Archie Guerin, Webster Guerin's brother, told how Mrs. Dora McDonald
had taken a violent fancy to Webster when he was a boy of 14, and
Archie 13, or thereabouts; how she would meet them on their way home
from school and whisk Webster into the mansion, keeping him two,
three or four hours; how she used to waylay Webster on his way home
from church; how she followed him through the years until she got
the notion that he was falling in love with Avis Dargan; how she put
detectives on the boy's trail and sat for hours in a cab opposite the
Omaha Building to see whether Miss Dargan entered; how she threatened
to shoot him; how she would break out into wild and vehement
declarations of her love, wailing that she "worshiped every hair of
his head," and that she would kill him before she would lose him.
How she came into the studio on the day Webster was shot, asserting
that she had "told that old slob everything" (meaning her husband),
and said she was going to New York; how Webster had replied that he
was "through with her," to which she retorted, "I am not through
with you; do you think I would kill myself without first putting a
bullet into your head?" How Mrs. McDonald had requested him to leave
the studio, and how he had refused to do so until Webster joined his
request to hers; how Archie and the two boys employed in the studio
had gone away and left them to act out the tragedy by themselves
behind doors that were closed and locked; how Archie had gone to
the Windsor Clifton Hotel to meet Harry Feldman, with whom he had a
business appointment; how Feldman had become alarmed when he heard
that Mrs. McDonald and Webster were alone in the studio, urging
Archie to call Webster on the telephone; how he and Archie stepped
to the 'phone, called up the studio, and after a gruff "hello" from
a policeman got back the staggering news: "Your brother has been
murdered."