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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-12-10, Page 6AGE SIX. THE, WCNGH,f' M AD\TANCE-"XtIME Thur uw,a .++!n+*ywen.arhagw.,w,.,uwrwvanunw.xw,1,4,000,40*N•.40 December 10, 1031 il►alaBhani , Aclitence*'uses. .i:'ublished at WINGUAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning W, Logan Craig Publisher subscription rates (n.e year $2.00. Six months $1.40, in advance. To 1.3. S. A. $2,50 per year. Advertising rates sin .application, Wellington Mutual Fire nsurance Co.. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- ,. ►ce at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ,a�Bi�iE12 COSENS, Agent , Wingham J. W. DODD ""SPO doorssouth of Field's Butcner shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INS'URANNCE AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box, 366 Phone 46 IO ONT AR 1NINGHAIVI, 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 '',11fitingha' 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 :.M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of. University of Toronto, "Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. ' Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. G. W. HOWSON 'DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's,Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH, Alt Diseases Treated -Office adjoining residence .next sA Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity }41ate o72, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 op. SYNOPSIS Six people, Horace Johnson (who tells the story),his wife, old Mrs. Dane, Herbert Robinson and his sis- ter, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and p neighbors, are in the habit of holding weekly meetings. At one of them, Mrs. Dane, who is hostess, varies the program by unexpectedly' arranging a spiritualistic seance with Miss Jere- my,, a friend of Dr.Sperry and not a professional, as the medium. At the first sitting the medium tells the details of a murder as it is occur- ring. Later thatnight Sperry learns, that a neighbour, Arthur Wells, has been shot mysteriously, With John- son he goes to the Wells residence and they find confirmation r of the medium's account. Mrs. Wells tells them her husban'U" shot himself in a fit of depression. The French maid admits she went. out at the time Wells was shot, tele- phoning from a nearby drug sto>'e. Johnson goes to the drug store where the clerk tells him the maid phoned. to the Ellingham house, telling some- body there not "to call that night." At a second seance, Miss Jeremy adds details about .a summer resort. where Charles Ellingham was known to have been at the same time that Mrs. Wells was there. She also tells of a, pocketbook being dost which contained some important car tickets and letters. Mrs. Dane, alone of the women, seems thrilled by the investi- gation. Johnson goes alone and investi- gates the deserted house. He is fri- ghtened by strange noises, as of an intruder in the house, but completes his investigation. He leaves the house and in his ex- citement carries off the fire tongs, leaving them in his own hall rack where his wife discovers them the nett morningand reproaches him for. his • nocturnal wanderings. He also forgets to bring away his overcoat, which is carried off by the myster— 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 had advertised for the finder of the .pocketbook and turns over to John- son an answer she had received from one having guilty knowledge of the crime. Dr. Sperry announces he is to be married to Miss Jeremy when i down again. "What letters?" the crib meets again. "Don't beat about the bush. We Hawkins, the butler, is identified as know you have the betters. And We being the person who answered Mrs. Dane's advertisement. Johnston's missing overcoat is mailed to him, but the letters contained in the pock- • et' are missing. Sperry accompanied "He may try to bolt," 'he,.explained "We'r'e in this pretty deep, your know." "How about a record of what the says?'' Spe.rry asked. •1' pressed a button, and Miss Joyce cane in. "Take the testimony. Of the man who is corning in, Miss Joyce," I directed. "Take everything wsay, any o:f tis. Can you tell the diffe.emnt voices?" She thought she could, and took up her position in the next room, with the door partly open. . I can. still sec Hawkins as Sperry let `him in•= -a tall cadaverous man of good manners and an English ac cent, a superior servant. He was