Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-12

| SING CONVICT
Five Thousand Dollars Reward
will Be Paid For Information Lead
ing to the Arrest and Conviction Of
THE HAWK, Alias HARRY MAUI.
Here followed a description tallying
with the, one given by MacVightes to
Lanson, the division Superintendent,
and which Lanson had calistically re-
marked would not fit more, than
| Twenty-Five thousand men in SeIl<irk
City: followed after that a resume of
the crimes recently committed on the
railroad. amongst them the theft of
the diamond necklace and the rob-
berry of the paymaster safe: and. at
the end, in gold faced type again:
$4,000 REWARD
Two Thousand Dollars Reward Will
Also Be Paid For Information Lead
ing to the Arrest and Conviction Of
Each and Every One of THE
HAWKS Confederates.
The Hawk smiled broadly, as he
held the fame of a match to his pipe
bowl. The last paragraph was ex-
quisitely ironical. Those whom Mac
Vightie SO blithely called the Hawks
confederates' were wing with each
other at that exact moment, and for
! the exact amount of two thousand
dollars offered by the Master Spider
of the gang, for the privilege of put
ting an even more conclusive end
| in the shape of knife thrust. a bull
| let, or ckiack-to the Hawk!
| And" said the Hawk softly, as he
turned the circular over, II guess
they'd make it a whole lot more If
they knew that I had--this."
The back of the circular was Gov
cred with line after line of what.
seemingly, was but a meaningless
| tumble of scribbled letters-nor, In
this case. were the letters any toe
we'll formed. The Hawk had labored
under difficulties when the telegraph
sounder had broke unexpectedly
with the message. He had been list
ening when within sound Of a tele-
graph instrument-but he had never
known a message from the Wire Dew
! lis to come thru iat so early an hour
I
en- MacVightie's man off the trail and
had gone down to the depot, intend
| ing to go up the line to the first
small station, where, with little
| chance of being discovered, he could
spend the night within earshot of the
operators instrument--in the hope
| that his vigil would not, as it some
| times did, prove futile. He had been
standing under the dispatchers open
| window waiting for train, when
the police circular tackled on the sta
ton wall had caught his eye. The
large type was readily decipherable.
but the platform lights were poor,
and he had stepped closer to read the
remainder and instead, CHANGING
quickly about him to see that he was
not observed, he had snatched the
circular from the wall, and. whipping
a pencil from his pocket. had scrawl-
ed on the reverse side, as best he
could, the message that was rafting
in over the dispatcher's sounder from
the room above. He had taken
chances-but he had played in luck
No one had noticed him, and--well
he was here now with the message:
and, since 1t must sooner or later
have been put to the proof In any
case, he was back here, too. to find
that he was quit Of MacVightie.
4 Yes" confided the Hawk to him
self, as he reached for a blank sheet
of paper in the drawer Of the table
II guess played in luck-both ways
Wonder II there's another ripe little
melon here going to be showed my
way on gold platter by the Butche,
and his crowd?"
i The Hawk studied the cipher for a
moment.
4 Idrtvy key letter
stroke at six two three one, ;
he murmured.
4 He drew the fresh sheet Of paper
toward him, and began to work bus
lily. Occasionally he paused, staring
obviously at a letter-he had taker
the message under far from idea
conditions, and a mistake here an6
there, If not fatal, was annoying an6
confusing. Finally. however, the
Hawk leaned back In his chair, anc
whistled low under his breath. The
message. deciphered and arranged
into words and sentences, ran:
Final orders. Number One, Three
and Six hold up Fast Mail three
miles east of Burke's Siding tonight
Cut wires on approach. Express cal
next to engine. Uncouple and pro.
coed. Diamond shipment in safe
Messenger drugged. No interference
with remainder of train. Deliver safe
five mile crossing to Number -Four
/. and Seven. Number One, Three, anc
Six take engine and car further
along the line. Return separately. t.
Selkirk."
Again the Hawk whistled low un.
der his breath-and for the SECOND
time reached into his inside yes
pocket. He took out letter tina
was addressed, care of general de.
livery, to Mr.. j. P. Carrister. TIL,
Hawk puffed pleasantly at his pip.
as he read it:
} Dear Friend: The folks are al
we'll. and hope you are the same.
haven't had time to write mucl
lately. like my new job fine Say
I felt like Fifth Avenue dock fol
J about umpty seconds today. One O
the fellows in the office let ME hole
a package of diamonds III my hafniee
just to see what it felt nike. Gee
Say. you could almost shove Tit ,etr
your vest pocket, and it waaiss invofcee
thru customs at twenty fthdusaric
plunks. They were unset stones, afit
, came in from Amsterdam. aslt mad,
} me feel queer. wouldn't like to b,
the fellow that has to keep his ey,
on 1t any of the way from here t.
} San Francisco, where it's going to,
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