Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-12-11
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\ Mystery Solved--A Fly-Lcaf from
Detectives Note Book.
rom the st. Louis Times,


From the st. Louis Times
Buttonholing one Of our reporters on
his customary rounds yesterday morning
we'll known detective, whose name il
will not be necessary to mention, narrated
chapter from his natural history, which
borders closely on the romantic. His
story, as told in his own language, was
in substance as follows;
do you remember the mystery was
engaged in solving when we last met ;"
he asked, and without waiting for an an
swer, continued: "Well / will tell You
the sequel Mrs. A., you recollect, lost
the ring and Nellie -- was suspected
of stealing it. The morning after the
ball, while sleeping in her own chamber,
the ring was removed from her finger
without arousing its owner. No one but
Nellie had access to the apartment, and
she must have taken it. So thought Mrs.
A, so thought her husband, and SO
thought l, when was sent for and given
the points in the case, before being en-
ployed to work it up. The ring was set
with diamonds, cluster of exceeding
brilliancy and richness. Its value could
not have been less than $500. Nellie
was employed as Mrs. AS waiting maid,
at wages which in four years would
scarcely have aggregated the value of
the diamonds. Every stone in the set
was worth year of Nellie's life and la
Dor, albeit neither or all of them could
have dropped single drop of water on
parching tongue orstroked fevered brow
when it was racked with pain. At the in
stance of Mrs. A. Nellie was arrested upon
the accusation of stealing the ring. She
protested her innocence in tears but all the
circumstances looked so strongly towards
her guilt, her tears were unavailing. |
followed her to the Jail, and at my sug-
gestion she was assigned to cell by her. J
SELF The next day visited her, and by
every means | dared to employ attempt
ed to intimidate her, and harshly charged /
her with the theft. Again she burst into
tears, and hiding her face in her hands,
wept as though her heart would break.
Here the matter ended, for l could 90 no
further. l had forgotten to tell you be-
fore that Nellie was handsome, and she
never seemed so beautiful in my eyes as
when the tears were falling from her
own. in shower of diamonds, every one
OF them more precious than those | was
after. left the cell completely baffied.
Although never told as much to Mrs.
A. or intimated as much to Nellie, was
satisfied of her innocence, and forthwith
turned my efforts in another direction. l
continued my visits to Nellie in her cell
day after day, but never afterwards al
luded to the ring. A week had passed,
and l had all but given up the job in de-
spair. Finally one morning early, while
lettering down certain street in the d.
rection of the river, l iDstinctively passed
under three balls and began closely to
scrutinizing display of pledges in the
window Of "my uncle's - shop. In an
instant my eye singled out whole case
OF rings, one which | thought might be,
and which, as fortune would have it,
proved to be identically that stolen from
Mrs. AS finger. had but little diff
Guilty in tracing out the thief 1t was
Is own son. To satisfy debt,
contracted during ovs,-..vl., h0 Ind 10
ken it from his mothers finger while
sleeping and pawned it.
But how about Nellie' you ask. She
too was guilty of a theft, but forgave
her. She is no,v my ,vite."