Octavus Roy Cohen

“ His wrist was shattered by the bullet, and firing a revolver with that hand would have been out of the question, and investigation had fairly well proven that Hartigan was not capable of shooting with his left hand.
On the face of the evidence it seemed patent that Hartigan must be the guilty man, yet Carroll entertained grave doubts. He wanted to know more about the yegg whom Donaldson had addressed so familiarly as “Lefty” and there was still the butler to be accounted for. ”

“ Get that?”
“Wait a minute, Rollins; wa-a-a-it a minute! You’re flying off the handle too quick.”
“It’s none of your business. You’ve had me trotting around with you like a monkey on the end of a string. You ain’t told me a thing more than you’ve told any one else. You got me to sit up here an’ make a fool of myself when all the time you knew Donaldson was in on the know of it. I’m finished! Done! That goes as she lays, Mr. Hall. You can take my resignation an’ make this tea-hound, five-o’clock-in-the-afternoon detective head of your plain-clothes force. Bull! A swell cop you’d make, Carroll! ”

“ Badger’s and Eunice’s in the first few seconds of darkness, neither shot of which struck Hamilton, and the fatal shot, which was fired immediately after the lights went on.
By a simple process of deduction, that shot must have been fired by Hartigan; yet, if it were true that Badger’s bullet had found its mark in Hartigan’s arm, the burglar’s contention that he had not fired at all must be believed. ”