New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1929, Page 8

i i S ST SR E;‘ £} i i A o< B BLA ©1529 By NEA THIS HAS HAPPENED “Handsome Harry” Borden, pro- moter of dubious stock companles, is murdered sometime between one and four o'clock Saturday after- noon. His body is found Monday morning sprawled beneath the air- shaft window of his private office by his secretary, Ruth Lester. The scene of the investigation is the of- fice of the victim. The first suspect questioned by Police Detective Mc- Mann is Mrs. Borden, Borden's wife and mother of his two children, who admits calling Saturday after- noon for her monthly alimony check, The second suspect is Ruth Les- ter, who admits Borden's attempted fomiliarity with her on Saturday morning but denies any knowledge of the crime. The elevator boys, Micky Moran and Otto Pfluger, un- willingly cast suspicion on Ruth. They tell of her joining her fiance, Jack Hayward, at 1:20 Saturday, her almost immediate return alone to the Borden suite, and her subse- quent departure with a bruised lip. The next suspect is Jack Hayward, whose office is just across the nar- row airshaft from Borden’s. Hayward explains his return to the seventh floor that fateful after- noon by saying he left his and Ruth’s matinee tickets on his desk. McMann strengthens the case against Jack by bringing in Bill Cowan, Jack's friend, who tells of hearing Jack threaten Borden Sat- urday morning. Cowan further telle of calling Jack Saturday afternoon, of being plugged in on a busy line and of hearing Borden's voice raised in violent anger. Phillips, walter, who served Jack and Ruth Saturday at luncheon, is questioned. Benny Smith, Borden’s office boy, and Rita Dubois, night club dancer and friend of Borden's, are sent for. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XX “Well, what about the office boy, Birdwell? Why the devil hasn't he shown up?” McMann demanded of his subordinate, after the waiter had heen dismissed. “Callahan traced the Smith fam- ily to their new address, and has just phoned from the neighborhood, str,* Birdwell answered wearily. “The boy, Benny Smith, is sick in bed. Callahan says the doctor has been there, and won't let the boy out of the house until the middle of the afternoon, if then.” “What's the matter with the boy?"* McMann barked impatiently. Birdwell coughed. *“Upset stom- ach, it seems. The boy was sick this morning, but insisted on com- ing down to the office, Callahan says, leaving the house about half- past 10. At 11 he was back, and scemed so sick that his mother had a doctor in."” “Benny sick!” Ruth marveled to herself. “Why, he has the con- tion of an ox! I wonder—" Whatever it was she w o ask herself was cut short by Mann's next question, aimed at dwell: “What about Rita Du- hois? Any word from Clay?” “Yes, sir. Clay has traced her to the home of a friend of hers —a Miss Wilbur—Willette Wilbur, An- other dancer, living with her moth- er at—" and he consulted a mem- orandum for the address. “Then why doesn't he bring her in?" McMann demanded impa- tiently. Birdwell refused to be hurried. “The girls are out, sir, according to Mrs, Wilbur, She says Miss Dubois spent the night with her daughter, and that after breakfast this morning the two girls went downtown together to do some shopping. They expected to have lunch with Mrs. Wilbur, and men- tioned that they would be back by b one o'clock.” “Well, 1 guess there’s nothing to do but to wait,” McMaan admitted srudgingly. “By the way, Bird- well, Clay didn't tip off Mrs. Wil. bur that Rita was wanted by the police, aid he?” Birdwell smiled slightly. “Not Clay! He's watching the houss and has instructed the central tel- ephone office to plug in any calls from or to the Wilbur number on the phone I'm holding down out here. Just in case Mrs. Wilbur might try to warn the girl, you know.” “Good! McMann _ applauded. “That’s all—no, send Covey in to me. He's in 715 down the hall, you know. . . . And pow, Hayward, another question, if you can spare the time,” he called out sarcastically to the young man who stood at one of the two front windows, his arm about Ruth Lester’s shoulders. “Yes?” Jack wheeled. “You've said you and Miss Les- ter attended a matinee. Which the- ater? When did the curtain go up? Ruth saw the drift of the ques- tion before it was apparent to Jack, but there was nothing to do but to stand quietly in the circle of his arm as he answered: ‘Murder.” 2:45 “'Murder!" Rather a neat co- idence, eh? 1 hope you both A the show?