Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1931 — Page 13

■ 2. 1931

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BEGIN HIRE TOI>AT IP-’U ANITA BELIM I* murdrrril t, fw'ifei: four da vs later DEXTER ■ PFRAGCE is also murdered when he ■ dlsADDears mvsterlouslv from a bridge F-party at the TRACKY MILES home. , SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR DUNDEE, •ellerlna that Nlta and Sorasrue. comi* to Hamilton after Nlta recornlze* uneone in a erou picture, were part•rs in blackmail, ha* six suspects who ‘d have kllird both All *ix could have aotten the gun. and Iden It after Nita’s murder on a ae- . cret shelf In the guests’ closet Nlta’s will and the fact that the had Sprague contrive a bell near her bed to sum* L iron LYDIA, her maid and hetr. show *h<* feared death. The police think that both were killed K? a New York gunman. * . Thler theory Is that Nlta and Sprague iTT* partner- In some racket In New D *ork. that Nlta came down first, under arr married name, and Sprague followed, mitlng down the money, accounting >r the *IO.OOO Nlta banked, and that TPiev were tracked by a gunman. Dundee thinks the second murder was Wivemed to lok as though a New Yor.: ■ man did it. POLLY BEALE and HAMMOND, after being engaged the ear. suddenly marry the morning * Bpragne’s death, and Dundee IPOlhers If thev are marrvlng because Vplltyfeel safe from the threat of blackJC ‘ lO A telegram ts delivered to CAPIt ! STRAWN which apparently con”*R6w S GO e ON WITH THE STORY H CHAPTER THIRTY NINE THE telegram which the triumphant chief of the homicide squad passed to Dundee had been filed an hour before and was from ttfye city editor of The New York ■evening Press: f “WORKING ON YOUR THEORY OF NEW YORK GUNMAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDERS OF •JUANITA LEIGH SELIM AND DEXTER SPRAGUE THIS PAPER , HAS DISCOVERED TIIST SELIM WOMAN WAS SEEN AT NIGHT CLUBS SEVERAL TIMES DURING JANUARY. FEBRUARY WITH QUOTE SWALLOW TAIL SAMMY UNQUOTE UNDERWORLD NAME FOR SAM SAVELLI STOP SAVELLI TAKEN fFOR A RIDE TUESDAY APRIL TWENTY SECOND TWO DAYS AFTER SELIM WOMAN LEFT NEW YORK STOP POLICE HERE WORKING ON THEORY SAVELLI SLAIN BY OWN GANG AFTER THEY WERE TIPPED OFF SAVELLI WAS DOUBLE CROSSING THEM STOP IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS TIP CAN [YOU GIVE US ANY SUPPRESSED [INFORMATION IN YOUR FOSf SESSION STOP SAVELLI HAD BROTHER WHO IS KNOWN TO US TO HAVE PROMISED REVENGE SWALLOW TAIL SAMMYS MURDER STOP BE A 3PORT CAPTAIN.” "Well, that puts the lid on it, don’t it?” Strawn crowed. “I’ll send Sergeant Turner to New York on bhe 5 o’clock train. . . . Pretty de■6flt of that city editor to wire me ■his tip, I’ll say!” B “And are you going to reciprocate , by wiring him about the SIO,OOO Nita banked here?” Dundee asked. “Sure! Why not? There’s no use that I can see to keep it back any longer, now that no one can have any excuse to think as you’ve been doing—that it was blackmail paid by a Hamiltonian.” . “Then,” Dundee began very slowfly. “if you really think your case is solved, I’ll make one suggestion: fTake charge of Lydia Carr and put her in a very safe place.” “Why?”. Strawn looked puzzled. “Because when you publish the fact that Nlta and Sprague got SIO,OOO for tipping off Savelli’s gang Wiat he was double-crossing them, and that Nita willed the money to Lydia, the avenger’s next and last job would be to get Lydia, since his natural conclusion would be that Lydia had been in on the scheme from the beginning,” Dundee explained. “God, boy, you’re right!” Strawn exclaimed, and his heavy old face w'as very pale as he reached for the telephone and called the number of the Miles residence. “I’m going to put it up to her that it will be best for her to be locked up as a material witness, for her own protection.” a a a ■piVE minutes later Strawn re■l/ stored the receiver to the hook [with a bang. “Says she won’t Wbudge!” he explained unnecessarily. Ij’Says she ain’t, afraid and the Miles ricids need her. . . . Well, it’s her "own funeral! But I guess you are convinced at last?” Dundee slowly shook his head. “Almost—but not quite, chief!” “Lord, but you’re stubborn! Here’s 'a water-tight case—- “ Avery pretty and a very satisfactory case, but not exactly watertght,” Dundee interrupted. “There’s just one little thing—” “What do you mean?” Strawn Remanded irritably. “Have you forgot the secret shelf behind the guest closet in the Selim house?” Dundee asked. “I can afford to forget it, since it hasn't got a thing to do with the

