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HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1873.
LOVE AM) JUSTICE.
Ingenious Detection of Crime.
Some years ago it was my fortune
to become acquainted with a profes
sional detective. He was not of the
elegant sort, whose labors are confined
only to the exposure and punishment
of crimes of the higher grades, hut
he was a man who, to use his own
language to me one day, was “ ready
for anything.” He told me several
stories of his experience. He did
not present documentary evidence of
their authenticity, arid some of them
were too much for my belief. Others
were plausible enough to be true, and
as the man always appeared to have
plenty of money, I concluded that he
must be an expert at the business.
One evening he told me bis expe
rience in working up a case of rob
bery, which I will endeavor to give,
as nearly as possible, in bis own
words:
A dry-goods merchant on Broad
way had lost a considerable amount
of property at various times, but on
no one occasion was there a large
quantity taken. Of course the clerks
in the establishment were suspected,
but there was no way of discovering
whether they were guilty or not. A
close watch had been set on them,
but nothing could be discovered. I
was engaged to work up the case;
and to enable me to do so, I was em
ployed in the store as an extra clerk
and salesman? It was thought that
the foreman and the floor-walkers
might be guilty of the robbery, and,
therefore, they were not taken into
the secret. The head of the house
explained, however, that I was a rel
ative of his wife, and had been thrown
upon him to provide for. It was
therefore understood that I was not
to be required to work very hard,
and was to be allowed to go out
whenever I asked permission.
With this understanding, I went to
woik at my new business. I did not
know anything about dry goods, nor
about selling them, and consequently
they put me upon the commonest ar
ticles, which were not in very great
demand. This gave me plenty of
time for looking around and observ
ing the habits of the clerks.
I became acquainted with one after
another, hut had no headway for sev
eral weeks in discovering the secret.
I accompanied the clerks to their
rooms occasionally, and sometimes
we were at the theatre together. I
knew the salaries that were paid in
the establishment, and I knew just
how much money each man could
afford to spend, and my object was
to find out what man among them
was living beyond his income. All
of them appeared to be quiet, well
behaved young men. Some of them
were members of the Young Men’s
-Christian Association, and others pa
tronized the Mercantile Library, and
spent most of their evenings'there.
Three or four were a little inclined
to fast lives, but evidently did not
have money enough to carry out their
wishes.
After a time I found out that one,
who was the most quiet and unobtru
sive of the whole lot, seemed to be
living a little beyond his means, On
him I fixed my suspicion, and watched
him closely, both in the store and
out of it.
He and I became fast friends. We
went about the city together—visited
the theatres and beer gardens, and
on Sundays took a trip to Coney Isl
and, where we occasionally spent sev
eral dollars in entertaining ourselves
and chance acquaintances; but the
young man, whom I will call Jobn
sod, was constantly on his guard, and
whenever I proposed any new amuse
ment, or any additional expense, he
always opposed it, and said that he
could not afibrd it; though somehow
he did generally afibrd it before we
got through.
I found he had a sister living in
Harlem. Occasionally, but not often,
she called at the store. She rarely
bought anything, and never remained
longer than a few minutes. He vis
ited her every day, though sometimes
a week or two might intervene be
tween his journeys to the place where
she lived. Several times, when he
was absent, and I knew he was to be
away for the evening, I visited his
room and searched it carefully; but
never a thing could I find to impli
cate him in the robbery. Not a scrap
of silk or lace, or anything of the
sort, could ever be discovered in the
room.
I next managed to be introduced
to his sister, and of course I pretended
a great liking for her. She was liv
ing in a very quiet way, in a board
ing-house, and was a teacher, on a
small -salary, in one of the public
schools. Having ascertained her sal
ary, and calculating her expeuses,
making an estimate of the value of
her clothing as nearly as I could, I
was satisfied that. she was living
somewhat above her salary.
One day Johnson told me he was
going with bis sister to a school pic
nic. He had obtained leave of ab
sence from and, I thought
it an excellent wlTtr to make investi
gations. So I went to his sister’s
boarding-house, enquired for the
young lady, and, of course, M as told
that she was away. I explained to
the landlady that I had received a
message saying that she would be at
home several hours earlier than she
had expected, and that I was to meet
her that afternoon to go on another
excursion. I said it was about time
for her to reach home, and, if the
landlady had no objection, I would
w ait iu the parlor. As I had been
there frequently, and the landlady
knew me, she made no objection.
Luckily, she went out a few minutes
after, and this gave me more freedom
to operate than I bad expected.
