Lightning at 200 Durham Street by Ron Finch

Author:Ron Finch [Finch, Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: investigation, ghosts, paranormal, Canadian, whodunit, Murder, Historical, afterlife, supernatural, Mystery, series, criminal, senior, crime, homicide
Publisher: Ron Finch
Published: 2018-05-25T22:00:00+00:00

Saturday, June 2

CHIEF PETROVIC AND Det. O’Neill boarded the train in Ottawa early Saturday morning. They were headed home to Chaseford.

They knew they had a long trip ahead of them, full of bumps and rattles and starts and stops. But this time they knew what to expect. They had even jokingly talked about taking a couple of hotel pillows with them for the trip home. Since they were lawmen, however, they realized that might not go over very well.

They were looking forward to putting the train ride to good use. They had the results of their Ottawa interviews, and there were a number of discrepancies between the statements still to mull over. Careful consideration of what they already knew would help them decide which direction to take the investigation. It was still too early to specify who the guilty party might be, but they could certainly start building a list of suspects.

The trip was uneventful until they got to the edge of Berlin, or Kitchener, as it was now called. The chief remembered the big debate in the newspapers about renaming the city 12 years earlier. The local vote at that time had been a close one, but the name Kitchener had won. Berlin, Ontario, was no more. As the train pulled into Kitchener, they began to notice debris along the sides of the track. It looked like there’d been a bad storm in the area. That made Chief Petrovic wonder what things were like in Chaseford.

The train pulled into the Chaseford Station a little after 8 o’clock in the evening. By the time they’d arrived at the station they’d seen enough of the surrounding countryside and edge of Chaseford to know that there had been a terrific storm.

The chief and Det. O’Neill debarked from the train. Det. O’Neill told the chief that he wanted to be on his way to London immediately. He was concerned about his family. He hoped London had not received as much storm damage as Chaseford had. He told the chief he would be back first thing Monday morning as he was keen to get on with the investigation.

Det. O’Neill had parked his car at the train station Thursday morning, so he volunteered to drive Chief Petrovic to the police station on his way out of town. On the brief drive to the police station, Chief Petrovic worried about his absence from town during this emergency. He hoped that Cst. Herman and Cst. Smith had been able to handle any problems that had come up.

Once the chief arrived at the police station, he went straight to his office and pushed open the door. The first thing he saw was Cst. Herman sitting in his chair. Before the chief could open his mouth Cst. Herman had sprung to his feet.

His face reddening, Cst. Herman blurted out: “Sorry, sir. I didn’t know you were back in town.”

“That’s obvious,” said Chief Petrovic, giving him a hard look. “You haven’t been promoted yet, so stay out of my chair.”

Cst. Herman, who detected no trace of a smile on the chief’s face, apologized again.

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