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Next morning amidst all the comment and the guesses about the Beardmore case which filled the columns of Lounsbery's leading paper, Lance found one piece of news of vital importance to him.
'The police have traced the sale of the Jones and Tandy automatic, serial number 7136, to Harris's pawnshop on South Chatham Street. This is the gun which killed Sergeant Doty. Isaac Harris, twenty-two, a son of the proprietor of the place brought his record of the sale to Headquarters.