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"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?