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The Indianapolis times., 1926-08-11
DETECTIVE IS KILLED
Giant Negro Captured After SOoting
at Police Station.
By United Press

0D CHttou TTooS
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-Detective
John Singer was shot and killed at
police headquarters early today by
q giant negro, Gene Pearce, who
jerked Singers gun from its holster
and fired three shots. Pearce escaped
but was captured two hours later
after battle. He had been arrested
fnr stealing an auto.
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LIQUOR DEPUTIES PAID
$2,s55 Check for July Fees Given
Three Special Prosecutors.

Check for $2,S55 for prosecution
of liquor cases in July was turned
over Tuesday to o. L. Hayes, at
torney in fact for the' three deputy
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TO WASHINGTON

u was doing cannery work, canning, sealing, ETC.,
but had to quit work as I would be so weak could
hardly walk across the room. A friend told me of
Lydia E. Pinlham's Vegetable Compound. Everyone
says am healthier and stronger girl. am recon-
mending the Vegetable Compound to all my friends
and am willing to answer letters from women asking
about it"
Julia SCHMIDT,
265 22nd Ave, Highlands,
Longview. Washington.
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FROM GEORGIA

1T can not express in words how thankful feel for
the results that have obtained from taking Lydia E
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. My side hurt me
all the time and was very nervous and felt tired and
weak read about the Vegetable Compound in
paper and the womans condition was the same as
mine. have taken five bottles and it has been worth
twice its price to me"
Mrs. W. T., THOMPSON
Route No 5. s
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thinking that he would be per-
haps the leader of his people,
dying alone in fisherman's hut
by this gorgeous, alien sea. He
felt in his pocket again for the
tremendously important piece of
wrapping paper and the little box
Of great import that he had 20
carefully sealed.
The moonlight made the road
almost metallic. He passed around
the second curve as If walking
on polished silver. Then he
stopped a moment. his heart
fluttered with the memory OF
agony. The straight stretch ahead
was the one upon which he had
seen less than a couple of hours
before the Amon-Ixa case sliding
over the cliff. His first thought
was one Of profound and humble
thankfulness to God. A couple
of hours before, as he scrambled
down these cliffs, he believed his
beloved lay torn and bleeding at
the bottom of them. His second
feeling was one OF surprise and
chagrin. The road was a ribbon
of uninterrupted silver. Nowhere
was the black bulk of his coupe
He hurried forward. Was it
possible, after all. he had the
wrong spot? 1t might be beyond
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tude, that he would send more
from the nearest town.
Take every care of the body
OF the young man. 1t will be
called for tomorrow"
They promised earnestly, eager
to do what they could to repay
him.
He left the rude shack where
the angels Of death and of life
had both been guests that night.
His problem after leaving the
fisherman was to get back to the
mountain highway and his coupe
again. The fisherman had said
that road led up from the back
Of his field. through the cliffs, to
the automobile road. DR.. Greasy
stepped quickly long the sandy
soil of the little field between
the struggling artichoke bushes
whose inky shadows sprawled
like huge spiders on the silvered
ground. The path that led up
the cliffs was hardly more than
a goat trafl-it partly followed
the dry bed of water course,
partly wound in and out among
the rocks. Finally, however, it
reached the road.
The road, where he clambered
on to it, turned in a sharp bend
just behind him. He figured his
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coupe was somewhere about three
city blocks back, for that was
about the distance he had car
ried the young Egyptian; walking
below. A curve was just ahead
Of him AZ well as behind. He
passed around it, on to a bit of
straight road, at the end Of which
another curve doomed.
A white moon blazed in the
sky; a long carpet Of silver
stretched over the Pacific, as, IL
for the welcome of some king of
the deep. Dark shore rocks
thrust up curious heads and
boulders and cliffs seemed packed
together like jostling crowd
gathered to witness gala event.
Her Danger
The young physician walked
along the mountain automobile
road, his heart oppressed in the
midst of the barbaric splendor OF
the night. He was torn by the
thought OF Kathleen, Of her i'm
minent danger, still a drugged
captive, lying on the floor of the
clothes closet in that house of
murderers. He was saddened by
the thought of the young Egyp-
tan, the scion of an ancient or,
der, filled with holy patriotism,
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THE BLUE BEETLE

