Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-09-02

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you. But Jenny and your child ar
dead, Pat
Dead = he ysllsd--'dsad ! deaa
The two last words came out il
Mortified, bswildersd gssps, an
springing to his fact. he ataggsre
back against she wall, as white as
ghost.
Yes / explained hurrisdiy. :
was out of town the whole winter
and | only learned tho particulars
day or Two ago. The gang, il
obedience to the mGjor orders, frs
turned her into the street, and the,
hunted her from place to place, 81
that she could not procure employ
ment.'
And then while he stood Their,
gasping and glazing at me, | CAV,
him the whole sad and bitter story
much az you had it, but more in de
tail.
sOh, the fieads tbs demons hs
at last moaned, beginning to wiring
his hands, but without tear upoI
his white horror-wrinklsd face
And you, McArdIs-sven you dit
not lift hand to save her.
by heaven, Harnden!'I cried, &C
| been in the city and known You,
wife Was IN trouble or in want, pc
have lost my arm q. she shoulder
blade soonsr than let her perish. II
was no fault of MINE
sob, it matters net Words
words are nothing now,' cried the
poor, bereaved fellow, Suddenly
towering before me, with BLAZING
eyes and cloudy brows. like ga aven
ger of old. SAT last, I am alone
alone in the world, with every hope
every tender feeling blasted. They
have killed my wife among them
Msc-my own Jenny, that was all
the world to ms-snd my child, that
was as innocent as the angels in
heaven. Oh, had they Nc mercy !:
Could they not have spared them
aud let me suffer? Listen TO me,
Mac, and what | am about to
solsmnly swear before high heaven.
LII have life for life, hunting for
huatlng, sleuth bounding for sleHth.
bounding, 30 may the God of Justice
and OF vengeance help me in nv
hour of bitter need Iswear, by all
that is sacred, to live but for one
object-to tear the mssk of mystery
from the maior's face, and to hunt
him off the taee of tho earth And
not him alone, but all of than, all, all,
all. Not villain shall esoapa, male
or female. Every one of the aooursed
Silver Gang-every mothers thief Of
them shall feel q thiet's power, a
thief's vengeance | constitute my
self their Nemesis, TO hunt and hound
them down forevermora
Harnden fairly shrieked forth
those wild, threatening words, after
whioh he staggered into the chair
again, breathing 81 hard aud looking
so whiso that | fastened into the
adjoiolag saloon t, procure him
soms reirJshGent, fearing that ne
would faint. But when | returaed
he had partly recovered, and gently
but firmly refused the glass Of atm
uiant | pToffared him, and tho fer.
NOR indulgence in which. had Mt 3
little to do with his swift doaoen
amid crime a0d.siD
L may ac!udo my sketch By
saying that 40 has never touched o
drop of liquor since, and that he
fulfilled the requirements of his ter
rible oath, wild and ftlul as they
seemed at the moment Of their ut
terance, to the very letter
'Ho tarned detective then, ami
hunted down the mombers Of the
gang, ono by one?'
yes, or in pairs or groups replied
my narrator. Of course, it wss
some time, owing to his antecoients,
before he could be trusted with reg
uar detective work. But il was n Of
long before be made himself equally
admired by tho force and feared by
the thieves in an auxiliary eapaol-
ty; and when ha YES regularly
commissioned as : detective, the
oold-bIooded, patient, relentless and
systematic teuscity aud persistence
with which he began to hun. down,
enveigle and pick off the members
OF that gang, was eautioE.'
and the mGio 2
why be was the fourth or fifth
that Harnden disposed of, by a
strange and exciting stratagem, an
account of which would make CAP
ital sensation story in itself. His
arrest, unmssking aud exposure was
one of the newspaper hits of three
years ago. HIS turned out to be a
big gun named Monteith, who, while
planning robberies in secret for q
long time had been living at the best
hotels, and cutting a swell in fash
ionable circles, which afforded him
ample opportunities for concocting
the long series of burglariss which
he planned for his subordinates to
execute. He was sent up for twenty
years, chiefly upon Harnden's testi-
mony, and died miserably in prison,
OF pneumonia, contracted in the quar-
ries, only short time ago
'And 'Le two thieves convicted the
other day we're, then, the last of
these banded criminals? p
yes Harnden has only been Eve
years in pursuing the gang, often at
the imminent risk of his life, and nu
merous and powerful as they were,
not one of them remains to-day to
curse our community. Either dead,
fugitive, or within prison walls, the y
have all disappeared, thanks to the
piieous event tia, transformed thiei
into an honest man, and brought
about the making ofthe 'Detectve's
Oath
Erzvrgsszzers--s@sx-zz-s<z-ss
SHs had pretty diploma TIED
with pink ribbon from one Of oul
best young ladies' colleges. III oon'
versation with daring and courage
Gus young man, after he had detailed
the dangers and delights OF riding OF
a locomotive, she completely upse
his opinion of independent education
Of the sexes By inquiring: "How d.
they steer locomotives, anyhow z"