[{"node":{"title":"Lingard148","Collections":"Chapter 15","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard148","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Police, Officer","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard148","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard148_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff140\n\n\"No, no, don't bother, Uncle Albert. You just stay here a in case\nany of the wee ones should wake.\"\n\nHe would be asleep before she returned. As she left the kitchen\nhis eyelids were closing.\n\nShe ran all the way to the police station and arrived breathless.\nShe asked the sergeant on duty if she could speak to the officer who\nhad brought in her brother for questioning. At that moment the soldier\ncame out of a door. Heroom and recognised Brede.\n\n\"Can I have a word with you?\" asked Brede.\n\nHe nodded. He came over to her.\n\n\"It\u2019s about Kate MaloneKelly. I think you ought to know that she has\na grudge against my brother Kevin.\" Brede gulped and went on,\"You\nsee, she's rather keen on him and he's given her the go-by. So I don't\nthink you could call her an unbiased witness.\"\n\nThe officer smiled fleetingly. \"Perhaps not. As a matter of fact\nI'd beg un to suspect something of the kind. I've been back to\ntalk to her. And your fat brother's stikcing to his statement that\nhe had nothing to do with it.\"\n\n\"I'm sure he had not,\" said Brede.\n\n\"You don't know who did?\"\n\nBrede shook her head.\n\n\"And if you did you wouldn't say, would you?\"\n\n\"Well... I don't know. But since I don't know there's nothing\nI could be telling you anyway. So you'll let my brother go then?\"\n\n\"We can't keep him. I think ...\n","Type":"Text"}}]