Judge — August 1937 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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WHO DONE IT? We Furnish the Clues. You Furnish the Murderer Hamilton Hock is toasting marshmallows over his own grave. He conspired with his wife to gasoline a dummy at the breakfast table and burn the house down, This resulted in lots of smoke and $100,000 in life insurance. Ham, smoked into legal oblivion, has come back from the dead to enjoy obscurity. “Gimme my $50,000!" snarls Ham to his wife. “Over your dead body!" snaps Mrs. Hock, on her haunches. “I'll call the sheriff and nobody'll get nuttin’! barks Ham. Mrs. Hock picks up her fist and throws it at his chin. Voluntarily, Ham Hock goes to sleep. A. Fish, the janitor, is in reality an undercover man for the insurance firm, He sneaks into every room of the house and steals hundreds of clues, He obtains Ham's fingerprints, his pants, his nightshirt, a wad of chewing tobacco and a fly swatter. From me and Bong he obtains an odd assortment of vitamized codfish pills. Losing himself in the forest, Ham eats eggs. Fish sees Ham and runs to the nearest phone booth. “Department of Justice, G-Men?” There's a guy down here who had a $100,000 income last year and didn’t pay the government a cent! Fifty thousand G-Men close in on Ham's lair. 26 He returns to find his wife in the arms of two other men, Biff and Bong. Both profess undying devotion for everything Mrs. Hock is, or has, Mrs. Hock, $100,000 richer and two suitors to the good, doesn't recognize her own husband. Biff and Bong don’t blame her. Just then ten kiddies skip into the room. "Daddy!" they cry. Eight of them dash to Ham Hock’s side, while the other two run to Biff and Bong. “Treacherous woman!” wail the two men, “You have betrayed us for a husband! Give us the $100,000, and quick.” “The only thing you two muffins'll get,” replies Mrs. Hock, “is what Ham got!" Fish then dashes into the pantry to discover Mrs. Hock suffer- ing in C sharp minor. “Water! she gasps. He throws a bucket of water on her. “Wine!” she chokes. He breaks a bottle on her head. Beside her is the bag that contained $100,000—empty. Biff and Bong and Ham have disappeared. Fish puts a flower in her hand and pulls a carpet over her face. ‘ Not many days later Ham is laid to rest. His body bears marks of scorching, as if a bolt of electricity had struck him. Fish is there to mourn Ham. The cats are there to mourn Fish. And the pound is there to mourn the cats. ‘WHO DONE IT? (See page 31) comicbooks.com