New Britain herald., 1926-02-10

used the stub. You admit you were in Grafton the day of the murder. Yet you say you never saw tho hotel and the stub was found In the room with Rand"
 "1 cant explain it. Maybe some- body found the thing and planted 1t there 10 throw you off the track
 O'Day laughed scornfully. "You'll have to do better than that, sister. We're dealing in facts not fairy stories. How do you account for this? Before you left for Grafton you were living in a cheap roonling house. You're out of a job and broke. You go to sGrafton and come back to Bridgeport and move into a pretty nice apartment. Where did you get the money?"
 ''I didn't get any money. I got back here Thursday morning and started looking for work again. took the first thing I could gct--a clothing models job. On the strength of that I rented an apart IltlII. l uOll Jlht lOcllllS iIpuGCS.
 DO you think jury would be- lieve your story?" scoffed O'Day.
 "I don't know. Do you believe ] committed a murder"
 Ut looks like it. Whether you did or not, you're coverin' somebody up. You know who did it. You were In the room when the murder was committed. I believe you even got ! Ronry Rand into that room--didnt yo,' ?'
 NO" cried Jimmy, leaping from his chair. "I don't believe that Lieu tenant. She might be covering somebody up, but"
 "Sit down. Rand.' O'Day waved him aside. Didn't you?" he contin- ucd, turning to Olga Maynard.
 No l didn't, I tell you," she said fiercely. "I never even heard of him."
 Listen. sister said O'Day. "1've been trying 10 place you and it comes 10 mo all of a sudden. Seems to me you were one of those who got a ride in inc wagon inc time we raided the Studio club. How about it"?"
 She turned away from O'Day's steady look--bit her lip, What of it?" she asked.
 "Nothing-cXcept it wasn't very nice company, Not for a lady"
 She flushed hotly. "All right, maybe it wasn't But you can't hang me for that"
 "We can come pretty near hang ing you for something else. Come now. tell us who was with you in Grafton. Who was this guy H. A. Jones who registered for the room 9
 "I wasn't with anybody in Graf. ton"
 "All right, what's the jury going 10 say when we show 'em you were in Grafton the day of the murder and your theater ticket was found 1T the room?"
 She smiled sarcasticary, The! wouldn't convict me on circumstan tial evidence, Lieutenant. Prett, thin evidence, at that.
 O'Day studied her through hal shut eyes. That ain't all" he saic softly. That ain't all. You still sa, you didn't go near the Canfielo Hotel"
 "T still say it."
 "All right. Then how did this ge in the room where the murder wa committed ?"
 He produced the handkerchie and confronted her with it. "Com . on, answer me" She was staring white.faced, at the handkerchiei speeches. with surprise. Tiff I wanted to lie" she sal r slowly. 'Td say that wasn't m t handkerchief. There's no initial c Q anything on it." y "The perfume Is the same a = you've got on the one in your mind, 9 O'Day cut in.
 e "Just the same, you couldn
 prove it was mine, Lieutenant. I'm ] is a common enough brand of pei
 fume, and so is the handkerchie - But I won't lie. It's my handker
 chief. Do you mean 10 say the ] found it in the room with-with-
 "They found 1t in the room wit s Henry Rand, yes. The handkerchi'
 and the ticket stub. Now do yo