Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1928 — Page 14

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PARLEY ON CITY MANAGER PLAN OPENSFRIDAY Municipal Government Is Subject of State-Wide Conference. Sponsored by the Indiaiiapolis City Manager League, a State-wide conference on the city manager form of government will be held at the Claypool Friday, March 16. Representatives of civic clubs, women’s organizations. Chambers of Commerce and other interested citizens are invited, according to announcement of Claude H. Anderson, executive secretary of the local league. Anderson said the conference was arranged to afford “helpful service to the citizens of other cities of Indiana who have made frequent requests for information on the citymanager form of municipal government." Numerous Talks Planned Mornir.g and afternoon sessions of the conference will be held in the Claypool ballroom, while the luncheon, at which 600 persons are expected, will be in the Riley room. John W. Esterline, conference committee chairman, will open the meeting at 10 a. m., explaining the plan and purpose of the conference, flsterline's address before the Rotary Club, “Why Political City (Government Has Failed and Why the Nonpartisan City Manager Plan Succeeds," was the keynote of the campaign for h change of the local form of government. Dr. Leonard D. White, professor of political science, University of Chicago, will follow with an address on “The Way Out for Indiana Cities.” Dr. White devctod five months and traveled 10,000 miles to visit forty cities operating under the manager system. Other speakers at the morning session will be Mrs. H. R. Misener of Michigan City, Ind., whose topic i.s "The City Manager Plan—a Challenge to Citizenship,” and L. W. Clapp, president of the First Trust Company of Wichita, Kan., on “What the City Manager Plan Has Done in Wichita.” Mrs. Misener

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THE STORY THUS FAR Skeel's finger prints were found in the apartment of the murdered Margaret Odell, but Vance does not believe him guiity. It is proved later that Mannix, Cleaver and Dr. Lindquist had been lying ■ about their whereabouts the night of the murder. The truth comes out that Mannix had been calling a young lady in the apartment adjoining the "Canary's;” that Cleaver had been in the building around midnight, and that Dr. Lindquist, knowing Spotswoods was calling on Margaret Odell, had planned in a jealous fit to kill him. But this plan was frustrated when Spotswoode jumped into a cab. Skecl telephones that he will tell who committed the murder, and Markham. Vance and Heath wait for him in the district attorney’s office. CHAPTER XL A FEW minutes later Heath turend abruptly and went out into the hall. We could hear him calling to Snitkin down the elevator shaft, but when, he came back into the office his expression told us that as yet there was no news of Skeel. “I'll call up the bureau.” he decided, “and see what Guilfoyle had to report. At least we’ll know then when the Dude left his house.” But when the sergeant had been connected with police h :adquarters he was informed that Guilfoyle had as yet made no report. “That’s damn funny,” he commented, hanging up the receiver. It was now twenty minutes past ten. Markham was growing restive. The tenacity with which the Canary murder case had resisted all his efforts toward a solution had filled him with discouragement; and he had hoped, almost desperately, that this morning's interview with Skeel would clear up the mystery, or at least supply him with information on which definite action could be taken. Now, with Skeel late for this allimportant appointment, the strain was becoming tense. He pushed back his chair nervously and, going to the window, gazed outs into the dark haze of fine rain. When he returned to his desk his face was set. “I'll give our friend until half past ten,” he said grimly. “If he isn't here then, Sergeant, You’d better call up the local station-house and have then send a patrol-wagon for him.” There was another few minutes of silence. Vance lolled in his chair with half-closed eyes, but I noticed

represents the only city in Indiana operating under the city manager plan. Forum Will Be Held Charles P. Taft, 11, who was instrumental in getting Cincinnati, Ohio, to adopt the manager system. will speak at the luncheon on “The Future of America is in the Keeping of Her Cities.” Fred Hoke, chairman of the board of dix-ectors of the local league, will preside. In the afternoon Anderson will describe “How to Inaugurate, Organize and Execute a Campaign for City Manager Government,” and Winfield Miller, local attorney and advocate of the city manager law when in the 1921 Senate, will explain “The Indiana City Manager Law.” A forum for questions and answers will conclude the session. The conference falls on the third day of the meeting of the Indiana League of Women’s Voters, assuring the attendance of many visiting women. Esterline’s general conference committee includes Mrs. George C. Finfrock, Dwight S. Ritter, Frank E. Gates and Anderson. Sub-committee chairmen are: Luncheon, Mrs. S. E. Perkins; local attendance, E. O. Snethen; reception, Hoke. Negro Wife Asks $50,000 By Times Special GARY. Ind., March I.—Mrs. Virginia Williams, Negro, asks $50,000 alimony in a divorce suit filed here against Sam Williams, Negro, whom she charges with cruelty. He is a cement contractor.

