Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1937 — Page 34
CAST OF CHARACTERS PRISCILLA PIERCE—heroine, woman attorney. AMY KERR—Cilly’s roommate and murderer’s victim. JIM KERRIGAN—Cilly’s fiance. . HARRY HUTCHINS—Amy’s- strange visitor. SERGT. DOLAN—officer assigned to solve the murder of Amy Kerr.
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Yesterday: Mr. Johnson, the janitor, reads strange, morbid books, Cilly finds, and decides she can never quife trust him fully again. His reactions to the murder are odd, too.
CHAPTER, FOURTEEN
LL morning Cilly waited for Sergt. Dolan to put in an appearance, nervously eager to tell him of her findings. The Utah newspaper, she felt sure, led the case definitely away from Jim Kerrigan, for it proved that someone in the house was implicated. Moreover, she felt convinced that it would be wise for the palice to look into the habits and background of Mr. Johnson. He might be able to tell a great deal more than he had. His sudden recollection of a tenant from Salt Lake City had come naturally enough, but had he spoken the truth when he said he could not remember who it was? A sudden realization halted her train of thought abruptly. However, had she neglected to consider it before? . Mr. Johnson was the one person in the house who had the opportunity to commit the crime!
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HE had every reason to be up on the roof at midnight, if only to look about and see that no one was there before he locked the door for the night. And he was the only person Cilly had seen come out of the front door as she knelt beside Amy on the ground! s She had assumed, quite naturally, that he had come up from his rooms in the basement to look into the trouble. But was it not just as possible that he had come down the stairs from the roof? Why hadn’t she realized that before? Based solely on circumstantial evidence, Cilly knew that she could build just as conclusive a dese against the superintendent as Sergt. Dolan believed he could against Jim. . There was, to be sure, no motive. There was no apparent reason why Mr. Johnson should want to kill Amy. Unless—and Cilly hesitated to admit the possibility, even to herself—unless the man were mentally deranged. A few hours before she would have banished the thought, but now she saw him in a new light. 8 a » F Mr. Johnson were just a normal, simple working man, why would he pore over his morbid literature down there alone in his basement rooms? He was not sufficiently educated to find such reading easy. Cilly remembered how methodically he had spelled out, each word in the simple note he had received from Mrs. Elliot. How much more difficult, therefore, he must have found it to understand the technical phraseology of his literature on insanity. What curious fascination did it have for him? What horrible, distorted ideas ran through his simple mind as he slowly and painstakingly worked out paragraph after paragraph? . However, in spite of Mr. Johnson’s curious literary tastes, there was still the matter of the newspapers to be explained. Apparently they cleared the superintendent, as they cleared Jim, of any connection with Amy’s death.
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HE funeral service for Amy Kerr was: scheduled for 2 o'clock, so when 12:30 arrived and Sergt. Dolan had not put in his appearance, Cilly relinquished the hope of seeing him. She went Into the bedroom to change into the dull black dress. It might be that the Sergeant would stop at the funeral parlors, if only to look over the friends and acquaintances assembled. e Through the window, Cilly saw a taxi draw up to the house and stop in front of her window. She hurried across the room to pull down the shade. Vaguely she was conscious that the car’s motor continued to run as she combed her hair and changed her dress. Someone in the house must have called and asked him to wait. Few persons from the apartment ever phoned for a taxi; it was easier to walk down to the corner and hail one from the regular stand. You only phoned when it rained—or if you had heavy bundles. : Curious, Cilly raised the shade and looked out. A woman was getting into the car; the driver struggled to adjust two bags which he put in after her. Two large suitcases, to be exact. Cilly recognized the woman as one of the tenants from above. She did not know her by name, however. She thought it rather unusual for her to be leaving the house at this . time with suitcases. Hadn't Sergt. Dolan insisted that they all remain on hand for further questioning? So he instructed Cilly.
