Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-16
BY ARTHUR MEFFORD

TALLY BRADLEY, comely Negro maid,
x hummcd softly o. herself as size un-
~ locked the door Of her pretty blond
mistress apartment that March morning in
1928
Although it was 1870 her employer,
Dorothy King liked 10 sleep late after
nights round of the Broadway hot spots and
Billy, from long experience. knew that Miss
Dot was invariably in a bad temper If
awakened prematurely.
AS she tiptoed across the foyer she noticed
two OF her mistress expensive cloth coats
tossed neglgently on the floor. This was most
unusual for while Miss Dot was one Of those
lilies Of the field who toll not neither do they
spin" she was always very neat with her
clothes
Born Anna Marie Keenan, Dot King
started her career as a model bat changed her
name when she graduated from that TO the
chorus of the Ziegfed Folles
a gorgeous eycful. smart, and utterly de-
void Of morals. she became the toast of the
Broadway playboys and stagedoor Johnnics
and soon was the proud posscssor Of diamonds
furs and an elaborate apartment in a fashion
able W 57th St residential hotel which was
the envy of all her backstage contemporaries
Sensing that something was wrong, the
maid hurried into the bedroom.
What she saw there sent her screaming
into the hall Ignoring the elevator, she
dashed down the five flights Of stairs and ran
10 the corner Of eth Ave
Miss Dot-she's dead!" the frantic girl
Gasped TO the patrolman on post there. Then
she collapsed
The officer called an ambulance and few
minutes later young inferno, after a cursory
examination of the cUmpled figure on the
bed recorded Dot King as dead on arrival"
An empty bottle which had contained
chloroform lay beside her and there were
traces of acid burns on her mouth which led
the young surgeon to report the cause of
death suicide"
Consequently it was not until seven hours
later that Dr. Charles Norris, Chief Medical
Examiner. arrived for routine investigation.
one glance at the body told DR.. Norris
that this was no suicide but murder
The bed was rumpled as though the victim
had put up a desperate battle for her life.
Near the empty chloroform bottle was a mans
vest pocket comb which he assumed had fallen
out Of the murderers pocket when the fatal
anesthetic was administered. This he csti-
mated TO have been between : and 100 a m.
Or Norris Immediately called Captain
Arthur Carey head Of the New York Homi-
eide Squad and the hunt was on
The usual busting" for fingeprints was
at once started but no prints were found ex-
cept those of the victim and her maid.
The spring lock on the door had not been
tempered with, nor were there any other signs
that entrance had been forced
This led to two conclusions as TO the mode
of entrance; either the Broadway butterfly
herself had admitted the killer, or else he had
climbed in through her open bedroom window
from the fire escape while she slept
Looks 10 me like a sneak thief's job"
Carey remarked Maybe he didn't intend to
kill her at adjust gave her too much of the
bottle Inadvertently"
AS the first step toward corroborating this
theory he instructed Billy Bradley to make a
careful check of the apartment TO see if any
thing had been stolen.
The maid searched and reported missing