Chapter 30

“Being assigned to pick up any or all of the men who are trailing Mr. Amos Lee Mappin, and trace them back to their employers, I did not show myself around Mr. Mappin’s residence, but took up a stand at First Avenue and Fifty-Second Street where anybody leaving the said house would have to pass me. My partner (No. 19) let his cab stand across the street from Mr. Mappin’s with the flag down, so nobody could hire him. “Mr. Mappin issued out at two-thirty yesterday afternoon, and was immediately picked up by a man wit…