Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
THE AMERICAN
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N A LICE mas JUST lold US bn'
~ knows who killed Ivor. She
saws she has the evidence" With
tins startling statement. seemingly
solving Ivor brakes death mys.
terry lovely young Elaine Chiltem
IvorS hanCee. confronted her father
and Kay VINEYARD her aunt, in
brakes luxurious Bermuda home.
This scene occurred soon after
Rays arrival with the diary of
Rosemary Drake. Ivor's adorinE
wife. who had committed suicide
after recording his calculated per-
solutions Kay hoped when Elainc's
parents read tho diary they would
stop her wedding. but Maud Chill
tern. Kays sister lauded Ivor on
whose bounty they were all living.
He had even provided a nurse,
Alice Lum sden, for Gilbert.
Elaine's father whose legs were
paralyzed and who had to use a
Wheel-Chair
In love with Elaine was Don
Baird. law student and Ivors Sum-
mer boatman who had vowed be-
fore Terry Elaine's brother, and
Elamorous Simon Morley, that he
would stop the wedding even If he
had to kill someone. On the eve
nlng of Kays arrival Terry nearly
came 10 blows with Ivor over
Simon Ivor left at 1870 10 spend
the night in a playhouse he owned
on a small nearby island Maud
going with MIN TO the dock Mean
while. the diary disappeared and
KAY suspectinE him padded over
10 retrieve it, She found Simon
there. Soon after. they discovered
Ivor drowned near his speedboat,
one hand clutching Elaines silver
bathing cap. Kay hid it. Elaine
then appeared, swimming and cap
less and obviously looking for
something. Kay hailed Terry who
was sailing and they got the body
TO the Bermuda shore where Kay
ran to Don's cottage and told him.
There she saw Elaine's dress Don
said she'd left il there while he
was out. II was torn and bore a
scarlet stain. Later Kay noticed
Elaine's face was scratched. In
vestigation by Major Clifford, po-
lice magistrate and Or. Thorne,
coroner's physician showed bruises
on Ivor's head and pointed to
murder.
Maud swore to the Major she
had watched Ivor start in his boat
at 11.45, and had returned at
once to the house, but Kay had
seen her 60 back ten minutes later
than she testified
She was puzzled, too, by Elaine's
scratched face and tell-tale dress.
She confronted her with the bath
ing cap and Elaine gasped and
told such Wild stories that Kay
asked You don't want me TO
think you killed Ivor do you ?"
Kay later met Maud in the play
house looking for the diary which
Thone had picked up and given
TO Kay She told Maud she knew
she had lied to Clifford and asked
her if she had killed Ivor then
confessed that Elaine had met Ivor
at the dock with the diary, but
begged Kay to keep 1t secret Cliff
ford prevented them from destroy
ing the diary and pocketed IT,
Learning that Kay and Elaine
had worn white satin the night
before he asked 10 see the gowns,
but Don had burned Elaine's Cliff
ford then produced the diary and.
holding up a piece of white satin
found on the beach where Elaine
had denied going, asked her to exr
seeing her trapped confessed the
save her But his story was disprov
Elaine admitted meeting Ivor on the
secretly reading the diary When S
she loved Don he tried 20 seize the {
she threw into the yuccas. she swC
left in his boat and she never saw
again Her gown had been torn al
scratched, she said hunting for
later.
The Major then declared Ivor
killed on the island or on the
After he left, Elaine said she and
to marry at once. Alice who had Il
Ivor had willed her the house. ]
Chilterns nothing. told them they
TO go. II was following an open vel
inquest that Elaine hurst in on
declaring Alice said she knew the
Soon after, the nurse in a binding
TO give her evidence to Clifford G
told Kay that a check Terry had
save his. Gilbert's life was in a folC
hidden in the playhouse and beg
get IT 10 save the boy from exp
her way she stumbled over Alic
the road-murdercd But % save
hurried 10 the island 20 get the fo