Chapter 45

Press comment was universally approving. That the police would not have taken this drastic step “without good and sufficient reason”; that “murder is murder, whether committed by the gangster or by the individual in high place in the community”; that “the District Attorney’s office is to be congratulated in having at last taken steps to solve these crimes,” these were some of the comments. Jim had been arrested after one o’clock Tuesday night, or rather early Wednesday morning, the eighteenth. Sarah had been dead f…