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The Wingham Times, 1898-09-16, Page 7r CHAPTER V. f cones ,a (cries r; (P ndat i ns f l er ix > a z , .i1. milted tet intervals during t]1( greater part of a year, had been carried to their -consummation at several of our moot ; prominent business centers. The porpe- trators had even assumed the tunctiolhs i -and surroundings of honest trade. Thole "victims, in the catses in witioll we were e specially concerned, were the Adams' Ex - 'press Company, among the most extcil- .sive common carriers in the world. To the care tend fidelity- of their carrying system, tho most inipataant interests of oar inland commerce are freelyentrusted, Vast quantities of merchandise and un- told thousands ill money and valuables, , are hourly transported by it between widely distant points. Promptitude and civility tiro, obligations on. all their ser- vants; unblemished Honesty is the slue- -qua luequa non, And, as a corollary to this, ' neither rollbery of their nlessengere Or conveyances, Igor fraud nor spec,al0tiou of their xnonoys,have even been condoned ' er compromised. by the Adams' Express 'Company. Now, the patronage with which, ill ' turn, the Adams' Ilxpress Company has +' favored "Pinkerton's National' Duvall -a .Ageney" is likewise grounded ou the - policy indicaL'e:l. In my system and its +l. workings aro no such things known as "rewards" or remuneration for services •contingent on certain results, ITy detec- tive force is an organized ally of the cnr- rectional laws, to be hired and paid for stated operations. as I ata for conducting , them to the issue desired. My officers .are not accidents, but chosen, salaried .associates, who have therefore no motive , either for alliance with crime, or favor- " itisul for criminals. And, above all, be- ing selected as much for sterling dove - ' tion to right as for vigor of intellect and bravery of person, they aro the prompt .end resolute instruments of that law -which. sanctions their work. In this re- )' gard, our efforts as detectives have been the working counterpart of the Adams' ' company's policy. And thus tlio relations between the chiefs of that company and 3nysolf and lieutenants, have ripened into • regard from the identity of principle; `i, our methods eliciting their warmest ap- proval; their motives challenging our F, highest esteem. All these things ,'lir. Linden knew, if be did not just then review them do rl -hail; and Bence it was he had summoned to his assistance Ivy general superintend- s,. .r, int. Oli the available features of the opera- tions in hand, 110 also made some reflec- tions entirely pertinent. A number of drafts mailed in the west had never reached the partie; to whom the letters were directed; bus instead had been eel- leotud on torgcd endorsements at points in the Eastern and Middle states. Appar- ently, then, they were stolen from the mall' while en rout:. and the thieves should be persons having access to )nail Inntter. The 'fact that four out of the Sive drafts reported had originated at r, Toledo, and the fifth at La Crosse, Wis- 'K cousin, located the domain of the theft either in the former city, or in the mail ty • routes eastward. therefrom. The whole field for detective investigation would therefore, be between the branch agencies and the Chicago headquarters. So far, well, thought Mr. Linden. Again, regarding the case .of Cone as zL type there should be confederate forgers 'f" outside, to whom this mail thief, or tk tliiovcil, had passed tho stolen drafts. With such confederates, no doubt, lay the crime of forge, ;y, and the felonious utterance• of the drafts on the express •company. :;;ow, Cone was ono of these; that, at least, was clear. But slid Cono, Randall, Dudley, and Davis constitato a gang of confederate forgers? Probably. Or were they all one person under these several aliases? Quito possibly. Was the W. R. Wales, of Bedrock, to -whom Cono had written, the mail robber Sin the cam? .Improbable; for if ho were employed in the snail service, the express agent at • B.edreck would doubtless have mentioned -the fact, \Vas he; then, another member of this ,gang of forgers? Not unlikely. r• And, if neither of these, would the • possession of his address assist 11s in dis- :covering the actual criminals? "Yes, that it shall,"said. Mr. Linden -to himself, con'kl ntly, as he paced his room at the Agency; "it is but the first -feeble thread of a net, but of a not which wo WW1 yet weave strong enough to enmesh these plunderers, one and all." CHAPTER VL In compliance with a telegraphic sunl- • mons of Mr. Linden, Mr. Bangs fie!. Philadelphia about noon of the following day. IIis arrival at the agency -nay bo regarded as the veritable beginning of the pursuit of the forgers. But the wide field of criminal mystery • lay dark and tuntrcl.'den beyond. Mail- ' robbers, forgers, and titterers of f,:rged drafts -'if each 0110, or malty—had satciy accomplished their villainous schemes; and, shielded by an incognito that seemed impenetrable, were still at large, feasting • and rioting, perhaps, on their ill-gettee spoils.' But, build it of whatever material and ' however cunningly, th • strongh 1 a of • errant; is but 0 110r83 if :straw. Then- neas of honest inte11 cts WAS pow to ha sneasured against the craft of knaves. In the first of this series of detective 11 stories, in recounting all operation where- ': in - ho was brilliantly' serviceable, I took 0003sion to mention that my general su- perintendent was "a luau froni the tanks." Mr. I3angs, indeed, is a gentle- , man who hay risen to tihe heights of his Profession, and won the spurs of his ✓ chieftaincy, entirely by the force, of his own character. • At the time of which X lg write, as yet to -day, he ekes 0 elan of it indomitable and tireless energy • I3ef'rre leaving the Bmflire City, Mr. Bengt had made calls on Treasurer nab - cook Wild General Superintendent Henry ,Sanford of the Adams' Express Company. Prom the former he obtained all walla, ?hie particulars, with acettrato traeltuts of A TUE . WIN UI AM Timil'.5' SEPTEMBER 16, 18$$. roe erases. ('oile:teal by Cone,' lianiz:ii; and. I)udlev. Frani 3.air, Sanford, with a hearty wish for his success, he received the stereotyped commission of no cols- peny, to spurn no time or reasonable out- lay i11. bringing these swindlers to the- bar irobar of justice. Through the good oflicos of the latter gentleman he also obtained from the 'United States Express Cm- pony, for purposes of comparison, a tree- ing of the forged draft by wldeh 13. Davis had defrauded them at Rochester.. With so naleh of dry, but needful pre- 1:minnry, the readee will now be desirous to step into the roost et the Philadelphia Agency, where lay superintendents, Messrs. Nang; hail Linden, and Mr, Coleman of the express company, are seated in conference over the Multiplied forgeries. Before them ou the table aro spread nut the draft tracing brought from New York, and the other docu- ments pertaining to the case. Of these, Messrs, Bangs and Linden have already made 0 jointsurvey, and hampered. notes and deductions. There is no waste of time, therefore, in useless routine. "Gentlemen," spoke Mr. Bangs, tak- ing solve of the papers in his band, "we have here the reports of the oflicers sent out to mutt up- Cone, in this city, and at Trenton and. Pttterron, New Jersey, As you are aware ho has not been heard of; ail:l I think he is not very likely to be, thrall* any clue that he has wittingly left behind hint. It was highly judicious, however, to begin with these searches, and I congratulate friend Linden on his promptitude. We learn froze Mr. Bab- cock';s letter that the otfher swindle on the company were effected at Newark, t,.nd tit Pittsburg; aad Irma these points the have descriptions of the men, Dudley end Randall, who perpetrated thein. I find that though differing from each ether and from Cono's description, in many particulars, they have still so many others iu common, as to suggost the identity of all three forgers in ono man. And it's altogether probable, in- deed, that the description of this Reel: - ester man, Davis, ,vhleir wo expect from the other company, will be found to cou- forni•to them in a like degree, Such a matter as the preelse shade of hair, Mr. Coleman." and here the superintendent regarded the attentive expressman, "or trim of whiskers, is of very small ac- count when wo have the height, age and general appearance in tolerable agree- ment. Even the fact here reported to us, that Randall had a front tooth missing, would rather go to show that the fellow is an adept in disguises. Detectives only aro aware what a great disguise can bo effected, and frequently is, by the use end displacement of one or more false teeth. But if there were any doubt what- ever about these several swindlers being one and the same it seems to me to be set at rest by t1ei handwriting, as we find it hero in the tracing of the drafts. I think you. will both agree with lee that these indorsements of