Judge — September 11, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE New Arabian Nights “Murder in Bungleland™ B JLELAND, a country adjoining Kleptomania, hud more’ thun its share of murder mysteries. and were invariably fostered by pers for the’ ariuschient of | their readers and in order to have something to fill in between the comic strips. There was one particular murder that attracted more than the usual amount of attention because of sev- eral unique features connected with it. A man was found dead without a mark on his body except the usual ion mark. His suspenders | were missing, but it developed later ¥ that he was wearing a belt, so no importance was attached to this “clew everal persons who lived in the vicinity reported hearing shots at eight-thirty, cight-forty. ten min- utes to nine and a quarter after eleven, but as there were no bullet wounds on the vietim, these wil- nesses were all sent to jail for per- jury Eight persons identified the body, | each differently, so cight murder in- dictments were drawn up. As the authorities figured that two people committed the crime, as one person Tommy—Hey, Pa! Ma says not to go in ona full stomach! g could hardly have been so mean as to have done it alone, it meant that | sixteen murderers were at large. (~ There was a baseball field near the scene, so the authorities arrested \ The dered man, as the murdered man had the two teams that had played that tongue. been identified by eight different afternoon, with the exception of the an _— people. left fielders who were farthest from Uudge pays $5 for cach one printed The the scene. There they had the right number—sixteen—two for cach mur- smoothest running thing ) about a car ix the salesman's detectives and reporters worked feverishly on the case and Is. The victim's watch had stopped at five minutes past eight, and many figured that he had been killed at that time. until the head detective called to their attention the fact that his watch may have been a couple of uncovered many le hours slow or fast or it might have stopped several weeks previous to the murder because he had forgotten to wind it, | Well, anyway, the thing caused a about Ived se, the victim came to life. It sensation, and just as it was to go down in history as an uns scems he wasn't dead at all, he was just dead drunk and had gone into the park to sleep it off. | RC. OBrien comicbooks.com