Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-09
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"What!'' he blurted out trying to gulr
down a something that seemed to stick in
his throat. "Me? How dare you say
such a thing?"
"I dare say anything that I know is
true. You asked me plain question, and
I gave you plain answer"
Calming down q bit, when he saw was
not cowed or taken aback at all, he says
"Do you think I should be such born
fool as to rob myself?"
+ "That's another plain question; so il
| you want another plain answer, here it is
Not yourself exactly, but your creditors
| That's about the breadth of it."
Then he began to bluster again. In the
midst of which I left him and walked
after Driver, who said "What were you
a;jawing with the cove about? Twas his
own crack" 3l0 S s'4-@ go g
"Right you are," said I; "and what's
more, told him So"
"You see, sir" said the detective, in ex-
plapation, "the marks on the windOw-sill
were all made from the inside"
1t will astonish the unsophisticated
reader to learn that the proceeds of a
robbery are often not recovered, because
it would not pay to recover them. A de-
tective is sent for the day following q
burglary. He receives a description of
the spoil. He knows by what channel
as we shall presently show-intelligence
may be conveyed to the present holder of
the booty that the person robbed will
give so much for the restoration OF his
valuables. But where nothing is offered,
the plate goes to the limbo of the melting
pot With watches, the rogues melt the
cases, and having erased name and num-
Der on the works, put them into fresh
cases. Rings or bracelets they denude of
stones, which they dispose Of on the con.
tinent, or even at home; except in some
cases, when they send them as they are,
if bearing no name, crest, or mark, to the
richer colonies. Indeed, it is well known
fact, that the wife of very high official
had bracelet offered to her in one of the
first shops in Melbourne that had been
stolen from her house IN Park lane, Lon
don, but fifteen months before.
Even bank notes, though stopped, can
be got rid of; and there is plenty of ma
chinery for doing so. A stranger lost
several Bank of England notes for fifty
pounds each in a certain provincial town.
Notice was given to the Branch Bank of
England in the same place of the loss, the
number of the notes being also supplied
to the district manager. Now, Bank of
England notes, when once paid into
Threadneedle street, are never re-issued,
even if they have left the bank new the
same day. No fear was felt of their get-
ting abroad again, if they once went
"home;" so a duplicate list of the lost
notes was forwarded more leisurely to
town. In about six weeks, news was sent
down to the provincial town to the
effect that the notes had reached home.
They had been paid by a bank in the
provincial town to their city agents
The country bank had received them
from q professional gentleman, and
they had been paid to him by a
tradesman in a large way of business,
who had been long suspected by the po-
lice of being buyer of stolen notes.
There the clew abruptly stopped, and
could be pursued no further. The trades
man said he could not tell whom he had
the note from. Invited by the police to
attend before the magistrates, he repeated
the same tale Asked particuls ly by the
magistrates clerk ifhe took so many fifty
pound notes in day that he could not
tell whence they came, he replied, gener-
ally, that he often took ffty-pound notes
without indorsing them, and this must be
one; and he positively could not tell how
the note had come into his hands, except
he knew it must have been in the regular
course of trade. And so it ended.
!, Now, if this had been man in a small
way Of business, he could not have got
off by such an excuse. The police were
morally sure the tradesman had bought
the fifty pound note, but they could not
prove it. The vastness of his business
protected this man; whereas the petty
-tIader, being unable to urge such a plea,
would have been caught and trounced.-
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