A woman called in from Queens and said she was a neighbor of Sergeant Burns and his wife. She said that Mrs Burns just got a telegram from the army. Their boy who was stationed at Fort Devon had been killed in an accident this morning Captain Kinnelley arranges for Sergeant Fred Burns to go home right away. Part of the job of the police is delivering bad news but it is always worse when it is someone you know. Fred Burns junior was only nineteen years old.