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.There is afront entrance, overlooking Metropolitan Hospital, but it is normally locked.At the rear of the building a door opens onto a small foyer.Once inside, avisitor faces a uniformed police officer sitting behind a heavy plate-glasswindow.To the right is the central cell room, in effect a holding prison, to whichprisoners are brought from the various dis¬tricts to be booked and to face amagistrate, who sets (or denies) bail.Those prisoners for whom bail isdenied, or who can't make it, are moved, males to the Detention Center,females to the House of Correction.The magistrate's court is a small, somewhat narrow room separated from thecorridor leading to the gallery where the public can view arraignmentproceedings.This, a dead-end corridor, is walled by large sections ofPlexiglas, long fogged by scratches received over the years from family,friends, and lovers, pressing against it to try to get closer to the accusedas they are being arraigned.The arraignment court, as you look down on it from the gallery, has a benchon the left-hand side where the magis¬trate sits; tables in front of the benchwhere an assistant dis¬trict attorney and a public defender sit; and acrossfrom them are two police officers, who process the volumes of paper¬work thataccompanies any arrest.The prisoners are brought up from the basementdetention unit via a stairway shaft, which winds around an elevator.All thedoors leading into the arraignment court are locked to prevent escape.Page 93 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlTo the left.is the door leading to the main foyer of the Police DepartmentAdministration Building.The door has a solenoid-equipped lock, operated bythe police officer behind the window.Matt went to the door, put his hand on it, and then turned so the cop on dutycould see his badge.The lock buzzed, and Matt pushed open the door.He went inside and walked toward the elevators.On one wall is a display ofphotographs and police badges of police officers who have been killed in theline of duty.One of the photographs is of Sergeant John Xavier Moffitt, whohad been shot down in a West Philadelphia gas station while answering a silentburglar alarm.He had left a wife, six months preg¬nant with their firstchild.Thirteen months after Sergeant Moffitt's death, his widow, Patricia, who hadfound work as a secretary-trainee with a law firm, met the son of the seniorpartner as they walked their small children near the Philadelphia Museum on apleas¬ant Sunday afternoon.He told her that his wife had been killed eight months before in a trafficaccident while returning from their lake house in the Pocono Mountains.Mrs.Patricia Moffitt became the second Mrs.Brewster Cortland Payne II two monthsafter she met Mr.Payne and his children.Shortly thereafter Mr.Payneformally adopted Matthew Mark Moffitt as his son and led his wife through asimilar process for his children by his first wife. Can I help you? the cop on duty called to Matt Payne as Matt walked towardthe elevators.It was not every day that a young man with a police officer'sbadge pinned to the silk lapel of a tuxedo walked across the lobby. I'm going to Homicide, Matt called back. Second floor, the cop said.Matt nodded and got on the elevator.The Homicide Division of the Philadelphia Police Depart¬ment occupies a suiteof second-floor rear offices.Page 94 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlMatt pushed the door open and stepped inside.There were half a dozendetectives in the room, all sitting at rather bat¬tered desks.None of themlooked familiar.There was an office with a frosted glass door, with a sign,CAPTAIN HENRY C.QUAIRE, above it.Matt had met Captain Quaire, but the officewas empty.He walked toward the far end of the room, where there were two men standingbeside a single desk that faced the others.Sitting at the desk was a dapper,well-dressed man in civilian clothing whom Matt surmised was the watchofficer, the lieutenant in charge [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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