Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-04-23


was trying TO blackmail him lie went
on to tell all about the contents of the
letters, and the inspector began TO feel
greatly interested in the case, which he
realized was difficult. At length he
said;
81 can see only one way. We must
bring this woman face to face with
your wife"
mo, no." said the merchant, that
would never do, You see my wife is
wonderful woman. She can read peo-
pies thoughts, She can look right into
my mind and see what is going on
there. All she has to do is to take hold
of my great toe. Then she reads my
thoughts"
The inspector caught on ut once and
remarked that this was strong objec-
ton. He got rid of the man as soon as
possible and never saw him again, As
he is still doing business it is supposed
that he keeps his craze to himself and
carefully guards his feet from his wife.
One day a man rushed into police
headquarters much excited He was
deaf and dumb. lie seemed almost
Frustrated with terror After they had
calmed him a little, he explained that
he had been robbed Of four thousand
dollars by some men, who had thrown
him down and nearly cholScd him to
death. The inspector had u searching
examination made, and after a day or
two proved conclusively by the mans
friends that he had not been robbed,
AND that he was not even deaf and
dumb. The inspector was not pleased
at having this sort Of Il trick played
upon him. So he sat the man down in
Il chair and engaged him in converse
ton. One of the detective sergeants
slipped up behind him and iabbed a pin
into his back about two inches The
deaf and dumb man rose straight up
and yelled:
Great God inspector, what was
that?'
That said the inspector, sis my
cure for dumbness. Git"
He was gone, and seems to have been
permanently cured
Captain Reilly tells of u man who
called on him short time ago with an
odd complaint He was quiet, gen
tlemanly person, well advanced in
years. He said: II am much troubled
with large steamboats, blowing up and
down near my house at night. They
make a great whistling and blowing,
and | cannot sleep for them"
Captain Reilly supposed the man
lived near the water front, and said;
"Where is your home?"
81 live on Seventeenth street,
tween Seventh and Eighth ave-
nues, saidhe. "Thc steamboats, 60 up
and down Seventeenth street 1t is
very annoying"
at must be-" said Captain Reilly.
"T'll have it stopped
The next day he sent around and told
the man that he had had the steamboats,
stopped. A few days afterward the
man called and thanked him. They
have stopped entirely" said he, ''and l
can never repay you"
That's all right said the police
officer. Seventeenth street is not q
water thoroughfarc and we never could
allow it. You will not be disturbed
any more"
DR.. Douglas, Of the insane board at
the Bellevue hospital, says that these
cases are generally difficult to detect. A
few days ago young German woman
was brought to the asylum to be exam
incd as to her sanity, They watched
her night and day for five days, and she
neither said nor did anything out of the
way The sixth day she told the nurse
conndentially that God had appeared tc
her in vision, and had told her to go an(
marry certain whitc-haired old man
who would meet her in a certain place
She complained bitterly Of the hardness
of lot which would compel her tx
waste her youthful charms, but she
said she must do as the Lord babe her
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