Show BEAUTIFUL Qalieo ( Continued ) when news of Sir Harry’s murder reached de Marigny that morning the count had remarked It s about time somebody killed the old The Miami men decided that in setting fire to Sir Harry s bed the murderer himself almost certainly suffered slight bums Harold Christie had already been examined with this in mind and given a clean bill Questioning de told Marigny and that during the murder period (betweenbeing 2:30 and 5 am-- ) the count had been asleep in his cottage five miles from Westboume the American detectives examined him and found the hair singed on hi hands arms and the VanDyke beard he affected De Marigny claimed that his hair might have been seared when he burned the feathers off some chickens a week before In the face of this explanation the count’s lack of an alibi and one of his fingerprints allegedly lifted off the Chinese screen the day after the murder with some transparent tape the Nassau police arrested de Marigny Convinced that her husband was innocent Nancy Oakes de Marigny engaged Raymond C Schindler the famous American private detective to help free de Marigny Schindler took the case and soon satisfied himself that the count was guiltless He dug up an alibi for de Marigny It was provided by the count’s friend the Marquis de who had spent most of the murder in de night Marigny’s company and that of two Bahamian ladies under circumstances a gentleman was loath to discuss Schindler felt that the scant half-hothe marquis could not account for his friend’s movements was far too little to have allowed de Marigny to drive the five miles to Westboume commit the complicated crime and return The fingerprint on the Chinese screen could have been deposited there de Marigny explained to Schindler while he wandered about Westboume before his arrest waiting to be questioned It was de Marigny’s opinion however that his print had been deliberately faked by authorities Visde-lou-Guimb- eau ur Astonishingly this theory was confirmed by Schindler and two of America’s outstanding fingerprint experts called in fdr the defense They concluded by comparing the Crown’s photograph of the Chinese screen-d- e Marigny fingerprint with photographs they themselves took of the screen that the backgrounds were quite different their pictures of the screen showed a smooth surface whereas the Crown’s picture placed the print against a background of circles as from a water glass had never advanced even a theory as kind of bludgeon had caused the queer triangle-shapwounds on the dead man’s head Schindler prowled about the tool shed of a more modest house Oakes owned in Nassau procured an inventory of the tools kept there and discovered that one was missing — a prospector’s pick A prospector’s pick has a triangular point Just such a weapon could have inflicted the wounds But with it gone Schindler could prove nothing Dogged by hostile police tailing him Ray Schindler turned up more and more leads to the possible murderer of Sir Harry Oakes None of these had apparently been followed up by the local authorities Harold Christie presumably the last person besides the murderer to have seen Sir Harry alive and the only known occupant of the mansion on the night of the crime had been dropped as a suspect test as soon as he passed the Schindler’s office turned up some interesting information about Christie’s background in the States before he settled in Nassau A man named Phillips police The precisely what ed hair-singei- ng The Duke ahd Duchess of Windsor figured in the case because he was Governor of the Bahamas at the time an for the US Treasury Department claimed that Christie had run rum in the early ’20s had had Capone mob connections and had been in trouble with Federal authorities in Boston An examination of the Federal records there revealed that the index number relating to Christie’s “trouble” had disappeared from the files The missing number led to a document alleging an infraction by Christie of a Federal statute and included a “body attachment” a sort of warrant which had never been served A photostat of the warrant bearing Christie’s name was mailed from New York to Ray Schindler in Nassau just before de Marigny’s trial With Harold Christie an witness for the Crown the defense felt that the placement of this document in evidence might tend to discredit his character and therefore his testimony But the envelope containing the document did not reach Schindler in time for the trial It never reached him To this day the mystery of its failure to be delivered has never been explained ator all-impor- tant ' Look to Kirsch for help — and hardware Even latest "decorator” effects using draw draperies over draw curtains need not be expensive One Kirsch double traverse set serves both and Kirsch provides window styling ideas galore Send for this big hoipful bookl Treat yourself to this 32 page © full-col- or -- book of drapery styles and money-sahints on buying — or making ving own 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by a trusted associate whom Sir Harry discovered dabbling in something illegal he could not or would not stomach Sir Harry is sup-- P°sed to have been collecting evidence in secret against this person This person found it out and hired a powerful islander to commit the murder and make it look like native voodoo revenge This writer himself many years ago had pointed out to him a Bahamian woman gatekeeper of an estate on a remote cay of New Providence Island who allegedly was the widow of the accomplice she had been given the gatekeeping sinecure he was told to keep her mouth shut Is the Bahamian government afraid of this alleged mastermind? 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