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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
KANARY" MURDER CASE
by S. S.VAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENSON MURDER CASE
CHARACTERS
PHILO VANCE JOHN F-X. MARKHAM, District Attorney of Now York County MARGARET ODELL (THE
"CANARY")
CHARLES CLEAVER, a man-
about-town KENNETH SPOTSWOODE, a
manufacturer.
LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST, a
fashionable neurologist TONY SKEEL, a professional bur d glar
WILLIAM
ELMER JESSUP telephone operator HARRY SPIVELY, telephone
erator
rogation at the point where Vance had interrupted."
"You say you listoned at the apartment door. What caused you La refrain from ringing?"
"I heard a man's volco inside." Markham straightened up. "A man's voice? You're sure?" "That's what I said." Cleaver was matter of fact about it. "A man's volce. Otherwise I'd have rung the bell,"
"Could you Identify the voice?" "Hardly. "It was very indistinct; and it sounded a little hearse. It wasn't any one's voice I was familiar with; but I'd be inclined to say I was the same one that an- opswered me over the phone."
"Could you make out anything that was said?"
Cleaver frowned and looked past Markham through the open window. "I know what the words sounded like," he said slowly. "I didn't think anything of them at the time. But after reading the papers the next, day, those words came back to me"
ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the
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THE STORY THUS FAR
Vance believes Skeel innocent of the murder of Margaret Odell and that he lay hidden in a closet while the strangler did his the ridicules work. Markham theory but Vance is unshaken. Mannix, under pressure, reveals that he had been calling, the night
At five
"What were the words 7" hum.cut in impatiently.
it. Then he smiled beguilingly at
Cleaver.
"The time has come, my dear sir, for you to tell us when and where you met Doctor Lindquist while roaming the streets Monday night. If you don't, 'pon my word, I'll come pretty close to doing it for you."
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A full minute passed before Cleaver apoke; and during that time his cold staring eyes nover: To stimulate the jaded appetite, moved from the district attorney's aid digestion, and to face.
"I've already told most of the livornishness--the cause of most, Queen's Road Central, "
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He gave a soft mirthless laugh, days try Pinkettes, the dainty "I went to Miss Odell's house' a little laxative regulators, tonight THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, little before half past cloven and you'll surely feel 100% thought she might be home by that hungrier, happier and generally time. There I ran into Doctor Letter In the morning. Pinkettes Lindquist standing in the entrance causo no pain or inconvenience. 10, Des Voeux Road, Centre). Hongkong,
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This statement seemed to bring
"The doctor had disappeared, and
I went down the alleyway and in
"Well, as near as I could make out, they were: 'Oh, my God. Oh, of the murder, on a Mias Frisbee, my God-repeated two or three who occupied the apartment nd-Lines." Joining the "Canary's."
a sense of horror, into the deary the side door. After listening a minutes to 12, he says, he saw Cleaver sneaking out the side door old office a horror all the more minute, as I told you, and hearing the causal, a man's voice, I came away and of the building-the door which polent because of was thought, bolted on the inside phlegmatic way in which Cleaver all night. Markham confronts repeated that cry of anguish. went home.
thing." Cleaver with this information and After a brief pause Markham ask- naka him why he lied about his ed: whereabouts.
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CHAPTER XXXVI
For a long time there was tense silence. Then Cleaver spoke.
"I've got to think this thing out." Markliam walled patiently. "After several minuten Cleaver drew himself together and squared his shoulders.
"I'm going to tell you what I did that night, and you can take it or leave it."
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"When you heard this man's voice, what did you do?"
"I walked softly back down the out again rear hall and went through the side door. Then I went home."
A short silence ensued. Cleaver's testimony had been in the nature of a surprise; but it fitted perfectly with Mannix's statement.
Presently Vance lifted himself out of the depths of his chair.
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(To Be Continued.)
WOMEN'S "LACK OF MODESTY!"
6
THE POPE'S ATTACK.
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above everything else, namely, modesty, chastity, and purity.
Modern feminism, said the Pope, teaches that woman must be self-
"I say, Mr. Cleaver, what were virtues of the venerable Paola sufficient and Independent of men you doing between twenty minutes Frassinetti, foundress of the Sinable to hold her own,
to twelve-when you phoned Missters of St. Dorothen, the Pontiff' If by this was meant that woman Odell-and five minutes to twelve-spoke of the lack of modesty and deserved the respect owed to all ac- cording to the Divine law, then the when you entered the side door of chasity in modern woman.
Woman (he sald) appears to be Church had always recognised and her apartment-house?"
