New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1929, Page 8

Between one and four o'clock Sat- urday afternoon “Handsome Harry" Borden, prometer of dublous stock companies, is shot. Monday morning Ruth Lester, his secretary, finds his body sprawled beneath the airshaft window of his private office. ™olice Detective McMann's first suspect 1& Mrs, Borden, wife of the promoter and mother of his two children. She admits calling on him Saturday afternoon for her monthly alimony check but insists he was alive when she left him. The next suspect is vwho confesses Borden's attempted familiarity with her Saturday morning. The third suspect is Jack Hayward, Ruth's flance, whose of- fice is just across the narrow air- shaft from Borden's. He explains hi return to the seventh floor Saturdz afternoon by saying he left his and Ruth’s matinee tickets on his desk. Further suspicion is cast on Jack by the testimony of Bill Cowan who tells of hearing Jack threaten Borden's lite Satarday morning. He also tells of telephoning Jack Satur- day afternoon, of being plugged in on & busy line, and of hearing Bor- den’s voice shouting angrily. While plainclothes detectives are dispatched to bring in Benny Smith Borden’s office boy, and Rita Du- Lois, dancer friend of Borden's, Mc- Mann questions Ruth about the pro- imoter's previous love affairs. She tells him of Cleo Gilman, who pr ceded Rita in Borden's affections. They are wnterrupted by Detective Clay, who announces himself and it Dubols. X :(y\\' GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTZR XXIHI Detective Sergeant McMann made quick work of his preliminary ques- tioning of Rita Dubois. Her replivs as to name, age, profession and place of employment were given coolly, even nonchalantly, but Ituth scated near the dancer, so that both of the girls faced the detective across the dead man’y desk, saw that Rita’s hands were tightly locked. “And so you and your first meeting about thre weeks ago, hecame lovers?” Mc- Mann pounced suddenly. “That's a lie!” Rita denled ve- Remently, her black eyes blazing. *Then —'" McMann grinned crookedly—"1 take it that your week-end at Winter Haven with *Handsome Harry' was to have been in the nature of a honeymoon? Let’s not waste time, Miss Duboia! I know that you and®Borden had planned to go to Winter Haven on the 2:15 Saturday afternoon, that Borden had bought a drawing room for the trip and that he had re- served a suite for you and himself at the Winter Haven Hotel. Now what T want you to tell me is — why didn’t Borden meet you at the station as he had planned?” The dancer laughed, but it was not a gay sound. “That was what I wanted to know, too—and 1 found out when I saw the headlines about the murder at noon today For two hours Ruth Lester hal been praying that Rita Dubois would furnish Jack Hayward an alibi, by admitting that Borden was alive when she had visited him after 2:15. The collapse of that hope now was 80 unnerving that the girl feared she would faint. “8o it was news to you that Bor- den was dead, was it, Rita?" Mec- Mann grinned. “I'll say it was!” Rita assured him, nonchalant again. “I was| knocked out. Fainted right on the street, My girl friend, Willette Wilbur, who was downtown ‘with me, had to call a cab and take ma to her home. She can tell you. And then I find a dick waiting to grab me—" “Were you in Borden, Rita?" ed suddenly. Color swept over the thin, exotic face. “That's my business: . . . Well. all right, then—T wasn't: Buou God knows I didn't wish him any harm.” McMann Ruth Lester, Borden, after love with 1farry McMann interrupt- stadied the girl for a long minute through narrowed, glinting eyes. Then: “Well, Rit: let's have your story. Did you g to the station?" Rita flung up her head defiantly. “Sure 1 did! I'd promised to go away for the week-end, and T was ready to keep my bargain. 1 got to the station at two. and went to the ine formation desk. where he'd said he would meet me. At five minutes er two T hegan fo get nervous for we'd miiss the n and de- cided to phone him. Therc's a tele- phone booth near the information | desk, and 1 called from there, whera Teould see Harry if he came while 1 was phoning. His line was husy, | 0 1 knew he'd not left the office. | T waited for about five minutes | more and called again, and his line a8 still busy.