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"Of course I had to tell him a few steps down the street and
that you can't just pick anyone's a school playground is behind the
store. A number of small busi-
flowers," she said.
He was a Boy Scout and loved nesses are across the street.
sports. In the winter, Burt filled Traffic is steady on Perry Street.
Police have established that
the family's back yard with wa-
ter to make an ice rink. Children Mr. Duchin was making calls in
from throughout the neighbor- the late afternoon Sept. 22. He
was known to be on the phone at
hood brought their skates.
"Burt liked excitement," Mrs. 5:15 p.m. Detectives have since
Duchin said. He took up hot-air spoken with that caller, who said
ballooning and scuba diving (of- Mr. Duchin reported nothing out
ten waking his younger broth- of the ordinary.
ers early in the morning to drag . At 5:30 p.m., a customer en-
tered the store. She found Mr.
them along).
As an adult, Mr. Duchin trav- Duchin at the back, slumped in
eled to Hong Kong and Europe. a chair. He had been shot sever-
He collected motorcycles and an- al times. No one else was there.
Curiously, two incidents were
tique cars. He bought a fire en-
gine he rode in parades; an old reported in Pontiac at the same
train he purchased still sits be- time Mr. Duchin was discovered,
side Perry Warehouse Furniture. which may explain why police are
Mr. Duchin had the reputation unable to say whether the case
of being a top-notch repairman, was a botched robbery.
Not long before 5:30 that same
a jack-of-all-trades whom family
members could count on to get day there was a car crash at the
them out of any
tricky situation.
"Once I dropped
my rings into the
bathtub, down the
drain," Cecilia
Duchin recalled. "I
knew whom to call
right away."
One of Mr.
Duchin's favorite
activities was going
to the Farmer's
Market in Royal
Oak. He always
brought back ap-
ples or peaches
which he gave to Mr. Duchin's Huntington Woods home.
family, friends and
corner of Perry and Joslyn, where
even customers.
In 1975, Mr. Duchin — who Perry Warehouse Furniture is lo-
never married — opened Perry cated. Immediately following the
Warehouse Furniture. It was one collision, in which no one was
of his many businesses, which in- hurt, the drivers pulled into the
cluded hotel supplies, children's store's parking lot.
At virtually the same time, an-
furniture and custom-made mat-
tresses. He often went himself to other crash occurred about two
the State Fair so he could pur- blocks away. This one was seri-
chase the finest wool for the mat- ous and involved injuries, and the
police, fire department and EMS
tresses.
Both at the office and in his all were called.
personal life, Mr. Duchin had a
reputation of being generous. He
often lent money to employees.
He was active in B'nai B'rith and
with the Easter Seals.
"Last year, he ran in the
"Which means sirens were
marathon for Easter Seals," his
mother said. "He had flat feet and screaming up and down the
he didn't run regularly, but he street" minutes after Mr. Duchin
trained specially for the had been shot, Detective Trepte
marathon. He ran all 26 miles noted.
Additionally, a police officer
and raised $5,000."
"If anybody was in trouble, he was in the parking lot of Perry
would be the first to help," his fa- Warehouse Furniture at around
ther, George, added. "He was a 5:30. He had been called to the
second accident, but mistakenly
good son."
Mr. Duchin was 45 years old stopped at the first.
All the commotion, in addition
when he was killed on Sept. 22.
The day began as usual. Mr. to the presence of police in the
Duchin opened the business at store's parking lot, may have in-
10 a.m. and planned to stay un- terrupted an attempted robbery
at Perry Warehouse Furniture,
til it closed at 6 p.m.
Perry Warehouse Furniture is Detective Trepte said.
(There was money in the cash
located not far from downtown
Pontiac. A fast-food restaurant is MURDER page 10
Botched robbery or
planned murder?