Chapter 11 Dr Disease's mansion
Inside of Dr Disease's mansion all 6 People walked into Dr Disease's laboratory.
Inside of Dr Disease's laboratory and to go into more detail Dr Disease's laboratory is very big and black and expensive and is filled up with equipment that dates as far back as the 1910s and all 6 people all sat down at a giant table that is usually used for meetings and important discussions and that has-been happening with different tables in the same spot with the same concept since about the 1790s and Dr Disease started talking to everybody.
Hello everybody I brought you here to have a discussion about the execution and some other stuff and it will be done by me asking individual people about stuff that I and other people actually care about and it will begin now with what I call my question game and sometimes I refer to it as my old game which people like my daughter and Dr Killing have already played.
Then Dr Disease looked at Walter and started talking to him.
How long have you been a reporter for?
I have been a reporter at the newspaper since 1935 when my predecessor Lee Taylor was murdered.
How was he murdered?
He was murdered by being shot in the head at his house when he lived with his wife who was also murdered by being shot in the head.
Did the police catch the killer?
No they did not and his murder case is still open.
Can you go into more detail about your 1st day in 1935?
Yes I can.
In a flashback it is 1935 and it is Walter 1st day and Walter is walked into a big room filled with young men sitting at desks with typewriters and smoking cigarettes and because of that the room is filled with smoke and Walter looked around at the very busy and very loud and smoke filled room.
Then inside of the room Walter bumped into someone and to go into more detail is very tall and is very skinny and has brown hair and is wearing overalls and is nobody important.
Then Walter started talking to the person.
I am sorry about that.
That is okay and you must be new.
Yes I am and my name is Walter Garrett and I was a reporter somewhere else before I started here.
Where was you a reporter for?
I was a reporter for a number of places around the world but hopefully this will be the best place I have ever worked for and make me never want to go anywhere else.
That is a very good point and out of interest was you really a reporter for a number of places around the world?
Yes I was and I should tell you all of the details about it and I should tell you all of my stories about all the places I went to around the world some time.
I would like that.
Can you tell me where my desk is?
Yes I can and it is over there.
Then he pointed at a desk in the corner.
Walter walked over and sat down at the desk which is filled with paperwork of cases.
Then the reporter walked over to Walter and continue talking to him.
You are here to replace a recently murdered reporter named Lee Taylor.
What kind of reporter was he?
What do you mean what kind of reporter was he?
I don't understand your question.
Are you asking me what sort of man was he or are you asking me what sort of news did he put in the newspaper?
I am asking what sort of news did he put in the newspaper.
The answer is he mostly did murders and he also helped the police solve the murders and because you are his replacement you will do the same thing.
Are you saying I have to help the police to solve murders as part of my job?
Yes I am and you will start very soon because murders do not solve themselves especially when you are helping people to solve the murders.
Back in 1940 and that is how I got my job as a reporter at the newspaper in 1935.
And that is good.
Then Dr Disease looked at Walter's fiancé which is also his daughter and started talking to her.
Okay honey tell the people how long you have been a prison guard at sing sing prison for.
Okay daddy I have been a prison guard at sing sing prison since 1934 when I was 14-years-old.
Okay honey tell the people have your 1st day was.
Okay daddy I got the job because I wanted the job and you got me the job because you are friends with the warden of sing sing prison and you have been since sometime in the 1920s and if you go into more detail the warden of sing sing prison Lewis E. Lawes is my godfather and he fancies me and because he is my godfather and because he fancies me I got the job of a prison guard at sing sing prison in 1934 and out of interest the warden of sing sing prison Lewis E. Lawes did not fancy me when I was 14-years-old in 1934 he did not start fancies me until 1937 when I was 17-years-old to do with his wife dying but because he is a gentleman and because of the memory of his dead wife he would never do anything about it.
In a flashback it is 1934 and Dr Disease's daughter whose name is Courtenay Disease is sitting in the office of the warden of sing sing prison Lewis E. Lawes at his desk and at the moment Lewis E. Lawes is talking to Courtenay as he is writing down some information about her.
Hello Courtenay because you want a job at my prison I must ask you some questions.
Okay then start asking your questions.
Okay then I will and because of that matter I will establish your name is Courtenay Disease and you are 14-years-old and you was born on the 1st of January 1920 and you was born in a hospital in London in England and out of interest what job would you like?
I would like the job as a prison guard at this prison.
Usually if a woman asked me if they could be a prison guard at my prison I would say no but because your father is an old friend of mine and I am your godfather I will say yes and you can have the job as a prison guard at my prison.
That is very good and out of interest when can I start?
You may start today unofficially and you may begin officially next month.
Both of those things are very good to hear especially the 2nd 1.
Later in the day Courtenay is walking down a corridor in the prison.
Then Courtenay walked into an interview room.
Inside of the interview room there is a man who is handcuffed to a table and to go into is unrecognisable Courtenay care so little about the person she is not bothering to establish what he looks like in her story.
Then the unrecognisable man looked at Courtenay.
Hello can you help me?
