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MUTT AND JEFF
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SLICK ALIBI
Pizzario
"So I slammed the safe door and "That settles it, Swasey said when ran,"
Steve Pizzario recited breath-we were back on the street. lessly. "But that didn't stop
'em..
"Settles what?” I asked. They musta knowed I kept all my "The Pizzario business. money in the safe. Look!" he finish- robbed himself to collect the in- ed with a hopeless gesture toward the surance." safe,
"Ha!" I cried.. "It isn't going to Lieutenant Ben Swasey walked, over be as easy as that. Maybe his old lady to the safe.. Its door had been blown is sick, needs an operation or some away, its contents, strewn over the thing, Maybe only Pizzario knows floor of the small second-hand furni- the boy is going to college. You can't. ture store.
arrest a man on that evidence. Be- "How much money was in the sides, Nick Pellam did this job, like safe?" he asked.
he did all the others." "Five thousand dollars. Every cent We walked back to Pizzario's store.
I have. It took me seven years to The little merchant looked up in sur-
save it up, and now-now I need it, prise when we entered. My wife is sick. My boy should go
"There is something you forgot to
to college." Suddenly the dark little ask me?" he cried. "Ask me anything store owner rushed up to Swasey and and I will tell you.” clutched his coat lapels. You will
"How would you like to spend five
catch them? You must catch them! years in the can?" Swasey asked.
I am ruined if you do not get my money back."
Pizzario stared blankly, "I do not understand."****
Swasey shook himself loose. "Why "You will,” said Swasey, "when I get the devil didn't you put your money through, you double-crossing
little in a bank? How about insurance?" runt. I told you, I'd have the bandit "Insurance!". Despair fled from by to-morrow. I don't have to wait Pizzario's eyes and was replaced by until then. You're it!”
a sudden, astonished brightness. “In- "No! No! cried the little man. "You surance!" he repeated, smiting his are mistaken. I would not rob myself head. "For five years I have been of five thousand dollars when my in- paying insurance-so long that I have surance was, only for two thousand." almost forgotten." He rushed to 8 "Why not? It's an easy way to pick corner desk and began pawing through up a couple of grand. Listen, you're a litter of papers there. "Ha!" he so dumb it hurts me to think about it. cried suddenly holding aloft a docu- Don't you know that when you slam a ment. "It is here!"
safe door it doesn't lock? You have to
The lieutenant and I glanced spin the dials to lock it. You didn't through the policy. The amount was You slammed the door and ran. That for only $2000. Pizzario's face fell was, your story. Now wouldn't Nick' Swasey said: "Well, that's better Pellam look silly blowing the door than losing whole amount, and there's from a safe that was already
By James Freeman
un-
a chance we may pick up the bandits., locked 2”-. There's been an epidemic of robbery in·. "But-but- this neighbourhood lately. We've some good clues. I think I can safely pro ance policy that you had forgotten all "'But, but my foot! That insur- mise you that the thief will be
ap- about. There it was lying right on prehended before to-morrow.”
-top of your desk and you claimed to "Like a barométer, Pizzario's face have forgotten it! Bah! Pizzario, lighted with hope again. He. follow-
ed us to the door, begging the lieu- you might as well fold up and call it n
day." tenant to do everything possible to. catch the bandits, even offering
money.
a
The little man did exactly that. He $100 reward for the return of his fainted. Swasey stood over him and nudged him with the toe of his boot. Outside, I said: "So you figure "The dumb cluck. He thought because Nick Pellam is responsible for this, there had been so many holdups in eh? Well, Nick has had some mighty the vicinity lately we'd lay this one to fine alibis in the past. I'll wager
Nick Pellam also." he'll have a slick one thought up to "How about Pellam?" I asked. prove his whereabouts this morning." "Pellam was taken in for question- Swasey smiled crookedly. "Maybe ing two days ago," Swasey said. "He this is one time a alick alibi isn't go was in the can this morning, but the ing to help any." Come on, we've got public didn't know it.” a call to make.'
Despite the lieutenant's confident manner. I was doubtful. Nick Pellam was the smartest racketeer and gang- ster who had ever terrorized, the local- ity. Most of the crimes of the past year could be traced to him, and would have put him behind bars-if it weren't for his faculty of thinking up flawless alibis.
We went to an address, on Pearl. strebt, Swasey, rang a bell. A woL man, "answered. "Mra, Pizzario?" Swasey asked. "We're book agents. I understand - your son is going "to col- lege and
".
"Get out of hero!" she snapped. "My boy ain't going to college and
I don't want to buy no booke., Go dn, beat it!"
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