New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-30
Robbery at La Grange.
TIE MONEY KRoovBRsp THROUGH MEANS OF
VISION.


Last Friday night, in the little city OF L. SsahF ~
+ha stnra.hnnse If a Mr.. Baum was entered pg
hnrelars the safe blown open VAIN poMaea, az,
twenfy-six hundred dollars in greehpacNsi tan
with about three hundred doiiafs ~ n,nnsv
shapt Ave hundred dollars OF the aostrasteu i,one
hsionsed To Mr. Baum, and the remainder 10 oap'.
Reeves. commanding negro company NJ WA.
n,aca The greater portion OF when ne heio III uust
the sable members q # hi t barsary Sautain
paaras came to Memphis for detective to visit
"a IA Orange ID investigate the affair. He reached
here an Saturday and, on application to CAPTAIN
paniam;n Garrett, secured the services of Charlie
smith. one of the shrewdest detectives in the city
CAPTAIN r. then telegraphed back to his friends at
IA Grange that he and Mr.. Smith would be up on
Sunday.
of the robbery, but in the middle watches of the
night when the spirits of revelation are supposed
to dance through the slumbering brains of the
innocent children of earth, impressing upon the
tablets of the mind the pictures OF earthly occur
rences which never would otherwise come to hu-
man knowledge, an old citizen OF La Grange,
named Roseine, dreamed him a dream which led
him to the discovery of the hidden receptacle OF
the purloined "greeneys" and the abode OF the
ravished sheckels fgold.'' The vision appeared
unto him, allegorically, as of q favorte COW rem
from his folds by the ruthless hands OF beefess van
dals. The grief for this loss, which would oniy
have continued to puff up' the SENSITIVE lralno
4 of honest Jack Falstaf, without any other ehects
lied Mr.. Roseine to somnambulic investigation OF
4 the route the vandals had taken with MS ""
4 with the crumpled horn.n .,;.,
Il Earth. which has never been untrue 70 human,ty,
whose bodies are formed Of her particles, iaileu
4 not the dreamer even in these moments OF SUM
4 ber She developed to the sightless courers o.
his brain, the hooftracks Of his COW, Wena ;I ~
the direction Of the cemetery OF ms ...e sasJ
n where the cleaning slabs OF whlte l4ar1le MAJ
4 the resting places Of its silent dead In dreaming
fancy he followed, and on entering me enclosute,
4 hi fbe vision changed; he beheld the fragments
i If an IRON safe and INITIATED papers scattered
ohont Here he discovered the footprints OF sin
i ful man turn from the place where the wreck was
sfrewn. He still pursued, and came upon, q spot
\, which disclosed clods OF newly turned sou MheI
Il naared. and the fantastic sprite of dreamland in.
Il formed hin, the lost treasures of the house o.
J. Baum lay motionless beneath. -, ,.5
Il M more was sthusly u revealed, but early mex
morning while the dew yet glistened on the grass
4 he rose from his fevered couch, appareled him
self in the garb of his talors make, and hied hin
a away on the visionary path of his lost mixer
Il The graveyard came before him, the foot prints
n men were there-he found the freshly turned
Il earth, and beneath it a tin bucket contain
Ling the greeny 81 and shekels of gold whicl
4 had been taken from Baums safe. An hour or s.
after Capt. Reeves and Detective Smith reached
4 LaGrange to hear of this Daniel-like vision. Til
/ detective however, examined the room where tn
4 robbery had been committed, discovered that j
4 had been done from the inside, arrested Mr. Baum
4 clerk, named Rollins, complimented Mr. Roscin
on the simplicity of his accurate dream, and toll
j him If it had only been revealed to him the nam
4 of the party who had buried the money, it woul
have been the most perfect affair in the annals
sharp policing. So saying, he returned to Men
4 phis, and told US the tale we have given above
4 rTzi3 5ai3@s s Memphis Avalanche.