Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1934 — Page 29

FEB. 2, 1934-

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Btr.n HFRF TODAT DAVID BANNISTER to fled ou? who killed TRACY KINO, orchestra !d*r. In hU hritel apartment Bar.nUter is an author and former newspaper man He works on the murder ease with OAINEY tar reporter on the Pof • Amonf tho* *’.jpp#r**d *r* Juliet FRANCE, blond and prettr ar.d known to hart visited King eftorll* before hla d'i'h HERMAN SCURLACH who wrote Kn* a threatenin* letter and JOE PARROTT, d< wn-end-out TBddevlUe actor It : a.*o known that MELVIN A HOLLISTER mldd.*-l*d spinster. had ij’iarreSed with Kin* recently. AL DROGAN friend of Kina a. la found dead ir. a wrecked automobile. Bannister persuades the police chief to let Juliet com* to his aunt’* home, ofenslblr as a g>i**’ on the theory that If ’ha kirl believes herself free they can learn more about her Parrott is ioca’ed in St Louis ar.d a deter*:** i ent to brink him back Ban- I nls’er 'alk* over the ra.-e wl’h MrNEAL MrNeal beileye* Kina and n afer# killed by aanfsters and ’hat Juliet 1* involved with the same gar.t NOW GO ON WITH THF STORY CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO 'Continued > Mrs. Hewlett praised the singing elaborately. Bannister said less, j He was wondering if Juliet France had sung those songs for Tracy King A little before 9 he made excuses and left the house. He took a cab to headquarters and, as he had hoped, found itfcNeal in his office. The captain was busy with some papers but he put them promptly aside. “Well,” he said, “has the girl been up to any tricks yet?” Bannister sank into a chair. “I don't know," he said. “She slipped one over on Jordan and left the house a little before 6 o'clock. I think she mailed a letter." "Yes. I know. Jordan phoned a little while ago. That's fine!” Bannister looked perplexed. “What do you mean, ‘fine’?" he asked. “Why, that's exactly what we want! Let her write all the letters she pleases. Well get the answers, find out who she sends them to and what she says!” “Oh. I see!” McNeal took a cigar from his pocket and offered it to Bannister. He took another for himself, lighted it. “This thing may work out better than I expected,” he admitted. He asked several questions which Bannister answered as well as he could. Then Bannister asked, “Has Parrott told you anything yet?” “Plenty—only I don’t believe a word of it! He claims he can prove he didn't go near King that evening. There's a lawyer who's been buzzing around here this afternoon. A fat chance he or any one else has of getting that bird away from here! Not until were through with him!" a a a BANNISTER rested hus arms on the desk. “Honestly, cap," he said, “what do you make of all this? It seems to me the solution of the King murder gets farther out of sight even*’ day.” “I thought you were going to solve it,” McNeal put in. “Nothing of the sort,” Bannister protested. “I’ve never pretended to know anything about crime. I only got into tills to watch you fellow’s do your stuff. But seriously, Cap—just between you and me—what do you think about it. You’ve been holding this girl as a suspect for almost a w’eek. You've got Parrott now. You’ve got Scurlach—" The detective objected. “Scurlach isn't here,” he said. “We released him this afternoon.” “Then you're convinced he’s out of it?” McNeal seemed to hedge. “Scurlach’ll be all right." he said. “He's out of jail, but he isn't going any place. Any time we want him we can pick him up again.” “That leaves Parrott and the girl " "It leaves a lot of things.” McNeal told him. "One of them's the fact that you seem to have forgotten finding A1 Drugan smashed up in an automobile out on the Morrlsville road.” “You don't think Drugan's death was an accident, do you?" “I’ve good reasons for not think-

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ing so. Listen, Dave, I'm telling you this because I know you can keep your mouth shut. It’s not to get out yet. Understand? Were holding Parrott for the King murder. but that's not all. While he was in town he was seen around with Mug Logan's crowd. You know who Logan is, don't you? He’s what they'd call an 'underworld king’ in a bigger place. Been up on half a dozen charges, but he's always too slick to get caught. It was Logan’s lawyer, Lebrun, who came here to trv to get Parrott out of Jail. “Logan's got several rackets and I think one of them is dope. There’s a federal man who's been in town for a week trying to find out who's peddling the stuff here. Remember, it was a dope charge Parrott was indicted on last winter. Well, I think he's in on a deal here and that Drugan and King were in the samee racket. That’s the way I figure it. What's more. I think the girl's in it, too.” CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Bannister spoke slowly, “You don't mean that,” he said. “A girl like that—why, she couldn’t have anything to do with Mug Logan's gang! She couldn't —” “Oh, couldn't she? Maybe you’ll go ahead and tell me why she was in Tracy King's apartment the night he was killed. Maybe you'll tell me the rest of it.” “Listen,” Banister said, “have you any evidence to prove that she’s —what do you think she is?” “If I had evidence I wouldn’t be sitting here talking about it. Say, why all the excitement? You haven't fallen for the dame, have you?” “I haven’t fallen for her,” Bannister said bitterly, “and I don't intend to. I just wanted to get your story straight." McNeal settled back in his chair more comfortably. “Well, then,” he said, “here It is. I figure Drugan and King were both in on the deal. King's been spending a lot of money around this town. So has Drugan. They didn't get it playing in that orchestra. You know that as well as I do. Where did they get it then? I figure they were in with Logan. “Anyhow, King and Drpgan both have a pretty steady sourfce of cash —a good deal more than they’re earning at the state. Then King meets the Lang girl and gets engaged to her. She has money to burn. If he marries her he doesn't need his underworld friends any longer and he wants to get rid of them. You know what happens when you try to give a crowd like that the run-around! Parrott appears on the scene and about the same time the girl shows up Somebody plugs King and Drugan starts yelling that it was Parrott. So Drugan gets his. That's the way these gangsters work.” “Maybe you’re right about it," Bannister said heavily. “I tell you.” the detective captain went on. “you can’t tell about dames. The swellest dressed and best looking and most ladylike acting one I ever saw in my life was with “Big Boy” Milano the day we found him here.” n n n TIif'NEAL was referring to his proudest achievement the part he had played in the capture of the New York gangster w’ho had defied police of a dozen big cities only to be taken in Tremont. “You don't want to let looks deceive you.” he went on. “If this girl isn't mixed up with some underworld crowd why doesn’t she talk? “Well,” said Bannister, “how are you going to prove all this? What are you going to do now?” “Give Parrott the works and see what we can get out of him. Watch the girl. If she's begun writing letters it ought to be a big help.” (To Be Continued)

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> They discovered that in the floor of the ancient room there were two openings; one was the mouth of the shaft, through which they had ascended from the dungeons, the other was a larger shaft, to the bottom of which ran a long wooden ladder.

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