New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1929, Page 18

BLAGK ©1929 By NEA Service, Inc. THIS HAS HAPPENED ‘When Ruth Lester, secretary, finds the dead body of her employer, “Handsome Harry” Borden, sprawl- ed on the floor beneath the window ot his private office, she runs at once to the office of her fiance, Jack Hay- ward. His office is just across the narrow airshaft from Borden’s. Finding Jack out, Ruth searches for his pistol, which he had pur- chased at the same time he bought an identical weapon for her to keep NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929. IGEQ ANNE AUSTIN in her desk. His gun is gone! Petrified with fear, Jack’s incriminating. behavior the past Saturday and his angry threat against Borden. When Jack returns, panies Ruth to Borden's suite and while he phones for the police, Ruth hurries to close’ the airshaft window in the private office, fearing Jack shot Borden across the airshait. The | window is already closed! Ruth tells Detective McMann of Borden's {wo Saturday morning visitors: Rita Du- hois, night club dancer, and Mrs. Borden, his wife and mother of his two children, who called for her monthly alimony cheek. Mrs. den comes in during the questioning and MeMann accuses her of the mur- der, but she denies it. Ruth tells Me- Mann of the pistol in her desk but when he looks for it, it. too, is gonc! Tiny footprints of a pigeon in dried blood on the window and on she recalls of | he accom- Ror- | the floor near the body indicate the | window was open when Borden was shot. Ruth's fear for ck but McMann -insinuates Ruth is the murderess of Borden! Moran, the clevator operator's testimony makes things look black for Ruth when McMann suddenly asks whose office is that across the airshaft. When he ns it is Jack’s, he asks the ele- \ator operator what time on Satur- day afternoon J: office. NOW GO ON WITH ¥ CHAPTER XV Otto Pfluger hunched his shoul- ders and rammed his hands decper into the pockets of his uniform. “T dunno—about two o'clock, T guess. ain’t keeping tabs on them tha right to come and go.” “Isn't there a register record for Saturday afternoon, Coglilan®” Me- | Mann demanded. “¥ou require everyone to sign in and out, don't you?" Coghlan shook his head. “Not unti four o'clock Saturd Too many tenants coming and going before then.” “T can tell you almost to the min- ute when T returned and when I left the building,” Jack Hayward settled the question matter-of-factly. *"Miss Jester and I went to lunch at the Chester hotel, and just before des- sert was served I discovered that T had left the theater tickets on my desk, We were going to a matinee. T looked at my watch, found that it | was 10 minutes to two, and walked rapidly from the Chester to the Star- I STORY hridge bullding—a gistance of onl¥ [ {551 11im back down three or four | two blocks. T didn’t have to wait for the elevator. so it must have been | not later than five or six minutes of two when I got off at the seventh | floor. T went to my ofice and—" “Just & minute™ McMann inter- | rupted. “T'd just ‘a little bit N““‘"uho was so obviously anxlous to lift | have Otto’s story before you have a chance to tell him what he remem- bers. And you might unclench that fist of yours, Hayward. I'm afraid| youw'll sprain your fingers. and that | mMann pointed out. “And the door! would be too bad. Now, Otto, | how long was Mr. Hayward in his office hefore he went back down again in your car?" “I ain't saying he was in hig of- fice at all,” Otto denied sulleny. “Oh!" McMann pounced. “So you saw him head toward this wing of the building when he left the ele- vator, did you?"” Otto PAuger shrugged, and slouch- ed lower against the wall. ain't sayin’ he was in his office or he wasn't in his office, because T didn't follow him—see? 1 ‘tended to my husiness and that was runnin’ my clevator.” “And right now, young man, your business is to answer my questions,” | McMann retorted. “T may not give vou a tip to keep vour mouth shut, as Mr. Hayward evidently did, but 1 can give you a free pass to the jail if vou don’t open up and spill what you know.” “Mr. Hayward didn’t give