Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1930 — Page 24

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Investigating the murder of JUANITA SELDIM at a bridge party. BONNIE ’ DUNDEE orders the replavinz of the death hand.” PENNY CRAIN. KAREN MARSHALL and CAROLYN DRAKE play the hand. CLIVE HAMMOND and his fiancee. POLLY BEALE, in the solarium at the time of the murder admit having lunch with RALPH HAMMOND, although Polly had to brealc her engagement with Nita to do so. She savs she found Ralph at the Seiim house, where he was estimating the cost of remodeling the attic, had lunch with him. and does not know why he is not at the Party. JUDOE MARSHALL savs he was driven over bv a lawyer friend, came straight Into the living room, and saw no one. JOHN DRAKE walked over from the Country Club and saw no one. DEXTER SPRAOUE. the most nervous of the group, walked to the house from ‘he bus. JANET RAYMOND, station'd on the front porch, came in with him, and they went to the dining room, where were TRACEY MILES and LOIS DUNLAP. Janet accuses LYDIA, the maid, of the murder, because Lois had to ring twice for her. Lvdia is called in. and says that she fel] asleep from the effect of an anesthetic given her for her tooth. She savs she did not go into Nita’s bedroom at all. Dundee asks her if she saw anyone NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER FIFTEEN FOR the first time during the difficult interview Dundee war, sure that Lydia Carr was lying. For a fraction of a second her single eye wavered, the lid flickered, then tame her harsh, flat denial: “I didn’t see nobody.” “I presume your basement room has a window looking out upon the back garden?” Dundee persisted “Yes. it has. but I didn’t waste no time looking out of it,” Lydia answered grimly. “I was laying down, -with an ice cap against my jaw.” She had seen someone, Dundee told himself But the truth would be harder to extract from that stern, scar-twisted mouth than the abscessed tooth had been. Finally, when her lone eye/ did not again waver under his steady gaze, he dismissed her, or rather, returned her to Captain Strawn’s custody. “Well, Janet. I hope you’re satisfied!” Penny Crain said bitingly, as she dashed unashamed tears from her brown eyes. “If ever a maid was absolutely crazy abouf her mistress—” “I’m not satisfied!” Janet Raymond retorted furiously. “She’s just the sort that would harbor a grudge for years, and then, a.ll hopped up with dope—” “Stop it, Janet!” Lois Dunlap commanded with a curtness that sat oddly upon her kind, pleasant face. “Listen here, Dundee,” Tracey Miles broke in, almost humbly. “My wife is getting pretty anxious about the kiddies. The nurse quit on us yesterday, and—” "And my little wife Is worrying herself sick over our boy—just 3 months old,” Judge Marshall joined the protest. “I’m all for assisting justice, sir, having served on the bench myself, as ou doubtless know, but—” “I’m all right, really, Hugo,” Karen Marshall faltered, laying a very white little hand against her elderly husbands cheek a a a “TJLEASE be patient a little longJL er,” Dundee urged apologetically After all. only one of these people could be guilty of Nita Selim’s murder, and it was beastly to have to hold them like this. . . . But one was guilty! ' You knew Mrs. Selim In New York, Sprague?” he asked, whirling suddenly upon the man with the Broadway stamp “I met Nita Leigh, as I always heard her called, when I was assistant director in the Altamont Studios, out on Long Island,” Sprague answered, his black eyes trying to meet Dundee’s with an air of complete frankness. “Wonderful little girl, and a great dancer . . . Screened damned well, too “I had hoped to give her a break some day, at something better than doubling for stars' legs. But, it happened that Nita, who never forgot even a casual friend, had a chance to show what I can really do with a camera.” “I knew I’d seen your name somewhere!” Dundee exclaimed. So you're the man the Chamber of Commerce is dickering with. . . . Going to make an historical movie of the founding, growth and beauties of the city of Hamilton, aren’t you?” “If I get the contract—yes.” Sprague answered with palpably assumed modesty. “My plans, naturally, call for a great deal of research work, a large expenditure of money, a very careful selection of ‘stars’—*’ ' I see.” Dundee Interrupted. Then his tone changed, became slow and menacing in its terrible emphasis:

