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by Robert Bruce ~ © 1935 NEA Senvice, Inc
BEGIN HERE TODAY
Jean Dunn, pretty 21-year
old secretary, and Bobby Wal
lace, young automobile sales
man, spend an cvening at The
Golden Feather night club.
Art Lanning, the proprietor
introduces them to Sandy Har
kins, who explains he is in
Dover on business. Sandy and
Jean dance. When he asks if
he can telephcne her she
evades.
Later Sandy has a myste
rious conversation with two
men who méntion Jean's em
ployer, Donald Montague, and
hint they “may be able to do
some business.
Larry Glenn, federal agent,
talks with Jean and Bobby.
After they leave Mike Hagan,
detective on the local police
force, joins Larry, who shows
him sevcral photographs of a
pretty gir‘l and asks, “Ever
sce her hefore?”
Explaining her presence in
Dover, Larry recites details of
~ a recent bank robbrey. |
NOW GO ON WITH THE STOR'
CHAPTER V. ‘
The girl, Larry explained, camel
into the stery indirectly, but she
might well prove the keéy to lhell
whole puzzle. To make clear her|
connection with everything it w.'-u-xl
necessary to do a little more ox-l
plaining.
“Everybody down there had the
jitters,” he said. “They were all’
too excited to know what they’d
seen and what .they hadn’t seen.,
The stenographer was no help at’
all. Evidently she'd never taken
her eyes off the pistol that hadl
been pointed at her. The youngl
teller wasn't buch better.
. “Oh, he gave us descriptions, of
course. But you know what these
descriptions amount to—‘medium
height, clean-shaven, dark hair,
weighs about 160 pounds, wore a
{Tlue suit and a panama hat.’ Lord,
toou could arrest any one of 50,-
0 people on a description like
that! The only fellow we really
got anything from was the old
cashier.
; “He'd been the worsi seared off
any. of them, but he did remem-’
ber one thing. The gunman whnl
took him under his wing had been
the one with the bag into which
all the loot was dumped; and the
old chap did manage to notice the‘
hand that held the bag—the left
hand, it was. He said that the
index finger of this hand was
missing. He was sure W that,
even if he didn’t know Whether
the man had gray eyes, brown
eves, or glass eyes. Apparently
he'd kept his gaze riveted on that
~hand all through the holdup.
“Well, that was about all we
had in the way of identification.
‘A missing, index finger on the left
hand. Not much to go on, is it?”
Hagan chewed his cigar and
shook his head.
“Well, it turned out to be quite
a lot,” said Glenn. “Or I should
say that we hope it'll turn out to
be quite a lot. You see, 1 got off
a report to the head office in
Washington at once, and 1 en-f
closed that bit about the mrissing
finger, of course. It was the only |
definite description of any- of
these men that I had.
~ “Now here's where the Division
g.t Investigation is really valuable.
hey've got more records down |
;herg_ in Washington than you can |
shake a stick at. They've got mil
jons of fingerprints — literally
znmions—«:lassified . in every con
jaiva,ble way. ' They've got every
eriminal record they've beeén able
to lay hands on. They've got de
seriptions, fingerprints, photo
klgmphs. and so on of just about
every known crook in the United
;tates. and all are classified 8o |
that you can look ’em up in al
mst anyway you can think of.
“Look, now. All we knew was
that here was a bank robber who
avas minus the index finger on his
Jest hand. Now among other ways
of classification, they have all the|
grooks of whom they have any
record clgssified according to de-‘
mtiefi‘, injuries, scars, and so
Zl.n“,So somebody down there takes
this meager little description of
ours and starts riffling through
his cards, After about an hour,
he discvoers that there are in the
United States exactly four men
with criminal records who lack
ghat particular finger. He got]
their cards out and had a look.
+ “Ont of them is a safe-cracker
awho is now right in the middle
of a 10-year stretch in the Massa- |
chusetts state prison. That Ilet
him out as far as this job was
concerned, of course. The second
was a Chicago racketeer who got
put on the spot and killed with a
Joad of slugs from a sawed-off
tgun just two months ago.
m third was a fake oil stock
promoter who did a stretch in
Atlanta prison and got out two’
years ago. He's living in Florida
ow. It took one of our men from
Miami office just half a day to
ove that he hasn’t been within
50%1 miles of this Neola bank for
cight months.
“That left us with just one man.
He's a bird named Lewis—Wingy
Lewis, they call him, due appar
ently to the fact that he got
‘Winged’ once by a bullet in some
saloon fight or other and thereby
lost his telltale index finger. Now
this Wingy Lewis used to be al
confidence man out west. A year
or s 0 ago he's believed to have
Joined the bank-robbing mob of {
the notorious Red Jackson.” !
Hagan nodded thoughtfully. |
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tell him who Red Jackson was—
Red Jackson, a desperate criminal
wanted for more crimes thaq
could he named in one breath,
who roamed all across the countryl
in a way that left city and state
police forces utterly helpless and
who gloried in the title of “Public
Enemy Number One.” No, there
was no need to tell Hagan or any
one else who Red Jackson was.
“So,” resumed Larry, ‘“you see
where that gets us. It indicates,
to begin with, that this job was
the work of Red Jackson's gang.
It gives us an avenue of appreach
to the case. Instead of just hav
ing a missing finger to go aQ,
we've a name, a photograph, a
set of fingerprints, and so on.”
“Did you show this Wingy
guy's photos to the bank people?”
asked Hagan.
