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The Wingham Times, 1898-10-07, Page 7THE WINGITAIA TIMES, S,, .00TOI3ER 7. 18913.. stag ginupses of his side face its he moved � alms through t f i t ions t ti A With a feint of salf•reproaoh, Mr. 'T us had to admit that thin, ward so; ) ihc>m. •o if h o would la not 1. I wind then nske(1 Jn • ; snake up a small one on the morrow, .=ant1•have it sent to Body the quarryintin, -who knew what further was to be done. "How oro times, Mr. Bartlett.. t thin ertlkler to „n to thera t P 1 the. uta boost on, Mister; but we was jest a gasayin' that it is curious how some folks I kin glt along an' hey piles of money, an' ; never do not in' fur it—while then. as is !.Honest an' works hard, kin skeorce grub lout a livin . an • sinning interest. 11 was ale other one be opened. first, however, and rend, no wa his custom, wino 'moving whet To the its contents'Was a geemed. to mous f their ns i a e r to be affected; ' im- pressec: e;with o action—as I.jo some stop folded it up quickly, put it away We- in €►ls fit y tdi purpose- to Ftcp outwith • Stride. li{.o1 t first The other, t challenged to regard as of only secondlary cons et' game ,o r- • and 'Mostn gavehastily con- mos on ,also. tinned.his way, i . cies• seemed to forsake , oglectful. Da1z!ynig 'Need 'Not bo Drudgery the streams o pe( es r it tot bolt slowly onw c, L,.Rbtli.'fi, d f time a dine ti w a Tito detective looks from `vatolafttl eye of the detective, into the countenance signs of his roanpanion, keen physiognomist, Ido no believe it necessary in a but sownitI there no sign» of the dashed Wales aonsldcratalY, not butler dairy for the farmer to get up rng blank. All lens t4 pallid, nnpxamis- ill .lain or pleasure, in any o at fear o'elocl in, the morning to rnfi Mani:. forms did Im ails +' care for his Cows. the the tide. o "Wen," ole muttered. e at last, after en seven, s ows. but be safe that unusuallyoeui sod chanes had Presented itself ff t d but with the unmistakeable for exsulbning , the isles of lyales, The f tion tlg if the letter prescriil( six, , had stopped, full in their Way on it ` t of inlnaacIleto urgency. it is the same1ti le every yid the If the ttrel t usual time g street corner, and turned fairly, round to pocket, and at once began speak with, a man who met and greeted. 11 i hiitl amore rapid din i ing is six, let it be six every t vc ling, "Well,hi. not five one day and seven or (eight The fit ve inn t ds now?" repeated the al e, i ,. the next, rice •milkers hands nitro theysafe et' snitntere(. past Wales, and histuttoat t0», lienowasceme.i be sel'upi>ilnusty 'Clean, the finger were safe boot R nig ll,"xing, the yotln "That's not who, with said S have the water knitted �lirmv, a He tore the envelope open, h W nails short and smooth. Water reg a ;uressntau, with it 'what seemed t be ulat'ly and if possible sidtti moving his head negatively from d oritsall as he Y under cover in cold weather. The side to side, t rsarY P "Pe a His nuns. 'Warinesso ext eow that skivers for hours together ctly," was «_ _.. ;...�.(.. reply; him or the ex (,en i'1 a barn yard after swallowing a CHAPTER, XIV. Pleasant as it was to bo convinced ;-that we had struck the right .trail, it was easy ourter to determine actionshould be.rLtThis nine •(slays' wonder that was mystifying the villagers of Bedrock was also, it must be admitted, a source of much perplexity 4 -to the Agency; The great problem of the '1 Rina cot tin lie was this jt st t e m Wales? +••wanted; but that was not enough. 17 -What was his alias, andwhteh his crimes? The description of Wales furnished to `.•us by Thomas agreed tolerably well with. •*hose wo had obtained of Cone. But Cone lAtad sent a letter to Wales; and men do {snot ordinarily take the trouble to Write 't, o themselves. This would imply a case taof dual consciousness only to be found in ?,• he resins of lunacy. "i And- how could this Wales be Dudley? '$ad we not obtained from Mr. S lovely, ►'.of Pittsburgh, confirmed through Special ,SA.gent Elwell, a record of Dudley and his ucarcer that was circumstantial even to ,,fthe particulars of his marriage? The ssisonjugal history of Wales was also now 'ti:nowntous. andenlbrieled such different ,4,y+facts es only could pertain to a distinct .individual. �,r Next cane the likelihood that Wales r'panight bo tho person who had called him- ., elf Randall—or he .night be Davis or d}Ii,ughy_ for all their descriptions bore Othe Sane general outline. But here under ?your ,.yes wero the signatures mode by hiders various forgers, and they were conl- ��`plet;,ly identical with the streaky, long - ".backed scrawl from Dudley's pen—while ".to crown the difficulty, the writing of ,OWales himself of which Thomas sent ;,,speeinlens from the Forest Hotel, showed sato resemblance whatever to that used in ''any of the forgeries! Not being in the postal service, lie was certnlrly not the. mail clerk, Hobart, •whim Elwell suspected, and I3angs had • rtheorized into criminal existence. Hobart, 'indeed, we now knew personally. None of all of these, apparently, was Wale:: of Bedrock, and yet I felt con- vince he was the very niers we wanted! In this dilemma, the General Superin- etendent, Mr. Linden and appointment Iii 1 et together by toleg(1phic apI .ice with Philadelphia, to hold conference • . Mr. Coleman, of the Adants' Express -Company on the subjp•;t of identification. I urged on this gentleman the adviSabil- - sty of sending en to Yarmouth the New- . ark expreS� officer who had known the forger Randall. The express agent in question was an Intellireat young man named ntAlonzo 'Wilson, wbo that very evening 'Themes at the Forest Hotel. And right here, where events at all points of oar operation crowd each oth':•r :,no closely, I propose to take my reader,, •directly along with him, that the result -of his mission may be the sooner known. , jet me prepare thong for the journey, however, by stating, that to anticipates '•'the expected identification, I now caused Mr. Linden to procure a 'United. Somali tes warrant of arrest, charging --t .•custrnnary verbiage-thaat W. R. Wales, • otherwise Balled R. L. Dudley, . D. .:Randall, R. W. Davis, T. H. Cone, and . „ K. Livingstone, did on or about the lst of January, "steal, take, and carry ..away from the 'United :'totes mail draft cer- tain letter or packet containing t or order for tho payment of money.,' , This warrant, whichawita18 11.CCOMnn 1 eta `by the necessary aspect of 3lensive enough to meet every 1 .the case, the acts of any of the oP frs rs being only trade possible by .•crimes of theft. To give it effect in the Ohio district, e' the instrument vas sent for endorsement • to my old friend , of Cleve - ;'land, who was also dto appoint ge tThomas a v:LTaalted States deputy marshal to assist In its' execution. 1 next instructed rner 1, Chicago superintendent, Ito obtain the dncmnents in Cleveland, and• proceed with tbent in person to Yar- 'atnouth, there to give counsel to Thomas i•Whelt all was ripe for the arrest of "'Wee. We may now alight at the For,Ist Hotel and rejoin the impatientt( detetly ive. lulled. i By this time Wales had amid was in the -11)mself into security, j.habit of coining into the city almost every day. Mr. Thomas was thus spared °aeared from 4 '; thederable perils ofhoveringaro nd Bedrock. bto-a •• 3 In 'Yarmouth., however, he shadowed his man .host assiduously. The vis isbaof Wales a were now principally to d ;?:other places of business. Thomas toned 1 -no difficulty, therefore, in learning that I ho had new, at last, purchased squatty, and was proceeding to work it as if he had indeed settled down—to .t0 , grow respeetable, ail it were, 011 its arflno-earned whatlalw cks lidhe very drew, talc. lcnW'° y was readily furnished tea"wham payable, reputable 11ushitSS i by the bank -•-for all rep assist my concerns are found tw lung to be legitimate officers, 'knoWillg instruments of justice,• rcrogltired Alonzo Mr. r1'honlas easily 'Wilson on Ills arrival et the hotel. Together they followed 'Wales ,, 1hQ.1?rinp1pa41 streets. ";pure of that?" --- of the moment had Haile him • n "that's not the fallow who collected ted the , While reading this letter he crumpled up drafts at Newark."the envelope closely in his hand, and "So much decided, perhaps," remarked with manifest inadvertence, cast the lit. !dr. Warner quietly, as he lt•ado his tie rball ofll,a Hasp pickeditoward of the street gutt and Preparations to return to Chicago to as, gist in the concert of fresh ineaseres, smoothing moothi ngvit tad out t affectionately, fectio Hat ly, as sots Balers gusting Yarmouth, however, he l -note, gas sur instueted Thomas to unabated vigilance prised—if anything ise over tido movements of Wales. Ho also Thoinas--to find on it this address: -- snide arrangements for the stay of the' Mr, Burry Norman, man, Wilson, for four or five days Past -Office, more, After a more ample rest—helloped • Yarmouth. --and complete restoration to itis normal physical condition, loo might yet This was written in ay eat edand fllope recognize in Wales the forger Randall. A hand, evidently by considerable time had. elapsed . since being embossed on the overlap with the Wilson saw tho latter, and tlto Suporin- text initial L, and having on it the post tendert well knees that the faculty of µlark