The inspector's first move was to hand his visitor a heavy automatic pistol, which he declined, saying: he knew nothing about them and preferred a revolver.
"Well, you've got a lot to learn," was. the smiling answer. "Stilt, here's @ revolver.'
'$0 armed, the interviewer said what he really had objected to was the fact that the disarming trick concerned a person held up with a weapon pressing on his body. He claimed that any sane gunman would stand several fect away. The inspector agreed that 0 he could be murdered, but said that if robbery was the motive the gunman must close in, Our representative answered:—"Not at all. Throw up your hands. Now, with one hand take off your coat Tt was more a presentiment that something was going to happen than anything else which made the inter~ viewer fire immediately and if ho was not too late he hit right enough, but the inspector claims that he fired first and it was a fact that: the moment he touched a button of his tunic there was a gun in. his hand! That was exeiting- and. worth seeing, but of course it does not come into "Defendu." Several more instances of trick work and many illustrations of "Defendu"" holds were given, but really the most interesting part was the argument.
The visitor made it clear that hi point of view was that only very: seldom would a gunman, if he une derstood the use of the weapon, approach so close as to touch his victim's body (which was why he had argued that another gun was the only reasonable defence) and he could mot agree that the great larity of criminals carrying pistols merely are "throwing a
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