The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02

craftiest crook in the country. sum-
mon Byrnes and insure that he All,
but he'll know what to do, Have you.
Hammond, got Voiney's address in
Troy2"
Il have not" was the hurried reply.
Il don't know where he can be found"
Naturally not, sir, after all. Send
a telegram to the Troy chief of police,
however, and have him try to locate
Volney and arrest him. I'll sec you
here a little later, Hammond, and then
return this letter. First of all, / must
try to get on the track of this master
crook. You, Jimmie, come with me-
With the last, apparently too excited
to remain to insure the execution of his
commands, Boyd dashed out of the
bank closely followed by Coleman, and
sprang into the cab in which he had
arrived a short time before. AS he
closed the door after entering with his
companion. he leaned from the win
dow and said to the driver, in single
sharp whisper:
ITO No. = Twenty-eighth street, At
the top of your speed"
In the light of his past experiences
with the notorious criminal mentioned,
! the excitement so abruptly displayed
by Felix Boyd over learning that Scan
lon was again at work below the dead
| line appeared entirely natural to his
observers. That it was only superficial,
actuated by deductions and designs the
superlative shrewdness of which placed
Boyd in a class all his own, even his
most intimate friend of the central Of
fee failed TO detect or conjecture
| 1t was months before that Magnus
Scanlon, with a death sentence upon
| him, had escaped from custody, since
remaining carefully concealed and con-
| fining his knavery to the direction of a
small army of less accomplished
crooks with whom he was constantly
| in league. That he again had appeared
in the open, having just perpetrated
one of the greatest crimes of his career,
seemed quite sufficient to have stimu-
lated Boyd with a determination to To-
| cate and secure him. Such was the i'm
preston left upon his observers when
he rushed out of the bank that after
noon. rather than that any definite sus-
picions and secret designs inspired him.
Yet their carriage scarce had started
up town before Coleman, with curiosity
stirred by Boyd's abrupt and hurried
move, and despite the latter's aversion
to questions at such a time, bluntly
/ demanded:
Where are we bound, Felix. ana
what the dickens do you make of this
robbery"
| Boyd did not reply for several no.
ments. He sat grimly chewing his lips
and staring at his knees, with quito as
ugly look on his face as Coleman ever
had seen there. Yet he presently re-
| Joined. instead of expressing his own
views:
What do you make of It, Jimmie?
/ You must have some opinion
well. since reading his letter, Felix,
it looks TO me as if Volney had very
willing hand in this job Coleman
bluntly declared.
LAS Scanlon's confederate querried
Boyd, with brows lifting.
Exactly"
why SO, Jimmie?"
Because Scanlon B.ust IN some way
have learned that an examination at
this bank was 70 be begun yesterday
morning, or ne could not have pre-
pared himselfr so well for this robbery.
Ordinarily, q bank examiner keeps his
business designs to himself, as you well
know, and springs one of these exam
nations without the slightest notice"
Certainly"
yet we know that both volney and
Damon were informed of Hammond's
| intention, since both were to meet him
at the bank yesterday morning
True"
''Then one of them may have in
| formed Scanlon, thus enabling him to
prepare for the rascally job. Since
| Damon showed up as expected. and as
all of his work at the bank appears to
have beer aboveboard, he having had
no hand in the examination of the Sc
curities. it seems safe to assume that
he is not the guilty one"
That's reasonable, Jimmie
"On the other hand" added Cole
man, this letter of introduction en-
abling Scanlon, or Moseley, to deceive
Hammond so completely. together with
the fact that VOlney now has left
town, certainly appears most suspic-
ious / believe Volney is in the job
with both feet
Possibly, I'll admit" nodded Boyd.
Even if arrested and charged with
| having conspired with Moseley, ii may
be difficult to prove that Volney lied
| in vouching for his honesty, or that he
| has even known Scanlon's true name
and character Coleman continued to
argue. 1T is even possible that Yolney
designedly sent his wife to Troy. there
| to feign sickness and wire him to
come to her, thus lending reasonable
color to his conduct in giving the intro
ductory letter to Moseley. Such a
scheme could have very easily been
planned. and, in a measure, it would
shield Volney from lncrimination."
For a moment, an odd CLEAN lighted
/ the keen, gray eyes of Mr.. Felix Boyd.
| Very well reasoned, Jimmie, but it
will not stand washing" said he, quiet
! ly.
What do you mean?" demanded
Coleman, startled.
You'll know, Jimmie, after we have
had a talk with Mr.. John Volney."
"a talk with Volney?"
Precisely"
You're not thinking Of going to Troy
after him?"
mot seriously" said Boyd. dryly.
Its my opinion, Jimmie. that we shall
| find Volney a long distance this side
of Troy"
Not at"
Eyes, at his house, Jimmie. You OBJ
served the address printed on the sheet
containing the Introductory letter It's
odds, then, that Vclney was at home
when he wrote the letter-and he may
| be there at this moment"
by Jove, Felix"
Break off FOR a spell. Jimmie. I
wish to consider all the possibilities of
this very curious situation