of North Adams, Masa`aohusetts, u one ory may be greatly disturbed by the That Wales bad that morning bees which, alternations of bodily strength. That solnewatlat.ozoited by a mail commnnica- • Wlticb, of sound or form, is best re-distion; that he. weal using as au alias the membered in ed front is mind frequently illness; name of Harry I�`ortltan; and that he torted t effaced forgottc mind in illnand had a lady correspondent in forth while the childhoodgwill melodies and AdaifS,wito addressed him by that name, faces of will often besi vividly were facts of slush possible significance Perceptible Tdtot theof senses of tho Cone that Thomas very properly decided they had to the } \vn -no e k The identity less Wales y withshould be at once made been so udley, thpriority than with iRva lynd- Agency. Before endeavoring to retrace his all beenr given thcsettle sty had lie lattly 6 Y• given to the scttlomcntof \tlie latter num, therefore, 'lip' walked a couple of questions. Still, as there is always a blocks to a telegraph, station, to send me the necessary despateic. To his great p to bring o f such eases, I now decided satisfaction Wales was in the oflloo before to high on-kC P' ' wholhad the bn the hint andbad just finished:"at a side des.:, forger young book-keeper, had known the the writing of a despatch, with which he This as a desk -tenant of Mr illeran's. now wont over to• the operator, paid the 'Phis ynnnl gentleman, , Mr. Miller, satd. and. walked out. transmission charge, far an so fregucutly seen Cone, and for hours at T,1 (letective• wipe+ wag a time, when he was playing his little tr to Wallos , game of real estate agent, that he would' of his undoubtedly be able to tell ns whether Wales and ho were one. "Send Mr. Miller along," was then tho order to Linden. It was now learned. that a few years previously, \Vales had been employed as a postal agent, and was on tho same route with the very clerk now fromected by Elwell of stealing e mails! When this jewel of intelligence VMS flashed into my office at Chicago, a new struottue of logic took possession of my thoughts. Special agent Elwell must be theldraftatletters;t clerk had Mr. Bangsatlmuststalen be right --there was a confederacy of mail - thieves and outside forgers; and, I.tt1So, was ululonbtedly right—Wales was still the very man we wanted! That blotting -paper, too, was a trump after e lay thels had o the mystery I j CHAPTER XV. drink of ice water is burning a great deal of butter fat to get warm again. Feed regularly all the cows will eat up clean. After the foodbr sup- port, there is a profit in every pound of feed the caw can digest and sssim • '.late. Change of food and variety will usually be advantageous, but do not change too suddenly. Roots are good but they should he fed with great ear' to dairy Cows. R'atahagas and Cabbage moist be given imme- diately after milking. If possible have a sheltered yard where the cows may get air and sunshine on fair days, but never turn them out. into a storm. There are enough pleasant days in whiter to give thein all the exer(,ise and air needed. Keep salt where they can get all obey want every (day and they will nub eat too mums'. Be eareful and do not frighten the eew. The milker 1 i1 get will gentle l who is must kind and g richer milk and more of it than one who is rough or noisy. Milk as quickly as possible- and be careful to milk the cow dry. As soon as the milk is drawn remove from the stable at once. Much good milk is • The - tints utters anger ;rad meanwhile, 7 spoiled' after it ]ea�res the stable, buG hastily engaged xntltews, ng ova I p the despatch. Hotho cont!nuedk to write, but as a rulr+his cowS as who should es and wed s i 1;11 rho 5711110 hurry, when thr cares 0 Dis Kid Qrderea Travellers Heys. should always carry s� Perhaps they're the source of your ill � health and you don't know it. Here's how you can tell :— If you have flack Ache or Lame Back. If you have Puffiness under the Eyes r If your Urine contains: Sediment of • Swelling of the Feet any kind or is High. Colored and Scanty. and u n G Tongue g Coated 'have 6 a If you a , Nasty Taste in the Mouth. If you have Piny Spells, Headaches, Bad Dreams,— Feel Pull, Drowsy, Weak and Nervous. Then you have Complaint. i nt. KidneyThe sooner you start taking DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. the noisquickly ui elthou- sands health return, of cases of kid- ney trouble during the past year. 1£ you are a sufferer they can cure you. Book that tells all about Doan's Kidney • Pills sent free to any address. The Doan Kidney P111 .