Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-12-07

"Then, Much After Midnight, the
Night of the Crime, She Went
Back to Stuart's Quarters to Steal
Her Letters and the Cancelled
Checks"
you say, Rankin" he queried, "Mrs.
Jordan herseR. appeared at city hall.
last Friday night? But as Randall
she visited my office that same after
noon, to arrange conclusively about
dropping out Of college. She was
closeted with me, you recall, when you
came to arrest Buckley"
"Oh, that was simply managed, Mr..
Warwick" Rankin answered readily.
Friday, you see, was the day Miss
| Prentiss was due in Philadelphia.
Some time that morning, still in mas
culine clothes, she checked in at the
Quaker hotel; of course, she gave a
fictitious name. But she brought along
the suitcases containing her feminine
outfits and wig, which had been in the
checkroOm of one of the railroad ter
miDals the past six weeks until she
called here with a new certificate of
Ill health from her physician, to be
granted permanent leave of absence.
Then, after my visit interrupted the
discussion, she returned to the hotel
and donned her woman's clothes and
wig. She met Myra Prentiss at four
O'Clock. in the ladies' room at the
Pennsylvania station; and for two
hours obtained from her the evidences
of her voyage east and memorized its
details and events. At about seven.
she presented herself to me at head
quarters and finally registered over
again at the Quaker hotel, as Laura
| Jordan"
Il see; that makes it quite clear"
The supervisor sat back and folded
his arms. "In fact, / think I under
stand every point now but how you
penetrated her disguise. after knowing
her only as Randall. She took you in
completely at your first meeting, didn't
she?"
Except for a vague sensation Of
familiarity had on her arrival. She
was clever actress, Mr.. Warwick,
and well disguised, especially by that
blond wig. That puzzled me when
Miss Prentiss mentioned she had
changed the color of her hair Orig
fnally, Laura Dumont was a brunette,
like the show-girl. herself; when she
cut 1t to act as Randall, naturally, his
hair was also brown. But there WAS
danger that If she became Mrs. Jor-
dan again with the same hair. the re-
semblance might be noticeable. Ac-
cordingly, she adopted blond wig and
Miss Prentiss also had to wear one, to
pass for her."
Eyes, but that doesn't EXPLAIN" Mr..
Warwick began, "what cine "ave you
the connection In the conspiracy he
tween Randall here and Doc or Prince
In st. Louis"
I'm coming to that now" the de-
tective interrupted. 1T was Randall's
certificate from his physician about
his tubercular condition that told me
the truth. That was the first one
actually saw-among his papers on
this desk. Friday afternoon. Those he
presented previously, to be excused
from college in October and on his
return in February, had been filed
among his records in his department.
the business school. They all came
from Doctor Prince. whenever Randall
or Mrs. Jordan-required them. OF
course, he did not fill them out as
Doctor Prince or I'd have recognized
the plot at once; he was shrewd
enough to keep his name out of it. He
wrote them out on printed forms he
secured Of a nOn-existent doctor In
Chicago. Randall's home town. choos-
ing a name resembling an actual ply
stefan there. DR.. Harold Lincoln, he
lieve It was. The university was ac-
custOmed to accepting such reports
without much investigation.
"But when happened to notice Doc
tor Princes written prescriptions. in
his Office in St. Louis. realized his
connection with Randall The hand
writings we're identical. At the same
time. it hardly seemed likely that she
would leave that evidence among the
university files. It not alone implicated
him in the conspiracy and linked him
with the Randall disguise. hut It was
absolutely conclusive. And she would
not dare go before Monday, as she
said. If only because II was wise to
| allow several days to elapse between
her appearance as Stuart's wife and
her departure as the student. fully
suspect she intended to purloIn the
one certificate by some sleight-of-hand