The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-03
Chr Autland 1ailg Glohr.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1874.
JACK Ss5EppAteD.
Romantic story OF IL Female Coun-
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4 roNMrR RUTLAND crte rhrAFs

LEY BIGAMY CAsE-PAssAGEs ~ TIE
LIFE OF a ST. Louis VARIETIES GIRL.
The st. Louis Gl0jo OF Dec Dist, con
tains romantic story of female counter
feitcr, which possesses a local Interest from
| the fact that the principal character was
Rutland girl Julia the daughtcrof james
/ NJ Baglcy for many years ticket agent
| Of the Rutland 81 Burlington railroad nj
| this station The GiOjc reporter says that
| that the matter has been invested To such
an extent as to leave no doubt in The mind
| of the writer either as to the trulhfulncss
of the story or its merits as matter of
news to the general public The facts
which follow this brief Introduction have
been gathered mainly from n personal
knowledge of the affair, and partly from
those whose authority cannot well he
doubted, and as partly successful plot it
has not, to our knowledge, rival in the
annals of modern crime.
THE ARRIVALS
Something over two years ago family
named Bagley arrived in the city of st.
Joseph, Mo, bringing with them, besides
considerable money, a reputation which a
part Of the family circle, TO this day. have
never lost. The head of the family en-
tered into 4 partnership with man named
pearly. who still occupies an cnvlabc
standing in the city and the firm was
known as Pcarly < Baglcy. hardware mcr-
chants. Mr.. Bagley, had Il daughter, then
about seventeen years Of ag", and IL is of
her that we have to deal mostly. To all
appearances business llouriahcd, and the
father of Julia Bagey held q good position
in commercial circles Julia was some
what hlase in her STYLE hut folks called il
the wildncss Of girhood and passed it over
with iorIiving smile. Some time pre-
vlous to this young man named AT.
Freeman had arrived in the city, and soon
made many warm friends. He was en-
gagged by Messls. p. l.. lluyctt x Son in
their large musical establishments and his
employers found him to be upright and
honorable in his dealings, being Il salesman
of no ordinary standing. BY some unfor-
tunate accident AT. Freeman happened to
meet Julia, and she was smittcn with his
ready wit and gcntlcmanly bearing. 1t
come to the cars and eyes of Mr.. Freeman
that the female company that julia was in
the habit of keeping was not such as to
raise his estimation Of her character, and
very shortly after mutual acquaintance the
|
was not only against the laws of propriety
but was met with decided disapproyal 10y
the friends Of the young man. 1t became
so plain that but few who knew the parties
had amy doubt rs To the character of the
girl. Some spoke very light of Freeman.
and some went aS far as 10 abuse him; an,
were il not for some new arrivals in the
city, the matter would have become eX
tremely warm for him.
MORE ARRIVALS.
In the spAfg of the year 1871, youn.
man of good personal appearance and al
dress. and with several letters of introduc
ton from the first citizens of Malone, y
y stepped Off the train which arrived ont
fine morning via the Hannibal and 1t. lo'
railroad His letters entitled him to TIN
consideration of several Of the merchants
and ere he was in the city many days ",
find him employed in a retail dry good
store as salesman and assistant book
keeper He was taken into the lest 50
ciety, and treated with that HOSPITALITY
which is sunotiCcahlc among Western reo
pie in general. Shortly afterwards an
other young man made his appearance II
this civ, and one of his first inquiries wa
for his friend, as he proved To he Til
Young man was also blessed with zoo,
looks and a ready flow OF language. II
had in his possession several notes of in
PRODUCTION. and with the same forum
which favored the first he was taken int,
the employ of another dry goods store, am
received the same share of attention Whc
Il his friend had been favored with. Ioun
man No. |, however, although hc did no
make it public, was not nj all pleased wit
the presence of young man No. ,, As on
. heroine was somewhat of the drcSsy order
- it became necessary that She should pa
regular visits 10 the fashionable dry good
stores, and it 50 happened that she was ne
long in finding tina, the very young me
, who had left home ON account of the stil
y ma her name had left on their characters
were once more brought face TO face wit
her. The wishes of the three were tia
they never should see each other again
~, but here we find them in the Far Wcs
each wishing the other out of the way.
In the spring of 1872 another young ma
arrived, and he also was engaged in Il dr.
goods storc-in fact he worked side by sid
with young man No. ?, and it may be be
Of ter to let him tell his own story, as it wi
throw brilliant light upon the affair.
THE DETECTIVES STORY.
am native of Scotland, but my p,
rents brought me to this country before
was twelve years of age. | need not tc
YOU that manifested considerable taleI
in the detective line, because you are aware
unless had shown some evidences of tn,
to peculiar qualification, never would hay
had this duty to perform. Since | can
to be sixteen years of age | have been con
nected either directly or indirectly with Il
business. spent four years of my life ;
~ police reporter on the New York Time
and while acting in that capacity ! had a
opportunity offered me of taking advantag
of the different methods which help
make good police reporter and successfl
~ detective, | was employed by the seer
~ service at Washington, to pay my entil
attention to the northern portion of Ne
York, and my duty was to assist in tcrIc
ing out smugglers more than anythr
else. While engaged in this exciting
well as pleasant business, ! exceeded n
official duties to accomplish another obie
which ] had in view for some time YC
will remember Speaking of the GloJel +
porter that during the years of '1Oand 7,
large amount of counterfeit national bill
and fractional currency were being circ
lated throughout the country Althoul
had nothing particularly to do with thi
one way or the other, yet | determin,
that, come what may, would find out no
they were circulated in northern Ne
York anyhow The days and nights
spent in looking and inquiring into IL
thing need not be numbered let il suili
to say that | was made happy one Sundi
evening by oyerhearing conyersati'
which satisfied me had found the poop
a, was after. | can only mention one nam
lbs because you know as well ms | do that
M, nm would not be right to mention the nam