Joe Friday
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Okay.
Goodbye.
Candy Delman.
Yeah?
You heard we were talking to Bronco tonight.
Bronco tell him what it was about?
Must have.
At least Candy knows we didn't get anywhere.
Says it's our own fault for not going to the right guy.
Who's that?
Him.
Candy Delman was an informant who had served three sentences for violation of the State Narcotics Act.
Since his release from prison, he had given police officers several leads to burglary and robbery suspects.
Most of his leads had panned out.
As far as we knew, Delman was no longer a narcotics user or a pusher himself, but in the past, he had always refused to give any information on the dope racket.
Over the phone, he said he was living at the Hattrick Hotel on South Spring Street, room 217.
Frank and I left the office and drove out to talk to him.
It was 11.22 p.m.
when we got to the hotel, a dark two-story building badly in need of repair.
We went inside and started up the stairs to the second floor.