6: Sister, Sister, Help Me Out!
THE NUMBER given us as the street address of Alfred Keplinger—1496 West One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Street—- was worthless; there was no such number. But we did get a few breaks in the Madeline Swift case; and one of them was that we found it easier to locate Alfred Keplinger without the right address than we had a right to expect.
At a patrol box on the corner of One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Street we found Officer Levinson making a routine call to his station house. In the glare of a street lamp we asked Levinson if he had ever heard of Alfred Keplinger, and the patrolman stammering in his eagerness to make an impression on the Commissioner, startled us with his reply:
"Sure, I know Alfred Keplinger. He's a medical student at the College of Physician
