Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-23

With lot Of Ahealthy cakes
While they gobblei the buttorou toast and rolls
Which the parsons vile did rake.
They hung around Clytie'a classic neck.
The apple-parinGs for sport,
And every ono laughed when clumsy lout
Spilled bis tea on the plano forte. '''-'''
Next d.y the p.isen vent, down on hi. kuee,.
With his wife-but NIT 70 pray;
Orc; 'txas 70 se1aps to grease and dirt :,
From the carpet and the aia1rs away. j.
.,.H' .,~ar.SsAol aad Leather REPORTER.
A DETECTIVES STORY.
My name is-ne matter. am called
Tony. have never been q member Of
the regular police, and I hope my vanity
will be pardoned when I say that / con-
slider myoccupation grade or two above
it; since it must be evident to every one
that dull person may be and oftenis 4
:serviceable policeman, while . detective
has no chance of success without ready
perception and close study of human
nature. am intuitively possessed of a
faculty of imitation, which I have cult.
waited to be of great service in my bust.
ness, a. 1t enables me- to assume, in q
very deceptive manner, the disguise of
any character 7 please; indeed, 80 many
different parts have Iplayed, and in such
various company have / mixed, that It
seems to nae serious problem, at times,
where my proper position in society lays,
have q partner in business whose
real name have no right to make pub
lie. He is oarse-featured person, and
is capable of converting himself BY means
of dress into one of the most fough.look-
ing and repulsive Of men. While in one
of the meanest of his disguises, some one
gave him the name OF F." SLOUGH p and this
rather repulsive sobriQuet attached to
him at first in the spirit of pleasantly, is
now about the only name by which
address him. He is g good. hearted fell
low; muscular and courageous. and he
has, in more than one instance, saved me
from great peril, if not actually my life.
SLOUGH has remarkable faculty of read
ing crime in the face. His conclusions
are generally correct; yet how he arrives
at them has always been q mystery to
me. My own suspicious are the result
of some theory, and I freely confess that
my Imagination has often led me astray.
tits different with SLOUGH. Asingle look
at the suspected person seems enough
for him. He has often upset nicely
woven tissue Of apparently corroborative
incidents for me by glance at the party
suspected, shake of the head and q
gruft and provoking dissent. Only one
instance occurred where was right and
he was absolutely wrong, but as it's re-
cital would be q dispersion, shall re-
serve it for another. ''.' ',-.,
We were sometimes together, and at
other times widely separated. There is
not railroad, canal, or steamboat line
in the United States that one or the
other of US had not travelled over in the
pursuit of our calling. Recently We
have been sojourning in San Francisco.
Some time since the officers of the
P bank in the city of New York
gave information to the police that their
notes had been extensively counter.
feited in q manner 20 alarmingly perfect
that many of the spurious bills had
passed through their own hands without
detection; in fact, the first intimation
of the crime was the perceptible infla-
ton of their paper in circulation.
Every line and shade of theoriginalbiu
was reproduced in the counterfeit in
such a perfect manner, that without the
aid of q microscope, detection was utter
~ impossible. Once discovered, it was
plain that no other counterfeiting pro.
cess could 80 completely initiate the
genuine but the art of photography, and
in that science the manipu1ators must
have been skilled. = Ia, .iT<::s
SLOUGH and / went to work at once, led
by the incentive of very large condi-
tional reward. We labored many weeks
without success. There was not Z single
Photographic establishment in that large
city that escaped our visits in disguise,
and in my zeal to- succeed in the under.
taking, l studied the process Of the art
from beginning to end. Nearly three
months had been fruitlessly spent in this
way, when one evening messenger was
sent to us from the cashier of the bank,
requesting US to hurry to his room. He
informed US that two passenger tickets
had been purchased that day at the Cal
ifornia steamship Office, every dollar for
which had been paid; in the spurious
bills. BE had made some inquiries him
self in the matter, and informed, us that
the ticket agent had no recollection of
the persons from whom he had receiVed
the money, and that tho steamer would
sail at 9 o'clock the following morning.
SLOUGH and I took the matter into con-
sideration, and urged by the advice and
counsel of the bank officers, We deter.
mined to take passage on the same boat.
A trunk was hastily packed with our
motley wardrobe, and after agreeing
upon our disguisesy; w. sailed out the
next morning, taking different routes,
and proceeded without any show of haste
to the, vessel. I hesitate to say that ]
was much disguised on this trip, because
my appearance, a. near as could make
it up, was that of q well-dressed gentle.
man of fortune travelling for pleasure
and, of course the first cabin was chosen
for my quarters. SLOUGH had seized 8
very repulsive disguise, and might have
been seen, as the vessel left the, pier
awkwardly striding &mong the strange
passengers, the most perfect samblance q
sneak-thief / ever saw. As q ,precau
ton, we bore letter Of introduction t
the master Of the vessel, Endorsed ~ thu
chief of the New York police: Sloueh
and were, of course, apparent strangers
and were as widely As possible separated
OH : a lev days i Of our t,i voyage bad
passed before had succeeded in winning
tho good opinion Of ,:my companions IL
the cabin, while ny, partner, in tho same
time, BY hip manner and appearance
has made himsef II object of suspicion
and distrustt to tho whole steersge Their
was an unusually shd4lI number Of. III ii