I immediately went to the young
lady’s room—of course it was very im
polite for me to do so—and searched
it thoroughly. It is of no us telling
you all I found there, unless you have
never been in a lady’s room, and do
not know what it contains. She had
a very good wardrobe—better than
most young women in her position.
It struck me as very odd that she had
four dresses of rich black silk, which
did not appear to have been made a
very great while. Four dresses of
black silk are a pretty good supply
for a school-teacher on a small salary,
and I made up my mind that the silk
came from the dry-goods store where
Johnson was engaged.
There is a great; difference between
believing n thing qrid proving it. You
may be certain of it from the circum
stances, hut it may not be very easy
for you to go into court and show its
reality. Now, here was my predica
ment. I thought four silk dresses
were too many for one young lady,
just as I once thought, when I
searched a man’s trunk, and found
fourteen coats of different sizes, and
no trousers or vests, that it was a re
markable wardrobe for a man bo
have. But how was Ito get at the
fact, and show the connection be
tween the wearing apparel of Miss
Johnson and the Broadway dry-goods
store ?
To help matters along, I made love
to Mias Johnson in the regular way,
referred to my relations with the dry
goods house, and obtained an en
dorsement from the head of the firm,
as a relative of his wife. I was get
ting along well, only 1 didn’t want to
propose and get an engagement, be
cause that might make the situation
a little awkward. I deferred the day
of proposal, on the ground that my
uncle in the country, from whom I
had expectations, was opposed to my
marriage, except to a lady of his
choosing; and that I should be ob
liged to wait until he had handed in
his cheeks, which would be before a
great while, as he bad a4ovely cough,
and the rheumatism, supplemented
with the dyspepsia and gout, so that
the situation was perfectly charming.
Johnson approved of my attentions
to his sister, and of coarse we became
warmer friends than ever.
All this time I was stndying to en
trap the two,.so as to fasten the rob
bery of the dry-goods bouse upon
them.
One day I pretended a great admi
ration for a certain kind of silk I had
seen at the store. I told Laura that
it suited her complexion exactly, and
was just the dress she ought to wear.
It was a light-colored silk, of a pecu
liar shade, which had been made ex
pressly to order for the dry-goods
house, and I knew that they had the
monopoly of it, I spoke about it
several times, and said I hoped, one
of these days, to be able to present
her with a dress of this sort, but did
not know when it would be, as my
income, just at that time, was too
small for any lavish expense.
Love for me made the girl incau
tious. Four or five days later, twen
ty to thirty yards of this silk were
missing from the store, and in a week
or more, when I made a call, Laura
surprised me with a dress of the ma
terial I had so much admired. 1
praised it, and I praised her, and she
was happy.
I invited her to accompany ine tho
following evening to a theatre, and
told her she must wear that dress—
that I wanted her to be tho prettiest
and best dressed woman there; and,
dressed in that, I know she would be.
We went to the theatre, and after
wards to Delmonico’s, where 1 had
arranged to be shown to a private
room for supper. I had invited her
brother to join us, and to prevent
his suspecting anything, I told him
that the day before I had received
fifty dollars from my unde, and was
goingW Have a pleasant time with)
out regard to the expense.
But her brother was not the
only person to be there that evening.
The head of tho firm was-waiting
where he could see us enter, and
with him was a policeman.
Our supper was brought, and
was progressing finely; we had each
taken a glass of champagne, and pos
sibly two glasses, and as the servant
came into the room bringing some
thing I had ordered, he was fol
lowed by the head of the firm and
the man in blue. Johnson was ar
rested for theft, and his sister for be
ing an accessory to the theft. Both
turned pale; the young lady fuinted,
so that we had to dash water iu her
face—seriously injuring the elegant
dress she wore. Johnson stoutly
denied his guilt. He was taken from
the room before bis sister recovered.
When she came to her senses, we told
her a pardonable falsehood, and said
that he had confessed everything.
She supposed our statement true,
and then acknowledged that she had
first urged her brother to the com
mission of the theft, in order to grat
ify her love of fiuery. h an eye
to economy, sho had induced
him, when stealing on her account,
to take enough to pay for making up
the material, so that she would not be
subject to any expense at the dress
maker’s.
Johnson maintained his innocenoo
until his sister'told him that she had
made a confession. Then he ac
knowledged liis guilt, and explained
how the robheiies had been carried
oh.
