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Show THE MURKAY EAGLE, THURSDAY, FEB. 14 1929. t tucked outside the kitchen door of the limine, and mnuaged to ring the bell before lie fell unconscious. Just where were you, Mr. Porter, when that bell rang? A. The police have my statement as to Unit, liy the q Doctor Huywurd was on the road lu his cur; you were by the l clobe to the bouse. Yet when he readiwl you. you liflrt apparently only fnund this buy. Is that correct? A. It seems to die that the question there might be, was Hayward on the iiniln roud that night, as he says, 01 nearer to tlie bouse thao be admits sun-dia- l. suu-dla- q. You own a boat, I believe? I Yes. Buyer's Guide to Murray City's Community Builders Murray Laundry PHONE "The M CURAT 81 and Best of Intermountain Broom Co. Miss Ruth Webb UTAH MCRRAY Life Income Dancing Classes Bobbie Broom Favorite Laundry of the Contented Housewife." Attend the Murray City Utah's IF INTERESTED EXPERT & SONS 163 West 48th South Call Murray 43 Suits Mads to order $22.50 SUte 1907 Seoth A Murray, R MILL WORK OF ALL DIMOND COAL and FEED CO. 4914 South socialize 106 I wasn't found Id the house by We bad started for It together. The maid, Annie Cochran, hud reported a quarrel between Mr Bethel and Gordon, and that Gordon had gone away. You must rememlcr that we suspected '.he boy of being Hit killer. I .was anxious, and weut for Halllday. Q. What tlmo dlj the maid tell you this? A. About seven thirty, possibly eight o'clock. Q. And when did you go for Mr. Halllday? A. It was about eleven, I tmuglue. (J. What did yon do In the Interval? A. She was nervous, and I took her home. Aftetr that we had callers. Q. Did you see Mr. Bethel, In that Interval? PRESCRIPTIONS CANDIE8 Murray. I'tah Mr. Halllday. 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Fur one thing, Mr. Bethel had found the bouse queer; so had the secretary. . . . Q. On the day you asked the secretary to luncheon, the intention was to allow Mr. Bethel to go through his room? A Bethel? Certainly not Q. I shall read you this entry from Gordon's dlury (reuds) : "Porter usked me to luucb today, so B. could go through my room. They left the kulfe. but at leust they know I have It " A. That's a lie I I asked hlin to luucheon so llulllduy could search hi room. It was Halllday who found the knife. You can ask blm. Q. We'll let that go, Just now, and come to the night you were found In the house, Mr. Porter, by Mr. llulll-day- . A. in cabinet work and moat display counters. Phone Murray 259 It State Phone Murray We PROMPT SERVICE up Lyon Drug Co. KINDS High Grade Coal and Feed W. 48th South TAILOBLNG Cleaning, Pressing and Altering Metropolitan Life Ins. Company Hy-3583-- Peter Johansen BEN GORDON See Local Representative A. C SMITH Cor. of SUte and 48th 8out HYDRAULIC GREASR RACK TIRES TUBES ACCESSORIES queMtlun. q. lld lie ever uk yuu for money? Or Intimate that he ueeded It? l A. Never. He s:ild something giving' up tils position. . . , q. Where whs by, the night you held the conversation with Mr. Bethel, rel ullve to him? A. Here In the city, 1 believe. q And Mr. Bethel thought he might Ituve gone to the police. A. Hint's the second time you have Intimated that (iunloii hud eomcthlug to tell the police. I cim t tulk in the dark like this It any body wanted to avoid the police, it whs this boy. . q. I nm goluu buck to the night Mr HallUhiy found you In the house A. He didn't find me. We had start ed there together. q You sny you nw a figure at the foot of the Klulra. and fired at it? A I did'i't Intend to fire. q. You didn't recognize this Ogure? onct-ahou- . inherited one with the prop city. A sloop. I. Ho you still tbe boat yourself? A. I don't know one end of It from . . the other. q. In your various conversations wltlh Mr. Bethel, did he ever mention the character of the house? By that I meun any curious quality in the house itself? A He recognized such a quality A approach you on a rmitier of money? I don't uuderstund A. Money? the A. No. It wag not Mr. Bethel? No. He was locked in his room. . , . q. You say you are not