The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-01

proposed flight would have been
protected by hedges until he reached
the wooded slope Of the hill, pro-
vided his Nemesis was lurking in
the opposite hedge across the drive
way, where he could observe every
departure from the Miles home"
you've sure got single-track
mind, boy" Strawn chuckled. $50
you think those two got married in
such hurry this morning because
the law says a husband Or a wife
can't be made 70 testify against the
other?"
Possibly" Dundee grinned, un-
ruffled. But there is another posi-
bility-which is why I should like
to know who suggested this sudden
wedding.
Il mean that we can't overlook
the possibility that these two
murders made either the bride or
the bridegroom feel perfectly safe
in going on with the marriage, Polly
Beale and Give Hammond had been
engaged for more than year, you
know, with no apparent reason for
a long engagement.
CAS- for my having a single-track
mind, Captain, what about you? I
have six possible suspects, all of
whose names, know, and you have
only one-whose name you do not
know, and whose motive you only
can guess at, while I have a per-
fectly good motive that might fit
any one of my six-blacknail!"
us that SOP" Strawn growled.
I'm not forgetting that Nita Selim
banked $4,000 cash after she got
to Hamilton. My real theory now
that Sprague has been killed is that
Mia and Sprague had cooked up
some sort of racket between them,
and that when Mia got the chance
to come to Hamilton with Mrs.
Dunlap, she jumped at it, and she
and Sprague sprung their racket,
whatever it was, either just before
or just after Mia left New York
Probably it was Nita's tip-off
and Sprague did the actual dirty
work himself, which explains that
telegram that Mia sent him April
"a, just three days after she got to
Hamilton. Let's see again just what
it says" and Strawn reached for a
copy Of the night letter which Dun
dee himself had unearthed the day
before. "See: Everything Jake so
far, but would feel safer you here"
n II
YVES, I remember the wording
Il quite WE'LL Dundee interrupted.
"But you did not take it SO Sc
riously when I showed it to you
yesterday. If you had"
"All right Rub it I'M" Strawn
snapped, flushing darkly. eff had
assigned a man to tall Sprague, as
you suggested, he wouldn't have
been murdered"
"He probably would have been
murdered just the same" Dundee
comforted the old man, "but we
might have been lucky enough to
have an eyewitness"
ooh, you and your theory!"
Strawn growled. "But let me go on.
i. Mia meant she would feel safer
about Sprague if he was here in
Hamilton, too But the guy they
double-c crossed in New York got on
their trail.
cit took him weeks to do it, and
Sprague followed Nita's advice. He
got here Sunday, April 81; and on
Monday, April %, Mia banked the
first $4,000 Don't you see it, boy?
Sprague brought with him the
dough they'd got for the stunt, and
thought it was safer for Mia to
bank it in her name, since 1t wasn't
the name she was known by in New
York anyway.
"We've checked up on Sprague
pretty thoroughly. He didn't have a
bank book, either on his body or in
his room, and every bank in town
denies he had an account with
them"
eff that theory is correct, it
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character" Dundee unused aloud.
mot only did she kick him out as
lover, but she double-crossed him
as her partner in crime, by willing
the whole wad to Lydia Carr.
Sprague must have received quite
a shock when he heard Nita's will
read at the inquest"
yeah" Strawn agreed. att looks
like Mrs. Dunlap picked sweet
specimen to make a friend out of,
Well, that's my theory, and I
think it explains everything.
Their victim in New York simply
hired a gunman, or came down here
himself, when he got on their
tracks. OF course it was a good
stunt to make it look like a local
crime-f1gured he'd fool me just
as he fooled you'll
$50 the murderer simply trailed
Mia around, and saw the whole
bunch of society people shooting at
a target at Judge MarshalI's place.