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M. QUAD’S STORY. THEIPRETTY MISS TAYLOR. ' i LCopyright, 151'3, by Charles B. Lewis.] The town of Monroeville was the county seat of Ralph county and a place of about 4,000 inhabitants when I was elected sheriff of the county. I had charge of the jail, of course, and though an old bachelor I occupied the apart ments set aside for the jailer's family in a wing of the building. My turnkey was also a single man, Floss by name, and while w:- slept at the jail we took our , meals outside. Ours wasa peaceful com- ‘ .-’j- . * ''' sA *t ‘ i I fr z Z A M 3 ' i'w" 1 10-® 8 11 i- a I FOUND MR. TAYLOR A VERY QUIET AND RESERVED MAN. munity, and it was seldom wo had a prisoner who ha d L< en sentenced for any thing beyond theft or vagrancy. In a town of that size everybody knows ev erybody else, r.n 1 the arrival of a new family is a matter of public talk. One day about six months after I had become sheriff a new family arrived in Monroeville. It wasn’t much of a family, so far as numbers went, consisting only of father and daughter, but there was a big ripple of excitement nevertheless. There were several reasons for this. The name of the family was Taylor, and it was reported that Miss Bessie Taylor, the daughter, was going to apply for a position as schoolteacher. She was a young woman of 20, stylish and hand some. It was also said that the father was old and blind, but well off in purse, and that he had lost his sight by acci dent while testing an invention. Again, the gossips had it that Miss Bessie could have been married half a dozen times if she had consented to leave her father, blit that her love for him was so great that she had determined not to fall in love till after his death. The’ story, as a whole, as it passed around the town, was quite romantic, and when the young woman appears?, on the streets and was declared to be tho girl in the county, and when it became a settled fact that the gray haired old father couldn’t distinguish day from night, there was more talk about the Taylors than about any 10 other families in town. After three or four weeks it was learned that Miss Bessie was not going to teach school. The doctor had prescribed coun try air and perfect rest for her father, who had money enough and to spare. It was further learned that the father was a great chemist, and that he had lost his eyesight while seeking the antidote of a subtle poison. They rented a pretty house, put in very stylish furniture, and in a few weeks the young woman was at the top of the social ladder. This story is a sort of confession, and I may tell you at tho outset that 1 fell in love with Miss Bessie at first sight. As I was twice her age and not at all her style of man, it was silly in me of course, but the man who makes a fool of him self seldom realizes it until too late to save his reputation. Through some rel atives of mine who called on the family as soon as etiquette permitted, I was in troduced and paid my respects, and 1 made no great effort to conceal my feel ings. 1 found Mr. Taylor a very quiet and reserved man. Indeed, as lie him self gave me to understand, ha had a horror of strangers and avoided them ’ V henever possible. He had not only lostl his sight, but was so lauio ho could only j hobble about. After my first call I did , not meet him again, though I sometimes ; heard him moving about in the bouse. ! j The Taylors had not t een with us over two mont.is when one of the society la dies gave a party to which all the best people in town were invited. Miss Tay lor was there of course. I had the dis tinguished honor of escorting the fair young lady to and fro, and it is needless to add that the flame of love burning in my bosom increased by several candle power. I got homo soon after midnight, to be upset by the news of a burglary in town. Within an hour it was known that the postoffice and a store had been entered and robbed, and two dwellings had been visited and plundered. As sheriff 1 assisted the town marshal to in vestigate. in the postoffice the safe had been blown open and about S6OO secured. In the dry goods store the safe, which was an old fashioned one, had been opened with a false key and plundered of about S9OO. In the other cases the dwellings had been left alone, and the robber had gone in by the window. The money and jewelry secured amounted to nearly $2,000. | The two families robbed were at the party, as was also the owner of the store, who was a single man and slept in a room off his office. None of us could lay any claim to detective ability, but the investigation satisfied us that one man had done the four jobs. The sea son was the last of November, and a light snow had fallen early in the even ing. In the alley back of the postoffice we found certain footprints. We found the same under the alley window of the dry goods store, and the very same around the two private houses. The fel low’s rapid and thorough work proved him a professional, and the town was in a high state of excitement for a week. , The robberies took place on a Thurs day evening. On the following Sunday evening I called on Miss Taylor, and she Iplmost immediately asked for all infor- mauon a. naa secured up to uate ana then made a confidential communica tion. On that Thursday evening an at tempt had been made to enter her fa ther’s house by a bedroom window, but hearing the prowler at work the father had raised an alarm. Miss Taylor felt it her duty to tell me this, but she re quested me not to give it publicity, as her father was extremely sensitive, and people might say she was selfish to leave a helpless old man alone in the house as she had. There were marks of a chisel on the window sash, and when I was told that the robber might have secured $3,000 in cash if he had got in I extend ed my heartfelt congratulations. I also offered to speak to one of the town watchmen and have him keep a special watch of the house, but this Miss Tay lor strongly objected to and made me promise not to do. I told you I was in love with the girl, but I wasn’t the only one. Seven or eight young men were badly gone on her and enjoyed the same privilege of calling, but I flattered my self I had the inside track. About three weeks after the robberies Miss Tayloi and other young ladies organized a so cial club. The meeting to perfect the organization was held at her house. Among those present was a young man named Carleton, who was cashier in a private bank in town. He carried a key to the door of the bank, and it being a large key he carried it in his overcoat pocket. Next morning after the meeting at Taylor’s it was discovered that an at tempt had been made to rob the bank. Some one had entered by the front door, using the key, blown out the lock on the door of the vault, and had begun opera tions on the