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N a flash the truth dawned. The woman was running away! She was deliberately going away to escape Sergt. Dolan’s further ques-
tioning. . Quickly Cilly raised the window. . “Taxi!” she called. “Taxi!” But she was just a minute too late. The car was already moving. The woman turned around, startled _ by the call, then leaned forward and urged the driver to greater haste. Cilly watched them dis- - appear around the corner, annoyed at her own stupidity in letting the woman get away so Smoothly. : A few minutes later, she was standing at the taxi stand on the . corner, waiting for the same cab to return. She waited several minutes, growing a little nervous lest she be late for the funeral services. * It was almost 1:30 when the driver finally drew up to the curb. She got into his car immediately. «Greenwood Funeral Parlors,” she » ” ” Al HE started off, Cilly started A conversation. “Quite busy this afternoon, aren’t you?” she inquired. 3 . “Yeah, I am. Were you waiting long?” . “Almost half an hour.” “I'm sorry, miss. I've been gone
J from the stand almost 40 minutes.
‘ Had to take a woman all the way down to the Atlantic Avenue Station.” % “That's the Long Island Railroad, isnt it?” “Yeah. She was in a hurry to catch a train. Going out on the Island somewhere, I guess.” Cilly felt a vague disappointment. Imagine trying to trace - anybody who had left the Long Island Railroad station with two bags! A hundred people left on trains every minute and there were a thousand small towns on Long Island in which to hide out. ; 2 2 = ge ID the woman come from the Bayview Apartments?” pursued, nevertheless. “I thought I saw you pick up a fare there.” “That’s right,” the driver agreed affably. “She came from the same house where that girl was murdered . ./.”- is Cilly leaned forward in the car. “The police will probably be asking you about it,” she commented cautiously. “I don’t think they would have permitted any of the
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tenants to go away until they found out who killed the girl.” The taxi driver's eyes popped. “Jees!” he murmured. “I never thought of that. Say, she might ‘a been runnin’ away, huh?” “She might have been. Do you remember who she was?”
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She phoned for me. ‘Send a cab,” she says, ‘right away—Bayview Apartments. You can ring my bell for me . . . Apartment 4-B.’ So I go over and ring 4-B, and she’s down in a minute, with her bags. Jees! I never thought . . .” Apartment 4-B. That was Mrs. Wheeler ,the widow. Mrs. Wheeler, who lived alone, and saw nobody go past her fire escape after the murder. Mrs. Wheeler had deliberately run away from Sergt. Dolan’s questions. Why? Cilly thought of something else. Mrs. Wheeler might have thrown away those Utah newspapers. She,
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hide out in her apartment until tne excitement had died down. . . .
(To Be Continued)
THIEF!
Daily Short Story
THIEF!—By Kent Phillips
T= pearls were lying in the gutter, almost under a sticky old candy wrapper, and Maisie picked them up and looked about quickly to see if anyone had noticed. They were still in her hand when she passed the corner newsstand where the headlines flashed blackly: “Amerston Pearls Stolen.” That was the reason she took them to the jeweler on 11th St. But the little jeweler had smiled through his glasses and said: “Miss, I'm sorry, but they ain’t even good pastes.” Even after that she thought they were beautiful. Before she went out onto the street she wrapped them in her handkerchief, and when she left it was clenched tightly in her left hand. Occasionally she squeezed the handkerchief as she walked, as though the feel of the little lumpy mass could give her strength to walk the long blocks and up the final dingy flight of stairs.
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HE was very tired when the doctor caught up with her as she turned the corner. “Hey there!” he laughed. “What's the big rush? Don’t you know work’s over for the day?” She nearly forgot the pearls in her handkerchief .as she looked up at. the doctor. She liked the doctor. He lived at the corner house, and even-when he was in a hurry he stopped and talked for a minute. And usually he was laughing. “Maisie—that cough of yours— better?” He wasn’t laughing now. 8. AISIE nodded and smiled. He always asked about the cough, but she didn’t like to bother him with it. For a moment he walked beside her, his eyes on hers. Then he smiled and patted her shoulder. “So long, soldier. See you later.” And he turned into the drug store. As soon as she unlocked the door to her room she took the pearls out of her handkerchief and held them up to the light of the dim bulb. They were hers, because the little jeweler had said they weren't real. That meant she could keep them—and now, so many weeks after- the. doctor had insisted she “go out in the country, where there’s plenty of sunshine,” they gave her a beautiful happiness deep inside her. ” ” LL the next day while she wrapped packages at the big factory with a hundred other girls she thought of the pearls. She could hardly wait for the quitting bell in the evening, because she knew they were at home, waiting for her. For the first three days she kept them at home, wrapped in one of her old stockings and tied in"a reat little package with a piece of old green ribbon. Then one morning she put them on before she went to work and suddenly she couldn’t take them off. She stopped at the corner and
Mind Your Manners
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What would you do if— You have filled a tray in a crowded cafeteria and can find a place only at a table where Someone else is already eatg— A. Quietly seat yourself at his table? ~ B. Say, “Do you mind if I sit at this table?” C. Say, “Well, I guess there's nowhere else to sit.”
