Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1928 — Page 14

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OPEN MOFFAT BORE, BIGGEST RAIIJUNNEL Undeveloped Colorado Empire Aided: First Trains Go Through Sunday. BY H. C. THOMPSON United Press, Staff Correspondent DENVER, Colo., Feb. 27.—Railroad history was made Sunday when the first passenger train, piercing the very heart of the Rock mountains, passed through the New Moffat tunnel, the largest railroad tunnel in the world. While the immediate effect of the Inauguration of the new service was to open the undeveloped empire of northwestern Colorado, it pointed the way toward a saving of- time and distance in transcontitnental railroad travel. The completion of the Moffat bore, hailed as the greatest engineering triumph since the building of the Panamal Canal, was the realization of a vision that has survived twenty-six years of struggle and frequent disappointment. Cost Lives of Twenty-Six Men Twenty-five hundred persons were aboard the special trains that pulled out of Denver, wound up over the snowy slopes of the Continental Divide and paused before the east portal of the tunnel for the dedicatory rites. After the ceremonies, the cars were coupled in two sections and whisked through America’s longest railroad tunnel. The Moffat tunnel has cost $15,470,000 in money and the lives of twenty-six men who died in the hazardous work of pounding their way through the backbone of James Peak. The bore is 6.2 miles long. More than four years were required to complete the work. David H. Moffat, stage runner and general merchandise dealer, built a fortune in the West through mining, banking and railroading. He looked ahead and saw the Rocky Mountains conquered by man and talked of a shorter transcontinental railroad that would link Chicago and the West coast. Saves 20 Miles of Track That was when the century was young. At the time of Moffatt’s death in 1911, 200 miles of his road had been built. Denver voted bonds for the tunnel, but they were declared unconstitutional and it was not until 1922 that the Legislature finally approved the tunnel measure. The old route of the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad went over James Peak and was blocked by snows much of the winter. The new route through the tunnel saves twenty miles of track and the climbing or 2,406 feet of precipitous grades. At present the Moffatt Railroad runs only to Craig, Colo., instead of to Salt Lake City, as the name implies. Northwestern Colorada is rich in minerals and agriculture, and its territory is open to all-year traffic with Denver and the eastern slope of the mountains. Plans for Future UseBut included in the plans for future usefulness of the Moffat Tunnel is the hope of the taxpayers who financed its construction that some transcontinental line will utilize it for travel between Kansas City or Chicago and points on the Pacific. The tunnel has been leased for twenty years by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad, which may extend its rails to Salt Lake City. Another possibility is that the Denver and Rio Grande Western may utilize the tunnel through a so-called Dotsero cut-off, which would link its lines with the Moffat tunnel route, shorten the distance to the west coast and create a new transcontinental route.

