The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-06-25
THE MYSTERIOUS ROBRERY.

HouSoS uen1 elie NuAu pdrtb llV6u car
penter named Benott. He was
sober man, who said little. He had
followed several trades, had been {
soldier, travelled a great deal, anc
; had many adventures, but as he never
spoke Of them, the town people
thought he had nothing good to tell.
The only person that he was at all
cordial with was an old soldier named
Trappe who had saved his life in bat.
tie. This man was great talkel
and boaster, and Benott suspected
him of being u knave. He had sci
) up a barber shop in a street near by.
One evening he called on Benott to
ask him to drink bottle of wine at
the Cheval Noir, with two old com
rades who had served in the same
regiment.
At first Benott refused; but when
Trappe told him it was the anniver-
sary of the battle in which he had
saved his life, he accepted, and in
sisted upon paying the score. When
he arrived at the cabaret he found
two ill looking fellows whom he had
never seen before. They sat drink
ing together in the public room until
nearly twelve o'clock.
Benott, after spending more mon
| ey than he had ever spent before at
an inn in harmonic, bade them good
night and went home, followed by
Trappe, who was talking loudly, up
to the room where Madame Benott
and her son were. Trappe laugh
ingly forced them to drink two glass
es of wine with him. Benott, an
noyed, walked to the window, and
when he turned around, was aston
ished to find Trappe gone. He re-
membered this afterwards, but
thought little. Of it at the time, he
was SO sleepy with the wine. He
then fastened his doors and went to
bed.
The next morning he was astonish-
ed to find his shop door ajar, and on
going to his lumber loft, that the
window was open. He said nothing,
for it was not his custom to talk
about what he did not understand.
On going to his work, he found the
whole town in excitement, and talk
ing about great robbery that had
been committed during the night.
He soon perceived, too, that he was
avoided, and many cast strange
glances at him.. Then he overheard
a neighbor say:
81 noticed Benott's shop open
last night after eleven o'clock u most
unusual circumstance mo light-po-
lice"
He passed op, so Benott heard no
more, but his suspicious were arous.
ed. He knew Trappe did not leave
his house until all were asleep, and
that he had opened the door to the
robbers. He remembered the wine,
too. He went to the barber's shop.
"Trappe," said he, "thou hast
saved my life, shall say nothing. I"
The next day Trappe disappeared.
From this time proofs seemed to
l accumulate against Benott. The po-
lice found the tracks of the robbers
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