HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1926-04-29, Page 6WINGUAM ADVANCE -TIMES
USINESS CARDS
WELLINGTON MUTUAL FIRE.
INSURANCE CO.
Established 1840.
Head Office, Guelph, Qat,
Risks taken on all classes of insur-
*nee at reasonable rates. ,
ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingitam
And just as I was "about to el►mb Froin the local police -station led us
into it, I heard a shouting and coni- through one or two more shabby
motion behind me, and turning saw streets into a quiet thoroughfare at
Office in Chisliolin Block ji'fferdene running down the platform, t;he lower end of which I saw a high
FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT 'waving rile to stop. 1 stopped—and wall and above it the masts and spars.
AND HEALTH went out. ifferdene cavae and funnels of ships: and steamers.
the train. o J
— INSURANCE on, breathless, panting. "St. Katherine's Docks!" muttered
AND REAL ESTATE " Quarterrayiie!" he whispered, as he : Jifferdene, seeing me look in that di-
p. 0, Doti 36o Phone 24.0 reached vie, 'YQuartervaynel Found rection, "Likely he was going to sail
WINGHAM, - ONTARIOinthe East End! Murdered!" from there. But they say he mention -
CHAPTER XII ed that Batavier• Line—their boats
The Second Murder run from nearer London Bridge.'Still
DUDLEY HOLMES
. I am not ashamed to confess that I that's not many minutes sharp walk.
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC•
Victory and Other Bonds bought and felt a disagreeably cold thrill run shi- And lie came here, anyway -to his
v
sold. ering along- my spine as the detec-end." • r
Block, ��Iingliani the whispered' that last word. Mur- He waved his hand, and I saw that
Office—Meyerder!— again? This was the second we had come to the scene of the thur-
time within three days that I -had der: a mean and shabby place in a
heard of the murder of a man whom I mean and shabby street. Two or
BARRISTER, °,SOLICITOR, ETC. myself had seen alive and in vigorous three of the old grey brick houses had.
Money to Loan at Lowest Rates healthonly a few hours before he was been thrown into one: across the le
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-, ranaalzani, Ontario struck down. And—who next? vel of the first -story window a long
I let out the usual commonplace ex-
clanatioii as I stood there, .Staring.
MORTON " ! ? V
J. A. � Iariliossibie. Quartervayne. Why
J. W DODD
R.
VANSTONL
Thursday, 4prfl Seth., 19x6 '
•ANNOUNCING
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-:- 1926 MODELS -:-
TouringSedan, with starter, , . , ... $732
Touring .-� , , �:$476 Tudor'
Touring, with starter . 562Fordor Sedan, with starterarter 796
Coupe, with starter .. . 7Q� Runabout, with starter . . .521
Tractor with tenders ... ; .... ...X580
We will have oar show rooms open in the Holmes Block by Saturday,
showing all these models.
PATERSON BROS.
HOLMES BLOCK
•WINGHAi6t,; ONT.
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the night."
' "At eleven o'clock," continued the ' empty!"
narrow wooden sign ran --a •blue night -porter, imperturbably. "All's "Were they sober?"
with faded gilt. letters: Kell , _
ground g quiet, then—all's quiet till' five mine- ,,,"Sober enough—quiet enough, any
erman's Private Hotel: One of the tes past twelve—midnight.' Then' this way. Said good -night civil enough to
BARRISTER, ETC, lower windows was labelled' Coffee' here gentleman what we 'found dead each other, and to me."
