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\ y . * ^ '1 t J THURSl)AY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1937 THE (XINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. PAGE SEVSH Road Work To Get Under Way Contract Is Awarded For Grad ing and Top Soiling TV'o Coun ty Roads. 10-Years Ago The Chr (terns of Interest From September 8, 1927 hroaicle Modem Women^ E. T. Richbourg, a citizen of Clin ton for the past 15 years, died Mon day at his residence where he had been confined for several months. I Laurens, Sept. 5. — It was stated j Saturday by County Supervisor A.- . ^ , , , , 'Rhett Martin that the S. S. Newell I Copeland left Thurs- Construction company, of Greenville, Atlanta, Orhere she has en- oa Synopsis: A card game is in sessioniLane dame could have taken that gun j Dan Flaherty, ^in a puzzled tone. FJm«r Hen^rsonja popthamo at.npifmro thi,Atwiio. W’fi...haven’t■.4p,veai,^“ lyc - ■” New York skyscraper. The players much thought to' that. Say she was | your men I had been aw’arded contracts to grade ! and topsoil two road projects that had I been recently designated by the leg- e,v^r .since islj|t[yp_j|p,tegai^^ for, improvement all around the building rH)ut of the $150,000 bond issue. The are: Henderson, Police Inspector Fla herty. Martin Frazier, Archie Doane, Max Michaelis, and his friend, Wil liams, a stockbroker. , , They ar« waiting for Stephen Fits- germld. When he fails to appear, a telephone call brings the information that he is out with a girl. Fitzgerald and Henderson are both romantically interested in. Lydia lAoe, the famous adtress, but Archie Doane reveals that she is engaged to marry him. ^ Doane leaves the party early when Fitzgerald fails to appear. A short time later he telephones Inspector gJaherty with the frantic news that he has found Fitzgerald and, Miss afraid of Fitz that’s reasonable. He;about four o’clock this morning,” was Hickory Taverri-fiig Poplar road, 9.25 might have threatened her, if she,the amazing reply. Henderson smiled miles, in Sullivan and Waterloo town- took' Archie instead of him. - ‘‘Now, there’s ‘been cases where nuts have gone around with hypo<^- mics jabbing girls on the street, we sent a dope up fbr that last year. at the three of them, as cool and self- possessed as he had been in the poker game the night before. ‘‘Shall we sit down at the table? ships, and the Durbin Church-Alien bridge road, 6.50 miles, in Youngs township, are embraced in the Newell contract. Work is to begin within the tered training at Grady hospital^ Miss Frances O’Daniel has gone to Statesville, N. C., where she will teach this winter.- - ' A hostess on one of the railroiad systems out of Chicago is Miss Hor- tense Wickward, who investigates all the 70,000 items that are in use on trains. Miss Lou Abrams left Monday for!justice. .\ugusta where she entered training at the University hospital. Mrs. Charles Akerman of Macon, Ga., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. E. Jones. Taylor Martin left yesterday for State subsidization of a new con- tralized setup is the aim of Mrs. C«- cilia D. Patten, the first woman chair man of the New -York probation coto- mission. Mrs. Patten says probation is rapidly becoming a part of sdcialiased he inquired, as the visitors shed their I next two weeks. It is expected .that, H»"'P^-S‘dney college, Va., where ftna rtf Ktimna in+rt Kftr ' wrsDs “Excuse me iust a moment”'both projects will be surface-treated he will be a student the coming year. Now one of them bumps into her,,wraps. t.xcuse me juai a men^eni, j ^ , pr. John W. Young, Dr. Jack H. . The legal profession is closed to women in Hungary but they have made some advance m the appoint ment of Miss Gizella Kennessey aa municipal director of history in Buda pest. see In his ^gemess Dan Flaherty wai lapsing back into the vernacular of his native Ninth Ward. ‘‘No use asking why; there ain’t no he went on ,as the four seated them-'on. ^ rk.n • i j o u i selves. ‘‘I just want to date and sign Two other highway projects includ-j' ^ ^hel ed in the same program, the Li-sbon i James O Daniel have returned road, 7.25 miles, and the Eden-Green-1 ^ relatives in Florence, pond road, 9.25 miles, soon will be' some papers. He picked up two long sheets of paper which were lying on the table