Man with the Crimson Box

A man stood on a street­corner with a crimson hatbox in his hand. An archbishop approached him and asked what was in the box.

"Wah Lee''s skull. I cracked Vann''s pete," is the enigmatic reply.From this simple encounter stems the trial of the century. The crimson box does indeed hold the skull of a long-dead Chinaman (or is it?), and the man did break into D.A. Vann''s safe (or did he?) One thing i...