Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1928 — Page 14

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BETTER PRICE TO BE SOUGHT FOR GASSTOCK Publicity Makes It Possible for Lower Interest, Commission Told. , Newspaper publicity on the new million-dollar stock issue of the Citizens Gas Company makes possible a better price and a lowex dividend on the issue. This was the argument of Clarence L. Kirk, vice president and general manager, and G. A. Efroymson, treasurer and chairman of the executive committee, at the hearing Monday before Public Service Commissioner Howell Ellis. “The valuable publicity the issue received at the hearing on the proposed sale of the 5% per cent stock at 97 to the Union Trust Company has caused us to believe that we can change the new issue to 5 per cent and sell it for not less than 96,” Efroymson said. Attack Company Directors The hearing was replete with direct attacks on the part of the directors of the gas company, who, Gavin L. Payne, head of Gavin L. Payne & Cos., security dealers, said also were directors in the bank to which they proposed to sell the mil-lion-dollar 514 per cent issue for 87. Anew angle also was brought forth in the petition that holders of common stock be permitted to participate in the purchase of the new issue which will be used to redeem $1,000,000 of preferred stock bearing 7 per cent and carrying a premium of 5 per cent. The petition was filed by Benjamin F. Kinnick, holder of 800 shares of common stock, through his attorney, Jackson Carter, of Taylor & Carter. It asks that the refunding issue be apportioned to common and preferred stockholders in the ratio of the total outstanding amounts of common and preferred, two shares of the new issue for the common stockholders to every share for preferred stockholders. Brief Is Ordered Commissioner Ellis gave Carter until today to prepare a brief supporting his contention, although not intimating what sort of action would be taken. Payne at the hearing said that he would be willing to purchase issue at 98, two points above the minimum specified by the gas company in its supplementary petition, and he posted a check for $50,000 as evidence of good faith. It is expected that Commissioner Ellis will order bids be submitted for the consideration of the commisison before any exchange with preferred stockholders be made. SEEK CAPITOL~RELEASE Release of Capitol Ave., between Sixteenth and Twentieth Sts., now a boulevard, will be asked of the park board Thursday by A. F. Conner, representative of property owners. Conner said he will present a petition signed by a majority of property owners asking that the boulevard be turned over to the board of works to permit business on the street.

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THE STORY THUS FAB The key to the closet door was always kept on the outside, Margaret Odell's maid told police the morning her mis. tress’ strangled body was found in the apartment. But this day the key was on the inside. The "Canary” had gone out early in the evening with a man. The next morning when the maid came to work Margaret Odell was dead. A baffling mystery, Vance declares, a devilish one—"And, Markham, those fin-ger-prints vou found have nothing whatever to do with the murder.” a a a CHAPTER VIII HEATH shot Vance a curious look. Then, after a moment’s frowning contemplation of the knob, he waved his hand to the detective who had brought the maid in. “Take her bapk to the recep-tion-room, Snitkin, and get a detailed description from her of all the Odell jewelry. . . . And keep her outside; I’ll want her again.” When Snitkin and the maid had gone out, Vance lay back lazily on the davenport, where he had sat during the interview, and sent a spiral of cigaret smoke toward the ceiling. “Rather illuminnatin’, what?” he remarked. “The dusky demoiselle got us considerably forrader. Now we know that the closet key is on the wrong side of the door, and that our lady of joy went to the theater with one of her favorite lovers, who presumably brought her home shortly before she took her departure from this wicked world.” “You think that’s helpful, do you?” Heath’s tone was contemptuously triumphant. “Wait till you hear the crazy story the telephone operator’s got to tell.” “All right, Sergeant,” put in Markham, impatiently. “Suppose we get on with the ordeal.” “I’m going to suggest, Mr. Markham, that we question the janitor first. “And I’ll show you why.” Heath went to the entrance door of the apartment, and opened it. “Look here for just a minute, sir.” He stepped out into the main hall, and pointed down the little passageway on the left. It was about ten feet in length, and ran between the Odell apartment and the blank rear wall of the reception-room. At the end of it was a solid oak door which gave on the court at the side of the house. “That door,” explained Heath, “is the only side or rear entrance to this building; and when that door is bolted nobody can get into the house except by the front entrance. “You can’t even get into the budding through the other apartments, for every window on this floor is barred. “I checked up on that point as soon as I got here.” He led the way back into the living-room. * “Now, after I’d looked over the situation this morning,” he went on, “I figured that our man had entered through that side door at the end of the passageway and had slipped into this apartment without the night operator seeing him. “So I tried the side door to see if it was open. But it was bolted on the inside—not locked, mind you, but bolted. “And it wasn’t a slip-bolt, either, that could have been jimmied or worked open from the outside, but a tough old-fashioned turn-bolt of solid brass. .. . And now I want you to hear what the janitor’s got to say about it.” Markham nodded acquiescence, and Heath called an order to one of the officers in the hall. A moment later a stolid, middleaged man, with sullen features and high cheek-bones, stood before us. His jaw was clamped tight, and he shifted his eyes from one to the other of us suspiciously. Heath straightway assumed the role of inquisitor. The help-yourself plan of a cafeteria enables the finest of foods at **odd penny prices’ ’ to be served at White’s Cafeteria, 27 N. Illinois.

