Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1930 — Page 5

PEC. 27,1930.

Murder At Bridge / ''THE AVENGmGPAPgbackstaibs-

BEGIN HERE TOBAY JUANITA SELIM Is ffpirdfired *t ifldc'. Su'DfiCt* are: LYDIA CARR. lYr lit: FLORA MILES. In Nitas closet at the Hme of the murder reading a note ,h thinks Is from her husltand. TRACEY, but Thtch is from DEXTER SPRAGUE, probable Nitas lover and nartner in blackmail; and on RALPH HAMMOND, engaged to Nlta. All but .Flora seem practically cleared. I.vdla savs she doesn't known whom K:;a feared, and tells of a bell Sorague contrived near Nlta's bed. to ring In I.vdla s room. Investigating the SIO,OOO N;ta received, probably as blackmail, DUNDEE asks PENNY CRAIN, former inf - girl, now the district attorney s <cretarv. if anv of the women were a scandal at the Forsyte School, where ;r ;ta directed the Easter play, and Is not convinced bv her denial. He iearns that MARSHALL, his wife. KAREN. POLLY P.EALE CLIVE and Ralph Hammond. PETER and LOIS DUNLAP, and JOHN DRAKE could aftord to nav blackmail. JANET RAYMOND Is on an allowance, as Is CAROLYN DRAKE, and Tracey has little monev *>l his own. but manages his wife's affairs. Dundee learns from Lois that Nlta at first wasn't interested In coming to Hamtltot. but war. strangely excited on o :,t , group oicture of "The Beggar r>(fra. apd decided to come. Peter Dunlap is hostile toward Dundr and angry at the publicity for his ■ • On the wav home. Dundee warns Rnrscue not to carrv on with the blackmail. reminding him that Nlta got a bullet a* well as $lO 000 SOW <■< ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR IT was Wednesday evening, four whole days since Nita Leigh Selim had been murdered while she was dummy at bridge. Piainclothesmen, in pairs, day and night shift, stil guarded the lonely house in Primrose Meadows, but Dundee had taken no interest an the actual scene of the crime since Carrav.ay, fingerprint expert, had reported negatively upon the ■secret shelf between Nita’s bedroom closet and the guest closet. The very lack of fingerprints, of course, had confirmed Dundee’s belief that the murderer's hand had upon that swinging panel, had quested in vain for the incriminating documents or letters which had been the basis of Nita's blackmail scheme, had deposited Vipon the shelf the gun and silencer with which the murder had been accomplished, and later had retrieved the weapon in perfect safety. A hand loosely wrapped in a handkerchief. . . . The hand of a tunning, careful, cold-blooded mur■iderer— or murderess. .. . But— Vho?

Bonnie Dundee, brooding at his *lesk in the living room of his wnall apartment, reflected bitterly that he was no nearer the answer to that question than he had been Rji hour after Nita Selim’s death. “Well, my dear Watson,” he addressed his caged parrot finally. • What do you say? . . . JVho killed Nita Selim?” The parrot stirred on his perch, thrust out his hooked beak to nip his master's prodding finger, then disdainfully turned his back. “I don't blame you, Cap’n,” Dundee chuckled. “You must be as sick of that question as I am. . . . And what a pity it ever had to be asked! “If the murderer had not been so hasty—or so pressed for time that he really could not wait to listen to Nita—he would have learned that Nita had decided to be a very good girl, and had burned the ‘papers’— all because she was genuinely in love with Ralph Hammond. “One comfort we have, my dear Watson; the murderer still does not know that Nita burned the papers Friday night. Sooner or later, when he believes police vigilance has b'een relaxed, he’ll go prowling about that house, and to Captain Strawn, who doesn't take the slightest stock in my theory, will go credit for the ar- j rest. . . . Unless—” u tt a DUNDEE reached for a telegraph form and again scanned the penciled message. Only that afternoon had it occurred to him to ask the telegraph company for a copy of the Wire by which Dexter Sprague, according to his own story, had been summoned to Hamilton by Nita Selim. The manager had been obliging, had jooked up the message and copied it with his own hand. It was a night letter, and had been filed in Hamilton, April 24 —the third day after Nita’s arrival. Addressed to Dexter Sprague, at a hotel in the theatrical district, New York City, the message read: "EVERYTHING JAKE SO FAR, BUT WOULD FEEL SAFER YOU HERE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PLANNING BOOSTER MOVIE FOUNDING AND DEVELOPING OF HAMILTON LOOKING FOR (iOOD DIRECTOR WHY NOT TRY FOR JOB AS GOOD EXCUSE STOP ALL MY LOVENIT A," Dundee laid the paper on his trtesk. locked his hands behind his head and addressed the parrot again.

