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Updated: May 7, 2025
The assurance of conviction grew as it was proven that Maruffi himself had rented Larubio's shop and laid the trap for Donnelly's destruction. Step by step the plot was bared in all its hideous detail. The blood money was traced from the six hirelings up through the four superiors to Caesar himself.
They dragged him, still protesting, from his den as dogs drag an animal from its burrow. But Norvin had learned something. That momentary wavering glance, that flitting light of doubt and fear, had told him that to the cobbler the name of Cardi meant something real and terrible. Back at headquarters O'Neil had further information for him. "We've got Larubio's brother-in-law, Caspardo Cressi.
One witness had passed Larubio's shop a few minutes before the shooting and had recognized the cobbler and his brother-in-law, Gaspardo Cressi. He also pointed out Normando and Paul Rafiro, both of whom he knew by sight. From an upper window of a house near by another man who had been awakened by the noise saw Normando and Celso Fabbri in the act of firing.
Into his eyes for the briefest instant there leaped a look of terror, then it was gone. "I do not know what you are talking about," he answered. "Come! The man with the rubber coat has confessed." Larubio's gaze roved uncertainly about the squalid quarters; but he shook his head, mumbling: "God will protect the innocent. I know nothing, your Excellency."
A dozen or more men were morbidly examining the scene, re-enacting the assassination and tracing the course of bullets by the holes in wall and fence no difficult matter, since the ground where Donnelly had given battle had been swept by a fusillade. Larubio's shop was dark. The officers tried the door quietly, then at a signal from Norvin they rushed it.
They were in time to see a flash from the shed that stood in front of Larubio's shop, then an answering spurt of flame from the side of the street upon which they were. The place was full of noise and smoke. At the farther crossing a man in a shining rubber coat knelt and fired, then rose and scurried into the darkness beyond.
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