® i1, remembering how she h-d uncontrollably ~ during the 1 ot because the district at- v rominded her of her dead r, did not answer except with of her eyelashes, yus flicker 1 Jack’s only ning of his arm I's shoulders. “Two forty-fiv> curtain, eh?”" Me- Mann nodded, his eyes to points of steely light. was . the response about “The Princess Theater. The play The curtain rose at arrowing | You say | IPE after he returned to his office \ sert after you got back to the ho- tel. If, as you say, it was only 10 after two when you returned, what was your hurry?"" “I was not in a hurry,” Jack con- tradicted. “I had a cup of coffece, sat talking with Miss Lester for a few minutes, and left the dining room at 2:25. We were both un- der the impression that it was a 2:30 curtain and walked directly to the theater, which is four blocks from the Chester Hotel.” McMann considered. So you were among the first arrivals, ¢ch? The doorman and usher would be likely to remember you, I suppose, and could corrobo- rate your story?” Jack’s hand over Ruth's closed so tightly shoulder that she winced, but his voice was steady as he answered: “No, we were not among the first arrivads — in the theater itself, that is. There was a notice on one of the boards iIn the lobby, giving curtain time, ~nd we turned away, walking about in the ncighborhood of the theater for 10 minutes or so.” “Really?” McMann was politely surprised. “With Miss Lester suf- fering from a cold, you walked her about in Saturday's high wind? I'm surprised at you, Hayward!" “I was not cold any longer. TI'd had two or three cups of hot cof- fee while waiting for Mr. Hay- ward!” Ruth cut in determinedly. “] preferred walking to sitting ip a drafty theater.” “I suppose you checked your briefcase, Hayward?" McMann de. manded, after a brief, measuring glance at Ruth. Again that convulsive pressure on Ruth's shoulder. “No. I kept it with me—my overcoat also.” “Not taking any chances on the check room girl's curiosity, were you?” McMann insinuated. “I don’t think she would have been interested in the contents — life insurance Ilerature and lists ck answered evel y. no gun in that briefcase, McMann.” “That's your story, and you're going to stick to it, eh?” McMann growled. “Listen, Hayward, you must realise that I've got the goods on you! There people—the elev: tor operator, Moran; Cowan, a friend of yours, who would have lied to protect you if he had dared: and Phillips, the waiter—have told substantially the same story: you were in a white-hot rage against Harry Borden and threatened to kill him, “By your own admission you re- turned to your office, whers you kept & gun. Your secretary says it was still there Saturday morn- ing, and it's not there now. Cowan hears Borden defying your inter- ference and threats over the tele- phone at 10 minutes after two. I submit that Borden came to the window on the airshaft, directly opposite your own window, not knowing that you had been tele- phoning from your own office, that you saw him, reached for your gun and shot him down before he sus- pected his danger; that you then came to his office, opened the outer door with the key so providentially placed in your hands by the waiter, closed the window without taking time to notice that one of the pigeons had already betrayed you by leaving tracks of blood outside inside the room: that you then robbed the dead man's body of the $500 8o that it would look like the work of a hold-up man, or because you badly needd the money. That's my case, Hayward, and if 1 were a prosecuting attorney I'd be wili- ing to take it to court as it is! “Just a minute, Jack!” Ruth cried peremptorily, as the furious young man started forward. “Lis- ten, Mr. McMann. Remember that you've got to find someone saw him in this wing of the build- MoK BIEES NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929. shot down. And Icewagom Conmers|her but failed when seme British officers interfered. Baula howeve! was killed in the fight and Iun-lmdun' sirl. 15 tas Begum herself recelved knife, ‘wount od her for litfe. Ensuing actien by the British government, ia whick nine persons figured, seme of whom were high in the service of the Ma- harajah, were tried for murder, led to the Maharajah's renouncing his throne in favor of his eldest son, EHLHORN GAINS _['NOSEY JOF HELD WUCH PUBLICTY| - IN GANG KILLINGS Being Lelt OF Ryder Cup Team Telephone Repair Man Sheds Is Least of His Worries Light on Fatal Garage New York, Feb. 21 UP—Being lert| Chicago, Feb. 21 UP—"Nosey Joe" oft the Ryder cup golf team is one Lewis, with prison records in Ili- of the least of Wild Bill Mehlhorn's | nois and Leavenworth, has been ar- worries, The wild shooting golfer | rested in Detroit in connection with whose noncinclusion on the team of | CPICa0'S Bang massacre, A “murder map” was found in his professionads who will go to Eng-| 4 T pued {a-h) 1and In April to compate againat the | Pockct: 16 diairamed terrliory 3 Ou8 the Lake Michigan shore contiguous pick of the British pros drew 801y, 1o North Clark street garage in much comment that he has discov- ered he has gained rather than lost x:‘,:,";,’;: ,f““‘;?k‘::;:_"“ il by the decision of the selection com- The arrest was made last night mittee, ] after “Nosey Joe" or George A. Naturally. Bill is not entirely pleas- | [ owjs, as he identified himself, was ed that ge was not included but he | gierheard to say he had “bumped has discovered the bright side—that | o a party