Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

plump and placid bachelor ogician in his middle years.
who abhors violence and physical effort. The key
to perhaps that the cops hobby applied logic and
the logician's hobby is crminoogy.
Darmody sat, usual. the edge Of my least
Portable chair, and he briefed me quickly
This MIR. Gaylin was we'll known and we'll liked
around town. He owned his automobile agency free and
clear. His credit good No health or money prob
lens. No enemies anybody could think Of He had over
two hundred bucks in his wallet. wasn't theft He
was widower. His wife died long time ago.
Hes got one daughter. named Ann. Twenty-one.
Lovely looking kid. Got of school last june This
has really joIted her. She lives in apartment with two
other girls and the three of them work the Crown and
Loftng Advertising Agency.
Il got my first break from the service manager at the
agency fellow named Barrow He's the who found
the body He told Gayln and his daughter had been
Scrapping about salesman at the agency named
Ralph Burnett Burnett and Ann Gayln had been
going together for about six months Gaylin didn't
think any salesman was good enough for his
daughter, but Barrow says Burnett is a good kid
"Gaylin lived at his club downtown. He left there
nine o'clock Sunday night He often went over to the
agency at night and went in and worked for while
The time Of death was about eleven Ii isn't residential
area Nobody heard any shots. He ended up with two
38caliber sugs in him, both in the chest, nicking
the heart. We got the slugs One hit bone hard enough
to be badly deformed. The other is in good shape.
Il moved in on this Ralph Burnett. He lives in
room apartment. He drifter until two years ago.
when he settled down here. No folks He claims he was
in his room from eight O'Clock on, until he left for work
Monday morning. He is gun bug. Modern hand guns
He has a gun case hanging on his wall that he built
Glass front, good lock- the guns hanging from hooks
on perforated board. Magnums, Lugers, Walthers.
Colts. He in the army for the Korea thing and he
says he got interested in guns then.
Now get this. He claims he was home clean
ing his collection took him in along with the five guns
the sIugs could have come FROM We got test sugs and
matched them. He has Smith and Wesson .38 Chief
that gives absolutely perfect match with the unde
formed slug from Gayln. Under the comparison mi
croscope couldn't be more perfect That gun shot the
Sugs that were taken out Of Gayin."
knocked my pipe out into the fireplace. Nov
you've told me everything but the problem, JOHN
He wore crooked and guilty smile Il should like
this kid for it. But don't. somehow. He's bright
kid. He's been around He reacts all right. He didn't
believe what was telling him. took him to the lab and
let him take look for himself. Ever since then he's
been acting if somebody hit him on the head. He says
he has the only key to the gun case It's good lock.
He says he didn't 60 to bed until midnight Nobody
could have taken the gun. He says he didn't use it,
when the last time he did use it?"
Hes been teaching Ann Gaylin to shoot There's
sand pit near Wilsville they 60 when the weathers
good. He thinks he took the and along when they
went out three weeks ago on Sunday.
Does the girl inherit the business