The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-18


 Alan? If he should ask questions what could she say? Gypsy wait ed in an agony of suspense. In less than five minutes she heard him coming down the stairs again. He was whistling.
 Well" Jim announced, T found it."
 You mean-?'
 "That estimate of Bradley's About putting a new roof on the garage. The price is low enough and I don't want the job put off any longer. Spring rains will be setting in any day. I think I'll tell them to get to work next week."
 Jim did not notice the warm color slowly surging back into the girls cheeks.
 1 "Abbie was here this afternoon" she told him.
 What did she have to say?" | "She wants us to come to her house to dinner next Wednesday. She said we could make 1t some other evening if we'd rather"
 wednesdays all right so far as I know. Do you want to go?" | "I think we should. She was awfully friendly. I guess she really came to apologize about what hap pened at your aunts." | Jim scowled. Its nuisance" he said, "but I guess we'd better go. Remind me of it next week, will you. I've got a lot of work ahead of me. Mills turned over that Rob- erts case to me to-day. His wife's sick and he's going to take her south. They indicted the girl this afternoon"
 "Who?" Gypsy asked. | "Nina Roberts. You've seen her pictures in the papers, haven't you? must have told you about the case. She's the one who's accused of shooting Dr Fowler" l Gypsy shook her head. 1T guess I haven't been reading the papers the last day or two"
 | "Oh, this happened two weeks ago. Here-look at this!" He picked up the newspaper he had dropped on the table and spread it open be- fore her. On the front page was the photograph of a pretty girl and above it, in type stretching across the columns. was the caption, Girl Faces Trial for Shooting Physi- cian."
 "How dreadful!" exclaimed Gypsy. In glaring black letters slightly smaller she read, Nina Roberts, Pretty Assistant. Indicted by Grand Jury for Shooting Dr Frank R. Fowler"
 "Everything they've got on her is circumstantial." Jim went on, but it's going to be d hard fight. think Mills was glad to get rid of | 1t. It's the most sensational thing I've ever tackled"
 "But she's such pretty girl" Gypsy interrupted, and she looks
 'She didn't look so pretty when I was talking to her two hours ago. Poor kids a wreck I wish the re- porters would lay off while. Look at this blah, Love Notes Tell of Tragic Romance!' That will help her a lot, won't it? I've given her strict orders not to talk but it's too late now to do much good"
 "Why do they think she did it?''
 Jim leaned forward, elbows on the arms of his chair. Its like this" he said. Fowler was found dead in his office at o'clock in the evening by a policeman who heard the shot fired. When the cop got there Nina Roberts was on her knees beside the body. There was a gun on the floor and no finger prints. Nina was crying and hys- terical She claims she was out of the office making a telephone call at a public phone booth on the next floor-a personal message she didn't want Fowler to hear. When she came back she found Fowler lying on the floor with blood on his | clothing. She ran to him and. she says he tried to say something but she couldn't understand the words.
 "When the policeman got there l Fowler was breathing but he never regained consciousness. The only lothers in the building were the superintendent fireman. two