The Adventures in Manhattan of Alfred Hambie and Wife, Theresa Book 3

By Alfred S. Hamby

A husband and wife team up to fight crime in four neighborhoods in Manhattan- Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Soho and Tribeca and they organize an investigation group of crime fighters and captains throughout fifteen (15) neighborhoods in Manhattan from Inwood, upper Manhattan to Battery Park in lower Manhattan. The utter destruction of the Statue of Liberty by terrorists was accidentally solved by the group that had brought themselves notoriety and more busy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477158616

Alfred S. Hamby

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Chapter 1

All three (3) partners; Alfred, Terry and Maryann were celebrating with a bottle of New York’s finest pink champagne Taylors and congratulating themselves for actual receiving the most part of their reward money for helping to solve the white baby boy kidnapping case $40,000. James Gall the husband of Maryann and the individual person at the Dublin Airport Control Tower had shared the balance, ten ($10,000) dollars evenly; the balance of the funds that were contributed by the public was given to charities for the orphan’s of children’s, that was considerable, in excess of $100,000. They had made a cut out strips with all the names of all the private and non-for-profits that had help in the recovery, they were put into a paper basket and the first ten (10) names drawn will share an additional $10,000 each and the balance will be shared by the news media reporters, and other charities for the new born. We had also decided to put an advertisement in all the New York City newspapers listing everyone that had received some of the monies; we had thought that this jester would bring us some new cases and it had.

However before we really got started in opening up all the mail, except our normal monthly utilities bills and etc. we had gone through two (2) sacks of mail that we had received from the local post office and had dumped both of them in the middle of the floor of our office and our new secretary, Nancy Good-fell, had drawn all the names from the pile. In my opinion Maryann had picked a great secretary, she was a widower whose husband was accidently killed in a shootout in the City Hall Park during the riots a month or so ago and had three (3) kids to support . We had paid her 150% above the federal minimum without any prior experience as a private secretary and we had sent her to Pace College at 41 Park Row to study secretarial studies in the evening, part-time. We had made sure that she had enough money to pay for everything including the support of her kids, such as, her rent and all of her utility bills with money left over for herself and about 10% of her gross income. We had paid her and on special occasions when special bills, such as the payments of medical bills, and etc. we had paid out of a trust fund that was established for her special needs from the balance that was left over. After we had placed an advertisement in the local newspaper as to the distribution of the $100,000, monies still came pouring in.

One evening while walking home from school (Pace College) across the park directly in front of City Hall, she was confronted by a senior citizen that wanted to borrow her body and with one swift kick into his grown; she was able to run away. She had passed a police officer standing by the steps of city hall that had immediately had come to her aid. With his gun drawn, he had returned with Nancy to the scene of the potential crime, he was gone and so he had escorted her to 250 Broadway where she had been living alone. She had been living on the fourth (4th) floor of a converted office space in an apartment. The police officer had asked her for her telephone number so that he could call her from time to time to inquire about her health and she had given it to him.

About one (1) hour latter he had called her and then had asked her for a date, she had accepted his offer and now she had a steady boyfriend who was a police officer. The following day, in the morning, when she had reported for work she had told Maryann what had happened in the park last night and about her new boy friend. He, the policeman, had asked her if he could move into her apartment with her and she had responded affirmatively but only after she had known him a little better. He is a bachelor and living alone and they could save money by sharing the rent, utilities and food bills and of course her company. She was going to seriously consider his offer and most likely move into her apartment in the next few weeks.

He the policeman was planning on meeting her after class every night and escorting her home and eating dinner with her before he had kissed her good night. He had escorted her to her front door and for the second (2nd) time in less than ten (10) days and she had kissed him this time and then she had invited him in and he stood in her apartment all night and made love with him. In the morning when he had said goodbye, to each other again, he had deeply kissed her goodbye. She had told him that he could move in with her anytime and she had given him a copy of her key to the mailbox and front door to her apartment. She believes that this week end, he will move in and keep her safe from all sexual predators from now on. For the balance of the week, he was planning to escort her home from school and sleep over in her apartment and she doesn’t mind because now she feels safe with him. All day long Nancy was singing to herself and appears to be extremely happy and when she had gone to class at Pace, he was planning on escorting her to the front door of Pace, 41 Park Row, almost directly in front of Police Plaza where he is currently stationed. He and Nancy appeared to be a match made in heaven because all the first week, he had shown up in the office to escort her to Pace, she was singing to herself. Effectively, he had moved in with her the very first Tuesday after he had escorted her home.

