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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-08-17, Page 7THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,.1933: THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN i,{IIS^Ilti��ll:l��Ull��Nn��111e+Un Duplicate Monthly Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers,, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also, best quality Metal' Binged Sec- tional 'Post Binders and Index. \ The Seaforth News I Phone 84 c 1 1 °m 1 1 1 c 1 m 1. .1 t 1 1 dU•�U II��UU��UIb�UM��Ol1�UU�O���s•�UII�IIU�Y. r D, H, Mclnes Chiropractor Electro Therapist — Massage Office Commercial Hotel Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after- noons and by ap'pointment FOOT OORR'ECTION by manipulation—,Sun—ray treat- ment Phone 227. THE 'RAILWAY DETECTIVE No one saw the thieve. They were "invisible". as they committed their robbery with men and women sitting all-around :ahem in the Pullman speed- ing through the night. The first warn- ing was a muffled, wailing scream, a distorted cry for help heard by the porter. It came from behind the dos- ed door of the stateroom occupied by three business men who had boarded the dilin'ois: Central's crack New Or- leans train at Chicago, The flier had stopped at Champaign, Illinois, and engines were being ,changed, relates 'Sherman Gw+inn in The American ,Magazine tThe alarmed potter ' ,hur- ried through his car to the' sleeper behind. H'e touched a tall, quietly dressed man on the shoulder. "Same - thin' terrible's happened, Chief,' he gasped. "A m'an's gro'anin' in the stateroom." "Alt aboard!” came the conductor's shout outside. "Tell hint to hold the train," order- ed the tall man to the porter, we heard. And ate instant later Timothy T. Keii'her, chief special agent of the Illinois Central, was trying the knob of the staterooaal door, which, an, - locked, swung `open. There sat ,the three business men, bound helpless. The contents 'of their handbags were strewn over the floor. ICeliher, who is head of the Illinois :Central's spe- cial service, wihch guards its thous- ands of 'riles of track, its equipment, its goods and the 'lives of its passen- gers, released the men. iAs he did so he remembered 'that, as he stood ,in Chicago before the train left, he had seen the men board the train. He also •remembered that shortly after that he had seen three other' urea board the car ahead, where they, too, liad a stateroom. 'These were younger men, dressed too showily fOr •travlel- ling men. One 'of them, distinguished ed by heavy -rimmed spectacles, car- ried a large suit -case. ''`Ever see them before?" ICeliher had asked the 'port- er. 'The porter had not. `ILobk like card sharps," the agent had said, "keep your eye on them," 'ICeliher, re- membered ' all this as he undid the three men's bonds of -picture '.wire, secured with ' profession ql ingenuity. Thethree in mingled cage and alarm, sputtered ,out their story, which Mr. 'Ewing passes on to us in these weeds: Three men, they said,' had sudden- ly entered the stateroom, thrust re- volvers ,under their noses, and threat- ened instant dealbh to 'the one who 'Founded in 1900 A Canadian Review of Reviews This weekly magazine offers a re- markable selection of articles and car- _ jibe • toons gathered from the ,latent issues ti ' and American of the.leading tBti sh ng + journals and reviews. It reflects 'the current thought of 'both hemispheres and features covering 'literature and the arts, the progress of science, edu- cation,. the house 'beautiful, and'wto men's interests. ou all world problems. 1 Beside this it has a department of ',finance , investment and insurance, I'ts every page is a window to some fresh .vision Its every Column is a live -wire contactwith life! WORLD W'DE is a, FORUM' Its editors are chairmen, not com- batants. Its articles are selected for :their outstanding merit, illumination and entertainment. To sit down in your own home for a quiet tete a tdte with some of the world's 'best informed and clearest thinkers on subjects of vital inberest is the great advantage, week by week, of' those' who give welcome- to this f entertaining rmagazine. "A magazine of which .Canadians may well be proud." "Literally, 'a feast of reason and a 'flow o'f soul.:" is worth fit - ing every article ing or' sharing/with a friend:" Every one of