The Avenger 14 - Three Gold Crowns
“An item came in at about nine o’clock that night that instantly caught The Avenger’s eye.
The item said briefly that, as yet, there had been no identification of the tramp found ground almost to bits in a Newark freight yard.
That was all, but it was enough to make Benson peruse the items of the previous few days.
He hadn’t seen the announcement of the tramp’s death in the first place. After all, that was a small item; the teletype was filled with vaster news these days. But he foun...d it now.
An unidentified tramp had been found in the freight yard, cut to ribbons by car wheels. He had died, the police thought, in the late night of November 3.
That was three nights ago.
And it was three nights ago, according to Farquar, that his clerk, Smathers, had disappeared. The clerk for whose murder the lawyer was now being threatened.
There was nothing on earth to connect the unidentified tramp with Smathers.MoreLess
The item said briefly that, as yet, there had been no identification of the tramp found ground almost to bits in a Newark freight yard.
That was all, but it was enough to make Benson peruse the items of the previous few days.
He hadn’t seen the announcement of the tramp’s death in the first place. After all, that was a small item; the teletype was filled with vaster news these days. But he foun...d it now.
An unidentified tramp had been found in the freight yard, cut to ribbons by car wheels. He had died, the police thought, in the late night of November 3.
That was three nights ago.
And it was three nights ago, according to Farquar, that his clerk, Smathers, had disappeared. The clerk for whose murder the lawyer was now being threatened.
There was nothing on earth to connect the unidentified tramp with Smathers.MoreLess
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