American Outlaws: The Murder of Patrolman Masterson

0:00 Speaker 1: Warning. Kind of murdery contains adult themes, explicit language, and

0:04 Speaker 1: descriptions of violence. It is not suitable for anyone, and

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0:11 Speaker 2: I'm Zevan Odelberg, and this is kind of murdery. The

0:24 Speaker 2: case I'm about to tell you about started out as

0:26 Speaker 2: a commonplace speakeasy stick up in which a patrolman and

0:29 Speaker 2: a girl were wounded at two fifty five am on

0:33 Speaker 2: the morning of January thirty first, nineteen twenty seven, in

0:36 Speaker 2: New York City. The patrolman died on the evening of

0:39 Speaker 2: the same day and was buried with full departmental honors

0:42 Speaker 2: three days later. Long before the funeral, however, the case

0:46 Speaker 2: developed all the melodramatic features that make front page crime

0:50 Speaker 2: serials or true crime podcasts. Occasionally, newspaper publicity helps an investigation.

0:57 Speaker 2: In this story, it would have been disastrous. And speaking

1:00 Speaker 2: of disasters, imagine being in a bar and inadvertently overhearing

1:05 Speaker 2: a conversation, as I'm sure all of us have any

1:08 Speaker 2: number of times in our lives, assuming that we occasionally

1:11 Speaker 2: go to bars, Except this stranger's conversation that you eavesdropped

1:16 Speaker 2: on by accident would lead you to a lifetime behind

1:20 Speaker 2: the barred windows of an insane asylum kind of murderies.

1:25 Speaker 2: It was a face out of hell. The shooting of

1:28 Speaker 2: patrolman Masterson starts now. At two thirty five am on

1:44 Speaker 2: the morning in question, two well dressed young men entered

1:47 Speaker 2: the bar room in the rear of a speakeasy on

1:50 Speaker 2: West one hundred and third Street. One of them, known

1:53 Speaker 2: to the bartender as Whitey, ordered highballs. Fifteen minutes later,

1:57 Speaker 2: two strange men sought admittance of the speakeasy and were

2:01 Speaker 2: vouched for by Whitey. They entered the dining room in

2:04 Speaker 2: the front and ordered coffee. There were about sixteen patrons present,

2:08 Speaker 2: a well behaved, prosperous after theater crowd, each group of

2:12 Speaker 2: which was paying attention only to its own party. At

2:14 Speaker 2: two fifty five, Whitey rose and sauntered nonchalantly toward the

2:18 Speaker 2: back of the bar. He whipped out a thirty eight

2:21 Speaker 2: caliber automatic and barked stick them up. Simultaneously, his companion

2:26 Speaker 2: took a stand at the other end of the bar

2:28 Speaker 2: and covered the occupants of the bar room, while the

2:30 Speaker 2: pair in the dining room whipped out revolvers and ordered

2:33 Speaker 2: the ham sandwich and coffee customers to stick them up

2:36 Speaker 2: and walk into the back room. There was a crash

2:39 Speaker 2: of broken glass and crockery, where tables were tipped over

2:42 Speaker 2: by the terror stricken men and women as they discreetly

2:44 Speaker 2: hastened to obey the command. Scores of times they'd read

2:47 Speaker 2: about such scenes in the newspapers and seen them in

2:50 Speaker 2: the movies. They knew that such things happened, of course

2:53 Speaker 2: to other people. That it had happened to themselves filled

2:56 Speaker 2: them with stunned amazement and horror. To one of the

2:59 Speaker 2: victims in the restaurant, however, the stick up was not

3:01 Speaker 2: much of a surprise. Patrolman James H. Masterson, in civilian clothes,

3:06 Speaker 2: accompanied by four friends as camouflage, had visited the place

3:09 Speaker 2: on a tip that it was the hangout of two

3:11 Speaker 2: women who were being sought by the police. The capture

3:14 Speaker 2: meant certain promotion for the moment. Masterson obeyed the order

3:18 Speaker 2: and with the others stumbled through the narrow passage that

3:20 Speaker 2: led to the bar room, obviously seeking the best bandage

3:23 Speaker 2: point from which to cover all four gunmen. But the

3:26 Speaker 2: instant Masterson lowered his hand, Whitey observed the action, wheeled

3:30 Speaker 2: toward him and fired in his face. As the officer

3:33 Speaker 2: crumpled to the floor. A second shot took effect in

3:36 Speaker 2: the shoulder of a girl who'd been close behind him.

3:38 Speaker 2: Whitey's nefarious companion strode forward and kicked the prostrate policeman.

3:42 Speaker 2: Get up there, he snarled. The kick had disarranged Masterson's

3:46 Speaker 2: coat and revealed his badge and gun. Oh so you're

3:49 Speaker 2: one of the holst of mob, are you? The thug sneered.

3:52 Speaker 2: Then take that, and that and that, and without the

3:56 Speaker 2: slightest provocation, he emptied his weapon into the wounded man's

4:00 Speaker 2: as he lay on the floor unconscious. A few minutes later,

4:03 Speaker 2: detectives Brady and Donnelly of the twelfth Precinct arrived. They

4:07 Speaker 2: found Masterson lying on a table. His eyes were closed,

4:10 Speaker 2: his face was a ghastly sight, and his body was

4:13 Speaker 2: as motionless as death. What's your name? Brady asked him. Hello, Brady,

4:17 Speaker 2: Masterson whispered a crooked grin, twisting his lips. What's your name?

4:22 Speaker 2: The detective spoke harshly in an effort to revive him.

4:25 Speaker 2: He succeeded. Years of discipline prevailed James Masterson. The words

4:30 Speaker 2: came faintly, as from a distance and where do you live?

4:33 Speaker 2: To eighteen West one hundred and ninetieth Street. I'm a

4:38 Speaker 2: policeman attached to the eighteenth Division. Do you believe you're

4:41 Speaker 2: about to die? I don't know. I don't. Are you

4:44 Speaker 2: willing to make a true statement of how and in

4:46 Speaker 2: what manner you came to the injury from which you

4:48 Speaker 2: are suffering? The formal inquisition went on dozens of times.

4:51 Speaker 2: Masterson himself had put the same stereotyped question to men

4:55 Speaker 2: picked up wounded to death. No one knew better than

4:57 Speaker 2: he how the police are handicapped by eyeing men's indifference

5:01 Speaker 2: or obstinacy. In refusing to answer with what the doctors

5:04 Speaker 2: later described as superhuman effort, he answered through gasping lips.

5:10 Speaker 3: I was shot by a fellow. I don't know his name,

5:13 Speaker 3: but he hangs out around fiftieth and Broadway, near Regal

5:16 Speaker 3: Shoe store. He's about twenty six, white guy, five foot seven,

5:21 Speaker 3: apparently American War sort of a blue overcoat like gray

5:26 Speaker 3: shoes hat. He was the man who took my shield

5:28 Speaker 3: and revolver while I lay on the floor. A brady,

5:32 Speaker 3: I guess I'm done for. Please get me a.

5:35 Speaker 2: Priest, then complete collapse. How he managed to talk that much,

5:39 Speaker 2: the doctors in the Knickerbocker Hospital said later, was a miracle.

5:43 Speaker 2: Each word, it had seemed to Brady would be his last,

5:46 Speaker 2: but Masterson carried on until he told all he knew.

5:49 Speaker 2: He died without regaining consciousness at six twenty pm that evening.

5:54 Speaker 2: The autopsy performed by Medical Examiner Director Norris, showed bullet

5:58 Speaker 2: wounds on the face, abdomen and pelvis, internal hemorrhages, and

6:02 Speaker 2: shock in cases of serious felonious assault where the victim

6:06 Speaker 2: is dying and the homicide bureau gets on the trail

6:08 Speaker 2: of the killer as soon as the hospital authorities state

6:10 Speaker 2: that their patient has no chance of recovery. Consequently, although

6:14 Speaker 2: Masterson wouldn't die until six pm that evening, it was

6:18 Speaker 2: at nine point fifteen the same morning of the shooting

6:21 Speaker 2: that Inspector Carrey, who was the homicide chief, assigned as

6:24 Speaker 2: best detectives Thomas Martin and Stephen G. Donahue to the case.

6:29 Speaker 2: The first few hours were occupied in groping along the

6:32 Speaker 2: various channels of a routine investigation. They visited the scene

6:35 Speaker 2: of the crime and found the premises closed with a

6:38 Speaker 2: patrolman on guard. Bullet holes in the wall of the

6:40 Speaker 2: bar room, the kitchen door, overturned tables, broken glasses and dishes,

6:45 Speaker 2: A blood stained floor and table were sinister souvenirs of

6:48 Speaker 2: the gunmen's presence on the premises during the early hours

6:51 Speaker 2: of the morning. A careful search revealed no clues to

6:55 Speaker 2: the identity of the gangsters, so the detectives hurried over

6:58 Speaker 2: to the station house of the twelfth Pars Recinct, where

7:00 Speaker 2: half a dozen witnesses to the stick up were being

7:02 Speaker 2: detained for questioning. So horrified were all of them at

7:06 Speaker 2: the vicious brutality of the gunmen who had riddled the

7:09 Speaker 2: defenseless patrolman with bullets that, without exception, each outdid the

7:13 Speaker 2: other in furnishing the police with details, their testimony was

7:17 Speaker 2: greatly beneficial. The witnesses had ample opportunity to get a

7:20 Speaker 2: good look at the four thugs, and the following descriptions

7:24 Speaker 2: were noted down banned at Number one man known as Whitey,

7:27 Speaker 2: sharp features, clean shaven, light gray coat, light gray soft hat.

7:31 Speaker 2: Number two unknown dark overcoat, soft gray hat with black band,

7:36 Speaker 2: blue serge suit about twenty five. Number three unknown apparently

7:40 Speaker 2: an Italian. Number four no definite description that the job

7:45 Speaker 2: was well planned and carried out with the coolness of

7:47 Speaker 2: experienced criminals, was suggested by the statement made by one witness,

7:51 Speaker 2: a young, intelligent German man named Lewis Ulrich. Ulrich said

7:55 Speaker 2: he'd been in the bar room when the shooting started.

7:57 Speaker 2: He knew the place well, and at first sign of trouble,

7:59 Speaker 2: sis skinned out to the kitchen and climbed into the dumbwaiter,

8:02 Speaker 2: letting himself down into the cellar. The back door was locked,

8:05 Speaker 2: so he raced up the front stairway, which led to

8:08 Speaker 2: the vestibule of the apartment house. In a mad rushed

8:10 Speaker 2: toward the street door. He flopped right into the arms

8:13 Speaker 2: of a man with a gun. This man shoved him

8:15 Speaker 2: back into the speakeasy, where the stick up men, on

8:17 Speaker 2: the point of leaving, delayed long enough to frisk him

8:20 Speaker 2: of all he possessed. Tenants in the building denied hearing

8:22 Speaker 2: any shooting. The one man claimed he did hear some explosions,

8:26 Speaker 2: which he'd assumed were caused by the backfiring of an automobile.

8:29 Speaker 2: Shortly after the police's arrival at the station house, a

8:32 Speaker 2: new eyewitness, a young woman, was brought in. She was

8:34 Speaker 2: extremely attractive, well groomed and smartly dressed, but her face

8:38 Speaker 2: was very pale and haggard. Here, one of the precinct

8:41 Speaker 2: men said, is miss Helen Grayson, who was shot the

8:45 Speaker 2: same time as Masterson. She said she wasn't badly heard,

8:48 Speaker 2: only scared, so we let her go home to get

8:50 Speaker 2: over the shock. Before questioning a Miss Grayson made a

8:52 Speaker 2: model statement. It was concise and clear and comprehensive. Certain

8:56 Speaker 2: of the witnesses had stated that it was a man

8:58 Speaker 2: known as Whitey who shot mass when he was lying

9:01 Speaker 2: on the floor, but on this point the girl was positive.

9:04 Speaker 2: She maintained that it was Whitey's companion. I don't know

9:07 Speaker 2: that brute's name, she said, but I would know him

9:09 Speaker 2: again if ever I see him. I'll never forget it

9:12 Speaker 2: as long as I live.

9:13 Speaker 3: It was a face out of hell.

9:15 Speaker 2: As she talked in the captain's private office, observers noticed

9:19 Speaker 2: that every now and then she gritted her teeth, as

9:21 Speaker 2: if she were either laboring under a severe nervous strain

9:24 Speaker 2: or was suffering great pain. Suddenly, she collapsed and doctor

9:28 Speaker 2: Barry of the Knickerbocker Hospital was called in. He found

9:31 Speaker 2: that she had a serious gunshot wounded in her shoulder

9:33 Speaker 2: and that it had already been attended by a physician,

9:36 Speaker 2: but the girl was taken to the hospital. Detectives resumed

9:39 Speaker 2: questioning witnesses, who Detective Martin asked Bolton the speakeasy bartender

9:44 Speaker 2: introduced the man as Whitey to you, fellow by the

9:47 Speaker 2: name of Lanahan. The bar keep answered, he owns a

9:49 Speaker 2: club up on Washington Heights on West one thirty eighth Street,

9:52 Speaker 2: and he's got an interest in our place. The witnesses

9:55 Speaker 2: were all escorted to police headquarters to review the pictures

9:58 Speaker 2: of hold up men in the identification bureau before appearing

10:01 Speaker 2: at the District Attorney's office. Martin Donahue's subwayed up Town

10:05 Speaker 2: to the address given by Bolton, the bartender. It was

10:08 Speaker 2: around one o'clock in the afternoon. The Lenahan place was closed,

10:12 Speaker 2: but repeated hammering on the door brought out an old

10:14 Speaker 2: African American caretaker, who told the police that the police

10:18 Speaker 2: didn't open until three pm. From the renting age of

10:21 Speaker 2: the building, detectives obtained the club owner's home address, which

10:24 Speaker 2: was a first class apartment house on Riverside Drive. The

10:27 Speaker 2: switchboard operator rang up the apartment but received no answer.

