Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-05-07

| those shipments. l wonder now IO1
DONE"
1T would be money in your pocket
II you knew" said one of the mem
with laugh There's a standing req
ward of $4,000 for the discovery Oh
tho way 1t goes"
Il Should think some Of you fet-
lows would have pulled that money!
down long ago." suggested Dunseithd
There must be some one who knows.
THE ones who are In the know ar0
getting more than the $4,000" remind4
ed the other man with laugh.
Some talk of the conversation
reached the assistant superintendent
Blasser, and he promptly reported IL
to Ogden and his daughter. He Wa
glad Of an opportunity to turn Ruth
against the stranger. for until Dun]
seth had come Blasser had paid Rutt3
assiduous court. Now she seemed to-
prefer the man from the east and
Blasser was quick to press his adj
vantage.
I'm going down the road this
morning." he said lightly. Il visit
you'd fix it so that could ride in the
engine" said Dunseith one morninGd
Ogden nodded his assent withou1
speaking, and after the meal the two
men went across the grounds to the
storehouse Already the engine was
attached to the express car, and the
messenger was on hand to check up
the invoice. Dunseith watched as tho
boxes were checked OF and slowed
| In the car. Then the seals were puN
on, and Ogden impressed on the soft
wax the impression from one OF the
seals. At the end Of the run Theses
| seals were removed entire and RED
turned to Ogden, who checked them
up. Dunseith clambered aboard the
engine after borrowing suit of over4
alls, and the engine pulled out to-
hook on to the train of ore cars that
completed the load. The expresa
messenger took his seat on the ORD
car nearest the express car, and the
train pulled out.
1t was twelve-hour run to the
smelters and it was late In the evas
ming when the camp was thrown into
an uproar by the announcement thad
the leakage had been discovered, but
beyond the bare facts nothing was
known until the following day when
Dunseith turned up on the train and
hurried across to the Office.
/ Did you get Murphy as I wiredr1
he asked as he entered the room.
Ogden nodded. Il don't think that
he did It," he declared.
Not at ALL" assented Dunseiths
but he made 1t possible for the man
who did to get along bit easier. DID
1t ever occur to you that you had d
60-foot car that measured little
short of IS inside?"
whats that got to do with it!~'
grunted Ogden.
THE ends were false" explaine6
plain ore pair of steelyards and-0
| man."
II don't see what good that was
when the boxes were sealed" WAS the
reply.
Send for one OF the boxes" sug.
gested Dunseith, and when 1t came
he knelt on the floor beside it.
The shipping boxes were OF wood
bound with metal. The metal rims
were bolted to the sides and ends and
one of these bolts Dunseith rapidly
unscrewed with an odd shaped tool
that grasped the irregular head like
q wrench.
Il am something of an amateur ma
gician," he explained. THE constrnc-
ton of the boxes seemed to me pecu-
liar and this was the first clue. | sat
over here smoking with Murphy and
when he went on his rounds to touch
the clocks l had chance to investi-
gate" ~
AS he spoke Dunseith drew away
the loosened bolt and showed that it
ran through the side OF the box to the
opposite metal band. Once the rod
was removed the bottom could be-
lifted up without disturbing the seals
in the least. Ogden uttered cry OF
establishment.
Under cover of the noise made By
the train" explained Dunseith, the
man in the car slipped out of his
compartment in the end. He weighed
out the ore and replaced 1t with exact
ly the same weight Of valueless rock
At the end of the run the boxes We're
undisturbed and of the same weight
as before, but there was an exchange
OF from two to three hundred pounds
OF ore that ran almost pure gold.
There were three men In the game
at the other end. One was the yard.
master, the second the station agent
and the third the express messenger
on another run. After the doctored
ore was delivered at the smelter the
car was run up to the yards and
emptied of the stolen ore. This was
taken into the freight house by the
agent and the express messenger
took it up the road and then shipped
1t to another smelter as ore from q
little mine which the freight agent
owned. Murphy was taken into the
game to make things easy for the
man in the car in case there was q