But l checked myself in time: No! Room; another Commercial Room— 1 in. .He says he ' "You heard no quarellin or
Vvringham, Ontario cl, 3this Morning .comes y � q g, any
—I was not going to tell Jifferdene it, passed my comprehension` how ei-' wants. a bedroom,' and not to be call- thing?"
anything until I had been to Renards- ther could invite patronage: the mere ed or bothered till eleven-thirty,'cau- - Nothing"at all: I heard niost `o'
DR. G.H. ROSS 3 awistfully after the sight of the dirtyblinds and window
mere. I glanced wz l y g se his.boat don't sail till past noon what they said over their drink: They
Graduate Royal College of Dental oti h. .
train, now vanishing in the distance—curtains ��as en g• • and he's minded for a. good sleep, He were talking' about foreign parts—
Surgeons s there went mylast chance of gettingre walked in," Ina dirtyentrance
Toronto pays for lass bed and breakfast in ad- trade, and that sort o' thing,"
Graduate University ofto Renardsmere that night—unless„ in- hall, and in an atmosphere redolent ance—accordin . to • rule -four bob.' "And their bedrooms?'' asked Jiffer-
Faculty of Dentistry inh ofstale mood stewed tea, mutton v g
deed, I chartered a car. And the , !Then he says he ain't sleepy yet, and Bene. "Were they near together,.'
Office Over H. E. Isard s Store. vegetables, a man came to ,
meantime chops, vee ,(hell have a smoke. I shows him into , "The man that came by himself
—
"Nothing — t frowsyroan in his'- ,• tendin the W. •M. • S. `Convention of
Nothing impossible about it• re meet us—a fat,the little smoke -room side o the all, him as we found dead—he'd number marked Jifferdene, after a pause, dui:- g
LY n "There's no doubt shirt sleeves whose chief character-; the Non-Goncurritig Church.
W. R. HAMB torted Jifferdene, , ;and he asks me then .if T could get 1.5, The' other two -one had 16, the ing )vhtch he• seemed to be thinking .
it's Quartervayne—from the descrp= istic at that moment was a•nervous 'him a cork -screw, a clean !ass and
BS., attention paid to di Qihi cur w, g other 18. Number 15is exactlyo hard. "I believe its not an uncom Gladito report -that the infant child
f on? anxiety. He made a bow that was -al. p y...
Special to diseases o tion sent Y some fresh water? I goes off to get. posite 16. on thing, too, in. hotels of that class of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Laidlaw is
r i ', tag . 4 mostan obeisance to the two detec , m
'Women and Children, having taken Ah_ I exclaimed. "Then you're w em, and when. I comes back, he'd got i "When did you see them next?" rn this -part of the- town. The door improving, nicely =now, after a' inon-
act-dead certain?" tives and to.me, and hastened to open. , n the . table in,
postgraduate work in Surgery, B not • a bottle o whiskey o
�,1 "i6, and 18 come down at a quarter was furnished with a good lock and a the severe; illness,.
, .nayself," an- the door of what was Obviously. his front of him. He drew. the cork,'stout bolt -no ordinary gimcrack af•
eriglogy and Scientific Medicine I m dead certain m self heto seven just as 1 •was going off du g
the Kerr Residence, be swered,; drawing me away, towards the own private parlour.:: There sat 'a helped himself and sat down with his fairs such as you see' in better -class
Office in ty. . They said they didn't want no
n the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- banner at the top of the platform very fat woman, sewing, who, on our'pipe,and glass. , hotels. The thing is -did he use bo -
twee Q
"Come onl-we mustgo there. I appearance became as nervous and !-breakfast here,and':went away..
ist Church: _ Did he give you a drink?"
enquir " _>
businessgiven careful attention hurried' off to stop you as soon. as I flustered as the man:' Shegot bus in Did you see them take any Parti- th?
All ,.Y, ed Jifferdene. �eular direction?" •"Couldn't have used the bolt," ob-
'P. O. Box 113. heard g chairs, meanwhile the man <'He did not! I left him" coiitin-
Phone 54• "Where ?„ asked stood mute, watching us: it was`,very) „ ' They strolled off towards'the. do- served the other detective,' "because
Where is it. I, ued the night porter. If you want ,> the landlord opened the door with a
"Hotel—low' class place—down the evident to me that he was sorely up- to know; I'd gaga drop o' rum of my cks; said the night porter, p
Dr. 'ItObt. C. Redmond„ , master -key. 'If the bolt had been
Lund Docks way,” he replied. ``The facts set, But Jifferdene, having ascertain- own, outside,, where I sits, o' nights. Well—and the other man-' enquir shot
M.R.C.S. (Eng) L.R.C.P. ( ) are these—as they came over th tele -ed from his •companion that this was •I'd just li hted m pipe and •was; _ ed Jifferdene, aftera pause. r
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON A man went to this • hotel Mr. (Kellerman and that. Mrs. Keller- i g eveningpWell it's m belief the murderer
phone.The night porter made a grunacc. ' Y
Mg to read the.newspaper "Ah!" he said. "I'd just gone to entered b the window!" said Jiffer-
Dr. Cliisholm's old standy.
