The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-27
A DETECTIVE CAUGHT ON THE FLY
And Done Brown-His First Love, and
what Came of 1t.
WRITTEN FOR TIE NEWS BY COL. W.

Should you take the trouble to exam
inc the records of the United States Sc
cret service, you would there find in part
the story of the criminal career of Thorn
as Brownie the ''koniacker." Brownie
was reared under the tuition of a good
and tender mother. and supplied with
every luxury by an indulgent father.
Yet for some unaccOuntable reason he
chose to enter the society of criminals
and pursue evil ways with an earnest
ness and success that made him the ad-
miration of his peers and disgrace to
the mother who bore him. He commit
ted crimes which society, in justice to
itself, could not excuse; crimes for the
suppression of which the best energies of
the country, the skill and sagacity, the
intelligence and cunning of able Off
GERS and liberal expenditure of money
had been called into requisition.
For long time he pursued his criminal
practices with seeming impunity. No
man of his years, perhaps, had the conf
dence of the most expert counterfeiters
of the country so much as he. And his
extravaganza in living and dress, and
his lavish expenditures, showed the extent
and success of his operations. But nei-
ther the subtle ingenuity of his plans nor
the wealth and responsibility of his faith
er's family served to shield him from
the lynx-hke eyes of the ever vigiIant de-
tectives.
1t was while in the height of his Grim
inal glory, and when daily strutting
Broadway with the air of a man of I'm
Improbable character and inexhaust-
IDLE means, that he learned, through
treachery, that had directed his arrest.
ablest employees, and began to look
upon his case as one of those requiring
time and strategy. had then employed
upon the force a remarkably energetic
officer, whom we will call Charley A.
Charley was young, well educated, of fine
address and, withal, good-looking. Sc
lected him to watch the movements of
the family of young Brownie, hoping
thereby to obtain a clue to his hiding
place. One pleasant afternoon, several
days after Charley had taken his post
near the Brownie mansion, an elegantly
attired young lady was seen to emerge
from the watched house and enter a car
riage in waiting at the foot of the granite
steps. The carriage rolled away at a
moderate pace, enabling Charley to keep
wi I'M 10 ON Foot A Al
ment the young lady tripped over the
gang-plank of the steamer Providence,
then lying at the Company pier in North
river, Charley carelessly sauntered in be-
side her. The elegantly-dressed woman
stepped up into the grand saloon of one
of the finest steamers in the world,
and becomingly beckoned to her
one of its chamber maids Charley
was standing conveniently near. TAX
ing from the pearl inlaid portmonie
a ten-dollar bill, she modestly expressed
a desire that the nut-brown chamber
maid in waiting should procure for her
passage and stateroom tickets to Boston
Great was the disappointment of the
fair damsel, however, when she learned
from the lips of the maid, shortly after
wards, that every stateroom on the boat
was engaged for the night. This was a
rather sorry predicament for a gorgeous
ly attired young woman to be placed in,
and she evidently felt her disappoint-
ment keenly if the deep drawn sigh that
escaped her lovely lips was an index of
the feelings of the heart Charley was
as kind-hearted as he was enterpris1ng,
and 1T panied him much to witness the
distress of the girl, and he resolved to
procure her the much coveted state-room
at all hazards; even though she were the
sister of the man he was seeking to ar
rest. ut might not be such bad idea,
| either, to make her acquaintance, and if
possible keep her in sight," soliloquized
Charley, who, in his Imagination, felt
sure that she was going to meet her
brother Thomas. Eyes, this is my OPP
portunity," thought Charley; az can in
gratiate myself into her good graces and
thereby accomplish my plans, and prove
to the chief that am the sharpest man
on the force, as know am" With the
politest of French bows, Charley accost-
ed the sOrrow-stricken female before
him, and so satisfactorily did he address
her that she at once confided to him the
task of obtaining for her a state-room
ticket, and in less than fifteen minutes
from The time of Charley's departure he
was again by her side, modestly receiv-
| ing thanks for his disinterested kind
ness. As she held the ticket between
her jeweled fingers and smiled, she dis
played set of pearly white teeth, sur
rounded by pair of soft ruby red lips,
and o! such eyes, more sparkling and
bright even than the four carat diamond
solitaires that adorned her ears. 1t was
near eleven O'Clock that night when they
babe each other good night, with prom
Use to meet again in the morning They
breakfasted together at the Revere House
on their arrival in Boston. She was
more lovely and fascinating in Charley's
eyes even than before. She was 40 confid-
ing, too so frank and truthful she could
have almost put to blush the husband
of Martha Washington.
Charley had learned everything. This
young, beautiful and sensitive maiden
had courageously ventured forth with a
hope of meeting and reforming her much
loved but Maynard brother. The detec-
tive saw it all, and actually sympathiz-
ed with her, even though his own repre-
sensations had been made falsely that he
might obtain her confidence. He had
cruelty deceived her, but as deception is
part of the dective's ''stock in trade, -
there could be no great harm in it after
ali; especially inasmuch as Charley was
good looking enough and suficien thy
genteel to be the son of an italian noble
man, travelling to crafty his curiosity,
as he had led the young lady to believe.
Her account of herself was plain, straight
j forward and truthful Her father was
wealthy; her own mother had been laid
in the cold and silent grave; she had two
sisters, both younger than herself, and a
darling brother, who had been led astray
by evil associates. He had committed a
crime and the officers Of the law were
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