The witness of the sun Author:Henry Smith Williams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter VI The District Attorney Takes a Hand MISS CYNTHIA COLLINS was not the only person who read with exceptional interest the account in the evening pape... more »rs of the alleged spectacular manner of John Theobold's death. The District Attorney of the City of New York was another interested reader. After he had finished the account, he smiled grimly, and sent for one of his assistants. "Webster," he said, when his aid appeared, "have you read this tommyrot story of the killing of a man in an office building up near Herald Square by a hatpin dropped from that airplane?" "Yes, I read it. Also we had a report on the thing from the Inspector." "I suppose McFalcon was on the job?" "Yes." "I thought so. McFalcon has the finest moving-picture imagination on the whole force. I suppose it's better to have that kind of an imagination than none at all, like most of the others, but there are limits. Suppose you take this case in charge, and run up there the first thing in the morning and find out something. Know anything about this man Theobold?" "Only that he was a kind of promoter. One of the fellows that will furnish any amount of ocean if you will furnish just a few ships—and let him have the long end of the profits. Average type of man of that sort. Honest enough to keep out of Sing Sing, but without a very wide margin. A bit of a woman chaser." "I see. The same old story. Probably had a few business associates on one hand or husbands of women friends on the other who wouldn't worry much if a hatpin or a bomb or something—or perhaps a bullet—did go through him. Well, see what you can make out of it." Thus it happened that David Webster, credited with being the most logical-minded member of the District Attorney's staff, put in his appearance at the office of Theo...« less