the pages olf World Wide is'TO'O% interesting to Canadians • 'i Issued Weekly 15 ots copy; $3.50 yearly On Trial to NEW subscribers 8 weeks only 35 cts ,net or out I'd sweat to that, sub. rioibody� opened that do'." "The poetdr is right," 'beroke in a passenger, "I've been less than ten. Yards away in my seat ever since dinner. I saw nobody eater or -leave the stateroom," One by one the other passengers were examined. A woman had been reading so close to the stateroom door that she could have reached out anal touched it. A second ' woman been facing it two seats away. Thee manager of an insurance company •had sat near ,by. Not one of these, not onepersona,in the entire car, had seen anybody go in or out of the stateroom ,since the merchants them- selves had returned to' it, fallowing' dinner! No trainman had seen three men leave the train! ,This was the positive and unani- mous testimony of reputable, ;dis- interested witnesses. The three ,merchants reiterated their story, exhibited the deep red tnarles left by .the tightly bound wire on their wrists; but I doubt if a ,person pres- ent believed :them, savethe tail quiet man whom the porter addressed as Chief:" After a whispered word to a train- man and a nod toward the mer- chants, ICeliher darted into the for- ward ,sleeper and flung open the door of the stateroom occupied by they three who had fol'lowed the business men onto the trait, -The room was empty. The yellow suitcase sat in •a corner, empty. A discarded coat and hat lay on 'a seat. IBeoeath a `seat he found a wooden spool that once had been wound with picture wire, a pair of heavy shell -rimmed spectacles. 'Net ;more -than ten minutes had elapsed since the porter's alarm; but when the Chief stepped 'from the train to the station platform two men re- ported to him, special agents ready for duty. A third was summoned by e word over the nearest 'phone. lone of the agents, familiar with the town, went to a telephone to call every garage with cars to hire, A sec- ond, familiar with the surrounding •country, sent out telephonic alarms which put local police, State highway police, and sheriffs on guard at every road and cross -road. The. telegraph stuttered ,the •alarm to outlying ag- ents, sert•it on back to Chicago. The train was ,searclhed, and the . disap- pearance of three robbers explained. They had opened a door on. the side, away from the station, slid down in embankment, and vanished into the rainy night All of this delayed the train only fifteen minutes, The merc'h'ants were hustled off, and the tnain •went on. 'Dhe red light of its last sleeper was still in sight when an agent reported to ICeliher the first definite tracers of the fugitives! They had hired a taxi- cab w'h'ich had taken the road to ICan- north on this kakeer iNun'et:een milesrt toad, drenched by the rain, waited !Sheriff Charles Curtis of Paxton, and a deputy. The deputy stood in the middle of the road with a red 'latntern. The sheriff, at the side, had a shot- gun loaded with buckshot. iA;speed'ing automobile lurched into sight, and the deputy waved his lan- tern to stop. 00 came-, the car, in- creasing ,ibs speed. As the deputy jumped to keep from being run down, the sheriff let go with both barrels of his gun, aitrnang at the tires. The car swerved, crashed and three men piled out, leaving a dazed and: fright- ened taxi -deriver behind. The three men plunged int a corn field and were !oat, temporarily. But about them, ;during the next hour or two, formed an ever -narrowing circle of grim 'then. • 10'ti the New Orleans train next af- ternoon passengers who bought news- papers read what was to them an as- tonishing story, the account tells us, continuing: 'Three bandits or the night before had been ,captured' in a barn, the miss- ing diamonds recovered, and the men had confessed, They had entered the stateroom, just as the merchants had said, and as bod'ly they had left it, No attempt had been made to evade the eyes of passengers or p.orter,-abe'cattse, furtiveness would, have aroused in- stant'suspicion,` They had expected to be seen!! "}What made ,you di's'count the ev'id ence of the five .people?" I asked Chief Keliher. '1' "The• thorough way in which : the merchants .had been bound," he ex- plained. "They could not possibly have tiecl themselves 'up in,. that Easlnio•u:" "But didnt' it seem .equally impos- sible," I