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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1937-07-08, Page 6¥AGE SIX THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, July 8th, 1937 SYNOPSIS; A card game is in ses­ sion in Elmer Henderson's penthouse atop a New York skyscraper. The players are: Henderson, Police In­ spector Flaherty, Martin Frazier, Ar­ chie Doane, Max Michaelis, and his friend, Williams, a stockbroker. They are waiting for Stephen Fitz­ gerald. When he fails to appear, a telephone call brings the information that he is out with a girl. Fitzgerald and Henderson are both romantically interested in Lydia Lane, the famous actress, but Archie Doane reveals that She is engaged to marry him. Doane leaves the party early when Fitzgerald fails to appear. A short time later he telephones Inspector Flaherty with the frantic news that he has found Fitzgerald and Miss Lane dead in Lydia Lane’s penthouse apartment. “I wish you’d phone me, Frazier, as soon as you find out more about it,” .Henderson requested. ’‘You un­ derstand my curiosity? Will you let me know? I’ll be waiting for word from you.” I “I’ll do that, gladly, old man. I’ll tell you as much as Dan Flaherty will let me tell. He’s the boss.” “That’s all right,” grunted the po­ liceman. “We’ll give you a ring. Come on, Max. Come on, Frazier. Going now, Mr, Williams, or staying' here?” They had settled their poker win­ nings and losses while waiting, and all moved toward the elevator. Wil­ liams glanced again at Henderson. “You’re sure you don’t want me to stay with you?" he asked. “Sure," replied Henderson forcing a smile. “You’re good to offer it." “By the way, Mr. Henderson, have you> got a flask, or can you spare a bottle of that Scotch?” asked Max Michaelis. "Archie may need it. I would, in his situation.” * “Certainly. Take this bottle. It’s nearly full,” said the inventor. Warned by Inspector Flaherty, the little group of four said nothing about their errand in the presence of the night elevator man and doorman of the Highart Building. Williams said good-night at the door and started off on foot, through the three inches of fluffy snow. The others had but a few minutes to wait before a big sedan with the Police Department shield on the radiator and a brass- buttoned policeman driving, pulled up before the door. Not until they were inside the car did any of them speak. Dan Flaherty was first to break the silence. "This looks like a tough case, Max,” he said. “Sort of thing makes a policeman wish he didn’t have any friends.” “Jumping to conclusions, Dan, as usual?" asked Michaelis. “You talk as if you thought Archie did it.” “Suppose he did," retorted the In- ‘ spector. “I’ve got to bear down on him harder than I would if I’d never known him; the best I can do I’ll be accused of trying to shield a friend,” “I get you," agreed Michaelis, “but let me remind you that his calling you up was the act of an innocent man. He didn’t have to do it. For all we know now, he could have slip­ ped away and said nothing,” “But his asking for you is the act of a man who realizes that circum­ stances look bad for him,” countered Dan Flaherty. “Agreed,” said Max Michaelis. “And I realize your- position, Dan.” “I don’t need to tell you that I’ll play fair in anything relating to Ar­ chie,” growled the Inspector, “and' the starting point? How did he come to be at Miss Lane’s rooms? Did he explain that?” “Yes," replied the Inspector, “He said that he went to his rooms when he left the game and had been there only a few minutes when his tele­ phone greatly excited, asked him to come at once. Something terrible had happened, she said, He got no an­ swer at her door, Got in through l some sort of back entrance—-he knew his way about there—and found Fitz and the girl both dead—shot. “Said he had done nothing before phoning me except to take a quick look around the apartment to see if anybody was hiding there, and that was all he said.” “That fixes the time of the shoot- 1 ing pretty closely, then,” was Mich­ aelis' comment. “Archie left us about ten-thirty, perhaps a few minutes lat­ er. He phoned you about eleven­ twenty-five. Give him twenty minutes “Where’s the Medical Examiner? What does he say?”- . . it looks bad for Mr. the Medical Examiner? he say?” Inspector Fla- Business and Professional Directory Wellington Mutual Fire ; Insurance Co, Established 1840. Risks taken on all classes of insur- * ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABNER COSENS, Agent Wingham. Dr, W. A, McKibbon, B.A, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Located at the Office of the Late Dr, H, W. Colbome. Office Phone 54.Nights 107 HARRY FRYFOGLE Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director Furniture and Funeral Service Ambulance Service. . Phones: Day 117. Night 109, t DR. R. L. STEWART PHYSICIAN 1 W. BUSHFIELD Telephone 29, Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (England) L.R.C.P. (London) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Money to Loan, Office Meyer Block, Wingham THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A Thorough Knowledge of Farm Stock. Phone 231, Wingham. 