The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-12-16
HIS SINGULAR CASE.
A Detectives Strange Experience
with a Sleep Walker.

'BRoxroN, N. Y. May IA, ls7a-send you
best man to me immediately.
CIVILIAN HARDY
Such was the telegram received by tn
chief of the bureau of which I am
member, and l was deputed to worl
| upon the case; not because I was tn
hest man. connected with the bureau
but by reason of the fact that / was tn,
2nlyavailable man.
Four hours su bsequent to the recep
ton Of the message l was comforting
with Mr.. Hardy-va man nearly sixts
years of age, the proprietor of a small
store connected with his residence-tc
whom had made myself known, whose
story was as follows:
When, at the close of the rebellion
after a four years service in behalf Of
my. country, returned to my home in
this town, my health was so impaired
that could not follow my former vo-
cation-that of a carpenter. So con-
verted one of the rooms in my house
nto store and began to sell confec-
t!onery, cigars and other small articles.
With the growth of the towE my bust
ness has increased until it affords me
IN income sufficient to support my wife
md myself have no children-in a
comfortable manner; and have been
ible to pay all the debts which I. owing
TO my impecuniousness, was obliged to
contract during the earlier part of my
career as q merchant" and he smiled
as the last word fell from his lips
Early last evenings" he continued,
ST was called Il pom by gcntleman-a
stranger to me-who said that years
ago he borrowed nine hundred dollars
Of my father and had come to pay that
and accrued interest to me
my fathers sole heir. He did pay me
nearly sixteen hundred dollars.
AS it. was too late to deposit the
money in the bank 1 placed it in nv
safe. ] had scarcely done so when,
rlancing at one OF the windows in the
store, saw the head and shoulders OF
D man, who looked like tramp. and |
who was watching me closely.
The lower sash of the window was
lightly raised and the idea suggested
tself to me that this man might have
zen listening to the conversation
2hich had been carried on in the room,
earned about the money and was
to see what did with it. 1
topped to the window, raised the sash
ill higher, put my head out of the
'indow, looked up and down the
treet, but nowhere was the stranger
, be seen.
when I closed the store for the
light was inclined to take the money
18th me into the house proper On
scond consideration l deemed it wise
} let it remain where it was, as the
Iie is furnished with a combination
eek, and could leave the doors be-
veen the store and my sleeping
'om open and thus be enabled to
,ar anyone who effected an entrance
the store and was tampering with
e safe.
This morning, to my intense amaze '
ent, l found that the money was
issing from the safe, though nothing
dicAted that the store had been forci-
c entered or any tampering with the
combination is known only
me. t
u decided to employ detective with II
t delay and wired your bureau Tor
sistance."
May not the burglar have gained &C
IS to the store from some other part y
the building?" inquired. n
He could not without passing t.
'ough my sleeping-room, as you will al
d by examining the premises. and 1
not thinl: he could have done this N
Shout waking me, was the reply. p'
i am not so sure that you would re
yc been Weakened by his passing M
ough your sleeping apartment, as a N
ofessionar manages to get about a "
lding without making much noise. "
ve you looked through the house?'' IL
L have not" or
Let us do So" arising from my seat
he store as j spoke oJ
'c started on our investigation of &c
premises and in the kithen found en-
unEastened window above a sinh, ~
NV which, out OF doors. were the W ~
ks of a mans bare feet in the dirt III
t. had been moistened by slight ~
about half past ten the previous Wv
ming.
careful examination revealed sim. DO
tracks on the floor in the kitchen 80
on the carpet in his sleeping-room, 1ie
7incing Mr.. Hardy that / was cor Coz 90,
in my supposition that the burglar 90
not directly entered the store. poS
though he passed through my . una
oing.roorl without waking me "a
Tot comprehend how nc could have eis