The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-23
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True Narratives Of IacresGrs Cases by a Former
Operative Of the William j. Burns Detective Agency
By DAVID

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, him the more I began to agree with
Brundaee inst it was time no was in.
yestigated
put Dawson 10 work Oh the young
engineer. Dawson rented a little mo.
tor boat got permission 10 tie It Nn
beside the dfty-iooter in tho Young
mans charge, and began to overhaul
bis engine, as if preparing for csuis"
This gave him an plor euity to hol.
row wronrhcs ard oils from Inc lars.
or boat, to buy d"ln6s ind cigars 10
ray for the favors, and 80 to strike
Up close accuartance With tho man
he was after.
Tad that Young man been str;otly
temperate il is doubtful If the. Brln.
daGo NoT@'ty Con1E5ny case ever wauld
have become crcdtt TO the Burns
Agency Dawson pieH4 him Fteadilg
with liquid refreshmcnt in the saloons
along the water front mud the yaung
man began to talk about his employer.
He's queer crab" said the en-.
sineor Tile makes me keep TINS
5oat in running order day and light
makes me stay By il ready to re-
paint It o a miautes notice. Now
SHAT in the devil would man want
to have bis boat reprinted SO sud
denly for?"
q couldn't guess" said Dawson.
Then again" went on the !ntem.
0erate engineer his name Is Gerber
md he makes nc tell everybody that
the boat is owned by a chap named
Russell Now, what would he be doing
that for? +"
lie shut up suddenly then. realizing
in drunken fashion that he had gone
too far.
After Dawson had made this report
he went of the case. being called in
to the New York office. For the next
week, or until September 25th. /
worked on Gerber in every way /.
knew how. without finding thing. On
the 25th he failed TO show up at the
office A telephone call to his house
ELECTED t4e fact that he had left at
about midnight and had not returned
/ had bunch on the instant. and
calling a taxi drove to the place where
the Nadine had been locked. The
slip was empty, the boat was gone.
From mon around the docks I found
that the boat had disappeared IN the
night without beiDT seen, that nobody
had known il was going, and that no.
body knew where it had gone.
| went back to the Office and told
Bundasn all knew.
Him. said he, ana together we
went = the safe Brundagc tried
to open t. he and Gerber having had
the combination together, He failed
For half an hour he tried. and then he
gave up and telephoned for an expert
from the safe company
When the safe finally was opened
the books were placed at once in the
bands Of an expert accountant. He
found the discrepancy within half an
hour
III is one Of the clumsiest cases Of
Juggling l ever saw" he said. CAS-
near as can tell on this short exam. |
nation, the cash is $4,000 short. All.
parently It has beer short for long
time. because I see that tho Juggling /
Of figures has been going on for
months"
HIN" said Brundage For months, !
Ell? was slow Mr. Cornell. vonr
task is simplifed now; you have only
to find Mr. Gerber"
Yes, that was all. but that was
plenty. Here is how we laid down |
our theory Of the situation Gerber
had gone away in the Nadine. He
had probably had the boat repainted |
renamed, and otherwise altered he. |
fore leaving. lie had left no sign Of
his route or destination Our task
was to comb the Hudson river Nm and
down and pick out Gerber in his prob.
ably altered boat
Dawson came over on the iump
from the office.
Il sized the Nadine up carefully"
said he. II think / will know her even
under a different name and different
paint"
Get the fastest boat for hire on
the river" said Brundage. Follow
him and bring him back"
We got the Puritan, semiracer
with small cabin. Two hotns after
the discrepancy in Gerber's books had
been found, Dawson end We're hug.
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