New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-17


pared to leave, and had exchanged fare
wells with the widow, when the door
opened, and, to his amazement his ware.
house porter entered with letter in his
hand, and gave it to him without saying |
word. After obtaining leave from the |
lady Vaughan had moved to the window, |
and was looking out with his back to the |
rest-broke the seal and read the follow |
ing line in pencil: "Don't leave the room
till come :" written upon O card bearing |
the detectives name. Though he could |
not for the life of him guess at the mean
ing of the above, he determined to do as
he was hidden, if possible. and contented
himself with noddiug to his porter, and
saying, Tell the gentleman to be quick,
then"
The porter vanished, and Mr.. Johnson,
although feeling acutely the awkwardness
of the situation, did the best thing he could
do under the circumstances, and asked
Vaughan wherefore he left him so abruptly
in the street. The former endeavored to
make some reply, but his nervousness in
creased so painfully that it was incoherent.
Once again the door opened, but this
time it was the detective who appeared,
closely followed by a couple Of policemen.
Advancing straight TO where Vaughan
stood, apparently transfxed with fear,
he laid his hand on his shoulder and
said
"Will you come quietly, Or must / use
force?'
To the dismay of Mr.. johnson, who ex-
pected an outburst of passion, Vaughan
| asked in a trembling voice:
What is it You want me tOr?'
s'Robbery of $4,000 worth of goods from
this gentlemans store. Have you any
| thing to say about it?'
Mot TO you Aud he held out his
| hands for the handouts.
During the scene no one had thought of
Mrs Wilson, but their attention was now
called to her by heavy fall upon the
| ground, and they perceived that the untor-
tunate lady had tainted away.
Mr. johnson, as soon as he could breathe
| again, demanded from the police officer
the meaning Of the intrusion, insisted
upon it that there was some mistake, and
attributed the agitation of Vaughan and
his sister to the horror they felt at charge
of this sort being brought against gentle
| man.
The detective, without saying word,
| fitted the handouts on the young mans
|
move both from the room. AS soon as
the door closed behind them (Mrs. Wilson
was carried OUT he smiled and said II
know we'll enough what l am about, sir,
but did not like to arrest friends of yours
until had satisfied myself that | was not
wrong in my suspicious. Vaughan is the
man who held your porter in converse,
ton, while his confederates were securing
| ~ II, oil nc
they knew well where to go. Mrs. Wilson
| was often in your store, am told; can you
tell me whether she appeared to examine
the place at all?
In moment a light broke over the
| mind of Mr.. johnson, and he remem-
be1ed his interview with the widow, some
few days before.
"Why," he said, - | showed her all over
the store myself. What a fool | must have
| been"
"Ah," said the detective, ''it's the old
game, after all. / thought SO; a clever
woman is always to be found il coDjunc-
ton with these fellows.
'tWell. l could forgive the sister; she
may have been led away, but as for her
brother
Lord bless you, sir-he is no more her
|
to sit still, end We shall shortly have the
rest of the gang here. When l left you
ran off to your store, after setting watch
on the house, and brought the porter back
to me. was at standstill for moment
as to the best step to take next, when
was told that you had gone into the house.
1 then scrubbed the note and sent it up,
to enable your man to take look at the
| +, TO oI~a
take, and also to detain you in the room in
case they should attempt to escape. He
sWore positively to him although he only
saw his back, and on his doing SO came
up myself, and the rest you know as far as
this house is concerned. I dispatched one
of my men TO make inquiries of several Of
the leading railway tickle. offices, and from
his report have good reason to believe
that the whole party medilated an emigra-
ton TO some of the large cities out West
tomorrow. So we have only just had
time to put the stopper upon them
Mr.. johnson, burning with indignation
at discovering the real character Of the
people he had been associating with, re-
solved to stay and see the end of the
whole affair. In the course of an hour
the front door bell rang violently, and two
young men, of gentlemanly exterior, were
ushered into the room. Seeing two
strangers seated there. they were con-
siderably astonished, and muttered some
thing about expecting to find Mr..
| Vaughan.
''All right, sir, said the detective: 81
will lead you to him when I have had
moments conversation with you. Be kind
enough to allow me'-and he advanced
with handouts in either hand. They at
tempted to buster; but on being told
that the "game was up" and Vaughan in
custody, they subsidized, and looked very
blank indeed. In few minutes they
were all conveyed to prison, before any
information of the occurrence had reached
the ears of the neighborhood.
One thing remained to be done, and
that was to ascertain the whereab bouts of
the stolen property. The amount must be,
all agreed very great, to have enabled the
conspirators to keep up SO good style.
This difficulty was easily solved. One Of
the policemen on watch had seen the
young men issue from house few doors
distant from the one occupied by Vaughan
and his sister. On repairing thither,
startling revelations took place. 1t was
found that Mrs. Wilson had been the
manageress OF baby institution, and de-
rived large profits therefrom. How she
obtained the children is and ever will be
mystery. Certain it is that the police,
when they searched the house discovered
several infants, and the necessary appli-
ances for many more. The nurse in charge
(for the babies were well tended) implied
that great number had been sent away at