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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-10-06, Page 210: 1Ke.:'1w+meal""•14,oata.0 �,Oi,O.rI,eA1A^AYi,4,"eA.rr.P •T... ,v..A��PrAwAn,A, 14.:i'/46a4Sr+'>i'��Qn'.n`:+;..+Ka�,A�`iasa riaca, 4 ir4 044 144 Sit Kidnap 'A ss-, S, Van Dine 10, N4urder Case "I eau tell ya that right now, oa ficer;" came the ehauffeur's re- spectful answer. ''I was standin' talkin' to Abe, when the fares came Over from the park. I opened the door for 'em myself. An' they told Abe to drive like hell to the up- town station pf the Lexington Ave. subway at 86th Street." "Ah!" It was Vance who spoke. "That's very interestin'. Uptown eh, what?" The Body Found "Anyway, I wanta see this buddy of yours." Heath went on to the chauffeur, ignoring Vance's interpo- lated comment. "Get me, fella?" "Sure I getcha, officer," the chaiuffeur returned subserviently. "Abe ought to be back on the stand in half an hour." '"That's 0. K.," growled Heath. As we drove rapidly down Cen- tral Park W., Markham nervously lighted a cigar and asked Heath, who was sitting on the seat in front of him: Synopsis Kaspar Kenting disappears. Philo Vance, District Attorney Markham and Sergeant Heath of the Homi- cide Bureau question Kenyon Kent - Ing and Mrs. Kenting, Kasper's brother and wife, in the presence of Eldridge Fleel, Kenting family at- torney, Vance doubts the kidnap- ping story and further questions Weems the butler, Mrs. Kenting's mother, Mrs. Fallowai' and son, Fraim, and Porter Quaggy, racon- teur friend of Kenting's and the last person to be seen with him on the fatal night. All seem hostile to Kaspar. At this time a ransom note arrives demanding $50,000 and freedom from the police. A dummy package is secreted in a tree in Central Park. The police capture Mrs. Falloway who admits private- ly to Vance, she is really trying to forsestall an attempt by her son, Fraim, to take the money. She is not held. Immediately afterward, Madelaine Kenting, wife of Kaspar' also disappears suddenly. That night, while walking home, Eld- ridge Fleel is machine-gunned at close range from a passing autmo- bile, but not hurt. Vance suspects a ruse: CHAPTER XII Markham silently followed Vance toward the park. Quaggy turned too and walked with us the short distance to the entrance of his apartment -hotel, where he took leave of us. At the great iron -grilled door he turned "and said tauntingly: "Many thanks for not arresting me." "Oh, that's quite all right, Mr. Quaggy," Vance returned, halting momentarily and smiling. "The ease isn't over yet, don't y' know. Cheerio." At the corner Vance very deliber- ately lighted a cigarette and seated himself indolently on the wide stone balustrade. "I'm not bloodthirsty at all, Markham;" he said, looking quiz- zicalIy at the District Attorney; "but I rather wish the gentleman with the machine-gun had potted Mr. Fleel. And he was at such a short range. I've never wielded a machine-gun myself,' but I'm quite sure that I could have done better than that." 'TR warrant the, Sergeant and McLaughlin overhaul that car somewhere." Markham was appar- ently following his own trend of i!ldught. "Oh, I dare say," sighed Vance. "But I doubt if it will get us for- rader. One can't send a green coupe to the electric chair. Silly notion— what?" he Mysterious Coupe There were several moments of pence, and then a taxicab drew up directly in front of us. The door swung open, and Heath and McLaughlin stepped down. "We got the car all right," an- nounced. Heath triumphantly. "The same dirty -green coupe McLaughlin here saw outside the Kenting house on Wednesday morning." "Where did you find it, Serg- eant?" asked Markham. "Right up there in the transverse leading through the park. It was half-waftw'.p on the curb. Abandon- ed. After the guys in it ditched the car they musta come out and hop- ped a taxicab up the street, because shortly after the green coupe turn- ed into the transverse two guys walked out and, according to the driver here, took the cab in front of his." Without waiting for a reply from either Markham or Vance, Heath swung about and beckoned imperi- ously to the chauffeur of the cab from which he had just alighted. A short rotund man of perhaps thirty, struggled out of the front seat and joined us. "Look here, you," bawled Heath, "do you know the name of the