a spiritualA. Bethel? ist? Certainly not You have never made any experiments In Bplritiiallsm? A. I have been present at one or two seances. q. When? Uecently? A. We have held two sittings In the inalr house within the last few days. q. When did you first hear of the symbol of u' triangle Inside n circle? A. If you mean lr connection with the crimes q. Before that. You told Mr. Green ough, some time ago, that you heard of It lu gome oth'.r connection A. I told him had happened on It In an old book on Black Magic, and told a group of women about It It was a purely facetious remark. q. Can you account f,ir Its use Id ci unectloii with these crimes? A. I have no otllelal knowledge that It was used in connection with the crimes. Only with the sheep killing? q. But you know it was so used? A. I know that It was used once when Mr. Greenotigh did not find It. q. Where was that? A. On a tree near where the MorriI son truck was discovered. have heard It was on Cartway's boat but I don't know that. I know It was de liherately put on my car. after Mr. Halllday was hurt. q. You say, put on the car? Do you mean by that, Mr. Bethel did It? How could he? A. Bethel? We have thought lately that Gordon was responsible. We found 8 piece of hts cipher nearby. q. You have felt all along that Gor don was guilty? 1 would A. I won't say that say that the burden of the evidence IimII culed that he was guilty. Mr. ilalll day has had considerable doubt of his A. q. 1 guilt q. Have you ever considered that It might he Bethel who killed Gordon? A. Never. He couldn't have dope It q. But If he had had assistance? A. Are you telling me that Bethel did kill Gordon? q. I am telling you that somebody killed Gordoi., Mr. Porter. His body was washed ashore at Bass rove this morning. 8ptmbr now, holding appreciate way from you, and you value an J sr item-ra't- e Wedding Invitations Wedding Announcements Wedding Reception tations np.-P.o- stor MURRAY EAGLE The f Murray Feed Store Coal and Wood 4870 South State RED LAMP FEED Paint and Varnish fr Phone Murray 1 a stop-watc- h on me. sum I cnu't rend you this thing, but I can tell you what's la it And believe me, that's plemy." . . . Brletiy, then, the deciphering of the dlury bod left me in a very bud position. When they bad finished It. It was Benchley's Idea to arrest me at once. They had the boy's body, a fact they had kept to themselves, and I was within an ace of a charge of murder.- - But Halllday hud stayed. "He seemed to feel there was trouble coming," Greenough said. "He hung around and drove us all crnzy. He Insisted, as he'd brought the key, on his right to read the stuff as It came through ; and as it went on, he didn't know exactly what to do. "Finally, seeing what was In Ihe air, he made a trade with us. He was willing to have you brought In and Interrogated, but on condition that if you weren't held he'd come over with something of his own. You get the point, of course. There's a rewurd Involved, and he'd been holding out on us a bit" He waved his hand. That's natural. We don't hold It against him. But the point Is, he made his trade." Coming to my examination, my answers had apparently Impressed HemOn the other ingway satisfactorily. hand, added to the diary's constant suspicion of me, was Greenough's own case against me. He passed over that rather airily. "I wasn't trying to make out a case against you." he auld. "As a matter of fact, you couldn't have been the man who attacked Halllday. You weren't here." "Naturally," I agreed, gravely, "1 wasn't here. Of course, If I had been here !" He glanced at me quickly, but went back to the night of the Inquiry. The question was, whether to hold you or not You may remember Hemingway going out, when It was over, and talking to Halllday outside? Well. It was then he made the trade." Apparently the fact that Gordon bad been the victim had not been Ihe mir prise to the police that It had been to me. For one thing, the microscope had shown one detail which Ihe detective had not mentioned to ma at the time. Caught between the handle of the knife and the Made had been a short