Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1928 — Page 28

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THE STORY THUS Vance believes Skeel Innocetit of the murder of Margaret Odell an 6 that he lav hidden in a closet while the strangler did his work. Markham ridicules the theorv. but Vance is unshaken. He shatters Cleaver’s alibi of being out of the citl the night of the murder, and Mannix. under pressure, reveals that he had been calling on a Miss Frisbee. who occupied the apartment adjoining the "Canary's.'’ At five minutes to 12, he savs, he saw Cleaver sneaking out of the side door of the building—out of the door which was thought to have been bolted on the inside all night. CHAPTER XXXV MARKHAM sat glowering into space. ‘‘l don’t at all like the Cleaver end of this affair,” he said. ‘‘There's been something damned wrong about him ever since Monday.” ‘‘And I say.” put in Vance, ‘‘doesn’t the gentleman's false alibi take on a certain shady significance now, what? “You apprehend, I trust, why I restrained you from questioning him about it at the club yesterday. I rather fancied that if you could get Mannix to pour out his heart to you, you’d be in a stronger position to draw a few admissions from Cleaver. “And behold! Again the triumph of intuition! With what you now know about him, you can chivvy him most unconscionably eh, what?” “And that’s precisely what I’m going to do.” Markham rang for Swacker. “Get hold of Charles Cleaver,” he ordered, irritably. “Phone him at the Stuyvesant Club and also his home—he lives around the corner from the club, in W. TwentySeventh St. “And tell him I want him to be here in half an hour, or I’ll send a couple of detectives to bring him in handcuffs.” For five minutes Markham stood before the window, smoking agitatedly, while Vance, with a smile of amusement, busied himself with the Wall Street Journal. Heath got himself a drink of water and took a turn up and down the room. Presently Swacker reentered. “Sorry, Chief, but there’s nothing doing. Cleaver’s gone into the country somewhere. Won’t be back till late tonight.” “Hell! ... All right—that'll do.” Markham turned to Heath. “You have Cleaver rounded up tonight. Sergeant, and bring him in here tomorrow morning at nine.” “He’ll be here, sir!” Heath paused in his pacing and faced Markham. “I’ve been thinking, sir; and there’s one thing that keeps coming up in my mind, so to speak. "You remember that black docu-ment-box that was setting on the living-room table? It was empty; and what a woman generally keeps in that kind of a box is letters and things like that. “Well, now, here’s what’s been bothering me; that box wasn’t jimmied open—it was unlocked with a key. And, anyway, a professional crook don’t take letters and documents. . . . You see what I mean, sir?” “Sergeant of mine!” exclaimed Vance. “I abase myself before you! I sit at your feet! . . . The document box—the tidily opened, empty document box! "Os course! Skeel didn’t open it —never in this world! That was the other chap's handiwork.” “Wlvt was in your mind about that box, Sergeant?” asked Markham. “Just this, sir. As Mr. Vance has insisted right along, there mighta been someone besides Skeel in that apartment during the night. “And you told me that Cleaver admitted to you he’d paid Odell a lot of money last June to get back his letters. “But suppose he never paid that money; suppose he went there Monday night and took those letters. Wouldn’t he have told you just the story he did about buying ’em back? Maybe that’s how Mannix happened to see him there.” “That’s not unreasonable,” Markham acknowledged. “But where does that lead us?” “Well, sir, if Cleaver did take ’em Monday night, he mighta held on to ’em. And if any of those letters were dated later than last June, when he says he bought ’em back, then we’d have the goods on him.” "Well?” “As I say, sir, I’ve been thinking. . . . Now, Cleaver is outa town today; and if we could get hold of these letters. . . .” “It might prove helpful, of

