Thrilling Mystery Fall 1943 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Pulp, Espionage
Publisher: Thrilling Mystery
Published: 1943-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

Suspicion

by Allen K. Echols

Tony Planned a Perfect Crime, but Forgot One Thing—Himself!

So far as Tony could see, the job had been perfect. He had spent the most of the two weeks since his release from the big house casing the joint. It was a tiny jewelry shop in the middle of a block of stores which closed at dark these winter nights.

He had timed the job perfectly. Uncle Ben, Tony had observed, sat at his watch repair desk until exactly nine o’clock before locking his store and going to his bachelor quarters at the rear of the narrow building. He had selected a good time, for tonight it was bitter cold, and the wind drove a blinding snow before it, Nobody was out in this weather who could stay inside.

Tony watched the big sidewalk clock down the street until it said it was almost nine. Then he went inside, and when old Uncle Benny got up to wait on him, he looked into the barrel of Tony’s gun.

“This is a stickup,” Tony said, and it was.

Tony rifled the cash register quickly, then drove the old man before him into the rear of his quarters. It didn’t take Tony’s brutal beating long to make Uncle Benny open up his safe. Tony’s hands dug wrist deep in jewelry, which he shoved into his pockets.

And then, to make identification impossible, Tony shot the old man squarely through the head, and killed him instantly.

Tony got out of the place without leaving a clue as to his identity. He stepped out onto the sidewalk, and there was not another person out in the entire block. He hadn’t been seen by a soul now living. Tony was a careful man since doing that last hitch. There wouldn’t be any more years in stir for him, He had brains.

Tony pulled up the collar of his overcoat, pulled his hat down over his eyes to shield his face from the driving snow, and walked down the block. At the corner where there was a lighted cigar store, he turned onto the side street.

As he turned the corner, a uniformed cop, standing in the shelter of the cigar store door looked at him. Tony caught his breath, guarded against his impulse to run, and kept on walking.

Tony walked fifty feet, then took a quick look back. The cop was watching him. Again being careful to keep from running, Tony walked a little farther.

He could not keep from looking back again. This time, his heart pounded heavily. The cop was following him now. There was no doubt about it.

Tony wanted to break into a run, but his good sense told him that would be suicide. The cop could shoot him down the minute he saw this admission of guilt. Instead, Tony had to use some of that smart mind he had. He decided quickly.

Bluff! That was the answer.

After all, what did the cop have on him? It was probably his guilty conscience which had made him think the cop was following him.

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