2“• J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone. Wingham Ontario It Will Pay Yop to Have An EXPERT AUCTIONEER to conduct your sale. See T. R. BENNETT At The Royal Service Station. Phone 174W. I’ll be glad to have your help, Max. You know that.” “Even then, we’ve got a personal interest, all of us, in finding out who killed Fitz,” Max Michaelis remind­ ed them. “Our first concern must be for the living, but we must not for­ get our duty to avenge the dead. “All right, Dan, I wish you’d tell me just what Archie said to you over the phone,” Max Michaelis continued, as the car halted for the stream of after-theatre traffic going up Seventh Avenue into Central Park, its prog­ ress slowed up by the fleet of scrap­ ers and trucks of the snow-removal gang, already on the job. “What’s SOS after SOS flashes out from Amelia Earhart's aeroplane, since she, with her navigator, Fred J, Noonan, Was reported forced down in shark* infested waters near tiny Howland Is* land in a lonely part of the south Pacific, This photograph shows Miss Earhart just after she had completed her flight from Los Angeles to Mex­ ico City* * to get here, another five to look around, and he must have be,en talk­ ing to Miss Lane just abo-ut eleven o'clock. She, at least, was alive then. If the ‘something terrible’ which she said had happened was the shooting of Fitzgerald, then that must have occurred just before that. It’s a quar­ ter of twelve now. Whatever happen­ ed must have occurred within the last forty-five minutes.” “If he’s telling the truth,” growled Dan Flaherty. . “I can’t take any other assump­ tion,” replied Michaelis. “One thing we’ve got to remem­ ber,” said Martin Frazier, as the car pulled up in front of Number 213 West Fifty-Ninth, “i sthat Archie Doane is an actor. A good actor, trained to simulate emotions which he does ont feel, to wear a mask at will.” '“A point well taken, which is off­ set by the fact that when he does feel emotions he has difficulty in hiding them,” commented Michaelis. “We have only to think of his evident dis­ trait during the game this evening to realize that.” Another Police Department car was standing at the curb in front of the converted dwelling in which Lydia ] Lane had her apartment, and a uni­ formed policeman, on guard at the door, saluted Inspector Flaherty as be and his two companions alighted. “Medical examiner got here yet?" asked the Inspector. “Five minutes ago, with three plain-clothesmen,” replied the police­ man. “Is this the only entrance to the building?” “Except the trap door from, the cel­ lar, and that’s right here in front,” the policeman answered. “Nobody’s been in or out since I got here.” “Let ’em in if you’re satisfied they live in the building and have been out all evehing,” the inspector instructed him, “but take their apartment num­ bers in case I want to talk to them. If anybody wants to go out, send up to the penthouse apartment for me. “Where’s the janitor?” “I haven’t seen him. I think he has a room in the cellar.” “Better ring for him and keep him around to run errands for you,” said Flaherty. “Any hallboys or elevator | attendants?” | “No; it’s an automatic elevator — | one of these push-button ones.” ! The building had once been a ra* I ther pretentious mansion, which had; been remodelled, after the NeW York fashion, into small suites. It stood | between two towering new apartment ] houses, overlooking Central Farit, Yet, like most buildings of its type,! it was tenanted at high rentals by I those who preferred privacy and com­ modious rooms,, to the outward gong-I / ■ cousness and cramped living quarters tf the ordinary apartment. It was clear enough at a glance that an in­ truder might find little difficulty in entering and leaving unobserved. There was not much room for Max Michaelis and Martin Frazier after Dan Flaherty had inserted his bulky form into the tiny elevator. The in­ spector pressed the upper button and th? cage ascended, to stop at a land­ ing on the top of the building, five stories up, The elevator door open­ ed upon a sky-lighted lobby, from which the stairs descended, To their left, as they stepped out of the cage, there was a door which apparently gave access to the flat roof; to the right, a door on which a small brass plate bore the name of Lydia Lane. Inspector Flaherty rang the bell and the door was opened by a tall, dark young man who bore none of the customary earmarks of the police. However Flaherty soon dissipated the idea in the way in which he address­ ed the fellow. “Hello, Tony,” said the Inspector, “What does it look like?” “Hello, ’Chief,” was Detective Mar­ tinelli’s response. “I don’t know en­ ough yet to make anything of it, It looks bad . . ." he glanced over his shoulder and lowered his voice 'as he spoke, “ . , Doane.” “Where’s What does herty demanded, as he and his com­ panions pushed through the door and into a square foyer from which other doors gave at opposite ends. One of these doors opened as he spoke and the Medical Examiner himself came out. He reached for the telephone on a stand between the doors. , “The girl’s alive!” he said. “I’m go­ ing to call an ambulance." The penthouse apartment in which Lydia Lane lived consisted of a large studio on the north front of the build­ ing, overlooking Central Park, a smaller but still commodious bedroom on the southerly side, connected with the studio both through the entrance foyer and by a dressing room which opened into both rooms, off which was a bathroom. Also opening off the foyer, at the rear, was a little I kitchenette with a tiny room for a maidservant adjoining. At the front, the structure, really a bungalow built on the roof, was set back some six or seven feet from the cornice, making a little roof gar­ den on which French doors gave en­ trance. At the rear there was a much larger roof expanse, running back per­ haps twenty-five feet, where an L- shaped extension had been construct­ ed. The windows of the bedroom, the kitchenette and the maid’s room op­ ened upon this part of the roof, and there was another French door lead­ ing from the bedroom