The End of Her by Wayne Hoffman

Author:Wayne Hoffman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Heliotrope Books LLC
Published: 2022-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

A full month after the murder, and more than a week after the inquest, the case had fallen off the front page. But Schurman’s arrest put it right back. “Big developments are momentarily expected in the case,” the Free Press reported. “It is not supposed that [Schurman] had anything whatsoever to do with the case himself, but the belief of those who have been following the case closely is that he knows something about it that will assist in bringing justice to the assassin.”

Big developments never came. Schurman was released, Victoria was released, and reporters found fewer and fewer pegs for new stories.

What seemed like a new break came on September 2, when the Tribune reported that an unnamed boy already being held in the boys’ ward of the local jail was believed to have inside information about the case. “Police Believe Youth Knows About Feinstein Murder,” read the front-page headline. Was this the infamous young man at the window? Further information from the boy known simply as “the youth” never materialized.

Frustrated by the lack of leads, David deposited with police a check for an additional five hundred dollars to help find the killer, as the Tribune reported on its front page on September 8: “Mr. Feinstein would not state whether or not he believed that this additional reward would stimulate the police to further efforts, but he is under the impression that the large sum may succeed in tempting someone in possession of valuable information to turn the same over to the police.” At the end of September, the police took out an ad in the Tribune and the Free Press advertising the reward, now totaling one thousand dollars—the original five hundred from the city and the province combined, plus another five hundred from David. Reporting on the impressive sum in its final front-page story about the case, headlined “Police Making Further Efforts to Find Slayer,” the Tribune noted on September 30, “The advertisement of the large reward has been made in the hope that someone, an accomplice, perhaps, may be led to turn king’s informer and so deliver the slayer to justice.” Detectives, the paper implied, were out of ideas: “The police authorities are absolutely in the dark. Every clue they have been able to obtain so far has led into the ground, and not the slightest evidence as to the discovery of the murderer has been discovered.”

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