The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-02-26
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- By EIIery Queen -

tell us how the appointment was
made. Any record of it?"
'It was made over the phone
this morning at my office. My OPP
orators keep no record of incom-
ing calls"
"You knew the person who call
ed your"
Dewitt remained silent.
Thumm grasped Bruno's arm
and marched him to corner. The
two men conferred in heated
whispers. Drury Lane sighed and
closed his eyes.
At this moment Peabody re-
turned from the waiting-room
with a group in tow and detec-
tives brought in five cheap, black
handbags. Here are some bags
like you described" grinned Pea
: body, land their anxious own
ers."
Thumm opened one of the bags;
the scrubwoman uttered an out
! ragged little gasp. -Thumm pulled
out bundle of soiled working
clothes and a lunch-box. On the
next bag, the jeweler salesman
stepped forward; it contained
several cardboard trays covered
with cheap trinklets and a pad of
order blanks with the mans name
imprinted. The next bag revealed
a paid of dirty old trousers and
some tools. Thumm looked up and
saw the Mohawk pilot regarding
him anxiously. "Yours?" eyes,
sir" The fourth contained a dock
workers change of clothing and a
| lunch-box; the other, three baby
diapers, half filled nursing-bot-
! tie, a packet of safety-pins, and a
little blanket. They belonged to a
young couple with sleeping in
! FAINT.
Thumm whirled on himself like
a furious dog chasing his own
tail 'I'm going over to Woods
rooming-house with some of the
boys, Bruno"
District Attorney Bruno stroll
led into Thumm's office. "Well,
what happened last night?"
eve went out to that rooming
house, but got nothing except
,, some more samples of his hand
writing. Here they are" Thumm
riffled through bundle of papers
on his desk.
DR.. Schilling marched in. He
extracted a long piece of paper
from his breast pocket, slapped
it on the desk before Thumm.
Thumm and Bruno rapidly read
the neatly written report. ''Noth-
ing here" numbled Thumm. "The
usual boloney."
Drury Lane came in. He asked:
"Have you the autopsy on Woods
carcass?"
i The Inspector picked up DR..
Schilling's paper and handed it to
Lane without comment.
Drury Lane held it high before
his eyes, intently studying the re-
: port. It stated that Wood had been
unconscious, not dead, at the
time he was thrown overheard.
This, it went on, from unmistake-
able signs Of assault on the part of
the head which had not been
crushed, and substantiated by a
small quantity of water in the
lungs, indicating Wood had been
alive for a few seconds after
plunging into the water and be-
fore being crushed. The scar on
the left leg was estimated to have
been at least twenty years old.
/ There also was a two-year-old ap-
pendicitis scar. The man had
weighed two hundred and two
pounds and been six feet and q
half-inch tall.
Lane returned the document to
Inspector Thumm.
Get anything out Of it, Mr.
Lane?" asked Bruno.
"Dr. Smelling is a meticulous
workman" replied Lane. "And
how are your suspicious of Dewitt
faring this morning?"
Ellis movements yesterday
said Bruno quickly, as if this an
swered the question, "are being
traced"
"You are not Withholding any
thing from me, Mr.. Bruno?" muir.
! INJURED Lane, rising and settling
his cape about his shoulders, ''But
then, I'm sure you are not
Thank you, Inspector, for grant
ing my request for a clear photo
graph Of Longstreet. It may prove
useful before the curtain come:
down."
(TO BE CONTINUED)'
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