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THE STORY THUS FAR Vance believes Sheet innocent of the murder of Margaret Odell and that he lay hidden in a closet while the strangler did his work. Markham ridicules the theory but Vance is unshaken. Mannix under pressure, reveals that he had been calling, the night of the murder, on a Miss Frisbee, who occupied the apartment joining the "Canary’s.” At live minutes to 12 he saw Cleaver sneaking out teh side door of the building—the door thought to have been bolted on the inside all night. Cleaver later admits this, saying he had slipped in the side way and tiptoed out after hearing a i man’s voice in the Odell apartment. He savs he saw Dr. linndquist standing in the alleyway. tt a tt CHAPTER XXXVII AT that moment Swacker came in and whispered something to Heath. The sergeant rose with alacrity and followed the secretary out of the room. Almost at once he returned, bearing a bulging manila folder. Handing it to Markham, he said something in. a low voice inaudible to the rest of us. Markham appeared both astonished and displeased. Waving the sergeant back to his seat, he turned to Cleaver. “I’ll have to ask you to wait in the reception room for a few minutes. Another urgent matter has just arisen.” Cleaver went out without a word, and Markham opened the folder. “I don’t like this sort of thing, Sergeant. I told you so yesterday when you suggested it.” “I understand, sir.” Heath, I felt, was not as contrite as his tone indicated. “But if those letters and things are all right, and Cleaver hasn’t been lying to us about ’em, I’ll have my man put ’em back so’s no one’ll ever know they were taken. And if they do make Cleaver out a liar, then we’ve got a good excuse foi grabbing 'em.” Markham did not argue the point With a gesture of distate he began running through the letters, looking particularly at the dates. Two photographs he put back after a cursory glance; and one piece of paper, which appeared to contain a pen and ink sketch of some kind, he tore up with disgust and threw into the waste basket. Three letters, I noticed, he placed to one side. After five minutes’ inspection of the others, he returned them to the folder. Then he nodded to Heath. “Bring Cleaver back.” He rose and, turning, gazed out of the window. As soon as Cleaver was again seated before the desk Markhan said without looking round: “You told me it was last June that you bought your letters back from Miss Odell. Do you recall the date?” “Not exactly,” said Cleaver easily. “It was early in the month, though —during the first week, I think.” Markham now spun about and pointed to the three letters he had segregated. “How, then, do you happen to have in your possession compromising letters which you wrote to Miss Odell from the Adirondacks late in July?” Cleaver’s self-control was perfect. After a moment’s stocial silence, he merely said in a mild, quiet voice: “You, of course, came by Ihose letters legally.” Markham was stung, but he was also exasperated by the other’s persistent deceptions. “I regret to confess,” he said, “that they were taken from your apartment—though, I assure you, it was against my instructions. “But since they have come unexpectedly into my possession, the

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wisest thing you can do is to explain them. “There was an empty document box in Miss Odell’s apartment the morning her body was found, and, from all appearances, it had been opened Monday night.” “I see.” Cleaver laughed harshly. “Very well. The fact is—thougfi I frankly don’t expect you to believe me—l didn’t pay my blackmail to Miss Odell until the middle of August, about three weeks ago. “That’s when all my letters were returned. I told you it was June in order to set back the date as far as possible. The older the affair was, I figured, the less likelihood there’d be of your suspecting me.” Markham stood fingering the letters undecidedly. It was Vance who put an end to his irresolution. “I rather think, don’t y’ know,” he said, “that you’d be safe in accepting Mr. Cleaver’s explanation and returning his billets doux.” Markham, after a momentary hesitation, picked up the manila folder and, replacing the three letters, handed it to Cleaver. “I wish you to understand that I did not sanction the appropriating of thsi correspondence. You’d better take it home and destroy it. I won’t detain you any longer now. But please arrange to remain where I can reach you if necessary.” “I’m not going to run away,” said Cleaver; and Heath directed him to the elevator. (Saturday, Sept. 15; 10 a. m. ) Heath returned to the office, shaking his head hopelessly. “There musta been a regular wake at Odell’s Monday night.” “Quite,’ ’agreed Vance. “A midnight conclave of the lady’s admirers. Mannix was there, unquestionably; and he saw Cleaver: and Cleaver saw Lindquist; and Lindquist saw Spotswoode ” “Humph! But nobody saw Skeel.” “The trouble is,” said Markham, “we don’t know how much of Cleaver’s story is true. And. by the way, Vance, do you believe he really bought his letters back in August?” “If only we knew! Dashed confusin’, ain’t it?” “Anyway,” argued Heath, “Cleaver’s statement about phoning Odell at twenty minutes to twelve, and a man answering is verified by Jessup’s testimony. “And I guess Cleaver saw Lindquist all right that night, for it was him who first tipped us off about the doc. He took a chance doing it, because the doc was liable to tell us he saw Cleaver.” “But if Cleaver had an allurin’ alibi,” said Vance, “he could simply have said the doctor was lying. “However, whether you accept Cleaver’s absorbin’ legend or not, you can take my word fir it there was a visitor, other than Skeel, in the Odell apartment that night.” "That’s all right, too,” conceded Heath reluctantly. “But, e’/en, so, this other fellow is only valuable to us as a possible source of evidence against Skeel.” “That may be true, Sergeant,” Markham frowned perplexedly. “Only, I’d like to know how that side door was unbolted and then rebolted on the inside. We know now that it was open around midnight,

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