I am here to guard you not to have a conversation with you.
Fine then I will talk to myself that.
Please yourself.
Then unrecognisable man said his name but Courtenay does not establish what it is in her story but the unrecognisable man does say his other information.
I am 25-years-old and I was born on the 23rd of March 1909 apparently at the same time as the at that moment in time former 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt left New York to go to what is referred to as the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition and out of interest I have been accused with 20 murders and if found guilty I will be sent to the electric chair.
Whatever.
Later in the day the unrecognisable man is tied down in the electric chair waiting to be executed and Courtenay is standing right in front of him and at the moment the unrecognisable man is talking to Courtenay.
How about it?
How about what?
How about looking in the eye of a man who is about to be executed?
Okay.
Then Courtenay looked into the eyes of the unrecognisable man for a moment without doing anything else.
A few minutes later Courtenay is standing in the room where the warden stands when the execution takes place and at the moment Lewis E. Lawes is talking to Courtenay about the execution.
Out of interest young lady because today is your unofficial 1st day you are watching an execution but that is not going to be part of your main job because your main job is to do with transferring prisoners from 1 cell to another cell and out of interest you have to use the very small break room for female prison guards and numerous other things that female prison guards use (even though there are no other female prison guards)
That sounds very good.
That is the right idea.
A few minutes later the executioner Robert G. Elliott walked over and pulled the switch.
The unrecognisable man began to be electrocuted.
Then the unrecognisable man burst into flames.
A few minutes later the unrecognisable man died from burning to death.
A few hours later Courtenay is talking to the executioner Robert G. Elliott and to go into more detail at the moment Courtenay is sitting on the floor near to the electric chair and the executioner Robert G. Elliott is sitting in the electric chair which is something that he teaches Joseph Francel how to do because he learnt it off his mental as well.
Out of interest executioner does that happen a lot?
Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't it is just 1 of those things which does not matter because he deserved to die because he was a murderer and murderers deserve to die and because he was a murderer and he deserved to die he got everything what's was coming to him.
Back in 1940 and that is how I got the job as a prison guard at sing sing prison in 1934 and also how my 1st day was and that is also the 1st time I looked into the eyes of a person right before they was executed.
And that is good.
Then Dr Disease looked at Walter again and started talking to him again.
Out of interest young man can you go into more detail about that statement you made?
What statement do you mean?
The statement that you was a reporter for a number of places around the world before 1935.
You want me to go into more detail about the matter I have been a reporter in a number of places around the world.
Yes I do.
Okay then I have been a reporter since about February 1916 when I was 12-years-old in London in England to do with a lack of men to do with the war in Germany and that job went on from 1916 to when the war ended in 1918 and because of that matter I did stories to do with the war in Germany in the 1910s such as the beginning of the war in Germany in 1914 and information about the war in Germany to do with 1914 and information about the war in Germany to do with 1915 and information about the Battle of Asiago that was in Asiago plateau in Veneto in Italy and was to do with the Italian Front and obviously it was a battle to do with the war in Germany and the particular battle in question was from the 15th of May 1916 to the 10th of June 1916 and information about the Battle of Jutland that was in the North Sea near Denmark and obviously it was a battle to do with the war in Germany and the particular battle in question was from the 31st of May 1916 to the 1st of June 1916 and obviously information about the famous battle the Battle of the Somme that was in the Somme River in north-central Somme and the south-eastern Pas-de-Calais Départements in France and obviously it was a battle to do with the war in Germany and the particular battle in question was from the 1st of July 1916 to the 18th of November 1916 and then I was a reporter in Essex in England and I was there from 1918 to 1919 where I did stories about things like the 1918 United Kingdom general election and some information about the 1918 Irish general election and some information about the previous 30 United Kingdom general elections and some information about the previous 30 United Kingdom general elections to do with Ireland and then I was a reporter in Moscow in Russia and I was there from 1919 to 1920 where I did stories about things like the Russian Civil War that happened in the early 1920s and some information about the Russian Revolution that previously happened in 1917 and some information about Russian in the war in Germany in the 1910s and then I was a reporter in San Francisco in California and I was there from 1920 to 1922 where I did stories about things that previously had already happened like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1915 San Francisco world's fair and then I was a reporter in Toronto in Canada and I was there from 1922 to 1924 where I did stories about things that previously had already happened to do with things like Lake Ontario and some information about it and Niagara Falls and the people who went over Niagara Falls and survived like Annie Edson Taylor in 1901 and Bobby Leach in 1911 and the people who went over Niagara Falls and died like Ed Delahanty in 1903 and Charles Stephens in 1920 and then I was a reporter in Adams County in Mississippi and I was there from 1924 to 1926 where I did stories about things that previously had already happened to do with things like the founding of the place in 1799 and some information about Mississippi and when it was added to the admission to the