The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-01-26

Our detective got a very accurate
description of Mrs. Beckwitb. Che
asked no questions about Mr.. b and
then went to a friend be had 10 Stew
arts. Had be stolen only $4,000 she
would have gone to the cheap dry
goods stores on Sixth avenue, bat, G
$500, 600 defauiter's " ife would be sat
isfied with nothing short Of Stewards
He had a friend there, q salesman.
(the detectives have them every
where and giving him a description
of the woman, asked him if she came
there?
Every day." was The answer
"Let me stand here, by you, auo
when she N in, nod"
"All right"
And the that detective stood all
the day, as patient Is a statue. ri
naIly, about four O'Clock one day, q
woman came in, and the salesman
nodded. She made some purchases
and went out, not knowing that the
gentlemanly person just behind her
was following her, n would follow
Der should she go o Chicago. she
did not go to Chicago, but she did e
home to her husband; and the de
~tective took a room in the house op.
posite. and be waited and waited, I'll
one night, at nine, Mr.. Beckwith
went out for his airing. and the de-
tective bad no more trouble in taking
him in than he would in picking up a
pin.
You see, the catching Of q crimi-
nal is a purely philosophical matter.
The detective knows hat every man
has a woman about him, and that
the woman is certain to go 10 lhe
man. He catches the woman hrst.
An experienced thief, however, is
harder to catch, for be knows all
about it as well as the detective does.
His woman would no more go
straight to her man than she would
deliver him to the police, for she
KNOWS lDdI sue 10 bCihS ""eSHSN
She never goes out except when she
must. and she doubles, and turns like
a fox that her trail may bot be dis
covered. IL is a sharp detective that
can follow the track of an experience
ed thief's wife or mistress. She
knows that she is considered as q
verv important party, and she watch
es herself, just as closely as the tibet
does himself. But Beckwith was
not an experienced thief, and so be
was caught without trouble.
BUSINESS
continues worse than ever, if posi-
bic. Why don't the people come
and buy? Don't they wear any more
clothes? Don't they eat OF drink!
Why is it? There are a few mer'
chants in the hotels, and a few buy
ers see about the wholesale houses,
but the few that come only buy Just
what they have to have, TO say they
have a stock, and they want that lit
tie on such terms as no merchant can
live at. The change in the rates OF
freight west will make some differ,
ence, but | fancy the trouble lies
deeper than freights. 1t costs to
much to do business here, and New
York will never get her business
back till everything comes down Sc
hard-pan. Tie hotels must drop
their rates, the theaters must come
down to ante-war prices, and all tbs
expenses of coming TO the city, stay
ing here, aud getting out again must
be lowered to something like the old
times. Then people will come here
again, and business will revive.
New York has been too greedy, aud
has killed the goose that laid 1t;
golden egg. There is such a thing
as presuming too much on natural
advantages. 1t isto be hoped thai
the spring will bring a revival, but II
is a dreary wait.
PIETRo.