10:31 Speaker 2: In the meantime, at police headquarters Alarm twelve ninety seven

10:35 Speaker 2: covering the stolen property, the loot of the hold up

10:37 Speaker 2: had been broadcast, and code signals on Alarm twelve ninety

10:40 Speaker 2: six had been transmitted reporting the theft of Masterson's thirty

10:43 Speaker 2: eight caliber Cult Service Revolver number four two nine two three.

10:48 Speaker 2: One of the proprietors of the speakeasy, who had been

10:50 Speaker 2: present when the stick up was going on, stated that

10:52 Speaker 2: he would know at least two of the men if

10:54 Speaker 2: he were ever confronted with them, but that he'd never

10:56 Speaker 2: spoken to any of them. As he laid dying, patrolman

10:59 Speaker 2: Masterson had mentioned that Broadway and fiftieth Street was the

11:02 Speaker 2: hangout corner of his assailant, on the off chance that

11:05 Speaker 2: one of the patrolmen covering that beat might know the man.

11:08 Speaker 2: Detectives called at the forty seventh Street station home Masters

11:12 Speaker 2: that had been a hot headed young chap but very

11:14 Speaker 2: much liked and respected by all who really knew him.

11:16 Speaker 2: In the detective's room at the forty seventh Street station house,

11:20 Speaker 2: his exploits were being discussed for the purpose of picking

11:22 Speaker 2: out which of the dozens of men who carried the

11:25 Speaker 2: alias of Whitey might have had it in for him.

11:27 Speaker 2: Among those present in the room was Patrolman Callahan, a

11:30 Speaker 2: buddy of Masterson's who looked on the case as a

11:32 Speaker 2: personal cause, as did all the police for that matter.

11:35 Speaker 2: Patrolman Callahan was a human who's who of Tenderloin characters,

11:40 Speaker 2: as Whitey Miller. He was saying as we joined the group,

11:43 Speaker 2: he's got a wreck it as long as your arm.

11:45 Speaker 2: Jim might have run into one of his gang. I

11:47 Speaker 2: haven't seen him hanging around the fiftieth Street corner, but

11:50 Speaker 2: I've often seen him in Lindy's, a Broadway restaurant near

11:52 Speaker 2: fiftieth Street, and sporting in on the night clubs between

11:56 Speaker 2: forty six and forty eighth. In the last week or two,

11:58 Speaker 2: he had a dizzy blonde with one of those expensive dolls.

12:02 Speaker 2: You mean a brunette, Detective Moore interrupted. I saw him

12:05 Speaker 2: entering the Silver Skipper with a brunette who was dressed

12:07 Speaker 2: like a million bucks. I do not, Callahan said emphatically.

12:11 Speaker 2: The female with Whitey was a blonde peroxide, had blue eyes.

12:15 Speaker 2: The brunette was with his pal, one of those collegiate boys,

12:18 Speaker 2: now what do we call him? Has something to do

12:20 Speaker 2: with ta ah Ula. That's it Ulla, That's what they

12:23 Speaker 2: call him and say. I've seen him hanging around the

12:25 Speaker 2: corner of fiftieth in Broadway, near the Regal Shop. I

12:28 Speaker 2: don't know where a whitey picked Ullah up, but he's

12:30 Speaker 2: been pickled as a dill every time I seen him.

12:33 Speaker 2: Don't belong to the whities old gang. It was arranged

12:35 Speaker 2: that officers Callahan and Moore should make the rounds of

12:38 Speaker 2: the Broadway nightclubs in an effort to pick up this whitey.

12:41 Speaker 2: There was no photograph of him in the station house,

12:43 Speaker 2: so Detective Martin telephoned the identification bureau at headquarters to

12:47 Speaker 2: rush off copies of the picture of the man Callahan

12:50 Speaker 2: referred to. Then he and Donahue left to return to

12:53 Speaker 2: Linahan's club. Looks bad Linahan keeping out of sight this way,

12:57 Speaker 2: Steve Martin said to his partner as they to the subway.

13:01 Speaker 2: Must have known we'd traced the gunman to his doorstep. Mmm.

13:04 Speaker 2: Donahue mumbledon. Of course, Linahan may be all right, but

13:07 Speaker 2: he sure is acting foolishly to keep out of the way.

13:10 Speaker 2: It's funny how reckless speakeasies are and handing out cards

13:13 Speaker 2: to people are practically absolute strangers. I wonder if they

13:16 Speaker 2: got anything on the fingerprints. Nope, Donahue replied, I called

13:19 Speaker 2: him up. The table where Whiting and his companion were

13:22 Speaker 2: seated was knocked over and the glasses were smashed as smithereens.

13:25 Speaker 2: Nobody seems to know at what table the other two

13:29 Speaker 2: was seated. When the detective sought admission to Linahan's club,

13:32 Speaker 2: it was around four pm. Only the manager, a taciturn

13:35 Speaker 2: individual named Doherty, and a couple of waiters were in place.

13:39 Speaker 2: The owner, they were told, was not expected to return

13:41 Speaker 2: until late in the evening. If then, okay, said Donahue,

13:45 Speaker 2: We'll stick around. When he calls up again, you tell

13:48 Speaker 2: him we're here and waiting to see him. Doherty received

13:50 Speaker 2: this announcement with a dark scowl. He opened his lips

13:53 Speaker 2: as if to make a biting retort, thought better of it,

13:56 Speaker 2: and disappeared somewhere into the hinter parts of the club.

13:59 Speaker 2: Martin and Donahue immediately started to make thorough examination of

14:02 Speaker 2: the place. They didn't expect to find anything, but there

14:05 Speaker 2: was always the chance of falling across some trifle that

14:08 Speaker 2: might develop into an important clue or a battering ram

14:11 Speaker 2: to break down the silence of a bulky customer. Later on,

14:14 Speaker 2: when diners and dancers crowded around the little tables, the

14:17 Speaker 2: place might be lively enough, but at that hour in

14:20 Speaker 2: the afternoon it was as cheerful as a cemetery on

14:22 Speaker 2: a rainy evening. Woo w Donahue gave vent to an

14:27 Speaker 2: almost whispered whistle. Look here, Tommy, he said. Martin skidded

14:31 Speaker 2: across the wax dance floor and glanced at the spot

14:33 Speaker 2: on the wall where he was pointing. It was about

14:36 Speaker 2: three and a half feet from the floor, a small

14:38 Speaker 2: hole with a singed edge through which the white plasters showed,

14:41 Speaker 2: made by a bullet and not long ago. Martin said

14:44 Speaker 2: in an undertone as after one look, he turned and

14:47 Speaker 2: walked to the other side of the room, away from

14:49 Speaker 2: possible eavesdroppers. Listen, Donahue, I'll go to the telephone and

14:53 Speaker 2: find out if any stick up was reported from here recently.

14:55 Speaker 2: If not, that'll give us something to stick the needles into,

14:58 Speaker 2: lineahand with As Martin and stepped out into the dusk

15:01 Speaker 2: of the late winter afternoon, he almost collided with detectives

15:04 Speaker 2: Brady and Teed, who were also in the hunt for

15:07 Speaker 2: Linahan Steve Donahue's inside. He told them I'll be back

15:10 Speaker 2: in a few minutes. After the necessary delays, Martin learned

15:14 Speaker 2: that no shooting had been reported by Lenahan's club, and

15:16 Speaker 2: that a man named William McGlenn had applied at the

15:19 Speaker 2: Roosevelt Hospital at midnight of the thirtieth for the treatment

15:22 Speaker 2: of gunshot wounds in his right arm and shoulder. He

15:25 Speaker 2: had refused to tell who had injured him. Armed with

15:28 Speaker 2: this information, Detective Martin returned to the resort and found Donahue, Brady,

15:32 Speaker 2: and Teed in conversation with a tall, sallow complexion man

15:35 Speaker 2: who faced them in an attitude of truculence. Mister Lenahan

15:39 Speaker 2: says he doesn't know Whitey, Donahue told Martin as he

15:42 Speaker 2: approached the group, a skeptical smile on his lips. Bolton

15:45 Speaker 2: made a mistake, Linahan muttered and shut his teeth with

15:49 Speaker 2: a snap that could be heard about three feet away. Well,

15:51 Speaker 2: of course that's possible, Martin said smoothly. I'd like to

15:54 Speaker 2: talk with mister Lenahan alone. The other three detectives immediately Withdrew.

15:58 Speaker 2: Why didn't you report the shoot in your place last Sunday?

16:01 Speaker 2: When mister William McGlenn was seriously wounded. Mister Lenahan, Martin

16:05 Speaker 2: asked the question took him momentarily off his guard. His

16:08 Speaker 2: sallow face became a chalky white, and desperate, trapped expressions

16:12 Speaker 2: flitted across his deep set, grayish eyes. Well, hello, everybody,

16:17 Speaker 2: A sweet, husky voice broke the silence. Martin glanced in

16:20 Speaker 2: the direction of the front door and saw a dazzling

16:23 Speaker 2: blonde wrapped in a slinky fur coat making what could

16:26 Speaker 2: only be described as a sensual entrance. Suddenly, the smile

16:31 Speaker 2: seemed to freeze on her lips. Grabber Brady, who was

16:34 Speaker 2: standing with his partner near the door, snapped out. Evidently

16:37 Speaker 2: Donahue obliged, for there was an indignant squeak, followed by

16:40 Speaker 2: voluble protests from the direction of an inner door. Lenahan

16:44 Speaker 2: seemed to be on the verge of collapse, so Detective

16:47 Speaker 2: Martin took his arm and led him to a nearby chair.

16:49 Speaker 2: Sit down and tell me about the shooting. We'll find

16:51 Speaker 2: out about it anyway, so why not come across, I suppose, so,

16:55 Speaker 2: he admitted in a cold, emotionless tone. While McGlenn got

16:58 Speaker 2: in an argument with another fell I was in the

17:01 Speaker 2: back at the time. Then I heard a shot. The

17:03 Speaker 2: bouncer was throwing him out when I ran out to

17:05 Speaker 2: see what the trouble was. I've sunk all the money

17:07 Speaker 2: I possess in this place. I'm only a very small

17:10 Speaker 2: interest in one hundred and third Street restaurant, and I

17:12 Speaker 2: didn't want people to get scared away by bad publicity

17:15 Speaker 2: and Whitey. Detective Martin urged, I'm not going to ask

17:18 Speaker 2: you just now if Whitey and new Law were here

17:20 Speaker 2: on Sunday night when McGlenn was shot. Of course it's

17:23 Speaker 2: going to go bad with you if you withhold information.

17:25 Speaker 2: Detective Martin let this sink in for about a minute,

17:28 Speaker 2: and notice the nervous lacing and unlacing of Lenahan's fingers

17:32 Speaker 2: and the perspiration that beat at his forehead. Martin listened

17:35 Speaker 2: to the murmured conversation of the girl and the three detectives.

17:39 Speaker 2: If I could see Bolton, Linahan said, at last, perhaps

17:42 Speaker 2: he could refresh my memory. That's good enough. Martin agreed.

17:45 Speaker 2: Let's go and see Bolton together. Where does he live?

17:48 Speaker 2: He works in a saloon on the West twenty third

17:50 Speaker 2: Street during the daytime, Lenahan said, rising shakily, from his

17:53 Speaker 2: chair before we go, I'd like to have a few

17:55 Speaker 2: words alone with miss Tacosta. Detective Martin looked in the

17:58 Speaker 2: direction of the girl and her three unwelcome companions. Whatever

18:02 Speaker 2: the latter we're saying to her was obviously being ill received.

18:06 Speaker 2: Her rouge lips were drawn in a hard, angry line,

18:08 Speaker 2: and her misscared eyelashes made slits of her long, narrow eyes. Nope,

18:13 Speaker 2: don't interrupt, Martin said, casually, taking a hold of Lenahan's arm.

18:17 Speaker 2: Detective Martin called Donahue and explained that he was going

18:20 Speaker 2: with Linahan in search of Bolton. Have you ever been arrested,

18:23 Speaker 2: Martin asked Linahan as they walked to the subway. No,

18:26 Speaker 2: he answered promptly, never been questioned by the police before. Nope.

18:30 Speaker 2: Let me give you a bit of advice. Tell the truth.

18:33 Speaker 2: If you don't, you're gonna find yourself in a nasty hole.

18:36 Speaker 2: And if you're trying to protect Whitey, you'll find yourself

18:38 Speaker 2: in the can before you know it. I ain't trying

18:41 Speaker 2: to protect Whitey, he muttered, trying to protect myself. Whitey

18:56 Speaker 2: threatened you, Martin asked. Linahan didn't answer, and in silent

19:00 Speaker 2: as they traveled until they reached the Corner Cafe on

19:02 Speaker 2: West twenty third Street, near the ferries. It was an

19:05 Speaker 2: old time saloon. The bar was being used as a

19:07 Speaker 2: quick lunch counter. Martin and Linahan passed the entrance and

19:10 Speaker 2: entered the vestibule of a tenement that had been built

19:12 Speaker 2: over the grog shop. They hoofed it up to the

19:14 Speaker 2: second floor, and there found Bolton presiding over a thickly crowded,

19:18 Speaker 2: brand new bar. It was one of those speakeasies that

19:21 Speaker 2: abounded along the waterfront and persisted in spite of steadily

19:24 Speaker 2: demolishing raiders. Bolton was a powerful, ruddy faced chap with

19:29 Speaker 2: eyes as guileless as a baby's and a simulated genial expression.

