The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-03

'O Uni To a fame. ~
sembiance. But for the harp, =
of the gold stufing, your -.'.se
would probably never hav.
aroused" fA
Hall Pycroft shook his -r-,
hands IN the air. Good I.-t.
cried, while / have been ..... .9
this way, what has this other -
Pycrott oeen doing at MaNsa-1
What should We do, Mr.. Halr.S
me what to do"
we must wire To Mawsor1-
They shut at twelve on S-atg-t...r
Never mind. There may be- Sum,
door-keeper or attendant"
All yes. they Keep a psr~sr...
guard there on ccoun Of The VAIN. .
the securities hat they holG. r. -
member hearing 1t talk I'd az tr ia
City
Very good; We shall wire him a13
see if oil is we'll. and il a clerk =
your name is working there. TIA 10
clear enough; but what IS mo-, So
clear is why at sight OF US one OF .la
ogues should instantly walk o.; -.
the room and hang himself"
The paper croaked a vuie, Dec.
hind us. The man was sitting nm
blanched and ghastly. with returr.rs
reason in his eyes, and hands which
rubbed n~ervously at the broad -
odhu L / III i1ltO AIS liTtaf-
THE paper, OF course" y.l..8
Holmes. In a paroxysm of excitem,nt
Idiot hat | was. / thought So much
of our visit that the paper never e.
tered my head for an instant. 70 he
sure, the secret must lie there lie
fiattened it out upo the table. and a
cry Of triumph burst from his hps
Look at this, Watson" he cried. 1t
is a london paper. an early edition ot
the Evening Standard. Here is what
we want. Look at the headlines.
Crime in the City. Murder at Nav
son & Williams's. Gigantic attempt
ed Robbery. Capture of the Crimi-
nal Here, Watson. we are all equal
ly anxious to ear it, SO kindly read
it aloud to US"
1t appeared from it's position in The
paper to have been the one event u
importance in town. and the account
Of it ran in this way:
"A desperate attempt at robbery.
eliminating in the death of one man
and the capture of the criminal, oc-
Cured this afternoon in the City. For
some time back MawSon & Williams,
the famOus financial house. have been
the guardians Of securities which
amour in the aggregate to a sum u
considerable over a million sterling.
SO conscious was the manager OF the
responsibility which devolyed upon
him in Of the great IN
terests at stake that safes Of the very
latest construction have been en-
ployed, and ar armed Waterman has
beer left day and night in the build
ing. 1t appears hat last week a new
clerk named Hall Pycroft was en-
gagged by the firm. This person ap-
pears to have been none other that
Beddington, the famous forger and
--oo L:- I~atI Ar hoe
only recently emerged from a five
years spell Of penal servitude. BY
some means which are not yet clean,
he succeeded in winning under a false
flee which he utilized in order 10 OBJ
tain mOuldingS of various locks. ana
a thorough knowledge of the position
of the strong room and the safes.
ut is customary at MawSon's for tho
clerks to leave at midday on Satur-
day. Sergeant TuSOn, of the CITY 20
lice, was somewhat surprised. there
fore, to see a gentleman with a car
per-bag come down the steps at te"n-
ty minutes past one. His suspicious
being aroused. the sergeant followed
the man, and with the aid of con
stable Pollock succeeded, after a most
desperate resistance, in arreStlng nm
1t was at once clear that a daring
and gigantic robbery had been com
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pounds worth of American railway
bonds, with q large amount Of SCRIP
in mines and other companie> MS
discovered in the bag. On extmIn-
ing the premises the body Of the IN
fortunate Waterman was found d"IhI-
ed up and thrust into the largest Oh
the safes, where it would not have
been discovered until Monday morn
ing mad it not been for the prompt
action of Sergeant Tuson. The mans
skull had been shattered by a bio"
from a poker delivered from he
hind. There could be no doubt mat
Beddington had obtained entTaH .
by pretending that he had left some
thing behind him ard having muTd-
cred the Waterman, rapidly ril"d III"
large safe. and then made off WIN
booty. His brother. who usually
works with him., has not appeared III
this job as far as can at present NC