The Indianapolis times., 1934-02-23
CHAPTER FORY-EIGHT (Con
tinupd)

CHAPTER FORY- EIGHT Con
tinued)
That fitted in with the black
mail idea but. as for the murder,
I hadn't anything at all TO 60 on
except my hunch. I couldn't prove
Parker Coleman killed Tracy Kine
because he'd been blackmsiling him.
I couldn't even prove he had black
mailed him.
I kept thinking about the gun
Coleman used-if ne had used it
and what he could have done with
It. What Juliet had said about a
window box kept sticking in my
head. It seemed silly but 1 couldn't
forget 10. And then when I met
Matthew Holnster on the street yes
terday the whole thing came to me
like a fash.
I figured If I could convince
Coleman we had enough on Hollis
ter 70 pin the two crimes on him,
except for the missing gun, Cole
man would supply that. Oh. I gave
him every chance I knew that if
was right about 1t he'd bring the
gun with him when we went to
search the apartment and then hide
It.
McNeal had the two policemen
waiting. ready 70 come in with Hol-
lister after we'd been in the apart
ment half an hour. There was one
thing 7 hadn't figured on. I thought
I'd find the revolver in the most
obvious plaCe-a desk drawer or
something like that. If I came
across It too soon I was going to
stall. AS it was, I'd barely picked
the thing up before the policemen
got there"
But why" Juliet France asked,
did Parker COleman-?"
Because King had been black
mailing him. Just as I had Sus-
pected. Coleman wrote out a full
confession and signed it. I read it
just before I came home. The man
in the old wedding picture was
Parker Colemans father. King had
the picture and some papers to
prove COlemans father had gone
through a bigamOuS marriage with
Kings mother. Oh, it was all long
ago. I guess il was true all right
or at least Coleman thought it was.
King showed him the papers, told
him that if he'd come across with
the money he wouldn't make trouble.
Otherwise he'd 90 into court to fight
for it. Coleman paid to keep him
quiet.
That was all right but when
Parker Coleman came back to Ire
mont two weeks ago and learned
that King was going to marry Dem
ise Lang, it was too much. He went
to see Denise to find out if the
engagement was really true. Then
he went to find King"
A GAIN Bannister looked at
N Juliet. 1T must have been a
few minutes after you left" he said.
The girl shook her head. mo"
she said. I'll tell you what really
happened that night. I went to
Tracy Kings apartment to get the
letters you know about. They
weren't letters I'd written. My sis
ter wrote them. Tracy King had
threatened to show them to her hus-
band if she didn't pay him $5,000.
Helen was nearly wild about it and
asked me what she could do.
Il told her I'd get the letters
back. I came to fremont, tele-
phoned to Tracy King, and he came
to the hotel to talk to me. made
him think I had the money and he
said if I'd come to his apartment
that night he'd give the letters to
me. I went-but I took a revolver
Il hadn't been in the apartment
more than few minutes before the
telephone rang. Coleman must have
been hiding in there. I heard the
shot and ran to see what had hap
pened. Tracy King was lying on
the floor and there was blood on
his face.
Il was so frightened I forgot the
letters and everything else. 1 ran
out into the hall and shut the door.
Then I went downstairs and out of
the hotel. You know" she said,
looking at Bannister, what hap
pened after that"
He nodded. That's the way it
was" he agreed. In Coleman's
confession he said he was hiding in