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The Wrong Murderer
By HUGH cLEvELY

Of anything like q complete recov-
cry. Whatever happened Billy Ross
would be a helpless cripple for the
rest Of his life.
TERRENCE MAHoNY was not a
i man who would strike the casual
observer as being remarkable to look
at. His age was twenty-six. He was
Of tough. stringy build. stood about
I've feet ten in height. weighed
about IT'S pounds. and was inclined
to be careless what clothes he wore.
He carried himself with slight
slouch that made him look shorter,
than be really was. His eyes were
grey. and very calm and unworried:
bis smile. though infrequent was
goodnatured: his chin was obsti.
nate: his hair was q reddish brown
color and inclined to wave.
His manners we're quiet and self.
contained: when he was bored he
was apt to show It by inattention.
There were certain contradictions
about him which puzzled. and some
times annoyed. people with whom he
came into contact. He was an excel.
lent natural athlete, and had repre-
sented his school at football and box
ing. and his county at lawn tennis.
but be was incapable of taking any
game really seriously.
From his father. an Irishmau who
had been Professor OF English liter
AZURE at a minor English university.
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Chapter Two
FANCY DRESS

"T<HE man behind the whole thing
= is Ambrose Lawson" he said In
q strong. clear voice.
Ross grip on Mahony's sleeve re-
Taxed. He gave a faint sigh and lay
still.
Far away in the distance a glow In
the sky announced the approach Of
another car. Mahony rose to his feet.
His obvious next move was to stop
the approaching car. And then
what? =.
II Ross were not dead already. be
would probably die from his inju
ries. Mahony hoped that he was al
ready dead. A man who had been q
member of a dope-peddling and Bid.
mapping outfit was better dead. He
had no doubt whatever about that.
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Yes. that was quite clear. as tar az
it-want. Butt did not "a Tar enpagh..
Standing there. waiting. Mahnng
thought OF another Ross. Billy Rnss
as he had been four years ago. reek.
less. unstable. but generous and
good natured to a ta9lt. The Billy
Ross who had saved his life.
He knew perfectly well what he
was going to do. He wasn't going to
the police. II he went to the police
with his story about Ross and Law,
son. they would certainly believe the
story about Ross. but II was not 90
certain that they would believe the
part about Lawson. or. even IL they
did believe 1t. they might not be able
to get proof of Lawson's completely
In the dope trade.
Ross had wanted things hushed up
for the sake of his parents. ami Ma;
hony proposed to see that his wish
was carried out. AS foi Lawson and
his associates. he would deal with
them himself. 1t would give him
something to occupy his mind before
he went abroad again.
As the approaching car came
nearer. he stepped out into the road
way and held up his hand. At the
scene of the crash the car stH~ped: a
couple of men sprang out and came
running forward.4isS .,.e.s
whats happened? asked one of
them excitedIy Good heavens. ~ hat
a frightful crash! Is anyone huri?"
"Yes. think my friend has been
killed." answered Mahony quietly.
"We burst a back tire and the car
overturned"
He paused.
There was another car just be.
hind us. but 1t didn't even STOP" he
added.
The three Of them got busy. Ross
was lifted into the newcomers car
and taken to a hospital Mahony tele.
phoned to Captain Ross. telling him
of his sons accident. and had q long
interview with the police. The story
that he told them was simply that q
back tire burst at speed and the car
overturned. After that he returned
to the hospital to await Captain Rosa
At a late hour that night. Billy
Ross was unconscious but still alive
There was. the doctors said. faint
chance that he might survive. But
they held out no hopes whatever
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FOLLOWING
THROUGH

