The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 23, 1947, Page 8

i Chapter 2: procs walked through the anteroom that led to Little Joey’s private office. Joey munched on a cigar while! & three men copied numbers off} # slips of paper igto a huge ledger. A fourth was doing: a hunt-and- find on an adding machine. Joey’s feet were on the desk, his toes jostling mounds of coins and squat piles of greenbacks. “I want you to run down a killer, Jigger.” Jigger drew a circle in the air. | HE “Bingo. There are four right <S 1 here, not counting you, Joey. Ask e Sa me another.” ef == “Quit it, Jigger. 'm referring | & to the killing of that doctor in Yorkville last week. You know the case. You read the papers.” “I only read the sports page. You tell me.” “There's not a lot to tell. That’s why I need you. A Dr. Herz was/|: Killed on East Eighty - fourth Street. Whoever did it went to town. The doc was so badly bat- tered it was no cinch for his missus to identify him.” “What do you want me to do?” “The. number Number 169.” Jigger’s fingers scampered through the stacks, under re close watch. Jigger computed mentally. “On the standard payoff of six hun-}: dred to one that thousand dollars. Not bad. Th rat} ought to advertise your bank like} ~ ‘atin in hundred- pscEr remained silent, t on —- over’ "have say the cops have nothing so far?” -“Nothing except me every half-hour since Re a }got my goat.” sie makes you. think t can . Joey looked disgusted. “Are we going to do that waltz-me-around again? I know you can help.’ I been looking you ‘over thorough~ ly. Along Brosdeiag you’re as an ace troubleshooter. What t like is. that you're no: copper...I want you to help me on this one.” Jigger cast sheep’s he es at. squat iles of. greenbacks, on sk, One of ‘of the. men. xo toe ourder oey. I'm.j lic ‘Telations: couse came out, Jigger. wa e| to: me, ‘Smeets s tw Oh “How much?” | is - “I want you te convince the , hing nothing else. The whole town}. “How dol know’ yo ‘ ag that I'had néthing to do with eauiet cane. couiited and tripled} k ea for the death See > “Why should they need con- “They didn % dn’t. The play fell off}. agaey looked carefree fa vincing?” to ting.” first. time that “The case has them stymied| “It doesn’t add: up, Joey. How) Sharp, Jigger. a heayl 4 and they’re looking for the easiest er naan ‘ak we youcan throw. eee ee way out. Laying it at my door} ,., n't pay 0 a around that back in my lap. But firs ‘would save them & big headache.” -“Not’ so fast, Joey. That’s not Between y Just what is ‘the link tween you and the corpse?” “Like a lot of people, the doc played, the numbers.” “So, Is that a link? The doc played the numbers. See those slips? There are thousands .of them. Every: slip * a numbers to. get clear. pee Jigger coed as if he believed it too, implicitly. “That's why the cops are blowin twelve grand was twelve. thou- reasons why you and your boys —— mae S ngs doc.” Jigger edged’ ‘toward the “deak. “So ‘you. want to enga: ma, - et te public Cal it what co’ all 1. it w waad you're: re offen : five aaa as a fee—win of ae ‘ad: ‘grata “Five grand-— ae et and —lose. "Don't try: holding: me’ i sf ai bust. pe see some’ folding ¢mouay" or ; ;Jigger’s hand: swept ‘th Player.” “See ely 1c deel "e Die of mot a co <1 Joey. Why twice that a that’s only ; ae: rgusae E Siaassa oe e co dw hot on alone day’s gross.” : sit slim lead like Phat?” “How did the word et around | ously. through : h the: stacks, ak c“‘The: day “before somebody} that you didn’t pa: che ae rR ik sia conked him, the doc had placed al “I don’t know. ut it spread % yp mp he ac pniimbers bet with our bank.” like jwildfire. I can’t get a play} 00 you. ut only for the time; “How mueh?” . over/a nickel.’ ‘| ing until I get a line:on’ n patel 81 wehty, bucks.” “Did the cops find any of the| Prep a formal. hago oy ails ‘Sz er whistled. “Wow! On'a a] dough when they discovered the ‘engaging me as pu one-thousand-to-one shot.” co counsel. Don’t forget to — Joey moistened his lower lip. No. There was hardly pS (hanes {Te be aeneete: —— ete ne mre ee HOMES Fi AP. Newsfeatures N APARTMENT IN THE COUNTRY” is the answer of Carlton Steiner, San Francisco architect, to handicaps of high building costs. Designed in such a way that it can be readily ex- panded into a five-room house, the dwelling presents advanced ideas in layout. Kitchen and bath are placed. on the street front giv- ing living room and future din- ing room wide windows opening on the garden terrace. Removal of the closets between living room and bedroom creates a dining space in the open-planning man- ner. et me at Oe me oe ome a. a ky we Se oe ee eee ew Ge ae a t a ¢ t 3 EUTURE CAR PORT oer Tt x 1 STREET SIDE eae ae ee ae me we me ee ee we ee ee me ee we oF ROOF GING t | @r KITCHEN ex PRESENT. CAR PORT FUIURE SED ROOMS } BED ROOM 8-6" X1'-6" FUTURE DINING RM. Be W- he ere we aoe ee St Ema Ore eye A Se oe ae on Se oe ome om O_O AP Newsfeatures AN FRANCISCO.-—-Here’s ‘an apartment in the country,” selling for $6,500, which the buyer can expand into a full-sized nouse. Builder Henry Arian and Architect Carlton Steiner of San Francisco have put up two of these experimental homes across the Golden Gate at Sausalito. They say they could sell 50 of them if they had them built, and hope to go into large scale production. Their expandable house is delivered as a small house, just large enough—650 sq. feet— for a couple to get by in. With kitchen and bath alongside, there is a living unit 30 feet long that is partitioned into living and bed rooms by a movable closet assembly. At one end, however, a car port is provided which later can be converted into two bed- —_— — omen aeneren eee ow oto WGARDEN’ rooms by the owner for an estimated $500 if he does his own carpentry. This car port comes floored with concrete, the wall foundations are in, the roof extended over it, and wiring installed so that almost any- | one can finish the job. | If he does, his former bedroom becomes a i. dining room, or.he, can use the entire original | living unit as a combined living-dining room | which is 30 feet long and provides an effect | of great spaciousness. With his former car port now converted into i bedrooms, the owner can build a new one at | the other end of the house. 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