Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1926 — Page 20

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“The VANITY CASE” A Tale of Mystery and Love By CAROLYN WELLS

* „ BEGIN HERE TODAY . MRS.PRENTISS gets liKhts mysteriously appear and disapppar In the HEATH household next door one ntirht, and the next day Harbor Gardens. Long Island, is agog with the murder of MYRA HEATH and the disappearance of her husband. I’ERRY. House Kuests of the Heaths are LAWRENCE INMAN, heir to Myra's fortune, and RUNNY MOORE, vivacious, pretty, to whom suspicion points because of her peculiar actions. Myra' Heath never used rougre never wore colors. She had a mania for collecting glass, and it was a rare old bo trite from her collection that the murderer used to kill her. Candles were burning at her head and feet: near by was a card marked. "The Work of Perry Heath.” Strangest of all. she was heavily rouged! The strange thing about Heath's disappearanee is that all the windows and doors had been locked on the inside the night before and were found that way in the mornnig. Finger prints of Runny Mpore and Inman were found on the bottle. At the Country Club, the murder is discussed by SAM ANDERSON. Heath's rival tor the club presidency: AL CUNNINGHAM, who is trying to solve the crime, and others. Some believe Heath the murderer. Anderson disagrees. TODHUNTER BUCK, nephew of Mrs. Prentiss and In love with Bunny, believes Heath also may have been murdered. EMMA, a waitress at the Heath home, tells of seeing Bunny ascend the stairs about the time of the murder, carrying her vanity ease. Later Bunny is amazed to get a phone call from Perry Heath telling her Inman is guilty. Bunny breaks down and faints under a grilling bv DETECTIVE MOTT, who makes up his mind that she is guilty. Cunningham determines to And Perr.v Heath. • NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVIII Meantime, Bunny was returning from a motor ride with Mps. Prentiss, refreshed in body and mind by the pleasant drive and the cheering companion. For Mrs. Prentiss was greatly taken with Bunny Moore. When they reached the Prentiss house that good lady advised Bunny to ryn and tidy up for luncheon. And so it was a senene, almost happy looking girl who came down in a fresh white frock and joined Mrs. Prentiss and her nephew at the table on the porch. Beside Bunny's plate lay a sealed note. With a murmured word of apology Bunny opened it and her eyes ran over the contents. "Nothing important,” she said, smiling, and carelessly tucked the missive under the napkin in her lap. But she seemed to have acquired a new interest in life. She was more animated, she spoke gaily, even jestingly, and once or twice her laughter rang out quite like the Bunny of old times. Todhunter Buck was fascinated. The A-are beauty of the girl, enlivened by a touch of gay impertinance, charbed the young man almost out of his senses. Mrs. Prentiss watched the young man with secret amusement, for she had seen her nephew fall in love many times, but it seemed to her that this time he fell a little harder than ever before. But as she left the table, Bunny’s mood suddenly changed. Rising, she dropped the letter from her lap, and when Toddy picked it up and handed it to her, she paled suddenly, and then as quickly flushed again. “Thank you,” she said, but her voice sounded far away, and her eyes looked troubled. "Please, Mrs. Prentiss, may I go to my room for a while? And not be.Aisturbed—unless —unless it’s necessary.” Emily Prentiss, with her quick intuition, knew the girl meant unless by a summons of the law. But she only said, “Certainly, my dear. I’ll come for you, is—ls it is? necessary. Try to get some rest. Smiling perfunctorily, Bunny went slowly up the stairs. t “Oh, by gosh, Aunt Emily, isn’t she just all there is of it?’’ Toddycried, clasping his aunt’s hands in his own, as he beamed at her. “Todhunter,” Mrs. Prentiss spoke seriously, “if you are really fond of the girl, you’d better get busy and see what you can do for her. For, I can tell you, my boy, she is in imminent danger of arrest." “Arrest! Aunt Em, .you’re crazy!" “No. You’re crazy if you can't see where she stands. That man, Mott, has his eagle eye on her, and his claws are itching to clutch at her throat! I tell, you. Tod. unless you can find a better suspect, things are going to look very black for Bunny Moore.” “Then I’ll find a better suspect! I’ll find the real criminal! It’s too absurd to connect that baby with crime! You know that, yourself. Aunt Em. You know she is as innocent as a snowflake, don t you? “Well, dear, like you, I can’t think of her killing anybody, even in a sudden fit of passion. She isn’t that sort. Her temper is the temper of a wilful child, but not of a vicious nature. I can read people, and I have faith in Bunny. But police detectives are a dogged, obstinate lot If they get a suspect in their minds, they bend every hit of evidence toward that theory. They even twist and garble the evidence to fit thhit own schemes. They persecute and ballyrag a witness into saying al-

