Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-09
INSTALLMENT xxx.

~ HOSE VINO watched IroW oiS.
lance as the plane suddenly
pulled up in q e0-degree bank
i must have suspected pub
licity stunt. But not 50 the two or
three hundred who were near enough
to see the doomed mans frantic, fu-
tile clawing at the air as he was
flung from the gaping hole In the
planes fuselage who presently
stood In a silent, awed circle about
the broken body on the ground Within
20 feet Of the entrance to the marble
shaft.
Wearied after more than two hours
of waiting. Ann and Mollie were Ia
the airport managers office when the
pilot of a sightseeing plane burst
into the room and reported he had
Just seen a man fall over the Monu-
ment from a plane about to land at
the airport.
The manager hurried out. Molltc
suddenly turned to Ann, do you sup
pose-Senator Runbrecker, remember?
He was to fall from -" Molhe
jumped to her feet and ran outside.
Ann remembered Senator Run
brecker has just fallen from the top
Of the Washington Monument :"
Ami"
Ann looked up. Selma RunbrecEer
was standing In the doorway. In an
swer to the question In AIMS eyes, she
said, plaintively, 1--WE been in Balti-
more I had to go somewhere to
think-and to get away from Carl
was afraid, Ann"
Then you-weren't kidnaped?"
mo, no-of course, not. That was
another Of Carls tricks. He took
chance on my not showing up to rock
father. I returned an hour ago. Rita
told me about father and Carl going
to Chicago to pay a $4,000 ransom.
She didn't know II they were coming
hack with Lee or not ). What tirne
Is Lee supposed to get here?"
Then Selma didn't know. A lump
rose In AIMS throat. She said, II
think the planes just-come IN,
Selma. Mollie's out there
Lees plane was just coming to a
stop when Ann stepped outside. The
men crowding about the closed cabin
door, she guessed, were plain-clothes
detectives. The door suddenly opened,
and a moment later Lee Monday
dropped to the ground and moved of
toward the terminal building.
Then another figure filled the cabin
doorway and the detectives closed in
only to step back, demonstrating
say Senator Runbrecker.
Ann licked her dry lips as she
watched Lee mounting the steps, head
down, fists tightly clenched.
Lee"
He looked up, his face grim.
'Lee-was it-Carl?"
He nodded, vaguely. HE tried to
throw the Senator out. We were
over the Monument and he had his
back against the door :" He was
talking with effort. 1.-THE Senator
broke loose and chung to chair. I
pulled the ship over and-jerked the
door open :" She could hear his
teeth gritting. II can't tell you any
more now, Ann. My nerves are
pretty well shot,"
Yes, I know" Ann said. "Ill be
at the apartment when you want me,
Lee"
They've gone inside TO get q shot
Of whisky" Mollie said as they hur-
ried toward the car with Charlie
Briggs, the Globe reporter who had
brought them to the airport. Carl
vryhn "
to the Senator, Ann. Pretended he
was drunk all the way from Chicago
and then when he was getting ready
to throw the Senator out, he told him
how he had killed his secretary and
his son :"
AS they were leaving, another car
slipped by. Charlie Briggs recog-
nized Bill Hudson behind the wheel,
but he didn't say anything.
The gruesome incredible story was
told fully in the Sunday Globe next
morning. Ann was amazed, when she
thought about it later, how closely
Bills solution Of Fuhrman's murder
followed the facts. Only those little
details which he could not possibly
have known were lacking.
One Of these concerned the after
noon the Senator sent for Carl to
eject Thurman Wells from the Run
brecker estate. Carl had pretended to
be Fuhrman's friend, had told him
that he, too, had score against the
Senator and had proposed that to-
gether they could square accounts.
Affar 10 LAT kHN11fa,e rfy ant tho
night, Carl went to Fuhrman's room
to explain his plan. already neatly
worked out to the last small detail ;. {.
He would put dummy in the reflect
ing pool. At given hour the next
evening Thurman would call the Sem
ator and, talking through a handker-
chief, would say the Senator's secre-
tary had been drowned in the reflect
ing pool and ask the Senator to come
down and help the police establish
positive Identification. Thurman was
then to hurry to the pool and, when
the Senator and Carl arrived, point
out the dummy.
From there on Carl would take
charge. He would set of the concus-
sion bomb and, when they fell into the
water, would strangle the Senator with
piece of copper wire. Thurman
agreed.
So Carl had suggested to Selma
that she play a little trick on a select
group Of her guests and the only
hitch had been that Selma, who knew
nothing Of Fuhrman's part in it, pre-
suaded Deane to telephone from the
private wire in his fathers study
Deane had tried to dial the other
phone in the house, but had gotten
busy signal because Thurman was
then talking from his own rooms.
Carl himself had carried the books
and the wire and the fictitious auto
biographical sketch to Fuhrman's
place when he had gone there the
night before. The sketch Carl took
from his pocket at an opportune mo-
f1nent and slipped behind n shelf Of