The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-22

Suppose be woke up suddenly entered by this door
He would see the thief AZ work on the safe Yes that
rart of reconstructng the story is simple But who
Just then Fletcher returned with the servants The
questioning was long aud tedious and developed moth.
ing except that the butler admitted that he was uncer
The gardener very obuse, but finally contributed
oae possibly important fact He had noted N the morn
closer TO the bay than the main highway iu front Of
the house, open 1t was rarely used aud was kept
It had evidently forgotten to hook it. Ho had thought
it strange that it unlocked, and in closing it he
had noticed in tho mud of the roadway marks thot
seemed to indicate that automobile had stood there
& s the GT a had m a aS aRe@ aver
the Greenes's, who lived across the bay Miss Bond
ne said, and was in an extremely nervous condition
Meanwhile if found any need of machine might
his unclcs. in fact anything around the place
sWater,'' said Craig, when Fletcher had gone ''I
want to run back to town tonight, and havo some
thing like to hsps Do Satf along the
road to Loug Island City, while he laid out our pro-
''You go down to the Star Office he said 'sand
look through all the clippings on on tn the IN Hnoe m nss
Bond, too--wbat she has dono in society, with whom
she has been seen mostly whether she has made any
You know anything likely to be significant. m going
up to the apartment to get my camera and then to the
Man TO lake 6Sf o TO at the
Columbus Circle station at. say halfpast-ten.''
So we separated Ny search revealed the fact that
Miss Bond had always been intimate with the ultra
fashionable set had spent last summer in Europe.
the Grcenes AS far as could find out she had never
been reported engaged.
lot of paraphernalia with him. and it did not add to
our comfort sped back but it WASH much over
half an hour before we again found ourselves nearing
Instead, of going directly back to Fletchcrwood,
plant Of the local electric light and power company
The sprawled across the ruled surface of the
sheet by the automatic registering needle was rregu-
ior CHI fha he rtsinr
sharply from suudown and gradually declining after
O'Clock the lights went out Somewhere between II
and 10 clock however, the irregular fall of the
was broken BY quite noIIceabe n . upward twist
quite that tho rule went gradually
down until 10 clock, when the power shut of
But they did not a gee % %apEyh5ng TSmarfsblS in il
teered the foreman. land just to show off the place
As nsst they e S Sa on h all aoaa @ s ssve ssTv
f5sH 5 Of we won psd M bTs have ess it at the time and
''Well," said Craig, just watch and see If il oc
ours again aga tonight about the same time"
And When you close down the plant for the night
will you bring the record card up to Tletcberwood?"
asked Craig slipping bill into The pocket of the fore
~ will, and thank you, sir"
aus set S UP IN The library At @ Si Il Then he
nnscrewed all the bulbs from the chandelier in the i
the usual green sk-covcrod flexible wire rope These
were theg joined up to little instrument which to
v%d ef fit aqd agped i to tPsssfS { 5 doq!; % .
M sudSo to l me- but an old G man nenS to deaf
ness and asleep, would scarcely have been wakened
little hole in the safe door opposite the made by
the eracksman in the combination;
II IN glad you re honest said, % or else might
abb for last night s job!
be might have used before class of students in
the gentle art of scientific safe.cTaekiag ..Now if
last night, that will show how the thing was done. I
n ~bb o b a% aoEst gsf ats W M
iieve the old man happened to be wakeful and heard
Then he pried tho door of the interior connpat
mept which had been jimnied open perhaps we may
the marks left by the jimmy, by means of this new it,
strument of mine, he said.
with two upright posts supporting a dial which he
called "dypamometer. The uprights were braeed
IN the back. and the whole thing reminded me Of a
This is my mechanical detective" said Craig
ne personally gave permission to copy his own
chine. You it devised to pressure. Now
let's take an ordinary jimmy and see Just how much
pressure it takes to duplicate those marks on this
the position it had occupied in the safe and braced it
tightly, Their he took "a jimmy and pressed on it
with the indicator, and the needle spun around until
it tin indicated pressure such as Sc only st5o1g wsn
steel in tue experiment and by the afecracker it
f M os us oa e ooe ea eafp a
and the steel itself not very tough. The safe
makers had relied the first line of defense to repe
attack.
Craig tried again and again, each time using less
force. At last he got mark just about similar the
original marks on the steel.
ftWeu we'll, what do you think Of that9" be ex
claimed reAectvey. ga child could have done that
part OF the job
Just then the lights went off for the night. Craig
lighted the oil lamp, and sat in silence until the eec
tric light plant foreman appeared with the card rec
ord, which showed a practically identical with
that of the night before.
few moments later Professor F1etcher's machine
came up the driveway and he, Joined us. with wor
not conceal 'tShe's terribly broken up by the sud
denuess Of it ALL he murmured ne sank into
armchair.
The shock has been too much for her Iu fact