that, though he still held his cigaret, he was not smoking. His forehead was puckered by a frown, and he was very quiet. I knew that some unusual problem was occupying him. His lethargy had in it a quality of intentness and concentration. As I watched him he suddenly sat up straight, his eyes open and alert. He tossed his dead cigaret into the receiver with a jerky movement that attested to some inner excitement. “Oh, my word!” he exclaimed. “It really can’t be, y’ know! And yet” —his face darkened—“and yet, by Jove, that’s it! • • . What an ass I’ve been —what an unutterable ass! . . , Oh!” He sprang to his feet; then stood looking down at the floor like a man dazed, afraid of his own thoughts. “Markham, I don’t like it—l don’t like it at all.” He spoke almost as if he were frightened. “I tell you, there’s something terrible going on—something uncanny. The thought of it makes my flesh creep. ... I must be getting old and sentimental,” he added, with an effort at lightness; but the look in his eyes belied his tone. “Why didn’t I see this thing yesterday? . . . But I let it go on . . .” We were all staring at him in amazement. I had never seen him affected in this way before, and the fact that he was habitually so cynical and aloof, so adamant to emotion and Impervious to outside in-fluences/-gave his words and actions an impelling and impressive quality. After a moment he shook himself slightly, as if to throw off the pall of horror that had descended upon him, and, stepping to Markham's desk, he leaned over, resting on both hands. “Don’t you see?” he asked “Skeel's not coming. No use to wait—no use of our having come here in the first place. We have to go to him. He’s waiting for us . • . Come! Get your hat!” Markham had risen, and Vance took him firmly by the arm. “You needn’t argue,” he persisted. “You’ll have to go to him sooner or later. You might as well go now, don’t y’ know.—My word! What a .situation!” He had led Markham, astonished

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and but mildly protesting, into the middle of the room, and he now beckoned to Heath with his free hand. “You, too, Sergeant. Sorry you had all this trouble. My fault. I should have foreseen this thing. A develish shame; but my mind was on Monets all yesterday afternoon. , . . You know where skeel lives?” Heath nodded mechanically. He had fallen under the spell of Vance’s strange and dynamic importunities. “Then don't wait.—Ar.d, Sergeant! You'd better bring Burke or Snitkin along. They won’t be needed here—nobody’ll be needed here any more today.” Heath looked inquiringly to Markham for counsel; his bewilderment had thrown him into a state of mute indecision. Markham nodded his approval of Vance's suggestions, and, without a word, slipped into his raincoat. A few minutes later the four of us, accompanied by Snitkin, had entered Vance's car and were lurching uptown. Swacker had been sent home; the office had been locked up; and Burke and Emery had departed for the homicide bureau to await further instructions. Skeel lived in Thirty-Fifth St., near the East River, in a dingy, but once pretentious house, which formerly had been the residence of some old family of the better class. It now had an air of dilapidation and decay; there ,was rubbish in the area way; and a large sign announcing rooms for rent was posted in one of the ground-floor windows. As we drew up before it Heath sprang to the street and looked sharply about him. Presently he espied an unkempt man slouching in the doorway of a grocery store diagonally opposite, and beckoned to him. The man shambled over furtively. “It’s all right, Guilfoyle ” the sergeant told him. “Were paying the Dude a social visit. What’s the trouble? Why didn't you report?” Guilfoyle looked surprised. “I was told to phone in when he left the house, sir. But he ain't left yet. Mallory tailed him home last night round ten o'clock, and I relieved Mallory at nine this morning. The Dude's still inside.” "Os course he’s still inside. Sergeant,” said Vance, a bit impatiently. “Where's his room situated, Guilfoyle?” asked Heath. "Second floor, at the back.” “Right. Were going in. Stand by.” "Look out for him,” admonished Guilfoyle. “He's got a gat.” Heath took the lead up the worn steps which led from the pavement to the little vestibule. Without ringing, he roughly grasped the doorknob and shook it. The door was unlocked, and we stepped into the stuffy lower hallway. A bedraggled woman of about 40, in a disreputable dressing-gown, and with hair hanging in strings over her shoulders, emerged suddenly from a rear door and came toward us unsteadily, her bleary

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eyes focused on us with menacing resentment. “Say!” she burst out, in a rasping voice. “What do youse mean by bustin’ in like this on a respectable lady?” And she launched forth upon a stream of profane epithets. Heath, who was nearest her, placed his large hand over her face, and gave her a gentle, but firm shove backward. “You keep outa this, Cleopatra!” he advised her, and began to ascend the stairs. The second floor hallway was dimly lighted by a small flickering gas-jet, and at the rear we could distinguish the outlines of a single door set in the middle of the wall. “That’ll be Mr. Skeel’s abode,” observed Heath. He walked up to it and, dropping one hand in his right cat pocket, turned the knob. But the door was locked. He then knocked violently upon it, and placing his ear to the jamb, listened, snitkin stood directly behind him, his hand also in his pocket. The rest of us remained a little in the rear. Heath had knocked a second time when Vance's voice spoke up from the semi-darkness. “I say. Sergeant, you're wasting time with all that formality.” “I guess you're right.” came the answer after a moment of what seemed unbearable silence. Heath bent down and looked at the lock. Then he took some instrument from his pocket and inserted it into the keyhole. “You’re right,” he repeated. “The key's gone.” He stepped back, and balancing on his toes like a sprinter, sent his shoulders crashing against the panel directly over the knob. But the lop- held. “Come on, Snitkin,” he ordered. The two detectives hurled themselves against the door. At the third onslaught there was a splintering of wood and a tearing of the lock’s bolt through the moulding. The door swung drunkenly Inward. The room was In almost complete darkness. We all hesitated on the threshold, while Snitkin crossed warily to one of the windows and sent the shade clattering up. The yellow-gray light filtered in. and the objects of the room at once took definable form. A large, oldfashioned bed projected from the wall on the right. The help-y our self plan of a cafeteria enables the finest of foods at “odd penny prices’’ to be served at White’s Cafeteria, 27 N. Illinois. Salduiin coi^°b r ; a ON THE CIRCLE

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