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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

Crane" had been foun d
assaulted and beaten to uncon-
seriousness on the floor of her
room. When the officer arrived
at the hotel the girl was re-
vived sufficiently to relate that
she had been attacked by a
farm youth whom she identified.
Miss Crane" was Immediately
taken to the local hospital while
Davis checked on her story.
Sure enough he found hat in
her room bearing the farmer S
initials.
But the youth, when appre-
hended, protested that the girl
had threatened to charge him
with assault unless he paid her
$500. When he protested the
girl grabbed his hat and began
to claw him, at which he beat
a hasty retreat that was
the last he saw of her. Any
wounds she may have had were
self-inficted, the boy insisted.
The youths evident frankness
caused the officer to reconsider.
He returned to the hotel
room where a thorough search
revealed a stained razor blade:
this substantiated the youths
contention that wounds might
have been self-inflicted. Further
more. a memorandum book
among the girls belongings re-
vealed addresses of 30 mail
order marriage prospects. This
was sufficient evidence to I'M
tremendously transfer the
swindler from hospital to jail
from which she was later run
out of town
Sheriff Buckner knew that to
remind Ruby of the Texas
swindle would only serve to pro-
tract her scornful silence. She
had been clever enough to con-
ceal her presence on the
Cimarron because not single
neighbor could recall seeing a
strange woman in the vicinity.
The thought occurred to Buck
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Old Man Dupe
In MatrimOny Plot

"Confess that you killed Toll
roy. We can prove IL! This
expert says the stains on these
bills were made with the old
mans blood. You wormed from
Tolroy the secret OF his hiding
place, and when you saw how
much Il was, you knitted him 10
get II. We can prove that the
blood on these bills Is Tolroy's.
You might as well confess"
The bluff worked. There
really is no way of identifying
the blood of an individual; it
can only be classified as one of
four types.
81 killed the old miser. He
wanted to own me for nothing
after he promised me everything.
Take me back to Grandview--
I'll tell Sheriff Buckner the
truth now :"
And the attractive prisoner
kept her word
Troy Tolroy was only one Of
many men corresponded with
through the matrimonial racket.
But he WAS the most persistent;
and he sent me $50 for bus
fare. In his ad he said he was
so, but he must have been
nearer so. II 1 had known he
lived In o bowel like that I
would never have gotten within
50 miles Of the place.
"As soon as / got there he
wanted TO kiss me-but he was
SO loathsome the very thought
made mo sick. / told him that
anybody who lived In such a
place couldn't have any money.
He didn't say word, just
grinned with a toothless smile
and went over to the fireplace.
One stone had an iron ring; he
pulled that out and signaled for
me to look. Money? There was
scads of Il. But he didn't give
me any. I said I was leaving.
"Then he suggested that we
should have o trial marriage
for . while till he found out
whether I would do or not. He
talked as IL 1 weren't q human
being. But just couldn't
stand that repulsive old bone
bag and I told him so. j said 1
was leaving II had to walk to
Texas.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

passed for a choir singer No
pretty girl writes to II broken
down recluse without money
being involved-and the bloody
bill found beside Tolroys body
was silent witness that the
miser had been murdered for
money!
Ruby Lowell was logical sus-
pect and would have to be
tracked down and questioned.
Realizing he had little time to
lose, if his quarry had not al
ready gone, Buckner raced $50
miles southeast to Amarillo. He
learned that pretty dark
haired girl calling herself Ruby
Lowell appeared once or twice
each week for mail!
So the sheriff took up vigil,
in the long marble corridor.
that lasted three restless days
before the girl put in an appear
ance. Buckner recognized her
easily from the photograph in
his pocket when she walked to
the general delivery window at
5 D. m. She received two let
tiers, which were hurriedly
stuffed into her handbag, and
then quickly left the building.
the detective close behind.
For eight long blocks the girl
gracefully lodged pedestrians
and traffic until she reached an
old-fashioned brownstone house.
Half way up the steps the de-
tective caught up.
mind II l come In and have
a chat, RUBY"
The girl didn't turn a hair at
the sight of his cleaning star
but continued up to the door.
In silence she led the officer up
10 q room on the second floor:
then, tossing her bag on the
dresser she whirled on the
officer in fury:
what are you bounding me
for? 1 didn't do anything"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
She Strikes Hin,
In Blind Anger

