Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-07

who, hearing tol-Ghot, had come up
stairs and arrested Or.o6 and the Baron,
and, finding me on the ground bleeding,
had sent for surgeon and my wife, hav-
ing found my private address from let
teF In my pocket
Iwas only faint from los Of blood the
bullet did little damage, and I preferred
getting up, and then gave IN account OF
The evenings adventure, not noticing at
the time that tall inspector OF police was
"Will you kindly show me those pieces
Of pepers" he sAid, advancing. II have
the men in Mr.. Moss ONCE; but beyond
the assault On you have NO evidence
against them; but know them WE'LL
produced them, and the inspector ~
tened on the one which seemed 10 Be .
plan, then looking around, sid:
This II plan Of your ONCE
sCall me Jew III ain'tr exclaimed
Mr. Moss, taking II.
"Yes 1t II certainly plan OF your OF.
ace. See, here Is the doorway, and there
comes the other room. Then there 10 .
cross against the fireplace In this room,
ON what Judge from the lines 70 mean
the fourth board from the hearthstonc.
and another cross against the sixth from
the heartbstone In the other room. Get
crowbsr, Mr. Moss"
"There's one down stairs"
do believe that If you'd asked for
crocodile he would have got one "down
stairs"
Crowbar and policeman to WELD it
were soon produced, and then the mystery
was unravelled.
Close to where l sat were unearthed
several copper plates for the forging of
| Russian rOuble notes of various amounts;
and in the back room, under the flooring
were found several hundred of well-exe-
cuted forgeries carefully soldered up In q
tin case, together with correspondence
duplicating Orloff and the Baron. It ap-
peared that Brunton was engaged By a
New York gang to engrave the plates,
and that he had never seen his employers,
the agent between them being the Louise
before mentioned, whose fair hand l had
been compelled to decline. Brunton had
evidently become frightened, and had fed.
He was no traitor, or he would have de-
camped with the plates. Perhaps the
dread Of having to espouse Louise may
have had to do with his fight. She was
q very handsome woman, If may Judge
from q photograph Of her found in the
tin case, but looked like one accustomed
to rule, and who would not hesitate to ad-
minister wholesome correction to her
spouse.
Assisted int carriage which was wait
ing. had the satisfaction of seeing the
Baron and Orlof brought down in hand
cuffs, the Baron regarding me with q
sweet smile, and Orlof scowling on me
like nend. did not prosecute, for they
were 90 well known TO the police a.
forgers, that there WAS evidence enough
for the Russian Embassy to procure q
conviction and . sentence Of ten years
penal servitude; and in due time I re-
covered, and dismissed the matter from
my mind.
But had not heard the last oft. About
twelve months after the trial and condem.
nation Of the Baron and his friend there
came ono night timid knock ct my Office
door, and my clerk (for had such luxu-
~ then) ushered In what, ct frst sight,
seemed TO be . moving bundle Of rags.
Strictly speaking, the bundle Of rags In.
sisted ON seeing me, and ushered itself In,
spite Of al remonstrances.
II came and stood before me, and re-
solved itself into the resemblance Of .
man. man lean, haggard, submerged,
ragged, and dirty, but with facs some.
thing like my own and without putting
. question. knew that stood face to
face with Carl Brunton, and ! addressed
the rags by that name.
II took that name" the poor, shivering
thing replied, "but my name is-but no
matter. May speak to your"
"Yes, 20 on"
"Wili You give me some drink Arsti I
have had none to-day, and I feel delirium
tremens coming on. o, how cold it Ia,
and how shiverr'
I sent the clerk for some brandy, which
he took raw, and with shaking hand held
out the glass for moro.
II imagine 1t IL Mr.. Moss you want to
zee, 10 It nots II 90, you win find him TO-
morrow, ct ten o'clock"
"No, NO, you, you I want-I-I am
very poor. very poor. viii you give me
sixpencef"
fgave him half crown.
"Now what can I do for your"
al left some property here when /
went away. You won't refuse TO give II
upf seem poor, but I am rich-ahl 20
rich and win pay you we'll"
"You mean the forged rouble.notes and
the plate you engraved them ffomi"
"Ah! Who told you thatf Then you
have found them, and used them! I ran
away from them, and wished to LEAD
better life, but they drew mo back and
now you have robbed me, and ahall
starven
/ explained to the poor wretch what
had become Of his possessions, and how
they we're found, and inquired II he had
not heard Of his accomplish
"No; have been wandering about
the country, living in hospitals and work.
houses, because they hunt me down from
place to place. They will kill mo as they
killed the Posen Jew and the engraver ct
Stockholm, oil because they demand
fair share They are logging me TO- night
lone Of them ID outside now. Let me zee,
what did come here for? o, sixpence.
Lend me sixpence; I'll give you hundred
pounds for It to morrow"
made further donation, and, % the
man was evidently in state Of delirium,
I told my clerk to fetch . medical man.
But before he could execute the order, the
bundle Of rags crept down the narrow
stairs. sitting on each step, and wriggling
BY aid of his hands TO the next below,
whilst we, unable to pas him, looked on,
ouNavir~ hov Il vvo,,1d all on1