White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1859.

! the book was really found on the spot
, that it was inexplicable to her how j
came there. The Saturday before, (he
, apprehension having taken place on I
Thursday. she had brushed out the pres
from top to bottom-hsd cleared out thu
contents, and nothing of the kind wa
then to be found there. nile
The behavior of the married pair and
their inmates, made, on the whole. . ia,
vorable impression on the Judge who con
Quoted the inquiry. Their calmness ap-
peared to him the result of innocence
their character was good; their houss
was orderly and quiet. and none of the
articles of.value had been discovered in
their possession. True, they might have
disposed of them elsewhere; but the ar
ticles were numerous, and of kind likely
to lead to detection. Why should they
have preserved the comparatively worth
less article found in the drawer, instead
of burning or destroying it? Why,
above all, preserve it in spot so likely
to be discovered, if they had so carefully
made away with every trace of the rest
Still unquestionsble suspicious rested
on the landlord. The thieves must have
been well acquainted with Madame An
drecht's house and this undsniably was
his position. His handkerchief, found on
the spot about the time of the robbery
the half-burned match dropped on the
premises the pocket-book found in his
own house-these, though not amounting
to proof, scarcely seemed TO admit of an
explanation absolutely consistent with
innocence.
In this stage of the inquiry, o new
witness entered upon the scene. A re-
spectacle citizen, a dealer in wood, vol
UNFAIRLY appeared before the authorities,
and stated that his conscience would no
longer allow him to conceal certain cir
cumstanees which appeared to bear upon
thequestion. though from an unwillingness
to come forward, or to appear as an in
former against parties who might be in
nocent, he had hitherto suppressed any
mention of them.
Among his customers was the we'll
known carpenter, Isaac Van c., who
was generally considerably in arrears with
his payments. These arrears increased; the
wood merchant became pressing at last
he threatened Judicial proceedings. This
brought matters to point. A few days
before The discovery of the robbery at
Madame Andrecht's, the carpenter made
his appearance in his house and entreated
him to delay proceedings. which he said
would be his ruin, by bringing all his
creditors on his back. "See," said he, "in
what manner l am paid, myself" putting
basket on the table, which contained a
pair of silver candle-sticks and q silver
coffee-pot. One of my debtors owes
me upwards of sixty guldens /: l have
tried in vain to get payment, and have
been glad to accept of these as the only
chance of making anything of the debt.
From the silversmiths here / should not
get the half the value for them 1 must
keep them by me till I go to Amsterdam.
where such things are understood but /
shall leave them with you in pledge for
my debt The wood merchant at first de-
clined receiving them, but at length,
thinking that it was his only prospect of
obtaining ultimate payment, he yielded,
and the articles remained in his hands.
A few days afterwards the robbery be-
came public; the list of the silver arti-
cles contained a coffee-pot and candle
sticks; and the wood merchant, not
doubling that the articles pledged had
formed part of the distracted effects, had
felt himself compelled to make known the
way in which they had been obtained,
and to place them in the hands of the
officers of justice. He meant, he said, to
convey no imputation against the carpen-
ter, but it would be easy to learn from
his own lips who was the debtor from
whom the articles had come.
The court ordered the basket with the
plate to be placed, covered, upon the ia
bic, and sent forthwith for the carpenter.
He arrived in breathless haste, but SEEM
ed prepared for what followed, and with
out waiting for the interrogstories Of the
Judge, he proceeded with his explanation.
Pressed by his creditor. the wood mer-
chant, the carpenter, in his turn, proceed
ed to press his own debtors. Among
these was the Blue Dragon, Nicholas
D., who was indebted to him in an
account of sixty guldens for work done
on his premises. Nicholas entreated for
delay but the carpenter being peremp-
tory, he inquired whether he would not
take some articles of old silver plate, in
payment, which, be said, had belonged
to his father, and had been left to him as
legacy by an old lady in whose family
he had been eoachmsn. 1t was at last
agreed that the carpenter should take the
plate at certain value as partial pay
ment, and it was accordingly brought to
his house the same evening BY the dra-
COON. The latter advised him, in the
event Of his wishing to dispose of the
plate, to take it to Amsterdam. as the
silversmiths of the place would not give
him half the value for the articles. The
carpenter asked him why he had not car
ried it to Amsterdam himself. $50 l
would" he answered, eff you had given
me time. As it is, give me your prom
Use not to dispose Of it here-I have my
own reasons for it. -;ss-
Ifttis statement was correct-and there
seemed no reason to doubt the fairness OF
the ckrpsnter's story-it pressed most
heavily against the accused. BE was thus
found in possession Of part Of the stolen
property, and disposiDg OF It, under the