Chapter 2

Alfred, Theresa and Maryann went on a week’s vacation to their Hotel and Resort Golf Center in Maryland. James, Maryann’s husband could not join them because he was busy catching up with various assignments, cases, that had piled up in his office and will join Maryann sometime during the end of the week. He had a helicopter assigned to him so that he can fly to the resort center and he knows how to get there because he was there before.

The very first thing that they all did was to play a game of golf, a PGA 18 hole golf course, and then go swimming afterwards at the hotel’s swimming pool. They had left word with Nancy; do not call them unless she deems that it’s an emergency and this was the very first test of Nancy ability to censor his mail and his telephone calls. For the first few days it was peaceful and quiet and on Wednesday at noon time while eating lunch, Maryann had called Nancy. There were a couple of Walk INS and tons of mail and plenty telephone calls that she had to respond to.

A salesman from IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York had come to review their system with them and an unknown person had come to thank him for recovering their baby boy and he didn’t leave his name or calling card. She was extremely busy opening the mail and putting them into piles such as, company requests, individuals, by foreign and domestic requests. The domestic requests for service from their agency that was personalized by a computer and hand written was in two (2) separate piles and typed ones and they were put into a third pile.

Nancy had known, from her own personal experience that the computer could print labels and so it was not as important as the hand printed labels and so she had given Maryann those labels first wrapped up with a rubber band and she also placed on top with the most economic value and the computer printed labels were also wrapped up in a rubber band and was put aside in a basket called things to do later.

Maryann went into Terry’s office and had given her a stack of hand written envelopes and then had gone into Al’s office and handed him a stack of handwritten ones. She had tried to give each one a fifty (50%) % fifty split but she didn’t, she had given Terry 2/3 share and ALS 1/3 share. Al was busy talking on the telephone; she had dumped James’s mail and packages on his temporary desk in the outer office.

Alfred was talking to the Chief of the FBI, James Gall and the husband of Maryann and when a large package wrapped in a rubber-band was put on his desk by Nancy he had hung up immediately and had thanked Nancy and while he was taking off the rubber-band. He had asked Nancy how many does this represent in total? This represents approximately 2/3 and Terry had received, the computer address envelopes 1/3 and he had received the hand written envelopes.

Before Alfred had opened up each envelope, he had scanned them by placing each hand written envelope in front of a high intensity desk lamp and so he had scanned all of them before he had actually opened up the 2/3 hand written envelopes. In scanning the envelopes, the way he had done it, he had uncovered that two (2) of the envelopes had something inside of them besides a letter. Alfred had put them aside and then had started opening the balance of the hand written envelopes up, very carefully.

He had than created a few piles;

1-Envelopes with cash inside, that had included, cash, money orders, American travelers check

2-Personal checks

3-Blank I O U signed with a limitations in American dollar amounts

4-Just letters pleading their cases

5-The advertisement from the classified advertisement with a letter pleading his or her case

6-Miscellanous hand written envelopes without a note inside of it

Chapter 3

After Alfred had sorted the piles into six (6) piles, he had noticed that the largest pile by far was the cash pile, approximately three (300) hundred hand written envelopes and he had taken out all the cash, money orders and travelers checks and with a paper clips he had paper clipped each to the hand written envelopes, item # one # (1) above.

Alfred had then returned all the hand written envelopes to Nancy and had requested that she send a thank you letter to all except the ones that he had kept which was the actual good old Cash and American green backs. Nancy than had filed them away in a current activity file. This file is constantly reviewed especially by dates. The oldest date must be the top one on the list. There is a list that is filed in the top draw of the file cabinet and it’s constantly up dated and sometimes more than three (3) times a day.

Nancy was in charge of this list and she was given the responsibility of constantly updating the list. The very first and second names on the current list are called the current monthly active list. Every day a current list is run off on our coping machine at noon time and after the final mail for the day is received.

