THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928.
UHE
"CANARY" MURDER CASE
5. S.YAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENSON MURDER CASE,
"Now, Jessup," continued Markham, "there are things connected with last night's tragedy that
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FLEMER JESSUP, telephone operator HARRY SPIVELY, telephone ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of
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I
you can tell us,
the end of the passageway and had slipped into this apartment without be night operator seeing him. So I tried the side door to see if it was open. But it was bolted on the in- ride-not locked; mind you, but bolted.
"And it wasn't a slip-bait, either, that could have been jimniled or worked open from the outside, but
And now I want Fout to hear what the janitor's got to say about it."
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The wedding took place at Stoke Damerel Parish Church recently of Frank, eldest son of Mr. F. Ingham, R.N., and Mrs. Ingham, of 127 Browning-road, Milehouse, to Mary, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Monaghan of Hongkong, Both the bride and bridegroom were resident in. Hongkong for sometime.
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to pass within a few feel of the operator both on arriving and de-a parting-ch, what?"!
"Tat's it!" snapped Heath. "And, according to the operator,
Mr. Edward Clodd, the scientific no such person came or went." and historical writer, a friend of Markham seemed to have ab- of Hardy and Meredith, recently sorbed some of Heath's irritability, celebrated his 88th birthday.
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well-trained witness. Gladys Ingham and Vern Warren, HONGKONG OFFICE: 11, QUEEN'S ROAD, Jessup made a good impression careful and
"First of all, what time did you cousins of the bridegroom, who Markham nodded nequiescence, from the moment he entered the
wore amethyst crepe de chine Authorised Capital Calidery 160,000,000. and Heath called an order to one room. He was a serious, deter come on duty last night?"
"At ten o'clock, sir." There dresses and carried bouqueta,. man in his early! of the officers, in the hall. A mo- mined-looking
The bridegroom's brother, Mr. ment later, stolid, middle-aged thirties, rugged and well built; was no qualification to this blunt 9pman, with sullen features and high and there was a squareness to his statement; one felt that Jessup Roy Ingham, who is well known Plymouth rugby circles, His shoulders that carried a suggestion would arrive punctually at what-In
was acted as best man, and Mr. For- the check-bones, stood before us.
jaw was clamped Ught, and he of military training. He walked ever hour he was due. "It shifted his eyes from one to the with a decided limp-his right foot my short shift. The day man and rest, R.A.F., as usher. The bride- other of us suspiciously.
dragged perceptibly-and I noted myself alternate in long and short groom's mother wore beige crepe
de chine. THE STORY THUS FAR
that his left arm had been stiffen-shifts.".
"And did you see Miss Odell The key to the closet door was "What time do you leave here an unreduced fracture of the elbow, come in last night after always kept on the outside, Mar-Jat night" He had, for some rea He was quiet and reserved, and thestre?”
"Yes, sir. Every one who comes garet Odell's maid told police the sun, assumed a belligerent manner. his eyes were steady, and intelli- morning her mistress, strangled "Six q'clock---sometimes tarlier. gent. Markham
once mo-in has to pass the switchboard.' "What time did she arrive?" body was found in the apartment.melines later." The man spoke toned him to a wicker chair be- But this day the key was on the in 'n surly monotone. He was obside the closet door, but he inside. The "Camry" had gone viously resentful at this unex- out early in the evening with a preted intrusion upon his orderly man. The next morning when the routine.
Hent straightway assumed the role of inquisitor.
maid came to work Margaret “And what time do you get here Odell was dead. A milling mys-in the morning?" tery, Vance declares, a devilish une "Eight o'clock, regular." -"And, Markham, those finger- "What time did you go home last prints you found have nothling night?" whatever to do with the murder." "About six-maybe quarter
past,"
Herth paused and finally Bghted the cigar on which he had been chewing at intervals during the past hour.
24
CHAPTER VII Heath anot Vanee a curious look, Then, after a moment's frowning contemplation of the knob, ho "Now, fell me about that side waved his hand to the detective who door," he wea; on, with undimin- ished orgressiveness. "You told had brought the maid in.
"Take her back to the reception-e you lock it every night before room, Snitkin, and get a detailed you leaves that right?"
that's right." The man description from her of all the Odell Jewellry... And keep her outside; added his had afirmatively sev
eral times. "Only 1 don't lock I'll want her again."
belt "
When Snitkin, and the maid had gone out, Vance lay back Inzily on the dovenport, where he had sat during the interview, and sent spiral of cigarette smoke toward the ceiling.
