Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-03-21
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wearing a tweed suit"
Peter raised his unbandaged
arm in protest, wlnclng from the
pain of the movement. almost
anyone could wear a tweed suit.
That isn't enough to convict young
Carmody."
"But coupled with everything
else, 1t is," the detective s~tubbornly
persisted. THE minute | heard
what had happened to you, | started
my search. / knew from what you
told me that you had put up quite
a battle. Your opponent certainly
would be battered up. Young Car
mody has a black eye and is consid-
erably bruised up, otherwise. He
al wearing a suit that answers
your description. He claims he
was In an automobile accident, but
1t looks as though that were just a
~cleverly arranged scheme to account
for his appearance, as well as his
whereabouts, at the time you were
having your fight. He claims he
had an appointment at Westport at
nine o'clock, but admits he never
kept 1t, and won't tell US who he
was supposed to meet. He gave
Jul detective the slip that after
noon, 80 that he had his first op-
portunity to visit that apartment
And he had a motive In the crime.
There's enough to hold anyone on,
Peter, and I'm going to hold him."
The novelist studied his friend
gravely. "All logical" he admitted.
"I'm not sure about one point. In
my fight, | don't know whether I
battered my antagonist or not. Oh"
he smiled, II know | was consider
ably battered. But the other fellow
was landing his blows on the head,
/ was hitting to the body. He vas
aiming for a knockout, and | vas
trying to wear my man down; work
ing In close as much as possible. /
felt sure that II / could make q
rough-and-tumble affair of 1t, | could
beat him. l think / would have,
too, If ! had not dived through the
window. attempting to tackle him.
All of which means nothing" he
admitted, except that don't
know that | b%lackened one of his
eyes. / can't remember 1t, although
I'm reasonably sure I left some
black and blue marks on his body"
'In a fight of that Sort" Kilday
objected, "you might have landed
a dozen blows you can't remember
now"
Admitted" Peter agreed. "But
Rylie Carmody's black eye isn't
conclusive evidence. How about
Dan Bullisf Does he show any signs
Of having been In a fight?"
None that l could see."
Peter reached for a cigarette
lighted it, and thoughtfully watched
the smoke clouds roll ceIlingward
before he spoke again. "Of course this
let's the woman out" he began. mel
Their Choo ChoO Train nor our mys-
terious woman In blue was capable
Of putting up the scrap that l ran
into. And of course, If the motive
of the crime was to halt the we'd
ding, the crime was committed by a
woman, with the single exception of
Rylle Carmody."
"Of course there was Webster
Spears" put In the detective. "But
he was already under arrest. You
didn't run into him In that Office"
(Which MEANS" continued the
novelist, that either Rylie is our
man, o else the wedding itself
wasn't the motive. I've already ex-
planned why I can't think 1t was
Rylie. A man contemplating MUIR
der doesn't advertise the motive, the
way he did. We still have the Bulls
angle. The murder might have been
political, as you first suggested. Or,
as / have previously suggested, the
woman In blue may be the key to
the cas-
"She is the only factor Of the case
that remains unexplained. / still
believe 1t Is logical to assume that
Franklin was killed In a fit Of jeal-
GUS rage, over a woman, not by q
woman. Why couldn't 1t have been
that woman's brother or husbandi
Sergeant, either you are right, and
Rylie is our man, or we still have
to locate a blond woman with whom
Franklin had an affair.
There's one thing / never
thought to ask" Peter continued
did you discover how Franklin'f
apartment was entered? Did the
person who searched those rooms
have a key, or were you able to find
where he forced his entrance?"
HE must have had a key. None
Of the windows had been forced and
the locks showed no signs Of hav.
ing been tempered with"
"Well, who had keys to Franklin's
apartments We had Franklin's, or
his key-ring. Fletcher had one
with him. We'd better talk to Choc
Choo Train again. She had a key tc
that apartment. Our burglar used
her key, or else"
"Or else whatf"
"Or else our woman In blue had
a key. too"
an soon find out" promised the
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