Judge — April 6, 1929 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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WHO | Murdered Emma? And How! Judge Will Pay $25.00 for the Funniest Solution of the Following Mystery: Tie Meserole family came to New York in 1847. ‘They were three in all; Mr. and Mrs. Meserole and an innovation trunk full of naughty post-cards. \ slight misfortune happened on the picr after the steamer docked. On examining the Meserole bag- gage, the customs inspector found a Sunday-school teacher named Emma Worden carefully wrapped up in an old French tapestry. She said that the last thing she remembers was cating des amonds verts in the Bois on the outskirts of Paris, No matter. The Meseroles made a clean breast of the whole paid their fine for not declaring Miss Worden, and moved to modest quarters in Hingham, Mass. When Mrs. Mescrole opened her innovation trunk, preparatory to putting away her wardrobe, she found that Emma Worden had mysteriously dis- appeared, leaving no trace whatsoever, unless you wish to count the imprint of the thumb of her right hand, to which the authorities, themselves, give no credence. But what is of far greater import is the fact than on Sunday, April 10th, her entire Sunday- school class also disappeared; and it was then that the law pointed a searching finger at Harvey L. Meserole. Four days after this unfortunate occurrence the driver of a wagon told of having taken a box from the Mescrole house to the railroad station. It was addressed to G. C, Lea of Sandusky, in the care of Mr. Philip Fute, of New Orleans. At any rate, the police traced the box, broke it open and found Emma Worden’s Sunday-school class looki: t the post-cards. The next day, to add to the mystery, detectives found a blow torch sack in a neighboring yard eroles’ 1 an empty pot joining the Mes- nd, on the evidence of these, they arrested Mrs. Meserole d charged her with using the potato sack to hide her crime. The police of Hingham did not so casily solve the murder, however; for on the morning of the Lith the blow torch disappeared from the station house and Emma Worden’s body was found stuffed into an old drain pipe in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She refused to come out, however, even though the chief of police sprinkled cracked corn around the outlet icking noise with his teeth. 1 days the police t to fear foul sa last resort, Miss Worden’s Sunday- dren w sent to Fort Wayne to sing carols into the alleged drain pipe, in the hope that “teacher” would join in the chorus. One school Christm: JUDGE’S MYSTERY CONTEST No. This photograph shows (Left) the manner in which the Worden murder was supposed to hai been committed, and (Right) The manner in which the Worden murder actually was committed, (From the Jack Cluett collection of “Household Crimes”) by one the little tots crawled int “God bless ve merry gentlemen, let never seen alive The St cumstances « built up a series of incriminating cir- nst a oman nar Pratt, or Pruitt, or Gillespie, who said he lived in’ Paterson, New Jersey, and had never met 1 Worden and never wanted t On the other hand, Detective Brophy, from headquarters, claimed that on the night of the murder he looked through the transom of the Meserole home and saw Harvey L. Meserole holding a flue, while his wife, Doris, made suspicious signs with her fingers into the epen end. Mrs. Meserole later claimed that she was merely “mailing a letter to friends.” and asked the Com- monwealth to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, if they could, the connection between a clogged up flue in Hingham and a drain pipe in Fort Wayne, full of Sunday-school children. RULES OF CONTEST Jener will award a prize of niest solution of the above mys Any reader of Jenor may compete, and any number of solutions may be submitted, but none will be returned. Solutions should not be long: than 200 words, and cach solution should be written on a separate sheet of paper or more cont In case t s solution, $23 will be wins to cach, Contest No. 1 closes MIDNIGHT, April the 16th, and the winning solution will appear in the May Ith issue of June Contest No. 2 will appear next week, and Con- test No, 3 the week after, The editors of Jencr will be the final ju \ddress all solutions to. The Murderous o of Juncr, 18 East 48th Street, New York. N.Y., and don’t forget your name ‘and address, EDWARD LANGER PRINTIN + ING, JAMAICA, MY, comicbooks.com