The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-10

gold dust.
The affair was about to be cast in
to the list of unsolved Mysteries when
a note was received at the office OF
Captain Frazier from a woman who
gave the name of Mrs. Kay. She
said that if the police would call at
her home she would give them some
information that would interest them
exceedingly.
And she did.
It was the old story of revenge
and a woman's revenge at that. The
officer who called on Mrs. Kay ex-
pected to hear of some petty offense,
but instead of that she poured into
his amazed ears the complete story
of the great bullion robbery.
"Why do you tell me this?" asked
the officer.
Because John Pierce has tried to
cheat me out of my just dues"
"Your just dues?"
eyes, the money that belonged to
me-the money that was intended for
the support of myself and child"
"Perhaps," suggested the plain
clothes man, eff you begin at the be-
ginning we may come to better un-
derstanding."
"very WE'LL" was the response, II
can start by saying that the plan for
the robbery was conceived by John
Pierce"
1t seems that Agar and Mrs. Kay
lived together as husband and wife
and that he had given her all the de-
tails of the robbery. Pierce, at the
time, was a clerk in a bucket shop.
He had been concerned in several
shady transactions and the possibili-
ties of the gold train appealed to him
very strongly. But it was too big a
Job for him to undertake alone. SO
he sought the professional advice and
assistance of Agar. That gentleman
seized the suggestion with avidity.
The first step necessary was to win
over one of the employees of the COM
pany. So they approached one OF
the guards named Burgess, who was
usually in charge of the trains carry
ing the gold. He fell in with the
scheme and explained the methods OF
transportation.
AS the gold was carried in the
guards van it was plain that the rob-
berry would be easy when Burgess
was on guard. The question was
how to open the safes. The answer
to that was plain enough-to get
false keys in place of the real ones.
Agar told his pal that he would have
to get a false impression of the real
KEYS in order to make the dupli-
Gates. :.
"That's too bad" was the re-
sponse, "the keys are kept in the Of
flee Of the company"
"Then we'll have to get an &C
complice in the Office was the cool
retort.
And so the conspiracy, which had
been deep enough now, became deep
er. Another employee of the COM
pany succumbed to temptation. His
name was Tester and he was in po-
sition to lay his hands on the keys
of the safes.
This fellow was employed in the
traffic department at London Bridge.
He entered into the scheme with
avidity. He reported to his pals
that there were times when the safes
were sent to Chubbs for repairs, and
that, on these occasions, one of the
keys was sent with the safes. Such
an occasion arose very soon, and then
Tester cleverly managed to abstract
one of the keys; but there was still
an impediment to the complete sue
cess of the conspiracy. AS each of
the safes had two locks, and the key
to but. one was sent to Chubbs it was
the second key that bafled Testers
best and worst efforts.
But what they failed to get by
shrewdness came singularly enough
by chance. One of the second keys
was always kept in the Folkstone Of
fee hanging in a little closet. Pierce
ascertained this fact, and he hung
around the Office in the hope of get
ting his clutch on it. His opportuni-
ty came. One morning the cupboard
was empty, and Pierce, stepping into
the Office, which was vacant, grabbed
the key and passed it to Agar, who
had a handful of warm wax. He i'm
mediately took the impression of the
key, returned it to Pierce who put it
back in it's place, and the two OF
them left the office together without