patrol-box

Updated: June 12, 2025

He had yanked the dummy-chucker to his feet. He had dragged his victim to a patrol-box; he had taken him to a police station, whence he had been conveyed to Jefferson Market Court, where a judge had sentenced him to a sojourn on Blackwell's Island. That had been ten days ago.

- The Best Short Stories of 1920: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story