The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-24
BY MARION WHITE
CAST OF CHARACTERS


PRISCILLA PIERCE-heroine
young woman attorney.
AMY kERR-Cilly's roommat,
and murderer's victim.
JIM KERRIGAN-Cilly's fiance
HARRY HUTCHINS - Amy,
strange visitor.
SERGEANT DOLAN-officel
assigned to solve the murder oil
Amy Kerr.
Yesterday: Dolan finds a note
in kerrigan's writing, askini
Amy to meet him up on the roo
after theb ridge game the nigh
of the murder. Cilly remember.
now that Jim and Amy appeared
to have known each other before
CHAPTER TX
The apartment bell rang.
That's Martini" Sergeant Do.
Ian said to Cilly. Zone of my
men. I've had him checking up on
the tenants"
Cilly opened the door for him,
Come in, Martini" Dolan call
ed. what did you find out?"
Not much, Sarg." Martin was
u tall, lanky man, commonplace
in his plain clothes, with a mop
of red hair and innumerable
freckles. Looks as if everybody
in the house was tending to his
own business when the thing hap
/ pened." he said.
Dolan nodded. "Of course.
Everybody's always minding his
own business when a murders
been done. Let's have it. Sit
down, Miss Pierce"
Martin consulted some notes he
had made.
"Well, there are 10 apartments
in the house. Two to a floor.
Johnson, the superintendent, has
place down IN the basement.
Miss Pierce and the other young
lady here in la. Couple named
Terry in lib. Johnson tells me
they left the house about ii
o'clock on Sunday night. He met
them going out the door with
their bags. Said they were going
away on a little motor trip"
That's right" Cilly agreed.
Mrs. Terry stopped in shortly
after 10 and asked me if I'd take
her goldfish for a few days.
There they are, over on the WIN
dow-sill. They were going up to
Fall River to visit Mrs. Terry's
mother"
Funny hour to be leaving,
wasn't it,"
"Mr. Terry preferred to drive
all night. There would be less
traffic on the roads, he said"
"Well, that takes care of the
first floor" Dola nsaid. who's
upstairs?"
an IA there's a Mrs. Elliot.
Rather an elderly woman, john
son says. But she's not in. John
son and l looked the place over
and it doesn't appear as if she's
been home for a while. Rooms
are all tidied up, windows shut
down tight. Johnson says she's
away a great deal. She's the last
tenant that moved in.
"Now in 2-B. there's a family
named Smith. Man and wife and
6-year-old youngster. Mrs. Smith
tells me they were over in Jersey
on Sunday visiting her in-laws.
They left the youngster over
there for a week. She says they
didn't get home until somewhere
about 3 in the morning. Didn't
know a thing about the trouble
here in the house. They took a
20 train from Rutherford.
"Check up on that" Dolan in
structed.
"Pl do that. Now we come to
the third floor. Don't think we'll
find anything there. In ga
there's a couple named Carruth-
ers, but they're in Bermuda. john
son tells me. Sailed week age,
Saturday on the Monarch" III
check that. Apartment 3-B mas
been vacant for three months:
eve don't seem to be getting
anything on the tenants" Dolan
remarked. who's on the fourth
floor?" 80,
"On the fourth floor" Martin
went on in his steady, phlegmatic
voice, sin A. there are the
Downeys. A mother and daugh-
ter. Mothers woman in her Cos