Judge — May 18, 1929 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE’S MYSTERY CONTEST No. 7 What Strange Power Did the “Salt Water” Exert? Judge Will Pay $25.00 for the Funniest Solution of the Following Mystery: mulling over my “Household Crimes” 1 find » overlooked the “Salt Water” Dia- This mystery is unusual in that the ‘valuable as it was, caused misery to whoever possessed it. Another peculiar phase of Is this cruz criti- corum which singles it out is that the principles. in- clude a Hindu named Hud- son Bey, a mysterious woman with white skin named Lady Breathwent and a squeaky old butler called Dobbs, The story is Lin Soba Afri- ca, land of the wild flower. Dobbs, a butler, in good standing in Africa, had taken the ay off. He told his mistress, Lady Breathwent, that he wanted to snap some wild life at a water hole near Simba. That was on ‘Tuesday afternoon Wednesday morning he was found at’ the bottom of the Kimberley diamond mine, fast asleep. A tsetse fly buzzed off into the jungle as Mr. Kim- berley shook the unconscious butler, shouting: “Oh, you Dobbs! It’s time to set the table.” But Dobbs was dead. He was straightway removed to the Breathwent town house at Soba After rolling him on a barrel for a few brief moments the Salt) Water diamond dropped out of his turban. In the middle of the night Lady Breathwent dragged Dobbs’ body through the underbrush and dropped it into a lion Any reader of trap which E. Martin number of ‘sc Johnson had set earlier in the evening for a tiger- skin rug. (You can in ine E, M. waiter instead of y denizen.) The next evening twilight was casting its shadows over Soba Konga, a Hindu jumped out of some armor which stood in the corner and, con- t, Le ri went and the Hindu ferocious riter, onga. Jupce than 200 we In case two winnin to each. 28th, and the wir the June 22nd issue r more "s surprise « pr solution, same Address of Jur igaled out of darke nding into the Kim! (From the Jack Cluett collection © RULES OF CONTEST Jevcr will award a prize of niest solution of the above mystery. may compete. utions may be will be returned. Solutic each solution should be written on a separate sheet of paper. contestants su 7 closes MIDNIGHT. May ing sok of Jepce The editors of Jupce will be the final jud; I] solutions to The Murderous F st 48th Street, New York. N.Y and don't forget your name and address. fronting Lady Breathwent, said: “Mamba e Salt Water” (I've come, as you knew I would, for the Salt Water). Lady Breathwent blanched, and thinking to fool this sudden intruder, fetched him iamond which was surreptitiously kept for Hindus who hid in her ar- mor, (She had another paste nd, in case some body hid be hind the tains, too.) Hudson Bey asked to cur- went conde- scended, but whenthe lights were snapped on (they'd been snapped off first. as in the game of Truth and Consequences) the Salt Water was gone! Hudson Bey and Lady Breathwent started chas ing each other around the table as fast as all out doors, each one certain that the other had played a prank; and the other just as certain that it was each oni About 9 o'clock Hudson got tired and went back into the armor for the night. Just before dawn broke over Africa Lady Breath went awe to the realization that Hudson Bey ht like a snack of cold She tiptoed down stairs and, returning from the with a drumstick, stuffed it under ; ; the visor of the Etruscan for the fun: armor. It clanked down through the hollow in terior and rolled out at her fect covered with rust- Hudson Bey was not there! Suddenly Lady Breath- went spun around and saw, there in’ the dim dawn—Dobbs, the butler, seated at the breakfast table with Mr. Kimberley, dissolving the Salt V diamond in a cruet of v gar. . Both men had been chewed nearly in half. Africa, portraying, at the ey Diamond Mi At the to Novo Redondo, astride a i “Household Crimes.”) ice - box and any ubmitted, but none should not be longer it the will be awarded will appear i EDWARD LANGER PRINTING CO. ING. Jamaica. ST comicbooks.com