Litchfield enquirer., 1867-12-12

was all obliged to keep our eyes open and :, our wits about us, for, though We had some suspicious, there was no real clue to go upon it was mostly guess work. Two or three men was arrested, but nothing was ever proved against them, so they was let go, in course. Nothing ever transpiretl respecting the robbery, and 1t was almost l forgotten, except by some of us detectives, for a reward of 9l0O had been offered, and We was, in conrse, anxious to catch the men, as we'll for the credit of the force as means to be dispised. Well, sir, wasn't half satisfied about one of the men who had been arrested, and whose name was Dover. He and another was always to- l gether, and we in the force nicknamed 1 them Chatham and Dover, in consequence We had Chatham (whose real name was Byles) up too. but nothing turned up. However, one night after the business had blown over bit, thought I'd have look after Dover; so I goes to where was sure to find him or his 'pal,' in an out-of-thc- way place near Field Lane. When the door was opened, saw as the woman was new hand, and didn't know me. So I asked if Dover was in. No, says she, he's gone out of town Tn which direc- tion? says I, She pointed upwards which meant north. Indeed says I. Well, tell him as MT. Moss wants to see him as soon as he misunderstanding a shot, sir. was at a man as suspected was fence, and who had my eye on. All right says she, and shuts the door.
 ''Thinks I, I've not done bad stroke of business this evening. Mr. Moss and l will settle our little account now; so I went quietly home. Next afternoon. just after dinner, message comes from the
 - Bank for MT. T., our inspector. Telling me to be ready in case of bein' wanted, off he goes, and in about an hour he came back and said, We've got 0 job tonight he says for party has wrote an- other gentleman's name by mistake, and bolted with large sum of money and his young woman, as is supposed, to America. We had to start that evening for the nine o'clock train for Liverpool. which we did and arrived there about four the uext mor- ming. We immediately put ourselves in communication with the local authorities, and searched several out going ships, but without any success. Just as we were lea 4ing one of the vessels the captain said to me. Its pity you didn't know little sooner, for an American barque sailed yes terdays tide for New York The devil it dld, says MT. I".
 "Yes, says the captain; and you may de- pend upon 1t your man was of in that ves- sell"
 "We're done, then, says Mir. T., and will have to go back with orr tails atween our legs"
 "Well, says I, don't see that by no means. When does the mail goT' asked the captain.
 "Its gone, says he; went last night" That's no good then. says Mir T-. And he was angry at being done."
 'I think, MT. ., I says, as we walked away, think we can catch him yet"
 "How says Mir. T.--."
 Why, said I, let us take the mail steam CT to Dublin this afternoon, and go by the mail to Queenstown; we can catch the steamer there, and pin your man ill New York"
 s'By Jingo! we will" says Mir. T.--; "that's good idea; only I'm afraid I shall have to go alone, for you will be wanted in London, you know, next week"
 I had forgotten that, and was very much disappointed at not being able to accom- pany MT. T- to New York.
 "However," says he, "Ill not forget you when I come back
 And in order to arrange our plans and have some breakfast we returned to the railway station We'll, saw MT. T-- off for Holyhead, and felt very much an- moved at not being able to go with him though, had known it was the best thing that ever happened to me, shouldn't have felt SO sulky, you may depend. As the boat left the landing stage, l turned into - street, and walked about bit until saw great crowd opposite 8 jeweler' s shop. Whats up?' thinks l; anything in my way So asks a by-stander. and he told me an immense amount of jewelry had been stolen the previous night, and there was no trace of the robber. 'Ho! ho! l thought. And I asked to see the owner of the shop; and telling him who l was, re- quested to see some traces of the thief s work, for, sir, some men work in exactly the same way at all their cracks, and you can tell their handwriting after bit of practice. I therefore examined the place, and as suspected, found that this robbery had been done ln similar was to the one in London. For it occurred to me that Mr. Dover had net left London for noth- ing, and now was pretty sure that he and his pals had done this job as we'll. After making my inspection, and asking the pro- prietor to say nothing about my visit, re- turned to lime street station. then found that could return to London by slow train at o'clock, which as I had nothing to do in Liverpool, I preferred to take ! rather than wait for the 3:43 express. l was in much better spirits now than l had ! been, and as I entered the train made up my mind to look after Dover in London, whither I never doubted he had returned, for of all hiding places, sir, London IS the best. So made myself comfortable as possible Nothing happened till, as we were nearing Stafford, a bit of paper was blown into my face, and as out of mere curiosity, stopped to pick 1t up from the seat where it had fallen, two other and lar ger pieces came in and fell on the floor.
 There was no one else in the compa1t- ment, so I put the scraps together, just to see what I could make out af them, and to | my astonishment Tread:
 I will be at 2oclock you do it.
 Good time -.........
 1 That was all. The last words, on the smallest bit of paper, didn't care for, but the other parts made my heart jump when I read them, for l made sure should now catch Mir. Dover for the robbery at Liver