"Before This Year Dies, You Will Be Dead—the Judge, the Jury Foreman, the Cop Who Sent Eddie to the Chair"

"Death Ends the Year."
By Johnston McCulley (1883-1958).
First appearance: Black Book Detective, February 1948.
Short story (10 pages).
Online at Pulpgen (HERE).

"For Detective Lieutenant Larry Ogden it was D-Day and H-Hour - with D for Danger and H for Homicide!"

Larry plans to retire from the force and get married soon, but on this wild and woolly New Year's Eve Monk Stenner plans to make sure those things never happen . . .

Typo: "the same I time"

Father Time (note the deadly weapon).