New Britain herald., 1929-03-15
THIS HAS HAPPENED

Handsome Harry" Borden is shot between one and four o'clock Saturday afternoon. Ruth Lester, his secretary. finds his body Monday morning spraUled beneath the air shaft window of his private office
 McMann, detective sergeant, oues- lions Ruth. Mrs. Borden, Borden $ estranged wife and mother Of his two children; Rita Dubois. night club dancer. with whom Borden was infatuated: and Jack Hayward, F,uth's fiance, whose office Is across the marrow alrshatt from Borden's,
 NcManns belief in Jacks guilt Is strengthened by his discovery that lacks Colts .SS is missing, by lacks own admission that he re- turned to the seventh floor Satur- day afternoon. and by the testimony of elevator boys Micky Moran and Otto PfIuser, Bill Covan. Jack s triend unwilliugiy tells McMann he heard Jack threaten BordeD's life Saturday morning.
 Jake Bailey. Borden's bodysuard, is sent for. Meanwhile McMann questions Benny Smith. Borden's office boy; Ashe. his manserNant; Minnie Cassidy and Lefty Miller, seventh floor scruhwomen, and Cleo Gilman. Borden. discarded mistress, rho gives an ironclad alibi. Natha Manning. mother Of Borden's illeEi- innate son. IS involved by Euth's de tectiye work, McMann questions her about her relationship with the ric- nm but she declines to answer. She insists she last saw him Christmas EHe
 NCMarn quickly Tresse. her fingers into an lnk-soahed blotter and records her fingerprints on a sheet CT v hite pa per on the desl, 10 compare them with prints discover cd on the glass panel o' the door netreen the two Rord en offices. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORM
 CHAPTER NXNIX
 Ruth Lester felt that she, as well as the frall. tortured woman beside Ter, could not bear the suspense of the next slow minutes.
 With ve-wrackirg del,beratIo0 Detective Sergeant McMann drew another sheet Of paper from his pocket-the enlarged photograph Of the three fingerprints disco cred by Detective Ferber on the glass panel o, the door between the outer and the inner offices of the Borden suite: laid 1t beside the startlingly clear prints he had just made in ink. O. Martha MannlnS's fingers; studied both sets of prints, then. with n1addeninE lack of haste reached into his coat pocket, se- cured a small microscope and fitted 1t into his left eve.
 At last he nodded with satisfac- ton, folded both sheets of paper carefully together and placed them in breast pocket o' his coat. Then he spoke: Miss Manning. we will save much time if you will tell me frankly at just what time Saturday afternoon you paid your--farere visit 10 Harry Borden
 The thin hands were working desperately now with handker- chief 10 remove the hun,lia'inE ink stains but at the detectives ques- ton they gripped each other con- Nulsil ely.
 '1 was not here at all or Satur- day"
 Then how do you account for tho fact that your fingerprints were found yesterday morning on the glass panel Of that door" McManr demanded triumphantly. pointing toward the closed door between the two offices.
 Martha Manning drew sha-r quiverinz breath. then, 70 Ruth's engagement she smiled. and the thin shoulders shrugged slightly. ae if their owner were admitting defeat. T am sorry 10 disappoint you. Mir. McMann. after your brilliant demon-