The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-09
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SYNOPSIS DAVID HARVESTER under fnlzes to find out who killed TRACY KING, orchestra leader. Ranister is an author and former newspaper man. He works on the murder case with GAINEY, star reporter on the Post.
 Among those suspected arc JULIET FRANCE, blond, pretty and known to have visited King shortly before his death; HER. MAN SCURLACH who wrote King a threatening letter: and JOE PARROTT, down-and- -out vaudeville actor. It is also known that MELVINA HOLLISTER, mIddIe-aged spinster, had quar- reIed with King recently.
 AL DRUGAN, friend of Kings ts found dead fin Q wrecked au- tOmobile.
 Banister pcrsnades the police chief to let Juliet come to his auntS home, OstensibIy as n 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 sent to bring him back.
 DAISY CONNOR, maid in the Coleman home, tells Gainey she knows something about the mur- der.
 CHAPTER xXXV
 Apparently Daisy Connor was unconscious of the dramatic effect of her words.
 T remember" she said, "because Mrs Coleman and I were the only ones in the house. MT Coleman had driven off in his car right after dinner. Mrs Coleman was in her bedroom and when the telephone rang about eight o'clock l an- swered it.
 Tt was Q woman's voice on the phone. She wanted to know if Parker Coleman was there and I said no, he wasn't. Then she said, If he comes in soon will you tell him Denise Lang colled?'
 T said, yes, I'd tell him. I went back to my room and looked at the picture of Tracy King. I've got it in g. silver frame l bought at Herbst's. Somehome I couldn't see how girl who was going to marry Tracy King could be wasting time on Parker Coleman. Not, of course, that Mir Coleman isn't nice enough --only he's nothing like Tracy King!
 After a while I picked up the book I'd been reading and went on with it. It must have been close to nine o'clock when the telephone rang again and 1 went down and answered it. It was Denise Lang again-I've heard her voice often enough to know! Is Parker Cole man there? she asked and I said no, he wasn't. She didn't say any more but just Thank you and hung up.
 "Well, next morning when I saw the papers and read what had hap pened to poor Mir King I nearly cried my eyes out. I couldn't think of anything except that I'd never see him again, or hear him sing those beautiful songs. For almost a year 1 haven't missed Thurs day afternoon at the State-except once last winter when I had the fiu."
 Bannister was growing restless. "But what has all this to do-" he began.
 Daisy Connor checked him. Don't you @" she asked. I've told you Denise Lang telephoned to Parker Coleman twice that evening. Between eight and nine o'clock. Why did she want to say next day day he was at her house thon? That's what she said. I read it in the paper myself" She turned to Gainey. You wrote it, didn't you?"
 "Yes," Gainey admitted, T did. Don't you remember, Bannister? You were there. She told us Parker Coleman came to see her. Said he was an old friend and that he'd been out of town"
 "That part of it was right" the maid told them. Ut was late in the afternoon when he got home. He came in a taxi and had his travelling bag with him. He'd been away three or four days-on some kind of business trip, his mother said.
 You're positive it was Miss Lang who called the second timer" Bannister asked.
 / Daisy Connor nodded her head emphatically. q couldn't have been mistaken about that" she said. Tt was the same voice I heard before. And I've heard it plenty of other times, too. It was Denise Lang all right"
 Gainey drew a small square on a sheet of copy paper and filled it in with black marks. Then he looked at Bannister and said, "Well-?"
 The other shook his head. "I can't make it out. Coleman cer- tainIy wasn't at her home if Miss Lang telephoned to him. But why would she want to tell us a thing like that? I can't see any reason for it.
 Daisy Connor said, "Humph!" in e tone filled with disgust.
 "What do you think about 1t, Miss Connor?" Gainey asked quickly.
 "Pm not saying what think" the maid said. i've told you what happened. That's all I know. It looked funny to me and I thought somebody should know about it. There's poor Tracy King dead, shot down in cold blood, and nobody's ben peunished for it. I want to see justice done-!"
 "Yes," said Bannister, that's wht we all want to see. Now