Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1928 — Page 14

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GOTHAM FIGHTS CAR FARE TILT FROimENTS Company Contends It Is Losing Money; City Pleads Contract. Ev VEA. Service NEW YORK, March 6.—Five-cent trolley fare is making a last ditch fight in New York, one of its last strongholds. Six million persons, more or less, are standing on the sidelines watching the battle with eager interest. They live in and about Greater New York, and pay to the subways, elevated and surface car lines of this vast community a total of nearly 3,000,000,000 fares a year. Thus they are vitally concerned with the question whether each ride they take is to continue to cost them only a nickel, or 6 or 7 cents. Wants Increase Patrons of the 361 miles of subways and elevateds operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company are most immediately concerned in the fare fight as it has developed thus far. The Inter* borough is the largest of the city’s two main traction systems. It seeks authority to increase fares to 7 cents. But the entire question of transportation costs for New York’s millions is at issue in the Interborough case. No city ever faced a problem more complicated. Revived labor troubles accompany the fare increase controversy. Contract Disputed The Interborough contends it is losing money. The city holds that the Interborough contracted with it years ago to supply subway transportation for 5 cents, and that the contract still is valid. There are city and State transit control boards which figure in the battle. With neither has the Interborough found much sympathy so far. The Interborough has sought to thrash out the entire question in the Federal courts. The city government prefers the State courts. Meanwhile New York’s millions of human beings push, shove, claw and fight their way into the subways at rush hours. The facilities for transporting them fall far short of adequate in the early morning and late afternoon, Hoosier Broadcasts By Timet Special MT. VERNOIN, Ind., March 6. John E. Doerr Jr., North Dakota State Agricultural College professor at Fargo, N. D., is giving geology lectures each Wednesday from Station WDAY, at Fargo. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Doerr of this city.

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THE STORY THUS FAR Margaret Odell is found strangled. Skecl's finger prints are found In the apartment, but Vance believes Skeel had been hiding in a closet while the strangler did his work. The thing that baffles police Is the side door to the alley, which had been bolted on the inside the night before and was found the same way in the morning. Mannlx, Dr. Lindquist and Cleaver all lie about their whereabouts the night of the murder. Spotawoode, who had called on the girl, had rushed back to her door at the sound of a scream, but had been reassured that everything was all right. Then Skeel Is found strangled, after he had promised to tell who murdered the girl. Heath arrests Jessup, but Vance promises to demonstrate how Skeel could have entered and left through the side door and left it bolted on the inside. CHAPTER XLIV VANCE shepherded us ceremoniously to chairs, and cocked his eye at the sergeant. “You will be so good as to rest here until you hear me knock at the side door. Then come and open it for me ” He went toward the archway. “Once more I personate the departed Mr. Skeel; so picture me again en grande tenue—sartorially radiant. . . • The curtain ascends.” He bowed and, stepping fom the reception-room into the main hall, disappeared round the corner into the rear passageway. Heath shifted his position restlessly and gave Markham a questioning, troubled look. “Will he pull it off, sir, do you think?” All jocularity had gone out of his tone. “I can’t see how,” Markham was scowling. “If he does, though, it will knock the chief underpinning from your theory of Jessup’s guilt.” “I’m not worrying,” declared Heath. “Mr. Vance knows a lot; he’s got ideas. But how in hell ” He was interrupted by a loud knocking on, the side door. The three of us' sprang up simultaneously and hurried round the corner of the main hall. The rear passageway was empty. There was no door or aperture of any kind on either side of it.

PROBE CLEARS MUNCIE BOARD Works Body Gets Clean Bill From Council. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. March 6.—This city’s public works board stands exonerated today of any irregularities in letting of contracts, as the result of adoption of a report to the city council by its Investigating committee at a stormy session of the council Monday night. Only Councilman Roy Friedley, whose accusations last November caused the probe of the board, voted against the report clearing it. With the report the council adopted a resolution which, in part, reads: “That in the future all persons speaking before council be and hereby are admonished to guard their language and moderate their speech so as not to reflect upon the motives or characters of others unjustly.” IMPEACHMENT SEEN Move to Oust Commissioner Admitted Possible. By Times Special WASHINGTON, March 6.—Action looking toward House impeachment of Federal Trade Commissioner A. F. Myers is a “possibility,” Senator Walsh of Montana said today. Walsh said he and Senator Borah, majority member of the Senate Judicia’y Sub-Committee which held the recent bread trust hearings at which Myers testified, might transmit the records of that hearing to the House. Such transmission would be a necessary step to any action in the House looking toward impeachment, and would be done with that end in view, Walsh said. He and Borah were dissatisfied with the version given by Myers of the dismissal of Government action against the Continental Baking Company in which Myers played a leading part. Whether the record is transmitted or not, their report probably will contain severe criticism of Myers. ATTACKS WOMAN, FLEES Unidentified Man Frightened Away by Victim’s Screams. Squads of police failed to find the man who attacked Miss Effie Lucas, 43 Frank St., while she was walking by an alley near Howard Ave. and Lee St., Monday night. Miss Lucas told police that she had gotten off of a West Indianapolis street car and, when she reached the alley, a man, wearing a conductor’s cap, grabbed her, struck her several times and dragged her down the alley about thirty feet. She said she screamed and the man fled. She said she believed he had gotten off the same car and followed her to the alley. Governor at Wabash By Times Special WABASH, Ind., March 6.—Governor Ed Jackson is here today for two addresses. At noon he spoke at a luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club and this evening will speak, in the First United Brethren Church.

Caught! By United Preta BEDFORD, Ind., March 6. Both John and Pheba McLintock, husband and wife, thought the other would be away from home for the night, the two told police. Now John has filed suit for divorce. Police said the two caught each other with a companion on the night when each thought the other would not be home. Several officers were required to stop tire quadrangular battle.