® “Just a minute!” McMann rupted. “Can you fix the that second call exactly?” Ten minutes after two,* | asserted confidently. “I had eve on tha big clock.” | h did not need the fiick of | ni's narrowed eyes in her dis | rection to remind Ter that tha | daneer had partially corroborated | 11l Cowan's damaging testimony linst Jack Hayward—that, when | he had ealled Jack's number a 2:10, he had been plugged in on a | busy line and had heard Harry Dorden’s voice raiwed in violent | anger. With a tremendous effort | of will she controlled the waves of iness that were pouring over brain and braced herself to listen to McMann's next question: %id you call his number again?” | “of course!” Rita Answ ere promptly. “I knew he was in his| inter- time of | .to accept the word of a gir! fighting {had completely forgotten until that |t <he really didn't sce { would, or that—that they quarrel | semann, to catch a train at 2:15?" And he said, ‘No, I hadn't forgot, Rita, but I've been unavoidably detained. What time is it?’ I told him it was 12 minutes after two, and he swore a blue streak, and then he said we'd have to take a later train and for me to come on up to the office, that we'd make new plans when I got there.” McMann frowned and tapped his pencil against the dead man's desk. Ruth knew that he was trying to fit the dancer's testimony into his theory of Jack Hayward as Bor- den’s murderer. She wanted to remind him that he had her own corroboration of Jack's alibi—that he had rejoined her at the Chester Hotel at 10 minutes after two, But she realized, miserably, that meore than her own word would be need- ed to make McMann believe in that alibi. Even a jury would hesita for the life of the man she loved, when that word was the sole sup. port of his alibi. “Wel, Rita, go ol McMann di- rected at last. “You came, and you were hopping mad, too, weren't you?" . “Well, T wasn't what you might call delirious with ' delight,” Rita admitted flappantly. Then her cyes widened with. fear. “'Say, what are you trylng to do? Pin something on me? Well, you've got a fat chance, old dear, because 1 didn't even see Harry, much less bump him off, I that's what you're insinuating.” McMann’'s that slow, tick to your did you get vened 2" The dancer's hands cripped cach | other so tightly that a knuckle cracked. Her big black eyes tlashed from McMann's heavy, grinning face to Ruth's pale one, as if secking help. Then, on & quickly drawn breath, Rita an- swered: “I came right over from the station. just a block away. Just took time to check my baga. | 1 suppose I was here within five | minutes after I hung up the re. cciver.” “You got here about 18 or 20 minutes after two, then?” McMann asked, with pencil poised. Rita shrugged. “I guess so. Maybe a minute or two sooner—I don't know. I knocked on the door and there wasn't any ansver. 7 knocked several times and then tricd the knob and found the door locked, so — 1 went away again. There wasn’t anything else to do,” she added defiantl; “Of course not!" blandly. “Nothing to do but to turn right wground and go right back home, and wait for Borden to call you there. So that's what you thin lips twisted In crooked grin of his, story, Rita,. When here? What hap- McMann agreed the dancer agreed eagerly —and fell headlong into McMann': trap. “Then, Rita,” McMann asked, as Ruth leaned forward tensely, “how do you account for the fact that you spent at least 10 minutes on the seventh floor " “1 didn’ Rita denied reckjessly Ruth could hardly suppress a gasp of relief. Now, at least, Rita Dubois was lylng. Micky Moran, the elevator operator, had ‘estified that after taking the dancer to the seventh floor he had spent at least 10 minutes in the telephone booth in the lobby of the Starbridge Building, in conversation with hi girl. But, of course, Rita could not know this— Suddenly an incident which shs recurred to Ruth Lester like a flash of lightning across a dark sk “Please. Mr. McMann," she cried, her voice quivering with excited hope, “may I speak with you privately for a minute?" The detective led the trembling girl to a far corner of Borden's of- fice, while Rita stared after them with enormous, frightened black eves. “I've just remember something, | Mr. McMann,” Ruth whispered, as| the big man bent low to lsteu | “Saturday morning, when Mr. Bor den was in the outer office with Rita, he waved goodby to her with the torn half of a yellow-backed bLanknote. T didn’t see the denom. ination, and I didn’t think much of it at the time, but now 1 believe 1 know what had hapened, and what Mr. Borden meant when he said that about keeping his part of the Largain it she kept hers.” es, yes,” McMann urged impa- ticntly, as Ruth paused for breath. “I'm sure now that they had been scuffling playfully, Rita trying to take the bill away from him, and tearing it in two. I'm sure——sure! ~—that he let her keep half of the torn bill, «nd had promised to give her the other half after she'd kept her promise about — about going away with him." “Well?" McMann grunted, frown- ing in deep concentration, “Oh, don’t you see?” Ruth im- plored. “If she's telling the truth— Mr. Borden again, she still has her half of the Dill! But T believe she's Iying! 