The Washington times., 1936-03-17

Spector leaned back In his chair to
smoke q cigar and became quite
conversational.
''Well, little Julie, what do you
thing about our murder now?"
His tone was so friendly and
sort of intimate that I felt bold
enough to come back with, II
don't know. sir; what do you
think?"
He laughed, "You have me there.
We have a pretty choice of MUIR
derers, and yet We cant pin it on
any one Of them"
what about Mrs. Carrington?"
you've heard that she phoned
her husband from San Diego?"
nodded.
"The man who tapped the call
phoned me a few minutes later.
Immediately sent word to San
Diego. but by the time the men
got to her hotel, she had flown.
It's a funny thing, She must have
read the papers and known about
the murder, also that she and her
husband have been involved. #
she were innocent, why not reveal
herself outright? If guilty, why
do so by calling her husband?"
He seemed to be thinking to
himself. He continued. "Of course.
many innocent people shrink from
the publicity and unpleaSantneSs
concerned and evade questioning
If they can. If she were guilty,
perhaps the call was an attempted
ruSe to miSlead us, in case we
were watching her husband. It
all seems a little crazy"
I began checking them off on
my fingers. Number one, Mrs.
Darlington. She had the motive
of jealousy; she could have done
it, and we know she has disap-
peared, or tried to. Number two,
Melvin"
O'Brien went on, "He was tire.
mendously angry with her, with
Miss Sinclair; her not signing his
parole evidently interfered with
his plans-just what, we don't
yet know. He had q gun, possibly
the one that fired the shot. He
has q bad reputation, bad aSSo-
ciates. He was there at $50.
But at least one person saw
her alive after that"
Melvin could have returned. #
he had left the gun at home, it
would have taken him Is minutes
to go for it and come back. But
allowing some time for the idea to
formulate, for possible converse
ton with his family, or the pick
ing up Of an accomplice, he might
have got back about the time
Perkins left"
"Then he had only IS minutes
to kill her before Hymn arrived"
''It does not take long to fire
shot, little Julie"
"No-ooo. And he could have
hidden in the apartment while
Hymn was there"
eyes"
Number three, Mr.. Perkins"
checked this suspect on my finger.
"The circumstances Of time
points to him most clearly. He
says she was alive when he ar
rived. The next person who saw
he said she was dead, IS minutes
after Perkins says he left. He con.
cealed the fact that he visited her
at all. So far, we can establish
those two facts. and both are
pretty damaging"
HE is cold, hard person some
times. Yet Well, number four,
Hym."
"An Oriental. No matter how
well we come to know them as in.
dividuals, we whites cannot refrain
from considering the unknown
ones sly and shifty. He alone ad.
mits that she was dead when he
saw her. He says he was there at
$3.50. Yet first he said 9:15. He
said once he called three times
that night: in his last statement,
he says four. He was desperate for
a job evidently. and Miss Sinclair
was the means Of his losing the
one he had. More than that, she
had insulted him, offended his
racial pride. He had the motive,
he was there at the time Of her
death. or very shortly thereafter,
and he ran away that night"
"You make it sound as if he
were convicted already, inspec-
tor"
He shook his head. Lets 60
on" he continued. Number five,
Bruce Lloyd"
"oh, I can't believe he did it!"I