The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-09-03

wife of Colonel Styles, under circumstances
closely resembling those of which l was
made the dupe. La this instance, however,
a boy had been selzed on suspicion. and 1t |
was this same boy was called on TO iden- |
tify. / had not much difficulty IN the
matter although he had altered in the |
time that had elapsed since that memora-
BILE evening, there were still those remark
able eyes, with their long dropping lasbes,
and the pale delicate face. to bear witness
to his identity and without the least
hesitation 1 declared him to be the same
bog who had guided me to the house
where had been robbed on the evening
of January %. 1859.
The boy did llet seem at all Disconnected
at my recognition, anu even smiled i'll a
slightly supereilieus .tDanner, as though he
felt himself secure from any discovery re-
st,lting from my identification. The au-
thorities had been unable, as yet. to elicit
any information from him he baffied all
their attempts at questioning him with
skill and cunning almost Incredible in so
young an offender. All at once l WAS
band, who stood near me
GOOD heavens - he said half aulibly,
Il believe | see through the whole plant
what a blockhead 1 was rot to have
thought of it before But it was neatly
planned and carried out. by Jove 1t was -
He crossed the hall to where Colonel
styles was sitting, and after speaking to
him for a few minutes in low, hurried
| manner, he asked leave to call witness.
who, he believed, might throw some light
OH the matter in hand. Permission hav-
| ing been granted, he said i'll a loud voice
1.-The man calling himself Jules Fetier,
body servant to Colonel Styles. and now
present ir this hall, is requested to stand
| forward -
For the first time since our entrance tie
boys face fell. and he looked perplexed
and rather disinayesl. There was a move
ment in the crowd as though some one
were trying to effect departure from the
door but the attempt being promptly
frustrated. ] saw them lead into the wit
ness box the French servant who had ac-
companied my husband abroad, but who
had left his service on his return to Eng
land. After some time passed in making
inquiries, and eliciting very little from tie
cautious man before us, he was searched,
and many letters of his present employer
were found upon him also a pocket
book. which contained memoranda, prov
ing Il great deal against himself and his two
accomplices-his wife and the boy in the
L. I..E~ o41 raaI
eerned in his fraudulent transactions.
On further search the whole system OF
his roguery was unfolded piece by piece.
He would take service with gentlemen
about to travel, imposing on their cretiulity
with false references. aud gaining their
confidence by his wel-trained demeanor
and intelligent conversation. Once safely
out of tire country, he would commence
his nefarious schemes, and. with the aid
of his clever wife and child. carry them
out successfully. Nothing was ever for
gotten that could lead to the desired end.
No fraud was started until the details had
been Thoroughly mastered by the accom-
pliCes. and the plan well matured. It Is
impossible to say how many people he
had defrauded in different ways.
He had soon found out how matters
partly from his own researches, and partly
from conversation he overheard betweer
his master and a brother offieer-and con
sidering the situation a capital one fol
practcng his system upon. he had at once
communicated with his wife and uufoldeC
, his plans to her. sending her the signatur,
abstracted from nne of Richards letters a
a tlecoy land also the handkerchief whicl
Ralph happened TO lave taken among hi
own, to throw suspicion on my brother a
J being accessory to the robbery.
Before the examination concluded tn
sergeant, who had been so long on tn
lookout for the perpetrators of the deed
asked my husband how he had recognize
d the boy as being the son of his former sci
5 want. Ralph laughed slightly as he re
;. piled
II believe | should have made the bes
e detective of you all had been on the spo
: 1 thought recalled the boys features 6
) being in some way familiar to me, br
could not determine of whom he remimle
l. me ; however as he stopped to speak to II
3 warder, the mystery was revealed ia m,
= ment by a strange stroke of luck.''
e Turning to the boy who had lost h
courageous air, and was looking cresf-fa
ID len and frightened. my husband babe hi
le hold down his head. For a moment |
refused ; but on the order being repeate,
re he obeyed reluctantly.
< From one side of his head to the othe
contrasting strangely with his thick da
g curis, was a streak of white hair. abo
half an inch wide. which shnne like slv
in the sunlight then bidding the ell
" man remove the cap he wore, he ma
le him also stoop forward, which he did wi
e, muttered exclamation. and there aga
=, - We saw the same strange white band shi
n. out on his closely cropped head.
n, No link seemed wanting to complete &
q chain of evidence against the offender
and the elder was at length forced to a
ca NIT that the proofs were too strong for hi
az to battle with. He begged that his wife
- ,,,l,oD, be seeunefl really atfached-miQ