Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-11-18
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I came to another standstll for another
p Rod and it was nearly q month .fnre
he could Ct from The sick mother the
simple fact that she got the bag rs n
pr, sent from ncighbor. IN old man, the
ianitor of tn buildiu' II xt door.
! e" If it takes four weeks to get from
one housa TO the Ii xt. how long will 1t
take. ut This rate. 10 from Pine street.
near William. to Wall street, near Pearl q
asked McWatt, Is Of hims If, and the
ply wasn't very cncourlgin'. But he
didn't stop to fiGur4 up III problem, but
won't and called ON til janitor Of the
bmllin' next door This old z nfl man
was a great talkr. and X pt McWatt rs
on thoms for hours, t,tlkiu to him about
cv rvthin under h AZ tXeapt tn bag.
But at last, aft treatin tn old codgr
to cigar after cigar. and after oXamlnln'
/ III, beg. which McW3tt rs always car-
II d with him. about q hundr i and fifty
times. th" old man recoll ctcd thlt h
had got The bag one afternoon about five
o'clock. in tn way If q lark. from 4
Young man who was 81 rk with n pretty
" ll-known broker ON Wall street. who's
Office was n"ar the bankin' house that
had been robbed.
The old janitor was cleaning out the
brokers' office that afternoon to oblige n
sick friend. who had charge of it regu-
larry. One of the brokers' clerks, who
happened to bc at work n little late. got
up a little " chat" with him. and among
other things Int him with that bag The
old ianitor took the hitting iii good part
but he also took the bag away with
him.
g But didn't the clerk seem to care
about your eoin of with his ba8?" asked
McWatters Of the old iauitor.
No, replied the old ianitor. why
should he care? He said. as | went of
with it, that his master didn't seem to
have any more use for 1t either.
The clerk got the bag from his en-
plover the broker, then? z said Nc
Walters
Z" Yes. am certain he said that much,
answered the old ianitor.
And it was much McWatters had,
after months Of worry and mishap. traced
/ the money or the bag through the rag
man to the coachman. from the coach
man to the molly boy with the yellow
dog. from the dog-bov to Saucy Moll,
from Saucy Moll to the pretty girl III
Pine strct. near William, from the pretty
i girl to her sick mother, from the sick
mother to the worthy old man. from the
worthy Old man To the s5ylarkin' young
/ clerk. and from the skvlarkin' young
( clerk to the broker, hsi employer. He
vas cettin very near the secret of the
robbery st last. Still there was y great
deal vet to do. and Il had to he done del
icatclv. Perhaps. after NIL, the broker
himself had got that bag from somebody
else.
At any rate the first thing was to see
or his testimony. direct, McWatters put
up Job. Pretendm' to have somo stocks
he was interested in. and visitin' the
brokers' office. he sot talNin with the
particular clerk he was after. He had
soon made up his mind that this clerk
wasn't very smart. but was honest, and
didu't suspect anythil' wrong about hle
/ employer on the bag. Then he talked .
little more with the clerk, and found
I that he wasn't particularly attached to
the present place aud il he could get 4
little better salary anywhere else would
leave it, Then he arranged with the
president OF the b.mkm' house that had
! been robbed to offer him a pllcc there.
and the clerk accepted the offer at once.
Then. when away from his former en-
pluvcr'- influence. McWatters questioned
ihe clerk. showed him the bug, which
the clerk Identified ut once, and got
from him the fact that he had seen his
employer take the bag from an oycrcoat
of his that had hung in the closet of tho
Office for some weeks, but winch tho
broker happened ~ put on that day
that he threw away the bag.
McWa;ters didn't let the clerk have
any idel of what he was about, but by
diut of gettin' ooo 4 friends with him, and
htlpin' him along, and kin 10 him
with purpose. though seemingly with
out any, got from HIM, though with an
awful Ut OF trouble. several important
flcts-importalt because they Wcrcn
important at all-such as that on the day
on which the gold WIS missed the broker
his fcrmcr employer, had worn the pr
tictlar uvcrcoat which had been hangin
IN the closet. and ont ct which he h}t
taken the bag aEd thrown it away care
lcsslv. without thiukin some week
after; and thot just before that day th'
broker had seemed to be much bothered
but had seemed to feel all right ottc
that day.
Then McWattcrs made investigation
seer lily about the broker, found tllat h
had pail big mortgage of on som
prop rty in Jersey City the day aftsr tn
moncy had been missed at iii banking
house. and also found ont that although
The broker was supposed to D. might,
high and honorable he had ono var
b fore, been mixed up IL n dishones
rll,l ction.
Putting all these things toe thor into
ch}in, although McWattcrs htdn't eve
now any positive proof thlt til brol
llll tal.n the gold from tn bauki
house, Ii 4 dttarmiacd to do what Ii
thought the broker hAd done-plav
bold game.
he hid worked and wait Il and cr,l
along Ike a cat aft a rat long ,uougl
He now 4 t rmiucd TO make spriug li1
lion, or any othr Wild beast yo
plcasa.
H. arranged matters fer the fnr
tahly MI st the bankers house On
moruin thara entered at III hat>il
house nj diff; rent tim durin' III. mcrl
iii the funniest lot of T. opln that "
entered a down town hank First th,l
drove up an old hack contaiuin' an ugl
hoy, n yellow dog and a toothlass ol
, croue Thn three, who w.r, all alik