The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-28

Poe having rushed on mp the cellar
stairs. Burns leaped through, slammed
tho door behind him. caught up half OF
Poe s burden, and together they dashed
into su alley.
"Thcy won I follow! - brcsthed Poe
They re afraid % peep their noses
outside. ! n phone Tor a taxi. You stay
here, and fiX The cui ;hls poor devu got
in his shoulder.
Half AN hour later the pair II hank.
ers carried their inEonsible bundle into
Poe 5 apartment up town. With deit
finger Poe searched bin thoroughly,
and finally held up n thick belt he had
taken from the man 5 waist.
IL was padded. With a pair OF Pock
ct scissors Poe ripped out the stitches,
and drew forth the amazing contents
handful of $1,000 bills. Taking from
his pocket a memorandum Cribben had
given him, describing the missing
money, Poe compared tho numbers or
the notes with the list. Suddenly
grasping Burus's hand, he cried:
- Iou picked the right man.
During the succeeding hours full
confession was wrcnched from the poor
wretch who had revived 70 face the
proof OF his guilt.
Two years before he had conceived
the scheme, and. calling on his eypcri-
ence as an amateur actor at Cambridge,
had disguised himself as a scTub.wo.
and managed TO secure the position at
the bank through forged references
He explained in detail how on saturday
afternoons. when the clerks had all lett
and when the watchmau was sometimes
| reading his paper at the door, be had
F, managed TO work at the safe, little by
| little, with diamond drill. concealed
| in his scrub pail, carrying off the SHAY
| iugs in his mopping-rag.
| He kept at the thing doggedly and
secured, through small crimes, the
money TO buy and perfect a powerful
and compact electrical drill. which he
| had attached TO an electric power
trunk IN the bank. aud with IL melted
the inner safe door. He told how he
had bored to the right depth in the
outer door, having a complete know
edge OF the safe, acquired IN his work
at Liverpool On the fatal day he bad
slipped of his wig, skirt, and waist,
when Beggs' back WAS turned, and ap-
peared before him in the man
| clothes he had on beneath knowing
that he would not be recognized. The
killing OF the scrubwoman, he de
clared was accidental, and explained
| that he had rushed 10 the rear OF the
bank directly, kicked over stool,
broken the bucket and screamed in
the voice he had assumed as scrub
woman. to fool the watchmau. Then
he had chloroformed Beggs, cut through
| the alarm plate IN the center door of
the safe, and sent in the proper signal
TO the insurance company AZ J;l5. la
penetrating that plate before signal
ing the insurance company 10 set the
alarm, he knew the opening of the safe
could not be registered. He had then
gone to work on the inner door with
his electric drill, which he bad con
CeaIed IN his pail. The powerful eur
! hal lgt.F
exposed the treasure. Tying up the
money aud bonds, he stole the watch
man 5 KEYS. opened the front door TO
the bank. and dragged through II the
dead body of the scrub-womau, leaving
the door open IN spirit OF bravado,
knowing that the sight would horrify
aud mystify the police.
He had then packed up the swag IN
"A false tapped suitcase, and skipped 10
New York. having sewed $4,000 IN HIS
belt in case OF emergency. On leaving
the bank he had resumed his wiz and
skirts, thus leaving no possible trace
These he changed az has lodging house
before leaving Boston, as man. He
had gone TO Simmy's cellar, after pur'
chasing passage 10 England, feeling
certain that he would be safe IN the den
until the day of sailing.
II was morning before the whole
story was finally dragged from him.
Then Poe called mp the police and de
iivercd his prisoner.
Burns pressed his companion for the
details OF his own work in solving tho
mystery and catching the criminal,
when they were at last alone
"You helped a good deal IN the last
part OF il. = replied Poe, as he finish
cd his narration OF the work he had
done in Boston. g But / was certain
I'd get the man the minute l saw that
bit OF wet rope with which he bound
the watchmau.
''But what did you infer from that
dom see il vet - replied Burns.
..Only that the rope had been soaked
in sonpy water / then thought OF the
scrub woman who bad disappeared, the
impoSsbiity of any one else having
been 10 the bank, and it occurred 10 mc
that a good deal could be secIeted In
big bucket ! asked for descriptions OF
the scrub. b.womau who had disappeared
and found that without the wig and
skirts they tailed pretty well With
Bagg' 5 picture of the mysterious man.
So 1 made mp a passable description, IN.
eludiug the stoop from scrubbing: and
| wired II 10 YOU On the train ] in
spccted the inside of the broken bucket,
and found that many things besides
SOAP and rope had been carried 10 IL,
and had left their marks.
"But what made you think II was
this particular man
..0h. | didn Z know that a. all. Only
the rope was the kind professional
wrestlers in England use, and he bad
tied Beggs in fashion known only 10
those British athletes After that IL
was easy. hIs description proved him
an opium fiend. az 20 per cent Of these
clever and imaginative criminal IS are. !
suspected he d bit for New York TO sail
home. and il seemed logical be d bury
himself in an opium den TO keep from
doing anything foolish before leaving
/ America.
But YOU knew his name and every
thing, that S what happened TO get his
/! confession. declared Burns. How
did YOU ge, that information,'
"From Volume II. / found a de-
scription that might answer for this fcl-
low, and IL finally fitted so well with
nv theory. that | hazarded calling him
by the name of the man whose descrip-
tiop / bad rcad. and he broke down.
IT'S quite simple. Won know, when one
has every aspiring criminal catalogued
and at one 5 fingers ends. ! hope II