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TRAILS AND TRAPS $2,500,000 SUPER-BANDITi
f1 ' i land was promoted le sergeant. Ilejthe clerks but one te He en the fleer, i "i.1
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Great Skill Demanded
in "Roping" a Criminal
flaying a Lene Hand and in Momen
tary Danger of Death, Gorden Mc
Carthy Wins Confidence of Robbers,
Selving Thefts That Baffled Experts
POSING AS 'JIMMY, ' A YEGG,
HE WORMS SECRETS FROM
BROADWAY HOLD-UP GANG
learns of $500,000 Loet Buried en Leng
Islatid, Offers te Sell Stelen Securities,
Then Notifies Police and 'Gentlemen
Bandits ' Are Caught at Rendezvous
LL the elements of melodrama, except the wholesale shedding of bleed,
en. compressed in the recent experiences of a young overseas veteran
who became a detective celebrity overnight.
He solved robberies totaling ?2,500,000, included in which was the
Jtiking of $1,500,000 in ensh, jewelry and bends from a mail truck en
Broadway, New xerK, a aaring coup mm si a mgu-Huwr mur iur
automobile banditry in this country.
Flaying a lone nana anu in momentary uanger ei a uuuul m me uruin
ir. : l.A V.n1r Vie nncerl no n "vetrc" -frntn thn Went, nnil trairtpA
frannue m i"c ! .... rv- e -- - "
Itlie confidence 01 tnree men wnem u! puucu ums us euiJi;i-iiiBiiv.iui:ii.
It was a case of "crossed trails." This keen, cool man-hunter was
tracking down the men who stele $70,000 from an American Railway
Express Company trucK when tnc trail ureaaenea te eigger game,
Gorden T. McCarthy, a special
igent of the American Railway Ex
press Company, is the young de
tective who proves that the thrills
of fiction are net foreign te everyday
life.
At his home in Buffalo this med
ern Lcceq modestly related his great
Exploit. He did net talk freely.
His attitude was that of a man wne
had tackled a hard job, who had
done it well, and was ready for the
next case.
McCarthy get his first taste of
detective work as an army secret
agent, serving at General Pershing's
headquarters, and later going te
Londen. He worked for a time with
.onden's famous Scotland Yard.
Te give background te McCarthy's
enlevement it is necessary te go
back te the night of October 24,
last year, when a mail truck rolled
along Broadway with $50,000 in
Kash and several million dollars',
forth of securities.
As the truck passed under an arc
light at Leenard street a green tour
ing car containing three men drove
lengside it. Twe of the men leaped
out and covered the mail driver with
evelvers. In less than a minute
Ihcy had taken five pouches of reg
Satered mail from the truck, tossed
hem into their automobile and sped
away.
The robbers paid no attention te
the ordinary mail and did net take
ether registered peuche3, which later
were found te contain non-negotiable
lecurities. But by chance or fore
knowledge, they toel: the sacks with
the cash, the jewelry and the bends
which could be turned into currency.
"CHADOWING," as detectives
(em the stalking of crim
inals and suspects, is compara
tively easy compared te "roping"
which demands a high degree of
skill in impersonation.
By "roping" detectives mean
the process of ingratiating them
selves with the men they are
hunting and then, as supposed
confederates, draw out the secrets
of some case, big or little.
It was by a remarkably clever
bit of "roping" that Gorden T.
McCarthy, a special agent for the
American Railway Express Com
pany, solved the mail truck hold
up en Breadtvay, Neiv Yerk, one
of the most daring and sensa
tional robberies ever accomplished
in the United States.
gang nml trailed some of tlicm through
beverul States."
Obtains a "Lucky Break";
Meets Dryce, "The Count"
McCarthy Ignored a question meant
le bring out detnlls of that quest. It
was left te the Imagination te picture
his cuieful stalking of criminals In the
vice districts and the "White Light"
belts of vnileus cities.
But the "uhadewlng" did net yield
a hint regarding the express company
robbery. As the trail swung In a circle,
McCarthy was once mere In New Yerk,
battled for the moment but Btlll plug
ging away.
Then came what McCurthy modestly
describes as a "lucky break." In the
underworld the young special agent be
came kuewu as ".Jimmy," a yegg or
Mife-ciueker who wus icady for any
ilctfpviatu job ptbat premised rich loot.
"I get an Introduction te 'Count'
Chapman," continued McCarthy.
