Chapter 4: IV

IV The Holdup Chief Ezra Collig, of the Bayport police force, was a burly, red-faced individual, much given to telling long-winded stories. Usually, Collig was to be found reclining in a swivel chair in his office, with his feet on the desk, reading the comic papers or polishing up his numerous badges, but this day something had happened to shake him out of his customary calm. When the boys went into his office they found the chief painfully writing in a huge notebook and confronted…