The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-02

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 II study crime,' he said. "I study the modes and methods of operation. I study the habits of criminals. In those card indexes you'll find digests of every major crime for half century. The big embezzlements! The big murders! The big hold-ups! Crimes of pas sion! Crimes of deliberation! Crimes of violence!
 "Ive concentrated for years on the best methods of getting quick results in criminal eases, and here an ordinary newspaper reporter thinks of something that has en- tirely escaped my rnind!"
 What do you mean?" Blocker asked. T don't see it. don't get the sketch"
 "The garage" said Griff, strid- ing up and down the long room, f1inging the words over his shoul- der without turning his head. "It's 8 new city ordinance, of course, but I should have thought of it's possibilities.'
 q don't follow you," Blocker re- marked. Do you think you know what Morden had in mind? What he was doing?"
 "Of course I know what he had in mind and what he was doing!" Griff said, turning on his heel and striding back toward Blocker, making fierce, impatient gestures with his hands as he walked, em- phasizing his words with little jabs of his extended right forefinger. Its that new city ordinance, the one that requires garages to turn in the license numbers of all cars that are stored in the garage over night. It was sponsored by the au- tomobile insurance eompanies in order to give the police 2 chance to check up on stolen cars. Every public garage. has to submit such
 II still don't see." Blocker said, 'what you're driving at ."
 "Morden," said Griff, wanted to check up on what Cathay was doing in the city. Remember that he wasn't sent out to check up on the man who had assumed Cathay's identity; he was sent out to check up on Cathay. You want ed to get something that would put Cathay on the defensive. Very well, Morden found out Cathay had been here in the city on Monday night. Cathays business was some what mysterious. Morden wanted to find out what it was. He got the license number of Cathay's automobile and checked down through the numbers that were re- ported of cars stored in public garages.
 Tt was probably a tedious job, but he found the car number, found that Cathay's car had been stored in the garage there at the corner of Robinson and Huntley. him direct to the Elite Apart ments. He went there and found that Alice Lorton or Esther Ord way, as the case may be, wasn in, so he went out and ran down another lead and then returned and either found the party he wanted in the apartment or found that the party was going to be there shortly, and decided tht he'd wait. So he paid off the taxicab."
 Blocker nodded his head in slow affirmation.
 Yes" he said, when you ex- press it that way. it's logical enough"
 Now then" Griff said, having established that this young man, Morden, was a logical worker and a fast worker, the question arises why he went to Ninth and Cen tral".
 Probably some other lead" Blocker said. But how did he get lit?"
 Griff shrugged his shoulders.
 "No matter" he said. "We'll run that down a little later. In the meantime we've got a live lead on this garage business. Suppose you have one of your men run over to the garage with a picture of Mor- den. Find out if Morden wasn't there making inquiries about the car that was registered in the name of Frank B. Cathay of Riverview, You can get the registration num- Der by checking up the records in the Motor Vehicle Registration de- Ipartment. You can put through a telephone call and get that infor- nation"
 NOW" asked Blocker.
 Griff nodded.
 Let's get that disposed of,' he said. "before we go any farther. l want a check on that. It's going to make quite a difference in the way we handle this thing
 He perked his head toward a desk telephone. You can use that telephone" i" he said. (To Be Continued) I ---rr-~
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