The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-29

inarjes and although we ransacked
every nook and corner, We found abso-
lutely nothing that confirmed our sus-
picions regarding them. There was no
place about their fiat where the money
could have been manufactured, nor. was
there the slightest trace of chemicals
or metal of any kind. In the drawer
of a secretary in Morton's bedroom we
found a large amount OF money, but il
was the genuine article and paper mon
ey. besides
There were no suspicious papers: in
fact nothing beyond what might prop
erlv be met with in the apartments of
two young men of fashion and wealth
MY suspicion had now become a Ger
tainty. for the more tantaliZing became
the pursuit and the less of suspicious
circumstances surrounding the teller
and cashier the more firmly did my in
tuition point to them as in some way
connected with the counterfeiting job
did not believe they were the manu-
facturers of the coin. but rather that
they were the hands of the gang; that
their business was TO put it into cir
eulation.
I'VE decided that nothing was to be
gained bv shadowing them further, so
NE left them TO their frivolous social
duties. About this time Saunders ana
McGrath came tagging home, convoy
ing the bank president. tuckered out
and disguised with their fruitless jour
ney.
THE night of their return. Murphy
and I held a conference with them, at
which il was practically agreed that the
bank president was innocent. and that
there was nothing else to do but take
him into our confidence and make tbs
bank itself our point of operation.
This was risky. of course, for if the
bank president were. in fact, one Of the
gang. Ibis move would certainly queer
our game beyond repair. With our
knovledec at his disposal, if he were in
on the deal. he would be in position
to so muddy the water that all hope Of
capturing the culprit would be lost for
good and all. We had no evidence that
would be accepted in court. and IT
seemed to be this or nothing.
.'The next morning I waited on the
bank president and spent an hour clos
eted with aim. during which interview
/ impaired to him Information that
made his ewes bulge out like those Cf
a cravfish. When I left him. Il was
with his hearty assurance of rendering
every assistance in his power. AMI with
the firm conviction on my pa that he
knew at:C 1tely nothing abou: ;he case
except what I had told him.
.'My plan Of action had alrea-:v been
figured out. so the following morning
the janitor at the bank was transferred
to the factory. and l took over the
vacant Job. Saunders was given q con-
tidenr al berth i: the manu'a turing
plant 10 watcE that end of the gan
THE queer coin had ceased to be put
in circulation for some time now. and,
except for occasional 'flOaters. as we
called them, the steady stream of false
gold. which had flowed so steadily from
an unknown source for the past month.
had stopped as abruptly and completely
as a wet weather spring when a bad
drought sets in. This had added TO
the difficulties which surrounded the
case, for it had taken away from us
the only sure means by which the gang
might be run to earth.
"I watched the teller very carefully
that week. and especially on the day
when he made up the payroll for the
factory, which was called for by Saun-
ders. The sack contained both gold and
silver, but there was not a single coin
in the lot which had not been given
birth legitimately at some one of the
governments minis Saunders made