very late last night,and booked a man, put him on an easier footing vVi-'when two men comes in at the front
bed wfieir that come u ! I goes to •deme. "However, whichever way he
room saying he wanted to catch one th a word or two.door.. The wanted beds and paid p
TEWARTBatavier line steamers at noon ^ "Nast thingfor you, this, Mr: Y bed at eleven• every forenoon and gets entered, he did his work! This is that
DR. R. L. S of that Y for em. And seeing the smoke room
in hinaman
Mr, Cranage," he
sneaking C ,
s ag
Graduate of University of Toronto, today, and giving instructions that Kellman," he said, consolingly. "No ,door open; and a light in; there, they'll') six o'clock in the evening. • The
g ,
' ours but an un- boots—he comes and rouses me out;continued when we had: got to oursel-
Fasulty of Medicine; Licentiate of the they needn't call him unt�i eleven- fault of yours, of 'course, said something about • a. cigar :'and ves. "Didn't IN r: Cheng tell its that•
•_our . hoe- and says he. cant get no answer from • When `3 telephone orders
C7ntario College of Physicians and thirty. They:called him at that time, pleasant thing'to have in y walked in,
se. „ . 15• So'I goes with him, and after a there'd be a second murder, and a can be in the time
Surgeons: got no answer, eventually entered his Before you go any further, intern- there o ened the third, and—" required for one order
'n Chisholm Block room found him 'dead—murdered. The .landlord sighed, as if in relief I „ : bit me and the bossp it q
Office i C , upted Jifferdene, can you describe Yoii think the two murders are by
Phone:2 . From the descri tion if Quarter- at hearing comfortable words. But , door. And then—well—there was „ . over the counter — ae'
»men?' blood! v . Knifed -right, through his the same hand? I suggested. ` has been; proven
Josephine. Street, g vayner pthe landlady spoke. th``Notin ,articular" answered the "Sure of it!" he answered. "Look—
Y
"Butmayn't be," I said, ,though, "Yek sir—and.us• knowing nothing p x ,throat. And we sends for the pot-theaiYlolintof atelephone
C. Calder it yg ,night -porter; with a decisive shake of iCe„ at the circumstances! Quartervayne, g
Dr. Margaret secretly; in view of what Quartervay- about, it, nothing—until the boots ,; , i averages almost a
„ his head.. I didn't take : that notices 'Which .they've liad charge of ev :of' course . w.as followed down here— third more, as it does,
General Practitionerne himself had told me about leaving made that awful discovery, she said.: Y g , „
t Universit of Torontodidn't of em. Seafaring men; I should say. er thin and kept the room locked, and done•; in! . It's the Chink! Can there be any doubt
Graduate Y for Holland, I felt sure that Differ- We even !,now the gentleman They was both dressed in blue serge, . e g'd "You don't suspect the two' men in, ,,your. mend' that the
Faculty of Medicine dene's surmise was correct. "It may- was in the house! ever since, gentlemen,"e
south• « and I should think about thirty to for- There's a onst'a who followed h:iin into:the hotel?" i merchant Who uses the
Office Josephine St., two doors sou tet 'be!" Eh? exclaimed Jifferdene.. Did- Mrs. Kellerman
ty ,years .old. Nothing remarkable asked telephone consistently,
of Brunswick Hotel. "We'll soon settle that!" .he' retort n't know—why, don't you know what ole up there now, in charge-perhapse e est p y
ice 28r Residence 1 i �. ?» about 'em—ordinary: One fellow had, he's expecting you?" I don t. I think they w r l will win, out over'the
"Telephones::Office 5 ed grimly. You, know him at, anycustomers you 'have in here. p Y.. '
�, gold rings in his ears—I did notice "ye$ =t assented Jifferdene, "We'll casual, visitors -like himself, No=it's rival' who does not?
