Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1926 — Page 24

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SANDY McNKTT,, in loro with life* marries BKV MI'RtT.T.O. rich Italian, to please her impoverished family. Tyranny by Murillo and freqeiit quarrels follow A son dies at. birth. 808 JJr NTIIJ/, her uncle, aids in plans for Sandy and her mother to take a trip to Honolulu There she meets RAMON WORTH who saves her life in the surf, (in the same steamer home he declares his lovr. Murillo says he will never re lease her JTIPITK MOORK. a cousin, tells Sanriv love Is overvthimr. Murillo overtakes her as she rocs for a. tr.vsl with Ramon. She leaves his house and accepts the kindly attentions of Ramon whose home she shares When her mother dirs. she leaves Ramon and Roes to live with her cousin. Judith. DO! <’• I.AS KEITH the man whom Judith loves, iiite. dives his iriend. II VI. 11l Mb, to Judith. Ho. himself, falls in love vith Sandr. who la cinrocat.es his atfei- ‘ lion. This leaver. Judith heartbroken Si.nar determines to leave Judith. Then she meets Ramon Worth, who has returned from the Orient, and she tells Hoiißlas of Ills return. They plan to mu avvav together. althmißh Judith pleads with PoneTas not. to do this 11 si mu Worth shoots Sandv and kills hmrif in his office. Pouelas meets Judith i,. ink- her to Hal Humes apartment here he has left Sandy. GO ON W ITH THE STORY chapter xcvi. The evening papers carried a diagram of Ramon's office. The pros irate figure of a man showed where the body lay. An arrow pointed to a dark spot in the opposite corner, labeled' "blood stains.” A second ar row called attention to a section of the wall considerably behind Ramon, where a bullet was imbedded. The headline asked; "Murder or Suicide?" The story indicated convincingly murder had been done. Alarming, unsuspected facts bolstered! Ibis the cry. frightening facts that drew a not with choking tightness. Sometime between 8 o’clock when Wort 1 i was seen by the elevator op era tor to have entered his office - sometime between that hour and midnight, lie had been shot. No one heard the shots. But a man— a young man between 20 and 25—that waited nervously ill 1 lie cigar store at the corner from 9:20 until 10;4A. He had then entered the building -studied the. office dirge fory. He had asked if such a party as "Ramon Worth" was a tenant. And., immediately learning that he was, h© became so excited that on leaving the elevator, he went in the wrong direction. The elevator operator gave this detailed and colorful Information. * * • Who was this man? Was ft h° whose blood made a small pool on the floor?Someone had been present, when Ramon was shot. —someone beside:; the dead man was wounded. Who was this other? Flow could he, have ; escaped, unaided? Had Ramon shot him and then turned the pistol on himself? ff so, how account for that bullet Imbed ded iri the wall? The dead man, front his position, could riot have iired this. Nor could the pistol have curved half across the room had it dropped from Worth’s lifeless hand. It appeared to have been flung down Jn it hurry. By whom? How had the murderer escaped? A man had been known to enter Worth’s office. * No one bad seen anyone leave. The police were working on clews They had taken finger prints found on a chair and on the panels of the door. • • A mystifying feature of the trag-

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edy was Its apparent absence of motive, Worth had been a tenant of this building for live years, lie was well connected and very popular. Despite a year’s absence lie was Immediately remcmbei e4-ami welcomed even by tlio elevator operator and jani tress. Robbery had plainly not been the motive. A wallet containing SSOO in currency, a .fade ring and a very fine watch were all untouched on the person of the dead man. Why—supposing that Ramon was murdered—rhad the crime been committed? *' / ’(Tie last edition of the paper answered the question In a headline that Rashed on the eyes of Douglas Keith with a shivering violence: "Mystery Woman and Confederate Sought in Worth Shooting.” The unforseen circumstance — heads, silver and blue had been found scattered on the floor. Extremely small beads that might h ive been ripped from a purse. These heads were found half way between where the bullet was Im bedded and the corner where the blood stains were found. The newspaper made a. graphic picture—reconstructing , tiie whole twenty microscopic beads a. a seti nti t reconstructs fc- skeleton of a primitive animal from a single tooth. Had a woman been shot at by Ramon Worth and in return had she killed him? Had a woman eorpe to his office on this fatal evening? * Evidence pointed 1o a scuffle-a chair pirslied against the wall the rug kicked aside. Had this girl or woman conic to- plead or thi4>atpn? And lie had shot her? \\ u*> (hat. her—blood in Ihe corner"’ If so, then she had stumbled to ward Hie door and fallen before ry aching it. * * * How then could she have done the shooting? t How, then, could she have escaped? No woman had gono down in the elevator between 10 and 11. And no woman grievously wound ! ed could have walked down three | flights of steps unaided. The, in i sere nee was obvious. Someone had I aided her. Douglas stood in the kitchen of Hal Hume’s flat read this ac- j count. , rattle heads from her purse ripped I off when she tried to seize the pis j tol from Ramon’s hand. Tiny heads 1 glittering on the floor. He hadn’t! noticed them. And now they were searching the I office—this office Ramon had occu- j pled for live years. They were tajeing fingerprints, looking through pa pers. They might come upon let tors—letters Sandy had written to Ramon. * Then they would know —then they would come to her. He became hot. He walked to the wall \and struck his list against it. Almighty God — what a tiling this was to happen! He fancied the whole world now visualized Sandy tn Ramon's office —the whole world now heard those bitter moans of hers— And they saw him shaking the knob of this door —saw him carrying her down the steps.

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l"I'm going to take her away tonight," he said to Judith. "Vou’ll not!" Hal Hume answered, coming in quietly—the bland serenity of his face gone. "She’ll not he moved from here unless you send her to a hospital." Douglas stood with his back turned: "Then they'll find us both. And they might even try to pin*lt on her —“ "She’s as safe her© as anywhere. If there are letters signed with her name you can't hide her. Most likely she didn't sign the letters. She won’t be connected with It. Neither will you. He didn't even know you. "Have sense enough to keep quiet. Xo one comes here except the woman who cleans the place. Ml tell her not to bother for this week. “By that time we may be able to move her. You can't move her one day sooner." For five days the mystery death occupied the front page. * But a. search of Ramon’s office revealed nothing After a year’s absence he had returned this Monday for the first time. The same night he rad died . . leaving not a single word to Indicate he had an en emy In the world, or the slightest wish to die. ’. The papers concluded h© had been shot by a burglar who had been scared away before accomplishing his object. The story was losing Interest when two Incidents again brought it to the headlines. A blood stained handkerchief was found on the etalrs. In aomt inex-

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plicable way it h<j(l l>een kicked into a chrner and was found under a fire bucket. This handkerchief had a laundry mark and the Initial "K" Secondly, the downtown hotel where Worth had taken a room reported that he had not occupied the room on Sunday night . . . that he had left early Sunday morning and had never returned. Almost irnrneditely after this a friend of Ramon Rdvlsed the police that Ramon had a cottage in Carmel and als* a studio flat on the Lombard street hill. And this flat was visited. Here Ramon had spent all of Sunday night. Hero he had spent Monday from the time ho bad dashed away from Sandy’s house until he had gone to his office at 8 o'clock that same evening. , Anil here, scattered all over the room .were tom fragments of letters snatches of despondent phrases—threats against an unknown foe.' Here were scraps of a letter written to -Sandy. (To Be Continued) . STTLI. OLD FASHIONED CHICAGO—The stork still makes (flreet deliveries to 71 per cent of American farm homes, according to a survey of farm life by a local agricultural association. Tn the last five years only 2!) per cent of the country's rural babies were born in hospitals.

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