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case!” Strawn retorted angrily. “There’s not a scrap of evidence—" **Of course it does not fit into your theory,’ Dundee agreed, “for ‘Swallow-tail Sammy’s’ avenging brother could not have known of its existence, but there is one thing about that secret shelf and its pivot door which I don’t believe you can afford to forget, Captain!” “Yeah?” Strawn snarled. “Yeah! ... I refer, of course, to the complete absence of fingerprints on the door and on the shelf itself! Carraway didn’t even find Ntfca Selim's fingerprints. “Since Nita would have had no earthly reason for carefully wiping off her fingerprints after she removed the papers she burned on Friday night, it’s a dead sure fact that someone else who had no legitimate business to do so, to rched that pivoting panel and shelf, and carefully removed all traces that he had done so! “And” —he continued grimly—“until I find out who that someone who was, I, for one, won’t consider the case solved!” Fifteen minutes later Dundee was sitting at Penny Crain’s desk in her office of the district attorney's suite, replacing the receiver upon the telephone hook, after having put in a call for Sanderson, who still was in Chicago keeping vigil at the bedside of his mother. “Did you find out anything new when you questioned the crowd this morning?” Penny asked. “Besides lhe fact that Polly and Clive got married this morning, I mean. . . . “I wasn't surprised when I read about the wedding in the extra. It's exactly like Polly to make up her mind suddenly, after putting Clive off for a year ” “So it was Polly who held back,” Dundee said to himself. Aloud: “No, I didn’t learn much new, Penny. You’re a most excellent and accurate reporter. . . . But there were one or two things that came out. For instance, I got Drake to admit to me, in private, that Nita did give him an explanation as to where she got the $10,000.” “Yes?”. Penny prompted eagerly. “Drake says,” Dundee answered dryly, “that Nita told him it was ‘back alimony,’ which she had succeeded in collecting from her former husband. Unfortunately, she did not say who or where the mysterious husband is.” a a a “|3 OOF!” scored Penny. “Don’t JL you see? She just said that to satisfy Johnny’s curiosity. After all, it was the most plausible explanation of how a grass widow got hold of a lot of money.” “So plausible that Mr. Drake may have thought of it himself,” Dundee reflected silently. Aloud, he continued his report to the gill who had been of so much help to him; “Among the other minor things that came out this morning, and which the papers did not report, was the fact that Janet Raymorfd tried to commit suicide by drinking shoe polish. “Fortunately her father discovered what she had done almost as soon as she had swallowed the stuff, and made her take ipecac and then sent for the doctor.” “Oh, poor Janet!” Penny groaned. “She must have been terribly in love with Dexter Sprague, though what she saw in him —” Dundee made no comment, but continued with his information: “Another minor development was that Tracey Miles admitted he and Flora had quarreled over Sprague after all of you left, and that Flora took two sleeping tablets to make sure of a night’s rest.” “She’s been awfully unstrung ever since Nita’s murder,” Penny defended her friend. “She told us all Monday night at Peter’s that the doctor had prescribed sleeping medicine. “Now, you look here, Bonnie Dundee!” she cried out sharply, answering an enigmatic smile on the detective’s face, “if you think Flora Miles killed Nita Selim and Dexter Sprague, because she was in love with Dexter and suspected he was Nita’s lover because of that silly note—” “Whoa, Penny!” Dundee checked her. “I’m not thinking exactly that. But I’ve just remembered something that had seemed of no importance to me before.” “And what’s that, Mr. Smart Aleck?” Penny demanded furiously. “Before I answer that question, will you let me do a little theorizing?” Dundee suggested gently. “Let us suppose that Flora Miles was not in love with Sprague, but that she was being blackmailed by Nita for some scandal Nita had

