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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-02-12, Page 2PAGE 2 THE: CLINTON NEWS -RECORD r{••h .4hh1F. + >,h w;1 hh'ipa h',; b rrrrFhr`F-hF : Tae••c O;a;F•F;?•Fdt,o trv1 f�i'r`: hh .. eF.F,'. •:>. .. a ,a.Sda_s�.�n.a� .u� _ ... CHAPTER XIV, I 1111 SYNOPSIS ter DeWitt is tried for the death of Lane.' "Very clever: Thus he :could Wood, murdered. conductor; of the carry 'off the ferry, the cheap hand-, trolley on which Longstreet was_kill- bag which as Wood the'conductor he led. Acquitted, DeWitt takes a train had earired onto the ferry to trans - Drury Lane, retired Shapes tai:e'an home. He is shot dead .in a deserted port the - salesman -disguise, a ' blunt p' car. His fingers, rigid in death, are instrument and.weigths with which.to actor, helping Inspector, Thumm and crossed, De Witt and Longstreet had sink the victimu'e clothing after hay- ing framed DeWitt with the cigar band, Patently DeWitt's strong mo- tive against Longstreet mad'e•him the life' imprisonment of Martin Stopes most natural suspect in the oyes. of .strict Attorney Bruno 'solve twa made their fortunes mining together; baffling murders'. The first is that of in Uruguay. 'They and William. Crock - Harley Longstreet, a broker. Evid'ene ett, another partner, obtained the ee points to his partner, DeWitt. Lai- . for his wife's murder. ,Stopes escap- the police, or Wood'smotive against Long -street also applied to DeWitt, If the frame-up were successful end De- Witt was tried but acquitted, there The Clinton News -Record ed and DeWitt had been threatened. Lane tellsi Thwnm and Mama. that with which 'is 'Incorporated Stopes is the murderer and that they THE NEW ERA have seen hint inany times. Next day was every reason to expect an attack Lane takes the same train with on • DeWitt. This was; why I was will- TEIRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Thunim and Bruno. . When Edward ing to allow his trial to be prosecuted, ;1.60 per year in advance, to Can- Tltompaon adieu addresses; $2,00 to the U.S. or , the . conductor, comes despite my knowledge of his innocertr other , foreign countries. No paper through, Lane rises." Made up as Har- ee. ' For so long as DeWitt was: in discontinued until all arrears are ley Longstreet he confronts the man danger of conviction by the legal me paid unless at the option of the pub- whom ho believes' to not only Edward thud, he was physically safe, Also Thompson, but Martin Stopes, the up.. I hadnot the slightest idea of what known gentleman of th'e supposed form Wood was taking and I hoped Wood murder, and Charles Woodhim- that the seriousness of DeWitt's pre - ADVERTISING RATES — Transient self. In explanation Lane points out ehcanient would force him to reveal ,advertising 12c per count line for that it was obvious the cork of pots- facts which I knew him to be with first insertion. 8c for each subse oned needles which caused Long- holding about the still abecu re niot- alnent insertio,s. Heading connte 2 street's death was handled bysome-Iva." Imes. Small advertssements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," one wearing gloves—in inid-summer Lane's face clouded. "I have tried "Lost', "Strayed", etc., inserted once who could discard them without.arous- to convince myself that I was not to. for ,354, each subsequent insertioning suspicion—the conductor. blame for DeWitt's death. I never dreamed he would be attacked the very night he was acquitted. I con - "As a conductor he had two other sidered Wood had weeks, months in advantages. First, his coat contained which to fipd his opportunity to kill DeWitt. fisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted' on the label, 15e. