Milford chronicle., 1883-08-31


request of the heirs, to look for money.
The deceased had had no striking char
acteristics for my purpose, and, after try
ing several lines of search for three
days, I grew doubtful. His riding sad
die had been ripped open, his bootheels
knocked off for diamonds, his soles split
up and his upholstery pulled to pieces.
Bricks had been taken out, the hearth
torn up, and the wainscoatings pulled
down. Even the backboards of picture
frames had been taken out, and the
boys had dug around the roots Of every
tree in the orchard, but still no money
had been found. The reward was too
large to be lost, but was nearly at my
wits end. Finally, I asked for horse
and wagon. wanted to drive about
bit and settle my mind. AS rode off,
the brother of the deceased said, You'll
find the farm well laid off, he surveyed
it himself.
"Those words kept coming to my
mind. The man hadn't concealed the
money in the house, that was evident;
nor in the barn, for heseldom went there.
Why should he use the roots of trees or
stones, if he knew how to survey? The
thought came like a fash ]
Z" Where was the old gentleman in the (
habit of sitting p I asked. {
"'Oh, he almost always sat by {
that window, said the brother, 'but !
we've pulled everything to pieces around
there. a
"'Sit down just as he did. The man 7
sat down. I
In which direction was he most apt a
to look?' p
"Nowhere in particular; out of the b
window generally. h
"'Teward the barn Il? f,
"'No, this way e
"Ifollowed the look; it was in the line "
of an old, used-up pump. I
(Which way did he walk when he ri
vent out to the field?' W
"'Over to the pump, and then made a ic
zee line for the pondr al
''These answers had certain signif- OF
ance. Men like to have the place of OF
oncealment in sight, and it is well ft
noWn that they will often walk over sl
honey they have buried to see that the m
ID is undisturbed. I had the pump pr
ken up and the excavations made-no
oney. The pump was replaced. I de
ltered the room once more and stood hi
z the window. Suddenly saw acl
int but peculiar looking mark on the on
Il; it was a surveyors point. I lined up
up to the pump, measured out to the
act centre of the line, and the digging
gan. A two-inch steam pipe was
-uck at a depth of four feet. The end
Is plugged; took home a $500 bill
at night. l0'-
81 had a curious case two years ago. aon
wealthy man had been attacked with ~ 49,
rtial paralysis, and his speech and = C. g.
2 greater part of his memory had left ''a,, -
n. He wrote out the question, c. c.,
here did I put my money?' The ,o,- %
cunt was large, $50, 900 in bonds, ~ ~
ich he had been about to take to a So
e deposit building. The heirs were -.
d. stopped all the tearing up and NJ,
business, for the man
) not a concealer, though it was sup
ed by the doctors that he had felt the r., L-oJ
lck coming on and had put the money -
ome out-of-the-way place Just how a5
n what spot in his library he had 60, c..
en-, could not be made out. After - i11i -
s reflection my partner and 1 had 80 ia
conclude that he had been robbed.
, courses were open to us; we could
le sudden arrests without any real -.
ence, always a hateful course for
1 detective to take, or we must find r. ~ y,
exact spot where the man fell and -
} up from that The doctors helped w. 80 =
ere: You had better examine the
ileman's body, they said. We did olaa~ .,,,,
md found long horizontal mark on 60 49,.
hlp, and blue marks on the knee and ,-.1t
W. He had fallen sidewise over an -. , A.,
ct not over sixteen inches high, and ,I7;ld
ng narrow, rounded edge of metal, enco
n iron mark was found on the cloth Tn -
Every piece of furniture in the tboso
e was inspected, but to no purpose. nroso,
heirs apparent were in despair. But ,oyt
artner and I began to be hopeful.
a detective work, whenever you
upon some detail that seems ut
inexplicable, that is the thing
of all others must be explained; The