heard gossiped about at the Forschool. “No, wait! ... Let us suppose further that Nita recognized Flora’s picture in the group Lois Dunlap showed her, as a portrait of the girl whose story she had heard; that she was able, somehow, to secure incriminating evidence of some sort—letters, let us say. “Nlta tells Sprague about it, and Sprague advises her to blackmail Flora, who, Lois has told Nita, is very rich. So Nita comes to Hamilton and bleeds Flora of SIO,OOO. Not satisfied, Nita makes another demand, the money to be paid to her the day of the bridge luncheon ” a a a “QELLY!” Penny scoffed furiously. “The only evidence you have against poor Flora is that she stole the note Dexter had written to Nita!” “That’s the crux of the matter. Penny darling!” Dundee assured her in a maddeningly soothing voice, at which Penny clenched her hands in impotent rage. “Flora, seeing Nita receive a letter written on her husband’s business stationery, jumps to the conclusion that Nita has carried out her threat to tell Tracey, or that Nita at least has given Tracey a hint of the truth and that Tracey's specialmessenger note is, let us say, a confirmation of an appointment suggested by Nita. “Very well! Flora goes to Nita’s bedroom at the first opportunity, knowing that Nita will come there to makeup for the men’s arrival. Let’s suppose Flora has brought the gun and silencer with her, intending to frighten Nita, rather than kill her. But having had proof, as she believes, that Nita means business, Flora waits in the closet until Nita comes in and sits down at her dressing table, then steps out and shoots her. “Then she recoils step by step, until her foot catches in the slack cord of the bronze lamp, causing the very ‘bang or bump’ which Flora herself describes later, for fear someone else had heard it. “Her first concern, of course, is to hide the gun and silencer. She remembers Judge Marshall’s tale of the secret shelf in the guest closet, and not only hides the gun there, but seeks in vain for the incriminating evidence Nita had against her. “But she also remembers the note she believes Tracey has written to Nita, and which, if found after Nita’s death, may give her away. So she goes to the closet in Nita’s bedroom, finds the note, and faints with horror at her perhaps needless crime when she realizes that the note had been written by Sprague, and not Tracey. “Os course, she is too ill and panic-stricken to leave the closet until the murder is discovered ” “But you think she was not too panic-stricken to have the presence of mind to retrieve the gun and silencer and walk out with them, under the very eyes of the police,” Penny scoffed. “Yes, I think she ‘was!” Dundee amazed her by admitting. “And that is where my sudden recollection of something I had considered unimportant comes in! “Let us suppose that Flora, halfsuspected by Tracey, confesses to him in their car as they are going to the Country club for their longdelayed dinner, as were the rest of you. Tracey, loyal to her, decides to help her. “He tells her to suggest, at dinner, that Lydia come to them as nurse, so that he can go back to the house and get the gun and silencer from the guest closet hiding place, if an opportunity presents itself—as it did, since I left Tracey Miles alone in the hall, while I went into Nita’s bedroom to talk with Lydia before I permitted her to go with Tracey.” “You’re crazy!” Penny told him fiercely, when he had finished. “I suppose you are going to ask me to believe that Tracey was big enough fool to leave the gun and silencer where Flora could get hold of it and kill Sprague last night.”

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