Most of the people had gotten off the street. Those that stayed were being arrested as suspicious persons. Several drivers trying to move their cars were protesting their innocence loudly. The packed bars in the area were being rapidly sealed by the police. The windows of tenements were jammed with black faces and the exits blocked by police. "They'll have to go through this jungle with a finetoothed comb," Grave Digger said. "With all these white cops about, any colored family might hide him." "I'll want those gangster punks too," Coffin Ed said. "Well, we'll just have to wait now for the men from homicide." But Lieutenant Anderson arrived first, with the harness sergeant and Detective Haggerty latched on to him. The five of them stood in a circle in the car's headlights between the two corpses. "All right, just give me the essential points first," Anderson said. "I put out the flash so I know the start. The man hadn't been killed when I got the first report." "He was dead when we got here," Grave Digger said in a flat, toneless voice. "We were the first here. The suspect was standing over the victim with the pistol in his hand — " "Hold it," a new voice said. A plain-clothes lieutenant and a sergeant from downtown homicide bureau came into the circle. "These are the arresting officers," Anderson said. "Where's the prisoner?" the homicide lieutenant asked. "He got away," Grave Digger said. "Okay, start over," the homicide lieutenant said. Grave Digger gave him the first part then, went on: "There were two friends with him and a group of teenage gangsters around the corpse. We disarmed the suspect and handcuffed him. When we started to frisk the gangster punks we had a rumble. Coffin Ed shot one. In the rumble the suspect got away." "Now let's get this straight," the homicide lieutenant said. "Were the teenagers implicated too?" "No, we just wanted them as witnesses," Grave Digger said. "There's no doubt about the suspect." "Right." "When I got here Jones and Johnson were fighting, rolling all over the corpse," Haggerty said.