Chapter 8
I don’t know what Wilson said to the cops, but whatever it was, it worked. The result of being a politician with his thumbs in several pies, I guess. Anyway, two days after our meeting there was a story on the front page of the newspaper. In it, the detective in charge of the Pender case told the reporter that the fingerprints found at the scene did belong to one Charles English. “Charles Alan English, a petty thief and burglar who was recently released from prison, not Charles Thomas English, the man first accused of the murder, whose picture, unfortunately, appeared in the paper,” to quote the article.
“Good way to get around it,” Trent said when he read the story. He said it again, or words to that effect, when the same story appeared on the TV newscasts.
In the interim, wh
