Show I Snakes in a Bag Not Robbers Loot I get off some awful stories on THEY tho old Sleuths but this one is Straight goods R F Lo Mat a well known Washington athlete spent the summer near to natures heart up in the wilds of Idaho Ho started back attired in wild nnd woolly fashIon fash-Ion a pair of corduroy trousers a big sombrero and his face adorned with a huge goatee nil of which may at times bo worn by confidence men but were not In this case Besides that he had along with him when he got on the pullmnn In Chicago Chi-cago n gunny sack which he handled hand-led carefully Chicago sleuths spotted spot-ted him at once Yes indeoy They Raw In that gunny sack tho loot of a train robbery that recently occurred oc-curred In the middle west Tho fact that Le Mat seemed to bo very careful of the sack and Us contents I con-tents was sure enough proof of something you see and when he turned It over to a pullman porter paid him some money and he immediately Imme-diately got the bag hidden out of sight was Jirot proof positive well not tulle positive enough for arrest but mighty good proof I So two of the Chicago sleuths boarded board-ed the pullman and they shadowed Le Mat to Washington having telegraphed tele-graphed ahead for detectives to meet them at the Union station The first man to greet Lo Mat on his arrival was a Union station detective who is n personal friend Then Le Mat made his getaway and the detectives from Chicago had n trip to Washington Washing-ton for no cost to themselves The gunnysack contained three big rattlesnakes which now adorn tho Washington zoo And that ends tho story of one lot of sleuths |