Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1930 — Page 5

NOV. 2D, 1930_

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BEGIN HEBE TODAT JUANITA SELIM 1* murdered *t her reeling üble during a bridge party. Detective BONNIE DUNDEE orders • eveiyor.e to take the place* they held from the dealing of the "death hand, until the body waa found. PENNY CHAIN. KAREN MAHSHALL and CAROLYN DRAKE are the player*: LOIS DUNLAP. Nltas omy woman friend, stands beside them; FIXJRA MILES 1* in the foveroutalde .MU* room, telephoning; JANET RAYMOND Is or. the front porch; POLLY BEALE an* her fiance. CLIVE HAMMOND, are in the solarium. Karen g'ts the bid for six spades, and after Penny, acting as lay* down her hand. TRACEY MILES. Flora s husband, enter*. p-nny. as Nlta Jumps up. asks him to maxe cocktails, ana leaves. Tracey, followed by Lot*. goes into the dining room. JUDGE MARSHALL, Karen's husband. comes In and gives her advice about playing the hand. JOHN DRAKE enters, angrily protesttg against this "farce." Dundee learns jat he tr: playing golf and walked fr from the club , ~ yfcrake finally admits that he and his „ 'ai.'e quarreled. At the end of the hand, DEXTER SPRAGUE, terribly nervous, omes In with Janet Raymond. The group Is hostile to him. and the two go Into th' dining room. Karen '•arts to go to the bedroom to tell Nlta the score, as she did before, but collapses. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER TEN INHERE was a concerted rush to the girl who had fallen, sobbing and whimpering, to the floor of the hall. But it was Dundee who reached her first. Dundee and not her outraged and excited old husband. "Mrs. Marshall—listen, please,” lie begged in a low voice, as he lifted her so that her head rested against his arm. “You have been splendid—wonderful! Please believe that I am truly sorry to distress you so. and that very soon, I hope, you may go home and rest.” “I—can’t bear any—more,” Karen whimpered. Ignoring Judge Marshall’s louder blustering. Dundee continued softly: “You don't want the wrong peron to be accused of this terrible crime, do you, Mrs. Marshall? , . . Os course not! And you do want to help us all you can to discover who really killed Mrs. Selim?” “I—l suppose so,” Karen conceded <>n a sob. “Then I’ll help you. I'll go into the bedroom with you,” Dundee .promised her with a sigh of relief. ' To the others he spoke sharply: “Go back to the exact positions in living room and dining room and solarium, that you occupied when Mrs. Marshall ran from the room.” “I think you're overdoing it, Bonnie,” Captain Strawn protested. "But—sure I’ll see that they mind ■ you.” With Karen Marshall clinging to his arm. Dundee walked down the hall, beyond the staircase to an open door on his left—a door guarded by a lounging plainclothesman. . Seated at the dressing table of the guests’ lavatory was Flora Miies, her sallow dark face so ravaged that she looked ten years older than when he had first seen her an hour before. “So you were in here when you heard Mrs. Marshall scream, Mrs. Miles?” Dundee paused to ask. “Yes—yes,” she gasped, rising. “And that horrible man has made me stay In here—Of course the door was closed —before. I telephoned home to a'sk about my children, and then I came In here to—to do my face over—” a a a •'■you didn't hear your husband X arrive?” “I—-I didn’t hear him arrive,” Flora Miles faltered, her handkerchief dabbing at her trembling overrouged lips. “I—see.” Dundee said slowly. He stepped into the little room, leaving Karen to stand weakly against the door frame. Without a word to Mrs. Miles he looked closely at the dressing table top and into the small wastebasket that stood beside it. "You—you can see that I cold- , creamed my face before I put on fresh powder and—and rouge,” Flora Miles pointed out, with an obvious effort at offended dignity. “After I came back, while you v.ere making those poor girls play the hand over again. I went i 1; rough the same motions—because ' you told all of us to behave exactly as wc had clone before—” "I—sec,” Dundee agreed. Pretty cl:ver, in spite of being most frightened to death, Dundee „ id to himself. But he had been just a shade cleverer than she, for i',3 had been In this room ahead of her, and there had been no balls of greasy face tissue in the wastebasket then! He was passing out of the room, • tiering his arm to Karen, when one of his underlined notes thrust vsdf upon his memory.