1t was through this that the single
eye had blazed so ominously.
Some curious fellow" said the
doctor; "he wa safraid we'd see
him II he stood up and looked
through the window Che did not
wish to offend the Spaniard by say
ing the window was too dirty to see
through $50 he bent down and cut
this hole in the cardboard, which
also shielded his head from view.
Too bad ne scared your WIFE,"
But he himself was i'll satisfied
with this explanation. Whose was
that gray shape? Whose that eve
that had fixed itself with so maIign
an expression on the blue scarab?
But he had little chance to indulge
in conjecture.
For the remainder of that hour
he devoted himself, his science.
and all the medicine he had to the
child. Death was not too greedy
OF the fisherman's house that
night, and at precisely at | o'clock
a gentle perspiration broke out on
the child's forehead. The crisis
was safely passed. He left what
medicine he had and promised the
poor peasant father and mother,
who sobbed with relief and kissed
his hands in a paroxysm of graft
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NOV CONTINUE

; hall she saw a familiar car roll
up before the Shirleys' big brown
house, and stop. Ranny's car,
and presently Ranny himself got
out of it and stood on the curb
stone smoking a cigarette.
You don't suppose he's taking
Fay to church. do your" Aunt
Agony called shriIly from the din
ing room. 81 didn't know that
either Of them eyer went to
church. Dance halls and cabarets
are more their sort of thing, /
should think, shouldn't you?"
Peggy made some kind OF noise
I'm her throat by way of answer.
She wasn't thinking Of Aunt
Agony or of what Aunt Agony
was saying. Her eyes and thoughts
were on the man who stood
across the street.
He had thrown away his cigar
cite and, with his hands in his
pockets, he was standing still
looking straight across the street
at the TAN gloomy house where
Peggy lived. His eyes seemed
almost to meet her own through
the net curtains that hid her
from him.
Her. hand went out to pull
aside the curtain and only the
voice OF Aunt Agony. close be-
hind her. stopped her from doing
that piece OF impulsive foolish
ness.
Now what do you suppose
he's standing over there, gawking
at this house like that for?' she
asked, severly. ''I suppose he's
getting tired of Mistress Shirley
and would like to get on the soft
side Of you again! / told you he
didn't know how to be true 20
one girl at a time, didn't I? And
il Fay Shirley really wants him
she'd better not wait until June
to marry him. A bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush!
It was that afternoon that Fay
telephoned Peggy for the first
time in four weeks.
What are you doing?" she
asked.
Getting dressed to go for
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over his neck when the Spanish
woman suddenly screamed:
1.-THE eyel The eye! The evil
eyer she cried in a frenzy. At
the same time she rushed around
to the head Of the crib and
spread out her skirts, shielding
the sick child from the startled
physician knew not what.
Her Gaze
He followed her terrified gaze
to- the griIny window. He, too
his nerves sensitized by all that
had happened, was shaken by
what he saw. A black eye
seemed to glare straight through
the cardboard patch on the win
dow. A CLEAN OF the lamp caught
and seemed TO enlarge 1t. It was
fixed, he noted, on the blue
scarab still in his hand. For an
instant there came again 10
him the terrible fancy that Suke
in death was still DESTROYS OF
the scarab.
The eye disappeared almost in
SldnLly. LII. NIGSSy SlppSo LhS
scarab around his neck and ran to
the door. He thought he saw
gray form slipping into the shad-
ows of the rocks that were the
blacker for the bright moonlight.
The fisherman followed him out.
Together they went over and ex-
amined the window. A hole had
been neatly cut in the cardboard
with a penknife-the little, round,
white piece lay on the sand below.
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You Will Want to Know Beautiful Peggy Starr Heroine OF
the Most Interesting Story of Young Love Ever
Penned By Beatrice Burton

