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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, FEB. 5, 1037

By DENNIS WHEATLEY |

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Bolitho Blane, British financier, disappears from yacht owned by his principal competitor, Carlton Rocksavage, off Miami. A note found in Blane's cabin, addressed to his secretary, NichoJas Stodart, indicates suicide, since he faced bankruptcy. 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, Rocksayage'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, boarding | the yacht at Miami, finds strange marks on Blane’s cabin carpet and blood on | the curtain. Upon examination, Rocksavage admits inviting Blane aboard to effect an amalgamation of their companies. It is also revealed that Lady Welter is heavily interested in Rock- | savage stocks. Next, the Bishop, under | questioning, faints when Stodart enters | the room. Subsequently, Hayashi reveals | he was aboard endeavoring to sell a | huge soap monopoly either to Blane or to Rocksavage. Posodini avers he is aboard merely for pleasure. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER NINE

Detective Officer Kettering’s Third | Report, Continued. ROM the foregoing statements it is obvious that, as we have | a note in Blane's own hand scrib- | bled on the back of the leaf torn from Stodart's pocketbook with the | share quotations on it, which was | sent down to him at 7:45 he must | still have been alive at the time, The steward, Ringbottom, eritered | his cabin at 8:30 and discovered | him to be missing. Therefore, Boli- | tho Blane must have been murdered between 7:45 and 8:30. The situa- | tion of the cabin steward's pantry | and Ringbottom's statement, backed | by that of the carpenter, Jenks, | rules out the possibility of the crime | having been committed by any | member of the crew and we must, | therefore, assume that the guilty | party is either Carlton Rocksavage or one of his guests. After I had questioned Count | Posodini, Detective Officer Neame | told me that he felt certain that | this man’s face was familiar tc him, and that we had him on our ¢rim- | inal records. Every effort should, | therefore, be made to obtain full | particulars regarding him at once. Having taken statements from all | the guests and the only members | of the crew who might possibly have | been concerned in the affair I pro- | ceeded to analyze their statements | with a view to seeing how far they | vouch for each other, and the limit- | ed time in each case, when they | were on their own, during the] period, 7:45-8:30, during which wl |

murder must have been committed. ” n n

Times Accounted for by Presence |

in the Lounge.

NALYSIS of people eliminating | each other from suspicion by | their presence in the lounge from | time when Blane was known to be alive until he was reported missing. At 7:45—Mrs. Jocelyn, ‘Count Posodini, Mr. Rocksavage, Mr. Stodart. At 7:45 to 8:00—Steward, Rock- | savage, Stodart. At 8:00 to 8:05—Steward, Rock- | savage, Stodart, the Bishop. At 8:05 to 8:10—Steward, Rocksavage, Stodard, Bishop, Lady Welter. At 8:10 to 8:15—Steward, Bishop, | Stodart, Lady Welter. | At 8:15 to 8:25—Steward, Stodart, Bishop, Lady Welter, Mr. Hayashi. | At 8:25 to 8:30—Steward, Stodart, | Bishop, Lady Welter, Hayashi, Posodini. | At 8:30 to 8:32—Steward, Stodart, | Bishop, Lady Welter, Hayashi, Po- | sodini and Mr. and Mrs. Jocelyn. At 8:32 to 8:33—As above with cabin steward who reported Blane | missing.

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send the shares of the Blane companies down to zero and, in their present precarious state, possibly | cause them to crash altogether. That would suit Rocksavage's book far better than the proposed amalgamation. Blane also stated his [tear that Rocksavage might attempt | his life, before he died. Motive in | Rocksavage's case is, therefore, strong. The Bishop of Bude—Nil, as far as is known at the moment. Lady Welter—As the largest holder in the Rocksavage companies she stands to benefit by Blane's

| death. She may have other assets outside the Rocksavage companies,

however, so, although there is

motive, in her case it is weak. Mr. Hayashi—Nil, as far as is known at the moment, but, as he is concerned in the world soap interest, he may well have a motive which has not yet come to light. Mr. Jocelyn--Nil, as far as is known as the moment, but, as a dependent of Lady Welter, his interest marches with hers, so it is possible that he might have acted at her instigation,

Miss Rocksavage—Nil, as far as is known at the moment. Having analyzed the information gained from first statements, as above, I then went below to examine the dead man’s property. An inventory disclosed the usual travel apparel, dress suits, shoes, shirts, hats, etc.,, and in addition two tins (100 each) Balkan Sobranie cigarets, one bottle Phensic, one bottle gum tragacanth, a 22 Scott Webley automatic, unloaded, and bullets for same; an electric torch, and a postcard addressed only ‘Bolitho Blane, Esq.” found in right-hand top dressing table drawer. The last item on the inventory is of considerable interest as it comes from the Japanese, Inosuke Hayashi, It is on a yacht postcard and, therefore, written after Hayashi's arrival! on board. Presumably it was delivered to Blane some time between his arrival on the yacht at 7:05 and his death, (which is known to have occurred between 7:45 and 8:30.

