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THE FORT WORTH PRESS
COMICS
OUT OUR WAY
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on his way to the Miles home;
that he telephoned for a taxi to
wait for him at the foot of the
But it came last.night and
took advantage of it.”
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WOW! HOW THOSE COSTA GRANDEANS
DO CELEBRATE NEW YEAR! DYNAMITE
EXPLOSIONS, PISTOL SHOTS EVERYWHERE.
EVEN THE AMERICAN’S GUARD OF HONOR
HAS LEFT ITS POST To JOIN IN THE FUN.
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i KNOW IT. r—-—.
- WELL AVE MADE A RESOLUTION
3 Not To osTuRe MR,GU22LEM
", IN HIS SLEEP AGAIN, 50 I’LL GO
DOWN-STAIRS AND SEE WHAT
(Hose NOISES ARE! —
How DO YOU EXPECT
EVERYBODY To GET THAT
ON NEW YEARS DAY WHEN
YOU’RE MAILING I ON
NEW YEARS DAY ?
In increasing volume, the savage roar rolled
into the garden of, Caesar. The legionaries
turned to face the vanguard of an army led
by a horde of ebon warriors, glistening giants:
from whose heads floated white feather war-
bonnets, and from whose throats issued war
cries. Tarzan’s Waziri had come.
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FOR TW’ FIRST DATE OF, T’ YEAR -
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ASKED ME FIRST
ease the Beale girl and
Hammond.".
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FOR IT....WAIT HERE.
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verse.
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made in
India.
15 Portions of
plays.
16 Auto fuel.
18 Fastidious.
19 l’ronoun.
20 Joyous.
22 Constellation,
Altar.
28 Myself.
24 Mug.
25 Sweet potato.
27 Part of verb
to be.
28 Incrustation
on a sore.
31 Part of hand.
33 Hnit.
“He feels sure Nita’s murdererhome in the Brentwood district of
has trailed him. In a panic he
darts into this room, and don’t
turn on the light for fear he’ll be
seen from the windows, but he
7 Like.
8 To.hasten.’
D Melody.
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in Catholic
church.
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17 Emissary.
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33 Leather strip.’
34 Cut down.
35 Tree
37 Belief.
80 To measure.
40 Auction.
43 No.
44 Inlet.
46 Fourth note.
48 Pair.
upward course till it struck the
extreme right side of the heart.
The bullet entered exactly where
it would have to, if the murderer
was crouching under that window
while Sprague was raising the
screen. And we have Carraway’s
report that it was Sprague’s fin-
ferprints on those nickel - plated
things you have to press together
to make the screen roll up or
down. Furthermore, I haven’t a
doubt in the world that the ball-
ties expert in Chicago will report
that the bullet was fired from the
same gun that killed Nita Selim."
(To be Continued)
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HE PROFESSOR LES TREMBLING UNDER AS BED ALL NIGHT,
• But WASH AND EASY STAND GUARD, LIGHTS OUT,
ARMED TO THE TEETH, WATCHFUL AND WAITING
can see well enough to make out
how the screens work. I’ll bet
you anything you like Sprague
stayed in this room for an hour
A GOOD NIGHT! I BEEN 1
WATIN PRETTY
22 NEAR A HAFFA HOUR:
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
hill, and that he planned to leave
the Miles house by way of the tro-
so that his town denies he had
lurking pursuer might have no with them.”
dorder Al Bridoe
UFA, by ANNE AUSTIN authoyof"TIE BLACK PIGEON: 4)
(ur / " THE AVENGING PARROT" and. MURDER BACKSTAIRS" .
—___-----------------------C1W0 81 NEA SERVICELINC.______________________________
It was 3 o’clock, and Dundee
sat across the desk from Captain
Strawn, in his former chief’s of-
rice in police headquarters.
The first extra had screamed
in its biggest head type; SECOND
BRIDGE DUMMY MURDER! and
itad carried, in detail, Captain
Strawn’s comforting theory that
Dexter Sprague’s erstwhile friends
had again been made the victims
of a New York gunman’s fiendish
cleverness in committing his mur-
ders under circumstances which
would inevitably involve Hamil-
ton’s most highly respected and
socially prominent citizens in the
police investigation.
But the second extra had a
more romantic streamer headline:
HAMMOND WEDDING DELAYS
MURDER QUIZ..
The story beneath a series of
smaller headlines began:
"At the very moment — 9:05
o’clock this morning—when Cella
Hunt, maid in the Tracey Miles
back to town, sore’n a bolled owl."
“It doesn’t look exactly as if
—Sprague were afraid of, anyone
outside of this house last night,
does it?" Dundee asked. “By the
REWYFAR
BUSINESS MEN.
<0131 BY NEA S
* D0ENT MEAN A SWAY we,
BUT “WIRE TRMN’ TO MAKE our
THAT NT DOES ..
