Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1928 — Page 14
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AIMS BLOW AT MAILING GOODS NOTJRDERED Pennsylvania Congressman Bill to Penalize SucTi Firms. BY ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—The man who sends, unsolicited, a package of neckties through the mails with the request that the recipient send him $1 and then duns him for payment after he has thrown them into the waste-basket, will face a jail term of three months and a fine of SSOO, if Congress passes a bill introduced by Representative Henry W. Watson (Rep.), Pennsylvania. Watson, supported by local merchants and chambers of commerce throughout the United States, is leading a fight before the House Postofflce Committee to outlaw the sending of unsolicited merchandise through the mails. It has grown to be a business of millions of dollars yearly. Reading complaints received all over the United States, Joseph Stewart, representing the Postofflce Department, asked the committee for relief. He said the public is entitled to protection. Not Liable for Payment "Recipients of unsolicited merichandise are not legally liable for payment or return of the goods if they throw them away and do not try to use them,” Stewart said, “but most persons don’t know that. After receiving these threatening collection letters, lots of them pay.” Neckties and handkerchiefs are the most usual, but the unsolicited merchandise business now extends to jewelry, perfumes, suitcases, raini coats, greeting cards and many other lines. Many persons have complained to the Postofflce epartment that they have been put to inconvenience and expense in returning goods they did not order under therats of being sued if they did not comply. One firm in Pennsylvania makes a business of sending neatly printed cards, for acknowledging receipt of flowers or sympathy, to persons who just have suffered a bereavement. It obtains names by hiring a clipping agency which serves it with clippings of death notices from jnany cities. The cards are mailed with bill attached. Doctor Turns Tables “I know of a case in my State,” said Representative Romjue (Dem.), Misouri. “where a doctor received a package of these cheap, unsolicited neckties through the mails, with the request that he reutrn them or send a dollar in payment. ‘This doctor sent the necktie merchant a box of pills and billed him for $1.50. When receiving a dunning letter, he wrote back the necktie man still owed him a half-dollar on tho pills.” Slayer Exonerated Bn Time# Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. B.—Otis Edwards, 21, Negro, slayer of his brother-in-law, Mack Watkins, 31, Negro, is free, having been exonerated by Dr. Frank T. Kilgore, coroner. Watkins was shot dead after breaking a door at the Edwards home, apparently seeking his wife, who was at police headquarters at the time to file charges of assault and battery.
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THE STORY THUS FAR The jewel case had been opened with a chisel afteir being battered with a poker. And this puzzles Vance when It is found near the strangled body ot Margaret Odell. It makes him think two men were In the apartment, the murderer unaware of the man hiding in a clothes closet. In no way can the I presence of even one be accounted for. ! Finger-prints lead to the arrest of Skeel, after Cleaver and Dr. Lindquist are questioned and Spootswoode's known actions eliminate him. Vance shoots a sudden question at Skeel: ‘‘Why didn’t you give the alarm?” CHAPTER XXI “T'VON’T bother to answer,” purU sued Vance, as the man opened his lips to speak. “But tell, me- didn’t the sight shake you lip a bit?” “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Skeel retorted with sullen, impertinence. But, for all his sang-froid, one sensed an uneasiness in his manner, There was an overtone of effort in his desiy' <spear indifferent, which robbed his words of complete conviction. “Not a pleasant situation, that.” Vance ignored his retort. "How did you feel, crouching there in the dark, when the closet doorknob was turned and someone tried to get in?” His eyes were boring into the man, though his voice retained its casual intonation. The muscles of Skeel’s face tightened, but he did not speak. “Lucky thing you took the precaution of locking yourself in—eh, what?” Vance went on. “Suppose he’d got the door open—my word! Then what? ...” He paused and smiled with a kind of silky sweetness which was more impressive than any glowering aggression. “I say, did you have your steel chisel ready for him? Maybe he’d have been too quick and strong for you—maybe there would have been thumbs-pressing against your larynx too before you could have struck him—eh? . . . Did you think of that, there in the dark? . . . No, not precisely a pleasant situation. A bit gruesome, in fact.” “What are you raving about?” Skeel spat out insolently. "You’re balmy.” But his swagger had been forgotten, and a look akin of horror had passed across his face. This slackening of pose was momentary, however; almost at once his smirk returned, and his head swayed in contempt. Vance sauntered back to his chair and stretched himself in it listlessly, as if all his interest in the case had again evaporated. Markham had watched the little drama attentively, but Heath had sat smoking with ill-concealed annoyance. The silence that followed was broken by Skeel. “Well, I suppose I’m to be railroaded. Got it all planned, have you? Try and railroad me!” He laughed harshly. “My lawyer’s Abe Rubin, and you might phone him that I’d like to see him.” Markham, with a gesture of annoyance, waved to the deputy sheriff to take Skeel back to the Tomas. "What were you trying to get at?” he asked Vance, when the man was gone. “Just an elusive notion in the depths of my being struggling for the light.” Vance smoked placidly a moment. “I thought Mr. Skeel might be persuaded to pour out his heart to us. So I wooed him with words.” “That’s just bully,” gibed Heath. “I was expecting you any minute to ask him if he played numblypeg or if his grandmother was a hoot-owl.” "Sergeant, dear Sergeant,” pleaded Vance, “don’t be unkind. I simply couldn't endure it. .. . And really, now, didn’t my chat with Mr. Skeel suggest a possibility to ; you?” “Sure,” said Heath, “ —that he was hiding in the closet when Odell was killed. But where does that get us? “It lets Skeel out, although t.he> job was a professional one, and he was caught red-handed with some of the swag.”