piece of hair. The microscope showed tills hair not only young. matter readily determined, and the approximate color of Gordon's; It also showed It liberally coated with po made. Poor Gordon's glistening, var nlshed hair I But Greenough had been Inclined at first to think that there hsd been two victims, Instead of one. "Dying and passing on," he pay. Ms not like taking your thumb out of a bowl of soup. It'g bund to leave gome sort of a hole." And there had been no bole. If Bethel had died and pas.ed on, no one apparently missed him. As time went on and no queries were received, the . . i t Hung uegan to iook ominous; as though Bethel himself hod been hid lng sway, under an assumed name. Tbe Idea that Bethel had had an enemy from whom he was biding, and who had found hlrn, begun to Intrude Itself. "But," he ssld, with engaging frank besa, "that eliminated you. And you wouldn't be Pllralnated. You were like Borne people you've seen, when there's a camera mao about; always petting ki front nf the machine and into the picture." Then came the diary, and Gordon brought me In unmistakably, and In way they had dot thought of. No! l an enemy, but ao accomplice; hiding there, with my connivance, nnd (he two of us, be tbe brains presumably and I the hands, working out between us some sinister deHgn which even the boy could cot understand. "Whatever It Is." Gordon had writ ten, shortly after the Morrison girl s disappearance, "he's got outside help." And he wonders If I am guilty. But he Is not sure of that; he even sus pects Bethel. In one cutry, of telia less helpless than he apiiearvd. and possibly of "working oo his own." He abandoned thai Idea, however, and Ihere wss a time when he suxpectcd Tliomss; even a time when bethought of bringing hts suspicions to ma. But Bethel wss beginning lo be afraid of blm. Ho thinks Bethel knows he bag discovered the boat He grows alarmed, and buys a knife; he records that "he can take care of him self." But there Is bravado In It. I.a!rr oo, he finds that he Is occasionally stealthily locked lo si night, for three or four hours, and he buys a rtpe and hides It In Ms mom. After Ihst matters moved rapidly. He found the gun room window on certain n'ghls. and set a watch on It. And on one such nUbl IWthe' tried to kill him. "He tried to kill me Isst nUtit he writes on Ihe 21 lb of July, and ge on to ssy that Bethel couldn'l have tied him. and thsl "msybe It wss Por From lhat time on he suspected ler liiillldiiy has saved me from arrest A. No. above will by giving to the police the Information a call Q. Had it occurred to you that Gorwhich he has boci gathering on the in every will don might be going to see the police? case possible to give all summer, tins innde a quiet A. I never thought of It Why gesture, which Is like hint, and given service-tr- y should he be going to the police? me back to life, liberty and Ihe pursuit q. Did Mr. Bethel think A It? of literature A. I've told you; I didn't see him. He came out Inte last night, and I q. On the night of the murder In understand Is still cslecp. He has bad the house at Twin Hollows, what led very little sleep. Ind. for a long Generator and Motor you to yonr discovery of the crime? lime. A. I myself collapsed this morning, and My wife beard the telephone Tbe bureau of standard gay that a generator Is used to ting, and I went to It All three build Haywsrd has put me h:uk to bed 4 motor tnrns elee electricity. logs are on one line, and the receiver Kdith, spreading my coverings tieutly trical energy Into mechanical en at the main house a down. I heard before Groenoiigb came tip, says I am ergy. The same niarhlnery may hi a crash, and heavy breathing near the now so thin that: nsed as either a motor or eenern "You really mnke a hollow. William telephone. tor. Q. That made you suspicious? If It were not for your feet, nobody A. I hud been expecting trouble be would know yoti are there!'' . . , Curative Oil tween Mr. Bethel and Gordon. It Is lmpoKlhle Co record In detail Carron oil Is a mixture of equnl Q. Why did yoo expect trouble? my conversation ltd afternoon