Cone, Bans doll, Dudley and Davis have all been written by the same hand. It is true that the forged indorsements of the business firms, are in different styles of writing; but there, you see variety along wae necessary, the paying hank, in every in -Y stance, being in a different city from those firms, and quite_ likely to be un- familiar with their signatures. Any friend of the forger's, if ho were not good enough penm1011 himself, could have mato those indorse:rents." Mr. Coleman concurring in the step gf sending a detective after W. R. Wales, the general superintendent inquired of Linden what officers were disengaged at the Agency, "Not one, except Thomas; the rest are all busy on local operations." "But Thomas is just the man," said Mr. Bangs; "resolute, noiseless, and quick as a mousing cat. Be so kind as to have word sent to him that I wish toes see him_ in a little while." was promptly done through th.+ speaking -tube that communicated with the chief clin'k's desk in the outer office. "And now, Coleman," said Mr. Bangs with more deliberation, "we aro con- fronted by another aspect of this case, which may involve Some tedious diplom- acy. Our duty to the Adams' Express Company,' as detectives, is sufficiently clear. We must capture, if possible, the forgers who have swindled it. You are. so to speak, our clients in this ease. But these losses have only fallen on your company, since you were found to have been the unconscious instrument of frau- dulent inoney collections, In the first instance they fell upon the • persons who nailed the drat:, and on those to whom they were addressed, and properly paya- ble. Both of these classes had property rights in the violated letters. Of suclh rights, the post -office is, by law, the con- stituted guardian. When letters once mailed have become purloined or tam- pered with, the aggrieved owners be- come its entente, The sunders, and shonld- be rociplent e of these letters would nat- urally apply to the post -office authorities as soon aS they realized their losses. Tho latter; it is quite certain, would be- gin an investigation as to how they had come about. Tile very first step of such investigation would bo to establish the fact that the letters were really put in the snails. This being ascertained, they would prneeecl, by their own methods, to tory of that villa=ge, the detective had to eeareh for the thief within the depart- endure a like tedious chronicle of several iuent. Do you perceive?" "Certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Coleman; "titch activity in. such casts is a matter of notoriety." "Well," resumed the superintendent, "in this search they are probably now engaged. This is why Mr. Babcock, in the letter before as, suggests co-operation with them. He memos very properly that they aro in possession of the prelim- inary fats. They may even now be on the track of the thieves; and at all events, there eau ho no doubt that what- ever information they possess Would be of immense value to us." "Not a doubt in the world about it," interposed 11r, Coleman. "Balt there's just. the rub," coutinteisl Bangs. "Like all Governmental depart - ments, the post-ofiion is jealously admin- istered; and more so than any other, .per- haps, nn account of the constitutional tike- • -- its trust, The lest we coats ilt- non in this ease. It is plain thtlt the As Was Done Mato Brit. forger whom , specially seek must t be confederate of their mail thief, and that the mail thief whom they seek has an oe- c(aIlplice in our forger. The capture of either coo will annexe certainly insure that of the other, but especially the cap- ture of our forger, for the mail employes ' ere a1.1 well known, and any who. would . then show signs of flight would be pcnnee:l upon immediately. On the other haul, if the zuailthief were the first to be arrested, the inevitable publicity weight be a warning to the forgers and he alight escape from the country ere a phusuit could be organized. I think my friend, McPhail, of the Post -Office Spe- cial Service at Washington, will not licsi- tato to extend his good offices in the nnet- ter. If he would only give us an intro - dation to itis subordinate in Chicago, wlio looks after depredations in the Northwest, .111.xr. Piukertou -himself could confer with that gee Imam, and opera- tions on both sides w uld be greatly ex- pedited." edited." The detective was not called in, and directed to inform himself, from the pa- pers on the table, of the merits of the task on hand. This