The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-21
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under the reading lamp.
 "You're interested profession ally ?". she asked.
 "Very much so," he said.
 q hope" she told him, you can do something about it. The police are getting ready to turn Lampson loose. There was only one witness "a man named Decker - and Lampson bribed Decker to fall down on the identification. think you represented Decker, didn't you?"
 Lets pass that for a moment" Griff said. "Tell me precisely what happened, please."
 She stared steadily at him for a moment, then said: "Mr Shil- lingby was employed to get some He shadowed Lampson. On the night of the murder a gray CadiI- lac car with the left rear fender dented. drove up to the sidewalk and parked. A gangster got out. approached MT Shillingby, fired several shots into his body, jumped in the car and drove away"
 And the witness - Decker ?" Griff asked.
 You should know all about Decker" she said. "He was walk ing along the street a hundred yards or so behind MT Shillingby. The man in the gray Cadillac thought at first Decker was the man he wanted. He slowed the car and poked out gun. Then he real ized his mistake and drove on.'
 "He didn't get out of the ma chine?"
 "No."
 But he did get out of the ma chine when he killed MT Shil- lingby?"
 "Yes, I believe that's right"
 Then" Griff said slowly, "the man who did the killing was some one Shillingby knew and in whom he had confidence"
 "Why do you say that?" she asked.
 "Because," he said. MT Shil- lingby knew that he was in a posi- tion of danger. Yet, when this man stopped the car by the curb and approached MT Shillingby, Shillingby made no effort whatever to draw his gun or to protect him. self"
 "Yes," she said slowly, T guess that's right, although that hadn't occurred to me before"
 Now then" Griff said, "can you tell me about a Mrs Blanche Ma lone?"
 She arose from behind the desk, moved a card index, opened a drawer, looked through several cards, crossed to a correspondence file, opened the correspondence file looked at several letters, then re- turned to the desk. "A client wished a report upon that woman," she said.
 Did MT Shillingby make it?" "Yes."
 Gan you tell us the name of the client?"
 Ut was a bank" And, I take it, it was a bank in some distant city" "Yes," she said, Sit was." "Would you object to giving us the name of the bank? I can as- sure you that it is important, Miss Bronson" "It was," she said, 'the Second Security Trust of Fl Paso, Texas. '. And just what did they want?" he asked.
 "They said that Mrs Malone was connected with an embezzler. They wanted to make certain that cer- l tain moneys which she had re- l ceived did not come from an en- bezzler. She had been employed as a scrub woman for many years, trying desperately to make both ends meet. Then, suddenly, she seemed to have some money. The bank had been keeping in touch with her. Naturally, the bank was suspicious"
 investigation and reported to- the bank?"
 "Yes."
 What did he report?" "He reported that, apparently her money came to her as the re- suit of investments which she had made from her savings-very for tunate investments in certain oil stocks" :, Just one more point" Griff said land that is about the work thai Shillingby was doing when he was killed. He was getting information about Lampson?" "Yes."
 "He was getting it for some other gangster?
 but that seems to have been the case"
 Il take it, it seems to be the | case" Griff said. because the | client who employed Shillingby to | shadow Lampson gave fctitiou: name and address. When you trieo to get in touch with him, follow. | ing Shillingby's death, you found that the name he had given yor | was fictitious, that the address was | fictitious, and that you were un' l able to get in touch with him."
 Abruptly her face lit up. Now she said, T remember where saw that photograph you showed me-
 "The photograph of the man Morden ?" he asked.
 "Yes," she said.
 "Tell us about it." Griff invited
 ''He was in here" she said, "a | day or two after MT Shillingby's death. He was very much interest | ed in the identity of the man who had employed MT Shillingby. He wanted me to describe the man tt him."
 "And you described him ?" ask. ed Griff. Did you see him?"
 "Oh, yes," she said, "I, saw hin and can describe him. He was. -
 Perhaps" he said, "1 can save Q little time here"
 He took another photograph from his pocket and slid it across the desk under the bright rays O. light which came from the desl lamp.
 "is that" he asked. "the persol who employed Mir Shillingby?"
 "Good. heavens, yes!" she ex' claimed. "How did you know Who is it? Tell me, can we get il touch with him?"
 Blocker crowded forward, tt stare down at the photograph, ant then gave a sudden exclamation.
 The photograph was that O Frank B. Cathay.
 (To Be COntinued)