The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-07
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! WhenE Charles Morden, report
er for The Blade, is found dead
Dan Blocker, publisher, employs
Sidney Griff. famous criminolog-
list, to solve the murder. ~. =
| Morden had been investigating
t the affairs of Frank B. Cathay,
wealthy and prominent, follow
ing the arrest of an impostor
claiming to be Cathay and &C
eomPanied by a girl called Mary
Briggs. a.
The day following Morden's
death Cathsy dies of poisoning.
I : Griff learns Morden had visit
ed the apartment of Alice Lor-
ton who has reported the disap-
pearance of her roommate, Esth-
er Ordway. Griff questions Alice
and inStructs detectives to- shadow
her. 49,: -. !
Griff and Blocker 20 to- the
apartment occupied by Kenneth
Boone, friend of Alice's. Boone
denies knowing Morden, Griff
moves toward another door of
the room and Boone threatens
him with gun. ~
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4" CHAPTER xxx
Sidney Griff emerged from the
row Of telephone booths and
waited timpatiently until Blocker
came from an adjoining booth.
fn,,,l
thing? the asked. -
Blocker nodded. his face grim
ly purpOseful.
Racine" he said, 'the detec-
tive, has located the Malone wo-
man-that is, we think it's the
Malone woman, although she's
not going under that name right
at present. She's located at 922
Elm street and is going under
the name Of Blanche Stairway.
Evidently Racine found out about
her earlier in the day and kept
his information under cover, be-
cause he went to the Palace hotel
and waited there for 15 minutes.
At the end of that time a woman
joined him. From the descrip-
ton. l gather that it's Mrs.
Frank B. Cathay. Together, they
went to call on Blanche Stairway.
They're still there. As soon as
the boys got line on them they
telephoned report in to, the pa
per-" -.
Sidney Griff frowned medita-
lively.
"We'll go there first" he said.
detectives who are working for
me have located Mary Briggs, the
.hitch-hiker. Naturally, she's i'm
pOrtant, but she's not as impor-
tant as the Malone woman
Gust who" asked Blocker. edo
you figure this Malone woman
isl"
Chat" Griff told him, 'fs
something that remains to be
determined. So far, ! am work
ing in this case on, theory and
only on a theory"
'But you think it's going to
check out?" ..s.# ..,.
"It'is checking out" Griff said.
"What's the theory?" - -. =.
GIN every case" Griff told him,
there's some key clew-some-
thing that dominates all of the
other clews - something that
points directly to the motive for
the crime and the manner of its
execution, as well as identity of
its prepetrator. The key clew in
this case was the counterfeit
crook" ..-
"The,,. counterfeit crook"
Blocker, asked. "Who do you
"The man who posed as the
pickpocket, who had Cathay's
wallet, driving licenses and
credentials" ....
':Why do you say he couldn't
have been a crook?" Blocker
asked.
"Observe carefully" Griff told
him. 81 do not say the man is
not a crook. l say that he was
a counterfeit crook. In other
words, he was posing as pick
pocket and yet he was no pick
pocket. as even casual examina-
ton of the evidence would have
shown .Ft..... ,..1 ..@*
Glow do you ,mean?"
"Hehgav a very fair imitation
of Cathay's signature at the po-
lice station. He gave a fairly ac-
curate imitation of Cathay's sig
nature, when he registered at the
hotel"
"He might have been a forger,"
Blocker pointed out.
"Those things" Griff said,
take practice. But mark you,
here is the most significant thing
H. Dead