1 believe Mr. Borden was alive when sh ame. and that he either gave her the other half of the bill, as he bhad undoubtedly promised he moment hecause He wonuldn't, and she— she—"" 4 to Rita Saturday morning—" 8he faltered. i McMann nodded slowly, the frown slowly clearing. “And Bor- den's half of the blll was not on Lis body this morning. Of course whoever took the 500 in smaller tills might have taken the useless torn half—" “It wouldn't have been useless to one person — Rita Dubois!” Ruth reminded him. “And she could have passed it, no matter how she got it, for she would have thought no ona knew of Forden having had t'e other half! Please ask her for her kalf of the bill, Mr, McMann! If she still has it, I'll believe she did not see Mr. Borden when she came back Saturday afternoon.’ Detective Birdwell interrupted the whispered conference, “Head- quarters on the line, sir. The Gol- den Slipper safe was robbed some- time between closing time early Sunday morning and noon today. The manager of the club has some sort of tip about a $500 bill—*" As McMann reached for the ex- tension on Borden's desk, Rita Du- bois rose, looked wildly about it for a way of escape, then braced herselt against the desk, her enor- mous black eyes fixed in an agony of suspense upon the detective. (TO BE CONTINUED) ‘The torn $500 bill. Will the murder on Rita Dubois? MAJ. LADD URGES AIRPORT IN' CITY Beli¢ves Field Is Essential to New Britain's Progress it pin Lack of an airport will work to the disadvantage of this city, in the opinion of Major William H. Ladd of the 43d division air corps, who expressed this conviction at the 17th annual Washingten's birthday ban. quet of the Anchor. Brand club of North & Judd Mfg. Co. Saturday night. “You will need a field for the future in this city, the home of Charles K. Hamilton,” he said, Major Ladd stressed the point that there is no absence of interest in New Britain as the 43d division has two officers and 15 privates from this city. The officers are Lieut. Carl J. Dixon and Lieut. Charles J. Wright. Major Ladd gave a comprehensive | history of man's effort to master the air from the first attempts at “fly- ing” with a glider to the present. He sketched the improvements in en- gines and fusclage and predicted that still greater improvements would be made, The all metal fuse- lage hag reduced the hazard of fly. ing to a great extent, he said, stat ing that he has known of “crashes in which pilot and passengers have been found sitting on the wings smoking cigarettes when ambulancrs clanged to the scene to remove the “victims” to the hospital, Praises N, & J. Hardware He likened the parachute to a life preserver aboard ship, saying that It was something held in reserve for emergencies. While it required move courage to atep off into the air than jump into the water, few would | hesitate to make the leap when they realized that an airship in which they were riding was on firc or headed for the ground out of con- trol. He paid a compliment to North & Judd' hardware, used ex- tensively in the making of parachute harness, by saying that he had never known of a parachute fatality which was due to the harness giving way. | Commercial aviation's greatest | need, Major Ladd sald, is an instru- } ment which will reveal to the pilot | his actual altitude over the spot | where he happens to be and a radio | system which will keep a pilot post- a man who knowsa his job thorough. jor Ladd said that the federal gov- ernmen cents has made it possible for coms panies holding transportation aviation's progress s NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBBUARY%. 1929, toward which he is headed, The present altitvde device informa the pilot of the distance he has ascend- ed from the spot wherd he took off but it does not keep him posted on his actual flying height. Major Ladd laid several accidents in the sirmail service to this condition. The federal and state governments require men and machines to pass igid tests, Major. Ladd said, before commercial licenses are granted. The state of Connecticut goes even fur. ther than the federal autherities, having established higher standards which candidates for pilot's licenscs must meet. Brainard Field Pilots Dependable “The state department of aviation makes it safer for you to fiy at Brainard field than at any other field,” the speaker declared. “All