With old hotels and such -- say, Bunker Hill hotels -- you're exceptionally lucky if you get a glimpse inside a lobby or a dining room. In the case of
The Trenton, we get to go down the hall on the 4th floor and into one of the rooms!
6 June 1952. Here's Andy L——, 53, of 450 Coronado Terrace, and he's a murder suspect at 427 S Olive. Seems his lady-friend, Mrs. Bertha W——, 23, is no longer, oh, breathing.
(Check out bowtie with the big fat Speed Graphic over by room 406. Dig the transom.)
So anyway, they call out the fingie experts:
But despite the expert fingerprint machinations of D. F. Mortell, it turns out that Bertha just died from her acute alcoholism. At 23. Now there's a girl who could put it away.