He had managed to ingratiate
himself with the porter who swept
out the place after the day’s work
was over. During the day hie would
fold the silk he intended to steal in
to a bundle that might resemble a lot
of waste paper, watch his chance, and
throw it into a place just large
enough to receive it, under a shelf a
few inches above the floor. When
the porter swept the store he brought
out the package with his broom,
taking care to have a sufficient quan
tity of waste paper and rubbish lying
near to prevent attracting attention
to the package. In this way he
would get it outside and take it to
his home; where Johnson would call
for it. The porter received some
thing for his efforts in the cause of
dishonesty, and the stolen property
would be taken to Laura’s house,
whence it would go either to a dress
maker or a receiver of stolen goods.
The porter was arrested an hour
later, and both he and Johnson re
ceived the .punishment due to them
for their crime. As for the girl who
was the cause of the theft, she was
allowed to escape, on condition of
leaving the city immediately. The
firm would have proseented her, bad
it not been for my intercession. I
liked the girl, and was ashamed of
the trick I had played upon her; but
then, you know, it was in the interest
of justice, and a man ought to do
anything for the sake of honesty.
It is a Vttle off color to make love
to a girl, and pretend you want to
marry her, just for the sake of en
trapping her into the disclosure of a
crime; but this is the way of the
world, and anybody who thinks dif
ferently does not know the whole
duty of a detective. Why, I have
been to a fellow whom I suspected,
and told him that his wife and chil.
dren had boen killed by a railroad
accident, and got him worked up to
a terrible condition of anguish. I
did it just to throw him off bis guard,
make him a little crazy, perhaps, and
then, while ho did not know what he
was about, 1 would accuse him of a
crime, and get him to own up.
If a man is going to be a good de
tective, he must not go frescoing
around with anything like feeling*
If he does not go in for all the tricks
of the business, he is not likely to
succeed in his profession*
ty A good place for small change
—a church collecting plate.
Crowding Matters too Closet
“ Did I ever tell you how I eame
to stop selling rum and became a
temperance man?’’
“No.”
“Well, if you won’t tell the story
after raa, giving names and locality, I
will give you the facts.”
“In company with Mr. 8., I was
engaged in trade in D., a few miles
from the city of Boston* some twenty
five years ago. We had a general
assortment of goods, ofsuoh as are
generally kept in a oountry store.
Liquors donbtidlted a part of our stock
in ti ade, and were kept in standing
casks in a separate room. Among
our Hquors we had one cask of cheap
and miserable stuff which we usually
drew for loafers who had bnt little
character and less money. Across
the street, in a handsome and well
furnished mansion, lived a gentleman
of education and fair standing in so>
ciety, although a very hard drinker.
He was a good, custamerof ours.
“ When he ctlled for a drink we
always drew from the best we had.
“ One day he oame in, and we were
quite busy at the moment. He slip
ped into tbe liquor department and
helped himself, and most unfortunate
ly, as it turned out, he drew from the
adulterated cheap liquor. It suited
him better than any ho had drank
before. The nerves of the stomach,
almost paralyzed by the constant
contact of alcohol, needed some ad
ditional poison to wake them up and
bring them to a stat e of comfortable
exoitement. The vile mixture he had
for tbe first time and by accident got
hold of suited him exactly, and short'
ly after he got home he sent a sorvant
over with a demijohn for a supply of
the particular article he had drank.
“ For a time I was perplexed,” said
the narrator, "and hardly knew what
to do. I disliked to send such vile
liquor to a tnnu of character; but
after debating the matter for a while,
I concluded that a man ought to be
the best judge of what he needed or
wanted, and so I filled the order. —
Some four or five days after, he came
into the store and asked if I had any
good cordage, suitable for a clothes
line, as his wife, he said, wished one.
I furnished him one he said would
do, and he left for home. I thought
no more of the matter, as there was
nothing unusual in his appearance.
In an hour or two afterwards his
daughter rushed into tne store with
the cry, ‘Oh, do run over to our bouse,
for father has hanged himself 1’ I was
across the street in an instant, and
rushing to the front door, found the
unfortunate man hanging to the stair
rail, to the top of which be had at
tached the rope. He was qilitc dead.
Of the grief of the bereaved family
I need not speak. Of my own feel
ings you may judge. I had furnished
the liquor that had maddened him, the
rope that hanged him, and was called
upon to cut down the dead victim of
my own infernal traffic, and it all hap
pened within the space of one week.
I never sold liquor since,” said the
gentlemen, “except to part with my
share of stock on band to my partner
in trade, on any terms he might name.
It was crowding things together rath
er too dose for me.
The above is a simple statement as
rolated by the person thus led to aban
don the sale of liquors. I have given
the foots as nearly in the gentleman’s
own words as a pretty good memory
will unable me to do.— Ripley Ncuns.
JeF-fubsom’s Tun Rules.—Jeffer
son’s ten rnles are good yet, especially
so for those who have the training of
the pupils in our public schools.
