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...Democratic District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, the case was clear-cut. Meade was shot, said he, by Virginia Carroll, who was with Meade at the time, and with whom he had been "arguing and drinking." Meade insisted the shot came from outside the hotel. But Dilworth offered as evidence a bullet-shattered pane of glass which, he said, FBI tests proved "conclusively" had been broken from the inside...
...smear of paint on one side and heavy putty on the other, and police assumed the thick putty was on the outside. Selby checked the lobby windows, discovered each had the telltale paint smear on the outside and heavy putty on the inside. Last week he wrote that the bullet might have come from outside the hotel. After new tests Dilworth announced meekly: the tests "appear to absolve" Virginia Carroll. Said Bulletin Managing Editor Walter Lister: "Selby really believes those plays and movies about reporters confounding...
...problem. The best answer so far is the basement of the House Squash Courts building, the stucco excrescence surrounded by Kirkland, Lowell, Eliot, and the IAB. There is sufficient room there for a ten or twelve place range, and the concrete walls are strong enough to withstand a 22 bullet...
There are several structural problems, of course. Some means must be devised for either bullet-proofing the wooden ceiling or otherwise making it impossible to shoot the squash players upstairs. One wall must be made bullet-proof as well--either sand, armor-plating or fibreglass will do--and there must be lighting and heating added...
Rosenblatt staggered to the ground, a bullet in his thigh. The mysterious attacker jumped into a waiting car and was driven away into the night by an accomplice. Rosenblatt was recovering in a hospital, under the care of a police guard, but neither he nor the cops nor anyone else seemed to have the slightest idea why he had been shot, or by whom-or what connection, if any, the shooting had to the trial...