in Chicago.” A murder his gain in valuable publicity has|charge was placed against him at more than offset the disappointment. | (he request of Chicago authorities. Bill unburdened himself at the|petroit police, however, would not golf show yesterday. discuss the arrest nor say for what “What have I lost?" he asked. or Willie Marks Frank Fester didn't get killed—or, for that matter, Bugs Moran himse! “Just suppose that some of Moran's lesser men had been double- crossing him, dealing with a rival boose peddling outfit—Paul Morton's for example. And suppose Moran found it out. What would Moran do? Think it over.” Stege voiced an Indignant denial of any theories connecting police of- ficérs with the slaying. He believes that if any of the slayers wore po- lice uniforms, they did so for dis- guise. Nosey Nearly Escaped *“Nosey Joe" Lewis was arrested in a Detroit hotel just after he had tossed a blackjack from a window and as he was preparing to escape down a fire escape. All marks of identification had been removed from his clothing, Business gnd civic leaders, aroused by a crime without precedent in Chi- cago gang assassinations, met yes- terday and named a committee of five to cooperate with authorities in running down the killers. $20,000 reward was offered by State’s Attor- ney John A. Swanson. He was at the garage between $:30 and 10 o’'clock the morning of has been married and divorced. the window as well as on the floor who “He did he had never seen it,” Ruth denied passionately. “As I explained a while ago, the key the waiter found on the floor could not have been the office key. It was my apartment key, the only one that could have fallen out of my bag when 1 dropped it. He re- turned it immediately to my bag, for it was there when I reached the apartment Saturday cvening, | and the bag had not becn . ut of my | possession after 1 returned to the table—before Mr. Hayward left for the theater tickets." But as Ruth was concluding her argument in a triumphant rusht of words, her too-clear memory be. trayed her, Like a scrap of mo- tion picture film, a scene passed be- fore her mind's Jack and her- self in the bank Saturday evening; Jack, waiting for her to make her deposit, and holding her handbag for her: Jack's guilty flush when she rallied him on having opened it: “Pecking to see what kind of lipstick I use, darling?" 2 “Haven't you remembercd some- thing you'd like to forget, Miss Lester?” McMann asked, almost kind! “No!"” Ruth denicd. No, no! She had told him the truth. It must have been her apartment key which had fallen out of her purse and which Jack had been returning. But — why hadn't he explained then? 3 “Detective Covey, sir,”” Birdwell announced, and the peppy, Jjolly little detective swaggered into the dead man’s private office. “What about the cleaning wo- men, .Covey?” McMann demanded Impatiently. “Haven’t been able to find either one of them — Minnie Cassidy and Letty Miller arc the names, sir,” Covey answered cheerfully. “The Cassidy woman left home at 10 this morning, according to her daugh- ter, to visit some friend of hers in another part of town, but (he daughter don’t know the name or address, and the Miller woman hasn’t been living at the address Coghlan, the superintendent, gave us, for a month. It's a rooming house and the landlady says old Mrs. Miiler didn’t leave a forward- not return it, because it or touched ing addre: “I suppose there’s nothing to do but to wait until they show up for work - at four this afternoon,” Mc- Mann growled. “All right, Bird- well—what is it?" as his other sub- ordinate again appeared In the communicating doorway. “Dr. Nielson on the phone, sir,” Birdwell answered. As McMann reached for the ex- tension on Borden's desk, Ruth’s cold right hand went involuntarily to her throat. If the calibre of the bullet which had killed Borden matched the caliber of the pistol missing from Jack's desk. . . . (TO BE CONTINUED) In the next chapter: The of the medical examiner. report 1S exasperating when men don‘t murder Lewis was held. St. Valentine’s Day, leaving about “Merely inclusion on the Riyder cup)| An assistant state’s attorney and a |half an hour before the machine team. What have I gained? The at- |Chicago police lieutenant left im-|guns and pistols of the ayers tention of men who never would | mediately for Detroit. Besides Lewis, { opened fire upon the George (Bugs) have heard of me otherwise. they planned to question Philip Key- | Moran gangsters. “Suppose T had been selected as|well, “purple” gangster, who was| “Never saw all seven of the deaa my golfing performances warranted,” | picked up yesterday by the Michigan |men in the garage at one time,” the he explained. “It would have meant | police. A photograph of Keywell has | witness said, “but I remember see that 1 was a member of the Ryder | been partly identified as being of one |ing all of them at cup team, nothing more. 1 would |of the “spotters” who spied on the |other on my five vi have been one