Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09

handed him the chiefs letter to the Southampton
chief, urged him to deliver it before the could
leave the ship. and Went aboard the tender just as
the Cuba was preparing to get under way.
The rest Of this narrative has to do with events
that took place i'll Europe And it should be borne
in mind that in following the women and the red
trunk the purpose twofoll--frst, TO learn the
whereabouts of the band that robbed the Third
National Bank of Baltimore, ana second, to nab
Becker if he should attempt to alter and sell any or
the REGISTERED bonds The women had committed
crime-wc could not prove guilty knowledge on
their part concerning the contents of the trunk
therefore had occasion to arrest them. And
there nothing TO be gained by Selling the trunk
since payment on all of the stolen bonds had been
stopped. We wanted only Beckcrand his band.
When the Cuba reached Southampton an officer
representing the Chief Of Police was at the pier He
read the letter that handed to him by the prser
and followed the two women Wien they left the
ship. Hnlf an hour later he was on the same train
with Them bound for London, where they remained
night The next morning they went to Paris
And the red trunk was among the baggage that
followed them to the hotel at which they stopped in
the French capital
The Southampton detective engaged accommodate.
lions at the same place and for week nothing OF
Importance developed. The women who seemed 10
be plentifully supplied with money, went every
morning, evidently intent upon replenshng their
already large stocks Of nery In the evenings they
went TO the theatres.
One morning the Southampton detective waited in
vain To see them 50 out for their accustomed shop
ping tour. An hour after the time when they usually
entered the carriage he began to be Finally
he went the clerk and after hay ing led mp 10 the
subject gradually made reference to the "hea1
tifuI English women whose beauty had been the
subject Of considerable comment The clerk didn't
know whom he meant. The detective had purposcly
msstated their nationality in order not TO display
knowledge of them that they might regard as sus-
moment the clerk realized the detectives mistake
and said
..Ol you mean Mrs. Cutting and Mrs Steward
But they are not English women. they are Ameri
cans. They left the city this morning
The closing sentence Jared the detective to his
boot heels, but he controlled his emotions.
Where had they gomez. OH the clerk did not
know. Thexlcl--nfter midnight and another clerk
WasNqn watch. But he might lie able to find out.
In little while the clerk impaired the Information
that to the best of his knowledge and belief tue ladies
had gone to Berlin. Strangely enough the detective
was to depart for the German capital the same even
ing. Perhaps he would be fortunate enough to 90
again to the same hotel with them.
AT five o'clock in the afternoon the detective, on
his way TO the train, stopped moment at the clerks
desk 10 bid him goodby Pleasantres were eS-
changed the two men had shaken hands when the
clerk hurled parting bit of badinag e:
Too bad you will not meet the american Indies in