Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 23 1933 POLICE CARRY The Mystery of the ON SPEED WAR Seventeen Vs- - - Private Car -- Motorists X s 5 Pay By EDWIN D TORGESON- CHAPTER 4$ “I was going to say inspector” replied Montigny suavely “that the most likely suspects are those against whom we have a bit of evidence There are t&o—Aitkerf 'and the negro porter Aitken we may say profited somewhat by the shift in wiring The change made it possible for the murderer summoning the porter by pressing a lounge button to ring up a call on the annunciator from stateroom— and this of course made it possible for Aitken to be aroused by the porter just at the time when both ot them could- - hear the It voice nr voices in the lounge seemed to give Aitken a complete $112 in Fines for Fast Driving Seventeen motorists Who pleaded guilty to driving in excess of 35 miles per hour on the city arterial high ways paid fines aggregating $112 50 when they appeared before Judge M J Bronson In police court Wedne- Moode too I think they have done all they can at that end " teleThere was a phone call for Laval just at that juncture but it was not from New York It was one of Captain BertbJer’a associates ot the provincial police at St e Johns He was calling he said In reference to the letter to Calcutta which was supposed to have been posted by the porter Wilks on the night of Tuesday August 18 sday' It was mailed inspector" said LaThe heaviest penalty waa'imposed val's informant “We have been able to trace it" on Clyde Dierdorf 32 340 Sixth East “Yes? That is helpful" treet Who paid a $15flne lor speedIt was not forwarded es ad“But 70 miles per hopr on South Main ing dressed It went back to New York" alibi” street Tuesday “Back to New York!" exclaimed a Seven speeders were fined $750 “I don’t know" said Laval shade LavaL take each when they admitted dnving in irritably “We might as logicallysome"Insufficient postage— or rather excess of 35 miles per hour on South things the other way around— the wrong kind of postage sir It hac Main street They are: H C Pope one else might have profited more American stamps on it I'll tell you 62 11 West Fourth South street Rob- than Aitken by the change in wiring Someone might even have made the how it happened and why we haven’t ert Quick 22 Midvale V C Smith shift been able to get on the track of it beto incriminate Aitken" 33 910 Park row C L Croly 30 125 And that” conceded Montigny fore this One of the postal clerks Sixth East street Alvin Hill 19 San-d“is well to consider here was taken sick day betore yesC J Ketchum 33 225 Fourth iromptly would have terday Wednesday that was with East street and T E Crosley 33 1054 Viewed from one fingle it been folly for Aitken to leave this ptomaine poisoning and they thought West Broadway he was going to die” Nine motorista were assessed $5 damaging evidence against himself “Well did he?” have as could he when Just easily each when they admitted speeding in summoned the over it and porter by pressing the "No sir He’s letting excess 6f 35 miles per hour' They wlthout any he was just able to talk today I for ere: T T Wright 42 3333 South State button in hls statroom first time He remembered the treet Walter Otto 27 Nineteenth tampering with the beff systemrSo He handled it Ordinarily East street Ben Bernards 26 2512 suppose for the moment we elimi- envelope they might pass s letter on through Ninth East street Grover Piercey 22 nate Aitken?" Consider him out of it" that had an American stamp on it in"All right 1713 Roberta avenue Edward Nail stead of a Canadian one but this one son 23 259 South Eleventh West “We come next to the porter The took a lot of postage and there has street Jay Thomas 22 1879 South negro Wilks had had long experience been such a rush of tourists around Main street Pete Pearse 48 Bingham on Pullman cars Bells weye his prinhere lately the first wet town across Boss Taggart 24 359 Bedondo ave cipal concern in life He knew an- the border and so many people mailnunciators— this one by the way Are you fault-findin- g Watch your nerves Get your full “picky”— hue and F L Greenwood 31 Sandy not ing picture postcards with American a standard Pullman annunciator The traffic division Wednesday ar? matters amount of sleep every about that the on them that really postoffice nothing is a special type ordered by the stamps rested 15 motorists on charges of driv- itarchitect' tired of it and issued an car got people Milburn’s for is private Eat regularly and sensibly Findv because other the Not person ing in excess of 35 miles per hour It is simpler than the usual kind— order to&Usimply stamp ‘return to send They are: Clarence Ashley 29 60 Lay-to- easier natumatter had er mail that incor are because time for recreation And smoke not °n j to get into1 you wrong avenue Orlin Oliver 21 Murray rect postage ’’ have could The well porter “Very 27 East 47 S Third J Livingston rally mean but because your Camels— for Camel’s costlier And they returned this letter to street Dewey Woods 32 270 Ramona changed the annunciator easily