The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-06

10 take breakfast at CLOCK.
LOSES ms COUSINS DIAMONDS.
Mr.. Perkins was awakened only by a
vigorous hammering az his door His de-
maud TO know who and what was
wanted was answered By porter, who
said:
THE office was afraid you was sick;
I've called you twice and it's 10 o'clock
now "
Ten oclocltl Barclay sprang from his
bed, his head in a whirl. What would
Miss Ashley Think
Has theyomg lady next door been TO
breakfast}n he asked the porter.
She left the house at o'clock" was
the reply from the hall.
Barclay turned instinctively and raised
his pillow. The $4,000 diamonds were
upon him he had warmed viper. The
bon-b ons he had eaten were filled with
morphine, and while he slept Miss Ash
ley had entered his room by means of
skeleton key and made of with the pack
age of jewels. Now, with him, 1t was not
what Miss Ashley would say, but what
Miss Marjorie Little and cousin Philip
Barclay would say. Gathering his wits,
he dressed hurriedly, made as many in
quiries as he could think of as to Miss
Ashley's departure, and then rushed 10
police headquarters and laid the whole
affair before Inspector John Shea, chief
of the detective force. The wires be-
tween Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, ST.
Louis, Minneapolis, St, Paul, Detroit,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburg, New
York, Philadelphia and Boston were
kept hot for several hours but no clue TO
the identity Of Miss Florence Ashley"
was obtained A description Of her was
later forwarded to all the large cities In
the country.
Mir Perkins was chagrined beyond
measure, but late in the day Of the rob-
berry he sent his card to Miss Marjorie
Titles room, and within FIVE minutes
was face to face with his cousin and her
uncle in the parlor of the hotel He con-
cealed nothing from Them stumbled
through an apology as well as he could,
promised to restore or replace tho Jewels,
cut the painful interview as short as pos
sibe and departed feeling that he had
made an ass of himself, and that Mr.
Little and Miss Marjorie had little sym
pathy for him, If indeed they did not at
tribute to him motives he scorned. He
saw no more Of his pretty cousin, but he
did not leave Chicago. He secured less
expensive lodgings, spent part Of each
day at detective headquarters and per-
sonally conducted q correspondence with
police officials in cities he thought Miss
was hurt and he vowed to catch his robber
if.money would effect the capture He
hoped thereby to vindicate himself in the
esteem of the girl cousin with the calm,
gray eyes.
CAPTURE OF THE BoBBER.
Six weeks after the robbery Inspector
Shea handed Mr. Perkins a telegram
from Now Orleans, reading;
Perkins diamond thief here Send on idon.
LITIGATION.
Mr. Perkins himself jouneyed to the
Crescent City, bearing letters from In
spector Shea TO the chief of police there
Without delay Perkins was taken 10 the
central police station and led 10 the cell
where he was told the beautiful girl who
had robbed him would be found. In that
cell was a young man.
There's your bird" said the smiling
detective who acted as the visitors
escort.
"Impossiblew calculated Perkins,
hardly grasping the detectives meaning
and piqued by his mirth.
"Look here Gussie,' the officer said to
the prisoner The latter turned his face
to the Light and Perkins looked into the
same blue eyes that had melted before
his gaze in the sleeper just out OF Pitts
burg last February. The prisoner showed
his perplexity when he encountered Per-
kins's intent stare Of honest surprise.
"Gussie, you're pretty slick, but guess
you're in for il this time; this young fell
Ter has got you dead to rights" were the
consoling remarks the detective bestowed
upon "Gussie," while Perkins slowly be-
gan to see the depth Of the scheme, and
gradually noticed the prisoners tiny feet
and hands, his beautiful complexion and
hairless face, and the form that would
deceive an anatomist
"Gussie's toys" -. said the detective. as
he and Mr. Perkins left the lookup,
"were as fine as any woman In New Or
leans wears, and his wigs are natural as
life. He ran up against a confirmed NOR
phine eater on his last trick and that's
the reason he got nabbed. He's only
% years old, but he's the slickest in his
line this country has ever seen, and if he
had been given time he would have done
good work. His right name, or tho name
he goes by among the talent is "Gussien
Berry. but the police are not very well ac-
quainted with him. He comes from New
York, where he used to do variety thea
ter turn as female impersonator. He
knows the Jig is up aud confessed to me
he got your diamonds. He spouted all the
stuff except one ring that he was wearing
and he says he has blown the money. l
guess he is telling the truth, for he's
high roller and an easy mark at cards"
ENDS IN THE sTORT-BooK WAY.
Mr.. Perkins returned to Chicago and
secured a requisition for ''Gussien Berry,
and the dangerous counterfeit of a Wom-
an is now in the Cook county Jail at
Chicago, where he is known merely as
a hotel sneak thief. He has been in
dicted and his case is on the calendar of
the fall term of the criminal court. He
will probably get the limit of punish
ment, for aside from his confession in
New Orleans, which he may deny the
state has the testimony of the Chicago
pawnbroker, Max Gottschalk, to whom
he pledged the jewels for $4,000, and
from whom the diamonds were redeemed
by Mr.. Perkins.
When the facts in the case were made
known to Miss Marjorie Little and her
mother the ladies were ready to accept
an invitation to visit Cousin Barclay
Perkins at ''The Poplars." The mar
riage at the Palmer House last week,
which Philip Barclay came from Paris
to attend, is the sequel of the story. Not
the least interesting part of the cere-
mony was that involving the ring-the
ring taken from "Gussic" Berry's finger
when miss Florence Ashley" disap-
peared from view.
Congressman Cummings says that Secre-
tary Carlisle IS the greatest living exponent
Of parliamentary law
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