The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-08-06
A SNIFF OF
CHLOROFORM
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Copyright INA IL, Associated Iii
sfarN lress


inhabitants II made loans to hun
Greds of farmers. and il did business
With many shipbuilderS aud ShiJnwu
ers along the New England coast
Many and many a time. as assistant
cashier. ! have seen S1.UOO,UU stack
ed in our vault and have tossed PACK
ages Of S5O.0'W about as II they 'nnd
no more value than so much Old paper
say we did n large business. bui yet
our building was humble one and
our methods Ms primitive as might u"
found in country store We ha0
brick vault with iron doors Uui
the LATEST sort of cracksman wOllid
have dug his way into II in an houi
with crOwhr. Outside OF the vauli
was an old fashioned bolt headed safe
which locked with key only II had
strong massive look. but the IorL
could have been picked in a quarter
of an hour. and two ounces OF powder
poured into the keyhOle and eXplUlpb
would have torn the door off II will
surprise you when | say that sums oi
left in that old safe over night NJ,
uncle. James Gordon Kincardine
who died few wears ago, was {"
blame for our way OF doing business
He was set man He hated innora
tons
place was given me as nssiStnn'
cashier | had been IN the hank ~
most two years when the rooms over
head were vacated and rented to II
travelling dortor for month
ON the l2th NJ certain o"t"h"r
when hp had been our tenant for tw"
mouths NJ came into the tank ~ tn,'
noon hour n time wnS always ar"'r.
tO get change for n hill fhprrnftpi
unti the climax came. he drttplpd III
almost every noon He never HttrnIut
I'd to come behind the counter though
the door SOMETIMES stood open nut
on several occasions ! went out to MN
His calls after hr first three wppk,
We're for the purpose of nanlpulHtng
swelling on my jaw. and | always
passed outside the counter and sal
down On chair On the Sth uf No
vember. which was cold ana diSmai
we had in the kincardine bank exact
~ S32S.25O in currency On the next
day there WAS to be n big withdriI WI
10 pay the hands at mill ana ~urlIr
SJ0.OOO WIS 10 20 TO certain Boston
banks by express. | hadn't been itt'
alone for over five minutes when Dr
Jordan came IN to attend me. A. ~.
worked at my jaw he gradually turu"i
my head to the left. So that | no lun2-'
saw him or tnr door He asked mt to
repeat a story I mad told him tpv
days ago. ana I was doing So wh"u
the ioni opened did not stop u>
talk ana | count not turn my n..iId
The man who ralup in did NOT speak
but he must have PASSED the doctU' n
sponge saturated with ChlOrOtorm
got the Wlur ut the stuff at once auu
was wondering what II was when NV
neck was grppe,i by the doctor ."tt
hand. ana with tht right hr tnruSr
the sponge INTO my face. think I
tried to rise mp and fight the >I,"llc-
distinctly remember. however ot near
ing the doctor say:
NOW. then iOck the doors and IN
soon nave the money in the bags"
II WAS an hour later when hpa rd
PARKWAY voices and after u Strnegn
opened my eyes and found the hink
full of people Up to that niue no one.
h.,h
with me rhe> had found ne l>iu. IN
the floor and SUPPOSED | was ~ n nj.
though all detected the pr..>..rr- nt
chlorofOrm My first words were to
ask them to look for the money or
the S32S,2 25O not n shilling rrmnin.d
Safe and vault had been plundrr,4 to
the last penny When nstunlSlIu-nt
passed away | wis charged with nav
ing robbed the bank IL was not y
fair thing for an uncle to do but James
Gordon Kincardlne. To his everlasting
shame wis for having me IU,'kt4i al,
at once
Ii WAS long hour before We got the
tangle Straiahtened out and that h"Ir
lost my uncle every dollar h- hau ~
of m hour and ii hnIt and the nuJy
cute thing they did was to make n halt
circle around the town and mlsiAnd
pursuit fOl q day
My uncle mad detectives almost nv
the dozen. and the ma iority of them
tried much harder 10 convict NE than
to overhaul The robbers was Iu-S
toned and rroSS questioned until h0r,4I
10 death. and for change they wnlld
threaten me-, Some thought had lnIr
led the money somewhere. as II one
could 90 al high noon and do such n
job. and the Slputh OF all SleuthS was
sure thai had stood in with the twn
men and was To get nv share of III,
proceeds
For wears and years ! WAS Susp-r'
ed person. and few men dared TO own
my friendship Even when men ~"
longer dared suspect they talked ~ ne
In connection with the robber, and ~
serted thnt was next door 10 f,u,