So of tune? tobaccos never get on your nerves nerves are avenue Harry Shelton 23 220 Lucy could anybody else unfortunately” 'But the porter had a motive a re-- I’Yes sir to the box number on avenue G S Taylor Jr 30 270 a for-tenvelope Twelfth East street F S Mullock ward Twelve hundred dollars And the clerk made no record of bell 88 Midvale W B Ferrln 25 Ogden tune in his eyes A change in the wak-th- e box number? a E O McVey 29 Ogden Nick New- system gave him the excuse of as a “No sir That isn’t customary man 24 158 East Second South street ening Aitken-- of having Aitken the! Laval thanked him He replaced in A J KlrkmanT 39 3380 Eighth East witness to the voice or voices He passed a hand Camels are from finer m turn established a the receiver street E J Maynard 41 Logan John lounge— which for Wilks!” wearliy overhis brow Bobertson 22 659 Leland avenue beautiful alibi of cigarettes I tobaccos than I “the Perhaps’ 'he observed all-aPorter t Guilt Bud Hansen 21 1232 Wasatch avebout didn't lie after wick girl nue and C E vSanquist 23 261 HubLaval considered that ‘Specious the postoffice box and toe stolen bard avenue “But much above 1 key’’ he concluded am afraid Brother Wilks’ mentality1 Also he bears too emphatically the (To be continued) appearance of innocence No Machia-veln that black fellow He might be (Copyright 1933 by Edwin D Distributed by King capable yes of stealing $1200 from Features Syndicate Inc ) toe dead form of Milburn though I doubt it greatly But not this careful In 1930 foreign born whites in the and cunning prearrangement this No Mon-ign-y United States totaled 13255393 preparation of an alibi Not Wilks” What possibly may prove to be the smiled almost happily Montigny last attempt to charge the gasoline “I was sure you would say that inI WOtfT SAY GOOD NIGHT UNTIL LISTEN SIS ITHOUGHT SHE WAS A KNOCKstate sales tax receipts for $260000 in I wanted you to say it for spector 1911 distributed and bonds issued in OUT Vi MEN 1 MET HERLASTFRIDAY- PROMISE TO HAVE LUNCH VIlTHMEj that is my opinion too We eliminate among 26 bf the then 27 counties in Wilks then as the inside confederthe state for the improvement of roads ate There remain Perry Laith or the construction of bridges has George Heston and Moode the detecNEXT DAY-LOR-DJulius with the receipt by failed tive Mr Moode so far as ws know Andersen state auditor of an opinion is merely a dumb animal a blunderfrom Joseph Chez attorney general ing bodyguard— but no one in this The bonds were called “state road inquiry can be placed above susbonds" and Mr Andersen asked if picion" since the gasoline sales tax was adoptHeston” specified LavaL “Except ed their sinking fund should not “He was murdered" have been set up in the same manner “But he nught have been murdered i’ as the sinking funds for the $7000000 inspector” put in Montigny quickly of later bonds issued to provide funds “because he was the confederate— to be administered by the state road because he knew too much” commission for the construction of “That of course has occurred to state road system me” said Laval “but it is only anThe question came up in every leg- other He ii elimiislature and on each occasion the nated by death at least from our movement was defeated and the ap- present fist of possible living suspects propriation for the sinking fund was That does not mean of course that It is made from the state general fund he was not the confederate After the history of the matter conceivable that ha pretended drunkA Grover had been investigated by enness so that his wife would permit Giles assistant attorney general Mr him to take the lower berth— which Andersen it to wrote Mr that Chea gave him the opportunity to play toe was fully within the power of the necessary tricks” legislature to appropriate the sinkinf “But excusing him now on the fund from whatever funds it desired grounds of his decease” went on Monto and that there is nothing that an tigny “we have left only Detective executive officer can do about it Moode and Perry Laith to suspect I YES-- IT IS TW SAME CONDITION- -’ would have liked to We exelude Moode because we know HER SKIN LOOKS JUST LIK&MINE BETTY JUSTLOOK HOW MY FACE ISsee the state general fund repaid by nothing against him but his stupidity BOWELS BADLY CLOGGED WITH BEFORE YOU TOLD ME VJHATTO ( BREAKING OUT 11$ GETTING WORSE most of the $260000 appropriated and We are more attracted by Mr Laith WASTES AS ARESULTY0UR WHOLE the money taken from toe gasoline because we know of a possible motive EVERYDAY AND I’M SURETHAVs WHY tax receipts e collaboration gain great BODY IS BEING POISONED AND YOUR TROUBLE? plausible PHIL HAS BEEN ACTING SO QilEERJ The bonds were paid In 1831 when that might accrue to Laith by the SKIN IS EASILY INFECTEOTOEND due death of hla friend Dot Dustin’s good THAT CERTAINLY and Laith that know We provider THIS CONDITION MY ADVICE l$TO SOUNDS EASY Milburn disliked each other that Business Firms Urge CAKESOFFLllSCBMANNS Laith figured in the last quarrel MilEAT DOCTOR Richards Street Lights burn had with his mistress— And