man who was running the cab ahead of you on the stand tonight who took the two guys what come out of the transverse?" "Sure I know him." "Know where he lives?" "Sure I know where he lives. lJp on Kelly Street, in the Bronx." "Get hold. of that baby as soon as you can, and tell him to beat it down to the Homicide Bureau pron- to. I wanta know where he took those two guys that came out of the transverse." Do you feet so nervous you want to scream? Are you cross and irritable? Ito you scold those dearest to you? If your nerves aro on edge, try L''DXA P. PINT HAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. It often helps Nature calm quivering nerves. For three generations one woman has told another how to go smiling through" with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessen Ina the discomforts from the functional'lis= orders which women mast endure. VE(s�IITABLg JCO\i LYDIA E. "Well, what about that telephone call you got at the Kenting house, Sergeant?" Heath turned his head and spoke out of the corner of his mouth. "Kaspar Kenting's body has been found in the East River, and around 150 Street, The report came in right after Snitkin got back to headquarters. He's got all the de- tails:" "The East River — eh?" Vance spoke quietly and without emotion -- "ah, yes, it could easily be. Very distressin' . . . He said no more; nor was there any further talk un- til we reached Vance's apartment. Snitkin was already waiting in the upper hallway, just outside the library. "Go ahead, Heath. Snitkin began: "There's a small inlet up there in the river, which is not over three feet deep, and the fellow on the beat—Nelson, think it was—saw this baby lying ou the bank, with his legs out of the wa- ter, along about nine o'clock to- night. So he called in and reported it right away, and they sent over a buggy from the local station. The Medical Examiner of the Bronx gave the body the once-over and it seems the fellow didn't even die from drowning. He was already dead when he was dumped into the water. His head was bashed in. Well, the doc guessed the guy had been dead twelve hours maybe. There's no telling how long he'd been lying there in the inlet." "What about identification?" ask- ed Heath officiously. Plenty of Identification "Oh, there was plently of identi- fication, Sorge," Snitkin answered. "The guy not only fit the, descrip- tion like a glove, but his clothes' and his pockets was full of identi- fication. And there avas a fanny pocket -comb with his initials on it--" "A pocket comb — eh?" Vance nodded with satisfaction. "Very in- terestin', Markham. When a gentle- man carries a pocket comb he would certainly not add a toilet comb to his equipment : : : For- give the interruption, Suttkin. Go ahead." "Well, there was monograms 011 damn -near everything else he had in his pockets. According to the boys at the local station, he was either the Kaspar Kenting, we're looking for, or he wasn't nobody." Snitkin was dimissed and ten minutes later Heath followed. And when we were alone, Markham ask- ed: "How dill you know Kaspar Kenting was dead when I spoke to you on the stairway yesterday morning?" "You flatter me," said Vanes. "I didn't really know. I merely sur- mised it — basin' my conclusions on the indications." "So that's your mood," snorted Markham hopelessly. "I'm telling you, you outrageous -fop, that this is a damned serious situation — what happened to Fleel tonight had ought to prove that." "I know only too well, Markham, how serious the situation is," he said in a grave and curiously sub - clued voice. "But there's really no- thing we can do. We must wait please believe me. Our hea1ds and feet are tied. The most serious part of the whole affair is that this is not a kidnappiltg case at all, in the conventional sense. It goes a lot deeper than that. It's cold-blood- ed, diabolical murder. But 1 can't quite see my way yet to proving it. I'm far more worried than you, Mr. Markham, The whole thing is un- speakably horrible. There are sub- tle 'and abnormal elements mired up -in the situation, It's an abomirt- able affair, but as we sit here to- night, I want to tell yea that I do not know I don't know : ; I'm afraid to make a move until we learn snore. I shall never forget the following clay. It will ever remain in my me- mery as one of the great horrors of ray life, Issue No. 