"All right, yon ball it. Caen," As Heath talked his rigar bobbed between his lips: up and down mole and words cume simul. "And taneously from his mouth.
usua. "Ratser illuminatin, what?" he last night you bolted it us remarked. The dusky deniselle about six o'clock ?"
"Maybe aggler past," the got us considerably forrader. Now
we know that the elonet key is on janitor amended.. with Germanic
the wrong side of the door, and that precision.
our lady of joy went to the theatre
"You're sure ya bolted it laet
with one of her. favourite lovers, night?" The question was almost
who presumably brought her home
ferocious.
1 do 11
"fa, ja. Sure, I am, shortly before she took her depar-
every night. I never miss," ture from this wicked world."
The man's earnestness left no "You think that's helpful, do you?" Heath's tone was con- doubt that the door in question ind "Wait indeed been bolted on the inside at temptuously triumphant.
till you hear the crazy story the about six o'clock of the previour evening. Heath, however, belabour- telephone operator's got to tell,"
"All right, Sergeant," put ined the point for several minutes, Markham, impatiently. "Suppose only to be reassured doggedly that the door had been bolted. At last we get on with the ordenl,"
"I'm going to suggest, Mr. the janitor was dismissed.
"Really, y know, Sergeant," re Markham, that we question the
an amused Janitor first. And I'll show you marked Vance with why Heath went to the entrance mile, that honest Rheinlander door of the apartment, and opened solted the door." it."Look here for just a minute, Bir."!
"Sure, he did," sputtered Heath; and found it still bolted this morning at quarter of eight. That'
He stepped out into the main just what messes things up so ulee hall, and pointed down the little and pretty. If that door was bolted
the left. It Wat
From six o'clock last evening until. passageway on about ten feet in length, and ran gat o'clock this morning, I'd ap between the Odell apartment and wreciate having some one drive up the blank rear wall of the reception in a hearse and tell me how the room. At the end of it was a solid Conary's little playmate got in here oak door which gave on the court last night. And I'd also like to at the side of the house.
That door," explained Heath, know how he got out."
le the only side or rear entrance
"Why not through the main en-
"It to this building; and when that trance?" asked Markham. door is bolted nobody can get into seems the only logical way left, the house except by the front en-according to your own findings."
"That's how I had it. figured out, trance. You can't even get into the building through the other sir." returned Heath. "But wait apartments, for every window on till you hear what the phone' op this, floor is barred. I checked up erator has to say."
on that point as soon as I got here."
ed into a permanent aré, as if by
IL
de-
"Was she alone?"
the
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
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"I couldn't have been more elined it, and, stood before the than a few minutes after eleven."
Here is the solution to the district attorney in a soldierly attitude of respectful attention. "No, ir. There was, a gentle-puzzle on another page.
BAD, BAR, EAR, ERR, ERG, Markham opened the interroga-man with her."
EGG. tion with several personal ques- "Do you know who he was?"
"I don't know his name, sir. tions. It transpired that Jessup had been a sergeant in the World But I have seen him several times War, had twice been seriously before when he has called on Miss wetinder, and had been invalided Odell.'
"You could describe him, I gp|| ENTERTAINING?| home shortly before the Armia-
ice. He had held his present past, pose." of telephone operator for over a "Yes, sir. He's tall and clean- shaven except for a very short year.
about "Now, Jessup," continued Mark-grey moustache, and is bam, "there are things connected forty-five, I should say. He looks with last night's tragedy that you if you understand me, sir-like can tell us."
a man of wealth and position."
Markham nodded. "And now, "Yes, sir." There was no doubt that this ex-soldier would tell us tell me; did he accompany Miss accurately anything he knew, and Odell into her apartment, or did also that, if he had any doubt as he go immediately away?"
(To Be Continued.) in the correctness of his informa-
"And the phone operator's He led the way back into, the post," mused Vance, "Is In the Uving-room.
main hall half-way between tho "Now, after I'd looked over the front door and this apartment. altuation this morning," he went Therefore, the gentleman who on, "I figured that our mun tad caused all the disturbance here. entered through that side door at abouts last night would have had
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