19:32 Speaker 2: He was the opposite of Lenihan, who was a sharp featured,

19:35 Speaker 2: cynical looking fellow with cruel, thin lips and deep set

19:39 Speaker 2: black eyes. I think it would be better if I

19:41 Speaker 2: spoke to Bolton alone, Lenahan said, nervously, glancing around the room.

19:46 Speaker 2: Well that's all right with me, Detective Martin said, and

19:48 Speaker 2: sat down at a small liquor stained round table. Linahan

19:51 Speaker 2: took a place at the end of the bar, which

19:53 Speaker 2: was deserted by the boisterous patrons who were crowding chummily

19:56 Speaker 2: at the end nearest the door. Glancing at his watch,

19:59 Speaker 2: Detective Martin saw that the hands pointed to six thirty.

20:02 Speaker 2: He ordered a glass of small beer and slipped into

20:05 Speaker 2: the telephone booth. So loud were the wise cracks and

20:08 Speaker 2: accompanying raucous laughter coming from the great husky long shoreman

20:12 Speaker 2: that Detective Martin had to cup the mouthpiece before central

20:15 Speaker 2: could hear the number he gave. When he was connected

20:18 Speaker 2: with Inspector Coughlin, he told him that he was busily

20:20 Speaker 2: following up a lead that promised developments. Masterson died at

20:24 Speaker 2: six point twenty, the inspector said, when Martin had finished

20:27 Speaker 2: get in touch with Donahue. It's strange how small trifles

20:31 Speaker 2: can assume importance at tragic times. Masterson must have died

20:36 Speaker 2: without regaining consciousness, so they couldn't tell him that the

20:39 Speaker 2: thugs didn't get his badge. That hurts the CoP's feelings

20:42 Speaker 2: more than a bullet, even if the shield is swiped

20:45 Speaker 2: when he is lying helpless, as Masterson was. Well. If

20:49 Speaker 2: Masterson's brother cops couldn't catch his murderer, it wouldn't be

20:53 Speaker 2: for lack of trying. Detective Martin approached Bolton and Lenihan,

20:57 Speaker 2: determined not to have any more shilly shallying on the

20:59 Speaker 2: part of the club owner. Bolton made a mistake, Linahan

21:03 Speaker 2: started to say, blandly through lips that barely moved as

21:05 Speaker 2: he spoke. His shifty eyes regarded Martin slyly, as if

21:09 Speaker 2: trying to see whether he believed the statement. Well, Martin

21:13 Speaker 2: said grimly, mistakes are serious things in a murder case.

21:16 Speaker 2: Masterson died fifteen minutes ago. Come on, Bolton, put on

21:20 Speaker 2: your coat and come to headquarters with me. Wait a minute,

21:22 Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Linahan protested, his tongue moistening his dry lips.

21:26 Speaker 2: What I was going to say is that Bolton made

21:28 Speaker 2: a mistake in not getting in touch with me immediately

21:30 Speaker 2: and reminding me that Whitey was the man I introduced

21:32 Speaker 2: to him. He recalled the incident to my mind, I'll

21:35 Speaker 2: just telephone and get a hold of the man who

21:36 Speaker 2: introduced him to me. Beneath Linahan's cold, self contained pose,

21:40 Speaker 2: Detective Martin knew that he was scared to death of something.

21:43 Speaker 2: There was only one telephone booth in the speakeasy, and

21:46 Speaker 2: Martin was determined that Linahan should not use that. Martin

21:49 Speaker 2: wanted to know who Linahan called, and if the call

21:52 Speaker 2: was a local one, it would be impossible to trace

21:55 Speaker 2: once the connection was broken. For that reason, the detective

21:58 Speaker 2: steered Linahan into this street, stalling him off with questions

22:02 Speaker 2: until they reached a drug store that had a row

22:04 Speaker 2: of four booths. Well go in here, Martin said, While

22:07 Speaker 2: you're calling up your friend, all get in touch with Donahue.

22:10 Speaker 2: He's still waiting for me uptown. Before he entered the booth,

22:13 Speaker 2: Martin noted the number and then sought the telephone at

22:16 Speaker 2: the farther end of the row. Then he called up

22:18 Speaker 2: headquarters and asked the operator to find out what number

22:20 Speaker 2: Linahan was talking to him. While the operator was handling this,

22:24 Speaker 2: Martin got in touch with Donahue and told him briefly

22:26 Speaker 2: of his experience with the club owner. He knows Whitey,

22:29 Speaker 2: all right, Martin said, I'm going to keep after him

22:32 Speaker 2: until I get the address. You're don wrighty knows Whitey,

22:35 Speaker 2: Donahue interrupted, It was Whitey Anulas stuck up his joint

22:38 Speaker 2: on one thirty eighth Street Sunday night when McGlenn got shot.

22:41 Speaker 2: Whitey's a desperate character, the girl told us, and Linahan's

22:46 Speaker 2: scared stiff of him. Headquarters have sent copies of his

22:48 Speaker 2: picture to the twentieth Street station house. Can you meet

22:51 Speaker 2: me there in an hour? If I can't, replied Martin,

22:54 Speaker 2: I'll leave a message there for you. He hung up,

22:57 Speaker 2: saw Linahan through the glass panel, walking red slessly up

23:00 Speaker 2: and down the floor in the drug store. What'd you

23:02 Speaker 2: find out, Martin asked him as he went over and

23:04 Speaker 2: took hold of Lina Han's arm. Way do we get outside,

23:08 Speaker 2: Linahan said, with a glance at the listening soda clerk.

23:11 Speaker 2: Now quit Stalin, Martin said, as soon as they reached

23:14 Speaker 2: the sidewalk and quit lying. I know that Whitey Anulah

23:18 Speaker 2: held up your place Sunday night. Do you want to

23:20 Speaker 2: spill your piece here to me or down at headquarters

23:22 Speaker 2: with Inspector Coughlin. Linahan shivered in a bone dry voice.

23:26 Speaker 2: He answered, I'd be safer in the can maybe than

23:29 Speaker 2: anywhere else just now, but there's a reason I don't

23:32 Speaker 2: want to be away from home for the next few weeks.

23:34 Speaker 2: Honest to God, I don't know Whitey's address. The man

23:37 Speaker 2: I met him through wasn't at his hotel when I called,

23:39 Speaker 2: and they said they didn't know what he would be.

23:41 Speaker 2: The man Linahan mentioned was of great assistance in the case.

23:45 Speaker 2: His name was Arthur Tisney, which is a made up name,

23:48 Speaker 2: nothing like his real name or any of his aliases.

23:51 Speaker 2: Tisney's reputation is international. His specialty is the confidence game,

23:55 Speaker 2: and there isn't a more amoral rascal in the field.

23:59 Speaker 2: Without a scruple, He'll skin a sucker until he leaves

24:01 Speaker 2: nothing behind but bare bones. He'll flatter along a blue

24:05 Speaker 2: haired bell until she believes she's regained her flapperhood, and

24:09 Speaker 2: then mulchure of every last nickel. Never give a sucker

24:13 Speaker 2: a break is his motto. Outside of business hours, however,

24:16 Speaker 2: he had a very strict idea of right and wrong.

24:19 Speaker 2: Martin was surprised to learn of Tisney's association with a

24:22 Speaker 2: thug like Whitey, for they moved in underworld circles which

24:26 Speaker 2: were as distant as Newport is from Coney Island. Had

24:29 Speaker 2: this been an ordinary case, Martin would have had little

24:31 Speaker 2: hope of gaining any information from the con man. But

24:35 Speaker 2: knowing him as he did, he was confident that Tisney

24:37 Speaker 2: would look on the cowardly action of the man who

24:39 Speaker 2: murdered Masterson as that of a cur who ought to

24:42 Speaker 2: be exterminated. Martin sent Lenihan ahead of him to the

24:45 Speaker 2: hotel that had been mentioned as Tisney's address, and before

24:48 Speaker 2: following him, he went to the station house on twentieth

24:51 Speaker 2: Street and picked up Donahue. Disney must have fallen on

24:54 Speaker 2: lean Thimes, Donahue remarked when Martin told him the name

24:57 Speaker 2: of the cheap hotel just off Broadway. They had to

25:00 Speaker 2: wait for the return of the confidence man. It certainly

25:03 Speaker 2: was a dismal hole, a down at the heel's leering

25:06 Speaker 2: sort of place with a small dismal lobby in a

25:08 Speaker 2: worm eaten desk. Before entering, Martin called up headquarters and

25:12 Speaker 2: learned from the switchboard operator that this was the place

25:15 Speaker 2: that Lenahan had telephoned to from the drug store. There

25:18 Speaker 2: they sat for two solid hours. Cheap song and dance men,

25:22 Speaker 2: dizzy little starlits, has been actresses, shabby chorus girls, and

25:26 Speaker 2: nondescript characters passed and repassed the two policemen. At nine thirty,

25:31 Speaker 2: Tisney breezed in, meticulously groomed, as always exceptionally good looking, tall,

25:37 Speaker 2: broad shouldered, he strolled through the doorway and glanced around

25:40 Speaker 2: the lobby. He spied Linahan and Martin. Martin noticed Lenahan

25:44 Speaker 2: in Tisney's eyes clash, and at that moment he knew

25:48 Speaker 2: the club owner had sent someone to round up the

25:50 Speaker 2: confidence man, but had not warned him to expect company

25:53 Speaker 2: from police headquarters. However, with an almost imperceptible shrug, Tisney

25:59 Speaker 2: advanced and looked from one man to the other, the

26:02 Speaker 2: club owner and the policeman, with a quizzically questioning air.

26:06 Speaker 2: These gentlemen want to talk to you, line a hand mumbled,

26:09 Speaker 2: without any beating around the bush. Martin told him the

26:11 Speaker 2: exact story of the stick up, sparing no detail of

26:14 Speaker 2: the brutal way in which Uhlad killed the patrolman. How

26:17 Speaker 2: do I know that everything you've told me is true,

26:20 Speaker 2: Tisney asked quietly. You can call up the Knickerbocker hospital

26:24 Speaker 2: and find out. Martin told him, I believe you, He

26:27 Speaker 2: sat after a moment's thought, chair is too good for

26:30 Speaker 2: a beast like that. I'll do everything I can to

26:32 Speaker 2: help you. Listen. I met Whitey through a mutual acquaintance

26:35 Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago when I was looking for

26:37 Speaker 2: a reliable chauffeur. I was at the time planning to

26:40 Speaker 2: go in for bootlegging on a large scale. It was

26:43 Speaker 2: in the early hours of the morning, and he offered

26:45 Speaker 2: to drive me home. I insisted on driving him home,

26:48 Speaker 2: and he directed the taxi driver to drop him at

26:50 Speaker 2: thirty three Coven Avenue. For reasons of my own, I

26:53 Speaker 2: made sure later on that this really was his address

26:56 Speaker 2: and found out that he lived in apartment number one

26:58 Speaker 2: under the name Murray's share a room with another young fellow.

27:01 Speaker 2: Last time I saw him was Monday night, around one

27:04 Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning at the speakeasy on ninety sixth Street,

27:07 Speaker 2: and he was with that chap they call Uhlah and

27:09 Speaker 2: two names who looked like smart young matrons looking for

27:13 Speaker 2: an adventure. Tisney finished with an undisguised sneer for none

27:17 Speaker 2: hold the unconventionalities of the upper classes more in disgust

27:21 Speaker 2: than the denizens of the so called underworld. After some

27:24 Speaker 2: further conversation that convinced the detectives that Tisney had shared

27:27 Speaker 2: all anew, Martin and Donahue left the hotel from a

27:30 Speaker 2: nearby United Cigar store. Martin telephoned Inspector Carrie and briefly

27:35 Speaker 2: as possible, made him acquainted with the situation. Carrie then

27:38 Speaker 2: gave orders let lne of Hand go tell him to

27:40 Speaker 2: come to headquarters tomorrow morning at eight o'clock to see me.

27:43 Speaker 2: You and Donahue get right up to the place on

27:45 Speaker 2: Covent Avenue and crashing as quietly as you can. I'll

27:48 Speaker 2: arrange to have enough men there to surround the block

27:50 Speaker 2: before you arrive. It was ten point fifteen by the

27:53 Speaker 2: time Martin and Donahue reached the address Tisney had given them.

27:56 Speaker 2: At that hour, the street was practically deserted, and the

27:59 Speaker 2: scattered induals that they did see the detectives recognized as

28:02 Speaker 2: men from the precinct station. From the shadows of the

28:05 Speaker 2: basement entrance. Two men detached themselves and sauntered across the

28:09 Speaker 2: street in the direction of the detectives under the arc light.

28:12 Speaker 2: Martin identified them as Brady and Teed. They had a

28:15 Speaker 2: short discussion. It was arranged that Donahue, a patrolman, and

28:19 Speaker 2: Martin should enter Number thirty three through the basement and

28:21 Speaker 2: open the front door. This would be a signal for

28:24 Speaker 2: at least half a dozen of the men to enter

28:26 Speaker 2: and crash the apartment together. On descending the steps that

28:29 Speaker 2: led to the basement, Martin and Donahue were pleasantly surprised

28:32 Speaker 2: to find the door open. Halfway along the narrow, well

28:35 Speaker 2: lighted hall was a comfortably furnished office with a young

28:37 Speaker 2: man seated at a switchboard. Is there an old man

28:40 Speaker 2: named Murray living in this house? Martin asked him. Not

28:43 Speaker 2: sure the number, but I believe it's thirty three. There's

28:45 Speaker 2: only one Murray living on this block, he answered, And

28:47 Speaker 2: I wouldn't call him old. He's about thirty five or thereabouts.