rate. Come on!-Iets `get down It is this way, gentlemen said the that."' 1
A. PARKED. l go up." some slit -eyed•,, Chinaman! .:Look -
F• there, landlord, speaking in the p ow, s.oine .. „ "Well," aid ifferdene. "Anything
t0 over
W.e s J here!"
Can you 'afford
- OSTEOPATH IUpstai s the whole place was sliab-
He hurried me off to the District what laboured fashion of a man who hap en?" i He drew frons his pocket some- •100k. the rapidly increas, .
All Diseases Treated Railway and 'into an eastbound train, uses an acquired ton tongue. "The trade p biei, more down-at-heel than ever, ing . importance of the;
to w Y g "Not for five mi•nutes 'or so,' reph two; fin- thing carefully wrapped in Soffa paper•
Office adjoining residence neat I made no attempt to talk to him dur- of this house is -what you call ex We, a corridoror w ,
} p I ed the night -porter.: "Then the man 1 telephone in your bus -
An.
Anglican Church on Centre Street. -ally came to one that led to the back and his own handkerchief, and having. nEss for increasing Sales
g ing our short journey, I was thinking ceptional. The docks they are close �removed the wrappings . revealed a
Sundays a ointment ;what had' come in first knockedon of the house. At a window at its far
by pp hard about'my own affairs, my next by. People—seafaring people— the , and reducing the cost 0
i -the table. I •went ` to see • what • he plain, co moai bedrooin tumbler, wh!-
$ours ga. m. to 8 p. m. procedure. And I -made up my' mind, will :come in here at all hours of .,the ,
end stood a uniformed policeman, ob- mr ...selling?
Osteopathy • Electricity ni ht just wanting g a bed for a few wanted. ..Bring two more clean glass- vrously much '.bored. He came' for-'�ch he held up between me and the li-
that as; soon as I had been with him g 7 w g
es, my lad`` he said, `and more water. on seem the local detective ght, There, on its sides, I saw clear- Be open-minded.. Tri. it
.,„ Telephone 27 , to wherever: it was we were going lust hours, eh! " So we keep a night -port- , wardg
HLL� i ,these gentlemenll drink with me," So moment later ly the imprint of two unusually sten ,--:•• not Spasnlod3Cally, but
then, I would leave him and get down erg who is on duty all -night long. and produced a key-. Amo
• I got what he wanted, and the other .we all stood in Number i . der forefingers and of a.thtunb: (' consistently, and judge
w. A. R..& F. E. DUVAL, to 'Renardsrnere, even if it was M the Ourselves -me and my wife—we are 5(Continued next wee!: for yourself.' CHIROPRACTIC SPECIALISTSthe night and if it cost me hard-working people—we'go to' bed two pulled their chairs up to his ta- 1: "Nothing's been touched or mov- )
middle of tie g gole and I left 'em talking and drink- �_
Members C. A. 0• ' g ed remarked the. policeman in a low
ten pound for a car. , Whatever else at eleven. After that—we do nota, p
Graduates of Canadian. Chiroprac-may„ ing together, voice, "Least a s not since-' we WHITECHURCH
was in the; wind, I must have speech know who be in the house—so! i,2rs. (Kellerman interpolated a w Y
tic College, Toronto. Office in Craw- with Lady Renardsmere. "Who does?” demanded Jifferdene. I Yez were called in." Miss Nora Johnston, spent the
ford Block four doors,north of Post " We left' the train at Mark Lane and "The . night -porter? Just so—well mark that was obviously apologetic. i One look at the bed was enough _
, g , » : week end' .at the home of her brother,
Office. passing across Tower Hill and by the we want to see him, then:' I Of course, she said, eyeing the for me—I. was glad to turn away to - .
