Show SYN a ma GENTLEMAN MAN CHAPTER X 17 not a word to anybody harwood arwood ll had said piff dig in tit til I 1 phone you yon ono one little leal leak and were fird finished died barry saw that but wily why should liar flar wood fear the leak coming coining g rr from om him pat nonsense winslow of course who was agoranos SIo Alo lawyer but bat ernie had bad said winslow that kind of n lawyer and lie he had sali also tf it its judge hambidge judge or someone else close to him except winslow who was close to judge ilam bidge but pat into barrys mind trickled ledi slowly small email insistent recollections one after another recollections collections lie that in the beginning seemed to have bothin nothing to do with the case pat was in town the night of the murder naturally with her ber father what of it he let me stay with him she had said at dinner the next evening in southampton P what of it cut but the trickle was becoming a hood flood now the afternoon Ilam bidge had confessed seeing kelly why lid did pat keep checking the judge what did she ehe fear its his disclosing and theaon bession itself why did lie make it im off again barry rag raged ged at him just because ernie said winslow way may be shielding or someone close to him that might rilean mean someone close to winslow but chos closer than the lie and then he remembered declaring the file afternoon of the judges confession the man or the woman who killed kelly knew what he or she was go ing to do why do you say site she pat flat had asked emotion emotionally tilly this a womans comans crime winslow had asserted too only a few hours ago that man curious and motive well you deny that if kelly was threatening judge and pat knew it there was no doubt that slip she did ive ire got something in my pocket the judge had bad quoted kelly as shouting and pat tad bad intervened promptly all those weeks before the decision was filed she had writhed under the newspaper attacks on her father suppose slip she had known what was compelling that decision and undertaken to remove the compulsion Si silly llyl barry romed at himself Fan fantastic of cards was a wreck now BOW and barry turned to other self questionings that paper in kellys pocket the threat over luls luis put but it seems to have been the threat over hambidge nam bidge also the coni connection lec none he finally decided In that idea too and turning in bed determined ter mined that lie he must sleep something between morano and kelly yes but between morano and judge itam ham bidge well just beet with that he fell asleep the telephone wakened him ten the girl at the switchboard droned dronek call from southampton clr gilbert this Is the hospital at southampton miss hiss asked me to tell you that jacky rogers has been hurt we dont know how badly yet ills horse threw him shed like to know it you can come at once certainly allas Ilam bidge says it if go straight to her house shell lip be there fortunately he got evans E vans at once and they were on the tt merreck errick road less than an hour later never mind the red lights barry ordered keep going but evans was wary beating the lights when it seemed safe to do to stopping when it and pushing the car to its limit on stretches of highway before two ock evans drew up in front of the ilam ald badges es pat was waiting ive just this minute got back from the hospital she declared pe pes pegs s still there of course put but backy backys arms broken nothing worse pat shook her head the whole ray my fault she said eaid tremulously backys Jack ys too young for a pony although I 1 had one at his age she took him into the drawing room where liere they were joined by her father who seemed terribly broken between them they told barry what tad had bapp happened ened A bit of paper had blown across the donys eyes and he had bolted iab with pat after him she got hold bold of the bridle but the frantic little till animal had bad dragged her out ot of her saddle still she had clung until maddened the pony had bucked bud and thrown his small rider pat had let go then not without visible and invisible casualties to skin and clothes vats pats nerves were on edge and hambidge rambled lel on oil about the poor kid and this being the last straw for peggy and what were they going to do now with the coming to southampton and suddenly pat flat said this Is wednesday barry conceded the point we agreed to tell the truth if jacl jack free wednesday the judges muscles stiff stiffened eDed what do you mean by the truth pat that you saw kelly after jack left him F for or answer Liam bidge turned squarely to larry barry youre pretty shrewd mr gilbert he said for the second time if you were the district attorney and heard what I 1 told aou ou here a few weeks ago what would you ask barry replied id ask what was aas abat paper in kellys eliat hii waa lr irv it to ampel mel an bonesi bonem ninn to lu rotc by channing pollock copyright chaning pollack Ser vico A crooked decision id ask who else might have wanted that paper tind and what become became of it both vat bat and glicr ter father were acre staring at harry barry now with wide startled eyes in which lay something like terror the judge cried we cant face that weve got to race face it pat said aid weve got to theres a woman with a sick boy theres another woman too the judge interrupted A woman closer and dearer to me ue lie checked himself remembering suddenly that he and ills daughter were not alone homem bering ho he turned back to barry you know how I 1 feel about all this lie he pleaded ive said repeatedly that we must clear a at any cost lint but now bouve auve put my fear into words words they cant convict this boy WIl willits tits the difference whether hes free tomorrow or two weeks from tor tomorrow if there were any possibility of convicting an innocent man any innocent man id have no choice but now the telephone rang in the hall mr air winslow on the wire a servant announced very important sir the judge went out closing the do door after him pat excused herself 1 I think id betterto bet better go to my rather lather barry waited alone but ills his anxiety was great too find and at last lie ile parted the double doors and went into the draing room As he lid did so he be heard the judges voice evidently had just hung up the phone and was addressing his daughter arrested Sl morano orano tie lie said for murdering kelly what are we going to do now cut but the girl had seen carry barry her hand closed over the back of a chair and she swayed dizzily barry caught her up in his bis arms its ICS no use wele got to have the truth who murdered mike alike kelly 1 ills grip tightened on her shoulders for gods sake pat darling was it 3 ion oil who murdered mike alike kelly the question was being asked