The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
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How an Amateur Telegraph Operator
Discovered a Bank Robber.


Having finished her educational course,
Ada King began to teach as a 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 successful-suficiently so
as to lead her to feel assured that she
would in a comparatively short time be
able to remove a mortgage that incum-
bered her home.
As she sat one August evening in what
she was pleased to denominate her sane.
tum, plotting a story, her mother looked
into the room and said:
"Mr. poore wishes TO see you, Ada"
The only person bearing that name
with whom she was at all acquainted
was a young man who for a 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:
.sWhat in the world can he want of
me?"
Il 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. 1 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 I shall,n she
smilingly responded.
Il have understood that you are an *
cellent telegrapher."
81 hardly think that I deserve to be
thus denominated; but when l was teach
ing | devoted my spare moments to the
art, became greatly interested in it and
a fair operator"
This evening I received a 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 d young man in the village
who can do my work save the telegraph
ing, and | called to see if'-
He hesitated, and she appended:
IF | will attend to that while you are
away?'
ssYes."
Il shall be more than willing to accom-
modate you"
sYou are very kind, and I will salts
factorily compensate 0 for your sery-
ices"
s.The pleasure that it will afford me to
listen to the click of the sounder and to
manipulate the key win be an ample conn
p%ensation."
"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 nave pursued the
only course that you could under the cir
cu~mstances.
"You probably know nothing about
railroad te~legraphy?' he int~errogatively
observed.
"Such 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, | win bid you good evening"
Good evening" she responded, and d.
rectly was alone.
For two days and evenings she substi-
tuted as a telegrapher for the station
agent, and upon his return refused to ac-
cept any compensation for what she had
lone with that determination known
only to the gentler sex
Miss King next appears before the
reader as she is seated in conversation
with an uncle, resident in a thriving vii
lage some 30 miles from her own home,
whom she is visiting for a few days.
Gas yoz are a director of the local bank
which was burglarized 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 iden-
tification of the malefactor or malefac-
tors has been discovered was the reply.
A skilled detective has been at work up
on the case since yesterday afternoon
and %pronounces it the blindest case that
he has ever dealt with, because the safe
gave no indications. externally. Of hav-
ing beer tempered with, and the combi-
nation used Id opening it is a very singu-
lar one-the French for safe, 's-a-u-f."
'sTo whom is the combination usually
known she inquired 50 TREMENDOUSLY as
to surprise her uncle
saTo the cashier, apd the young man
who is the bookkeeper, ard the teller. In
the present instance, however, it was
known only To the former, as last week
the bookkeeper went away or a two
weeks vacation, and the combination has
been changed since his departure"
where has the young man gomez"
Probably his home in Warren, as he
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