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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1937
Page
4
In a charged drawing room scene, Vance confronts motives and names a guilty party before retreating upstairs to verify a clue. A nurse later reports Vance fell from the parapet and vanished, leaving a shocked group and a chilling line about gamblers never quitting with a first win.
Vance pursues Miss Beeton across the garden roof as twilight fades and the chase ends with her leaping into a shadowy abyss. Heath Snitkin and the narrator join in the pursuit as the stairway scene unfolds. A nurse admits attempted murder and murder stakes loom over the gathering.
Detective Vance explains a complex scheme by Miss Beeton to secure the Garden fortune. She planned double murder to frame Swift and gain Mrs Garden’s inheritance, using vault access, poisoned money, and radioactives, while targeting Professor Garden and Mrs Garden.
In a tense analysis, Vance explains the revised murder plan targeting Swift during the Rivermont Handicap. The killer used a blank shot from the bedroom and manipulated the study buzzer to mislead investigators while timing the act with the race outcome. Doctor Garden's absence aided the cover, and blood was wiped from the vault to erase evidence.
Miss Mina Wolf earned a master’s degree from Texas Tech on Monday becoming the first to do so in the Home Economics division. She will teach Elementary Foods and Applied Nutrition at Tech this summer and received a Columbia University research fellowship. She plans to move to New York City in September for further studies.
A Lubbock instructor will spend the summer in Austin to pursue graduate studies at the University of Texas. She plans to resume teaching in Lubbock in the fall.
Vernon Rural School held graduation on Friday May 28 with Nadine Farni as valedictorian and J L Tidwell delivering the address. Earlier May 24 a play titled When A Lady Decides featured cast members Nadine Farni Theo Farni Arra Mae Fulbright and others with musical interludes by Charles McLellan.
Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Isbell 48 were moved to Tuesday morning at 10 o clock at Sagerton Methodist Church to await her son J L Isbell's arrival from California Rev C R Lakey presided and burial followed in Fairview cemetery She had died Tuesday night last week in Cameron at a sister's home and her husband died about a year ago in Lagerton She is survived by her son and three other relatives
The obituary notes that two other sons Floy, Walter and Em ory of Cameron and a daughter Mrs Beulah Mae Carnes of Stamford survive, along with three sisters and a brother.
Governor James V. Allred expresses gratitude to the rural schools of Jones County for their contributions to the New London School Memorial Fund. The May 24 1937 letter to County Superintendent E Earl Isbill says the donations ease the grief of victims' families and friends.
A note on comets reveals some small comets exceed Earth in size. The so called Great Comet of 1811 allegedly dwarfed the sun with a diameter around one million miles.
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