"When he saw I was In
earnest he grabbed me. While
struggling with him 1 saw the
knife on the table and managed
TO get hold of Il. was so
filled with contempt that l
struck out blindly with all my
strength. He fell could tell
he was finished. dug out a
fat roll Of bills from the fire.
place, but in my hurry ] dropped
it-that's how those bills got
stained. I hid the roll between
two beams In the cellar at the
boarding house In Amarillo.
"Pm sorry I killed him
Now 1 don't care what you do
TO me
Ruby Lowell never spoke
again.
A blank despair settled in her
eyes and she stared at the gray
walls of her cell for hours at a
time, day after day, as remorse
for her crime took its toll. In
the next few months her mind
slowly and inevitably dis
integrated until she became an
inanimate lump of clay in which
the spark Of life flickered dimly.
Before the scheduled trial,
pneumonia gripped her wasted
form and as the last day OF
the year 1893 drew to a close.
Ruby Lowell breathed her last.
She died as she had lived-an
outcast-alonel
Copyright. isii, King Features synd., Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Discovers Bloody
Bill on Floor

For an hour his car slithered
through a sea of gumbo to
traverse the five miles until his
headlights picked up the out
lines of an implanted shack.
Buckner struggled through the
mud to the cabin door. which
tore open when he touched the
latch.
From the doorway his fash
light threw a beam that crept
across the rough f1ooring-to
spotlight the figure of an old
man. A long knife handle
cleaned from his back!
Buckner shouldered the door
shut and prowled until he found
a kerosene lamp. Then he APP
preached the dead man and
raised the body-the sightless
eyes Of Troy Tolroy stared up
at him,
A bloody IS bill that Nay on
the floor caught the sheriff s
eye. This recalled TO the Sfficer
that he had once warned Tolroy
he was being menaced by rdmors
people believed Tolroy had
buried treasure. accumulated
through the as years he had
lived as a recluse.
To Sheriff Buckner the old
man was quick 10 deny the
rumor-professing poverty. But
Z subsequently he belied his state
ment by shrilly charging all
bankers with dishonesty and
with having designs on his
money. Though now it ap-
peared that the recluse had
sacrificed his life for his miser-
illness. Buckner was to learn
that the old man had other, I'M
suspected passions
The following uorning at his
office in Grandview. the sheriff
inventoried his meager clues
the knife. according to neighbor-
ing sheep ranchers, was Tolroy 5
own property, but the police
laboratory IN Sante Re could
test it for prints. The hoarder' S
denim clothing was carefully
searched ny the detective, il
Welded a letter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Ruby Refuses
To Say a Word

Her pretty head tossed in de-
fiance, she marched out the door
before him. All the way back
TO New Mexico she persisted in
silence. a fact which gave the
detective an inkling of the tough
character so effectively coated
by a sweet exterior.
Convinced that the usual
questioning would be Ineffective
with his hard-boiled prisoner,
the sheriff first had her finger
printed and then confined to a
bare solitary cell where she
could keep her own counsel until
a check was made on her past.
The prints brought a lengthy
report from the federal bureau
of investigation at Washington,
revealing that though the at
tractive girl was only % she
had served sentences in various
prisons for swindling; each term
was a short one because fatherly
Judges were influenced by her
diSarming occurrences.
Ruby Lowell, according to the
report, had recently been i'm
prisoned at Sherman, Tex, on
a swindling charge; she served
a three-months' sentence and
was ordered out of town. Buck
ner got in touch with Sheriff
Benton Davis of Grayson County
and from him got real insight
into the desperate character OF
his pretty prisoner.
It appeared that on May %,
1888. Davis got a call from the
desk clerk in a small hotel IN
town that a guest, Miss Ruby
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Deputy FOHOWs
Her to Station

