Ali Hassan and, visiting the address, con’ fronted a swarthy Mahommedan. “Where'd you get this?” Schoeppe pro- duced the watch. “Down in Butte,” Hassan replied. “I bought it from a miner.’ Accompanied by Ali Hassan, Schoeppe proceeded to Butte and checked over the payroll of the employees at the mine. When they assembled at the company commissary Schoeppe and Ali scrutinized their faces. missary clerk, but in all respects he failed to answer the description of Auloff, ex- cepting in his nationality. “Who's that fellow?” he asked the clerk. “Harry Tomab,” came the reply. “Tell him there’s a registered letter wait- ing for him at the office,” the detective said. “TIl slip over there and wait.” When he turned up looking for the letter Harry Tomab stated with convincing warmth that he’d never seen the Crows’ Booth Four in the Bellevue Cafe, showing bullet holes in walls from Frewen’s automatic. It seemed as though they were on a fool’s errand when Hassan jerked the detective’s arm. “That’s him,” he whispered hoarsely, “over there!” A heavy-shouldered, close-cropped for- eigner was buying tobacco from the com- GILES STAGES Two Seven-Passenger Chrysler Royal Cars at Your Service Day and Night Zeballos, B.C. RENO Nest or Alberta in his life. He'd come down recently from Valdez, in Alaska, and had bought the watch from one of the miners for five dollars. Back at Lethbridge, Nicholson’s mounting hopes were shattered by the receipt of Schoeppe’s wire, with the added informa- tion that Harry Tomab had readily waived extradition and agreed to go to Lethbridge. When Detective Schoeppe reported at the barracks with his prisoner the last of Nicholson’s hopes departed. From an ad- joining room entered Conductor Jones and Brakeman Hickie, their eyes fixed on the Russian. From Hickie’s lips ripped a blister- ing tirade of profanity. “That’s him!” he shouted, his memory whipped by the loss of the hundred and forty dollars in the wallet taken from him by the bandits. “I'd know that anywhere.” Sam Jones nodded excited confirmation. Then Harry Tomab, realizing the jig was up, admitted with a hard-faced grin that he was Ausby Auloff. GOLD MINES LIMITED (Non-Personal Liability) CENTRAL ZEBALLOS MINE Zeballos, B.C. Page Forty-two WESTVIEW CLUB LTD. Pool Room Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobaccos Zeballos, B.C. Charged with train robbery, Ausby Aul off was sentenced to seven years, a sentence he never completed, for on April 25, 1926, he died in Prince Albert Penitentiary. The case of the three mad Cossacks was closed at last. Bhocoseapite and story are copyrighted, 194], by Philip H. Godsell, F.R.G.S. All rights re served. A SOLOMON COME TO JUDG MENT A story is told of Ibn Saud, the fearless ruler of Saudi Arabia, that rivals the famous judgment of King Solomon. A woman attended the Ibn Saud’s court and demanded the death of the man who had killed her husband. “How was he killed?” asked Ibn Saud. “This man was in his date palm, picking fruit. My husband was sitting peacefully below when this man fell from the tree and landed on top of him and killed him.” “Did the man fall deliberately and by design upon your husband as he sat beneath the tree?” “T know not. I only know that I am left widowed and my children fatherless.” “Will you accept compensation for his death?” “The Koran says his life is forfeit. I demand his life.” “True; the Koran says he must die, but the manner of his dying is left to me to determine. The date palm is forty feet high. This man shall be bound and placed beneath the palm tree. You shall climb into | the tree and fall from it on the man and crush him to death. Or perhaps you will yet accept the compensation that I shall adjudge?”’ She accepted compensation —New South Wales Police News. 4 ARGALLS’ GENERAL MERCHANTS GROCERIES, MEATS, DRYGOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, AND MINING SUPPLIES ZEBALLOS, B.C. Barber Shop and Soft Drinks — @ THE SHOULDER STRAP.