Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-11-18


 suspicion, to face every charge against his honesty. While he was waiting for | the arrival of the Cincinnati detective Capt. Bligh took his photograph. Me | Donuell thought this was carrying the | vigilance of the law to excess, but still his objection did not go beyond that calm, hurt air.
 l Mcdonnell had been placed in the | old First street station, which was l where the Wayfarers' Rest now is, to await the arrival of the detective. Just before eight o'clock the next evening | MT. Blur arrived at the station, and l preparations for McDonnells departure | were made. But instead of the Cincin. l nati detective a dispatch came. MT. l Hazen wired that he could not be here until the next day. Capt. Bligh tried in l every way he could to get the prisoner to stay over until next day. But Mir. | Blur produced the order of the court, l said his client had already been toe l obliging, and insisted on the prison. CTS release. So the door of the cell was opened, and MT. Blur and MoDon. | nell walked out of the station house. They had not gone half square until Mcdonnell stopped suddenly with the | exclamation:
 | ''1 forgot SO1neVnlnS.
 ''You had better not go back there," said the cautious lawyer.
 But I must" rejoined the check raiser. II want to make little girl, who brought me my food, present." Let me have your present and ] will give it to the child," suggested Mr. Blur.
 ''Well, that will do." was the answer. "Hand her this ten-dollar bill with my compliments. Tell her MT. Mcdonnell will never forget her kindness. do love little children. Their honest sim plicity charms me-" This is told be- cause it gives a perfect illustration of McDonnen's style of generosity.
 The two men walked over to Fourth and Market streets. There MT. Blur left his client, who boarded a car for the Fourteenth street station. A square below the car halted, and a minute later the burly form of a large man dropped into the seat beside Mcdonnell. He was Detective Bligh.
 'l am going to take you back" said
 Bligh.
 "But, my dear sir," somewhat warm ly replied Mcdonnell, ''you impose on good nature. I am free man until my case is called"
 Come along" was Capt. Bligh's answer, as he pulled the car bell and helped the man off. He took Me Donnell by dark streets back to the station, where he remained until Hazen arrived. The Cincinnati man did not recognize the check raiser as anyone that he wanted, so Capt. Bligh had to let the man go, though he did it very reluctantly. Mcdonnell left the city, and, of course, never returned.
 Capt. Bligh was very anxious to keep trace of Mcdonnell He soon found a way. The check raiser had left his trunk behind. The detective knew it would be sent for and resolved to keep & close eye on 1t. True enough, in week or two an order come that the trunk be shipped by the Adams express to New York city. Mir. Bligh sent the number of the package and 0 description of the trunk to the Pinkertons, in New York city. "Find who receives this trunk and where it goes," he ordered The Pinlzertons
 ''spottcd" the trunk, and found that it was taken by man who did not answer McDonnelrs description from the office of the express company to a steamer bound for England. Capt. I
 he knew that Mcdonnell was in Eng
 land
 He had d number of McDonnell's
 photographs made, and sent them tC
 England One he directed to Scotland Yard.
 As Capt. Bligh afterward stated, he 1 felt by intuition that Mcdonnell was . an extraordinary criminal, and it was from this feeling that he took such pre- , cautions. None of the English detec tives even sent "thanl1 you' for the photographs and the warning. About two years afterward the whole
 world was startled by the announce ment that the Bank of England had
 been robbed of an immense sum o1 money. Who were the guilty men: Hundreds of detectives were put tc work on the case. For a time nc progress was made. One day a Scot land Yard detective happened to re call the photograph which some "back- woods sleuthhound," as he put it, had ; sent to the office. The picture haG been carelessly thrown aside, after probably being the butt of some heavy , English joke. By rare good luck the photograph was found. It was tal1er by the detective, who thought, how : ever, that he would not be paid fol his pains, to the cashier who had paic out the money on the forged checks ] ''That is the man," exclaimed the Bank of England official when he saw , the photograph. Then the world was flooded with those photographs. Me Donnell and his partners" were cap
 tured. Mcdonnell was caught through the photographs and Capt. Bligh's ac curate description of his person and his habits. and the check raiser's arres . led to that of his pals" Singularly enough, they were caught in different parts of the world, having separated | as soon as the crime was committed. l The Bank of England, when it learned . of Capt. Bligh's part in the case, sen t b i'm check-not one of McDonnells- l for fifty pounds and a letter of thanks l The detective prized this letter very r highly, and his family still have it il | D1 Il.