cool but 'rather resentful. I judged that he considered carrying letters as in no way a part of his work, and that he was careful of his dignity. "Miss Jeremy sent this, sir, fie said. 7'hen,his eyes took in Sperry and Herbert, and he :drew himself up. "1 see," he said. "It wasn't the • letter, then?" "Not entirely. We want to have a talk with you, Hawkins." "Very well, sir." But his eyes went from one to the other of us. "You were in the employ of Mr. Wells, We know that. Also we saw you there the night he died, but some. time after his death. What time did you get in that night?" "About midnight. I am not cer- rain." "Who told you of what had hap - petted:. "I told you that before. 1 met the detectives going out." "Exactly. Now, Hawkins, you had come in, locked the door, and placed the key outside for the other serv- ants?" "Yes, sir." . "How do you expect us to believe that?" Sperry demanded irritably. "There was only one key. Could you lock yourself in and then place the key outside?" "Yes, sir," he replied impassively. 'By . opening the kitchen window, I could reach out and hang it on the nail " enty?" T asked. He stared, and smiled faintly.' "You know who I mean." W'e tried to assure hive that we were not, in asense, seeking to in.- volve'iim in the situation, and 1 even went so far as to stale our position, briefly: "I'd better explain, Hawkins, •We are not doing police work. But, Giv- ing to a chain of circumstances, we, have learned that Mr: 'Wells did not kill himself. He was murdered, or at least shot, -by Some one else, It 'may not have been deliberate. Owing to what we m ye learned, certain people o le are under suspicion. We want to clear things up for oiir own satis- faction." ' "Then, why is some one taking down what I say in the next room?" He could ony have guessed it, but he saw that hoc was right by our faces. He smiled bitterly. "Go oil," he said. "Take it down. It can't hurt anybody, I don't know who did it, and .that's God's truth." And, after long wrangling, that was as far as we got. He suspected who had done it, but he did not know. He absolutely re- fused to surrender the letters in his Possession, and a sense of delicacy, I think, kept ,us all from pressing the question of the A 31 matter. • "That's a personal affair," he said, "I've had a good bit of trouble. I'm thinking now of going back to Eng - And, as I say, we did not insist. When he had gone, there seemed to be nothing to say.He had left the sante .impression on all of us, I think—of trouble, but not of crime. Of a man fairly driven; of wretched- nassthateas almost despair: 3e still had the letters. He had, after all, as Much right to them as we had, which was, actually, no right at all. And, whatever it was, he still had his sec- ret +, Herbert was almost childishly crestfallen. Sperry's attitude was more .plfilosophical; • "A" woman, of course," he said. "me A 31 letter show it He tried to get ber back, perhaps,;by holding the letters over her head: And it has- n't worked out. The Poor devil! On- ly—who. is the, woman?" It was that night, tete fifteenth clay after the crime, that the solution came, Came, as a matter of fact, 'to mny door. I Was in the library, reading, ;or trying to read, a rather abstruse book` on physic phenomena. My wife, 1 re- call, had just asked nae to change a banjo record for "The End of a Plea- ant Day," when the, bell rang, In our modest establishinent the maids retire ,early and it is my sus tom, on those rare occasions' when the, bell rings after nine o'clock, to answer the door. myself, To my Purprise,e it was Sperry, ac- companied by. two ladies, one 'of them heavily veiled.. It was hot until 1 had ushered them into the reception rooin and lighted the gas that I: saw wl}o they were. It was Eilnor Wells, in deep mourning, and Clara, Mrs. Dane's companion and secretary, While I 'am quite sure that I was not thinking clearly at the opening of the interview, I. know that I was puzzled at the ,presence of Mrs.. Dane's secretary, but I doubtless ac- cepted it as having some connection with Clara's notes. And Sperry made no comment on her at all. "Mrs. Wells suggested that we corne here, Horace," he began. "We may need a legal mind on this. I'm not sure, or rather I think it unlikely, But just in case—suppose you tell hint, Elinor." I .have 110 record of the story Eli- nor Wells told that night in our lit- li reception -room, with Clara sitting in •a corner, grave and white. it was fragmentary; incordinate.. But 1 got it all at last. Charlie Ellingham had killed Arth- ur Wells, but in a struggle. In parts the story was sordid enough. She did not spare herself, or her motives. She had wanted :luxury and Arthur had not succeeded as he had promised.