16
DETECTIVE BARNEY
“How much do you weigh?”
“About a hundred—an’ twenty-five.”
Babbing glanced at him appraisingly, went on with his papers again, and said: “When you don’t know a thing, say so. It saves time. What ’s your name?”
“Barney. Barney Cook.”
“Where do you live?”
Barney gave the number of his home in Hudson Street.
“The Greenwich village quarter?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Irish-Catholic?”
“Yes, sir.”
“What does your father do?”
“He ’s dead. He was a policeman. He was killed.”
“What was his name?”
“Robert E. Cook.”
“Robert Emmet?”
“Yes, sir.”
“When was he killed? How long ago?”
“About eight years.”
