The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-10
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SHORTHAND NOTES oFSpE'
| TE6TNEv oFFIGER kEJTER
ING'S SECOND EXASffNA,
TION OF COUNT POSODINI
h: Good morning, Count.
p: Halo. halo, still busy Mr.
Sherlock Holmes?
n: Very busy indeed, Mr.. Dan
icls.
p. Well, now, just fancy your
people being as quick off the
mark as all that.
X: You don't deny it.
! p: What's the use, friend:
kept up the little bluff yesterday
! because | had half a hope that
you might lay your hands on the
man who gave Blame his right.
away. Then | could have gone
back TO business without any sort
of trouble from you folk at all
but it was only half hope and
| knew that if you didn't get
your man you'd pick it up that the
Count stuff was all hooey by to-
day. ~.
H.: Well, that's frank, anyhow
Now, what do you know:
p: | don't know nothing.
swear by Almighty God -.
n: Cut it, Slick, cut it. You're
in a spot. You know that, don't
you.
p: So that's the line, is it
trying to frame me, and you?
X: Not bit of it. | want your
help. that's all. =,
p: Oh, yeah! That's what all
you guys say, and once | start to
shoot my mouth I'll say something
| didn't mean, then you'll be on
me and I'll be for the hotsquat
before l know what's happened.
No sir. I'm not talking.
X: Now, look here, Slick, I'm
not trying to frame you-honest.
But you're in a jam, boy-in a
lam. You're an old-timer, mixing
in with this swell crowd. Why.
You didn't come here for sun
bathing and big-game fishing. and
you didn't come here to invest a
million dollars in soap. What's
more, you've got a gun down in
your cabin.
P: There you are--what did i
say? Just because Pm known to
the bulls you're jumping % it that
I bumped off Blame. What's. Q
gun, anyway? Your bunch have
never known me to use one, have
they? :,
X: No, that's the whole point,
Murder is not your racket, Slick,
so you've got nothing to, be fright.
ened of if you'll come clean, but
il you don't, Slick, you're in q
spot; you're in a spot, my boy. :,
P: You've said, q mouthful. II
you can't get the right guy you'll
get the wrong, rather than fall
down on your job, and having me
on board makes il easy money.
X: You know how things par
out, Slick. It's a bad break, but
that's just how it might be. e.,
P: Will you play ball with me,
if play ball with you?
r.: Sure / will, Slick. l:know
you didn't do it. You're a cor
man and sharp. This isn't your
racket, but you've got to tell me
just what you know.
P: o. K. Shoot the questions,
X: You were in the lounge un-
til 7:45 the night before last with
Mrs. Jocelyn, then, according to
your previous statement, you both
went below together. You turned
I'D in the lounge again at rs after
8. II doesn't take q man 40 min
utes to change his clothes and |
want to know just what you did
during that time. 49,.
P: Well, it was this way, chief:
that DANES sweet on me.
K: Which dame?
p: Why, Mrs. Jocelyn. She's
a goodlooker, too, but | make it
a rule never to mix business with
pleasure. -, , :.
X; So you were here on bust
ness? .
p: There you are, what did |
say? You'll have me on the hot
squat before / know which way
I'm walking. You bulls arc all
the same.
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