The Indiana State sentinel., 1875-09-16
TIE DETECTIVES, MISTAKE.

THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD Gagged WILL
BIRD, BUT HER MATE CONVINCED THEM
THAT IT WAS a CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
The Virginia City Chronicle records the
following absurd adventure of bride and
groom: About two months ago a young
lawyer of this city and his newly acquired
wife were returning from a visit to the Bay
Wearied trifie with the constant billine
and cooling the young husbano
made some feeble excuse or other ano
slipped off to the smoking car to en-
Joy cigar and think, with a sigh, of the
departed bachelor days, when he could spit
out OF the window over his boot toes. wit b
none to say, "Oh, please, Steve. DON'T" The
bride, with rather an injured expression,
was sitting in her palace car musiug on the
waning ardor of her Stephen, when she sud
denly discovered that she was the center o.
attraction for the whole car. Two rough
looking men were standing in the aisle
gazing at her closely, and then referring to
paper which one held In his hands. Before
THE AsToNISHED AND INDIGNANT LADY
could collect her thoughts one of the men
took the vacant seat beside her, and, with q
knowing wink, observed:
ga good get-up, Nancy, but it won't do.
You're copped dead TO rights this time,
honey"
"Sir?p gasped the frightened lady. shrink.
ing back into the farthest corner
"By the big stick" said the man admir-
ingly, Nance, you'd ought to a-gone on the
stage. i never see anything better done.
But it won't do You've got to come back
with us, Nance, an you stand mighty eooo
chance of goin' over the bay for five al
shortest"
''Sir, what do you mean?" demanded Mrs.
-, thoroughly aroused and starting 10
her feet, "Will no gentleman protecs me
from the insults of this fellow?"
Half dozen gentlemen spreng forward a.
this appeal.
THE DETECTIVES SHORT SPEECH.
Gentlemen, said the man, '.jist tend to
your own business and I'll tend to mine.
I've been hunting this bird for two months
and more, and I've got her at last. She
puts on good deal of style, but if you've
heard of Nance Brown, one of the cutest
thieves on the coast, here she is. I'd have
taken her quietly, but if she wants TO make
a row, it's her own business, Fm Detective
-, and here's my warrant"
" Oh, this is intolerable," cried the Door
lady, bursting into tears of indignation and
shame. Gentlemen. my husband, Mr..
heavens sake"
There presently appeared about the wild
est-lookIng lawyer outside of Stockton. The
detective grinned at the vehement explana-
tiOnS of the husband, and the other officer
warned him to be quiet or he would arrest
him for interfering. Fortunately, there were
several Virginians on the train, and they at
once identified the lawyer as respectable
citizen, though the marriage being recent,
they had not known the lady. The detectives
were profuse in their apologies, and got out
of the car in double quick order, looking
more sheeplsh than any thief takers have q
right to look, and swearing that it was the
strangest resemblance they had ever seen.
THE OLDEST PART OF THE QUEER AFFAIR
has yet to be told. The young law
yer so entirely forgot the incident that he
did not mention it to a single ono of his
friends here, and it has only come to their
ears within the last few days. An uncle in
Sacramento has been given by the husband
as one of his references, and, to make quite
sure that they had not been sold, the officers
called upon the old gentleman. In letter
to a friend in this city, the uncle expatiated
upon the outrage prepetrated upon
his beloved nephew, and inquired il
Steve had commenced suit for damages yet.
With fiendish delight the person to whom
this letter was addressed went about telling
the story, and now the poor young lawyer
and husband hears this twenty times a day:
"Oh, hullo, Steve, old boy; nice day, isn't
it? By the way, Steve, that was an odd sd-
venture you and your wife had on the cars,
wasn't it?" And the young husband and
lawyer casts quick glance at his enemy
and says: "Why, havn't you heard of that
absurd affair before? 1 thought everybody
knew of it long ago. l thought told
you all about it. Let's take drink"