Evening star., 1924-12-24
Continued from Yesterdays star.)

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The robbed. banks ight roughly be
put in groups of two; the National
Bank Of Kentucky and the Fidelity
and Columbia Trust inN Main street,
and the Citizens onion National and
the Louisville Trust in Fifth street.
It might have been possibleNfor the
raiders to have effected their anes
thetizing with two bombs SUCH as !
had imagined had been dropped in
New York. but though ISlooked for
the snears of glass as best / could In
the dense crowd, l was disappointed.
A feature of this raid was that the
post Office had been affected by the
anesthetic, doubtless because it stood
across the wsy in Fourth street from
a large grocery establishment from
which quantity of comestibles had
been distracted. In this food store,
Messrs> Shapp & Zortse money had
been left 10 pay for the goods as in
the case of Schomberg's in Newark.
When We arrived the news had
just come through that. a gasoline
container down the Ohio to. the west
was showing a deficiency Of 1900
litres of aviation spirit. The Sc
quence of coincidence was complete.
Can You give me any information
about the, street cars that We're rum
ming at the time of. the. raid?" l
There are not many ears run on
Sunday evening. but the few that
were out were opped-uotably one
down Fourth street to the levee,' he
replied. The driver in falling took
his hand off the safety lever. which,
of course automatically brought the
car to a standSttt.
What about any au tomobiles"
"We can only find, three that were
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seem TO have been. stopped in some
way quite unfathomahle." q. .-e +. :.
What sort Of patrols had you up
at the time, commander?''.': -. ::
"Only, one scout, who had been out
toward the Cumberlands, yon patrol
during the time of the raid. He. came
back in the ordinary way at half
past l.. having seen nothing to report.
in fact, he was filing in his sheet
when the news came of the robberies.
l Immediately called out the other
scouts. and three of them went up, ]
then radioed the news to all sta
tions-a general call-but so far
there is no trace Of the raiders"
Gould YOU find me some one who
was doped?" / asked him.
II think I could put my hand on
land cop" he said.
We went TO the police station and
found d man who had been on duty
In the affected area during the night.
His story was exactly similar to that
OF my New York friend, McGrath--no
noise to startle, nor any smell-there
might have been a faint luminosity.
he couldn't say
Had YOU any gold about you while
you were on duty?" I asked him.
Il have an old gold dollar I keep
in my ticket pocket for luck,P he
said. why, sir?"
Would you mind letting me see
it?' ,~
He went over to the side of the cot
on which he had been lying when we
entered the station dormitory and
took the dollar out of the little pock-
ct in front of his tunic.
We'll, I'm burned" he exclaimed.
THE things gone rusty
II expected it would be- said I.
Thanks very much.
Ny commander friend was rather
astonished at what he thought was
acumen on my part. and as we went
down to the levee. ] told him a'few
facts about the New York raid.
'This is a big thing, Mr.. Boon" he
remarked as we stepped out on the
levee. ITS national affair."
| answered without much thought.
Il shouldn't be surprised If it be-
came an international affair"
"International-hey He broke off
as he saw the Merlin. Say, Mr..
Boon, is that your plane"
That's her. My latest model, the
Merlin" said I, with some pride.
She's the prettiest thing-and
looks fast"
"She is fast. Fast as lightning"
And 1 told him about her.
We'll, Mr.. Boon" he said. Hurry
up and sell a copy or two to the Fair
police If all you think about these
pirates is true, we can do with a few
like her"
After . close inspection OF the
plane, we said goodbye, and Milli-
ken and / took off up the river, head
ing for Pittsburgh. We wanted to
see about our new engines.
1t was l o'clock when we left
Louisville and we made the suburb