The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-06
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 DAVID HARVESTER under
 takes Co find osie who Killed
 TRACY KING. orchestra leader,
 is his hotel apartment. Bannis.
 ter is an aufhor and former
 newspaper man. He works on
 the murder case with GAINEY,
 star reporter on the Post.
 Among those suspected are
 JULIET FRANCE, blond and
 pretty and known to have visited
 King shortly before his death;
 HERMAN SCURLACH who
 wrote King c threatening letter;
 and JOE PARROTT, down-and.
 out vaudeville actor. It Is also
 known that MELVINA HOLLIS.
 TER, middle-agcd spinster, had quarreled with King recently.
 AL DRUGAN, friend of Kings
 is found dead in Q wrecked aus
 tOmobile.
 Bannister persmades the police
 chief to let Juliet come to his
 aunt's home, ostensibly as q guest, on the theory that if the
 girl believes herself free they
 can learn more about her.
 Parrott is located i'm St Louis
 and detective is sent to bring
 him back. BannisteP talks over
 the case with McNEAL of the
 detective bureau. McNeal be- .lleves King and Drugan were
 killed by gangsters and that Ju-
 liet is involved with the same
 gnng.
 CHAPTER xxXIII
 Bannister spoke slowly, You don't mean that" he said. "A girl like that why. she couldn't have anything to do with Mug Logan's gang! She couldn't"
 "Oh, couldn't she? Maybe you'll go ahead and tell me why she was in Tracy Kings apartment the night he was killed. Maybe you'll tell me the rest of 1t. Just be- cause she's got pretty face don't let that fool you. Did you ever see gun .man's doll who wasn't pretty? Why couldn't the girl be in on 1t, I'd like to know?"
 'Listen," Bannister said, "have you any evidence to prove that she's-what you think she is?"
 "If had evidence I wouldn't be sitting here talking about 1t. Say, why all the excitement? You haven't fallen for the dame, have you?"
 T haven't fallen for her." Ban mister said bitterly. "and I don't intend to. just wanted to get your story straight"
 McNeai settled back in his chair more comfortably. "Well, then" he said. There 1t is. figure Drugan and King were both in on onnnHinr n lot of money around this town. So has Drugan. They didn't get 1t playing in that orchestra. You know that as well as I do. Where did they get it then? I figure they were in with Logan. Never mind just why I think so. can't go into all that now.
 Anyhow King and Drugan both have pretty steady source of cash "a good deal more than they're earning at the State. Then King meets this Lang girl and gets en- gagged to her. She has money to burn. If he marries her he doesn't need his underworld friends any longer and he wants to get rid of Shem. You know what happens when you try to give crowd like that tho run-around! Parrott ap- pears on the scene and about the same time the girl shows up. Somebody plugs King and Drugan starts yelling that 1t was Parrott. So Drugan gets his. That's the way these gangsters as l see it. I'll admit I haven't quite figured out the girls part"
 Maybe you're right about 1t, i,to Lno tyiIsy
 "I tell you," the detective cap- tain went on," you can't tell about danes. The swellest dressed and best looking and most ladylike act ing ono I ever saw in my life was with Big Boy" Milano the day we found him here"
 McNeal was referring to his proudest achievement - the part he had played in the capture of tho New York gangster who had defled police of a dozen big cities only to be taken in Fremont. For his bravery on that occasion Me- Neal's name had appeared in news papers throughout the country.
 "You don't want to let looks de- ceivc you" he went on. ''If this girl isn't mixed up with some un- derworld crowd why don't she talk? I'll tell you why - because she knows what happens to squcal- CTS. They're all more afraid of their own crowd than anyone else"
 ,"Well," said Bannister "how are you going to prove all this? What are you going to do now?"
 "Givc Parrott the works and see what we can get out of him. Watch the girl. If she's begun writing letters 1t ought to be a big help.
 There was silence for several minutes. Then Bannister knocked the ashes from his cigar. "So it's