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and a few incipient felonies.
:13:03
The checking of the suspects had been
thorough, painstaking, and tedious.
:13:07
But all the work was for nothing.
:13:08
The man who had shot Officer Rowlins
was not among them.
:13:11
He remained no more than a description,
a shadow of a man.
:13:15
Mysterious. Elusive. Deadly.
:13:19
Hidden away somewhere in the vast city.
:13:24
As for Rowlins himself, he couldn't help.
:13:28
He was in a coma at Receiving Hospital.
:13:30
Mrs. Rowlins waited out
the long, tense hours...
:13:33
while her husband fought to live.
:13:35
Many another officer's wife had so waited.
Many another will.
:13:40
The word came shortly after sunup.
:14:03
A white male American, 26 or 27...
:14:07
5'10'' or 5'1 1''...
:14:09
155 pounds to 165 pounds.
:14:12
Brown hair. Regular features.
Pencil mustache.
:14:17
This was no frightened fugitive.
:14:20
What went on in his mind?
:14:22
Why had he set his hand
against his fellow men...
:14:25
taken the life of another, of a stranger...
:14:28
of a man who was merely doing his duty?
:14:31
He must have some plan...
:14:32
some goal that called for sudden death
to anyone who got in his way.