The Yankee fans had a good
time when the American Leaguers
won three straight games put
were not so jubilant yesterday
when "Murdelous Row" was al
most sileneed by Schumacher,
while the Giants went on to vic
tory.
Henry Mayg had a long face
on Tuesday when the Giants won
that first game but after that his
face was all smiles. The ones who
were. sad were Manuel Vare.a,
Stag Stickney, Ormond Cardova,
the three Knowles brothers and a
score of others. The Citizen crew,
all of whom are Yankee rooters
except Gabriel Cabanas, were sad
on Tuesday. They would not
crack a smile. But the rest of the
week they were singing all day
long. Yesterday when the Giants
won their second game the news
men began to get worried and told
Gabriel that they did not feel so
good. But all claim the agony
will be over today.
Charlie Mendoza and Lennie
Grillon, two great Giant fans, a,
is Fred Dion, have not lost their
faith in the National Leaguers,
and will go down with them in de-
feat or go up to the. highest pin
nacle in their triumph.
Should the Giants win again to-
day, fans will not see Baeza and
Company out again for at least a
month. They will stay home to
find out the results of the game,
however, before they dare to go in
to town.
Yours truly is still pulling fol
the Giants and hope they will win
so we can tell few wise guys who
know it all, what a ball club the
Yanks must have when a minor
league club like the Giants defeat
them for the worlds champion
ship.
~
80
My good friend Henry lost
again when the Chicago White
Snx won four STRAIGHT games from
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made no'hits in the game, singled.
advancing DiMaggio to third.
Dickey hit to Terry and DiMaggio
scored. Selkirk walked, filling the
bases Powell hit through short,
scoring Gehrig and Dickey. Gum
bert replaced Coffman on the
mound. Lazzeri was walked inten-
tionally. Murphy singled, scoring
Selkirk. Crosetti walked, forcing
in Powell. Rolfe forced Crosetti
at second. DiMaggio singled, his
second hit in this inning, scoring
Murphy. Gehrig walked. Selkirk
famed. Dickey flied out.
Seven runs, five hits, inc error.
GIANTS-Lieber fliei out. DIT
also flied out. banning, who re-
placed Mancuso. grounded out to
Gchsig.
No runs, no hits, no errors.
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he had inherited q love of. reading.
Sometimes. for long periods. ne re-
manned silent; at other times. with
the most serious air. he talked the
most fantastic nonsense.
= II he made(up his mind to do any.
thing. he did not waste time talking
about It; he simply set about doing
II. He liked to make mis- own plans
and act on them. and the opinions of
other people did not worry him.
THE day after the smash he re-
i turned to London. took a couple
OF furnished rooms for himself. and
removed all his things from Ross's
nat. He also took the opportunity of
going thoroughly through Ross's
possessions In the hope of finding
something which might shed light
on his criminal activities. BUT he
found nothing One possession only
Of Ross. however. he took away
with him-a fancy costume which
Ross had intended to wear at the
Cinema Ball.
That costume had arrived the pre-
vious morning. and Mahony had ex-
amined 1t with some curiosity 1t
was. long. brightly colored gar.
ment. with a colored head-dress. and
was obviously meant to disguise its
wearer as an Arab sheik. But. Ma
hony noticed. both robe and head
dress were lined with black and
were made reversible. so that they
could be worn equally well inside
out.
Worn thus. with slightly differ
ent arrangement of the head dress.
the costume transformed fits wearer
into a ack-garbed. cowled monk.
He had asked Ross where. and for
what reason. he had obtained such
curiously made costume. and Ross
had become fidgety and irritable.
and had replied GROSSLY that he
didn't see anything curious about IL
and he neither knew nor cared
where it had originally come from:
he was wearing It because It had
been sent along to him by a friend.
Recalling that Elsa Little was to
have been kidnapped at the Cinema
Ball. Mahony connected the costume
with the deed. He decided to attend
the ball-and to wear Ross costume,
Copyright. 1885. Hugh cisrsiyJ
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HEALTHERS WON
: :. OVER BEVERAGE
BOYS, IL TO 6
NEED ONLY ONE MORE VIC
:. TORY TO cINcH SOCIAL
LEAGUE. CHAMPIONSHIP IN
PRESENT PLAY.oFF