- They romised:They were in debt and living beyond their means. But even that, she has- tened to add, would: not have matter- ed, had he not been brutal with her. He had made her life very wretched. But on the subject of Charlie El- lingham, she was emphatic. She knew there had been talk, but there had been no real basis for it. She had turned to him for comfort, and he gave her love. She didn't know.where he was nbw, and didn't 'greatly cane, but she .,would like to recover and destroy some letters he had written ltcr. She was looking crushed and ill, and she told her story nervously, Me - d -need to its elements, it was as fol- lt:,ws i, Go the , night of Arthiur . 'Wells's death they were dressing for a ball. She had made a private arrangement Nvith Ellingham to plead a headache at the last moment and let Arthur' go alone, Fut he had been so insist- ent that sbe had been forged to . go, after all, She had 'sent the governess, Suzanne Gautier, out to telephone linghain not to come, but he was not at his house, and the message was k -ft with `.his valet. As it turned out, he- had already started. • Elinor . was dressed, ail but her ball -gown and she had put on a negli- gee, to wait for the governess to re- turn and help her. Arthur was in his dressing -room, and she heard him grumbling about having' no blades for his safety razor. s..a He•c gotfo outrthe a case ofWherazorsnshe anre- d fled c m 1 strop. membered where the strop,was, it was too late, The letter;' had been beside it, and he ,was coming toward her, with thein in his hand. She was terrified, He had 'read on- ly one of them, but that was enough. !He muttered something aiacl turned 'away. She saw his face as he .went toward where time revolver had been hidden from, the children, and she screamed. • Charlie Ellinghain heard her, ''The dcor had been left unlocked by the governess, and he was in the lower hall. He ran up and the two ;men grappled; . The first shot was fired by Arthur. It struck the. ceiling. The second she was doubtful about. She thought the revolver was still in Ar- thur's hand. It was all horrible. He went down like a stone, in the hall- way outside the door. They were nearly mnad, the two of then. `Tiley . had dragged the body in, and then faced each other. Ell- Iingbam was for calling the police at once and surrendering, but she had I kept him away from the telephone. She maintained, and I think it very possible, that her whole thought was d for the children, and on the their lives of such .a scandal. And, after all, nothing conIcr help the man on the floor. It was while they were trying to formulate some concerted plan that 'they heard . footsteps below, and thinking it • was Mademoiselle -Gau tier, she drove Ellingham into the rear of the house, froni which later' hemanaged to escape, f3t it was; Clara who was coming up the stairs, (Concluded ,next week.) He: "A lot of girls will go crazy when I marry.' ' She: "Really? How many do yoti expect to marry?" ¼SP1RIN 11IlI IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII)(IIIInIIIII111NIUlIlUI1111111111111111111I BEWARE OF IMITATIONS LOOK for -the naive Bayer ane tree• word genuine on the package as pictured above when you buyAspirin. Then you'll know that you are get- ting etting the genuine Bayer product that thousands of physicians prescribe. Bayer Aspirin is SAFE, as millions of users have proved. 'It does not depress the heart, and no harmful after-effects follow its use. • Bayer Aspirin is the : universal antidote for .painsof all kinds. Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia Sore Throat Lumbago Rheumatism Toothache Genuine Bayer Aspirin is sold at . all druggists in boxes of 12 and fila bottles of 24 and 100. . Aspirin is the trade -mark of Bayer ,. rnamifacture of ntonoaceticacideater:. i.I salicylicadd, "You were out of the house then, }''wa!ti zawnimanii'ellsaamismismum mmanwirmainna t sonsi■■S® imimIi■■■ ummi mumu smanniir at the time Mr. Wells died?" ■ "I can prove it by as many wit- im ■ ncsses as you wish to call." "Now, about these letters, Haw- kins," Sperry said. "The letters in ■ the bag. Have you still got thein?" ■ An Advertisement Addressed Which Stores Do You Like Do You Life He half rose—we had given him a -chair facing the light—and then sat to Readers of this Newspaper want them." ■ ■ Best ? ■ ■ "I don't intend to give them up, ■ sir'." ■ "Will you tell us how you got ■ • them?" by Johnston makes another search in ■ F.: DUVAL •'4Veil's house for the letters written 9. A. � F. by the slayer. a j. censei4 Dtttglesi. 