They are so short and concise, and
embody so much of value that it
would be well if they were clipped
out and put where we could see them
often. They read as follows:
Never put off till to-morrow what
you can do to-day.
Never trouble another for what
you can do yonrself.
Never spend your money before
you have it.
Never buy what you do not want
because it is cheap.
Pride costs raoro than hunger,
thirst and cold.
We seldoqt repent of having eaten
too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.
How much pain the evils have
cost us that have never happened.
Take things always by the imooth
handle.
When angry count ten before you
speak; if very angry,- count a hun
dred.
shra a XT' sp* ft -yy
Aa A Y Ir'fl Xf
% Jtkih aith jfentafofe,
The Rural New Yorker sawi tmsi
“This farmers* lridVemenfc i! going
direction they least eiffect; in n if
judgment. Some of* ih'e Granges ard
organized to enable farttt&S to steer
clear of middlemen. To do this tKef
have to get at f&cla and dgsfrel
lution to the handling and the salts' of
their produce, rfnd in, relation to thd
cost and valtio of wfeat tfeff tray fotf
their own use and comfort, of mitch
they have been almost totally igno*
rant hitherto. They are going td
discover how complex ate their relax
lions to other classes, and hdw their 1
business relation! to each Other may
be affected by a small difference id
the cost of farm management. It id
going to develop business habit*
wltere they have not existed beford
with any considerable degree of then*
oughness.
“ If they don’t gef id iW
foolish idea, that they can override
other classes with impunity, by get
ting control of State legislatures/
courts* etc;, and lose sight dt the fact
that they only have ecpfst rights With
other classes, this stirring ftp, this
meeting together, this hifottng for
facts, this discussion of ways and
means, this social friction, will Ad
more to lift the farmers of the feoun
try into true business relations with
others than all the preaching on the
subject that has been done by thd
agricultural press In the past twenty*
five years, or than It can do for #
quarter of a century to come.” .
Keeping BwheT PotatoAs.—SAyrf
a correspondent of the Southern Cul
tivator: ft. , K
“I have noticed, for
years, various plans for preventing
sweet potatoes from rotting after bet
ing gathered and banked or housed/
It was my father’s plan to Halt until
the froet had killed the vine#, and
dig on a good, open day, throwing in
heaps, and afterwards dividing th*
large from the small, turning all
about, then hauled up to a place rather'
sloping, and the earth dug out id
hard foundation—potatoes put down
on the ground and covered with corn/
stalks long enongh to go Iron bot
tom of treuch to top of bank, witH
small ones to fill up cracks, so that
you oould not see the potatoes at ailf
then commence at bottom with good;
thick layer of dirt, so there wotfid btf
good thickness of dirt ail the way
—using no straw or hark—leaving
opening at top, and good slwlter ovef
to cover entire bank, I never kne#
of any potatoes being lost, under tmf
circumstances, managed da abot;
Now let all make trial of this plan,
and see for themselves if It is a good
plan.”
* .A . .A. .
Whooping Cough.—A correspond/
ent furnishes the La Grange Reporter
with the following reeled* 1
“Rock candy, one otpl*}- extract
liquorice, one ounce } gam arable, on*
ounce. Fat into a quart of boiling
water, stir till all are dissolved, and
boil down to one pint. Then filter
through a doth, end add, paregoric*
one ounce \ antimoniai wine, one
ounce. Stir all together, put into
bottle, and keep it well corked. Deed
for a child from three mouths to opd
year old, from one-fourth to a tea*
spoonful; over a year old, from ond
to two teaspoonfols, six times i Skjt
In each toaspoonful there are about
six drops each of paregoric and anti*
mouial wine* Those are the only
active ingredients in the mixture. Jri
mild cases of whooping cough, pair*
ticularly when used in its incipient
stage, it is an efficacious remedy* and
is very simple and safe.” -
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What These Granges Mjuife-=3
The Lawrence (Kansas) Tribune
explains as follows!
Mr. George Kimball, brother tit'
Samuel Kimball, of this city, bad
been sick and unable to do hi* fans
work this spring. Seventeen of the
Burr Oak Granges rigged thefr teem*
on Monday and broke up twenty-aef
en acres of ground, and left it ready
for planting. There ia sombtfijftsl
practical in that bind of work,
and It hat a ok of br^r ly WaM
n -* in it that would rqpko most any
half decent man want to be a farmer
and a danger.
KSTIt is not a good plan, after'
you have driven a nail in a sure plana,
instead of just olinchiug and leaving"
it, to keep hammering away till yoa
break the head off or split the board*-,,