After Bertozzo goes out, the Maniac comes back in through another door to collect his papers and records. He goes through his arrest records and rips most of them up, then looks through another stack of papers on the desk. He reads the top page aloud: "Judge's Report on the Death of the—" As he begins to read, he is interrupted by the ringing of the telephone. He picks it up, pretends to be Bertozzo's assistant, and speaks with an inspector from an office upstairs, who later turns out to be Sports Jacket. The Maniac tells him a judge is being sent from Rome to look into the accidental death of an anarchist who fell from a window in the office of the superintendent. Over the phone Sports Jacket.....
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