CRIME: Crime-of-the-Week

August Gobel, stoker, and Adolph Weigand. policeman, sat in the boiler room of the Christian Feigenspan ice plant at Newark, N. J. late one night last week. August Gobel knew policemen and liked them. He had spent several weeks in jail, not because he had done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire...

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