St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-08

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member, that we were not going to the
workhouse yet awhile
"What was much against US, Burn
side, having been hitherto quiet, we'll
conducted man, was quite unknown to
US, and we were further at loss, not
having photograph of him. He had
never had his photograph taken. his
wife declared. The best description we
could get of him was that he was a man
| of medium height, short necked, though
| of thin build, with ford complexion
| and bushy sandy whiskers.
but there was one thing we relied on
more than on anything else to assist us
| in identifying him. His employers and
| fellow servants were able to inform us
| that Burnside had what he called
| blood wart' on the side of his nose; APP
| pearing as tiny purple pimple more
| than year before, it had grown grad
ually to the size of a large pea. He had
been heard to say that he had seen
| doctor about it, who tod him
| that the only way to get rid
! of it was to have it cut out. but that the
| scar would perhaps, be more cOnSDlc-
uous than the blood warJ itself. and he
was advised to let it be for time to see
| if it increased in size. The medical Off
| Ger of our division was consulted on the
subject, and his opinion was that if it
really was what was termed blood
Wart,' the effect of cutting it away or
! burning it off would be vivid scar,
larger even than the eXcrescence itself.
"Confound that blood wart,' eX-
Sergeant Hook remarked, parenthetic-
ally, and flushing angrily at the mere
| recollection; sit OccasiOned us no end of
trouble. Scotland Yard was down on
our superintendent. and of course he
was down on me. Why wasn't the man
taken? Why was l bungling the bust
ness? With such a signal lamp as that
nose to direct me, should have effected
the capture in couple Of days at the
outside. That was what our super
said; and then there was the diamond
broker himself, bothering and badg-
ering at the Office, twice day some
times, and threatening to write to the
newspapers about it. 1t was nothing
short of disgraceful, that body OF
! skilled practitioners, whose business 1T
was to make the most of the slightest
cleW in tracking criminals, should be
unable to find man wherever he might
| be. who went about with the chief feat
| ure of his face proclaiming his guilt as
| Enthusiastically as though he baWled it
out at the top of his voice. Ali the
same, Robert Burnside still remained at
large. and his wife had been seen wear
ing her husbands silver watch and
chain, and with kid gloves on her hands,
and a new bonnet, and a fashionable
| paraSOl.
I'VE hunted up Burnside's relatives,
| who lived in the country. His father
was a small farmer somewhere near
| Cambridge. and as the house he resided
| i'm was a queer old tumble-dOWn place,
| with lots of rooms that were used only
for lumber, we thought our man might
| be hiding there, and overhauled it from
cellars to garrets. The old gentleman
made no objection. He was martyr 10
govt, poor fellow, and had not stirred
out of the house for weeks, but sat
by the kitchen fire, with one arm in
sling and the right leg bolstered
up in cotton wool, and resting on
stool. He was deeply grieyed, as was
| the old woman, that their son should be
accused of such serious crime. With
tears in his eyes, old Mr.. Burnside de-
clared that he could not possibly believe
it. 1t was much more likely, he
thought. that some Williams had some
how or other got hold of the packet of
diamonds, and in order to throw every
body off the right scent, had inveigled
their Door son Robert to some secret
place and made away with him. But
that, of course, was sheer nonsense,
| though the old chap took on. so, it was
evident that he believed IT. at the
same time it wasn't likely that we should
| accept all that was told us as gospel.
One of our men was posted within
| watching distance of the house, but,
after week, it appeared from his re-
port that it would be a waste OF time
| for him to remain any longer, and he
was withdrawn.
.This was on the Monday, and on the
| Thursday following a discovery was
made that puzzled US considerably,
"Of course, Mrs. Burnside.s move
ments were watched pretty closely.
The case was an important one, and We
were not only cognizant of every letter
and parcel that came addressed to that
good lady, but we took the liberty of
ascertaining who her correspondent
was. on each occasion, before the con-
slgnment was delivered at the house.
on the day named some of her friends
sent her some butter and eggs, securely
| packed i'll nice little basket. The but
| ter was in a tWO-pOund roll, but we fiat
tened it out as thin as a shilling, hoping
to find it was a cover for some
thing. but it was simply what it pro-
fessed to be, and nothing else, and We
made roll of it again. There were 20
| eggs, but eggs are eggs, and you can
make nothing else of them. Still, | was
worried over the precious business that
would not trust even an unbroken
egg she'll. We dare not destroy the
eggs. If they were not delivered intact
! her suspicious might be aroused. So l
procured 20 others, new laid, and as
| nearly matching the right ones as pos
| sible, and the basket-after it had been
photographed-wa sent on.
.'Ihen got basin, and set about
breaking the reserved eggs, and out
tumbled the yoke of the fourth one,
along with two diamonds!
at was an ingenious trick, but one
easily performed after all. A morsel of
| shell had been carefully raised, the
precious stones pushed IN, and the bit
| of shell stuck down again. The re-
mainder of the eggs were broken, but
| there were no more diamonds. There
| was no letter in the basket, or any scrap
| of writing, and the address was in
| printed characters, so that it was next
| to impossible to trace the writer. The
| only thing indisputaGle-e that
| there were two diamonds concealed in
one of the eggs-was that the basket
| had been forwarded from Cambridge!
| On the week previous Mrs. Burnside
| had eggs sent her, and nothing beside,
but there seemed nothing strange that,
| Knowing Sne was ueSelVeu, Hel lIltluS
should contribute such things toward
her housekeeping, and they were for
! Warded on to her without suspicion.
''But our discovery in connection with
the second batch opened our eyes
opened them to the extent of enabling
| us to see that we were being bam-
| boOZled. There was no absolute proof
that the diamonds were part of the
stolen parcel, but it was as good as GER
tain that they were. And they came
from Cambridge; and who could have
| sent them out but Burnside?
Il went post haste to Cambridge N.Y.
| self, of course taking with me my pho
tograph of the basket; but the people
| at the booking office had not the least
recollection who had left it there, car
riage paid Besides Burnside's aged
| parents, VINO lived about four miles on