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Attorney
Flaherty
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his
“Doane
I hung
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coat and a silk opera hat had appar
ently been carelessly tossed,
had his on when I got here,
them up in the closet in the
Archie Doane greeted his
with a despondent gesture, his face
haggard and pale. But he managed
a rather pitiful attempt at gayety as
the others came in.
“Hello, Dan,” .he said. “I suppose
I should’ say ’Good evening, Inspector
Flaherty.’ I never expected to meet
you professionally. Same to you, Fra
zier.
“Max, I’m glad you could come. I
haven’t anything to say to you that I
won’t say to Dan and Martin or in
their presence. I don’t care much, any
way, what happens now.”
“Cheer up, Archie,” said Max Mi
chaelis. “I’ve brought something
along that may do you good. Take
this.”
He poured a generous slug of
Scotch into a glass which Detective
Martinelli had "“borrowed from the
kitchenette and Doane swallowed it
eagerly. The color began to come
back to his face, but his eyes were
Still lusterless and his manner deject-
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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,
chie 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
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,
Doane leaves the partly early when
Fitzgerald fails to appear. A short
time later he telephones Inspector
Flaherty with the frantic news that
lie has found Fitzgerald and Miss
Lane dead in Lydia Lane’s penthouse
apartment. ; .
Stephen Fitzgerald’s dark, satuf-
iwne face was drawn and distorted as
Jione of those present who knew him
Tiad ever seen it in life. He was dress
ed in conventional evening clothes.
’The shirt bosom had been unfasten
ed at the studs, where the Medical
Examiner had opened it to examine
•the body more closely, but a round
hole in its smooth whiteness, charred
and blackened at the edges told to the
expreienced eye of Dan Flaherty the
story of a bullet fired at close range
—so close that the weapon might have
been pressed against the victim’s body
when the trigger was pulled.
“Where’s Doane?” Inspector Fla
herty asked.
“In the front room,” replied De
tective Martinelli. “He’s pretty sick.
He ought to be. It doesn’t look so
good for him.”
“Did he have the gun on him?”
“No, and I’ve not found it,” replied
Martinelli.
“How long since they were shot?”
asked' the Inspector as the Medical
Examiner joined them.
“Not long. Not over an hour, any
way. The man’s body was still warm
when I got here. The girl is still
alive, but unconscious. Doesn’t react
to pin pricks or to any of the ordin
ary restoratives that I had with me.
She’s lost blood until she’s drained
white. The ambulance from Roose
velt will be here any minute, and I
they are making arrangements at the before they move her?”
hospital for blood transfusion.
“Nothing to be done for the man. '• that’s necessary;
He’s dead. Bullet through his heart. ’
That’s as far as I’ve got.”
“Stay around a while, will you?”
the Inspector requested. “I’ve reason
for going pretty deeply into this case
and I may want to ask you some ques
tions. Meantime, let’s talk to Doane,
if he’s in shape to talk.”
“I’ve got this, you know," said Max
Michaelis, drawing the bottle of Hen
derson’s Scotch from his overcoat
pocket.
“Just what he needs,” said the Med
ical Examiner. “He’s close to collapse.
“Where are Fitzgerald’s overcoat
and hat?” asked Max Michaelis, as he
turned to follow Inspector Flaherty
int othe studio.
“Over there,” replied Martinelli, in
dicating a chair in the corner of the
■bedroom upon which a fur-lined over-
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pened, will one of you see to it that
the best doctors in New York are
called in for Lydia without delay? I
don’t care what it costs, I'll pay it.”
“I’ll get Alexis Carrel himself,” said
Frazier. “He’s the great authority on
blood transfusion, I know him, and
he’ll do what I ask. I’ll telephone
him now.”
As the Assistant District
went to the phone, Dan
turned to Doane. ,•
“Archie, as your friend I
lieve you did this. But as an official
I’ve got to believe you did, unless
someone can show me you didn’t, It
looks bad for you—-officially—-and I’ve
got to warn you that anything you
may say will be used against you. By
rights I ought to take you down to
Center Street and have a stenograph
er take down whatever you say, but
I’ll waive that point. I’m as anxious
as Max is to hear your story.”
“The Bertillion man is a stenog
rapher,” suggested Detective Martin
elli.
“That’s right; I’d forgot.ten that,
Tony. Send him in,” said the In
spector,
He downed the drink and addressed the stenograhper impersonally.
ed as he set down the glass just as
the loud clanging of a gong in the
street below signalized , the approach
of the ambulance.
“That will be the boys from Roose
velt,” said the Medical Examiner. “I’ll
give them a hand, Inspector. Do you
J want to make any further inspection
“No; the photographs will show all
_replied Flaherty,
“but send word .to the hospital to let
me know the minute she recovers con
sciousness.”
“Consciousness? Hospital?” echoed
Archie Doane, half rising from his
chair. “She’s not dead? Lydia’s alive?
“Didn’t they tell you?” responded
Max Michaelis. “There’s still danger,
but she’s alive.”
Doane’s whole demeanor changed.
"Thank God!” he cried. “I’ve got
something to live for now. Max, a
minute ago I didn’t care what hap
pened to me. Now I’m putting it up
to you to get me clear.
Dan’s position. He can’t
loose unless he can prove
that somebody else did it,
isn’t any way under heaven, that I
can see, of proving that.
“But before I tell you what hap-
I' realize
turn me
positively
and there
LAST PICTURE OF MISSING FLIERS
‘‘Let me have another drink, Max,
before I start,” Doane requested. “It
isn’t a long story, anyway.”
