The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-20

and trade. This was what Hank had
been playing for, and he counted on
getting his 81 900 back and a lot more
besides.
He made preparations accordingly,
drawing out of the bank some $40 600.
the net proceeds OF his years of swim
ding. and laying in a stock of paper
that he thought would fool the farmer.
He had q grip built especially for this
transaction. an ingenious contriva nee,
with a false bottom. The grip was a
plain alligator handbag. and in the dew
iItry of its construction is was a work
OF art Hank knew that he couldn't
palm off bundles of green paper. We
neered with bills, on the shrewd farm
er, and he didn't have much faith in
switching grips on him. His plan was
TO let the farmer place the bills in the
grip while il stood on a table. The bills
dropped through a hole in the table
and down through a pipe to the room
below where they were caught in a
basket and brought up 10 Hank by his
confederate as they were needed, for
Hank had TO make his s45, 600 serve for
$500, 900.
Boggs arrived in due time, and he
had with him, as Hank had taken the
precaution to learn from Boggs' own
town, through a confederate, SIC. 600 in
cash. all in 81 .000 bills.
He had something else with him, as
Hank had learned to his sorrow, but
Hank didn't suspect that at the time
Hank had as few confederates as pos
sible, both because il made the split
ting of the swag into fewer parts and
because every additional man i'm on the
deal was an added danger of detection
He worked his delivery of the goods
always with only one man besides him.
self Joe I.attimer. as old a criminal and
as shrewd a bird as the redoubtable
Hank.
Boggs was shown the printing plant
again. and again asked TO see the stock
of paper. This was shown to him, and
there was enough of it to have made
millions of dollars if it had only been
the real article. Boggs seemed salts
fed. but he wanted to see a few bills
printed. Hank was up stump here
but he explained that his printer was
at the bedside of a dying mother and
there was no telling when ne would re-
port for duty again and he. Hank
knew as little of the art as a newborn
babe.
Boggs had surreptitiously appropri-
ated a corner of one of the sheets OF
paper, and that night. at his room. he
compared il with the material Of one OF
his own bills. and he saw that If was
quite different in texture, nor was there
a suspicion of silk thread in it that he
could find. He knew by this that he
was dealing with real crooks, and he
set about to circumvent them. On the
occasion OF his former purchase he had
held on to his money until the other
was in his pocket, and he figured that
he could work it again, so as soon as
the bank opened next morning he
bought $4,000 of New York exchange
and forwarded it by registered mail to
his own home bank.
Next he bought two pairs of hand
cuffs at a sporting goods house. bot
tie of liquor and some drugs. How he
knew what drugs to buy no one ever
learned, but Boggs was a crafty scoun-
drel. and II is said that he was many
things other than a simple farmer be-
fore he made his advent into the quiet
Louisiana parish where he had grown
rich by stealing timber. Nevertheless,
he secured the right sort of thing. and
he dosed the bottle with enough of it
to send twenty men into a dreamless
sleep, if the half pint had been distrib-
uted among so many.
That night he met Hank according
10 appointment. and was conducted