Part 4 (2/2)
THE ELECTRIC STAGE
Toward evening a chambermaid in the Sea Spider House went up to the room which had been occupied by the Jaed
She was veryfroone up to put it in order
The landlord heard her shrieks, learned what frightened her, and hastening up to the room liberated the sheriff
”Another victiot the best of so paper contains an account of a clever check swindle they played on the Wrightstown Bank, by duping Jack Wright, thehave they been gone?”
”They departed a few minutes after you went up here at noon”
”Do you knohich way they went?”
”The paper says they boarded a westbound train”
”In that case they've given ain”
”Why did they treat you this way?”
”I am the sheriff of Clay County, Missouri, and they were Jesse and Frank Ja”
”Good heavens! and I harbored them here!”
”Of course you did not knoho they were”
”Certainly not, if I had I would have handed them over to the police”
”Let me read the newspaper account”
The landlord handed hiave an account of how Jack Wright had been cheated, and added, in conclusion, that after the inventor entered the bank he discovered the swindle
The police were notified
They traced the Jaot there the birds had flown
Hastening to the railroad depot, they discovered that the bandits had raphed to the authorities ahead of the train at its first stopping place to arrest the bandits
But the reply finally came back that the cars did not stop there, as the bandits had taken possession of the engine, and were seen forcing the engineer to keep the train going byhim with their pistols