The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-13

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 CHAPTER VII
 There was no answer from Blocker. publisher of The Blade. but an abrupt, negative nod of the mead. Kenrey, the city editor, pressed the receiver support down into place, then raised 1t again.
 Miss Vest" he went on, "this is Dick Kenney. will you get me Biii Osborne on the line right away? Yes, I'll hold the line hell. Bill. this is Kenney. Nixon has just telephoned in from headquarters. Hes picked up a radio call. The police have found a body out on the outskirts of town. Sanborne and 1S2d streets. It's subdivision that's gone sour. There are only a few houses out there. The police think the body is that of Charles Morden.
 Take Sam Lane with you. Go down to Headquarters and get on the Job. Contact the homicide squad. Tell them that Morden was working on an important matter and that we're going to move heaven and earth to get the thing cleaned up. Yoi can pass the word around that The Blade is going to expect results. I ou find out all the facts and then report back, and I'll give you 8 line on the stuff Morden was working on. You pick up Fred Nixon and the three of you drop everything else to get this thing cleaned up. Understand
 He nodded his head and dropped the receiver back into place, turn ed 3 set. rim face toward Bleek- CT.
 Poor devil" he said. q
 Blocker made 8 fist, pounded 1t slowly on the desk.
 err, he said slowly, '.sent that boy to his death. I didn't know it, and he didn't know it. but that's what 1t amounted to. Poor devil! Just newspaper man working on a case. He found out something and they rubbed him out"
 Can We get any clews from what he was working on ?' Kenney asked. 'The body was fotnd 20 hours. The back of his head was smushed. He'd been taken out there and dumped"
 He telephoned yesterday" Blee- ker said, ''tha. he was working on a live lead. He had to play, around with some woman to cultivate it. He didn't mention names. You go ahead and handle this thing. Ken ney. Put as many men on tho job as are necessary. Morden was one of our boys. He was bumped off. We're going to avenge his murder. More than that, it's an insult to the paper. We're going to clean this thing up, if we have to move heaven and earth. I'm going to see Sidney Griff, the criminologist.
 
 Ikenney whistled.
 'Thcre's more to this case" Blocker went on, than appears on the surface"
 "Of course there is." Kenney said. You know what it is and so do I. Morden was getting dope on Frank Cathay.'
 made our peace with Cathay. The libel suit was called off"
 'That doesn'. mean that Morde.. had to forget what he'd found. out, does it?" Kenney asked inpatient ly. "Morden found out something; Cathay killed him to keep 1t quiet"
 Blocker shook his head slowly. "Men are killed. Kenney," he said, flor gain, for vengeance, for fear, for jealousy. We can't figure where there was any revenge, gain or Jealousy. Therefore, we jump at the conclusion it's fear and imme- diately figure Cathay was mixed up in 1t. But Cathay is a prom inent citizen. If there are any skel- etons in his closet they'd be buried so deeply a casual investigation wouldn't have disclosed them in three days"
 well" Kenney remarked. "Griff can tell us more about it. He's good-the best criminologist in the country to-day. When you're talk ing with him, try and get some information out of him about man by the name of Thomas Deck CT. Decker was a witness to the murder of Edward Shiliingby, a the gangster they call 'Cincin- natl Red'-is held under arrest. The story goes that Decker was frightened berause he was a wit ness. He went to Griff and Griff has buried him somewhere. He says he'll produce Decker at the time of trial, but that's all he'll say. There's a story in 1t if we could get Griff to talk"
 "He won't" Blocker said.
 There's no harm in trying" Kenney insisted. "If you work on this Morden case with him you'll get chummy with him. Remember to ask him about Decker. In the meantime I'm going to work and dig out some more facts"
 He left the room with quick, in- patient strides.
 Dan Blocker. seated at his desk. got Ethel West on the tel- eph0ne and said. "Get me Sidney Griff, the crimihologist. Tell him that want to see him upon a matter of major importance. probably won't have all the facts lFLAPPER FANNY SAYS: