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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER
| 1984
SERIAL STORY
The Clue Of The Forgotten Murder:
By CARLETON KENDRAKE
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How do I know he's
going to buy his way out? Holl How do I know this sail is costing me a nickel? If you want him heid long enough to get a photographer over hero you've got to bring some pronauce to bear on Carsons and de it right now,
CHAPTER ONE (Continued.) -woll, he's just being held for of her: Tom Carsons, of the detective questioning, that's all. Thanks
uh huh. all right bureau, was killing time until the thanke,” men from the service station would arrive to make the Ilontification. He looked up as Morden entered the room and nodded. Then he turned back to the tall, somewhat paunchy individual who sat on a wooden bench,
shoulders sightly stooped, hin eyer nervously flickering about the room. On a chair nearby sat a girl with eyes that were dark, wary and watchful.
Morden swept the girl with an ap preciative eye, waited until her glance
rested upon his face, and smiled.
After a moment she returned the amilo.
Tom Carsons looked over at the and said in a weary voico, man "You're talking just the way they all of them talk. If I had a nickel for every guy who claimed he was going to break me for holding him, wouldn't have to work. You say your address to 732 Maplo avenue, Then, when we prove you don't live there, you say you're John Smith of Riverview, and that you gave us a fake name and address because you didn't want to be involved in a lot of scandal. The girl claims she's a hitch-hiker and hran't any home: that you picked her up, and
"Thai's right," said the man, s "Shut up." Carsons auid. "I ask you questions when I want you to inik,"
The man
wet his lips nervously with the tip of his tongue and shifted
He, hung up the telephone and jooked at the man on the bench with a new-found respect.
in the first pince?" he asked.
"Why the hell dign't you come clean
"I couldn't afford te. I can't afford to get mixed into this. I can't afford to get any notoriety."
·Carsons nodded.
You should have come clean in the frat piace," he said. "You were only
picked up on suspicion. Let's Just check your identity. What's your address in Riverview1"
Mörden slipped the receiver back Into place, let the telephone booth and started down the corridor toward the room where Carsons was holding Frank B. Cathay. lie had taken less than half a dozen stope from the telephone booth when Whippie of The Planet emerged.
"Where you been, guy?" he asked. "Just fooling around, stretching my i legs
Morden told him.
Whipple's gabe became more sur
The man spoke without hesitation. "My address is at 280 Walnut picious. He walked past Morden avenue. My telephone number is directly to the telephone booth and lain 6831. My oflee is in the First jerked the door shut. The switch National Bank building. I have sullo sticked, but the light did not come Sua solte of five rooms occupying on Morden had neglected to screw the bulb back into position. Whipple the entire front of the ninth floor."
"What do you do?" asked Carsons reached up, twisted the globe, and "I supervise my investments," the the light came on. man said with dignity.
Charles Morden sauntered from the roum. At the doorway he pausel with the door open just ʼn erack.
"De me a favour, Tom, will you?"
said,
Tom Carsons turned his head and raised his eyebrows.
"Hold him for 15 minutes," Morden the door before sald, and stammol Carsons
could any anything e raced down the corridor to the press room, thrust his head in the door
his eyes to the girl. The girl fidgeted and saw that Whipple of The Planc
sented at hin desk, kept in her chair, suddenly looked over Was
VI
so Carsons and rorrectly interpreted | guing down the corridor until he came
to a Selephone booth. the roul humour of lide gaze,
Whipple jerked open the door and ran down the corridor to the pross room. He pleked up his telephone and shouted into it, "Hold everything! Morden of The Binde has picked up something hot. I don't know what it
. Let me and out."
Morden, standing in the door of the press room, lit a cigarette and grinned mockingly.
"You're rure a suspicious can," he said. "My city editor would enn me for that,"
"For what?" naked Whipple, "Holding up the paper on a bum atver," Morden said." enteret "I'm not so certain it's a bum one," Honest to God!" she said. "If the bouth, and, as he pulled the door Whipple told him. He called the know maything about him P'd tell you, hut, the light clicked on. Morden desk sergeant, called the radla brond- I'm telling you the God's own truth; ranchad up and extinguished the light enster, even called the various pre 1.was just walking and wasn't even by unscrewing the globe a half turn, cinet houses, without learning any giving the drivers a tumble when this There remained enough light which thing.
Morden, afraid to leave the room. fellow pulled his rondster In along-tered in through the glass which side the curb and asked me if I didn't partitioned the top of the door to dropped into his chair, put his fort want a lift. I told him 1 didn't, and enable him to drop the coin and dial up on the battered desk and smokvá
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The telephone PATIK,
Cursons held the receiver to ear, modded ha hend and then look arross at the man on the bench,
"Now," he said, "we're getting somewhère,”
He spoke inte The transmitter, That's all the dope you've got7"
He nodded, slipped the receiver back into place, wrote rapidly on a sheet of paper, then looked up at the man All right, Mr. Frank B. Cathay, uppare you tell us the truth?"
The man on the bench did not wince. His eyes slitted slightly, as though concentrating in swift thought. "You got that name fram the place where I rented the ear, didn't you?"
be said.
Carsons' manner was the manner
of a cat torturing a mouse,
"Why?" he asked with smirking innocence, "Was that the name you gave when you rented the car?" The man on the bench nodded. "All right," he said, "there's no une keeping up the pretence any more. I'm Frank B. Cathny of Riverview,"
He got to his feet, took a card case from his hip pocket, opened the eard case, showed driving licenses, lodge card memberships, golf club cards
m:
"Listen, cutie," he said. "put ane CH11 with Roy
yeah, know. Never minal that stuff,
"Sore, the invitation is good, but!
it. This IM business, I'm forget wing a nekel of my own money. a has busted wide open, I'm tele- Hello, Ray, this John Smith
phoning from a booth in the corridor, Whipple of The Planet is on
duty in the bress rabin. He's just
the memo that was handed out from the desk, and the thing hn gene into The Planet as an ordinary John Smith, suspicion of driving while in man 't John taxiented, hut the Smith nt alk. He's a big shol hy Riverlow, a man by the name of That's right Cathey-C-n-t-h-n-y..
he fires at 286 Walnut avenue, has
Frank B. Cathay of Riverview, i
building, is inker and enndidinte offices in the First National Bank
for city council.
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"Tom Carsons is handling the in- vestigation, and Tom has fallen, Jika a ton of brick for the big banking i business. Tom figures the man'a get politicnl connections here be work if he wants to. Cathny is go- ing to pay about a hundred bucks to get ensed out the back door and have: the whole thing dropped. Carsons can do It because no charge was made, The telephone rang again. Carson The guy was just picks up on pressed the receiver against his left suspicion, mostly suspicion of being ear, propped his left elbow on the mixed up in the service station stick- aure, I'm certain of my Yeah, this is headquarters. Car-facts. I heard him when he kicked sans speaking. No, I know now that through and cameo clean. He's got his it's a bum steer. But how about a card case with him, with his member-
ups
LINE.chais named Cathay? Seems to be ship cards, his driving licence and rather a big bug, with membership all of that stuff, and Carsons will in a lot of country clubs, an
have him verify the signature that's uh, he is, is he? That's interesting' on his lodge cards and operator's candidate for the office of city licence, Just in order to make certain counellman, huh? President of n he's got the right man .you can luncheon club, huh? Director in a pul In a call for Mrs. Cathay at bank, huh, Well, he's held hure Riverview and get a statement out
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