Spine Tingling Indeed

Okay, all. I promised a spine tingling new puzzler. So here it is.

It was a dark and stormy night. There was a night watchman on duty in an old warehouse.
He was walking down a dark hall in the middle of the night. He turned around a corner. At the end of that hallway, there was a door. Through the closed door, he heard someone cry out, "No, Frank! Don't! Don't shoot!"

And then, a loud sound.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He throws open the door and runs into the room.

There he finds a doctor, a lawyer and a plumber standing over the dead body and a gun is on the floor next to the dead body. He walks up to the plumber and he says, "You're under arrest for murder."

How did he know?

Pretty heavy stuff, huh? Spine tingling indeed.

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Remember last week's puzzler?

Motor Oil Mission

Okay all, here is the new puzzlah for today.

A young boy was sent to the shop to buy exactly a half gallon of oil, like straight motor oil. He is sent on a mission. He takes with him a can of exactly one-gallon capacity like a
paint can. A one-gallon paint can with a little handle on it, like Jack and Jill all those years ago in the fairy tale.

He goes to the auto parts store to buy this oil. But they dispense the stuff in bulk from a big oil drum. A huge vat of motor oil.

The guy at the store says, "I don't have anything to measure a half gallon kid but I have two measures of oil. One is 5 pints and the other one is 3 pints."
He says to the kid, "If I use these two things, 5 pints, and 3 pints, and your one-gallon paint can, I can measure out exactly the half gallon of oil that you want to buy."

The kid says, "I don't need your stinking 3-pint and 5-pint containers. I can do it without either of those."

So, how does he do it?

Good luck!