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Scharrenberg didn't know anything about him, had never heard of him. So far as he knew he had a good reputation, but he had never heard a thing about him.
Anyhow, Marsh went around and got a police report. He tried to find out if the San Francisco police knew about him. The San Francisco police looked him up. I don't remember that they had any record on him at that time, although they later got one, but at any rate the report was that he had worked sixteen years for the Moore-McCormack Line, that he was an excellent longshoreman, very good, very trustworthy, had a good record, never missed a day, competent, everything that a longshoreman should be, with no complaint by his employer.
They looked up his place of residence and found that he had boarded with the same landlady in a local boarding house in a respectable working man's neighborhood for ten years, I think - all in the same house - that he always paid his rent, that he was a quiet, orderly man, decent, well-behaved, no complaints about him there. He worked every day, worked hard apparently, came home, ate his supper, went to his room, never seemed to go anywhere, but he did play the mandolin in the evenings. That was he only thing the landlady remembered about him. He went to bed early, got up early and went to work. That
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