The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-13
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In fact" I'-.
''llut. then, how2 You're all wrong.
Wo know he mado tho whole round and
did all tho collection. Aud then Pal.
mor'a Office and oil, aud tho umbrella;
why"-
Tho man lay still unconscious.
Don't rniso his head" Hewitt said,
"AnG ono OF YOU had best fetch a doc.
tor. Hos had terrible shock" Thon
turning to Plummer ho went OH: "a.
to how they managed tho job, I'll toll
You what lthink. First, 1t struck some
very clover person that deal OF money
might DO got by robbing walk clerk
from bank. This clever person was
one Of a clever gang Of ,thieves-por.
haps the lIoxton row gaug-as / think
| limited. Now, you know quite rs vol
rs do that such gang will spend any
amount OF time over job that prom.
ises big haul. aud that for such job
thoy eau always command tho
necessary capital-thero arc many
most respectable persons liv.
Ing in good style in tho suburbs
whose chief business lies In iavoring
such ventures and taking tho chief
share OF tho proceeds. WollS this is
their plan. carefully and intollgently
carried out. They watch Laker, OBJ
serve the round no takes. and his hab-
its. Thoy find that there 10 only ono OF
tho Clerks with whom he doci business
that he is much acquainted with. and
that this clerk Is IN a bank which Is
commonly second in Lakor's round.
The sharpest man among them-and |
don't think there's q man In London
could do thia q, well as young Sam Gun
ter-studles Laker's dresa aud habits
just as an actor studies a character.
They take this Office and cellar as we
have seen, because 1t 10 next door to q
bank whose front entrance Is being al
tered-a fact which Laker must know
from his daily visits. The smart man.
Guntor. lot us say. and l have other
reasons for believing 1t to be hc-makes
up precisely like Laker. false mustache.
dress and everything, and waits hero
with the rest OF the gang. Ono OF the
gang is dressed in blue coat with brass
buttons like u hall porter in Buffers
bank. Do you see?"
"Yes, l think so. It's pretty clear
now"
"a confederate watches at the top OF
court. and the momsn, Laker turns in
from Cornaill-having already been,
mind, a. the only bank where he was
so well known that tho disguised thief
would not have passed muster-as soon
as he turns in from Cornhill, say, a
signal is given. and that board"-point-
ing TO that with the white letters-"is
hung on the hook in the doorpoit. The
sham porter stands beside it, and a:
Laker approaches. says: This way in,
sir, this morning. The front ways
shut for the alterations Laker, aus.
pecting nothing. and supposing that
the firm have made q temporary en-
trance through the empty house, enters.
lie is seized when well along the cor
rider, the board is taken down and tho
door shut Probably he is stunned by
blow on the head-see the blood now.
They take mis- wallet and all the cash
he has already collected. Gunter takes
the wallet and also the umbrella. since
it has Laker's initials, and Is therefore
distinctive. He simply completes the
walk in the character OF Lakor, begin.
ming with Butler, Clayton & Ladd's,
Just around the corner. 1t is nothing
but routine work, which is quickly
done, nobody notices him particularly
1t is tho bills they examine. Mean
while. this unfortunate fellow ia locked
up in the cellar hore. right at the end OF
the Underground corridor, where he eau
never make himself heard in the street.
and whore next him arc only the empty
cellars OF the deserted house next door.
The thieves shut the front door and