The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-11
Il he was with me evenings cared non

II he was with me evenings cared n0
what he did daytimes.
Two or three weeks after the incident
related above had four hand card party
IN my room, and Goldwaithe was one Of
the quartet. AT O'Clock L was called
down stairs by the ticket agent, who said:
Il want to know whether l have seer
straight this time or not. Goldwaithe came
in on the $50 st. Louis express"
You must be crazy! He Is right NJ
stairs in my room at this moment, and
Peters and Thompson are with himp
But tell you / saw him. More than
that, he came up the street ahead of me
and turned into the stairway"
/ took him up stairs, and when he saw
| Goldwaithe sitting there he was dead beat.
Here were three instances of queer decep-
ton. While / regarded them as deep
lions or illusions there was something IN
canny in the incidents, and my interest in
the movements of Goldwaithe was consid-
erably increased. On one pretense or an
other got into his rooms or sent friends
up there every day OF two, but everything
appeared straight. One evening he sat
| down in the hotel office to write letter,
| and while he was thus engaged walked
up the street four squares TO speak to a
merchant. On returning met Goldwaithe
! face to face, and saluted.
'Ah, you cut 1t short"
Eyes"
well, mail il and hurry back"
l. l walked straight to the hotel, and there
| sat the man l had spoken to on the street
| three minutes before! He was still writ
| ing. | asked a friend who sat reading if
| Goldwaithe had been out, and he replied in
the negative. l felt my hair standing on
end as | sat down, and during all that long
night / did not get a wink of sleep. Ny
partner, the ticket agent and myself had
all seen what we had not seen. Was he of
flesh and blood, or was he a wrath who
could appear in two places at once?
1t was on a Friday evening 1 thought 1
met our up stairs man on the street. Sat
urday morning l took a stepladder and
closely examined the top of the vault, and
also sent a man up stairs to look at the
floor of the back room and see if it was in
tact. Everything was reported all right,
and Saturday evening our man said to me-:
Il haven't slept well lately. and 1 believe
will try a change of beds. l will turn
into the room next to you for couple of
nights, and see if the change won't bring
sleep"
l rejoiced at this, as I need not fear that
he was at work on the vault. l satisfied
myself that he was in bed before turned
in, and that night | slept better than for
months before. He occupied the same
room on Saturday night, and on Sunday
forenoon he surprised me by saying he
would accompany me to church. He ap-
peared to listen very closely to the sermon,
and on the way home pointed out its strong
and weak points.
1t was my custom to enter the bank at
noon to see if all was well, but on this
day, after we had finished dinner and was
about to start, a friend came in and / was
detained about half an hour Everything
seemed to be all right in the bank, but,
from force of habit, l opened the vault,
and one look showed me that the climax
had come. There was hole through the
roof of the vault our safe was open, and
lying on the litter of papers was man. |
did not know whether he was dead or alive
when | summoned help, but we soon found
that he was dead and lying in his own
blood. The safe had been opened with
wedges, and the s., 500 it contained had
been taken. 1t was half an hour before |
thought of Goldwaithe and then he could
not be found. We burst into his rooms,
and about the first thing we found was a
sachel containing our money.
The machine which l took to be drill
was drill. \ piece Of the floor had been
cut out, the drill had then done It's work
on the iron plates, and later on chisel had
been used to pick out the cement and re-
move the bricks. The robber could have
begun work at o'clock on Saturday even
ing, and he probably did so. Who was he?
1t was Goldthwaite! Fifty of us could
have sworn 1t was he, and yet it wasn't. /
had left him alive at the hotel, and he had
skipped. Then who was it? His twin
brother, as we afterward ascertaned TO
certainty. How did he meet his death? He
had got into the vault and the safe and Sc
cured the money. He passed up and down
by means of rope In going back the
second time for further plumber he had en-
countered piece of glass in the cement,
and it had severed an artery in his leg.
Goldthwaite knew that mistrusted him.
He had, therefore, worked to throw me off
my guard, and when the plan was ripe for
execution he lay sleeping within ten feet of
me, while his own brother was doing the
work. We caught him three months later
in New Orleans, and, while we could not
satisfy the jury that he was one of the rob
bers, ne was taken to Cincinnati on another
charge and got a sentence of twelve years.
New York Sun.