Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1944 — Page 7
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TUESDAY, AUG. 29, 1944 ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗ PAGE 7
Hotel Room Where Slain WAC 's Body Was Discovered
Yields a Multiplicity of Clues, all Difficult to Analyze
(Continued From Page One) to the eighth floor. At the right of the room was a stairway leading to the sixth floor. ¶ In accordance with custom, Mrs. McNamara was checking Room 729 to see if the new occupant was supplied with clean linen, a previous having left the room at 4 p. m. Door Blocked ¶ THERE BEING no response to her knock, used her master key to open the door, observing as she did so that the room was illuminated by the overhead chandelier. Something blocked the door's inward swing. ¶ To Mrs. McNamara's horror, she saw the stockingless leg of the
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the motive for the|close as to be acceptable or a SESSIONS TH F . Contlusion (3) The absence of blood or glass 20 stranger. ; |in 566 had informed the desk that fore we analyze the picture as it tea conclusions, whether they Io + (A) That Cpl. irom? Who was the last to see Thursday morning at the Clayp vestigators were interrupted by two ie killer used a weapon he|when the killer struck from behind | the room? If not, why not? Which | ning.
EA PA |these clues, while important, had body suggested that she was sur-| On the basis of these suppositions, : y [merely cracked the ice. They sup-|prised by, the killr—a friend 50|ywe will assume for the moment that INDIANA BAR 4 Ra ih on ey. neither he tor: OF He an a [The finger of suspicion points more : , ® ® ® . : 3 | i . i : San directly to a friend of Cpl. Ridin Multiplicity of Clues, all Difficult to Analyzeli | expecting 0 one | - . Ye s 8 = Ne : | The all-important question:.be-| The 48th annual meeting of “the soldier in there is beating up| next appears. - THEY. DID, however, give these dies Bess ia the jo comes: Who has been in the murder | Indiaria Bar association will girl” During that 45 minutes the in- 4 ; Ridings was standing at the closet | Cpl. Ridings alive and at what OF Wrong: : : | time? Was the killer seen to 1 hotel and last through Friday mysterious telept lis from ‘a hanging up or getting her blouse n eave mag With a Youthful sounding in the room rather than one| (B) That,she was threatened eise-| Way did be flee? Most of the discussions will b about changes in civil procedure be-
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.| voice who inquired for Cpl, Ridings ‘have brought in. | but refused to give his name. 4 indicate that i pln the Ronda TOMORROW—Rapid fire develPartain answered the telephone unpremeditated, - being, on the(struck her as she tried to flee, OPments. on both occasions. The first time, hand a “spur-of-the-moment the door or (C) That she the voice said: “I'd like to speak JRInS, * In which the killer acted|was sitting on the corner of the bed A - and angrily because of when the killer suddenly picked or. & that tripped the lever the whisky bottle, crashed it into! pended over $2,000000 during the
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crumpled body of a woman. The latter lay on her back in an area-way less than four feet wide between the bed and a small clothes closet built into the north wall at the right of the door. sailors, WACs, WAVES and Women | banged the phone disgustedly when! Marines who far outnumbered the informed that Cpl. Ridings was not civilian guests. present, He was calling from a pay ‘The throng was broken into half [station outside the hotel and his a‘hundred clusters of from two to|location could not be traced. 10 people each, Some were hwrying in or out of the doors. Others Dealt Heavy Blow lounged in the heavy chairs or| DR. HARE, meanwhile, "had finleather davenports. A ceaseless ished his examination and reached ¢ line of patrons moved in and out|these conclusions: of the taproom. : (1) Cpl. Ridings’ attacker first Mirth reigned on the main floor, dealt her a heavy blow with the murder on the seventh, whisky bottle on the left forehead, On -the elevator, it occurred to|causing a concussion. Ellers that he might fill two errands| (2) With the jagged, razor-sharp { the same time and he instructed [neck of the bottle, the killer then|cil, was what obviously was the last Lemmons, the éperator, to severed the corporal’s jugular vein./name of a person living on the let him, Gwaltney and Taylor off] (3) While the corporal lay bleed-| North Side. At least, a North Side at five. The three men walked to|ing to death, the killer slashed address followed the name, room 568. again at her face, causing innumer-| On the dresser stood four Bae | A slender young woman in a|able contusions. When practically] opened bottles of coca-cola. Beside black dress matched by a chic(all blood had drained from the/ them was a glass partially filled| black hat with over-fluffed veil body, the slayer slashed Cpl. Rid-|{with whisky and coke. A “fifth answered Ellers’ knock at the door ings’ wrists. They had been deeply| bottle rested on the floor under the and sald, with a mixture of relieficut but had bled little. window, a sixth lay on its side at and embarrassment: “How do you| Dr. Hare refused pointblank tothe edge of the bed. Five water do?” She introduced herself as|suggest a motive. glasses,. upended, filled a serving : a friend of the corporal who had| Of particular interest to the in- {tray near the left corner of the Trouble on Fifth Floor [dropped into his room, at his invi-| vestigation was a flat and circular|dresser near the window and beside tation, to have a friendly drink. object which glistened in the blood|them was an empty paper carton MISS MOORE telephoned assist-| “yy "uy itnes sternly ordered the behind Cpl. Ridings head. That|which had contained cracked ice. Ant manager John Ellers, talking at corporal to gather his object was a 25-cent piece and it Fountain Pen on Bed and leave the hotel. To the girl, 'lay but inches from the corporal’s i Gwaltney said: “We've got some oustretched right hand back of her] THE BED itself was tidy, except! other business on the seventh floor, head.
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The corpora] left, Ellers, Gwalt-
Had that quarter dropped to the! floor before Cpl. Ridings was at-| tacked? Had the quarter been in her hand when she was attacked or, more significantly, had the killer tossed or dropped the quarter
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