The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-11-02

of Bristol the remaining hundred
dropped from the cars The engine /
was then reversed and the train
started spinning backwards to meet
the special
Most of these men adopted the plan
that had been tried at st. Mary's. They
started at once in diverging lines
and disappeared in the surrounding
country.
The excitement in New York over
the affair was widespread, and was
famed into fame before evening by
the news that came from Philadelphia
that the United States mint had been
similarly robbed by another regiment
that had seized q train and gone to
Lancaster.
The next morning full details of the |
two exploits were printed, and there |
was no doubt that they were both
parts of one plan. But no one appears
to have suspected the exact method OF
the regiments or their plan OF subse-
quent disintegration. The popular
| Imagination planted an armed force
in the field somewhere and added I'M
told resources OF men out OF its own
terrors. Something of this feeling was
reflected by the press and the action
of the secretary of the treasury, for all
the endeavors were directed to the in
PERCEPTION and capture OF an armed
force which as the reader knows did
not exist. New York now recalled the
ST. Mary's affair which it had formerly
treated as a western practical joke,
and the Louisville papers were rather
exultant at what they called an eastern
dose of the joke.
But it must not be supposed that the
central police-office at New York had
been entirely led astray by these
events. 1t had quietly arrested six
men whom it's sharp-eyed detectives
had recognized as being in the ranks
of the visiting regiment, and on one of
them was found five hundred dollars
in gold. The superintendent, who saw
underneath the surface what he con-
ceived to be a vast and brainy con-
spiracy, summoned his best men; put
himself in communication with the
secret service bureau at Washington,
and very soon began to formulate some
of the inevitable deductions. In this
he was fortunately aided by one or two
1 circumstances. He obtained from the
Washington bureau the photographs OF
J the men who had boarded the Corin-
l THAN, which photographs had been
forwarded from England. One of the
: persons in the group was discovered to
be Fenning. The other circumstance
was that the Washington bureau had
sent two men west on his trail and
they had disappeared in Tennessee
s With these facts before him, it did not
d take the superintendent very long tt
focus his suspicious upon western
% Tennessee.
a CHAPTER Xxx
4 The one man who seemed to have
st the clearest comprehension of all thi
l. was Hendricks, who, from his retrea
d underground, watched by some in
Is scrutable process every move that wa
It made. Gen. Waterson reached Laral
n on the Goth of July. He left New
s. York just six hours before the police
ID began to look for him, and he foun'
N that four hundred and fifty of his mel
IL had preceded him to the Laran. Dur
TO ing his absence the sanitarium ha'
m been burned to the ground. This too
sy place on the Sth. On the 9th Gen
OF Luscomb's party had been attacked il
Il the rear. The general had been kille
i'd and his men routed. Those that es
at capped got in at Covington and re
a ported the sanitarium burnt and tn
es gang gone eastward. In the publ
ce mind this appeared to explain the al
IS pearance of the regiment in New Yor
IF on the 18th.
al About ten miles east of the Lara
es snugly perched on the side of viii
lxs glen is solitary Swiss cottage. 1t
built of stone and looks down upon
ch rugged but beautiful country. 1t
&c lust three miles from the town {
he Hoxie on a branch of the Tennessee
railroad where there is a post offiC
in and telegraph station. The people
re. the town understand that an easter
-lv literary woman who has an enormoI
mail has hired the place on accouI
ma of its seclusion and salubrity. ST
ar has pony and two servants, or
in of whom is man, and she comes
To town frequently with her pony
a mail her letters, get her papers ar
,ia meet an occasional visitor from tt
or east whom she takes back with her.
This literary woman is Mrs. He
nd bricks. In her pretty little boudo
Of on the secoud floor she has tel
ns graph instrument built into the wa
mt and she communicates constantly wi
,ts Hendricks in the Laran by an unde
Mt ground wire that has been laid wi
ere great care and expense through Il
ST. widest and most urfrequented pa
mn of the intervening country and whi
.rs. enters the cave through an artesi;
are drill that is hidden by four feet of so
,rk In fragment of preserved lett
nm of Hendricks he says: This wire &C
nj. me more trouble and labor than ar
vas thing else. 1t had to be laid at int
nat walls after careful survey in order
ers avoid observation, and it had to folio
inp the unfrequented ways and escape t
led possible surface water courses, for if
cxs had been barred and discovered +
ar enemies would have had the iron Gle
the that ran to the heart of my mystery
OBJ The man servant in this establis
aey ment is none other than Fenning. T
ed. room in which he and his compani
ork toll at their mail is tastefully furnish
and the windows on the inside are p
wn vided with steel blinds. The two Roy
yn- Dane mastiffs that have already be
as seen at the sanitarium lie at
hat length on the rug. They can be I
en- pended upon to hear football on
ON mountain side before it gets within
18th hundred feet of the house.