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In May 1930, two sailors were found dead in a Lakehurst apartment by Hattie Evans, the wife of one of the men. At first it was termed a murder suicide, but Ocean County Prosecutor James Davis turned to well-known detective Ellis Parker for help.

The detective, a Long Beach Island summer resident, interviewed the widow hours after her finding the bodies along with a Colt automatic pistol. Parker later remembered asking her, “What was the cause of the quarrel?”

“They had a couple of drinks, you see, Duffy he had been making advances to me, making love to me, you know, he was…