The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-09
On the Trail of Big Finger"

consent of the janitor, l went to the roof
of the Lagrange building nearby, where
l not only verified my conjectures but
also made discoveries which at once
aroused my deeper suspicious.
You found the steel wire?''
"A copper wire, Jimmie, nearly as fine
as thread, II was so fine that l at once
decided that the persons by whom it had
to that of the other did not wish it to be
observed.
1T ran from the Hooker building to the
Lagrange building did it?''
Exactly. From the roof of the latter
building l traced it downward, concealed
back of an iron conductor, till / found
that ii entered above one of the office
windows of the banking firm of Henley &
Nose. on the sixth floor"
Bankers and brokers. chr growled
Coleman. 1T is a firm. by the way, that
doesn't stand ace high about here"
The very fact that the house is not
quite reputable further augmented my
misgivings," Boyd quickly answered. u
saw at once that an attempt had been
made to establish a means of quick and
secret communication between the firm
mentioned and some person or persons To-
Gated in the Hooker building"
a telephone or telegraph wire. eh?''
so | decided" nodded Boyd yet the
old stone Hooker building long had been
untenanted and used only for storage pur-
poses Upon making inquiries a little Ia
ter, however, l learned that ii recently
naQ Deen rented ON a man named keili-
her, who had opened a small brokerage
business on the street floor. reserving the
upper floors, with a view to subletting
them Jimmie. none of those floors have
yet been let
Hence. you think there is some crooked
work going on there?'
Il very soon was convinced of that"
How SOP
of the wire, Jimmie, bullet shivered the
glass of one of my chamber windows as
I was about going to bed. and the ball
passed within foot of my head"
"Perditionl That indeed smacks of
Scanion and his r7scally methods.
My own immediate conclusion assent
ed Boyd. nodding. 81 dug the bullet
from the wall and found it had been dis
charged from an air gun.
1.-The same scoundrels favorite wea-
pom
yes. as we previously have seen. Next
morning, my suspicions were again in
creased-the wire between the two build
ings had been removed"
PLAINLY enough, then" cried Coleman.
you must have been seen on the roof of
the Lagrange building. and serious fears
were aroused by your Investigations"
Those were the only rational cOnclu-
sions, Jimmie; and upon recalling the
foresight and sagacity of ScanlOn, whose
hand / feel had been inadvertently eX-
posed. I decided that exceeding cunning
and caution were imperative to discov-
cry Of the knavery he then was under
taking. Accordingly. L pretended to drop
all interest in the Hooker building. and
was not seen near it for upward of a
week Yet twice in that week. Jimmie an
unseen hand attempted to take my life
1.-The dckensr
This warned me to redouble my eau
ton. and for ten days I appaTentIy
dropped out of sight" Boyd grimly re-
Joined. TN the disguise of peddler. how
everyone I previously had assumed at
times-I wandered UP and down Broad
street and occasionally near the Hooker
building. hoping thus to get some def
mite clue to what was being done there.