!. drive with Peter WIKI" Peggy
told her. "Why?"
"Oh, nothing, but just thought
you might like to go for "a walk
with me-" Fay answered. There
are two or three things I'd like
to talk over with you-and
don't dare come near your house
since that morning when Agony
put. me QUIT"
Greatly Disappointed ].
Peggy considered. She had
really. been looking forward to
the drive with Peter. But she was
wildly curious to know what 1T
was that Fay wanted to talk to
her about. And besides, she
liked Fay better than she liked
anyone except ,Ranny and Aunt
Agony, and she had missed her
almost as much as she had
missed Ranny this last dreadful
month.
IAN right, I'll call Peter UP
and ask him over for supper In
stead of driving with him." she
said.
when she telephoned Peter he
was disappointed, and said so.
IT wanted to take you out in the
country and show you a little
Irish terrier was going to buy"
he explained. II thought you
might like him to go on walks
with you when I was tied UP and
couldn't go along to take care Of
YOU
ooh, Peter, how blessed nice
Of your Peggy told him. She
was sorry now that she had
promised Fay that she would go
walking with her-"but / couldn't
keep a dog here at the house
anyway. Aunt Agony hates dogs,
and Judith OF Bethulia Is scared
to death of them; please be here
at o'clock for supper"
How good Peter was, she thought,
as she went on dressing to go out.
Everybody liked him. In the street
dogs came up to him with their
tails wagging trustfully. News
boys asked him for pennies, and
got them.
His was a goodness that was
real and genuine and cheerful.
The memory Of It fingered in
Peggy's mind as she went out to
meet Fay at the corner OF the
street.
A Secret Meeting
They had to meet somewhere
out Of sight of Aunt Agony. For
Aunt Agony had forbidden 5 her
niece to have anything to do with
Fay any more For all her %
years Peggy Starr was still a help
less baby in the eyes of her
maiden aunt and protector.
They walked on to the park.
In the lilac walk the bushes
were beginning to come out into
leaf and the green iron bench
where Peggy had sat with Ranny
/. Phelps so many, many times,
was almost hidden from view.
She wondered IL he ever brought
Fay here.
It was OF Ranny that both of
them were thinking as they sat
down and watched the people who
passed along the crunching gravel
path, arm in arm.
How do you like this hat?"
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believes that soon 1 will be leav-
ing him, and he~won't stop griev-
ing. Really, 1 am quite dis
tressed over the little fellow"
Bunny tugged at my trouser
leg at this point and whispered
to me. II can tell Boy that his
mistress is not going away; but
If she will just tell him in plain
English that she isn't he will I'M
derstand her, and cheer right up,
/ am quite sure"
81 never thought of it," she
said when I told her. and imme-
diately ran upstairs and told Boy.
He crawled out from under the
bed and jumped all over her and
licked her hands. You've never
seen such happy little dog in
your life!
Now I am convinced that Boy
understands English" said our
Xoung friend
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HERE'S FOXY -GRANDPA'S STORY

T MUST tell you O. true story
i about a little white, woolly
dog that / knew once upon q
time. His name was Boy and he
wasn't much larger than Bunny
and just as whitewater he had
had q bath.
We used to go quite often to
the house Of a young lady who
owned Boy, and Boy would al
ways run out to meet us as If he
were inviting us to come in just
like his young mistress did. He
would sit with us during our visit
and il the telephone rang and the
young lady answered it he would
jump up on the chair beside her
and listen attentively to the con-
versation. Bunny thought this
very bad manners on Boys part.
But then, of course, Bunny
doesn't care much for dogs.
Then Boy did another extra0r-
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1--WE had the most awful time
with Boy"
do tell me about it," urged.
you see" the young lady
went on, 1.-The other day 1 de-
cided to clean up my closets and
bureau-drawers. So I got up on
a chair and got my suit-cases
down from the top shelf. The
moment / commenced busting
them off, and taking the things
out Of my bureau drawers to ar
range them in neat piles, Boy
commenced whining, skunk un-
der the bed and has stayed there
ever since"
How strange" exclaimed,
What do you suppose made him
do that?"
"At first 1 couldn't understand
it. Then It dawned upon me.
Boy thought I was packing to go
awaSh ! didn't and Zet he still
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Peggy was silent. What are
you wearing the things Or your
trousseali now for?" she asked,
at last. Its supposed to be bad
luck to put on the things for
your honeymoon before you're
married. Didn't you know that?''
The other girl gave her q long
look from her green eyes.
ssI'fn not 50 sure that I'm going
Il To 90 on q honeymoon for q
I while, y she said IN q low tone.
ssThe closer i get to matrimony
the less / like. the looks Of fir
Peggy could only stare at her.
It was Jfnthinkable that q girl
could have Ranny for a husband
and then hesitate about taking
him.
And, anyway, I'm not so sure
that care enough for Ran
Phelps to tie myself up to him
for life" FAY went on. She
seemed to be talking to herself
more than she was talking to
Peggy. t.I'm not so sure that
Ran IS the type OF man who
could be happy with one woman
for very long-and I'm not so
sure that / could be happy with
one man for any length Of time.
See?''
Peggy nodded.
But your wedding day! It's
only q few weeks away" she
said finally. YOU'D better be
making up your mind what you
want to do pretty SOON
Fay shrugged her slim shout
ders.
Not in d Hurry
II don't suppose really viii
make up my mind until the last
minute she said, outlining her
mouth with her lipstfck. May
be I'll keep Ranny waiting at
the church. Who knows? I
certainly don't! Sometimes T
adore him and sometimes I hate
him with all my soul. Did you
see him staring across the street
at your house this morning when
he was waiting to take me to
church?'s
Peggy nodded her head.
well, what was he doing that
for?" Fay asked with a kind Of
anger In her husky voice, unless
he's still crazy about you?
think he is--do you know it? I
thing he ISL
Peggy Jumped up and shook
out the crushed folds Of her
short full skirt with great energy.
Listen to meg' she fairly
raped out the words, as she
turned and looked down at Fay's
flushed, sulky face. If you've
made up your mind not to marry
Ran Phelps, that's your own
party. Please don't try to drag
me into It. And don't try to
tell me that Ran ever cared two
pins about me. He couldn't have
or he wouldn't have banged me
down hard the way he did"
Very Positive
She caught her breath for an
instant with the remembered pain
when he had banged her down
hard" and she had gone wander
ing around this very park, not
knowing or caring where she was.
Fay lifted her big green eyes,
with their circle Of black velvety
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By Beatrice Burton
Author OF "Flapper Wife"
"GiIded Kisses" and
ssFOotIo0se'

