Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1930 — Page 28

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begin here today JUANITA BELIM Is murdered at her drewlng table during a bridge ,j? ar t h# tx hand • until the discovery of tb prVN V CRAW the district attorney's s^^sr&JTOs® t:i FXORA I MILES. who left the room tutors the "death hand, to the be<lroom K POLLY to the solai'uhi, meeting her fiance, CLIVE JI TTiey to play the hand, with Karen as declarer and Pen"? “gets* the bid*fo^al* n spadM, n and afMr Penny, TRACE''''miles* Flora’s°husband, S& '''pennv lumps up. asks Tracey to make coTmJs. and goes to the bedroom Ehindoe makes a note of the tme. JUDGE MARSHALL comes in and gives ry^s W hu ß^nd. e eo^e" N in D an A g^y, C proSTORY CHAPTER NINE Before Drake had reached his * side, his purpose plain upon his fitjm. rather ascetic features, Dundee had taken a hasty glance at the watch cupped in his palm, noted the exact minute and second of the Interruption. Time out! “One moment, Mr. Drake,” he said calmly. “I quite agree with you—from your viewpoint. What mine is you can't be expected to know. “But believe me when I say that I consider it of vital importance to the investigation of the murder of Mrs. Selim that this particular bridge hand, with all its attending remarks, the usual bickering, and its interruptions of arriving male guests lor cocktails, be played out, exactly as it was this afternoon. I thought I had made myself clear before. “If you don’t wish me to believe that you have something to conceal by refusing to take part in a rather grisly game— - ’ "Certainly I have nothing to conceal!” John C. Drake, banker, snorted angrily. "Then please bow as gracefully as possible to necessity,” Dundee urged without rancor. “And may I ask, before we go on, if you made your entrance at this time, and the facts of your arrival?” Drake considered a moment, gnawing a thin upper lip. Beads of sweat stood on his high, narrow forehead. “I walked over from the country club, after eighteen holes of golf with your superior, the district attorney,” Drake answered, with nasty emphasis. left the clubhouse at 5:10, calculating that it would take me about twenty minutes for the walk of—of about a mile.” Dundee made a mental note to find out exactly how far from this lonely house in Primrose Meadows the country club actually was, but his next question was along another line: “You walked, Mr. Drake? —after eighteen holes of golf on a warm day?” a an DRAKE'S pale, narrow face flushed. “My wife had the car. I had driven out with Mr. Sanderson, but lie was called away by a long distance message. I lingered at the club for awhile, chatting and —er—having a cool drink or two, then I set out afoot.” “I see,” said Dundee thoughtfully. "Now as to your arrival here—” “I walked in. The door had been left on the latch, as it usually is, when a party is on,” Drake explained coldly. “And I was just entering the room when I heai'd my wife make the remark about covering an honor with an honor, and then her question of Penny as to whether she should have played second hand low.” “So you entered this time at the correct moment,” said Dundee. “Now Mr. Drake, I am going to ask you to re-enter the room and do exactly as you did upon your arrival at approximately 5:33.” Drake wheeled, ungraciously, and again returned to the doorway, while Dundee again consulted his-watch, mentally subtracting the minutes which had been wasted upon this Interruption, from the time he had marked upon his memory as the moment at which Drake had interfered. But an undercurrent of skepticism nagged at his mind: Why had Drake, certainly not a strong-look-ing man or one given to excessive exercise, have chosen to walk? And why had it taken him from 5:10 to

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approximately 5:33 to walk a mile or less? The average walker, and especially one accustomed to playing golf, could have covered a mile easily in fifteen minutes. With head up aggressively, Drake undoubtedly was making an effort to throw himself into the role—or perhaps into a role chosen on the spot! “Where’s everybody?” he called from the doorway. “Am I early?” “Don’t interrupt, please, dear,” Carolyn Drake answered, her voice trembling now. where before it must have been sharp and querulous. Silently Drake took his place behind his wife's chair, laying a hand affectionately upon her shoulder, Dundee, watching closely, saw Penny’s eyes widen with something like shocked surprise. So Drake was trying to deceive him, counting on the one-ness of that group, his closest friends! “You asked no questions, Mr Drake?” Dundee interpolated. nun The banker flushed again. “I—yes, I beli .ve I did. Carolyn— Mrs. Drake— explained that Karen was playing for a little slam in spades, and that she had doubled—‘on principle,” he added acidly. “And when I told you that Karen had redoubled and it looked as if she was going to make it,” Carolyn Drake whimpered and shifted her short, stout body in the little bridge chair, “you said—why not tell the truth? —you said It was just like me and I might as well take to tatting at bridge parties.” “That was said jokingly, my dear,” Drake retorted with a colc> ness that tried to be warmth. “Play bridge!” Dundee commanded, sure that the approximate length of the previous dispute had not been taken up, whatever retort Carolyn Drake had made. Then he checked himself, again looking at his watch: “And just what did you answer to your husband’s little joke, Mrs. Drake?” “I—I” The woman looked helplessly around the table, her slatecolored eyes reddening with tears, then she plunged recklessly, after a fearful look at Dundee’s inplacable face. “I said that if it was Nita hi was talking to, he wouldn't speak in—in that tone; that she could make all the foolish errors of over-bid-ding or revoking or doubl ! ng that she wanted to and he wouldn’t say a word except to praise her—” “Then I may as well confess,” Drake said acidly, “that I answered substantially as follows: Nita, my dear, is an intelligent bridge player.’ . . . Now make the most of this little family tiff, sir—and be damned to you!” “Did that end the little scene, Mrs. Drake?” Dundee asked gently. “Yes. I—l—just cried a little, but I kept on playing. And Johnny— Mr. Drake—went away, walking up and down the room, waiting for Nita to come back, I suppose!” “Then go on with the game,” Dundee ordered curtly. Silently now, as silently as the real game must have been played, because of the embarrassing scene between husband and wife, the sinister game was carried to its conclusion. Karen led the king of hearts from the dummy. Penny played her seven, Karen contributed her own deuce, and Mrs. Drake followed suit with the five. Again Karen led from the dummy, with the four of hearts, followed by Penny’s nine, the ten from the declarer’s hand, and the five of clubs from Mrs. Drake. Having taken the trick with her ten of hearts, Karen then led the six of hearts, Carolyn Drake discarded the six of clubs, dummy the eight of hearts, and Penny the three of clubs. With a faint show of the triumph with which she had played the hand the first time, Karen threw down her remaining three trumps, making her little slam. Then she threw an appealing upward glance at Dundee, who nodded for her to go on, exactly as she and the other two players had done that afternoon. tt H “T MADE it!” Karen tried to X sound very triumphant. “A little slam, doubled and redoubled! . . . How much did I—l mean—Nita and I make, Penny?” Penny’s pencil was already busy at a pretense of figuring. “Plenty!

