The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1940, Page 3

TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1940 by Frances Shelley Wees YESTERDAY: At the inquest Charlotte Jean denies poisoning the food served. Mrs. Deane re- ports that Miss Lissey was not herself, because she wore a slip that did not match her dress. Chapter 37 Testimony “THANK you, Mrs, Deane.” The coroner’s eyes were very grave, and his lips firm. “I realize that this is a vé:y important piece of evidence indeed. You offer it to show that Miss Lissey was dis- turbed in her mind before she came to the party at all?” “Yes, Dr. Mayhew.” “Thank you. Mrs. please.” Mrs. McBain in a dark dress that emphasized her pallor, took the chair he indicated. Her hands shook a little, and she laid them together in her lap. Dr. Mayhew looked at her sharply. “This has been a shock to you, Mrs. McBain?” “Yes.” Her lips trembled. “Miss Lissey was an intimate friend of yours?” “I knew her—well.” McBain, “You were her confidant in her | Personal affairs, perhaps?” “To a very slight extent.” The coroner leaned back, and folded his hands together under his chin. “You have not been sleeping very well, Mrs. McBain?” She moved a little, restlessly. “You would not expect me to, Dr. Mayhew.” “No, no. I should hardly expect | i you to. Tell me—is there some Particular thought in your mind which keeps you from_sleeping? Did Miss Lissey tell you some- thing, or did you, perhaps, see something last Sunday afternoon, which is troubling you greatly?” She put a hand to her eyes sud- denly. “No,” she faltered. The clock ticked again. “You are certain?” “—no.” “You mean, you are not cer- Must I tell—here—in front of everyone?” The coroner glanced around slowly at the tense expectant faces before him. Dr. McBain glared at him openly as if to compel him to allow his wife to go; the coroner’s glance passed him blandly, past the Deanes, past Michael and Tuck and Bunny, past Charlotte Jean sitting wide eyed on the edge of her chair—to Jared Devoe, upon whose upper lip the tiny beads of piration stood plainly. “ afraid you must, Mrs. Mc- ain She sighed. Her husband rose suddenly, went to the water cooler in the corner of the room, and brought her a drink. She took it, and held it in her hands as she) tal - day afternoon—I was sit- ting beside her. On the wicker couch. She thought no one was near us. Suddenly she said to me . .. ‘If he pays attention to that rl, I'm going to tell her exactly I know about him, it’s igh to—to put him out of the t of all decent people.’” ie stopped. “He heard,” she said dully. “He | had been right behind us. I saw his eyes.” “To whom are you referring, Mrs. McBain?” She turned slowly, with an air of dread, and her eyes went down the row of faces until they rested on those bright, staring, brown eyes, on the pallid countenance, on those telltale drops of perspira- tion. There they rested. “It was Jared Devoe,” she said. “Can you suggest any reason for her death by poisoning?” sible.” “Most deaths of this kind do, Dr. McBain. Your attitude is that you are unable to understand her sui- cide, and unwilling to believe it anything more sinister?” “I cannot conceive of such a Possibility for a single moment.” “You know something of poi- sons, perhaps, Dr. McBain. Can you tell us how the poison which killed Miss Lissey might have been obtained?” “If it is the one which was named here this afternoon, I may say that it is a common one, and can be obtained at any drug store.” | “Without a certificate?” | “I am not sure of that. 1 am not | in the habit of buying poisons in that way, Dr. Mayhew.” “No. Now—here is a point on which we need enlightenment, Dr. McBain. There are stocks of this poison on hand at the University, are there not?” SVes." “Where are they kept?” “In a laboratory.” # “A laboratory open to the pub- 1c? “No. Certainly not.” “Then, what laboratory? And who would have access to it?” McBain hesitated. “The poison cabinet is kept—in Edgar Murchi- son’s laboratory,” he said slowly. “You are speaking of Professor Murchison now? Who is away at present?” “You say the poison cabinet. Is un kept locked?” An Enemy, Too “T)R. McBAIN,” the coroner’s yes were round again. “Who ses the keys to that cabi- “TI do,” he said flatly. “No one else?” “No one, except Professor Mur- chison