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rawls So while we’re canvassing ship lines, ticket clerks, and custoents, Semmler will leave the United States the same way he came”

Bell grabbed the Kellogg’s mouthpiece “Get me Detective Eddie Tobin On the jump!”

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Van Dorn detective Eddie Tobin, whose lopsided face and drooping left eye were the result of a brutal beating inflicted by the Gophers when he apprenticed with the gang squad, was froh of the city His family, an extended clan of Tobins, Darbees, Richardses, and Gordons, ran oyster boats out of St George on the northeast tip of the island Many of the s oysters But hidden below the decks of so theoods, ferrying fugitives away froo that fell fro Eddie was honest, despite the childhood spent roving with opportunistic uncles and felonious cousins, whichPort of New York

Isaac Bell asked Eddie where the coal barges that bunkered the Cunard liners at the Chelsea Piers ht come from

“Perth Amboy, Joisey, dohere the Arthur Kill and the Raritan enter the Bay”

“Do you know anyone in the coal yards?”

“Sure”

“What’s our fastest way down there?”

“Boat”

“Is your Uncle Donny out of jail?”

“He’d be glad of the job Poor old guy’s got his boat tuned up but nothing to do, seeing as how the harbor squad is shadowing him”

Eddie Tobin telephoned a To to the docks Bell and Eddie caught the Ninth Avenue El down to the Battery They waited at Pier A, at the tip of Manhattan Island, trading gossip with New York Police Department harbor squad roundsside on the chop stirred by the wind and passing boats

Eying the waterborne traffic, Bell was struck by the near ioing ships getting ready to sail — Ahters up the west side of Manhattan, German and French boats across the river in Hoboken, and hundreds across the Lower Bay in Brooklyn — all attended by hundreds of barges and lighters Every few minutes, the thunder of a stea to sea

Roundsman O’Riordan’s eyes suddenly narroarily Donald Darbee’s square-nosed oyster scoas closing on his pier “Our ride,” Bell explained, slipping the cop a couple of bucks “Good to see you again, Roundsman Say hello to the captain”