New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-18

eral of the carriages where the cause Of GU
| stopPage got whispered about. As for me
when got back into my van, solitary as
| was. chuckled over it until We stopped a
Chalk Farm to take tickets.
| 1t seemed to me that the train was take
| into custody as soon as it stopped here.
'Of course you have the carriage door
all locked, and I'll go down with you Will
! you open them one by one. My men are il
possession Of the platform
| This was said to me by Davis, detec
tive officer whom l knew pretty well b,
! now, having had good bit to do with hin
about this Warwickshire robbery.
| ''1ts no use," said before we started
"thA train was searched, as you may say
at Rugby. Every passenger has under
| gone q close scrutiny, l can tell you
| What causes such scientific preparation TO
| us here!"
"a telegram received ten minutes ago,
| he answered. ut seems that two of tn
| thieves we are lodging are in the train il
clever DISCUSSES. We have had pretty full
| particulars, though the discovery WASH
! made until after you left the junction
Have you noticed he dropped his voic,
little here-"a young lady and gentleman
! together in either carriage!"
felt a bit of an odd catching in my
breath as he spoke. no" said quite il
| hurry. "Ne young lady and gentleman
belonging together; but there may b,
plenty in The train, What if there are
though! There was no young lady or gen
tleman among the robbere."
Among the robbers" Sejoined Davis
with suppressed enjoyment, twas womar
who'd make herself into anything; and you
must own that gentleman with dark
long beard isn't bad tor Il lady known to VI
pretty well by her thick red hair and a cut
on her upper lip
But the young lady" asked, cogitat
ing this.
what should you say, now, if told you she
grew out Of that boy with the elosely cut
dark hair that We are after?''
remembered the pretty plaits and The
loose, falling hair. I remembered the be
wilderment in the eyes which entirely hid
their natural expression. and / didn'.
answer this at all.
II wish had rs good chance of catch
ing the old fellow - ( have of catching the
woman and boy" continued Davis. as we
moved slowly past tho locked luggage van.
Il know they're here, and that / shall re-
eognlZe them under any guise: but we've
no clue TO the other rascal. Its most agra
waiting that, by some means, we've lost
sight OF tho biggest rogue OF all. Come
along"
ulu Coulo dIOUS, lctIiuR very sLuptuly
glad that there was all the train to search
before We could reach that carriage at the
other end where sat the girl whom had,
in way. taken under my protection.
when are we to be allowed to leave this
train, pray! Call me cab" cried the deaf
old lady, pfaintively. as We reached her car
fiage, and found her gazing out in most
evident and utter ignorance Of all that was
going on around her. II am locked in,
ga'ad. Do you hear"
I heard; aye, sharp enough. / only wished
aside watching, while I unlocked her door
and helped her down. Then. seeing her
helplessness and her countless packages. he
.beckOned q porter to her, winking express
sively - call his attention to q probable
shilling.
Carriage after carriage we examined, and
though Davis detected no thief, be turned
away only more and more hopefully from
each. He was SO sure they were there and
that escape was impossible. We reached
the last carriage in the line, and now my
heart beat in the oldest manner possible.
'ls this compartment empty, then!' asked
Davis, whiIo my fiagers were actually shak-
ing as I put my finger in the door Of the
centre one. empty and dark"
''Even il it had been empty il wouldn't
have been left dark" mustered, looking
in. ''Hallo! What's come TO the lamp!''
might we'll ask what was to come 10 the
lamp, for the compartment was as dark as
if it had never been lighted: vet had not I
myself stood aud watched the lighted lamp
put in at Rugby! And-the carriage was
empty. too!
"Why was thisl" asked the detective,
turning sharply upon TIE. why was not
the lamp lightedl'
But the lamp was lighted, and burning
now as sensibly as the others-it we could
but have seen it. As We soon discovered,
tho glass was covered by kind Of .arpau-
lin, intensely black and strongly adhesive,
and the carriage was AZ completely dark as
Il no lamp had been there at all. The per.
pleAity in Davis face was as great as my
OWE, when ! told him who had Travelled
here. "They couldn't have left the train
here, at any rate" he said; and knew that
- we'll as he did.
But you have guessed the end. During
hose few minutes that we stopped on the
line, the two thieves-darkening the lamp
even after had left them, and using their
own key-had left the carriage under cover
II the darkness; managing their escape in
heir black dresses out into the blackness
If the night as eleverly as they had man
nent. But how could they have descended
IN this unusual delay-this exquisite oppor-
unity given them in the inter darkness,
,lose TO tho city, yet at no station? When
officially made my deposition, and e1-
blamed tho cause Of our stoppage, some
hing of the truth seemed 10 break upon
Is all but it was not for a good while that |
t settled into . certainty. Then it got clear
o every body that the older scounGrel had |
luped US moro ingeniOusly than the young !
r ones. As the incapable old lady deaf as a |
srA <f,A< -, l.
through her glittering glasses, with eyes
llways half closed, and so hungry that she |
lad to stop the train for a luncheon basket |
10 had playe cd upon us the neatest trick Of |
IL. Where on earth we're tho thick iron |
ray hair and whiskers by which we were |
. have identified him But by the time !
he police saw the whole thing clearly it !
vas too late to follow up any clew to him. I
The cab which had taken the eccentric !
Id lady and her parcels and flowers from
aston was lost in the city, and could not |
q tracked. high reward was offered for I
lfOrm alton, but no one ever won il. My |
rm belief is that it was no iegitimately |
censed cab at all, but one belonging to the
ang, and part of the finished fraud. l |
erily believe, too, that sometimes now
lough perhaps on tho other side of the
three practiced knaves en-.
y q hearty laugh over that December
'urney by night express.
Davis still assures me. with tho most
leerful confidence, that he shall yet have
le pleasure some day of trapping three of |
10 most expert and skillful thieves in
ritain. I wish felt Is surs Of little I
fgeSy.
Daniel 9. Dickinson.
Burleigh, writing from New York city 20
e Boston Journal relates the following: