JIM COLLINS lowered his troubled head and hunched his broad, capable shoulders against the rain. Idly he kicked at a paper which lay in his path on the sidewalk and then, as his foot opened a soggy page, he stared ruefully at the headlines which greeted his eye. POLICE DISCOVER NEW LEAD IN HUNT FOR “ONE-EYE” TASCORI MOB. POLICE DISCOVER NEW LEAD POLICE RADIO ANNOUNCER COLLINS DISCHARGED FROM HEADQUARTERS AS INSPECTOR GRIFFITH LINKS HIM WITH EVASIVE MARAUDERS. Jim Collins, police radio announcer, was released on bail tonight as net tightens in the search for the mob of “One-Eye” Tascori whose citywide robberies and depredations have amazed and shocked citizens. There was more to it. A great deal more. It covered part of the front and slithered over to the second page in a slimy trail of water-soaked ink. Collins kicked at it once more and then resumed his aimless wandering. For weeks an ugly cloud of suspicion had hovered over his brown head. For days his soft southern voice had borne a slight edge of worry, and then, tonight, the blow had fallen.
