Show SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Jrfin The M AN with IRON EVE LIDS U CLINTON OKI CAN PULL AN AUTOMOBILE BY MEANS SATURDAY MORNING JULY 10 1937 or HOOKS ATTACHED TO HIS EYELIDS IRS LF Harris- BrownwooAJexas Lost all the haironthe lept side Of HER HEAD AND IT f GREW IN Neuralgia) ia CURLy - 4X Af‘ cn-- r nflRTm p jfwrR5 ®'e0w VO PREAQ-im- PAyiwa N(JPSALMSINGNQ P£ RMrri o JThis TWO-HEAD- TURTLE EATS Veil' WITH BOTH MOUTHS Owned by JAMES POPE PowellMiss Explanation of Today’s Cartoon - Iron Eyelids — Surely few men on earth have a stranger way of making a living that John Dunning df Clinton Okla Now 24 years of age Mr Dunning has been lifting weights and pulling autos and light 3&Si (Continued From Page Eighteen) Jerry?” They Keep Silence He was about to an&tyer that but suddenly he shut his lips and stood there thinking Then he sall “Maybe you’re right There’s nothing here to show them Nothing convincing I mean Marco’s body is Tnissing Bloodstains and dry sand from a rubber heel don’t prove murder and the police have enough on their hands without Investigating a man theyaren’t sure is dead” He looked down at per said unsmiling "You're beginning to use your head at last” and walked out into the narrow corridor and began a minute examination of the stone floor To the right as Polly stood in the doorway were the long tunnel through which they had come from the cell ohee occupied by the Seminole Chief Oceola Jerry moved along slowly with the light spread on the floor until He came to the mouth of the tunnel Then he straightened up and came hack to her and fingered the brass lock hanging in the metal arm fastened to the right of the door ?All done” he said at last and led the way up the steps ' They iVere riding back to the For-de- ll house when Polly said—“All right Sherlock let's hear the worst You didn’t do all that poking around just to impress me did yoU?” He turned his head for a moment and looked away again without speaking Polly put hep arm through his and laughed softly “Oh Jerry You’re still you’re such a pouty screamed aren’t angry because the murder of j i I i i i i you?” — ‘Tm not angry" he said “I’m disappointed Until then you gave every evidence of having some intelligence” - “But I couldn't let you go down there alone and I was afraid to Don't be like that go back — then ” darling " ” Up for Air’ Abruptly he jerked the roadster to the curb and kicked the brake pedal The car came to a stop with a prolonged screech He twisted ground and looked down at -- -her frowning " “What did you say?" i 'You heard me mister” Polly grinned feeling Inexcusably brazen for having said It “Say It again” " She leaned away from "No him “Not until you tell me what all that prowling around in the old fort meant— If anything Did you Jtnow what you were doing or were you just satisfying that boy detective’s idea of ’a thorough examina-A- t tbespen df ihtarim'!’’ He looked at his watch He leaned over and dimmed his headlights “All right I'll tell you You are free to accept all of It a part “All of it or none of it” he said I ask Is that you quit calling me the ‘boy detective’ and give up the -- i jff Tv1' SPRINGVALE CEMETERY Near LalnyetTelnAiano wagons with his eyelids since he was 16 He finds good jobs with automobile agencies demonstrating how easily the autos roll along by actually pulling them with his eyelids This bizarre feat is accomplished by inserting on the under side of his eyelids two dull hooks which are attached to a strap on the auto bumper pulling it taut very slowly and cautiously Mr Dunning is performing daily at the Odditorium in Cleveland Copyright 1937 for The-Tnbu- Interrupted Romance He brushed his hands then and took the light “All right” he said '“Just one thing more and we’ll go He tip for air— and the cops" moved toward the door and Polly followed close at his heels She said “You’re going to the police — now 1(ij notion that you can trail around protecting me from cutthroats" Laughter rose in Polly’s throat but she choked it down It struck her as extremely funny that he didn’t like to be called the “boy detective” But when she could control her voice she said “All conditions accepted” He taught the hint of laughter in her voice however and suddenly “I “You win” he said grinned can’t tell you how much better it would make me feel if I could give you one good spanking Polly” He dug out his pipe filled it and put it In his mouth Then he took the stem from between his teeth and it was 20 minutes before he thought of it again “As Garbrook would say — this is pure theory I’ve added things and found a total Some of it I could prove in court to the satisfaction oithe dumbest of juries some of it I couldn’t prove— not yet” Marco Innocent Polly nodded