i nisvaA fuf'^tirfachig, 33 grading and! following Clinton girls left to- reltson in wharanrnut like that conditioning is nearing comple-l^^y f®'’ Hill to enter the fresh Lane dead in Lydia’s penthouse apartment. When Flaherty and the medical ex aminer reacts the^- apartment,—they find that Miss Lane is still alive. She rushed to a hospital where blood 13 transfusions and care promise to re store her. All circumstantial evidence points to Archie Doane as the murderer, es pecially when the murder gun is found carefully planted in the chimney clean-out in the basement. Miss Lane’s French maid, Adele Marceau, has been overheard threat- Anyway, she’s all doped up when she ' each sheet he affixed his signature. tion. gets into to her apartment. Thinks a pin stuck into her, and there’s a pinj ^^hese might as well be witnessed.”. p* . PinvaA#] in her dress—probably picked up in I be said, turning one sheet face downiriroi DalcS VUniiea the taxi. Her maid goes out and she j over the other so that only the name t IVaaLt lies down and goes to sleep. I’ve heard i be Imd written and a blank space be-j ^ kCl C a Olo Vv CCIm They kh^T*^ showed. “ Will each of you gen-; - re-1 tlemen be good enough to sign as wit-j The first . Ivales of cotton from the oT This twiTight what’s going on but they can’t member any of it afterwards,,see? j nesses to my signature?’ ‘‘Now, she’s dead to the world, but' He passed his fountain pen across she isn’t. Get me? Fitz comes along jibe table and each signed in turn, an’ she lets him in. They get into a'Then Henderson reversed the sheets scrap an’ she pulls the gun on him. again witnessed his signature. He grabs for it an’ it goes off and; He took the papers hack into his gets her in the arm, in the tussle. The j own hands and folded each of them, gun drops an’ she grabs it an’ lets j One of them he passed across to Max ‘him have it through the heart. (Michaelis. man (^lass at Winthrop college: Misses Fay .\dair,* Janella Boland, Gladys .XUlred, Jeanette Crawford,. Katherine Fuller, Janet Leake, Vittoria Lynn, Elizabeth 'l^healy and Mary Bell Todd. The upper class students will leave cning to shoot Fitzgerald Jl he did not stop annoying her. The janitor reports that Mademoiselle Marceau "Then she drops the gun down the] ‘‘Will you be good enough to take chimney, drags. Fitz over to try to .charge of thds for me?” he asked, put him on the couch, finds she can’t* Don’t bother to read-4L4K)w.”, work.s in a night club on her day off!life him an’ then gets faint from her| The other document he held in his and that she had talked to him in the! own w-ound an’ flops where weToiiTid I own hands, looking from Michaelis* to basement on the night of the murder, j he”. How’s that. Max?” -[Frazier and Flaherty, as if uncertain ‘‘A good theory if it wasn’t for the'as to into whose hands to place it. snow, Dan,” smiled Max Michaelis. I Inspector Flaherty took advantage ‘‘You mu.stn’t leave the snow out otf*of the pause for a question which he 19,17 crop in this area were ginned on Tuesday and yesterday, The Initial bale of 'the season was ginned Tuesday by the C. W. S. Gu ano company and raised -by Charlie Hollis on the J. A. Bailey farm near here. It was not offered for sale. The second bale followed yesterday and came from the farms of John H. Young with Jes Gilliam as cropper. It weighed 531 pounds, graded strict noddling, staple 1 1-32 inch, and was ginned by Clinton Mijling company. The hale was not sold. for Rt>ck Hill Tuesday. Miss Mary Elizabeth Henry and DeSaussure Davis Edmunds were united in marriage on Saturday eve ning in a lovely ceremony at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H; D. Henry. The Arizona hou.se of representa tives elected a woman speaker pro tern for the first time in the state’® history. Mrs. Bridgie Porter, the wo man so honored, has served in four regular and five special sessions of the house. “■ Fourteen women are in government activities in Czechoslovakia, the youngest of wlmnr is Buzewa Marti-* ova, who is thirty-four. Senator F. F. Plaminkova is v-ice-president of the International Federation of Women’® ■errle®. RUBBER STAMPS—24-hour All sizes and types. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Med cal examination reveals that Lydia Lane had been given a hypo dermic injectjon of a hypnotic drug before being shot, and that Fitzger ald’s boily msj shows the mark of a hypodermic needle on his leg. Ijiter in the day yesterday the sea son’s third bale, grown on W. E. i Neighbors’ farm, was ginned by the C. W. S, Guano company. Hipp & Chandler Clothes for Men and Boys Your Ru.Hines.s Appreciated Clubs and founder of the National Council of Women of Czechoslovakia and the Teachers’ association. For having given among other philanthropies a dispensary to Lille, France, Mrs. William Boyce Thomp son of New York, has received the Legion of Honor from the French government. Her daughter is the wife of our former minister to Norway, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. Twin sisters who are painters re turned recently from Irak where they painted a portrait of King Ghazi. They are Mrs. Ruth Hoffman Brooka and Miss Helen Hoffman of Washing ton, D. C. Mrs. Brooks’ husband is an engineer stationed in Irak. ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT ‘‘You think you can clear him, Max?” ”1 know it, Dan.” ‘‘Well, you’ve never let yet. I’ll take a chance on so” ‘‘Then let me have a word with the, house physician, before we starl,” said Michaelis. "Doctor,” he asked, the me<lical man came in, "you ob- 8er\e<l the symptoms which Miss I.ane ’'exhibited when she recovered con- sciodsness after her blood transfus ion?” "Yes.” "Do you know of any drug, which could he administered in a small dose, your calculations. The persons ,who planned and ^committed this crime overlooked the snow. If the gun was dropped down the ch mney it was done before the snow fell.” "Fitz might have lingered aliVe for hours,” suggested Frazier. “With a bullet through his heart? me down j You heard what the medical examiner your say- * said.” objected Dan Flaherty. But I Max Michaelis smiled in assent. "You’re getting warm, .Martin,” he .said. "That would explain why there were no tracjjs in the snow.” “Fitz could have .lone it!” exclaim ed Kraz-ier ' * "What? Dropped^the gtnrdowTi tlu* chimney after he was shot through the heart?” demanded the insjiector incredulously. had been fairly bursting to ask. “What do you mean about po.sting my men around this buihling?” he demanded. "I haven’t posted any men here.” “No, Dan, they were my men,” in terposed Michaelis. “You see, I wasn’t sure'iintil i “got this tel^ram That It was a case for the police.” He drew from his pocket the yellow envelope which had been delivered to him at the hospital, and glanced sig nificantly from it to Henderson. "I had a mes.sage, tot),” sai<l Hen derson. "A long tlistance call from Pasadena. I still have fnTnds |here. I take Tf your telegram is from the same place?” “Precisely,” replied Max .Michaelis. ”.Tnd I take it that one of the docu- “Doped the girl, I mean,” explained^ments you have just signed is a coii-j Frazier. "That w’hat you wanted to ■ fession ?’’ i hypodermically, which w'ould produce ask .Henderson, .Max? If he saw Fitz| Henderson’s eyes indicated surprise a profound sleep for a period of five j when they got out of the taxi? I’d Jby the Slightest of flutters, then look- or six hours and cause the after-)almost forgotten it, but someone toidjed full at Max Michaelis with uncon-j symptoms such as you ob.served?’’ “Yes. Hyoscin might do it if the patient w'ere especially susceptible.” "That’s what is u.sed in the so- called ‘twilight .sleep,’ is it not?” “Precisely. It induces a profound sleep which does not amount to un-jsaid Flaherty, “but consciousness but leaves the patient i all comes clear. He me that FTtz had taken the dope cupe'cealed admiration, while the other —uStd to be an addict. He’d be fa-j two stared from one to theother, per-, miliar with hypodermics.” plexed and amazed. “You’ll have a hard time convincing! "Yes,” was Henderson’s cool reply.jl me that he could have lived more than “And the other is my last wTll and ) a few minutes with that hole in him,”i le.stament. It i.s a pleasure, when one say he could. It|is beaten, to realize that one has dopes the girl—i yielded to superior brains and not We Have a Complete Supply... Send Your Children Here For Their Needs afterwards without any memory of what occurred while under its Tnflu- ence. The trio had got into the inspec tor’s car and started for the Highart building