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“And you really couldn’t let even a good friend like Nita Selim upset those fine plans of yours, could you, Sprague?” Even as he put the sinister question, the detective was exulting to himself: “Light at last! Now I know why 4his Broadway bounder was received into an exclusive crowd like this! Every last female in the bunch hoped to be the star in Sprague’s motion picture!” “I don’t know what you’re driving at, Dundee!” Sprague was on his feet, his black eyes blazing out of a chalky face. "If you’re accusing me of—of— '* “Os killing Nita Selim?” Dundee asked lazily. “Oh, no! Not—yet, Sprague! I '/as just remembering a rather puzzling note of yours I happened to read this afternoon. . . . That note you sent by special messenger to Breakaway inn this noon, you know.” He had little interest for the sudden crumbling of Dexter Sprague ] into the chair from 'which he had ■ risen. Instead, as he drew the note from his coat pocket Dundee’s eye swept around the room, noted the undisguised relief on every face, the almost ghoulish satisfaction with which that close-knit group of friends seized upon an outsider as the probable murderer of that other outsider whom they had rashly taken into their sacred circle. Even Penny Crain, thorny little stickler for fair play that she was, relaxed with a tremulous sigh, ana “\7' ou admit that this note, Jl signed by what I take to be | your ‘pet name,’ was written by your hand, Sprague?” Dundee asked j matter-of-factly, as he- extended the sheet of bluish notepaper. “I—no—yes, I wrote it,” Sprague faltered. “But it doesn't mean a thing—not a damned thing! Just a little private matter between Nita and myself: ” “Rather queer wording for an unimportant message, Sprague,” Dimdee interrupted. “Let me refresh your memory: ‘Nita, my sweet’,” he began to read slowly, “ ‘Forgive your bad boy for last night’s row, but I must warn you again to watch your step. You’ve already gone too far. ‘“Of course. I love you and understand, but— Be good, Baby, and [ you won’t be sorry!—Drexy.’ . . i Well, Sprague?” , Sprague wiped his perspiring hands on his handkerchief. “I know it sounds—odd, under the circumstances,” he admitted desperately, “but listen, Dundee, and I’ll try to make that damned note as clear as possible to a man who doesn’t know his Broadway. 'Why, man, it isn’t even a love ; letter! Everybody on Broadway talks and writes to each other like ! that, without meaning a thing! ... As I told you, Nita Leigh, or Mrs. Selim, remembered some little I kindnesses I had done her cn the Altamont lot, when she got here to take up that Little Theater work Mrs. Dunlap is interested in, and found that the Chamber of Commerce was interested in putting Hamilton into the movies, in a big booster campaign, She wrote me and I thought it looked good enough to drop everything and come. ... Os course, Nita and I got to be closer friends, but I • swear to God we were just i friends ” “And what was the ‘friendly’ row | about last night, Sprague?” ‘There wasn’t a row really,” ! Sprague protested with desperate earnestness. “It was merely that Nita insisted on my casting her for the heroine of the movie—a thing I knew would alienate the whole crowd that’s been so kind to us ” “Why—since she was a professional actress?” Dundee demanded. “Because she isn’t a Hamilton girl, of course, and the Chamber of Commerce wants the cast to be all local talent,” Sprague answered, lapsing into the present tense. “And just what were you warning her against?” “I’d told her before to watch her ! step,” Sprague went on ni(jre easily. ‘You see, Dundee, Nita Leigh is—was—a first-class little vamp. And j I -could see she was playing her cards with,the men here”—he indicated four of Hamilton’s most i prominent Chamber of Commerce ! members with a wave of his hand— I “to get them all so crazy about her that they’d vote for her as the star of the picture. “I could see her point, all right. It would have been a big chance for her to show how she could act, . . .

Well, I could see it was a dangerous business, and that the girls”—and he smiled jerkily at the tense women in the living room—“were getting pretty wrought up over the way Nita was behaving. “All except Mrs. Dunlap,” he added. ‘ She didn’t want to act in the picture, and Nita didn’t make any headway at all with Peter Dunlap.” a a a “'T'HANKS, Mr. Sprague,” Lois - Dunlap drawled, with an amused quirk of her broad mouth. “Get along with the row Sprague!” Dundee commanded impatiently. “As I said, it wasn’t really a row. I just pleaded with Nita last night to smooth down the girls’ rumpled feathers, and to make it clear to them that she didn’t wnat the star part in the picture any more than she wanted any other woman’s husband or sweetheart. . . . Just a friendly warning—” Sprague drew a deep breath. “And that’s all the note meant —absolutely!” “I see,” Dundee said quietly, then quoted: “Be good, Baby, and you won’t be sorry!” “That meant, of course,” Sprague took him up eagerly, “that I’d see she got a real part in a regular movie, after I’d made my hit with the Hamilton picture.” Very plausible, very plausible Indeed, Dundee reflected. And yet Finally he lifted his head and let his eyes dart from face to face. “All of you have stated, separately and collectively, that you heard no shot fired in Nita Selim's bedroom this afternoon,” he said sharply. “Is that true?” He was answered by weary nods or sullen affirmations. “Then,” he continued, “I must conclude that you are all lying or that Nita Selim was killed with a gun equipped with a Maxim silencer.” Never w§s a detective more unprepared for the effect of his words upon a group of possible suspects than was Special Investigator Dundee. . , . (To Be Continued) ANCIENTS PRACTICED FAKING ART WORKS Old Vase, Dug Dp in Italy. IVae Made by Phoenicians, Bv Science Service PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5. Fak- j ing art works so as to make a cheap article appear rare and valuable is an old trade, and was practiced by Phoenician traders to fool their etruscan customers in Italy, more than 2,500 years ago A vase, which now is recognized as one of these ancient art forgeries, recently was dug up in Italy, and for a time it has perplexed arceologists at the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, But the mystery now is solved. The vase bears symbols which are apparently Egyptian hieroglyphics. But egyptologists pronounced the markings meaningless, it appears that the Egyptians were famous as glass makers and workers in ceramics at the time this vase was made, about 700 B C., and Egyptian ware was in demand among connoisseurs of Italy. Some Phonecian traders who sold such articles overseas made cheaper vessels and covered them with designs and hieroglyphics to look like Egyptian, and so cheated the Etruscans.

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