It consisted of two blank walls; and at the end, occupying almost its entire width, was the oak door which led to the court. Vance could have disappeared only through that oak door. And the thing we all noticed at once—for our eyes had immediately sought it—was the horizontal position of the bolt-handle. This meant that the door was bolted. Heath was not merely astonished —he was dumbfounded. Markham had halted abruptly, and stood staring down the empty passageway as If he saw a ghost. After a momentary hesitation Heath walked rapidly to the door. But he did not open it at once. He went down on his knees before the lock and scrutinized the bolt carefully. Then he took out his pocketknife and inserted the blade into the crack between the door and the casing. The point halted against the Inner molding, and the edge of the blade scraped upon the circular bolt. There was no question that the heavy oak casings and moldings of the door were solid and well fitted, and that the bolt had been securely thrown from the Inside. Heath, however, was still suspicious, and, grasping the doorknob, he tugged at it violently. But the door held firmly. At length he threw the bolthandle to a vertical position and opened the doer. Vance was standing in the court, placidly smoking and inspecting the brickwork of the alley wall. “I say, Markham,” he remarked, here’s a curious thing. This wall, d’ ye know, must be very old. It wasn’t built in these latter days of breathless efficiency. “The beauty loving mason who erected It laid the bricks in Flemish bond instead of the Running or Stretcher-bond of our own restless age. “And up there a bit”—he pointed toward the rear' yard—"is a Rowlock and Checkerboard pattern. “Very neat and very pretty—more pleasing even than the popular English Cross bond. And the mortar joints are all V-tooled. . . . Fancy!” Markham was fuming. “Damn it, Vance! I’m not building brick walls. What I want to know is how you got out here and left the door bolted on the inside.” “Oh, that!” Vance crushed out his cigaret and re-entered the building. “I merely made use of a bit of clever criminal mechanism. It’s very simple, like all truly effective appliances—oh, simple beyond words I blush at its simplicity. . . . Observe!” He took from his pocket a tiny pair of tweezers to the end of which was tied a piece of purple twine about four feet long. Placing the tweezers over the vertical bolthandle, he turned them at a very slight angle to the left and then ran the twine under the door so that about a foot of it projected over the sill. Stepping into the court, he closed the door. The tweezers still held the bolthandle as a vise, and the string extended straight to the floor and disappeared under the door into the court.

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The three of us stood watching the bolt with fascinated attention. Slowly the string became taut, as Vance gentle pulled upon the loose end outside, and then the downward tug began slowly but surely to turn the bolt handle. When the bolt had been thrown and the handle was in a horizontal position, there came a slight jerk on the string. The tweezers were disengaged from the bolt handle, and fell noiselessly to the carpeted floor. Then as the string was pulled from without, the tweezers disappeared under the crack between the bottom of the door and the sill. “Childish, what?” commented Vance, when Heath had let him in. “Silly, too, isn’t it? And yet. Sergeant dear, that’s how the deceased Tony left these premises last Monday night. “But let’s go Into the lady’s apartment, and I’ll tell you a story. I see that Mr. Spively has returned from his promenade; so he can resume his telephonic duties and leave us free for a causerie.” “When did you think up that hocus-pocus with the tweezers and string?” demanded Markham irritably, when we were seated in the Odell living room. “I didn’t think it up at all, don’t y’know,” Vance told him carelessly, selecting a cigaret with annoying deliberation. “It was Mr. Skeel’s idea. Ingenious lad —eh, what?” “Come, come!” Markham’s equanimity w r as at last shaken. “How can you possibly know that Skeel used this means of locking himself out?” "I found the little apparatus In his evening clothes yesterday morning.” “What!” cried Heath belligerently. “You took that outa Skeel’s room yesterday during the search, without saying anything about it?” "Oh, only after your ferrets had passed it by. In fact, I didn’t even look at the gentleman's clothes until your experienced searchers had inspected them and relocked the wardrobe door. "Y* see, Sergeant, this little thingumbob was stuffed away in one of the bockets of Skeel's dress waistcoat, under the silver cigaret case. “I’ll admit I went over his evening suit rather lovin’ly. He wore it, y* know, on the night the ladydeparted this life, and I hoped to find some slight indication of his collaboration in the event. “When I found this little eyebrowplucker, I hadn’t the slightest Inkling of Its significance. Ahd the purple twine attached to it bothered me frightfully, don’t y’ know. “I could see that Mr. Skeel didn't pluck his eyebrows; and even if he had been addicted to the practice, why the twine? The tweezers are a delicate little gold affair—just what the ravishin' Margaret might have used; and last Tuesday morning I noticed a small lacquer tray containing similar

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toilet accessories on her dressing table near the jewel case.—But that wasn’t all.” He pointed to the little vellum waste basket beside the escritoire, in which lay a large crumpled mass of heavy paper. “I also noitced that piece of discarded wrapping paper stamped with the name of a well know-n Fifth Avenue novelty shop; and this morning, on my w r ay downtown, I dropped in at the shop and learned that they make a practice of tying up their bundles with purple twine. “Therefore, I concluded that Skeel had taken the tweezers and the twine from this apartment during his visit here that eventful night. “Now, the question was: Why should he have spent his time tying strings to eyebrow pluckers? I confess, with maidenly modesty, that I couldn’t find an answer. “But this morning when you told of arresting Jessup, and emphasized the rebolting of the side door after Skeel's departure, the fog lifted, the sun shone, the birds began to sing. “I became suddenly mediumistic; I had a psychic seizure. The whole modus operandi came to me—as they say—in a flash. “I told you, Markham old thing. It would take spiritualism to solve this case.”

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