The daily Alaskan., 1907-01-18
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} How lBeCame a Detective


country. W Neu | came lO hc twenty 5ne I held consultation with myself md decided that l would east ny lot with city people. Having sufficient funds tu keep me while hunting for q situation packed my traps. took train for Chicago, found boarding olace and began my hunt,
 One day when l came to my room in the evening l found an envelope that had been left for me by the postmau- I had left my address with the post master-coutaiuiug simple advertis- .nc card. was about to throw both .nto the waStebasket when l noticed something written in lead pencil on the ,ard Taking it to the light, read:
 4-22 - lOi9 x - 342rs 9th.
 It seemed to me that some one had been figuring ou the card, aud-again l started to throw it into the waStebas- let. But, having uu hour before din ter. with nothing to do but brood over my failure to obtain a situation, I sat Town with it and amused myself try .ng to puzzle out what the writer had )Cen figuring. Having nothing to guide me. I failed to make even d start. When l went down to dinner l left he card on the table. On returning tu ny room while debating whether l would put in the evening among the .ay crowds on the principal thorough sareS or in my room took up the ad- tcrtising card and began to puzzle over he writing on it.
 After considerable study I made up ny mind that it concealed message. Suddenly q possible interpretation Of .hc 4 % occurred 10 me The day wuS April 2Uth. April was the fourth month. and the 22d would be the day liter tomorrow. The next possible in- depreciation l reached Was %t2l2 9th, which | decided meant %42is Sixth street or avenue. With these two links I Wis not long in deciding that To-. \ meant half past To o'clock at light IT this was a correct dcCipher- .u- something was tO happen on the ,-I ot April at half past lu iU the evening at 3I2'g Sixth street or ave 1ue. There Was no Sixth avenue in -2.a city. so it must be Sixth street.
 I w.s $, curious in the matter that won't uur at once 10 visit 342l. Sixth .-.g.. 1T there was q half number I ...af -'.-port my interpretation to be .......j. wa< aStouudcd to tnd the uE ulm0'r | could scarcely believe r.. ,v,s The house was only uhour twelve feet front. very old brick shaujy. There was no light in il, and it was locked tight
 IL occurred to me that if the person for whom tie rrrd was intended did not get it the Srhems-ir' jt wHS a scheme would be spoiled. So the next day l returned it tn the ppStoiIicr. ] was between two horns of a dilemma. The first WAS. Should @n tu the po. lice w..h story that would almost certainly prove me a lupl: aud the seq ond was To watch alonr lo sce if any thing happened. I spent two days Of wearing mlcri>iuu. aud when tb" night of tho 22l came on l had come To no conclusion Al iu o'clock 1 went to the building in question and wait. ed. IL may seem that | Should have notified the police. but who except crack hrainrd fool would have mHdr a case ,.v"u fer suspicion ont of such gauzy cyidc@cr?
 At half past ln exactly a cart came numbering along tlr street and stop ond fn front If %}2l.. The rartman went rp t}.r Gopr. locked 'h"Ht htm-l YES r,ncca'.l hy'.iuj 8 free hoX- :avr two light rap> awl aftrr d few rron6. third. rI1r 1npr WI, opened.
 ul l.. was ullutttrd expected to .ae light in inc hUilduc hut did not. Presently two mnu cam" UUl carrying ! box. unr IDrEel thr door. and io. .rther ,llcy carried thr box l' the cart rut it in aui drove away.
 Oh. why had mt had tic courage Of conviction tO notify tIc police:
 I followed at distance for several niles whcl lh, mcp drryc into lane
 tuning past the rc1r O. H country ,5.,se. ua w',.cr wis a b.rJ They took T, box :ntD tha burn. w'nt near md lf>tpa.nr. heard th~m Up in the .avlort. Then they came down-I get
 in. out os the v.ay, of rourSe-aud. ,rrrfng o1 the cart. they drove back 3 town.
 Marking ;hr spot ~l that should HOW i again. 1 lest np time in mak- T.. lay way back to the city and to po- .nc headquarters. I simply told the In
 =ectnr what l had witnessed. and In ar minutes hr with two policemen
 .i myself. was driving to lhc barn.
 au.i,r-iy rgyiuG open lar daor, we ,aterel. went up into Jle ipft and ,oraJ .ila rx concealed under the hay. rak.n- !. '.acE ID l.3.lguartrrS. the ln.
 uarf9r invited ,ar into his private of fec. where it was opened. It contained g.ld. bank notes and bonds to the amount of S24%GHo.
 l was uujoiar. D krr,' inc u'i'ef a secret. tur barn waS wa,rlpi aul the men arrested. They hIh rn''bc1 bank (. f,r.s ,,-I.:'s. barpra ,l,IF had kept the