That was the "lucky break" be men
tioned. He was referring te Gerald
Chapman, alias Colwell, alias Edward
Scores of Detectives
Fail te Get Results
This Broadway held-UD. the first
rebbeiy of a mail truck in New Yerk
f0r manV VOnrS. hrnilcrVlt cVinnla nf
police and posteflice inspectors en
tha ..-.!! n. . . .
" n.ui. i.ui ciues were scant ancl.Bijce, alias "The Count."
there were no results. i-i r- .!.... ...i
The incident that hrauirht. Mi-. Charles Lambcit. the three men trnined
Caithy into the ense ncrurrnrl in , b. McCai thy. an new in the Tombs In
Niagara Falls en December 21. when New Yeik under S12."i,l00 ball each for
meter bandits held up three express the Federal (irand Jury.
Company empleyes and e.scnnnd with "1 mien 1 looked eoeel In Clinnninn."
170,000 in .securities nnd ti-nvnWs.' .McCarthy went mi. "Soen uftcrwnrd
checta.
I was intinducrd te Andersen, known
and Lambert, kuenn
i as
I as
The I'rofetsei'
I'lin Docter.'
I "They were wary of me for several
idnjs. The underworld has Its tests.
"1 Was detailed in (lint !,1. " v.
Plained McCarthy as he sat en the
veranda of his home in nnffnin
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threimi, rru "'" I niul 1 vns tested for hcicrnl ilnyH be
-e-i uv; tuiiiijiiiiv fniiiinvns
re questioned. Descriptions were
Warned of the cmnWs
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the ueil. One
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ncc.l . Kew nothing of the gnng
pu,lll! the 'paper' out.
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fore I gained the confidence of the three
men."
McCarthy did net nuy se, but he thus
begun what Is known In detective pnr
Inure iu. "inplng." the meH difficult
ta-k of the sc ret agent. The detective,
piclng nt a riimiiial or a friend, must
worm himself Inte the confidence of the
men he stalk".
A false step, n raielcss word, e sus
picious action, would shatter In a mo
ment the confidence built up rnrfiilly
eer a period of many weeks. There Is
alwa.ts the chance that a suspected agent
will be shot or 'tabbed, pa.ilng with hi
life for his during.
Three Men "Big Spenders";
All Had "Plenty of Jack"
"It was nfier 1 had known 'The
fount' and the ethers for a while that
I disroveied thej were the nun who,
looted the mall truck en II roadway last
October," McCarthy wild.
"I had been working en the express
company angle, but this was a new and '
unexpected complication. 1 showed ne'l
astonishment eer the mall robbery. I
took It as a mutter of ceur.se,
"The three men were big spenders.'
Life for them wus mi almost rmitlnunii'i
run n I of wild panics' in hotels, road read
houses nml cabaret", 1 spent money
J he police of Niagara Falls ' freely with them. There were no hiilf-
RjMu' li
"PIC. I.llter Slie UllH ,llw.lm,.,Tn.l
however, ami they took Iier
:"' Idle I kept tabs en several
way measures with that gang.
"Occasionally when they held a part
In some big hotel all of us were evening
upraised, then was ordered te tie the
bands of his comrades.
When this was done the robber made
the clerk He down beside 'the ethers
and bound his hands nnd feet. Then
the bandit took n knife from his pocket
and began slitting the registered mall
snekf, removing what he wanted.
He jumped from the train as It drew
Inte Kansas City, Me.
About a month later Herace T. Wal Wal
eon, n former mail cirri:, was shot nnd
killed by a Chicago policeman after the
robbery of nn Illinois Central train be
tween Kankakee and Chicago. The
body was identified ns that of the "lone
wolf" who robbed the Santa Fc train.
Anether Mail Rebber's
Buried Loet Recovered-
Anether Instance where the proceeds
of a mall robbery were burled by the
thief occurred in April, 1IL'0, when a
net get McCaithy te talk about that mrill messenger In Pan Diege, fnllf..
part of his career. Perhaps he gained was held up nnd robbed of .$(50,000
overseas the knowledge that enabled i worth of registered mail. '
him te establish contact with "the I In forty-eight hours the postal In-
uperteri had arrested It. (5. Onrner,
who less than a month later was sen-
went through the
and was shell-shocked.
The young soldier's record wns nt
geed that be wns recommended for u
commission. Then he was transferred
from the HOOth Infantry le the army's
Bureau of Crlminnl Investigation.