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The habit of using the bird for an audience and as an excuse for puzzling and mulling aloud had grown on him during the year he had owned the doughty old Cap’n. “As I was about to say, my dear Watson, Captain Strawn’s boys out at the Selim house will have their chance to nab our man—or woman —unless Dexter Sprague ignores my warning and tries to carry <Jn the blackmail scheme, which he undoubtedly knew all about and which, most probably, he encouraged Nita to undertake—the ‘friend’ she had to consult, you know, before she could decide to accept Lois Dunlap's offer.” The parrot interrupted with a hoarse cackle. “Have you gone over to the enemy, Cap’n?” Dundee leproved the bird. “You sound exactly like Strawn when he laughed at my in- | terpretation of this message this afternoon. My late chief contends—and it is just possible, of course, that he is right—that Nita was afraid she couldn’t swing the job of organizing and directing Lois’ Little theater, and wanted Sprague here, both as lover and unofficial assistant. “But that's a pretty thin explanation, don’t you think? . . . Oh. all right! Laugh, damn you! But I’d feel better if Strawn had taken my advice and set a dick to trail Sprague, to see that he keeps out of mischief. All this, however, get*, us no nearer to answering that eternal question.” With a deep sigh the troubled young special investigator reached for the “time table” he had drafted from Ills notes made during the grisly replaying of the “death hand at bridge,” and scanned it again: s:2o—Flora Miles, dummy, table No. 1, leaves living room to telephone. s:22—Clive Hammond arrives and goes directly into solarium. s:23—End of rubber at table No. 1. Players: Polly Beale, Janet Raymond, Lois Dunlap, Flora Miles (dummy). Polly Beale leaves living room to join Clive Hammond in, solarium. 5:24 —Janet Raymond leaves room; says she went straight to front porch. s:2s—Tracey Miles parks car at curb; walks up to the house, hangs up hat in clothes closet and (his estimate > at s:27—Miles enters living room, talks with Nita, who, as dummy, has just laid down her cards at table No. 2. Players: Karen Marshall. Penny Crain, Carolyn Drake. s:2B—Nlta leaves living room, goes to her bedroom to make-up. 5:28 Mi —Lois Dunlap and Miles go into dining room, Miles to make cocktails. s:3l—Judge Marshall enters living room, interrupts bridge game. s:33—John C. Drake enters living room, having walked from Country Club, which he says he left at 5:10, and which is only three-quarters of a mile from the Selim house. s:36—Karen finishes playing of hand, and Dexter Sprague and Janet Raymond enter from front porch, proceeding into dining room. s:37—Penny Crain finishes scoring, and Karen leaves room to tell Nita the score. s:3B—Karen scream? upon discovering the dead body at the dressing table.

T~vUNDEE laid aside the typed sheet and reached for another, the typing of which was perfect, since Penny's efficient fingers had manipulated the keys. When he had telphoned to the office just before 5 o’clock Monday afternoon to see if anything had come up, Dundee had learned from Penny that Peter Dunlap had issued an informal call to “the crowd’’ for a meeting at his home that evening. “You're going, of course?’’ Dundee had asked. “Then, during the discussion of the case, I wish you’d try to get the answer to some questions which need clearing up—if you can do so without getting yourself ‘in dutch’ with your friends. ... Got a pencil?” And now he was re-reading the “report’’ she had conscientiously written and left on his desk Tuesday morning: “Peter, declaring he wanted to get at the bottom of this case, presided almost like a judge on the i bench, and asked nearly every question you wanted the answer to. “Every one in the crowd adores gruff old Peter and no one dreamed

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of resenting his barrage of questions. What a detective he would make! “1. Janet admitted she did not go directly to the front porch when she left the living room after her table finished the last rubber. Went first to the hall lavatory to cpmb her hair and renew her makeup. “Said she was there alone about five minutes, then went to the front porch. (Revised her story after | Tracey had said he did not see her on the porch when he arrived.) “2. Judge Marshall said he i glanced into the living room when he arrived, saw Karen, Carolyn and me absorbed in our game, and went on down the hall, to hang up his hat and stick. Proceeded immedi- | ately to the living room. I “3. John Drake told Peter he entered the front hall and passed on :to the lavatory to wash up. Felt \ sticky after his walk from the Country Club. Hung up hat in the guest I closet. Went to living room within i three minutes after reaching the i house. nun “TT'OURTF. Polly and Clive told Peter they stayed together in the solarium the whole time, stationed at a front window, watching for Ralph. “When Peter asked them if they eculd confirm Judge Marshall's , story and Johnny Drake's story, j they said they had seen them both i arrive, but had paid no attention to j them after they were in the house. “It occurred to Peter, too, to won- ; der if either Polly or Clive went to ! Nita’s room to warn her that Ralph knew about Sprague’s having slept the night before in the upstairs bedroom. They both denied emphatically that they had done so. “5. Judge Marshall volunteered i the information to Peter that Nita I had not paid her rent, on the plea that she was short of funds, and that he had told her to let it go until it w’as quite convenient. “6. The word ‘blackmail’ was not mentioned, and Johnny Drake, because of professional ethics, I suppose, did not tell about Nita’s two deposits of $5,000 in his bank. “Seventh: The secret shelf in the foyer closet w’as not mentioned. “Peter’s verdict, after he got through with us, was that only Sprague could have done it using the gun and silencer which Nita herself had stolen from Hugo. “I couldn’t tell him that you are convinced that Lydia’s alibi for him is a genuine one, for apparently Lydia hasn’t told either Flora or Tracey that she was able to furnish Sprague an alibi. “And that’s all, except that Peter asked me to convey to you his apologies for his rudeness Monday afternoon. . . . Penelope Crain.” With a deep sigh Dundee laid Penny’s report aside. “And that does seem to be all,” he told the parrot. “Exactly half a dozen possible suspects, and not an atom of actual evidence against one of them—except that Judge Marshall owned the gun. Six—count ’em: Judge Marshall, John Drake, Flora Miles, Clive Hammond, Polly Beale, Janet Raymond. . . . Every single one of them a possible victim of blackmail, since the girls all attended the Forsyte school, where Nita directed the Easter play for two years, and since the men make several trips a year to New York. (To Be Continued)

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TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE

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—By Edgar Rice BurrougliF

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