"Mr. Kane, are you okay?" Seeing Josh suddenly coughing violently, Lyndon Schneider and Dix asked with concern.
After all, Josh has become almost their only hope now.
"Cough, I'm fine, just choked on saliva." Josh waved his hand to indicate he was fine and then turned his attention to Dix, looking him up and down.
So he's the good guy, a brother.
Forgive him for not recognizing him before.
There was no way; he was hidden tens of meters away from them that night. It was late at night, and the street lights in this era were extremely dim, so Josh couldn't see their faces at all, so it was normal not to recognize them.
"Sir, is my situation causing you trouble? It's okay; I can leave now. Mr. Lyndon Schneider has nothing to do with my case. Let him turn himself in!" Dix saw Josh staring at him and couldn't help but stand up and say.
"That's not necessary," Josh said thoughtfully. "If you have other cases, it's indeed a bit troublesome, but it's not a big deal. If worst comes to worst, I'll get you a boat, and you can hide in Canada for a while until the heat dies down."
Josh wouldn't bother with this big man named Dix if it were before. Even if it weren't for Lyndon Schneider knowing his father, he wouldn't bother either, let alone the fact that the other party once pointed a gun at him.
But the fact that the other party was the good brother who helped him take the fall for the murder of Tony Wendys brought back a little bit of Josh's good feelings. His defense of Lyndon Schneider just now was even more surprising to Josh.
Because according to Lyndon Schneider's words just now, he and Dix and his gang were only acquaintances for less than a week in this case.
It was just a simple employment relationship. According to their agreement, the jewelry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars belonged entirely to Lyndon Schneider; Dix and his crew only received a fixed fee of $20,000 per person.
However, it was this fixed fee of $20,000 that Dix and his men not only did not covet the jewelry but also risked their lives to protect only an old man named Lyndon Schneider.
Even now, they are still defending Lyndon Schneider.
This is simply beyond Josh's imagination.
Damn, are the bandits of this era so loyal?
Shouldn't the correct operation for these kinds of bandits be to kill the burden of the old Lyndon and run away with the jewelry?
"Will that be too much trouble?" Dix was also surprised to hear Josh's words.
"Normally, it would be more troublesome, but you were never the focus in this case. The focus is on Mr. Schneider and the jewelry on him. As long as he turns himself in, without pressure from the Leibler family and the insurance company, the police will be eager to close the case. When the martial law in the city is lifted, the matter will be resolved. So before that, you still need to hide for a while." Josh explained.
"If that's the case, then I am very grateful to Mr. Kane." Hearing Josh's words, Dix, who had been nervous for a day and a night, finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat back on the sofa.
Just as he sat down, he covered his waist and kept sucking in cold air.
"Are you injured?" Josh raised his eyebrow when he saw this and then saw that the lower part of Dix's shirt, under his coat, had already been soaked in red.
"It's nothing, just a grazing wound from a bullet. I already bandaged it earlier," Dix said, shaking his head.
Josh didn't believe a word of it.
How could it just be a graze if it was bleeding so badly? And it hurt so much that Dix was breaking into a cold sweat?
"Your injury can't be left untreated any longer. If it doesn't stop bleeding, it could lead to serious complications," Josh said as he looked at Dix's wound. "But you're lucky."
With that, Josh entered the bedroom and soon returned with a medical kit. Of course, only Josh knew the kit was taken from his system space.
As a time traveler, valuing one's life was a basic operation.
Especially in this chaotic time, who knows what might happen?
Even in a relatively stable America, it never hurts to be prepared.
Especially when you have a system space, you don't have to worry about having too many things or things expiring.
Josh opened the medical kit containing some basic tools, gauze, and medications, including morphine and sulfonamides.
But no penicillin.
Although Alexander Fleming had already invented penicillin in 1928, it was not initially taken seriously.
It wasn't until 1940 that the pathological effects of penicillin were truly confirmed.
And it wasn't until last year, 1942, that American pharmaceutical companies began planning their production.
Even now, penicillin is still in the clinical stage.
When penicillin was ready to market, it was directly classified as a controlled substance by the federal government.
So the only good antibacterial drugs available on the market are sulfonamides.
The three big men in the room were not professional doctors, so their way of treating Dix's wound was quite rough. They made him bite down on a cloth, sprinkled sulfonamide powder on his wound, injected him with 5 milligrams of morphine to ease the pain, then wrapped it in gauze.
Undoubtedly, morphine is highly addictive, but the dosage is important.
According to research from later times, doses under five milligrams are relatively safe.
The reason why so many soldiers became addicted during World War I and II was mainly due to the dozens of milligrams injected to save their lives.
"For now, this is all we can do. You should rest here for a while. Later, I'll try to find a doctor to come over. Mr. Schneider, you and I will see Mr. Leibler together," Josh said after helping Dix with his wound.
He had done everything he could. Now it was up to Dix's fate.
"Thank you, sir!" Dix thanked him earnestly.
"Heh, thank yourself!" Josh smiled slightly, but it left Dix confused.
Josh didn't explain and left with Schneider.
Before leaving, Josh made a phone call to confirm John Leibler's location.
After all, this was not an ordinary theft case. It involved Emery, a top-notch lawyer in Chicago, and the fact that the other party had been a partner of the Leibler family for decades, so it was necessary to inform Mr. Leibler in advance.
Especially if they wanted to reduce Lyndon Schneider's sentence, Mr. Leibler's attitude as the victim was extremely important.
At this time, John Leibler, still busy with last night's theft, had no intention of meeting with Josh at first when he heard that he wanted to see him.