Union in 1817 when it was the Territory of Mississippi and then I was a reporter on the English island S C Island from 1926 to 1928 where I did stories about things that previously had already happened to do with things like the vampire wars that started in the year 1010 and the year-long hunted house parties in the haunted house on the Hill in the years 1890 and 1900 and 1910 and 1920 and then I was a reporter in Washington, D.C in America and I was there from 1928 to 1930 where I did stories about things that previously had already happened to do with things like a number of the landmarks in Washington, D.C such as the Washington Monument that started to be built in 1848 and was finished in 1884 and the Lincoln Memorial that was built from 1914 to 1922 and a number of other landmarks that are to do with long dead Presidents of the United States and then in 1930 I went to Norway and helped out with the Bratvaag Expedition and then I was a reporter in Sergipe in Brazil and I was there in 1931 and when I was there I did not do much in the way of writing and then I was a reporter in Hamburg in Germany and I was there in 1932 and when I was there I did not do much in the way of writing especially not to do with the war in Germany in the 1910s and then I was a reporter in Victoria in Australia and I was there from 1932 to 1933 where I did a bunch of stuff to do with the history of Australia especially in the 1800s where people was sent there and then I was a reporter in Hong Kong in China and I was there from 1933 to 1934 where I did a bunch of stuff to do with the history of China especially to do with the many dynasties such as the Qing dynasty from 1644 to 1911 and the Ming dynasty from 1368 to 1644 and the Yuan dynasty from 1271 to 1368 and earlier ones and then I was a reporter in Honolulu County in Hawaii and I was there from 1934 to 1935 where I did not do a lot of writing and like I have already said in 1935 I started working at the newspaper I am working for at the moment and that is the list of places that I have worked for as a reporter around the world.
Are those all of them?
Kind of because I work for those places and some others during working for those places and that is mostly it.
And that is good.
Then Dr Disease looked at the prison guard who is friends with Walter and started talking to him.
How long have you been a guard at sing sing prison?
I was hired in 1935.
How long have you been friends with my soon to be son-in-law.
Me and your soon to be son-in-law has been friends since we 1st met in 1935.
In a flashback it is 1935 not long after when Walter and the guard was both hired at both of their job in 1935 and Walter is walking into the prison.
Then suddenly the guard stopped him.
My name is on the list.
Is your name really on the list?
Yes it is.
What is your name?
My name is Walter Garrett.
Then the guard looked at him.
You are the newspaper reporter who did all those stories in Russia and China and a number of other places around the world.
Yes I am and out of interest what is your name?
My name is Jimmy man.
Well hello Jimmy he said putting a cigarette into his mouth and lighting it with a match.
Then the guard pulled out a cigarette and put it into Walter's mouth and lighting it with a match.
Back in 1940 and we have been friends ever since we 1st met in 1935.
And that is good.
Then Dr Disease looked at Walter again and started talking to him again.
Out of interest young man what is the most important crime you ever helped solve in the 24 years that you have been a reporter for?
Okay then the most important crime I ever helped solve in the 24 years that I have been a reporter for was last year.
Out of interest can you say the details of the crime?
Yes I can and I will say the details of the crime.
That is good.
Last year I helped the police catch a monster who killed 2 people and drained them of there rare blood types.
Did you find who did it? Yes I did and it was done by a man who was recently executed for allowing a 10-year-old child to die of starvation and bought back to life and the rare blood types kept him alive which didn't save him from dying by being shot by the police.
What was his name?
His name was Dr Xavier but he was usually referred to as Doctor X.
He sounded like a monster and it is good he is dead and it is very good that you help the police to shoot him down like the mad dog that he sounds like.
Yes it is.
And that is good.
Then Dr Disease looked at the new recruit to the newspaper and started talking to him.
What was you doing in the car when your partner was in the prison?
I was on a 2-way radio talking to my brother in law.
Why do you have a 2-way radio if they are only for the army?
My brother in law is in the army.
Really what rank is he?
He is a General in the United States Army.
How long has he been fighting?
He has been fighting since 1931 and he has been my brother-in-law since 1934 when he married my sister.
He sounds like a very important man.
Yes he is because he is very high up in the arm but he is not as important as my dad.
Really what rank is your father?
Technicality from a while he was a Colonel in the Regular Army but recently he was made into a Brigadier General in the Army of the United States.
That is impressive.
Yes over their he is a Great War hero because he was in the war in Germany in the 1910s as well and he is in the war in Germany at the moment and because of that my father's name is known around the world because he is just that famous and he is supposed to be a great man even though he is not a great man he is still known around the world and that is why his name is so famous.
Out of interest young man what is your father's name?
My father's name is.
Right before the new recruit to the newspaper was about to say his father's name there was a knock on the door.
Then Dr Disease stood up walked out of the room.
A few minutes later Dr Disease walked back into the room.
Then Dr Disease looked everybody and started talking to them.
Apparently the execution is in 2 hours and you must get ready to go to it.
And because of that all of them walked out of the room.
Outside of the room all of them walked out of Dr Disease's mansion.
Outside of Dr Disease's mansion all of them got into the horse and carriage belonging to Dr Disease.
Then the horse and carriage belonging to Dr Disease drove away.
End of chapter 11
