Connecticut western news., 1889-12-25

She had made from $50 to S2OO per week for two months before the trick was discovered. When I saw how she was working the game sent a woman to buy a certain cloak which one of the firm had carefully marked. The price was BPS, and she paid it all. Seven of it was sent to the cashier, and the next day the cloak was reported as returned. It was searched for and not found, and when the forelady found the game was up she confessed. She was penitent enough so far as the firm was concerned, but how she did go for mel It hurt her feelings to find that she had been bamboozled 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 pay over and then let her go.
 had case in Cincinnati which was not so easily worked. A girl IS years old, named Palmer, was cashier in a dry goods store. One day some cus- toners from the country, who had a mortgage to pay, called at the store to leave package containing $6,00O for Q few hours. The girl placed it in the safe in his presence, but when he came to call for it the money was missing. One of the proprietors and Q head clerk had been in the office dur ing the interval, but no one else, and no one could harbor the slightest sus- picion against them. Miss Palmer had held her place two years, and was con- sidered perfectly honest also, and the mystery of the package was sumner.
 As the firm had received the package in trust, they would have to make its loss good. This fact left me only two persons to work on-the head clerk and the girl. The head clerk was about to be given an interest in the business, and he would not sell his future for a few thousand dollars. But Miss Pal mer looked me calmly in the face with her big blue eyes and was innocence itself. She had no suggestions to make, no advice to offer, nothing to say. She had placed the package ill the safe. Some one had taken it. She hadn't, but who had? Her mother was a widow, and she was keeping com pany with young man named Deer ing. He was clerk in another store, and from all that 1 could learn was strictly honest. Twas completely block ed in the case, and had to admit it, but was told to take my time. 1 watched Miss Palmer two months before any thing came of it, and then it came in a curious way. The money was in bills of large de- nominations put into large buff en- velope, with the name of the owner written thereon. In changing my boarding place 1 got into house next door to the Widow Palmer's. I did not take this step to bring me closer to her daughter, but to accommodate friends. One Sunday morning I sat smoking before my window, which faced the street. Not over thirty feet to my right the cashier also had front window. The wind that morning was very gusty, and all of sudden I caught sight of a paper sailing through the air. It looked to me like big buff envelope, and as it fell in the gutter opposite saw that it really was one. I In less than a minute was down stairs | and at the door. As I 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 isl" | "You are the detective who-who
 "The same. I knew you had the money, but wanted proof. Here ii is."
 "I 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 of the stand and out of the window by { sudden gust. The money was re turned. She lost her place and believe the case was dropped righ
 there.
 Again had a case in a town il Ohio. The treasurer of d church soci ety, who was a woman, had SIP; placed in her hands for certain pur- pose. She was told to put it in thu
 bank, but she did not, and that nigh
 some one entered the house and took
 the cash. When l came to investigate
 1 smelled a rat at once. It was claimed
 that the burglar had entered by boring
 panel out of a back door. l saw q
 once that the holes had been bored
 from the inside. X block away was
 carpenter shop, with brace and bi
 so hanging that one could reach througl
 broken pane and secure them. The
 bit exactly fitted the holes. The treas
 urer was widow and lived alone
 with the exception of having dea
 and dumb girl to do her work. wa
 satisfied that the widow had robbed
 herself, but to prove it was anothe
 thing. She stood we'll in the commu
 nity, was a good talker, and had lot
 of assurance, and 1 was the only on who questioned her story.
 determined to go at her sharpl and risk all one throw of the dice There were lot of burdocks near tn carpenter shop, and gathered thre or four, cut stick to the size of Nc
 4 shoe, which I guessed was tn widows size, and, going to the house . 1 said:
 "Mrs. Davis, whoever bored thos holes in the door did the work fror the inside."
 "W-what!" she gasped, changin [ color at once.
 "And the person got the brace an bit from the carpenter shop"
 "Yes."
 "They crossed your garden and lei , tracks. Those tracks were made by , woman who wears No. shoe." "What, sir, do you charge my gil r with-with-" she stammered. 0Ob, no; but here are some burrs