The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-12-31
Murder Masquerade
In, q as By Inez Haynes Irwin Wags~r~

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has been sailing pretty close to the
wind for a long time. Tony knows
al this. He makes Ace realize
that his situation is pretty tough.
Ace tells him to meet him in the
Spinney that night at half past ten
and that he'd have the money for
him. Tony was prompt at the ap-
pointment and so was Ace. Ace
pays him three hundred dollars in
cash, settling the account In full.
Tony swears that the talk was
pleasant and he says the whole
transaction didn't take more than
five minutes. He said, When ! got
the three hundred smackers in my
fist, I scrammed!' Tony drove over
to the Head in his car and drove
back. Tim saw him come and go,
but naturally he didn't stop him.
After all nobody knew murder
was going to be committed"
"And so you arrested hinl" I
put in.
eyes. As q material witness for
the present. 1t seemed to me the
next step in the game. And it'll
give the papers something to chew
on. I still don't think Tony did 1t.
He showed me a receipt for two
hundred and fifty dollars that he
paid on Saturday on his mortgage.
That came out Of the three hundred
he says Ace gave him. He spent
nine dollars Saturday night, taking
his girl to Boston. They had din
ner at Little Italy. But / told Tony
not to worry and don't think he
is worrying.
Patrick looked at me with all his
Irishness glinting in his eyes. I
think I'm giving a pretty good irni-
tation of a detective, Mary. Gen't
your"
ST think you're acting with a
great deal of common sense"
''Tony told me one thing more.
I told him to keep his mouth shut
over it and not to spill it to any
body-not even to the force. He
said he wouldn't. But I'm telling
you, Mary. Tony says that he left
Ace standing there in the Spinney.
You remember it was a late
moon"
eyes," I answered. sI remem-
Der everybody was heartbroken be-
cause we didn't have full moon. "
''He says that Ace was waiting
for somebody else. Perhaps he
owed somebody else money is To-
ny's natural explanation. Tony said
that when he left Ace, instead OF
keeping to the path, he took short
cut through the trees and jumped
over your stone wall. But just as
he started into the brush, some
thing-he wasn't quite clear what
made him turn and look back. And
there was a woman coming around
the path from the direction of the
Little House in Aces direction"
''Who was she?" demanded
breathlessly.
''Tony didn't know"
''You mean she was q stranger
to hin?"
HE doesn't know whether she
was a stranger or his best friend
He couldn't see her face. She didn't
come under the moonlight. She
kept under the trees"
"And you're sure no woman left
the party?"
Nobody, man or woman, so fan
as we know but Ace himself
who-as you know-Tim Dolan saw
and spoke to, and Molly Eames
and Walter Treadway who got into
Molly's car and drove off. And
then Bessie at about twelve. Bes
sizes abb is pretty good-if, as Joe
Geary says, Ace was murdered be
fore twelve"
Looks to me-" Patrick went
on, ''as though it was some woman
on the Head I don't mean that g
woman committed the crime-but
that the woman Tony saw lived
here!"
"a woman could have walked
over the causeway to the Head"
pointed out. Some do every day
81 think one of the boys would
have seen her." Patrick answered
unless she came In the day some
time and hid somewhere unit
night. For the time being, I'm as
Stunning that she lived on the Head
Let's go over the list of people here
Got big piece of paper, Mary!
I'd like to draw map"
I found an increased sheet o
brown paper. brought a pencil
and an eraser. I cleared a big ia
BILE and we sat down to it.
Now we'll start here with thu
Stow house." Patrick said, drawing
a square at the left near the bot
tom of the paper. Everything
sewed up there as far as and SD
cops can sew it up"
Lets go up the hill," / put IN
Here are the Brays and the
Gearys." I drew two squares clos.
together. "Al four accounted for. ,
''Now we come to the Mardel
house. Patrick added a square.
Both there!" Patrick tickes
them off.
'.Both theren' I echoed.
ITO BE CONTINUED
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