DR. W. B. CALDWELL AT THE AGE OF S3

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most anything they want said, and then announce it as evidence. You’ve heard of railroading. Well, Bunny will be railroaded, unless we look alive! There, I've .told you my opinions, and as you know, your old Aunt is fairly astute in her judgments.” "You bet you are, Aunt Em! Now I'm going to fly at this thing, and if I can’t get at the truth of the business, I know somebody who can." “Who?” “A friend of mine—a regular deteckatlf feller. But I’m going to have a whack myself, first. You see, i(>ve got a hunch!” “I’m not deeply impressed by that news, Todhunter. I can't think you know a hunch when you see one! If you know a really good detective, you'd better get hold of him than to follow your own silly hunches!" “I like your pleasant frankness, Auntie, arid I believe you’re pretty darned near right! But I do want to look Into one side of the matter first, and if that doesn’t pan out anything, I’ll yell for Truitt. That’s my friend, Steve Truitt.” "I’ve heard of him. He's rather celebrated.” "Yes, though he’s a young chap. We were college chums, and he's as bright as they come. Well, Auntie, here’s my hunch. I think Inman killed the lady. And I think he did i it, because he wanted her money. ( And 1 think lie was not in love with her—no, not by no means!—but I think she was in love with him, and pestered the life out of him. I think he is in love wfth Bunny—who could help it? And so Myra bored him, and when she begged him to elope with her, he just got mad and —perhaps unintentionally—l mean, unpremeditatedly, let fly the bottle, and it did for her.” “Ingenious enough, Tod, hut nothing to back up such a theory.” "Oh, I don't know!” said her nephew, airily, and went off by himself to think things over. Strolling about his aunt's grounds, he drifted over to the Heath house, and found Larry Inman alone on a verandah. “Hello,” Tnman said “take a seat and sit down.” "Care if I ask you some questions?" Tod said, with a straightforward glance at the other. “Wish you would. I say, I’m up j against it —have you ideas?” Buck looked at him, curiously. but,” he returned. “Haven’t you?” “Yep. But they're all no good. Say, I'm told you have a detective instinct—l believe that's the technical term—cah’t you ferret out who killed my cousin?" “Didn’t you?” Buck shot out the words with such clear-cut emphasis and assured intent, that Inman, instead of showing any resentment, merely replied, "No, I didn’t do it.” f Suddenly Todhunter Buck's heart fell. He couldn’t have explained it himself, but there was something about Inman’s plain statement that carried conviction—a deep conviction —that he was telling the simple truth. But, “Who did then?” was all he said. “You're in love with Miss Moore?” Inman asked, quietly, and Toddy, having suddenly taken a liking to this calm person, replied, “Yes.” “Then, I’ll tell you of the danger she's in. For I’m hoping you can help me to help her.” "You know something!” Buck exclaimed, with a flash of his aunt’s sort of intuition. “Yes, this, i heard a sound on the stairs that night at half past one o’clock, and I opined my door just a cracky and I saw Bunny coming up, witiy her vanity case in her hand, and Rooking as white as death, and trembling like a'leaf.” “And then?” “Then, after a few moments, I went downstairs, and found Myra dead in the studio. The candies burning at her head and feet—and, Buck when I felt of her outstretched arm, it—it was still warm!” (To Be Continued) WOMAN, 101, JOLLIFIES Rii Vnitfd Prrxx PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3.—Three dishes of ice eream a day, God's will and plenty of coffee, make for long life, according to Mrs. Katherine Ricketts, who recently celebrated here the anniversary of her 101st birthday. Mrs. Ricketts approves of bobbed hair for women as old as herself ‘for comfort and not for style," ind suggests that girls of the present generation be privileged to smoke cigarets and wear short dresses if they want them.

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DAN CUPID LOSING GRASP IN INDIANA

Marital Affairs in Marion Cos untny Thrown in Reverse by Increase in Divorces —Drop in Marriages. I

Marital affairs in Marion County are in reverse, with divorces gaining and marriages declining, according to figures given out today by the United States Census Bureau. In fact, all over Indiana the courts have Dan Cupid on the run, with one couple seeking divorce for every five married in 1925. " Weddings showed a slight increase in the State in 1925, but divorces also increased, more proportionately than did marriages. Divorce Gain Here Marion County showed a gain In divorces —1,367 against 1,299 in 1924 —while marriages were 3,879 in 1925, against 4,064 during the preceding year. For the whole States an increase of 1.4 per cent in marriages was recorded. Thera were 36,828 couples who faced preachers or justices of the peace in 1925, while 36,308 did the same thing in 1924. But the divorce gain was 3.5 per cent, with 7,463 couples separated in 1925 and 7,2*12 the year before. Along with Marion County, two

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other large counties showed a considerable decline in marriages. Vanderburg had 1,027 in 1925 against 1,120 in 1924 and Vigo 1,213 compared to 1,253 in 1924. Lake Heads Division Vigo’s divorces also increased—there were 511 of them In 1925 against 419 in 1924. But down in Vanderburg the courts were not so active and a large divorce decrease wak recorded. There were only 280 against 426 In 1924. . With 5,278 marriages, Lake County led the list in that division. Switzerland and Ohio Counties batted lowest in divorces —there were pnly six in each during 1925. •The census bureau estimated Indiana’s population as 3,094,618 on July 1, -1925, against 3,065,996 on July 1, 1924. * Figured on this basis, marriages were 11.09 In 1926, against 11.8 in 1924, for each population, and divorces were 2J41 per 1,000 population, against 2.35 in M2f 7 ‘ I

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