Session Two (11-17-2017) Part II
"Fat" Dan Waller owner of the most famous bar in the Big Easy the Old Absinthe House has contacted the heroes about Delilah Starr. He says she hasn't shown up at her last gig on Saturday night and got worried about her and sent a runner to her house and there was no answer. He offered to pay $100 in comp drinks at the bar to bring her back and also offered $50 comps if they bring back less happy tidings for their troubles. One side note: During the conversation you noticed a Texas Rangers Badge in his top drawer when you came up on him to talk.
You head over to her place at 637 Delaronde which was across the river in which you took a ferry to get to. Front porch was concrete and barren except a couple of planters of flowers. You find the door closed but unlocked as you enter. You find out the following clues:
- No sign of struggle
- simple crucifixes of Catholic icons on her walls place in very obvious places...like above her door frames and main living area.
- Papers were scattered throughout the house with several pay-stubs for a Rose Marie LaGrange from Hexaco Oil for $17 a week.
- Receipts for milk delivery were bound together with twine and go back 5 weeks
- You found a unopened envelope of a crazed fan with no stamp or return address
- In the bedroom you found a lacquered chicken foot attached to a stick along with small bones of weasels and frogs
- Wardrobe consisted blouses and accessories one would associate with low-level professional girl. Her singing gowns were not to be found.
As you leave the house, an Officer named Larue approaches the heroes and asked what they were doing at Delilahs apartment eyeing them up suspiciously. Cis shows his PI badge and he backs off and tells them how he ruffed up a guy who was stalking Miss Starr. His name was Phillipe Deware and he'd be coming to the club for weeks to hear her sing. He started leaving love letters and they got a little too much so Fat Dan kicked him out but he would continue to watch from the window. Friday night he recounts how he saw him stalking her back to her house so he approached him and put an end to it by "speaking" to him. You also find out that Phillipe Deware is a cashier at a bank in Uptown district.
After doing some Legwork you found out he works at the New Orleans Farmer's Bank in Uptown but getting his address was tricky. The banker, Frank Monroe, doesn't give out employees addresses so you tell him he might be in danger and he sends a runner but keeps you there so you can't follow him. But when he comes back and says no one answering the door he calls the cops and you overheard him telling the address to the cops. So you make a beeline over to his apartment.
Cis climbs up the fire escape to gain entrance after finding out the front door to the upstairs apartment was locked. He beats a little sense into Phillipe even though it was evident with a shiner already from the beat cop. But Cis didn't care and continued to beat him even more to get info. He tells you the following info:
- Never would hurt Miss Starr
- Admitted he followed her home Friday night after having a few drinks
- He remembered a car, '33 Packard with a rear bumper held on by wire also following her
- Then a cop beat him with his nightstick.
You essentially hit a dead end after that until you remember the paystubs from Hexaco Oil was addresed to Rose Marie LaGrange. So you head over to the main office in New Orleans at 2134 St. Charles in the Garden District. You find the following info:
- Meet secretary named Jane Row who doesn't know any Delilah Starr, but when you mentioned Rose Marie LaGrange she knows her. Said she was a secretary a few months back, but she said she quit or something.
- Regional manager, Josh Thaler isn't in the state so you can't talk to him about why she left. However, Anne-Marie Hille uses her persuasion to convice her she may be in terrible danger and gets a peak at her personnel file.
- In the file you find she was originally hired as a hand at one of their field camps, was highly regarded, and was then hired as a secretary here at the main office handling ingoing and outgoing mail.
- You also find out her original address in Manchac, a small town between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain, about a half-hour drive northwest of New Orleans.
