Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-04

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Ackland Center. a little old town
in New England. is proud Of its
beauty and traditions. But the mod
ern world is fast croxding in on its
peace. Finally a notorious road
house. LAKELAND, is opened by a gang
of b~ootleggers. Liquor flows. Girls
Of the town are lured there. Editor
Hamilton Few Of The Weekly Age
fights falkland. and Is shot to death.
the identity OF his ASSISTANTS never
being asccrtained. Homer Pew. his
brother. takes up the fight in the
newspaper. Stella Bagot. a home
town girl who has made good III
New York az a magazine writer.
comes home to write about the fight
against the rang. She Is driven to
Ack1and by Ernie Hallanl. A married
man. much in love with her. He
wants her 10 meet MIN in Boston.
Homer tells Stella how his brother
was shot down at LAKELAND.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
CHAPTER IS
"Yes. according 20 Horwitz. He
says he saw the last handful OF them
leaving the porches n a hurry. The
colored musicians and the walters
were in a panic. There had been
quite a few people on the sloar. and
the orchestra was always rrettv
noisy. Horwitz dropped the sapicnt
remark that people like a lot of pep
in the music. Hams nody. he saws,
lay by the wall a few steps To the
right Of the main doorway. Appar-
emily he had entered from the front
and moved toward The tables in the
right-hand corne lie couldn't have
been there long. None Of the walters
had seen him or taken an order from
him. His hat was round nearby,
where il had fallen from his hand.
Che musicians. nj he farther end or
the room. hadn't seen him al all.
They were Just a pack Of frightened
negroes. anyway. The headwaitcr. a
mar known as Albert. a Greek, says
he had stepped out to the eastern
veranda. All he seems able or will
ing to recall is that three rougnlsn
young men. accompanied by three
girls, had a table in that rirht-hand
corner He thought they'd been
drinking before they came in. as the
girls we're laughing pretty loud: and
says he told the waiter. who served
also as a bouncer. 10 keep an v
on them. But the ocunccr seems 20
have been in the kitchen when the
shotA were fired"
Between them they ought to he
able 20 identify some NJ that party"
They claim not. The man Albert
SAYS he didn't single any Of them
out. He was pretty busy. AS he
puts II. the boys might have been
any three Of a thousand of the wild
fellows who drive around in automo-
biles nowadays, and the girls were
Just pa~inted-up flappers.'
Haven't trey a coatroom7 How
about hats and things ?"
THAT has been looked into. The
courtroom boy says that only a few
hats were ief. with him. Most or
the people he says. leave things in
their cars. His story II that after
tire music stopped he followed Hor-
WITT 70 TIE dancing floor. and that
when he returned 90 his post the hats
were all gone. That the owners
must have slipped in at the front
Of the building and cot them. /.
That's the story. Its pretty battling
DO you know why your brother
went out there"
Homer flashed a quick. thoughtful
look. "No. ! don't, Stella. II has
puzzled me more shan | can saw
HE must have had q purpose
"Of course. But we have no light
on that"
There's ne trace or the rscn who
teierhoncd the warning to your
brother"
Nothing. beyond the fact that X
was rung in sfrom a pay booth in
W~altham."
1T certainly seems To indicate
some connection between LAKELAND
and tho b~ootlegging ring. Did they
search the place for liquor7r
"Nykcham says they did. And
found nothing. We don't seem able
20 get up that street AZ an. or
course. IL we could dig out Hams
motive in going there We might have
something. lid better tell you. Stella,
that the smoke screen people are
making unpleasant CAPITAL Of that.
Persistently. Asking why he raj
there, after al bis attacks OF the