Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-04-17

He availed himself OF the first moments
of his liberation to kiss Alice" Aunt
Martha looked at me with wide open
eyes, and then her brows contracted and
her face settled into lines of inflexible
severity.
"He did, did hep" said she. "And
that is the kind of man he is? Very
good. Let him go to Jail with the
others. | don't believe one word about
his young wife. II kissing respectable
young women is the way he studies real
ism the quicker he goes to Jail the bet
ter" and with that she turned and
walked into the house.
When the men had been placed in
the two vehicles in which the police had
come the chief and made an examina-
ton of the premises, and we found that
the house had been entered by a kitchen
window, in exactly the manner which
the tall burglar had described. Out
side of this window, close to the wall,
we found leathern bag, containing
what the chief declared to be an excel
lent assortment of burglars tools. The
officers and their prisoners now drove
away and we we're left to long morn
ing nap, If we were so fortunate as to
get it, and late breakfast.
In tho course of the trial of the three
men who had entered my house some
interesting points in regard to them
were brought out. Several detectives
and policemen from New York were
present, and their testimony proved
that my three burglars were men OF
eminence in their profession, and that
which most puzzled the metropolitan
detectives was to discover why these
men should have been willing to devote
their high talents to the comparatively
Insignificant business of breaking into
a suburban dwelling.
The tall man occupied position OF
peculiar eminence in criminal circles.
He was what might be called criminal
manager. He would take contracts for
the successful execution of certain
crimes, bank robberies, for instance, and
while seldom taking part in the actual
work OF a burglary or similar operation,
he would plan all the details of the af-
fair, and select and direct his agents
with great skill and judgment. He had
never been arrested before, and the de-
tectives were delighted, believing they
would now have an opportunity of trac.
ing to him series of very important
criminal operations that had taken place
in New York and some other large cities
He was known as Lewis Mandit, anC
this was believed to be his real name.
The stout man was first-class pro
fessional burglar and nothing more, ant
was in the employ of Mandit. Tit
young man was a decidedly uncommon
parsonage. He was of good family
had been educated at one of our princi
pal colleges, had travelled, and was il
every way qualified to make figure il
society. He had been newspaper maj
and writer for leading periodicals, ant
had shown considerable literary ability
but life of honest industry did not sui
his tastes, and he had now adopt,
knavery as regular profession.
This man, who was known among hi
present associates as Sparky, still Shove,
himself occasionally in newspaper OF
fees and was generally supposed to be
correspondent for Western journal
but his real business position was tina
of Mandit's head man.
Sparky was an expertin many branche
} of crime. He was an excellent forgel
} a skillful loclpicker, an ingenious plan
ner of shady projects, and had given
great deal of earnest study to the sui
ject of the loopholes of the law. Fl
had high reputation IN criminal Gil
cles for his ability in getting his fellow
rascals out of jail. There was reason
| believe that in the past year 70 les
, than nine men, some condemned I
teens of Imprisonment and some hel
( for trial. had escaped by means Of a
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