Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-14

Weeks; Pratt's partner, was behind the
screen-mounted counter engaged in
counting package Of money.
Producing a one-hundred-dOllar note
from his poeketbOOk, the old gentleman
whom We have followed strobe forward,
and presenting the note alta little wicket
in the screen, he asked:
VIII you please accommodate me
with changer"
In one moment, sir, !" replied Weeks,
and he continued counting the money,
while the old gentleman remained
standing beside the open-work screen.
From this position he obtained an ex-
cellent view OF the money with which
Weeks was engaged, and he made dis
eovery.
He plainly saw that each note in the
package OF money which Weeks was
counting was marked distinctly with a
"" in the upper left-hand corner of the
back OF the same.
It seems that the stranger must have
acted upon previously acquired knoWl-
edge when he hurried straight TO the Of
fee of Pratt & Weeks, the moment he
acquired the knowledge that the stolen
money was all privately marked.
1t is the money John Oakburn's MUIR
derer stole from Jason Garrison's safe,
said the aged stranger mentally, and he
thought:
Now, if he only gives me the marked
money in change, shall have the evil
denee that the stolen money has found
its way into the possession Of these .Yul-
lures. Are these birds of prey the as
sassin's accOmplices?"
In a moment or so Weeks had counted
the marked money, and then he picked
up the one hundred dollar note which
the stranger had placed upon the eoun-
ter.
How will yoV have it?" he asked.
In two fifties, please, replied the
other, who had seen notes of that de-
nomination in the package Of marked
money.
The stranger repressed the excitement
he felt at this moment of suspense, as
Weeks turned to the package of marked
money. That he meant TO give him two
notes from that package in exchange for
the one hundred dollar note was plain,
for he began to run over the notes in
search of the denominations required.
In a moment he found them.
With the two marked fifty dollar notes
in his hand, he was coming to the wicket
to hand them to the stranger, when the
door of the private department of the
| Office, which was behind the counter,
was dashed open and Pratt rushed in.
Springing to his partners side, he
seized his arm, and Kissed in a whisper
I7O44AC NOAaiA44uLANdL4OAA n4AN1l 4AE AA4 A4OI
hear.
Weeks uttered an oath and dropped
the two marked fifty dollar notes back
among the balance of the marked money.
Then he unlocked the money drawer,
and, taking out two other unmarked
notes, he spitefuily threw them at the
aged stranger.
The latter secured them and turned to
the door.
CHANGING back over his shoulder. he
saw Pratt and Weeks hastily gathering
UP the marked money.
Pratt was just in time to foil my plan
TO obtain some of the marked money.
| They know the secret now. That seouu-
drel Kredge must have brought them the
information, muttered the stranger.
There was a telegraphic stock indi-
| Gator" near the door, and the aged gem
| tleman paused TO consult the tape"
He read C. A. 400; 225 8. go"
~Ah! Four hundred shares of the Chi
| cagO and Alton Railroad stock at two
hundred and twenty-five dollars to be
delivered at the sellers option, at any
! time within sixty days. muttered the
! old gentleman; and the readiness with
which he translated the legend on the
indicator take" told that he was no
novice in the stock market.
Leaving the establishment of Messrs.
Pratt & Weeks, he returned TO the
office, where the inquest was still in
progress.
As he passed along the side of the
building occupied by the firm of Pratt &
/ Weeks he saw Levi Kredge emerge from
the private entrance to the office.
He therefore possessed the positive
| gertrude that the Janitor had brought
! the seheming brokers the news that the
| stolen money was marked.
This affair is growing more and more
mysterious. Kredge must have known
| that the stolen money was in the pos
session of Pratt and Weeks. He is
their spy, that is clear, he thought.
When he arrived at Garrison's office,
! again, he did not Immediately enter the
| building, and while he stood before it,
he saw Pratt approach and gain entrance
! TO the office. He then entered himself,
| as stated.
At the conclusion of the inquest, the
mysterious old gentleman, who was Sc
/ cretly interesting himself in the case of
John Oakburn's murder, walked to
| Broadway and took the omnibus to the
/ Aston House, for at this date Jacob
/ AstOr had not made his successful inno-
! walton, and there were no horse cars on
| the great business thorOughfare of the
/ great city.
Some weeks previous to the occurrence
of the incidents thus far recorded, the
old gentleman had arrived at the hotel,
and registered the name, Richard Stan
1 more"
Mr.. Stanmore seemed to be a stran-
ger in the city, but to have a great deal
OF business with Wall street business
men.
Particularly intimate were his COM
mercial relations with the firm of Messrs.
Marks & Buck, accommodation loan
brokers, who had established themselves
on Wall street a year previous. Also
with JudsOn, Kirk IL Son, another Wall
street firm largely interested in various
mining and railway speculations.
There was another firm, not on Wall
| street, with whom Mr.. Stanmore was
| evidently on the best of business terms.
The firm in question was that of Ben
jamln & Co., a Jewish money-lending
house which negotiated large loans, and
to them in secret many a Wall street
/ operator had been glad to come for finan-
cial aid when the market took long run
the wrong way.
Almost every evening representative
of each of the firms mentioned was clos
eted with Mr.. Stanmore in his apart
ments in the hotel.
Surprising as it may seem, however,
in view of the fact we have mentioned,
Mr.. Stanmore was entirely unknown
| personally on Wall street, and he never
4 visited the offices of the business firms
we have mentioned.
Very much to Mr.. Garrison surprise,
the day following the night of the muir
| der and robbery drew to a close, and no
one from Pratt & Weeks called upon him
to demand the money he owed them.
In view of the fact that Mr.. Pratt had
insisted that the SIS, 600 must positively
be paid that morning at an early hour,
I if the debtor wished to avoid uDDlea a. nj