Part 5 (1/2)
Timberlake was not surprised at this
He knew that there were no more desperate men than the James Boys, and are that they would resort to any hed ”At least, not until I get back to Missouri I think I'll call on Jack Wright, and get all the facts from him of the bank swindle”
He thereupon left the hotel
Going to Jack's house, he found the inventor in
Introducing hi talk about the matter with the inventor
In conclusion, he said:
”For a long time I have tried every means to capture those bandits But they slip away from me with the ot theovernor of the State for their capture, and I and a Pinkerton detective na the most desperate efforts to capture the Ja We have thus far failed to do so”
”Why has it been such a difficult task?” asked Jack
”In the first place, Jesse James owns a horse naence by any horse in the world that I know of, and he can easily outfoot the fleetest animal that ever chased him”
”Well,” asked Jack, ”suppose an electric overland engine were to chase that reht be overtaken? The engine I refer to can run at the rate of fifty ine could last longer than a horse, and such a machine as you ine is an utter impossibility”
”You are mistaken,” said Jack, quietly
”How so?” asked Tiot such an engine”
”You have?”
”Just finished building it”
”And it runs by electricity?”
”Entirely so”
”Without tracks?”
”On the ground”
”And at fifty miles an hour?”
”Yes I have tested her to that speed”
”This, if true, is most extraordinary”