The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-06
The
Wireless Telegram


Thomas Sutherland, the chairman of
the Flower Steamship company, which
owned one of the most important OF the
fleets of transatlantic mailboats using
the port of Liverpool
sThis is Inspector Kellaway. whom
nronose to detail" the chief was
beeinning. but Mr. Sutherland stopped
him with a wave of his hand.
''Kellaway and. I are old acquain-
tances" she said There is no officer
10 whnmI would rather have the in
terests of the company committed"
''Then l can go straight to the
point" said the chief, who was never
one to waste words. And, turning to
me, he continued: "a wireless telegram
has been received by the Flower
Steamship company from the captain
of the Escholtsia, now in micocean. TO
the effect that last night an enormous
robbery of negotiable bonds, involving
a probably fatal assault upon the
owner of the securities, was committed
on board. There is no trace of the
thief. though.Aof course. both he and
the stolen property must still be on the
ship. I want you to hurry across to
Queenstown. board the liner there, and
come on in her TO Liverpool, doing all
you can during the short voyage to
take hold before the passengers have
left the ship.
Very good. sir; but some of them
would be leaving her at Queenstown"
] suggested.
THAT has been foreseen and pro-
vided for" replied the chief 'Instruc-
tons by wireless have already been
sent to Captain Attlee to allow no one
10 go ashore at Queenstown. AS soon
as the tug has taken off the mails the
steamer will come straight on here"
"You will understand. Kellaway,"
Mr.. Sutherland put in. that it does not
pay steamship company to have this
sort of thing happening on board their
vessels. II you are instrumental in re-
covering the property we shall be
happy to give you a suitable reward,
though the owner will probably go us
one better in that respect He is Mr.
Jacob Van Schuyler, prominent finan-
cier of New York"
Such were the meager particulars
but tempting inducement with which
/ started for Holyhead to commence
my journey to Dublin. and thence
across Ireland to join the Escholtsia
at Queenstown. 1t was winter time,
and when 1 reached Holyhead the
dirty weather gave promise of an I'M
pleasant crossing, which was by no
means belied when 1 boarded the
packet. 1 myself am a good sailor,
but such sea was running out in the
channel that we hadn't been out ten
minutes before the stewards were in
request among the seasick travellers.
1t may have been hard hearted of me,
in my own immunity from the miser-
able malady, TO be amused by the mis-
fortunes of others, but my sense of HUI
nrNtex -
plight of two of the worst sufferers.
They appeared to be fellow travellers
tall, spare man Of middle age and a
very stout man, with a fair, stupid.
mooncalf face, much younger than the
other. So long as the packet remained
at the landing stage they staggered
about with the air of ancient mariners.
using nautical terms for the edffication
of the bystanders, but no sooner did
the vessel begin to pitch in the heavy
sea outside than disaster swooped down
upon them.
The stout man was the first to col
lapse. and he received but scant SYM
patty from his companion as he sat
groaning in a corner. The tall man
chaffed him numerically in a nasty,
sarcastic way. advising all sorts of ri
diculous remedies. But retribution was
at hand. The tall man suddenly turned
green and subsidized into his friends
lap. whence he rolled Imply to the deck
and lay there in sorry ease till l
propped him up alongside the other.
So they remained for the rest of the
passage, and when they staggered
ashore at Kingstown a more bedrag-
gled and dilapidated couple it would
have been impossible TO imagine.
/ was not destined to have seen the
a M these VIZ
though when L next caught a glimpse
of them on the platform at the North
Wall station they had regained some,
ST not all, of their jaunty demeanor.
Doubtless a visit to the refreshment
rooms, from which they were emery
Ing, had proved a restorative. They
got into the train by which was trav-
cling. though not into the same COM
partment, and 1 dismissed them from
my mind as intending passengers by
one of the liners calling at the great
port of arrival and departure for which
7 was bound.
Even now, however, I had not done
with the two victims of the wrath of
st. Georges channel. On arriving at
Queenstown / found by due inquiry
that the EScholtSia was not expected
till early the following morning: so.
having arranged with the agent of the
Flower line to be taken off TO the
steamer in the tug that went for the
mails. I went to the Queens hotel and
engaged bed for the night. What
with stormy crossing and the tedious
railway journey, I had had firing
day, and / was not sorry to sit down
to bit OF dinner in the coffee room
i had hardly disposed of my soup
when in walked my pair of seasick
heroes of the morning.
Having had the start of them. and
as they both did ample justice to the
carte de Jeur, / finished my dinner
considerably in advance of them, and
moved by the curiosity which is, I sup
pose, no fault in a detective, 1 strolIed
out into the hall and glanced at the
register lying on the counter of the
bureau. Besides my own, the only
names recently added were those of
Mr.. Radford Shone and Mr.. Samuel
Martin, both of London; and 1t was
therefore. fairly certain that the en-
tries referred TO the two gentlemen
now in the coffee room.
The name of Radford Shone seemed,
somehow, familiar to me, and cudgel-
ing my memory l presently placed"
him as a private inquiry agent, enjoy
Ing a lucrative practice among fashion