Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1934 — Page 13

FEB. 10, 1934.

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lIOI< HERE TODAI DAVID BANNISTER under tkt* to flr.d out ho k;..ed TRACT KINO, orcbeitra .••dr Bannister Un author and former newrpapar man Hr uoTks en the murder care with GAINEY, star reporter on tha Post Arr.or.f those suspected are JULIET FRANCE blor.d pre'tr and knoun to have ri*:ed Kir.* 'hortlv before hie death; HERMAN SCUPLACH who wrote King a threatenint letter, and JOE PARROTT down-and-out vaudeville actor I' :• a:*-> known that MEL'. INA HOLLISTER middle-aged spinster had quarreied with Kina recen’lv AL DRUGAN friend of Kirs * la found dead in a wrecked automobile. Bannts’er pereoades the police Chief to let Juliet come to his aunt's home, ostensible as a guest on the theory that If the girl believes herself free they can learn more ebon* her Juliet t>e*s Bannister to 'stop firing to find out who killed Tracy King Later that dsv Melvins Hollister la found dead Banr.ister ruhes to the ho’ei where h* and her brother need ard trns she was strangled. Matthew Hollts’er Is hvs'ertcal and demands that "he police protect him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT (Continued He looked up at the three men who were listening “Why don't they stop asking questions,' he demanded bitterly, “and do something? Letting people be murdered In their own homes in broad day light! ' Why don't the police do ■omething about it?" “I guess they're doing what they can," Bannister told him. The older man did not seem to hear. "I can't hardly believe it,” he went on. hts voice catching so that the words were choked. “I don't see who could have wanted to harm Melvina!’ Bannister said. “Mr. Hollister, when we had that talk the other day you told me you were afraid your sister w r as worrying about something. You said you thought she might know something about the Tracy King murder.” mum HOLLISTER raised his eyes, but their expression was dull. "No,” he said. “I don't think she did. There wasn't anybody had anycaused to harm Melvina. She and I—we were the only ones left. There's only me now I can’t quite realize it—" “But you must have some idea who could nave done such a thing? You must have some theory?" Hollister shook his head. "No,” he said, “I haven't. The police have the theories. All I know is Melvina s gone. I'm all alone. I—l hope you'll excuse me now —” They left him alone. As the door closed behind them Gainey said, “Poor old duffer!" and Fleming added, “He sure is all broken up.” McNeal was not in the living room but another detective was there. Bannister asked if they could see the body and the detective nodded, motioning toward a door at the right. The reporters entered the bedroom. They saw the bulky outlines of a figure on the bed, covered by a sheet. Bannister lifted a comer of the sheet, then dropped it. In life Melvina Hollister had been formidable. She was not formidable now’. “There's no reason for us to stay here any longer, is there?" Bannister asked gruffly. Gainey said he wanted to see McNeal again and Bannister told him he would wait for him downstairs. He used the stairs instead of the elevator this time and turned into the small parlor where he and the others had waited for McNeal. Then he set himself to reviewing everything he knew about Melvina and Matthew Hollister. But the mind sometimes plays strange tricks. Bannister, trying to remember just what Melvina had said on the only occasion he had talked to her. was halted by a curious thought. He saw Juliet France again, as she had looked across the brpakfast table that morning. He heard her saying. “Something's going to happen. I'm afraid it will be something terrible." How could she possibly have foreseen that?

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CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE fj ANNISTER paused to buy a O paper and then went on wltn the newspaper tucked under his 1 irm Buying the newspaper haa been a matter of habit. Already he Knew the facts those columns con- j tained—all that the police had learned, or been willing to disclose, about the death of Melvina Hollister Those facts were meager enough. 'The finger print experts had been unable to add anything at all to the solution of the mystery. The only prints in the apartment clear enough to be read were those of Miss Hollister herself and her j brother. Servants and tenants of the hotel j had been questioned about events j the afternoon before. No one could recall seeing any one suspicious there. Mrs. Russell Kennebec, who lived across the hall from the Hollisters. had reported hearing voices, cr.e of which she thought was Miss Hollister's, some time during the afternoon. Investigation had disclosed that between 3 and 3:30 a boy had delivered laundry at the apartment. The boy, whose name was John Gregory, told police he had brought the laundry, as he always did each week. So far as could be learned, , this boy was the last person to see Melvina Hollister alive. He reported that she had not seemed disturbed and there was nothing unusual in her manner. Efforts were being made to trace the ownership of the silk scarf with which Miss Hollister had been strangled. There was a photograph of the scarf on the front page of the newspaper. It was a black scarf with narrow’ white stripes, grouped together at intervals of an inch or more. There was no mark , of any sort on it. The time of Miss Hollister’s death had been set indefinitely as I "between 3 and 5.” Matthew Hollister's story that he : had been out of the building at that time had been partially corroborated. The clerk at the Shelby Arms remembered seeing Hollister leave the hotel early in the afternoon and saw him return a few minutes before he ran downstairs for help. Nothing had been taken from the j apartment, eliminating the possi- , bility of robbery. mum H ~e were the facts. Bannis- • was puzzling over them, as ! he x been for several hours, when ,he heard his name spoken. He looked up and saw’ a woman com- | ing toward him. “David—David Bannister!” she said, “You haven’t forgotten me, have you?" “Why, of course not, Mrs. Harborough. How do you do." The woman was short and rather stout. She wore a long coat of brown fur and a brown hat. The hat was tilted slightly, showing the hair beneath to be quite gray. “Oh, I'm as well as usual,’’ she said. How’s your aunt?" “Never better," he assured her. “That's fine. Tell her I'm coming over to' see her some afternoon.” Mrs. Harborough w T as an old friend of Mrs. Hewlett’s. They stood for a few minutes talking casually. Then Mrs. Harborough brought up the subject about which the whole town was buzzing. "That was such a terrible thing that happened last night!" she said. “Simply terrible! You see I’ve known Melvina Hollister since she was a girl. I just couldn't believe it when I read about it—” “It was a horrible crime.” Bannister agreed, "and apparently the whole thing's a complete mystery The police don't seem to have been ! able to find out much.” [ (To Be Continued)

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