to look dignl- GeL JJJ• itoccrede4 only In appearing somewhat ludicrous and entlrel pitiful. "I haven't anything to nay, Mr. Han- -Well, what do you know about that? I haven't asked you anything, have 1?" "No, but—" • Llaten to me, Son: answer me one question." "What is 1t?" •'Did you kill Pat Thayer?" Vernon's eyee cIoaed. He pulled himself together with a vislbWeffort. -Then 1 think you better talk to me Wahl and honest. Of course, if you did kill him. the best thing you can do Is keep your mouth shut. Now— what say you?" "Nothing, I'm not. /ring to talk." "A' right. I ain't gonna argue with you." He reached inevitably for the golden toothpick. "Swell new car you got, Son." Vernon was stonily silent. "Swell car," repeated Hanvey. "Sure wish 1 could own one like that. But 1 wouldn't go buy one just atter I'd had a row with another man." "1 didn't row with anybody." even before a word was spoken—was combative. Jim seated himself and smiled lazily at the prisoner. He telt rather sorry for the boy, tat, good-natured, easy- going and now suddenly en- metthed in a tragedy which he couldn't quite understand. Jim's voice came soothingly. • It the l t dent Dru st His operating costs are leas— THIS WEEK'S PRICES Bathing Caps. Two Specials ....10c, 15c each Baby s Own Tablets .... Tic Colgate's Shaving Cream Tube 25c Woodbury'$ SoapCaks 20c Andrew'sLiver meds um size 59c ase WPampo s's Milk of Magne- sia 20 oz. bot. 60c Fans, Developing. Printing Absorbent Cotton, English lb. 39c Carter's Little Liver Pills Fly Tox 8 os. bot. 3bc RAZOR BLADES— Pal Blue Steel. ..6 for 25c Gillette, Auto Strop b for 25c W ampole's Grape Salt .. 60c Extra O Lather Brush Regular 760 ....for c 2Pu_ w (No T� Waterman's Fountain Pens Graduation Sete Brighton Health Salts 6 on. net 19c Paper Serviettes Pkg. of 40. Sterilized 150 BUY DRUGS AT Thi DRUG STORE— Dunlop, TOwRE—Dunlop, Campbell, Lauder, Wigle PHONE 19 PHONE 45 v PHONE 1 PHONE 90 nOOERIfH DI UG{,ISTS— Thrifty !Omen Buy Here .Superior Stores SAVE YOU MONEY - = TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE SAVINGS Vernon bsalteted. Then 1e nodded. "Alum?" Max's cheeks Alone." "And when you got there you traded In your car on a new one, didn't you? And pail the difference of twelve hundred dollars to cash. Where did you get the muae7?" •'I have plenty of money." "But you just said a minute ago that Thayer laid off you because you were broke. flow could-7ou ise tetrose tad also have Wet, of money?" "1 had it l got It from Thayer. lie owed it to me. ' Jim faeamed pr0 1. t cTean ep anot.6er milteYap?'. and Thayer were really friends, atter all. lie loaned you the twelve hun- dred dollars jolt like it was nothing, eh Y' 'He gave It to me. He owed it." "When did he give it to yon, Ver- non? When you went to his. roods?" "I told you I didn't go to his room." "1 see. 1 guess be sent It to you b7 special messenger or something. Never mind that, though. But there la one thing I want to 'mow: How did 1t happen that there wasn't any floor rug in the car LeeL,ed when you got to Steel City?" Again that heated, haunted Light In Max's eyes. "1 don't know anything about any floor rug." "Wasn't thus owe is your old cat?' "1 don't know." "Gee! You sure area forgetful guy. Now what about that knife Mr. Rea- gan showed you an hour or so ago? That is yours, isn't It?" "Yes." "Where did you get -It':" • "In Sicily. I've travelled a lot and I've always collected queer weapons." "Did you have It to your baud at all day before 7oterday?" "No." "Do you know it Is the very knife with which Thayer was killed?" •'I know that's what Mr. Reagan said.,. "You knew 1t wasn't on your wall where you always kept it, didn't you?' "No! How was I to notice that one of the things was gone? And 1 didn't kill Pat Thayer, Mr. Hanvey. I swear I didn't." Hanvey "polio softly. "Admitting that, Vernon: w» dill you get mixed up In the robiitrLpf. the Marland Na- tiouel Bank'" Max stood rigid for_ ii'momc•ut, then sank down on the cot. He buried his face to his ham& "I didn't UV* any- thing to' -do with that. either, Mr. Hanvey : honest I didn't." were pasty "Yes• "In the fraternity house? Nothing happened." "You went to his room, didn't you?" "No." "Aw, Son! You know dog -gone ,cod and well on, went to Pat Thei- r's noon. Now why -Cool you -Tell -ds what happened?" "1 dkin't go near hie room." cried Vernon harshly. "1 went to my own room and changed my clothes and then I left the house. i never naw Thayer for a moment all the time I VISA in there." Jim shook his big head. "I bate to see you fighting me, Son, when I'm trying to hells-" "Like 6-1 you are! You're trying to mix me up in Pat Thayer's murder." "I'm trying to get the truth. Does that mix you up" "No, bot—" Just beMse you went to the fra- ternity house, you and Thayer had a big row on the campus, didn't pilafs „Who says so'.. "Isere ral people And aIse ere ain't much question that you were pretty sore at him. Now i ask you this: Why?" "I had reason enough. I thought he was my friend I've been baddlee ROYAL YORK ORANGE PEKOE TEA Reg. 30c Value 1/2 -lb. 25c HiLLCREST PURE LARD 1-1b. Prints 9c OXYDOL . 