Evening star., 1936-01-19
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to keep in with the thugs and muir
derers who have influenced your official
actions over a period of years"
Il never heard such impertincnce,"
Judge Midwick exclaimed. Then as
the full import of Klay's statements
impressed itself upon his mind, he
asked, You say Needham had made
disclosures"
"Needham," Klay said, had given
evidence showing that he was hired to
burglarlze the safe and steal the
money, for the embezzlement Of which
you sent my brother to the peniten-
tiary A government investigation OF
the bank records shows that this
money, split three ways, was deposited
by Vane, deputy district attorney.
by Needham. and by Frank Richmond.
Needham at that time was pros
porous hanger-on He had a bank ac
count and position in the Helming
machine He left here, was convicted
of robbery, sentenced to Waupun. es-
caped. returned and was commissioned
to get Frink's gun SO Crawford could
be killed with it and Frink framed"
"Preposterous!" Judge Durane ex-
claimed. I'm going to telephone dis
trict attorney Braddock about this
book and the circumstances under
which it came into my possession"
Go ahead" Klay said grimly. Il
can take it. My minds at rest, now
that I've given you your chance"
Judge Durane picked up the tele-
phone, dialed number and said. This
is Judge Midwick Durane speaking.
must talk with Mr. Braddock per-
sonally and at once. Hello, Brad
dock? George, this is Midwick speak
ing | have in my possession Crawford's
appointment book which has been
missing since the night of his murder.
Lester klay. the young attorney who
has recently opened offices here, adj
mits that he took this book from
Crawford's S study"
And klay interrupted, passing
over the photograph. you might also
tell him that tearing out the page of
appointments on the seventeenth didn't
do any good; that this photograph
shows from the indentatiOns on the
following page exactly what appoint
ments Crawford had"
What's this? What's this?" Judge
Durane said in loud voice, which
carried into the telephone. "A photo
graph showing what was on the miss
ing page. This shows that Craw-
ford had an appointment with Robert
IIelming for 9:l5.
The receiver on the telephone made
raucous noises. Judge Durane clamped
it to his ear and said. Yes, that's a
new development. He's just handed
me a photograph; don't know hoW
it was taken, but it shows what appar-
entity is reconstruction OF the pencil
lines on the missing page. There were
lines made by the pencil. which regis
tered on the other page. =. Yes. it's
.Crawfords handwriting all right.
can recognize that. =. Yes, HelIning
had an appointment. Yes, they're
here now. both the book and the page.
George, what the devils the meaning
of this? If Helming met Crawford at
9:l5. Frink must have left before 9:l5.
The murder was committed at nine
nineteen. Yes. I'll wait for you.
Yes. I'll hold him here and I'll keep
the book" He hung up the telephone
and said, "Braddock will be over"
Well" said Klay, I'D hoped
you'd been merely victim. but see
you're part of the machine"
Judge Durane retorted coldly, Such
an accusation from you carries little
weight George Braddock tells me this
evidence merely clinches other evi-
dcnce which has been uncovered. and
that the grand jury at secret session
indicted you for the murder of Samuel
Crawford You are to consider your