28:50 Speaker 2: And that's the only Murray on the block. You sure

28:53 Speaker 2: about that, Martin asked, as if disappointed. Well, sure, I'm sure,

28:57 Speaker 2: the boy grinned, because the switchboard serves the whole of

28:59 Speaker 2: the block. You see, there are only two apartment houses

29:02 Speaker 2: and they're both owned by the same people. Oh, Donahue interrupted,

29:05 Speaker 2: that's our friend's son. Do you know if he's in, Well,

29:08 Speaker 2: I guess so. The telephone operator prepared to plug his

29:11 Speaker 2: key into the hole under the number one. I know

29:13 Speaker 2: he was in half an hour ago because he put

29:15 Speaker 2: a call through. That was what the detectives wanted to know.

29:18 Speaker 2: They disclosed their identity to the young man and swore

29:21 Speaker 2: him to secrecy, left the patrolman on guard, and tore upstairs,

29:25 Speaker 2: opening the front door. Through the door presently streamed detectives Donnelly, Brady,

29:29 Speaker 2: Deneen inright overhouse, Henshaw, Mullins, and Patrolman Gray of the

29:33 Speaker 2: fifth Detective District. The police injured Whitey's apartment. Never mind

29:37 Speaker 2: how to have rung the doorbell would have been madness.

29:39 Speaker 2: They didn't want to herald their arrival, for you can't

29:42 Speaker 2: expect to arrest a couple of dangerous gunmen without a fight,

29:45 Speaker 2: and the police wanted to take their prisoners to the

29:47 Speaker 2: station house alive if possible. Whitey and his partner knew

29:52 Speaker 2: by that time that they were slated for the electric

29:54 Speaker 2: chair if they were caught, and they'd be willing law

29:56 Speaker 2: enforcement presumed to take desperate chances Without any unnecessary noise.

30:02 Speaker 2: The police crashed the place and then swooped through the

30:04 Speaker 2: apartment with the velocity of a cyclone. A wild scream

30:08 Speaker 2: greeted their arrival. What do you want? They confronted a

30:12 Speaker 2: woman in her early fifties crouching behind a chair in

30:15 Speaker 2: the living room. Stark terror stared from her eyes. We're

30:18 Speaker 2: detective as Martin told her, and we want Murray and

30:21 Speaker 2: his companion. Well, they aren't here, she stuttered. They left

30:25 Speaker 2: a half hour ago for Miami, Florida. She gave her

30:28 Speaker 2: name as Schumann. She looked like an honest, refined woman,

30:31 Speaker 2: and the police were inclined to believe her story. That

30:34 Speaker 2: didn't prevent them from making a thorough search of the

30:36 Speaker 2: apartment and the dumb waiter before they proceeded to put

30:39 Speaker 2: her through a very severe grilling, which no doubt she'd

30:42 Speaker 2: remember for the rest of her life. It didn't take

30:45 Speaker 2: the police long, however, to become absolutely convinced that the

30:48 Speaker 2: woman was completely horrified to learn that her rumors were

30:52 Speaker 2: a couple of killers in professional thugs. Two men rented

30:55 Speaker 2: a room from her on November twenty fifth, nineteen twenty six.

30:59 Speaker 2: She said their names as Walter Murray and Pete Taylor.

31:02 Speaker 2: She didn't ask them for references, as they appeared to

31:05 Speaker 2: be a pair of nice, clean cut young men. This

31:08 Speaker 2: very night, they'd turned up at about half past nine

31:10 Speaker 2: and hurriedly packed their belongings in one old brown leather

31:13 Speaker 2: suitcase before informing their landlady that they were leaving for Miami.

31:17 Speaker 2: Murray she said lived pretty steadily in the apartment, whereas

31:20 Speaker 2: his friend Taylor was often away overnight. Do you have

31:23 Speaker 2: any idea where he went? Martin asked her. The landlady

31:26 Speaker 2: shook her head. No. But mister Murray often called up

31:30 Speaker 2: a number something boulevard. That isn't that annoying? I have

31:34 Speaker 2: it right at the tip of my tongue, and yet

31:35 Speaker 2: I can't get it. Maybe it'll come anyway. He used

31:38 Speaker 2: to say, Hello, Grace, is Pete there? And sometimes Pete was,

31:42 Speaker 2: and often he wasn't. Then he'd try other numbers. Now

31:45 Speaker 2: I wasn't listening, you understand. I just happened to hear

31:48 Speaker 2: when I was tidying up in the living room, so

31:50 Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you what Elsie said. In packing, the

31:53 Speaker 2: men had made a clean sweep. The only thing they

31:55 Speaker 2: left behind was a pocket handkerchief, which was found tossed

31:58 Speaker 2: under the bed. This was soiled as if someone had

32:00 Speaker 2: dusted off his shoes with it. It was an old handkerchief,

32:03 Speaker 2: and in the corner was a laundrymark. While Detective Martin

32:06 Speaker 2: was talking to missus Schuman, Donahue had telephoned to the

32:09 Speaker 2: Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroad offices and learned that

32:12 Speaker 2: the only trains leaving for Miami that night were the

32:14 Speaker 2: twelve thirty and the twelve forty. Detective that immediately left

32:18 Speaker 2: to cover both trains. Others were in the basement checking

32:21 Speaker 2: off all telephone calls put through by the two young

32:23 Speaker 2: men in Missus Schuman's apartment. Both Missus Schuman and the

32:26 Speaker 2: telephone operator identified photographs of Walter Tippy alias Murray, alias

32:32 Speaker 2: Tip Murray, alias Whitey, and many other names as the

32:35 Speaker 2: men they knew. In digging through the numbers charged against

32:39 Speaker 2: Whitey's name, the police found the often repeated Boulevard Exchange

32:43 Speaker 2: call belonging to missus Grace Peterson of seventy thirty eight

32:46 Speaker 2: Nanson Street, Forest Hills, Long Island, New York, that brought

32:50 Speaker 2: the cops out on thin ice. Why on Earth, as

32:53 Speaker 2: Donahue asked the world in general, was a woman living

32:55 Speaker 2: in that aristocratic residential community associating with a crook like Whitey.

33:01 Speaker 2: If the oft called Boulevard telephone number had brought police

33:04 Speaker 2: to the telephone of an underworld lady, there would have

33:07 Speaker 2: been swift and fruitful questioning around her neighborhood. But here

33:10 Speaker 2: was a woman of the upper world of doubtless unimpeachable

33:14 Speaker 2: standing in her community, and police procedure would have to

33:17 Speaker 2: be circumspect. It was a puzzle for the time, unexplained

33:20 Speaker 2: until just before the end, although it's worth noting that

33:24 Speaker 2: missus Peterson's connection with the case, although important, did turn

33:28 Speaker 2: out to be entirely innocent and accidental. Detective Winkleman of

33:32 Speaker 2: the Homicide Bureau and detectives Jackson and Ambres of the

33:35 Speaker 2: fifth District were immediately sent out to keep seventy thirty

33:39 Speaker 2: eight Nanson Street Forest Hills under constant surveillance. Martin and

33:44 Speaker 2: Donahue were disappointed, but not surprised to learn that the

33:48 Speaker 2: men sent to cover the trains leaving for Miami had

33:50 Speaker 2: not recognized Walter Tippy, the man known as Murray or Whitey,

33:55 Speaker 2: nor had they recognized Pete Oola Taylor. Murderers make many mistakes,

34:00 Speaker 2: but seldom disclosed their destination when fleeing. When they told

34:04 Speaker 2: their landlady they were headed for Miami, it was a

34:07 Speaker 2: near certainty that they were not headed for Miami. It's

34:11 Speaker 2: a funny thing, Donahue remarked to Martin as they were

34:14 Speaker 2: about to part for the night. It's funny thing that

34:16 Speaker 2: Whitey and Oolah cleared out just as Tisney was telling

34:19 Speaker 2: us their address. I wonder if anybody tipped him off.

34:22 Speaker 2: I wonder if anyone called up the Knickerbocker Hospital from

34:25 Speaker 2: Forest Hills after six point twenty, Martin mused, before calling

34:29 Speaker 2: it a day. Martin mailed the soiled handkerchief special delivery

34:32 Speaker 2: to the Identification Bureau at headquarters. There it would be

34:35 Speaker 2: traced to the laundry that had placed the small ink

34:38 Speaker 2: mark on the corner, and so it was. A soiled

34:41 Speaker 2: bit of rag was the clue that would lead police

34:44 Speaker 2: to the more glittering and glamorous speakeas he's glorified under

34:48 Speaker 2: the title of nightclubs and help materially in sending a

34:52 Speaker 2: murderer to the electric chair. Dawn was breaking when Martin

34:56 Speaker 2: reached home, and it seemed as if he'd been asleep

34:59 Speaker 2: but a few moments once when the telephone by the

35:01 Speaker 2: bed woke him with an ear splitting clatter, Winkelman speaking,

35:06 Speaker 2: Martin heard drowsily as he put the receiver to his ear.

35:09 Speaker 2: At four in the morning of the thirty first, the

35:11 Speaker 2: night of the murder, she arrived home with four men

35:15 Speaker 2: and a girl in an automobile, Whitey. The connection was

35:18 Speaker 2: abruptly cut off. Furiously, Martin jiggled the receiver up and

35:21 Speaker 2: down number please. A sleepy, sacarine voice requested, you cut

35:26 Speaker 2: me off. Martin roared at its invisible owner. The party disconnected,

35:32 Speaker 2: it retorted sweetly but firmly. Then find out where the

35:35 Speaker 2: call came from. Martin ordered, hold the wire please. The

35:39 Speaker 2: call came from the paystation in Freeport, Long Island. Martin

35:43 Speaker 2: looked at his watch. It was six thirty. He wanted

35:46 Speaker 2: to be present when Inspector Carey questioned lne a hand

35:48 Speaker 2: at eight o'clock. So it was no use going back

35:50 Speaker 2: to sleep. Whitey and his gang had something more than

35:53 Speaker 2: three million square miles of territory in the United States

35:56 Speaker 2: to hide in, but a gigantic dragnet was being spread

35:59 Speaker 2: out over the whole country. One slip and they would

36:02 Speaker 2: be floundering in its meshes. The case was little more

36:05 Speaker 2: than twenty four hours old, and police had a plethora

36:08 Speaker 2: of clues leading toward the trail of the murderers. Men

36:11 Speaker 2: were already quietly investigating every person whom either of the

36:14 Speaker 2: two had called on the telephone. Wardens of the various

36:17 Speaker 2: penitentiaries where Whitey had spent time, would that morning received

36:20 Speaker 2: letters requesting the names and addresses of all those to

36:23 Speaker 2: whom the highwaymen had written. While in the institution, the

36:27 Speaker 2: soiled handkerchief from under the bed might open up further

36:30 Speaker 2: leads A knight's thought had probably advised Lenihan to come

36:34 Speaker 2: clean with all he knew altogether. Things had started off

36:37 Speaker 2: with a bang, but would police reach the trail before

36:41 Speaker 2: it became cold. Here's the story so far. A stick

36:55 Speaker 2: up in a New York City speakeasy on West one

36:57 Speaker 2: oh third Street results in the death of patrol when

37:00 Speaker 2: James Masterson the four gunmen escaped, but the police are

37:03 Speaker 2: soon hot on the trail of the murderers of their

37:05 Speaker 2: slain buddy. The stick up occurred on the night of

37:08 Speaker 2: January thirty first, nineteen twenty seven, and within twenty four

37:11 Speaker 2: hours detectives Martin and Donahue have lines out for four

37:14 Speaker 2: suspicious characters, Whitey Murray and his pal Oola Taylor, suspected

37:18 Speaker 2: as the actual murderers. Missus Grace Peterson well to do

37:22 Speaker 2: Young Forest Hill's matron, who the detective's surmise, was innocently

37:25 Speaker 2: used by the gunman for alibi purposes, and Linahan, proprietor

37:29 Speaker 2: of an uptown club acquainted with the gunman. A soiled handkerchief,

37:32 Speaker 2: discovered by the sleuths and Taylor and Murray's rooms, becomes

37:36 Speaker 2: the first tangible clue. Wednesday, February two, Detective Martin hastens

37:40 Speaker 2: to headquarters to be present at the questioning of Linahan,

37:43 Speaker 2: the nightclub proprietor. Linahan was seated in the ante room

37:46 Speaker 2: outside the Chief's office when Martin arrived. His nerves appeared

37:49 Speaker 2: to be badly shot, and judging by his appearance, Martin

37:53 Speaker 2: guessed that he'd had not a wink of sleep since

37:55 Speaker 2: he'd seen him the night before. He had bungled himself

37:57 Speaker 2: into a bad mess the previous day. Because of the

38:00 Speaker 2: clumsy way in which he'd lied, Martin was inclined to

38:02 Speaker 2: believe he'd had no hand in the fatal stick up

38:05 Speaker 2: that had done in poor Masterson, and, like many another

38:08 Speaker 2: Lenahan thought he was protecting his interests by not reporting

38:11 Speaker 2: the stick up in his own club the preceding Sunday,

38:13 Speaker 2: even though he knew the leader of the gang which

38:16 Speaker 2: had perpetrated it, Whitey. The gang leader, it was true,

38:19 Speaker 2: had never threatened Lenahan with death be squealed. Nevertheless, had

38:23 Speaker 2: he quietly communicated with the police, they would have trapped

38:26 Speaker 2: the man, and Masterson would have been going on his

38:28 Speaker 2: rounds that morning instead of lying on a slab in

38:31 Speaker 2: the morgue. Consequently, Martin didn't feel much sympathy for the

38:34 Speaker 2: club owner's blue funk and hoped that the chief would

38:37 Speaker 2: sweat him good and hard, and that he would be

38:39 Speaker 2: present to see him do it. But this hope was

38:41 Speaker 2: promptly squashed when Martin was summoned to the chief's desk.

