Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1928 — Page 12

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THE STORY THUS FAR 3potewoode told Markham it was he Who had none out with Margaret Odell the night she was murdered. When he left her apartment he told Jessup to call him a cab. While waiting they heard a scream from the "Canary’s" apartment. Both rushed back and were told everything was all right. But the next morning the girl was found strangled. Vance believes two men were in the apartment at the time of the murder, the strangler and a man who hid in the clothes closet. There Is no way to account for the presence of any one in the apartment. All the circumstances point to the impossibility of the girl’s having been murdered, but her strangled body gives the lie to such a conclusion. CHAPTER XIV “’VT’OUR Long Island Don Juan X has certainly not supplied you with any footprints in the snow," said Vance. “Anyway, his coming forward at this time closes one line of inquiry over which we might have wasted considerable time.’’ “If many more lines of inquiry are closed,” remarked Vance, dryly, “you’ll be in a distressin’ dilemma, don’t y’ know.” “There are enough still open to keep me busy,” said Markham, pushing back his plate and calling for the check. He rose, then pausing, regarded Vance meditatingly. “Are you sufficiently interested to want to come along?” “Eh, what? My word! ... Charmed, I’m sure. But, I say, sit down Just a moment—there’s a good fellow!—till I finish my coffee.” I was considerably astonished at Vance’s ready acceptance, careless and bantering though it was, for there was an exhibition of old Chinese prints at the Montross Galleries that afternoon which he had planned to attend. A Riokai and a Moyekl, said to be very fine examples of Sung painting, were to be shown; and Vance was particularly eager to acquire them for his collection. We rode with Markham to the Criminal Courts buildings and, entering by the Franklin St. door, took the private elevator to the district attorney’s spacious but dingy office which overlooked the graystone ramparts of the Tombs. Vance seated himself in one of the heavy leather-upholstered chairs near the carved oak table on the

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right of the desk, and lighted a cigaret with an air of cynical amusement. “I await with anticipat’ry delight the grinding of the wheels of justice,” he confided, leaning back lazily. “You are doomed not to hear the first turn of those wheels,” retorted Markham. "The initial revolution will take place outside of this office.” And he disappeared through a swinging door which led to the Judges’ chambers. Five minutes later he returned, and sat down in the high-backed swivel chair at his desk, with his back to the four tall, narrow windows in the south wall of the office. “I Just saw Judge Redfem,” he explained—"it happened to be the midday recess—and he verified Spotswood’s statement in regard to the poker game. “The judge met him outside of the club at ten minutes before midnight, and was with him until three In the morning. He noted the time because he had promised his guests to be back at half past eleven, and was twenty minutes late.” “Why all this substantiation of an obviously unimportant fact?” asked Vance. “A matter of routine," Markham told him, slightly Impatient. “In a case of this kind evrey factor, however, seemingly remote to the main Issue, must be checked.” “Really, y’ know, Markham”— Vance laid his head back on the chair and gazed dreamily at the ceiling—"one would think that this eternal routine, which you lawyer chaps worship so devoutly, actually got one somewhere occasionally; whereas it never gets one anywhere. Remember the Red Queen in ‘Through the Looking-Glass— ’” “I’m too busy at present to debate the question of routine versus inspiration,” Markham answered brusquely, pressing a button beneath the edge of his desk. Swacker, his youthful and energetic secretary, appeared at the door which communicated with a narrow inner chamber between the

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district attorney’s office and the main waiting-room. “Yes, Chief?” The secretary’s eyes gleamed expectantly behind his enormous horn-rimmed glasses. “Tell Ben ,to send me in a man at once.” Swacker went out through the corridor door, and a minute or two later a suave, rotund man, dressed immaculately and wearing a pincenez, entered, and stood before Markham with an ingratiating smile. “Morning, Tracy.” Markham’s tone was pleasant but curt. “Here’s a list of four witnesses in connection with the Odell case that I want brought down here at once the two phone operators, the maid and the janitor. “You'll find them at 184 W. Sev-enty-First St.; Sergeant Heath is holding them there.” "Right, sir.” Tracy took the memorandum, and with a priggish, but by no means inelegant, bow went out. During the next hour Markham plunged into the general w’ork that had accumulated during the forenoon, and I was amazed at the man’s tremendous vitality and efficiency. He disposed of as many important matters as w'ould have occupied the ordinary business man for an entire day. Swacker bobbed in and out with electric energy, and various clerks appeared at the touch of a bubzer, took their orders, and were gone with breathless rapidity. Vance, who had sought diversion in a tome of famous arson trials, looked up admiringly from time to time, and shook his head in mild reproach at such spirited activity. It was just half-past two when Swacker announced the return of Tracy with the four witnesses; and for two hours Markham questioned and cross-questioned them with a thoroughness and an insight that even I as a lawyer had rarely seen equaled. His interrogation of the two phone operators was quite different from his casual questioning of them earlier in the day, and if there had been a single relevant omission in their former testimony, it would certainly have been caught now by Markham’s gruelling catechism. But when, at last, they were told they could go, no new information had been Drought to light. Their stories now stood firmly grounded: no one—with the exception of the girl herself and her escort, and the dissapointed visitor at half past nine—had entered the front door and passed down the hall to the Odell apartment from seven o’clock on; and no one had passed out that way. The janitor reiterated stubbornly that he had bolted the side door a little after six and no amount of wheedling or aggression could shake his dogged certainty on that point. Amy Gibson, the maid, could add nothing to’her former testimony. Markham’s intensive examination of her produced only repetitions of what she had already told him. Not one new possibility—not one new suggestion—was brought out. In fact, the two hours’ interlocutory proceedings resulted only in closing up every loophole in a seemingly incredible situation.

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When, at half past four, Markham sat back in his chair with a weary sigh, the chance of unearthing a promising means of approach to the astonishing problem seemed more remote than ever. Vance closed his treaties on arson, and threw away his cigaret. “I tell you, Markham, old chap,” he grinned, “this case requires contemplation, not routine. Why not call in an Egyptian seeress with a flair for crystal-gazing?” “If this sort of thing goes on much longer,” returned Markham, dispiritedly, "I’ll be tempted to take your advice.” Just then Swacker looked In through the door to say that Inspector Brenner was on the wire. Markham picked up the telephone receiver, and as he listened he jotted down some notes on a pad. When the call had ended, he turned to Vance. “You seem disturbed over the condition of the steel jewel case we found in the bedroom. “Well, the expert on burglar tools just called up; and he verifies his opinion of this morning. “The case was pried open with a specially made cold chisel such as only a professional burglar would carry or would know how to use. “It had an inch-and-three-eighths beveled bit and a one-inch flat handle. “It was an old instrument—there was a peculiar nick in the blade—and is the same one that was used in a successful house-break on upper Park Ave., early last summer. “Does that highly exciting information ameliorate your anxiety?” “Can’t say that it does.” Vance had again become serious end perplexed. “In fact it makes the situation still more fantastic. “I could see a glimmer of light—eerie and unearthly, perhaps, but still a perceptible illumination—in

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