Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-07-06

sh0ulunt De, 4 cant Sdy-and WEIGH
won't. But even II there wasn't, and
he thought there was-I reckon WEIGH
would be a pretty bad hombre."
"Thayer was a big man, too, wasn't
he?"
"Yeh, but soft. Larry could have
broke him In half-maybe."
what else you got against himf"
aWelch was the last person known
to have been in Thayer's room before
Mike Carmicino, the j%anitor, discovered
the body. He seemed sore when he
went to see Thayer, and he left In q
hurry. Then the body was found. But
even If all that wasn't enough, there's
something else"
You mean about Miss Peyton being
Weleh's grip
Exactly. And she had been to
Thayer's room before that. WEIGH is
cuckoo about Miss Peyton. Somebody
tells Larry she has just paid a visit
to Pat Thayer in his room. SO what does
Welch do but hotfoot II down to find
out what the hi. Amt 1t reasonable
| that he'd be boiling over under those
circumstances"
1Uh.huh. I've seen lots OF fellers
get fightin' mad at less"
And this amt less, Jim. There's
still more. I arrested Welch the min
ute / could get my hands on him. and
had a long heart-to-heart talk with
him, and all | can tell Won. Tim II
%ovagun."
aNo7s
es. Absolutely. ii was positively
shameful. the way he lied and
you know as well as me, Jim, that
when a suspect lies all the way
through he's either In pretty deem or
knows who ia. Am I right7'
fright"
Randolph Fiske was listening fas-
cInatedly to the conversation. He was
amazed by two things. First. their
coId-bloodedness second. Reagan's un-
doubted superiority OF intellect.
aWhen / first arrested Welchh Rem
gan continued nha evarv-
thing with lies He started or nv
DENYING that he had been to 500
Tbayer. nroyed that nm an him in
less time than If takes 4 poaf ia eaf
a shirt. After admitting that he said
that he'd never been ANYTHING but fhe
best OF friends with Thaver. Then
/ told him there was q chance for him
II he was innocent because we already
had two other people under arrest.
He asked who they were and | told
him. The minute ! mentioned Miss
Peyton's name his whole attitude
changed" Reagan paused and chuck
led. And how II
"Well-how7"
HE wanted to know right away
why we should think anything 30
ridiculous as that Tony peyton killed
Thayer. / told him 1t was because
she had visited Thayer's room just be-
fore he-Welch-got there. could
see he was doing some fast thinking.
He finally called me a d-n fool, which
wasn't very nice, and wanted to know
how Miss Peyton could have killed
Thayer when he had been there after
she had gone and Thayer was alive.
put II up TO him that that wasn't a
very healthy stand for him to take be-
cause II Thayer was alive When ne
visited the fraternity house, then II
certainly put Miss Peyton In the clear
but made 1t rotten for him. ! also
was thinklng-though didn't discuss
II with hlm-that 1t cleared Max Yer
non; too, because Max left the ira
ternity house before Larry got there"
Reagan stopped talking. Harvey
remained silent. 1t was Fiske who
could not tolerate the uncertainty.
"What did Larry say them"
"He insisted Thayer was still alive
when he was there, and wanted to
know why I didn't let Miss Peyton so
right away. I told him l didn't be-
ieve him and he informed me once
again that was a certain kind OF an
IDIOT
"But surely" snapped Fiske, "a q
isn't going to put his W neck In =
moose unnecessarily, Is he7"
.Maybe.n answered Reagan calmly.