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spoke to old Mike, who owned the newsstand. She saw his eyes on the pearls, saw him grin toothily. “Poils, Maisie? You catch a mil-
lionaire?” “I found them.” But she blushed and all the way to work her heart
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MY MAHONEY saw them first, and she called aloud:
“Gee, Maisie, where did you get the rope? Are they real?” Almost, Maisie told the truth, then deliberately and happily she fibbed. “I don’t know. I found them in the street.”
Maisie didn’t notice the little knot of girls that gathered behind her at the rest period—and she might have been frightened had she heard Amy Mahoney mention the Amerston pearls. Old Mike stopped her that evening as she went home—held a paper out in his grimy hand and rolled up like g club.
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“ AVE a paper, Maisie. You got to know the news of the world—now youre a. rich woman with jewels.” And he cackled slyly. : Maisie took the paper and she carried it under her left arm as she walked the rest of the block. She didn’t notice the two men loafing on the corner. One of them was big and needed a shave, the other was slim and wore a pinstripe suit with wide shoulders and a narrow waist. Maisie felt that the pearls had brought her luck. Everyone seemed friendly after she got them. First it was old Mike, then the girls at the factory, and, of course, the doctor. He was getting in his car when she went to work. “Hello, Maisie,” he said. “See youre all rigged out with jewelry
-this morning.”
Maisie nodded and smiled. “You'd better hock the family heirlooms and take that trip I was talking about. I know a place where a few months in the country . . . Say!” He came closer. “Those aren’t real, are they?”
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AISIE couldn’t lie to the doctor. “No.” She shook her head cheerfully. “I found them—they’re
pastes.” The doctor laughed and turned away. “Come see me soon, Maisie, I want to talk to you.” Then he was gone. * Maisie reached a decision that morning at the factory. She would go to the country—then suddenly she knew she couldn’t. The doctor had said it would cost money. But even that couldn’t spoil her day. Old Mike spoke to her when she passed him on her way home, and when her back was turned he dropped a folded paper to the sidewalk. 8s 2 ” AISIE didn’t scream when it happened. It was too quick. A hand simply reached out and pulled her into a doorway. Two men were theré—a big one and a slim one. The big one held her and the little one unhooked the pearls. Then the little one shoved something into her hand. “We're. buyin’ ‘em, see? Payin’ you a good price. And if anyone cheeps—it’s too bad.” Then they were gone. The doctor was in his office. Maisie saw the light. Her steps were slow and she was tired. She
probably shouldn't bother the doc-
tor, but she had to talk to someone. “Well! Hello—come so soon?” He smiled a welcome. 2 ” 2
AISIE walked inside and somehow she couldn't speak, so she simply stood still. Suddenly the doctor had hand in his. “What's this you've got?” ruffied something between fingers. : . “Two hundred dollars!” He looked into her face. “Young lady, tonight youre going to the country ” x
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It was much later that evening when the doctor came from the train, Maisie had left. As he walked up the front steps of the corner house two figures rose. One was beefy—the other one was smaller. The doctor sighed, fumbled for his wallet. He pulled out eight bills. “Here you are, boys.” The smaller one took the money. “But, boss,” he whined, “you said 10 bucks. . 0 0 n “0. K.—come around fomorrow— I'll have the other two.” And the doctor whistled as he walked up the steps. THE END
The characters in this story are fictitious. (Copyright, 1037. Unijed Feature Syndicate)
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United States citizens should ged the hell out of China and stay out.
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—Gen. Smedley D. Butler.