The Sanitary Department dia-
mondball team need but one more
victory in the present play-off to
claim the championship of che So
eial League.
Yesterday afternoon at Bay
view Park, the Healthers defeated
Coca-Cola by the one-sided score
of IL to 6, to make it two games
to one.
julius ,VElareal started on the
mound for the Soda Water outfit
but was sent to the showers in the
fourth frame after IL hits and
seven runs had been garnered off
his delivery.
Hancock, who relieved Villareal,
was touched for four safeties and
five runs in the remaining three
cantos. This was the first time
Hancock pitched since his no-hit
game. ~
The hitting honors went to ].
Garcia (the Rubber MANI, who
has just returned from CCC
camp. He collected four safeties
in five times at bat. Hopkins and
F. Villareal each hit a double and
two singles in four trips to the
plate.
Rain halted the contest in the
seventh inning.
The fourth, and what may be
the deciding game of the p1ay-off,
will be held this afternoon, begin
ming at five o'clock. The Bever-
age outfit must win to stay in the
runner.
Batteries for today's game will
be Walker and Hopkins for the
Sanitary Department club, and
Villareal and Villareal for Coca
ella.
Score by. innings of yesterdays
contest:yrGs r. H. E.
Coca-Cola----
.o110 021 l. 6 8 3
Sanitary Department
.120 432 x-12 Is 8
Batteries: j. Villareai, Hancock
and F. Willareal; Ward and Hop
kins. ods
Summary-Errors: ]. Garcia g.
]. ViEareal, Lewis and Lucille
two base hits: Hopkins, F. Villa
real,. Sterling, Lewis; stolen bases
Lewis and Acevedo; struck out
by Ward i; bases on balls: off
Ward 2, off J. Villareal 1; time
of game: l:15; umpires: Sweeting
and LuciHo.
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SYNOPSIS Terence hahony kds
returned from four years In Chtn1
TO London, aud the apartment ef
his friend Billy Rosa He fnds Rose
nervous. irritable fearful And
then the friends sfaTf dozen 20
Ross fathers country pl1ce Tor
dinner. and Rosss car % forced
Purposeiy into the ditch and Roes
TO murder him and thdf the mon,
as nell as Ross himssiI ts a crook.
He Is hnTTytH0 TO finish his story
before losing consciousness.
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DOings Around The
Golf Links
(By GRAvY)

1t seems that a certain pole
climbing gentleman was reported
sick on Sunday and unable to in
dulge in his favorite pastime Of
cow pasture pool but a very good
friend of that certain gentleman
reports, that be only thought he
was sick but that his wife told
him he had to take to staying home
occasionally and enjoy her com
pany and net just come home to
eat and sleep and spend the rest Of
his time on the, golf course. Of
course, that argument happens to
all golfers anyway and SO is con-
sidered part of the game.
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Saturday, Mr. Hz16soze E1--
ace O'Bryznt tOok czzGT zzy
from Tim PItrnzn and ChzrEe
Ketchum but incla5ed fue 60
and cake from ROy Lac - .
day Of reckoning VII sooz - a.
hand and = few boys lad be-se<
look cut when the gzz zzz sez<-s
collecting.
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round they had the Grst Eze
when both shot 3 better Ezze Ehz1
Cvtn HErrI=aEe EdGie- In ~
can't kerr a god 80 6-<z zE
50 Eddie turned the tzbses oz rhE
back nine
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Mr. Louis Pierre Eh8 has GLss
returned from q Ezczron z4zzEzE
70 get IN part e \ rDE1G 80 =
very good score As 0ppozez1s ~
had Roy Lade and b FrpR RsE
reports a rec0rd fer losz hzz xh=
total number e Il 81 I'D l. ~
grass.
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the Chicago Cubs in an inter-city
series. / am sorry, Henry, but !
know you hate to see your team
lose in any series. They may do
better next year. Cheer up Be
a good loser as well as a good win
ner.
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Well, since Sunday was g big
day for a lot of things, it was q big
day for Doc William Penababe
Kemp and Johnny Kirschenbaum.
fresh from a VACATION. They get
the better of Eddie StruIk and
Melvin Russell due to the gOO1
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Mr. WEns0Ee WIlEs Enk-r
Pokey. Pi0Us Watkins rspar-z .
good time ard ssts e fri-z Ct
en- consumed Says pesple IN Tea
nessee never heard of hz-S -
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Today In History.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

1536-(400 years ago) William
Tyndale, English reformer. fist
to translate the Bible into English,
put to death for heresy.
16ss-Ship Concord" landed
IL Mennonite families to found
Germantown, Pa.-beginning Of
German immigration to America.
.1762-Spanish then at war with
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Rev. DR.. Henry 4 Swrsfs e
LouiSxEl-, Ky. moderzLsr e xse
PresbyteTisa Church n Ihe Z 6
(SoufkD. bern n EEzzb=EhGSzn.
Ky. G. years aga
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David Dietz Of CieEeIzn1
science editor. bern fh=re, -
years ago.
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Today's Birthdays