• Mr, • Gersom Johnston.
Hours 2 to 5; 7 to 8.3o p. 111. and by Mint plunged into some mean and The landlord went out, and pre -:detective blandly, "of course if. a gen--the window, whither. Jifferdene, for •
p g tleman chooses to brie a bottle of i Mr: Daniel Martin was forced to
appointments.. Special appointments squalid streets in the immediate mei- sent! returned with a man who, • as ., , g some reason or_,other, had , repaired
distance: q'Katherine'sJifferdene spirits in with him and to offer` it ti0 immediately on our entrance. He • • Tues -
Made .for those coming any ghbouihood of St Docks. afterwards remarked •
Out of town and night calls re- any other gentlemen-- tapped my elbow, pointing with his day lasta London Hospital> on
g Jifferdene evidently, knew his way ed as if he had been a'professionai
s
onded to. well enough. He led me straight to pugilist and had managed to survive 7ifferde>ze waved this away as un- other hand.
p n g g nn ortant and nodded at• the nightt indo sash -;I
Phones:—Office, Soo, Residence r5 a police -station, where he was pre- a good deal of punishment. He had a p No fastening to the w w
on 6oi. sent! m close conversation with offs- battered nose, a scarred face and a porter, es," he 'muttered. "Window open,
cialsY Presently he pointed to me, watchful eye, and 'it occurred to me "Go onl" he said, "All three start- too, now what's outside?"
ed hob-nobbizi And kept it u —
J A L, V I N FOX standing apart. that he would probably be just as ;ease- g' p i He threw up the lower sash �, and
DRUGLESS PRACTIONER • ••how long?" looked out just beneath was the flat
"This gentleman can identify him," Ful in ejecting a visitor as in receiv- i "Till they'd finished the bottle what roof of some lower building; cin either
CITTROPRACTIC AND be said. He knew him—well ing one. He gave the detective a ltlie first man brought .in " answered
DRUGLESS PRACTICE enough," quiet and cautious itod, and:when Jif-, , side there was spouting; down below
ELECTRO -THERAPY• Once more I was forced Sorel ferdene invited hirci to sit dawn, he the night -porter. "It was near' two was a court, from which a dark, nar-
' Y o'clock, then, Then they all come out •row alleyo e
Phone ler, against my will, to accompany. Differ- perched his big, heavy figure on the p neo.
amours to -12 a.m., a-5, 7-8 p. iii, or by dene to a mortuary. It was close by, edge' of a chair in such a, fashion as into,the hall and asked the to show, "A man used to climbing could
„ ooms,"have got in here through this win -
more
'ern. their i
appointinent. and if anything it was gloomier' and to suggest that he was not the roan. g g
more sordid than that in which.I had to commit himself to anything, either How doyouknow they'd finished dow," remarked Jifferdene; musingly,
D. II McINNES seen Holliment's dead body, And in word or deed, ` the Bottle? asked Jifferdene, ••"It's my notion somebody did—I
CHIROPRACTOR presently I found myself looping at "Se you were in charge here last 'Cause I looked at it when I came don't think anything of that .other
MASSEUR Quartervayne's...:. - night, after ,Mr, and Mrs, (Kellerman tale'! Well—let's have a look round:"
Adjustments` given for diseases of "Yes!" I muttered, "Oh, yes! had retired?" "'suggested Jifferdene. GEORGE A. SIDDALL 1 He and the local man began to ex-
pwith. 'That's—Quartervayne! And, now let's "Just tell us what occurred about this �:$roieer-- amine the room and the murdered
ail kinds, specialize in dealing
children, Lady attendant. Night Calls get out of dais!" murdered marl coming here," Phone 78. Lucknow, Ontario. Mans clothing. Tat once recognised
respoitdecl to. We got out. Jifferdene took and The night -porter was evidently pre- Money to lend on first and second the suit which I had scen Quartervay-
