The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-06
Murdoch s. Bauer, Proprietors

of holes in the floor. He then knocks
the wood out of the inside of the cir
Gle with another we'll placed bullet
and it leaves a round jagged hole OPP
ening into the o above, from
where they fell into the trap. Thru
this hole Sharpe is able to see the
ropes holding up the portion of the
floor that makes the trap. He shoots
and cuts one Of the ropes that holds
up a section of the floor. The floor
drops and Sharpe by throwing a knife
thru the hole reaches the room above
and rescues the others.
In the meantime Anne is conveles-
cling in the hospital where she was
taken following the attempt Of Pots
dam to kill her with blister gas. She
is kept under police surveillance how
ever. This annoys her and she feels
that she will have to divulge her iden-
tity and have Sharpe know who she
is long before she is ready. She tries
all sorts of ruses to get rid of the
police and make an escape but fails.
At periods when the policeman walks
out into the hospital corridor to smoke
Anne works On a simple looking gar
ment, resembling a stocking cap. The
nurse who is attending her is unsus-
pecting and says nothing about it.
At another of his many and secret
nests, but this time sure that he has
done away with Sharpe and will suf-
fer no further annoyance, Iron Hand
and his gangsters plan to rob a big
fur concern of a valuable shipment Of
Russian sables. The storehouse where
the furs are stored. is we'll guarded
and the venture therefore needs some
detailed planning. They rent a room
next door to the warehouse. pretend
ing to store some valuable electrical
equipment in the room they bring
in four barrels. Each of these barrels
contains one Of the gangsters. Pots
dam goes into the fur store and by
misrepresenting himself gets an audi
ence with the manager. Pretending to
inspect the sables as a possible buyer,
Potsdam notes the layout Of the room
where the cabinet containing the furs
stands and other details.
While this has been going on Iron
Hand has secured more barrels and
with ten Of the gangsters enclosed in
them he orders them shipped into the
warehouse containing the furs. The
barrels are carried in and placed on
the floor near the cabinet that con-
tains the furs. Potsdam notes this
and manages to get away from the
eyes of the manager long enough to
sketch a map of the room and the To-
cation of the furs on a piece of note
paper.
This accomplished he pretends non
chalence and slides up to one of the
barrels and when no is looking he
slips the paper in through a bunghole
to one of the outlaws. From out of
this bunghole the eye of. the gangster
peers and studies the room. When he
sees that there is no one in the store
room he lifts up the head of the bar
rel and after signalling to the others
they all leave their barrels and look
at the paper on which Potsdam had
drawn the location of the furs. With
tools they carried with them they cut
a square hole in the wall into the
room of the house next door that they
temporarily rented. Thru this hole
they pas the furs, crate them up and
make their escape.
The fur dealer repored the robbery.
Sharpe hears of it and investigates
He traces the travels of the stolen
goods to another warehouse. He lies
in wait there and when a gangster
calls for them to take them away he
has them delivered to the police head