Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1928 — Page 22

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r THE STORY THUS FAR When the strangled body of Margaret Odell, known to Broadway as the “•Canary,” was found In her apartment, New ’ ork found itself confronted with one of the most baffling murders In its history. Vance, student of psychology and of crime, is taken to the apartment by Markham. The rooms are violently disordered. The medical examiner cives it as his opinion that the murder was committed about 11:30 the night preceding. CHAPTER V “T GUESS that’s all, Doc,” Heath A decided. “I’ll get the body to the mortuary right away. Let’s have the post-mortem as soon as you can.” “You’ll get a report in the morning.” And despite his apparent eagerness to be off, Doctor Doremus stepped into the bedroom ana shook hands with Heath and Markham and Inspector Moran before he k hurried out. Heath followed him to the door, and I heard him direct the officer outside to telephone the department of public welfare to send an ambulance at once for the girl’s body. "Such detachment!” Vance said to Markham. “Here you are stewing most distressingly over the passing of one damsel fair and frail, and that blithe medicus is worrying only over a sluggish liver brought on by early rising.” “What has he to be upset over?” complained Markham. “The newspapers are not riding him with spurs. . . . And, by the way, what was the point of your questions about the torn dress?” Vance lazily inspected the tip of his cigaret. “Consider,” he said. “The lady was evidently taken by surprise; for, had there been a struggle beforehand, she would not have been strangled from behind while sitting down. Therefore, her gown and corsage were undoubtedly intact at the time she was seized. “But—despite the conclusion of your dashing Paracelsus—the damage to her toilet was not of a nature that could have been selfinflicted in her struggle for air. “If she had felt the construction of the gown across her breast, she would have snatched the bodice itself by putting her fingers inside the band. “But, if you noticed, her bodice was intact; the only thing that had been torn was the deep lace flounce on the outside; and it had been tom, or rather ripped, by a strong lateral pull; whereas, in the circumstances, any wrench on her part would have been downward or outward.” Inspector Moran was listening intently, but Heath seemed restless and impatient; apparently he regarded the torn gown as irrelevant to the simple main issue. “Moreover,” Vance went on, “there is the corsage. If she herself had tom it off while being strangled, it would doubtless have fallen to the floor; for, remember, she offered considerable resistance. Her body was twisted sidewise; her knee was drawn up, and one slipper had been kicked off. “Now, no bunch of silken posies is going to remain in a lady’s lap during such a commotion. Even when ladies sit still, their gloves and hand-bags and handkerchiefs and programs and serviettes are forever sliding off their laps on to the floor, don’t y’ know.” “But if your argument’s correct,” protested Markham, "then the tearing of the lace and the snatching off of the corsage could have been done after she was dead. And I can’t see any object in such senseless vandalism.” “Neither can I,” sighed Vance. “It’s all devilish queer.” Heath looked at him sharply.

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“That’s the second time you’ve said that. But there’s nothing what you’d call queer about this mess. It is a straightaway case.” m u HE spoke with an overtone of insistence, like a man arguing against his own insecurity of opinion. “The dress might’ve been torn almost any time,” he went on stubbornly. “And the flower might’ve got caught in the lace of her skirt so it couldn’t roll off.” “And how would you explain the jewel-case, Sergeant?” asked Vfcnce. “Well, the fellow might’ve tried the poker, and then, finding it wouldn’t work, used his jimmy.” “If he had the efficient jimmy,” countered Vance, “why did he go to the trouble of bringing the silly poker from the living-room?” The sergeant shook his head perplexedly. “You never can tell why some of these crooks act the way they do.” “Tut, tut!” Vance chided him. "There should be no such word as ‘never’ in the bright lexicon of detecting.” Heath regarded him sharply. “Was there anything else that struck you as queer?” His subtle doubts were welling up again. , “Well, there’s the clamp on the table in the other room.” We were standing near the archway between the two rooms, and Heath turned quickly and looked blankly at the fallen lamp. “I don’t see anything queer about that.” “It has been upset—eh, what?” suggested Vance. “What if it has?" Heath was frankly puzzled. “Damn near everything in this apartment has been knocked crooked.” “Ah! But there’s a reason for most of the other things having been disturbed—like the drawers and pigeonholes and closets and vases. They all indicate a search; they’re consistent with a raid for loot. But that lamp, now, d’ ye see, doesn’t fit into the picture. It’s a false note. “It was standing on the opposite end of the table to where the mur-

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der was committed, at least five feet away; and it couldn’t possibly have been knocked over in the struggle. ....No, it won’t do. It’s got no business being upset, any more than that pretty mirror over the gatelegged table has any business being broken. That’s why |t’s queer.” “What about those chairs and the little table?” asked Heath, pointing to two small gilded chairs which had been overturned, and a fragile tip-table that lay on its side near the piano. “Oh, they fit into the ensemble,” returned Vance. “They’re all light pieces of furniture which could easily have been knocked over or thrown aside by the hasty gentleman who rifled these rooms.” “The lamp might have been knocked over in the same way,” argued Heath. Vance shook his head. “Not tenable, Sergeant. - It has a solid bronze base, and isn’t at all topheavy; and being set well back on the table, it wasn’t in any one’s way.... That lamp was upset deliberately." The sergeant was silent for a while. Experience had taught him not to underestimate Vance’s observations; and, I must confess, as I looked at the lamp lying on its side on the end of the library table, well removed from any of the other disordered objects in the ro6m, Vance’s argument seemed to possess considerable force. I tried hard to fit it into a hasty reconstruction of the crime, but was utterly unable to do so. "Anything else that don’t seem to fit into the picture?” Heath at length asked. m Vance pointed with his cigaret toward the clothes-closet in the living-room. This closet was alongside of the foyer, in the comer near the Boule cabinet, directly op-

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