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Eng.and-surrendered Manila to
English, who governed city for
some four months.
1s90-McKinley Tariff Bill in
effect.
191S-Americans capture St.
Etienne, France.
1935-Detroit Americans win
world series from Chicago Ma
ienals.
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Mahony makes . call on EIsa
Little, tomorrow. iff
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My good friend Henry lost
again when the Chicago White
Sox- won four straight games from
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.l762-Spanish then at war whit
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Brief Reviews of Books on Various Topics

the Laboratory School of the Uni
versity of Chicago when it was
under the direction of John Dewey.
Your Hay Fever. BY Oren c. Durham.
With an introduction by Morris
Fshbein. Indianapolis: Bobbs
Merrill Co. Explanation of the
nature Of the disease and latest in
formation about cures.
Four Seasons in Your Garden. BY
John c. Wister. Philadelphia: j.
B. Lippincott. A practical book
Of wide range on the subject of
what to plant and when to plant 1t.
See These Banners Go. BY Frank s.
Mead. indianapolis: Bobbs Mer-
rill Co. The story Of the Protest.
ant Churches Of America, already
published serially in the Christian
Herald.
Fiction.
Castaway vs. of the Yukon. BY Ella M.
Rea. Boston: The Meador Pub
fishing Co. Romantic novel about
Alaska. Routine.
I'll Mourn You Later. BY Catharine
Whitcomb. New York: Houghton,
Mifan Co. A girl of %, who re-
members her Virginia Wolff and
Joyce, writes about . Boston FAM
lily. An authors prerogative.
Poetry.
Snow-C Covered Wagon. BY Julia
Cooley Altrocchi. New York: The
Macmillan Co. Long narrative
poem about the Donner party
which met with disaster In the
Western Mountains in the Winter
Of l846-47.
Mother Goose In Washington. A story
OF Old King Dole and his Humpty
Dumpty Court. Harrisburg: The
Telegraph Press. Satirical doggerel
not favorable to the New Deal.
The Picture-Poetry Book. BY Ger
trude Parthenia McBrown. Illus
trated by Lois Mailou Jones Wash.
ington: The Associated Publish-
ers, Inc. Verses and pictures for
Negr8 children.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Mencken once described as harsh
canoodling." And the subject matter
is propagandistic.

SWEAR BY THE NIGHT. BY Ma
thalia Crane. With an Introduc-
ton by Louis Untermyer. New
York: Random House.
THIS is the first volume which
Nathalia Crane has published
since she was II. Louis Untermyer,
in his introduction, explains her
silence by telling us that certain
friends offered to send her abroad and
through college provided that she pub
ish nothing until she was finished
with her schooling. Now she has COM
pleted her work at Barnard and once
Evening star., 1936-03-07

spiritual side Of the first President.
Washington and the West. BY c. H.
Amber. Chapel Hill: University
Of North Carolina Press. Careful
study of Washington's participation
in events west Of the Alleghenies,
both before and after the Revolu.
ton. ......
The Champion Crossword Puzzle
Book. BY J. Van Cleft Cooper.
Philadelphia: John G. winston
Co. The second series.
The Dewey School. BY Katherine
Camp Mayhem and Anna Camp
Edwards. With an introduction by
John Dewey. New York: D. Ap-
pleton; Century Co. A history of
Evening star., 1936-03-07

