CHAPTER
FIFTEEN
I take a break from the Wesley case to spend a day and a half interviewing witnesses to a string of arsons around the Armory Terrace housing project. Early in the week, we pinch a local kid for stealing tires and when we search the car, we find rags, a can of gas, and phosphorous leads. After some questioning, we find out he lives ten blocks from A T, as it’s known. We tell him about the dead night watchman and sweat him overnight in general population When he finally understands he’s looking at a felony murder rap, he pisses himself right there in the interview room. He gives up three of his pals who were hired for three grand to torch the stores around the project. Sniveling, he says he had no idea there was a night watchman in the last store. I put together a warrant f
