Evening star., 1938-02-13
THIS WEEK
Blind Date With Death
Confinvss from poss thirteen

from his lips, and said in voice of
quiet finahty, That's the end, Ross"
Win Layton. walking to the tele-
phone, closed her hand over the re-
ceiver. DO get story" she asked,
''or do l tell my city editor the story
as now see it,"
what will you do if you get
story" Judge Koomes asked.
Win Layton met the Judges eyes.
IF you know anything that will help"
she said. I'VE could try to break the
case wide open before three O'Clock"
"And if you can't do that?"
Then we'll publish your state
ment."
Judge Koomes silenced Wilton's
protest with gesture. "All right
he said. you'll have my story.
Sometime ago l was hardpressed
for cash. A man by the name of George
Fogarty offered to give me substan-
tial loan and accept my unsecured
personal note I gave him the note.
When was ready to pay off the note.
Fogarty said he'd sold it to Dudley
Lockhart. l asked Lockhart about it.
He said he had the note told him
wanted to pay it. Lockhart merely
smiled and said he thought the note
would be more valuable than the
money. You see, the note was in the
form of an LOU. l threatened to dis
close the entire facts. Fogarty has
tened to assure me that if there was
ever any inquiry, he'd swear that he
knew nothing about the note. Lock-
hart said he'd swear I gave him the
note in return for money. He said
that would elect my opponent and my
opponent wasn't 50 foolish he didn't
know which side of the bread had
the butter.
so l decided to let matters rest
for while Then the district attorney
filed charges in my court against
man known as 'Slimmy' The man is
known purveyor of dope. He spe-
cializes on sales of a particularly
insidious narcotic to high-school
children. The district attorney has
built up case against him. Slimmy
is out on bail. Lockhart demanded
that l dismiss the case against Slimmy
when it came up for trial. Naturally, l
refused. Moreover, told him that his
demand had given me exactly the
weapon l needed to fight him and l
was going before the public with a
signed statement.
apparently this dope peddler is in
key position. They're afraid if he's
convicted. he'll talk and implicate
Others. They're moving heaven and
earth to get the case against him dis
missed. Lockhart had been trying to
get other pressure to bear on me.
Among other things, Patricia had been
indiscreet. and Fishback had secured
evidence against her. Lockhart said
he wanted to talk with me. that one
of his men would telephone.
Tonight while you were there. Miss
Layton. the telephone rang. and l
was given the address on Commercial
Street. went there at once. might
have known the situation. Fishback's
proposition was that must dismiss
the case against Slimmy. refused. I
told him was going to rip the lid off
the whole business including the
blackmail. Fishback struck at me. I
struck back, rather ineffectively, l
fear. but I managed to get out. My
eye was discolored. and l knew they
were going to try to discredit me. If 1
hadn't gone there at all, l could have
faced it out, but, having gone there,
having engaged in blows, with this
black eye to show for it, well. l knew
Id have to lay low for while until
could figure out plan -"
"Were the lights on at the time?"
Winifred Layton asked.
The lights - why, yes, of course" p"
Which way did you 70 out - the