argued, "for the story of the merchants , -to lie true?" "In elle tight of what the.onlookcrs in a the car said, yes; in: bhe light of the established fact of the "wire bonds, no," answered the chief. "The use simply pmonoes, what leas been oroved thne and time again,' that actu- ally -we see little of what is happening around us. `'dere were three men who, as far ,as„their auctions, outside the stateroom were concerned,, did nothing unusual. Had they ;been noisy, or whispering. or sneaking,. undoubtedly they would have alrawtn attention. As it was, they rQOn trial in Moand ntreal ,e rb m'ae en outcry, The intruders' had baggage, and had escaped before • they even had recovered from their sur - ,prise. ' h'art were they after?" demanded the tall pian, "We, are d'i'amond' merchants," an- swered one ofthe victim's. "We' had $437,000 worth of diamonds in 'these bags. They got - everything except about $1100,'00) worth I happened tt have in my brief case."' "'When did it ;happen?" came ,the next question.- "Less than twenty minutes • ago, was the reply. "They pr•olbab'ly left 1 the trait when it stopped • at this eta - ng proeperty:' �,o tion," At this stafemettt, the porter edged su One Year " $2.00 " also in 'US. add .lc for every week of service. ^ For other foreign countries add 2 ole.)' us, gagged and bound them, •looted the Mi11er's Worm 'Powders were devis- ed to promptly relieve children who suffer from the ravages of worms; le ,is a simple pre'paration warranted to destroy `sltamachi•a and imte5•tinal worms,+without sltock lir injury to the most sensitive sys'tent:' They act ,thoroughly and _painlessly, and though ie some cases they''' nay c.ausee vont•it- ing, that is an indication of 'their powerful action and not ar,y nauseat- t in. ros' e.rity through the dobrwaY.. ills mouth • IHe who ,gets puffed Up P P en an d, duds eyes stared. "Chief, is likely to collapse in adver'si'ty, , hung open Our ,grandfathers knew that the sub," he said, addressing the tall in- vestigator, ",I's been close by this do' p'la'ce for a knacker is outside the door.! for an itottr an II's seen no'bady, go in .HAPPY VA.C.ATIONIST'S, Master William Herridge, son of Tian. W. D. Herridge, Canadian Minister to Washington and Mrs. Berridge, and nephew of Canada's Prime !Minister, Rt. Ilon. R. B. Bennett, is seen here with his mother, both of them apparently enjoying themselves at Canada's great Maritime playground, the Katy's Cove beach of the Algonquin Hotel St. Andrews -by -the -Sea, New Brunswick, where they are spending their vacation. Major Herridge joined them there for a while. ""Tim"' Keliheer was reared and trained in the (Odd West during its wild and wooly days, we .Learn as we proceed: His boyhood was spent in North Platte, when +that Nebraska city of to- day was a sprawling frontier village. After reading law for two years, and serving in an abstract and land olflce, for several more, he was elected sher- iff of Lin'cotn county, and charged with ridding it ,of !horse thieves and cattle rustlers.'tHieheld the job for eight years, and how well he handled it is attested 'by 'w'hat followed. The ,Union Pacific, driving its vir- gin .dines westward to the coast through bandit -infested country that was"in setjtionts 'l'it'tle better. than a desert, persuaded 'ICeliher to become its 'special agent at 'Cheyenee. 'For months the railroad had been haras- sed by robberies, which apparently began nowhere 'aril ended nowhere. Valuable •nia'terials 'given into its 'care for shipment simply vanished. Within a few months Xeliher •boli not •only uncovered the robber band. but had 'broken it up. It had its center right 'within the railroad's ownorganization, ''Four' of the leaders went to the penitentiary, 'ten of 'them Paid 'fines and spent time in the cour- ier jail, and twenty-four trainmen lost their jobs. That ended the rob- beries. iBut the "Union '(Pacific .had a still tougher job on its hands. (Its ,Wyo- ming division, through Wilcox, Medi- cage to 'Denver. The car, one of a. cine .Bow, Rawlins, Tipton, Wilkins,: long train, arrived at Denver three and 'Green'River, penetrated oeue 01 days later with its seal'intact, its way the worst' .bandit districts in ;the world. (Here were 'Jackson's Hole and the infamous 'Hale in the 'Wall," bloods, rendezvous of cut-throats,' highwaymen, cattle rustlers, and killers. The valley 'known as ,the "Hole in the Wall". was a' natural fortifleation. Desperadoes 'front 'all writs of •the West 'had congregated here •aiud 'in the wild, rough 'nrouhtain , country about, 'delllan't'of all ia'w. +For their sup- plies 'and dlioersitoia', :'they robbed stages, 'dynamited 'baailes, and held up railroad !trains for a hundred and more an error, for on the ;floor of the empty miles atwaind. 