Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1937 — Page 30

y DENNIS WHEATLEY

(Copyright, 1937, by NEA Service, Ine.; William Morrow & Co.)

BEGIN HERE TODAY Bolithe Blane, British financier, disappears from yacht owned by his principal competitor, Carlton Roeckravage, off Miami. A note found in Blane's cabin, addressed to his secretary Niche olay Stodart, Mdicates suicide since he faced bankruptey. A memo written by Stodart shows Blane's company stock, Argus Suds, closing at a new low that day. Other passengers aboard the yacht Golden Gull are Miss Ferri Rocksavage, Rocksavage's daughter; Lady Welter; Reginald Jocelyn, Mrs. Jocelyn, Lady Welter’s daughter and son-in-law: the Bishop of Bude; Count Luigi Posodini, and Inosuke Hayashi, Detective Officer Kettering boards yacht at Miami for investigation, First examining Rocksavage, Stodart and Ringbottom, cabin steward. Stodart sug. gests a clear case of suicide, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER THRER DETECTIVE OFFICER KETTERING'S REPORT, CONTINUED AVING taken statements from Capt. Derringham, Mr. Rocksavage, Mr. Stodart and the cabin steward, Ringbottom, I then proceeded to Suite C which had been allotted to Bolitho Blane, It con- | sisted of a drawing room, a state room and private bathroom. On the other side of the drawing room there was a single stateroom, which, I am told, had been allotted to Stodart in order that he might be near his employer. A cursory examination of the suite showed nothing which ealled for special remark. Capt. Derringham told me that he had had it locked up at 8:45 before ordering the ship back to Miami, so that nothing in it had been touched or disturbed since the steward, Ring- | bottom, discovered Blane to be miss- | ing. I instructed Station Photographer |

taking his own life,

herewith,

of these at once,

POLICE HEADQUARTERS,

S120 ame MEMO.

To Detective Offieer Kettering:

First report on Bolitho Blane received, I note your view that there are no suspicious circumstances attached to the case. I agree that Blane's innuendos against Rocksavage are apparently quite unfounded and due only to Blane's abnormal state of mind juet before

Printe of the photographs taken by Southe wold have just come to hand and are attached In print B, you will note two parallel lines aoroce the a curve from the table to the porthole in the drawing room. Please make a close examination

If, after examination of Blane's suite, you are satisfied that no circumstances point to hie death having been framed you can give the occupants of the yacht a clear bill, but the Captain, Rocksavage, Stodart and the steward, Ringbottom, should be warned that they will be required to give evidence at the inquest,

Florida Police.

P.Ss Sorry to pet you out of bed so early, but Af the marks on the carpet do mean amything you'll be in time Lo take special measures before the party are up and about . J.M.Se

MiaMmL, FLA.

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t, running in

Southwold to take the necessary | and measures about eight inches passengers upon the yacht, who now

shots of the suite and decided to | postpone a detailed examination until morning. Soon after arriving on | board I told Police Surgeon Jacket | that, as the case was one of “man | overboard,” his presence was no | longer required. | ® % ou | T 12:50 Station Photographer Southwold had completed his work, upon which I had Suite C | relocked and placed Officer Gurdon on guard outside it. After which | I went above and spoke to Capt. | Derringham and Mr. Rocksavage. I told the latter that I did not think any useful purpose could be served by Keeping his guests out of their beds longer, but that as a formality I should have to question them in the morning, so none

by five, although it is probable that,

no more than a few drops and the main patch of damp was caused by an endeavor to clean the carpet afterward. In view of this, the tracks on the carpet present a new significance, and I suggest that they were caused by the toes of a man’s boots as he was dragged from the table to the porthole, Taken in conjunction patch, the boot tracks,

the wet and the

smear of blood upon the window | curtain definitely point to the fact |

that Bolitho Blane was murdered. I send this report at once in or-

der that full investigation may be |

made into the antecedents of all the

| if the blood was spilled here, it was |

come under suspicion.

