"Detectives Kouka, and Officers Delaney and O'Brien, of the railroad, and Officers Flaherty, Nunnally, O'Toole and Finn--besides a lot of citizens. I don't--"
"That will suffice. And how came you--but first--" Eades interrupted himself. Marriott was still watching him narrowly, and Eades, it seemed, was postponing a question he feared to ask. "First, tell me--tell the jury--where Koerner was, and who, if anybody, was with him?"
"Well, sir, this here fellow they call Curly--Jackson's his name--he's a thief--a yegg man as they call 'em--he was with him; they was running and we was chasing 'em."
"And why were you chasing them?"
"We had orders."
"From whom?"
"Inspector McFee."
"What were those orders?"
"Well, sir, there had been a report of that Flanagan job--"
"Stop!" Marriott shouted. "We object."