Smyrna times., 1893-01-18
The RICHARDS MURDER;
or, A CECIL COUNTY MYSTERY.
Il Detective Story, by G. ". lfcLain
CHAPTER XIV.
Continued.

Now my good lady reader. do Won
hoot and laugh to scorn lady detec
i've, because you are not one yourself;
II So stop and think, then hunt up the
history of the criminal world. and SEQ
II st least three-tenths of the best
American detectives are not ladies and
ladies of refined culture.
Take for instance the DUPONT barn
burners, which baffled the best of da.
tective skill for months, and see how
1t was worked up and the guilty par
Ties brought to justice by lady. And
just now | call to memory an incident
where lady did me good service. as
follows:
l, but few months ago. was called
upon to hunt up a firebug. After hear.
Ing the particulars, took nv ever
ready aud favOrite profession OF view
making and set to work. In one week
had spotted my man. don't wish
10 Halter him, and hope to be excused
but Gid think he did not have any
too much sense; but before Iopg
changed my mind. | worked the
neighborhood--tried to board at his
house, but no you don't; not a bo.rd
offered him and his wife liberal in.
ducements to have pictures made. hat
no you doa't-not picture. So. ot
the end Of the second week. hoa 3,
Chain of circumstantial evidence and
cicumstantial only. Then NV en-
pi0yer and | went 70 hi. favorjte attnr.
hey' who says: THAT is very pood
and good enough, too, unless his nttor.
hey was to swing in the late and new
Ia" on you, which now enables a wife
TO be for her husband in this state [
mot Delawarel. And should she lbis
"HsJ stand up and swear that be. an
'he hIgnt in question, was al home All
niGAt long, whether it b.. true or ro,
u might put 4 barrier in the way otc -
Whdt next? Why, aot give no. but
get ia with my man-my foolish loot.
inE Sort OF chap, that / at Gr,f
Thought | would ,oor run in bis hole
l went home and finished up uly photo
work in day or two, took 10; Of bar
gaze, old trumpery, etc, including =
lot of sieight-of-hand tricks, also be-
."- aho" man when necessary: and
ae ny man lived on the River -
and near an old wharf, / went to the
lext stop below him, ana boarded the
'te"mer and hid away until
ieariy to my wharf, then l put myself
n sight Of the purser, who at once
'oned me for fare.
"All right; ticket to - nleosa -
Why man, -- is down the river :
.nd you are going up" rs that 50
'y the holy Moses put me off and TlI :
-ire team. l have to make my run ;,
O-day."
80 saying placed some hard rock
4 ms hand, the boat nearsd the wharf l
lit OIL and they threw out my traps. u
am sorry for the trouble. much
blged" c.
Ihen where was l? Right where I =
'anted to be, my mans house being ie
le nearest. | managed after two or u
'ree turns, to get my trumpery there 50 50
18th privilege of its staying until II II
seded di
VI course you are aware that curios. NJ
Killed the cat. So in my luggage "
mad curio that | thought would s'
rely Kill my man make him talk. 81
eanl then l showed the madam nv III
ioIos' so as 10 get her better acquain- IL
a. and to convince her | was what WI
e'ended to be. Then l went to de. 'e
'er my work, thinking | would soon III
'here with both feet On returning
e next day | again found the madam co
'ne' but not SO very free of talk. Ce
Ok some OF my things, telling her | th'
q some tricks, and was going 10 ste
Ow some of them that night at tho ha
use where l was stopping, and that am
'he and her husband were willing [ stO
'uld on the next night come back wo
show them q few. lust to nass
ay the time. "All right, OF course. Su
Cd day" Still leaving my curiosity to
Ter, bnt it never killed that man as out
ir crazy as he looked to be. OF the
lrSe he examined it and NAV have ask
'sed his opinion, but what he had IN of
he never said it to me, or what no low
his wife said concerning it, never
e". But do know when | called \
~ the next night, they had gone to y
1 he met me at the door in answar wo
my rap, in his night clothes, saving , nel
wife was sick, and he had to be nm am
early to go away the next morn. abo
, and he hoped to be excused. So avn
see be was not so big a fool as W Wartl
- >. d
, feeling Outwitted, called for NV Tn,
lgs' the remainder of them, and rati
e them rest. BY doing so, l gained DeI
lare of his confidence, so that he bv
through his neighbors, got inter
ID in my tricks, until finally threw l
my last bait, in the shape of being Is n
partner in starting small show. wei
e him the particulars as to pro6ts met
> aud removed the difficulty of his me
remaining alone by letting nv Ihe
ng wife las l told him) stay with PRIV
while we were away. will just ' ou'
that one night, was all, and short soU
at that, before that fictitious wife "ni "ni
nine bad gained all the necessary LOT.
rmalion from that woman. H.
with
near
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