Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1926 — Page 10

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

BEGIN HERE TODAY ~ ,UR ENT is S Bce ® myterious J Wilts in the Heath household next door •me night, and the next day Harbor Garden,l Loner Island is aeoe over the murder of MYRA rfEATH and the disappearance of her husband, PERRY. „ House guests of the Heaths are LAWRENCE INMAN, heir to MviYh . fortune, and BUNNY MOORE, beautiful, vivacious, to whom suspicion points because of her strang-e actions, Myra Heath never v.*ea cosmetics, never wore colors, when her body was found she was heavily rouged. She was a glass, and it waH a rare old bottle from her collection that the murder';** Wd to kill her. Candles were Durr. i ng‘ at her head and feet; near by was a (a*i marked, “The Work of Perry death. T T,in strange thing about Heath's disappearance is that the windows and doors were locked on the inside the night before and were found that way in the morning. Fingerprints of Bunny and Inman were found on the bottle. At the Country Club the murder Is discussed by SAM ANDERSON. Heaths rival tor the club presidency: Al. CUNNINGHAM. who is trying to solve the crime, and others. Meanwhile, TODHUNTEB BUCK. Mrs. Prentiss' nephew, nns met Bunny and fallen in love with her. / Bunny is amazed to get a phone call /from Heath, lie phones her agaim saying Inman is the murderer. Bunny taints under a grilling by DETECTIVE MOTT, and Inman confides to Buck that he- Saw Bunny ascending the stairs after tne murder. Mott question* all thj; servants and tells them to keep quiet: Anderson invites Cunningham to his house, and there, while waiting fur his host. Cunningham is suddenly confronted by Perry Heath, who disrppears as mysteriously as lie had appeared. Shortly Itlterward Anderson comes ill. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXIV Anderson's voice was lost as he entered the house and made for the dining room. He had pushed Cunningham aheqd of him, and soon the tjvo were sitting down to a very appetizing chafing dish supper. 1 ■ ‘‘Well, I suppose you want to hear what I did,” Ahderson said, and paused suddenly as he saw Cunningham staring at him. , So suddenly, that he bit his lip, ajnd rising, with a muffled exclamation of pain, he hurried from the room, but, was back in a moment. ! "Bit my lip,” he exclaimod, tenderly patting the bruised place with his table napkin, and resuming his chair. "Al! right, now, nothing serious. Well, Cunny, I’m like that man who said he didn’t accomplish us much as he expected and he didn't expect he would! I thought it would be easy to trace Perry Heath through his bankers. But they knew nothing about him at all. They let me see his bank account, though,—l felt a mean cur to look at it!—and only a <4*y or two before he disappeared, he had received a big check from a man named Crandall. I assumed it was payment for a picture, and I hunted down the Crandall man. That’s what took the time, for he lived out in a beastly suburb. Well, I found him, ahd he had of Perry’s pictures, and it was his qheck. But he knew nothing of Pekry. He had bought the picture through Carr & Holden—they're Heath’s dealers, 'you know. So, I didn't get a bit farther, and I'm disgusted with detective work —my own dr , anybody "else's!” “So am I!” said Cunningham, so er/iphatically that Anderson looked tip quickly. "Why, what’s come over you?” he Inquired, with interest. “I thought Sherlock was your middle name?” “No, Fathead's my middle name! Numskull, nincompoop, dumb-bell, — any of those!” “Explain,” said Anderson, smiling at the- dejected countenance that faced him. “Well,” Cunningham shot his holt, “Perry Heath was here tonight.” “What!” Anderson’s tone was ns explosive as the other's, and he evinced unhouncted Incredulity. •■“Yes, Perry, himself, in the flesh. I talked with him.” "Well, if you,'re going to talk with n-e, make yourself explict. I don’t ye(N gasp yoult meaning, my boy.” So Cunningham told him, plainly ond truthfully, every Vvord that had passed between himself and the fugitive Heath. ' He spoke slowly and straightforwardly, but he kept a wary eye out for any expression on Anderson's face that wig jit warn him how his tale was to be taken. Sam Anderson said no word until the whole story was told. He watched Cunningham carefully, looking up alertly if the narrative halted, and vhen the climax was reached he remarked, briefly: “You were quite right, Al, about your middle names." That was all, but Cunningham grew hot all fiver at the scathing gtone of reproach. ' "Now, look here, Sam,” he began, but Anderson interrupted: “There's nothing to ‘look here' about., You were a double-barrelled

