The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-03-11
\ CLEVER
RUSE
By JOHN TURNLEE

SlobSAooms giving LIZ AhuAS, AuSoA
Rawlins. He was followed by a man
who vas given a room near him and
whose name was entered as Thomas
Brown In the evening as Mr.. Raw
Inns was coming out of his room he
was met by Mr.. Brown. who said:
BEG pardon. sirl Have you a bunch
Of keys2
IT have"
81 have left the key of my suit case
at home. Would you kindly let me
have your ring that l may see il there
is one OF it that win ft my lock?"
MI. Rawlins produced his keys and
handed them to Brown. who went into
his stateroom. He remained there sew
eral minutes. then returned and thank
ed the man who had favored him, re-
GREETING that he had not found a key
that would serve his purpose. but he
was just as much obliged.
Mr.. Rawlins forgot this seemingly
unimportant episode. making a journey
to Chicago and returning within a
week. The day after his arrival at
home he went to his private safe.
opened 1t. put away some papers that
he had taken with him on his journey
and was about to close II when he no
ticed that a ORA wer in which his wife
kept some valuable jewels "a partly
open. He pushed 1t back in place.
then. he knew not why. pulled it out
far enough to enable him to look
within.
It was empty!
He examined every other drawer in
the safe to see if the jewels had been
placed elsewhere, Their called his wife
and asked her II she had removed
them. She said she had not. a thor
ough search of the safe was made. but
the jewels were not found. There
had been no breaking into the house.
so far as was known, and if there had
been the safe could not have been
opened and locked again without the
key, which Mr.. Rawlins always kept
in his possession, and there was no
duplicate.
The loss of the jewels was a mys
terry. If the lock had been picked it
must have been done by some one
who lived in the house. Yet there was
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skill requisite to pick a lock and no
one suspected of having the slightest
desire to perpetrate a theft. The in
mates consisted of Mr.. and Mrs Raw
Inns, a son twenty-one years old. steady
as a clock; a daughter eighteen and
the servants, who had been with the
family many years. Both the son and
the daughter had their friends who
with other guests. had been where the
safe was kept in 81 hallway at the rear
of the house on the second story No
person except a friend Of the family
was known to have been there during
the limit Of time when the jewels
must have been taken.
No hope was entertained Of regain
ing the lost jewels. but it was finally
decided to employ a detective for the
purpose of making an effort to solve
the mystery. Edward Joyce was sent
to the house by the agency applied tt
and. after u thorough examination 0;
every one in the house. set about
looking over the premises. He tested
every lock Of both door and window
and found all in good order, though
no one could vonch for the window OF
the second story Ldving been locked
In the rear Of the house vas a grape
arbor not quite so high as the SECOND
story windows and about ten fee
from the house. Any one, by climb
ing the arbor. could rest a twelve foo
ladder on it and thus reach she win
dow. The detective. by near: OF /:
magnifying glass. discovered foot
marks on the side Stats and n of thu
Stats had been freshly broken The
widow near the arbor opened into thu
hall in which stood the safe.
The detective. after making an ex
animation Of this route to the safe. de
> clared that the house must have beef
entered by it and the robbery commit
ted at the same time. But he was n
! nearer to how the safe could AVE beef
unlocked and relocked than before. I
theory was advanced that the thief hat
gone to Mr.. Rawlins' clothes. stolel
! the safe key and replaced it after com
hitting the theft But Mr.. Rawlins
when at home. slept with his bedroom
door locked and was not at home wheI
: the jewels were taken.
Mr.. Joyce's next step was to cal
for the safe key. On receiving it b
slipped it through his fingers and nj
ticed that it felt as if it had bee
@ waxed. Bringing a powerful poke
microscope to bear on it. he aske
MI. Rawlins If it had been out of hi
:. possession. The reply at first wa
3 mo-" but presently remembering tha
he had loaned his keys for a few mil
utes to a nan on the boat to try
any of the keys would fit his suit cas-
lock Mr.. Rawlins told the story of til
d loan. The detective handed him h.
4 key and said:
"The problem of how your safe W.
opened is very plain AS to your T
covering the jewels. that is anoth'
matter. When the man who borrowe
your keys carried then, into his stat
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