The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-14

the structure was a solid one. The RAINY
season came ON just as the bridge was
finished and before the approaches were
compile ed and all work was stopped. The
thieves had a week TO work IN. and there
were hundred of them, They brought
tiathoats down 70 the bridge, and the
trst thing taken was the iron rails. Then
they removed all the bolts, and as fast
as the framework fell apart It was loaded
up When they got through nothing was
left but skeleton on supports. The man
who bossed that job had not asked him
self where be could sell the stuff As
matter Of fact il couldn't be sold Ii was
taken Just the same, and il the boats
hadn't been wrecked on a sandbar the
punder would have been dumped into
jungle. OF course, the railroad company
got after the fellows and I'm a few days
about eishtN of them were arrested. When
the boss was asked what put che idea of
stealing bridge into his head ne re-
piled that he had noticed It was unEuard-
ed. He would have been satisfied. he said,
could he have gotten half-price Ton ten
Of the iron bolts. All the fellows were
sent TO PRISON for long terms, but none
of them complained OF the law. what
they complained OF was the careessness
of the railroad people in leaving a big
bridge unguarded as a temptation. After
hearing of the bridge aftnir you will not
hc surprised at the stealing of a freight
train. such a thing actually happened
In the province of Nagpur. Six freight
ears loaded with merchandise were ran
i'm on siding at a small station one even
ing. When the station agent had gone
home a baud of thieves pushed the cars
usad some ola r,its ~ evtonI thn ,r,cll
about twenty rods INFO the iunslo frbav
got two cars in all right, but the third
tipped over and blocked the way. Dur
ing the night nearly all the contents Of
day one Of rho tb,e,,as eo,,o me whole
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agent md goodIv e,n,s in his noesessi,,,
ana ON a dozan ,ifferent occ,sions AZ
tennis had bean made "a ron MIN In
the new bunpaIou, every door and uyi,,Iou,
couid ha logi,oa rbo strnne, ,,o,,, nc
in the mi1dIo of enc ho,so rho c,aiis
were hriclfe1 IN on Tho inside ana tho
door voc 30 ira, Chat,[l - ,, a..
was an iron chest and ~ corrg. mo
chest had = look win ma room, he
tween the sitting room and dining room
II onnaarad 90 he nerfoctI,, safe ee,e,i,j
Nv AS our servants were ruroneana The
! house was never alone IN, dav ana NJ
night there were four Of ms in II ono
! nornlne il was discovered maj an atta,nnf
had heen male to entar The strong room
bv cutting a hole through che floor The
bIneaIov wos Gear of Tho groun1 ana
but for the brick and cement floor he fel
low would hove rot at tho hoy Uhaf
puzzled rs was how he hit ar tbe snot
"a exactIv He couIdn,t bo,,o donc hot
ter with a tape line and mn liberty 20
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re said about mo matter Tust a vel,
later he returned Nv climbing a troo
he eof unon the roof of sbe bouse ana
working his wav along he struck Tho ev
act snot from above II was a tbatcbed
roof ana win his knife no cnt out "A
square hole The interior Of me bunga.
low was ceied or AT least the raftcrs
were He emf n hole through this wooden
selling without noise and Was then able
10 dron down into tho strona room re
drst tried 10 nick the lock Of The chcst
but falling In that he determined 10 cake
tho cbest ont lie had 10 file throtoh a
link of mic chain ana fhen ascend ana
20 for a rome The chest weighed rs
nounds nv maan. Of his rome after on
iargino tho holes he COT I'm ana o,,t IN
q a
the cree. but he aid if with thai safe ON
his back. He also cot over an iron fence
nine feet bigh and had carried the safe
a full mile when he was arrested nv a
patrol His slick way of doing business
excited NV admiration ana 1 had a long
TAX with him. He was a slim. weakly
looking chan. and how he lugeed that
safe Off has always been a. wonder to M
He had no Man of the house. hut guessed
at me location Of the strong room Uis
capture and the fact that prison stared
him in the face didn't nlav INV parf bIt
he was cut up over his failure to realize
on his thunder
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