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He turned disgustedly to the district attorney. “And now, what, sir?” “I don’t like the look of things,” Markham complained. “If Skeel has Abe Rubin to defend him, we won’t stand a chance with the case we’ve got. “I feel convinced he was mixed up in it; but no judge will accept my personal feelings as evidence.” “We could turn the Dude loose, and have him tailed,” suggested Heath grudgingly. “We might catch him doing something that’ll give the game away.” Markham considered. “That might be a good plan,” he acceded. “We’ll certainly get no more evidence on him as long as he's locked up.” “It looks like our only chance, sir.” “Very well,” agreed Markham. "Let him think we’re through with him; he may get careless. “I’ll leave the whole thing to you. Sergeant. Keep a couple of good men on him day and night. Something may happen. Heath rose, an unhappy man. “Right, sir, I’ll attend to it.” “And I’d like to have more data on Charles Cleaver,” added Markham. ‘‘Find out what you can of his relations with the Odell girl. “Also, get me a line on Dr. Ambroise Lindquist. What’s his history?—what are his habits?—you know the kind of thing. “He treated the girl for some mysterious or imaginary ailment; and I think he has something up his sleeve. But don’t go near him personally—yet.” Heath Jotted the name down in his notebook, without enthusiasm. “And before you set your stylish captive free,” put in Vance, yawning, “you might, don’t y’ know, see if he carries a key that fits the Odell apartment.” Heath jerked up short and grinned. “Now, that idea’s got some sense to it . . . Funny, I didn't think of it myself.” And shaking hands with ail of us, he went out. (Wednesday, Sept. 12, 10:30 a. m.) Swacker was evidently waiting for an opportunity to interrupt, for, when Sergeant Heath had passed through the door, he at once stepped into the room. “The reporters are here, sir,” he announced with a wry face. “You said you'd see them at 10:30.” In response to a nod from his chief, he held open the door and a dozen or more newspaper men came trooping in. “No questions, please, this morning,” Markham begged pleasantly. “It's too early in the game. But I’ll tell you all I know. ... I agree with Sergeant Heath that the Odell murder was the work oC a professional criminal—the same who broke into Arnheim's house on Park Avenue last summer.” Briefly he told of Inspector Brenner’s findings in connection with the chisel. “We’ve made no arrests, but one may be expected in the very near future.
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“In fact, the police have the case well in hand, but are going carefully in order to avoid any chance of an acquittal. “We’ve already recovered some of the missing jewelry. . . He talked to the reporters for five minutes or so, but he made no mention of the testimony of the maid or the phene operators, and carefully avoided the mention of any names. When we were again alone, Vance chuckled admiringly. “A masterly evasion, my dear Markham! Legal training lias its advantages—decidedly it has its advantages. . . , ‘We’ve recovered some of the missing jewelry!’ Sweet winged words! Not an untruth—oh, no!—but how deceivin’!” “Leaving all that to one side,” Markham rejoined impatiently “suppose you tell me, now that Heath's gone, what was in your mind when you applied your verbal voodooism to Skeel. “What was all the conjurer-talk about dark closets, and alarms, and pressing thumbs, and peering thorough keyholes?” “Well, now, I didn’t think my little chit-chat was so cryptic,” answered Vance. “The recherche Tony was undoubtedly ambuscaded in the clothes-press at some time during the fatal evening; and I was merely striving in my amateurish way to ascertain the exact hour of his concealment,” “And did you?” “Not conclusively,” Vance shook his head sadly. “Y’ know r , Markham, I’m the proud possessor of a theory—it’s vague and obscure and unsubstantial; and it’s downright unintelligible. “And even if it were verified, I can’t see how it would help us any, for it would leave the situation even more incomprehensible than it already is ... I almost wish I hadn't questioned Heath's Beau Nash. He upset my ideas frightfully.” “From what I could gather, you seem to think it possible that Skeel
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