1;'ractitioners • ChirapraF t`t andElectro Therapy' NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY' reduates ofC ana4i man chiropractic kg@, Chie go. 'There was, an the contrary, a clef- "''iit of toil and night calls res- iliac place beyond which the mnedium Bonded to. All business confidential. could not go. 44-- Phone 300. She did not know who bad killed Arthur Wells. Collage, Toronto, and P ational Coi _ ._ , J. ALVIN .FOX , J fi.egis£ered Drugless. Practitioner CHIROPRACT.S MD DRUGLESS PRACTICE `` I To my surprise, Sperry and Her- bert Robinson carne together to see inc that morning at my office, Sperry like myself, was pale and tired, but ELECTRO -THERAPY $ice~ Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or bl' .. 'appointment, Ybhe 191. THOMAS FELLS • '• , • AUCTIONEER ZEAL ESTATE SOLD "A. thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction :guaranteed. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST =- X-RAY Office, McDonald Block, Wingham. A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. J. WALKER Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer. Office Phone, 106. Ices, Phone 224. t,*tet Limousine Fane#al Cciaclt. arrr+nn ve hesitated. "If you do not al- r:_ady know, I do not care to say." J placed the letter to A 31 before him. "You wrote this, I think? I said. He was genuinely startled.° More than that, indeed, for his face twitch- ed. '"Suppose I did?" he said. "I'm not admitting it." . "Will you tell us for whom it was meant?" "You know a great deal already, gentlemen. Why not find out fr'om where you learned the rest?" "You know, then, where we learn - • NOS '03-lr'''.4NMOSSMV Hawkins half rose from his chair, • i* Herbert was restless and talkative, for all the world lilc.e a terrier on the scent of a rat. "Hawkins will be here soon," said Sperry, rather casually, after= 1 had read the clipping. "Here?„ "Yes, He is bringing a letter from Miss Jeremy. q The letter is merely a blind, We want to see him." i'ierbert was examining the door of my office. He set the spring lock. gad what we know?" "That's easy," he said bitterly. "She's told you enough, 1 daresay. She doesn't know it all, of course, Any more than I do," he added. "W'ill you give us the letters?" "I haven't said 1 have them.' 1 haven't admitted I wrote than one on the desk. Suppose I have thein, 1'll not give them up e:ecept to the Dis- trict Attorney," "By 'she' do you refer to ]V1is's ler- Isn't it true that stores which invite your custom often - est, and which give you most information about their offerings, are those to which you go by preference? .t. Isn't it true that silent or dumb stores—stores which never tell you that your custom is wanted and valued, and which never send you any information'about their stocks and prices, are less favored by you than are the stores which inform you, by advertisements in this newspaper, about themselves, their stocks, their prices? Gti kite Isn't it true that you want, before you go shopping, in- fornzatiorf about goods of desire, which obtainable lo-,• sally, and about where they can be obtained? The fact is that advertisements are a form or kind of news, and careful buyers want the kind of news which • sellers provide just as much as they want the news ■ which it is the business of this news paper to provide. ■ • •■ •I • 1.t is advantageous to you, regarded as a purchaser, to ■ be "advertisement conscious," meaning, to be observant of advertisements, and to be readers of them -when seen in magazines, farm papers and in your local newspaper. :±:: • 1 ■ ■ ■ 4' • y. appearing in this the advertisements � 71-tc i ceding o.f pp �' ■ newspaper week by week not only, will save you time, • by telling ybu what aricl where to buy; but also they will ' I direct you to "all live" stores, providing ;good which ■ • have been carefully selected and competitively priced. • ■ ■ . Issued by the Cartadian Weekly Newspapers Association. iiimounommolimausliammimaniummuussionmumuissituoilimminountomuummuumiamist: Always remember that the stores which serve you best are those 'which tell you most. 1■ It a ■ NE 1 ■ t ■ ■ 1 ■ i i ■ ■: • ■ s ■• ■ a ■ L11WY{&ifhdu.41:(: 111