alrplanes are inapected monthly by ly and candidates must pass rigid examinations before they can qualify for pilots licenses.” Referring to the mail service, Ma- action In lowering the rate on letters from 10 cents to five cen- tracts to show & sharp increase In business, The Colonial company, which carries mgil between 3oston and New York, was losing $10,000 | erganization, and monthly before the change in rates. Now its profits monthly are about the same figure. Major Ladd does not subscribe to the legend ‘*the mail must go through.” He belioves that humun life is much more important than mail. “Aviation hasn't the inatrus ments to warrant flying in bad weather,” he said. Listing the cause of accidents, he said statlstics reveated the follows ing: Btructural failure, 6 per cent; failure of power plant, 16 per cent; bad weather, 10 per cent; lack of Jjudgment by pilots, 43 per cent. Tribute to Gov, Truz.bull Tribute to Governor Trumbull for in Connecticut was paid by Major Ladd. In this connection he said that Governor Trumbull’s success contradicted the general belief that aviation is a pas- time to be taken up onry by youth. Cities which show an active Inter- ost in aviation profit commercially, e ARid, poloting 1o the Tast. ‘thal Pratt & Whitney Alrcraft Corp, of Hartford is doing & busincss of §1,- 000,000 a month. The corporation would not have locatea its plant in Hartford if that city had not shown 'such keen enthusiasm for the devel- opment of flying, he said. “I hope New Britain will not let the grass grow. under its feet in es- tablishing an airfield,” he said. Major Ladd's address followed a {turkey dinner served under the di- rection of Imil J. Kraus, chairman of the house committce of the An. chor Brand club. Entertainment was provided by Charles Gladden and his two daughters, Instrumentalists, and the Anchor Brand serenaders, & quartet consisting of John Ericson, Algot Peterson, John Jackson, E. E. Morse, James Byett acted as toast- master and speeches were given by President ¥, M. Holmes of North & Judd Mfg. C. and M. O'Hayer, gen- eral superintendent At the conclusion of the exercises Major Ladd was presented With a am Browne belt * with hardware made at the North & Judd' plant. Entertainment for the event was are ranged by Stanley A. Foley, chaire man of the entertainment commit. tee. The dinner was served by members of the Aucnor Brand Girls' club. Other officers of the club, be- sides Mr. Byett, are: Vice president, Hugh Coffey; secrbtary, Thomas Coyle; treasurer, I'. J. Ward, Girl Sues Yale Junior, Claiming Street Attack w Haven, Jeb. 25 (UP)—Miss Emily Cowley, show girl, hds filed suit for $10,000 damages against Thomas Todd, 2d, Yale junior, of Seattle, Wash. as result of an alleg- ed street attack. Todd recently pleaded guilty to attacking Miss Cowely on a main street while he was intoxicated but appealed a five-day jail sentence to common pleas court. Miss Cowley, who is of Manchester, England, said Todd knocked her down and broke |two tecth when she refused his ad- cd on weather conditions in an area | NEUR Her whispering voice faltered She could not bring herself to utter an accusation of murder. “Oh, Mr. please helieve i'm not just taiking wildly, to—to help somecone else! 1 know Rita mus have been desperate for money, an! vet T don't think she's just a gold- digger either—* | M Aspirin vances. TR T TR IA i1for ~ professors and students MUSSOLINT CALLS FASCIST LEADERS £ First Five erllflli!.'l!l Start March 10 at Rome Rome, Feb. 35 (M—Premier Mus- solini today convoked the “Arst five- year assembly of the regime” to meet in Rome on March 10 at which will be present all of the leading Fascist figures throughout Italy. 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Then, *“Was T waited about a minute, and then | Borden in the habit of carrying T got him, and he fold me to come Lills of large denomination? over to the office—" “He was, he was!” Ruth replied McMann inferrupted | “He was terribly vain about money ply. ixactly what did you — loved to ‘lash hundred-dollar 4y fo Torden and what did he say | bills. Just last week he showed m~ to vou?” w $500 hanknote — told me to The dancer hesitated for a mo- |take a good look at it, as T might ment. while Ruth held her breath. | never see one aguin. 1 told him he “Well, he didn't give me a chance | was foolish to curry such big sums fl ER druggists have the genuine, to may much. 1 said. ‘My God.|on his person, but he just jaughed Harry, do you know what fime it at me «nd looked pleased with him. ' it is, or have you forgot you uer-zlcclr. 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