66T'D have gone crazy those last
II few weeks if it hadn't been
for Peter wiki" Peggy said. sober
", to Aunt Agony one Sunday
morning as they fingered over their
breakfast coffee. Every time
I've begun to feel blue about
about things-he's done some
thing or other to take my mind
off myself Really. he's the very
incest man I've ever known.
Aunt Agony pursed up her dry
lips as Il she were getting ready
20 say "prunes and prisms."
But instead she remarked
shortly and to the point: Yes.
and IL a woman's fool enough to
get married, there's real man
not a silly gillie like Randall
Phelpsr'
5, Peggy shut her eyes and drew
O sharp, quick breath. The sound
of Ranny's name still cut her to
the heart. It made her remem-
Der what she was trying to for
get-the way he looked, and the
sound Of hts vOice and his laugh
the things that he said and didn't
mean.
And then she thought of Peter
good old Peter. who was any
thing but good-looking and fas-
cinating, with his irregular fea-
lures and his tall, lean figure.
Peters so homely," she MUIR
INJURED.
Aunt Agony's eyebrows shot up
into her hair. "Humph, hand.
some is as handsome does" she
quoted. ''I should think you'd
have had enough OF handsome
men when you got rid Of Phelpsi
Peggy. sometimes think you're
Q very silly girl, very silly"'
Peggy got up and left the
room. Much as she loved Aunt
Agony there were times when
she couldn't stand her. This
was one Of those times.
From the window of the living
room on the other side Of the
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By Stella Wynne
Whose Stories Of Mystery and
Love Are Causing Wide.
spread Comment

T IKE held tightly the blue
- scarab which he had come SO
far to find and on whose account
he was dying. A smile like a
flicker Of sunlight crossed his
face. It was followed by another
and more sinister flicker. The
dark youth fixed his eyes on
the ancient symbol OF the glory
OF his land and, like one who
sinks down into darkness, but
surrounded by the clouds of a
glorious sunset, he sighed and
sank back into death.
AS he died, DR.. Cressy had
for second a strange fancy.
He thought he glimpsed the soul
OF the young Egyptian, like. a
shadow, pass in the moonlight
outside the grimy window patched
with cardboard. He brushed aside
this film from his overweary
brain.
He Strengthened the dead body
of the young man. He could
minister to him no more. He be.
gan to unwind his dark fingers
from around the blue scarab,
which they cIutched in a tense
grip. He took it In his hand
end was about to slip the chain
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What Can a Girl Do When the Man She's
to Marry JiIts Her For Her Best
Friend and Mentor?

