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...Nancy Oakes, Countess de Marigny is a dignified married woman, a fabulous heiress and a student at outdoorsy Bennington College. Her husband is in jail, held on suspicion of the murder of her father. Somebody killed Sir Harry Oakes at Westbourne outside Nassau during a tropical thunderstorm on the night of July 7. Nancy is sure it was not her husband, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny. "Freddy could not have done this terrible thing," she has explained over & over. "I know he did not do it. ... I am the only person who can help...
Since July 12 Chief Magistrate F. E. Field, who doubles as coroner, has been taking longhand testimony in his tiny, packed courtroom in Nassau. Nancy has watched him laboriously fill one sheet of foolscap after another, passing them round for witnesses and lawyers to read. When his writer's cramp gets too bad, hearings are limited to two hours a day, and Alfred de Marigny fills in the time in his cell, he has told Nancy, composing poems to the mosquitoes...
They were thinking, too, of handsome, social Ruth Fahnestock Schermerhorn, who left home and husband later the same year for Reno. She married De Marigny the day her divorce was granted. The De Marignys went to Nassau, where her money and his ingenuity launched them in promising business ventures. When the war came the De Marignys were divorced one day in Miami to evade British wartime monetary restrictions, but continued to share the same post-office box and telephone number in Nassau. It was there that Nancy first saw the Count, first knew he had noticed her. Later he came...
...Dennetts that those heavy coffee cakes known as "sinkers" were first served. The first of these rapid-transit chow palaces was in Park Row next to where the Park Row building now stands, but there was a more aristocratic one in Temple Court at the corner of Nassau and Beeckman streets, with broad-armed chairs instead of tables, where you helped yourself, and the cashier took your word for the amount of your bill. But when Dennett opened another self-serve unit nearer Wall Street, he installed a gate and checkers who punched a ticket for your trayful...
When death came last week, Sir Harry Oakes was 69 and worth about $200,000,000. His wife and family were summering in Bar Harbor. But Son-in-Law Alfred de Marigny was in Nassau. And it was he the detectives arrested at week's end. The charge was murder...