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MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1939,
by FrancM
YESTERDAY. At (ha Inquest
Charlottt J tan denies poisoning
Ihe food eerved. Mrs. Dean re
ports thai Miss Limy wot not
herself, because she wore a slip
that did not match her dress.
Chapter 3T
Testimony
"THANK yon, Mrs. deane." The
' coroner's, eye were very
(rave, and his lips firm. "1 realize
that this is a very Important piece
ef evidence indeed. You offer it to
show that Miss Lissey was dis
turbed in her mind before she came
to the party at all?"
"Yes, Dr. Mayhew."
"Thank you. Mrs. McBaln.
please."
Mrs. McBaln in a dark dress that
emphasized her pallor, took the
chair he indicated. Her hands
shook a little, and she laid them
together in her lap. Dr. Mayhew
looked at her sharply.
"This has been a shock to you,
Mrs. McBaln?"
"Yes." Her lips trembled.
"Miss Lissey was an intimate
friend of yours?"
"I knew her well."
"You were her confidant In her
personal affairs, perhaps7"
"To a very slight extent."
The coroner leaned back, and
folded his hands together under
his chin. "You have not been
sleeping very well, Mrs. McBain?"
She moved a little, restlessly.
"You would not expect me to. Dr.
Mayhew."
"No, no. I should hardly expect
you to. Tell me is there some
particular thought in your mind
which keeps you from sleeping?
Did Miss Lissey tell you some
thing, or did you, perhaps, see
something last Sunday afternoon,
which is troubling you greatly?"
She put a hand to her eyes sud
denly. "No," she faltered.
The clock ticked again.
"You are certain?"
"no."
"You mean, you are not cer
tain?" "Must I tell here In front of
everyone?"
The coroner glanced around
slowly at the tense expectant faces
before him. Dr. McBain glared at
him openly as if to compel him to
allow his wife to go; the coroner's
glance passed him blandly, past
the Deanes, past Michael and Tuck
nd Bunny, past Charlotte Jean
sitting wide eyed on the edge of
her chair to Jared Devoe, upon
whose upper lip the tiny beads of
perspiration stood plainly.
"Ira afraid you must, Mrs. Mc
Bain." She sighed. Her husband rose
suddenly, went to the water cooler
in the corner of the room, and
brought her a drink. She took It,
and held It in her hands as she
talked.
"Sunday afternoon 1 was sit
ting beside her. On the wicker
couch. She thought no one was
near us. Suddenly she said to me
... 'If he pays attention to that
girl, I'm going to tell her exactly
what I know about him, it's
enough to to put him out of the
sight of all decent people.'"
She stopped.
"Yes?" .
"He heard," she said dully. "He
bad been right behind us. I saw
his eyes."
"To whom are you referring,
Mrs. McBaln?"
She turned slowly, with an air
of dread, and her eyes went down
the row of faces until they rested
on those bright, staring, brown
eyes, on the pallid countenance,
on those telltale drops of perspira
tion. There they rested.
"It was Jared Devoe," she said.
Poison Cabinet
"IlfHEN was this, Mrs. McBaln?"
' "We were )ust beginning
our tea."
"That was before Mr. Devoe
earried out the tray, then?"
"I do not know. I know nothing
else." She leaned wearily against
her chair. Her face was very white.
"I'm afraid you do, Mrs. McBain.
Who wca the girl to whom Miss
Llssev alluded?"
"Miss Temple."
"Have you any Idea what Miss
Lissey meant? Do you know what
she knew about Mr. Devoe that
made her speak so?"
"No, I do not know."
She sipped at the water. Mc
Bain was frowning.
"Very well, then. Mrs. McBain.
Dr. McBaln, we will talk to you
now."
He was very straight and tall,
and he walked with military pre
cision across the floor.
"Captain John McBaln?"
"I do not use the military title,"
he said briefly.
"Your wife has already told you
of this remark of Miss Llssey's.
and that it had been overheard?
"Yes."
"Why did you not wish to have
her tell it?
"The answer seems obvious. Be
cause it probably means nothing
at all, and it will give her great
anguish of mind until the matter
Is fully cleared up, if she has
caused trouble for anyone.
"Can you add anything to the
events of Sunday. Dr. McBain?
"Nothing whatever."
"You knew Miss Lissey quite
wen. Dr. MCBoini
"We have been eolleanues for I
fourteen years." I
Y
I
Ruby M. Miller, 35, passed
way in a local hospital early
Sunday morning following
lingering Illness.
She was born at Oaktown,
Knox county, Indiana Decem
ber 6, 1904. During her resi
dence here she had made her
home with her sister, Mrs. D.
H. McKay on Kings highway.
Besides her daughter, Marcel
la Mae Miller, she leaves her
GELS
Shtlloy Wo
"Can you suggest any reason for
her death by poisoning?"
"No, I cannot. It seems Impos
sible." "Most deaths of this kind do, Dr.
McBain. Your attitude is that you
are unable to understand her sui
cide, and unwilling to believe it
anything more sinister?"
"I cannot conceive of such t
possibility for a single moment"
"You know something of poi
sons, perhaps, Dr. McBain. Can
you tell us now the poison which
killed Miss Lissey might have
been obtained?"
"If it is the one which was
named here this afternoon, I may
say that it Is a common one, and
can be obtained at any drug store."
"Without a certificate?"
"I am not sure of that. I am not
in the habit of buying poisons in
that way. Dr. Mayhew."
"No. Now here is a point on
which we need enlightenment. Dr.
McBaln. There are stocks of this
poison on hand at the University,
are there not?"
"Yes."
"Where are they kept?"
"In a laboratory."
