Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1930 — Page 20

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BEGIN HERE TODAT When " BONNIE" DUNDEE, attached to the diitrict attorney"* office. Intrudes on PENNY CRAIN, district attorney * secretary, he has no idea that he will rewember later with keen Interest everything she says. Penny informs him that she Is going to th# Saturday bridge-luncheon of the rorsyte Alumnae Bridge Club, given by *n honorary member. JUANITA HELIM Dundee learns from Penny of her father's business failure and disappearance. The Crain house, built as a show place In his ill-fated real estate venture, n rented by Nlta from JUDGE MARSHALL. When Dundee drives Penny to the luncheon. Nlta flirtatiously asks him for cocktails, but is frightened on learning that he Is a detective. Late that afternoon Penny telephones Dundee that Nita has been murdered at bridge. Arriving at the Selim house. Dundee finds CAPTAIN BTRAWN. his former chief, already in charge and learns that Nit has been shot from behind through the eart as she sat at her dressing table. . , , . Strawn thinks she was shot by a gunman. using a gun with a Maxim silencer, through the window directly opposite the table. Footprints beneath the window confirm this theory. Dundee contests It on the ground that Nita would have seen a stranger at the window in her mirror, and would not have gone on powdering NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER THREE Bonnie Dundee turned toward the tiny, bowed figure of the dead woman and stared at it long and thoughtfully before he answered : “I’m afraid, Captain Strawn, that there arc only two explanations possible. The first, of course, is that Nita Selim was quite deaf or very near-sighted. I happen to know from having met her today-—” “You met her today?” Strawn interrupted incredulously. Dundee explained briefly, then went on: “As I w’as saying I have good reason to know she was not deaf, but I can’t say as to her being near-sighted, except that it is my observation that people who are extremely near-sighted do not have very wide eyes and no creases between the brows. “I am fairly sure she did not wear glasses at all, because glasses worn even a few hours a day leave a mark across the nose or show pinched red spots on each side of the base of the nose.” “You must of had a good, hard look at her,” Strawn gibed, his eyes twinkling, and his harsh, thinlipped mouth pulling down at one corner in what he thought was a genial smile. "I did,” Dundee retorted, grinning back at his former chief, who well knew the boy's weakness for a pretty girl. “Well, conceding that she was neither deaf nor half blind .she necessarily would have heard and seen her assailant before he shot her.” “What’s the other explanation?” Strawn was becoming impatient. “That the person who killed her was so well known to her, and his or—her presence in this room so natural a thing that she paid no attention to his—or her—movements and was concentrating on the job of powdering her very pretty face.” “You mean—one of that gang of society folks in there?” and Strawn jerked a thumb toward the left side of the house. “Very probably,” Dundee agreed. “But where's the gun?” Strawn argued. “I tell you my men—" “This was a premeditated murder, of course,” Dundee interrupted. • The Maxim silencer —unless they all arc lying about not hearing a shot—proves that. ‘’Silencers are damned hard to get hold of, but people with plenty of money can manage most things. And since the murder was premeditated, it is better to count on the fact that the murderer—or murderess—had planned a pretty safe hiding place for the gun and the silencer. . . . “Oh, not necessarily in the house or even near the house,” he hastened to assure Strawn, who was trying to break in. . . . By the way, how long after Mrs. Selim was killed was her death discovered? Or do you know?” a a a • r HAVEN'T been able to get much Jl out of that bunch' in there—not even out of Penelope Crain, who ought to be willing to help, seeing as how she works for the district attorney. “But I guess she was waiting to spill it all to you. if she knows anything, so you and Sanderson will get all the credit.” “Now, look here, chief," Dundee protested, laying a hand on Strawn’s shoulder as he reverted to the name by which he had addressed the head of the homicide squad for nearly a year, “we’re going to be friends, aren’t we? Same as always? ‘ “We know" pretty well how to work

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together, don’t we? No use to begin puliing against each other.” “Guess so.” Strawn growled, but he was obviously pleased and relieved. “Maybe you’d better have a crack at that crowd yourself. I hear Doc Price’s car—always has a bum spark plug. “I’ll stick around with him until h,e gets going good on his job, then, If you’ll excuse me for butting in, I’ll join your party in the living room. . . . And good luck to you, Bonnie,” he added, to take the sting out of the bit of thrown-in sarcasm. Dundee took the door he knew must lead into the central hall, but found himself in an enclosed section of it—a small foyer between the, main hall and Nita Selim’s bedroom/ There was room for a telephone table and its chair, as well as for a half-length sofa, large enough for two to sit upon comfortably. He paused to open the door across from the telephone table and found that it opened into a guests’ closet, whose hangers and hat forms now held the outdoor clothing in which several women had arrived at the bridge-and-death party. Nice clothes—the smart but unostentatious hats and coats of moneyed people of good taste, he observed, a little enviously, before he opened the door which led out into the main hall which bisected the main floor of the house, until it reached Nita’s room. Another door in the section behind the staircase leading to the gabled second story next claimed his attention. Opening it, he discovered a beautifully fitted guests’ lavatory. There was even a fully appointed dressing table for women’s use, so that none of her guests had had the slightest excuse to invade the privacy of Mrs. Selim's bedroom and bath, unless specifically invited to do so. Rather a well-planned house, this, Dundee concluded, as he closed the door upon the shining green porcelain fixtures, and walked slowly toward the wide archway that led from the hall into a large Jiving room. He had a curious reluctance to intrude upon that assembled and guarded company of Hamilton’s “real society.” They were all Penny’s friends, and Penny was his friend. . . .

