Chapter 30 Section 5

Richard Lowe has a wide range of interests, cares about current affairs, and often has unique opinions on news or hot topics in society.He is also a good social person and frequently participates in various activities among the students.He is also enthusiastic, willing to run errands, and is willing to spend money. He can get acquainted with everyone and is quite popular among students. At this time, Richard Lowe became the center of the four again.He seemed to have more than one theory on the kidnapping of Bobby Fanks, saying he didn't think the kidnappers would meet Mr. Mr. Si went to the next location with the ransom.

"The kidnapper would never meet someone in a lively place," Richard said plausibly. "It's common sense." Everyone agrees. Richard became more and more enthusiastic: "Why don't we go to a few pharmacies on 63rd Street and see if any of them have received a message for Mr. Fanks." This is in the arms of James and Alvin.The problem was, neither reporter had a car, and Richard didn't drive because he was close to home.The three of them cast their gazes at the hesitant Hauer Meyer in unison. He was driving his old man's car today.Hall wasn't uninterested in the case, but his paper hadn't assigned him to cover it, and with final exams looming, he had planned to use this afternoon to study hard.Besides, it was still raining.

In the end, everyone finally persuaded Hauer.The three reporters plus Richard Lowe drove to a place called Stone Island at the westernmost end of 63rd Street near Lake Michigan.From here, from west to east, investigate house by house. At the intersection of Blackstone Road and 63rd Street, Richard and Hall walked into a pharmacy on the southwest corner. The sign above the facade read: Vanderburg and Ross, this is the name of the pharmacy. Richard and Hall stopped a Negro clerk who was sweeping the floor and asked if anyone had called for a Mr. Fanks yesterday afternoon.Yes, the clerk said right away that there had been two calls, he had answered the first one, and Poss van der Berg, the owner and pharmacist of the shop, had answered the second.But there was no one named Fanks among the employees. They asked the customers who were in the store at that time, and there was no such Mr. Fanks.

Richard was very excited: "Found it!" He rushed to the car and called James and Alvin, "Found it! You see, I said we can find it. This is the result of reading detective novels a lot!" Richard De is a fan of detective stories and crime literature. The three reporters were busy.They called their newspapers, they called the police, they called the phone company.Unfortunately, the phone company was unable to trace the origin of those two calls. When the police arrived at the Vanderbilt & Ross pharmacy, the four young men left in a hurry. They were going to the Fowles Funeral Home on East 47th Street to attend the police and medical examiner's press conference on the results of the autopsy.Bobby Finks' body had been moved here Thursday afternoon.On the way, James Mulroy and Richard Lowe sat in the back of the car, and it was James who spoke.He said that I heard people say that you and the Fanks family are close neighbors, can you tell me what kind of child Bobby is?For example, when he was kidnapped, would he struggle violently, resist, etc.?Richard stared out the window, thought for a while, and replied without turning his head: "Let me tell you this, if I were a murderer, if I wanted to kill someone, then, like Bobby Fanks Your little bastard will be my first choice."

According to the medical examiner's report, Bobby Fanks had a deep gash on his left and right forehead, and several bruises on the back of his head.After uncovering the scalp, it was found that the wound on the forehead was as deep as the bone, and the back of the brain was congested extensively.There were several abrasions on Bobby's face and right shoulder down to the thigh. It is estimated that the perpetrator had dragged the body on extremely rough ground.As for the reason for the discoloration of his face, according to preliminary identification, it was because he was splashed with an irritating chemical solution.After dissection, the inside of the corpse from the upper airway down to the lung ducts had discolored, indicating that Bobby's death was caused by suffocation in addition to head trauma.Or the murderer covered his mouth, or strangled his throat with something like a handkerchief.There were no other signs of abuse or torture, the forensics said.

The police and the press have received more and more reports and complaints like a snowflake.A telephone operator said she had once seen a woman with those dark tortoise-rimmed glasses on Stadt Avenue.A clerk for a government agency reported that while riding a bus down 67th Street on Wednesday, he caught a glimpse of two figures sprawled on the floor of a passing gray Vinton sedan.Another woman said that she saw a gray Vinton on 113th Street and Michigan Road at around 8:00 p.m. on the same day. The driver was a woman, and a large bundle of things stood upright on the back seat. According to reports, within a week after the kidnapping of Bobby Fanks, almost all owners of gray Vinton cars in Chicago were harassed by the police to varying degrees.Joseph Colon not only drove a gray Vinton and wore tortoiseshell glasses.When he was arrested by the police for the third time and released without charge for the third time, he said angrily to the reporters gathered in front of the police station: "After I go back today, the first thing I will do is to paint the car. Turn red, or sell it. No way, I have to wear glasses. I think the only thing I can do is to quickly replace this damn tortoiseshell frame." "This must not go on any longer!"

Another owner of the gray Vinton, Adolphe Papez, was relatively detached: "I knew they were going to make trouble for me." One night the police received a report that a man in a gray Vinton had been seen taking a typewriter from the driver of another car north of Chicago.A large number of police detectives immediately copied the area, and based on the license plate number provided by the whistleblower, they quickly caught the suspect-a typewriter repairman. The police also received a number of notes and letters that turned out to be hoaxes.Such as an anonymous threatening letter sent to the Fanks family, threatening to kidnap their eldest daughter Josephine.Based on this, the police believed that the perpetrator in this case was really taking revenge on the Fanks family.