Randomly selected AtD passage: Blinky Morgan

[Michael Bailey]

Merle arrived to find the “Forest City” obsessed by the pursuit of genial
desperado Blinky Morgan, who was being sought for allegedly murdering a
police detective while trying to rescue a member of his gang who’d been
picked up on a fur-robbery charge. Newsboys cried the tale, and rumors flew
like bugs in summer. Detectives swaggered everywhere, their black stiff
hats shining like warrior helmets of old. Chief Schmitt’s bravos in blue
were detaining and subjecting to lengthy and mostly aimless questioning
anybody whose looks they didn’t care much for, which took in a wide piece
of the population, including Merle, who was stopped on Rockville Street as
he was heading out toward the Case Institute. “What’s in the wagon, son?”
“Nothin much. You’re sure welcome to look.” “Well this is refreshing,
usually we get Blinky jokes.”



So this section, set in Cleveland, mingles talk of the Michelson-Morley
experiment with details of the manhunt for Blinky Morgan, who was a genuine
desperado in the 1880s
https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/blinky-morgan-case