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The Wingham Times, 1906-01-11, Page 7114, iENNIE BIFR: JOIIRNIIIIST 1ENNIE BRNIEN: J011RNt18I BY ROBERT BARB. eiropose, and it will'have the additional advantage of saving your paper a dile We will run down together into Italy —to Venice; then you can take down your code and telegraph from there in perfect safety. When that is done, you will return here to Vienna with me. And another thing, you may be sure your editor will want you. to stay right here on the spot, to let him know of any outcome of this sensational denoue. anent." "That isn't a bad idea," murmured Jennie. "How long will it take us to get to Venice?" "I don't know, but I am sure it will save you hours compared with going to London. I shall get the exact time for you in a moment." • Jennie followed the suggestion of the princess, and together the two went to the ever entrancing city of Venice. 'By the time they reached there Jennie had her account written and coded. The long message was handed in at the tele- graph office as soon as the two arrived in Venice. Jennie also sunt the editor a private dispatch giving her address in Venice, and also telling him the r n for sending the telegram from ...41y rather than from Austria or Germany. In the evening she received a reply from 3ifr. Hardwick. "This is magnifi- cent," the telegram said. "I doubt if anything like it has ever been done be - :.ore. We will startle the world tomor- row morning. Please return to Vienna, for, as you have discovered this much, I am perfectly certain that you will be able to unearth the robbers. Of course all the pollee and all the papers of Eu- rope will be on the ealne scent, but 1 .ain sure that you will prove a match for the when. enmeona`.;.za1.". "O:. Glebe l" cried Jennie, as she banded, the messages to her friend. "What a bothersome world this is! There is no finality about anything. One piece of work simply leads to an- other. Ilere I thought I had earned at least a good month's rest; but, instead made n h emend is lead o of that, a further dp me. I am like the genii in fairy tales; no sooner is one apparently imposssible • task accomplished than another is set." ,.Br thing what a magnificent a{, 1t would be if you could discover the rob- ber or robbers!" "Magnificent enough, yes; but that isn't to be done by inviting a lot of old women to tea, is it?" "No; but we shall have to set our wits together in another direction. I • tell you, Jennie, I know I have influ- ence enough to have you made a mem- ber of the special police. Shall I intro- duce you as from America and say that you have made a specialty of solving mysteries? An appointment to the spe- cial police would allow you to have un- restricted entrance to the secret portion of the treasury building. You would see the rooms damaged by the explo- sion, and yon would learn what others have discovered. 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YI,-110 EX IOSioo 111 1110 %B OI , ICopyrlght, 1800. by Robert ©tlrr.I When Jennie returned to Vienna and was once more installed in her luxurious rooms at the Palace Steinheimer, she received in due time a copy of The Daily Bugle, forwarded to her under cover as a registered letter. The girl could not complain that the editor bad failed to make the most of the news she had sent him. As she opened out the paper she saw the great black headlines that extended across two columns, and the news itself, dated not from Venice, but from Vienna, was in type a shade Larger than that ordinarily used in the paper and was double leaded. The head- ings were startling enough: PIIANTO.I1 GOLD. The Most Gigantic Robbery of Mod- ern Times. The Austrian War Chest Dynamited. Twenty Million Pounds In Gold Looted. 1 Appalling Disaster at the Treasury In Vienna. Four Men Killed and Sixteen Others 1Iore or Lee■ Seriously Injured. "Dear me," the princess cried, in looking over Jennie's shoulder at these amazing headings, "how like home that lookst Tho Bugle doesn't seem at all like a London journal. It reminds me of a Chicago paper's account of a base- ball match, a baseball match when Chicago was winning, of course, when .Anson had lined out the ball from the plate to the lake front and brought three men in on a home run at a crit- ical point in the game." "Good gracious!" cried Jennie. "What language are you speaking? Is it slang or some foreign tongue?" "It is pure Chicagoese, Jennie, into which I occasionally lapse even here in prim Vienna. I would like to see a good baseball match, with the Chicago nine going strong. Let us abandon this effete monarchy, Jennie, and pay a visit to America." .. "I'll go with pleasure if yon will tell me first who looted the war chest. If you can place your dainty forefinger on the spot that conceals 200, 000, 000 flor- ins in gold, I'll go anywhere with you." "Oh, yes, that reminds me. I spoke to my husband this morning and ask- ed him if he could get you enrolled as a special detective. and he said there might be some difficulty in obtaining such an appointment for a woman. Would you have any objection to dress- ing up as a nice young man, Jennie?" "I'd very v .ch rather not. I hope you didn't sue t that to the prince." The princess laughed merrily and shook her