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•course,” said Markham coolly, looking tne sergeant straight in the eye. “But such a thing is quite out of the question.” “Still and all,” mumbled Heath. “Cleaver’s been pulling a lot of raw stuff on you, sir.” (Saturday, Sept. 15; 9 a. m.) The next morning Markham and Vance and I breakfasted together at the Prince George, and arrived at the district attorney’s office a few minutes past nine. Heath, with Cleaver in tow, was waiting in the reception room. To judge by Cleaver’s manner as he entered, the sergeant had been none to considerate of him. He strode belligerently to the district attorney's desk and fixed a cool, resentful eye on Markham. “Am I, by any chance, under arrest?” he demanded softly, but it was the rasping, suppressed softness of wrathful indignation. “Not yet,” said Markham curtly. “But if you were, you’d have only yourself to blame—Sit down.” Cleaver hesitated, and took the nearest chair. “Why was I routed out of bed at sevent-thirty by this detective of yours”—he jerked his thumb toward Heath “and threatened with patrol-wagons and warrants, because I objected to such highhanded and illegal methods?” “You were merely threatened with legal procedure if you refused to accept my invitation voluntarily. This is my short day at the office; and there was some explaining I wanted from you without delay.” “I’m damned if I’ll explain anything to you under these conditions!” For all his nervous poise, Cleaver was finding it difficult to control himself. “I’m no pickpocket that you can drag in here when it suits your convenience and put through a third degree.” “That’s eminently satisfactory to me.” Markham spoke ominously. “But since you refuse to do your explaining as a free citizen. I have no other course than to alter your present status.” He turned to Heath. “Sergeant, go across the hall and have Ben swear out a warrant for Charles Cleaver. Then lock this gentleman up.” Cleaver gave a start and caught his breath sibilantly. “On what charge?” he demanded. “The murder of Margaret Odell.”

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The man sprang to his feet. The color had gone from his face, and the muscles of his jowls worked spasmodically. “Wait! You’re giving me a raw deal. And you’ll lose out, too. You ! couldn't make that charge stick in a thousand years.” “Maybe not. But if you don’t want to talk here, I’ll make you talk in court.” “I’ll talk here,” Cleaver sat down again “What do you want to know?” Markham took out a cigar and lit, it with deliberation. “First: why did you tell me you were in Boonton Monday night?” Cleaver apparently had expected the question. “When I read of the Canary's death I wanted an alibi; and my brother had just given me the summons he'd been banded in Boonton. It was a ready-made alibi right in my hand. So I used it.” “Why did you need an alibi?” “I didn’t need it; but I thought it might save me trouble. People knew I'd been running round with the Odell girl; and some of them knew she'd been blackmailing me. “I'd told ’em, like a damn fool. I told Mannix. for instance. We'd both been stung.” “Is that your only reason for concocting this alibi?” Markham was watching him sharply. “Wasn’t it reason enough? Blackmail would have constituted a motive, wouldn’t it?” “It takes more than a motive to arouse unpleasant suspicion.” “Maybe so. Only I didn’t want to be drawn into it.—You can’t blame me for trying to keep clear of it.” Markham leaned over with a threatening smile. “The fact that Miss Odell had blackmailed you wasn’t your only reason for lying about the summons. It wasn't even your main reason.” Cleaver's eyes narrowed, but otherwise he was like a graven image. “You evidently know more about it than I do. He managed to make his words sound casual. “Not more, Mr. Cleaver,” Markham corrected him, “but nearly as much.—where were you between 11 o’clock and midnight Monday?” “Perhaps that's one of the things you know.”

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“You’re right.—You were in Miss Odell’s apartment.” Cleaver sneered, but he did not succeed in disguising the shock that Markham’s accusation caused him. “If that’s what you think, then it happens you don't know, after all. I haven’t put foot in her apartment for two weeks.”. “I have the testintony of reliable witnesses to the contrary.” “Witnesses!” The word seemed to force itself from Cleaver’s compressed lips. MAN KILLED IN FALL J. G. McCarthy Hurles Three Stories to Death. J. G. McCarthy, 50, of the Savoy Apartments, 36 W. Vermont St., superintendent for the Freyn Brothers Plumbing Company, was killed Thursday night when he fell from the third floor while working on the new Earlham College administration building at Richmond, Ind. McCarthy, a resident of Indianapolis all his life, had been employed by the plumbing company for fifteen years and had been appointed superintendent of the plumbing division four years ago. He was a member of the plumbers’ union.

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Markham nodded. “You were seen coming out of Miss Odell’s apartment and leaving the house by the side door at five minutes to twelve on Monday night.” Cleaver’s jaw sagged slightly, and his labored breathing was quite audible. “And between half past eleven and twelve o’clock, pursued Markham’s relentless voice, “Miss Odell was strangled and robbed. —What do you say to that?” (To Be Continued) WORK FOR LIBERTIES Work of the national and international organizations of attorneys to reassure the liberties and happiness of future generations of mankind. was outlined by Attorney William V. Rooker at the Traffic Club dinner at the Lincoln, Thursday night. Rooker explained activities of the American Bar Association in attempting to formulate and secure passage of uniform State laws for the benefit of commerce.

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