So they arrested Zianow and got him to confess the whole thing,
and he was sent up for life, because it turned out his wife had stabbed
him four times the week before he poured the lead into her while she
slept, and frightened him so that he did it in self-defense, in a way.
"I understand in a general way what you want," murmured Sergt. Kuzick,
"but so help me if I can think of a thing that you might call interestin'.
Most of the things we have to deal with is chiefly murders and suicides
and highway robberies, like the time old Alderman McGuire, who is dead
now, was held up by two bandits while going home from a night session of
the council, and he hypnotized one bandit. Yes, sir, you may wonder at
that, but you didn't know McGuire. He was a wonderful hypnotist, and he
hypnotized the bandit, and just as the other one, who wasn't hypnotized,
was searching his pockets McGuire said to the hypnotized bandit, 'You're a
policeman, shoot this highwayman.' And the hypnotized one was the bandit
who had the gun, and he turned around, as Alderman McGuire said, and shot
the other, unhypnotized bandit and killed him. But when he reported the
entire incident to the station--I was on duty that night--the captain
wouldn't believe it, and tried to argue McGuire into saying it was a
accident, and that the gun had gone off accidentally and killed the
unhypnotized bandit.
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