ho carefully did, making copies of the personal dosorip- tione, and full memoranda of such dates, naives and other particulars as he thought might prove serviceable. Tho telegram reached Philadelphia within a very short time, with an order to the detective to await despatches at Pittsburg, should further instructions be deemed necessary, by the morrow. Mr. Thomas, accordingly took the moiling express on the Pennsylvaniarailroadoeund by midnight he 'was far over. tilos rich valleys of the Keystone State,,ybowling towards the slopes of tho Aggli'anies. CIIAI-TER VII • In nheditnting,;ever my work that even- ing at hoadeg}ilrters, I concluded that the time wee -really opportune for a de- tective toe frocood to Rodrnek; but having circulated much in earlier years through the Althorn ,'thorn portions of Ohio, I was ie• re that the nue of the Yarn)outh and •camoro Valley Railway—off which roc: appeared t;' 1e, 0 station, -had opened• up to settlement as eomparativoly new region. I had known -it as 0 wilder- ness of swamps and forests; and time and again have 1 traversed its dreary solitudes, the NemeQsis of some desperate criminal. In thotib days, as I well re- membered, I was only too happy, after several flour's riding, to cane acres the nameless clearing whose few scattered houses bespoke ti prospect of refreshment and information. Many of these forest- clearings had, of course, grown up into villages, and some of thorn 1 had heard from as being bust- ling towns; but I judged that the neigh- borhood of Bedrock must bo- still sparsely settled, and might be a risky kind of place for a stranger to display inquisi- tiveness. Ou the night of Mr. Thomas's depart- ure, therefore, I sent a telegram for that ofiioor to Pittsburg, directing him to ap- proach his task with every precaution, and to quarter himself in Yierinouth- 1`'shich is 0 thriving Ohioan ,'city some di5t,•inco from Cleveland—until he had devised some pretest for .frequenting the village`s' RedroBk was a villag6 that had but one door of ooinnlunicati in with the pastern part of the Uniop and that door was Yarmouth. Itg:.population alight consist of about fon'; licuidred persons, whose homes and ltoldi:igSsevere scattered over a territory:of nearly two miles square. Very soon after -the railroad,was estab- lished a depot, and the Ghvornment sled dignity on all by erecting Bedrock into a potato post -office With a neat little y`"svooden church, three drinking`•saloons— of which one called itself a hotel—and its firm, abiding faith in a coal-bgd, tho village seemed now in the path 'to dis- tinction. But the expected capitalists • didn't lo - alto' "worth 0 cent." As many as four or five quarries woro (spoiled and worked a brief while, only to be abandoned in tarn as unprofitable. The transportation of the stone to a, market proved to be too costly; and quarry labor was dear, when the right kind seas at at all procurable. The Irish and Gentian laborers who , had been imported to the quarries, were many of tlionh at work among the village farm ers; while a few still delved and blasted at ti solitary steno haul., for v tie behoof of a Cleveland builder, whn 'only kept working it for a chance to sell oitk. The muesli debated coal -bed had never (Stopped out at all; and farrn lands in theneigh- borhood were still cheap, and farming a remunerative occupation. Thus much incidlintally, and much snore that was irrelevant, did 111r. T. R. Thomas learn in a conversation with a land agent named Stanley, whose card in the Yarmouth Tribune had informed him that he held "farm lands for vale on the line of the Sycamore Valley railway." Nor did it once occur to 1110 land -agent, that though his visitor was somewhat in- • difforont to the merits of the soil at other points of the line, 11e was all attention when anything was said about the Pro- ductive region of Bedrock, Indeed, to in- form himself of the topography and his - villages westward along the sante line But at length an idea struck him, and ho ventured on a direct question. "Did .you say, Mr. Stanley," ho in - (mired, "whether eithor'of those Redreek farms on your list contained a section of the stone ridge?" "Yes, sir; the larger farm, which is about two-thirds cleared, extends along the hank of the crock, and has an open quarry on it, Its owner, Mr. Reuben Clark, of this city, was one of those wise invested in Redrnek lands entirely for the sake of stone. But he spedily tired of dig- ging out a building material for which there was no profitable