•Rife Co., Toronto, Ont. clean clothes. and, milks with clean hands into a clean. pail, will see that the after care of the tai k is alt that it should be.. Lire stock and dairy of milk, is desirable. The anal: ingtore bruin ng Of a cow lies largely of her owner. Blood. and breeding are main factors, to be Lure. but the best thoroughbred blood, and the most careful breeding ofl her ancestor's, may become of nu await, 11d thatof calf be left to come up, a ing rightly brought up. It is unwise to give tnueh corn as . soon as she will eat it. Oats ground.. or whole are alw•a.ys good for her. Eggs, if cheap and plenty may be', very advantageously added to the res She milk once in a while. responds. p by showing a glossy coat and a gen- eral air of. thriftiness. And of late, ; I have used bloom -meal, a teaspoon-! fill at first and hut once a day in a feed of milk. This amount can be; increased to twine and three tunes., not lw1 )pnrator had gone in to. his instrument, shooting1101 the jerk of ..handle out the message of lWales, through the slender .w�Ah h %ewdly a very ready penman, Thomas had now become• painfully slow.. No chubby -faced school urchin of seven, with tongue thrust in bis cheek, could be so desperately delinerate•over his first hard copy -lino. But withal lie kept writ- ing something, writing slowly along--' and indeed he wrote rather more than he inteoded oin—while littletelegral llever wentCl ck,eli ling, through the silent.. office, and the trusty harnessed lightning was; bearing the words of Wales•Son'o hundreds of moles away ! Having finished his task, the operator was returning to tho message counter, when. Thomas, as if ashamed. of his pen- manship, tore in two his 1aLbored de- spatch thrust tho pieces puts his pe , and hastily left the station. But he did not proceed very In.r. He simply telegraph 'the station of at neighboring company, and taking out the torn do- spatell to copy from, noltollly transmit- ted to the Agency, the, message already determined on, but appended thereto a complete transcript of 11)0 1less050 whish no. etlding This new discovery, clad she refiectiohe consequent thereon, necessarily led to y new departure. It was needless to at- tempt further identification f Wales selw one of tho forgers. to be their "go-between" from thospolin• tors of the mail-bcegs; and might possibli bo the originator of the entire series o' depredations. The blonde Mr. Miller was, therefore, allowed to remain in peace at his desk; aid I decided to have Wales arrested on the warrant already obtaillecl,nalclbrongllt to Philadelpilta� with a view of "break- ing him down"; -0 lusty i ,applies to the detective' process of incit- , ub ar. �:riniinal to divulge the particulttrL of hit?' ,, ti ie, and the, names of his ac• complices• One Mr. W. W sal 'e' had succeeded in collecting nearly twcn ++,�thousand dollars forged drafts in the calla ,3;", Troy and Wales had j •. 4 The fact was, Mutt during tho toilsome task of penmanship 1ll tvo descr111od, Mr. a that, alnount, but give Only once a Thomas had been engaged principally in j day Practical; experience of ,years lit 'n•r hit caligraphie.agony had been i pro. es t0 me that hand—reared ealy- s .'01 q'—' with telt' veriaent, `I•Io n had been li stening • t the sounds Ies are•tlte best and much the c sap` with feve)isli 1ntnntnsss o mechanism , f the dhinty est. They lnutit first be fed a pOr- sensed bio not ttnconllnoli skimmilk, and a generous quantity of bone and muscle producing foods. --American Agriculturist, that issued from of the telegraph. Himself a most efficient •tion of new milk and later on new operator, 11c• • facility of reading jltst' as we11 from the click of the sending key as front the needle movement of the rt:ceivin t instru- ment, er Albany, New York Rate. The 1 "ri p 1n0 l While the 111'dtt$e reel viflclerk, surf re - the thefts and collections agreed -v' ' I fore, was forwarding: hisCUSt lfl 's de - closely with tho latest, absence of wales• Nw i�attolo, Thomas was grouping i for Bedrock, and dile amount of money the'si;,nna1H•that. ha flung from his finger- suggested not tdlaiz'alone , lith writing aa arta io .land as him rl ked this plgunder down the 'n; •irdsin garofu1 sequence. In a between nf s 1f and the noiseless Wino be hadscq particle.ofthe between himself allil ono or two con- difficulty illy in cateVng everyp federates. DecidcCpi3C' we luust arrest this and 11A tole up that paper c 1 tet lett a er era sound; when: Wales. hi such, pettish affoc'feition, it contained And yet, I thought, this man's arrest will be but half otr wort: ; and .nay even, word iron word. the 0i re despatch of acleomiint lshent of the other Wales:. And this was, tho defeat the 1,.;f. His capture;, once published, would nndonlitedly be the signal of his non federates to. take flight. It would bo very much better, therefore, h1 1 ns yet la lib - bled to clutch them while erty. Thomas had been• armed with l the War - fa tis for rte to his knowledge, espate,h "` es Miss Carrie Lovison, North Adam, a, Mass. "Corms, 1itstTuesday evening. Arrange to meet Thursday for trip t, Boston. Shall .cavo a Netto'' for yo • Imi •„ rant,. 