It was in that service that he learned
te meet emergencies. Ills work brought
him Inte many cities nnil towns In
Northern and Southern France, and
carried blm across the Channel te Eng
land. Handled Delicate Cases
With Scotland Yard Men
In Londen he was assigned te several
delicate enses and be get nn "inside
view" of Scotland Yard's methods.
Many n device of the detective's art he
tucked away In bis memory, ready te
bring them forth for use when the need
arose.
But wild horses, apparently, could
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Other Notorious Bandits
Pygmies Besides Mail Gang
'THE old stage coach robbers of
the Western plains and Eng
land's eighteenth century "gentle-
men of the read" shrink te pj0-n
wttcs in achievement compared
with the highwaymen who looted
a mail truck in New Yerk City
last October.
The truck contained registered
parcels mailed by numerous brok
erage houses in Wall Street. The
mail pouches held $50,000 in cash
and $i,000,000 in jewelry, stocks
and bends.
On the, night of October St a
the autetruck moved along Broad Bread
tvay it was halted by three ban
dits in a green teurning car. The
held - up occurred at Leenard
street.
In less than a minute the
bandits hud taken five registered
pouches containing $50,000 in
cash and $1,500,000 in jewelry,
bends and stocks. After the rob
bers dashed away in their car a
curtain of mystery dropped en
the big theft.
But behind the curtain worked
Gorden T. McCarthy, a special
agent of the American Railway
Express Company. McCarthy, a
young former service man, was
working en another case when he
came across the mail truck
looters.
The special agent's account of
his experiences en that case is a
brilliant chapter in the history of
crime detection.
gokden t. McCarthy
Overseas veteran and former United States Army intelligence
agent, who, working en a $70,000 American Express Company
robbery, ran te earth the super-highwaymen who held up a mail
truck en Broadway, N. Y., and whose robberies are said te have
netted them $2,500,000.
' train Ne. 4 left St. Leuis and seen
'afterward halted ut Tower Greve sta sta
itlen. Four masked men bearded the
train there and menared the crew and
I passengers.
I When the
' ngain two of
under way
steed gunrd
dress. They had hundreds of geed
stories en 'tap and seemed typical men
about teiwi with plenty of 'jack' and n
knowledge of the geed tilings of life.
"Ten or twelve persons sometime
made up their parties. The women
seemed unawure of the ether side of
their lives. 'The Count' could order a
meal with the discrimination of a
French dandy."
After his discovery that the three
swaggering hlghwajmen were responsi
ble for the mail truck held-up. .Mc
Carthy get in touch with the New Yerk
detective bureau.
The time wns coming for the "grand
crash," the springing of the trap.
Three detective sergeants, O'Brien,
Stcpat and KIley, were assigned te co
operate secretly with McCarthy.
The young special ngent had dropped
hints te bis three "subjects," as men
under surveillance arc termed, that he
could easily dispose of securities. They
took the bait.
After some parleying, "the Count"
agreed te turn ever $21,000 of the
bends obtained In the mall robbery. He
offered a 20 per cent commission, which
McCarthy tuld he would spilt with a
the sophisticated glance of the head I
waiter, the four were well-to-de brek
ers, or possibly rich clubmen. They
get a private dining room and ordered
i fitst-class meal.
Then the $21,000 In securities were
passed ever te McCarthy. Among them
wcru Packard Moter and Mexican Pe
troleum stork. About $.'1000 worth of
the securities had been stolen at Ni
agara Falls.
This transaction in itself is nn in
teresting sidelight en the confidence
"Jimmy" had created. Men of the
underworld are notoriously nfruld of the
"double cress."
McCarthy's announced purpose was
i mm me securities te Teledo. Thine,
according te the story he told Chapman
they would be plnred with nn estate,
where no rerkening would be made for
ten years at least.
Instead, the secret ngent turned the
securities ever te one of the detec
tive sergeants. The three "drcss-sult
bandits" were shadowed constantly. A
.x. imsseu, and the rendy funds of
gang were runnlni im- ti...
Count" became uneasy and wanted re
sults from "Jimmy."
v ijunuay night, July 2, McCarthy.
net In 'Prtlnln ivtirt wmilil ntfiifilN nlnnn ir nf flu. !. .....
