Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-04-15
True
Detective Stories
FOURTH DEGREE

tStteit 81 ponce ia new ANFk
city. thar LouiS Uan.er had been muir
dered for tile sake Of the money thar
/ he was carrying VITA him al The time.
+ The little FreHclmau had been The
/ proprietor of a cafe. and. having
fear Of the banks Of America. had he
habit of carrying hundreds of dollars
in his wallet until the opportunity pre-
scented itself of purchasing an inter
national money order.
one morning be was found dead in
the ves-ibule Of his home, a 3S call
Der bullet through his heart, and his
pocketbook missing.
That was aii Ryrnes had to work
upon, for there were no indications
whatever of the persons who had com
mitted the crime The dispatch with
which the matter had been handled.
appeared 10 point to a professional
criminal. 50 Byrnes gave orders that
all the paWnShops in New York we're
TO be closely watched, and reports
made to him of the pawning Of any
IS caliber revolvers.
Investigation of the dozen or more
.3S's paWned during the week which
followed the Hanier shooting. showed
that All but one of them had been
/ pledged by persons who very evident
~ had no connection with the murder.
Tie single exception was one Michael
| McGloin, whom the pawnbroker in
question identified by means of his
| Photograph in the Rouges gallery.
McGloin's gun had been pawncd on
the morning after the murder. and,
while the police had little difficulty
In locating the man himself, there was
not a shred of evidence to connect
him with the Hanier case beyond the
fact that he had been absent from
home on the night of the shooting in
the company of four Of his boon com
panions.
Quietly, and without allowing a
word of his intentions to leak out,
Byrnes rounded up the quintet one
at time, none Of them knowing that
the others were being arrested. Each
of them was lodged In a cell by him
| self and questioned closely ms to his
actions and his whereabouts at the
time of the murder. In spite of the
fact that Byrnes had definite infor-
nation that the five men had been to-
gether, each of them told a different
story, and each claimed to have been
alone, at a considerable distance from
the Hanier house,
Its no use, inspector" said one Of
the policemen who had been working
on the case about q week after the
five men had been picked up, YOU
can't get q thing out of EN-. They
know. all right, but you can't convict
any of EN- without a confession
we've tried everything, including the
third degree.
very well" said Byrues quietly,
wen have to try the fourth degree"
Fourth degree? What's that2"
Just a little way of getting at the
truth when a man wants 70 hold out
on you" was Byrnes' answer. You
think there's no doubt that McGloin's
the man? Have him brought TO this
office tomorrow morning, promptly at
ten o'clock"
At the time specified, McGloin, sui
len and resentful at what he claimed
was an illegal detention, walked into
the inspectors office, alone. Had he
been interested In such details. he
might have noted that Byrnes was
seated so that he could watch the
window of his office which looked out
upon a corridor, and also keep an eye
upon the occupant of the only chair
In the room, bolted to the floor in
front of the desk. But McGloin wasn't
worrying about such trifies. He was
there to demand his release, and he
told the inspector so in no measured
terms.
That's all right, McGloin," replied
Byrnes "Sit down a minute. I've
several things to attend to" and he
motioned to the chair, placed so that
Il too commanded a view of the cor
ridor window A moment later the
office door opened and man came in
Byrnes, watching the guuman closely
saw that he was barely able to sup
press a start-for the visitor was the
pawnbroker with whom McGloin had
pledged his revolver Without saying
Q word. the pawnbroker crossed the
room, laid McGloin's gun on the in
spector's desk and walked out.
"Naat little boy, remarked Byrnes,
picking up the revolver. Ever see
il beforeT"
"NeYer." growled McGloin.
81 thought not. was the reply Its
the gun that Hanier, the Frenchman.
was She; with We've finally got a
line on frat case, after working on it
/ for over a month. Found a man who
was a witness of the shooting"
At this moment, by a prearranged
signal. one Of McGl6in's partners was
marched past the corridor window.
"Yes." continued Byrnes, appearing
not 10 notice the gunmau's agitation.
/ "and we've also.found a man who was
prasent--at which the second Of the
quintet was ushered past the window
"and two Others who have confessed