When Alfred had received the last list for the day, he had noticed a small discrepancy, number 1 on the previous list was now the very last hand written envelope, and he had called Nancy to confirm the order of the list because the order of the list appears out of order. Nancy was offended by Alfred remark and she had known why he had asked that question and had told him why the first hand written letter all of a sudden was now last on the list. She, Nancy, had received an intercom office memo telling her to do it, and had produced the memo that instructed her to do it. Again he was still not satisfied with the memo and the contents of it. This is a final step in correcting an error that was made earlier. The final step that was made earlier was the listing of his letter in the first place.

Alfred had said to Nancy, never do it again, change the order of hand written cash envelopes without consulting him first because now everyone that gets a copy of this list will also asking the same question. On a daily bases at about one (1) PM mail pickup by the U.S. Post Office, the final copy of the day is mailed out and picked up by the U.S. Postal Service and this being his last pickup for the day, he had gone directly to his home pickup station, Post Office where he deposits all the mail into a sack that is picked up and delivered to the main U.S. Post Office at 33rd Street and eighth (8th) Avenue and from there all the regional mail is sorted by zip codes and then placed into the bag with that contains that zip codes. The following morning all the bags go out to a very large green depository box on the curb U.S. Postal box for the pickup by the local mailman for that zip code and are distributed by him. Therefore all first class mail zip codes is distributed to each residential customers within twenty (24) hours of mailing a copy of the original list at the noon time by first class mail pickups.

The top adjusted hand written envelope that was on the current list after the unauthorized changing of the list was to the GPO at 33rd Street and eighth (8) Avenue. All mails that is addressed to the GPO, in general, is delivered to the secretary that is currently on duty who in turn when she goes through all of them and redirects some of them, then delivered the balance of them to her boss who is the Assistant Chief of the 33rd GPO and if he has some time, he will go over his incoming mail.

Without telling Nancy, he had called the GPO at 33rd Street and had spoken directly to the secretary. The purpose of the telephone call was to inform her that an unauthorized list was accidentally mail out and she should take it out before it is delivered. She was about to redistribute the mail when Alfred had called. She had found the list and then put it through the shredder machine and then she had called Alfred back and informed him what she had done. Under the circumstances she had done the right and proper thing. When Nancy had found out what her boss did, she had promptly resigned and had left the office immediately and never to be heard from again. The two secretaries had been friends ever since she had gotten the job and the GPO secretary had called Nancy and informed her boss had done.

Terry and Maryann did not understand why Alfred had made a big deal out of it, because an error had been corrected and it was only an internal document, anyway. "Alfred had started again to mumble to himself again, the putting the list of names through the shredder, the way it was done, leaves absolutely no trail. He will just have to reconstruct the actual order of the original list. He was giving by Terry her old and original list hand written envelopes and she had help him reconstruct the true order of names.

Chapter 4

Alfred had started to mumble to himself "They will never understand me and my attitude. By now Terry should know that leaving a trial is extremely important. Terry had walked into his office carrying a bundle of unopened hand written envelopes and had told her husband that he should apologize to Nancy and hire her back, she had meant well. Terry had spread out on a table her original old list and then compared the new list with the old one. For the most part the middle of the list didn’t change and at the beginning, the first three (3) had changed order and the last couple of names had changed and so Terry had pulled out seven (7) hand written envelopes and before opening them up each envelope was put up a desk lamp to see if they could determine what was in the envelopes. Only two (2) envelopes had looked suspicious and were put aside. Terry had called Maryann and had asked her to get in touch with her husband James and to bring with him a portable x-ray machine, one that can read what was inside envelopes.

As soon as first of two envelopes were placed into the x-ray machine, a red light had gone on and had started to buzz. James had asked everyone to hit the floor; there may be some Cyanide or Arsenic powder in that envelope. James had taken out his handkerchief and wet it down and advised all to do the same and had placed the wet handkerchief over his nose. Very carefully James had taken the envelope out of the x-ray machine and had put the envelope into a large green plastic bag and put it outside the front door of his office which was at 250 Broadway on the first floor; he had felt that this was the safest place but he was wrong. A few minutes later a stranger walking through the ground floor had seen the bag and casually as ever bent down and took the plastic bag and had walked right out the front door