Melville Davisson Post

“ The sheriff was a little red-haired man. He looked up as we came in, and turned over quickly a telegram which he had, apparently, just opened and which was lying on the table before him.
Mooney at once addressed him.
“My name is Jarvis,” he said, “of the United. States Secret Service. I suppose the Department has advised you that I would be in here this evening.”
The little man jumped up at that.
“Ah, yes!” he said. “I have just gotten a telegram. Have a chair.”
He thrust the telegram across the table towards Mooney, went around, and closed the door. ”

“ White, who had come on this train, now joined us, and Mooney explained to the conductor what course he wished to pursue. The plan of the Department was to effect the capture of the men who would undertake to hold up the train at the coal tipple. He pointed out that these bandits would enter the express car, as it was the sealed express against which their endeavor would be directed. He said that he, and his two men, would take charge of the express car, that the express agent should go to the rear of the train and act with the sheriff as a reserve force. ”

“ When he had finished, he requested the express agent to return to him the dummy package of marked bills which he had given him to put into the safe. Any one else in the world would have hesitated to have the safe opened, and would either have removed the dummy envelope when he took out the packages of money, or would have left it; but not Mooney. He had set out to do every detail in this undertaking with precision and order, and he did not intend to leave any item unaccomplished. ”