outlet. Tlie smaller parcel of land is a choice clear ing, low down in the village, adjoining the homestead of Mayor Wales," "Howl—you don't mean to say there's ii mayor at RcilrookP" exclaimed Mr, Thomas, who had her chanced on the very name that occupied his thoughts. eat,u, dant, is to show its authorities "Ohl yes; I thought I told you," re - how desirable, to thein, is our 0o-liaort- i turned the land -agent. Catching at the strangers's coat tail ho murmured in a deprecating tone ; ''Could you give ate a little asistance, sir?" Tho stratlger turn- ed and looked him over. His eyes were bloodshot, Ws clothes dirty, his whole AppeaI'anee decidedly the worse for wear. "What do you want?" was the re- ply .to the tramp, "A job niter 1 get a square meal," said the tramp, f/i4 bet e 0 ('('1 (1n?" asked the sr anger, •'I can keep books, sell goods, drive a delivery wagon, compound prescriptions, set type and do farm w'orlc. ' The stranger scribbled a few words on a eard, handed the tramp a dollar and said ; "Take this card to this address, and I think it will get you work, 'false that dollar, get a bath, a, shave, a haircut, something to eat and a drink of whiskey. That will brace you up to meet my friend. So long." "There's just ono thing more," said the tramp. "How do you hap- pen to give rue just a dollar and all these directions with it ?" "l3ecause I got a dollar from a man on this very corner about ten years age," said the stranger, "just es you are getting, it from me, and I'm passing up his advice and his money just fur luck,"—Chicago Journal. Row 'She Was Troubled. "I was afflicted with that tired feeling and had no appetite. A friend advised me to use hoed a Sarsaparilla which I did and in a Shore, time my appetite was better and the tired feeling was gone. Sines then we always take Hood's when we need a (,laud purifier." Mits. S. KI.acrr, Beatrice, Ontario. HOOD'S PILLS are the only pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Be sure to get Hood's Clean Water for Cows. It is a mistaken idea that because cows will drink out of a dirty pud- dle, and at the same time refine fresh, clears water from the well, the muddy and warm water is not a source of danger. The cow likes it best not because it is dirty*, but be- cause it is warm, and what she ,drinks does not chill her stomach and retard digestion as cold water might do. Man .is the only animal that likes water as near ice cold tem- perature as he can get it. Because of this and other sins of the ap• petite the human digestive apparatus is more apt to get out ;,f order than that of any part of the brute crea- tion. Sometimes, however, cows dis like the well water because it is charged with minerals that are offensive. if not unhealthy. In lime- stone regions well \ water is always hard. That washea over the surface of the ground, which is mainly com- posed of leaf mold, is rainwater with a much less proportion of lime. But if the cow is to drink out of a pond it should be fenced around so that she cannot go into the water arid there dung and urinate. The queer taste that is sometimes in Aug ust found in fresh milk is as likely to result from this practice as anything. Where co.'s tan get to a running stream, it is allowable to let theca run in it during August, but even then a good deal of valuable fertiliz er in the cow's excrement will be tasted.—Americas) Cultivator. According to a German authority the human brain is composed of 300,- 000,000 nerve cells. In many parts of Prance the coffin of a peasant woman is borne to the grave upon the shoulders of women. The steamer Gallia is the latest to touch bottom coining np the St. Law- rence channel. The government is investigating. The cost of providing lunches for the 30,000 farmers who visited the Ontario Agricultural College during June amounted to 132,030, or an av— erage of less than 7c. each. There are over 1,000 islands under the flag of Japan, and in Georgian bay the north extension of Lake Huron,. where we find very few islands on the map, there are in reality several thou- sand islands, most of thein, of course quite smelt. AarBVI t rto Diarrhoea. Tells of relief from suffering by Dr. Fowler's Ext, of Wild Strawberry. There aro many people martyrs to bowelcomplaints who would find Dr. fowlers Extract of Wild Strawberry a wonderful blessing to them. It not only cheeks the diarrhwa but soothes and heals the inflamed and irritated bowel, so that permanent relief is obtained. 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