Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-21
By WILL IRWIN
Copyright BY BObbs-Merr4ll company.l

time by telephone. He was caretul
to avoid the captain when he visited
me. 1t was all dangerous, for at any
time we might be discovered. But
we had our plan--I was to enter
Captain Hanska's room with a pass
key and search for the jewels or the
bill of sale. Whenever l made TINS
search, Juan was to be following
Captain Hanska. If the captain
showed signs of returning, Juan was
to call me up on the telephone-the
ringing of the bell in my room,
which Informed me from downstairs
that | was wanted on the extension
telephone by my door, was to be my
warning signal. l could hear thar
bell from Captain Hanska's room.
There could be no mistake, because
Juan was the only person in New
York who would be telephoning to
me.
But when I tried Captain Hanska's
door with my pass-key, I found that
he had installed a new patent SPRING
lock. The next time Juan called, he
looked over the house. He found that
you could enter Captain Hanskas
room from the fire-escape-an that
you could get on to the fire-escape
from the window of the lumber-room
across the hall from mine. That room
was never locked 1t was only a
question of prying open the catch on
Captain Hanska's window One night
about a week before Captain Hanska
died 7 began the search. went
down the fire-escape, carrying a
pocket electric torch which Juan had
bought for me. 1 got the window
catch open with a penknife-it was
old and loose. | went over the whole
room that night, and again on an
other highland found nothing. I
did discover little strong box in the
top drawer of the dresser. 1t lay
wide open. 1t had a curious lock. In
that, / was sure, he would put the
jewels il he ever wanted to move
them. There was no sign of the bill
of sale. 1t occurred to me, then. that
Captain Hanska might be carrying 1t
on his person. ! knew him to be
very sound sleeper-he had boasted
to me of that, and he proved 1t by
sleeping through a fire at his hotel
when he was in Port of Spain. So
l did a dangerous thing. Without
speaking to Juan, I went down the
fire-escape at 2 o'clock in the morning
of night when Captain Hanska was
at home, and looked through his
pockets. / even examined all the
papers in his wallet by the light of
the electric torch. But 1t was not
there. Juan, when / told him, was
angry with me for taking such risk.
He made me promise never to enter
the room again unles Captain Hanska
was away
.And then we found that we must
act quickly, or lose our property for
ever. Juan was watching Captain
Hanska, following his movements
very closely. That day-the day and
night when everything happened-the
captain visited jeweler in Maiden
lane-I think you call it. He stayed
long time. From there he went to
safe deposit bank. When he came
out he had package in his pocket
Juan could see his coat bulge. Juan
was afraid that he would go straight
back to the jeweler and make the
sale; and then our last hope would be
gone. Instead. Captain Hanska went
to cafe and sat alone a long time,
drinking. When he left that place he
returned to Mrs. Moore's. And the
shape of his pocket showed that he
still carried the package.
at was plain to us that the package
contained the jewels, and that he in
tended to dispose of them at once
probably the next morning. That
night the jewels would be in his room
and it was our last chance. Juan
came to see me just after dinner. We
talked it all over and made our final
plans In the first place, it seemed
best for Juan to do the work himself.
I am a woman, and very weak with
grief and illness I could do nothing
in case I was discovered. Though
Juan had never been in the room.
could tell him exactly where to look
there seemed no doubt that Captain
Hanska was keeping the stronghold
for that very purpose.
"Then we considered another thing
how we should both get away. At
first we decided that I should leave
the house early. and that Juan. after
getting the jewels, should follow me.
vi 16 ilOt udIo W IIldh6 the dI~
tempt before 1 or o o'clock in the
morning, when Captain Hanska
would surely be asleep--even the
heaviest sleepers sometimes lie awake
long time after they go to bed. Mrs.
Moore, we knew, was very watchful-
she was afraid of burglars and she
had habit of running to her door
whenever anyone entered or left dur
ing the night. She would know that I
had gone out; If Juan left at or 2
in the morning, Mrs. Moore would
take alarm, knowing as she did that
I was out of the house. Being ner-
vous and ignorant, she was likely, we
felt, to seize him or to give some sort
OF an alarm. We were thinking of
every possibility, you see. These
things are necessary for me to tell,
that you may understand what hap
pened later
(This in answer to an objection OF
Inspector McGee, who was urging her
to come to the point
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