himself.” “Yes. Professor Murchison is away, I understand. Did he take | his keys with him?” There was more than one person in the row against the wall who held his breath at that question. But now it was on Duncan Murchi- son that the attention seemed cen- tered. It was his face that drew all eyes, his deep slow breathing and nervous hands that compelled their interest. Conscious of that in= terest, he drew himself up in his chair, and locked his hands to- gether. “Did he e his keys with him, | Dr. McBai “TI cannot answer that question, Dr. Mayhew.” McBain swallowed hard. “Do you know, or do you refuse y McBain looked at Michael flectingly, but Michael’s head was bent. “T do not know,” he said. Higgins was called next. He had dressed himself for the occasion in a suit of brilliant blue, which set off the inadequacies of his figure rather pitifully; but he was chiefly concerned, not with his un- accustomed garments, but with a lock of hair which persisted in falling into his eyes every few sec- j onds. He brushed it back as he | faced the coroner. | “Mr. Higgins, you are the cam- | pus gardener, I understand, hav- | ing charge of all the gardens onthe | Horseshoe?” | “Yes, sir.” | “You took care of Miss Lissey’s garden?” . “Yes, sir, All them gardens, sir. “So that you were frequently employed where you could ob- serve unobstrusively what might be going on out there?” to Poison Cabinet yrs was this, Mrs. McBain?” “Beg pardon. sir?” Higgins shifted uncomfortably from one “We were just beginning | foot to the other. our tea.” “You often worked where you “That was before Mr. Devoe| could see what was going on with- carried out the tray, then?” “TI do not know. I know nothing | S ot else.” She leaned wearily against | Watched 'em, sir. her chair. Her face wa: “T'm afraid you do, Mrs. Mc. Who was the girl to whom issey alluded?” ‘Miss Temple.” “Have you any idea what Miss Lissey meant? Do you know what she knew about Mr. made her speak so?” “No, I do not know.” She sipped at.the water. Mc- Bain was frowning. “Ve out anyone noticing you?” es, sir. Not as ‘ow { ever Mr. Higgins. Of course rot. can understand that you 't avoid seeing whatever as to see, under the cir- Higgins straightened Iders, and darted a swift ce at Michael. “Then, now that we understand each other, let us come to the | | point. Mr. Higgins, did you ever | see anything that would lead you y well, then, Mrs. McBain. | to believe that Miss Lissey had any Dr. McBain, we will talk to er now." He was very straight and tall, | loftily, and he walked with military pre- ision across the floor. ‘Captain John McBain?” “I do not use the military title,” he said briefly. “Your wife has already told of this remark of Miss Lisse: and that it had been overhear “Yes.” ‘Why did you not wish to have her tell it? “The answer seems obvious. Be- cause it probably means nothing at all, and it will give her great anguish of mind until the matter is fully cleared up, if she has caused trouble for anyone.” “Can you add anything to the events of Sunday, Dr. McBain?” “Nothing whatever.” “You knew Miss Lissey quite well, Dr. McBain?” uu “We have been colleagues for) fourteen years.” ‘THE SINUOUS OF WAR (By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 2.—French sol diers at the front will be treated to the French can-can, the dance that thrilled their fathers at the end of the last century. A Paris night club announced that it is sending its troupe of can-can girls to dance for the troops. | times, #y ar as that goes,” Higgins said “I shouldn't ‘ave been at all surprised if everybody was ’er henemies. She was that snoopin’ and sneakin’ all the time. Always | standin’ be’ind a ‘edge to ‘ear somethink wasn’t none of ’er busi- |ness, sir. She was an awful curi- osity box, sir.” “You have seen her at such Mr. Higgins?” sire I'd be weedin’ of the garden, maybe, when I'd see or | slippin’ ‘ere and there listenin’. e knew as ‘ow I'd seen her, too, . and she didn’t like me a bit. We used to quarrel somethink awful over her garden and flowers.” “So you were an enemy of hers | too, Higgins?” The. pale little eyes widened with alarm. “Oh, no, sir. I never said nothink like that. I wasn’t a henemy, sit. I just didn’t like her.” END OF A RACE (Ry Associated Press) BERKELEY, Calif. 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