Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1922-03-01

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'hiess1 leeiates. II 81 Is just going across
Get / to get a:bite of lunch. !"
hour later the oficials of the
Began to wonder where Goudie
hut the fact that his hat still
r1malned upon it's accustomed peg In
.dtfated that the cashier wasn't far
a9aI, and that he would soon return.
thu closing hour that after
& op Goudia was still misslng
.Shd a4nzanditor went over his books
TWAS discovered that hundred and
.seyentyLfive thousand pounds (some
500, O00) had also disappeared /
aSInquiry lat the house where Goudie
lodged failed to bring to light any
tf4ues of the missing cashier, who had
5llft home that morning as usual, ap-i
pa1l@ntly. without any intention OF being
a@ay over night, His clothes were in
their accustomed position, and even
his toilet articles were untouched.
Intact, IL it. hadn't been for the dis
appearance Of, the money from the
b4nl the police would have searched
the hospitals, on the theory that
Gqgdie had met with an accident.
Bit, as Frank Freost, superintend-
ent, Of Scotland Yard, pointed out, It.
M hardly likely that bank official
,aRd $3.50 600 would vanish at one and
..tn same. time without some connec-
Hon between the two events. Il:
stt.As luck would have it," continued
Eroest, one Of the ablest detectives.in,
England, "Goudie has chosen the sim
pleat1manner in which to make his es-,
cape the easiest from his point Of
I yiers and the most difficult from the
standpoint of the police. It Is, com
spafatively simple to find a man who:
LAYS hin plans in advance. You can
pSnRlly trace his baggage or his rail-
WY tickets. But Goudie just walked
soe lunch and lost himself some
who're. Ne left only one clue behind
*llln7 his Hat. :"
Therefore, working on the assunp-
tion that a. hatless man. would be
quite conspicuous, and that Goudie,
knowing this, would Immediately .pur-
chase: another hat, Freost. made the
rounds ri, the shops: near the Liver
mol bank From the clerk in: one of
them he obtained the information that
a,man answering to the description Of
sh{e missing cashier had purchased
cloth scapsof q distinctive pattern only
a5few moments, after noon on the day
that Goudie vanished.
BY means Of this clue and detailed
report on Goudie's appearance. Freost
soon had every man connected with
Scotland Yard searching for the alb
skonding cashier. But 1t was several
weeks before he was located and cap
tured In s. lodging house in the north
Or England. :...
However, the arrest Of the man
who looted the Bank Of Liverpool did
not BY any means close the case:
y: 7 Even before he was discovered,
I Freost had found. out that Goudie had
been In the habit Of playing the races
:-patronzing a clique Of Handbook
men, who had played upon his Gu
pidity in such manner that they; and
not he, had secured the benefits of his
dishonesty. In order to recover the
money, ,Ereost therefore had to round
up the members Of: this gambling ring
and force them to zdisgorge. s.,a
II, developed that the leader Of the
organization, sensing a way in which
to make 4 lot Of money, without run
ming any risk, had approached Goudie
with an account Of a fixed race"
which waste be run at Epson Downs,
and that the cashier, believing that
he could clean up fortune In a sim
! gle day, had taken twenty-five thousand
pounds from the bank, classifying the
accounts TO conceal the shortage. The
mans .credulity is evident from the
fact that he placed: the money at odds
of:: 30 TO (which meant that he. stood
,tpsHtn half "a million pounds: or So.
900, 600 tf his horse came in first. y OF
! course, no book ker could afford to
" nav bat Of this size but Goudie
aYerlookad this: fact and ,cheerfully
.Hagered his borrowed" capital. The
horse naturally failed ito win, and, in
,anse nort to ,recoup his losses, theScash
.isr scommenc Systematically to loot
,the5bank'ss. funds. 1
Opa Qf che odd features Of the case
which Freost discovered, by. blind luck
Gsudie one day placed big bet on .
hofse that won: When he went t
fctsoli ect yhis. bet; Wit the firm Sintentior
a. isquaring his accounts with thu
aE,slnk; he was casually informed tina
tho "a 81 had anot5 been placed 81
md ne was advised to put 1t OF
a1othsf s.ssare tip, = which lost. Whel
lis defalcat lions reac hed q point whel
IL was. opeiess g, attempt further con
lusnf from the bank authorities
sepld vent ont TO- lunch
didn't take Freoat long to DE
& IN l. aInalntinng q roundup .
the gamblink gang he was tacklin
one ofs tn most i1lcult Jobs of hi
.5
ons ny one E.reost picked up Til
yafipus threads .of the tangled case
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