The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-05-21

| ssot"h oiVss'l3 az W WueIc ne ma oeen since
he had reached New York lie said that he
went straight to tho Metropolitan Hotel in
the afternoon. went to Niblo's Garden The
atre in the evening, and from there went to
the beer saloon in a Broadway basement. and
there discovered his loss.
:. Then come aloag with me to the hotel,
| said to him." Mr.. Leland continued, "sand
we viii go down to the theatre, and see
whether We can find any trace of pocket book
there The Metropolitan Hotel Office, you
remember, has door opening directly into
the theatre. took him through the office
into the lobby, and we woke up the night
Waterman, who had gone to sleep, for it was
getting late. 1 told the Waterman that we
were looking for something that had been lost,
and he unlocked the door and lit the gas
The lower seats in Niblo's in those days were
upholstered sofas, instead of the chairs now
IN use, each sofa seating number of persons,
and the arms of the ends being upholstered,
and separated from the seats by a space about
half an inch wide. Mr.. b. remembered the
seat he had occupied, and said it was at the
extreme end of one of the sofas near the mid.
die of the house. We went down there and
looked over the seat and the floor, but there
was no sign of the pocket book. We had
more of the gas jets lighted and I ran my
hand around the crevice between the back of
the sofa and the seat, and the seat and the
arm, There, in the space between the up
holstered arm and the velvet seat, was Mr..
BIS pocket-book. He had carried it in his
pistol pocket, and when he sat down it work
ed its way out, and, being thin and fiat, al
though it contained good deal of money it
slipped into the creyice, and there it stuck,
just about half an inch of the end sticking
above the seat. Nobody would have noticed
it without looking particularly for it. The
money was all safe and sound.
g D. was the gladdest man you ever saw,
ready to jump for joy, and half ashamed of
himself, too, for accusing the waiter,girl.
told him be ought to make her a present of
$50 or so for having her locked up, but he
protested that he couldn't afford it, saying
that he had brought the money on to buy
goods, and could not spare It. At last, though
after some talking, he agreed to give the girl
$50. was glad, on BIS account, that the
money was found, but good deal more glad
on account of the girl, who would have stood
a good chance of conviction If the pocket
book had not turned up. l knew that she
would be overjoyed to hear that her innocence
was established, and half expected that she
would drop down on her knees again and
make another prayer for thanksgiving. d.
rpf sAeJ f..t a.. "A -
CAPT. ulinaInson OF the Tnding of the money,
aud asked him to let the girl go, as we had
proof positive of her innocence. He said that
the law would not allow him to do that, but
that lie would take her out of the cell and let
her spend the remainder of the night In the
public room up stairs. The pleasant task of
telling the poor girl that we were assured of
her innocence was left to me. The Captain
went down stairs and brought her up. She
was very pretty girl.
My girl, said to her, when she came
up, the money that you were accused of
stealing has been found and we all know you
are innocent. You will be discharged in the
morning as soon as the court is opened
1.-THE honest girl didn't get down ON her
knees and offer any prayers of thankfulness.
Assured in her own mind that she was out
of the scrape, she changed her tactics Won
derfully. After looking scornfully for min
ute at the man who had caused her arrest, she
broke out in a string of oaths half yard
long, aud for fully ten minutes cursed Mr.. b.
and all his friends in style not be excelled
by an expert bootblack. She WIS able at pray
er, but her praying capacity was nothing to
her talent for swearing. There was not an
oath Or a vile name ever heard by mortal ears
that she did not apply TO poor b. aud it was
all done so quickly that there was nothing
left for him but to stand and take 1t like
lamb. After she got through he Gained her
excited mind very much by putting $!5 in her
hand. She was discharged in the morning !;
Mr.. b. returned to Connecticut, and Judge
&. sailed for California, cursing the circum-
stances that would not let him stay in the
city long enough to prosecute the policeman
who locked him up.
"Thus," concluded the jolly landlord, 4" did
justice triumph, and rescue the innocent from
the hands of the spoller,o