with Invi A. t knew tliey had quarreled parts of linseed oil and lime water. Mr Greenongh, covering as It did more It la employed as a dreading f Bethel had tnld me that It was he who than en hour He tame In. I thought, buras, and takes Its name from th Mm fm slightly mifoiiifortsihlt; and perhaps Carron Iron works In .'cotlnn! had struck Gordon, mistaking a burglar, and that Gordon inspect little crestfallen, and I motioned him It where was generally used ed It to a chair. He sat down and inopited Q. When did he lell you that? his face with hts handkerchief, and A. I don't know exactly. Big Lumber Industry About after that MooihmI and rather dellh The largest lumbering operation three days before the murder. I tralcly wiped his shoes with ll Then In the world la conducted on Hie think. he strnlgt lened ani looked si me. Inland of A nilnn , at the mouth ol WIDE YES, t) Can you remember the harden of "Well, professor.' he said. "It's a tbe St Lawrence river. It supplies that conversation? darnH WE queer world, there's no diny VARIETY I.Mi.imi a ahout cords of pulpwnmi A. Very well. He said thai he was It." Ing year to American Industries TRIM of STYLES "The world's all right. suspicions of the boy; thai he was It's the THEM cnJ PRICES weak and vicious, and possibly crlml IM'ople mho mess things up nnl. He knew he was going out at Recipe tor Success "Mke (lesson a dog." was his rather To succeed begin at lb l.tli! night On the night of the twenty-sixtHe felt In his bstracted pmitnwil TA at ind wake of July Oorda was out and he MHkel, with i.iuch the same gesture Trnnscripi dragged himself downstairs. When he as on thai early IMt of Ms when be heard him at the kitchen door he had drawn the trirngle within the stnick him. But I.e maintained that circle on the bark f an old envelope he had noi tied him. I believe that Whether the movement was remlnls personally. He had one useless hand rent lo htm. i s It was to me. I cannot Q. Old yoo ever have any reson to say. Bui he gtimrvi' at me qulrkly believe that Mr. Bethel exsggersted and then smiled. his Infirmity? "Sort nf ha-- ! me going. yii did. there A. Exaggerated tt? What do yoo lor whiter he said "But I was getmenn? ting prrtty close f the farts before Q. You believe n was as helpless this dlsry rsme along, of course. It ss he appeared? helped." A. t rnn't Imagine man assuming lie bad Gordon's diary In his hand. "Nairn-ally.such a thing. , , . he said, fingering the q Now, Mr. Porter, you have snld book, "yotit young friend's Infortnn that the telephone receiver at fhe Hon was valuable; I'm fioi discount HAYGRAIN-FLO- UR & main houe was dnn, and yoo heard Ins thM. The hand print on Ihe win over It enough to slsrtn yon? Iftance. I'd have dw hoard. A. Yea. found It sooner or later, hut ll saved And lti yoims lady, inn Rbe's Mine q It rang, and yoo went to It? A. Yes. Service and Quality Guaranteed done her bit, i'l HgM I've hen nan Q llow could It ring. If the othei dteaped hy helng too well known receiver was dwo? fool." smnnd here And Ktsrr'a A As a matter of fact, I didn't heat He snapped o'll ills last siatement MAIT ROBERTS RfNEIIVKT , 431 It My wife ssld It hsd rung, and to ami I gathered that he was still mutt her t went to It. . . . lot motet ihe knowledge ihst without me, satisfy 449-23 1 Residence, Yard, Murray And Q. tld the tcretsry, Gordon, evet Htllldsy and KJItti. he would still be The advertisers cooperate them. t 7. nowhere. It was, more or less, his defense. "Of course," be said, "ever since we got hold of this diary of Gordon's, one Bethel thing's been pretty cleur. wasn't working ulone. According lo what 1 saw of blm It wasn' possible. He couldo't even have made a getaway without help. The ouly question was, whu'p! helped him." "So you picked qn mo?" "Well," he auld wryly, "yau'll lipve to admit tiiat you've (Vbamcd to go out or yonr way all summer to gut into trouble I Aa a matter of fact, I didn't pick on you; It was Gordon." He looked at my clock. "I've only got an hour," he snld. "Your niece is sitting on the stair lu-ihe- Bethel wss a itching o ft 7 v bitn WMrifffM |