The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-23
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DAVID BANHISTEf undertake.
TO find out who killed TRACY
KING. orchestra leader Bannister
il nm author md former news
papcr man. He works ON the
murder cnse with CALMLY star
reporter ON the Post
Among thOse suspected Hre
JULIET FRANCE. blond. prctt!
and known TO have visited King
shortly before his dcathi HER
MAN SCURLACH who wrote kinG
n threatening letters and JOE
PARROTT. dUwn-and-oui vnude-
willie actor. IL IL also known thar
MELSINA HOILISTEH. middle
aged spinster. had uunrrcicd with
King recently.
Al DRrGAS. friend of KinG's.
Is found dead In wrecked auto
mobile.
Bannister pcrsuades the police
chief TO let Juliet come 10 his
aunt's home, ustcnsibly as
guest. on the, theory that IL the
girl believes herself free they rnn
learn more about her.
juliet beEs Dannistcr to "stop
trying TO find OUT who killed
Tracy King" Inter that dn!
Bannister rushcs 10 the hotel
where she nnd her brother lived
and learns she WAS strnng.cd.
Matthew HOIliSter IL hyStcrical
and demands that the police pro-
tcct him.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER xxx
PANNISTER paused to buy a
- paper from a newsboy. glanced
at the headlines. and then went on
with the newspaper tucked under
his arm. Buying the newspaper
had been a matter Of habit. AL
ready he knew the facts those
columns contained-all that the
police had learned, or been willing
to disclose. about the death Of Mel
VIVA Hollister.
Those facts were meager enough
The finger print experts had been
unable to add ANYTHING at all t
the solution of the mystery. The
only prints in the apartment clear
enough to be read were those OF
Miss Hollister herself and bel
brother.
Servants and tenants of the hote
had been questioned about event:
the afternoon before. No one coulc
recall seeing anyone suspicious
there. Mrs. Russell Kennebec, VIII
lived across the hall from the Hol
listers, had reported hearing voices
one of which she thought was Mis-
HOLSTERS, some time during tn
afternoon. Investigation had dis
closed that between and $3.50
boy had delivered laundry at TIT
apartment. The boy. whose name
was John Gregory, told police HI
had brought the laundry, as he al
ways did each week. He said Mis-
Hollister had checked over the lis
to be sure everything had been re
turned, paid him and added Ca
she often had) that the price o
laundry was highway robbery
So far as could be learned, this DO!
was the last person to see Me
yina- HOLSTER alive.
Efforts were being made to trac'
the ownership of the silk scar
with which Miss HOLSTER had beef
strangled. There was a photograph
of the scarf on the front page 0
the newspaper. 1t was a olac
scarf with narrow white stripes
grouped together at intervals OF a
inch or more. The scarf appeare
to be an old one. There was n
mark of any sort on it.
The time of Miss HOLSTER
death had been set indefinitely a
"between three and five o'clock"
Nothing had been taken from tn
apartment. eliminating the poss
bility that robbery could have bee
the motive for the crime.
THOSE were the facts. Bannii
L ter was puzzling over them. q
he had been for several hours
when he heard his name Spoken
He looked Up and saw a woma
coming toward him.
"David-Dayid Bannister!" Cd