', " -""' "" ""' ' "-" " mc lt.n DJ. appointment and
ieki triem His pnl bad cashed the so se
curlties nnd would have the money en
the engraved paper,
Learns Much of the Loet
Is Buried' en Leng Island
During the many chnts that the sup
posed "Jimmy" had with the men they
mentioned that much of their loot was
buried near Lake Itonkenkomn, Leng
Island. He dared net aMc them for the
exact location of the stolen tieasure.
On Sunday, June ''.", the "Count,"
the "Professer," the "Docter" and
MrCuithy met in a New Yerk hotel.
Chapman, "The Count," drove up iu
his $7f00 motorcar.
Te the casuul eje of the doorman and
McCarthy met the three men hv
appointment and told them his
pal had cashed the securities
.inu meuici nnve tnc money
nana me ionewing day.
fenced te twrnty-flve years in the Fed
eral penitentiary nt McNeils Island.
Wash. He confessed that he had buried
the loot in a can? en nenr Del Mar. It
was recovered.
another rase n robber im-
train get
the robbers
, while their comrades walked through
I te the rnnll car. One held revolvers
at the heads of the clerks and the ether
took five registered pouches te the deer.
The bandit then pulled the signal
I cord, nnd ns the train slackened upeed
he threw the pouches off. The "go "ge
abend" signal then wn given, after
which the robber cut the cord. All
four masked men then leaped from the
train.
: Three Highwaymen Trapped
After a Similar Robbery
A few weeks later, when Inspeetm
I still were working en the Missouri Pa
cific robbery, a Chicago, Burlington
and Quinry train was bearded by two
rebbeis ns it moved between I'iIe),,,
Pacific Tiari'fer and the station at
Council Bluffs, la.
The robbers forced their way into
one of the mail cars mid waited until
the train made it regular step r.t a
rrnMnp, Ten pouches then were tossed
off. A confederate was waiting tlieic
1 nith n motorcar. This confederate
'seli'd and drove off with the of the
sacks, while the two held-up men
escaped with four ethers. The tenth
pouch was recovered.
I Lntrr the inspci ters arrested Keith
L. Cellins, the driver of the motorcar,
who was sentenced te fifteen years in
Leavenworth Prison. Fred 11. Poffen Peffen
barger nnd Orville Phillips were nr-
bnnd the following day
"It was Welcome news te 'the Count'
and the ethers," resumed McCarthy.
"They had about decided te take te the
read again. Thev nlnnnrri t 'i-tini.-
a jewelry store in Scranton, Pa. raining heavily, but the four men
"But when I told them the cash was't0 work wltH pll'Ks "ml r1iovo1s r1ievo1s r1iove1s
coming for the naner thev i?ni. m Time seemed te roll back te
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mey ngrceu te meet the following after after
neon en 102d street near Amsterdam
avenue.
Highwaymen Trapped
at Their Rendezvous
"I sent n tip te the detectives nnd
the postefneo inspectors, and every tiling
wns set for the pinch. Andersen, the
'Professer,' left the party te get a cup
of coffee. He was met. I later lenrnl
set
the
swashbuckling dajs of sen rovers and
their buried ticasiucs. As lie dug Mc
Carthy thought of doubloons and pieces
of eight he had read about when a boy.
After ninety minute of digging they
uncovered a be containing S.'OO.flfiO
worth of tecuiities. Must of them wne
identified ns part of the mall tnuk
loot. Others were recognized as stolen
from several ether postefflcu robberies.
The three men new in the Tombs are
net novices te prison life. Police
Chapman
"stretches" in Llmira and Sing Sing,
that Andersen served tinir in Joliet nnd
Auburn, nnd Lambert in the Blnck
wells Island Penitentiary and Sing
Sing.
Chapman and Andersen are known
te the pollie of Londen. Berlin. I'aris
and Keine. Their receids ami the
chilled-steel nerve they have displajed
time and ag-nn only emphasize the
brilliant bit nf work McCarthy did in
having the siM cell doers dang en
l hem.
were
at Mount
except a
by O'Brien, Stcpat nnd Kiley, who Rest of Mail Truck Loet
Is Yet te Be Recovered
1 1 lick
Postal
loot
III-
I nnbbed him and hustled him te the 100th
street station.
1 "Then the detectives hiiriled te the
rendezvous. Chnpman and Lambert
were waiting for me when the New
Yerk detectives walked up and liuil
! then, handcuffed before they realized
J what had happened.
, "Meanwhile I had gene te an apart-
I meat house te nab a friend of the gang
(who was wanted as n nmterlnl witness,
I I wnnted te be en hand when the three
were arrested. The witness tried te
escape, however, nml that dela.ved me.
