The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-19

There are evidently only two of them in it. The other is personating you at the office. This one acted as your engager, and then found that he could not find you an employer with out admitting a third person into his plot. That he was most unwilling to do. He changed his appearance as far as he could, and trusted that the likeness, which you could not fail to observe, would be put down to- a happy chance of the gold stuff1ng, your suspicious would probably never have been aroused"
 Hall Pycroft shook his clinched hands in the air. Good Lord!" he cried, while I have been fooled in Pycroft been doing at Mawson's? What should we do, MT. Holmes? Tell me what to do."
 .@We must wire to Mawson's."
 "They shut at twelve on Saturday,"
 "Never mind. There may be some doorkeeper or attendant
 "Ah, yes, they keep permanent guard there on account of the value of the securities that they hold. re- member hearing it talked of in the city"
 "very good; we shall wire to him, and see if all is well, and if clerk of your name is working there. That is clear enough; but what is not so clear is why at sight of us enc of the rogues should instantly walk out of the room and hang himself.''
 '"The paper!" croaked a voice be- hind US. The man was sitting up, blanched and ghastly, with returning reason in his eyes, and hands which rubbed nervously at the broad red band which still encircled his throat
 '.Fhe paper! of courseE. yelled 'Idiot that I was I thought so much of our visit that the paper never en- tered my head for an instant. To be sure, the secret must lie there." He f1attened it out upon the table, and a cry of triumph burst from his lips Look at this, Watson,' he cried. It is a London paper. an early edition of the Evening Standard Here is what we want. Look at the head lines: Crime in the City. Murder at Nav son & Williams. Gigantic Attempted Robbery. Capture of the Crininal' Here, Watson. we are equally anxious to hear it, so kindly read it aloud to us.''
 It appeared from it's position in the paper to have been the one event Of importance in town, and the account of it ran in this way:
 "A desperate attempt at robbery, eliminating in the death of one man cured this afternoon in the City. For some time back Mawson & Williams, the famous financial house, have been the guardians of securities which amount in the aggregate to a sum or considerably over a million sterling. So conscious was the manager of the resDonsibiIity which devolVed upon him in consequence Of the great ln- terests at stake that safes of the very latest construction have been em- p1oved and an armed watchman has been left day and night in the bu1ld- inc It appears that last week a new clerk named Hall Pycroft was engaged by the firm This hone other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, has only recently emerged from five years spell of penal servitude- By some means. which are not yet clear, he succeeded in winning. under a false name this official position in the of fee. which he utilized in order to ob- tain mouldings of various locks, ana a thorough knowledge of the posi- tion of inc strong-room and the safes.
 ssIt is customary at Mawson's for the clerks to leave at midday on Sat urday. Sergeant Tuson, of the Clty police. was somewhat surprised, therefore. to see a gentleman with carpet-bag come down the steps at twenty minutes past one. His sus- pfcions being aroused. the sergeant followed the man. ana with the alo of ContSable Pollock Succeeoeo aIter a most desperate resistance. in ar rastinp him It was at once clear that a daring and gigantic robbery had been committed. Nearly a hundred thousand pounds worth of American railway bonds with a large amount or scrin in mines and other companies, was discovered in the bag. On ex- amining the premises the body of thS unfortunate watchman was found doubled up and thrust into the largest ! if would not have baen discovered until Monday morn ing @ had it not been for the prompt acfion of sergeant Tuson- The mans skull had been shattered by blow from a poker delivered from behind. Tharo conId be no doubt that Beo- dington had obtained entrance by pre- tending that he had left something
 behind him, and having murdered | the watchman rapidly rif1ed the large
 safe, and then maoe OH "ilh nis