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In his apartment back yard there was a wooden Adirondack chair to rest in It was painted Forest Green Ellis sat there and watched the ht while he smoked his pipe A few blocks to the north was a railroad with a junk yard to one side full of scrap net to drop steel into gondola cars parked on a side track as they were being loaded From Ellis’s yard he could watch the trains pass Sometimes he would walk to the train tracks and look at the loco store he bought comic books He also liked cowboy novels and read the Both were briars He mixed his own blend of Prince Albert, Half and Half and Carter Hall In each room of his apartment was a cast iron heater that was fed by a tin coal bucket using a small tin shovel Soot and dust were everywhere frohts he would drive about don to look at all the colored lights

For personal protection Ellis carried a snub nosed Colt 38 Special in a leather chest holster He also toted in his coat pocket a black leather case containing a silver detective badge The gun had a nickel shiny silver finish alnut grips In his Buick, he had police and detective gear Ellis carried around the following: tay radio, ropes, locks, chains, flares, flashlights, handcuffs, billy clubs, rubber boots, coat, blanket, shovel, axe, hatchet, hanifying glass, fingerprint kits, glass cutter, razor blades, knives, can goods, can opener, two cameras, first aid kit, note pads and pencils, raincoat, uun, a rifle, three extra pistols, extra ammunition, and a special siren that he never used Ellis once bought an odd novelty gun It was a seunsmith that was a three barrel pistol that had two receivers to the side of the central barrel that carried a total of a dozen bullets He kept this in the trunk in a box He had some silencers there too, if he needed them