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for puler llication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name •of the writer. G. E. HALL - Proprietor 11 T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer 1Finaneial, Real Estate and Fire In- egaranee Agent. Representing 14 Fire .Insuraxoe Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B,A:. LL.B. Barristor, SoliC:tor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont. DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203, Clinton H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commission'e'r. Offices to Bank of Montreal Bnildhtg creating! When I visited the person g before he was Hours: 200 to 5.00 Tuesdays nel manager of the street car cont- shot; that, since he was right-handed and Fridays. pony still on the trail of I knew nob and the sign was made with his left what, I became aware of an inter -hand, therefore his right hared was oc leather -lined pockets, afforded abso- lute safety to himself while keeping the weapon into his victim's pocket, was certain of au -opportunity to drop. the weapon into Ms vistim`s pocket, since everyone must, in cars of the Crosstown type; pass by the conduc- tor. Unfortunately, 1 did not know Wood was the author of that anony- mous letter, and by the time we dis- covered, it was too late to prevent the second tragedy. But when I saw that Wood had written that letter, it could only mean he Was giving the police a false trail. But there was some- thing wrong here. Woocl Himself was murdered." "Which brings us to the third Mur- der. If DeWitt had not purchased a new fifty -trip ticket -book that night there is no telling whether this case' ever would have been satisfactorily solved, for I should' never have known in what disguise Stopes :committed the murder of DeWitt, "The primary point was the loca- tion of this ticket on, DeWitt's per- son. He had placed it in the upper loft pocket of his vest, but when his corpse was searched by : Inspector Thumm I noticed'with astonishment the ticket -book was in the inside breast pocket if the coat; The bol - Lane sighed and, stretched his legs. let had pierced the upper vest pocket, "You will recall inspector, that 1 but the book contained no..bullet-holo took the inexcusable liberty of im- I which brought up the question of how personating you when I went to i and why it had been removed. from Wood's rooming house in Weehawken. ! one pocket to another before DeWitt My pur•.pose was to pursue lines of in- was shot? quiry unhampered: by the necessity , of explanation. I slid not know de- "Recalln t so terribly complicated, either. the condition of the body. He's bald, As Wood he just wore a finitely for what to look. The bank- DeWitt's left hand formed conte sort book was Wood's crowning touch. He of sign by the overlapping of his mid- red wig. He said that a kill,short time actually forfeited what must have die and index fingers. As Dr. Sch- before the Longstreet DeWitt been to lust a considerable sun, mere- il'ling affirmed he had died instantly, had handed him -as Thompson the 1 to lend color to the illusion he was the :overlapping fingers indicated that train -condos nob ti cigar. However, yStopes was not able to explain the DeWitt made the sin cause of the incessant quarrels be- tween Longstreet and DeWitt," "I fancy," said Lane; "that tate pro - story you know now, but for the first time,to' me, it linked Longstreet and DeWitt with two other men—Martin Stopes ,escaped, convict, and, William Cockett,_ who turfed out to be a si- lent third partner of DeWitt — Long - streets. Of the two, Stopes must be Wood -Thompson. ` His motive ---rev, enge-directed equally against` all' three of the others So Stopes, I concluded was the conductor, and Cro- ckett the man: killed on the ferry. How Croelcett-was decoyed by Stopes into a position to be.murdered, I' no not know. Did Stopes explain, Mr. Bru- no?, '"Yes," :said the District Attorney huskily. "He - eommunicatedi' with Crockett .in the guise of a discharged beekeeper of DeWitt Ss Longstreet, writing that Crockett, was being de- frauded 'of a large part of hig right- ful one-third share of the firm's net, despite the large checks sent Ckockett. by the two men:,'twice a year. For C'noekett, when the three originally returned to the States, insisted ort sharing whatever success the other two attained; and rather than have Crockett ,a reckless, irresponsible. sort, spill the story of the Uruguay- an frame-up, Longstreet and DeWitt consented to hie investing one-third of the capital? requij.