'When pursued, they car was slain, heap oaf` snow. This tools to their retreats in the, .noun tains, barricaded 'themselves, 'arid shot were veiledbehind the ordinary." And the two, iE accepted, as they had to be, in turn could only indicate that a robbery almost impossible to exe- cute had occurred,' between the time of loading and the termination of the , snowfall. !During this .period, the car had 'been under !constant surveillance .• cf yard workers. Surrounded by the tracks of the yards, it had ,been be- yond the approach of automobile trucks—and only by truck could such a quantity of sugar have been re- moved. You can't get away from a posi- tive 'fact," is a saying of Chief Kell - her. The sugar..had been sto'len; it must have ,been hauled away in • trucks, He reasoned,• therefore, that, since the trucks had ,been unable to get to the sugar car, the sager car had .been .taken to the trucks. The .ae cidelat of the snow, and the clue it had left an the car floor, set the approxi mate time.of the robbery. He began to question employees who had been on duty at a:b:ou't that time, and not only solved the mystery but broke up' at its outset a plot for wholesale robbery. Taking advaeeage of a man short- age during the war, a number of pick- ed thieves had been inserted into the railroad' organization. These men were . . trained to their jobs as railroad Work- ers, and so, as employees, did not at-. tract suspicion. It was their duty to "spot" cars whic'h contained valuable freight that could easily be disposed of by the band leaders without suss picion. 'For example, sugar has no identifying mark, and at the tithe was in acute demand. !One of these "inside" thieves' had spatted the sugar car, and, at an op- portune moment, had removed from the car its ,carding and substituted for its an "empty," had shifted it back to the loading platform, where it sup- posedly beibnged. And at the loading platform the trucks of the thieves were waiting, The sacks of sugar were unloaded in the night, 'after which the original card was replaced, and the car again sealed with the ,manipulated seals, 1Later cursing somebody's over- sight, a shifting crew had discovered this ear billed for .Denver, and had moved it to its position in th'e Den- ver train. "I -lad it not been for the knot -hole in the car roof," said Chief ICeliher, "those :thieves might have robbed us for months without detection, Under their system, we had no means of de- tecting the robbery until the car, days later, had :reached its .destination, ,And there we had no clue to tell where the robbery had taken place— it might have 'occurred anywhere along' the line where the freight had !been side-tracked." ;The forged waybill and bill of lad- ing were for a time, the Chief told me, worked successfully by the mod- ern robber. SBut a new method of way- billing freight stopped this. for 'their transportation from ane part of 'the railroad to another, and this car under emergency call was given right of way over any train on the fiat. 'Headquarters were established at Cheyenne. (Within thirty minutes after a 'hold-up (ICeliher had it so ar- ranged that his posse could be under way to any point. The men slept and ate 'in the car, and their mounts were stabled in 41 when on the road. Ad- ditionally, on every Union Pacific pas- senger train was placed an . armed guard. • The 'posse and the guards and the creating of •the telephone to those parts robbing Wyoming, ended train rd b g in. without the death of a man or the !firing ofa single shot! 'Keliher and the, men he had assembled had reputa- tions. No''outl'aw ,wanted that crew on his trail. The resuit was, that the law- less elements :promptly took to their heels, and kept to them. 