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Show 'scrap of paper may send three to chair I NOTE MOST IMPORTANT EVIDENCE IN MOVIE MURDER TRIAL! IBj BOB IK) TIM AX HACKEN3.VK. N. J. From the. fimcera of .lack Barren, aaredcvll of the movtes, fell a crumpled piece of P&psr. On It was scrawled: "Georg-e Cllne killed me." Will that torn and wrlnkld piece of paper end the man to the slectrfc ! . hair? Will tho ramifications Of the tale of which those crawled words Wi re only tho beRlnnlnp. iut n 19-year-old K'rl and a 21-year-old boy behind rho drab walls of a etatc'a prlsou for 1 tho rest of their days "Flnl9," will be written to this trar-' trar-' edy when George Cllne, Charles S Hon and Alice Thornton face a Jury in tho courthouse hero charged with murder. ThlH Is the story of the WTMnc of 1 Jack J'.crR-en: CHAPTER T One the night of August 88. a tAl I driver, called to the Cllne home In Edg-ewater, X. J. ) ar.l two Bhoti Scared ho drove off and returned with a policeman. On the sidewalk lay, Llergen, bleeding from a bullet wound through tho body. Ho was taken to the Btatlon house Th r. be pulled out a crumpled piece of paper from his pooket and died. On that paper was scribbled: flcorro (lino killed me." ICIIno, Immediately taken Into custody, cus-tody, stated that during an argument I In which he accused Bergen of attack- 1 ing his wife, the movie daredevil started start-ed to fight. Cllne says he shot In self-defense. self-defense. CHAPTER II The day following his arrest, Cllne changed his story It became a movie thriller He said th:it ht h.-id hnlU nf 1 1 ' r-gen r-gen to a duel, gave him a revolver with whlcli to defend himself and th drove him upstairs to fight It out, AVhlle turning out the light BO that the duel would take place In tho I dark, CUno said bcrf-cn trlr-d to fire i at hlrn. The men grappled During tho struggle, according to (. line's tory tho revolver was discharged, and Bergen Ber-gen was shot. He said that tho fhullcnge to the duel had been made after Bergen 1. 1 1 declared his love for Mrs. Cllne In her presence and that of her two brothers. Charles und Iawrence Scullion. CHAPTER HI The prosecutor's office continued 1 Iti ln f stlgntlon, and found that Miss Alice Thornton, an attractive blond, 18 j Ban old, had been In the Cllne home during the night of the shooting. She was an acquaintance of Bergen. She admitted that it was she who had .talked to Cllue of his wife and Bergen. Peeved at the signs of affection between be-tween the movie actor and Mrs CUno 1 which she had witnessed the girl had broken with P.ergen Cllne had tried to bring them together. At a dance she told him of his friend's perfidy. "You can't trust vour frlnd Jack," stie said The explanation followed. I Cllne took It calmly. IT: rnado no move until that fatal night On Cllne's Invitation, she vlr.ltod the Cllne home to confront Bergen with her Btory of his duplicity i CHAPTER IV B Detectives found that It w as Charles Scullion who handed Cllne the gun m with which he drove Bergen up- tt stairs WL Scullion's Indictment and arrest In Movie Duel Tragedy: Alice Thornton (above); Georgi Cilne (left); Mrs Bergen (center), widow t -lain man, nntl Ja k Bergen 'quickly followed. Then came the arrest of Miss Thornton, Thorn-ton, charged with murder t CHAPTER V On September Cllne. Scullion and Miss Thornton were arraigned be-I be-I f ore Justice Parker in tho Supreme' court at Hackensack. Tin y all pleaded plead-ed "not guilty." George Cllne Is accused of the actual act-ual vhoolmg, Miss Thornton with hav-, hav-, lng lur-d Bergen to the home of Cllne and Scullion tus tho m:m who, at 11 1 in M Cllne's request, went upstairs and obtained ob-tained the pletol. Cllne's defense will be that Bergen hot himself In the struggle. 1 1 A PTE It VI The last chapter will be Written 1 when the case comes to trial October Octo-ber 0. |