"A laboratory open to the pub
lic?" "No. Certainly not"
"Then, what laboratory? And
who would have access to it?"
McBain hesitated. "The poison
cabinet is kept in Edgar Murchi
son's laboratory," he said slowly.
"You are speaking of Professor
MurchLson now? Who is away at
present?"
"Yes."
. "You say the poison cabinet Is
it then, kept locked?"
"Yes.!"
An Enemy, Too
"PJR. McBAIN," the coroner's
-'eyes were round again. "Who
possesses the keys to that cabi
net?" "I do," he said flatly.
"No one else?"
"No one, except Professor Mur
chison himself."
"Yes. Professor Murchlson is
away, I understand. Did he take
his keys with him?"
There was more than one person
in the row against the wall who
held his breath at that question.
But now it was on Duncan Murchi.
son that the attention seemed cen
tered. It was his face that drew all
eyes, his deep slow breathing and
nervous nanus tnat compelled
their Interest Conscious of that In
terest he drew himself uo in his
chair, and locked his hands to
gether. "Did he take his keys with him.
Dr. McBain?"
I cannot answer that onpstlnn.
Dr. Mayhew." McBain swallowed
hard.
Do you know, or do vou refuse
to say?"
McBain looked at Michael
fleetingly, but Michael's head was
bent.
I do not know, he said.
Higgins was called next He had
dressed himself for the occasion
in a suit of brilliant blue, which
set off the inadequacies of his
figure rather pitifully; but he was
chiefly concerned, not with bis un
accustomed garments, but with a
lock of hair which persisted in
falling Into his eyes every few sec
onds. He brushed it back as he
faced the coroner.
"Mr. Higgins, vou are the cam
pus gardener, ! understand, hav
ing charge of all the gardens on the
Horseshoe?''
'Yes, sir."
'You took care of Miss Lissev's
garden7"
es. sir. All them gardens.
sir."
"So that vou were fremientlv
employed where vou could ob
serve unobstrusively what might
be going on out there?"
"Beg pardon, sir?" Hiuslnn
shifted uncomfortably from one
foot to the other.
You often worked where vnu
could see what was going on with
out anyone noticing you?"
-xes, sir. wot as ow I ever
watched m, sir."
"No. Mr. Higgins. Of course not
We can understand that vou
couldn't avoid seeing whatever
there was to see, under the cir
cumstances." No. sir. Higgins straightened
his shoulders, and darted a swift
glance at Michael.
"Then, now that we understand
each other, let us come to the
point Mr. Higgins, did you ever
see anything that would lead you
to believe that Miss Lissey had any
enemies7"
"Far as that goes," Higgins said
loftily, "I shouldn't 'ave been at
all surprised if everybody was 'er
henemles. She was that snoopin'
and sneakin' all the time. Always
standin' be'ind a 'edge to 'ear
somethink wasn't none of 'er busi
ness, sir. She was an awful curi
osity box, sir."
"You have seen her at such
times, Mr. Higgins7"
"Yes, sir. I d be weedln' of the
garden, maybe, when I'd see 'er
slippin' 'ere and there listenin'.
She knew as 'ow I'd seen her, too,
sir, and she didn't like me a bit
We used to quarrel somethink
awful over her garden and
flowers."
"So you were an enemy of hers
too. Higgins?"
The pale little eyes widened
with alarm. "Oh. no. sir. I never
said nothlnk like that I wasn't a
"enemy, sir. I iust didn't like her."
Continued Monday
father. William E, Wittenmeyer,
of Enid, Oklahoma; and three
sisters, Delia B. McKay of Med
ford; Iva Fuhrmann, Hennessey,
Okla., and Gertrude Baker of
llalstcad, Kansas.
Funeral services will be con
ducted by the church of the
Latter Day Saints, with Irving
P. Becsley officiating, at the
Conger chapel at 10:30 Tuesday.
Interment will be in the Siski
you memorial park.
Ships Released
Portland, Ore., Dec. 18. W)
Twenty-two ships, most of them
barbound inside the Columbia
river during last week's severe
storms, put to sea in a mass
exodus yesterday as weather
cleared. Six vessels crossed in.
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senger who hired him to drive
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A pioneer barnstormer in early post-war days, Arrigo Balboni, Los Angeles' "flying Junk,
man." in 1925 formed a strange team with a little dog named Anna. Balboni rigged a
small parachute for ihe dog. flew her up lo 3,000 feet over Columbus. N. M., and let her
go. Anna made 648 jumps with safety, in seven years.
"Anna was never hurt," Balboni says. "Once in Wisconsin she landed on a church roof
and ihe fire department got her down. In Reno, Nov., I was warned by ihe dog catcher that
I would be fined $10 if I let Anna jump. Well, I got $30 for the jump, paid the fine and left
town."
. Anna died in 1937. Airline pilots, who had long been her friends, attended ihe funeral.
Tomorrow: The Soap-Bubble Scientist.
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After the plan is established
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Relief officials here estimated
the stamp plan would Increase
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$1,500,000 annually.
Boy vuts Camp
Walla Walla, Wash., Dec. 18.
OP) Executive O. E. Hoover
MOW WHAT DID
HALF OF THE. BUSINESS ? I DlDNT
PAT MUCH ATTENTION TO IT WHEN
HE GAVE. IT TO
said today Boy Scouts of the
Blue Mountain council will es
tablish a new summer camp
near Wallowa, Ore., as result
of the gift of a tract to the dis
trict organization by the Pacific
Power & Light company.
The Society of Hydraulic
Force of Sila recently inaugur
ated a new dydroelectric plant
capable of producing 70,000,000
kilowatt hours of power an
nually. .
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