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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1937-08-12, Page 6THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, August 12, 1937 i In- Ar- his SYNOPSIS; A card game is in ses­ sion in Elmer Henderson’s penthouse atop a New York skyscraper. The players are: Henderson, Police Spector Flaherty, Martin Frazier, clue Doane, Max Michaelis, and 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 apd 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. Doane leaves the partly 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. When Flaherty and the medical ex­ aminer reach the apartment, they find that Miss Lane is still alive. She is rushed to a hospital where blood transfusions and* care promise to re­ store her. All circumstantial evidence points to , Archie DoanS 8§ the murderer, espe­ cially when the murder gun is found carefully planted in the chimney clean -out in the basement. All circumstantial evidence points to Archie Doane as the murderer, es­ pecially when the murder gun is found carefully planted in the chimney clean­ out m the basement. ■"Tony," he went on, addressing De­ tective Martinelli, "go down and bring the janitor up here. He can tell whether anyone went .to the basement to-night unless he’s in this himself. He might have a set of keys to every apartment in the house.” "But hardly, either a motive for this shooting or the opportunity to purloin .this pistol from the Highart Studios,” remarked Michaelis. “And that sug­ gests to me that we have been over­ looking a possibility. Where is Miss Lane’s maid? Who is she? Does she usually stay out all night on Saturday night? When did she go out, if any­ body knows?’ Where does she when she goes out?” “Worth looking into, Dan?” "You bet that’s worth looking to,” replied the Inspector. “Archie, you must know something about her, What do you say?” "She’s a French girl named Adele •—I don’t remember her last name, if I ever heard it. She had been with Miss Lane for three or four years, 1 believe. She acts as her personal maid as well as looking after the apartment here.” "Accompanies her to the Highart Studios, does she?” asked Michaelis. "Yes, nearly always, She serves as Miss Lane’s dresser.” "She could have got possession of this revolver, would you say,” "Yes, there is no doubt that she could. She is on friendly terms with everybody at the studio and has the run of the place.” "Has she been at the studio since you last saw this revolver — last Thursday, you said it was?” “Yes, Miss Lane plays opposite me in the film we are now making, and we were .working until Friday night. Adele was with her on Friday, I am sure.” “Was there any suggestion, at any time, of any animosity between Miss Lane and Adele?” "No more than between Miss Lane and myself, so far as I know.- The have a bearing an your question.” "I yield to the police on a point of law,” replied Michaelis, smiling, "What about it, Archie?” "She threatened to> shoot Fitz once, if he didn’t stop pestering her,” re­ plied Doane, "You know how he was —with women. He laughed it off, but he kept out of Adele’s way after that,” "Did you see or hear that incident yourself?” asked the lawyer. "No; but it was generally gossipped around the studio.” "I suggest, Dan, that you ought to find this girl Adele,” said Michaelis. "You can conceive, as well as I, a situation something like this: "Miss Lane comes home—never mind the time when she comes' in, now. Her maid it out for the even- nig, as usual on Saturdays. oFitzger- aid calls. Miss Lane, in' negligee— her outer garments on the chair where we found them, .because she is not accustomed to hanging up her own things—admits him, thinking perhaps that it is Archie, or her maid coming back. He has learned of .her promise to Marry Doane and is furious. "They quarrel violently. Adele who andperhaps is really afraid of Fitz go in- r' The janitor’s bearing suggested honesty and intelligence, maid seem’ed devoted to her mistress. "Is she temperamental — Adele, I mean? Quick tempered? Easily of­ fended? The type that might do vi­ olent things .under the stress of sud­ den rage?” "You are asking for an opinion, Max,” Inspector Flaherty interrupted. “Let him tell any facts that might the THE KING MAY ENTER CUP RACE SERIES a yacht in the next series. It is rum­ ored that the King will order a sloop of the "L” class as soon as the change in rules is made. Should the New York Yacht dub agree to allow "V* class boats to race for the America’s cup instead of the larger "J** class, there is eihery possibility that the King may enter "Why do you say that Adele would not have used that phraseology?” ask­ ed Inspector Flaherty, "Because the words were an. exact quotation from Miss Lane’s part in the talking picture we are making,” was Doane’s reply. "Adele might have heard them, but she would not use them as the first words to spring to per mind under stress . It would be natural for Lydia to have done that, as that part of the picture was re­ hearsed seyeral times, AH actors fall into the habit of quoting from their parts in ordinary conversation; it’s subconscious with them.” "Still, I see something in Max’s idea,” said the Inspector, "Has Tony come up with the janitor yet? Tony! Bring your man in here and take some instructions. "I want you to go through every­ thing in the maid’s room,’next to the kitchenette, and see if you can find any letters or anything which will give a clue to her relations or assoc­ iates, Her name is Adele Something- or-other—French, She goes out every Saturday and stays all night. Perhaps she has a husband or a lover, Any­ way, I want that girl found; get me? I want her in my office at—shall we say twelve pours from now, gentle­ men, to meet in my office? Okay, Tony; Two-thirty this afternoon at Centre Street I shall be looking for you and Adele, "Now let’s see what the janitor says,” he went on, as Martinelli left the ’room to begin his march for Alele. The janitor turned out to be a self­ possessed, middle-aged man whose bearing suggested honesty and intellu gence. He saluted Inspector Flaherty and stood af “attention” as’ the latter addressed him. "Did you ever see this gentleman befpre?” the Inspector asked, indicat­ ing Doane. ’ ' “Yes. I’ve sebn him coming in and going out with Miss "Lane on many occasions.” "Did you see him come in to the house to-night?” ( “Yes, I was sweeping the sidewalk after the.snow had stopped when the. gentleman drove up in., a taxi. He seemed in a,great, hurry. He pushed the bell button for one of the apart­ ments—I suppose for Miss Lane’s— several times, then tried the front door. I don’t know whether Miss .Lane had pressed the button in her apartment which releases the front door latch, or not. It wasn’t neces­ sary, as it happened, because ’ I had come out without my keys and had set the night latch so that I could get in without trouble. The genieman— Mr. Doane?—went in and I did not see him again,” "He did not go to the cellar at any time to-night?” asked the Inspector, • “Not unless he went there imme- diately on entering the house,” was the reply. "I went in nst more than a minute or two behind him, fasten­ ed the front door so that only per­ sons with latchkeys could enter, and went down to the cellar to bank, my fire. I sat there waiting to close the drafts until the officer you have sta­ tioned in front called for me. No­ body came into the cellar in that time, I am sure.” "H’m,” said Inspector “You stand like a soldier, ever in the Army?” “No, but 1 was on the Retired for disability ten years ago, and with my pension and the wages I get here I’m managing to send a boy through college. Name’s Jenkins, sir.” “I’ll take your statement as true, Jenkins,” said the Inspector. “One thing more do you you know the girl who works for Miss Lane—Adele?” “Adele Marceau? Very well, sir. She’s a fine young woman. We get along very well together; she calls me ‘Unde.’ You see, I’m French on my mother’s side and I’ve always had the language, so she likes to come down and talk to me. I hope she isn’t mixed up in this terrible affair, sir? Is it true that Miss Lane will pull through?** "It looks that way,” the Inspector replied. "We don’t know how deep your friend Adele may be in this, or whether she’s in it at all, Has she been in your cellar this evening, by any chance?” "Early in the evening, sir. She came to give me a French newspaper. About six o’clock that would be, or a little before, Miss Latte had just come in, she said, ahd was off for the night,” "Did she have anything else in her hand besides the newspaper?” "Only a bag, such aS ladies carry thirjipsticks and Stick in.”* "Was it possible that she had a re- volver? You saw the one that was found In your chimney clean-out, Could she have put that there at that time—or at any time?” the Inspects demanded, "It’s possible, of course,, but X should say ^unlikely, sir,” replied Jen- : Icing, "1 was getting the ash cans tip i to the sidewalk on the hoist when ' she came down, and how long she had been there 1 couldn’t say, She stopped Flaherty. Were you force, sir. It could not have been by any chance?” at the time,” replied “I hadn’t thought of may have taken the pistol from property room at the studio for self^ defense, comes in and misinterprets their altercation?—or perhaps correct­ ly Fitz’s intentions toward her mist­ ress. She obtains the pistol from the place where she had concealed it, fires at Fitz and, missing him; wounds Miss Lane. Fitz rushes to take the gun from her—he was nd coward—and she ' shoots him through the heart as he overtakes her' in the hall by the tele­ phone stand. “What would a servant naturally do then, in a panic? She would call for help, hide the pistol and vanish. Where would a servant naturally think of hiding a revolver. In the cellar. She had both keys to the apartment. She could slip down the cellar with-, out being noticed. "Archie,” he went on, suddenly turning to Doane, “are you sure it was Miss Lane’s voice you heard over the telephone? that of Adele, "I was sure Doane slowly, any qther possibility. Now, on re­ flection, I am still sure. Adele’s voice and Miss Lane’s are in the same reg­ ister, but there are overtones which make them distinctly different to one who knows them both. It was Lydia’s voice,” “Sure of that?” persisted Michaelis. "Voices are distorted over the tele­ phone unless they are strongly mark­ ed, you know. How did the womah who called you address you? As ‘Ar­ chie’ or as ‘Mr. Doane? ” "Neither,” said Doane. "When I answer the ’phone I always say ‘Ar­ chie Doane speaking* so there was no-ne.ed for anydne to ask who I was. It was MisS Lane’s voice, Ffeel sure of that. Besides, Adele would not have used the same phraseology ” "She might have mimicked her mis­ tress’ voice, though. Had yott thought of that? Do yon know whether she had ahy talent ift that direction?” "She had been on the stage, I be­ lieve,” said Doane. "1 hadn’t thought of that?’* "What* were the words she—-who­ ever called you—used? Tell us again, Won’t you? You remember the exact language?” » t remetnbet it exactly, In my profession, you know, one has to cultivate a verbatim memory. The words were: 1 "Come quickly! Hurry! 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