However, after considering Josh's recent notoriety and the newspaper article he read that morning, which declared Josh an anti-French XX hero, he realized that the general trend had already been established.
So after some thought, he agreed to meet with Josh.
But he had no idea that Josh would bring such a huge surprise to him.
Two hours later, Josh and John Leibler stood by the floor-to-ceiling window in Leibler's office, watching Lyndon Schneider taken away in a police car.
In fact, at this point, Lyndon Schneider had already been forgiven by John Leibler.
Given the significant impact of this case, some necessary procedures still needed to be followed, and Lyndon Schneider was still required to spend some time in the police station's detention center. However, he would not have to go to prison.
"Josh, I really appreciate what you did this time!" John Leibler thanked Josh sincerely.
His gratitude was genuine.
Lyndon Schneider's confession helped him solve a big problem.
This problem was not just about the stolen jewelry.
Although those jewels were worth millions, anyone with some knowledge of the jewelry industry would know their cost would not exceed thirty percent.
This loss was not a significant matter for the Leibler family, who were wealthy and powerful. At most, it would cause some trouble reordering the goods and result in some indirect losses.
What made John Leibler happiest was that they had found out about Emery, the mole, especially before the police did.
As a lawyer who had been working with the Leibler family for decades, Emery had access to many secrets about the Leibler Group.
If these secrets were leaked, they would cause far more damage to the Leibler Group than the theft of the jewels.
If the police had found out about Emery's involvement in the case first, there might have been some unexpected incidents during the process.
Josh's unintentional action of bringing Lyndon Schneider to John Leibler for forgiveness helped John Leibler a lot.
It gave him enough time to deal with the beginning and end of these secrets.
"Hehe, John, don't mention it. You are Margaret's elder, so you are naturally my elder, and we are all family!" In response to John's thanks, Josh replied politely.
"Yes, we are all family!" When he heard these words, John Leibler was slightly stunned, but then he burst into laughter and patted Josh's shoulder.
If Josh's large purchase of war bonds yesterday had impressed John Leibler, then now he truly recognized the young man in front of him.
It had to be said that Margaret had not mistaken Josh.
"Father, I heard...What are you doing here?" At this moment, John Leibler's second son, David Leibler, rushed in and saw Josh there, and his face instantly fell.
"Why are you so restless? Can't you see I have a guest here? You have no manners at all!" Seeing his son's impatience, John Leibler became angry and scolded him.
Compared to Josh, who was calm and composed at a young age, John's thirty-something-year-old son was a handful and addicted to beauty and pleasure.
Fortunately, John never expected this son, who was always out of line, to inherit the family business. He valued his eldest son, who controlled several states' family businesses in New York.
Faced with his father's rebuke, David had obviously become accustomed to it, and he casually greeted Josh with an unwilling expression.
Josh did not mind and said goodbye to John Leibler before leaving the Leibler Group.
He had already called Margaret while at the Leibler Group, so he wasn't rushing to return.
Instead, he bought some food and daily necessities and prepared to bring them to Dix.
He didn't want Dix to starve to death before he died from his injuries.
But on the way, Josh keenly noticed that the police, who had been everywhere searching for people, had disappeared from the streets, leaving only a normal number of patrol officers.
Obviously, with Lyndon Schneider's confession and the resolution of the jewelry theft case, the police had naturally become less preoccupied and decided to focus on other matters.
"You look a lot better!" Josh said as he arrived at the small apartment and saw that Dix's condition had improved considerably. Dix had been shot, and the bullet had gone through, but it hadn't hit any organs. As long as the bleeding stopped and there was no infection, there was no need to see a doctor.
"Yes, the bleeding has stopped. Thank you very much, Mr. Kane. Do you know what the situation is outside now?" Dix thanked Josh and asked.
"There's good news and bad news!" Josh said. "The good news is that the police have all left, so you don't have to worry about them searching for you anymore, and you don't have to flee to Canada."
"That is indeed good news. What's the bad news?" Dix nodded and asked.
"Your companion, Cody, was killed in a shootout with the police." Josh shrugged and shared the information he had received from the police.
"What about Louis and Goss?" Dix sighed when he heard about Cody's death. Although he had expected it, he was still deeply saddened by the news of his friend's death.
However, he quickly regained his composure and asked about his other two companions.
"I haven't heard the police mention them, so they probably haven't been caught," Josh said, shaking his head.
"Thank you!" Dix breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Josh's words. This was another fortunate piece of news for him.
"Okay, don't think too much. Rest well, and I'll come back tomorrow!" Josh left some food and supplies and then left. He had spent so much time here that Margaret must be worried.
Sure enough, when Josh returned home, Margaret asked him about his visit to the Leibler Group.
Josh didn't conceal anything and told her about his encounter with Lyndon Schneider, how he was an old acquaintance of his father, and how he convinced him to turn himself in.
"Emery planned all of this? It's unbelievable." Margaret was also very surprised when she heard about the jewelry theft case being committed by someone they knew.
But once she learned that the matter had been satisfactorily resolved, she also let go of her worries.
Josh also felt that the matter should be over by now.
However, if nothing unexpected happened, something unexpected was bound to happen.
The newspaper reported that the jewelry case had been solved early the next morning.
However, in addition to Lyndon Schneider turning himself in, there were a few unexpected details that surprised Josh.
One was that Emery had drunk himself to death before the police arrived.
The other was that at almost the same time Lyndon Schneider turned himself in, a broker named Cobby was arrested by the police and gave up everyone, including Emery.
So the police found Louis' house that night.
However, Louis had already died of his injuries, so the police only arrested Goss, one of his accomplices.
Now only Dix was still wanted.
Fortunately, this little surprise didn't have any effect on Josh.
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