The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-28

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kind of high-class burglars thai
hang out at these swell all-night
cafes"
You're convinced, then" asked
Vance mildly, that this job, as you
call it, was done by a professional
criminal?"
Heath was almost contemptuouS
in his reply. Didn't the guy wear
gloves, and use a jimmy?
ut was yeggman'S job. al
right"
TUESDAY, Sept IL; HAS a. m.)
Markham went to the window
and stood, his hands behind him.
looking down into the little paved
rear yard.
After several minutes he turned
slowly.
1.-THE situation, as I see it." he
said, "boils down to this:-The
Odell girl has an engagement for
dinner and the theater with a man
of some distinction.
"He calls for her a little after Z
and they so out together. At II
o'clock they return.
HE goes with her into her apart
ment and remains half an hour.
HE leaves at half past eleven and
asks the phone operator to call him
taxi.
"While he is waiting the girl
screams and calls for help, and, in
response to his inquiries she tells
him nothing is wrong and bids him
go away.
1.-THE taxi arrives, and he departs
in it. Ten minutes later some one
telephones her, and a man answers
from her apartment.
"This morning she is found muir
dered, and the apartment ran
sacked"
He took a long draw on his cigar
Nov, it is obvious that when she
and her escort returned last night
there was another man in this
place somewhere; and it is also OBJ
vious that the girl was alive after
her escort had departed.
Therefore, we must conclude that
the man who was already in the
apartment was the person who MUIR
dered her.
"This conclusion is further cor
roborated by DR.. Doremus' report
that the crime occurred between II
and IL.
"But since her escort did moi
leave till half past eleven, and spoke
with her after that time, we car
put the actual hour of the murder
as between half past eleven ano
midnight.
"These are the inferable facts
from the evidence thus far ad-
duced."
There's not much getting away
from EN-" agreed Heath.
"At any rate, they're interestin,'
murmured Vance.
Markham, walking up and down
earnestly, continued:
1.-THE features Of the situation re-
volving round these inferable facts
are as follows: There was no one
hiding in the apartment at sever
o'clock-the hour the maid went
home.
Therefore, the murderer entered
the apartment later.
"First, then, let us consider the
siGa door, At six o'clock-an houl
before the maids departure-tht
janitor bolted it on the inside, anc
both operators disavow emphatical-
ly that they went near it.
Moreover, you, Sergeant, fount
it bolted this morning. Hence, w
may assume that the door wa.
bolted on the inside all night, anc
that nobody could have entered thai
way.
consequently, we are driven tt
the inevitable alternative that the
murderer entered by the front door
Nov, let us consider this othel
means Of entry. The phone opera
tor who was on duty until 10 O'CLOCK
last night asserts positively that tie
only person who entered the front
door and passed down the main hal
to this apartment was a man who
rang the bell, and getting TO an
swer, Immediately walked out again
"The other operator. who was on
duty from ten o'clock until this
morning, asserts with equal positive
ness that no one entered the front
door and passed the switchboard
coming to this apartment.
add to all this the fact that
every window on this floor is barred,
and that no one from upstairs can
descend into the main hall without