The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-03

lished himself and family in one Of the
apartments He took out e., 900 insur-
ancc ON bis household furniture and s. 900
ON a stock of cloaks, cloakings. buttons,
trimmings. etc.
Ono morning he told his wife that he
was going that day 10 town out in Penn
syIyanln and disappeared. In the after
noon all the other members of the family,
including the grandmother who weighed
not an ounce less than 800. and an infant
not over four months old, went OF TO a
picnic, from which they did not return
Intil . o'clock the next morning
The apartment had been burned out
when they reached home. Fortunately,
no other family had moved into the
house.
well, / happened to get to the build
ing before the head Of the house returned
from his alleged trip to Pennsylvania.
Big stock of cloaks hercE / asked
one of the daughters, who, ] discovered
as we talked, hadn't been coached up.
About ten, said she.
'Cloakings, / supposep
A little; not much
81 didn't say anything to the father
about what his daughter had told me, but
asked him how much stock she had on
hand.
Fine stock he said. we was lust
starting in to do a first-class business in a
tirst-class neigh borhood' Then he show
ed me his bills. He'd bought his cloaks
and cloaking from our man. The invoices
footed up 81, 600
Then there was bill for buttons and
trimmings
All gone in the fire.
II hired patrOlman to go up with a
hne sieve, and he sifted every bit of the
debris, but there wasn't sign of a but
ton. We afterward found that the bill
was bogus thing, made at our mans re
quest, but this information we could not
use against him, but only to defend our
company against the suit brought on the
policies which we declined to pay"
"How did the case come out2n
owe paid 5000 of the 81 600 demanded
rather than take chances at fight before
jury. Juries are not very kind to insur-
ance companies, you know.
Nov, we were pretty close to our
man that time, but we could not nave
fastened anything on him. He would
have sworn that he delivered the cloaks
and cloaking. the insured would have
sworn to the same, and even that girl
who talked to me would have straight
ened herself in some way"
Funny, isn't it," unused the adjuster.
after pausing for minute, THAT here in
New York, where there are the sharp
est detectives in the world, a man should
be able TO keep at that sort of thingI"
How do you account for itl' asked the
reporter.
It's because we have to begin at the
wrong end. Our man lives up there IN
the heart of New Jerusalem-on the east
side, you know-and operates from there.
Everything that's done outside is done by
somebody else, and we don't know that
anything is going on until we get notice
of a fire If we had our suspicious
aroused concerning a certain clothing
store and got it into our heads that plans
were making to burn it up, we could
watch it, and if our man was involved in
an incendiary project touching that store,
he'd have to be careful or he would show
his hand. AS it is, he works away unob-
served until the fire takes place, and
then there's no good in watching him"
"But you expect to catch him in course
of timer" queried the reporter.
YES" answered the adiuster, II don't
doubt that if he lives long enough he will
find his way into Sing Sing prison"