Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-26
STOLEN-$3OO!

STOLEN-$30O!
esThis seems to be queer case in Grand
street." said our chief. "You may 60
down there, Thompson, and see what
YOU can make of it,
was new in the Secret service at that
time. and it was a feather in my cap to
have a matter like this put entirely into
nv hands, for it was a queer case and no
mistake.
The place was a French fiat, and the
victim of the robbery, Mr.. Myron Jacobs,
occupied suit of rooms on the second
floor. A roll of bills, containing three
hundred dollars, had been taken from the
bureau drawer, where he had dropped it
loosely the night before. The facts that
Mr.. Jacobs related, and which are corro-
borated by members of his household,
were mainly as follows:
Being an early riser he had started out
of bed that morning and gone into the
kitchen for the purpose Of applying a
match to the fire alreadylaid in the range,
hut finding the hands of the clock only
nointed to three, and the half-light which
had deceived him into thinking it was
morning. proceeding from the waning
moon. he returned to his bed and SUM
hers. that were all the deeper, perhaps,
for his unusual waking.
When he reused himself again to see
daylight in his chamber, he had to strug-
Gle against feeling of lassitude, and a
dull. heavy head before he could stir. His
wife, still sleeping quietly by his side,
was also very hard to rouse, and was a
little indignant at finding her hands tied
together and the bed clothes fastened in
such a manner that she could not release
herself.
~ think, Myron, that you might find
some better time for playing your practi-
cal Jokes" she said.
IT am afraid there is no joke about it, -
returned Mr. Jacobs, plunging his hand
into his trowsers' pocket, and finding the
loose silver he usually carried among the
missing.
A glance into the bureau drawer
showed the magnitude of his loss. His
gold watch and some pieces of jewelry
were also missing, but these were after
ward found in odd corners about the
premises.
The maid of all work, Madelena, was
discovered face downward upon the kit
chen floor, securely bound with strong
cords and quite unconscious; but when
revived she said she had just reached the
kitchen, after leaving her room, when
she was seized from behind, and a hand
pressed a damp cloth over her face, which
was all she knew of what had happened.
Her silver eardrops, which her Carl
Braun, her lover, gave her at Christmas,
had been taken out Of her ears, and no
amount of searching placed them among
the articles found.
1t all resolved itself down to this-that
these three persons had been chloroform-
ed. and the two women bound, while the
thief secured his booty, and afterward
dropped the watch and jewelry, doubtless
impelled by the fear that they might lead
to his subsequent detection.
The queer part was in Mr.. Jacobs hav-
ing been left at liberty, and the compare
lively worthless trinkets of the domestic
being retained by the thief.
"That's the strangeness of the thing"
said Mr.. Jacobs, with considerable
warmth. sit really looks as if the job
were put up to turn suspicion against
me, and the money wasn't really mine,
either.
He had recently withdrawn from
partnership in a tobacco store, and had
taken charge of the establishment on the
previous day, in the absence of his late
partner.
The money, which he had brought
home for safe-keeping, was due him on
balance which his partner owed him,
but as it had not been formally paid
over, Mr.. Jacobs declined to pocket the
loss.
"Being so lately in the business, of
course you'll set up the cigars?" l sug-
gested.
1 had read Mr.. Myron Jacobs pretty
thoroughly in the time was questioning
him, and did not for Il moment connect
him with the robbery He was one of
who would split penny where there was
a half-cent due in either way, and l
hadn't any hesltancy in demanding the
peruuisites which he would never think
of offering.
''Don't smoke myself, but if you'll just
drop into my shop any time through the
dav, and tell Gale to give you a good
cigar, he can charge it to me. That's
the handkerchief, my wife's wrists were
bound with-yes, sir. But it's her own,
one af a pair gave her myself | saw it
in the bureau when put in the money,
last night"
1t was certainly very mysterious af-
fair, and it was necessary to do something
to sustain my reputation, so took the girl,
Madalena, in charge.
ooh, you are never golngto arrest her?''
cried Mrs. Jacobs, an extremely pretty
little woman, considerably younger than
her spouse
! had to explain that it was reasonably