lasl1es. "AlI right, have It your
own way, but know what ~
talking about, all the samey!
she said and shrugged her thin,
graceful shoulders. fell Tor
Ranny and got him away from
you. Tor al while. But way down
at the bottom OF his heart It's
you he cares about
Does he say so?'' Peggy
couldn't help asking that.
Fay tossed her heard iuapa.
tiently. "Of course not, siIly!" she
vamped to the point where he
doesn't know whether he's COM
ing or going. He still wants to
make love to me all the time
but making love and being In
love are two different. things
and Rams in love with you! You
should have seen his face the
day you sent his ring back TO
him! Hum The green eyes
narrowed to single cleaning
line.
she got UP from the bench
and, arm In arm, the two OF
them went on their way around
the park, brave in its fresh new
green.
They had almost reached the
lilac walk for the second timc
when Peggy spoke once more.
Fay" she began, why do you
tell me this bunk about Ranny3
About his liking me2''
she knew Fay, and she knew
that she had some deep dark
underlying reason for doing It.
The only mystery was what that
reason could be.
Fay flushed rosiiy, so that all
her freck1es vanished for g mo-
ment.
1T isn't bunk-it's straight
goods" she said quietly. She
stopped in the path for second
and turned her glove back from
the watch on her wrist.
Didn't you say that Peter WIKI
was coming to your house for
supper at o'c1ock?'' she asked,
glancing sidewise at Peggy.
Yes.
Old Times Recalled
"WelI. it's 10 minutes to 81"
she went on. you'd better be
off in a cloud of dust. Go on,
without me I'm going to walk
around for while longer and
think things out" And she
pushed Peggy away with a little
laugh of farewell.
At the entrance Of the park 20
or 80 automobiles were parked,
waiting for the turn OF the traffic
signal. At the very head of the
line was gray and red roadster
that Peggy knew well
She had seen it parked in the
street before the ShirIeys' big
house scores and scores Of times
last winter. 1t belonged to Ed
die Carter, the debonair and we'll
TODD young business man that
Fay had thrown over for Randall
Phelps.
CTo Be Continued Tomorrow
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binary thing. He could always
tell when his mistress telephoned
for a taxi-cab. Without a doubt
he understood what she said
when she gave the order over
the telephone. Because, he would
run to the window and watch for
it to arrive. When it did arrive
he would tear to the front door
and bark. Then the moment the
door was opened he would run
out on the sidewalk and wait by
the car in the hope of going for a
ride.
One afternoon we called to see
our friend, and / can't tell you
how surprised we were not to see
Boy at the door to greet us.
After we had shaken hands, the
first question each of us asked
was:
where IL Boy?''
The young lady sighed anA aakn
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of hunters green that matched
the cunning little hat.
That's a. new suit you have
on. isn't it?" she asked.
Fay nodded. yeah, I bought
this for my wedding trip toe"
she answered. ~ think it
matches my eyes well, don't
your"
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READ THIS FIRST

PEGGY STARR like fL, but isn't engaged
Co PHELPS afternoon he phones her at
the library
. matter of Importance
Peggy waits for him the rainy park for almost an hour When
he has fallen in love with
best friend FAY SHIRLEY and wants to her in June June
was The VIII he to married Peggyf
Peggy for before she
AGONY who brought her She tells
her the of the broken and Aunt Agony Oce
husband
girl, especially girl worships him Peggy does
She predicts that Peggy will have put Ranny
Of
affair between Peggy and Ranny
who lives the street.
Peggy Ranny happened to fall in love with her
Amt ApOny nuts her out the
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Fay asked, giving the brtm Of
her tiny green hat a touch with
her long fingers.
Stunning. Very spuzzy, In
deed" answered Peggy admir-
ingly. It really was a very good
hat.
1.-THE girls all burst into tears
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when I wore It to the card club
last week." Fay went on.
Then she added, slowly and de-
liberately, 81 bought it for my
wedding trip"
Peggy's deep violet eyes dark.
ened with wonder.
Fay was wearing a new suit,
too, a smooth, slender garment
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By STELLA WYNNE

terrible search. He saw also In
the road the wheel prints OF his
tires, which were just new and
still imprinted the mark of their
make in the dust.
CTo Be Continued Tomorrow
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the next bend. But when he
came up to it the side Of the
road showed the moist. disturbed
earth under the rocks and pebbles
he had displaced when he went
over the edge on that wild and
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No Man,s-baul8 cedgd'tothe U. s.

ATo an Land or Public Strip, named because was
IN not ;ncld under anv government district coded to the
United States by Texas in 1850 constitutes Beaver
county, Oklahoma.