"When Chapman, in prison, saw me
for the first time after his arrest he
said.
" 'Jimiule, you're lucky ou weren't
bumped off.'
" 'Don't be sere nt Jimmle,' O'Brien J
told him.
"I never get sere at a copper and I
don't held nuy grudge ngalnst Jiinmle,"
Chninnnii renllml i
A little later McCarthy ws alone , ,", . ' n,'" "H W. at Buf.ale. but
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The rest of the mail
i Is jet te be receMMisl.
spciiers believe one of the InipiNencd
'gang will "break" nnd tell what was
I done wlih it.
i But f lua r search h new no pan of
'.McCarthy's tll(.v, li,. m, ,,v sm,,.(
i when (jucstleiicil about it ami nld the
postellice Inspectors were line men ant!
knew their business.
Almest the entlie unrr.Uivr hail been
dingged piecemeal from the jeung de-
teethe. Tin re Was net even the him
of n beast iu his icinarU-. lie did nm
mention that rewinds totaling Sl.'.OiM)
had been elVcinl for the tin re high,
wajnien and Unit he was entitled te
all of it.
I McCarthy was bem iu Buffalo nnd
lives there with his parents. He has
a girl a sweetheart it's Ids inrnlmr '
smilingly rcmniked. He at-
as he
After ninety minutes of digging
they uncovered a box containing
$500,000 worth of securltlea.
with Lambert, the "Docter.
"Come clean, Chnrlle, nnd It will
help jeu, I told him," said McCurthj.
"Lambert 'enme clean' with a full
confession, He told where the stuff
was bulled. A big dee was the niaiker
for the treasure."
McCarthy nnd the three detective
Mrgvants hurried out te Leng Island
and easily located the spot. It wan
A
press company nnd showed such apti
tude nnd Intelligence that he was made
a claim agent. Then came the war,
and MiCarthj was one of the first
eight) -the men te leave Buffalo for
Camp Dlx.
McCarthy was with one of the lust
detachments te leach France. He l.
came proficient in handling grenaden
Mail Robbery Lesses
$2,000,000 in 1920
The three highwajmen at one stieke
In the Broadway held-up had carried
off loot almost totaling in vnlue the
entire lns-ci from robberies for the
Postellice Department's preceding fwal
J ear.
In that pcrUd the chief IVstethYr
insp, elm- .it Washington estimated that
the total losses-in theft equaled $2,000.
11(10. Barly In 11)21. however, postal
lebberies became mere frequent.
Among the most notable of these tub
licrles were nt Teledo, O., when a tiuii;
wus rilled of $l,li(lfl,nO(l f securities,
and at Minneapolis, when n lone bandi,
lobbed a mail car of $200,000 worth f
valuables.
Anether i-nhhcr.v, even mere pik-,.
tlennl, et cm i cd n few dajs after the
Minneapolis held-up. when four bandits
with rllles held up the "Hummer," a
fast express en the Chicago nnd Alten '
Kailwny, near Quincy, 111,
The engineer, threatened with ilenth. i
wns forced le uncouple the baggage and
mail cars and run them up the track
for two miles. The robbers escaped
with registered lettvis nnd pnekages
valued at S12.".t)00.
A STfi.OOO robbery nrcuried en the
night of April S. 1020. when train
Ne. II en the Same IV Kallread, run
ning between Fert Madisen ami K.inas
City, was held up by n "lime wolf,"
as the Inspectors later called him
As the trnln was leaving Henrietta
rested ns rim lnli1.ne m ..i . .
personated a policeman and get aboard long terms in n.lsen.
en the night In number Instance 1,,.,-n ,t, i-
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sis'.i.lNJl) in cash nml so,.m-itieu
gene n snort taken fiem n inn! I ,.,..,,..
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revolvers and eidered the diiver te ero- low dollar w
On the same day as the Mount Ver Ver
eon jobbery masked men held up the
Jacksen street postefiice nt Dallus,
Te. The rebbei, mortally wounded a
'leik and shot two ether postal eui eui
pleves. Thev csiaped with two legis
1 01 I'll pOlli Ill's
It wa into tln ntjiiixpliriP of mm.
in.il recJes,iies that McCarthy
plunged when he took up the trail of
the Niagara Falls held-up men. The
lecerd he made in that cim. brought him
te the front innk of the eouiagceus men
who match their wits with criminals In
game of desperate haz.anls.
a mail wagon In Atlanta
et .nine in. 102(1. A driver
I transfer clerk were en the vehicle.
wagon
lllkfnTII.O tllA Vmr.... nll I ' .