[they leave their cabins for break- | fast, each cabin is to be locked af- | ter them. I shall then be able to Isearch all cabins before these are

I have given instructions that, as |

tidied and will proceed to the ex- |

[amination of all parties concerned immediately they have breakfasted.

KEYS KETTERING, Detective Officer, Florida Police. 7:35 a. m, 813%, on 8S. Y. Golden Gull.

(To Be Continued) Save this installment as evidence to help you solve the crime,

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of them is to be allowed ashore without permission. In my view, at the moment. this

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looks like a plain case of suicide by a man in a financial Jam, Blane's innuendoes that Rocksavage intended to do him in are discounted by the statements of the secretary, Stodart, who appears convinced that for some days past Blane was not of sound mind and suffering from a form of persecution mania. » = ”

APT. DERRINGHAM seems a fine, straightforward. if rather silent, fellow and certainly not the man to permit any monkey business upon a ship commanded by him. Rocksavage’s manner is normal and he appears surprised and upset at the tragedy, although it should be noticed that he stated that this was only a pleasure trip, whereas it IS made abundantly clear from Stodart’s statement that its rea

conference between Rocksavage and | Blane. On the face of it, all the guests are apparently respectable people of some social standing, and Capt. Derringham gives me his assurance | that no new men have been brought on in the crew this trip, or em-! ployees of Rocksavage, for any special purpose. Apart, therefore, from Blanes innuendoes there is no evidence at all to support any suggestion outside the known facts and, in my view, it is a plain case of suicide. I am sending Station Photographer Southwold ashore in the yacht's launch and also Detective Officer Neame, who will deliver this report. I then propose to sleep the | night on board in a spare cabin | which Mr. Rocksavage has placed at |

my disposal. Please instruct the |

HE soft lights of the beautifully furnished room fell on Martha's slender figure as she stood gazing out the window. Slowly, she dropped the window curtain, and re-

By Grace Crane

Daily Short Story

turned to her chair beside the table. |

Again, she picked up the newspaper and, with a faint smile, looked at the picture. The caption underneath read:

“Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards and |

their three charming children, John Jr., Frederick and Lucille, who have Just returned from Europe.”

She thought of the day John had!

proposed, during their last year at

the university. They had planned | i ve | highly successful career, entirely on |!

could marry. After graduation, John had gone

toc work in the Jersey City offices of |

a railroad company. His salary hadn't been large, and the future hadn't seemed very promising.

| husband and children are essential

| |

Martha had found a job in a New |

York interior decorator’s shop, and had done surprisingly well—so weil, ‘n fact, that the head of the shop. {rene Gilbert, had taken an unusual interest in her. “Youre smart, Martha,” Irene had said. “You have clever ideas--an amazing flair for this type of work. You could go far. young squirt with little, future. world—have the things you like, the luxuries you want. Why tie yourself to a poor husband, squalling

Silly of | you to throw yourself away on a] any, | Make your own way in the |

to the position of general manager of the Eastern Division, and the family had at last moved East. Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards and their three charming children. . . .

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ARTHA looked at the picture again. “What might have | been,” she said aloud. | Her eyes dropped down the page to her own picture—alone, terribly | alone—the picture of a handsome, smartly dressed woman. Her lips twisted bitterly as she read the caption beneath: “Miss Martha Norman, the wellknown interior decorator whose

her own, belies the theory that a to a woman's happiness.” Martha raised lusterless eves. Her | hand covered the photograph of | Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards and | their three charming children.

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Coast Guard stations to keep a lookout for the body in the unlikely event of its being washed ashore. KEYS KETTERING. Detective Officer, Florida Police. 1:15 a. 8137, on S. Y. Golden Gull. (See facsimile of Lieut. Schwab's memo elsewhere on this page.)

