The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-07-10

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himself Foster. Now here is where ex-
perience comes in. Our agents report
every night. As soon as heard this
description l wrote our agents that the
new arrival was James W. Doyle, from a
town In Illinois. He married q woman
by the name of Foster, whose father was
counterfeiter. Shadow him."
"The truth is, ten or fifteen years be-
fore, that chap had to leave Philadelphia
under circumstances which looked as II
he was in the business then. In the IL
linois town they found he left o boy un-
der the name of Foster, but most of the
mail that went into It was addressed to
James W. Doyle-so my guess was cor
rect He soon, however returned to New
York. These men were TO nOwed day and
night for five months before we saw q
single suspicious thing. Doyle spent
much of his time at the fat occupied by
the Brockaways. One day the men came
out with broken seal, something like
this" (here Mr.. Brooks took up q STAN
ping machine like an ordinary notsry's
seal,) they took an omnibus to 90 down
town, and left the broken seal in the bus.
At the store they obtained another on the
condition that If it suited they would buy
1t, If not it would be returned next day.
Our theory was that they broke the seal
when they were nearl y through with the
job, and by using the new one day were
able to finish.
"They now began meeting a f1ne-look-
ing man in Brooklyn, who lived In
beautiful garden. The three came and
went much together, but nothing suspi-
cious was seen, except that one day they
stopped at q corner and all three closely
inspected q small open pac ksge, which
was passed from hand to hand. Our
agent then concluded that the young man
was going away, as he bought fine over
coat although 1t was yet summer. He
also got new satcheL One day he pur-
chased q ticket for Chicago; he entered
the sleeper; two Of our men had adj0in-
ing berths. Another was anxiOusly ex-
pecting him in Chicago. If he had left
the car at any place he would have been
arrested by our men on the charge Of BE-
ing q Government embezzler, In order to
give us q plea on which to search his
baggage II that proved all right the
other man would have stepped up and
apologized, and said to the officer: why
this is not the man I told you to arrest;
you must pardon us, sir, etc" But be
made no attempt to leave the car. When
they arrived at Chicago, they found the
officer with his carriage waiting. The
Chicago man laid his hand on Doyle's
collar and said: Il arrest you, Baxter, as
q Government embeszler."
why, my name is not Baxter, lean
bring fifty men here to provem my identity.
In the meantime, he had dropped his two
large satchels. All right" said the de-
tective; IF you prove all correct you will
not be longed detained. Here is q car
rage; we shall take you to the United
States Marshall, and after examination
you will probably be dismissed" The
satchels, the man and the detectives en-
tered the carriage. We expected to find
on him counterfeit one hundred dollar
notes In his inside pocket he had sew
enteen 800 notes, but they were genuine
The first satchel contained only clothes.