him from every newsstand news stand in new york beneath it in huge headlines the globe answered and accused in labour journalistic nall na listic circles that story Is still referred to as the big beat who mur A I 1 ka I 1 for answer hambidge turned squarely to barry dered mike alike kelly do the police know have they always known and has this knowledge been pigeonholed while an innocent man was held for the crime because the leal murderer knew too much about tammany hall the globe replied to these queries in a series of denunciatory statements libel proofed by a discreet sprinkling of the usual it is alleged and who Is said to be luls luis morano owned the house tit at 24 jefferson street lie ile bought it la in 1029 and lived there alone with two colored servants until vi when hen lie he purchased a stock farm near morristown N J the house home remained vacant and last january morano sold it to the progressive gres sive really company for in march when the progressive company transferred most of jefferson Jel Terson street to the city for a so called boulevard the value of the morano property was set at sa the civic association alleged that the progressive company was as merely a Still stalking king horse for boss kelly and condemnation proceedings wei were e I 1 instituted before judge curtis hambidge whose decision was filed only an hour after kelly was found dead his skull fractured by a blow from a heavy cutglass decanter on the day of the murder a man bellei cd ed to be morano telephoned the globe that he could and would establish kellys connection with the progressive gres sive company an appointment was as made for 10 30 that night the man did not appear but at eight two hours and a halt half earlier kelly went to the co chanut bar lie ile Is said to have had with ith him two henchmen and a paper of tome iome sort with which he threatened morano kelly alleged that an effort was madu made to pick his pocket of this document but it was still in his bis possession when alien lie he left the cocoanut Coco anut car bar when kellys body was found the paper had vanished all this Is tind and always alays has been known to the police kelly was killed between one and two in the alie morning at one morano telephoned ills attorney torney nt that he was hopping into ills car to drive to morristown but the pollee police know anil and have always known that car was still in front of the cocoanut Coco anut bar three hours later they know and have always known that a new traffic cop gave the chauffeur a summons at that time and that tant the two men went into the bar together to had find morano lie was not dot there anil and the doorman said be had not been there since shortly after one where was morano the police know or should know that he was the occupant of a taxicab that dashed out of sixteenth street where kelly lived and was mas then lying dead at two the morning of the murder half a block from kellys house the taxi struck and killed a woman mrs birs theodore jaxon jason of 53 washington square the number of that taxi Is or should be known to the police its driver Is 19 or should be known to the police lie ile Is george mundelein Mundel eln of cass street the bronx A lorano hired the cab at sixteenth street and sixth avenue and told mundelein to take him to the cocoanut Coco anut bar when the accident threatened to identify him he changed his mind and ordered the driver to keep on going ile he said then that he hid had to catch a train at the pennsylvania station whether or not morano caught that train he was not seen again until late into the next nest evening when he reappeared at the cocoanut Coco anut bar with ills his right wrist heavily bandaged morano told the doorman he had sprained the wrist placing with one of the horses on ills his stock farm but morano was not anywhere near that farm the night of the kelly murder or the day following most of those these facts are or should be known to the police morano orano Is still at liberty no effort has been made to detain him as a material witness es for more than two months another man has been locked in the tombs under indictment for this murder if the police known of Alo connection with the case they have bem grossly and criminally negligent it if they have known they have been grossly and criminally corrupt in either event the public awaits their next nett move and at seven that night alborano was still at liberty the police arrested him in spite of the globe and Win winslows slows message to Ilam bidge nor manifested the least interest in his whereabouts the first show at the car bar was be beginning inning when tim laugherty arrived with big bill devine wheres the boss tim asked one of the head bead waiters upstairs on the balcony lies iles having ills dinner lie ile was whether morano counted too much on his pull or whether he realized the impossibility of ese escape ape no one ever knew the platinum blonde had urged umed him to clear out what for he asked then he said even to in america you cant get aay with murder forever not forever you cant she testified later tin im tired of the whole business he be said we might as well havo have it over what dorano meant by that was soon evident it was buyers night at the cocoa nut bar tho the street floor was so crowded that the detectives had bad trouble reaching the stairs tim walked into horaces little dining room hello lulal they want to talk to you at headquarters tim said luis refilled his glass directly beneath him 20 brazen voices were ere bawling it chorus let me be all im askill you cant you see all im askin you take your hand from offa my hills take your mouth away from my lips let me ine be mint hat im m tellin you 1 I guess you better come along luis morano rose im ilu not going be said no no because why because I 1 dont like your boarding house I 1 dont like that easy chair you got waiting for me it if youre gonna croak me you might amigh as well do it right here nobody dont ant to croak you tiro tim argued the use making trouble luis for answer morano gave him the contents of the glass of champagne in the eyes big bill devine seized llo right arm and dorano struck with his bis left a vicious jab that sent devine back against an all iron pillar only for an instant however As luis came forward big bill caught him straight on the chin it was a terrific blow it sent morano florano spinning against his own chair and then over that through the flimsy railing and down among the dancers 13 15 feet below let me be nil all im askin you came voices bawling the chorus and then a babel of voices screams cries shouts for help the band was still playing when a bouncer lifted the basss shoulders shoulder lie he was bleeding at the boutu anil and stone dead TOBE CONTINUED |