me no tip Saturday—naw, neither! He tips us hoys reg'lar the first of the month, like most of the other tenants do. . . . Aw, all right! T'm tellin’ you, if voull let me! It was about 10 minutgs after 1 took him up before 1 took him down again, T guess, because T sent my kid brother, what was hangin’ around in the lobby, over to the drug store #cross the street to get me coffee, right after T'd took Mr. Hay- ward up, and I'd drunk it hefore he 1ung for me to take him down." ‘e s grows yack returned to his| “Naw! T nor this mornin® | a cup of “An’| say, ‘Gee! Did Borden stand up a swell $ra like you?' An’ she grns a bl at that an® @acks right back, Tl say he did! And how! ™ “And when Mr. Hayward left you notice thing peculiar his behavior inn suggested. Ofto glowe . Ruth could have Kissed the sul- len young towhead for his failure to | mention a fact which might yet as- sume vast importance—that Jack Hayward had returned to his offiec empty-handed and left it with a' heavy briefe “Who else rode in your car he- tween two and four o'clock S r- | day?" McMann prodded the unwill- ing witness, “I ain't been taking no memory course,” Otto Pfluger shrugged. *But far as T femember, I didn't take Abwn no passengers from the seventh floor after Mr. Hayward left.” McMann scowled, then fturned upon Micky Moran, who grinned cheerful Tow about you, Moran? Who were your passengers for the seventh floor after Miss Lester's and Mr. Hayward's second trip?" Micky seratched his thatch of red ha Iirst T brought up B | Smith, the kid that works her | “Benny!"” Ruth exclaimed. “Why. did about | Lring Mrs. Borden up?” Micky stuck out his lower jaw pugnaciously and seemed about to go | into a stubborn silence. Then, *1 dunno!. Pretty soon after 1 took Benny down, T guess. After past one, anywa “Did you notic thing unusual? out. “I didn't pay no She didn’t mean nothing in m young life,” Micky reforted. just-got in the elovator and T took | her up—that's all.” “And when she game down?” Me- Mann was having hard work to re- strain his anger and impatience. | “Was she upsct? Crying? Pale? “Gees! 1 didn't give her a scc- ond look, after T | same lady 1'd took up, tested disgustedly, “T { time for dames her " McMann looked it he could | cheertully have clouted the impu- dent youngster over the head, but he | limited the expression of his anger to a black scow nyone els “Sure. A frail that was here Auy- apped her manne McMann attention to her. " Micky pro- n't got no Sat- Uw left for the day at exactly one | o'clock!™ “Well, he come back,” Micky grind | ned. “Said he'd forgot something. T | minutes later. . And say. T guess |"at, lets Miss Lester out, all . K.! Tf | the kind had found his boss dead he | wouldn't a-rode back down whi tling. would he?” : Ruth smiled gratefully at the hoy | suspicion from her. “If the hoy came back for some- thing he'd forgotten, it | doubtedly in the outer office,” Me- | was closed between the two offices | to "Miss Lester's own story of her t0 your own story, Moran, and let the | —if he ever gets here” McMann added curtly. seventh floor Saturday afternoon”" | “That lady T heard you call M I'Borden,” Micky answered sullen “Gees! T didn't know the sheik was mgrried!” he added, brightening. “He sure didn't let it cramp his style none.” | McMann | opinions | called for, | frowned. to yourself until Moran! When “Keep the did you | Nothing Surpasses | Pleasant-tasting - SCOTT’S EMULSION For Those Who Need the Health- giv- ing Benefits of Cod-liver Oil McMann grinned crookedly as he made rapid notes of the hoy “You didn’t have any other pass ger during those 10 minutes, Otto? ounces full-size biscuits The same ful Vitamins Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N 1 size biscuits, The same healthful nourishment, The same full-measure package, BAVE THE PAPER INSERTS IN YOUR SHREDDED WHEAT PACKAGES ‘eve LOTS OF FUN FOR THE CHILDREN was_un. | jafter Borden was killed, according | discovery of the body. But you stick | office boy tell his when he comes in | “Who else came to the | = pAY ~ALWAYS MORIE o A DOLIAR HERL half- | seen it was the | urday morning, and two