News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20
we've pulled everything to pieces around

there.
"'Sit down just as he did The maj
sat down.
"In which direction was he most ap
to Iook?'
'''Nowhere in particular; out of the
window generally
"'Teward the barn?'
"'No, this way
"Ifollowed the look; it was in the line
of an old, used-up pump.
(which way did he walk when he
went out to the feld?'
"'Over to the pump, and then made 6
bee line for the pondp
'These answers had a certain signifi.
canoe. Men like to have the place OF
concealment in sight, and it is well
known that they will often walk ovel
money they have buried to see that the
sod is undisturbed. I had the pump
taken up and the excavations made--rC
money. The pump was replaced.
entered the room once more and stood
by the window. Suddenly I saw 9
faint but peculiar looking mark on the
sill; IT was a surveyors point. [ lined
it up to the pump, measured out to the
exact centre of the line, and the digging
began. A two-inch steam pipe was
struck at a depth of four feet. The end
was plugged; I took home $500 bill
that night.
81 had curious case two years ago.
A wealthy man had been attacked with
partial paralysis, and his speech and
the greater part of his memory had left
him. He wrote out the question
Where did I put my money! The
amount was large, S32, 900 in bonds,
which he had been about to take to q
safe deposit building. The heirs were
wild. I stopped all the tearing up and
cushion-picking business, for the man
was not a conceaIer, though it was sup
posed by the doctors that he had felt the
attack coming on and had put the money
in some Out-of-the-way place. Just how
or in what spot in his library he had
fallen, could not be made out. After a
days reflection my partner and [ had
to conclude that he had been robbed.
Two courses were open to us; we could
make sudden arrests without any real
evidence, always a hateful course for a
good detective to take, or we must find
the exact spot where the man fell and
line up from that. The doctors helped
us here: You had better examine the
gentleman's body they said. We did
so, and found a long horizontal mark on
the hip, and blue marks on the knee and
elbow. He had fallen sidewise over an
object not over sixteen inches high, and
having a narrow, rounded edge of metal,
for an iron mark was found on the cloth
ing. Every piece of furniture in the
house was inspected, but to no purpose.
The heirs apparent were in despair. But
my partner and L began to be hopeful.
"ln detective work, whenever you
come upon some detail that seems ut
terly l. vplaahle. that is the thing
which of all others must be explained;
ana you teeI, moreover, that in solving
the difficulty you will come nearer in
some unknown way to your point. We
took all night to think the matter over
Then my partner said, How about the
cellar? That's where the household
metal is They all laughed. He
hasn't been there in q year, they said.
We went down. My partner glanced
quickly around, and then gave me a look
that can almost feel running through
my nerves to this day. He had dis
covered some common household arti-
cles which had not been used since the
family had been searching the fireplaces.
He was, in fact, looking over a lot of
coal hOds. There is our metallic edge,
he said. He turned the hods over care
ullv. and from out a mass of waste paper
there rolled at last the thirty-twO thou
sand dollars worth Of bonds. The para
Ivtic had fallen over the hod, and the
money had dropped into it among his
waste papers. Before the general
search was made, all rubbish had
been taken to the cellar. Our friends
had sought too deeply for what they had
supposed to be concealed money, and
had grossly neglected the science of the
obvious. Some detectives do precisely
the same thing. My partner and [ di-
vided the five thousand dollars between
us that night.
eyes, they hide emoney in queer enough
places. I have found it in the covers Of
old family Bibles, behind mirrors, in the
bored-out legs of chairs, behind cup
boards nailed tightly to the walls, il
false ceilings, balusters, pin-cushions, il
the lining Of old hats, in clocks, stoves
and bronze images, in vases with the
! bottoms covered inside with plaster o
Paris, in black bottles weighted will
mercury and marked poison, In canes
shoes, and vest Innings, IN tomato can'
and tea canisters, in cracked walls GOV
cred with wall paper, in all sorts of bed
ding and upholstery, and in almost ever.
conceivable place.
''What is the best way to eoncea
money? l can't say; but [ will tell yOl
about a man whose method was a gooC
deal talked about at the time among tn
detectives. He was bachelor, and wei
known as a 'concealer He died OF hear
disease, in Broome street, some year
ago Many attempts had been made t
rob him, but without success. Thieve
ran off one night with all his clothing
and ripped it to pieces, only to be disaE
pointed When he died, everything wa
broken up to find his money. The celia
had been dug out to the extent of thre
examined to no purpose. When the
were clearing out the rubbish, Just aftC
[ arrived, some one knocked down
rickety shelf above the mautelpicc,
which was covered with old letters, meC
icine phials, dusty newspaper scrap.
, and other worthless rubbish. A quartz
, OF an hour later one OF the heirs, q gi
, of six years. was found seated on th
, floor in a pile of bank notes, to whic
she had vainly attempted to call h,
/. mothers attention on account of the
pretty pictures.
"That 'concealer' was the only real
deem one | ever knew. The lady paid
high compliment to the gentleman
acuteness when she remarked: Why, I
. one would ever have thought of lookiI
up there for money.