Well, the big squealer, the big stool, is Barney Palmer!" "I don't believe it!" she cried involuntarily.
"It's true! I've got it straight.

Barney wanted to smash me, because I'd made up my mind to quit the old game and because he wanted to get me out of his way with you.

So he framed it up so that I appeared to be a squealer, and started the gangmen after me.

And he put Barlow up to the idea of forcing me to be a stool, and then framing me when I refused.
It was Barney who fixed things so I had to go to jail, or be shot up, or run away.

It was Barney Palmer who squealed on Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt, and who's been squealing on his other pals.