Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-05-07

not have given him away but for ths
fact that besides cheating him he had
persuaded his sweetheart 10 leave him.
and this was . treaehery that he could
not forgive Vixen your man gets in
to port, the letter said. he will feign
Illness On his back he will have .
big plaster. put there. Of course, As he
will tell you. by the ships surgeon
Take of this plaster and inside of !;
you viii fnd forty-nine large and vaiu-
BILE stones In short time the SNUG
gier arrived ard again we made HIM
prisoner. He acted exactly rs the let
ter stated he would act. and when
some one touched him In the back he
vinehssf ss IL IN terrible pain We
were ready for bis acting. however. and
soon had his coat and shirt Oft There
was the plaster. and beneath IL the in
spectors found forty-nine glittsring
gems Just a. the letter stated they
would The man was hustled of to
Ludlow street Jail and the diamonds
sent To the appraiser
We were all jubilant. and the chief
inspector. who had made the seizurc.
went home and told his wife what n
BEAUTIFUL sealssin saeque he was going
To bur her. The next day when
reached my Office the firSt thing I reach
cd for was big envelope from the APP
Praiser, containing . statement OF the
value Of the diamonds We had vari-
ouSly estimated them the day before At
from $50 600 to si0o. 900. When I open
ed the envelope and Rad the official ap-
praiscment you could have knocked me
over with a feather. This Is what il
said:-'The forty-nine diamonds you
sent me for appraisement are made %
glass. Their net value Is about seven
ty-five cents
II could not help admiring the fell
lows clevernesS He had written the
anonymous letter himself. of course,
and had cntrapPed ms completely. We
never thought of looking in the hand
bag he carried. and he had walked Of
with his diamonds We had TO let him
20 FIRE again
We'll. sir. i was two months after
this before we caugh: the man He
kept up his smuggling regularly ri
nalty we let him pass several times
without paying much attention - him
He became bold and ono day we dis
covered big lot Of diamonds in the
hack Of hair brush This time We
rally had him I felt 80 much curl
oSity - find out how the fellow had
beaten u the frs. tiuse have described
that ! went IN the 4 nited States district
attorney and persuaded aim to consent
To have n year taken Oft the mans sen
senee IL he wOuld tell We I'll agreed
that thu knowledge would be Of great
bcsiefit 10 thu service.
The man agreed He was Good a. a
cucumber when he told Us. Why he
said. II was the easiest and simplest
thing in the world You Sr~ knew
wha. you fellows were up 10. posted
myself A. To that found oat you
were having me watched in Paris. and
knew there would be a complete
s.sarrh When sailed from France
simply bpuxht ruunsi-triP ticket.
made an agreement with the steamship
people that WAS 20 have the same
sta.erv"m e'5min< hack which had
occupied in coming over. Then I So
cured the diamonds IN bag. made an
excavation in the wall Of the state
ROOM put the DIAMONDS in IL and put
third mp the hols- Thea when the ship
sailed my wife came down to bid me
-'oo.t-hy- was too mosisst tn kiss her
yossi-by on deck and Shs. accompanied
ms I" my stateTOrmL I told her about
the diamonds and. woman1ike, She
woaid carry them ASHORE with her
Wasn's il easyT N v Herald