The girl lost her equanimity
for the first time:
"You mean-you mean you
know the guilty mani"
That's just what I mean,
Ruby; you can leave any time
you want"
Just as the sheriff suspected
she made ready with a rush and
headed directly for the railroad
station-with Deputy Burt Har-
gis, whom she had never seen,
inconspicuously behind her. She
bought a ticket for Amarillo,
Hargis learned. The deputy de-
cided to take no chances of her
spotting him if he got on the
same train, so he made the trip
by car. He arrived an hour
later than the train to find
that the girl had packed her few
belongings and gone from the
rooming house, leaving word she
was headed for Little Rock.
As Hargis expected. this was
a stall-no bus terminal or rail-
road ticket office had sold a
Little Rock ticket that day.
But one ticket agent did recog-
nize Ruby LovelPs picture as
the purchaser of a ticket to
Denver, Colo.
The Denver police offered
fullest cooperation and promised
that the young lady would be
spotted and watched. Hargis
laid low at a hotel for two days,
awaiting the result of Denver
police activities
"We've trailed q woman, who
calls herself Gladys Lacey.
through the night spots-she
was spending money like water.
One OF our men got friendly
with her until he saw that
some of the money she was
spending was spotted; so he
brought her In. She's your
woman all right-yOu can take
her anytime"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Finds Mail Order
Marriage Journal

Buckner brushed past her
without uttering a word and
eagerly plucked the pocketbook
from the dresser. The two let
tiers ii contained came from
widely separated towns in Texas.
inviting her to share the homes
and fortunes of lonesome men.
This only whetted the detec-
tive's curiosity; he made a hur-
ried search through the dresser
and there he found what he had
oxpected-a mail order mar
rage bureau journal, published
in California.
Among the notices If lOvelom
SWANS seeking wives was one
Troy Tolroy. who gave his age
a 80. wealthy. a bachelor who
wanted the compromising Of a
young healthy woman. Further
search unearthed a letter writ
ten IN a painfully illiterate hand
and signed Tory T'0lroy. Full
of mushy sentiment and lies
about a beautiful farmhouse. the
writer boosted of his craftineSs
in outwitting the curiosity of his
neighbors by burying his plenti-
full wealth.
Buckner looked up from the
letter and fixed the girl with a
filnty stare:
How much did you steal
after you killed him 2"
xiii him? Don't be silly.
I've just had harmless CORE
spOndence filtration with the
bald-headed old sinner. 1 have
never even seen the man."
III YOU never saw him how
did YOU know he was bald
headed ." shot back the sheriff
"Why-why-he sent a pic
ture-but I lost it,
"You can think up better ones
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Long-Legged, Red-Haired Gals

TYE beauty experts the type female that will attract
- in 1871 will be the long-egged rcd
haired Reminds greeted by strawoerry pono
yesterday didn't her She told me her mans
brunei and hadn't been
to And States Nancy hae:
interest her chld her greatest
desire her develop
ment apart child" Quite And IS
things like advertising merchants and editors should
keep Angeles there doctors named Fate.
Slaughter Coffin and Graves In 1860 when Abraham Lincoln
City speak slavery Cooper Institute
big newspaper referred him that baboon from
Illinois"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Gushy Letter
Seeks Money

Buckner WhiStled With surprise
when he read 1t
October. !, 1888.
Dearest Darling Sugar:
You say we ought TO be mar
ried at once and / can hardly
live until we are. oh, darling l
want 10 be with you so much. /
can't live without you any
longer, dearest sweet. Apart
from you life is not worth
living. I'm coming TO you as
soon as can and well be mar
ried at once
Ruby Lowell.
The letter gushed on and
ended with a broad hint Tor
money, and a general delivery
forwarding address at Amarillo.
Tex. But best OF all for the de-
tective's purpose was an en-
closed photograph Of a demure
Young woman who might have
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

Sheriff Buckner that you we're
never ut Tolroy's ranch, didn't
your"
mo-" came the sullen reply.
'Tf you never went to the
ranch how did you get this
money!" He held the blood
stained bundle close,
"Tolroy mailed 1t to me ="
"Oh, yeah? Then why did you
hide It: Because IL was blood
stained, Isn't that why?"
EYES," her voice lowered to
sound like a petulant child.
A laboratory technician inter-
rupted the questioning to whis-
per confidentially into the
deputy's ear; and while so doing
he ostentatiously examined a
stained bill through magnify
ing glass. After listening for a
few minutes, Hargis nodded
and then wheeled on the girl in
n rage
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Cute Tony Galento

