New Britain herald., 1926-09-14
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Nf'Ilt lH'Il' II 9Ou dlt Sult oi your facts Emma, we have proof that Mrs. Heath was alive and well al twelve-fifteen. You heard her voice, you say?"
 Yes. sir. l don't know what she was saying, l only heard her speak, but she was mad, sir That l could tell. Ii seemed like Mr. Heath was quarrelling with Mir. Inman and Mrs. Heath was upset over it. But I didn't get the words, only their voices
 T see. Well, all that doesn't help much. for the doctors say Mrs: Heath was killed at about two o'clock. Though the cant tell ex- actly. Now. Katie. that young man of yours-he was with you in the arbor HIl half past one"
 'Y-yes. sir
 Don't be frightened I'm not dis cussing your affairs at all. Then he saw man leave the house? 2"
 Not the house, the grounds"
 "You'vc talked to Jimmy about this since?"
 Yes, sir
 Can you tell me just what he saw ."
 He says he wasn't noticing spe- cial. not thinkin' about anything but
 "But your sweet self"
 "Well, yes. sir. And he just sorta noticed q man Goin' snoakin' like through the shrubbery and out the side gate. He says if he'd been sneakin' toward the house, he'd "a thought more about il. but as he was goin' away, he gave it no con- sidcrin' and he woulda forgotten about it, if this awful thing hadn't a happened"
 T seo, very natural, I'm sure. Now, does Jimmy think the man WAS Nr. Haath""
 He says he don't know. II might q been and it mightn't. l. was like his size. maybe, but Jimmy, he just didn't take notice, and it was sorta dark, anyway"
 And then you came right in the house."
 "Yes, sir, was just comin' in. when Jimmy saw him."
 He didn't' follow him. them"
 "Oh, no sir. Jim. he went out the back gate. The man, he went through inc little side gate, the one that leads 10 tho woods"
 Then, of course, that's all you ran tell about the man. Now, il ;. ems it must have been Mir. Heath, ,,cause Mr. Heath is ineXplicahly nis5lne. But just as you came in, ;ou saw Miss Moore going up ;tairs?"
 No, sir 1t was Emma as saw Icr."
 Yes. so it was. Well, that looks IS if Miss Moore might have let .Ir. Heath out. and locked the door ,ehind him, and gone upstairs just IS Emma went mp the other stairs" It might be, sir"
 CHAPTER XNNI
 NOW. look here, MT. Detective" said Hcrrick, who had been sitting still. gIoomily listening, i've got a word to say about that. I locked up everything when l went upstairs at shortly after eleven thirty. The whole family was up in their rooms hen. Now, my room is in the third story front. which it isn't regular story, this here house being a bun saloo. But it's a loft, like, and com .ortablc enough. Any way, that's where l sleep, and it's right over the 'ront door. My window was open. md if anybody had gone in or out )f that front door. I'd heard them. That door wasn't opened after ] oclled it that night, till I opened it he next morning. l know, because he chain bolt is out of order, and plug little stick in it. Nobody would do it exactly like I did, and lnyways, I just know that door wasn't opened after l locked ii up,"
 "Very well, Herrick, but maybe Miss Moore let Mir. Heath out by a 
 I'd a heard it if she had. tell ou, sir, I'm light sleeper and I've always got my ears open for burglars, and I tell you there 'ouldn't have been a door or win low open in this house that night, thout ] heard it."
 Did you hear Emma open the loor for Iiatie?"
 Course l did," Herrick looked 'ontcmptuous. That Emma, she hinks she's so quiet, She goes downstairs like bod carrier, and 'he opens that back door so care ul that she takes about ten min 'tes to do it. Last night, it stuck q title, and she had to jerk it open ,in't that so, Elm 2"
 "Ycs," and the girl looked her 
 'Yes. it's so. And I was thinkin' d oil il next day, and then what 1appened put it clear out Of my mind"
 How about the studio French Couldn't a man leave he house that way?" 1
 "They all squeak, every one of hem," Herrick averred. five been to be get 'em fixed, but l ust haven't. But they squeak some hin awful! if you don't believe hat, Mir. Detective, you just try hem"
 Then, Herrick," Mott turned on lim, "how did Mr. Heath get out? Emma heard him talking after welvc, that was after you locked ID. and yet he was gone in the morn- hg. How did he get out?"
 That's what's botherin' me, sir" md Herrick looked awestruck. "I say, how could he get out? The cllarway was locked inside. Every loor and window was fastened in he morning when I came down. stairs. I'd "a heard any of 'em if hey was opened in the night. I lon't know sir, how he did get out"
 Do you think the man Jimmy pmay saw was Mfr Haotb op