directly to the roof. To give the janitor access to the roof and as a means of exit for ten­ ants below in case of fire, another door, on the opposite side of the el­ evator shaft, opened from the elevat­ or and stair landing on to a narrow passage which led also to the rear garden of Miss Lane’s apartment. And -up the side of the elevator shaft ran a vertical iron ledder, for the of workmen in making repairs to elevator machinery or the roof of penthouse itself. At the read of roof extension which formed Miss Lane’s roof garden an iron fire escape ladder led down to a courtyard. There were windows only on the front and back of the apartment. On both sides the building was hemmed in by the windowless side walls of the adjoining structures, which rose fifty feet or more the little house. All of this was mediately clear to ty and his companions, concern was with the facts, and with Archie Doane. They followed Detective Martinelli into the bedroom while the Medical examiner was telephoning to Roose­ velt Hospital, Smoke from the police camera man’s flashlight was oozing out of a window which had been lowered from the top, and the first sensation of the new arrivals was the acrid odor of magnesium powder. Stretched Ort a chaise lounge in the farther corner of the room lay the body of Lydia Lane. She was attired irt a flowered kimono, which had been partly pulled or thrown aside, reveal- irtg the dainty silken lingerie beneath, The face whose pure profile had made her the darling of the screen was as beautiful in its white waxi­ ness as when .the pulses of life had colored it. Her boyishly-cropped goL den hair seemed dark by contrast. One bared arm hung limply over the edge of the couch, its whiteness marred by a dark streak which began at a blue-bordered hole midway be­ tween elbow and shoulder and cours­ ed down to the ends of the tapering fingers which touched* it Seemed al­ most caressingly, the lace of the man who lay on the floor in a crumpled, disorderly heap. (Continued Next Week) B DR. W. M. CONNELL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 19. B use the the the above the roof of not, of couse, im- > Inspector Flaher-< Their first R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER and SOLICITOR Office — Morton Block. Telephone No. 66. 1 ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RADIONIC j EQUIPMENT || Hours by Appointment. y Phone 191. Wingham I W.A. CRAWFORD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Located" at the office of the late Dr. J. P. Kennedy. Phone 150. Wingham F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated. Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre St. Sunday by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY North Street — Wingham Telephone 300. WROXETER Bride Showered Mrs. Edgar Wightman (nee Winni- fred Rae) whose marriage took place j Wednesday of last week, was given a farewell picnic and shower by the pupils of the Bloomingdale school where she has taught during the past year. Beautiful gifts expressed the appreciation of the school children for their popular young teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T, MacLean op­ ened their home on Tuesday of last week when a group of neighbors ga­ thered in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ed­ gar Wightman. During the evening the bride and groom were presented with a miscellaneous shower. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wightman, in a few well chosen words, thanked their friends and neighbors for their kind­ ness and a very enjoyable evening was spent together. Douglas - Wright A quiet wedding of interest took place on Thursday, July 1st, at the Manse, with Rev. A. M. Grant offic­ iating, when Margaret 'R., second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Wright was married to William Les­ lie, only son of Mr. and Mrs. James Douglas. The bride wore a dress < chiffon, a leghorn hat with ; ies to match. Following the ceremony Mrs. Douglas left for a trip them Ontario, the bride travelling in a navy sheer costume. On their re­ turn they will live on the groom’s farm, south of town. of maize accessor- Mr. and to Nor­ Wightman - Rae A pretty summer wedding was solemnized on Wednesday, une 30th, at 2 p.m., at the Manse, Rev, A. M. Grant officiating, when Winnifred Jean, Only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Rae became the bride of Mr. Edgar Wightman, son of Mrs. John Wightman and the late John Wight­ man, Belgrave. The bride wore a floor length dress of white net over taffeta, A small white hat and accessories to match. Her flowers were Sweetheart roses and valley lillies. They were attend­ ed by Mr. and Mrs, Russel Rae. Later the bride and groom left for Niagara Falls and other Western On­ tario points, the bride travelling in a costume of yellow Aplaca with white accessories. Mr. and Mrs. Wightman will make tlieri home on the groom’s farm, Belgrave. Women’s Missionary Society The July meeting of the W.M.S. will be held in the church schoolroom on Thursday afternoon of this week at 3 p.m. Mrs. D. W. Rae and Mrs. Stutt will be in charge of the meet* ing and the roll call will be answered by a verse containing the word Spirit* Engagement Announced Mr, and Mrs. Fred Elliott, Sault I Ste. Marie, announce the engagement Rutherford 68. of their only daughter, Eleanor Con- ' stance, to Mr. Andrew W. Shearer, younger son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Shearer, Bluevale. The mar­ riage will take place the latter part July. of SCHOOL/REPORT S. S. No. 3, Turnberry Honors 75. Pass 6^. 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