Connecticut western news., 1883-08-29
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 "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 flash.
 "'Where was the old gentleman in the habit of sitting?' asked.
 "Oh, he almost always sat by that window,' said the brother, but we've pulled everything to pieces around there
 "sSit down just as he did, The man sat down.
 "sIn which direction was he most apt to look?'
 "'Nowhere in particular; out of the window generally
 "sTeward the barn?'
 "'No, this way
 ''I followed the look; it was in the line of an old, used-up pump.
 "'Which way did he walk when he went out to the field?'
 "'Over to the pump, and then made bee line for the pond!'
 "These answers had certain signii- canoe. Men like to have the place of concealment in sight, and it is well known that they will often walk over money they have buried to see that the sod is undisturbed. I had the pump taken up and the excavations made-no money. The pump was replaced. entered the room once more and stood by the window. Suddenly I saw 8 faint but peculiar-look mark on the sill; it was a surveyors point. I Tined 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 depth of four feet. The end was plugged; I took home $500 bill I that night.
 stI 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, $32, ,0OO in bonds, which he had been about to take to 8 safe deposit building. The heirs were wild. Istopped all the tearing up and cushion-picking business, for the man was not concealer, though it was SUD- attack coming on and had put the money in some cutoff -the-way place. Just how or in what spot in his library he had fallen, could not be made out. After days reflection my partner and l had to conclude that he had been robbed. Two courses were open to us; we could make sudden arrests without any real evidence, always hateful course for 8 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 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 began to be hopeful. 'In detective work, whenever you come upon some detail that seems ut terly inexplicable, that is the thing which of all others must be explained; and you feel, 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 a year, they said. We went down. My partner glanced quickly around, and then gave me a look that I 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 freplaces. He was, in fact, looking over a lot of coal hods. There is our metallic edge, he said. He turned the hods oyer seare- fully, and from out mass of waste paper there rolled at last the thirty-two thou sand dollars worth of bonds. The para lytic had fallen over the bod, and the money had dropped into it among his waste papers. Before the general | .1I 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 I di- vided the five thousand dollars between us that night.
 "Yes, they hide money in queer enough places. have found it ill the covers oi old family Bibles, behind mirrors, in the bored-out legs of chairs, behind cup boards nailed tightly to the walls, in false ceilings, balusters, pin cushions, in the lining of old hats, in clocks, stoves, and bronze images, in vases with the bottoms covered inside with plaster ot Paris, in black bottles weighted with mercury and marked poison, in canes shoes, and vest Things, in tomato cans and tea canisters, in cracked walls GOV. cred with wall paper, in all sorts of bed ding and upholstery, and in almost every conceivable place.
 "What is the best way to concea, money? I can't say; but will tell you