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Cuban Philo. In the best tradition of detective fiction, Cuban Lieut.-Colonel Erasmo Delgado proceeded to unravel deductively The Mystery of the Bathroom Bomb...
Leaping now by mighty leaps, the mind of Detective Delgado pounced upon Ex-Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana. He became "ex" very recently, when President Machado signed the decree transforming Havana from a city into a Federal District. Obviously here was a MOTIVE...
...thickly wooded mountains of the west coast State of Nayarit with an interpreter-guide, Mr. Fields, to prospect for gold and inspect a zinc property. A week later Interpreter Fields galloped into the dusty, desolate village of Ahuacatlan with a scribbled message. Prospector Bristow had been captured by Cruz Delgado, was held for $15,000 ransom. The Mexican police instantly clapped Interpreter Fields into jail...
Days passed. From Mexico City came exciting accounts of a battle in which three bandits had been killed by the Federal troops. In the town of Tepic grew a much more definite story that Bandit Cruz Delgado was demanding more money. When Prospector Bristow rode into Ahuacatlan on his donkey last week the true story became known. "Obie" Bristow had bargained with mysterious agents of Bandit Delgado for over a week. A ransom of $5,000 was finally agreed upon and paid. Followed the prisoner's release...
...nothing but bread and water. Wild turkeys were roosting all around us but nobody dared shoot at them for fear the Federals would hear. My closest escape was one night when five of the bandits got drunk and wanted to hang me for the hell of it. Cruz Delgado finally talked them out of it. I taught those fellows to play poker. Some of them got to be pretty good. The last night after the ransom was paid they killed a turkey and gave me a party. The mosquitoes, though! They were something fierce...