The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-23
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 They were sitting in the living room of Jeans little apartment; Jean, her father, and Larry Glenn. Refreshed by 12 solid hours of sleep, Jean sat in an arm chair, glancing fondly back and forth from one man to the other.
 "So, you see," Larry was saying, "the important thing is not to let all that has happened blight your life. You've been foolish, as you say; but you've been no more foolish than any girl might have been un- der the same circumstances. The cards were pretty well stacked against you, after all"
 He dropped his cigaret butt in an ashtray and leaned forward, his el- bows on his knees.
 "The chief trouble" he said, twas that you worked for @ black crook and never suspected 1t until too late"
 "You mean - MT. Montaguep" she asked
 T mean MT. Donald Montague" he said grimly. He, by the way, is cooling his heels in jail right now, and before very long the legal profession will be rid of one of its worst shysters and the population of Leavenworth prison will be increased by one.
 "Don Montague" he went on, after a moment, represents the sort of thing that every decent lawyer wapts to see stamped out. He was one of thes links in the chain that makes large-scale crime possible in this country. Every lawyer has the right to defend a man accused of crime, of course. That's what lawyers are for. But Montague didn't stop there. He went on and became, to all intents and purposes, @ member of the gang himself.
 "He helped the Jackson mob plan things in advance. He told them, beforehand, how to dodge the law. He helped frame crooked alibis for them, on occasion as he did when the Dover police were on the verge of pinning @ robbery charge on Sandy Harkins. He helped them dispose of their stolen bonds as he did in the affair that almost got Bobby Wal lace into jam.
 That's @ hard one to figure, by the way why they should have shcved those bonds through an out slider like Bobby. The reason, I pre- sume, was that they figured 1t would leave everybody in the clear If the deal came to light. Lewis, who pass ed the bonds, would be gone, Mon- tague, who bought them from Bob- by, would be able to tell 8 story which, while manifestly rather ab- surd, would still leave him techni- cally innocent. And Bobby. would have had to take the rap.
 Anyhow, that's what Montague was like. You worked for him. He introduced you to the manager oi The Golden Feather night club Naturally, thinking that he was perfectly respectable person, you were not suspicious of people to whom the manager, in turn, intro- duced you.
 And then this final stunt oi Montague's sending you of to carry a letter to Harkins. That was where he oyerplayed his hand little. He believed, guess, that you were so deeply involved with Harkins that you either knew all about Harkins' record or would be unable to back out when you learned 1t.
 At any rate, he had to get this document to the Jackson out fit. Montague has owned French Pete's place for several years. It's an ideal place for a hideout for a gang that's dodging the law, but it's not good for much of any, thing else. As an investment, it's 6 complete washout. What Mon- tague wanted to do was simply transfer title to the place to Jack son himself.
 That was what you took down there = faked papers, by which it R-