“Of course, They identified it,
but in a rather hesitant and un
certain way. Honestly, they were
all so jittery . that I'm not at all
sure that their identification
would stand up in court. There’s
a perfectly good chance, of course,
that our four-finger bandit is
someone we never heard of befone
—-someone that never got arrest
ed and consequently has no rec
ord at Washington, But we're
working on probabilities, and so
far the probablities seem to point
in the direction of Red Jackson's|
outfit.” i
“Well. that makes it 'all very
simple,” drawled Hagan with a
grin, “All you've got to do now
~is round up Red Jackson.”
Larry grinned ruefully. *Yeah
simple, isn’'t it?” he asked. “The
gang has dropped out of sight.
Nobody knows where they hang
out. The fact of the matter un
doubtedly is, of course, that they
keep drifting back from one part
of the country to another. They
used to hang out in Chicago, but
according to the best information
we can get they haven't been
there in months. That Neola
holdup makes it look as if they're
working their way east through
the middle west, but we've noth
ing more to go on.
“But I have got this much of a
lead. It seems that about six
months ago our friend Wingy be
came smitten with the charms of
one Evelyn Brady, featured, in a
minor way, on one of these middle
western burlesque) olrouits . «
I strip dancer, or something. I
“Anyhow, Evelyn went for Win
gy just as hard as Wingy went for
her. She quit the burlesque busi
ness cold and stuck to Wingy. I've
l heard that ~she actally married|
him; I don’t know whether that'y
true or not, but I'm pretty wel)'
satisfied that where Evelyn is,
i there—or thereabouts—Wingy is
also.
“Now I'm coming to the point
of all this. The hunt for Wingy
has more or less resolved itself
into 2 hunt for Evelyn, so I've
been making inquiries.. Until re
cently, I could find no trace of the
girl. -Then, a week ago, I goti
transferred. They - put me in
charge of the regional office here
in Dover. T no sooner got settled
here than I bethought me that
one of the burlesque houses in
this city is on the circuit which
our friend Evelyn once adorned l
with her girlish - beauty.”
Hagan gaped at him, round
eyved. A
“What beautiful English ” hel
murmured. Larry grinned and|
tamped out his ciraget in the ash
tray at his elbow.
“So,” he said, “I dropped around
and got acquainted with the man-‘
ager of the theater—without, of |
course, letting on that I'm with thel
‘Department of Justice. And he|
said, after a while, that someone|
or other had told him that Evelyn)!
has been seen right here in Dover)|
i recently . '
| “The next step 'was fairly ob-'|
| vious. All of these mobsters and
their satellites are bound to play
the hot spots. They just can’t stav |
away from jofnts like this Golden
Feather. So the thing to do was
to keep snooping abbut these night
clubs, keeping the eves. open for.
provided that 21l our information
is correct, we ought to begin get
ting the scent of Wingy; and if
we do that, we'll be on Red Jack
son’s trail.”
He put the sheaf of photographs
back in his pocket.
“So there you have it all,” he
said, :
Hagan nodded absently and
stared off into a cloud of ‘drifting
cigar smoke. At last he shruggeg
despondently.
“You don’t know how lucky yon
are,” he said. “Being with the
Department of Justice. Look at
the way you guys can operate,
and then compare it with the way
we have to work here in Dover.
Now—l guess I wrote you, didn't
I, that I got promoted to sergeant
in the detective bureau last
month?” '
Larry nodded.
“Well,” said Hagan, “look at
the difference. With youn people,
the chief problem is to find out
who you want and where he is.
With us, the tough part is to try
to figure out some way of doing
anything to the guy after we do
find all that out. In the first place,
we haven't got the facilities you
people have. If he goes outside of
Dover, we have to trust to luck
that the coppers in the next town
will co-operate with us and pick
him up, and like as not they
won't. If he stays in Dover, he's
probably a friend of some politic
ian or other—so what happens?
We pick him up, book him, .turn
him over to the prosecutor; then
he hires Dan Montague or some
other high-powered mouthpiece,
and there’s some ‘now you see it
now you don't’ business off behind
the scenes, and first thing we
know he's loose again, and we
have to grin and take it.
“And the worst of it is, the peo
ple see these ‘known criminals’
walking the street and say, ‘Aw,
the cops are all crooked or they'd
arrest those birds.” We're not
crooks! We want to do our duty
just the same as you want to do
yours .. " 2
He locoked earnestly at Larry,
and there was something almost
pathetic about the look on his
honest, brick-red face. “I know,
Mike,” he said. “You don't need
to explain. Fortunately, the De
partment of Justice is immune to
that sort of thing.”
Hagan looked moodily at the
tablecloth. Suddenly Larry re-
‘ membered something.
~ “What'd you say was the name
of the lawyer” who springs so
many of these birds?” he asked.
“Montague. Donald Montague.
He's got more crooks out of jail
than you can shake a stick at.
And it's not all because he's a
good trial - lawyer, either. His
clients usually don't come to trial.
Why?”
“Oh—" Larry hesitated. ‘“There's
a girl in Dover, comes from my
home town. I feel sort of respon
sible for her. ‘Anyhow, she works
for him.”
“Well,” said Hagan, “I suppose
he’s all right to work for.”
“Yeah. But I met her here in the
Golden Feather tonight. She said
Montague had introduced her to
Lanning, the proprietor. And al
though this was her first visit
here, Lanning had already intro
duced her to some good-looking
stranger and she’d been dancing
with him.”
Hagan frowned.
“Tell her to lay off,” he advised.
“Montague as a boss ought to be
okay: Montague introducing a gir!
to this Lanning—he's a snake, by
the way—and Lanning introducing
her to somebody else. . . . Larry,
if the girl means anything to you,
head it off somehow. I don't like
the looks of it.”
(To Be Continued.)
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