Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-05

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ION the contrary, I've just re-
turned" l told him. sit was too late
in the season to do any good, and l
made q mistake in changing my
river. The whole thing was a FROST"
Huntington sighed.
well, I'm glad to see you back.
he declared, sinking into my easy
chair. "All the same. London in
August isn't exactly a paradise!"
Tell me about Leeds" I suggest
ed. "To judge from the newspapers
you seem to be having a lot of
trouble about a very simple case"
Huntington frowned. He was
silent for several moments, and
| glancing across at him, I noticed
that he was pale and apparently out
Of sorts.
"I think I'm stale, Greyes." he
confessed. 1.-THE Chief pretty well
limited thel same thing, and worse,
when 1 got back last night I really
dropped round to see whether you
could help me-"
IF l can, L will with pleasure" l
promised him. you know that
"You read the bare account Of the
affair, of course" Huntington went
on. 1.-TWO fairly credible witnesses
deposed to seeing a man in a gray
flannel suit, with a Panama hat
pushed over his eyes, drive up in a
Ford car, leave 1t outside Bailey's
grocery stores, walk down the street
and turn into the Boulevard where
thu bank Is situated, exactly at the
time that the robbery took place.
Three women and two children saw
him pas up the street W. minutes
| IoAon o.l tItrf., eAnnnd9 nftar that
he crossed the street and entered
Bailey's grocery stores. The clerk
who served him with some MARINA
lade, tea and bacon, saw him climb
up into the Ford and drive away.
The man was known at the shop as
Ralph Robertson. There is no
doubt that 1t was his car.
Half an hour after the robbery
Robertson was arrested at his house
he was cleaning the car at the
time-and although he had changed
his clothes, the light gray suit which
he had recently worn was discovered
in his bedroom, and the Panama hat,
warm with p~erspiration, in a cup
board. His excuse for changing his
clothes was that he put on older
things in which to clean the car,
and his account of his morning was
that he had driven straight up to
Bailey's stores for some groceries
and straight back again. Two wit
nesses are ready to swear hat they
saw him get out of the Ford n go
toward the bank: the grocer's clerk.
who served him, is absolutely certain
that he was In the shop within thirty
seconds OF the f'ord's pulling up out
side, and that when he left he drove
straight away"
What sort Of mar Is this Rober.
son >" ! asked.
"A man of bad character" was the
prompt reply. He was nee a book
maker. but failed. He has been in
prison for obtaining gopds by false
] pretenses. and there are half a dozen
summonses for debt out against him
at the present moment. The only
little money he earns, nowadays,
seems to be by acting as a book
makers tout. He knew the neigh
borhood well, and has once been
heard to remark upon the Isolated
position of the bank. In every re-
spect he is just the man to have done
It, and yet there are all my witnesses
E. swearing to different things. Fur
thermore, he had scarcely a shilling
in his pocket, and he confessed that
he was going to try and sell the car
that afternoon to raise a little
money"
1T seems to me-" I admitted,
that you have been a little prema-
ture in framing your case against
MIR. Ralph Robertson"
$50 the magistrates thought"
Huntington rejoined dryly. I'VE
managed to get two remands. This
morning he was discharged"
"If the grocer's assistant is telling
the truth" I remarked thoughtfully,
Robertson could not possibly have
committed the robbery. What sort
Of young mar Is the assistant"
Highly respectable and very in
telligent," Huntington replied. at
would be quite impossible at n