The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-17
A NIynterY Solved.

For the first two days of this week
there WIS an air OF mystery around
the police station which led some OF
the reporters to believe that clue 10
the perpetrator OF some dreadful
crime had been secured and that he
would soon be behind the bars. Capt.
Evans, Sergeant Chambers and Oil
Ger Scott seemed worried and many
mysterious whispered Conversations
took place between them. Several
times on Monday and Tuesday
roughly clad man conferred In q low
tone of voice with one or more OF
these officers, and while the agitated
manner of the participants showed
that something unusual was going on
all that the reporters could CLEAN was
when one Of the officers said to the
man: You must catch EN-. no matter
what they cost" The reporters
thought of all the thrilling detective
stories they had ever read in boyhood
days. and came to the conclusion that
the stranger was a regular Sleuth. on
the track of a gang OF noted crlmi-
nails.
The mystery was not solved until
Wednesday morning, when 1t was
learned that the supposed detective
was nothing more than fisherman,
who had been commissioned by the
three officers to procure them some
| life bait for days fishing In the tenn
pestuous Delaware and Chesapeake
canal,
Accordingly, on Wednesday morn.
ing, Captain Evans, Sergeant Cham
bers and officer Scott made their APP
pearance at the p, W. d b. railroad
station with stock Of fishing poles.
lines, hooks, sinkers, &c., sufficient TO
stock a small store. They also had a
large tin kettle. in which several hun.
dred minnows disported, oblivlous OF
the fact that in short time cruel
hook would be thrust In their spinal
column ard they thrown overheard to
be swallowed by larger fish, The
party had a nice looking man with
them, whom it was afterwards learned
was neighbor OF SCOTS that he had
spite against. and cherished q hope
that-well- he wouldn't come Ut
on the same train that the remainder
of the party did.
The party took the S.15 o'clock train
on the Delaware railroad and when the
canal was reached could scarcely wait
until the train stopped to jump OF
and get to work. They imagined that
the canal was filled with fish waiting
for them to como, but Imagination
and reality are two different things, az
these bold fishermen learned before
|
filled with blessful anticipation, Their
} this was succeeded by a feeling oil
WEAKNESS in waiting for a biIe. Rut
at last the long looked for bite came
and for few minutes all was excite
ment, as the monster tugged at the
line.
Chambers proposed getting a boa
to land the fish, but at last Scotty sue
ceeded In pulling him on the bank
) There he lay, beautiful yellow ned
, three and five sixteenth inches long
: by actual measurement. This was the
, largest fish caught, and of the fou
others captured, one was not quite a'
large as tho minnow that served for G
: bait.
A feeling of dependency came
, upon the festive fishermen about .
o'clock, accompanied with co.t
wave, which benumbed their fingari
r and set their teeth to chattering. a
| this time train was heard in tho dis
. tance, and handkerchiefs were.hurried
ly tied on the fishing poles and waved
as signals OF distress. Unfortunatel.
for them it was antexpress train, which
like time, does not wait or stop 10
any man. not even a party OF hal
j. frozen tishermen. At last, after
:. o'clock the accommodation train cam'
! along and the Disguised fishermen
: climbed on board. They brourh
i their fish with them, and upon havih.
l. them carefully weighed in neisEhot
q ing drug store, found that they bal
r anced the scale with their scnles on, a
n 0 ounces, G drachms. 2 seruples and /
= grains, but Scotty says the fishing i
. excellent.