Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-25
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AWEEKLY'.

nd IINING my life Three little society girls
NThey Thought they Gonna GET away with
A, But there's SOMEONE wor~cn them sad
Albert Williams. taxi driver and murder sus-
f"., nc Tor Hugh Westlakc in my home IN
quiet Kenmore Hunted 10y the police follow
The strange death 81 lovely rcd-halred
,.r.l Hale two days before. he did no,
...A vas working ou the case.
f.v hours before the tragedy Norma
...4-r5 O. OLIVER Church had told me that
.., at5 ',s,rI Libby Brompton. found dead
months before had done something terrible
,aat sh, was pursued by man in a yellow
taNl AVID feared sh, was going 90 hc murdered
F.l+tv-sy-rr,r
'r5 taxi IIiycr had threatened her and sworn
q. SIT Numa and Toni next l went TO Fa-
ci Norma home near by, TO talk
.ta,r Presently Norma ealloped up the
esE, ht Wth Christmas ights screamed and
'.sn.sI off her horse Her neck was broken.
] SAW "a yellow car slide away in the dark
Later my young daughter Dawn. showed
n.e where viro had been strung over the
d,ve ! agreed 10 aid my friend Inspector
Cobb solve what We figured as deliberate
-r,tcr I tyTt I'M t0Iuh With Karen, Norma's
rrd-hlrol twin sister Persis their divorced
mother ROW Mrs David RoWlcy Mrs Row
l'ys SISTER Grace wife of Judge Saltcr.
a
hunt for The taxi driver.
Thcn Francis Hale. the twins father adj
vauD,d "a new murder motive. lie said PeIsiS
ami Grace got 500 600 year from the estate
Of their father Samuel -Shipton hut that the
three grandchildren, Jimmie Saltcr Norma
and Karen were TO receive 500 600 each on
marriage or on reaching Twenty-Five Jimmie,
engaged to Karen two years ago, had been
killed at that time in an accident Hale
practically accused the two women of quda-
ting Jimmie and Norma 10 save their own in
come and said Karen was now in danger
Cobb was impressed by this angle. Then
II developed that Karen herself was Toni
the third girl on the taxi drivers list and
that Oliver had fallen in love with her while
engaged to Norma. l got a new jolt when
learned that man. evidently the. taxi driver.
had borrowed paper from Dawn written a
note and gone 10 Faowfeld. Fearing for
Karen rushed after him only 10 find that
Karen had hurried out dropping a scrawl bid
ding her meet the writer. Oliver Hale Row
ley and traicd her and discovered her un-
conscious in a quarry She had been hit on
the head We carried her home where she
speedily recovered But when l told her
knew the taxi driver had killed Norma and
tried 10 murder her she insisted Norma's fall
and her own were accidents.
Cobb declared she feared the taxi driver
would spill the dirt on her and promised TO
nail him The next day. the fugitive called on
me 10 have burns his hands dressed 1t
was then as ! wondered how 10 hold him, that
he remarked after denouncing Libby Norma
and Karen There's someone worsen them
Getting mp on that ladder and fixing that
wire
suddenly he stopped and Judge salter
burst in. That's the man who murdered
my son" he cried The taxi driver fled The
Judge then told me before his wife that
Jimmie had been brought TO him, his back
broken. his clothes Whisky-soaked with a
card on them reading; This is the model son
Of Judge Saltcr Kindly return him TO his
father at the Night Court Mrs Saltcr took
the Judge 10 his car then returned and added
that Jimmy always drank, had deceived his
father and made up to rcd-haircd girls. one
girl was Norma S friend She told Norma who
told Karen Karen then broke her engage
mcnt TO Jimmie The girls name" said
Mrs Saltcr. was Libby Brompton"
(And Now Go On With the story