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And I began to suspect that It wasn't all just accident that Thayer bad been nice to me so long as I had money; but the minute I went broke he lost Interest In me and started go- ing with that Is, doing things to make me more. And It struck me that It was queer be had always won at cards. Oh! I was stupid enough, but i waked up all at once." "And yon got about as mad as yon ever were In your life. You went to Thayer'* room . to the fraterwity bonne—" - "1 did not! i told you before I never went near hla room." "So you did. i thought maybe you'd remembered that you were mistaken. Anyway, you were in the house at the same time be was. After awhile you left there hurriedly with a bundle un- der your arm, didn't yon? What was In that bundle, Vernon?" Max was nervous; hie podgy hands were twisted together and hie eyes roved helplessly around the little room. "A—a atilt of clothes. Tba one 1 said I changed. I was tairing it to the Merhtnd Tatoring Company for alter- ation and cleaning." "Gored. Now we're clearing up parts of the mystery." JIM turned to Rea- gan. "Rnppose you check upon that; John. Just 'phone that company and make more they have the omit, will yon?" • "Sure." Reagan started to rise, but Max Vernon *topped him. The boy's eyes were ronnd with fear, and beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. "Never wind," he said hoarsely. "The clothes are not there." "Yoir idn't take them?" ._ • • • The two deteetives faced each other solemnly in the wardens office. "Will you tell me why:' Reagan asked--wben pen had Vernon on the run, you dida't thele him? You knew be was lying, didn't you?" "Sure, Jobn -ame. Aed the more questions 1 asked the more Iles be was gonna tell." "Well. l'il sky this for you, Jim Hanvey: You ,tai to rock along et an elephant -- learned a heap with all the del bat d ---d if you abaat thIa case " Mat for Instance}" teed Han- aiq.7aterwtwily. - In the first place, it's a cinch that Max Vernon killed Pat Thayer." "You think so?" "Sure. Dont your' "Durned if 1 know, John. I couldn't say for sure, anyway. There's still a lot of loose ends." "There always are on a case like this." snapped Reagan. "Whenever a big crime happens we run out and grab all the fasts we can. They all look Important because we don't know which from what But after we look into it we see that some of the things we thought were important really don't mean anything—and as we for- get 'em. That'" the way In this case: we've got Max Vernon dead to rights. Any jury would convict him." Jim nodded heavily. "They certain- ly would. That's what makes It so tough on the kid—provided dei inno- cent." Reagan changed his tactics. He pointed an H.wsiag finger at Hanvey. "Anyway. Jim—yon think he was mixed up in that hank robbery, don't you?" The tat man reflected for a mo- ment, then nodded. --- "Yeh—I do." "And that,' exulted Reagan, "U the flret definite admission I'N gotten out of you yet"— Jim et -Jim smiled. "i am dumb, ain't I, John? .Ruppo.e you tell me just bow you think this murder happened. Just sketch things over, will you, no they'll take their proper places in my mind." "Good enough" Reagan whipped out him notebook and consulted it. "May first; eleven -thirty: Tony Pey- ton nuns across her husliand making love to the kid Aster of the man she's crazy about. Big row. Thayer sore and Tony desperate. Fifteen minute* later, after she';,.gene. Iv7 Welch and i'at Thayer meet Max Vernon. Thayer hag en trimming Vernon for tau yearsMand the kid has jn.t got god and wise lerHn+e Thayer went too far when he cope4 MAX'Sgirl An - outer quarrel. di'hfie that ii bap{i!"