and after a moment he resumed “I knew before we found positive proof of the fact that Marco hadn’t killed Fordell The evidence against Marco was practically flawless too convincing to be real I didn’t know but I began to check up The most damaging evidence against him were the fingerprints on the ladder and window sill” “You think he didn’t put them there?” Jerry frowned “Quit interrupting Of course he put ihem there He climbed up the ladder and put his hands on the window but he didn’t open the screen Maybe you’ve noticed all the windows on Fordell’s house are hinged at the top and pull out— out mind you — from the bottom We know Fordell was killed during the shower last night — yet the window screen behind his desk was perfectly dry when I looked at it before Fordell’s body was cold “Now — point tworGarbrook is impressed by the ladder marks in the Those sand under the window marks he finds were made by the bracing sectlon'of the ladder which means the ladder was open But If you wanted to climb Into a window would you open it or lean it against the wall closed? If jou open it and set the bracing legs done in against the bouse-ae-wthis case you find' the top pf the ladder at least a foot and a half from the window” Polly nodded quickly ‘Yes I can see that He would have set the ladder as he did to look into the study perhaps but not to climb in the window” Twisted 'Newspaper “Exactly” Jerry said “In all probability that Is just what Marco up the ladder to see who was In the ’study And foolishly leaned' over and put his hands on the silL But now wait a moment —here’s the most Important fact of the lot Remember the twisted newspaper?” “Yes of course" J'AJl cisht Ft’ll put jigsaw together When you came In from the beach with Tod you found Forded reading the newspaper in the trvirtg room" Then you went upstairs and when you came down Fordell had left the living rootrf but the paper lay folded la the - as bed - - by Julie Anne Moore chair where he had been sitting Right?” He smiled as Polly nodded “Then Tod called you and you went upstairs again — and when you came down the second time the newspaper was no longer there” “Oh no I didn't say that" Polly protested “I don’t know I wasn’t thinking about the paper'then It may have been there” “It couldn’t have been” Jerry said quietly “It was then lying on the floor in the study twisted and bloodstained We know that because it was yesterday's evening paper and the police found Fordell's fingerprints on both the stock and sports pages The killer entered the house by the front door picked up the newspaper from the chair where Fordell had left it wrapped it around the strument used to crush his head and talked into the study By the living room door — not by the win- dow Savvy?” Polly had a mental picture of the newspapershe had seen on the floor by Fordell’s desk Suddenly she looked up at Jerry “Jerry do you suppose it could have been the ‘Frog Baby’?” Jerry frowned “‘Frog Baby1?” “The little bronze figure that disappeared from—the file?” “Say — — 1’ His eyes lighted Tip “I’ll bet a new hat against a peanut that’s the answer He took that " from the file and figure “ ‘She’ did you mean" “He or she have it your own way After this read ‘he or she’ for ‘he’ smarty He took the ‘Frog Baby’ from the file and stuck it away where it would be handy” “Not in the house” Polly said' “We would have found it" “la the house” Jerry said firmly "Maybe in the study Certainly not very far from it That thing must have weighed 25 pounds You don’t suppose he carried it around in his pocket do you?” He shook his head “Why didn’t the sap use a gun I wonder? A nice little 'automatic would do a job like that more efficiently and would certainly be easier to cart around” “Automatics” said1 Polly "make noises” "But you say you heard a gun go off What’s the difference whether you shoot a man or kiil him some other way and fire a gun just for effect?” Polly’s head came around “You Mr think the person who killed Fordell fired the shot Tod- - and I —— heard?” “Certainly There’s no other reasonable explanation For reasons of his own the murderer wanted the And the body found right then chances are he meant for you to find it Suppose he is standing outside on the porch maybe when you come downstairs the first time He hears Tod call you and sees you go up again Logically he figures that as soon as you’ve taken care of Tod you’ll come down again" And he probably figures too that because of the theft of the ‘Frog Baby and the formula you’re keyed up for trouble A gunshot will start you It did you know" snooping -Polly didn’t "say anything"-Sh- e was remembering Julian coming in from the porch darting into the library Copyright 1937 for The Tribune -- -- (To be continued) i i ' |