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DETECTIVE OFFICER KETTERING'S SECOND REPORT. On receipt of Lieutenant Schwab's memo and the photographs of C suite on S. Y. Golden Gull I at once proceeded below in the company of Detective Officer Neame to make a thorough examination of Blane's suite in daylight. I first examined the marks on

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| brats, drudgery and poverty? You've | undertaken.

| been here only one year, | already, if you wanted, you could | have a business of your own.

| know the signs, old Jasper Merritt |

| would do anything for you. He'd | set you up in a shop of your own. | You've got talent, and it's a shame {to throw it away.” | Then, one day, shortly after that. | John had come bursting into the { shop, so young and handsome and enthusiastic. “Darling, I've great news! I've a chance to go out to Youngstown. It'll be tough going at first, but I'm going to learn this business in the yards, from the ground up. Even- | tually, when I come back Fast, I hope to have one of the big jobs. | It's going to be an uphill climb, but |I want you with me. Will you marry me now, and come. . . .”

the carpet, mentioned in Lieutenant | .

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If I|candle?

A—The flame results from the | combustion of a gas. In a burning |

| candle the fatty or other substances | that compose it are melted and

carried by the wick into the interior |

| of the flame, where they are con-

Schwab's report, and apparent in | HERE had been the first little |

print B. These marks consist of a | slight irregular roughing of the | and homemade curtains. That had pile in the carpet running from the | been where John Jr. was born. table to near the window. Owing | to the light they are not observ- | —the time when little John had alable from the inboard side of the | most died of pneumonia, and the cabin, but only from the outboard | time when big John had so narrowside, which explains my failure to | lv escaped being caught under a notice them last night. | the hospital with a broken shoulder. There had been many threats HESE marks might have been to the bank balance, but always, made by the two legs of a|it had continued growing, no matchair being dragged across the car- | ter how slowly. pet. I found, however, at the table | There had been years with no end of these roughly parallel tracks maid and with a growing family. a very slightly discolored patch up- | There had been years of cultivate

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on the carpet, which would not|ing uninteresting friendships for

have been visible in electric light. | John's sake. I then proceeded to examine the Gradually, however, porthole window and found upon | gone from better position to better the left hand curtain a smear of | position. There had been the move blood. | to a larger home on a better street, Returning to the patch on the | with a maid now to do the cookcarpet it seemed to me probable | ing and help take care of John Jr.

been spilled here, too, and that | tiful little sister. someone had endeavored to get it out by rubbing the place with a | and the move to Cleveland—to a wet sponge. | beautifully furnished home in the : 2 = | suburbs, with two servants. The TF the person had done this im- | John Edwards had become members A mediately after the blood was | Of the best club, and the friendships spilled, as is probable, most of the | that were made now were congenial blood would have been absorbed, |ones, made for friendship’s sake hence the faintness of the discol- | alone. oration, The patch is still damp| Ao, : :

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| switching engine, and had gone to |

John had

flat with its cheap furnishings |

There had been near-tragedies |

Then had come a big promotion | juice in which an active principle

: | as food? that a small quantity of blood had | his sturdy little brother, and beau- |

verted into gas. The sole purpose of the wick is to carry the melted | fuel to the flame, and the flame is | the result of the burning of the gas into which this fuel is converted by | the heat.

Q—How long has Senator Hiram Johnson served as a Senator from | California? A—He has been in the United | States Senate since 1917.

| Q—Does the state own all lands | and means of production in Soviet | Russia? ! A—Yes.

Q—How tall was the giant, | Goliath, whose story is told in the | Bible? A—According to the biblical | narrative he was more than 11 feet |

tall, if the cubit is taken as 91! inches.

Q—What and where Pango, or Pago Pago?

A—It is a harbor on the south coast of the island of Tutuila, Samoa.

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known as papain is present. This, because of its value as a remedy. in dyspepsia and kindred ailments, has become an article of commerce. In ! tropical countries the natives rub he juice over esl to make it tener, or wrap fowls in papaya leaves, letting them stand overnight bef:

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