The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-13


be, and knowing too that he had q
/ definite grudge against boltho
/ Blame. He took advantage OF your
/ invitation because it gave him the
opportunity 10 mix with a swell
crowd where ne might have pick.
ed up a lot OF loose money, but II
we're 20 believe his statement you
had far more cause 10 wish Blame
out of the way than he had.
You're in q pretty bad spot, MIR.
Jocelyn. and | think the time has
come when you'd better stop ~
ing and tell the truth.
j.: You-you're not really Sug-
costing that | murdered Blame,
are you?
H.: am.
j.: But-but, this is fantastic.
Besides I've already told you that
my wife can prove that she found
me in my bath at 7:45, and that
wc We're never out of each others
sight from that time on, until we
went up To dinner at $3.50.
H.: have just advised you to
stop lying, Mr.. Jocelyn. Your
wife did not find you in your bath
at 7:l5, because she was some
where else at that time, and for
the best part OF half an hour on
wards. During that time | don't
know where you were. but it may
quite well have been in Blane's
cabin In fact it's going 10 look
like that unless you can provide
some other explanation as TO how
you were spending your time.
j.: | was in my bath, | tell you.
All | know is that when my wife
came into the cabin, asked her
the time and she said that il was
7:i5. She may have been wrong.
II may have been much later. How
DO ! know.
h: If il was much later, that
doesn't improve your situation. be-
finitely wanted Blame out of the
way and, unless you can bring
evidence 70 show what you were
doing between 7:45 and 8:l5, |
must assume that, since you've
he'd 10 me on other matters, you're
lying now, and that you were in
Blane's cabin.
j.: Now look here. Officer,
whether my wife was right OF
wrong about the time | don't
know, but one thing that stands
out a mile is that there is man
on board this yacht who had far
more reason TO wish Blame out OF
the way than ever | had.
X: Who?
j.: Why, Rocksavage, of course.
Two days ago he was bankrupt.
Now that Blane's shares have gone
TO pot, as anybody knew they
would the momen the was dead,
Rocksavage has been buying every
share in the Blame companies as
they come on the market. He was
picking up Argus Studs at II IA
yesterday. and Redmeyer Syndi-
Gates at 80. He's standing in to
max, a fortune over this thing,
because once Blane's death had
been announced he was able 10
get all the financial backing he
needed without the least trouble,
whereas nobody would loan him
bob for the last 10 months. He
has the whole OF the world soap
interest in his pocket today. Don't
you realize that? And the thing
he's got to thank for it is Blane's
death.
r.: Yes. I see that, but there's
one point you seem TO have for
gotten, or perhaps you didn't
know it, because you wouldn't
have the same opportunity as I've
had to check up on these time
sheets. Rocksavage did not leave
the lounge to go below and
change until S;10 and even then
he wasn't back in the lounge UNI
til 8 :35, five minutes late for din
ner. A man could hardly have
changed in that time If he had
murdered another man and had to
dispose of the body and wash a
blood stain out of the carpet, too.
j.: Couldn't be? That's all you
know. Rocksavage could. Believe
me. .. ...r..-
X: Why?
j.: Only the night before we
reached Miami he was prepared
to bet anybody that he could
change for dinner in under four
minutes. The Count, or Slick
as you call him, took him on, A
hundred dollars even money and
Rocksavage won the bet. He was
back in the lounge changed again
under four minutes after he left
us. If he could do it then, he
could do it again the following
night. when somebody put paid"
TO Blane's account. If Rocksav-
age changed in four minutes that
night he would still have had ~
minutes free to do Blame in.
h: Thank you, Mr.. Jocelyn. |