Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
Olden gave the alarm, and all the house
I bOld were soon aroused.

0lden gave the alarm, and all the house
bold were soon aroused
The eOnstables were summoned, and
about six O'clGck, WHEN Ihe London
coach arrived with host of passengers,
/ fhe village was the scene of the widest
disorder and CONSERVATION Mrs. Jarvis
50 far recovered as to reveal the fact
| hat the crime was the work of two men;
/ but how they came there, or whence
\ they departed, was mystery. Sus
picion fell on the stranger and his ser
want who had arrived the evening before,
/ but Olden explained their absence by
| telling who one of them was, and how
| he had removed to the park soon after
/ his long conversation with the landlord
was over. Olden, it must be seen, was
not a particularly bright man, or his
suspicious would have speedily assumed
| a form that would have soon cleared
up the mystery. As it was, he was all
/ in a stupOr. Later In the day Robert
Long and his brother rode down 10 the
/ inn, and then 0lden's slow wits were
sufficiently Quickened to enable him to
see that the stranger who stopped at the
/ inn and the man who represented him
self as John Long and accompanied
Robert were wholly different men. He
managed 10 tell his convictions to
magistrate, and soon the mystery was
partly cleared up.
John Long said that he landed at
| Kinston-On-Hull and came on horseback
toward home. At Abbott's hOstelry, III
Hull. he made the acquaintance of
young man who had been staying there
| for u dav or two. and represented hiln-
self as travelling to Headingly, where
his friends resided. This young man
proposed to accompany him on his jour
ney to Knottingly, and having taken
| fancy to a waiter at Abbott's inn, he de-
terlnined to take him with him. The
three started, and on the way John Long
! disclosed his name and the fact of his
| long absence and supposed death, and
! his intention of returning suddenly and
without notice to his home. They rode
together to the park, when John Long
babe his friend goodbye, and turned to-
ward the homestead. That was the last
| he saw of the young man and his COM
panion, the waiter.
After hearing this story two, skillful
! officers wore sent on the road to Hull,
the impression being that the two men
had returned to that place. The officers
| soon found trace of them, for at Haddle-
sey, near Snaith, they had left their two
| iaded horses, and helped themselves to
a gig and a fresh horse. After that they.
were easily traced to Hull, but there all
clues ended. At Abbotts inn they had
not been heard of. There, however, it
was ascertained that the waiter who &C
| companied the personator of John Long
had. when boy, been in the employ of
| Goodman Jarvis. The fact started new
theory, namely, that the job to rob Jar
Wis had been put up before they quilted
Hull. and that the waiter had furnished
| his friend with all the information nee
essary, not excepting the fact that Jarvis
had a pretty daughter.
On reaching Hull the officers commu-
nicated with the authorities there, and
search was set on foot for the culprits.
! All the haunts of such persons were Wis
| ited. but without success. When their
capture was given up as hopeless, curl
Gus incident occurred. Mrs. Abbott,
who kept the inn already referred to,
sent for a sweep to see what was the
matter with one of her chimneys. Those
were the days of the climbing boys, and
the poor little fellow who went up stuck
in the flue. To get at him and rescue
MIN it was necessary to take down the
wall somewhere, and from the sound he
made by knocking with his brush it was
| thought that he could be reached by
| breaking down the wall of room which
was never used, because it was almost
over the stables. The key could not be
/ found, but the door was forced. To the
surprise of all there were signs OF habit
alton inside.
A bed lay on the floor and ample coY-
ering. Several bottles of liquor, full and
/ empty, stood against the wall, and there
were the remains of a recent abundant
meal. Finding that the boy could not
be got at there, the room was abandoned,
| but Mrs. Abbott determined to set a
watch. For some time she had missed
various articles from her larder and bar,
and the secret was now about to be ex-
planned.
Late at night the person she had set
to watch announced that the room was
occupied. Mrs. Abbott sent for cou-
pie of constables, who burst into the
apartment. Two men were found there
in slight aparTel, and one of them was
identified as the waiter who had quilted
the place some time before with COM
panfon and John Long. Both men were
arrested, and turned out to be the per-
sons for whom search was being made
as the murderers of Jarvis and his wife.
| The waiter, whose real name was
James Waters, and his associate, whose
name was Richard Rees, admitted their
quilt. On reaching Hull they disposed
of the heavier plunder; and then stole
a boat and rowed about for days ana
nights, lest they should be captured.
| Finally Waters remarked that at high
tide the water ran up large sewer
under the inn, which was built under
| the quay, and that the sewer led to
the stable The two men pushed their
boat up there and landed in safety. Then
! they reached the deserted room, with
which Waters was well acquainted, by
means of a rear staircase, and established
! themselves there. For food and drink
| they made nightly raids on the larder
turned unobserved to the stable.
There is little more to tell. Waters
finding that Rees was professional
thief, proposed to him to rob Jarvis
whom he knew to be wealthy, and to
have money and valuables in the bar
and in his bedroom. Waters perfect
/ h4lOM4CuSC VI bAO pleaoO AAIehNO tAiC SAAlAO
easy. Both the culprits were hanged at
York.
The reader may wish to know why
Olden hid himself in the closet while
his uncle and the stranger were con-
versing.
Olden had himself robbed and muir
dered man on the road near Terry
bridge, and was always in dread of de-
lection. When this stranger came, he
thought he was Bow street officer after
him, and determined not to be kept in
suspense, secretly occupied the closet to
| listen.
The Wife's Victory.
For half an hour before the circus
opened an anxious looking, middle aged
man was observed walking around
nervously as if he had free ticket and