- InR, Ton* Peyton 1* warning Terry Welch that hie slater 1s In trouble, and telling him why. "At hNlf-pa.t twelve Pat Thayer gets to the fraternity house and goes to his room b'I'e minutes later Max Vernon rnme. in He's *ore a* a goat and when the two kid* on the veranda tell him Th.yer's In ht* scum. he Rays he don't Lire a 01-11. And may- be he didn't then. Jim --butt don't, for- get that he had found out where ,Th.yer was, and he had jnet gnat relied it'lth the min titer a girl. "Vernon Roe. to his room. He ha* been broke and worried. Anme way— Lord knows how -he's entered Into a deal with •omehody to rots the Mar - lend National stank. Iles nervnns and desperate. He decide* to Sound have It out with Thayer right then. Thayer 1s a Mirror man and etronget, and *o Vernon grab. that *Bodo off the wall to hare it betide le e11e4 trouble eine*. Welch. i 1PIIP,P every word of her story of the vlett She beats It, and 1 "Good. Tea" ...oiler. Economy plea Satlia on, THE CEYLON TEA BUREAU advertise, "it pays to buy Good The. Keen buyers appreciate this advice because there is economy plus satisfaction in "Good Teat'. Forty year'3' agd "We" ASSOChltF& The sing= "Good ,Tat" . with our trade -name "Rcd Rose". And, since the year 1894, we have diligently sought to establish and maintain a " good name" for our product by an unswerving excellence of quality that is worthy of our slogan. Red R�eTea 1 is good tea" _.. right atter she does, Vernon goes into Thayer's room and talks cold turkey to Thayer. Thayer probably starts the fight Vernon takes a wild awlpe at him and the knife cuts his jugular vent. Vernon's badly stared. He beat* It back to his -room -inn pitches the knife into the corner of his clothes closet. Then he changes his clothes because the suit be had on when be killed Thayer was all covered with blood—wnkh 1s why he never went to that tailor at all. "Then be beats It to take part in that bank robbery. Ile gets to the bank corner just about two o'clock. During the robbery the atick-up man 1s shot. While Max la driving hlm be bleeds all over the back of the car, so Vernon gets rid of his bloody suit and the floor rug. Then he takes his *hare of the hundred thousand 1 ries that they've copped from . bank. "He trades In his old car and 10 fool enough to think he's got a good alibi. But a couple of minutes after he sets foot In his room at the frater- nity house, the man on duty grabs hum and calls me. Ain't that a good case, Jim?" The big man nodded slow approval. "Dorn near perfect," he applauded. killed Thayer and shields her. ase‘ next train for Steel City!" ala t 51?" Rteagan consulted 14 watch. "11i4- "It seems so Ivy had given Pat Thayer'.'An"d the ring nig"ht.1 wonder" If Feed run up there to - "Larry Welch took 1t. Didn't want morrow loner- -- his elaTer •sstled up -tar the mese. Don't "Sttct..I will. 1 cell be back tomor- you see -Sass cllai everything 1*? I'm row evening.- -What's the big idea?' sorry for Max Vernon, of course. Jim deLched the key from the slug. "Take this with you. John. I've got a There ain't anything bad about the kid. ]net weak." hunch that Max Vernon rented a box at some big Steel City Hanvey was silent for a moment,bank. Take then looked up brightly. "What'd you 00100eamMett of his handwriting with do with all the stuff Vernon bad In You, because he'd use an assumed his pockets when be was arrested Y' name, of course. Tou can check up "Right here. Want to nee It on all boxes rented In the last couple "Yeh of days—then compare the bandwrit- Five minutes 4ater Reagan returned inc "And If I find the Mux shall I take to the room. He spread out on the table thecontents of Vernon's poc-ka look inside?" ete: look. We'l just take it for gran - book. a fountain pen. ■ note book. several visiting cards, a hater tel that 1f he rented a box there the 'WI pin " t1i Suneb of keys, less thas Marland bank money Is in It—or, any- way, dnnara In, silver, a packet of cig l'esson's share. What say'" arettes and a box of [Hatches. Reagan rows_ "I'm on m7 wa7. Ilanrey fumbled with the eollectloe. "lisle all. John? Illdn't he have a wallet''" "Yell " Reagan flushed. "it's In a special hoz In the warden'. safe. Nothing In 1t but some money." •'How much'," "Two hundred and ten dollars. I`ll get it— "Only bow come Thayer was alive "Never mind." Jim was holding the bunch of keys In his hand. "Doesn't this look like a new key. John" Reagan nodded. "Rare doer." "Bank hes. 111 het." observed Ran - ray. as though talking to himself. "Ph -huh. new bank box key. Wheal when Larry Welch got there at two o'clock?". "H --I ' annadeed Reagan. "He wasn't Thayer war dead then. But Larry knew Tony bad been there and he didn't know anything about Max Vernon. 8o be thinks Tony Peyton ('hist." At the door he turned. "Ar.d If we do find that cash, Jim—and It turns out to he Vernon who had it— will you admit then that i was right?" Jim smiled broadly "Maybe," he said. "I'll sure think you were pretty near right. anyway." 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