Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 7, 1928 — page 142: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

TAMER AE A i a OC Po (PLL ZOD i a= — - By HARRY E. tpi Mt che be MacPHERSON How it came that neither the sheriff nor his deputy solved a murder mystery yet captured the reward nevertheless HE monotony of life in Mesa Grande, sleepy little cow town, county seat of Rodeo County, had been shattered on Monday night when young Danny Skinner, only son of beloved old Dad Skinner, owner of the Circle J, had run amuck. Danny, victim of a head injury from a fall in the last round-up, had rather thorough- ly shot up the town. Although the frenzied boy, cold sober, but suffering from some mental delusion, had killed no one—chiefly be- cause his aim was bad—it would have 132 made an excellent news story for the front page of the Weekly Mesa Grande Tidings. The youth had been disarmed and subdued after a flurry of extraordinary excitement; had been taken home to the ranch and put in care of his father: Dad Skinner had paid damages to one and all for broken glass and shattered furniture and fixtures. Danny, sadly admitted by all as loco, was a prisoner in his own home. Any other newspaper editor, espe- cially in a week when items of interest EOPNICLOOO© <S) (E@)