•ed to swing the business arid giving him a • third of their profits. I take it that only DeWitt's insistence prevented Long street from reneging through the years. At any rate, the letter went ort to say that` -he, the bookkeeper, had proof of .this fraudulency and was willing to sell the proof to Crockett." "Not only that," put in Inspector Thumm, "but Stopes' told us: how he telephoned DeWitt that morning pos- ing as Crdekett, and demanded that DeWitt be on the lower deck of the 10.40 ferry that night., He cautioned DeWitt to 'be careful' not to be seen —thereby minimizing the chances of DeWitt and Crockett meeting." "How did Stapes arrange his three personalities—Wood, Nixon, Thomp- son—so he was physically. able to - keep them separate?" Lane asked, "It wasn't hard as it looks," said the District Attorney.' "As Wood he worked from 2.30 to 10.30 p.m., and as' Thompson from 12 to 1.40 a.m. on the short railroad shift, a special jab. As .Wood he lived in Weehawken for convenience in changing his clothes and disguise before taking up his• train duties; as Thompson he lived in West Haverstraw, the last stop of his run, sleeping there the rest of the night and returning to his Weehawk- en lodgings as Wood by the late mor- ning trait.. The Nixon personality was flexible, and he used it rarely As far as the night of the ferry -mur- der was 'concerned S(tapes Selected that 'particular night because it was his': night off as Thompson! Incid- entally ,this business of disguise was - D. H. McINNEs g cu led when lie decided to make the per explanation is simple enough, De - ruing fact. The autopsy on the man p CHIROPRACTOR indentified as Wood mentioned a two- sign, and; that, since he W05 not sup- Witt was a reputable enough moral ,ter with one weak spot in.his moral Electro Therapist, Massage covered Office: Huron Street, (Few Doors Wood had worked every himself but to his murder. This was west of Royal Bank) working day for five years without unquestionably the result of a con- liourQ—Wed. and Sat and by . vacationversation DeWitt, Brooks, Ahearn and, appointment I had engaged in just a few moments „ FOOT CORRECTION Lanes's voice throbbed: At once' by manipulation San -Ray Treatment all the elements of the second ntur-' before, But it was necessary for me rime 207 to solve the 'case completely before red rearranged themselves. Wood making the connection between the literally had killed two birds with one murderer and DeWitt's. Yet whet- stone. The body supposed to be his had a peculiar Scar on the calf of ever it secant, its being on the left Licensed Auctioneer For Huron one leg, and red hair; other features i hand indicated that Ma right was (sc- one promptly answered, =pied., And what more logical than Immediate arrangements can be made being so mauled and smashed as to be p g for Sales Date at The News-Re.eatre useless for indentification. We knew I with his ticket at the approach of Clinton, or by calling Phone 203. that Wood had red hair and, from the conductor? And that explainect Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Motorman Guiness, art identical sear. ' why it was found in the inside breast Gvar�anteed. Yet the body was not hiss Wood's pocket. If the conductor were the scar then must have been fel d murder, he naturally could not allow EDWARD W. ELLIOTT probably dominated by Longstreet. and 'name to regret the conspiracy against Stopes, I should not be sur- prised if Longstreet made it a point i he enlisted, he taught school in Al- to threaten a disclosure of the old story to Jeanne." berta. He was in France until 1919, The three mon sat in silence, rat - then first with the Artillery and urinating. Tho fire leaped higher then with the Royal Air Force. and Bruno saTheLane's eyes were Upon his return: to Canada in 1919, pacifically closed. Bruno started at Lieut. -Col. McKay entered Toronto the slapping sound of Thumm's great University from whence he graduated palm against his thigh. "By God!" in 1923 as a Civic Engineer. Since exclaimed the Inspector.•. He leaned the hist war be has kept up active over and touched Lane's shoulder; wore hews militia in when this gin- Lane opened his eyes. "I knew came he was a Major in the Engin- left sem you ser.° carps. THURS.,'FEB. 12,1942 . aids rios' Shipyards Ontario's Types ®{ Ships Build 31 TIp • Down the ways in busy Ontario ario long cor- vettes comes a mine -sweepers notice and cargo ships, es of ship s and patrol boats --37 typto the al Canadian " swiftly and our Merchant Marine. In Canada's +s victory program, sea Lanaais of paramount importance. strength launch- ing, from Ele t ice energy is ing, Hydro ay and night, thousandsrStheir indis- pensable. e. Dn 'the yards of workers i" 500,000 electrical horse- fullpower shale of by Hydro to Ontario's power supe ries. 1n other plants wartime industries. 