Show cn Nr 4 v oo i j T True to Detective Stories z FOURTH DEGREE i m O Copyright O by The Whee Wheeler ler Syndicate Syndicate- Inc Ine HERE was but little doubt In n tho the T THEBE J mho mind d of Thomas Byrnes superintendent up etin ent of ot police In New York city that Louis Hanler had been mar mur murdered dered for the sake of the money that he was carrying with him at nt the time The little tittle Frenchman had been the tile proprietor of a tl cafe and anti having a fear of the banks of America hn had the habit of carrying hun hundreds reds of dollars ollars In his until the opportunity presented pre pre- presented sent cd Itself of purchasing an un International international Inter inter- national mO money order One morning he was found dead In Inthe Inthe inthe the vestibule of his home a 38 caliber call cali ber bullet through h his heart and his ool missing That was nil all Byrnes ha had to work upon for there for ther e there were no In indications whatever of f tho thA persons who had committed committed com corn e the crime The he dispatch with which the matter had been handled appeared to point to a professional criminal BO so Byrnes gave gme orders that all aU the pawnshops in New York were to be closely watched and reports made to him of the pawning of any anys SS s caliber revolvers rc I Inn Investigation of ot lie tho dozen or more OS's OSs pawned during the week l which followed the Hauler shooting showed shoed that all but one of them had been pledged by p persons who very evident c evidently ly ty had no ne connection with the murder The thc single slagle e exception was one Michael McGloin whom the p pawnbroker in question l identified t by means of his his' photograph In the Ronger gallery McGloin's gun had been pawned on on the morning after the murder and while the police had little difficulty In locating the man himself there was not a shred of or e evidence to connect him with Ith the Ule Hanter Hanler case beyond the tact fact that he had been absent from home on oa the night of the shooting in inthe Inthe inthe the company compan of four of his boon com com- Quietly an and without v. allowing a word of his Intentions to leak out n roun rounded ed up the quintet t one oneat oneat oneat at n time none of them knowing that the tho others were ere being arrest arrested Each of them was wu lodged in a cell b. b by himself him fiel self and m questioned closely as to his actions and his whereabouts at the time of the mur murder er In spite of the fact tact that Byrnes had definite Information t mation oration that thai the live five men had been together to to- gether each fich of th them m k told tali l a 0 dl different t ferel story and amI each ench claimed to have ha been alone at a n considerable distance from fromI ho th I Hauler Hanler house Its It no noI I use e Inspector said one of ot the policemen 1 who l had al been ee war working kIn on the case about ft n w week after the fire men had be been bron n picked up up you ou cant can't get a n thing out ut of em They know kno all ull right but you u cant can't convict C any of ot ern em em without a anti and m weve we've tr tried ro everything Including ll the third degree n I Very Cory V r r well ell said s said ld Byrnes' Byrnes quietly wt well ell have hue to try the fourth de degree decree 1 F Fourth degree What's that I 1 Just a little wa way of g getting at th the thi truth truth when a man wants to hold bold obien outon out obi outon on en you ou was Byrnes' Byrnes ans' ans answer er You think thin theres there's no d doubt that Ue the man Have him brought lt to to this office morning o promptly atton at aJ att t ton ten n At the time specified Mc sul suI- sul- sul Von lea and resentful at what he claimed was an n illegal det detention walked l the inspectors inspector's office alone Had lInd hf he h been interested In such det details ns h hi might have noted that Byrnes was seated 60 so 0 that he could watch the thi wIn window ow of filu office which looked ool uPon upon a a corridor or and also keep an e ej i upon on the occupant occupant of the only charin char cha 1 in In Inthe the room bolted to the floor r iv Iu u front of the desk But McGloin w sil I worrying about such trifles s. s lIe He Will u there to dem demand d his liis release e and li he ht told the Inspector so 50 in no measures 4 terms ten rw That's all oil right McGloin rep Byn yn es Sit down lown a minute r TV several things to attend ml to an and Jn lu motioned to 0 the chair placed so 80 thai it too commanded a view of the corridor cor cot corridor rider window A moment IR later Inter er theoffice tin the office floor Boor opened d an and a man carne came la is Byrnes watching the gunman closely saw eso that be he wee TV us barely barel I able ble to suppress sup SUI press pf a start for start for the I visitor was wag th the pawnbroker with whom oon l Glom Lao baa pledged his revolver er Without saying a word tho the pawnbroker crot ed t tU the room mom laid McGloine gna on 00 th the lu ire specters specter's desk riest and walked d tint Neat little bo boy remarked rC d Byrnes pl picking up the revolver revolve I Liver Ever ver B BO see t tIt It before Never growled n. n I 1 thought not was the life reply Its Iti the be gun that flintier the tho Frenchman was ns shot with Weve We've finally dually got sat aline a aline aline line on that tn ease after working on II for over n a mo month th Found a man manh wh h was a witness of r the shooting At this moment by a R prearranged signal one of at McGloin's partners lU marched past the tIe corridor or window v Yes Yeas can continued cd Byrne Byrnes appearing not to notice the gunman's agitation an and weve we've also Iso found a maa maR who was woi present present at at which the second of ot the quintet was ushered post past the tho window window- and two others who have confessed their part in the rob robbery but wh wise claim that the man roan who fired the shot was WIS S Sop op it for tOt Gods God's sake sah chief 1 I cried the half grazed hat man mm In m the chair his nerves shattered by the tile confinement and the marshalling d of evidence under r his very nry eyes Stol It 1 l I didn't mean to do It bat but I I she abo him 1 I IScore Score one for tor th the fourth degree I mused Byrnes |