The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-02
Banker Hired Porter to flake
 Money From Safe
WOMAN ALSO IN PLOT
Sends Message to Imprisoned Husband by Means of Easter Eggs-Scient- ist Discovers the Plot and
 Arrests Banker
From the Chicago American.

small banking and brokerage business at the same address. He and his family lived in the first apartment over the bank. His family consisted of his wife, two daughters of 20 and 2l, an old cook who was stone deaf and man servant, George, who acted as footman for the family and as messenger for the bank.
 One Saturday evening in March, after banking hours, two women caleld on Schlossmann in his apartment. They were on the committee of the edeleweiss verein, charitable society, and they and vari- ous members in different parts of the country had managed to get together some 100000 crowns for charitable pur- poses. They had intended depositing the money but through delay on an incoming train had not been able to get to the bank in time. They therefore requested MT. Sehlossmann to take charge of this money for them-it was all in coin and bills-as they knew that he had a small private safe in his apartment. MT. Schlossmann agreed to do this, and locked the money away in the safe while the women were still there.
 Early the next morning the man serv- ant George came to MT Schlossnann and asked to stay out until midnight. as he wished to visit his mother, who lived out of town. MT Schlossman said;
 of you come In at midnight you will wake everybody. You had better stay over till Monday morning, if you can be in by 10. Can your"
 George consulted his timetable and said he couldn't get in on time on Mon day On reaching the station. however, he found the trains had been changed, and therefore he came home on the Sun day night train, which brought him to the house at midnight.
 Afraid of waking the family, he took off his heavy shoes and crept upstairs in stocking feet George slept in a room off the Kitchen in an extension, and as he crept stealthily through the hall he mo- ticed that a faint ribbon of light showed through a crack of the library door George pushed open the door quietly and saw a man in the act of removing the bag in which the Edelweiss money was deposited. He hurried himself upon ths intruder and called lustily for help The banker himself came to his aid. Together they secured the man, whom they rec ognized as a porter who had occasional ly been employed by Schlossmann in re- moving empty cases, and old paper from the bank.
 The case seemed so very simple that complications did not appear possible, br the chief of police nevertheless callec the famous criminologist, Dr. Masaryk, that very night, owing to the fact that a good many robberies had been lately committed in that neghborhood.
 The great man asked a good many questions. some of which appeared futile to the Schlossmanns. When alone with the chief of police he said:
 Chief, Schlossman instigated that rob bery. He hired the man to break into the rooms and remove that bag of ccin."
 "Impossible,' said the chief of police, "Sehlossmann is not big banker, but he Is absolutely honest'
 s'Here is my case" said Dr. Masaryk. "tTe is in financial difficulties. and 100000 crowns would help him out of them. First of all, he got his man George out of tho way for the night. Then he chlo- reformed his wife and daughters. He himself answered Georges call for help immediately. showing that he had not been chloroformed, for it took several minutes to arouse his wife and the two young women Also. the cook had not been chloroformed. The porter has done no work for the Schlossmans for over two months, and the cook was with them for barely month"; so that the porter could not have known that she was dear, and. if he had been a bonafide burglar,
 
 with the rest"
 The porter would confess nothing. He told a seemingly frank story. He had overheard tine Eaelweiss ladies discussing on the street their plan of leaving the money in Schlossmann's charge until Monday, and he had succumbed to the temptation. That was all.
 week passed, and as the courts were very busy, the case did not come up. The chief of police and pr. Masaryk hoped that the man would break down
 in the court when confronted with his wife and child whom he had been all lowed to see once and of whom he seemed very fond.
 The next Sunday was Easter and at g in the morning the porter's wife ap- peared bringing with her her little six year-old girl. She was told she could not see her husband on Sunday. She began to cry bitterly and begged the warden to be allowed to send her husband the basket of Easter eggs which her little girl was carrying, and which the child had prepared for her father.
 .'The little one does not know what her father has done.'' she sobbed.
 The warden promised to send the porter the eggs Just as the woman was going out Dr. Masaryk came in. When he saw the eggs he demanded to hear all that had passed.
 "These eggs are unusual.' he said. ..usually Easter eggs are, dyed blue, red, green, purple, yellow and pink. But these are natural-colored eggs, with little bits of silver and gold paper. cut out in the form of stars paster upon them He instructed one of the men to send out for some hard-boiled eggs and silver and gold paper, and when the eggs and paper had been brought, he proceeded to cut out little stars, making them uneven and as much as possible, like those fashioned b ythe uncertain fingers of the little girl These little stars he pasted over the newly bought eggs.
 This may be an unnecessary precau- ton he explained. but we will be on lsthe safe side"
 This accomplished, he broke open the , eggs which the woman had brought. very carefully removing the eggshell bit by bit so as not to njure the fllmy skin | which surrounds the white of the egg. He examined the shelled eggs carefully. Faint lines appeared on their surface. Suddenly he cried;
 Here Is the proof of the bankers guilt. DO you see these words upon the eggs 1 They were written on the outside of the shell with a mixture of methylene blue and a certain acid. Afterward the eggs were placed in a solution of acetic acid and chlorinate of lime which liberates n gas called chlorine, of great bleaching properties. This caused the writing to disappear on the shell The writing had sunk through the shell and become fixed ,u the skin The bleach did not affect it. Thus it is possible to write on the inside of an egg without breaking the shell. The message. when the eggs are arranged in the proper sequence. reads;
 rShlossmann will pay you 10,ool crov-ns If YOU will not blab. If possible