Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1937 — Page 26
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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: When Cilly reveals that Mr. Hunter can walk, Corbet! counters that Cilly was in no condition the night before to testify. Cilly realizes now she should have told the officers alone.
CHAPTER TWENTY
ERGT. DOLAN proceeded with his investigation. “Mr. Smith,” he said, addressing the young man in 2-B, “I understand you were not at home when the murder occurred?” Mr. Smith repeated his wife's explanation to Detective Martin. They had spent the day in Ruther- ~ ford, N. J. with relatives, not leaving there until 1:20. They did not hear of the tragedy until the following morning. Dolan looked to Martin for confirmation of this. Martin nodded. Evidently the Smiths’ alibi had checked. Dolan turned again to the Hunters. “Where did you live before, Hunter?” hy demanded. © “In Brooklyn, sir. Down on Herkimer St. I was raised in Brooklyn. Never lived anywhere else.” “And you, Mrs. Hunter?” Cilly looked at the woman as she rose to answer the Sergeant’s question. She appeared visibly shaken and nervous. ” 8 ”
T= lived in Brooklyn, sir, ever since my marriage—25 years ago. Before that I lived on Long Island, in Farmingdale.” “You were married; therefore, when your husband became paralyzed?” Mrs. Hunter's lower lip trembled, she fumbled in her bag for a handkerchief. “Yes, sir.” “Was he in an accident?” “Yes, sir .. . that is—oh, don’t ask me to talk about it!” She burst into tears. “You tell him, George!” she pleaded. “You tell him about it. It's better if you do . . .” “Hush, Nellie!” Mr. Hunter admonished, not unkindly. “You see, Sergeant,” he explained, “my wife grieves about it. It gets her upset to talk about it.” “I see. It was Hunter?” “Yes, sir. I had a fall, and then the doctors didn’t treat it right, I guess. The old doctor down in Herki‘mer St. who took care of me is dead, and I went to a couple of others, to please my wife, but they couldn’t do anything for me.” : ” ” ”
ERGEANT DOLAN rubbed his chin thoughtfully for a moment, but his eyes never left the man’s face. “Hunter,” he said finally, “it strikes me as queer that a man like you—tied to a wheel-chair— would want to live on the top floor of a walk-up apartment. Cilly listened eagerly for Hunter’s reply. Why hadn’t she realized that before?” “Well, I guess it seems queer,” Hunter admitted. “We can’t afford an expensive apartment, in an elevator building. I can’t work, you see, and we just live on a small income. We took the top floor because I like to get the air, and I don’t like to sit out in the street. People stare at me. Being up high, I can get out on the roof and sit there. Johnson always helps me up.”
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” ” ” ERGEANT DOLAN looked inquiringly at the superintendent. “That right, Johnson?” he asked. “Yes, sir, that’s right. Sometimes in the afternoons, Mrs. Hunter gives me a buzz and I take Mr. Hunter up in the wheelchair. Sometimes in the evening, if the weather is good.” “0. K. Johnson. Now tell me this: “Did Mrs. Wheeler say anything to you about going away?” “No, sir, she didn’t. It was a surprise to me when I went up there yesterday afternoon with Detective Martin. It certainly looked as if she’d cleared out.”
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OW long did she live in the. Bayview, Johnson?” The superintendent scratched his head thoughtfully for a moment. “Oh, I guess Mrs. Wheeler's been there three or four years.” ‘Remember where she from?” . “Some place in Manhcttan, I'm sure. She used to joke a .ot about coming to hve in Brooklyn. She said something about never living more than two doors from Broadway all her life, and what a comedown Brooklyn was.” “Did she ever say why she moved to Brooklyn?” “No, she didn’t. A good many folks come over from Manhattan lately to save money. Rents are cheaper in Brooklyn.” Dolan nodded. He looked over the Bayview tenants again. His eyes rested on the school teacher in 4-A.
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ISS DOWNEY,” he said, “what can you tell me?” Miss Downey, prim and precise, rose to her feet, smoothing out her skirt as she did so. She held her head erect. “Not a thing, Sergt. Dolan,” she stated. “We can’t tell you a thing. We heard the scream of course— mother and I. And we rushed to ‘the window to see what had happened. Other than that, we know nothing.” “I see. Have you always lived in Brooklyn, Miss Downey?” “Oh, yes. I graduated from Erasmus High and Adelphi. We've always lived in Brooklyn. Mother was born down in 17th St., near Fourth Ave. “Thank you, Miss Downey. And now, Mrs. Downey, is there anything you can tell me?”
EFORE Mrs. Downey could rise, her daughter answered for her. “Mother can tell you nothing more than I have, Sergeant.” The Sergeant smiled courteously. “Suppose you let your mother speak for herself, Miss Downey. Did you hear or see anything un‘usual on Sunday night, Mrs. Downey?” : Mrs. Downey rose hesitantly to stand beside her daughter. She was a tubby, round-faced person: You thought as you looked at her
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always have a great deal to say, on any subject. Obviously, however, she was just a little in awe of this school-teaching daughter.
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bing her hands together. “It’s as my daughter says, sergeant,” she replied, hesitantly. “I guess I didn’t hear a thing, . ” “What do you mean—you' ‘guess’ —Mrs. Downey? Aren't you sure?” “Well—I don’t know, . .."” u ” ” OTHER is very nervous, Sergeant,” Miss Downey interrupted. “Please believe me, she has nothing to tell you.” “Miss Downey,” the Sergeant said sharply, “you will sit down, if you please. I am questioning your mother, and I want her to speak for herself.” Miss Downey sat down, decidedly annoyed. In a more gentle tone, Sergt. Dolan turned to her mother. “Now, Mrs. Downey, he said, “now just what did you hear?”
