Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

rOmped about with other children.
On the third afternoon after the rob-
berry, she occupied her usual seat for an
hour without anything happening. /
sat on bench behind her. about thirty
feet away, and by-and-by 1 observed
that she was writing a note with pen
ell. She did it so deftIy that one sitting
in front of her could not have guessed
what she was doing. Beside her was
a large, shady tree, and as near as
could make out she disposed of the note
when folded up somewhere about the
tree.
When she left I followed her for a
short distance, and looking back I saw
young and well-dressed man occupy
ing the place vacated by her. An hour
later, when 1 was able to examine the
tree, found a hollow in the trunk just
on line with her shoulder as she sat
on the seat
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 l was at the park half an
hour before her usual time, and behold!
the young man was occupying the
bench. AS she appeared he got up and
took seat hundred feet away, and
by watching closely 1 saw that she
took note from the tree. Before leav-
ing she wrote one in reply, and after
she had gone / saw him remove it,
was now certain l was on the right
trail, and went to Mitchell to secure
some particulars 1 wished to know.
told him / had a clue, but would not
reveal which way it led. l learned
from him that the combination of the
vault door had four numbers, and he
alone knew it, 1t had been changed
about month after Mrs. Gray's ar
rival, and he hesitatingly owned that
the word was Aimee" which was her
Christian name. He would not, how
ever, admit that this fact was known
to her.
For two weeks after securing this
information l hardly ever saw Mrs.
Gray. For some reason she remained
at home. By dint of inquiry 1 discov-
cred from Mitchell that the money
needed to pay the men at a coal mine
and also at large factory was de-
every month. 1t was simply passed
to him to be locked in the vault over
| night, as it came from London by mes
senger. / reasoned that Mrs. Gray
would get this information out of him
in some way or that her accomplice
would discover it, and that she would
probably make an attempt to rob the
bank on the night of the fourteenth.
On the twelfth day of August she
exchanged notes at the park, also on
the thirteenth. On this latter date
| shadowed the young man for three
hours. Among the things he did was
to go to the station and inquire about
various night trains, and particularly
one which passed along the line half
an hour after midnight.
l promised Mitchell that a climax
would soon be reached, and then
staked my all on what might happen
on the night of the fourteenth.
At s o'clock of that evning I threw
piece of "dosed" meat to his dog
from a neighbOring garden, and at 10
/ softly climbed the fence, to find the
canine in his kennel, and i'll enough
to remain there. l lay down within
ten feet of him, behind a bush, and it
was an hour and a half before any
thing happened.
EVERYBODY was in bed by that time,
and 1 was not greatly surprised when
a female figure, which 1 guessed to be
Mrs. Gray passed within five feet of
me. going toward the bank.
She stopped at the kennel to speak
to the dog, then opened the back door
| and entered.
did not move from my hiding place
until she reappeared, about twenty
minutes after. She carefully locked
the bank, and as she passed me on her
way to the house, l followed quickly.
The key she laid on the back steps,
softly opened the side gate, and 1 let
| her reach the street before l brought
matters to a climax.
She hg<- onfL, Just got out of the gate
r r. ,s ,sons eGined by a man, but
akota, ana the Aisee -. seize them he be-
. Silos" -Csr1eryat 10 was off before 1
| could seize In en2sn tanned the wo-
man, however, nd she had a
bundle under heIS-.-.sye vhich 1 took
charge of-a bundle tonl ming about
three thousand pounds in notes
What a fearless woman she was.
She simply laughed as l led her up the
steps and rang the bell to arouse Nit
chelI, and when I had told him all,
and gave him the money and the keys
to prove the robbery, she just smiled,
and said:
'WeIl. what of it?''
Mitchell, however, resolved not to let
the public know that his bank could be
so easily robbed, nor would he have