The Washington times., 1913-11-22

with temper that was simply indie
scrfbabIe. excited much whispered COM
mept and many confidential nudges.
Banta, with his twisted and fractured
wrist and ConiGlio. with his crushed
fngers-who were generally known 20
have been with Rushton that night
nearly took the heads off of any of
their brother officers who dared to ask
them how they got hurt.
At noon of the day following the epi-
sode every available man of the bureau
was called into the private office of the
under the seal of secrecy, with a severe
penalty II violated, the story of the
banks loss and :he belief In Harvard 5
guilt was related to them.
President Chester. or the bank. found
recent Axe snapshot photograph OF
Bingham Harvard. and 4 supply OF lu-
plicateS was struck of so that every
man of the bureau was provided with
one--and there were many yet to spare
Later, the precinct captains were put
wise in about the same manner, and
orders went from them to their com
mands. Within twenty-four hours of
the escape of Harvard from Chester's
house every uniformed policeman and
plain-clothes man In the city was on
the lookout for him, and had deter
mined individually to capture him.
But il seemed as IL the man mad
stepped out of President Chester's
house upon waiting aeroplane and
flown away to another planet, SO liter
ally did he disappear-and it was partly
due to that first disappearance of his
that the alias. which was presently
to become synonymous with profound
mystery. was applied to him.
A casual remark has coined many a
word, has created q slogan, or named
a continent and so 1t was that petu-
liant question impatiently asked by
became known to him that Harvard had
actually made his escape in spite Of
the fact that one other, plain-clothes
man, and a woman detective from head
house that night drew forth the answer
that created the sobriquet. The skip
per" called at the bank in person for
more direct information concerning the
whole AFFAIR. and during the conversa-
entity demanded: with three OF your
people inside the house and two more
outside at the time, 1t seems incredible
that he could get away. What became
Of him." To which the high official re-
piled:
He blew away like the night wind" :"
During the week that followed it
seemed indeed as IL Bingham Harvard
had disappeared as mysteriously as q
n
be picked up anywhere. The ferries, the
railway station, the arteries Of the city
along which vehieular travel flows were
watched with thoroughness-and in
vain: and down at headquarters at the
END of the seventh day after his going,
Rushton, nursing his splintered and
splinted arm, confided to his chief this
opinion:
Hes got of the earth, skipper. He's
tied a ton uh coal to his leg and gone
crab -fishin'. There amt no other way
that he could "a kept himself so plumb
out a sight from the hull bunch of US.
He amt been near them rooms uh his
unless he went right there from Ches-
ter's house when he made the getaway
and that amt likely. He amt been
Not one uh his acQuaintances has put
q lamp on him since that night an so
the long an short of it Is that he took
the long Journey rather than take the
1t in some way that his body amt show
ed up to let US know about II.
So. for three more days. that became
the generally accepted opinion among
the members of the force" until II
was rudely shattered by an experience
He was doing his turn around a block
in the residential section Of the city,
between 2 and o'clock in the morn
ing Of the eleventh day after the bone
breaking episode at Chesters house.
when he found an iron grating under
one of the stoops unlocked and partly
ajar. So he investigated. He found a
servant Of the house engaged in closing
II, and he fingered a moment or two.
or three Of them, to talk with her.
Then as he turned away after she had
gone inside, a man passed swiftly into
sight and halted directly under the
street light that happened to be located
In front Of that house.
The man stopped to look at a paper
he held in one hand. The light shone
plainly enough upon him. Ragowsky
gasped. then dove hand into one OF
his pockets-he was still in the areaway
Of the house-and brought forth his copy
Of the snapshot.
One glance at 1t was sufficient
Ragowsky was 1.-the and quick and
brave, and he made dive for the man
under the light. which would have re-
suited In the capture of any other than
that particular person.
A catlike jump from the top step Of
the area. and a body-hold with both
arms around his prospective captive by