The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-06-27

on the outside, led up to a small plat
form. the door opened outward, anu
o person entering must step aside to al
low it room to swing.
"At our third sitting we had brought
the time down to within two days ofour
present date. This time, in following
our man around, he came across the
bridge, and step by step we followed him
to our hotel. Now he's goin' inter the
stage Office said he. He's givin' Mr..
Walton, the stage agent, a paper. 1t
looks like a bill. Mr.. Walton is givin'
him some money an tells him to sign the
paper. Read the name he signs said
/. I can't said he, Mr.. Walton has
folded it UP an put it in the left-hand
corner ofhis desk. There's a bundle of
other papers just like it in there With
out disturbing him in his comments i
picked up a scrap o fpaper and penciled
a note to Mr.. Walton requesting him to
send me a package of receipts in the
right hand corner of his desk. Mr.. Mil
Ter took 4 down and directly returned
with the package, and some twenty or
| more, which / did not unfold, but spread
around on the table within reach of our
somnambulist's hand, which as ] have
before said, he never removed from the
table. He had been entirely unconscious
of what we had done, but kept up his
running commenSs Is, following the man
back asross the canal and to various
places, when ali at once he moved his
hand towards the papers and exclaimed,
Why, here's that paper now the very
one he gave Mr. Walton Without hest
tating q second he picked up one of the
folded papers, and without unfolding it,
also without ever turning his bandaged
eyes toward it, he read:
Received from Samuel Walton, June,
1847. one dollar and fifty cents il full
of all accounts.
JAMES r. FREEMAN.
Here was the name of our man at last.
We knew him by sight, Wells and I, and
that he had a brother, a carpenter.
They we're considered honest and res
pectable. We were getting the facts
down to q fine point, but the difficulty
would be in the proof. How could a
man be convicted on the testimony Of a
somnambulist? We were all greatly ex-
cited except our subject, who uncon-
scious of anything extraordinary hav-
ing occurred, took up his ac-
coant precisely where be broke off to
read the receipt. Condensing another
six hours, it was evening. We followed
Freeman into q livery stable, where his
brother George joined him, and after a
protracted conversation with the pro-
prietor, a man by the name of Sykes,
he said Freeman handed Sykes the
parcel, and the brothers went away as
if greatly relieved. Instead of follow
ing them he followed Sykes back into a
remote part of the stable. where he de-
scribed him as a slipping back the
string on the package and taking out a
bill. Tt is money said he, and that
other chap stole it, and give it to this
'un, and now he's tookDne of them bills
out, and tied it up so no one would know
it had been opened Right here we
were interrupted by a knock at the
door, which our subject did not observe.
Mr.. Miller stepped out, but almost i'm
mediately returned with a radiant face,
and, without speaking, held up q little
yellow parcel tied with a pink string,
which, though never having seer it, we
uxecognized at a .glgRce as the lost pack
age of money, Our subject followed
the livery stable man to Burns tavern.
Up the stairs he took us again, through
the hail to the foot of ths-sacond fight
where, nearly opposite the same room
from which the money was taken, he
discovered d basket of clean linen, with
a pile of towels on the top. why he's
. stickn' that package down under the
towels. Now he's a hurryn' off, Sud-
denly he exclaimed, The none is
here. Right over there. That man
has got it in his pocket. All but one
bill. The livery mans got that,
ssWe dismissed our subject and rested
our case. Mr., Miller opened the pack
age, which had been sent Dyer to him
by the landlord of the Burns House
with a message that il had been found
in a basket of linen, counted the money
which was all in 800 bills, and found
one bill missing. Eleven hundred dol
lars were returned out of the original
$1,000 which the package had contained.
Later my friend Wells and myself
sauntered into the bar-room Of the
Burns House. A good many men were
standing about, and the n subject of
discussion was the finding ofthe money.
BY this time everybody knew that the
money had been lost and quite as mys-
teriously found, it was said, by a cham
bermaid among the linen. All sorts of
surmises and suspicious were floating |
about. Many looked askance at us as
we drew near. and whispered together.
for somehow IL had leaked out that Mr..
Miller had been closeted a great deal
with us. An uneasy feeling that some
accusations might be made was evident.
Soon after Mr.. Miller came up to the
bar, and while being congratulated on
all sides. emilinQ1v said that he never