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idiot to let Heath get away, if you had him here. One yell from you would have brought at least three men servants from the house, and more from the garage and garden. ► You muffed it, Cunny, and that’s all there is abo'ut that. Now, don’t whine, and don't apologize. Your stupidity is beyond all apology and whining won’t do a bit of good. How did he look? Fit, and all that?”. ”1 couldn’t sea very well, ft was dark, and, too, I was so flabbergasted.” “You would be!" and Anderson still used that tone of utter exasperation at his friend's stupidity. “Well, all \ve dan now is to try our io set the little girl free and run Inman in.” Anderson spoke with brisk energy,, as one who sees his plan of action made clear. “Easier said than done,” Cunningham growled. "No, not if you tell your story to the authorities as convincingly as you have told it to me. I deplore your inactivity, but I am glad to have your evidence. Tho testimony of an eye witness, repeated at first hand, must have weight, and even that dunderhead Mott can't fail to recognize it.” “You know,” Cunningham said, musingly, “that young chap next door to the Heath's, he believed all along that Inman was the murderer. But he said that Inman killed Heath, too, and hid his body in the cellar or pitched it into the sea.” ] “How clever!” Anderson said, sarcastically. “But now, we know—or at least, you know, That Heath is alive—l say, Al, it was dark, are you sure that was Heath?” “Oh, yes. I know Perry as well as you do, and I could see him clearly enough to recognize him. And you know that little trick he has o:' tossing back that lock of hair that falls over his forehead, in true artist fashion. Oh, yes, it was Perry all right.” “Well, then Inman didn't kill him, in spite of the young man's astute deductions." "No, of course not. Buck doesp’t know anything _of sleuthing,—dny more than I do,” Cunningham added with a wry smile. "Don't blame yourself too muol^ I daresay I lit into you too roughly, old chap. If so, forget it. But* I confess I should have liked to come home and find you here with Perry Heath, bound and gagged in a big chair!" “But I had no reasons to bind and gag him. He came to give helpful “Which you swallowed, bait, hook and sinker! Oh, I don’t say it may not all he true, but, on the othej hand, it may not. Why just suppose Perry Heath was the murderer, wouldn't he act just the same way? Suppose he wanted to free the little girl from .suspicion, wouldn't he lay the blame on Larry Inman, the only possible suspect except himself? It's a moil, any way you look at it, but I wish I could have talked to Heath, even if he got away afterward.' 8 * “I wish you collide hp.ve, Sam. I’m darned sorry I let him go, but he vanished, you see.” “Like the Boojum. Well, what say, Al, shall we go over to headquarters and acquaint the powers that he with this tale, or shall we sleep over it and give it to them in the morning?” "Oh, let’s leave it till morning. Nobody of importance will be there ttlis time of night, and I don’t want to go clear out to Mott’s house. I should think morning would be time enough.” “And let Heath put a few hundred more miles between himself and us! don’t suppose any search party could pick him up now, the trail is too cold. Well, so be it, then. Come on out to the porch anjLhave a nightcap and a smoke and '•tomorrow we’ll electrify the police,—to no good whatever!” “You scoff at everything, Sam, but what have you to offer as a better plan of pursuit. If you’d been here, what would you have said to Heath?” ~ “First of all. If want the truth, Cunny, I’d have marched him straight to headquarters. If AJptt wasn’t there I’d have sent for him, p. and. q. And thp I’d have made Heath tell his story under oath. Then we’d have had something to go on, some sworn evidence. I say, ! suppose we go over to Heath’s house

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and confront Inman with this tale.” ‘You may go, if you like, but I shan’t. I like Inman, and —o"h, hang it all, I don’t think I believe Heath’s story at all. The more I think of it, the more fishy it seems.” “You mean you suspect ” “Bunny Moore. I can’t see any way out for her. To begin with In-' man doesn’t act like a guilty man. And Bunny does.” “How does she?” “Well, she bursts into tears whenever she’s questioned.’’ “What girl especially an innocent one?” * “Well, then, there’s a lot of evi-dpqg-p about her hethg dow'nstairs jlateat night, and all that—” “What does that prove?” "Nothing much, I admit. But her finger prints are on the bottle—under Inman’s.” “Oh, Lord, Cunny, we’ve mulled over all those points a hundred times. Do get some new ones. Here, have another cigar. And look out where you sling your ashes. Whv use the whole floor?” “Lord, Sam, what fuss you are! I gns I’ll go’ home and try to sleep on this thing. Maybe the night will bring counsel, as the poet or some wise guy says." “Well, try it out. But if the night brings it to you, let me know early in the moriyng. For otherwise, I’m going to Mott with this story of the appearance of the missing man. Golly, to think I w as combing New York City for the wretch, and here he was calmly sitting on my porch talking to my detective!”

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“Don’t rub It in,” Cunningham growled. “Oh, It’s all right, Ai” Anderson was already sorry for Ms harshness to his friend. “And you’ve done more than anybody on the case in getting word from Heath. I tell you, that will be a point In your facor with’the law people! I say, let's reconstruct the case—l believe that's wti&t_they term it.” “All right," Cunningham spoke eagerly. “Say, Heath told the truth, then how did It all come about?" (To Be Continued) TWO WOMEN INJURED Three Autos and Truck Pile Up—- , Two Drivers Charged. Two women were badly cut and bruised when three cars and a truck piled up In South St., between Delaware and Alabama Sts., late Tuesday. Injured were Mrs. Edna Sens, Route P, Box 107, taken to the home of relatives, suffering from \oss of blood, and Mrs. Estella MeElfresh, 424 S. Alabama St., taken to city hospital. John McElfresh, husband of the Injured woman, was arrested on charges of driving while drunk and failure to stop after an accident, and Ross Clark, 1617 Raym<ftid St., wa< held for driving on the wrong aide of the street.

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MR. FIXIT County. Tax. Collection Comes in for Criticism,

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