Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, January 25, 1943, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextSERIAL STORY 'I AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MARKEY ' Z'ssr' WHO IS "DUNBAR"? CHAPTER XVIII JIEUTENANT THATCHER of the State Police sat now, In Vaughan Dunbar's hotel room, facing Captain Median of the New York homicide squad, and suck' big moodily at his pipe. They had gone through the clothing, piece by piece, the shoes and the toilet articles and even the lining of the suitcase. v All was In discreet orden The clothing was expensive, most of It from London and some from New York.' But this difference In origins was judged, by the two officers rather from the fashioning and the materials than from the labels. Because there were no labels. And no initials. And the laundry marks on the linen were (imply those of the hotel laundry, ' There were neither portfolios, brief cases, nor wallets. And no where a scrap of paper bearing the written word. The fingerprint men had found ample material upon which to ex ercise their magic. On furniture and toilet bottles, on door knobs and water faucets and window catches, there were dozens of clear prints and all of them were iden tical with those on the pistol which had killed Colonel Merriwether. Such Information as the hotel manager could vouchsafe was ua pro vocative. Mr. Vaughan Dunbar had arrived in a taxicab with, his luggage about an hour after the landing of a clipper ship from Lisbon at LaGuardia Field. He had registered as of London, asked for unpretentious accommodations, and established himself with quiet dignity. His hours had been Irregular. There were nights when he did not sleep in his rooms at all. But he had made few demands upon the house staff. The telephone calls of record were not many: Several to Stone House, and several messages from Stone House one or two to the British Legation at Washington- one to a press association office in New York. Outgoing telegrams across the hotel desk: None. , AT the garage, it was verified that Vaughan Dunbar's car had been a 1940 Packard con vertible, with black leather up holstery, license number V-2121-Y. It had appeared to be practically new when it was brought in, though it was not the custom of the garage to take speedometer readings. Nor was it the custom to mark down engine numbers or other identifications. Neither did ' the garage preserve a record of the comings and goings of its clients' automobiles, unless they were chauffeur-driven. ' - That was all. And Lieutenant Thatcher was frowning. " "When will these rich people learn?" he asked glumly. "They take in any stranger that has a good front He robs them if he doesn't kill them. And when we are called in they think we are being crude when we ask, 'What do you know about this man?' ' "I grant you, those people out there at Merriwether's place were pretty much upset tonight, and I had no chance to talk with the girl. But as far as I could make out, the fellow just drove up, said something about knowing an old friend of the family, and they took him lovingly into the fold. He was a pal, right off. And who is he? That's the first thing we've got to find out. Unless we come up to him." "Let's get ahead with the rou tine," said Captain Meehan. He svas an imperturbable man, of a colder and more cynical breed than his colleague. He bent over the writing desk, and put down slowly: .... .. 1. Check Clipper ship. 2. Prints and description to FBI. - 3. Check British legation. 4. Check banks.". ... 5. Check State Department for passport visas. : Then he lifted his slow glance to Lieutenant Thatcher. "I under stand he was some sort of news paperman." Lieutenant Thatcher grunted. "The people out there gathered something like that in a vague way." , Captain Meehan wrote again: 6. Check press associations. 7. Check U. S. offices of all English papers and press associa tions. "Well get going on this in the morning," he said, "unless he's been picked up by then." . "One more thing," Lieutenant Thatcher said. He picked up the pen and wrote: . 8. Check Merriwether's - past history rPHE morning came, and the rou-J- tine of inquiry began its steady course. The day wore through, with no news at all of Vaughan' Dunbar. And on the following day, which was Tuesday, Lieuten ant Thatcher and Captain Meehan eat in the drawing room at Stone House, looking at Cynthia Merri wether, and Fred West, and Fred's Cousin Anne, and Mitchell Grace, land Henry Prentiss, and Dr. Flem jing. All of them had but lately rome from the funeral of Col. iWesley Hope Merriwether. In a rather flat voice, Lieutenant Thatcher said, "Captain Meehan lias generously agreed to help us. He has no obligation to do so. But since the man lived in a Man hattan hotel, he is willing to co operate," ' 1 ' Cynthia was very calm, but she eemed chilled, and her face was without expression. L "TbsnkxoUt Can tain Meehan she said. ' The captain bent his head in a alight bow. Lieutenant Thatcher went on more briskly. "It is a great pity you did not Inquire more care fully into this man's credentials. I must report to you that we have absolutely no trace of him. And here are the immediate results of, our routine investigation: "He did not arrive on the Trans Atlantic Clipper, and we have no idea how he did arrive in this country supposing that he has not been here all the time. "The Federal Bureau of Investi gation has no record of his finger prints, or name, or description. "The official British authorities have no knowledge of him what ever, despite the fact that he ap pears to have communicated with them by telephone at least once. That call," of course, may have been a blind. "He had no account, or letter of credit, in any New York bank. "Our State Department has no record of an entrance visa given to Vaughan Dunbar, no record of his passport,, either a British or an American one. "He seems to have telephoned to the United Press in New York. But nobody there ever heard of him. On the other hand; the man ager there tells us that one of his editors, the man who might possibly have dealt with Dunbar, himself went to England by air plane four days ago. "The New York office of the British ! Overseas Dispatch in formed us that their agency once had a ' correspondent named Vaughan Dunbar. The last they had heard of him was a series of dispatches "from Capetown, four years r.go. We cabled to the BOD head office in London, and here is their reply:" He handed the cablegram to Cynthia. "To our best knowledge, Vaugh an Dunbar died of fever ou the Gold Coast in 193." 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