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therefore, at liberty to commit the crime, MRS. JOCELYN—In the lounge till 7:45. Returned, changed, to Jounge 8:30. Unvouched for time full period of 45 minutes. COUNT POSODINI—In lounge till 7:45. Returned changed 0 | lounge at 8:25. Unvouched for time | (in period) 40 minutes. MR. ROCKSAVAGE—In till 8:10. Returned changed lounge at 8:35. (in period) 20 minutes. MR. STODART-—In

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vouched for time (in period) nil. BISHOP of BUDE—Came low with Lady Welter at 7:05.

for time (in period) 15 minutes. LADY WELTER—Came below with the Bishop at 7:05. In lounge changed at 8:05. Unvouched for time (in period) 20 minutes.

MR. HAYASHI—Went to cabin |

at 6:10. In lounge changed at 8:15.

Unvouched for time (in period) 30 |

minutes. MR. JOCELYN—Came below with Miss Rocksavage 7:30 (approx.). In lounge changed at 8:30. Unvouched for time full period of 45 minutes. MISS ROCKSAVAGE—Came below with Mr. Jocelyn 7:15 (approx.). In lounge changed at 8:40. Unvouched for time full period of 45 minutes. ] on n "n Detective Officer Kettering’s Third Report, Continued. HE foregoing tables rule cut the lounge steward, Cane, as he was only absent from the lounge for two periods of two minutes each during the time under review, and in each of these had to go down to Blane’s cabin and come up again, and so he could not possibly have had time to perpetrate the crime in either. The only other person who is entirely ruled out is the secretary, Nicholas Stodard, as he was in the lounge during the whole period under review. Rocksavage and all his other guests were, however, absent from the lounge for periods of from 15 to 45 minutes between 7:45 and 8:30, during which they might have committed the murder. I then proceeded to make an analysis of possible motives. o 5 5 Possible Motives Mrs. Jocelyn—Nil, as far known at the moment. Count Posodini-—Nil, as far as is known at the moment. Mr. Rockavage—Blane's death will

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wrong about John and Rosa. The marriage had been happy. If Rosa had dragged John down, as many people had predicted, it wasn't at all apparent. It was true that he sometimes looked a little

| worried, but that was because of

Rosa's poor health, for she was troubled by some baffling ailment

| which the doctors had been unable

to remedy. It was true, too, that they had quite a struggle financially, as a result of mounting doc- | tors’ bills, but not once after he had | left his mother’s home had John appealed to her for help.

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N a good many quarters, however, it was predicted that John would try to break his ‘mother’s | Will. “If he doesn't contest it he's a fool,” pretty well summed up the | way most people felt about it. ‘But not John. To Joe Arbuthnot. his employer, he said, “That's the | way Mother wanted it, and I've got | no kick, I've stood on my own feet

| for six years, and I guess I still | can.” It was a brave speech, for the | money would have meant a lot to | John and Rosa. It would have meant, not a better house or a new | car or any of the usual things that | people buy when they come into | an inheritance, but instead, a trip ke Vienna to consult a noted specialist about Rosa's ailment. | Joe Arbuthnot said bluntly, “You | ought to contest the will, John, for | Rosa’s sake if for no other reason.” | But John shook his head. “We've | talked it over.” And that was all

he would say on the subject.

| u » ” IT will was filed for probate and, a year later, the executor of the estate made an accounting to the court and was discharged. It was on that very same day that John Clark, very pale of face, sat in the office of Dr. Holman and listened to his verdict. “We'll have to operate,” the doctor stated. “It’s her only chance and a very slim one, at that, John. She isn't strong, you know.” Yes—John knew. In the past year, Rosa had grown much weaker, John stood up, thin lipped, very tense. “When will you do it?” he asked. “At once,” replied the doctor. “We can't afford to lose any more time. I had hoped that it wouldn't be necessary, but my examination of her this morning has convinced me that it's only thing to do.” That afternoon, Rosa was taken to the hospital and, just before they

| cause it was Mother's will. She had | | said that never could we expect any help from her! If that was her wish [in life, I wasn't going to take ad- | vantage of her after her death. | “Come here,” said Dr. Holman, {and led John to the door of the operating room. “The operation { which we just performed on yout wife, John. was so delicate, s6 complicated, that we could never have completed it successfully with the old equipment we had in this room last year. Look.” He was pointing to a small metal sigh on the wall of the operating room. John read: “This room equipped by Saunders Clark.”

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