Hamilton, was screaming the
news of her discovery of the dead
body of Dexter Sprague, - New
York motion picture director, in
what is known as the ‘trophy
room,’ Miss Polly Beale and Mr.
Clive Hammond were applying for
a marriage license in the Munici-
pal Building.
"At 9:30, when Miss Beale and
Mr. Hammond were exchanging
their vows in the rectory of St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, of which
both bfide and groom have been
members since childhood. Captain
John Strawn of the homicide
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BEEN SLEEPI’ ALL DAY!—
N KNOW , MISTAH MASAH —
DERE IS AN’ OL’ SAVIK
DAT WHUT Vo’ DO o
NEW NEAR’S DAY.
No’ is GON A
J Do ALL YEAR!
“Possibly,” Dundee grinned un- simply hired a gunman or came
ruffled. : “But there is another down here himself, when he got
possibility — which is why I on their tracks. Of course, it was
should like to know who suggest- a good stunt to make it look like
ed this sudden wedding. I mean a local crime—figured he’d fool
that we cant overlook the possi-me just as he fooled you! So the
bility that these two murders murderer simply trailed Nita
made either the bride or the around, and saw the whole bunch
groom feel perfectly safe in go-of society people shooting at a
ing on with the marriage. Pollytarget at Judge Marshall’s place,
Beale and Clive Hammond h a d with a gun equipped with a Max-
been engaged for more than a im silencer. Too good an oppor-
year, you know, with no apparent itunity to be missed, so he bides
reason for along engagement. : . his chance to swipe the gun and
As for my having a single - track silencer. To make sure it will
mind, Captain, what about you? look like a local crime, he pops
I have six possible suspects, all of off Nita when that same bunch
whose names I know, andyou is at her house, but it takes a few
have only one—whose name you days longer before he has the
do not know, and whose motive same opportunity to get Sprague,
you can only guess at, while I
have a perfectly good motive that
might fit anyone of my six —
blackmail!".
Strawn growled. “But let me go
on. ... Nita meant she would
feel safer about Sprague if he was
here in Hamilton, too. But the
guy they double - crossed in New
York got on their trail. It took
him weeks to do it, and Sprague
followed Nita’s advice. He got
here on Sunday, April 27; and on
Monday the 28th Nita banked the
first $5,000! Don’t you see it,
boy? Sprague brought with him
the dough they’d got for their
stunt, and thought it was safer
for Nita to bank it in her name,
since it wasn’t the name she was
known by in New York anyway.
We’ve checked up on Sprague
pretty thoroly. He didn’t have a
bank book, either on his body or
in his room, and every bank in
an account
! "If that theory is correct, it
drawing shows that his proposed makes Nita Selim a pretty low
flight would have been protected character," Dundee mused aloud,
by hedges until he reached the "Not only did she kick him out
***** wooded slope of the hill, provided as a lover, but she double-crossed
TER *L his Nemesis was lurking in the him as her partner in crime, by
TD give a good deal to know opposite hedge across the drive-willing the whole wad to Lydia
L which of those two suggested way, where he could observe Carr. Sprague must have re-
that it would be a good idea to every departure’from the Miles ceived quite a shock when he
get married the first thing this
mnorning,” S Dundee mused aloud,
as he put down the second ‘extra’
Teh the Hamilton Morning
had had occasion to issue
nursday.
-.., .. - A VERY plausible theory, and
“Is that so?" Strawn srowledA one which, in general, the
whole city of Hamilton has been
familiar with since the night Nita
was murdered," Dundee remarked
significantly.
"What do you mean?" Strawn
demanded. “It’s wterproof, ain’t
it? .Doc Price says the bullet—
and a .32 caliber one at that—en-
tered Sprague’s body just below
the breastbone and traveled an
squad was listening to Tracey
Miles’ account of the strange dis-
appearance of Dexter Sprague
from the impromptu bridge game,
after he had announced his inten-
tion of taking advantage of the
fact that he was ‘dummy’ to tele-
phone for a taxi.
"And at 10 o’clock, when the
new Mrs. Hammond called h er
home to break the news of her
marriage to her aunt, Mrs. Amelia
Beale, the bride was in turn ac-
quainted with the news of
Sprague’s murder, and the fact
that both she and her husband
were wanted at the Miles home
for questioning by the police,
since both had been guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Miles last night, altho
Mr. Hammond did not arrive un-
til about 11 o’clock.”
• * *
THERE followed a revision of
I the murder story as it ap-
peared in the first extra, with ad-
ditional details supplied by
Strawn, and with a line drawing
of the scene of the crime — the
trophy room itself and the forked
driveway with its tall yew hedges.