we YEAST EVERY DAY ITS A FOOT OON’rWORRTABaJfl know last but not least” Montigny his words emphasis AND WILL SOON PURIFY YOUR Installation of two extra arc lights paused to give little PHIL I’M REALLY group of serion Bichards street between South —“that of til our man WHOLE SYSTEM Laith is the only ous SURE HE LIKES W Temple and First South streets was who parasite Ahe opportunity to kill had commission of the city YOUANDIFYOULI urged Heston!” In a petition presented by Sec-ve- George ONLYCOMETURIE Sc Wallis Inc and 17 other BichGetting Nowhere ' Level eyed him keenly and nodded ards street business firms DOCTOR WITH With the early nightfall of winter "All of which makes it appear" he ME- many persons especially women fear remarked “that we are arguing in (vJeUSOON SEE- - WONT to walk through the street and thus favor of two confederates— Perry cause a loss of business for toe Laith and George Heston in league-w- hile YOU PLEASE COME INTO tradesmen the petition declares It e third person killed Milburn was referred to the street depart- Really Pierre we ere going too feat THE NEXT ROOM ment Neither Heston nor Laith could have MANY TO EXAMINE YOlkJ The commission denied a similar killed Milburn without tha knowl— — — application filed by William Durtschi edge and subsequent perjury of the $507 Green street and 21 other res negro Wilks and Mrs Heston who BL Idents who asked Installation of an would have aeen anybody who came I arc light at Green street and Meadew out of the lounge through the corridor I lane Lack of funds prohibits toe leading forward into the car And if work this year the commission said that pair lied we are paddled with DR I four confederates” "That would! INVITEDTOTHIS Montigny chuckled WERE Churches Will Hold of be four I could add even e possible PARTY TONIGHT TOO agree that Decker! Thanksgiving Services did idednot come inwe end blood kill Milburn For if he did not end if a person from services I day Special Thanksgiving the inside actually did shoot Milburn I will be conducted November 30 st 11 Perry Lalto’p dressing gown 1 a m in tha First and Second churches wearing to forced assump-the we are then of Christ Scientist it was announced why tion that it was a stranger who had ' Wednesday 1 who shot hidden in the car The services will 0 a combination Milburn and made perhaps his escape by way J IF of the usual Sunday and Wednesday of the back platform evening form of worship end time "And vanished into thin air at St f)r AtmirUi c( Stockholm will be provided for persons attending Johns!” Laval rose abruptly and itrengtbene often! tbe body! weitei to give expressions of gratitude for strode the length of the room “Ah ‘REJH YEAST ! reoomni ended by lk!a blessings received President Roose- surd absurd it Is all absurd Moninteetinee Eveeuetioet become aormeL beeauie it eorrteta tbe Mat ipeeltl velt’s Thanksgiving proclamation will tigny! Warren’ Decker killed Mil-Year wbele tytteai ahowe tbe effeeti of meet eotomoa ikla treublee be read burn and that is all there is to it like cfoe iin’t Yet it bank Juit eat 2 eeke of 336 is at located The First church He had a confederate— and we must B O athartiee and laxative East Broadway and the Second at 566 find out who that was Perry Laith daily It ia Very rich In vltamlnt East South Temple street The ser- is the most likely The man hate bad D Direction on the Ubcl At grooert drug It’a tfod! vice will he open to the public FUiiehmaaa’aYeait restaurant eede fountain! Try itl record” JUST PLAIN OR IN I “Anything new about him from mu' mimv-vvmrwWorkers THIRD OF A Nine New York?8 “Yes a little Laith has never been GLASS OF WATERMY When Tornado 'Hits Camp accused of a crime but he wae quee-- l tloned and privately suspected in DISSOLVE ITCERTAlAjLY connection with the Coringham jewel ANNISTON Ala Nov case?! toe tornado accompanied by heavy robbery— you remember conservation The rich Mrs Coringham enjoyed I rain struck civilian i 4 corps camp No 468 near here to- - playing around with ‘Bohemians was playboy Bight injuring nine of the 200 C Laith was one of her § I was she which at at of two the party C C workers In toe camp present -iJlCiT-WmCrobbed Nothing definite against Mm I PAV:Aor-illii6'Afi- O Ti them critically he la unquestionand says but McEniry Gilbert Taylor of Birmingham x I r wau i crook" a were in ' Ala AHD Til ably Cecil Ford of Ensley “Shall you take him in Inspector?" a serious condition with mulUple “Not as yet He cannot get away P lacerations and fractures at a hospital m W h should ”aiw-r0‘vii"FE2!i- !0 here James Feek ofTSjliffara Altr Pwtwo' m erron-hli alse was hospitalized here but ex be another report from Lennox by ? : i Tn — tant of hi injurie was not deter-- 1 the way I have ordered him back' the Eastwick girl with him and muted immediately Ait-ken- Do jangled nerves make you rude? night n he COSTLIER TOBACCOS MORE EXPENSIVE made any other popular brand East-Doub- ts 1 I Ruling Bars 1911 Bonds From Getting Gas Tax THEY NEVER GET li ON YOUR NERVES! 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