head. "No; I told him I believed that you could solve the mystery if any one could, and, remembering what you had done in that affair of the diamonds, my husband has the greatest faith in your powers as an investigator, but he fears the authorities here will be reluctant to allow a woman to have any part in the search. They have very old fashioned f1. IJ ewW;i Tl I E `Y .INGJIMM TIMES, JANUARY known to ell the world except Austria, and I imagine nothing will, be said about it here." "Is there, then, any truth in the re- port ?" asked the princess innocently. "Truth! It's all truth; that is just where the trouble is. There is little use in our denying it, because this London sheet is evidently well informed, and, to deny it, we should have to publish something about the robbery itself, which we are not inclined to do. It is known, however, who the two corre- spondents of the London paper are, and I believe the police are going to make it so interesting for those two gentle- men that they will he glad to leave Vienna, for a time at least. Of course nothing can be done openly, because Englishmen make such a fuss when their liberties are encroached upon. One of the young men has been lured across the frontier by a bogus telegram, and I think the authorities will see that he does not get back in a hurry; the other we expect to be rid of before long. Of course we could expel lain, but if we did it would be thought that we had done so because he had found out the truth about the explosion." "How did you learn about the explo-, sion?" asked the princess. "Oh, I have known all there was to know ever since it happened!" The princess gave Jennie a quick look, which said as plainly as words,• "Here was the news we wanted in our own household and we never suspected it." "Why didn't •you tell me abort it?" cried the princess indignantly. "Well, you see, my dear, you never tcok any interest in politics, and I did !not think the affair would have any at- traction for you. Besides," he added, 1 with a delle, "we were all cautioned to keep the matter as secret as possi- ble." I "And wonderfully well yon have managed it I" exclaimed the princess. "That shows what comes of trusting a secret to a lot of men: Here it is pub- lished to all the world." "Not quite all the world, my dear. As I have said, Austria will know nothing about it." "The princess tells me," said Jennie, "that you were kind enough to en- deavor to get me permission to make some investigation into this mystery. Have you succeeded?" "Yes, Miss Baxter, as I have said, I have succeeded quite beyond my ex- pectations, for the lady detective is g 1 comparatively a new thigh in Vienna. However, the truth is the police are completely in a fog, and they are ready 1 to welcome help from whatever quarter it comes. Here is a written permit from the very highest authority, which you are not to use except in a case of 1 emergency. Here is also an order from the chief of police which will open for you every door in Vienna, and, finally, here is a badge which you can pin on some not too conspicuous portion of your clothing. This badge, I under- stand, is rarely given out. It is partly civil and partly military. Yon can show it to any guard, who will, on seeing it, give you the right of way. In case he does not, appeal to his superior officer, and allow him to read your police per- mit. Should that fail then play your trump card, which is this highly im- portant document. "The director of the police, who is a very shrewd man, seemed anxious to make your acquaintance before yon be- gan your investigations. He asked me if you would call upon him, but seemed I taken aback when I told him that you were my wife's friend and a guest at our house, so be suggested that you would in all probability wish first to see the scene of the explosion and pro- f posed that he should call here with his carriage and accompany you to the treasury. He wished to know if 4 o'clock in the afternoon would snit your con- venience." "Oh, yes," replied Jennie. "I am • anxious to begin at once, and of course I I shall be obliged to him if he will act as my gnide in the vaults of the tress- :, ury and tell me how much they have already discovered." "You must not expect information from the police—in fact, I doubt if they have discovered anything; still, if they have, they are more likely to keep it to ' themselves, and I imagine they will hold a pretty close watch on you and be more anxious to learn what yon find out and tins take the credit, if they The headings were startling enough.. ideas about woman in Austria and think her proper place is presiding over a tea table." "Well, if they only knew it," said Jennie, archly, "some things have been discovered over a teacup within our own memories." • "That is quite true," replied the princess, "but we can hardly give the incident as a recommendation to the Austrian authorities. By the way, have you noticed that no paper in Vienna said a single word about the robbery of the war chest? It must have been tole - graphed here very promptly from Lon- don, and yet they do not even deny it, which is the usual way of meeting the truth." While they were talking a message came from the prince, asking if he might take the liberty of breaking in