Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-10-05
HIDDEN WEALTH.
ia" Curious Places Where Money has
been Found w hen Hidden or Lost
-trat"s Freaks.

III" turinu- Places Where Money ha,
been Found When Hidden or Lost
-fran"c Freaks.
Il have been sent for Very often in
my time" said an elderly detective.
ito search for MONEY concealed by
eccentric People. There was more
OF this hiding away Of cash forty
YEAR; ago than there L. now. owing
prof ably to the doubtful character
Of :, me- ct the old savings banks.
'Son.e fifteen wears ago | Went up
l. Il farm house in Orange County.
at the request Of the heirs. to look
f,r lu"n"y The deceased had had
10 striking characteristics for my
purpose, and, after trying several
Ines al search for three days, j grew
doubtful. His riding saddle had been
ripped open. his boutheelS Knocked
OH for diamonds. his shoes split up
and his upholstery pulled To pieces.
Brick, had been taken out. the hearth
torn up, and the wainscotinSs pulled
down. Even the hackboards of pie
turc frames had been taken out, and
the hoy bad dug around the roots of
every tree in the orchard, but still no
money had been found. The reward
was too large t. be lost. but | was
nearly at my wits end. Finally the
til 'ught came like flash: Where
was the old gentleman i'll the habit
Of Si,tiny!' l asl:cJ. Oh. he almost
always sat by that Window said the
brother; but we'vc pulled everything
to pieces around there sit down
just as he did The man sat down
In which direction was be most apt
to look Nowhere in particular;
ont Of the window generally Toward
the haIn?' No, this way | fol
lowed the look: it was i'll the line OF
an old, used up pump. Which way
did he walk when he went out to the
tield?' Over 10 the pump, and then
made Il bee line for the pond J?
These answers had a certain signiii
cance. Men like to have the place OF
concealment III sight, and it is well
known that they will often walk ovel
money they have buried to see that
the sod is usdlsturbed. | had the
pump taken up and excavations made
no money. The pump was re
placed | entered the room once
more and stood by the window. Sud
denly | saw faint but peculiar
looking mark Oh the sill; it was I
surveyors point. lined it up t1
the pump. measured out to the exac
center of the line, and the digging
began \ two inch steam pipe wa,
struck at Il depth of four feet. The
end was plugged: l took Eome IA S50t
bill that night"
A COOP PIECE OF DETECTIVE ANALYSIS
Il had a 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 ques
ton, Where did l put my money
The amount was large. $4,000 il
bonds, which he had been about t.
take to safe deposit building. The
heirs were wild. l stopped all the
tearing up and cushion prickine
business, for the man was not con
cealer,' though it was supposed by
the doctors that he had felt the ATTACK
coming on and had put the money il
some ont oftle way place. Just how
or in what spot i'll his library he had
fallen, could not be made ont. After
a days reflection my partner and
had to conclude that he had beer
robbed. Two courses were open tC
us; We could make sudden arrests
without any real evidence, always q
hateful course for good detective tc
take, or we must find the exact spot
where the man fell, and line ND from
that. The doctors helped us here
You had'better examine tie gentle
mans body they said. We did so
and found long horizontal mark OF
the hip. and blue marks On the knee
and elbow. He had fallen sldewist
over an object rot over sixteen inches
high, and having narrow, rounded
edge of metal, for an iron mark was
found on the clothing. Every piece
of furniture in the house was in
spected, but to no purpose The heir.
apparent were in despair. We tool
all night to think the matter over
Then my partner said: How about
the cellar? That's where the house
hold metal is They all laughed
He hasn't been there in a year. they
said. We went down. My partner
glanced quickly around, and thel
gave ME ii look that I can almost feel
running through my nerves to thi.
day. He had discovered some com
mon household articles which had no
been used since the family had beef
searching the tireplaces. He was, il
fact, looking over a lot of coal hods
There is our metallic edge he said
He turned the hods over carefully
and from out mass of waste paper
there rolled at last the $4,000 wor:l
of bonds. The paralytic had faller
over the hod, and the money hat
dropped into it among his waste
papers. Before the general searcl
was made, all rubbish had beef
taken to the cellar. Our friends hat
sought too deeply for what the!
supposed to be concealed money
and had grossly neglected the science
of the obvious. Some detectives d,
precisely the same thing. My part
ner and | divided $1,000 between III
that night" New York Su1.
A WOMAN WHO BORE NINE CHILDREN A.
THREE BIRTHS.
A number of charitable Iadie,
from Philadelphia and New York
spending the summer at Islant
Heights, Il lovely summer resort CT
Toms river, N. j., are actively en-
gagged in raising donations of none,
and ..lofEinp for a Mrs Johnson 70