41—'38 D .Snitkin," ordered The day began eanventionally enough. "I think we'll take a spin down to Markham's office, Van," Vance said. "There's nothing to do laore, and there may be some news that Markham naively' regards as too trivial to telephone me about," We arrived at Markham's office a few minutes before ten o'clock, "Glad you came, Vauce," \vas his greeting. "Alt!" Vance sat down lazily. "Any tidin's, glad or otherwise?" "Well," said Markham in a hard, practical voice, 'Kenyon Kenting was taken to the .uptown morgue this morning and he identified his brother's body beyond a doubt. And I saw no need to put any other members of the family through the harrowing experience." "Mrs. Kenting's Groom, as well as the window -sill and the ladder, was gone over thoroughly for finger- prints." "And none was found, of course, except the Sergeant's and mine," "You're right," conceded Mark- ham. "The person, or persons, must have worn gloves." "Assumin' there was It person— or persons." "All right, all right." Markham was beginning to be annoyed. "You are so damned cryptic about every- thing, and so reticent, that I have no way of knowing what prompted that last remark of yours." "Personally, I'd say you would not find -them till you have located the car in which Mrs. Kenting was probably driven away last night." "What do you mean—what car?" demanded Markham. "I haven't the slightest idea," said Vance laconically. "But I hard- ly think the lady walked out of sight .. . "And, by the by, Mark- ham, speakin' of cars, what 'enor- inotts array of information did you marshal about the green coupe the energetic Sergeant found so con- viently waiting for him in the transverse? ... Doubtless stolen eh, what?" Markham nodded glumly.. "Yes, Vance, that's just it. Be- longs to a perfectly respectable spinster on upper West End Ave- nue." After the Gems "What about Abe, the buddy of the chauffeur who drove us home last night? I suppose Heath or else some of the Torquemadas in Centre Street put the poor devil through the requisite torture?" "You read too many trashy books Vance," Markham was indignant. "Heath talked to the 'driver of the number one cab at Headquarters within an hour of the time he left here last night. He merely corrob- orated what our chauffeur told us — namely, that he dropped the`two - men who came out of the trans- verse at the uptown entrance of the Lexington Avenue subway." "Well, your information seems to be typically thorough and typically useless," said Vance. "Did any one do a bit of checkin' up to ascertain whether there were any unaccoilnt- ed-for semiprecious stones round town?" "Good heavens, no! What have your semiprecious stones to do with_a case of kidnapping?" "My dear Markham," protested Vance. "I have told you — and I thought, in my naive way, that it had even been demonstrated to you — that this is not a case of kidnap- ping. Won't you even permit a sub- tle killer to set the stage for him- self — to indulge in a bit of spec- tacular decor, so to speak? That collection of old Karl Kenting's 1 JOIN THE DICH TRACY SECRET SERVICE PATROL It's Easy 1 It's Fun! Every boy and girl can loin Dick Tracy in his war against crime—be in on all club secrets=get grand free gifts! GET YOUR NEW 1939 OFFICIAL PATROL. BADGE —Get new 1939 Official Badge, your Secret Code Book with new 1939 codes and your Patrol Pledge.11f you are a member now be sure to mark your coupon "Member"and get your special Honor Member's "Second Year" Badge with the service Chevron. WIN YOUR OFFICER'S BADGES! TheSecretCode Book Tells How In Canada all the grand free gifts Dick Tracy offers on his radio program --are obtainable with box tops from delicious Quaker Corn Flakes! 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At this moment Markham's se- cretary, coning swiftly through the swinging leather door, interrupted the conversation. "Chief," he announced, "there's a young fellow outside who's ter- ribly excited and insists on seeing you at once. Says it's about the Kenting case, Gives his name as Falloway." "Oh, send him in, by. all means," said Vance, before Markham had time to answer. (To Be Continued) Mode Features Slender Waist Sleeves, Too, Are More Import- ant Than For Several. Seasons NEW YORK.