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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-12-03, Page 6PAGfE. SIX: I HE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES hursdaY, December 3, 1931 Win barn Advance-Tirnes. Published. at WLNGIIAM ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning Ni?. Logan Craig - Publisher 9isubscrip tion. rates -- One year $2.00. Six months $1.00, in• advance. To U. $, A. 52,50 per year. Advertising rates ni application. --•--- WellitIgtori Mutual Fire Insurance Go. Established 1.840 ;Risks taken on all . class of insur >re at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. .ufl,BNER COONS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Twn doors south of Field's Butner shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE 3kr, 0. Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office -Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wigg Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER. ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon :'.Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND -Nt.R.c,S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of iUniversity of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College ; of Physicians and 'burgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 T DR. G. W. i-1OWSON i;ir:'' DENTIST Office, over John ,oalbraith's Stoic, 111 MARY RopERTS RINEHART c1P'Riovr /9 / 64' MARY ROBERTS Q/AEH4( T SYNOPSIS Sixeo le, Horace Johnson (who p p tells the story), his wife, old Mrs, Dane, Herbert Robinson and his sis- ter, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and neighbors, are in the habit of Bolding weekly meetings. At one of them, Mrs. Dane, who .is hostess, varies the program by unexpectedly. arranging "We'll have a go at the .floors un- der the carpets now," hal said, The dressing -room had a large •rug, like the nursery above it, turning back the carpet was a simple matter. There had been a stain beneath whene the dead man's head had lain, but it had been scrubbed and scraped away. The boards were white for an area of a square foot or so. a spiritualistic seance with Miss Jere- ISherry eyed the spot with indiffer- my, a friend of Dr. Sperry and not a („ice,"Not essential," he said, "Shows professional, as the medium. I good housekeeping. That's all. The At the first sitting the medium tells (point is, are there other spots?" the details of a murder as it is occur- i And, after a time, we found what ring. Later that night Sperry learns i we were after: The upper hall was that a neighbor r, Arthur Wells, has !carpeted, and niy penknife came into been shot mysteriously. With John- requisition' to lift the tacks. They son he goes to the Wells residence came up rather easily, as if but re - and they find confirmation of the Gently put it. That, indeed, proved medium's account. Mrs. Wells tells to be the case. them her husband shot himself in a Just outside the dressing -room fit of depression, (icor the boards for an area of two The French maid admits she went square feet or more beneath the car - cut at the time Wells was shot, tele- pet had been scraped and scrubbed. phoning from a nearby drug store. With the lifting of the carpet came, Johnson goes to the drug store where too, a strong odor, as of ammonia, clerk tells him the maid phoned hitt the stain of blood had absolutely to the Ellingham house., telling some- disappeared. body there not "to call that night." Sperry, kneeling on the floor with At a second seance, Miss Jeremy ,the candle held close, 'examined the adds details about a summer resort wood. "Not only scrubbed," he said, where Charles Ellingham was known to have been at the same time that Mrs. Wells was there. She also tells of a pocketbook being lost which. contained some important car tickets and Ietters. Mrs. Dane, alone of the women, seems thrilled by the investi- gation. way. It's a sort of solitary deed: He Johnson goes alone and investi- fell here, and was dragged into the gates the deserted house. He is fri- I room. The angle of the bullet in the ghtened by strange noises, as of an ceiling would probably show it came intruder in the house, but completes from here, too, and went through the his investigation. !doorway. He leaves the house and in his ex -It was getting on, so I suggested citement carries off the fire tongs, �we give up further searching. leaving them in his own hall rack 1 We reached Mrs. Dane's, to find where his wife discovers them the that Miss Jeremy had already arriv- next morning and reproaches him for ed, looking rather pale, as I had not - his nocturnal wanderings. He also iced she always did before a seance. forgets to bring away his overcoat, Her color had faded, and her eyes which is carried off by the myster- seemed sunken in her head. -Tr ..F9 A, PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated ffice -adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Saandays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity 'hone 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 v,m. A,R.&F.E.DUVAL 1 Licensed Dtuglesc Yractitioners 'Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic ',College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res - waded to. All business confidential. Phone 300. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. Phone 191, "but scraped down, probably with a floor -scraper. It's pretty clear, Hot -- ace. The poor devil fell here. There ivas a struggle, and hie went down. He lay there for a while, too, until some plan was thought out. A man does not usually kill himself in a hall - ious stranger. Mrs. Dale learns of his peculiar actions and charges him with possessing an unsuspected sense of humor. He visits Mrs. Dane and tells her how he had carried off the fire -tongs and left behind his overcoat in his excitement. She then tells him she THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham "Not ill, are you?" Sperry asked floor and Clara .Lanae ii. Mrs. Dane told her to switch .on tl'te,liglits, Miss 5..retny had drooped in: her chair tin- i �was held til -the. silk «iii c 5, her chest ac. d. taut, but none of the threads' were. broken and her evening slippers 'still • fitted into the outline ,on the paper beneath the n, Without getting. ftp Sperry reached to the stand, behind Miss Jeremy, and brought into view a piece of scultpor's clay he Ili there. The handle of the bell was now jammed into the mass, "Now," Herbert said, addressing the m,eclium, "we want you to go back to the house Where you saw the dead You n his is man on the -floo 1•r,v ,name, don't you?" There was a Pause. "Yes. Of course 1 do, A, L. Wells." . Arthur had been known 'to most of us`by his Christian name, but the initials were correct, "How do you know it is an L?" "On. letters," was the laconic an- swer. ' Then: "Letters, letters, who has the letters?" "Do you know whose cane this is?" Want her." 1 found a stick in the rack outside and brought it in. The lights were still un in the chandelier overhead, and as I gave the stick to Mrs. Dane I heard Sperry speaking sharply be- hind me. "Where dill you get • that ' stick'" he demanded. "In the hall. I —" "I never saw it before," said. Mrs. Dane. "Perhaps it is Herbert's," But I caught Sperry's eye, We had both recognized it.' It was Ar- thur Wells's, the one which Sperry had taken from his room, and which in turn, had`been taken from Sperry's library. Sperry was watching itis with a sort of cynical amusement. "You're an absent-minded beggar, Horace," he said. "You didn't by any chance, stop in here on your way back from my place the other night, did you?" "I did. But I didn't bring that thing." "Look here, Horace," he said, more gently, "yotncome in and see met SOIT e; day soon. You're not as fit as you ought to be." I confess to a sort of helpless in- dignation that Was far from the com- posure the occasion required. But the others, I believe, were fully convinc- ed that no human agency had operat- ed to bring the stick into Mrs. Dane's house, belief that prepared there for anything that might occur. A number of things occurred al most as soon as the lights were out Then, suddenly, a bell that Sperry had placed on the stand beyond the black curtain commenced to ring Quite without warning, immediate)) after, my chair twisted under tee. Finally Mrs. Dane rapped on th Up to that time the replies had come easily and quickly. But begin- ning with the cane question, the med- ium was in difficulties. She moved uneasily, and spoke irritably. The re- plies were .slow and grudging. For- eign subjects were introduced, as now. "Horace's wife certainly bullies him," said the voice. "He's afraid of her. Arid the fire-tongs—the fire- tongs—the fire -tongs!" "Whose' cane is this?" Herbert re- peated. "Mr. Ellingham's." This created a profound sensation. "How do you know that?" "He carried it at the seashore. He wrote in the sand with it." "What did he write?" "Ten o'clock." "He wrote 'ten o'clock' in the sand, and the waves came and washed it - away?" • "Yes?" "Horace," said my wife, leaning forward, "why not ask her about that stock of mine? If it is going down, I ought to sell, oughtn't I?" "'We are here to make a serious investigation," ho said. "If the mem- burs of , the club , will keep their at- tention on whatwe are doing, we may get somewhere." "Now," lie continued, turning to the meant', "the man is dead, and .the re- volver is beside him, Diel he kill him- self?" "No. He attached her when he found the letters," "And she shot him?" "I can't tell you that." "Try very hard. It is important." "I don't know," was the fretful re- ply. "She may have. She hated him. I don't know. She says she did." "She says she killed him?" But there was no reply to this, al- though 1lerbert repeated it several times. . Instead, the voice of the "control" began to recite a verse of poetry—a cheap, sentimental bit of trash. It was maddening, under the circum- stances. "Do you know are?" "Hawkins has them," 'They were .not hidden in the cur- tain?" This was Sperry. "No. The police might have sear- ched the room." "Where were these letters?" There was no direct reply to this, but instead: "He found them when he was look- ing for his razorstrop. They were in the top of a closet. His revolver was there, too, He went back and got it. It was terrible." There was a profound silence, fol- lowed by a slight exclamation from Sperry as he leaped to his feet. The screen at the end of the room, which cart off the light from Clara's candle, was toppling. The next instant it fell, and we saw Clara sprawled over her table, in a dead faint. In this, the final chapter of the record of these seances, I shall give, as briefly as possible, the events of the day following the third sitting. I shall explain the mystery of Arthur Wells's death,' and I shall give the solution arrived at by the Neighbor- hood Club as to the strange com- - itaunications from the medium, Miss Jeremy, now Sperry's wife. 4 Herbert eyed her with some exas e Aeration. where the letters IN B[D WITH BACKACHE "'1'wo years ago I suffered •witCa severe ' pains in the small of my back, and could with. drliioalty hold myself: i esti hadgotobe•t upright. • At tine Ila d for. a week at a time, I went to find from hospital for 3 months, and they ,certainly did inc good, but they tole! Me they could not keep giving irie, •inedicioe, but that :I.'needed eompleter rest tor. ti months; away from th6 children. I could not bring myself tci be parted from the ehildren, so T did, net go to hospital any more. I started using Krusehen Salts and have had no trouble tivith my backsinee,'-41lrs, ''i''. Krusclien contains 'vital salts that. go right down to the 'root cause or backache. Scion after you .'start Un Krusehen, the Sharpest pains of backache cease, As you • perscvar with the " little clrr'y dose" 0 twinges become less and less,frequent,,, until finally you hardly, know what an ache or, pain is. 