Evening star., 1932-02-14


brated paper hanger and graduate Of
the Rising Sun Correspondence School OF
Detecting. ;.
.Bubb," said Chief Schultz, you know it
what for do come up, huh?'
With the surest of possibility, declared
Philo Gubb. What you come up 1or Chel
Schultz is to talk about the murder OF RUFUS
Paverty into which case you amt making no
advance of progress whatever. do you want
me to find the murder of Rufus Paverty?"
You could find him?" asked Chief Schultz,
staring at Mr.. Ciubb unbelievlngly.
TO find him is what am into the detecka-
tive business for he said simply, ana then
added What is there into it?'
To-day" said Chief Schultz the City Coun-
Gil would for the murderer a reward OF one
Thousand dollars offer.
Into them circumstances" said Mr.. Gubb,
"and seeing that the paper hanging business
is rottenly bum at the present moment OF
time 1 am glad to offer my complete detecka-
tive services to the securance of justice into the
Rufus Paverty case. What clues have you
got up to so far in this case, Chief?'
THUS asked point blank, Chief Schultz had
to admit that the police had as yet made
but little progress The murder of Rufus
Paverty was most battling
The murder had occurred between IL and
IL o'clock at night. The body had been found
in a vacant lot in East Riverband just before
II o'clock and at IL O'Clock Amos Tucker had
called at Paverty's house, where Paverty lived
alone, and had paid him for digging well.
Henry Burgmeister a perfectly respectable
butcher, who sang in the German Lutheran
choir. had gone to Paverty's house with Tucker
and had seen Paverty alive
Robbery had not seemed to be the motive,
for when the body found Paverty's watch
in Paverty's pocket, together with s19.45.
The indications were that Rufus Paverty
who had been born in Scotland and was
welldigger by profession, had been murdered
in his little house. He had been strangled
The only person Chief Schultz could call to
mind who might hate Rufus Paverty sufficiently
to want to kill him was Rufus Paverty's wife,
and it understood that she was in Scotland.
Rufus Paverty, it seems had wanted house
keeper and had written home to Scotland for
one Janet had agreed to keep house for $25
a week, plus board and lodging, and had done
so for eight months and six days, when Rufus
married her.
Naturally her wages stopped when she be-
came wife, but as Rufus had married her
on the seventh day of the month at noon there
was no question that he owed her six days pay.
The trouble arose when Janet, in her thrifty
Scotch way demanded pay for another half
day the morning of her wedding day.
She claimed she was still Rufus PavertyS
housekeeper until noon but Rufus insisted that
she had spent most of the morning getting
ready for the wedding and that she was there
fore a prospective bride and not housekeeper.
The amount in dispute was ore-haf of 80
cents.
As Rufus did not want the scandal of being
left by his bride he finally with con-
siderable agony, agreed to pay Janet for the
first half of her wedding day, and all would
have been we'll if they could have agreed on
what half of SO cents was. Janet claimed AZ
cents and Rufus said he would pay only Al
cents, and they became so angry that Janet put
on her hat and left him then and there and
went back to Scotland.
~ A ND Janet never returned back from Scot
~ land?" asked Philo Gubb who was STEP
ping into what seemed to be q short plaid
skirt.
If she comes back she don't told me any
thing aboudt it," said Chief Schultz "You vos
dressing oop like lady, yes?"
This amt lady's DRESS" said Philo Gubb