. . . I’d like to know, Carolyn, if It isn’t one of your most cherished secrets, what you thought you had to double on?” Carolyn Drake bridled and protested feebly. "I thought of course I could take two club tricks, with my ace and king—” * “Oh, well!” Penny figuratively flung up her hands, though she continued to make a pretense of totting up the score, while Karen, who had risen, stood over her like a bird poised for flight. At that instant Dexter Sprague began to advance into the room, Janet Raymond at his side, her face flaming. “Behave exactly as you did before!” Dundee commanded in a harsh whisper. No time for coddling these people now! Dexter Sprague’s face took on a yellower tinge, but he obeyed. “Greetings!” he called out in the jaunty, over-cordial tones of a man •who knows himself not too welcome. “Where’s Nita—and everybody? Isn’t that the cocktail shaker I hear?” Having received no answer from any one present, Sprague strolled through the living room and on into the dining room, Janet following. Judge Marshall had nodded stiffly, and John C. Drake had muttered the semblance of a greeting, . . . Were they all overdoing it a bit—this reacting of their hostility to the sole remaining outsider of their compact little group— .. . Dundee stroked his chin thoughtfully. But Penny, was saying in her abrupt, husky voice: “Above the line, 1250: below the line, 720, making a total of 1970 on this hand, Karen.” “Won’t Nita be glad?” Karen gasped, then began to run totteringly, calling: “Nita! Nita!” But in the hall she collapsed, shuddering, crying in a child’s whimper: “No, no! I—can’t—go in there—again!” (To Be Continued)

U. S, BEHIND IN LEGALMEDIGINE Trails Europe, Crime Expert Tells Surgeons. Bu Science Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—European countries are far ahead of the United States in the practice of legal medicine, Colonel Calvin Goddard of the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory of Northwestern university told members of the Association of Military Eurgeons of the United States at their meeting here. In thirteen European countries he just has visited, Colonel Goddard did not find a single police commissioner who was not either a doctor of medicine, a doctor of laws or a doctor of science. The medical expert for the court is a respected honored person in Europe. He must have a degree in legal medicine as well as his regular medical degree, and he is expected to find the facts, not to help convict a prisoner or suspected criminal. At the Northwestern university laboratory, work paralleling that of the medico-legal institutes of European countries is being undertaken. Identification of bullets with the guns from which they were fired; analysis, examination and identification of material scraped from the finger nails of a dead man or a suspect, and lectures to state’s attorneys, police lieutenants, and detectives are among the many ways in which the new laboratory is assisting in clearing up crime. The laboratory or school is the first of its kind in this country. INJURIES WILL REMAIN Girl Hurt In Odd Auto Accidenti Suffers Partial Paralysis. By United, Press WICKWIRE, Wis.. Nov. 28.—Miss Alice Quaderer will be partially paralyzed for the remainder of her life, physicians say, as a result of being run down by an automobile that was being towed by a team of horses. Miss Quaderer was riding on a farm sled behind which the automobile was being towed when the motor started suddenly and the horses became frightened and ran away. She was thrown from the sled and the automobile ran over her body. MINE BURNS 45 YEARS Ohio Blaze Breaks Out Anew as Result of Burning Coal. By United Press NEW LEXINGTON, 0., Nov. 28. —Perry county’s 45-year-old mine fire has broken out anew in many places on the hills adjoining New Straitsville, O. The latest damage caused by the fire came as the result of burning coal under the New LexingtonLogan road, causing the highway to drop four feet into an old mine entry.

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