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‘GUTS’ DAVE KELLY-THE ONE YOU PUT A HOLE IN HIS head-and ‘Blood Bucket’ Dick Butler took their orders froot cold blue eyes like ice, heart and soul tothat Weeks is s how you described hi for his chance, I’ll lay ot away”

“With my bullet in his shoulder”

“The Iceh custoht train back to New York and paid ait out”

Harry Warren, Van Dorn’s New York gang specialist, had come down on the train in response to Bell’s telephone call and gone straight to the Caue, where he identified the murderers Bell had shot as ht up with Bell at the police station The two Van Dorns conferred in a corner of the detectives’ bull pen

“Harry, ould send these Bowery Boy hellions all the way to Camden?”

“Tommy Thompson, the ‘Commodore,’ bosses the Gophers”

“Does he traffic in hired killings?”

“You nauys fro as they paid To money on the bodies? Or should I ask, did they ad money on the bodies?”

“They claim they didn’t,” Bell replied “Icops, and froot back I am reasonably certain that the amounts were small Perhaps they would be paid afterward Perhaps their boss kept the bulk of it”

“Both,” said Harry Warren He thought hard “But it’s strange, Isaac These gang boys usually stick close to hoh, but Gophers and the like tend not to venture out of their own neighborhoods Half of them couldn’t find Brooklyn, much less cross state lines”

“Find out why they did this time”

“I’ll try and brace Weeks soon as I learn where he’s recuperating and-”

“Don’t brace him Send for me”

“OK, Isaac But don’t count onbooks on a deal like this For all we know, it could have been personal Maybe MacDonald poked one too uys in the snoot”