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“What time do you leave here at night?” He had, for some reason, assumed a belligerent manner. “Six o’clock—sometimes earlier, sometimes later.” The man spoke in a surly monotone. He was obviously resentful at this unexpected intrusion upon his orderly routine. “And what time do you get here in the morning?” “Eight o’clock regular.” “What time did you go home last night?” “About six—maybe quarter past.” Heath paused and finally lighted the cigar on which he had been chewing at intervals during the past hour. “Now, tell me about that side door,” he went on, with undiminished aggressiveness. “You told me you lock it every night before you leave—is that right?” “Ja—that’s right.” The man nodded his head affirmatively several times. “Only I don’t lock it—l bolt it.” “All right, you bolt it, then.” As Heath talked his cigar bobbed up and down between his lips; smoke and words came simultaneously from his mouth. “And last night you bolted it as usual about six o’clock?” “Maybe a quarter past,” the janitor amended, with Germanic precision. “You’re sure you bolted it last night?” The question was almost ferocious. “Ja, ja. Sure, I am. I do it every night. I never miss.” The man’s earnestness left no doubt that the door in question had indeed been bolted on the inside at about six o’clock of the previous evening. Heath, however, belabored the point for several minutes, only to be reassured doggedly that the door had been bolted. At last the janitor was dismissed. “Really, y* know. Sergeant,” remarked Vance with an amused smile, “that honest Rheinlander bolted the door.” “Sure, he did,” sputtered Heath; “and I found it still bolted this morning at quarter of eight. That’s just what messes things up so nice and pretty. “If that door was bolted from six o’clock last evening, I’d appreciate having someone drive up in a hearse and tell me how the Canary’s little playmate got in here last night. “And I’d also like to know how he got out.” “Why not through the main entrance?” asked Markham. “It seems the only logical way left, according to your own findings.” “That’s how I had it figured out, sir,” returned Heath. “But wait till you hear what the phone operator has to say.” “And the phone operator’s post,” mused Vance, “is in the main hall half-way between the front door and this apartment. “Therefore, the gentleman who caused all the disturbance hereabouts last night would have had

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to pass within a few feet of the operator booth on arrriving and departing—eh, what?” “That’s it” snapped Heath. “And, according to the operator, no such person came or went.” Markham seemed to have absorbed some of Heath’s irritability. “Get the fellow in here, and let me question him,” he ordered. Heath obeyed with a kind of malicious alacrity. (Tuesday, Sept. 11, 11 a. m.) Jessup made a good impression from the moment he entered the room. He was a serious, determinedlooking man in his early thirties, rugged and well built; and there was a squareness to his shoulders that carried a suggestion of military training. He walked with a decided limp—his right foot dragged perceptibly—and I noted that his left arm had been stiffened into a permanent arc, as if by an unreduced fracture of the elbow. He was qujet and reserved, and his eyes were steady and intelligent. Markham at once motioned him to a wicker chair beside the closet door, but he declined it, and stood before the district attorney in a soldierly attitude of respectful attention. Markham opened the interrogation with several personal questions. It transpired that Jessup had been a sergeant in the World War, had twice been seriously wounded, and had been invalided home shortly before the Armistice. He had held his present post of telephone operator for over a year. “Now, Jessup,” continued Markham, “there are things connected with last night’s tragedy that you can tell us.” “Yes, sir.” There was no doubt that this ex-soldier would tell us accurately anything he knew, and also that, if he had any doubt as to the correctness of his information, he would frankly say so. He possessed all the qualities of a careful and well-trained witness. “First of all, what time did you come on duty last night?” “At ten o’clock, sir.” There was no qualification to this blunt statement; one felt that Jessup would arrive punctually at whatever hour he was due. “It was my short shift. The day man and myself alternate in long and short shifts.” "And did you see Miss Odell come in last night after the theater?” “Yes, sir. Every one who comes in has to pass the switchboard.” “What time did she arrive?” “It couldn’t have been more than a few minutes after eleven.” “Was she alone?” “No, sir. There was a gentleman with her.” “Do you know who he was?” “I don’t know his name, sir. But I have seen him several times before

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