Of thanks. Queen Victoria offered
him baronetcy or the Grand Cross
of the Bath. Upon his refusal of
both, he was asked what he would
accept and he made the immortal
answer: "A letter from the Queen
of England which may carry across
the Atlantic and deposit it as me-
mortal of one of her most faithful
sons"
The letter of Queen Victoria in an
swer to this request and the minia-
ture she mentions therein are both
in the Peabody Museum of his native
town in Massachusetts,, and the only
facsimile of that famous letter known
to exist has been deposited in the
new Peabody Memorial Room of the
Georgetown Library. 1t is the gift
of Miss Maria Nicholson of George
town, whose father, it is thought, was
commissioned to make the leather
case to contain the letter for George
Peabody and was allowed to copy it
for himself The letter is as fol-
lows:
windsor Castle, March %, 1866.
THE Queen hears that Mr.. Pea
body intends shortly to return to
America and she would be sorry he
should leave England without being
assured by herself how deeply she
appreciates the noble act of more
than princely muniflcence by which
he has sought to relieve the wants of
the poorer class of her subjects resid-
ing in London. 1t is an act the Queen
believes wholly without parallel and
which will carry its best reward in
the consciousness of having contrib
uted so largely to the assistance of
those who can little help themselves.
1.-The Queen would not have been
satisfied, however, without giving Mr..
Peabody some public mark of her
sense of his munificence and she
would gladly have conferred upon
him either a baronetcy or the Order
of the Bath. but that she under
stands Mr.. Peabody to feel himself
debarred from accepting such distinc.
tions.
ut only remains, therefore, for the
Queen to give Mr.. Peabody this as
surance of her personal feelings. which
she would further wish to mark by
asking him to accept miniature por-
trait of herself, which she will de-
sire to have painted for him and
when finished can either be sent to
America or given to him on his return
(which she rejoices to hear he med
itates) to the country that owes him
so much"
IN 1866 he was granted the freedom
of the city of London. very un-
usual honor. oxford University con-
ferred upon him the honorary degree
OF D. c. L. and his statue was un-
veiled by the Prince of Wales, July %.
1869, while Mr.. Peabody was absent
in America. 1t stands near the Royal
Exchange, London.
Honored by those "in the seats of
the mighty" of two continents, George
Peabody lived to the very last very
plainly and dressed very simply. His
Fourth Of July dinners in London
were noted for their fostering of good
feeling between England and America.
His simplicity of manner won him
the love and respect of high and low
alike. The lines of Kipling have
been said to fit him more adequately
than any other man in public life
ITO walk with kings-nor lose the
common touch"
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Non-hctiOn.

Satana. BY Clarence Wharton. Dal-
las: Banks, Upshaw & Co. A
straightforward account of the
wars waged by this Kiowa chief
tain. Unsentimental, and, in con-
sequence, frequently revolving. A
good piece Of work.
Cuban Sideshow. BY r. Hart Phillips
Havana: Cuban Press. An ac-
count of the revolt against Macha-
do by q woman who witnessed q
good part Of the fighting. Fairly
free from chattiness.
Sky Gypsy. BY Claudia Cranston
Philadelphia: ]. B. Lippincott
Excessively joyous account of air
cruise over South America.
Provence In History and Song. BY
Elizabeth Comstock Everett. Bos-
ton: Meador Publishing Co. SEN
timental essays as the subject in
: dicates.
Old Father Waters. BY A. M. Fleming
Boston: Meador Publishing Co.
Collection of lore about the Missis-
sippi River. . -
Yankee In Africa. BY !. H. and Julie
Morse. Boston,: The Stratford Co
Tale Of hunting big game and the
usual dimculties. Safari and what
not.
Universal Education in the South. BY
Charles William Dabney. Chapel
Hill: University Of North Carolina
Press. Scholarly tracing Of the
idea that there ought to be q more
general diffusion Of knowledge" a.
that idea has been applied since the
day when Thomas Jefferson ut
tered it. Southern in application
Over the Wall. BY Lee Duncan. New
York: z. p. Dutton & Co. Prison
and crime stuff by man who has
done time. Interesting, II you
i. like It.
A World Divided Is . World Lost. BY
Hendrix Willem Van Loon. New
York: Cosmos Publishing Co. Ad-
yoeacy os frssS~trads written In
Evening star., 1936-03-07
ADMINISTRATION DENOUNCED
James c. Young Mercess Attack Roosevet Policies
Army Airnen Analyze Current Aviaton-Works of
Fiction and Biography Reviewed.

His Head" These are not very Diff
ferent from the others in subject, but
they are better pulled of. In general.
Mr.. Burke seems to have written this
collection boredly. His hand Is prac-
ticed, but Indifferent.
THE SCHOOL OF FEMININITY. BY
Margaret Lawrence. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
THIS book is sometimes amusing,
sometimes stimulating and some-
times expressive Of critical percep-
ton which cannot be regarded in any
but q respectful manner. In sum,
however, it Is only irritating. For.
with all its careful writing and elab-
crate (often over -elaborate) thinking,
1t is founded on an imaginary prem
ise-the notion that the woman writer
must needs be considered always as q
woman writer and not simply ON the
basis of her achievement, or her lack
Of 1t.
It seems elementary to the point of
childishness to remark that there Is
only one way to Judge any written
work-that is, by the work itself. Yet
Miss LaWrence's contentious force the
reviewer to make that statement. It
seems almost simple minded to point
out further that estimation Of the per-
sonality of the doer has no place in