I)AULINE HADDON. Cinema Referred to by some a.
million dollar eyes Miriam Hopkins has
expressive any film But she doesn't use
cevery might Tony Galeno Man of the ring
family telling that when Tony
a he rected the following at school:
Mary had little lamb
II stood upon the shelf;
And every time it Jagged its tail
II spanked its little self.
lady said them That must have really
been something see, a "cute" Tony Galeno So
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

THE roaring Cimarron con-
i firmed its remote Spanish
godfather by its behavior that
night-the wild beast" dashed
In fury against its tortuous
banks, spraying defiance at the
lightning that laced the sky.
The stygian bowl of night tilted
a deluge upon the bleak sparsely
inhabited. northeastern corner
OF New Mexico.
ming rain almost
drowned out theyshrilling phone;
but feeble as il was. Sheriff Roy
Buckner heard and guessed !.
troubled A mans voice sifted
heavily. slowly through the re-
ceiver in labored attempt at
calmness:
This Is John Slater, sheriff.
Got caught In the storm and
stopped at Troy Tolroy's shack.
T Found him dead! knitted in the
back. He's been murdered. :"
Without waiting for details,
the Union County sheriff reached
for a belt that hung on the
wall, a heavy AS for a pendant.
and stepped out into the storm.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Instructive Book for Women

INTERESTING and instructive book from the feminine
"A standpoint might titled They Understood Men, which
biographies and outline the How TO Get and
Technique" Cleopatra, Du Barry Lillian Russell.
Benhardt similar charmes When the shade
changed beige the sales
Immediately material coored and have been
increasing since Just proof there much
Hitchcock in The Yankee Consul"
singing: old the old
1t not like this at all?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Almost Confidential

WOULD only A. Hitler successfully invade England
w of chemical warfare. But then the British know
London columns
Marques Donegal devoted Of telling what he
he had of the British Empire after the Said
the capital the empire
Ottawa, with clean slate and with tho
ourselves mixed
Europe again would be removed"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Design for Living

HAVE YOU any Brief suggestions as TO
II living which read and over Is following
oyabe quality human being can
is Things
the generosity that comedies 20
opinions and pecuares II the
enables let people be happy In their own ~y'
instea of ourw way"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Shortage of Spinach

and coffee was the most popular restaurant
II today is reported to be two
doughnuts cigaret and of coffee Included IN the
alarming todays note 1t Is predicted
will probably shortage OF spinach in 1917 My noer
than spinach and is better
for children.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

ner that, II he were to set the
girl free, she might lead him to
the cache of bills-the evidence
that would convict her.
Smiling broadly. the sheriff
stopped at the girls cell:
81 have good news for you,
Ruby. We've found the man
who owned the knife that killed
old man Tolroy. guess / owe
YOU an apology"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

q rage
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Why Must They Die?
One OF Series OF Factual Analyses Fatalities

The place: Central avenue and
Fitty-third street Sc.
The accident: A 50-year- COL
ored woman was fatally injured
when she ran into the path of an
automobile on Central avenue at
Fifty-third street Sc. The car was
going southeast. It was not def
nitely established whether she was
in the cross walk or running dag
onally across the street. The point
Of impact was placed approximately
where the WOman'S glasses were
picked up, feet south of the north
east curb of Central avenue and 7i2
feet east Of the east curb. Her body
came to rest E8i2 feet away on
Central avenue, The driver and
his companion took her to Casualty
Hospital in another car which
stopped at the scene. She was pro-
nounced dead there
The time: About 6:45 pm. Mon
day. December %
The weather: Clear.
The street: Dry, straight, slight
doWngrade. Street lighting good
The vehicle: A 1889 automobile in
good condition. The driver said he
was going about 25 miles an hour.
but police stated he was probably
exceeding that, according to the dis
tance the body was carried.
The driver: A 20-year-old youth
with four years driving experience.
Coroner's jury verdict: Driver held
for Police Court action under the
Negligent Homicide Act.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Nine Red Transports Sunk
Or DAMAGED, Nazis Say
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Dec. q (Official Radio
German bombers and dive bombers
sank four Russian transports total
ing 1000 tons and damaged five
other transports and a number of
smaller vessels with heavy losses in
men and material for the enemy,
the high command announced today.
The Germans said the attack on
the transports occurred in the
Straits of Kerch, which link the
Black Sea and the Sea of Azov be-
tween the Crimea and the Caucasus.
In attacks lasting several days on
a British convoy in the Atlantic be-
tween Gibraltar and England, the
communique summed up British
losses as one aircraft carrier and
five merchant ships totaling $1,000
tons sunk and two other merchant
men damaged.
German bombers were credited
also with damaging a British mer-
chantman in British waters last
night.
Evening star., 1941-12-27

