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Zurich Herald, 1936-08-20, Page 3r Ng • ,1 The wen's Hall Murder 1 By Adam Broome 1 From a cursory glance 1 could see that the Diary covered a period of ten years or so in the '60's and '70's. It was an informal kind of journal. Fir days there would be no entry at all. Then several pages would be filled, in the neat, old-fashioned writ- ing of the dead District Commission- er's once -famous musical father, re- cording some event or happenings which seemed to him at the time he wrote, tobe of some particular mo- ment. On the fly -leaf, in characters as good as those of any copper -plate engraver, was the owner's name and address — "John Octavius Westcott, Pier Street, Brightmouth — Orpheus Musical Seminary." There did not seem to be much order of coherence about the entries which followed. There was much about budding musicians, and a few references, very eeanty, at the end of the book, to Parelli's concerts, which, when the maestro was a youth, he had once or twice attended on the Continent. From an extract rather longer than the rest it was clear that the elder Westcott had a great admiration for the Italian's genius, though Parelli must have been by very many years his junior. There were a good many refer- ences to accounts and fees which were r'amusing in their candour. But of ;practical interest for the detective 'they could have none. He sighed, put down the little book WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BRE - And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Marin' to Go The liver should poor out two pounds of ast eelfonroodee noflowingfry'yofoodden'iget. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get Poisons go into the body, nyoconstipated. Harmful feel sour. sunk and the world looks punk. A mere bowel movement doesn'talwaye get at the cause. Yon need something that works on the liver as well. It takes those good. old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up". Harmless and gentle, they make the bile flow freely. They do the work of calomel but have no calomel or mercury in r Pills by name t St for Carter's anything else. Sc. • on the tables beside the bed, and com- posed himself for his first night's sleep in the Tropics. So this scheme of Berwick's was going, as he had fully expected — had hinted very plainly to the Commissioner — to prove a wild-goose chase -- and a pretty costly one, after all. Proof ! "Lessons are wonderfully helpful and Inspiring." "1 have been able definitely to change the habit of—." "You are a great help and 1 hope It is given me to measure up." "Results are won'derful." We could quote from many more tetters, but the above extracts are proof that others are being helped. If others, WRY NOT YOU? Give that mind of yours a chance. Write today for particulars of an Intensive course of mental training, The Institute of Practical and Applied Psychology 910 Confederation Building MONTREAY, P.Q. ..-.,,.wONT Where Lettice and her companion were .sitting. "Good afternoon, madame. Bet is so long since you were here:' "My friend is from the Foreign Office. Have you any news of your wife?" The little man spread his hand in a gesture of despair. Pogr Francesca was still on remand: she was on bail with friends of his in London and himself as sureties. He got up to see her when he could. But he could- n't give his job up altogether ._ in these hard times. And then he had had all this trouble himself when the murderer had tried to use his name in connection with the Bianchi case. It was all too worrying: but the ' Po- lice had told him that they did not suspect him at all. Stephen Garton was getting rather restive. He was hungry; he wanted to hear Lettice talk—not the Italian waiter, however estimable a person he "Good morning Taunton. Slept well?" The Inspector seemed very cheer- ful. "Thanks—had a topping night. Tried reading through that Diary of Westcott's. Funny old book; rather interesting in some ways. But didn't seem to give much help. And then, when I was asleep, the thing some- how got mixed up in my dreams—and —most extraordinary of all—it sug- gested a clue. Grigson was astonished to hear such a statement from the lips of the matter-of-fact detective. "I'm as hungry as a- hunter, too. But—if you'll excuse me—I'll dash out for a minute or two before break- fast. Sounds quite mad, I know. But don't wait for me, and this may be very important. It's either the best clue that's yet cropped up in these cases, or else I stand the chance of being ticked off as a raving lunatic and dismissed the Force with ignominy. And now would you mind telling me the shortest cut to the Cable Office?" 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Father retired Indian Army Officer, Lived at the address in the Drive from birth till some time in 1890 when she married Captain Frederick Man - on -also Indian Army. Enquiries show that this officer died in 1911 at Slough, Bucks, His daughter then, or hot very long after, moved to a village called Shallow about ten or twelve miles from Brightmouth, with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Muriel. Manton. Address, The Rosary, Shal- CHAPTER XIX The Waiter's Story "Isn't it a bit stuffy here?" Stephen Garton was half inclined to argue the point with Lettice Man- ton. The Whiter Garden of the big Hotel Majestic on Brightmouth front. was crowded to suffocation, but they had found, by luck, a corner table for two looking out over the promenade in front. "Thought you said you knew one of the waiters here: seem to remember that the last time we came here we were served before anyone else" "Yes—the man's Luigi Pomagna, the pian whose wife got mixed up in the Parelli affair, and whom some- body tried to 'rope into the Bianchi murder. That's really one reason why I wanted you to bring nye here. I wanted to have another look at hini." got one bit of news for you that doesn't seem to have leaked out so far, and I swear you're the only person I'm telling it to. I'm sure you won't let it go any further. "I've got a friend in the Home Office, as ,you know. We belong to the same club, and the F.O. and the Home Office have each a professional interest in the curare crimes—and it spreads right through the buildings. It's not appeared in the papers yet; but—and this is a dead secret—it mustn't come out to anybody—and even at home—it's really true that the Police are working on a definite clue. "They seem to have had to go rather a long way to find it, and I believe it came in a cable that was sent by one, of the Scotland Yard fel- lows who had been sent out to West Africa. I can't for the life of me get hold of more than that. Lettice was rather disappointed: she felt that Stephen must be hiding something from her, and she was, a little unreasonably in the circum- stances, annoyed. "Hullo -here's Pomagna corning at last." The little Italian had just deposited an enormous load of tea-pots, cups and saucers, plates and dishes piled high with all sorts of the most un- wholesome looking cream buns and tarts and meringues on the two tables behind them. He set the table quickly —hurried, beaming and smiling, to Laura Wheeler's Knitted Swagger Smart for Now or Early Fall KNITTED COAT PATT ERN 123a This jaunty, knitted swagger, in Germantown wool is mainly stockinette stitch with bands and pockets in a contrasting stitch. 