The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-13
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{ JUANTTA SELIM is murdered ht bridge. Suspicion rests on LYDIA CARR, the maid; FLORA MILES, in Nita's closet at the time of the murder. reading n noe which she thinks is from her husband. hut which Is really from < DEXTER SPRAGUE, probably mall and on RALPH HAMMOND, engaged to Nita.
 Lydia has been practically cleared and gives an alibi, for Spraguc; Halph's innocence also seems appar- ent. SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR DUNDEE wants now to know who paid Nita S1O,OOO in HamiItno, and why. At the inquest special stress is laid on the theory that a New York gunman did the job.
 Dundee learns from Lydia and ney's secretary, whose father once owned the SeIim house, that there is probably some secret hiding place in tho house. It is Dundce's opinion that the gun and Maxim siIcnccH belonging to JUDGE MARSHALL, Nita's landlord, arc hidden there. Lydia brings to the office the dress in which Nita Is to bc crcmated, and Penny poses for pictures in 1t.
 Lydia says she doesn't know whom Nita feared and tells of a bell Sprague contrived near Nita's bed which rings in Lydia's room. Others may have known of this Lydia admits she knew Spraguc returned to the house after the murder to take away his things, hut says he could have done noth- ing else fin the limited time. Dun- dec goes to look for the hiding place.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXT. After solid hour Of hard and fruitless work, Bonnie Dundee was forced to admit ruefully to himself that his parting words to the district attorney had sounded like q youth ful boast. And SD far it had proved to be a woefully empty boast.
 For nowhere in the house Roger Grain had built and in which Nita Selim had been murdered could the detective find anything remotely resembling concealed safe. The two plainclothesmen Strawn had de- tailed to guard the house and to continue the search for the missing gun and silencer looked on with un-
 
 tapped walls. floors and ceiling in a house that seemed to be excep- 1ionally free of architectural eccen- tricities.
 Finally he grew tired of their 1ibald comments and brusquely ordered them to make a new and exhaustive search of the unused portions of the basement-those dark. unfloored regions. with their networks of water and sewage pipes. heavily insulated cables of electric wires, cobwebby rafters, sloping banks of earth. and rough shelves. holding empty fruit jars and liquor bottles which con- trasted sharply with the neatly ceiled and cement -floOred space de- voted to furnace, laundry and maids room. Dundee himself had given those regions only a cursory inspection with his flashlight. for it was highly improbable that Nita SeliIn would have made use of a secrt hiding place for her jewelry and valuable papers, if that hiding place were located in such dark, aweSome surroundings.
 No. The hiding place, if it really existed-and it must exist-had been within easy reach of Nita dressing and bedecking herself for a party. or Lydia Carr could not have been kept in complete ignor- ance of it's location.
 With that conviction in mind, Dundee returned to Nita's bedroom to which he had already devoted at least half an hour. Nothing in the big clothes closet where Flora