"- uhii iiuiii-cuien nrcw two
ceeu re tne outserts of the city. There
both postal emple.vcs were bound and
gagged. The IfsSljber tied with till the
registered mail'.
i The helpless mailmen wen. found an
hour laier. Inspectors placed blood bleod bloed
h. minis en the robber's tiail. but he get
awaj.
A clue developed in New Voik Citv
. ..... .. ... i . , . .
.i i..-w ciis larer, nml a
.is i nemns iMtiahue was
driver nnd the transfer eI..rk iib.itlfied
mm as the supposed pelicemun
had hoodwinked them.
ii August H, 1020. Missouri Pacific a
man known
an e ted. The
who
Uncommon Sense
-X
QJAVS the jeuih: "
of being beni nv
The Yeung Man's Buubvar
J?y'UiiNBL.Ki-:
mte the thought
er a desk nil mv
life te sit wntcliing the deck te the
end of my dajs, because of my dislike
for the drudgery of the job." '
The haunting ftnr that one must
spend all his dnvi at distasteful worn
is in the heart of manv jeuug nun be
ginning life.
And these i(iiiiiiinii,n ,,Ml ilck-iiate
I'ecnine ihief i Icrks M1pei ililniilrills
r maiiiigcr. or iiisM llt tiivl
pluies Unit gave larger iippertuiillle".
TT IS te be regieltcl iIHt h,. mnjeiiiy
of men -labercis .unj ,,,ee werker's
men - arc laz.v ,iml
H ppeituiiilj of
T
ate
lli;V sec about them men win.
1 ., r . ..
in nun iiisceurageii, ami wiie have
been doing the same thing in the same
uiithiuestul wav for tvvcntj or thirty
j ears, with little or no promotion, and
little laid up ter old age.
And the j forget utieilv tli.it
because of such men because iln
it
have
and ilofesMeii!iI
this ver.v lazinct
he liidustiieiis.
I uiple rise ceutinunllj fiem the low
'-I lio.iliens te the highest, mid Will
Mintltme s , , I1M. tlM , J(j () (lniiji
. Muiie promotions m,. ,, (,, p,, jt
istiue. Seme mi due te iciatliitlhlilp.
Iiiit the vast iiiajentv of them illll)
cases out of KMMI- ,, , te tl.c fact
I Imi the men who ns,. nie willing te
Put In the evtia cRiiil and le ,l il,
,slMra thinking that means iiiallfyln'
"- j"" iiincr up
icmalned uninterested and bent ev-r , XTO Tlttr irr iTm
disks ami beiausc their ate tedaj nnd ' N ''""'HI. Intelligent, industrious
nlwajs will be buiulieils of theu'sani;. f, .''I""."'" 1114'' e keep our. jet, nil
of such men that the waj te pioine- '"'s life If he doesn't want te.
i ion nir me lnuiisti
bitieiis is (eiuparali
TF YOF m.uIiI m,
-! histerv of t.ice
If
lies
back through the
desk -hound men
von would find Dint most of them were
as liitle Intcrcsiecl in their work when
thev began il as tbej nie tednj.
Bi'iMiisc thev vvcri- net inti rested In
ir thev wcie content te de just enough
of il te held their lobs.
Companions and desk-nintes who wrif
- - "" is.i.niH Henrietta, , ,...,, ,...- .,, uivi, -uuues wne wrif awakened I
Me., tlm bandit bearded It and flourished I '".Ti'. . hlnKu , lMr, . Inieie-t bv the nuibula
an auteme revolver. H, forced nil "ttrM. ' ,,","""K b"" n&!
tit llftv. Ill is hflll (ivfr thn mm.
that lir uiih nt funtiM-.n.n i
will be because he lacked the brains nnd
Die ambition te go any higher.
t "I'Vtiuht. till hj I'uUH, I lBtr Cempanu
Weman Narrowly Escapes Death
Lifting a bottle of what she thought
a simple medicine, mrh je lerdnv, .Mrs,
l.ercim Lanit.e. t 121 Kilner' street,
"wallowed a iiuimtit.v of ietllnr. Slie
a. wakened her bushciid. who kuiiimioheiI
lice ei I lie .Ml uiui St Hm.
he hei.plta the woman's lifu
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