38:44 Speaker 2: Soon after his arrival. Detective Waldman called me up about

38:48 Speaker 2: fifteen minutes ago. Chief Carrie told Martin, shooting straight at

38:51 Speaker 2: the matter at hand, as was his custom. Missus Peterson

38:54 Speaker 2: and five companions drove up to her home on Nansen

38:57 Speaker 2: Street at four o'clock Tuesday morning, shortly after the murder

39:00 Speaker 2: of Masterson. Her guests were four men and a girl.

39:03 Speaker 2: Around five thirty two men and the girl left. It

39:05 Speaker 2: was too dark to get a good description of their faces.

39:08 Speaker 2: Then yesterday evening, about seven o'clock, Missus Peterson drove off

39:11 Speaker 2: with two men who fit the descriptions of Murray and Taylor.

39:14 Speaker 2: She returned alone. The Chief pause picked up a small

39:17 Speaker 2: manilla envelope and opened it. Yeah, Winkelman telephoned me this

39:20 Speaker 2: morning at six thirty, said Martin. But we were cut

39:23 Speaker 2: off in the middle of the conversation. Yeah, he told

39:25 Speaker 2: me that, Chief carry said. Then, without any further explanation,

39:28 Speaker 2: he went on, the men out at Forest Hills have

39:30 Speaker 2: a perfect plant, and we'll learn far more by keeping

39:33 Speaker 2: close tabs on missus Peterson than if we attempted to

39:35 Speaker 2: question her and show our hand. Now, here's the handkerchief

39:38 Speaker 2: you picked up yesterday at the Covent Avenue apartment of

39:40 Speaker 2: Murray and Taylor. The laundry mark was put there by

39:43 Speaker 2: Sanitary hand Laundry of one forty five West one sixteenth Street,

39:47 Speaker 2: Proprietors and N. Barrash. That's quite a distance from the

39:50 Speaker 2: coven Avenue address. See what you can pick up there.

39:53 Speaker 2: It took Martin less than half an hour to reach

39:55 Speaker 2: the uptown address. He found Sanitary hand Laundry to be

39:58 Speaker 2: an up to date establishment far from Seventh Avenue. Before

40:01 Speaker 2: injuring and questioning the manager, Detective Martin learned that he

40:04 Speaker 2: had an excellent reputation and Martin would be quite safe

40:08 Speaker 2: in disclosing the object of his visit to him when

40:10 Speaker 2: the time came. Prior to visiting the laundry, Martin had

40:13 Speaker 2: canvassed the neighborhood around the gunman's apartment to learn as

40:15 Speaker 2: much as he could about the two men. The main

40:18 Speaker 2: points he picked up were these two young men, one

40:20 Speaker 2: known as Tippy Murray and one as Pete Seller, had

40:22 Speaker 2: engaged a furnished room in the neighborhood on August fifteenth,

40:25 Speaker 2: nineteen twenty six. They informed the landlady that they worked

40:28 Speaker 2: in the New York Post Office. They explained their irregular

40:31 Speaker 2: hours by saying they'd worked on alternate night and day shifts.

40:34 Speaker 2: Had she inquired at the post office, as the police did,

40:37 Speaker 2: she would have learned this was a falsehood. But she

40:39 Speaker 2: never dreamed of questioning the word of her quiet, well dressed,

40:42 Speaker 2: polite star lodgers. The laundry company had called and delivered

40:46 Speaker 2: laundry to them every week, then on November fifteenth, they

40:49 Speaker 2: had vanished, leaving no fording address. Both the laundry manager

40:52 Speaker 2: and the landlady identified identification Photograph thirty one zero one

40:56 Speaker 2: zero as that of the man who gave his name

40:58 Speaker 2: as Murray, but they could not identify any one of

41:01 Speaker 2: the three photographs which had been picked up out of

41:03 Speaker 2: the gallery as possibly belonging to Murray's gang. Cellier's description, however,

41:07 Speaker 2: tallied closely with that of the man known at the

41:09 Speaker 2: Covent Avenue apartment house as Taylor. All morning and afternoon,

41:13 Speaker 2: Martin combed the neighborhood looking for his young cousin, Pete Sellier,

41:17 Speaker 2: who had lived there until shortly before the previous Thanksgiving.

41:20 Speaker 2: It was around four o'clock when he found his first

41:22 Speaker 2: definite lead in a beauty parlor. There, he learned that

41:25 Speaker 2: a female instructor in a dance hall on West one

41:28 Speaker 2: twenty fifth Street named Trixie had been going with a

41:31 Speaker 2: sheikh named Celier. He had, however, quote given her the

41:34 Speaker 2: air unquote, and she had confided the story of her

41:37 Speaker 2: broken romance to her manicurist. Cellier's heartless jilting had not

41:41 Speaker 2: broken the dancer's ambitions, whatever it did to her heart,

41:44 Speaker 2: for she had been graduated a short time later, this

41:46 Speaker 2: according to the dance hall proprietor, and gone to work

41:49 Speaker 2: at a well known nightclub. This flashy cabaret did not

41:52 Speaker 2: open until ten thirty pms, so Martin returned to headquarters

41:55 Speaker 2: to lay the items he'd picked up during the day

41:57 Speaker 2: at the chief's desk. He had before him scraps of

41:59 Speaker 2: inf gathered by all the detectives work in the case,

42:02 Speaker 2: and by attempting to fit them together, he often was

42:05 Speaker 2: able to make order out of what looked like chaos.

42:08 Speaker 2: In this manner, he had picked up the name of

42:10 Speaker 2: Pete Seller and bracketed it with the owner of a

42:12 Speaker 2: telephone number which Peter Taylor had called once or twice

42:16 Speaker 2: from the Convent Avenue apartment. The Celler family lived in

42:18 Speaker 2: the Bronx and was composed of a widow and two sons.

42:21 Speaker 2: The younger son, Pete, was a white haired boy. His

42:24 Speaker 2: mother and brother had slaved to give him a splendid education.

42:26 Speaker 2: According to the reports of detectives who had been making

42:29 Speaker 2: inquiries throughout the neighborhood. In his own neighborhood, Taylor bore

42:33 Speaker 2: no excellent reputation and was regarded as a ne'er do

42:36 Speaker 2: well who was ashamed of his humble relatives. That tied

42:39 Speaker 2: Pete Seller and Peter Taylor together so the police knew

42:42 Speaker 2: that they were the same person. Men were dispatched at

42:44 Speaker 2: once to keep the cellar home under surveillance. Posing as

42:47 Speaker 2: two butter and eggmen, Donahue and Martin visited the night

42:50 Speaker 2: club at ten thirty, only to learn that the girl

42:52 Speaker 2: they sought had resigned the week before and was supposed

42:55 Speaker 2: to be working in a black and tan cabaret in Harlem.

42:58 Speaker 2: For a little while, the two officers chatted with the

43:00 Speaker 2: hard eyed young hostess who gave them this information, and

43:03 Speaker 2: they soon came to the conclusion that Trixie to four

43:06 Speaker 2: had not made the splash she expected when she invaded Broadway.

43:10 Speaker 2: She had not, however, they discovered upon entering the goddily

43:13 Speaker 2: decorated inn on Upper seventh Avenue, fallen to the low

43:16 Speaker 2: level of the black and Tans. Here, it was suggested

43:19 Speaker 2: by a genial head hostess that our young cousin might

43:22 Speaker 2: be working in a certain cabaret on one of the

43:24 Speaker 2: side streets. The name of that cabaret will not be

43:27 Speaker 2: mentioned here to avoid giving that disreputable resort any publicity.

43:31 Speaker 2: We'll just say that it was located on the first

43:33 Speaker 2: floor of one of the Brownstone fronts, a typical fourth

43:36 Speaker 2: rate place with all the bad features of a nightclub

43:39 Speaker 2: exhibited at their worst. The police put on the act

43:42 Speaker 2: of being surprised and delighted in recognizing Trixie, a girl

43:45 Speaker 2: they danced with in the one hundred and twenty fifth

43:47 Speaker 2: Street dance hall, and she received them as such partners.

43:50 Speaker 2: To those dance hall hostesses are pretty much anonymous unless

43:54 Speaker 2: they proved to be exceptionally generous and present them with

43:57 Speaker 2: a sheaf of checks for each dance, then there are

44:00 Speaker 2: well remembered suckers and pounced upon every time they appear

44:03 Speaker 2: on the scene. When Trixy did her turn, Martin and

44:06 Speaker 2: Donahue were not surprised that Broadway had given her the hook.

44:09 Speaker 2: She was pretty enough in a flamboyant sort of way,

44:11 Speaker 2: bushy black hair and bold dark eyes, but she went

44:14 Speaker 2: like wildfire with the fourth rate club audience, who encourt

44:18 Speaker 2: again and again. The following ditty parodied from a Broadway review,

44:21 Speaker 2: which she sang in a loud, gritty voice. It goes

44:25 Speaker 2: like this, though I don't know the tune, Ma pedal

44:27 Speaker 2: snow around him. Dad makes synthetic gin I sell love

44:32 Speaker 2: for a living in gosh, how the dough rolls in

44:34 Speaker 2: Very well. Pleased with her success, Trixie returned to Martin

44:38 Speaker 2: and Donohue's table and set herself out to be entertaining.

44:41 Speaker 2: Her idea of this task apparently was to make pointless jokes,

44:44 Speaker 2: which she herself laughed and giggled at continuously. Now, there's

44:47 Speaker 2: no better place for extracting information secretly than a cabaret.

44:51 Speaker 2: As the disconnected conversation drifts hither and yon, precious bits

44:55 Speaker 2: of information may be gathered without the subject being aware

44:58 Speaker 2: of the fact that he or she has answered it

45:00 Speaker 2: direct questions. So it was that evening. If she'd thought

45:02 Speaker 2: about the matter at all, Trixie would have been convinced

45:05 Speaker 2: that it was she herself who brought Peter Sellier and

45:08 Speaker 2: Missus Grace Peterson into the desolatory chatter. A high hat

45:12 Speaker 2: and femme was the way Trixy described the young matron

45:14 Speaker 2: of Forest Hills. Not the sugar mama type either. Pete

45:17 Speaker 2: was always a good picker, though he wasn't much of

45:19 Speaker 2: a spender. He was a sweet boy, though I saw

45:22 Speaker 2: him and his friend with another Sheba at the club

45:24 Speaker 2: where I worked. But Pete ain't stuck on Missus Peterson. Really.

45:27 Speaker 2: He met her when he was a kid at some

45:29 Speaker 2: place in the add of Rondacks, where she has a

45:31 Speaker 2: swell spot. The police let this precious tip float awhile

45:34 Speaker 2: in order not to disclose undue interest in Missus Peterson,

45:37 Speaker 2: but they managed to find out that though Trixie had

45:39 Speaker 2: heard the name of the place in the add Arndacks

45:41 Speaker 2: where Pete had vacationed, she didn't remember it. Pete she

45:44 Speaker 2: thought was going to college. What was more important to

45:47 Speaker 2: her was that he was a swell dancer a place

45:49 Speaker 2: in the add Rondacks, Donahue repeated. After they left the

45:52 Speaker 2: cabaret and faced a biting drizzl edam and wind that

45:55 Speaker 2: tore through the narrow street. We ought to find out

45:58 Speaker 2: where that is easy enough might be rude up near

46:00 Speaker 2: the border. I don't believe it's much use trying the

46:02 Speaker 2: ticket offices, for all the agents ever seemed to seize

46:05 Speaker 2: hands through their windows. Donahue was right. He and Martin

46:08 Speaker 2: made careful inquiries but brought down nothing. Though Missus Peterson

46:12 Speaker 2: was the subject of considerable gossip in the community, none

46:15 Speaker 2: of the neighbors knew much about her private affairs. She

46:18 Speaker 2: belonged to none of the country clubs and never appeared

46:20 Speaker 2: at the bridge parties, which are usually hotbeds of information. However,

46:24 Speaker 2: one of the detectives had found out that mister Peterson

46:27 Speaker 2: was a horse trainer and was at Miami, Florida for

46:29 Speaker 2: the winter. He'd left home shortly after Thanksgiving and was

46:32 Speaker 2: not expected back until spring. And just as Tricksy had

46:35 Speaker 2: been carefully led to discuss Pete Seller and missus Grace Peterson,

46:39 Speaker 2: so someone well up in Peterson's affairs down in Florida

46:42 Speaker 2: found himself mentioning the Peterson Lodge in Old Forge, New York.

46:46 Speaker 2: So now Martin and Donahue had the address of the camp,

46:49 Speaker 2: but as of yet no certain knowledge that the fugitives

46:52 Speaker 2: were there. Late on Wednesday night, a car tore up

46:54 Speaker 2: to the front gate of the Peterson home in Forest

46:56 Speaker 2: Hills and carried off the lady of the house. To

46:59 Speaker 2: have sent anyone proud around the Adirondack camp at that

47:02 Speaker 2: time would have risked ruining the police's chances of surprising

47:05 Speaker 2: the men if they were there, as law enforcement guessed

47:08 Speaker 2: they were, but they knew that the slightest breath of

47:11 Speaker 2: suspicion would send them flying off before the police could

47:15 Speaker 2: possibly arrive. Besides that, the police didn't want to travel

47:19 Speaker 2: all the way to the Adirondacks on a Wild Goose

47:21 Speaker 2: Chase without having definite proof that someone was occupying the cabin,

47:25 Speaker 2: and it seemed less pressing because many other leads cropped

47:28 Speaker 2: up that appeared to be just as important as the

47:30 Speaker 2: one pointing toward Missus Peterson. On Thursday, February third, nineteen

47:34 Speaker 2: twenty seven, Patrolman Masterson was buried. The services were held

47:37 Speaker 2: at Saint Thomas's Church and were attended by all the

47:40 Speaker 2: department officials, headed by Police Commissioner McLaughlin. After paying their

47:44 Speaker 2: last respects at Masterson's funeral, Martin and Donahue resumed the

47:48 Speaker 2: trail of his murderers, but it was not until Saturday

47:50 Speaker 2: afternoon that they got a definite lead. This came from

47:53 Speaker 2: the men at Forest Hills, who telephoned that a servant

47:56 Speaker 2: from the Peterson home had been followed to an outlying

47:58 Speaker 2: post office, where she'd approached the parcel post window. She

48:01 Speaker 2: did not notice the pleasant faced young man who stood

48:03 Speaker 2: by her elbow and read the address on the package

48:06 Speaker 2: she held. The address was to Missus Grace Peterson, Camp Utica,

48:10 Speaker 2: West Shore Road, Old Forge, New York. He heard her

48:13 Speaker 2: explain to the clerk that the parcel contained a fur coat.

