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MURDER QR 110/ 70
s Copyright 1950 *yguEERE 1 J“"“St%
'THE STORY: Ben Corbett, spe
al investigator of State Attorney
eneral Keever, has received a
000 bill in the mail each day
r four days. If he should tell
eever, he is afraid that political
wportunism might crucify him.
€ thinks it is best “to get things
Ider contrel.”
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I went to my car and drove
>wntown to the State House,
inking about that call for me
iat had come to my apartment
buse that morning. .t couldn’t be
@ donor of the S4OOO, for that
arson knew too much about me
» call when I wasn’t at home.
I parked and went into the An
-2x which housed State Attorney
eneral Keever's offices.
They were deserted, for every
>dy was out to lunch. I went to
iy own private cubbyhole, prop
-2d my feet on my desk, leaned
ack and lighted a cigaret and
ied to think out the predicament
t which I found myself. I felt
lat I would do better on an empty
omaeh, 8o I was passing up
mch.,
It was taking an awful chance,
arryin gthose bills on me. They
¢e3 wunmarked, but whatever
ank had issued them would have
leir numbers. If somebody want
-1 to frame me S4OOO worth, all
e would have to do now would be
» send in the city dicks or even
ave Keever nail me with his gang
f investigators.
I was the titular chief of those
iwvestigators, who numbered six,
nd who haci been recruited from
1e tall-bush eountry ir the pla
ation of small-town political
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ag the Ilah Dunlap Little Memo
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1.8. T., Thursday, August 3rd, 1950,
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leaders who were satisfied with
getting brother-in-law on Keever’s
payroll. They spent most of their
time hunting the hats they had
left in restaurants, and Keever
was too shrewd to use them on
anything involving the intelligence
of a high-grade moron.
The only person in the office
who took them seriously was
Dr. Curtis T. Durbin, a former
professor of criminology in some
midwest college off the main sow
paths. Dr. Durbin’s title was State
Criminologist, and his main func
tion was to travel up and down
the state lecturing to the busi
nessmen’s clubs and ladies of the
auxiliaries. Dr. Durbin was popu
lar with Keever’'s Keystone Cops,
for he usually took several of all
of them along with him to carry
his toothbrush.
There were plenty of capable
men on the staff of lawyers hired
as Keever’s assistants. They num
bered 35, but their main job was
to dig law and prepare opinions
which Keever signed sometimes
without even reading. These opin
ions were for the guidance of dis
trict attorneys and other state of
ficials. They were duly bound in
impressive volumes and issued at
the expens eof the taxpayers at
the rate of three a year. The or
deal of preparing these opinions
was so heavy that few lawyers
stayed on the payroll after they
could find a decent job in a law
office.
There were some exceptions,
key men who sought to use the
position of a higher-ranking as
sistant as a stepping stone to the
office of attorney general itself.
And then there was Preston Shel
ton, a youngster who had entered
Keever’s employ after separation
from the army and who had stay
ed on because of extra-mural as
signments. These assignments
were with me and at my own re
quest, for Shelton was as good
with a .45 as with the law books,
and he had proved it by blasting
eight Japs in a single session.
Shelton was the only man in
the office that I could trust. I made
up my mind to tell him my story
as soon as he came back from
lunch. This caused me the bitter
reflection that Shelton was prob
ably at the very moment lunching
with Kay Kennedy, Keever’s sec
retary and the office queen. Shel
ton and I both had the same ideas
about her, but that did not inter
fere with our friendship.
Outside the heavy main door
thudded shut. I got up, thinking
it might be Shelton, the only
man on the staff who ever showed
up ahead of time. I opened the
door and found Keever just out
side.
“]I was just coming to see you,
Ben. I noticed your car in the lot
and figured you would be here.”
Somewhat aghast, I stepped
back to permit Keever to enter.
To my knoweldge it was the first
time he had ever graced my cub
byhole with his presence. The
mountain truly was come to Ma
homet. I took a hurried look
around, saw the usual disarray of
magazines and old newspapers,
and wondered if Keever would
comment. He was usually eager to
take some dig at me, no matter
how petty.
But this time Keever seemed
preoccupied. He sat down in one
of my two guest chairs and stared
acyoss m{ cluttered desk.
“Ben, I'm worried. For a long
time I've thought everything was
going too smoothly. This morning
I got a phone call that convinced
me that the road ahead will be
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I eyed Keever. He did look wor
ried. The fine lines around his
eyes were deeper tnan usual, and
his brow was furrowed. He kept
playing with his fine-line mus
tache. It seemed to me that the
distinguished gray hair at his
temples was a little grayer, but
that was probably my imagina
tion.
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course, but I still think it means
something. The girl saidc—" Kee
ver eyed me quizzically. “You
know something, Ben?” He eyed
me with puzzlement.
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“The girl said she had no con
cern in the matter whatever, but
she thought I ought to know that
somehody in my office, one of my
trusted men, was accepting a
large bribe. I asked her who it
was, and she wouldn’t tell me.
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