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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1937-08-26, Page 6THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, August 26th, 1937 3 1 , ■ f it R Sb! - u Hl HI Hl /jOW J* "I T A short Inspector news that and Miss aid.” ‘ “I.ook at it, and see if it is the same one,” The girl shrank back in alarm and withdrew her hand as the Inspector proffered the weapon. “Must I touch it?" she demanded. “I am afraid. It might go off and make a great noise.” “If you feel that way about pistols, what did you mean when you told Fitzgerald you would shoot him?” Flaherty demanded. “Oh, that. That was a manner of speaking. I would not shoot any­ body, but I would scratch his eyes out if he got fresh with me again, and he knew I would do it—the beast.” “You are not sorry that he is dead then?” “I am sorry that anybody is dead, M’sieur, but it is a better place for girls, this world, with M’sieur Fitz­ gerald out of it. That is what I think of him." “Anything you want to ask her, 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, time later he telephones Flaherty with the frantic he has found Fitzgerald 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. ^’Avheir 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. 4 All circumstantial evidence points to Archie Doane as 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 in the basement. Mis's Lane’s French maid, Adele Marceau, has been overheard threat­ ening to shoot Fitzgerald if he did not stop annoying her. The janitor reports that Mademoiselle Marceau works in a night club on her day off and that she had talked to him in the "basement on the night of the mur­ der. _l^< ‘ “Did you ever see this before?” the Inspector demanded whisking the xiickel-plated revolver from the draw­ er of his desk. The girl gave a start­ led cry, but regained her poise in­ stantly*. “But yes. I have seen it or one. no use there, but there it was.1 like it at the studio where M’Sieur (l Doane shoots it at M’Ssieur Fitzger-1 in Miss Lane’s appearance. Did she 1 seem ill, or excited, or especially nervous, when she came in?” “Onty she said, ‘Adele, do find that damn’ pin. It’s driving me crazy,’ Then she sat down on a chair and said 'I don’t know why I feel so tir­ ed. I think I’ll slip into a kimono and lie down a while.’ And that is all, m’sieur. She was taking off her dress when I went out.” “Sounds straight enough,” com­ mented Inspector Flaherty, as he in­ structed Martinelli to let the girl go but to see that a police eye was kept on her. “We're verified this gun," the In­ spector continued. “Checked up on the factory number with the proper­ ty man at the Highart. He hadn’t missed it. And our pistol expert says both bullets were fired from it “We’ve got the Weather Bureau report on the snow, too. It began to fall at 8.13 and stoped at 10.42. - “And that’s all we’ve got so far. I can’t see that we’ve pinned anything on anybody except Archie, so far. You Her. lovely eyes opened Max?” inquired the Inspector, turn­ ing to Michaelis. “Miss Marceau, this pin that was in Miss Lane’s dress—do you know how it got there?” “Indeed, no, m’sieur. I cannot think how it could be there-. It had “Did you notice anything unusual and lighted with’pleasure. How d-oes it look to you, Max? got something-up your sleeve; I can tell by the way you’ve been gloating ever since you came in. What’s your theory? Or have we punched of holes?” , • ■ < ■ "On the contrary,” replied aelis, “but I can’t disclose my it full GO: From Noon Friday, Sept. 3, until 2:00 P.M. Monday, Sept. 6. Summer's Last L<mg Week-End RETURN: Leave destination up to midnight, Sept. 7, 1937. For fares and further information apply Ticket Agents. 7^0. I L wgglaj R DLluJM fflmntimT Mich- theory just yet, for Miss Lane’s story may knock it galley west. I think we should go up to the hospital.” Larkin, the Inspector’s secretary, came in. “I called your house, Mr. Michaelis,” he said, “and your *butler says there is a telegram there for you.” “Thank you, Larkin. Will you call him again, please and ask him to bring the telegram to Roosevelt Hos­ pital at once and give it to me there. “I’m crazy to see Lydia, naturally,” said Archie Doane, as the party con- inspector Flaherty, Max Martin Frazier, and' him- up in front of Roosevelt “Won’t you see if I sisting of Michaelis, self drew Hospital, just get a "word with her after you are through.” ' The Inspector agreed and the ers entered the waiting room. Mich­ aelis’ man arrived a minute or two after Flaherty h<|d gone up stairs, and gave him the telegram. The others only observed that it was a long mes­ sage. The lawyer read it over twice, then stepped to the reception desk can oth- ONAL A shell bursting in the vicinity of by besieging insurgent forces. While co fortes were reported to have made the telephone building in the Spanish the government forces held their new gains on the Teruel sector re- tapital during a recent bombardment ground in the Madrid area, the Fran- cently. ’ 4 ’ v ’*• MADRID UNDER FIRE in the hall and asked for a sheet of paper. He wrote a brief note and asked to have it taken at once to In­ spector Flaherty in Miss Lane’s room, , ' * ’ “Good news?” asked Frazier, cas­ ualty glancing at the yellow "envelope. “Good news for Archie,” replied Max Michaelis. “My theory still stands up, stronger than ever” t Though her face was still almost as white as when he had last seen her in her own bedroom, Lydia Lane’s wide blue eyes were open and clear when Inspector Dan Flaherty enter­ ed her hospital room, and their ex­ pression changed from curiosity to pleasure as the nurse introduced him. “I’ve heard Archie speak of you, Mr, Flaherty,” she said, “Where is he? I got the lotzely flowers he sent me, Mr. Henderson sent some, too, Everybody is perfectly lovely to me, but I do not know what happened. I suppose you’ve found out all about it by this time.” . , “Don’t you know?” asked the In­ spector, somewhat taken aback. “Why didn’t they tell