The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-19

 the walls and obliquely across the ceiling. Have you tried all the 1fghts?" Harper demanded. Are you sure none of them is working?" Counally spoke up "Yes. sir. The juice must be cut off"
 Tt must be cut off at the meter Suppose you go down in the cellar and see if you can ind out about 1t. And while you're there. take a look at the heating arrangements. We're going to be here the rest of the night. by the look of things. and we can't work without light or heat"
 Officer Connally went to the eel lar door drew the bolts after some tugging, and descended the stairs. In very short time he called up to say that he had pulled the lever on the electric meter. The candles were blown out.
 Harper turned to Hilleary. You and Connally were first on the scene. weren't you?"
 "Yes, sir. We followed Officer Hamill's footprints from the call box to this house."
 What did you do while you were waiting? Were you here in the hall the whole timer"
 "We had look around, carrying | h,tf n this floor. It was dark everywhere and we couldn't see much. but found all the doors locked-except the front door. of course. Everything seemed to be in order"
 Harper nodded and turned to his men. q want this house searched from top to bottom. And keep your eyes open for any signs of recent oc- cupancy. For instance. there must be a hat and overcoat somewhere about"
 Officers Clymer. Smith and Hil- leary scattered for their search. Harper picked up the telephone and dialed the Homicide Bureau. He made a very tessk s%eHes Sf the dou- ble killing, giving only the address of the house and the telephone num- Der. To the listening Doyle's sur prise. he suppressed any mention of names.
 HARPER put in a requisition for l l the police Ambulance to be sent up at once. with Coroner's deputy. the official photographer. and the usual technical experts whose duty it was to make the basic survey in homicide cases. He also requested that Detective John Lafferty be noti- fled of assignment to the case and told to report at once to Headquar- ters.
 By the time the detective had fn- ished telephoning, Connally had come up from the cellar Every thing will be OK. Sergeant" he re- ported. There's one of those new fangled oil heaters down there. It was going all right, but the gauge was set very low. moved 1t to sev- enty-five."
 "That's fine How are the arrange nfents down tkere?"
 "Very neat. sir. Everything clean and wide open. You can see all around it from the foot of the stairs. I spotted the meter right away"
 "Is there shovel down there?"
 "Yes, sir There's a carpenters bench in one corner with a whole stack of tools lying around"
 "All right, Connally. here is job for you. Get shovel and clear a narrow path from the front door to the sidewalk. But do not disturb or cover over any of the footprints that are already out there in the snow. That is most important Then go on duty at the front door and see to 1t that every one who enters or leaves the house walks in that path"
 One by one the men returned from their search upstairs. All had the same report to make-eyery- thing spick and span, with no sign of recent occupancy.
 Harper glanced at his watch. "I've got to make flying trip down town" he declared. then turning to Smith and Hilleary. of the Bandit Chaser Squad. you two had better stay here until the Headquarters men ar rive. Then you can check out"
 He gave the key to the locked room to Officer Clymer. If they get here before return. get them start. ed in there. Tell the photograp pher that l want an extra set of prints. And warn everybody that that room is to be left exactly as it is. Nothing is to be disturbed Tell the doctor to wait for me. I'll be back soon."
 Connally appeared as Harper was buttoning his overcoat. Just sit tight while I'm gone. Don't go polk ing around for clues until we have better idea of what to look for. And don't go outside the house on any account. or you will be confusing the tracks in the snow." (Copyrioht. 1881. by Walter c. Bro,om)
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