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Downey began at last, “that the moment I heard that poor girl scream I jumped from my bed. Lucille got up, too. Well, it was the most awful thing. She must have fallen right past our window. -It was terrible. I tell you, never in my life have I had such a shock. I thought I was going to faint. My heart’s not 50 good, Sergeant . . .” She paused
for breath and laid a plump hand over her bosom. ¢
” 2 2 ELL, I went out into the kitchen for my tablets—I keep them over the sink where they'll be handy—and just as I got to the kitchen I heard someone running down the stairs. I'm sure of it, Sergeant. I heard those steps just as well as I hear your voice now. It was a man running downstairs—you know how heavy a man’s footsteps are. It was the murderer, Sergeant. I know it.” Cilly stiffened. Mrs. Downey's words brought the case close to reality. “And this was right after the girl’s body hit the ground?” Dolan asked. “Right afterward. Not two minutes after.” “Can you tell. me how far downstairs the man went, Mrs. Downey? To the third floor, the second, the first?” “I'm not so sure of that. I think he went below the third floor . at least I didn’t hear him stop at the landing below us.” “Thank you, Mrs. Downey. You have done right to tell us . . .” ? Mrs. Downey stepped a pace forward. She lowered her voice confidently. “But that isn't all, Sergeant,” she said. “That isn’t all.”
(To Be Continued) :
Daily Short Story
TAXIl—By A. L. Moore
OU kind of get the habit of sizing up fares without half looking at them. He's one of these slick, overfed, pouchy-eyed guys I don’t like the looks of, and it don’t take more than a glance at the girl he’s
got to see she just came in from the country that morning with the dew still on. Not the dumb, cornfed type, but just sweet and innocent, if you get what I mean. When he give me the address it kind of give me a turn, because I haven't been driving around this town for five years with my eyes shut, and that’s no night club to take a fine girl to. ‘Well, I says to myself, “A fares a fare, and it’s none of my business.” But I couldn't get my mind off that kid, and the farthér we got along toward where we was going the more I didn’t like it. I couldn’t exactly picture - myself stopping the car, though, and saying, “Look here, sister, this fellow don’t mean no good by you. You better get out and run along home to mama.” ” ” 2
B I wished something like a third alarm fire would turn up to kind of delay us a little, or maybe a nice holdup—this is a swell neighborhood for such. I thought of making believe I didn’t hear the street right and taking them to the wrong place, or having car trouble; but that would just stall him off a few minutes and wouldn't do no good in the long run, I even played a little with the idea of having a real accident, but that wasn’t so practical because you can’t calculate in advance on doing just so much damage and no more.
Weil, I drew up to the curb in front of the club, feeling pretty disgusted with myself for not" being able to think up anything smart to do. A fellow hates to make a sap of himself, and it’s out of my line to go around rescuing ladies in distress, but this girl is such a pretty little thing something has to be done to help her.
” 2 ” HE fellow got out and I could see him holding out his hand to help the girl. Then like a flash I got a right idea and I started up the car sudden, trusting to luck the girl would fall in instead of out. It wasn’t such a bad stunt at that. I could picture the fellow standing with his mouth open staring aicer us, and I counted on being lost in traffic before he got over being stunned. I didn’t figure he’d be calling the police either. But what puzzled me was that
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there wasn’t a peep out of the girl. After all, this is the 20th century and ladies don’t swoon any more, even if they are innocent. She'd ought to be yelling, “Help! Kidnapers!” but maybe she’s too scared to open her mouth. I slowed down a little and looked around. There she was, tiny and straight, up in a corner. ” o ”
TT still here,” she says brightly. “I expect you thought I got out, too.” I don’t bother to explain that I'm not in the habit of dashing off without waiting to collect my fare. “You better get home,” I said. “Where do you live?” She just give me a street and number meekly and on we go, me deciding she must be a little wrong in the head. “I'm glad you started up $0 quick back there,” she said. “You got me out of a kind of predicament.”
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OU don’t know the half of it,” I thinks, but I wonders if maybe she ain't so green after all. “That was my boy friend’s boss I was with,” she says, “but I never dreamed he was going to take me to his place of business till we stopped there and I saw my boy friend in the door.” “No?” I asks, kind of encouraging her to go on. “You see, I've only known my boy friend about a month. I got a job as waitress in a place down near the Union Station just as soon as I came to town, and this boy came in and we got acquainted. He's been trying to get me to take a job as a waitress where he works, but it didn’t sound to me like the kind of place I ought to work in. I promised my mother I wouldn't work where they sold intoxicating beverages. Then a couple of days ago my boy friend came in with his boss and introduced me. And tonight the boss asked me to go out with him. It was my boy friend’s night to work late and, anyway, we aren’t engaged or anything, so there isn’t any reason I shouldn't go out with someone else. But when I realized where he was taking me I wished I hadn’t come: I was afraid my boy friend might get angry when he saw me with his boss.” wouldn’t bother about that,” I said.
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HE puzzles over this a little and then gets worried. “You don’t suppose my boy friend will get into trouble because I didn’t go in? I wouldn't want him to lose his job. Maybe I better go back.” “Look here, girlie,” I says, speaking up sharp. - “I got you out of this and you're going to stay out. I don’t
like your boy friend, or his boss, or
their business. You're not going to have anything more to do with them. Do you get me?” She looks up at me kind of startled, but wide-eyed, like I was the preacher. “Yes, sir,” she says. “Look here, my name’s Joe,” I says, “and it gin’t right for you to be taking advice from strange cab drivers either. But you gotta trust me and let me kind of keep an eye on you to see you don’t run into any more trouble. Will you?” “Why, of course, Joe,” she says. “Why shouldn’t I trust you?”
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