you? The doctors? I don’t remember a thing from the time I laid down in my own room until I woke up here, I only know that somehow I got my arm hurt, Was it a burglar, or what?” “That’s what we are trying to find out, Miss Lane,” replied the Inspec­ tor, “I wish you’d tell me everything that you can remember, from the time you left Mr. Henderson’s labor­ atory until you found yourself here.” “Don’t tire her, please, Inspector,” warned the nurse. “Oh, it won't tire me at all,” said Lydia Lane, “for there isn’t anything to tell, hardly. It was dark, and Mr.. Henderson came home with me. “We walked to Fifty-seventh Street, and got a taxi. We came right over to my apartment.” “Did Mr. Henderson go in with you?”' the Inspector interrupted. “No. I didn’t ask him in. I was' feeling too tired for company, and besides there'was a pin or something sticking into me and I was crazy to find it and get it out. So he said good night at the door. “My maid, Adele, was just going out, but I got-her to help me find-the pin that had been bothering me, be­ fore she left.- Then she went away and I got into my kimono. I was go­ ing to make a cup of tea, but I felt sleepy, so L thought I’d lie down for a minute. I remember that I didn’t even stop to put my slippers on, but just flopped on the chaise -lounge. And that’s all I remember, absolute­ ly, Mr. Flaherty, until I woke up here with my head all queer and a horrid pain in my arm.” “You saw nobody, .heard nothing, knew nothing of what was going .on in your apartment, from a little after 'six o’clock on?” asked the Inspector. “I didn’t hear a thing. I musDhave been dead to the world.” “You hadn’t eaten or drunk any­ thing that might have sent you into such a deep sleep?” ' “Not a thing. I had lunch with a girl friend about half past one, and went frdm there to Mr. Henderson’s laboratory and didn’t eat or drink a thing,, not even a glass of water, all afternoon.” The n-tSrse came in again, with Max Michaelis’ note. Inspector Flaherty read it with a puzzled expression. Then he turned to the girl again. “When did. you first feel that pin sticking in you?” 'he asked. “Why ... let me see. It was just aftdr we got out of the tkxi. Some people were coming along the side­ walk and that was when I felt it first. I remember, because I thought some­ one must have dropped a pin on the taxi seat and it -had caught in dress. I was where it might be sat on it.” “You don’t know, whether it a man or a woman who bumped you?” “No; it was quite dark and there was rather a crowd—several people passing just then, I mean.” “When you got to your apartment you say you were feeling unusually tired. Do you mean fatigued, or that you were sleepy?” “Sleepy would be a better word, I guess. I just felt languid', not at all ill.” “Did you telephone to Archie at any time last nght?” “No; I intended to, but I went to sleep before I could do it.” “When you were making voice ' tests at Mr. Henderson’s laboratory, what did you say? What words did you use?” “Why, phrases arid _expressions from different parts I have had re­ cently.” “Did you use anything out of the picture you are flow working on?” “Yes, I< used several bits from that. 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Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. door before Flaherty had finished the sentence. “I don’t see where we’ve 'got any farther, M'ax,”\he Inspector went on. “Did you ask her the questions I suggested in my note, Dan?’’ inquir­ ed Michaelis. “Yes,” he replied. “She rattled off Archie’s telephone number like she could say it in her sleep. She’s as crazy about him as he is about her, if yo-u ask me. “And those other things,” he con­ tinued, • “she says she felt the pin sticking in her just after she got out of the taxi at her door. Somebody bumped into1 her in the dark. And the words she was using in her test at Henderson’s were out of the picture she working in now. Only ones she could remember were just what Ar­ chie heard over the phone. “Make anything out of Max? I don’t." “Yes. I think that about the-whole thing, taken with gram I’ve just got. No. I’ll show it to you later. I think we ought to check up with Henderson on one or two points in her story, though. He may be able to give a better descrip­ tion of the people who bumped into them on the sidewalk, for one thing. What do you say we go over to his place? I’ll take a chance of leaving Archie with his girl, if that’s all right / / J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugfess Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham /Me ■’5 A. R. & F. E. DUVAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and • ELECTRO THERAPY North Street —- t Wingham Telephone 300. with you, Dan.” (Continued Next Week) words?” The pale forehead wrinkled for a moment. '1 don’t know why I can’t think of anything but one foolish bit,” Miss’.Lane said at last, “That is where I cream for help through the telephone. I say: 'Come quickly! Hurry! Something terrible has hap­ pened!’ Then I scream. I did that several times at Mr. Henderson’s.” “Do you remerrifoer Archie’s tele­ phone number?” The Inspector snap­ ped the question at her. “Vanderbilt 4593,” was the instan­ taneous response, although 'the girl’s eyes had closed and her head had dropped back on the pillow with fa­ tigue. . “Thank you, Miss Lane.* I won’t bother you any more,” said the In­ spector. “Would you likezto see Ar­ chie? He’s waiting down stairs.” Her lovely eyes opened and lighted with pleaseure. “Indeed I would like to see- him-!” she exclaimed. “I’ll send him right up, then,” Dan Flaherty promised. He found the'others in the waiting room, eager to hear his report. “Says she doesn't know a thing from the time she laid down at a lit­ tle after six until she woke >up here,” the Inspector reported. “I don’t know why I believe her, but I do. She’d like to see you, Archie. You might run up for a minute.” Doane was half way DEATH RAY” INVENTOR TO WED POLISH SINGER . 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