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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1915
Page
4
A narrator recalls a loss from yesterday and hints at the origin of certain weights. The dialogue notes Shannon is dead and questions what killed him, followed by an amused, ironic laugh.
Inspector shaughnessy learns a mail drop to Branton used a postmark five hours before Crewe took the brass clock-weights. Holderness retrieves the letter while Rat hints at Crewe's plan, and Shaughnessy faces a new alarm as the missing $81,500 link tightens around Crewe.
In a Paris studio scene Shannon's Jess, now a model named Stacey, is observed by Shaughnessy and Birge Moreaux. Moreaux dismisses the inquiry about stolen money while Jess quietly moves about. a letter from Madison Square hints at a restitution offer tied to two brass clock-weights.
In a August Transfiguration day sequence Miss Stacey reports stolen brass weights found by Moreaux. Shaughnessy learns the weights once belonged to Jess Shannon and hid dope. The hollow, partly unscrewed bottoms reveal nothing inside, while Crewe's ruse and a postmark puzzle loom.
Descriptions of Shannon Miss Stacey wife of detective bureau expert Brian S Shaughnessy appear in Moreaux studio as the artist reveals portraits from the morgue. Stacey recalls her past and condemns her former associations while reacting to the looming likeness of Shannon.
In a tense scene, Moreaux reveals three morbid portraits inspired by a murder victim and a drug addict. Miss Stacey challenges his motives, accuses him of manipulation, and questions loyalties as she confronts revelations about Shaughnessy and her own divorce.
Jess asks Moreaux about Crewe a gin mill operator and master thief in New York. She sketches a portrait of Crewe from Moreaux, comparing his face to Shannon and Shaughnessy, while noting how art reveals character and fate.
Shaughnessy confronts Jess in a hot East Side flat about a schemes and a planned theft. Crewe interrupts as a witness to a tense bargaining over money with implied danger and a potential double cross.
Local notes show multiple families visiting relatives and attending church on Sunday across Shiloh. Names include Barretts, Roach, Gardner, Besler, Overton, Lamb, Waskum, Montgomery, Raney, Terrell, Chestnut, Resler, Itskin, Garten, Brooks, and Smiley with Daisy Byrer and Wallace Smiley mentioned in passing.
Weather recorder Charles C Feagans logs December 1914 as the coldest on file with a mean of 29.5 degrees across 31 days. Highs reached 63 on the 2nd, lows to 7 below on the 15th, and total precipitation was 3.44 inches with 7.75 inches of snow. Five clear, three partly cloudy, twenty-three cloudy days.
Asa Gould returned Friday after spending a few days with relatives and friends at Fort Ritner. Grace Rosenberry is on the sick list. John Stoner of near Elnora visited his sister Mrs Frank McClellan. Additional local visits and Sunday gatherings are noted throughout the region with several families hosting relatives and friends.
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