or three | times before then,” Micky answered |sulkily. “Looked like a chorus | ginl. “Rita Dubois!” Ruth cried. | thought she was to meet Mr. Bor- den at the station—" “Just & minute,” McMann silenc- ed her peremptorily. “Describe the girl, Moran—hair, eyes, clothes, any- | thing you can remember.” v “Black hair, black eyes. Kinda tall and slinky, like a movie vamp,” Micky obliged. *“T didn't notice her clothes, ‘cept she had on a swell fur coat with a real live white orchid pinned on the collar.” McMann looked at Ruth, who nod- ded an eager confirmation of the | girl's identity. “All right, Moran. When did you bring ‘her up and | what happened, that you know of? | Did you tatk with her?" Not when 1 brought her up." ‘A\ncm answered the last question first, ‘She was looking so sore, tap- ping her foot and acting so impa- tient. that T kept my mouth shut.” “When was this?” McMann pounced. “Gees, T dunno! hour after Mrs. Borden left, 1 reckon. T ain’t got no ‘way of tell- {ing the time each party come up. T let her off at the seventh floor and then T went back down. While my car was down, the telephone in the booth started ringing and T an- | swered it. The starter goes off at half-past one, and they wasn't any- body else but me down there.” “Yes? What of it2”" McMann de- manded impatiently. “How long be- fore Miss Dubois rang for the ele- what T don’t know—not cx- y.” Micky admitted. flushing. “It —'at was my girl on the phone, and I made a date with her for Sunday, and—and kidded her along awhile, ‘nen when T got back in my car the seventh floor red light was on.” P “Five minutes? Ten minutes?” impatiently. be 10 minutes, maybe more." Micky admitted, his flush deepening. 'his Rita dame looks sore because T've kept her waitin', and T jolly her | up a bit. T says to her, “Sorry if 1 kept you waitin®’, Miss. T {in* a date with my sweetie,” T says. |'Nen she says ‘Well, be sure you don’t stand her up, old dear, Nothing makes a girl more sore than to he stood up.’ she says, tapping her foot again, like she sore as all got- | out. An' I says, ‘Gees! Did Borden stand up a swell frail like you?' An* she grins a little at that an’ vight hack, ‘T'll say how “What els - Seven minutes? McMann suggested eracks he did! And *1. Mann demanded. “Cioc wt for one trip?” Micky grinned. “She got off | and heat it out of the clevator, like she was in a hurery. She ran into the telephone hooth and that's the last T seen of her, ‘canse 1 had a call from the fourth floor then—or maybe it was the fifth, Naw, it was the fourth Old man_Cohen—wholesale shoes.™ “Any other passengers for the seventh floor Saturday afternoon?" 301 “Jl \L\l\' bl'Rla ‘Bout half an | McMann demanded impatiently. “Naw, not a soul Micky an- swered promptly. “I thought Borden had gone down by the other elevator, for some reason or other. Gees! He musta been dead already. and his sweetie thought he'd stood her up! Gees! She musta stood there pound- in' on the door—" “That'll do, Moran;" the detective !shut him short. “You and Otto can get back on your jobs but don’t leave the building till T give you pery mission, understand ? When the door had closed upon the elevator boys, McMann faced Jack Hayward, his eyes narrowed to glinting gray slits. “Welt, how about it, Hayward? | suppose you're going to tell me it tqok yqu 10 ntinutes to find these conveniently forgotten theater tickets.” Before Jack could answer Patrol- man Biggers appeared, with the in- formation that the men from the morgue had arrived to remove the body of the murdered man. “Just a minute, Biggers. Hold 'em back untjl T get Mrs. Borden out of the way. I'll put her in Covey's charge down the hall till T need her.” Some of Ruth’s hatred of the de- tective evaporated as she witneased his gentlencss with the widow whom he had, a few minutes be- fore, tried to bully into confessing that she had killed her husband. But when the body had been removed on la stretcher, and McMann was free to devot. his entire attention to Jack Hayward, fear for the man he loved fanned her hatred of Me- Mann into a high, hot blaee. 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