Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
The Once Over
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BRIDGET
By H. L. PHILLIPS

THE CURIOUS CASE OF RIDGET FAIRY
(Arnold Rothstein, known from coast to coast as
a notorious race track man and gambler, was slain
in a New York hotel nearly six months ago. The
police have failed to clear UP the mystery and the
only person remaining under detention is a scrub
woman name Bridget Fairy, who was working at
the hotel at the time Of the crime. Why she is
incarcerated has never been explained.-EO
Dablvn Crvmes, The Great Detective, came forth
today with the first explanation about Bridget.
Il have been investigating the Rothstein murder
ever since the day after it happened, and I alone
am in a position to tell the public the reason for
the s~crubwoman's long incarceration"
The Great sleuth removed a blue wig, which he
had been using as a disguise, and resumed
"Arnold Rotrstein was supposedly summoned from
a restaurant by a telephone call from the Park Cen
trail hotel. was he not? Yes. But what evidence is
there to support this? None. The truth is that he
was summoned. not by telephone, but by a signal
from one Of the hotel windows. This signal was
given with a mop.
Now. proceeding from that point, who had or
might have had a mop? McMsnus? It would not
have been impossible for McManus to have a mop but
the best evidence is that it was not his custom TO
carry one. He was never accompanied by a mop on
his curious excursions about town with Rothstein.
Arnold hated mops. He never used them.
THAT brings us, by a process of deduction, down
to John Doe and his half-brother. Richard Rse.
Might they have signalled from the hotel with a mon?
I think not. I found what I thought at first to be
a mop in John Does baggage. but it turned out to
be a carpet-sweeper. This signal was not given with
a carpet-sweeper AS for Richard Roe, I have evil
dence that he at times was seen going up and down
Broadway with a pail, but never with q mop.
"Now we come to Bridget Fairy. Did she have a
mopp Certainly. She admits it. On the day of the
murder she not only had in her possession a mop, but
a pail and soapl
what was she doing in the Park Central hotel
with mop, pail and soap? Cleaning. she says, but
shall we swallow such an incredible story. A scrub
woman really using such things for such a purpose?
Does she think me as simple as that?
"Now I come to the most significant evidence so
far dug up. Just before Rothstein was summoned 10
the hotel by the signals given with a mop, q strange
little man with pink whiskers and green Knockers
came up to him and slipped him a cake Of soap. On
the back of this soan was this message
"I love you. B. F."
Dablyn Crymes paused for a moment and smiled.
do you see it ALP he asked. What do those mi
tials 3. F. mean? Believe Falls? Bare Feet? Baked
Fish? Panama F~ritters? Certainly not. They mean
Bridget Fairy"
"You mean ..... 81 gasped his listener.
Eyes" declared Dab1yn Crymes. swapping on his
early evening yellow whiskers and starting out on the
Congressman Morgan Mystery.
WRONG AFAIN.
Vice President Curtis has protested a ruling seat
ing his hostess at formal dinners in precedence below
the wives Of ambassadors and ministers. And We
thought this a great big democratic country where
there was no complaint as long as the celery was
kept where everybody could reach it,