The Portland daily press., 1899-08-05
ReTnunerdtive
Accommodation.

How an Amateur Telegraph Operate
Discovered Bank Robbcr.

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Having finished her educational course,
Ada King began to teach as vocation
and continued to do so for four years,
when she resigned her lucrative position
in order to live with her recently widow
ed and lonesome mother.
Then, as a means of support, she began
to write for publication" at which she
was unusually uccessful-sufficiently so
as to lead her to feel assured that she
would in comparatively short time be
able to remove mortgage that incum-
bered her home.
As she sat one August evening In what
she was pleased to denominate her sane
tum, plotting story, her mother looked
into the room aud said:
''Mr. poore wishes to see you, Ada"
The only person bearing that name
with whom she was at all acquainted
was young man who for few months
had been the station agent in the village
where she resided, and she had not met
, him many times. Therefore it is not at
all strange that she inquired:
What in the world can he want OF
meY"
II have no idea," the mother replied,
but he is in the sitting room waiting for
YOU
Going to the designated apartment, she
saw the agent, who, rising from his seat,
said:
Good evening, Miss King. am sorry
to disturb you, and hope you will ex-
cuse me for so doing when you know my
reason for calling upon you~
Il have no doubt that SHALL" she
smiiingly responded.
Il have understood that you are an ex-
cellent telegrapher."
II hardly think that l deserve to be
thus denominated; but when was teach
ing | devoted my spare moments to the
art, became greatly interested in it and
a fair operator"
This evening I received letter from
my mother informing me that my young
est sister is dangerously i'll and wishes me
! to come home, if only for a day or two.
There is young man in the village
who can do my work save the telegraph
ing, and called to see IT,
lie hesitated, and she appended:
If ! viii attend to that while you are
Rway?'
ssYes.n
II shall be more than willing to accom-
modate YOU"
You are very kind, and viii salts
factorily compensate you for your serv-
ices"
THE pleasure that it will afford me to
listen to the click of the sounder and to
manipulate the key will be an ample COM
pensation."
"You must deem me somewhat pre-
sumptious, so limited is my acquaintance
with you, but did not know of any one
save yourself in this vicinity who has
any knowledge of the Morse"
you seem to me to have pursued the
only course that you could under the cir
cumstances."
"You probably know nothing about
railroad telegraphy?" he interrogatiyey
observed.
''Sueh is the case"
Il shall go away on the 1925 train.
and if you can be at the station by 10
/ shall have plenty of time to acquaint
you with all that it is necessary for you
to know with reference thereto"
81 will"
again thanking you for your kind
ness, will bid you good evening"
Good evening" she responded, and d.
rectiy was alone.
For two days and evenings she sIbsti-
tuted as telegrapher for the station
agent. and upon his return refused to nc
cept any compensation for what she had
done with that determination known
only to the gcntlcr sex.
Miss King next appears before the
reader rs she is seated in conversation
with an uncle, resident in thriving VIII
lage some so miles from her own home,
whom she is visiting for few days.
Gas you are director of the local bank
which was bHrglarizcd night before last"
she observed. you probably know all
that has been learned with reference to-
the affair, and | wish you would tell me
about it,"
"Really nothing that tends to the lien
LITIGATION Of the maiefactor or malefac-
tors has been discovered" was the reply.
A skilled detective has heen ut work up
on the case since yesterday afternoon
and pronounccs it the bisii!es; case t.iat
he has ever dealt with. beeaase the safe
gave no indications, externally. Of hay-
Ing been tampercd with. and the coinbi-
nation used in opening it is very siligu-
lar one-thc French FOR safe. 's-a-r-s'
ITO whom is the Combination usually
known she inquired so TREMENDOUSLY rs
to surprise her uncle.
TO the cashier, and the young men
who Ii the bos,,.kecDeP. an,l the teller. In
the present instance however, it was
known only to the former, az last week
the bookkecpcr went away on two
weeks vacation. ana the combination has
been changed since biz l0naItlirc'
"Whcre has The young rian yoaef'
Probably his home In Warren. rs he
deems 1t the glandest spot on earth.
though he took his Wheel with hin and
doubtless Is here. there and segswhsrc."