| Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Patty a Patient Worked Hard To Solve Mugger in Mystery By BILLY ROSE As a I've done a considerable amount of hanging around police stations end I've made a highly edifying discovery the average New York detective is plenty smart considering how few of them there gets plenty of To give you an idea of what the ordinary cop can do once he gets let me tell you the classic story of Detective Patty and how he solved the case usually referred to as in the One morning In two people died suddenly and within a few minutes of each other in the nickel in the-slot restaurant at Broadway and a dowdy old dame named Lillian keeled over in the restaurant's mez- 4 and the Roge a middle-aged garageman named Harry was found outside the little boys' room in the The coroner certified that both deaths were caused by a powerful dose of cyanide of Was it a case of double Was it double Or was it murder and Detective Patty MacVeigh was handed this sizzling and went about cooling it off not like a Sherlock Holmes but like an ordinary He started by question-where the victims had inching everyone in the neighborhoods by-inched the tenement flats they had called their jig-sawed together a lot of biographical bits and and came up with a solution so simple that no one connected with the case could imagine why it hadn't been thought of right Jellinck's past was reconstructed easily Starting as a helper in a he had managed to save enough to buy his own and his garage had prospered until the depression hit When things got he borrowed from a and when he couldn't meet the note on July he was threatened with Figuring he had nothing to live he purchased worth of powdered cyanide and with his last bought himself a poppy-seed roll at the He dug a hole in poured the powder bit off as much as he could chew and headed for the men's At the foot of the stairs he collapsed and So so MacVeigh went to work on Lillian She bad been a h less old bat who scavenged around junk and for 28 years had lived in a basement room which was filled with everything from old piano rolls to a rusty From employees of the the detective learned that on several occasions the old dame had parked herself in the mezzanine where she could watch the tables on the main and when someone left without finishing a she would hurry down and eat the remains or scoop them into a paper That finished the Obviously the scavenger had seen Jellinek leave part of his roll and had popped the half-eaten bun into her MacVeigh's investigation uncovered an additional While sifting through the hodge-podge in Lillian's he found six bankbooks which showed she had stashed in various banks in Manhattan and New The annual interest on her nest egg was or eight times the amount Jellinek needed to save his garage and |
