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

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woriang over the watchman
There was considerable CONSERVATION
aud confusion, during which the cashier
tound ms sale utterly empty. and se-
cured John Bcgg5 account OF all thar
had happened, 20 his knowledge.
You say both scrub-wornen were
Killed qucried Cribben sharply.
- Where's the other bodyl'
There weren q no other bodyln
astounded by Begg IS account of the
crime.
The cashier frowned, then looked up
with an Illuminating flash.
Cant you secq'' he cried. "sWho.
ever did it tried to get away with both
the murdered bodies, to place suspi.
clon on the scrub-women. He got out
WITH one. and was evidently scared off
whiie dragging the other over the
"But how could the man himself
have got iu?'' cried John Beggs.
The cashier 8 ardor abated. He
made no reply, but went again 10 the
safe, set i'll the wall at the rear Of the
room IN a prominent position.
lbs inspection produced the aston
lshlng fact that the outer door had
been drilled through, evidently by
hand, IN Just the spot where the tum-
blers could be thrown; but the metal
of the inner door, by far the more
important Of the two, had been melted
by powerful electric current. 1t was
curious combination, wholly unpre-
cedented. Why the same process
had not been used on both doors was
mystery. Why the automatic sig
nal had not worked when the safe
was broken, was another; for there
was a metallic casing in the outer
door which could not have been
broken through after 5:l5 oclock
when the burglar alarm was mechanic
ally set by the Burglar Insurance com
pany.
thick" declared the insurance man
"Nothiug but a diamond drill could
touch that chrome steel. / doubt if a
man could drill through it in ten days
The whole thing seems impossible.
The minute the drill touched the cleo
tric sheathing the signal would have
been sounded at our office. tt regis
tered all right, when the. front door
was opened at 3;l5. The signal basn t
been meddled with, either"
''Well, | give it up groaned the
cashier.
CIT must be one man IS work. He
couldn Z have let any confederate in,
declared the other ''Tho alarm would
have been given at our office on the
opening of window or door, and
there's been no tampcring with the
circuit -
"Maybe the second scrub-woman
was confederate suggested Crib
ben suddenly. "She can t be found.
Beggs didn't see her killed She
must have helped the thief. He
coudn 4 have done all this without an
accomphce. -
"But, SIR" exclaimed John Beggs,
who was listening to the theory, that
woman scrubbed hero for two years.
She's all right. I'm sure she was
! killed. ! heard her scream and moan
] know her voice"
Again the nervous cashier was
| forced TO give up his clew,
"'Well, what's TO be doDe7' he
asked hopelessly.
"We'd better wire the Bankers
Protective association suggested the
insurance man. " You re members, and
Mitchell, the president: has a great
wav Of getting to the bottom of these
things. I've sent the news out through
our regular channels, our detectives
and the papers. :, -,
leave things Just as they arc,
"There. ism t much to leave, but rrh' rh'
devil couldn't have done a neateE Job
Not a clew. Not a thing."
At . o o'clock that afternoon short
waisted man Of medium height ant
athletic build, dressed in simple Ok
ford suit. stepped into the Merchants
National and was shown IN to th'
despairing cashier,
NV name is Hardy; Mr.. Mitchell
has asked me to come down and SCI
what can do, he SAID simply, 'ahln'
or his hat and running thin han'
through his brown brush of upstanulnj
hair n patch Of whito tufting out nea
Cribben glanced grumpily at the new
, co,ner's ewes: they were violet, and n
seemed more like dapper society but
, terdy than a world-hardened man sen
, ont on criminal investigation.
, The cashier went into details in
desultory manner, 1T was evident u u
bad little hope. Having told Hardy a
, that had been learned, he summed u
in A weary, disheartencd tone; :,
lyon see. IL 's something e2traord'
, nary. A crime greater than the Mar
, haitian robbery in rs; greater than tn
a Kensington Job. .,,,
Hardy, - leaned back, thoughtfu!iy kni
I ting his slender fingers together an
| two lines deepeued into a cynical Sc
a one NJ each side Of his mouth, draw
inc The PnuS OF bllu
: The corners of his twitching hps. II
o did not speak for full minute; tie
locked up with those intense violet eyI
n that PUZZLED all mankind, and r"mari
Q ed: ~ ,tcIma
g saw had a dead-white face: -,
). Cr;bben looked up al him WITH
. ,rixture of doubt and disappointment,
|. ssWhat possible difference can tDs
ot,os Ho doesn' Z answer tho descrll
>. tion ton of any known criminal
r. Poe caught the irritation in hls ton
I and The lines dcepened around
y Mouth. u~u he answered in n muslng ton
, almost as though talking to himselt
y amp "'I thought maybe he took burne' ne
= ~ tho white stuff. II that's the cas
- @ wo may hear some hoptalk somewheir
: TSose T sc pervers often let something, 81
= ;n brossing up the bundle or rag.
IS what kind of ira.,ib1G ITgo Is Aro sSa51 "
- an insane man or a detectives :,
Poe strengthened up, threw out h
a oonaTe chest, and took deep resplr
- 9iHnn: iH his. mouth, which had sudden
90 ,,i;0btened. relaxed and the wrinkles