The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-03-22
Characters figuring
In our new serial
The Wedding
March Murder
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discovered in the search of the room
where Jim Franklin had met his death.
Four of these, Kilday was inclined to
believe, were made by men. The fifth
set belonged either to woman or to
man with exceptionally small hands.
O'Malley was excited when he re-
turned with the photographs. "We've
identified the print on the gun with
one of these sets we found In the
study" he reported eagerly. "LoOk
here, Sergeant"
Side by side, he laid two negatives,
as he Indicated the similarity of whorls
and lines which marked the two prints
as Identical.
Kilday rubbed his hands delightedly.
take squirt at them, Peter" he In
vited. Heres one time our finger
prints are going to prove case
for u.s."
The novelist examined the prints
carefully. 'But why didn't we find
any prints on the knife, then? We
know the murderer used 1t, but care
fully wiped It off later. / don't I'M
derstand why he should have been so
careless about the revolver, or about
leaving finger-prints in the room.
Where's the joker?"
SYou said It." exclaimed the SER
geant. "Carelessness He didn't think
we'd take the trouble to look for gun
In the garden, after we found the
knife. And some time or another, he
must have left some prints in the
study. If not, these two wouldn't
match. Peter, I'm going to have the
man who killed Franklin locked up
by night"
II hope you're right" Cardigan
looked doubtful
Kilday only grinned. "Here," he
wrote down list of suspects In the
case, beginning with Webster Spears,
then read 1t aloud. spears, Rylie
Carmody, Ambrose CarmOdy, Calls
Shipley, Choo Choo Train, Daniel
Bulls, Nicholas Royce and Doctor
Alternately. With the exception OF
the woman In blue. that's the list.
.I already have Choo Choo's finger
prints on that cigarette case" he con-
.tinued, "and Miss Shipley will be here
before long. SO you don't need to worry
about her." He was addressing his as
sistant. "As for the others, want
specimens of their prints as soon as
possible OF course, you can't afford
to be obvious about it. Use cigarette
cases and pretend you want to ques
Etion them about something else. I'm
sderstand?"
O'Malley nodded.
"Good. Clean 1t up as quickly as
possible. Before you go, though, tell
them to hurry up report on Choo
fChoo's prints. don't want any time
wasted.
snow we're getting somewhere" he
igrunted as O'Malley left the room.
Then he wheeled, with gesture OF
annoyance, as his assistant returned.
l~Of course wasn't In any hurry
about those prints" he began, dourly.
"rll hurry, Sergeant I just came
back to tell you that the Shipley girl
q here. She just arrived"
.Why didn't you say so, instead Of
standing there like an idiot?" the off,
Ger grumbled. "Show her in"
He laid a newspaper over the grisly
exhibits on his desk.
Calls Shipley glanced fnquisitively
from one man to the other. AS before,
Peter was struck by her beauty, not
the least appealing thing about 1t be-
ing that the girl seemed utterly un-
conscious of It. She wore It, Peter
thought, with the same charming In
difference which she probably attached
to the perfection of her costume. Peter
was usually shy of women, partfcu-
larly beautiful women. who never
seemed to forget their, own loneliness.
But he felt instinctively that this was
the sort of girl whe could be good
comrade. Her blue eyes were made
for laughter, In spite of the gravity
Of their present expression, and, he
admitted 1t reluctantly. she stirred his
sympathies, just as she had before.
In the duel that was to come, he knew
that she, not Sergeant Kilday, would
claim his partisanship. That very
partisanship put him on his guard
against her. yet he could not con.
troll 1t.
You sent for mer'
Peter noticed the slight tremor Of
her hands, but she quickly clasped
them in her lap, where they might not
betray her. She was frightened. then.
Kilday deposited his cigar in the
tray, careful not to disturb the ash,
watching the girl shrewdly, all the
while.
"Miss Shipley." he began deliberate
ly, "you didn't tell us the truth, last
might, about your ride home from the
church with Rylie Carmody. Later
you admitted It. Why?"
II told you. II had Jumped to
conclusions concerning what had hap
pened. I was worried. I was afraid