The Waterbury Democrat. [volume], August 30, 1935, Page NINETEEN, Image 19

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PROLOGUE
Officer Shayne Wm Eyewltneu to a Tragedy Ba*
acted on the Stage of a City Park.
BY VERY ARMWOTCW
The shot ahattered the autumnal
psaoe of the park! and In the
•pace of a faw eeoonda a crowd
had gathered, aa orowde always
do, from nowhere. Men who had
been etroliing, or lounging on the
benoheei women who had been
wheeling perambulators—-everyone
who had been part of the casual
stream of park life on an autumn
evening, had suddenly become a
crowd.
In the center of the crowd, and
the focal point of Ite Interest, was
the young man who had been shot.
Officer Hhayne, having already
sent In an emergency oall for an
ambulance, bent over the young
man, then stood up and announcedi
"He's dhad, all right." Then In de
finite tones and rloh phrases re*
attested the crowd to please keep
Its distance.
"Anyone know how It hap
pened f" the officer asked, ad
dressing himself to the crowd
generally.
"I do," sold a lounger, "haw the
whole thing—scared the devil out
of mo, too-"
"Save your Impressions for the
tnhlnlda," suggested Officer Hhayne,
"and I'll roud about ’em there.
What happened? That's what 1
want to know."
The lounger, looking slightly re
sentful, went out "Well, I waa sit
ting on that bench-" pointing
to one whose back was against a
fringe of bushes, beyond which the
boulevard ran past-"and this
guy was aort of walking up and
dawn, looking nt his watch once In
a while, like he was waiting for
somebody. Then he leaned Up
against the lump post for a while,
and lit a cigarette.
"A car pulled up Just the other
side of those bushes, Couple of
guys got out, came through tho
bushes, and went up to the other
gu.v — the one that's dead. They
said something to him nnd he said
something back, I couldn't," very
regretfully, "hear what they said.
Then I hoard him yell, 'tJon't!'
Then I heard the shot. The two
guys got away In their car. Quesa
that's all."
"Ouoss It Is," said Officer Bhayne,
Re looked down at the dend young
man. "Funny," he remarked to the
ambulance men who had Juat ar
rived. "He doesn't look more than
SS, but hla halr'a gray."
An hour later Officer Bhayne
waa pitting on the same benoh
from which the nbaervant lounger
had made hla nbeervatlona.
The quiet which hung over the
park now waa accentuated In the
officer's mind by his recollection
of the fruntlo excitement of an
hour before. How quickly that
curious crowd had dlapereedi how
quickly, coolly, the coronor had
made his Investigation, given his
tentative verdict, .lust another
gung killing they had all decided.
Officer Hhayne thought of the
young man with gray hair, coating
now on a slab (n the morgue.
Officer Hhayne heard n voice
"Have you the time, plsaae?" Me
looked up Into the friendly, very
pretty face of a ahabby, wistful
looking girl.
Hhe was about 80, he'd have
" ‘What i! he doeen't «•*#»'«
"it'* nice having the law M
near," ehe «ald. bhayne tu be*
ginning to be lmpre«*ed With her
nalrate. Me grinned a glow, relue*
tnnt, but alngere grin.
"I'm only a tittla lata, but gifwf
Monal'a even later, I don't Mini
much."
"Who'a Wonal?" a«ft«d Offleer
bhayne, .met a« though it were Mi
bUMlnee*.
"Me* the fellow I'm Hoping
with. Mldn't 1 tell you? That i*»»
we aren't eloping eaaotiyi beoaui#
there'* nobody to run away fronti
Hut we're going away to »# mat*
rled." An analou* frown angearM
on her brow. "I wiah 1 eould bar#
!’ou atay and meet Mortal?
Ike him. Me'* *o good*isoklr
te'a got pretty gray hair;
aeked dUiitt
got here at I."
"Why at »?"
Mhayne, puaaled,
"Weil, our arrangemant wag
that I wae to get here at 9, if
1 eouid, it 1 oouidn't, ha wag to
wait a while, then go away to gat
eome thing* at hie room, and earn*
back at l«. if 1 oeuid hare mada
it at », we’d be gone by now, Oil
the train, 1 mean,"
"An hour doean't make mueb dif*
ference, doee it?"
"No—unleae he'* met^-lhem,"
"Them?"
she looked at him a moment and
then Wild very ouleklyi "1 don't
know why I’m telling you aii thta
— guee* It'e beeauee 1 Ilk# your
face, tou aee, Mortal ueed to fee*
long to a gang— a pretty bad
buneh. That waa before ha met
me. They did all rort* of awful
thing* — atoie, and -< AtifWM,
he broke off with them when HO
met me. They didn't like that eery
much, They kept after
eome back in with ti
wouldn't. That'# why we'i
town. To be away from u_
otfleer nhayne atood up, /'fp«
got your nerve tailing etuff like
that to a eop."
"flut aueh a nice eop!"..eho i
A aolitary
eight, bhe
It were Munal,,, - -,
aighed, aa the figure oaaaed on,
"dood-by," aaid offleer Shayna,
and—good luek."
nhe amlled up at
h a me# eon!" the Mid,
figure atroited into
looked eagerly to «aa if
onal, It waen't. bho
make him look a bit oid, tMMr,
Me'* only It," ah# added, M
"Whet tf he doeen't eotnof"
aeked Offleer bhayne.
' oh, be ll eome ail right,
got to, Monal would n ever _
ma up. 1 quit my fob tontl
that'a what kept me, Main* tf
Up for the new girl. Wort*! k
1 waa going to unit." bhe ft
her purae. "Tee got our train
here,"
Offleer bhayrte walked away a
few aiepe, heattaied, turned baek,
"l wouldn't wait for that gray*
haired guy too Ion*, airier, Montiy,
men ain't worth it,"
The girl emlied and eettiedtaeil
on the beneh. "I'd wait for Wonal
forever," abe ealied out aa Of/ieer
ibayne vawlehed ioto the dark,
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