The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-23

but O chance gust OI Wthu piSW back the brim of his hat and gave Decker a glimpse of his features.
 'Fisher was to take the name of Cathay, go to a hotel, register. keep an appointment as Cathay and cash a check. He went to the hotel, reg istered and cashed the check but before he could kep the appoint ment he got playing around with Stella Mockley. They had a few drinks and the unexpected hap pened. Fisher was arrested. It be- came necessary for him eventually to assume the identity of Cathay with the police. That led to the publication of the story. Cathay had to make gesture of suing for libel. He did not realize what would inevitably happen. The newspaper would start checking into his past.
 When that happened the men were in a panic. And there, gentle men, is where we must give a trib- ute to Morden. Perhaps he stum- bled upon the information. Per- haps he reasoned it out. I wish that I knew. I never will know. If he reasoned it out. he had the brain of a marvellous detective.
 ''Ke knew that Morden took a taxicab. That he went to Ninth and Central. That he went to Shillingby's office and asked ques- tions. Undoubtedly, Morden was shadowed. That trip cost aim his life. The conspirators were in a pqanic. It was decided that Mor6en must die.
 They knew that Cathay would be suspected. Therefore, he must have an alibi. Fisher undoubtedly agreed to give him some medicine that would make him quite i'll, so that he could be under the care of a doctor. That was Fishers opor- tunity. He suddenly realized how much better off he would be if he could kill Cathay, stand in with Mrs Malone, and milk Mrs 'Cathay by blacgmail.
 "Fisher hd been having Morden shadowed and, therefore, had no difficulty locating him. Morden was waiting for Alice Lorton to come in. Fisher showed up and pro- duced key to the apartment. Morden recognized Fisher as the man who had been arrested and given the name of aCthay. Fisher clubbed Morden from behind, left the body in the apartment and slipped out.
 l Alice Lorton found the body when she returned to her apart ment. Boone helped her get rid of 1t. Alice Lorton probably appealed to Fisher by telephone and he ad- vised her what to do. Remember, he must have been both an attor- ney and a friend to her.
 Tn the meantime the girl who had ben with Fisher at the time he was arrested while impersonat- ing Cathay became an important witness. Fisher undoubtedly in- tended to kill her, but he had her pretty much under his power. Therefore, he wanted to get her to tell false story before she died.
 Fisher knew that Cathay had left his chauffeur. a large bequest. This had probably ben done for reason. We may never know what that reason was. was afraid that they would either murder the chauffeur or get him to skip out of the country for large cash con- sideration. Therefore, I was anx- ious to hold him as a witness. The story, of course, which Stella Mockley told us about the myster- ious conversations of Peter Malone over the telephone with the chauf- feur at the Cathay residence, was made up out of so much whole cloth. She had been carefully coached in that story by Fisher. When she had told her story, Fish CT wanted her removed. He tele- phoned her to take taxicab and meet him at a certain place. Then he took out the gray Cadillac which had undoubtedly been stored in some private garage near the scene of the crime.
 -"He intended to kill the girl and the cab driver and make his escape After that he would be in an inn | pregnable position, with Mrs Ma lone blackmailing the money from Mrs Cathay and Fisher getting the lions share of the money. All Fish CT had was the law practice. When did you first uncover all this?" Captain Mahoney asked. "I should have known it much sooner" Griff said apologetically. | "I realized what must have hap pened when began to realize that the man who had assumed the identity of Cathay must have done so with Cathay's knowledge, con- sent and cooperation. Then I re- alized, of course, that 1t had been done to give Cathay an alibi and that a man would go to such trou- ble to get an nalibi only in the event he planned to commit a mur- der. I then thought back to re- member if murder had been committed at that exact time and remembered at once that Shilling by had been murdered at 10:15 o'clock.
 'I knew at once what had hap pened. It remained to secure proof of that which had happened"
 The criminologist sighed as he got to his feet. Doubtless he said, ESQ far as you gentlemen are concerned the case is completely explained. As far as am con- cerned, it will never be explained"
 If Morden merely obtained some tip." Blocker said, "how could he have obtained it."
 Griff shook his head.
 T wish," he said softly, that I could answer that question. The murder of Shillingby was the key to the entire mystery - and yet that murder was overlooked by all of us--all except Morden. He re- membered the forgOtten murder