The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-09


Nothing more-not a thing.
I'm telling the truth. He just
laughed and said that he would
see me in church. Ha-ha. He
never was in : synagogue in his
life"
And that was Flint's last tele-
phone call.
CHAPTER XVI
PINK FLINT DIES
(From the Cleveland Express,
Thursday, November 29)
Pink Flint, the man police have
sought for more than a week in
connection with the Margie Shan
non murder mystery, was found
this morning.
He was found dead, with a bull
let hole in his head. His body
now lies in the county morgue.
Oscar WEIGH, 26, of Beechwood
Village, who was driving to work
this morning shortly after day
break. saw Flint'S body beside the
road near the intersection of Fair
mont and Green Roads. He called
police from the nearest telephone.
Flint must have lain there half
the night. according to police. It
is their belief that the hunted
man was a victim of his own par
ticular brand of society and was
taken for a ride"
When WEIGH saw him, a few
minutes after 7 o'clock, Flint lay
spraWled out alongside Fairmont
Road, his body half in the ditch.
Presumably he had been shot while
in an automobile and then thrown
out.
Flint was wanted for burglary
and, more particularly, for ques-
tioning in connection with the
murder of Margie Shannon. It is
known that a formal charge of
murder was to have been placed
against him with his capture -.
And there" said Calhoun, SHOW
ing his hands in his pockets, "goes
fins to a swell murder story.
Whether Flint killed Margie
Shannon or not, he'll get the
credit for it,
and he can't very we'll deny
it," I said.
1.-THE police" said Calhoun, ARE
lucky. Damned lucky. And SO is
Miles"
Calhoun, I was just talking
to Brant. He's got something on
his mind. He says we're crazy if
we think Flint was taken for a
ride by some of his boy friends.
He thinks the paper ought to de-
mand that the police clean up the
Flint murder and then they'll solve
the Shannon murder. He's been
insisting right along, as you know,
that Flint didn't have anything
to do with Margie Shannon's
DEATH"
Calhoun nodded abstractly and
said nothing. Showing his hands
deeper in his pockets, he started
toward the copy desk where sat
Brant. Then he said, without pre-
liminary, "Brant, come into
Sparks office for a minute, will
you? You, too" he nodded to me.
Sparks, the managing editor.
was frowning over some proofs as
we entered. At sight of us he said.
smilingly, This looks serious.
What is it. a walking delegation
come to demand the aight-hour
day for editorial men. or are you
looking for fight passes? There
aren't any, you know"
Wrong again." said Calhoun,
and came directly to the point.
Everybody seems to be taking it
for granted that Pink Flint was
taken for a ride by some thugs. p"
Sparks nodded wordlesSly and
looked expectant.
Calhoun said, "Well. Brant here
thinks we're all wrong. I haven't
talked with him yet, but I gather
that his idea is that Flint was
killed to keep him quiet about the
Shannon murder. That right,
Prant?"
With his tacit demand for an ex-
PLANTATION Lowell Brant flushed.
finding it awkward to have his pri-
vate opinion paraded before the
managing editor. 1T amounts to
that" he said. II don't sec why
we shouldn't consider the posi-.
bility that Flint was murdered by
the same person who murdered
Margie Shannon. Flint'S murder
may look like. an ordinary racket
eer killing, but maybe his slayer
wanted it to look like that"
He paused, and Sparks bit off a
chew of tobacco. go ahead" he
said.
IT don't want to bore you" said
Brant alphabetically.
Take all day if you want,
Sparks invited. I'm listening.
Ito Be Continued
Copyright, 1887, BY Michael o'MaIlsy