The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-07-15
Tricking a Smuggler.

w ing the passengers on newly ar
rived steamer they come across a jew who
was passenger in the steamer but he was
very sick. The passage had been very
stormy and he was not much of sailor I;
but, notwithstanding his illness, he seemed
very anxious to land as soon as he could
Both officers remarked this, and asked him
if he were ill. tf
81 feel terribly" answered Moses, 81
am dying Indeed, I'm very bad"
"Sea-sick p" asked the detective.
Shocking" replied the jew. And he
seemed indeed to be suffering much from
severe pain in the stomach.
g Come with me-" said the detective.
"You are an old practitioner. We must
search you before you go ashore. Well or
i'll, no matter"
So the jew had to go into the captains
cabin noleas DolonS. His clothes were
searched, but nothing found. He COM
planned of the rough treatment and said /:
"You did not think to be able to catch me
twice, did you ?" (for he had once before
fallen into the hands of the police for snug
gling) and then he made ludicrous effort
to laugh at his own joke. Then he rubbed
his stomach, writhed with pain, and SEEM
ed every moment to be getting worse.
But he dressed himself again, and was
even going on deck to leave the ship, when
the detective ordered him to wait, at the
same time calling the steward. The latter
came and the officer Immediately told him
to fetch the doctor, for, said he, "we have
here very sick man."
The officer spoke to the doctor about it
outside of the cabin. " Doctor" said the
former in confidential tone, 81 have
within here jew diamond smuggler who
is very i'll he is one of your passengers,
just arrived from Europe And then he
whispered into the DOCTORS ear something
of his suspicious. al wish that you would
prescribe for him good strong purging
mixture; which will act well without hurt
ing him. But give him such dose as
will clear out his stomach in fifteen min
utes. Can you do that2''
understand" laughingly replied the
doctor, who was an honest man, and in his
heart opposed to smuggling "I viii make
him up something suitable; and it shall
not hurt him either"
Five minutes afterwards, in came the
detective with dose of calomel and croton
oil for the sick man. He was indeed very
unwell, he was pale as death and turning
about with pain. But he refused to take
the medicine offered to him. He was 'not
going to let himself be doctored on board
the ship" only at home, and there he would
be willing to have medical assistance.
"Take it," said the detective, ait will
do you good"
"But l will not
"Then we will pour it down your throat
by force-every drop of it," answered the
officer with determination 81 have some
thing more to do than to stand here by the
hour trying to cure you. Will you take it
willingly, or shall we pour it down your
throat?"
at is great deal too much, indeed it
is" groaned the jew, as he looked with
hesitation into the glass held towards him.
"Down with it, shouted the officer,
and the fellow seeing that no kind of refu-
sal would help him, gulped and gulped,
and gulped it down till the greater portion
was taken; but all the time making ex-
ceedingly wry faces.
Now, you ungrateful curmudgeon,
stay here till the medicine has acted and
cured you of your sudden illness But
take lesson. know you, and your game
is played out. Mark that. With these
words the detective moved away.
$50 to the DEVIL" was the answer that
overlook him from his patient as he was
going.
The detective left the jew under the care
Of his companion, to whom he gave final
orders to report within an hour the effect
of the medicine. The dose acted well; be-
fore the hour had expired the officer gave
his report, and diamonds to the value of
"a, 900 were recovered, which the medicine
brought TO light. The smuggler had swal-
lowed them ten minutes before the officers
had met with him.
Romance OF Captivity.