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Within the first week, Majeski had pinpointed Abbott traveling by bus from New York to Pennsylvania, then to Washington, D.C., and finally on to Chicago. At that point he was two days behind his quarry. Majeski assumed that Abbott would visit his sister in Salt Lake City, but he turned up instead in El Paso, Texas, then in Mexico City. By now the hunter was only one day behind the hunted. But then Majeski lost the trail and did not pick it up for another week, when Abbott was sighted in Vera Cruz...
Assigned to other cases in the busy Ninth Precinct, Majeski doggedly tracked Abbott in his free time. He amassed scores of details, hoping to detect a pattern and to anticipate Abbott's moves. When the fugitive left New York City, he had $200 in his pocket. He took odd jobs to earn more money, hitchhiked when he could not afford a bus, and sometimes lived off old friends or people he met along the way, to whom he introduced himself as Jack Eastman...
Majeski began setting the final trap when Abbott reappeared in El Paso and bought a bus ticket to New Orleans...
...detective alerted police buddies in Louisiana that Abbott might go there to work as a roustabout. Abbott was spotted the day he arrived. The man with J-A-C-K on his fingers was next seen in bars where Greek seamen stuffed $5 bills into belly dancers' brassieres. As the sightings were relayed back to Staten Island, Majeski sensed that Abbott was tired of running...
...didn't cry." Back in his basement command post, Majeski concluded that Abbott was a broken man, if still a vain...