safe inside when frightened away. He, however, secured a tin box belonging to a depositor, which held stocks and bonds to the value of SIO,OOO. On this occasion a detective was sent for, but he had no better lock than we did in the other case. His conclusions differed from ours, howevw. He was satisfied that the criminal was no stranger to the town, and that he had entered the bank with one of the three keys in daily use. I thought he hinted pretty strongly that Carleton’s key was the one used by the robber, but I couldn’t figure out how that could be. The detective had not yet dropped the case when one of the town watchmen came to me with a curi ous story. On three or four occasions, late at night, he had seen a man leave or enter the Taylor premises with great caution and had not been able to over haul him and get sight of his features. He was positive that at 11 o'clock at night on the night the bank was entered he saw a man enter the Taylor house by way of the alley yard. The watchman knew was old anti, blind and the only but nevertheless he was what he had seen. Under the circum stances I was just as positive that he was mistaken and advised him to say nothing about it. Two special watchmen were put on, and the people were yet highly excited, when the social club of which 1 have spoken had its first regular meeting in a public hall. Most of the members were single, but there was one newly married couple named Gleason, who left their house unguarded when they came. When they returned home, they found it ransacked and robbed. When I re turned to my apartments at the jail, 1 met with a surprise. There were no prisoners in jail at that time, and Floss had gone to bed at 10 o’clock. At 11 he had been awakened by some one moving about in his room, and being a man of great courage he had bounded out of bed and attacked the intruder. As he clinched the man they fell, and in the fall the stranger’s head struck a piece of furni- Ok ...r T AS HE CLINCHED THE MAN THEY FELL, ture, and he was rendered unconscious. When he came to, Floss had the irons on him and had taken away his revolver and knife. I found in the stranger a man about 25 years of age, well built and evidently a powerful fellow. He had a crafty look, and there was a wicked snap to his eyes; but, on the whole, he was what you would call a gentleman. He had come in by way of a window, and to get the window open ho had cut out a pane of glass. He had a chisel and a bunch of false keys with him, and being caught dead to rights, as the police term it, he had no excuses or explanations. He was a per fect stranger to us, and he refused to give his name or any other information. We locked him up in the strongest cell, and next morning I had half the town in to see him. It was generally believed that he was the man who robbed Glea son’s house, but we could get no trace of the plunder. Neither could we ascer i tain when or how the stranger had come to town. He was charged with burglary ajjd held for trial, but nothing could be learned about him. On the day of his examination the courtroom was packed, and among the ladies present I saw Miss Taylor. The detective who had worked I on the bank case came down to get a look at the prisoner and warn us to look out for .him. as he was evidently a I snrewa, cooi nand Wno Womct ao nts nest Ito escape the law. We had carefully measured the tracks in* the snow, and when we came to measure the burglar’s boots we were satisfied that he was the one who had committed all the robberies. I did not see Miss Taylor to speak to her until the day after the prisoner had been remanded. Then I found that she was considerably interested in the case, and she particularly mentioned the great relief her blind father felt that the bad man had been safely caged. She had seen the burglar in the courtroom and had al most concluded that in him she recog nized a man who was formerly a respect able citizen of Milwaukee. She had no great curiosity about it, but if not against the rules would call at the jail and get a closer view of him. The jail was open to all during certain hours, but I arranged with Miss Taylor to call after hours, when she would meet with no one to ask questions. The prison part of the jail contained eight cells fronting on a corridor. There were two barred win dows in this corridor, and prisoners were seldom locked in the cells. In the case of the burglar we gave him the range of the corridor by day, but locked him in a cell at night. When Miss Taylor called, I went with her to the wicket myself. Floss was just lighting up, and the bur glar stood at the wicket. Miss Taylor exhibited considerable reluctance to ap proach, but I began explaining about the cells, as if we had no particular interest in the man, and she finally drew close up to the door. I remembered afterward of her calling my attention to the lamp a few feet away, and of my going over to it and turning the wick down a bit. When I returned, she was ready to go, saying that she was undecided as to whether it was the man or not. When she was ready to go, she permitted me to hold her hand for u moment, and from the tender look in her <>y< s I realized that I bad awakened tho flame of love in her heart. Before going to bed that night I poured ov.t my soul to her to the extent of six pages of note paper, and when I fell asleep it was to dream that she had con sented to be my darling forevermore. On the next day at noon Miss Taylor took the train for Chicago, saying to some of her friends that she had to run down on business for her father and would re turn next day. She took a large and heavy trunk with her, but no significance ■was attached to that circumstance until later on. On the morning of the suc ceeding day Floss called to our burglar to come to the wicket for his breakfast, and he did not respond. Five minutes later we found we had no prisoner. By the use of fine saws he had cut his way out of his cell and out of the corridor as easily as a man saws wood. You see through the case, of course, and so did I; but, dolt that I was, it took me four or five days to get my eyes open. Miss Tay lor was that burglar’s wife. He was also her “father." When we came to search the house, we found his gray hair and other disguises. He was her blind father burglar husband by night. - JfcMfrseen him except when identified when Floss captured him in the jail. The woman visited the jail in his interest, of course, and she no doubt passed the saws through the wicket while my back was turned. Outside of the parlor there was scarcely any furniture in the house, and it was found that what there was had been hired by the month in Chicago. We found none of the plun der, but we did find my love letter. She had called at the postoffice before sh< went. 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