The Secret Mission in Jimmy’s Gulch

Yesterday afternoon, three city detectives chartered an automobile owned by Commissioner of Public Works H. J. McGregor, and at the orders of Captain Fitzgerald, made haste for the box factory of the Hague Box & Lumber Company across the bay. When they reached the end of the Lincoln Avenue trestle, which runs directly to the box factory, the detectives—D. O. Smith, William Fackler, and John W. Huckaba—left the machine and started walking rapidly through the underbrush up the gulch behind the factory. After more than an hour, the officers, sweaty and begrimed, returned to the machine and bade the chauffeur hurry back to the police station. The object of their mysterious search in the woods of Jimmy's Gulch has been kept secret, and even the chauffeur, Grant Woodruff, was bound to secrecy. The theory that the men were working on a clue as to the whereabouts of Alvin R. Lehmann was advanced.