The Portland daily press., 1896-03-14

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was fullof feeling. "'Well if this ism t
the foxiest game / ever see played I'll
be id. -
The trio went up stairs together where
MI. Richards was found, and it was then
ne made the remark quoted at the be-
ginning Of this article, but destined af-
Ter hours of exhaustive labor to be disap-
proved.
Deputy Hawkes. who had now arrived
on the scene of action. saw at once there
was hard work to be done, and starting
OH In hack, soon returned with stone
masons and tools and the search com
menced. Leading from the stairway of
course was pipe, and.it lead through a
SOLID STONE FOUNDATION
wall. This wall had to be dug through
and the masons were put to work. 1t
was long job and a hard one but at last
a hole was cut through suffi Gent to adj
init asman's body and workman taking
CANDLE crawled in. 1t was ticklish
work for he did not know into what he
was crawling.a Gle persevered and was soon
rewarded for his hand struck something
hard and little further investigation
developed full sized barrel of ale and
still another.
lhe ale was found but how was it got
In there There wasss no opening above
or on any side. 1t was out of the oues-
tion that the solid wall was removed
when the liquor was rut in. Where
was 5he openingg Then the men began
10 SOUND the wall above, below on every
slde; not sign of crack or break
anywhere was visible. 1t was still mys-
terry. 1t was getting late and the problem
was as far from being solved as ever but
the sherifTs would not give up.
Tlnally TWO men were sent into the
mole and told to crawl as far as thew
could toward the edge Of the building
ana then with bars punch at the walls.
inward coward che cellar, and they did
80. nof an hour they punched and
pounded and hammered but without sue
cess. 1t looked as If
THE JIG WAS UP,
When finally one of the men who had
orawled way up to the further end of the
mole and was lying fat on his stomach.
punched at the wall and his bar went
through it. The mystery was solved and
the entering place was found. Just
ena point of the bar could be seen stick
ing through. the foundation wall Just
aooVe the coal In the corner. The coal
was sboyelled out of the way. the earth
removed to give the men a chance to get
a leverage, they all pushed together and
seemingly, part of the foundation wall
!, ser swung inward, as pre- tily as. the
aoor OF safe. And that just about de-
scrlbes it, for it was constructed more
ike the door of safe than anything
else; A square portion of the foundation
wall had been removed, monstrous tim
bers inserted upon the cellar side TO
which were attached withs cement Tand
IRON bars big stones exactly matching
the foundation wall Then the thing
Vas rugged on two big hinges from the
outside hole where d mau must have laid
tat for days to have done the work.
once shut to, the places where the door
joined the wall were newly cemented
and ton or two of coal shovelled up
against it, the dust OF the coal effectu
ally covering up all traces of recent ope r
atlons. So beautifully and delioately
was the thing done, that not crack or
crevlce in that wall was visible to the
closest scrutiny. 1t might have stood
Tor years and no one would have discoy-
cred it-no amount of sounding from the
inside would ever HAYS disclosed it-a
chance blow from the outside which
might be struck once in a life time did
the trick and demolished the most cum
ningly devised plan that was ever con-
cocted to defeat the enforcement of the
Maine law
The deputies took the door home
with the beer to be kept as an evidence
OF what an ingenious Yankee can do
when he tries.