enemy aircraft was brought down
into the sea.
During the night there was heavy
enemy mortar fire along the water
front between Star Ferry and
Taikoo.
December 17-Aerial lombard
ment was directed against the peak
wireless station and other places
but no military damage re-
suited ="
On this day the enemy sent to
the island staff officers under a flag
of truce bearing for the second time
written proposal for our sur
render This demand was similarly
rejected.
December 18-During the night
the enemy succeeded in crossing the
bar. 500 yards of intervening water
and in landing on Hong Kong Island
in the Tai Koo area and Lyemun,
whence they steadily mfiltrated to
Wong Nei Chong Gap and Tytam
Gap.
Stanley Peninsula and the hill to
the northWard as far as a line
running east and west through
Stanley Mound were held by a bat
talon of Canadians, two companies
of Indian infantry and a scratch
force of gunners and machine gun
ners. ."
Lyemun and Saiwan were over
run and the personnel of Fort
ColinSon and DAguilar were sue
cessfully withdrawn after the de-
struction of heavy guns there.
December l9-In the afternoon a
counterattack was attempted to re-
gain Mount Parker, Mount Butler
and JardIne's Island but this was
unsuccessful. The civilian popula-
ton was reported to be surprisingly
calm. The troops. however. were
growing very tired and problems of
supply and communication were
difficult
December 20-(This date is blank,
without eXplanatiOn)
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Pan American to Open
New Murucuibo Route

By the Associated Press
MIAMI. Fla. Dec. 27-Pan Ameri-
can Always today announced a new
weekly schedule between Miami and
Maracaibo, Venezuela, to relieve
traffic pressure in the West Indies
and South America.
There now is one Miami i-Mara-
caibo round-trip weekly, leaving
Miami Saturdays and returning the
following day.
The new route will leave Miami
on Tuesdays, starting next week,
and will go to Venezuela by way of
Antilla, Cuba, and Port au Prince,
Haiti. The Clipper will return
Wednesdays
Beside passengers for Venezuela,
the Clipper will accommodate over
flow traffic for Colombia Trinidad,
the Canal Zone and the east and
west coasts of South America.
Evening star., 1941-12-27

British Expeditionary Force in
France and inspector general of
Britain's Home Guard since he won
the Distinguished Service Order and
the Military Cross in the World War.
His appointment came to light
only five days after Sir Charles
Vyner Brooke the white rajah of
SaraWak, declared in Sydney that
brass hats lah-di-dah old
school tie incOmpetents" were in
charge at Singapore, ATS miles west
of his now invaded capital of
KuChing.
Gross incompetence and almost
criminal negligence was charged by
the rajah. whose country makes up
a part of British Borneo to military
and political leaders at the Malayan
bastion.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Canterbury Asks Britain
To Join u. 5. in PRAYER
By the Assoclaled Pres.


LONDON, Dec. 27-The Arch
bishop of Canterbury, primate Of all
England asked the people Of Britain
today to join on January l in the
day of prayer which President
Roosevelt has designated in the
United States.
The bishops statement read:
The President Of the United
States has called his people TO OBJ
serve the first day OF the new year
as a day of prayer for the blessing
and guidance Of Almighty God as
they enter the ordeal Of war.
I feel sure there will be gen.
eral desire on the part OF the citi-
zens of this country 10 associate
themselves on that day in their pri-
Vate and wherever this may be pos
sible, in their public prayers with
their brethren in the United States.
Il am authorized 70 say that his
majesty the King hopes in this way
that many of his own people will be
able to Join the people Of the United
States in prayer for them, for their
country and for the cause in which
they now are our allies and COM
radeS."