Office on Scott St,, Wingliazn,' Ont. shook niy arm. pared for this. He entered on his mortgages on farm and other real es- ,tie wearing the night before; I saw
' the house of the late Jas. Walker, "Put that out of your .too that it had been treated exactly
in � Bead, my story'wtth a promptitude which show- tate properties at a reasonable rate,, of
Telephone r5o: lad!" he said, not unkindly. 'That's ed that he had already thought it out, interest, also on first Chattel mortga- as Holliment's clothing had --'the pad-
dui at the shoulders had been ri
Josie!—had to be dome, you know. T "As far as I'm concerned, guv'was ges on stock and on personal notes. g Pp
,,,;,,,,,,,;,,,,,,»,„a,.,»„,,,,»,11+u»11,»n„n,,,,11ee was ;eight; you see.' Well -that's the there was no"thing occurred as was pectis; wherever there was a
A few farms on hand for sale or to �� ii° c of anything being secreted a
4 ,� » 'he answered. rent on easy terms,
!Phones: Office io4, Resid, xa second! I asked "You Iucome on duty o'clock as 'knife had been at. work, As to the
"Flow—(tow was it?" Y f x and Cruisin the seven seas somewhere
A. J. WALKER haven't said:” usual when the boss there goes to dead mans effects, his watchg
,bed—” A ILrMOUD is -aitt— aluable things—layon t•. a . of e English navy
"(Knifed!—like the;' other, he ani- •. 1 is this freak -ship the g
FURNITURE DEALER,
,: ,r , . J S G la v r ens neat a pocketbook �-•-• and ”' swered with a shake of his head. There was'three gentlemen in the Agent Por, chest of d aw , p the H. M. 5, Furious. From a bow-
•.: __ , . a itpniber of Bank
boy/ -
FUNERAL DIRECTOR "Knifed! But this time within four !louse, then,"interrupted Mrs. ({ell- CULROSS RipiE INSURANCE lay, to which were>i
, . •
on view it !doles like anything but
n--- on—Well to this het- Oman, "Three highly respectable Insure in a Good Sound Company of Cngland notes and 4 letter of ere -
walls. Conte o w go g
iconsiderabled eai ount 'an an plan-of•war, yet its dttties make it
t l where it was alone;' entlemen--ail customers. Cummer- fox z6? Winghstin, pint. dtt for :t all
..eaccompaniedh retire for � or Phone a76 c 2 r iAznsteidant Bank, close by w
The man who land usctats, 'Width 'they had alld I
'down and went to turn out the gas, venal other personal things, a silver. Miss Alba Fox is spending a few
cigar -case, -a silver: match -box andso days this week with Mrs. Geo. Walk-
on. And there was a purse—empty.
"Taken' the cash, this time!" ;re-
narked Jifferdene, , ' significantly.
"But—
"But- it wasn't that he was after!"
I went outside and waited; eventual-
ly, I made my way down to the front
door and into the street, sick of the
whole thing. > It was some time, be-
fore Jifferd'e1te and his companion
joined me.
"Made any discoveries? I asked
as we walked away. '
"There's one thing I noticed," r,e-
• Mrs. Wm. Barbour and Miss Tena
Laidlaw attended the W. M. S. Pres-
byterial -ii Clinton on Tuesday; • -
Mr.. Geo. Falconer jr., of "Culross,
spent the week -end. with Mr, Jas, Fal-
coner and other relatives here.
The snow banks were dug out last
week and now the cars 'are going on
the Main roads. •
Mrs.. Fred Davison and Mrs: Eli,
Jacques are in 'Toronto' this week at
Here are
the facts
"MOTHERS" ENGLISH NAVY'S AIRCRAFT
Motor Equipment
WINGIIAM, ONTAIt.IO ,
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aid, flat tipper deck is a landing plat-
form for 'the English ,Navy's hydro-
aeroplanes and the lower half of the
ship is completely equipped with ma-
chitiery for making quick aeroplane
repairs and giving similar "first aid
most important in battle. That bro- to the fliers while tinder way at sea.
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