He downed the drink and address
ed the stenographer, impersonally.
“I’d better begin at the beginning
and account for my movements before
,I„came here to-night,” he said. “It
will not take long.”
“I know, and so ‘do you gentlemen,
that Miss Lane was at Elmer Hend
erson’s laboratory this afternoon —
Saturday afternoon, rather, as it is
now Sunday .morning. Very w'ell.
“I arose at noon as usual, and af
ter breakfasting in my rooms I went
to Tiffany’s to purchase an engage
ment ring which I hoped to give Miss
Lane this evening.
'“I spent the entire afternoon, from
about two o’clock, at the Lambs' Club
where I am a member. I had a ten
tative appointment to play cards at
Henderson’s place in the evening, as
Miss Lane had half expected an aunt
who lives in New Jersey to call for
her and take her to the country over
Sunday. She was to have let me know
definitely whether she was going to
Jersey or not. I was surprised that
T had no word from her. I telephon
ed to Miss Lane’s apartment about
seven o’clock, but the telephone did
not answer, so I assumed that her
aunt had called for her as scheduled.
If not. I had intended to cancel my
card party -engagement. A little be
fore eight o’clock I went to the High-
art Building and joined a card party,
consisting of Inspector Flaherty, Mr.
Frazier of the District Attorney’s of
fice, Mr. Henderson and myself, to
which Mr. Michaelis and a gentleman
named Williams were later added.
“I was with friends every minute of
the day up to the time I left the High-
art Building. I even went from the
Lambs* Club to the corner of 56th
Street atid Fifth Avenue with a friend,
who had a taxi and was going
town.
“When I left the card party,
half past ten, I went directly
own rooms in West 45th Street, I
thought I might find some message
there from Miss Lane, I will not try
to conceal from you the fact that I
was greatly disturbed at not having
heard fom her, a disturbance which
Was intensified by the fact that Ste
phen Fitzgerald, who was madly in
love with her, had cancelled his ap
pointment to play cards with our par
ty tonight after some woman had
called him by telehone. Knowing his
fondness for poker, I could think of
only one woman to lure film from a
game in congenial company, While
down-
about
to my
Thursday, July 15 th, 1037
The United States navy is climax
ing its search for Amelia Earhart and
her navigator, Fred Noonan, who
were forced down in the Pacific as
they were attempting to fly from Aus-
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picture of the lost fliers was the last
picture taken of them just before they
hopped off on their ill-fated flight.
ENDS HONEYMOON
Ruth Chatterton, has announced his
intention of seeking an annulment to
his six-week's’ marriage to Constance
Worth, ABOVE. Tile couple only
lived together during their ten-day
honeymoon. . .
Fitz and I had never quarreled over
Miss Lane, or ever mentioned her to
each other except as our professional
work might bring her name into the
conversation, it was no secret from
either of us that we were rivals.
There were others who aspired in
the same direction, but Fitz was' the
only one I feared. Even after Lydia
—Miss Lane—had promised to marry
me, which she- did on Friday evening,
I felt none too secure against the al
most irresistable fascination .which
Stephen Fitzgerald exerts over wo
men. I wanted to announce our en
gagement at once, but Miss Lane
begged me to wait until she had seen
her aunt, her only living relative.
“I was disturbed, therefore, first at
having no W’Qfd from my fiancee and,
second, by Fitkgerald’s mysterious ab
sence from our party. I did not know
•the aunt’s name or address, so I could
not telephone her. I’hesitated about
telephoning Miss Lane’s apartment
again. I had called the number twice,
at seven o’clock from the club and
later while I was with you gentlemen
at Mr, Henderson’s, receiving the
“don’t answer” signal each time. Miss
Lane’s custom, as I knew, is to let
her maid have Saturday nights out.
“I had about argued myself into
believing . that Miss Lane had tried
to phone me at the Lambs’ and that
the operator there had failed to lo
cate me or to take the message. I
was about to call the club when, the
telephone bell rang. Someone with a
decided German accent wanted to talk
with Mrs. Something-or-other—some
impossible foreign name.
“I hung up the receiver and wait
ed for a moment, intending to call
the club as soon as my wire was clear
—when it rang again. .
“I answered, and a woman’s voice
cried, ‘Come quickly! Hurry! Some
thing terrible has happened!’ z
“Then there was a piercing scream,
then silence.
“I did not need to ask who was
speaking. The voice was unmistakab
ly that of Lydia Lane.
“I cried: ‘Where are you? What
has happened?’ and called her name
several times, but nothing more came
over the wire. I ^dialled her apartment
number but got no response. I diall
ed the operator and asked for the
number, but the girl reported that the
telephone was out of order.
“Frantic. I slipped on my overcoat
and rushed to the street.. I was lucky
to catch • a taxi almost at once, and
came up here as fast as the driver
could push his car over the snow.
“I pressed the button at the mail
box in the front vestibule downstairs,
but heard no answering click of the
electric door latch; then I tried the
door and found that it was unlatched.
I met nobody as I came into the
building. I came up in the elevator
and pushed the bell button of Miss
Lane’s apartment—this apartment.
There was no response. T then knock
ed loudly on the door, repeating
several times. I turned the knob
tried to open the door, but it
locked from within. .
“I was about to go down and
the janitor to see if he had a pass
key which would open the door, when
I remembered the other way to the
roof. That door is never locked, the
one leading out on the ro<jf"from the
elevator landing. I believe the fire
Jaws require that it be fastened otlly
with a hook or bolt on the inside,
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and surrounding tissues. Teeth are
built before birth. Teeth decay be
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tute for tillage, but removal of the
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