'Teen, -if. you're wise,, you'll prevent the • possibilityof relapse •by continuing the tiny, taste-'- tess pinch of ,Isrusehcn every morning. On Tuesday morning I wakened of ter an uneasy night. I knew• certain: things, knew :them definitely in the clear light of morning. Hawkins had' the letters that Arthur Wells had' found; that was one thing. I had not taken Ellingham's stick to Mrs.. Dane's house; that was another, r had not done it. 1had placed it oti the table and had not touched it again. But those were • immaterial, com- pared with one outstanding fact. Any supernatural solution would imply ' full • knowledge by whatever power had controlled the medium. And there was not full knowledge. ENEEME®®■®EV®■■■■■■■MEMINI■®■■■■51111■■■®■■■®■■■■■■■®■WIERI ■■■MIIIII■■■■■■ MIL IN It ■ EL II MI MIa 1e11y Please , ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■About her, as he took her hand. "Not at all. But I am anxious. I always am. These things do not come for the calling." "This is the last time. You have promised," For our last seance, Herbert Rob- ■ had advertised for the finder of the inson, who had been reading up psy- 1 ocketbook and turns over to John- chic literature, said he had arranged MI 1oi1 iii. aiis`wer she had received from things to convince us all of the gen-111 ■ ■ MI ■ one having guilty knowledge of the uincne aany phenomena that crime. Dr. Sperry announces Ile is utigitt tno:JJe'al', to be married to Miss Jeremy when M,erbert placed Miss Jeremy in her the club meets again. chair, and proceeded to wrap her Hawkins, the butler, is identified as chair and all, in a strong network of being the person 'wilts €tnswered Mrs. fine threads, drawn sufficiently taut Danes advertiStiYtent. Johnston s missing evlrf•ii7at is mailed to him, but the brtters contained in the pock- etv.i•e missing. Sperry accompanied by Johnston, makes another search in Well's house for the letters written by the slayer. RICHARD B. JACKSON • AUCTIONEER Phone 613x6, Wroxeter, or address &R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, There, and satisfaction guaranteed. DR. A. W. I1WIN DENTIST X-RAY Office, McDonald Block, Winghattx. A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AWt FUNERAL SERVICE A. J. WALXSEf2 Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer. Office Phone 106. Res. Phone 224: nest Limousine Funeral Coach, i NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Our inspection of the curtains was hurried, but finally we found what we were looking for. In the lining of one of the curtains, near the bottom, a long, ragged cut had been made. "Cut in a hurry, with cury scis- sors," was Sperry's comment. "Prob- ably manicure scissors." The result was a sort of pocket in the curtain, concealed on the chintz to snap with any movement. He finished by placing her feet on ■ the sheet of 'paper, and outlining their position there with a pencil line. The proceedings were saved from absurdity by what we all felt was the extreme gravity of the situation. There were present inthe room Mrs: Dane, the Robinsons, Sperry, my wife and myself. Clara, Mrs. Dane's secretary, had begged off on the plea of nervousness from the earlier and physical portion of the seance, and was to remain outside in the hall un- til the trance commenced. Sperry objected to this, as move- ment in the circle during the trance had, in the first seance, induced fret- ful uneasiness in the medium. But Clara, appealed to, begged to be al - Robinson bound the medieel to her chair and traced her feet on a isheet of white paper. side which was the side which would Jiang toward the room. "Probably," he said, "the curtain would have been better, It would have stayed anyhow. Whereas the He was flushed with triumph. "How in the world would Hawkins know that?" he demanded. "You can talk as you like, She's told us things that no one ever told her;" i1 • you'll accept. • • ■ • R.S.V.P. to this newspaper.} • ■ ■ • Issued by the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, -4000110101110100SgainalignigiliaSOMMUSSOMMOMIMUOMMigaiMiniMOMMISOOMMONOMMOOM: lowed to remain outside and showed such unmistakeable nervousness that we finally agreed. "Woulda slight noise disturb her? Mrs. Dane asked. Miss .Jeremy thought not, if the circle remainetl unbroken, and Mrs. Dane considered, "Bring fife my stick from the hall, Horace," she said. 'And tell Clara I'll rap on the floor' withit when X • sa ess 111 Et taIt at at at at it it: it YOU provide employment for many. The money which you pay out as wages amounts in the year to a very large sum. You pay a good ;deal, in the form of taxes, to the cost of maintaining our town services. it Your products, sold afar, advertise our .town favorably. Yet, we who live in this town really know very lit= 1 • tle about your activities, and our ignorance is disadvantageous to you and to our town. ■ a t We'll read, avidly, all that you tell us in the i ■ We suggest to you, in the name of citizens, that you should give us information, periodical- ly, about yourselves, your products, your .mar- kets, in order that we may get a more acute sense of your importance to this community. Tell us in this newspaper where your raw materials come from, about what you do to make your products widely known and consumed, about your patents, about interesting manufact- uring processes, and so on. form of signed advertisements in this paper. Even though we of this community may not buy much of what you make, we're still deeply . interested in all that you are doing, attempting and achieving. Goodwill and understanding will be increas- ed if we know more about your enterprise. As citizens we like to tell others about our in dus- tries. 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