ARIZONA REPUBLIC NEWSPAPER
Ralph “Specs” Bornheim, the Editor of The Arizona Republic, my editor, has summoned me to his office. Must be important.
The Arizona RepublicWhen I arrive, he is yelling, cursing my name. “Well, Gene McLain, you have really done it this time. I had a call from your cowboy.”
I have to stop and think for a moment who he is referring to. Then it hits me. The young cowboy in the Jane Doe murder case.
“What did he say?”
“He wants the fifty dollars offered by the paper. You know, not the paper, you Gene McLain. Yeah, he wants to come and see you today. Call him back and set a time. Remember it’s your fifty dollars. You son-of-a-bitch.”
I leave his office happy at the response from the article, but unhappy now I will have to tell Blondie and take the vacation mone
