two in the morning
This occurred when he started his electroplating establishment -- in Oakland , on Telegraph Avenue . It was a small shop , employing three men and two boys . Gluck himself worked long hours . Night after night , as Policeman Carew testified on the stand , he did not leave the shop till one and two in the morning . It was during this period that he perfected the improved ignition device for gas-engines , the royalties from which ultimately made him wealthy . He started his electroplating establishment early in the spring of 1928 , and it was in the same year that he formed the disastrous love attachment for Irene Tackley . Now it is not to be imagined that an extraordinary creature such as Emil Gluck could be any other than an extraordinary lover .