48:16 Speaker 2: Matt was enough. Donahue and Martin, accompanied by Detective Brady

48:19 Speaker 2: and Teed from the twenty fourth and thirtieth squads, left

48:22 Speaker 2: on the midnight train that night and arrived at Thendara,

48:25 Speaker 2: the first station on the Manhattan side of Old Forge,

48:27 Speaker 2: around noon the following day, which was Sunday. This momentous

48:31 Speaker 2: shifting of scenery signaled the final stirring act of the

48:35 Speaker 2: exciting manhunt. The temperature was many degrees below zero, but

48:38 Speaker 2: it was a dry cold and the snow covered country

48:41 Speaker 2: looked magnificently beautiful that Sunday. When Martin and Donahue arrived

48:45 Speaker 2: in the mountains, it was just six days after Masterson's murder.

48:49 Speaker 2: They found a comfortable, small hotel for their headquarters and

48:51 Speaker 2: then considered the problem of how to find state troopers

48:54 Speaker 2: to assist them without letting the community know who they

48:57 Speaker 2: were or what their mission was. There were no telew

49:00 Speaker 2: phone booths in the hotel. It was the dead season,

49:02 Speaker 2: the only guests at the time being permanent boarders who

49:05 Speaker 2: were employed in the offices of a large timber concern.

49:08 Speaker 2: Later on, Martin found the proprietor, Harold van Alkin to

49:11 Speaker 2: be a swell fellow and He was favorably impressed with

49:14 Speaker 2: them from the start, but too much was at stake

49:16 Speaker 2: to trust snap judgments. As is always the case in

49:19 Speaker 2: such communities, there would be they knew much speculation as

49:23 Speaker 2: to their identity. As a sop to the curiosity of

49:26 Speaker 2: the local inhabitants, Martin and Donohue gave out that they

49:29 Speaker 2: were there to shoot bear. So immediately after midday dinner

49:33 Speaker 2: they went for a stroll, scouting around for a place

49:35 Speaker 2: to telephone from. They decided that the best thing to

49:37 Speaker 2: do was to appeal to the postmaster of the village, whom,

49:40 Speaker 2: through the window of the small little general store they

49:43 Speaker 2: saw a sorting mail. They let him assume that they

49:45 Speaker 2: were federal agents, and he willingly enough went out and

49:47 Speaker 2: closed the door, leaving them in possession of the telephone.

49:50 Speaker 2: Martin immediately telephoned the State troopers at Herkimer, and the

49:53 Speaker 2: commander promised to send two of his men, Corporal George

49:56 Speaker 2: Whitbur and George Coburn, right over to the hotel. Now.

50:00 Speaker 2: When they arrived at three o'clock, the four New York

50:02 Speaker 2: City policemen and the troopers made quite a little party.

50:06 Speaker 2: Though the troopers were in plain clothes, They looked as

50:08 Speaker 2: if they meant business, and scarcely carried out the fiction

50:11 Speaker 2: that they were sportsmen with the sole purpose of hunting bear.

50:14 Speaker 2: Martin and Donahue knew that Whitey and Taylor, or to

50:17 Speaker 2: give them their other names, Tip Murray and Pete Seller

50:19 Speaker 2: were vicious, dangerous men. To attempt to arrest them in

50:22 Speaker 2: the open meant that they would surely shoot it out,

50:25 Speaker 2: and in the battle some innocent bystander might be killed.

50:28 Speaker 2: There was only one hope of capturing them without endangering

50:31 Speaker 2: any other lives, and that was to crash their retreat.

50:35 Speaker 2: That afternoon, Martin and Donahue and the two state troopers

50:39 Speaker 2: drove over to Old Forge and made inquiries of an

50:41 Speaker 2: official about the occupants of Camp Utica, which was the

50:45 Speaker 2: name of the Peterson camp. That official told them that

50:47 Speaker 2: a woman and two men were living there. As cautiously

50:50 Speaker 2: as possible, Martin, Donahue and the troopers surveyed the lodge.

50:54 Speaker 2: It was a comfortable one story building. It appeared to

50:57 Speaker 2: have a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and three bedrooms. To

51:00 Speaker 2: make sure absolutely sure of the arrangements of these rooms,

51:03 Speaker 2: they were obliged to consult again and the official mentioned

51:06 Speaker 2: before photographing the camp and its surroundings firmly in their minds, Martin, Donahue,

51:11 Speaker 2: and the troopers drove back to the inn for a

51:13 Speaker 2: consultation on the best way to break into the premises.

51:16 Speaker 2: They finally decided that the troopers should guard the outside

51:19 Speaker 2: to prevent anyone from escaping. One was to station himself

51:22 Speaker 2: on the rear northeast corner, where he could observe the

51:25 Speaker 2: north and east sides. The other was to take the

51:27 Speaker 2: opposite corner, where he could observe the south and west.

51:30 Speaker 2: They were ordered to shoot if anyone tried to get away.

51:33 Speaker 2: Now they needed an automobile to drive them there. They

51:35 Speaker 2: couldn't use the same one they'd used that afternoon, as

51:38 Speaker 2: the driver was a talkative fellow who might put two

51:41 Speaker 2: and two together and wonder aloud to his friends about

51:43 Speaker 2: what quote them city slickers unquote were after. In scouting around,

51:48 Speaker 2: they came across an old Ford coup and a driver

51:51 Speaker 2: who seemed to fit the bill. Martin and Donahue ordered

51:53 Speaker 2: him to pick them all up at the inn at

51:55 Speaker 2: five o'clock in the morning. In the following day, Martin

51:58 Speaker 2: and Donahue had been strenuously pass the pavement. Add to

52:01 Speaker 2: that all the strong cold air, and they were desperately sleepy.

52:05 Speaker 2: After going over every move they intended to make, it

52:09 Speaker 2: was nearly midnight. We want to be sure to break

52:11 Speaker 2: in just after daylight, Martin said to the other fellas.

52:14 Speaker 2: And if that ford chow Feur doesn't turn up, well,

52:17 Speaker 2: we'll have to hoof at the two miles over the snow.

52:19 Speaker 2: So I'm going to go downstairs and put in a

52:21 Speaker 2: call for five sharp. The steps were thickly carpeted, and

52:24 Speaker 2: Martin heard a low murmur of voices ascending from the office.

52:27 Speaker 2: He was surprised by this because in that part of

52:29 Speaker 2: the country, folks were usually a bed and asleep by

52:32 Speaker 2: nine o'clock, unless an exciting game of pe knuckle was

52:35 Speaker 2: going on. Around the great log burning fireplace, he saw

52:38 Speaker 2: a group of guests surrounding the proprietor, all engaged in

52:41 Speaker 2: what appeared to be a very engrossing conversation. As he

52:44 Speaker 2: approached nearer, Martin saw the proprietor's wife and mother were

52:48 Speaker 2: also in the gravely concerned little crowd. Suddenly everyone turned

52:52 Speaker 2: and looked in Martin's direction, and the conversation ceased abruptly.

52:55 Speaker 2: It took no detective training to enable him to figure

52:58 Speaker 2: out that he and his companion were the subject of

53:01 Speaker 2: what they had been discussing. What are you all sitting

53:03 Speaker 2: around here for at this time of night, Martin asked

53:05 Speaker 2: van Alkin. The proprietor answered with a twinkle in his eye,

53:08 Speaker 2: while the others regarded him with uncertain, embarrassed smiles. We're

53:12 Speaker 2: not going to bed until we know what you fellas

53:14 Speaker 2: are up to, said van Alkin. Martin took him aside

53:17 Speaker 2: and told him that they were on a mission connected

53:19 Speaker 2: with the New York City Police Department, but that he

53:21 Speaker 2: couldn't go into any more detail. Van Alkin could explain

53:24 Speaker 2: to his family and his guests that they'd find out

53:27 Speaker 2: what it was all about the next day. While talking

53:29 Speaker 2: to van Alkin, Martin grinned at their natural curiosity, and

53:32 Speaker 2: they looked a bit sheepish. He couldn't tell them everything yet,

53:35 Speaker 2: because the news that they had come to pick up

53:37 Speaker 2: a couple of murderers with orders to bring them back

53:39 Speaker 2: dead or alive would have kept them awake for the

53:41 Speaker 2: whole night. What I came down here for, Martin said aloud,

53:45 Speaker 2: is to ask you if you'd have your clerk call

53:47 Speaker 2: us at five o'clock tomorrow morning. The clerk that'll call you,

53:50 Speaker 2: the proprietor, laughed, Will I have to be an alarm clock?

53:53 Speaker 2: That's what the bear hunters use. Martin and the others

54:07 Speaker 2: got up at five am. It was pitch dark and

54:09 Speaker 2: cold as the grave outside on the porch where they

54:11 Speaker 2: waited for the automobile, which didn't show up until five

54:14 Speaker 2: point thirty. The driver was sleepy and incurious. He might

54:18 Speaker 2: have been just so many logs, for all he cared.

54:21 Speaker 2: Even when they ordered him to stop halfway between Thandara

54:23 Speaker 2: and Old Forge and wait until daybreak, he obeyed with

54:26 Speaker 2: all the indifference of an automaton. Indeed, he was just

54:29 Speaker 2: about to snuggle his nose down into his deep, well

54:32 Speaker 2: worn collar for another snooze when they jerked him awake

54:36 Speaker 2: to attention and insisted that he should listen carefully to

54:39 Speaker 2: their instructions. Martin told him who they were and what

54:42 Speaker 2: they were about to do. All he received in reply

54:44 Speaker 2: was a grunt, so he let the driver go back

54:47 Speaker 2: to sleep while they waited for the dawn. It was

54:49 Speaker 2: mighty cold just sitting there, and Martin, Donahue and the

54:52 Speaker 2: others were just about frozen stiff before the first gray

54:56 Speaker 2: clouds changed a crimson that swiftly streaked across the crest

55:00 Speaker 2: the snow covered mountaintops. They woke the drowsy chauffeur and

55:03 Speaker 2: ordered him to drive along the road until he reached

55:05 Speaker 2: the steep incline that led to Camp Utica. He started

55:08 Speaker 2: his engine with a racket that sounded loud enough to

55:11 Speaker 2: awaken the dead, and then proceeded slowly along the crusty

55:14 Speaker 2: highway to the point below the camp, where he stopped.

55:18 Speaker 2: Now wait here for exactly ten minutes, Donahue ordered. At

55:21 Speaker 2: the end of that time, drive like the devil up

55:23 Speaker 2: to the lodge. Uh huh, he agreed indifferently. Ten minutes

55:27 Speaker 2: be long enough. Quite, Donahue said grimly, at the end

55:30 Speaker 2: of ten minutes, we'll all be very happy or else.

55:34 Speaker 2: As they stepped from the coop, Frankie Ted drew his

55:36 Speaker 2: revolver and jokingly shouldering it as if it were a musket,

55:40 Speaker 2: chuckled Lafayette, we come. This struck them as rather funny.

55:45 Speaker 2: Nothing quite so hilarious as a revolutionary war reference. I

55:48 Speaker 2: guess they had been sitting with the marrow freezing to

55:52 Speaker 2: their bones, and nothing to think about but the desperate

55:54 Speaker 2: encounter they knew they faced at the top of the hill,

55:57 Speaker 2: and the sight of Officer Teed, the grote tesque cocky

56:00 Speaker 2: little man that he was strutting along in front of them,

56:04 Speaker 2: sent the whole bunch into a fit of laughter. They

56:07 Speaker 2: hadn't dared to drive up the hill for fear the

56:09 Speaker 2: noise of their rattling car would herald their arrival, so

56:12 Speaker 2: they scrambled up the icy slope as best they could,

56:15 Speaker 2: Careful as they were. It was so quiet that early

56:17 Speaker 2: Monday morning that it was impossible to dead and altogether

56:20 Speaker 2: the sound of footsteps. On each side of the narrow

56:23 Speaker 2: road there were hills of snow three and a half

56:25 Speaker 2: feet high, which obliged them to keep on the hard

56:28 Speaker 2: traveled path. As pre arranged, The troopers took their positions

56:32 Speaker 2: at opposite corners of the bungalow. Everything from that moment

56:35 Speaker 2: worked at top speed. They tore open the screen door,

56:38 Speaker 2: and with one concerted lunge, smashed the inner door off

56:41 Speaker 2: its hinges. It fell inward with a deafening crash. Indoors,

56:45 Speaker 2: they were faced with dense darkness, relieved only by the

56:48 Speaker 2: faint light of early daybreak that seeped in through the entrance.

