Show FLOYD GIBBONS f lS Adventurers Adventurers' Club u re rs u ua a lk Y V Murder on the FlyBy Fly FlyBy By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H HERES HERE'S ERES ERE'S a thrilling tale talc boys and girls with a dramatic aftermath It is from Rudolph and I hereby nominate nominate nom nom- Rudy not only Distinguished Adventurer but likewise Worlds World's Luckiest Adventurer You know when you have faced death a dozen times in a few minutes and still manage to come out alive that's luck enough for any anyone one guy I But Rudy wasn't satisfied with that lIe He came out ont of or that raiser hair of or his with his arms full of ot goldfish nn and even then La Lady y Luck didn't stop throwing daisies at nt him After Arter the goldfish stopped dropping Into his bis lap he had one more inure break brcak that was worth all an the rest put together But ButI I 1 dont don't want to get ahead of or rn my story I Lets Let's tS t'S go buck bock to the be beginning You asked for action and excitement Rudy says In his letter letter let let- ter so here goes And from there one Rudy's yarn goes on It goes so fast I can hardly keep up with it on this old one lunged typewriter On August 21 1931 says Rudy I a taxi driver was parked at One Hundred Sixty ninth street and Boston road the Bronx looking for a fare It was exactly four o'clock In the afternoon Suddenly my attention was drawn to a cab facing north on Boston road Rudy goes on to explain that his attention was Just an l Idle le glance glance glance- S Sat at first A motorcycle cop was bawling a n driver out for being too far tar over o to the left side of or the road om and Rudy sat watching the ar argument ment for want vant of or something better to do o Then all at nt once both doors of ot tb the cab opened opener and two young boys hoys started shooting at nt the cop These Were Desperate and Unmerciful Killers Sa Says s 's Rudy tully They hey were blazing blaring away unmercifully They didn't seem hurried hut but kept walking toward the officer shooting as ns they want S rn-S 1 I I v vIt It Was a Merry Chase All Over the Bronx until he fell fell about about fort forty feet away from rom their cab mortally wounded Before the policeman fell he wounded on one of or them The driver r er of or the cab held hell the door open ollen until the buys boys gut got back and ond then the cab drove away away Boy there was action enough for half a dozen adventure 4 yarns but for Rudy the action hadn't even begun yet As the wounded cop fell another man appeared on the scene He was a man Rudy knew Vincent knew Vincent Hyde a city fireman and a former cop himself Vince Hyde ran over to the dying policeman whose name by the way was Edwin Churchill Churchill and and grabbed up Churchill's gun Rudy who had arrived on the spot a little after Vince Hyde took some loose shells from the thee cops cop's coat pocket and then both guys started running toward Rudy's cab Without a word Rudy HUlly got Into his cab nn and started the motor Hyde stood on the running board nm and they were off hot ofT hot on the trail of the fleeing murderers murderers' car It had hall only taken them n a few seconds seconds- to get the gun and the shells The car ahead had only a n few blocks' blocks lead lend Slowly nu Rudy y began to close cIo up the gap gup between en them while guns lIns began hean talking from both cabs Proving Its It's ts Always Exciting in the Bronx Up Dp attend ahead of him were cre two killers killers-doing killers doing their est to add Rudy to their list of or victims Plenty of or men would have called It quits rl right ht there but tUlly Rudy Just stepped on the gas a n little harder hartler and gained another another an an- other oher yard or two on the tire guns that were spitting death at him from up ahead It U was US U n merry chase all nil over O the Bronx Rudy says with tho rho bandits throwing plenty Ilent of or lead at nt us At One Hundred re and Sixty first and Park avenue n we gut got lIt really close lose to them Hyde was trying to get geL In some som effective shuts shots tool and their lire fire was as getting hotter One of or their bullets hit lilt my windshield and a flying Hying ln piece place of glass made mude a cut on the bridge bricle of wy my nose With the rhe blood blond In In my lilY eyes ees It was hard to drive but we kept on We kept pretty doss closs to them after that and the chase led Into Manhattan Just before we crossed the Macombs bridge Hyde got his He told me he was hit in the chest but to keep going The alarm must have been out for the gunmen by this time because be be- cause pretty soon several police cars were In the chase The battle continued up Riverside drive Into Dyckman street where the bandit car was finally finlly covered Both gunmen and the driver were wounded and Hyde and I were there when they breathed their last Well Veil sir Rudy said salt he would give I e us action and by golly he be certainly certainly did Me lie found 11 bullet holes In his cab afterward 11 It little Jacketed deaths that lint bad Just missed him him But Lut after aner h he counted counte up tho e bullet holes boles Inel Lady Luck began giving ln him a n couple more things to t bad e I thankful for fur Vince Hyde gut got lIt n D nice fat reward for his Ills work worl In running down those them e l bandits and Ii III like ke n a gentleman he ho split It with Rudy And then well then well then comes the tho best part of It all It came several days later after accounts of that exploit of Vince Hydes Hyde's and Rudy's had been printed in every newspaper in the city and circulated all about the surrounding country Several days after that Rudy got a letter letter but but here Rudy you Rudy you tell about it JL it When I enlisted 11 I sr Ill I'll In the army In Buffalo In 1016 Rudy Hudy explains I left lert m my mother r there While serving nn on the Mexican bor border er and overseas In France ranle I somehow lost lust track rock of or her When I 1 got back to the States In 1021 I couldn't locate her 1 I hadn't seen her for 15 years Then one one- day daj I got ot II a letter from Milton N N. N J. J It was from a woman who had read the lie account of the bandit chase and seen my picture with Vincent Hydo In the New York orl papers Sh She thought ht 1 might be her son welt well aud well 1 I was M c w u ser Service |