upon their conference. A few moments after the prince himself entered the apartment and bowed courtly deferehce' to the two ]tidies. "X have succeeded," he said, "be- yond my expectations. It semi; that a newspaper in London has published an account of the whole affair, and the po- lice, who were at their Wits' end be- fore, are even more flustered now that the account of the robbery has been made public." "Jennie has jnet received a paper from London," eeid the princess b the olive. hur- riedly, which says the war sheet off y p Austria has been robbed of 200,000,000 Jennie accompanied the director to florins, but there is nothing about it in that extensive mass of buildings of the Vienne Prete," ' which the treasury forms a part. The "No," replied the prince, "nor it earriage drew up at a doorway and here there likely to be. The robbery is note the director and his companion got ottt: " w„ He led the wax Into the lmllding. theist can, than to furnish you with any knowledge of the affair they may hap- pen to possess.” "That is quite natural and only what one has a right to expect, I don't wish tp rob the police of any credit there is to be gained from this investi- gation, and I am quite willing to tura over to them whatever clews I may hap- pen to chance upon." "Well, if you can convince the di- rector of that, you will have all the as- sistance lie can give you. It wouldn't he bad tactics to let hien know that you are acting merely in an amateur way, and that lett have no desire to rob them of their glory when it comes to the solv- ing of the problem." Promptly at 4 o'clock the director of the police put in appearance at the Palace Steinheimer. He proved to be a most obsequious, highly decorated old gentleman, in a very resplendent uni- form, and lie could hardly conceal his surprise 011 learning that the lady de- tective was a woluan so young and so pretty. Charmed as he was to find him• self in the company of one so engaging, it was nevertheless evident to Jennie that he placed no very high estimate on the assistance she might he able to give in solving the mystery of the treasury. This trend of mind, she thonght, had its advantages, for the director would be less loath to givehor full particulars of what had already been accomplished La Grippe C Ui ed Twelve times and out! Doctors say that LA, GRIPPE \will come two or three years more and disappear again for go years. It has a periodical run of 12 years. Each time it comes it is worse than the time before. This time LA GRIPPE is prophesied to have terrible neuralgic and rheumatic pains as a symptom and afterclap. 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You will understand ex- actly the situation if I compare this corridor to a long cannon, the room at the end being the brecchloading cham- ber. Two guards were inside the room and two others outside the door that commnnciated with this corridor. These four men were killed instantly. Of the guards inside the room not a vestige 1 ION; at stake every precaution was taken." "Are there any rooms at the right or left of this corridor in which the thieves could have concealed themselves while they fired the nnne?" "No; the corridor leads to the treas- ure chamber alone." "Then." said ;Tornio. "I can't see how it was possible for a number of amen to have made away with the treas- itrq in such circuii.s,tances as exist here. " "'Nevertheless, my dear young lady, the treasure is gone. We think that i fin was laid with theconnivance the at, a 1� el uvance at one or more officers on duty here. You see, the amount at stake was so barge that a share of it would tempt away nine human beings out of ten. Our theory is that the train was laid, possi- bly electric wires being need, which world be unnoticed along the edge of the corridor and that the bribed officer exploded the dynamite by bringing the ends of the wird into contact. We think that the explosion was a great deal more severe than was anticipated. Probably it was expected that the shock would break a hole from the treasure chamber to the street, hot so strong were the walls that no impression was made upon them, and a cabman who was driving past at the time heard not a sound of the explosion, although he felt a tremble of the ground and thought for it moment there had been a shock of earthquake." "Yon think, then, that the thieves were outside?" "That seems the only possible solu- ticn " "The outside doors were locked and bolted, of muse?" "Oh, certainly I But if they had a confederate or two in the largo hallway up stairs they world see to it that there was no trouble about getting in. Once inside the' large hallway, with guards stunned by the shock, the way to the treasure chamber was absolutely clear." "There were sentries outside the building, I suppose?" "Yes." • "Did they see any vehicle standing or driving near the treasury?" "No; that is the strange part of it, and, moreover, the sentries, although pacing ontside the walls of this build- ing, beard nothing of the explosion be- yond a low rumble, and those who thought of the matter at al] imagined an explosion had occurred in some dis- tant part of the city." "Then the outside doors in the large e hall above were not blown open?" "No; the officer reported that they