The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-02-29

'welshed" out Of fifteen shillings, or he
nNp1d have been happy to have given
Guided in our bills. In justice to himself. my
master sent for the police; but Of course they
were no good, and Mr.. Dodds had to give
IS, 10 consideration Of having expressed an
opinion, In his usual terms. upon their incom-
potency. He offered $1,000 reward for the re-
covery Of the notes, and started on with the
secretary with his tall between his le9s) tor
the next race meeting.
some people thought that 1t was the secre.
knew better; and so did /. l have heard Of
things being "borne 10" upon folks--a first
! cousin Of mine by the mothers side being q
bit OF Oalvin-but never was any man more
convinced Of what he hadn't seen than was
that Mr.. John Adamson had taken that
money. The hold Il got on me was surprising,
especially after the Thousand pounds reward
was offered, which did not make my brain
lees busy about the matter, you may be cer-
tain. AT first l could talk OF nothing else, so
that got to be quite laughing-stock with
my fellow-servants at the Inn, when grew
sulky and dropped 1t, which was afterward
lucky for me. They, OF course talked about
| II too, for q robbery Of that magnitude under
ones own roof was enough to set my tongue
wore away from their minds, whereas with
ME 1t was fresh as ever Where could he have
put that money when we searched him and
his room 80 thoroughly? and did he get clear
worried me most. That he stole the notes
from Mr.. Dodd's drawer took for granted.
| Perhaps should not 80 soon have got free
OF my fellow servants chaH-especially as 1t
had begun to rile me-if something else had
from the subject altogether. This was MUIR
der committed at Lewes, within few miles
or US. A murder is always more exciting than
| robbery, and In this instance the victim was
a Brighton cab driver, known to many OF us,
Uhlah ~ n0IIrap m n6a tina fna1dant mora at
tractive. Otherwise 1t was q common case
enough; the man had made q few pounds 10 q
Derby lottery, and for those and the watch In
his pocket. the other: who was bookmaker
on the turf, called kyneton, had murdered
him. The trial had nothing noteworthy In 1t
from fret to last: but when the murderer had
met his deserts, q certain paragraph appeared
In Lewes paper, which being copied into
set my ears tlDgling more than anybody's
After the murderer was found guilty, 1t Is
said he had made voluntary statement to
one Of the prison warders that It was he who
had stolen the notes from Mr.. Dodds at the
Hand and Glove Hotel at Brighton, during the
race week In the previous autumn.
"Come, Bob" said my master. "that dis
poses OF your friend Adamson's having had
anything to do with 1t, which you thought
such moral"
We'll, Sir, yes, SUPPOSE 1t does" said !.
has happened, since It removes all suspicion
from any one connected with the hotel. You
don't know anything Of this fellow Kyne on
being about the place on the Cup-day, do
you?"
'.No sir" said; 'but there were a. many
folks coming and going, and especially, as
you remember, to congratulate Mr.. Dodds on
his good fortune"
"Just 50; and this Kyneton was one Of them
no doubt"
But, for my part, still stuck to my own
opinion II KyneuOn had stolen $1,000 In the
autumn, what need had he to kill q man for
$40 and silver watch few days afterward?
not have flung 30 much money away In as
many years. And why did he tell q warder
about it. instead OF confessing his crime to
the chaplain In the usual way?
The next Sunday happened to be my Sum
day out, and I took advantage Of It to 90 to
Lewes. l had an acquaintance there who
was q sporting reporter upon the staff Of the
newspaper In which the paragraph first ap-
peared. and had great fancy to put few
ues enough, and had had Information from neon me on
certain occasions-one picks 1t up when
horsey gents are talking together, In spite
Of their whispering ways-which had been
aNow. Jack" | said, II want to see the
prison warder as this here Kyneton told that
story to about that robbery at our hotel"
| "Well, to tell you the truth, Bob" he says,
laughing, you'll find that q little difficult.
Between ourselves, 1t was all bogus. It has
been very successful, and been quoted In all
the London papers, but no such statement
was ever made'
"Then, how did 1t get into the papers!
"Oh, In the usual way; 1t was put In by
a.P;an penny -lner-a mere effort q the imasl-
.Then, Jack. must see that penny-a-
liner"
"Totell you the whole truth, Ned" he an
swered with another laugh lbut thought 1t 1t
you; it was me who wrote It."
"Oh. you wrote il, did you? Now look here;
this will go no further" said |, "than you
and me, but must know more. You said you
would tell me the whole truth; then tell me,
who was it as paid you to write IT."
"Well, my proprietors, Of course" he an
| swered sulkily.
II know that; but who paid you besides?'
well, i you must know, IL man a. s. Of the the
during the trial, and he said he would give
something to see himself In print. It struck
him, he said land he was right, that to make
| Kyneton confess to the DOdds robbery would
be an attractive sort Of par THAT means
Il was more my composition than his; but
did not tell him 80, and he promised me q
guinea when he saw it In type; and ne paid
the guinea like man; and what was the
harm In it?"
mo sort Of harm, jack, says l. "and In
shall never get into trouble about 1t; but just
tell me what this man was like"
"Well, be was rather down looking cove" !"
"Hapg-dog2" said l.
swell, yes, to be frank, hang-dog-a
washed-out whity-brown sort Of fellow"
I "With q beardY inquired /.
mo, with no beard"
"Did you notice any impediment IN his
mo. BY the bye, now you mention 1t, :"
said Jack, correcting himself, Il did, 1t was
very. elight, but he said pup-pup-para-
graph"
An right" said 1; I'm much obliged to
you. It's not the man thought IL was.
| "And who did you think 1t was!
"Its no matter. I have come on q fooIs
errand, bnt thank you all the same. II
can do anything for you next meeting.-l
meant, OF course, the Brighton race meeting,
for Jack was not q chapei-goer, far from It
command me-" .
Then went nome more confident In my old
opinion than ever. It was AdamsDn nlmseli
Though he now wore no beardl MO had put
that statemont In the Lespee Ezpfe6e, VRe