Return to AldgatePrior to leaving New Street, Norris and Hillman slipped into the inspector's office, where Norris walked to a small safe positioned at the side of his desk, twiddled the dial this way and that as the numbers of the combination did their work and, as the safe opened, he reached into its interior, removing a box, which he placed on the desk. Extracting a small key from his pocket, he opened the locked box, revealing the menacing shape of the small handgun within, and beside it, a box containing the bullets that would turn it from a benign, inanimate object into a lethal weapon, capable of ending a man's life with one well-placed shot.
“Are you sure you want to take that with you, Bert?” asked Hillman, his face covered in concern. The use of handguns by the police was a rari
