The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-18
Copyright by the International Press Buroaul


And this money was all in there
when you locked IT up?"
Yes. of course
! thanked him and said 'Now Will
| you kindly Oct re go over the vault
again alone? | mist study it carefully
| in order to make out an intelligent re.
port" .z,5s
He acouicsced readily and I went in
| the room and shut myself in with the
shattered vault.
I had been impressed with my first
glance by the apparently enormous
| charge Of explosive that had been
used in the robbery SO terrtblei had
the wreckage been that 1t seemed i'm,
| possible to me that any living hnan
could have been IN that room and sur
| vived after the soup" had scattered
| he fragments of that door around.
| The room was so narrow that it must
have been like standing before NOR
| tarloaded with scrap iron. The horse
| blankets were torn to shreds. said
! 10 myself: "a bunGler's Job" and went
out and telegraphod for an expert on
explosives, for tho expert of the firm
that made the safe, and for Durango
and Mchaffcy, two of our men, who
I know most of The big yegss in tho
country by sight, ! locked ard sealed
| the vault room, so IT could not be fam
pered with . t.t
| When Mehaffeg came he took ono
| look al the dead yegg. lifted his hands
and examined the back of them and
| found some tattoo marks and said:
| Sailor Benny, as I'm alive! How did
he ever get so far from Omaha2 And
| how did beyever put in too much soup?
knowing just how much it took to
| loosen o door, ls BY glory, Cornell,
1 there's something queer about thia
/ Benny never overloaded in his Iife.T.r
| 1.-THE dynamite expert and the safe
| man came In on the next train and
| the three of US entered the vault room
4 of the bank together The dynamite
/ man took one look around and said:
"Shut the.doGr' tia ls ts4
| The safe man obeyed and, to make
| sure, I hung my coat over the key
! hole. 20
\ IVY gad!" said the safe man 81.
| most crying, 1T isn't possible No safe
of ours could be blown up in that
fashion. Say nobody everrcould blow
one of our safes UP in thatfashion--
not even one Of these old ones"
Eyes" said the dynamite man, 'I've
| done it myself"
How
ION a test" said the other. by
loading the safe on the inside and then
| locking the door" ne @
We looked at Qne apotheE,;s
THAT is what was done here, isn't
! it?" said
absolutely said the dynaH,ite
! man
! sent for Meheffey and told him
what had ibeeti |said 2 w W FfIiff
-rh4n the Job never was OF Sailor
Rennys doing sotd ahe instantly.
Good CAD, man,rThe load must have
, been not inTby the man who locked
| the door. And then how did Benny
come to he killed cracking the door?'
The dynamite man and the safe man
| prepared TO withdraw ~ sta
II guess the case is all up to you,
| Mr., Cornell, "athey said, ut looks like
work for a Tec.t" II ev
They went away and MehaFey and I
sat down to theorize behind the
| looked door. rE
Cornell" said Mehaffey, there Is
| this about this lob. Somebody had
been in on 1t before Sailor Benny got
| to 1t, Somebody had stuck a load in
there hackFot that door, and whoever
it was must have been the man who
( closed the vault and fixed the .connhi-
! nation. Then Benny comes along
| with his pal and gets busy Benny
| puts IN his little charge. just ittle
! soup poured in the cracks to loosen
that old door Hts pallets in the other
| room. doing lookout, Benny turns
loose his charge-and, bang! goes the
| big one that's inside. Naturally Ben
| ny is knocked stiff. His pal comes H..
! sees what has happened, gets the
money and beats II in hurry. Isn't
that the way you size 1t up?isf sM
mot quite,nI said. why did that
big load happen 10 be on the inside the
night that Benny came to-. blow the
| crib? Didn't the mar who put Il
| .. - @--as>----.--.