Judge — April 13, 1929 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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| JUDGE’S MYSTERY CONTEST No. 2 Judge Will Pay $25.00 for the Funniest Solution of the Following Mystery i | } ] | | | « y enyr of the Alderd | } | can be seen Ca, Shea dis as a chambern | i act of s y a cold-water tt 1 tt f fence in the shavn murrery The Frightful Story of Marion Phere wasn't one. si of evidence on ye : Which the state could conviction unless Gilchrist, as Related by Jack vou wis to count « pathetic looking bum who was ; Cluett, an Amateur Criminologist banging around the attic of the Gilehrist home, « | ] ton and a half of stove coal and a wrinkled hand ] i It seems strange that a murder ean hang on so kerchief bearing the tell-tale initials: “H. E." | H | | slight a thread, and can be determined by so un- Detective Shea turned the evidence over and over ] Wy consequential a circumstance as a blood-stained until it read: “E. HL. and the law pointed a blunt i butcher bill and 34 cents in cash money; but that's finger at Jay Walker Alderdyce as the murderer of | exactly what came out through a lawn sprinkler in the unfortunate seamstress, Marion Gilchrist. A Hi} Larchmont, N. Y., on that eventful May evening in hearing was held, and four days later a hot-water — | | Hi June 1908, faucet mysteriously disappeared from the tub of | | | The police were sceptical until one Marion Miss Roberta Benchley, #11 Springfield Drive, | ] Gilchrist disappeared from Watervliet, No Yo, was Montela rsey—and no questions asked. | washed over Croton Dam and turned up unex- Alderdyce was given the third degree, took it like | a pectedly in the china department at Ovington’s. a little gentleman, and felt the h— of a whole lot - | She was brutally murdered and was held as a hetter for it. Marion Gilchrist was taken to. the | 1) material witness along with a suspicious looking morgue and watched carefully for any false moves. | char, ter named Alderdyce and the ten, jack and Whilk f spades Walker Alderdyce was thoroughly searched poor disheveled Marion Gilchrist was ner vously pacing up and down at the morgue a cold-water { queen Jay painstaking scrutiny a cold- faucet) was found, apped up in the radio see- tion of the New York Sun. Jever niest IM award a prize of $25 for the f n of the above my Any reader of Jupce may compete, any mattress in the French Foreign I yeant Beaujolais. It) was Jater run in the rotogravure section of the New York ion by a Ser A police cordon was rapidly number of solutions may be submitted, but none Times along with a com | thrown around the G i tig Cetus ned salitions should not he a ier plete set of early Egyptian | i home in Watervliet (« , writen'dn ascpaate sheet ofan toilet articles. ] | the way—it was one of the Alderdyce broke down at | i best cordons that had ever In case te ts submit the the inquest and, just as the | been thrown in that neigh- sane 25 will be awarded police expected him to un | borhood). While weg ravel the terrible murder of Hi Shea from headqu MIDNIGHT, April the Marion Gilehrist and re he investigating the evidence AY solution will appear in enact the mysterious disap i file was delivered to the sus- y 18th issue of Jenar, pect, Alderdyce, in a deep dish of rice pudding. ‘The warden suspected foul play and forthwith put Alder- dyce in solitary confinement, and no dessert. Contest No. 3 will appear next week, and Con- test No. 4 the week after ors of Junen will be the final judges, he Murderous Editor Street, New York. N.Y., t your name and address. pearances of the hot and cold-water faucets, a nickel- plated cold-water faucet came crashing through the window of the courtroom aught Alderdyce flush temple, 32 EDWARD LANCER PRINTING CO., INC, JAMAICA, HY. comicbooks.com