BUT his first swift, all-seeing glance about the room reassured him. No hysterics here. These people brought race and breeding even into the presence of death. Whatever emotions had torn themwhen Nita Selim's body was discovered were almost now. A stout, short woman of about 30 was tapping a foot nervously, as she talked to the man who was bending over her chair. . . . John C. Drake, that was. Dundee had met him, knew him to be a vicepresident of the Hamilton National bank, in charge of the trust department. Penelope prain was occupying a “love seat” with Lois Dunlap, the hands of the girl and of the woman clinging together for mutual comfort. And that tall, thin, oldish man with the waxed gray mustache, must be Judge Hugo Marshall, and the pretty girl leaning trustingly against his shoulder must be his wife— Karen Marshall, who had jumped at her first proposal during her first season. Yes, well-bred people, he concluded, as his eyes swept on, and then stopped, a little bewildered. Who was that man? He didn’t belong somehow, and his hands trembled visibly as he tried to light a cigarette. Leaning—not nonchalantly, but actually for support— against the brocaded coral silk drapes of a pair of wide, long windows set in the east wall. Suddenly Dundee had it. . . . Broadway! This xvas no Hamiltonian, no comfortably rich find soi cially secure Middle Westerner. Broadway in every line of his toowell tailored clothes, in the polished smoothness of his dark hair. . . . “Why. it’s Mr. Dundee at last!” Penny cried, turning in the Sshaped seat before he had had time :to finish his mental inventory of the room's occupants. She jumped to her feet and threaded a swift way over Oriental ! rugs and between the two bridge ; tables, still occupying the center of the big room, still cluttered with score pads, tally cards and playing cards.

“I’ve been wondering if you had stopped to have dinner first,” she stuck one of her little thorns into him. Then, laying a hand on his arm, she faced the living room eagerly. “This is Mr. Dundee, folks—special investigator attached to the district attorney’s office, and a grand detective. “He solved the Hogarth murder case, you know, and the Hillcrest murder. And he's my best friend, so I want you all to trust him and —and tell him things without being afraid of him.” Then, rather ceremoniously but swiftly, she., presented her friends— Judge and Mrs. Hugo Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Tracey Miles, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Drake, Mrs. Dunlap, Janet Raymond, Polly Beale, Clive Hammond, and — nan AT that point Penny hesitated, then rather stiffly included the “Broadway” man, as “Mr. Dexter Sprague—of New York.” you. Miss Crain,” Dundee said. “Now will you please tell me, if you know, whether all thftse invited to both the bridge party and the cocktail party are here?” Penny's face flamed. “Ralph Hammond, Clive’s brother, hasn’t come yet. .. . I-I rather imagine I’ve been ‘stood up,’ ” she confessed, with a faint attempt at gayety v And Ralph Hammond was the man who once had belonged rather exclusively to Penny, and who, according to her own confession, had succumbed most completely to Nita Selim’s charms! Dundee noted and filed the reflection for future reference. “Please, Mr. Dundee, won’t you detain us as short a time as possible?” Lois Dunlap asked, as she advanced toward him. “Mr. Dunlap is away on a fishing trip, and I don’t like to leave my three youngsters too long. They are really too much of a handful for the nurse, over a period of hours.” “I shall detain all of you no longer than is absolutely necessary,” Dundee told her gently, “but I am afnid I must warn you that I can’t let you go home very soon—unless one or more of you has something of vital importance to tell—something which will clear up or materially help to clear up this bad business.” He paused, then asked curtly: “I am to conclude that no one has anything at all to volunteer?” There was no answer, more than a barely perceptible drawing together in self-defense of the minds and hearts of those who had been friends for so long. “Very well,” Dundee conceded abruptly. “Then I must put all of you through a routine examination, since every one of you is, of course, a possible suspect.”

(To Be Continued) 2,000,000 IN CHINA FACING STARVATION Crops Surplus Stored for Dry Years Wiped Out by War, Taxes. Bu ScriDDs-llovartl Newsvaoer Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—At least 2,000,C00 persons face the certainty of starvation in China this winter unless relief comes quickly. Famine exists in a vide area of China today. This area covers twelve counties in Shensi province, an undetermined area in Kansu and a portion of North Honan. For some years this region has been menaced by the encroaching Gobi desert. Asa rule there has been one wet to two dry seasons. Until now the peasants have been able to store their surplus and bridge over the two lean years. But the war, with its blight of hungry armies and tax collectors, has wiped out last year’s surplus. The 1930 crop would have been fair if the peasants had had seed and farm animals. In addition to lacking these, the season’s opium crop was a total failure. The result is that whole villages are on the verge of starvation and hundreds of thousands probably will perish. CODY’S KIN AT ILLINOIS Elizabeth Thurston. Buffalo Bill’s Granddaughter, Is in School. By United Press URBANA, 111., Nov. 21.—Miss Elizabeth Thurston of Cody, Wyo„ a ! granddaughter of William F. (Bus- ■ falo Bill) Cody, frontiersman, enrolled in the University of Illinois here. She will be a student In the college of liberal arts and sciences. Miss Thurston formerly was a student at Colorado Women’s college. LOSER THANKS VOTERS Fails in Sheriff Race; Asks Support for 1932 Campaign. By United Press MANITOWOC, Wis., Nov. 21. Max Hiller Jr. failed to secure the nomination for sheriff in the recent primary election. Then he published a letter thanking the voters for thensupport and asking them to vote for him again in 1932.

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