The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-24
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been vacant for three months"
 we don't seem to be getting anything on the tenants" Dolan
 remarked. "Who's on the fourth floor?"
 "on the fourth floor" Martin
 went on in his steady, phlegmatic
 voice, "in 4-A. there are the Downeys. A mother and daughter. Mothers a woman in her eos, should say. Daughter teaches school. The old lady, from the look of her, never could pick up a body and throw 1t off the roof"
 "No,' Dolan agreed, 1t wasn't the work of woman"
 "A Mrs. Wheeler lives In 4-B Lives there alone, she tells me, and Johnson confirms it. Smart looking woman, in her 30s. I'd say. A widow. Has a young niece that often spends week-ends with her, but she was all alone this Sunday"
 Sergeant Dolan shook his head negatively as he listened without comment to Martins report. Cilly could almost read his thoughts. One by one, he too was dismissing the tenants from consideration. In his hand he still held the crumpled note Jim had written to Amy.
 "On the fourth floor, there's no- body we can pin the case on," Martin was saying, land I'd say we could check of the fifth floor too. In 5-A there's man and his wife named Hunter, mid dle-aged couple. But he's Q help less cripple, paralyzed from the waist down. Sits around all day in wheel chair. Johnson says he's never been out of the chair in the four years they've lived here"
 That let's him out" Dolan commented. What about 5-B2"
 Vacant"
 "Um-m-m-m." Dolan shrugged his powerful shoulders. He took a wallet from his inner coat pocket and slipped Jim's note into 1t, alongside of the Southern Pacific timetable he had found in Amy's bag Carefully he put the wallet back into his pocket and rose to his feet.
 Lets get going, Martin" he said. We still have several other angles to check"
 Cilly rose too. Just @ minute, she pleaded, what about those vacant apartments2 Anybody 0 Vagrant, for example might have hidden away in them"
 Dolan turned to his assistant.
 What about it. Martini"
 We thought' of that, Serg, Johnson showed me 5-B. Tn the first place, the door was locked, and he has the only two keys to It. In the second place, he's get- ting 1t ready for some new tenant in on the first, and Satur- day the floors were scraped and shellacked. Anyone coming down from the roof - which is covered with tar and soot and dust would have left some tracks on that newly polished floor. There's not a sign of a footprint"
 What about the other vacant apartment2" Cilly asked him. "The one on the, third fioor2",.
 We found 1t locked,' Martin said. Johnson Is the only one that has a passkey to It."
 Someone might have come down the fire escape" Cilly suggested. He could have passed 5-B, which is vacant, and 4-B, without awakening 1 Mrs. Wheeler and climbed Into 3-B".
 Martin shook his head nega- lively.
 "The window from the fire escape was lGtched. He couldn't have opened it from the outside without breaking pane of glass. Besides, from what l hear, before the young woman fell, there was . scream loud enough to awaken the neighborhood It awakened Mrs, Wheeler. If any man passed down the fire escape, she would have known 1t.
 Cilly wondered where else a man might have hidden. Nobody | came out of the house immediately after the accident, Cilly knew that. Amy had fallen directly in front of the house, less than 10 feet from the front entrance. As Cilly knelt on the ground beside Amys body, she would have seen whoever came through the front door. Only ono person did. Mir, Johnson, the superintendent. He had come up from his apartment in the basement to see what had hap pened.
 Suddenly @ new light dawned on