1(.1111. was+ a1tCtuting his Hat - --^-" the arrest of wales, when some the cis a The time of these sect ruse b indecision. no 110 had shadowed his The mottling, and Wale. Ona tuusual,orning " mon, a usual, front tllhimrailroad enterclapnd B.in drock orvai 11s seemed that to have into the city. Ho saW s hasty vitsit4 a4 shortly leave, in succession, three or four buss- l strp•ard rather h1 Hess placeg; apparently t' engaged Ho nexttcalled look- q Withilt Mg after quarry rot the General Past -Office, where of lata he had several times received ousit vis!tsl streets, burning with facts which ata last tetter of served to root. awry CHAPTER XVI rrenccs. was returnee. to, n. In the eon snaking before train Olna las ,nthless into time to stem ed. .tar-Tann of the Iforest a'L(£nw f et of called for a drink of bran. y. where he stood, was the inevitable Thomas, quietly sipping Il .s noon-t!do .natter, 00 all melt i and apparently abs rboa tt 0 newspaper which he held up beforwh , `vasa him, Thomas lead followed hint from the lager, office tltrdto k the l bar, gave v to know the centants of t110 lids n ant llvvis'tor at to It t t - acceptedgave fre- ctlritlsit, tors, a ter Wales generally e.ti cult e he sauntered along. It was ilio custom 04 ! greeting to Wales, and read fly to restore these alis. from hind aAir Harry Norma 't," thought sir() () '_. iA For, Infants and Children:. ydmale at tiro latter, how ••rr, sivcs cnrefnlly to theirsteireelOP(of h d the detective, after he had seat deposit diem in rho breast i "so you aro going Eat tel sometimes even scruriug them in i seated safely go tits cars C coat; so of tt ldctthnr poo}:ot bnni , drafts, and to have tt good his charge ,r Bedrock, forgo more time of it , I don't the. recesses et the Three wabouttatllltlils thlat wasteperial- t with bliss Carrie Levison. W l . ly Cons a r to the inquisitive offlecr, rightly know whether you'll g ly exasperating timO palti, chance or not." On the particular o odensinn 1 refer to, Wales was how, inure tha nlever, the d (miles camp out of the post -office with roti s two .otters in ods haute., the address on gon:te with the golden egg. wiliuh he was surveying •wbtl• scarcely do to arrest 11itn syh ;n, Pe. P. , 01111, 0 it 32 A2S ��•f�" �-,��n evert' 4 . err nota them a bottle of Ar. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. The change of food and water to WA* those who travel are subject, often :pre*. duces an attack of Dierrh , l is G le F unpleasant and disco bed dangerous. gas. A bottle iia of Dr. Yowler* a • 0 Extract of ��tld Strawberryin.a t theifirst in- dication lir grip. it. a guarantee of safety of Cramps, Colic, Diarrheas. or ' Dysentery, a few doses will promptly cheek further advance of these diseases, It is an old, reit- ` able remedy, with over forty years of aures to its credit, whose merit is re- cognized everywhere and one that the doc- tors recommend hi preference to all others. Sold by medicine dealers everywhere at gie, a bottle. ofthe Always imitations are many insist on the Are Yo of those who, when business is dull, don't advertise ? Haveyou you ever considered what a mistake that is ? • get When business is brisk you are Lound to get a share in what it going. Of course, you can increase your trade by advertising liberally then. But when the "off" season is on, why not try and capture the cus- tomers tomers who are getting the necessaries of life. your own fault, or there is something wrong with your advertising, if you don't succeed. The best business men of the ' orld say that if you have something that every day people want and you can make them know that you have it, you are on the road to a great business success. There is no other way of telling these people anything you wish them to know quite equal to the advertisement in the local newspaper. You I ' u cannot utilize the local newspaper in a bet ter manner than by advertising in Tii•.. TIMES. \\Thy ? Because TIIE TIMES reaches all classes of people in the Town of Winharf7, and in the County' of Huron and immediate vicinity. 7111; "1.1MES goes into the home in every section. Many advertisers have found that a liberal use of its columns have.paid ,. them. 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