56:51 Speaker 2: Guided by the sound of a creaking bed, they dashed

56:54 Speaker 2: through the first doorway to the right of the living room. Fortunately,

56:57 Speaker 2: Martin had borrowed a flashlight from one of the troopersped

57:00 Speaker 2: it on, and it lasted only long enough to disclose

57:02 Speaker 2: a man on a cot near the wall reaching for

57:04 Speaker 2: a gun. With one leap, Donahue was on top of him,

57:07 Speaker 2: and the pair were engaged in a desperate struggle. Officers

57:10 Speaker 2: Brady and Teede, who had followed them into the room,

57:12 Speaker 2: darted at Donahue's assistance and handcuffed the furiously cursing man

57:16 Speaker 2: on the bed. All this took only a few seconds,

57:19 Speaker 2: after which Donahue and Martin rushed through the living room

57:21 Speaker 2: in search of the second bedroom, almost colliding with a

57:24 Speaker 2: terror stricken young woman clad in an elaborate negligee. They

57:27 Speaker 2: had calculated every step by the description given of the

57:30 Speaker 2: interior the day before. Martin's collision with Missus Peterson spoiled

57:34 Speaker 2: his count and he passed a pair of curtains that

57:36 Speaker 2: led into the bedroom and found himself in the kitchen.

57:39 Speaker 2: That blunder, as shall be explained, later on saved Martin's life.

57:43 Speaker 2: Whirling around, he corrected his error. Two leaps brought him

57:46 Speaker 2: back to the curtains, which he brushed aside with his

57:48 Speaker 2: right hand, at the same time firing a shot into

57:50 Speaker 2: the black space on the other side. The entrance was

57:53 Speaker 2: very narrow. To pass through it would have been suicide.

57:56 Speaker 2: Martin's shots were returned with a volley, which he returned

57:59 Speaker 2: by emptying his gun in the direction of the flashes

58:01 Speaker 2: from the unseen thug's weapon. As the last bullet left

58:04 Speaker 2: his revolver, he felt a red hot streak shoot across

58:07 Speaker 2: his hand and arm, and in an instant the hand

58:09 Speaker 2: was wet. He got me, Martin whispered to Donahue. But

58:12 Speaker 2: it's only a scratch. You keep firing at him and

58:15 Speaker 2: I'll wing him through the window. As Martin ran around

58:17 Speaker 2: the house toward the gunman's window, he was tying up

58:20 Speaker 2: his hand with a handkerchief. Trooper Cockburn, who in strict

58:22 Speaker 2: obedience to orders, had remained at his post, whispered, geez,

58:25 Speaker 2: you're wounded. Let me have a go at him. Martin

58:27 Speaker 2: shook his head. If anybody got out through the back window,

58:30 Speaker 2: they were sunk, and he couldn't wait to explain his maneuvers.

58:33 Speaker 2: All this was taking place during a fraction of a minute.

58:36 Speaker 2: Martin grabbed the trooper's gun and gave him his own

58:38 Speaker 2: to reload. The window sill was about ten inches above

58:41 Speaker 2: the heavy snow drifts that piled up against the side

58:44 Speaker 2: of the house. Footing on the frozen crust was precarious,

58:46 Speaker 2: to say the least, as Martin crawled upon its surface,

58:49 Speaker 2: each toe hold sank deep into the soft snow beneath.

58:52 Speaker 2: The shade was up about six inches, which gave Martin

58:55 Speaker 2: light enough to make out vaguely the form of a

58:57 Speaker 2: man who was crouched behind the bed at the inn.

59:00 Speaker 2: Instant Martin observed the man. His gun was trained plumb

59:02 Speaker 2: in line for Donahue's heart. If Donnie, who had remained

59:05 Speaker 2: in the spot where Martin left him, it was nip

59:07 Speaker 2: and tuck between them. Martin emptied his gun through the windowpanes,

59:10 Speaker 2: straight at the murderous hand. In the flashes, he saw

59:13 Speaker 2: the body leap into the air, and then he fled.

59:16 Speaker 2: Once he reached the window, Martin would be at his

59:18 Speaker 2: mercy unless he made good his escape. Less than a

59:21 Speaker 2: minute had elapsed from the time they'd first broken into

59:24 Speaker 2: the cabin. During that time, there had been a steady

59:26 Speaker 2: stream of firing in the silence of that isolated spot.

59:30 Speaker 2: It sounded like a bombardment of machine guns. When Martin

59:33 Speaker 2: again rushed through the shattered front entrance, he was met

59:35 Speaker 2: by an oppressive silence, broken only by the agitated tones

59:39 Speaker 2: of a woman's voice. In the low, murmured commands of

59:41 Speaker 2: a man. Glancing in the direction where he'd left his partner,

59:44 Speaker 2: Martin could see only his face, a dim white splotch

59:47 Speaker 2: in the gloom. His dark, overcoated body merged with the

59:50 Speaker 2: blackness of the curtains. Forced that fellow to walk in

59:53 Speaker 2: front of you and make him into the back room,

59:55 Speaker 2: Martin suggested to Teede, who was standing by the handcuffed man.

59:58 Speaker 2: The prisoner presented a sorro figure dressed only in underwear.

1:00:02 Speaker 2: His body shivered in the icy cold bedroom, while perspiration

1:00:05 Speaker 2: oozed on his face, and his long hair hung dank

1:00:08 Speaker 2: on his forehead beneath heavy eyebrows. His eyes peered out gloweringly,

1:00:12 Speaker 2: and his lips curled back over his teeth in an

1:00:14 Speaker 2: ugly snarl. Te dragged him out into the living room.

1:00:17 Speaker 2: So far, so good, but underwear doesn't give a man

1:00:20 Speaker 2: much of a grip, and with a vicious wrench, the

1:00:22 Speaker 2: gunman tore himself loose and raised his manacled hands in

1:00:25 Speaker 2: an effort to dash out the detective's brains. Brady caught

1:00:29 Speaker 2: him in time. Go on, he ordered, taking a firm

1:00:31 Speaker 2: grip of his shoulders and attempting to shove him along.

1:00:34 Speaker 2: I won't, the prisoner sniveled. If I do tip, you'll

1:00:37 Speaker 2: shoot me. Don't let's have any more shooting. I'll go.

1:00:40 Speaker 2: The woman volunteered in a spunky but rather shaking voice,

1:00:43 Speaker 2: and started to walk up the passage. It's your bungalow,

1:00:46 Speaker 2: Martin said to her as he reached her side. Mind

1:00:48 Speaker 2: if we burn him out, No, she whispered, do anything

1:00:51 Speaker 2: you like. I don't care what happens to the camp

1:00:53 Speaker 2: if only nobody gets killed. When they were near the room,

1:00:56 Speaker 2: Martin saw Donahue drop down on the floor. If he

1:00:58 Speaker 2: won't come out, I'm gonna set fire to the place,

1:01:01 Speaker 2: Martin said, loud enough for anyone inside to hear. Then,

1:01:04 Speaker 2: addressing the man inside, he called out, come out, or

1:01:06 Speaker 2: you'll get smoked out. No answer. So dead was the

1:01:09 Speaker 2: silence then that they could hear the clock ticking inside.

1:01:12 Speaker 2: Missus Peterson thrust her head through the hanging, saying at

1:01:15 Speaker 2: the same time it's me, Tippy. Let me come in

1:01:17 Speaker 2: and talk to you. She shrank back convulsively. Oh I

1:01:20 Speaker 2: can't see him. He's not there. Perhaps he escaped through

1:01:23 Speaker 2: the window. Nope, Donahue said, in a whisper so low

1:01:27 Speaker 2: that Martin had to lean down to hear him. He's

1:01:29 Speaker 2: lying on the floor. Maybe he's stalin. Martin conveyed this

1:01:32 Speaker 2: information to Missus Peterson, and she took another look. Oh, yes, yes,

1:01:36 Speaker 2: I do see him. He's got blood all over his

1:01:38 Speaker 2: face and his eyes are staring wide open. Detectives Brady

1:01:41 Speaker 2: and Teed had come up by this time, dragging their

1:01:43 Speaker 2: prisoner with them. Let's go, Martin said, in a leap.

1:01:46 Speaker 2: Donahy was on his feet, and together they swooped down

1:01:49 Speaker 2: on the man, or the body of the man known

1:01:51 Speaker 2: as Walter Tipping alias Tippy Murray, otherwise dubbed Whitey. Whitey's

1:01:56 Speaker 2: body was stretched out along the bed. In his right hand,

1:01:58 Speaker 2: a revolver was clasped asped one of the men switched

1:02:01 Speaker 2: on the light, and it required no doctor to tell

1:02:03 Speaker 2: us that Tippy was dead. The fatal bullet had entered

1:02:06 Speaker 2: the side of his head, which was turned toward the

1:02:08 Speaker 2: window as he aimed his bullet straight at Donahue's heart.

1:02:11 Speaker 2: Martin's first bullet must have struck his arm, and the

1:02:13 Speaker 2: unexpected flank attack had obviously caused him to spring to

1:02:16 Speaker 2: his feet, the second bullet entering his temple. While the

1:02:19 Speaker 2: police waited for their chauffeur to show up, Missus Peterson

1:02:22 Speaker 2: put on some coffee and dressed Martin's hand, and Donahue

1:02:25 Speaker 2: got in touch with the authorities. The man in Teed's

1:02:27 Speaker 2: custody was Peter Cellier alias Oolah Taylor. In struggling with

1:02:31 Speaker 2: Detective Teed while the handcuffs were being secured about his wrists,

1:02:34 Speaker 2: he'd knocked a revolver off a hook at the back

1:02:37 Speaker 2: of his bed. This was picked up from the floor.

1:02:39 Speaker 2: Upon examination, it proved to be the one which had

1:02:41 Speaker 2: been torn out of Masterson's holster as he lay dying

1:02:44 Speaker 2: on the floor of the speakeasy. Back in New York,

1:02:46 Speaker 2: they were all seated in the kitchen, just about to

1:02:48 Speaker 2: raise cups of steaming coffee of their lips when they

1:02:51 Speaker 2: heard someone dashing through the living room. They sprang to

1:02:53 Speaker 2: their feet and confronted the phlegmatic chauffeur, his eyes bulging

1:02:57 Speaker 2: with excitement and his mouth gaping open. Geez, he drawled,

1:03:01 Speaker 2: I've read a lot of stuff in the papers about

1:03:03 Speaker 2: Dewin's in New York, but here and in reading them

1:03:05 Speaker 2: something different, I thought, All hell broke loose. Let's give

1:03:08 Speaker 2: the chauffeur a hand for not quitting his post. For

1:03:11 Speaker 2: over his coffee. He admitted that he'd expected an army

1:03:14 Speaker 2: of gunmen to come tearing down the hill and commandeer

1:03:16 Speaker 2: his car for a getaway in a proper gangland fashion.

1:03:19 Speaker 2: When the authorities arrived, everyone present was arrested on a

1:03:22 Speaker 2: technical charge of homicide and held under nominal bond. In

1:03:26 Speaker 2: searching the bungalow, they found that the two bullets, which

1:03:28 Speaker 2: had not found a resting place in Murray's body, had

1:03:30 Speaker 2: ricocheted off the bedpost and continued through the thin rock

1:03:33 Speaker 2: plaster walls of the room, through the kitchen, and spent

1:03:36 Speaker 2: themselves in the bathroom wall. Donahue had been in danger

1:03:39 Speaker 2: not only from the gunman's bullets, but also from Martin's.

1:03:42 Speaker 2: There was a gun hanging in the framework of the

1:03:44 Speaker 2: closet at the entrance to Murray's room. Had they wasted

1:03:47 Speaker 2: more than half a minute between the time they crashed

1:03:49 Speaker 2: the door and reached the curtains that served them so well,

1:03:52 Speaker 2: Whitey would have had the drop on them, and there

1:03:54 Speaker 2: would have been a different ending to this story. They

1:03:57 Speaker 2: discovered half the jewelry taken at the stick up on

1:03:59 Speaker 2: one hundred third Street, secreted in the photographs, secured by

1:04:02 Speaker 2: adhesive tape to the top board above the highest record shelf.

1:04:06 Speaker 2: The rest was concealed in the same way in different

1:04:08 Speaker 2: places throughout the bungalow. The doctor arrived and officially pronounced

1:04:12 Speaker 2: Tippy Whitey Murray dead. Incidentally, he washed out Martin's wound

1:04:17 Speaker 2: and gave it the necessary attention. Now here's what was

1:04:20 Speaker 2: meant when we spoke of luck In blundering past the

1:04:23 Speaker 2: curtains and entering the kitchen by mistake. Had Martin known

1:04:26 Speaker 2: that the curtains led into the bedroom, his natural action

1:04:28 Speaker 2: would have been to sweep them back with his left

1:04:30 Speaker 2: hand and fire with his right. This would have offered

1:04:33 Speaker 2: the concealed gunman his heart as an excellent target. As

1:04:36 Speaker 2: it was, Martin swept aside the curtains with his right hand,

1:04:39 Speaker 2: which held the gun and the hand received the shot.

1:04:42 Speaker 2: Martin had had another equally miraculous escaped that trip, but

1:04:45 Speaker 2: he didn't learn of it until some time later. The coroner,

1:04:48 Speaker 2: a wonderful fellow named doctor James W. Graves of Herkimer County,

1:04:52 Speaker 2: not only released them immediately, but after performing the autopsy,

1:04:56 Speaker 2: gave them permission to ship the body to New York

1:04:58 Speaker 2: at the expense of the New York Police Department. This

1:05:01 Speaker 2: cost the city of New York about seventy five dollars.

1:05:04 Speaker 2: Whereas had doctor Graves been one of those chaps out

1:05:06 Speaker 2: for publicity, he might have insisted on having all our

1:05:09 Speaker 2: witnesses brought up there for trial. It can easily be

1:05:12 Speaker 2: figured out how big the bill for their traveling and

1:05:14 Speaker 2: living expenses would have been. Doctor Graves was very enthusiastic

1:05:18 Speaker 2: over the way the capture was made and wanted one

1:05:20 Speaker 2: of the revolvers found in the cabin for a souvenir.