'There wasn't another train robbery on that pant of the Uinion 'Pacific for twenty years! lin 11f10, after eight years of exploits. with the Union Pacific, Mr, Kelliher went with the Illinois Central. I:n 11938, says Mr. Gevhin, this .road had a yll'44S,f00U9.0 freight business, and the total of freight claims for robbery was less than: $19,00,0. (For this the special service was largely 'responsible. JDuri•ng the war when sager was under restriction to .conserve its sap - ply, a box -car loaded with eight hun- dred sacks of it was .shipped from Chi- bilis in perfect •order, and with every 'ou'tward sign that the sugar was in- side. Yet when opened the car was empty! "Those fellows at •Chicago have, simply made a mistake," said 'Denver.' "Somebody has 'billed us with an empty'1 "`It was loaded," re'turned Chicago, '"Phe records ,here are exact. Car numbers and everytlniug agree:" IA special agent at Denver made a second investigation. Int only con- firmed Denver's •origiaalcon'tention of (In•to this ''country iu 111902 with or- ders to "stop 'train robberies," the. Union Pacific sent tKe'liher. "Take p'hat men you 'want and •w'hat equip- nvettt you watt," his chief in'structed, lain. . IInetne,dialtely, (Keliher ;formed a Bosse still •remembered in the Wee- Three of its members --Joe La Fors, Pat Lawson and Tom Meggeson —t wcf e prohee (best. ailers ofa h Tlieably•o'thtreth—'4ettr,Garr;. ,Hthig tlav'is, ISi 'Funk. Bill:<,1VIoCarty, Torn 'Cooper, Tipton 1B1111, and .Zeb 1Cantp— were' dead shots with either ,revolver snow had drifted into the car through a knothole in the roof, and, while there had been snow in 'Chicago there head been none in Denver, ,Manifestly, the car must have been emipty. at tire time of the snow; the cold weather had kept this bit of evidence intact +Again, in Chicago,. Chief tKeliher ,checked up. The officia'1 ,records of the weather bureau.sh'owed that the snowfallhad indeed been limited to. the 'Chicago area, The snoew had be- gun to fall at about nine o'cloc'lc and h'ad ceased falling two hotu's later•, on the night of the departure of ,the 'Den- ver freight from the Chicago yards, Yet, as positively, the official record's of the railroad showed :the car had or rifle. ; For that matter, every man, been loaded with eight hundred sacks' of the oosse was a >•dead ,shot, tried of sugar, 'The loading had taken place ar ler tfire. prior to the snowfall. 'WHEN APPLES ARE AsBU'NDANT Housewives are often. embarrassed by their riches as apples betel the 'boughs of trees nearly to the ground and hillsides are red with "windfalls." The prospect ofhours of jelly malting .in order to save the fruit, is some- times an appalling one, for autumn brings many other important tasks, and one must he sure of some leisure in which to revel: is the sight of aut- umn foliage, flocks oef migrating birds, "the charm of the goldenrod," and the gray and gold of early sunsets. !It is possible to ,save .both fruit and time, and in so tlbing to have a bomtti- 'frt1 supply of jelly always fresh and sometimes made colored for special occasions. T'he task of washing and slicing across the core in slices' about one- fourth of an inch thick, a basket of apples, is slight when one is engaged in the regular morning's work. 'This crone, extract the juice according to ehe--usu'a1 method, then. put it, wi'thout the addition of any sugars, into pre - 'serving jars. Adjust rubber rings, ,partially seal and process in boiling water for 2 or 3 minutes. 'Take the jars out of the sterilizer, complete sealing and put them away to be tak- en froth the shelves' a few at a time whoaever the jelly supplyneeds re- plenishing.. The fruit juice treated in this way will keep indelfin'ite:iy. The process of jelly making is begun at the point where it was left when the juice was extracted Brom the fruit. A 'half dozen glasses of jelly may be made at a time and the ease with which this is accomplished when' the extracted juice is reedy will he a rev- elation to anyone who has been ac- customed to devoting day's to the task., ,Some of the supply of apple juice sway be boiled until it: is cnncenera'ted to about one-sixth of its original vol- ume and the pectin solution which results may serve as the basis for `art- ificieal jellies, such as mint, It may also be added. to the juice of nonpec- tin 'bearing fruits like cherries arad goad jellies of klttisu'al favors 'tag - thus be obtained. The ,posse was equipped ,with ' fast Here were two .sets of facts. one o hough horses. A special car was bunt h seemed to contradict the other Want a'n'd For Sale Ads g which 1time 25e..