15 Story Detective, April 1950 — page 127: what you’re looking at

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Full Steam to Nowhere what a sight No. 89 was! All the cylin- der heads were broken—for Engineer Dennis Cassin, before jumping off the locomotive, had shoved the pumps on full steam ahead ! He had done it so swiftly and subtly that it had gone unobserved. Conse- quently, when the convicts opened up the throttle, it had sent the engine roaring down the tracks—to an explosion. The convicts, no doubt shaken by the eruption of events, managed to take out into some nearby woods but were re- captured. (Continued from page 79) combined to undermine his health, and he contracted tuberculosis. Picked up in a routine raid, Villon was recognized and returned to Paris. He was quickly convicted on the old charge of robbing the College of Navarre. The death sentence was pronounced, but later com- muted to ten years’ exile. Where that all his story, it would differ little from that of the typical fifteenth- century criminal. But in addition to a police record that would make many a modern gangster look like a sissy, Francois Villon left behind the manuscript of a volume of poetry that marked an epoch in literature. Slime, filth, and violence were in it, to be sure. Alongside these elements, and intermingled with them, are some of the most majestic passages ever written. The only professional criminal ever to be recognized as a writer of the very first rank, the gallows rat would prob- ably be pleased if he could know that his poems have passed through more than three hundred editions. On the other hand, he might prefer a flagon of wine and a saucy maid to all the honors of the literary world, ARANTESE. that The Dyco Action Course in Wieotive Saics- pb will make you oe and pee comer ge successful through galesmanship. Based mothods, Easily learned. Don o-eatiraly in fu" oo 15 minutes a day for twelve weeks. IMMED Costa only $2 per month for gix months, Write ae ire cae i DYCO PUBLISHING COMPANY Selling Aids Division Dept. SA 4, 1321 Arch St., Philadeiphia 7, Pa, ick relief with Dent’s. Use Dent's Tooth < Dent's Tooth Drops for cavity tooth- aches, Use Dent’s Dentat Pouitice for paiq or Since 1858” { soreness in gums or teeth. At all — stofes. DENT’S 25° TOOTH DROPS “Sy DENTAL POULTICE a Owe to a Col "Honey & Tar Cough Compound EO LEY’ meoded. Employed good character eligible. Solve your a et eax quickly and fn pion Sore privacy with a foag 1. Employer, relatives and frieads is will not knoe ou a ‘plying fora Rush ving eccupation—for Application BREE Emplaincnvelope. Noobligation. State Fimance Co., 210 Convenient monthly payments. lank sent Finance Bidzg., Dept. E-71, Des Moines B, Iowa (Hosea, =t \ dey pes rapa ee vty seedy towa j Please rush FREE Application Blank. 1 fl mia Sa a Se ee ee ee § ADDRESS eee fl Se ) Ae S| | Ee RR a ee Oooupatien 5 ———_---n-——— =n go ------ | 127 Gomicbooks (E@)