1:05:23 Speaker 2: Martin told him they could not give him that, but

1:05:25 Speaker 2: that he would see that he had a souvenir of

1:05:27 Speaker 2: the case. Later on. This they presented in the form

1:05:30 Speaker 2: of a special thirty eight Smith and Wesson on which

1:05:32 Speaker 2: they engraved presented to doctor James W. Graves nineteen twenty

1:05:36 Speaker 2: eight by the New York Detectives Bureau. Well, that was

1:05:38 Speaker 2: a pretty stiff battle, and the police had some uncomfortable moments,

1:05:42 Speaker 2: but they faced worse when they returned to New York.

1:05:45 Speaker 2: The case of the speakeasy stick up was reopened in

1:05:47 Speaker 2: the newspapers, of course, and the story of the Adirondack

1:05:50 Speaker 2: Battle widely featured. Martin was sitting in police headquarters early

1:05:54 Speaker 2: one morning when missus Sellier called to see him. It

1:05:56 Speaker 2: was a tough interview. She was such a sweet old lady,

1:05:59 Speaker 2: and she just wouldn't believe that her son was a murderer.

1:06:02 Speaker 2: Not my boy, She insisted, you must have made a mistake.

1:06:06 Speaker 2: He's a good boy and so brilliant. Ask any of

1:06:08 Speaker 2: his teachers or professors. Maybe he did go around with

1:06:11 Speaker 2: that other man, Thoughah, but I don't believe that. But

1:06:14 Speaker 2: he wouldn't kill a man. I know my son, and

1:06:16 Speaker 2: I know he wouldn't do that. Well, of course, Martin offered,

1:06:19 Speaker 2: if he is innocent, then that'll come out in the trial.

1:06:22 Speaker 2: They've got to prove that he did it. You know,

1:06:23 Speaker 2: a lot of men are tried for murder, but never convicted.

1:06:26 Speaker 2: There are plenty of people though, that know he went

1:06:28 Speaker 2: around with Walter Tipping, and your son can help us

1:06:31 Speaker 2: a great deal by telling us the names of the

1:06:33 Speaker 2: members of Tippings gang. Missus Cellier left considerably cheered up

1:06:37 Speaker 2: by the conversation. By the time the trial came up,

1:06:39 Speaker 2: Martin figured she'd be more used to the idea, and

1:06:42 Speaker 2: the shock of her son's conviction and punishment wouldn't be

1:06:45 Speaker 2: so terrible. But it was hard to sit there and

1:06:47 Speaker 2: listen to how bright she thought her boy was and

1:06:49 Speaker 2: how hard she'd work to send him through high school

1:06:51 Speaker 2: and college. Celier denied that he'd shot Masterson. He insisted

1:06:55 Speaker 2: that it was Tipping who'd killed the patrolman. Tipping's lips

1:06:58 Speaker 2: were sealed forever, of course, and now that the horror

1:07:01 Speaker 2: of that scene on the morning of January thirty first

1:07:04 Speaker 2: had somewhat evaporated, the police didn't find their witnesses so

1:07:07 Speaker 2: eager to help. Confronted with the well groom scholarly looking

1:07:11 Speaker 2: young man who assumed an innocent and martyred air, they

1:07:14 Speaker 2: were inclined to shake their heads and say they were

1:07:16 Speaker 2: not sure who had shot Masterson. But there was no

1:07:19 Speaker 2: uncertainty in the mind of miss Helen Grayson, the girl

1:07:21 Speaker 2: who was shot in the shoulder by Whitey when Masterson

1:07:24 Speaker 2: attempted to draw his gun. That, she said, pointing her

1:07:27 Speaker 2: finger at the ingratiating oolah, is the man who fired

1:07:31 Speaker 2: into Masterson's body when it was lying on the floor.

1:07:34 Speaker 2: I would know him if I met him in hell.

1:07:37 Speaker 2: The ingratiating smile on Cellier's face changed like a flash,

1:07:40 Speaker 2: into a demonic snarl, and he attempted to leap at

1:07:43 Speaker 2: the girl. Another witness who was present immediately recognized the

1:07:46 Speaker 2: metamorphosed scholar and identified him as the man who had

1:07:49 Speaker 2: murdered Masterson. But it is only in fiction that mortals

1:07:52 Speaker 2: are all bad or all good. At first, Celia absolutely

1:07:56 Speaker 2: refused to name the other members of the gang. The

1:07:58 Speaker 2: police could hold out for him, him no promises of

1:08:01 Speaker 2: leniency in return for the information. He was headed to

1:08:04 Speaker 2: the chair, and he knew it. There were no extenuating circumstances.

1:08:08 Speaker 2: For days. He remained sullen, speaking to no one then

1:08:11 Speaker 2: and what changed his mind? No one knew. He sent

1:08:14 Speaker 2: word that he wanted to talk to the chief. Martin

1:08:16 Speaker 2: was present at the interview. Like many crooks, Cellier was

1:08:19 Speaker 2: careful of his appearance. His mother had supplied him with

1:08:21 Speaker 2: plenty of clean linen and kept his clothes well pressed.

1:08:24 Speaker 2: So the young man who confronted them that afternoon was

1:08:27 Speaker 2: as neat and well groomed as any prosperous young businessman

1:08:31 Speaker 2: ever was. Sooner or later, he said, dropping into a

1:08:34 Speaker 2: chair near Inspector Carrey's desk, you cops'll get Jerry Callahan,

1:08:38 Speaker 2: And I want to tell you that he had no

1:08:40 Speaker 2: hand in the shooting. He was just a poor dope kid.

1:08:43 Speaker 2: He had a gun, but he was so nervous he

1:08:45 Speaker 2: couldn't hold it because his hands were shaken, so and

1:08:47 Speaker 2: I thought he might shoot one of us. I don't

1:08:49 Speaker 2: know where he lives exactly. It says somewhere on Ninth

1:08:52 Speaker 2: Avenue in the fifties. His dad works in the post office.

1:08:55 Speaker 2: If you're going to get him at as soon have

1:08:57 Speaker 2: got him while I can put in a good word

1:08:58 Speaker 2: for him. You see. He overheard Tippy making plans one

1:09:01 Speaker 2: evening in the speakeasy, and Tippy insisted on his joining

1:09:05 Speaker 2: to keep his trap shut. Detective Winkleman was assigned to

1:09:08 Speaker 2: pick up Jerry Callahan. He visited the Board of elections

1:09:11 Speaker 2: and looked through all the seas. He found several of

1:09:14 Speaker 2: that name, but only one who gave his occupation as

1:09:17 Speaker 2: that of a letter carrier living in the district. Celler,

1:09:19 Speaker 2: named Inspector Shay in the General post Office, was interviewed

1:09:22 Speaker 2: and immediately sent for the mailman, who was struck dumb.

1:09:25 Speaker 2: When the detective's mission was explained, there's a mistake somewhere,

1:09:29 Speaker 2: he mumbled, My kid's at home, sick with tonsilitis. He's

1:09:32 Speaker 2: a good kid, you'll see. But one glance at Jerry's

1:09:35 Speaker 2: terrified eyes when the detectives approached his bed showed there

1:09:38 Speaker 2: was no mistake. He was a great, overgrown, gangling youngster,

1:09:41 Speaker 2: five feet eleven of weedy skin and large bones. Jerry

1:09:45 Speaker 2: never served time. He lost his mind and was sent

1:09:47 Speaker 2: to the Mattawan Hospital for the criminally insane. Cellier professed

1:09:51 Speaker 2: to be ignorant of the fourth man's identity. He was

1:09:54 Speaker 2: just a guy that Tippy picked up one night when

1:09:55 Speaker 2: they got to chewin' the fat and a speakeasy, was

1:09:58 Speaker 2: the way he put it. He was boasting about seve

1:10:00 Speaker 2: jobs he'd done. I didn't know what they were for.

1:10:02 Speaker 2: I wasn't listening. I thought he was a great big

1:10:04 Speaker 2: gas bag. To be honest, No, I couldn't describe him.

1:10:07 Speaker 2: Was he with you after the stick up when you

1:10:09 Speaker 2: went out to Missus Peterson's place, Martin asked him. Celier

1:10:12 Speaker 2: looked at him sharply. He was not. We were all friends.

1:10:15 Speaker 2: He was just an ordinary pickup. I tell you, I

1:10:17 Speaker 2: don't know where Tippy was going to join him to

1:10:19 Speaker 2: divvy up. And that was all the police ever got

1:10:21 Speaker 2: about the fourth Man. Somewhere or other, he's floating about

1:10:24 Speaker 2: in the underworld. Someday he may again be chewing the

1:10:27 Speaker 2: fat and boasting, and that day someone may hear him

1:10:30 Speaker 2: mentioned one hundred and third Street pick up as one

1:10:32 Speaker 2: of his exploits. Then perhaps the police would find him. Now,

1:10:36 Speaker 2: before this story finishes, we need to make clear Missus

1:10:39 Speaker 2: Peterson's pardon it At the time the news and the

1:10:41 Speaker 2: feature stories were printed, she was given a pretty bad break.

1:10:44 Speaker 2: It was said that Missus Peterson was the sweetheart of

1:10:47 Speaker 2: one of the gunmen, that they'd had a quarrel over

1:10:49 Speaker 2: some other girl. Then, in revenge, she decoyed Tippy and

1:10:52 Speaker 2: Celler to her bungalow and sent their address to the police,

1:10:56 Speaker 2: which was all rot When Inspector Carry questioned her, the

1:10:59 Speaker 2: young woman gave him a perfectly satisfactory explanation of how

1:11:03 Speaker 2: she became mixed up with the mob. On the night

1:11:05 Speaker 2: of December twenty first I met him and Tippy. I

1:11:08 Speaker 2: had a girlfriend with me. About two o'clock, they asked

1:11:11 Speaker 2: us if we'd mind waiting while they drove over to

1:11:13 Speaker 2: get some gin from their bootlegger. My husband was down

1:11:15 Speaker 2: south and there was plenty of room in our house,

1:11:17 Speaker 2: so we planned a run out there to finish out

1:11:19 Speaker 2: the night. They were gone only about an hour. When

1:11:21 Speaker 2: they returned, they had two other young men with them,

1:11:23 Speaker 2: and we all drove out to my place. I saw

1:11:25 Speaker 2: that Pete looked very nervous, and I asked him what

1:11:28 Speaker 2: the trouble was. He said nothing. The next day we

1:11:30 Speaker 2: drove about for a bit and on the way home,

1:11:32 Speaker 2: about six thirty, Tippy telephoned. He'd been doing a lot

1:11:35 Speaker 2: of telephoning that day. When we got in the car again,

1:11:38 Speaker 2: he whispered something to Pete that made him seem even

1:11:40 Speaker 2: more nervous than ever. I insisted on knowing what the

1:11:43 Speaker 2: trouble was, and Pete told me that Sunday night, he

1:11:45 Speaker 2: and Tippy in another chap had been in a speakeasy

1:11:47 Speaker 2: on West one thirty eighth Street when the place had

1:11:49 Speaker 2: been held up. Someone blamed Pete for shooting a man

1:11:52 Speaker 2: named McGlenn, trying to frame him. They would have to

1:11:55 Speaker 2: hide somewhere, Tippy said, until the police got the ones

1:11:57 Speaker 2: who had really committed the crime. Ever entered my mind

1:12:00 Speaker 2: that they would do such a thing, and quite naturally

1:12:03 Speaker 2: I offered them camp Utica. We had dinner, and then

1:12:05 Speaker 2: the boys went to town to pack up. I met

1:12:07 Speaker 2: them before they left on the one forty five a

1:12:09 Speaker 2: m Train to camp Utica. Then I'd joined them a

1:12:11 Speaker 2: couple days later. The rest you know. And now I'll

1:12:14 Speaker 2: tell you about the second lucky escape that Martin had

1:12:17 Speaker 2: during the scrimmage that took place at Old Forge. He

1:12:20 Speaker 2: wore a new suit that day when he went up

1:12:22 Speaker 2: to the Adirondacks. In fact, he'd put it on for

1:12:24 Speaker 2: the first time the night they left New York to

1:12:26 Speaker 2: pick up the men. The bullet that had skipped over

1:12:29 Speaker 2: Martin's hand and arm tore through the cloth of the

1:12:31 Speaker 2: sleeve and the lapel, and he took it to his

1:12:33 Speaker 2: tailor with orders to repair it, as they always do.

1:12:36 Speaker 2: The tailor carefully examined the entire garment. Look here, he said,

1:12:40 Speaker 2: there's another hole on the left side. Martin looked and

1:12:42 Speaker 2: saw a small scorched hole in the coat, just outside

1:12:46 Speaker 2: the inside breast pocket. It made his blood run cold.

1:12:49 Speaker 2: He took a leather case out of his pocket and

1:12:51 Speaker 2: examined it. There he saw the dent made by the bullet.

1:12:55 Speaker 2: Tippy had had a chance at his heart after all,

1:12:57 Speaker 2: but he'd been saved by his leather identification folder. Celler

1:13:02 Speaker 2: alias Oohlah went to the electric chair. When the Police

1:13:05 Speaker 2: Honoorboard convened, Detective Martin received its most coveted prize, the

1:13:09 Speaker 2: Department Medal of Honor, and his partner, Stephen G. Donahue,

1:13:12 Speaker 2: was given the equally distinguished Daniel B. Freeman Medal. James H. Masterson,

1:13:17 Speaker 2: who had been murdered in the line of duty, was

1:13:19 Speaker 2: not there to receive his Department Medal of Honor, but

1:13:22 Speaker 2: it was presented to his relatives. All the other detectives

1:13:25 Speaker 2: working on the case were cited for honorable mention. I'm

1:13:28 Speaker 2: Zevan Odelberg, and this has been kind of murdery.

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