Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-04-13

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know, but who, he had reason m bel;arn
was aull in the city, lie promised IL
conclusion, TO find out NIL that no couId
IN relation 10 the matter, and IN ronor,
sne result OF his inquiries to A, NJ. nj
ms lodgings, in few days.
/ Matters had now taken n direction ON.
tirely satisfactory to a. NJ. Admon.
lsnlhg ms emissary not to commit his
principal or himself, by permitting others
to know either the object or the ract ot
hls inquiries, further than was absolutely
necessary to prosecute them with success.
ana renewing the promise of liberal re.
"aru IN the event any discoveries useful
10 ms purposes were made, he departed,
promising to call again and furnish his nd.
dress, which he was now unable TO do. NOT
having yet taken rooms at the hotel
Ills business was i'm safe hands. Cow.
ardlce and cupidity, the leading character
lstics OF his employCe for once became auxilI
aries IN the promotion of II good cause
Inc nope OF the promised reward stimu-
lated the huckster to extraordinary dill
gence OF inquiry while the fear of un-
pleasant consequences to himself and also
to his principal, in whom he now had a
money interest at least, introduced an
equally extraordinary circumspecton into
his actions. lie entered, therefore, with
purchased zeal and coerced fidelity upon
the duties of his undertaking
A. NJ, having taken rooms at the
hotel, furnished his address as promised,
wrote letters to his family informing them
that unexpected and highly important bu-
slness would detain him in Mobile and
perhaps, elsewhere, much longer than he
anticipated on leaving home, and then,
receiving the proceeds of his cotton crop
from his merchants, he purchased and
shipped the necessary supplies for his fami.
ly and plantation. Uncertain as TO the
issue OF the enterprise in which he was
about to engage, but determined to prose
cute 1t to the end, whatever might be the
consequences TO himself or to others, he
wrote his will, and made every arrange
mont necessary to meet any turn in the
affair. AS he was a prudent, mcthodical
man, his business matters were soon ad-
lJusted, and he was left free to unravel, as
far rs he could, the dark entanglement of
the wilderness assassination.
In few days his emissary reported.-
| The sleeveobuttons and other articles of
Ijewelry traded to him. had been won at
rlay from one James Orme, an itinerant
gambler, who had left Mobile for New Or
leans, the next day after losing the pieces.
In stalking them, Ormc had stated that he
had owned many of them, specifying in
particular the silver sleeve-huttOns, for
thirty or forty years. lie was thick set,
burIySlooking person, with grayish hair
lsap tavp l..
fifty and sixty years of age.
These, and the names Of Ormes part
ners and opponents in the same, were all
the facts that the most diligent search and
inquiry could elucdate in Mobile. They
were quite enough, however, for the pres
cnt purposes of A.. NJ. Having re.
munerated the huckster to his hearts
content for his services, and bought of him
all the pieces of jewelry staked and lost
hy Orme with the sleeve buttons, he left,
at once, by the mai boat, for New Orleans.
The sail between the two cities is accom-
plished in few hours These he mprov.
ed in dovising plan of operations to be
pursued for the recovery of 0rme, should |
he yet be in New Orleans. Secrecy and
despatch were both indispensable to the
attainment of the object he had in view.
To invoke the assistance of the detective
police of the city, would be to give partial
publicity to the NATTER and to deliver
Orme, should he be apprehendcd, over to
the tribunals of the law, which would al
most insure his escape, since the evidence,
already collected, or any likely yet to be
obtained, though morally conclusive as to
the identity and guilt of the party, might
be altogether insufficient to secure legal
conviction before jury of the country
The search for his name upon hotel and
clearinghouse registers, or random in
quiry for his place of abode or most fre-
quented resorts, would he dilatory in the
extreme, and almost infallibly unfruitful
in result. A. n, therefore, devised
a plan, obnoxious to none of the obiec,
tions urged, in his own mind, against the
two just mentioned, and which had the
further recommendation ofCombining both
secrecy and despatch in the execution.
On his arrival in New Orleans he put up
at the ST. Charles Hotel, and entered at
once on the execution of his detective
scheme. He first wrote, in n clear and leg
ible band, the following letter;
lfoJiie.