The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-30
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 BONNIE" DUNDEE Is in New York invesnGating the murders of 9UANITA SELIM and DEXTER 6PRAGUE, and learns from SE- that Nifa married fin 1918, was soon descrted, but not divorced. In 1922, . picture of Nita appeared with the 2 etOry about the suicide of ANITA LEE, which was printed in Hamil- ton. Nita comes to Hamilton, after showing strange excitement over pie tures of Hamilton people, and de- p0sits 91O,OOO in cash. Dundee wonders if this were "back alimOny" from . husband who had married after he thought she was dead.
 Four of Dundccs' possible sus- poets married between 1922 and the timc of Nita's death-JUDGE MARI SHALL. owner of the death weapon: JOHN DRAKE, TRACEY MILES and PETER DUNLAP, After fail- ing to find a record of Nita's mar riagc in New York, Dundee is sum. mOned home by a wire from the dis trict attorney. At home, Dundee finds a note under his door, ad- vising him to look in WHO'S WHO for . tip, and is about to do so when the servant enters. He learns from her that she did not cover the par rOt's cage the night before, aI- though it Is covered now, and that the house door was open all night. His copy of WHO'S WHO is mis- placed, but she says she didn't touch 1t.
 When she goes, he sees the note is written on his own typewriter and tC CnSp,i<,fnp,C StandIg away from the shelf above the hot air register, where the book is. he takes the book, and Immediately a silent bullet whizzcs by. A string, attached to the book, pulls the trigger. Dundee recOv- CTS the gun, and finds one of the holes in the hot air register had to he enlarged to hold the muzzle of the gun, equipped with the silencer. NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XLvI.
 Dundee laughed. the parrot which had saved his life echoing his mirth raucously, as his eyes hit upon the following lines of fine print half way down the third column of page 40 of Who's Who in America:
 'JOHI, ucleCllNe, b. Baltimore, October 19. 1861-
 "A taunt and a joke which turned sour. my dear Watson!" he exulted to the parrot. "A joke I was not intended to live to laugh over!"
 He closed the book and replaced it in the bookcase. careless of finger prints. for he was sure the mur- derer had been too clever to leave any behind him in that room-or upon the gun and silencer either for that matter.
 Interestedly. Dundee surveyed the scene of his attempted murder If he had unsuspectingly gone up to the high shelf to reach for the book he would have stood so close to the register that there would have been powder burns on his shirt front just as there had been on Dexter Sprague's. And he would have been shot so near an open window-no chance for fingerprints there, either, since he had not closed the windows on his departure for New York, not wishing to return to a stuffy apartment-that the police would have been justified in think ing he had been shot from outside. 1t was an fashioned house in more ways than in the manner of it's heating. Outside of one of his two unscreened windows there was an iron grating-the topmost land- ing of a fire escape. Dundee could imagine Captain Strawn's positive ness in placing the murder there crouching in wait for his vic
 Yes, damned ingenious. this at tempted murder! Undoubtedly Strawn would have dismissed the note as the work of a crank, not hitting upon the fact that it had been written in that very room, on Dundee's own typewriter and sta- tionery. Strawn might even have got q mournful sort of amusement out of the fact that Dundee had been advised to call upon a greater detective than himself for assist i ance! Yes. ingenious indeed! And so amazingly simple
 Suddenly the young detective snatched for his hat. If the mur- derer were so ingenious in this case, might he not have been equally clever in planning and exc cutting the murder of Nita. Leigh Selim?
 Twenty minutes later he parked his car in the -rutty road before the Selim house in Primrose Meadows, and honked his horn loudly to at tract the attention of the plain clothesman Captain Strawn had de- tailed immediately after the murder to guard the premises during the day. There Was no answer. And violent ringing of the door bell also brought no response. The guard had been withdrawn, proba- bly to join the small army of plain clothesmen and patrolmen who had been foolishly and futilely search ing for the New York gunman-the keystone of Captain Strawn's ex- ploded theory.
 With an oath, Dundee used his skeleton key to release the front door lock. Straight down the main hall and into the little foyer be- tween the hall and Nitas bedroom. He snatched up the telephone and to his relief it was not dead. He gave the number of Captain Strawn's home, and had the pleas ure of learning that he had inter- rupted his former chief at a late Sunday breakfast.
 '"When did you withdraw the guard from the Selim house?' he asked abruptly, cutting short Strawn's cordial welcome home.
 Late Thursday afternoon" the chief of the homicide squad an- swered belligerently. "I needed all my men, and the Selim house had been gone over with a fine tooth comb half dozen times. Why?"
 "Oh. nothing" Dundee retorted