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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1937-09-16, Page 6l< TIflS WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES She is blood to re­ through his heart, I had nothing tan­ gible to go on. “After I left -you gentlemen and had got Archie bedded down for the night I agency men to derson, would not be aroused before we were ready to act, and I diii not want to plant a suspicion of him in your mind, Dan, until* I had more infornja- tion. That would have possibly been doing him a tremendous injustice, but I felt responsible if he should at­ tempt flight. "Then I telephoned to my friend, Joe Everett, the lawyer in Pasadena, of whom you heard me speak to* Henderson last night, and I asked' him to get a full report by wire at the earliest possible moment. called up a private detective and had them station four watch this building and Hen- I hoped that his suspicions leg. And it was only guesswork that Fitz had been given a hypodermic of adrenalin, , ? “Adele Marceau’s story-about the pin, the medical examiner's report of finding the mark of the needle in Fitz’s leg, the telephone company's report of no calls from that 'phone until Archie called you, Dan, all tend­ ed' to confirm my suspicions. Then came this telegram from Joe Everett. I won’t bother to read it all—it’s un­ necessary now—but he reports, in brief, that Elmer Henderson former­ ly practiced medicine there, special­ izing in diseases of women and par­ ticularly in the use of the so-called ‘twilight sleep’ in childbirth. He was convicted of criminal malpractice, served a year in prison, and his li­ cense to practice was revoked. JThen he turned' to electrical invention and 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 -■, 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. 9 When Flaherty and the medical ex­ aminer reach the apartment, they find that Miss Lane is still alive, rushed to a hospital where transfusions and care promise store her. « • . . i » » ' 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. ' 1 1 ' 'All circumstantial evidence points to Archie Doane as the murderer, cs-, Specially when the murder gun is found [ ■carefully planted in the chimney clean- | out in the basement. Miss Lane’s. French maid, Adele j • ‘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 l>asemeht on the night of the mur­ der. Medical examination reveals that Lydia Lane had been given a hypo­ dermic injection of a hypnotic drug "before being shot, and that Fiztger- ald's body also shows the mark *of a hypodermic needle on his leg. . • * *’ *. “Still, that was only a possibility. 'Unless I could' connect Henderson with sufficient knowledge of drugs to ■warrant the assumption that he had administered something to Miss Lane which had caused unconsciousness, ■•-and something to Fitz, after» the shooting, to keep the semblance of life in him for hours, with a bullet his headHe was sagging in his chair, “Then1 I called two eminent iiiedU cal men out of their comfortable beds greatly to their disgust. One of them assured me that I was correct- in my recollection of the efficacy of adren­ alin in a case of gun-shot wound in; the heart; a strong hypodermic injec­ tion of it had been known to keep a man alive five hours. The other em­ inent medico told me that any one of several drugs, including hyoscin,- could be administered hypodermical­ ly or by the mouth to produce a state bordering on hypnotism, in which the patient would be to all intents and purposes unconscious, but would suf­ fer no permanent harm and have no recollection afterwards of what had occurred. “I formed no conclusion then as to how or when a drug had been ad­ ministered to Miss Lane, as we did not know then about the pin which, as she supposed, had punctured her floor just as the ambulance surgeon’s ring .sounded at the doorway. “But for the evidence of the snow it would have been a perfect crime—the evi­ dence supplied from above which proved that Archie Doane could not have done it. “A perfect crime. Not a detail ov­ erlooked—except the snow.” “I was brought up, gentlemen, to believe in a just and avenging Deity. The events we have just witnessed confirm my belief that the hand of God does sometimes intervene to save the innocent and* punish the guilty.” “The end of a game little crook,” said Dan Flaherty, not without an in­ flection of pity in his voice, as the ambulance surgeon rose from his ex­ amination of what had been Elmer Henderson, and shook his head. “If he had not suggested the chim­ ney, we might never have-looked there,” said Martin Frazier. “That would have made no differ­ ence to his plans,” said Max Mich­ aelis. “Sooner or later the weapon would have been found. Meantime Archie would have been under suspicion, and the finding of the gun would have sent him to the chair—except for the snow.” ‘ He glanced, at the two documents they had witnessed. “Brief but complete,” he said, as he passed one of them to Inspector Flaherty.' “This confession belongs in your records, Dan.” He cast his eyes over the other paper. “Equally brief and equally ‘com­ plete,’/* he said. “Henderson’s will leaves everything to Lydia Lane. He was a game one” “Hoav did you know he was going to confess?” asked the Inspector, as he turned 'toward the telephone to summon the medical examiner. “I didn't, until he held us at the door. I suspected then that he was administering poison to himself; I was sure of it when he mentioned the ‘men I. had posted around the building. It, was the way a gambler like Henderson would take—the eas­ iest way when the game was up.” • THE END 1 J. W. BUSHFIELD Telephone 29. 1 J. H. CRAWFORD Wingham Ontario s Telephone No. 66. 4 HEALTH F. A. 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I am neither a policeman nor a prosecutor, but there was no way to extricate my client, Archie Doane, from the sus­ picion, if not the direct accusation of murder, unless I could prove that someone else did this crime; had hoped to confront Hender­ son here with the evidence IJiad ac­ cumulated and to see him arrested and punished for his deed, but he had forestalled us. He was keen enough to note the presence of my private defectives, too, and to guess what they meant. So he chose the gamb­ ler’s way out. He had lost, and he paid. » “Am I right, Henderson?” The man across the table was sag­ ging in his chair, his head drooping, as Michaelis finished. He roused himself and turned his face toward the lawyer. “Absolutely right in ev- ■cry detail,” he said, in a voice which had lost its resonance and tone. “May I ask one question, then?” Henderson nodded assent. * “Mere curiosity, but .did you lure Fitz to Miss Lane’s .bj^ the same de­ vice that later called Doane there?” Again the nod of assent. \ “You placed a pin in her dress in the taxi, to account to her for -the prick of the hypodermic needle? You knew she would be unconscious with­ in a few minutes after you had left her at her rooms? You returned to your rooms and called Fitzgerald to her apartment with her filmed voice', over your own telephone? You then hurried back to Miss Lane’s apart­ ment, met Fitzgerald there, perhaps pretended that you, too, had received the same summons? Arid you shot him wfiile the was about to call for medical help for the unconscious girl. And then you shot Miss Lane through the arm, to give color to the theory of an attempted double mur­ der? Then you threw the gun down the chimney?” The sagging head nodded again. “You planned it from the beginning to lure Archie Doane to the apart­ ment and let him be discovered there, with no other explanation of the. crime* than that he had done it. You wanted Lydia Lane yourself, and you thought to get your two rivals out of the way by having one executed fpr the murder of the other, You made sure that he had reached rooms by ringing up and asking a fictitious person.’1 The drooping figure across the table raised his head again. “And a keener mind'than mine rustrated a perfect crime,” said Elm- erson, as his chin dropped bn is body seemed to re- Jt mind of Gdd, ■chaelis, US the b tody to the ■k HOTELS ROOMS IN 8 STATE! FINEST LOCATION If *convenknce* Is Important to you then by all means select Hotel Tuiler-right In the heart of downtown Detroit -close to stores, theatre office buildings, and all transportation. 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