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Canada arks YOU to subscribe to the tetlttost of y L!r� '-SYSTEM-, oT.TiCC M F,'Tuat•N[L cy ox,T . Toy& toMMWN&'rr. n[N4 oN n igyN BWdroCT-NMes P,' 6tA0]Ja ✓4.Erxewro i61,iN{Lwmo 0:11 THE HYDRO -ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIO EGMONDVILLE OLD BOY NOW COLONEL Announcement was recently made of the appointment of Major Hugh A. McKay, as assistant quartermaster General of Coastal Defence and Air craft Fortifications in Canada and: Newfoundland, under the director of engineering services. With the ap- pointment goes a promotion to the rank of Lieut. Colonel. Lt. -Col. McKay is the son of the late James McKay, of Egmondvill'e, and Mrs. McKay now of Toronto. He attended public 'school at S. S. No. 9, Tuckeratnith, and' Seaforth Collegiate, matriculating in 1914 in Honour Ma- thematics.. From 1914 until October, 1915, when HAROLD JACKSONnit the ticket to renvain in DeWitt's hand etleng.out, Mr. Lane, There's false dor atleast five years, armee he I its presence at the time of instant one thing you haven't cleared up, Licensed Auctioneer showed the scar to Guiness inrmedia- I— I That hocus-pocus of DeiWitt's fin - Specialist in Farm and Household- tely after going to work for the car death would have indicated that De - gess Sales. • company, That meant the plan for Witt was aware of his .approach and' "Careless of me," mtutnured Lane. Licensed in Huron and Perth the fora =boat crime must have been had been killed immediately after.' I Y "In many ways the most curious ele- actionss. Prices reasonable; saris- of at least five years' duration. But I„ Lanes voice took on a frest note faction guaranteed, For informationetc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No..4 Seaforth, phone 14 -661. 06-012 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Wm. Knox Londesboro; Vice=President, W. R. Archibald, eafartk; Manager and Bruno, "your correlative suppersition same it was the result .of the Long- i Now, .I had deducted a conductor as street murder, then that also must i the murderer in the third crime and have been planned five yeays or more also murderer in the first crime was before. Another conclusion: Since aleo are 'conductor. Was' it ? For. Wood was seen boarding the ferry they were one and the same? F'ar- and was not killed, he must have slip- getting the red hair anti the scar, the ped off the boat before Thumm gave instructions to hoId everyone, or .. ' "As e. matter of fact," interrupted ment of the entice affair. Think of the physical significance of the twis- ted fingers. The geometric symbol approximated most closely in ars 'x and it was a rigid an indentification of Thompson as hie finger -prints." first of whichcouldeasily have been Lane explored his wallet, extracting artificial, and second unquestionably a. long piece of prinked paper, which so—I knew Wood was tall and burly."e handed to Thump, explainink- hot "Merely •one of the duplex cash -tick - Thompson ,therefore was our man, "The which passed through the hands The next step was plain}—to ex- of Conductor: •E'dward Thompson when alpine the back. history of both De- Witt and Longstreet in an effort to you paid •awe (area just before his ar- uneover .someone who had sufficient rest." merino to desire the death of lett. Thumm and Bruno stared at torr spots ors the paper by the side'. of the printed wards "Weehawken" and, lower downs West Englewood," were the perforation's of Conductor Ed- ward Thompson's ticket punch : an x. (THE END) V' SOME CRUST Sec. Treas., M, A: Reidy Seaforth. is the true one. Actually,he was one Directors Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Chris. Alex, Broadfoot, Seaforth;of these who were :detained on the • Leonhardt, Dublin; B. J. Trewartha, boat Stopes says he was Henry Nix- Clinton: Thos. Moylan, Seaforth; W. on, the jewelry. salesman. R, Archibald, Seaforth; Alex McEw- ing. Blyth; Frank McGregor,Clinton;. Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31. Clinton; Jas. Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Bruce- field, R.R.. No. 1; R. F. McKercher. Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen; A. G. Jarnruth, Bornholm, "R.R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Ban] of •Commence, Seaforth, . or at Calvin •Cutt's' Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect ' Meer- :ante or transact other business will 'be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to then- respective poet ofli- eee. Losses inspected by the director CANADIAN: , A1iON ; AILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from, Clinton as follows: . . Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 6:43 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. 'Going West, depart 11.45 a.m. Being West, depart 9 50 p.m. Lortdbne-Clinton geiar Hoath ar. 2,50. Zeas, ,0A o "Nixon, eh?" murmured Drury and plan for years to that end. That "Careless of me," murmured Lane. "111 many ways the moat curt. ens, element of the entire sffsir." Rev. Moore of Clinton had the gas stolen from his car on the main street of Blyth, while attending a meeting Wednesday night.—Blyth Standard. V IIENSALL FIRM DISSOLVES PARTNERSHIP After a period of 31 yeass in busi- ness the firm of Bontlwon & Drys- dale, 'of Hensall, will, on Mar. 1, 1942, by mutual consent, dissolve partner- ship. Thehardware tinsenithing and • plumbing will be earned on by G. M. Drysdale and willbe known as Drys - dale's Hardware. The furniture and funeral service will be carried on by J. Bonthron and will be known as S. Bonthron and Soh, Ebceter Advocate.' Since 1927 until he was called for active service he was general man- ager of the London Structural Steel Co, Ltd., and front July, 1940, has been stationed at Ottawa, engaged in de- fence duties. — Huron Expositor. v HOCKEY PROBLEMS Lorne Dale has solved many knot- tly hockey problems'. in his day, not even being particularly worried' ,by ,Clinton's four goal lead at the end of the second period Monday night, but there have been very deep furrows oh his forehead since the game here the other night., when seven brand. new two -buck hockey sticks 'vanished into thin air during the game. They were spares in the box at the rail, and while those in ehaage watched the game ,thee sticks just up and walked away, or something. Mr. Dale felt badly about it because he has been giving away discarded sticks to the young boys of the town, and it seems it is now up to the kids to produce, Seaforth News. v 9EAFORTR OLD BOY PRISONER OF JAPE Robert A. Kemp, superintendent: of a miss•lone school in,Wuehang, China, for the past, 35 years under the Amer- ican Mission's board of New York, is safe although a prisoner of the Jap- anese, according to word received in New York. Mr. Kemp is a brother of 14. B, 0. Kemp, of Oakville ,and is a (farmer resident of Seaforth, where he receivied hie early edu* etion;, Mr. iKemp a number of years ago contri- buted an interesting account of his work in China to the S,C.I. Alumni i year book. The office of the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tooker, presiding bishop of "ME PUREST FO 0 ACCO CAN the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York announced receipt of a five word cable, "Greetings front eight happy prisoners." The prisoners, it was stated by church officials, in- clude Mr. Kemp, who is on the mis- sion staff of the church, and is ap- parently interned by the Japanese at either Hankow or Wuchang.—Huron Expositor. 1, MUST i ALLAN EN D&E? Russia's Baffling Armies Need Hospital: Supplies AT ONCE! YOU CAN HELP FILL THIS URGENT NEED WE MUST rush relief to Russia. Wounded meta are streaming from the battlefields. There are not enough bandages, not enough anaesthetics, not en- ough serums. Gallant hien must die unless hospital • supplies are quickly :forthcoming. It's an appear we cannot ignore. Great Britain and the United States have raised millions to sent. necessities, Canadians must play their Hart. Your warm-hearted generosity is needed now. Give to the Red Crass Relief for Russia' Appeal. Every penny you contribute will purchase Supplies that will save lives. DON'T DELAY --GIVE TODAY! Forward your contribution to your, iocaI Red Cross branch. 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