Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-10-02
satisfied to stay in any place where he
could not be in sight of his hidden

could not be in sight of his hidden
treasure.
81 was once sent to take care of a
! curious case in Massachusetts. 1t was
twenty years ago. A wealthy man was
stricken with paralysis. He was about
to deposit some twenty-nine thousand
dollars in money and bonds when
he was stricken down. The heirs
were wild. He couldn't recall a
thing. All that was known was that
he was found sitting on the front hall
stairs, hereft Of mind and speech. We
couldn't make any thing out of him.
He had no money. We made hunt at
random over the house. through the
barns and stables. We about made up
| our minds that he had been robbed.
We stopped the furniture breaking and
cushion-pricking business and were
hesitating whether or not to make ar
rests or search for some systematic
clcw. For my part, as ] remember, l
was confident he had been robbed. most
probably after the stroke of paralysis,
and | was not sure that some attack
from robbcr had not precipitated the
paralysis. We sought tho doctors and
examined the mans person. A long
black and blue mark was on his hip;
another was on his forehead. A silver
of blue-painted wood was on his cloth
ing. We started out TO hunt. We
tried the pump, the clothes-reel and
every thing else. Finally, down in a
barn cellar among boxes and barrels
| came across an old dump-cart top
Here's the article, said |. We turned
the thing out into the light, and there
in a pile of manure we found the packet
of money and bonds where the para
lytc had fallen aud where the packet
had slipped from his pocket
"Mv partner and divided two
thousand dollars between us that even
ing,
"Did you ever read Edgar A. Poe's
tale about the search of the Paris Po-
lice Commissioners after a mysterious
letter? Well, there is a good deal of
philosophy in hiding things. I've
often thought of the old saying: If it
had been bear it would have bitten
YOU The very hardest things to find
are often the plainest before you. It's
like playing odd and even. You give
the opponent too much credit for too
much (or it is not enough) sagacity. |
well remember another case where at
tcmpts of all kinds have been made to
find the wealth OF an old miSer in J.
street, Boston, and that after months
and months of hunting it was brushed
one dav from dusty old shelf above
the mantelpiecc Uttered with papers,
periodicals and worthless stuff. He
put it in plain sight, and nobody
thought it possible that it was worth
while to look there.
"a sailor will almost always hide
his money about him. Irish women
always sew bills into their pettcoats.
| once went into New Hampshire to
hunt for the money of a retired sea
captain who had died very suddenly.
He had been queer sort of man, very
taciturn, always taking trips out of
town after his money. He wasn't a
miserly man, and / concluded that he
hadn't buried it. He slept in no one
particular place, and so ! was pretty
sure that there was no place in the
house where he felt better contented
than another. So | said, Bring his
clothes We went over them. The
binding on one of them was wide, and
his wife said, as l tore it off, He al
ways scwed his clothes up himself
He was as handy as woman with
needle Queer. She added: why,
he always wanted to wear that suit to
the last. Poor dear, and she dropped
n tear. In the meantime | had pulled
out an oiled silk packet holding six
bonds for one thousand dollars each,
and we found eighteen more in the
same suit. His trips to town meant
something, you see.
"Of course there are men who bury
money. Such men always have its
hiding place marked off, and ten to
one, they want it buried where they
can see, rs soon as they can see any
thing in the morning, that some thief
has not discovered its hiding place in
the night and made off with it. You
can put it down that men who conceal
money like to have it as near at hand
rs possible. ! have known money to
be concealed in the clock in the bed
room, and so arranged that no one
could touch the clock without alarm
ing the household If q man who hides
his money has any special idiosyncrasy
it is safe to look it up. The more ig-
norant and crafty your man, the safer
to 20 by his crankiness.
"What sort of places have you
known of money beirg hidden?"
80, everywhere! In the upholstery
and bedding, under carpets, behind the
door castings, between partitions, or
behind the wall paper, in the old fam
lily Bibles, behind mirrors, nailed to
the walls, in false ceilings, in false
bottom drawers, in clocks, stoves, lin
ings of old hats, steam radiators dds
used), bottles marked poison, canes,
shoes, vest and coat Innings, tomato
cans, tea canisters, powder horns, old
stocking feet, and in every other con-
ceivable place.
THE ways of the covetous are many
and their tricks are dark and pecu-
liar. "-LeDiSton Me- journal.