"I was
doing everything possible to des- encouraged feminism. The history troy in herself those very charac-of women's religious orders proved teristics. that make her beautiful this.
riding up-town in the Subway from 23 Street," came, the answer, after a short pause,
Again he was the cold, self-con- tained gambler. "I don't care how many witnesses you've got; it's the only story you'll ever get out of me. I should have tell you in the first place, but I didn't see any acnee of stepping into hot water if I wasn't "Strange very strange." Vance pusled in. You might have be-Inspected the tip of his cigarette. iloved me last Tuesday, but now Then you couldn't possibly have one during that you've got something in your head, phoned to any and you want to make an arrest fifteen minutes-oh, what 7" to shut up the newspapers-----" I suddenly remembered Alys La
Tell your story," ordered Mark-Fosse's statement that Cleaver, had ham. If it's straight, you needn't telephoned to her on Monday night worry about the newspapers." at ten minutes to twelve. Vaner, Cleaver knew in his heart thatby his question, had, without re- this was true. No one-not even vealing his own knowledge, created his bitterest political enemies-had a state of uncertainty in the other's ever accused Markham of buying mind. Afraid to commit himself, praise with any act of injustice, too emphatically, Clenver resorted however small.
to evasion.
"There's not much to Lell, as a matter of fact," the man began. "I went to Miss Odell's house a little before midnight, but I didn't enter her apartment; I didn't even ring her hell"
"Is that your customary way of -paying visits?"
"It's possible, is it not, that 1 could live phoned some one after leaving the Subway at 72d. Street and before I walked the block to Mixa-Odell's house?"
"Oh, gutite," murmured Vance. "still, looking at it mathematically, if you phoned Miss Odell at twenty Sounds lisby, doesn't it? But minutes to twelve, and then en- it's the truth, nevertheless. 1 intered the Subway, rule to 724 tended to see her—that is I wanted Street, walked a block to 71st, went to-but when I reached her door, into the building, listened at her something made me change my door, and departed at five minutes mind
to twelve-making the total time “Just a moment.-How did you consumed only fteen minutes- enter the house?"
you'd seareely have sufficient lee- way to stop en route and phone
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"By the side door--the our off the alleyway. I always used when it was open. Miks Odell re- quested me to, so that the telephone operator wouldn't see me coming in so often."
to any one,
"lowever, I shan't press the point. But I'd really like to know what you did between eleven o'clock and twenty minutes to twelve, when you phoned to Miss Odell."
Cleaver studied Vance Intently "How else could 1 have got in for a moment.
"And the door was unlocked at that time Monday night?"
by it? A key wouldn't have done "To tell you the truth, I was me any good, even if i had we,apset that night. I knew Miss for the door locks by n bolt on the Odell was out with another man-- inside, I'll say this, though: that's he'd broken an appointment with the first time I ever remember And-me-and I walked the streets for an hour or more; fuming and fret- ing the door unlocked at night."
ting."
"All right. You went in the side entrance. Then what?"
"I walked down the rear hall and Ilstened at the door of Miss Odell's apartment for a minute. I thought
Walked the streets?" Vance frowned.
Cleaver
"That's what I said." spoke with animus. Then, turning, there might be some one else with gave Markham a long calculat her, and I didn't want to ring uning jook. "You remember I once less she was alone.
Buggested to you that you might a Doctor Did you ever get
"Pardon my interrupting, Mr. learn something from Cleaver," interposed Vance. "But Lindquist.... what made you think some one else after him?" was there?
The man hesitated.
Before Markham could answer, Vance broke in.
"Ah! That's it-Doctor Lind- "Was it," prompted Vance, "be- cause you had telephoned to Miss quist! Well, well-of course!... Odell a little while before, and had So, Mr. Cleaver, you were walking been answered by a man's voleo?" the streets? The strecta, mind Cleaver nodded slowly. I can't you! Precisely! You state, the seo any particular point in dony- fact, and I echo the word 'streets.' ing it. Yes, that's the reason." And you-apparently out of a clear
What did this man say to you?" sky-usk about Doctor Lindquist, "Damn little. He said. 'Hello," "Why Doctor Lindquist? No one and when I asked to speak to Misa has mentioned him. But that con- 'streets-that's the Odell, ho informed mo she wasn't word
noxion. The streets and Doctor in, and hung up.""
That I think, explains Jessup's Lindquist are one-same as Parla report of the brief phone call to and springtime are
one. Neat, And now. I'veó the Odell apartment at twenty very neat.
got another plece to the puzzle." minutes to twelve."
spoko Markham, and Heath looked at if he had suddenly · gone without interest. He was intent on him as Cleaver's account of what happened mad. He calmly selected & Regie later, and he took up the inter from hla case and proceeded to light
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