The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-18

= SUITE OF Two 1alrly large rooms
connected by q wide archway
draped with heavy damask por-
there's. The entrance door from tho
main hall Of the building led into
. small rectangular foyer about
eight feet long and four feet deep,
with double Venetian-glass doors
opening into the main room be.
yond. There was no other entrance
to the apartment, and the bedroom
could be reached only through the
archway from the living-roon,.
There was large davenport, Gov.
cred with brocaded silk, in front
Of the fireplace in the left-hand wall
OF the living.room, with long mar
row library.tablc Of inlaiG rosewood
extending along its back. On the
opposite wall, between the foyer
and the archway into the bedroom,
hung a triplicate Marie Antoinette
mirror, beneath which stood o ma
hogany gate-legged table.
On the far side of the archway,
near the large oricl window, was
q baby grand Steinway piano with
q beautifully designed an! decorated
case OF Louis-Seize ornamentation.
In the corner to the right Of the fire.
place was spindle-legged escritoire
ard q square hand-painted waste.
p|per basket of vellum.
10 the left Of the fireplace stood
one Of the loveliest Boule cabinets
! have ever seen. Several excellent
reproductions Of Boucher, Frago.
nard and Vatican hung about the
walls. The bedroom contained a
chest Of drawers, a dressing.table,
and several gold-leaf chairs. The
who-e apartment. seemed eminently
in Keeping with the Can:ry's I. g.
lie and cvancscant personals y
As we stepped from the little
foyer into the living .rooom and 5 God
for q moment looking about, a seen,
bordering on wreckage met our
eyes. The rooms had apparently
been raHsacl.ed by some one in "a
frenzy OF haste, and the disorder Of
the place was appalling.
lhcy didn't exactly do the job
in dainty fashion" remarked In
spector Moran.
II suppose we oughta be CRATE
full they didn't blow the joint up
with dynamite returned Heath
acridly.
But it was not the general dis
order that most attracted us. Our
gaze was almost Immediately drawn
and held by tive body Of the dead
girl, which rested in an unnatural,
semi-recumbent attitude in the cor
ner OF the davenport nearest 10
where VIC stood.
Ha head was turned backward,
rs If by force, over the silkan tuft-
cd upholstery; and her hair had
come unfastened and lay beneath
her head and over her bare shout
der like frozen cataract of liquid
gold. Her face, in violent death,
was distorted and unlove!y. Her
skin was discolored; her eyes were
staring; her mouth was open, and
her lips We're drawn back. Her
neck, on eithei: side Of the thyroid
cartilage, show ID ugly dark bruises.
She was dressed in y flimsy
evening gown of black Chantilly
lace over cream-colored chiffon, anc
across the arm of the davenport
had been thrown an evening cape
Of cloth-of-gold trimmed with er-
mine.
There were evidences of her in
effectual struggle with the person
who had strangled her. Besides
the disheveled condition of her
hair, one of the shoulder-straps of
her gown had been severed, and
there was long rent in the fine lace
across her breast. A small corsage
Of artificial orchids had been torn
from her bodice, and lay crumpled
in her lap. One satin slipper had
fallen off, and her light knee was
twisted inward on the seat of the
davenport, as if she had sought to
lift herself out of the suffocating
clutches of her antagonist.
Her fingers were still flexed, no
doubt as they had been Al the mo-
mcnt of her caritulation to death,
when she had relinquished her grip
upon the murderer's wrists.
The spell Of horror cast over us
by the sight Of the tortured body
was broken by the n1atter.of.fact
tones of Heath.
"You see, Mr.. Markham, sh, was
evidently sitting in the corner Of
this settee when she was grabbed
suddenly from behind"
Markham nodded. 1T must have
taken pretty strong man to
strangle her so easily"
"I'll say!" agreed Heath. He
bent over and pointed to the girls
fingers, on which showed several
abrasions. "lhey stripped her
rings off, too; and they didn't 60
about it gentle, either" Then he
indicated q segment Of fine plati.
mum chain, set with tiny pearls,
which hung over one Of her shout
ders. "And they grabbed what
ever it was hanging round her
neck, and broke the chain doing
it. They weren't overlooking cny-
thing, or losing any time. A
swell, gentlemanly job. Nice and
refined"
"Where's the Medical EXAMINE
ed?" asked Markham.
Hes coming" Heath told him.
"You can't get Doc Doremus to go
anywheres without his breakfast"
"He may find something else
that doesn't show
There's ,.:lenty showing for me"
declared Heath. Look at this
apartment. It wouldn't b. much
worse if q Kansas cyclone had
struck it,
We turned from the depressing
spectacle Of the dead girl and moved
toward the center Of the room.
"Be careful not touch ANYTHING,
Mr.. Markham" warned Heath. I've
sent for the finger-print experts -
they'll be here any minute now"
Vance looked up in mock aston
ishment.
..ringer-prints? You don' say
really! How acknowledgements
a iohnnia in this an1iphtel Cd dav