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But at this dist- ance of time it may be difficult to collect more distance. C.S.B." ... . might be. And then, of course, he started on the Parelli case. It was the last straw as far as the young man was concerned. Do you mind if I go out and get. some Turkish cigarettes?" Lettice had never seen Stephen smoke .a Turkish cigarette, execpt with his coffee after dinner, but she made no demur, and as the young man threaded his way out through the closely crowded tables, continued her conversation with Luigi Po- magna. "I don't know why it is, Stephen," said Lettice as they left the cross roads where the 'bus stopped, about a quarter of a mile from The Rosary, "but I feel somehow all nervy—afraid —afraid of I don't know what" "Everybody gets 'nerves' some- times. Wouldn't be natural if they didn't. It's not very nice—your grandmother being still ill — and in this cold weather too. But she'll get over it—just as she's done before," But Lettice could not feel quite her- self again for the rest of the evening. A fear—a strange intangible fear— a fear she could not define — kept gripping at her heart. IHPN TORTYRE STOPPED tH d U' Minot, For quick relief from the Itching of pimples blotches, eczema, 'athlete's foot, ratites and other skin eruption! apply Dr, Dennis' cool- ing, antiseptic, liquid D, D. D. Pagscarl'rloN. Its gentle oils soothe the irritated Skin. Clear, greaseless and stainless—dries fast. Stops the moat Intense itching instantly, A 35c trial bottle proves its -or money back. Recommended.'• et drug stores for forty gears, Ask for til i4 D.D.D.' RAirAchidatbnit. On the whole Stephen Garton thought that he had not been particu- larly happy in choosing this particu- lar time to take a fortnight of the six weeks' leave allowed to him in a year. It was true that the weather had been fine for the past few days— bright and frosty—and that he had managed to get, with Lettice, some open-air skating. Old Mrs. Manton had been con- fined to her bed again with another relapse during the past ten days. She couldn't help being i11, especially in such bitter weather and at her age too. But her illness entailed incessant demands upon the time and care of her daughter-in-law and grand -daugh- ter, and he had been left more to his own devices than he could have wished. He had fully made up his mind to find out exactly where he stood with Lettice: he was determined to dally no longer. (To Be Concluded) low. Further enquiries locally prove that at one time in her youth—for about ten years — from somewhere about 1872 to 1882, Miss Preston be- came somewhat deranged mentally and was a patient at a private sana- torium near Leamington Spa. The house is long since pulled down. The Sanatorium changed hands before that and was finally given up in 1888. The owner was a Doctor Thorpe whose daughter, still alive, Mrs. Nancy Grogan, lives at Leamington Spa. She remembers well the case of Miss Preston. She had a gift for music which was well developed. As a :girl she showed much promise. But as she grew older her powers seem to have waned and the bright musical future, once apparent for her failed in its promise. Her mania took the form of imagining that all the great people in the musical world were con - CHAPTER XX. And the Killer Was—? Scotland Yard's archives are full of strange records. But General Ber- wick had not, in his own experience, come across anything more strange, more utterly fantastic. 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Issue No. 33 --- '36 9 Low Infant Mortality Record Is Expected TORONTO—A new low record for infant mortality is expected this year as figures announced by Medical Officer of Health, Dr. G. P. Jackson reveal that the rate so fai is 12 per cent. lower than in the corresponding period for 1934 when the rate for the complete year was the lowest ever recorded. Both infant and maternal mortality shows a share reduction for the first six months o. 1936. The rate for in- fant nfant mortality so far is 54.2 per 1,000 living births for deaths under one year of age. The maternal rate is 3,9 per 1,000 live births. ' Life In The Country Writes the Welland Tribune—Peo- ple who live in rural districts where there are rugged hills, evergreen forests and rigorous winters such as are prevalent in the greater part of Canada may console themselves with the assurance that they are amid conditions that promote long tire. The census bureau of the United States has compiled statistics which show that Vermont leads all the states in the percentage of people who live to or beyond 65 years. It is presumed that the mountainous landscape, the presence of fir trees, deep snows in winter characteristic of Vermont, are the factors underlying its advantages. A Missing Princess A citizen of St. Louis, Missouri, a dog fancier, on a recent trip to Ireland purchased a beautiful Kerry Blue terrier, "Princess Thora" by name. On the way up the St. Lawrence the Princess was reported missing. Some of the passengers had a vague impression of seeing a bobbing head that looked like a dog making its way through rough water towards the south shore. .0n reaching Montreal the St. Louis man made every effort through advertising to locate the dog but had to return home without any trace of the missing Princess. As a sort of forlorn hope he communicated with the telephone headquarters in Montreal. Word was sent to all south shore telephone offices. A telephone operator at Deschaillon remembered that two men had come ashore with a dog which they assumed had jumped overboard from a passing steamer, The description fitted the dog and in due time the Princess Thora reached her owner in St. Louis none the worse for her stop -over. This was a Case hi which no other agency but the tele- phone could have met the situation.