Worcester daily spy., 1871-06-17

A GREAT MAN AT EPsoM.-A detective IN
spector had, at my request pointed out to me
what he called "the greatest thefwe have here"
A most gentlemanly looking man he was
dressed more like a professional man of moder-
ate income than what you call a swell. His
hair and mouStaches were already turned grey
not from advanced age Ibut from frequent
trouble and shaving. The velvet collar of his
overcoat, and flower in the button hole, gave
some freshness to his otherwise tired face. This
gentleman has been convicted at Paris, Brussels
and Warsaw, and no end of times in London.
He never buses himself with small things like
watches, brooches or anything of that kind; he
waits till some gentleman of independent
means" gets drunk, whether with or without
his assistance, and then possesses himself of the
pocket book. This is his usual way of doing
business. He was pointed out to me with all
possible precautions, in order that he should
not discover my intentions. "And take care"
said the inspector to me, that he does not find
out what you are there for. He will knock the
head off you if he discovers that you are watch
ing him." In about half an hour | managed to
get into conversation with the man. We took a
glass of brandy and soda-water at the bar in a
booth behind Barnard's stand-that double
booth which is surrounded by betting men and
crammed with people settling their accounts
and discussing the forthcoming betting. He
never left that booth for single moment
the whole OF the race, and an endless num-
Der of people came to shake hands with him
-=all sorts OF people, dirty and clean, young and
old, betting men, Jockeys, and even awel-Rnown
comedian But his most intimate friend seems
to be corpulent Belgian, who said he was eirbt
years cuirassier officer in the Belgian army.
and had subsequently, through his passion for
horses, taken to administering in England. He
had several carriages lent out to foreigners for
the Derby, and proposed that should take one
for the Oaks. The price was eight guineas DUR
ing the races, and thirty shillings day any
other time. His horses and carriages were first
rate, and his taste in all matters connected with
norses quite English, He had now been liy-
ing in this country for fifteen years, and I
must say, that his English was really perfect, in
comparably better than the French of his friend
"the great thief" The Belgian seems to have
been directed by his friend to entertain me, and
heard even the word "game" whispered with
an additional instruction of don't hurry" At
all events, the great man himself spoke but COM
paratively little to me, only now and then few
indifferent words in most gentlemanly tone
and style, and had 1t not been for the restless
and continual twitching movement of his temples
which, so to say, completed his conversation,
one could never have formed an unfavorable
opinion of the quiet though resolute features of
his face. The temples, however, spoke quite un-
faVorably; they whispered to you the suggestion
that If you were man with money in your
pocket, and should find yourself alone in rail-
way carriage, or in some other isolated place,
with the posseSsor of these temples, it might be
the worse for you.-The Pail Nail BUdqet,