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Updated: May 10, 2025
Hearing footsteps the man turned round and walked resolutely past the policeman, saying good-night in Spanish. "Who are you? What's your address?" the officer asked abruptly. "Gorski, Hotel Roma!" was the answer. This was enough for the officer. To seize and handcuff "Gorski" was the work of a moment.
Men were running from the detachment guarding the rear of the premises to say that a fierce fire was raging on the first floor back of No. 412. "Smash in those three doors!" cried Winter to his helpers. "Drag out every Chinaman you meet! Handcuff them in threes and fours! Arrest these fellows standing outside, but keep the two lots separate!"
. . . I looked across the corridor and saw Miss Lincoln, . and asked her whether she was all right, being anxious to know whether she had been hurt by the treatment in the office building. . . Instantly Superintendent Whittaker rushed forward, shouting at me, "Stop that; not another word from your mouth, or I will handcuff you, gag you and put you in a straitjacket. . .
'Ah I see, said the detective, standing unusually close to her: and a handcuff was on her wrist. 'You must come with me, madam. Knowing as much about a secret murder as God knows is a very suspicious thing: it doesn't make you a goddess far from it. He directed the bull's-eye into her face.
He kept sort of a hypnotic handcuff upon the dragoman, because he foresaw that this man was really going to be the key to the best means of escape. To a large neutral party wandering between hostile lines there was technically no danger, but actually there was a great deal.
"We'll allow you to do it on one condition, which is that you let us tie you both up, and hold you here until the sheriff comes to-morrow." From these words it became apparent to the men that the fact of one of them was wearing a broken handcuff must have been discovered by the boys. They looked as black as a thunder cloud, but realized that they were up against a blank wall.
Bobbie quietly stepped to his side and caught the knob of the big door, shutting it softly behind Trubus. "Why, you...." Before he could finish Burke had deftly clipped one handcuff on the right wrist of the man and with an unexpected movement pinioned the other, snapping the manacle as he did so. "Outrageous!" exclaimed the astounded Trubus. But Burke was dragging him rapidly into the car.
"Let's take our learned friend downstairs between us," suggested Sam. "I shan't be easy till we've got him out of the house." "And I shan't be easy if we don't handcuff him before we leave the room," returned the other. "Rude conduct, gentlemen after all that has passed, remarkably rude conduct," said the doctor. "May I, at least, get my hat while my hands are at liberty?
"Now, Pike," I said, after Joe had gone, "the first thing out with that handcuff key!" He took it from his pocket and gave it to me. I unlocked each of my bracelets. They left deep red marks around my wrists. Pike asked for a drink of water and I got it for him. I could see that he was in pain. "You've played it on us again, Jud, I'll be hanged if you ain't," he said to me.
"Now go over there and sit down on the floor beside that fellow. QUICK!" Jimmie Dale's voice rasped suddenly, imperatively. Still bewildered, but a little sullen now, Lannigan obeyed. Jimmie Dale stooped quickly, and snapped the other link of the handcuff over the unconscious man's right wrist. Jimmie Dale smiled. "That's the approved way of taking your man, isn't it?
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