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-v: \ iaHllAY, ntMttlARY J4, AVJklOHA ; r r v» ' ,Q5IAV3H6<i; AVaaa. 3HT •THErSl^AR& NEWS.^ NOKTH CAIl43iCIfl3C=^ imrwii vTTrBJ* i SAoVE YOUR TIRES We Have Added Anotket Department To Oar Repair Shop. We have bought the entire stock of Tire Machinery which belonged to the Brevard Vulcan izing Company, and now have it installed in our building on Main street. We can give you quick service on all kinds of tire repair by steam vulcanizing, the only correct and permanent method. The holes in your casings which cause so many blowouts and so much trouble can be perma nently repaired at a fraction of the cost of a new tire. Let us save you money and trouble. We also have a good line of tire supplies. Anti-skid chains, etc* Harris Machinc Company FRED DAD SERVICE Good Workmanship Fair Prices Ml mk BREVARD* NORTH CAROLINA Departments—College Preparatory, Normal, Music, Business, Do mestlc Art, Household Economics, Agriculture. 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You will find the quality of our prmting and the paper we give you very high and our prices very low. i.et Us Show You What We Can Do Typewriter Ribbons On sale at The News office. Let us supply you. True Detective Stories- I MATTER OF MINUTES | Copyritht by Th« Wheeler Syndicate. Inc. T WAS evident: that the robbery of the Rock Island Expre^ had been effected In less than a quar ter of an hour. The express car had been hitched on immediately behind the engine, and one of the firemen recalled having seen Kellogg, the mes senger, checking up his accounts about fifteen minutes before the train pulled into Morris, III. The next time he glanced up a shade had been pulled across the window of the express car, and the first he knew of the robbery was after the train stopped at Morris, and Pitney, the brakeman, shouted out that Kellogg had been killed and that thousands of dollars was raiissing from the safe. Jameson, who was in charge of the baggage car. directly behind tl>e ex- pmss car, provided what appeared to be the only clue to the crime, by stat ing that shortly after the train left Joliet, a man in a red mask had en tered his car, Jufld him up at the point of a revolver, and had then passed through to the car beyond, leav ing .Tameson In charge of another masked man who had disappeared as the train slowed down at Morris. “I was Beared stiff,” admitted the baggageman, “and didn’t dare budge. The express authorities at Morris promptly sidetracked the express car, and wired the details of the case to Wllli;>;.i A. Pinkerton. Avbo ;r*’'1vod only a few hours lator. Meanwhile, however, the contents of the safe had been rliecked up, and it w'as dis covered that more than $20,000 was missing. Kellogg, the messenger, was dead, but before dying, he had evi dently given a good account of himself. Before he did anything else, Pinker ton walked back over the track on W’hich the train had come into Morris. Less than half a mile out he dis covered a red mask, lying close to the track, and he also noted a most sig nificant fact—although there was more than a foot of snow upon the ground, there were no foot-prints within a quarter-mlle of the mask! Returning to Morris, the detective commenced his examination of the ex press car, but failed to find anything of value. Close inspection of the body of the dead messenger, however, brought to light another point which Pinkerton felt certain ought to prove valuable. Under Kellogg’s finger nails was a considerable quantity of what at first apiteared to be wet paper or pulp of some kind, but which the detective recognized as the outer layers of human skin, tom off during the straggle when the messenger’s fingers were fighting to secure a hold upon his assailant! Upon returning to Chicago, Pinker ton at once requested the officials of the road to have all the men employed on the train come to his office, one by one, to be interviewed. .Tameson, he directed, was to he the last man sent. When Pitney, the brakeman, cn- j tered, Pinkerton did not otorlook the 1 fact that he was dressed in a new outfit which was distinctly above his sphere in life. From the points of his glossy shoes to the top of his new derb.v, the brakeman had evidently treated himself to a brand-new ward robe In honor of his interview with the famous detective. In spite of the fact that he had very little to tell. It was he who had discovered the robbery, but he had seen nothing of the nmn in the red mask, though Jameson’s excited recital of the hold up had caused him Immediately to Investigate the express car. “That was just as we were pulling Into Morris,” concluded the brakeman, “and I ^ave a yell the minute I saw what they had done to Kellogg.” “That’s what I wanted to talk to you about,” .said Pinkerton. “Sit down, wMJ’t you? And take off your coat. It’s warm In here .... Your gloves, too, he added, noting that Plt- ne.v kept his hands covered. After a moment’s hesitation the brakeman peeled off his new gloves, and Pinkerton had difilculty in conceal ing a start of satisfaction. Tlie backs of the man’s hands were seamed and scored with a network of scratches! “Been playing with the cat?” in quired Pinkerton casually. “No, no,” Pitney replied. “I got those handling a busted trunk a few nights ago,” and tlien he launched into a description of his experiences on the night of the robbery. When he liq.d finished, Pinkerton thanked him and bowed him out of the office, but the muffled buzz of a bell in the anteroom informed the men stationed there that Pitney w’as to be followed night find day. “So far as I was concerned,” Pinker ton said later, “the case ended right- tliere. The backs of Pitney’s hands, coupled with the absence of foot-prints In the vicinity of the red mask— which proved that the Job had been handled by someone on the train— gave the whole thing dead away. There had been no hold-up in the bag gage car. Therefore, Jameson was in the game, too. Tlie pair of them had framed up a most plausible story, which. If It hadn’t been for the shreds of skin under the dead man’s nails, stood a good chance of being believed. “As It was, my men shadowed them until they got careless and began spendhig their stolen money. Then we we closed In, recovered all but $2,000 and •e’** the pair to the penitentiary for life! 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