Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-12-28
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The chief suspects In the muir
der of Juanita SeliE, shot at a
bridge party are: Flora Miles. IN
Nita's closet, reading o note which
she thinks Is from her husband;
Dexter Sprague, who wrote that
note. and Lydia. her maid.
Lydia says she loved Nita, and
Is showing Special Investigator
Dundee presents she gave her when
Tracey Miles. one Of the guests, G
turns TO take Lydia home with him.
Dundee reads Nita's will, leaving
everything TO Lydia, which shows
Nita's fear Of death and gives Ly-
dia additional motive. He learns
that Mia went out with Ralph.
Hammond Thursday night, and saw
Sprague Friday night. the night she
made her will.
Miles tells Dundee that when he
called on Nita that morning. he
found Nita and Lydia gone. and
Ralph there. Ralph seemed a little
jealous Of his calling on Nita too.
After Miles and Lydia leave, Dun
dee finds the kitchen door has been
unlocked. Searching the attic, he
finds traces in the bedroom OF a
mans having slept there the night
before.
He calls Captain Strawn. who
comes with fingerprint me and
detectives. and learns that a small
grip which Is now gone was In that
room when IL was searched before.
He believes that Sprague used the
room, and was told by Nita to clear
out. Lydia came up to tell him tC
take his things out. Sprague return
ed that evening and got the grip.
Despite this. Dundee doesn't be-
lieve Sprague did u.
Now Go On With The Story
CHAPTER XIV
Bonnie Dundee's first thought
upon awakening that Sunday morn
ing was that it might prove 70 be
rather a pity that his new bachelor
apartment, as he loved to call his
three rooms at the top of a lodg-
ing house which had once been a
fashionable private home. faced
south and west. rather than east.
AT the Rhodes House. whose board
ing house clamor and lack OF priv
acy he had abandoned upon taking
the flattering job and decent SAL
airy Of special investigator attach
ed to the district attorneys office"
he had grown accustomed to using
the hot morning sun upon his re-
luctant eyelids as an alarm clock.
But-he continued the train of
thought. after discovering by his
watch that 1t was only 8:40-it was
pretty darned nice having dig
eings" like these. Quiet and pri-
vate. For he was the only tenant
now on the top floor. His lazy eyes
roved over the plain severity, but
solid c~Stort Of his bedroom. and
on past the open door TO take in
appreciatively the equally comfort
able and masculine living room
Pretty nice! That leather-uphols-
tered couch and armchair had been
a real bargain. and he liked them
all the better for being rather
scuffed and shabby. Then his eyes
halted upon a covered cage, swung
from a pedestal.
Poor old Cap'nl. Must be won
dering when the devil I'm going to
get up!" and he swung out Of bed,
lounged sleepily into the small liv-
ing room and whisked the square OF
black silk from the cage.
The parrot, formerly the property
OF Murdered old Mrs. Hogarth OF
the Rhodes House. but for the past
year the young detectives official
Watson" ruffled his feathers
poked his green-and-yellow head
between the bars or his cage and
croaked hoarsely: "Hullo! Hullol'
"Hullo. yourself. my dear wat
soni" Dundee retorted. Your vaca-
ton Is over, old top! It's back on
the job for you and me bothi...
Which reminds me that I ought TO
be taking a squint at the Sunday
papers. to see how much Captain
Strawn thought fit to tell the press"
He found The Hamilton Morning
News in the hall Just outside his
living room door.
Listen Cap'n.- ."NITA SELIM
MURDERED AT BRIDGE. Prob