were locked and bolted when he exam- ined them, which was soine minutes, of course, after the disaster Lad taken place, for he, the officer in charge, had been thrown down and stunned, seem- ingly by the concussion of air which took place." As Jennie walked clown the corridor she saw more and more evidence of the convulsion. The thick iron bound door lay where it had fallen, and it had not been stirred since it was moved to get the two men from ander it. Its ponder ous hinges were twisted as if they had been made of glue, and its massive bolts were snapped across like bits of glass. All along the corridor on the floor was a thick coating of dust and debris, finely powdered, growing deeper and deeper until the entrance to the room was reached. There were no win- dows either in corridor or chamber, and the way was lit by candles held by sol- diers who accompanied them. The scoria crunched nnderfcot as they walk- ed, and in the chamber itself great heaps of dust, sand and plaster, all fine ly powdered, lay in the corners of the room and on one side was piled up higher than a man's head. There seem- ed to be tons of this debris, and as Jen- nie looked up at the arched ceiling, re- sembling the roof of a vaulted dungeon, she saw that the stone itself had been ground to fine dust with the tremendous force of the blast. "Where are the remnants of the treasure chest?" she asked. The director shook his head. "There aro no remnants ; not a vestige of it is to be found." "Of what was it made?" "We used to have an old treasure Ile proved to be a most obsequious, high- chest here made of oak, bound with ty decorated old gentleman.iron, but some years ago, a new recep- has been found. The door, one of the tacle being needed, one was especially strongest that can be made, somewhat . made of hardened steel, constructed on similar to the door of a safe, was flung the modern principle of those burglar outward and crushed to the floor the proof and fireproof safes." there is two guards who stood outside it in the , "And do you mean to say e corridor. Between the chamber in nothing left of this?" which the chest lay and the outside en- ' "Nothing that we have been able to trance were 16 men on guard. Every discover." one of those was thrown down, for the I "Well, I have seen places where dy- blast, if I may call it so, traveled along namite explosions have occurred, bat I this straight corridor like the charge know of nothing to compare with this. along the inside of a gun barrel. The I am sure that if dynamite had been guards nearest the treasure chamber used or any explosive now generally ob- were, of course, the more seriously in- i tainable there world have been left at jureci, but those farther out did not least some remnant of the safe. Hasn't escape the shock, and the door by which this pile of rubbish been disturbed since we entered this corridor, while not the explosion?" blown from its hinges, was nevertheless I "Yes; it has been turned over. We forced open, its strong bolts snapping ' made a search for the two men, but we like matches. So when you see the , found no trace of them." great distance that intervenes between ! "And you found no particles of iron the chamber and that door you will or steel?" have some idea of the force of the ex -"The heap throughout is just as you n." I see it on the surface, a fine, almost ini- plo' siTheoe' is no exit, then, from the palpable, dust. We had to exercise the treasure chamber except along this con- greatest care in searching through it, rider'!" I for the moment it was disturbed with a "No, madame. The walls of the shovel it filled the air in suffocating chamber are of enormous strength, he. cause, of course, it was expected that - if an attempt at robbery wore ever made it would he from the outside, Cash or Curie it is scarcely aiesible that even the and most expert cf thieves could succeed in passing the two guards at the door, 10 guards and officers along the cor- ridor, two outside the treasury door and two in the chamber itself. Such a largo number of soldiers were kept hero 80 that any attempt at bribery Would he impossible. Among such a number one or two were sure to be incorrupti- ble, and the guards were constantly changed. 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"I shall have a packet of it put up for you. " "I would like to take it with me now," said Jennie. "I have a curiosity to know exactly of what it is composed - Who is the government analyst, or have you such an official?" "Herr Feltz, in the Graubenstrasse, is a famous analytical chemist. You cannot do better than go to him." "Do you think he knows anything about explosives?" "I should suppose so, but if not he will certainly be able to tell yon who the best pian is in that line." Tho director ordered one of the mei. who accompanied hint to find a small paper bag and fill it with the debris of the treasure chamber. When this wee done, he handed the package to Jennie, who said: "I shall go at once and see Herr Feltz." "My carriage is at your disposal. madame." "Oh, no, thank you% I do not wish to freebie yon further. I sin very much obliged to you for devoting so much time to me already. I shall take a fiacre." 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