The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-10-18
Identity ofa Mysterious Young
Man Solved.
WHY HE GAME TO TOWN.
His "Agency" Was a Blind, But it Failed
Him in Revealing the Whereabouts of
Important Documents and He Returned
Home DesCOnsolate
~ OR the past two w.


! As StsE 9na young man apparent
ly about 81 years of
n - 49, age Of feminine ap-
ssS4 sS-SS1zszs,s- pearance and respect
SN@fE& - ably dressed, has been
~ a guest of one of the
private boarding houses in town. He repre-
sented himself as an agent soliciting orders
for some patent article, but what the article
was no one was able to find out and it is not
believed that he sold anything. To the too
inquisitive he stated that it was very high
priced article and to make sale required a
lengthy explanation, so he did not wish to
exhibit or speak about it unless he felt Ger.
tain that the party making the inquiry was a
likely purchaser, and this he said he could
determine by one or two questions
This explanation satisfied some but created
suspicion on the part of others and the latter
was well founded. The latter was not here
as an agent for the sale of goods, but rather
as purchaser. He was here trying to dis
cover the whereabouts of a certain young
woman who left her home in South Bethe-
hem several months ago with papers of so
much value tO-the owner that money could
not buy them. She was supposed to be in
Shenandoah.
A HERALD reporter who caught the drift of
the case opened a conversation with the
young man at the Lehigh Valley depot yes.
terday afternoon. Much to the reporters
surprise the "agent" was quite willing to
talk, and to the scribe's still greater surprise
the young man admitted that he was not an
agent" but a detective and spoke freely OF
the case he had in hand, reserving only the
names of the parties interested and their
exact location.
It was soon learned that the unreserved
demeanor of the young man was due more to
a disgruntled spirit rather than desire to
accommodate the reporter. "You see," said
he, ut is just this way. The people who
told you they were onto me were both right
and wrong, and it is only because 1 have not
been treated right that say anything at all
about the matter. Last summer a young
girl from Shenandoah was employed as maid
in a wealthy family residing near Philadel.
phia, not South Bethlehem. One day this
maid, while cleaning one of the rooms in the
house found upon the floor a letter--a letter,
see? Well, that letter brought me here
After finding it the girls curiosity impelIed
her to stick the letter in her pocket for future
reference, which when made, proved to con-
tain some very damaging evidence against
the male head of the household and, strange
ly enough, a former servant of the house who
does not live many miles from Shenandoah.
Now the girl who found the letter had an
eye to business and at an opportune moment
limited to the male head of the domicile that
she had the missing letter in her possession
and that it could be secured for a certain
amount. She made a mistake in fixing her
price for had she asked little less it would
have been promptly paid. But seeirg that
the man interested was badly scared
she determined to make it warmer
money was not paid within twenty
four hours the wife would get the letter for
nothing. Now it seems that the man in this
case is really dependent upon his wife for a
living He married her for a fortune and the
capital in his business consists principally of
her money, so he was very much alarmed.
Well, to cut long story short, he consulted
a lawyer who advised suit for blackmail, the
girl who had the letter skipped and / was
sent to find her, 1 spent two weeks here
without success, but here I have a letter
stating that the letter has been surrendered,
the girl is with the family again and all are
like turtle doves. But the worst of it is they
say won't get any pay for my trouble
because l couldn't get the scent" The girl
was in Philadelphia while l was here and
surrendered voluntarily.
"Iou can sue to recover for services
rendered, can't your"
Sue be hanged, ," retorted the detective as
he picked up his grip to board the train.
The man who hired me is worth nothing
the business Of the man implicated is in his
wife's name and the wife has forgiven, him.
SO there is no money within reach and they
don't care d-n for publicity. Good bye;
give my respects to Charley and tell
him l will send one of my patent arrange.
ments next week, if the manufacturers do not
go out OF BUSINESS.
So the good looking mild hammered young
man left and the story of the mysterious
agent which has been so industriously dis
cussed by certain people of town the past few
days is clear.
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