, 1875-01-17
HARRIET: WERNER.
Her Dealings With a Young Chi
cagean and His Father.
The Story as Told by the Con-
fdential Friend.
How Charles and Harriet Met
-Her Antecedents.
Why She Was In Company With
Pittsburg Jack and Ills
Ths Progress Of Their LoVes--His
Proposition and It's Re-
ception.
She States the Terms On
Which She Will Mar
ry Him.
He Sets to Work TO Raise the llcney---
Her Visit to His Father.
Preparations for the Wedding
The Friend Gets Alarmed.
She States :. the Terms On
Which She Will Mar
.ry Him.
He Sets to Work to Raise the Mcney--.
Her Visit to His Father.
Preparations for the Wedding
The Friend Gets Alarmed.
The Grand Denouetnent.

The Grand Denouement.
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Tour months ago all the detectives Of Chicagt
regular and irregular, public and Trigate VAT
hunting the city over to find = c. rtaln individus
known ut the East II Jerry Waters, better lnow;
here by tho alias OF Jack Of rittsburF. Ne
got his titls 1T Moscow. The fight at MDutebsll
won Lannes his Ducal .ppellation, and there
no reason Why, even in Republican country
where the Constitution frovrs on orders o
nobility, Mr. Jerry Waters should not be calle
after the plane where he first aignallzed himsel
in criminal records, where he gained iauzels ant
wealth ss burglar, and where he has now re
turned for the winter, aftor summer aeaso,
spent in working up Chicago. As for the e1
ploits which 1nads Jerry famous, are they cot re
corded With many xdjectiyes-suFe1latires g.
taat-ia the columns OF the Commercial aDe
Dispatch! Dut the smoky city Of glass and lror
manufactures got weary Of ita hero; there wa
too much Of him in the city papers, aud one
longs for varsity in reading So public sanu-
ment ran counter to him. and he left Pittsburg
n an unobtrusive way, which vas dsheartenins
10 couple OF officers who had struck his trail.
OF course, he came to Chicago, he and his wife.
But the detectives and few policemen who
fzn aronnd with their mouths agape, expecting
to stumble acroes J. Of P. some lucky night, set
out unanimously BY rejecting the idea that it
really VIE Jerry Waters they we're after. This
WIS not the logic Of common eonse, but it is the
!1sic Of detectives. Point out to them the high
road to success and they inevitably quit 1t to
travel up bind alley again. 4 detective, being
cx-ofdcio wiser thnn anybody else, declines to
listen to any suggestions from outsidars. He il
too s1nart for that-wi:h wink
TEMPTING REWARDS
had been offered. Worthy citizens whose wives
Nept for their jewels, like Rachel of old-re-
fusing to be comforted-heid up glittering prizes
before the eyes of the detectives, SO glittering
that the aforesaid detectives felt honesty was
the best policy, aud did not attempt to
compromise With = thief they could not
catch. The officers were introduced
to tho afflicted sisters whose acquaintance
with the natural history Of such creatures was
derived from tbs plays which Mr. Hooley puts
upoa the stage, and they isvetentially described
the Articles which had gone from them. not
doubling but that the detective would observe,
in tie eloquent language Of Mr. Soggs, or some
other man, t' Madam. thsy shall adorn your per-
son Within week. But tho jewels. unlike the
Prodigal Son, did net return. They sparkle in
other ears, and glitter on other necks, while
their oEiginaI possasso1a wear paste, or, last Of
Inventions, sre leasing ornaments, paying 1or
them in monthly iustaliments.
So please fancy twenty detectives setting out
in s.azch OF one poor little mAa, all With joint
accord asserting the mau they were after was
not tho mau ho really WAS, and throwing away
their only Glow. because they themselges h2d not
foundit.
ALL THEIR INFORMATION
then-a1l they condesceaded to nse-was that
:ertain ran, ago, appeartnce. etc., quite
unknown, had been robbing suntiry
houses, quite wall known. For detailed
List consult The TRIBUNE for August
and for September. He wss presumably an old
hand. OF the officers would havo caught him be-
fore,-a deduction which is datte1iuE. but not
&lwaJs correc:: a lady who believed aha had
man !: he carried cane~" THIS simplifed tho
search; it WAS no longer looking for needle in |
haystack; it was reduced to search for = |
crooked one in rtaek where there wers several |
needloa- Then there Nas |
AEoTHrR TRAIL.
which was rather more promising. L certain t
woman. who Ind hired out as = servant ii houses i
which had Afterwards been robbed, nas sup-
posed to bare played the part Of Iarpe1a. and |
to hsve admitted the enemy within the gatss. I
Now, il. ss VAS conjectured sho was the best |
fnend Of the nocturnal operator, and II, as was
thought possible, she could be caught then, BY
3udfcioua xnaltrea.ment. she might be led to be-
tray her assoc;s:e,-to peach. equeal, or sing, to
nse techulcallties.
The first part of this chain OF reasoning was
correct, amazingly 20 for detective. She as bis
W1fe. not Perhaps 30 much in accordance with |
statutory "a With common Law. Neither minis
tet 1or Justice Q! the Teace had united them;
ehe had no certificate to flourish in her blinds
face. SINCE no divorce waa needed to separate
them, they quarre]ed, aud since le could not
be compelled to pay her alimory, lie gave her Ill
ths money che wanted. which was good share
OF what he made 1t is sad to think that. not
xithstsndinE the shocking Improperly Of their
co'duct, they loved one another with much deyo-
Eiou. |
So tho detective force set OF in search Of
woman ~ we'll IS I man. Tbs former in alravn |
The oasiesr to lind. Women are noticed by men
and woman, men only by women. In the houses
whare
MRs. JAcK
had lived, both husband and wife were able to
give reasonably fair description Of her. Given
it would run: Black hair, burnt
u front from too much frlzz,ng fair complexion.
with tint Of .1ed on cheek-bones; small oars,
piescea; mole just below ieft-haud corner OF
mouth; eyes dark Blight cast IN lett one teeth
fair, one upper nciso1 filled; hands large
heiEht about . feet inches xge about Il.
The moral diagnosis varied according to ths
Women: A. person you distrust the moment you
let evos on lser; = Dir. cunning look; quito
:atlike; no, Eot good=1ooking, but rathcr bold. |
According to the gentleman deuced fne-,ook-
ing woman; bright as steei-:Tap; evidently
lady; thought she was not mera servant thu
Enoment I sat eyes on her.
TIE CHASE WENT or.
Every woman who looked like Mrs J., and every
mas *ho wss supposed to look liks what tho
1reat Unknown would have looked like If any
body had known what he did LOOK like, we're
picked up and taken to the AmorJ, just about
[hat time there *aa flush OF mysterious prison.
efs held thete, concerning whom The reporters
eonid learn nothing. They wore worss bedeviled
tEan I the many men who have tried to find out
LIE features behind the Iron Mask
ONE nAY L DETIcTIvH-
5,1nmors-clanncnd ), In 1t Field i Letters, and
'aass. na<tanshk for ailt a1asa, .&aa anothaf