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Margureitte, had spent much of their married life saving Pat from the
pickles, messes, and downright catastrophes she had managed to
provoke.
Tedford had seen Pat as a tearful, helpless, beautiful woman who made a
man want to protect her-then had watched her change in an instant into
a strident harridan. She had been outrageous as she frightened the old
lady to keep her out of the hospital, but she had been completely
convincing when he and Turner talked to her and she sobbed out her
fears and losses. Tedford wasn't sure which woman Pat really was. The
more he knew about her, the more elusive she became.
Colonel Radcliffe offered no more information on Pat. He stared
glacially at Tedford when the detective said he wanted to talk more
about the Saturday morning of June 12, the day Pat and the Radcliffes
had rushed to,save Nona from her "berserk" husband.
Radcliffe's memory of that day was not nearly as precise as it once had
been.
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"Let me ask you, Colonel Radcliffe," Tedford said. "Have you ever gone
with your daughter and Nona Allanson to see an attorney, or been
present when either of the senior Allansons signed papers?"
"Not to my knowledge."
"Does Pat have powers of attorney from Paw and Nona Allanson?
"Yes, I believe she does. You would have to ask Pat about that. I
don't get involved."
"Have you seen Pat lately?"
The colonel looked vague. "Not for a couple of days."
"Where is she?"
"You would, of course, have to ask her attorney. Look, Sergeant, I
have to go back to work." Colonel Radcliffe had taken a civil service
desk job at Fort Mac to help stem the burgeoning financial costs of
Pat's "problems."
"Am I under arrest or not?"
"No, you can go."
The next day, July 2, the results were in on the tests done on Nona
Allanson. Her urine samples proved positive for arsenic, although the
concentration was only one-sixth the amount found in her husband's
system. Her hair samples also showed the presence of the deadly
poison. Her urine had 100 micrograms of arsenic per milligram, and her
hair tested 3.5 micrograms per milligrams of arsenic.
Nona had been bedridden, unable to prepare food for herself, certainly
unable to go outside her tiny home. Everything she ingested had been
given to her by Pat, or by the nurse hired by Pat. Her other regular
visitors were Margureitte and Clifford Radcliffe; Pat's daughter,
Debbie Taylor Cole; and the Radcliffes'neighbor, Fanny K. Cash. Nona
had lost all contact with her own blood relatives.
She had not fared well with her new "family."
George "Homer" Boggs stopped by the East Point police station that same
afternoon. He had with him a check drawn on the Allansons' account at
First National Bank in the amount of a thousand dollars, signed by Pat
Allanson under her power of attorney and deposited immediately in her
own account. She had no legal right to do that; the papers giving her
power of attorney over the elder Allansons' considerable assets
specifically designated that she was to use their money only to take
care of them, or with special permission.
When Tedford asked him later, Paw Allanson said that he had not given
his consent for this check. He had gone with Pat to the C&S Bank in
late May or early June and arranged a thousand-dollar loan to Pat to
help Tommy. That check had its purpose written right on it: "For Tom's
Life." The second check for a thousand dollars, however, was news to
Paw.
Tom had needed that thousand-dollar loan; he had one last appeal left
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to him, and Dunham McAllister was trying to see that he got it. It had
been almost exactly two years since Walter and Carolyn Allanson were
shot to death.
For East Point detectives on this new case, it would be the second
Fourth of July they had spent investigating the Allanson family while
the rest of Atlanta was celebrating Independence Day.
A few days later, Lieutenant Jackson and Sergeant Tedford were poring
over the confession for the twentieth time. Suddenly, they noticed
that on the last page of the statement, something had been x-ed out.
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