A dotted line illustrated Strawn’s
theory of Sprague’s plan to elude
the murderer who had followed
him to the Miles home. Because
of the curved sweep of the drive-
every departure from the Miles ceived quite a shock when
home.’ heard Nita’s will read at the in-
"You’ve sure got a single-track quest.”
mind, boy," Strawn chuckled. “So “Yeah," Strawn agreed. “It
you think those two got married looks like Mrs. Dunlap picked a
in such a hurry this morning be-sweet specimen to make a friend
cause the law says a husband or out of.... Well, that’s my the-
a wife can’t be made to testify ory, and I think it explains every-
against the other?" thing. Their victim in New York
WHALAT YA SPYSAY HeREs A BURCLAR
DEARIE - HUH? AT THE StLvER AND ANOTHER
2-2-2-27IN THE PANTIR , EATING “.
MINCE MEAT Pies. _
From the far end of the garden, above the
din of the breaking battle, rose a savage cry,
a new note that gave pause to the contestants
on both sides. Tarzan’s head snapped to at-
tention. Recognition, hope, surprise, incredu-
lity surged through his consciousness
wo.U s PAL.O "
used, to bump off Nita. ... I’ve
got Miles’ word for it that neither
he nor nobody else heard a shot.
%... . of course, nobody knew
Sprague was in here, and since
his hat and stick were both miss-
ing from the hall closet, they
took it for granted he’d beat it.
. . . Any objections to that the-
ory, boy?"
“Just a few — one in partic-
ular,” Dundee said. “But I grant
its a good one, provided Dr.
Price’s autopsy bears you out as
to the course of the bullet, and
that Carraway finds Sprague’s fin- |
gerprints on that contrivance for
raising the screen. Even then—"
But Dundee was not allowed to
finish his sentence, for Strawn
was summoned to the telephone,
by Whitson. When he returned
there was a slightly bewildered
look on his heavy old face.
“That’s funny. . . Collins—the
” lad I sent to check up on the taxi
companies—says he’s located the
1 driver that answered Sprague’s
call last night. The driver says
or two, till he thought the coast
was clear, then eased up this
screen intending to climb out of
the window and drop to the
ground. . . . Not much of a drop
at that. You can see that the tall
hedge, on this side of the drive-
way comes pretty near up to these
windows. . . . Well, I figure he
laid his hat on this cabinet, in-
tending to reach in for it when
he was outside, but that he made
some little noise which the gun-
man was listening for, and that
when he got the screen up this
high, the gunman, crouching’ un-
der the window, let go with the
samee gun and silencer that ne
way toward the main entrance of
the house, the tall hedge was
less than two feet from the win-
he was told to wait for Sprague dow with the partly opened screen
at the foot the hill. on the “Captain Strawn’s theory, read
main roads.peYR healed there the text below the large drawing,
until .hatt-past.12.thmnmA%uf|‘is that Sprague had good cause
to fear that he was being followed
way, I suppose you’ve sent for
everyone who was here?” .
“Sure!" But again Captain phx.room. window.
Strawn looked uncomfortable. - . .
put we havent been able to lo-knowledge of his departure. The
“I’m not forgetting that Nita
Selim banked $10,000 cash after
she got to Hamilton. My real
theory now that Sprague has been
killed is that Nita and Sprague
had cooked up some sort of racket
between them, and that when
Nita got the chance to come to
Hamilton with Mrs. Dunlap, she
jumped at it, and she and Sprague
sprung their racket, whatever it
was, either just before or just
after Nita left New York. Prob-
ably" it was Nita’s tipoff and
Sprague did the actual dirty work
himself, which explains that tele-
gram that Nita sent him April 24,
just three days after she got to
Hamilton. Let’s see again, just
what it says," and Strawn reached
for a copy of the night letter
which Dundee himself had un-
earthed the day before. “See:
‘Everything Jake so far, but would
feel safer you here—‘ ”
* * %
“VES, I remember the wording
. quite well,’’ Dundee inter-
rupted. "But you did not take
it so seriously when I showed it
to you yesterday. If you had—”
"All right! Rub it in!" Strawn
snapped, flushing darkly. “If I
had assigned a man to ‘tail’
Sprague, as you suggested, he
wouldn’t have been murdered—”
"He probably would have been
murdered just the same,” Dun-
dee comforted the older man,
“but we might have been lucky
enough to have an eyewitness.”
“Oh, you and your theory!”
LASY, SOMEWHAT ALARMED,
LOOKS OVER. THE SITUATION
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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
As the last of the legionaries in. the |
den threw down their arms and begged ‘
zan’s protection, Muviro ran to the ape-r
and, kneeling at his feet, kiured his hand.
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Coprrighe 1050 by M4E
At their head Tarzan saw Muviro and with
him was Lukedi, but what they did not see
and what none of those in the garden of
Caesar saw until later was the horde of war-
riors from the outer villages of Castra San-
guinarius. These men, following the Waziri,
were already overrunning the palace seeking
vengeance.
BY SMALL
POLICE!,
DOCTOR!
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Minteer, Edwin D. & Schulz, Herbert D. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1931, newspaper, January 1, 1931; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1638861/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.