The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-05
The Leeds Bank
Robbery
BY E. PHILLIPS oPPENHEIM
Copyright. 1899. by z. Phillips oppcnhoim
ArrEt N.E.A. Service, Inc


ton. There Was just bare white
housc. a lodge. the gate OF which
vas held open 81 great raw boned
gillio. miles Of what seemed 10 be
intormlnabls moorltnd. and below.
the SEA looked around with salts
faction
You're Sandy ManLRne, tho care
,aker hsro7'' 1 aAked. leaning out Of
the car.
lie made n nolao which sounded
like. 200 ayl"
Which way might tho golf links
be T. ] inquired
Ho pointed with long and hairy
forcfingcr.
Tho clubhouse Ia yondor,- be
youchssied bit somborly. "A step
across the road Ia tho fifteenth too
sighed with content
Come up TO the house" ] ordered
After toa l shall play few holca.'
SIR NORMAN CONTINUES
My friend Huntington called to
see me ON tho night OF my return
I from Norway. lie looked AROUND
with an air OF diSmay At my various
travelling paraph0rnE1ia
so you're really off. thon7" he re
marked
"On tho contrary. Two Just re
turned ! told him. 1T was too lat'
( Ia the season 10 do any good. and
made mistake in changing ml
river. The whole thing was a FROST
Huntington sighed
well. I'm glad TO SEQ you back.
he declared. sinking into my easy
chair. AN tho EsInA London IL
August isn't exactly a paradisel"
Tell me about Leeds" | suggested
ITO Judge from the newspapers, yol
seem TO be saving n lot OF troubli
about very simple case"
Huntington frowned He wa
silent for several moments. am
sislncing across at him. ! noticed tina
he was pale and apparently out o
sorts
Il think I'm stale. Greyes,- h
confessed. Tho Chief pretty wei
limited tho Same thing. and worse
when / got back last night, reall
dropped round to see whether yol
could help me-"
III / can. | viii with pleasure"
promised him. You know that"
you read tho bare account OF IN
- nnnrsn .aar
on. Two fairly credible witnesse
deposcd to seeing a man in era
flannel suit, with a Panama Ia
pushed over his eyes, drive up In
; Ford car, leave IL outside Bailey
> grocery stores, walk down tho stree
and turn into the Boulevard wher
: the bank In situated. exactly at III
? time that tho robbery took plac
Three women and two children ga
; him pass up the street two minute
4 later, and 30 seconds after that, /
I crossed the street and entcrC
Bailey'H grocery stores The cler
: who served him with some mnrmt
lnde. ten and bacon, saw him elm
up into tho Ford and drive ava
The man was known at the shop I
3 Ralph Robertson. There Ia no dou'
= that II was his car.
Half an hour after the robbor
u Robertson was arrested Mt his house
y he was cleaning the car ut the time
! and nltho he had changed his olothe
u the light gray suit which he had r.
h Gently worn was discovered In h
bedroom. md tho Panama hat, war
: with perspiratlon, in cupboard. II
d excuse for changing his clothes WI
o that he put on older things In whiC
o TO clean the car, and his account
his morning wns that he had driv,
l. straight up 20 BnIley's stores 4
!, some groceries and straight bot
d again Two witnesses nro ready
q swear that they saw him got out
Il the Ford and 70 toward the banl
/ the Rrocer's clerk who served hll
d IA absolutely certain that ho was
It tho shop within 30 seconds OF q
n Tord's pulling UP outside, and III
i when he left he drove straight nwnl
n what sort Of man IN this Rohc
+ SOM" I asked
Z, ~ man Of bad character" was 4
10 prompt reply. 'TIe was once n boo
n moltcr, but failed Tic Inns been
d prison for obtaining goods by fal
= prctcnscs, and there arc half doz'
Y summonsos for debt out against hi