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Mystery of the
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Poisoned Bottle
by William T. Brannon
Art by Elmer Smith
Chief deputy sheriff George Fields stared down at the body of
the beautiful, dark-haired girl sprawled grotesquely on the
floor of the hotel room in Orlando, Fla. Then he glanced at
the three silent men standing beside the body.
He recognized Edward Asher, the hotel manager, and Dr.
- McEwan, a local physician. The third man, tall and slender, with a
shocked expression on his clean-cut features, said his name was
Arthur Walker.
"What happened?" Fields inquired.
Dr. McEwan said he had been in the hotel lobby when Walker
called down and said the girl, who was registered as Dolores
Myerly, was very sick. Asher and the physician had hurried to the
room to find Walker holding the limp form of the girl in his arms.
Dr. McEwan, sniffing an odor like bitter almonds, said she had
died of cyanide poisoning.
Walker told this story: He had met Dolores earlier that day and
they had become friendly. She had invited him to drop by her room
for a visit. He had brought along a bottle of bourbon.
She took it, broke the seal and poured out a small drink. She
had only one glass, and Walker suggested that she drink first. She
did and almost immediately toppled over, writhing in agony.
It was a strange story, but Walker stuck to it. He said the bottle
had been given to him by a man he had met at a local bar. He
knew the man only casually and didn't know his name. Walker's
story seemed pretty thin and he was held.
Dolores Myerly was 19 and had come from Jacksonville only two
weeks before. She had planned to get a job in Orlando and stay
there, according to her sister, Miss Lulu Myerly of Jacksonville.
The sister had never heard of Walker. A thorough investigation of
Dolores Myerly's background failed to reveal any motive.
Similarly, no motive could be established on Walker's part He
was 41 years old and had a good reputation. No amount of question
ing could shake his story.
A post-mortem revealed that Miss Myerly had died of cyanide
poisoning. Analysis of the bottle found in the hotel room showed
enough potassium cyanide to kill seven people!
Questioning of the porter and bartender at the tavern where
Walker said he had been given the bottle partially confirmed his
story. He had been at the bar that day, drinking beer with a man
named Donald Long. But nobody had seen Long hand him a bottle.
Walker himself had been unable to explain why Long had given
him the bottle, since they were only casual acquaintances, except
that Long had said, "You might as well have this. I never drink
anything but beer."
Long was found at home and taken to headquarters. He denied
knowing Walker or giving him the bottle of bourbon. He was held as
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a material witness, after both the bartender and the porter
identified him as the man who had been drinking beer with Walker.
All right, said Long. "I want to see George Coston."
George Coston, a muscular six-footer, had been Oriando's chief
of police, but had resigned to open his own private detective
agency; his business had prospered. Now he came to the jail to see
Long. After a short conference, he told Deputy Fields that he was
convinced Long was telling the truth and that he knew nothing of
the poisoned whiskey. But Fields wasn't sure and Long was held.
A quick check of the records revealed that Long had had several
brushes with the law. But this didn't prove he had poisoned the
whiskey. A motive was still lacking.
piELDS set out to find who had purchased potassium cyanide. He
checked all the drug stores in Orlando and only one had a
record of a recent sale of the poison. A quarter of a pound had
been purchased by a local physician.
The physician confirmed this; he said he had bought the cyanide
at the request of George Coston, but that it was for Donald Long,
who was making an insecticide which Coston planned to market
Coston was arrested. He readily admitted that he and Long
planned to put an insecticide on the market, but scoffed at the idea
of killing the girl. "I never even saw this Myerly girl," he said.
"Why should I want to kill her?"
Fields didn't know. Why would anybody kill her?
He went back to the records and pored over them for days.
Finally, he came up with the name of Edward Mosely, 17, who
lived in Jacksonville. On a hunch, Mosely was picked up and
brought to Orlando. Frightened, he began to talk. Then he was
confronted with Long, who talked more. Long admitted Mosely
was his cousin. The two told a strange story:
They first got acquainted with George Coston when he was police
chief and they were arrested for a car theft. Later, they went to
work for Coston in his detective agency. Still wielding a lot of
power in Orlando, Coston had signed contracts with numerous
large firms to protect them against burglary.
But, said Long, the detective agency was a blind. Coston had
visions of a crime syndicate with himself as the master mind. He
had plotted many thefts, based on his knowledge of local stores.
Coston had counted on Long and Mosely to be the nucleus of his
criminal organization. Because they feared him, they at first
promised to go along. But they stalled him and, finally, he revealed
his full plan: Deputy Fields and the sheriff must be murdered. Long
balked at this and young Mosely returned to Jacksonville.
It was an amazing story, but it still didn't account for the murder
of Dolores Myerly.
"Did you give Walker that bottle of bourbon?" Fields asked.
"Yes," Long replied. "But I had no idea it was poisoned. I've
since figured it out, though."
He said that, following the quarrel, Coston's attitude had suddenly
changed. He had proposed that they forget about the criminal
syndicate and go ahead with their plans for the insecticide. Long
was relieved and quite willing to do this. Coston, who had been
drinking heavily, suggested they celebrate the new relationship
with a toast. Coston tossed off the contents of one bottle and reached
for another, which he handed to Long. But Long refused, telling
Coston he had been drinking beer and didn't like to mix it with
whiskey. "Okay," said Coston, "take the bottle along for later."
Long had put the bottle in his pocket Then he met Walker,
whom he knew casually and who seemed a congenial fellow. As a
gesture of friendliness, he had given the bottle to Walker.
There was a horrified expression on his face as Long finished his
story. "That poisoned liquor was really meant for me," he said.
"Coston wanted me out of the way so I wouldn't talk!"
The girl had become an innocent victim of Coston's plot.
Coston was convicted of second-degree murder and in 1940 was
sentenced to 20 years in prison. Mosely and Long were freed, and
Walker was exonerated.
Questioned as to why he had brought Mosely into the case,
Deputy Fields said: "Long had been an auto thief, and usually car
thieves don't work alone. I discovered from the records that
Mosely had been charged with the same offense. Then I made
discreet inquiry and learned that Mosely was Long's cousin. I had
a hunch he could tell something, though I had no idea what it
would be. But I was convinced that Walker was telling the truth,
and I didn't want to see an innocent man convicted."
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