The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-29

ing columns with brush and paint. I kept
lny eyes and ears wide open for five days
before l hit the bulls eve The trick Was
Sd open and simple that it fOolei every
body. The foreiady would sell, say, cloak
Tor $50. She would receive the cash, send
s. of 1t with the cloak to the cashier
and package counter, and with that the
garment was to be sent TO No. SO-aud-sO on
approval The next day she would send in
a card to the effect that the cloak did not
fit and had been returned to the stock. The
- would be sent her to be returned to the
customer, and the entire $50 would thus go
INTO her pocket. she had made from $50 TO
S2OO per week for two months before the
trick was discovered. When saw how she
was wOrking tine game / sent a woman to
buy certain CLOAK which one of the firm
had carefully marked. The price was SIS,
and she paid it all. Seven of it was sent 10
tue cashier, and next day the cloak was re-
ported as returned. 1t was searched for and
not found, and when the forelady found the
game was up she confessed. She was peni-
tent enough SO far as the firm was con
cerned, but how she did go for mel 1t hurt
her feelings to find that she had been bam-
ooozied by man disguised as painter, and
she blessed me up hill, down hill, and all
around the country. She ought to have
gone to prison, but the firm made her psy
over and then let her go.
had case in Cincinnati which was not
SO easily worked. A girl, Is years old, named
rainier, was cashier in Il dry goods store
one day some customer from the country
who had mortgage to pay, called at the
store 10 leave package containing Sc, 900
Tor few hours. The girl placed it in the
safe In his presence. but when he came to
call for 1t the money was missing. One of
the propretors and head clerk had been
IN the office during the interval, but no one
else, and no one could harbor the slightest
Suspicion against them. Miss Palmer had
heId her place two years, and was considered
perfectly honest also, and the mystery Of
the package was a sumner.
As the firm had received the package in
trust, they would have to make It's loss
good. This fact left me only two persons TO
work on-the head clerk and the girl. The
mead clerk was about to be given an interest
In the business, and he would not sell his
future for few thousand liars. But
Miss Palmer looked me calmly in the face
with her big blue eyes, and was innocence
ltselt. She had no suggestions to make, no
ADVICE TO offer, nothing to say. She had
placed the package in the safe. Some one
mad taken 1t. Sac hadn't, but who had F?
Her mother was a widow, and she was
Keeping company with a young man named
Deerlng. de was a clerk in another store.
and from all that | could learn was strictly
honest. L was completely blocked in the
case, and had to admit it, but was told to
take my time | watched Miss Palmer two
months before anything came Of it, and
then 1t came in a curious way.
Inc money was in bills of large denomina-
lions put into large buff envelope. with
the name OF the owner written thereon.
In changing my boarding place | got into
house next door to the Widow Palmer's. |
did lot take this step to bring me closer TO
her daughter, but to accommodate friends.
One Sunday morning | sat smoking before
my window, which faced the street. Not
over thlrty feet to my right the
cashier also had front window. The wind
that morning was very gustly, and all of a
sudden | caught sight of a paper sailing
through the air. 1t looked to me like big
buff envelope, and as it fell in the gutter
opposite saw that it really was one. In less
than minute | was down stairs and at the
door. As | stepped out Miss Palmer did the
same, and we both started for that envelope
at the same instant. l got it first, and
when looked up she came close to me and
asked:
why do you want it?'
because know what it isn
you are the Observation-Disclosures
The same. knew you had the money.
but wanted proof. Here il is"
II will bring it down stairs to you."
She did so. She had opened the package
only few minutes before, and the envelope
had been whisked off the stand and out of
the window by sudden gust. The money
wa, returned. She lost her place, and L
believe the case was dropped right there.
,, Again had case in a town in Ohio.
The treasurer of a church society, who was
a woman, had 1925 placed in her hands for
a certain purpose. She was told to put it
in the bank, but she did not, and that night
some one entered the house aud took the
cash. When [ came to investigate Ismelled
q rat at once. 10 was claimed that the
burglar had entered by boring a panel out
Of back door. [ saw at once that the
holes had been bored from the inside. A
block away was carpenter shop, with a
brace and bit so hanging that one could
reach through a broken pane and secure
them. The bit exactly fitted the holes.
The treasurer was a widow and lived alone.
with the exception of having a deaf and
dumb girl TO do her work. | was satisfied
that the widow had robbed herself, but to
prove it was another thing. She stood well
IN the community, was a good talker, and
had lots of assurance, and / was the ONLY
one who questioned her story.
determined to go at her sharply and
risk all on one throw of the dice. There
were a lou CT DurQOcKS near the window of
the carpenter shop, aud gathered three or
four, cut stick to the size of No shoe.
which l guessed was the widows size, and
going to the house. | said:
MRS. Davis, whoever bored those holes
in the door did the work from the inside.n
"W-hatm she gasped, changing color at
1nce.
"And the person got the brace and bit
from the carpenter shop"
"Yes."
"They crossed your garden and left
racks. Those tracks were made by woman
Who wears a No. shoe"
what, sir, do you charge my girl with
With" she stammered.
ooh, no; but here are some burrs I picked
lp i'll the kitchen. | want to see the dress
vou wore yesterday-in fact all your
lresSes. :"
How dare you, sirl I'll have you in
Prison for this"
But when she found she could not brow
,eat me she owned up to having put up the
OBJ, and brought the money out from be-
ween the mat resses of her bed. She had
My small income, and had determined to
.eep it.
/ was not there to prosecute her. but TO
ain certain end. / told her that if she
would follow my advice | would drop the
natter and keep her secret, and she went
0 a neighbours with the money IN her hand
nd claimed to have found it in the garden.
7here the roDber must have dropped as he
an. | am the only living person to-day
vho knows how it was, she having died sew
raj years ago.