before Martin Frazier spoke. "I’ve been tryinig to puzzle out what you’re driving at, Max,” the as sistant district attorney said. “You’ve got an idea the girl was doped, haven’t you?” "Something like - that,” Michaelis •greed. ‘‘And that she had Archie Doane’s phone number and those words from her play so firmly fixed in her sub conscious mind that she called him without knowing that she was doing jabs her on the sidewalk. Waits Henderson and the maid have I till, come I Now, out, then goe.s in, like I said maybe the girl didn’t shoOt him after all. He shoots her in the fight for the gun—she Isn’t as dopy as he ex pected to find her. Then she bleeds all over the place and he thinks she’s dead. Shoot.s him.self—he could have done it. If he wa.s thinking quick he could have dropped the gun down the flue, got hack to the apartment, all before he collapsed. Then she comes to, sees him there, calls up Archie, flops again and doesn’t remember a thing when she wakes up.” The car drew up in front of the entrance of the Highart building. ‘‘Dne thing I meant to ask you, ‘Here, that doesn’t tally with th^t Martin, though I think I know the 'merely to-superior force.” i| “Suppoae yi)U_leLit lie there a min-[ nute, Henderson,” .^aid Michaelis, as the inventor proffered the second doc-' ument to Inspector Flaherty. “I ap-j preciate your intended compliment,! but you have been beaten neither by I superior brains nor by superior force, || unless you count the forces of nature,. "It was not the Czar’s armie.s,* but j the snow, that defeated Napoleon in | Russia; it is not the police nor myself | that has beaten you, Henderson, but] the snow. The snow that you did not! know anything about, never had seen, had not the experience with which to j calculate upon its probability or toj measure its rulnou-s effect upon yourj ingenious plot.’ We are ready to serve the school children’s and teachers’ wants with everything fcA* the class room except textbooks. We have a com plete assortment of all school supplies needed, from the small tot to the college student. phone company’* record of no calls,* interposed Inspector Flaherty. ‘They’ve been known to make how we happened to think the gun takes,” observed Praaier. "Max haa something up hit ale®ve. He’ll tril u* when he gets good and rendy. Mean time I’m trying to figure it out. "What about thought tmaafeorence? Telepathy? You think ahe might have got her call aero** to him that way?” ‘‘No, I won’t stand for that,” said Dan Flaherty. ‘There may be some thing in telepathy, but you can’t prove it by the police nor to a jury, me give a guess at what BAax i* driving ®t. Will you tell me if I get your theory right. Max?” "Perhaps,” replied Michaelis, smil- answer,” said Michaelis, aa they went op in the elevator. "Do ydu remem- ing. ‘‘Well, then, it would ” the inspector went way, work on. I Continued Next Issue). Announcements INSURANCE 'We think we know the best Firt and Life Insur ance policies. We think we know how to advise the best plans for yon. We think we have the best companies. ^ Consult me. B. H. BOYD» Agent Clinton Realty & Insurance Co. might be down the chimney?” "" "That wa» Tony Mortinelli’s hunch,” said Inspector Flaherty. "No; Tony heard me auggest it,” Frazier contradicted. I remember say ing it might be there, but dropped that idea as soon as we saw how the top of the chimney was covered. Max! You don’t mean . . . ” "Remembered where you got the chimney suggeetion, have you?” smiled Michaelis. “I don’t know what you both are talking about,” growled Dan Flaherty, as he pressed the button ai the door of Henderson’s quarters. tUDj "You will in a few minuteii, Dan,” The Max Michaelis reastur^ him. . | I Through a perforated disk covering t !a bouse telephone at the side of the jdoor the voice of Elmer Henderson I answered the ring. I “Who’s there?” he asked. "Martin Frazier,” responded the as sistant district attorney. “Dan Fla-[ herty and Max Michaelis are with | me.” "Pardon me a' moment,” said the voice. "I hadn’t expected you quite | so soon.” I Frasier and Flaherty looked at each ‘ other wonderingly, then at Max Mi- chaelis, whose face was sphinx-like. Presently the door wa.3 opened by Henderson him-self, attired as- for a wedding or for church. 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