The Press., 1892-12-15

Mrs. Gray was the guilty party. I be- lieyed she had the nerve to enter his room in the night, secure the keys and then slip through the back yard, enter the bank and open the safe. When learned that the dog was a great favor ite of hers tAis belief was a certainty. l couldn't, for reasons already given, say word to Mitchell about this. He want ed to suspect his two employees, but when he had canvassed the matter he was made to see that it was altogether unlikely that either of them was guilty. Indeed he was alone in the bank when the bonds and money came in, and he alone knew where the deposit was placed.
 What did do? turned to Mrs. Gray again, and in about 8 week something happened to prove that 1 was on the right trail. One of the street car lines of the town ran down to the railroad depot. It was Mrs. Gray's habit of an afternoon to ride on this line with the little girl as far down as a certain park, and to sit near the fountain and read while the girl romped about with other children. l had closely watched her while in this park, but no one had ever come near her and her demeanor had been perfection.
 On the third afternoon after the rob- bery she occupied her usual seat for an hour without anything happening. sat on bench in the rear of her and about thirty feet away, and by and by noticed that she was writing a note with pencil. She did it so deftly that one sitting in front of her could not have | told what she was at. Beside her was a | large shade tree, and as near as could make out she disposed of the note, when folded up, somewhere about the tree. | When she left followed her for q short distance, and looking back 1 saw q young and we'll dressed man occupying the place vacated by her. An hour later, when could examine the tree. l found a hollow in the trunk just about on line with her shoulders as she sat on the bench. One not looking for it would have sat there fifty times and dis covered nothing.
 My theory was that she had an ac- complice-the young man whom had seen. The hollow in the tree was their | postofice. Next day was at the park half an hour before her usual time, and behold! the young man was occupying that bench. As she appeared he got up and took a seat hundred feet away, and by watching closely saw that she took d note from the tree. Before leaving she wrote and posted" one in reply, and after she had gone l saw him get it. , was now certain that was on the right trail, }. and went to Mitchell to secure some particulars I wished to know. l told him had clew, but would not re- veal which way it led. I learned from him that the combination of the vault door had four numbers, and he alone knew it. It had been changed about a month after Mrs. Gray's arrival, and he hesitatingly admitted that the word was "Aime," which was her Christian name 1 He would not, however, admit that this fact was known to her.
 For two weeks after receiving this in formation I hardly got sight of Mrs. Gray. For some reason she remained very closely at home. found out from Mitchell in roundabout way that the money needed to pay the men at thr coal mine and also at 8 large factory was deposited with him on the 14th oi every month. It was simply passed ir to him to be locked in the vault ovei night, as it came up from Pittsburg by messenger. reasoned that Mrs Gray would work this information out of hii. in some way, or that her accomplict would discover it, and that if she hac the combination of the vault she would make her strike on the night of the 14th On Aug. 12 she exchanged notes at the bank, also on the 18th. On this latter date shadowed the young man fol three hours and became satisfied that ht was from Pittsburg and ''slick un. Among the things he did was to go tt the depot and inquire about various night trains, and particularly one whicl passed over the road half an hour after midnight. I I promised Mitchell that 8 climax would soon be reached, and then staked my all on what might happen on the night of the 14th. At o'clock on that evening threw 8 piece of closed" meat to his dog from neighboring yard, and at 10 softly climbed the fence to find l the canine in his kennel and sick enough to remain there. lay down within ten feet of him, hidden behind bush, and l it was an hour and half before any thing happened. Everybody in the neighborhood was in bed and asleep by that time, and was not greatly sur prised when female figure, which knew to be that of Mrs. Gray, suddenly appeared and passed me five feet away going toward the bank. s
 She stopped at the kennel to speak to the dog, and then opened the rear door and entered. did not move from my hiding place until she reappeared about twenty minutes later. She carefully locked the bank, and as she passed me on the wa, to the house I followed | quickly behind. The keys she laid on the bank steps, softly opened the side gate, and let her reach the street be- fore brought matters to climax. She was only out of the gate when she was l joined by man, but when I rushed to seize them he got the alarm and was off before I could grab him. I got her, l however, and she had 8 bundle under her arm which took charge Of--a bun- dle containing about $19,OO0 in green backs.
 What 8 nervy woman she was! She just simply laughed bit as I led her up the steps and rang the bell to arouse Mitchell, and when had told him all | and had the money and the keys to prove it she just looked up at him with smile and asked:
 l Well, what of it?"
 The .what of itr' was corker. Mitchell couldn't let the public know | that his bank could be so easily robbed, and he couldn't let society know that he had been duped by an adventures, and after consultation he actually gave that little adventures $2,000 in cash to clear out. She went, and as I left her at the depot she said:
 .Give the old man my love when you | get back to the house. and ask him if he | N- Al II H.