The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-12


husband should be suspected Of the crime.
hnorts were made at once to secure his arrest
a ~ 'he polce authorities of New York having
Deen notified by telegraph the captain was
aPprehended on board his own schooner I'm tbg.
Lower bay. he was taken immediateyto his
9ii nGIiei ana there committed to prison, coarea5
VIZ WI tne murder OF his wife. Wl.1e he sd.
nllted having quarrelled with he5 onS bo3i.. s,,
departed hastily thereafter he Sa,,in5 i.S TX
knowledge of the manner Nv Mill aIo ar on
ner oeath' lie was formally Indicted bv tba
iSIu Jury AZ lts Session, the circumstance Of
p.sltss Hl,ins purchased two barrels of lime i'm
iaS'. iI9siuenGej and lime being found upon the
Doay' Weighing heavily against him. ''-'
-er having been in prison a number of
weeks, the release of the unfortunate oantain
was effected in a manner quite as astonaSir.,
as 1t was unexpected. This was NOTHING Iess
than the return, in prOpria personp of tba
woman who was supposed to have been ,nY,
dered-the captains flesh-and-blood wife Tbo
mother and sister who had so positively iden.
titled the body of the murdered woman as that
OF their relative were as much astounded as
reioiced, the neighbors were nonplussed. and
the captive captain was delighted at being once
more restored to liberty. The woman ex-
planned her disappearance by saying that
Immediately after the quarrel with her hus-
band and his fight, she had departed on a visit
10 some friends in New Hampshire, and had
not heard the particulars of her untimely
taking Off and the arrest of her husband for
murder The question then arose, Who was
the woman who had been so mysteriously
murdered, and whose body had been found in
the woods After the lapse of five years. this
question was satisfactorily answered by
noted burglar, who was in the custody of the
detectives of this city. He stated that the
woman whose body was found in the woods
was the 'moll' of an expert English burglar
named Collins, who had since died in State
prison. Having been irritated' beyond en-
durance by the ill-treatment and Inconsistency
OF her lover, she had, in a moment of passion,
threatened to betray the gang to which he
belonged. As the gang had just at that time
been engaged in transactions of a more than
ordinarily serious nature, and fearing that she
would keep her word, they had effectually
silenced her tongue by administering poison
to her, from the effects of which she died.
The frequency with which burglaries are
peTpetrated, and the amount of property
ieloniously acquired thereby, would naturally
lead to the belief that the profession is lucra-
tive one. This is by no means the case. In
the first place, the market is overstocked with
burglars, and there is not sufficient employ
ment for all Of them. Then the property they
may become possessed of cannot be disposed
of openly, but must be transferred to a re-
ceiver, and he it is who makes the large pro-
Nus. gang OF burglars having, Tor instance,
robbed store of ten or fifteen thousand dol
lars worth of silks in a single night, would
seem to have done profitable business. But
these goods must be converted into cash, and
this can only be done "at an immense sacri-
fee" OF course the police are looking for
those same goods, and consequently they can
not be offered in this market. They are there
fore turned over to a receiver, who will pro-
badly give the burglars two or three
thousand dollars for the entire lot. Burglars,
in thus disposing of their plunder, do
not consider so much the value of the goods as
they do the time, trouble, aud expense they
have been to in getting them, and the diff
Guilty in disposing of them. The receiver,
having purchased such lot Of goods, ships .
them to his agents in different cities, where
they will soon after be placarded 'just re-
ceived from auction" or 'immense reduction
in silk goods" Large quantities of burglars
''swag" are disposed of at auction by wholly
innocent persons, who receive them from dis
tant cities, with orders to sell. Burglars find
no difficulty in disposing of whatever they
accumulate, there being receivers who are
ready to purchase anything, from jack-knife
to Government securities; but where the goods
offered are likely to occasion trouble in con-
verting into cash, the burglar must be con-
tent to accept whatever the receiver may offer.