of the eight golfers|garage for several days preceding |morning of the shooting Th2 only two selected to compete against ecight | the mass murder, men were there—Adam Heyer and golfers from England. My name New Witness Appoars the. mechanic. (Both were later would have been mentioned along| A new witness had come forward |slain.) with the other members of the team | today to give the first account of and T would have been lost in the | what went on in the garage during shuffle of Iavrells, Sarazens, Ar-tle morning hours immediately pre- mours and other golfers. ceding the slayings. He was a tele- “Now since I have not been picked | Phone repair man — whose identity for the team 1 have had more pub- | Was kept s to prevent an at- licity. T came to the attention of fol- [tempt on his Jife. lowers of golf who knew before only | This man had made scveral visits my name and very little of that. Golf | {0 the garage at 2122 North Clark clubs offered me jobs; my own club, | Street at the request of - the sub- Fenimore, took up the cudgel for | Scriber who belicved the line had me. The men who wrote golf came [ben tapped. to my defense, treated me royally | “Heyer insisted that the telephone MUNTAZ BEGUM 10 T0UR WORLD Former Indore Dancing Girl Pians Goneent Stage Career and seemed to regard me as a hu-|line had been tapped, and on pre- man being and not a bad fellow.” ;30“8 ‘le I had yvfl to rn‘n\'h:( 5 its * was disap. |Rim otherwise. his particuls I . il pdisllathet) e ae Sl | e London, Feb. 21 (M—The London pointed when he first learned of his | Morning I went there determined to | Sl : give the lines a thorough test. 1| EXbress says that Mum Beguim, exclusion from the Ryder cup team, but since he has discovered the benefits of it he has decided to take | that part philosophically and mal the most of the position in the spot- | did not find that the line had been | former dancing girl in the Seraglio pped. of Tukojiro, ex-Maharajah —of In- The only {hing out of the way T|dore, will make her debut us a con- heard that morning was a remark by | cert singer at the RoyulM Opera Heyer to the mechanic. ‘Wel, Kid, | 1Touse, Bombay, February 23. lighchitihe s ouol ghoiny |did that load get to Indianapolis ali | Aftcrward she will go to Lngland, right?” he said, and the mechanic | inagurating a world tour. She is answered, °T think it did* quoted as telling the paper's cor- H[T BY RUNAWAY TRUGK Aovie i w Dichon respondent that she had refused an ] “f never saw any liquor there or | OficT of & three-ycar contract at 1 s any signs of rum running.” $40,000 a year to appear in films for Deputy Police Commissioncr John |an Amcrican company because she | Stege, back from an interrupted va- | desired no other carcer than singing. BOY BRINGS $2,500 SUIT Masotia. Throneh Father, | cation, assumed charge of the police | Salvatore Mazotta, Through Father, |1 B0 S 00 0 offered a ne Mumtaz Bagum attracted wide at- Attaches Propert yof Joseph | Suggestion. tention in 1923, when as a girl of 20, | she cscaped from the houschold of !ihe then Maharajah of Indore and took refuge in th ilishment of “Doesn’t it ttrike you funny th all the big men in the Moran outfi aped?” hie asked nev.spapermen. ren, Milk Dealer Beca left the motor of his | “Isracl Bdelman didn't zet killed, did | Bowbay merchant, Abdul Kudir truck runni and the vehicie [he? and he's a bigger man in the | Lauk started rolling down the hill on 'inob than any of those who wers Nine men attempted to Kkidnap Beaver str Joscph Hultgren, | milkman of 21 Francis strect | ' Druggists Wondzrfully Enthused Over This Sglendid Rheumatic Treatment Young Mazotta was standing on | the sidewalk at 63 Beaver street at 1e the car started rolling back- d for ahout 90 yards it kent | Sejentifically Tested and Proven! to the road finally swerving an e running onto the sidewalk and striking the boy, it is alleged in the complaint. 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Il know he wasn't for he couldn't {fectly safe, but brings “That's corrcct,” Jack retorted [ have got and my nce about | complet: comfort in 1o seven it the key would not be ignored in!minut: No matter low hard a McMann shuffled his notes, pra- | €Ourt as you have chosen fo ignor Yo ol will tending to consult them to refresh |it.” el every par s of R his memory. “And yet, Hayward. | —_— common it, for vou were in such a h to leave| There was a flicker of admiration it does nothin 1 the normal, the hetel that vou didn't take time|in McMann's eyes as they studied |natural proc Lation; bt to read the fizures on your check, the girl “Wien did Hayward r ;,,,,,.H 1 nd started off fn a rush without | turn vour ke.. Miss i | ca your briefc; According to the |ashed at last, very quietly. “Th of pocke waiter's story, you didn’t have des-|to Dorden’s offi ( { fifty ¢ % INTLANTIC & PACIFIC 2 The former Maharajah Is Row his band of A Nancy Miller, . & —e | SILK MANUFACTURER 8t. 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