The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-01

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81 think I can" said /. ito the very
ROOM"
very well. lead the way. You need not
accompany us, Mr.. Gould, unless you wish"
The young broker, however, did wish it.
and We set out. 1t was now about Q o'clock
IN the morning, and the streets were quite
deserted. The officer and l preceded, walk.
ing together, Mr.. Searle and Mr.. Gould
close at our heels. In a short time we had
reached Ann street, and even here the sights
and sounds of low revelry were over. and
except for an occasional lighted window
the tenements gave no signs of life. As we
| neared the locality where / believed / had
been taken. / observed two figures who had
been lurking in the shadows fall into our
rear as we passed. and called the officers at
tention to the fact.
They're all right" said he. they're my
When we reached the house of odors 1
| said in q low voice:
ut is somewhere about here-oh! this
must be the alley.n
This was a few steps further on, and as
we turned into it, treading softly, and l
leading the way, / noticed that one of the
other officers had closed up with us, his
companion staying outside. At the end of
| the alley, without any hesitation, / turned
| to the left. and there were the three steps
and the loose board at the foot. and on ex-
animation we found the middle step
broken, as l had thought. The officer was
delighted.
You'd make a good detective" he said.
| The door was fastened. Nh. Searle pros
| pected with his picks, and soon removed
the key from the inside, and threw back
the bolt. Fortunately the door was not
bOlted within. and we all entered without
any trouble. On ascending to the third
floor the officer exposed a dark-lantern, and
we looked about.
'This is the room." 1 whispered, as I
turned in a certain direction and counted
"Are you surep
@"Quite sure"
He tried the door and found it fast, and
by pressure Mr.. Searle, who also tried it.
"Then somebody is there" said the ser
geant, ..and 1 s'pose we must force it. But
first, Pill try persuasion" He knocked
gently, but had to repeat it several times
there was Q sound Of movement within and
q gruff voice, which / recognized as that of
my late captor with the knife, called:
who's theref"
.It's I-Clint." said /. with Q sudden in
spiration, and as nearly as l could, initial
ling the clerks voice.
THE hell you say"
Quick" I returned. 'let me in. The
games up" And l ratified the knob impa-
VIZ heard him now carefully draw back
the bolt, and the door opening showed the
rascal standing in his shirt and staring in
amazement as the light, now held by Nh.
Searle, was thrown full on. and the officer
confronted HIM with a revolver. saying:
You're caught, Jimmy Put your buds
on as soon as you can. PTl wait. Who's
fore.a
still IN the bed, but had started half up,
equally wondering and staring at us wide
eyed.
In brief, the villains, recognizing me,
knew what the visit meant and seeing, also,
that resistance would be useless, yielded
with a good grace. The one whom / have
designated as with the knife.n was an old
offender, we'll known to the police and
prisons, named Daggs, and bearing from
mis- hisn 1se fSe seaJ p5iSfIsie1 of I With that iP FTd@
the wall safe the officers secured the entire
burglars kit and about one-third the
whole sum tabont $4,000 taken from the
brokers' box. The rest the clerk, Allen,
The latter was arrested early the next
morning at the station where he was about
to take the train for New York, and the
remainder of the stolen money was re-
covered with him. All three were con-
victed of burglary and received sentences.
At the preliminary examination the reason
transpired why such care was taken In
opening the chest and afterwards replacing
it in the safe.
1t appeared that Allen was really about
to marry a young lady of respectable fam
lily in New York. and was going thither fol
that purpose. and had engaged passage fr
himself and bride on a steamer to sail for
I Europe the Saturday following. He knew,
of course, that Mr.. Gould kept a large
amount Of money in his private cash box,
and had long waited q favorable oppor-
tunity to rob it. The broker had really
lost the key to his safe at the time my
services had been used to unlock it, but
since then the clerk had found and secretly
retained the missing key. Mr.. Gould's
i projected absence for a week or two hap.
pened OPPORTUNITY at the time set for
Aliens marriage. The latter knew that
only the broker himself had access TO the
steel box, and that if the contents could he
distracted without the chest disappearing
there would be no discovery until the
elder Gould returned, when Allen would be
with his bride we'll on his way to Europe.
Therefore he promptly arranged with
Jimmy" Daggthe plan which had so near.
ly succeeded.
OF course, Mr.. Gould desired to reward
me literally for my share in defeating it
but | positively refused all pecuniary re-
ward, returning also the bank note thu
clerk had given me, but the broker insist
ed. and finally. on Mr.. Searle's advice,
accepted a present of a gold watch anG
chain, which l retain and use to this day.
will add that this affair was by no means
Aliens first offense. but that his trial drew
out the fact that he was also an escaped
fOrger, whom the officers of a Western
State were then looking for, and / was al
ways glad that l had been the means no
only of bringing him to justice. but of saw
ing a probably estimable lady from allyinf
herself 60 a convicted felon.
Boston Globe.