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“May I see your bridge tally, please, Mrs Miles?” “My—bridge tally!” she echoed blankly. “Why—it must be on the table where I was playing—” “It is not,” Dundee assured her quietly. “Perhaps it Is in your hand bag?” and he glanced at the rather large raffia bag that lay on the table. She snatched it up, slightly averting her body as she looked hastily through its contents. “It—isn’t here. . . . Oh, I don’t know where it is! What does it matter?” Without replying. Dundee escorted the trembling little discoverer of Nita Selim’s body into the large ornate bedroom, murmuring as he did so: “Don’t be frightened, Mrs. Marshall. The bod—l mean Mrs. Selim isn’t here now. . . . And you shan’t have to scream. I’ll give the signal myself. I just want you to go through the same motions you did before.” On jerky feet the girl advanced to Nita’s now deserted vanity dresser. “I—l was calling to her all the time,” she whispered. “I didn’t even wait to knock, and I—l began -o tell her how much we’d made off that hand, when I—when she didn’t answer. ... I didn’t touch her, but I saw—l saw—” Again she gripped her face with her hands and was about to scream again. “I know,” Dundee assured her gently. Then he shouted: "Ready!” a a a HERDED by Strawn, the small crowd of men and women came running into the room, Judge Marshall leading the way. Penny being second in line. Penny second! Why not Flora Miles, who had been nearer to that room than any of the others, if her story was true? Dundee asked himself." But all had crowded into the room, including Polly Beale and Clive Hammond, before Mrs. Miles crept in. “Is this the order of your arrival?” Dundee asked them all. Penny, who was standing against the wall, just inside the doorway, spoke up, staring at Flora with frowning intentness. “You’re sort of mixed up, aren’t you. Flora? I was standing right here until the worst of it was over —I didn’t even go near Nita, and I know you didn’t pass me. “I remember that Tracey stepped away from the—body, and called you, and you weren’t here. And then almost the next minute I saw you coming toward him from—from —over there!” And Penny pointed toward that corner of the room which held, on one angle, the door leading to the porch, and on its other angle the window from which, or from near which Nita Selim had been shot. “You’re lying, Penny Crain! I did no such thing!” Flora Miles cried hysterically. “I came running In—with—with the rest of you, and I rushed over there just to see if I could see anybody running away across the meadow—” “My wife is right, sir,” Tracey Miles added his word aggressively. “I saw what she was doing—the most sensible of all of us—and I ran to join her. We looked out of the windows, both the side windows and the rear ones, and out of the door on to the porch. But we didn’t see anything.” “And you were the only one to touch her, Sprague?” “I—belieye so,” Dexter Sprague answered in a strained voice. “I —laid my hand on her —her hair, for an instant, then I picked up her hand to see if—if there was any pulse left.” “Yes?” “She—she was dead.” “And her hand—did it feel cold?” “Neither cold nor warm—just cool,” Sprague answered in a voice that was nearly strangled with emotion. “She —she always had cool hands—” “What did you do. Judge Marshall?” Dundee asked abruptly. “I took my poor little wife away from this room, laid her on a couch in the living room, and then telephoned the police. Miss Crain stood at my elbow, urging me to hurry, so that she might ring you—as she did. Your line was busy and she lost about five minutes before getting you.” “And the rest of you?” Dundee asked. spectacular, I’m afraid, Mr. Dundeeii' Polly Beale answered

in her brusque, deep voice, now: edged with scorn. a a a FURTHER questioning elicited little more, beyond the fact that Clive Hammond had dashed out to circle the house and look over the grounds, and that John Drake had been fully occupied with a hysterical wife. “Better let this bunch go for the present, hadn't we, boy?” Captain Strawn whispered uneasily. "Not a thing on any of them —” “Not quite yet, sir, if you don't mind,” Dundee answered in a low voice. “Will you take them back into the living room and put them under Sergeant Turner’s charge for awhile? Then there are one or two things I’d like to talk over with you. ’ Mollified by the younger man’s \ deference, Strawn obeyed the sug- i gestlon, to return within five min- j utes, his gray brows drawn into a frown. “I hope yen’ll be willing to take full credit for that fool bridge game, Bonnie,” he worried. “I don’t want to look a chump in the newspapers!” “I’ll take the blame,” Dundee assured him. with a grin. “But that ‘fool bridge game’—and I admit it was a horrible thing to have to do —told me a whole bunch of facts that ought to be very, very useful.” “For instance?” Strawn growled, j “For instance,” Dundee answered,! “it told me that it took approximately eight minutes to play out a little slam bid, when ordinarily it would have taken not more than tw’O or three minutes. "Not only that, but it told me the names of everyone in this party who could have killed Nita Selim, and— Good Lord! of course!” And to Captain Strawn’s amazement, Dundee threw open the door of Nita’s big clothes closet, jerked on the light, and stooped to the floor. (To Be Continued) MARMON PLANS MORE WORKERS Body Plant to Be Opened by j Motor Car Company. • Beginning in January, the Marmon Motor Car Company will begin operating its own painting and body trimming plant in its unit known as plant No. 3 in West Morris street, j G. M. Williams, president, has an- i nounced. Williams was unable to estimate the number of men who will be given employment by the new move. For several years, Marmon bodies, built to Marmon specifications and under supervision of Marmon inspectors, have been obtained from outside the organization. Under the new plan, the Hays Body Corporation will occupy part of the plant for first stages in Marmon body construction. Finishing operations will be performed by Marmon employes. “With the opening of our body plant and the arrival of the peak production period in preparation for the’ introduction of new models, Marmon will be in position to offer employment to a greatly increased number of workmen,” Williams said. Williams is chairman of the Chainber of Commerce committee for the relief of unemployment. Father of Seven Dies By Times Special ATLANTA, Ind.. Nov. 29.—David Small, 83, was found dead in a chair at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ella Studevant, west of here, a victim of heart disease. In addition to the widow and Mrs. Sturdevant he leaves the following six children: Mrs. Emma Dunn, Cicero; Mrs. Stella Lewis, Alexandria; Mrs. Della Teter, Goldsmith; Mrs. Ethel Whitesell and Mrs. Ina Coverdale of Fortville, and Mrs. Nora Whetsell, Noblesville; a half-brother, T. J. Small, and a half-sister, Mrs. Anna Wiles. Muncie Abstractor Dies By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 29.—Heart disease caused the death of John F. Meredith, 67, abstractor, w u - retired five years ago as head oi the Delaware County Abstract Company. He leaves two sons, Joseph, Muncie; Paul, Schenectady, N. Y., and a daughter, Mrs. Rose Turley, Winona Lake. Muncie Woman Killed By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 29.—Mrs. Charlotte Chapman, 48. died in a hospital here of injuries suffered near Lafontaine when an automobile in which she was a passenger struck a telephone pole after skidding in snow. She was returning to her home here from Logansport where she visited a sick sister when the accident occurred.

TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE

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