—This year's fall dresses are "soft" in design. They show variation in cut, color and fabric and many may be trans- formed in appearance by a sleight- of-hand change accessories. A slender little waist is a char- acteristic of them all. Skirts are still short. The newest are wider —either flared or designed with gathered front fullness—although some slim straight skirts are seen too. Many bodices are slender and fitted, while others are softly drap- ed and a few are bloused. Sleeves are important. 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The spool heel, the quarter -inch platform sole on street and evening shoes, the two-inch clog sole on evening shoes, were seen in the re- tail shoes departments of the stores. The spool heel and the platform sole, particularly, are bound to be worn by so many wo- men this fall that before long the eye will accept them easily. These two innovations make for refinement in shoe design. The days when heavy looking street shoes were in vogue seem to be over. Shoes made on svelte, cling- ing lines, their gracefulness height- ened by cutouts in the vamp and by high heels, are favored. Sometimes the focal point of the shoe's design is at the back, above the heel. Winter Hats Tiny Birds Nestle in Chic Toques; Others Are Wind - Blown or Forward Tilted. Paris Milliners are seriously under way with .awinter hats. Legroux is even showing fur toques. One is a small rounded nest shape of silver fox in which nestle tiny pink birds. Another is like a tiny Victorian toque of sable -dyed ermine, held on by felt streamers tied under the chin. Two movements lead in fall millinery. : irst, tiny forward - perched shapes differently inter- preted, as Schiaparelli's famous doll hats; or Erik's wind-blown toques with high euff brim blown forward; or Le Monnier's shapes with brim cut from the crown at back and folded over the forward brim; while everywhere tiny tri - corners perch at this angle, show- ing curls of brushed -up coiffures just behind the hat. The second movement i5 the bonnet, contrarily enveloping the back of the head and showing curls in the hollow of the scoop brim 'at front, these often with streamers tied under the chin. Autumn Skbrts Getting Shorter Fashion Experts Say That Knees Will Be Corning Into View Approximately 8,000 beauti- cians put their heads together in Chicago last week and agreed that American womanhood had scarce- ly a leg to stand on. It all started in Paris when fashion experts decreed that skirts were on, their way up, that knees were coning into the open and that thick ankles were out with stenographer's hips. "Fall styles, with skirts higher than they've ever been since 1930 and slippers appearing without toes and with high build-up lines, call definite attention to the am- ities and the..legs," a Cleveland beauty export said, Here's HI w To Cook A Haggis West Lorne Man Comes For- ward With Recipe for the Real Scotch Article . . . And then there are the. Scotch living Canada subjected to appalling insults --even to being accused of using cornmeal in ha;'- gis! "Go saddle my horses!' writes E.T.C. (West Lorne) in the 5t. Thomas "Times -Journal. Haggis 14 ozs. oatmeal, 2 lbs. liver, 2 teaspoons mixed herbs, 1 lb. fat. bacon, salt, pepper, 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg, a little milk. First catch your sheep. Kill it. and dress it. Turn the stomach wrong side out as you would a chicken gizzard. Put to soak in , crock of salty water in a cool cel- lar. Then cut the liver into 501011 pieces. You can go on and chop- the hopthe lights and brains as well. But just this first time stop at the liv- er. Put it on to boil all togeher with two teaspoons mixed herbs, salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste, and one pound fat bacon. In another kettle cook one lb. oatmeal to a thick jelly in salty water. Serve Piping Hot • While the meat and oatmeal -are cooking, the stomach skin must be washed and scraped and scrubbed and put back in water. When both oatmeal and liver are well cooked they must then be chopped, with a little milk nixed well together and then stuffed in- to the stomach skin (which is really no different from the much used sausage skins). Tie the skin firmly with heavy cord, boil on a. plate ;in deep kettle of briskly boiling water for 21,E hours. Prick the top over well with a knitting~ needle to prevent bursting the skin. Serve hot. 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