The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-27

7 before police justice sitting at York
vile Now, | had known this Justice for
number of years, and, as a matter Of
fact, It was through his influence that
I had secured my place on the force. He
had always treated me like a son, and
was therefore very much amazed and put
Nback at his conduct on this occasion.
/ had no sooner arraigned the woman
and started to explain my charge against
her than he became very indignant, and
/ said sharply:
/ "'HOu have made mistake.
man. l know that this woman is not
I guilty. Why, she was employed in my
! own family for number of years, ana l
I know her TO be as honest woman as ever
/ breathed. You had no right to arrest
her, and if she brings suit against you I
| will have totestify in her favor. Where
is your evidence against her'
/ Il still felt confident that was right,
and SO braced up and said to the judge
- ! will get the evidence if you will re-
mand her
-" won't do IT. said the Judge, very
/ hotly. IMdIdischarge her.
" If you Do said l, getting little ex-
cited too, win rearrest her.
My manner must have impressed him,
for he finally did remand her, although
very unwtlingly. ! worked all that
night trying to get some clue, and Wis
tied forty or fifty pawn shops in the hope
of finding the missing articles Still, 1
was unable TO get a single bit of evidence,
The next day, when ! was taking her To
court, i noticed that she carried pocket
book IN her hand Which had escaped my
] observation when she was searched in
the pohcestation. i asked her to let NE
see it, and.she appeared unwilling to do so.
took it, from her and examined it care
fully. There was nothing in it but few
dollars in money. l watched her closely
while went over the pocketbook a sec
ond time. saw that she was watching
me out of the corner of her eye. That
convinced me that there was some story
which that pocketbook would tell if l
could only get at it. OF course l had no
right TO destroy her property, but again
my feeling that she was guilty and that
| aust prove her s0overpowered my sense
| OF discretion, and began to rip the pock-
etbook apart. Finally came across a
pawn ticket, which had been slipped in
throuehsa Slit in the outside cover. which
had then been pasted down so that it was
not noticeable.
| The woman didn't seem alarmed even
then, but felt that I had come upon a
| tangible clue. Where did you get thatl
l asked her. oh, 1t belongs to my
sister, she said carelessly. Where is
your sisterl' asked l. She gave me an
address, and l said nothing further.
1.-The judge was angrier than ever when
l brought her up in court the second day,
and had to confess that had not secured
any further evidence. | had to argue
with him long time before he would
consent to remand her again, and again
he warned me that if the woman
brought a personal suit against me he
would testify in her favor. After | took
her back to the station went to the ad-
dress at which the woman said her sister
lived. 1t was bogus. | then went to the
pawnbroker, and looked up the article
represented by the pawn ticket, Although
1t was not down in the list of things taken
from the house of the Californians,
knew at once that it did not belong to the
nurse, and that 1t must have been stolen
from somebody tried new policy then.
! went into the cell where the woman was
and l said to her:
= Il am sorry that have caused you so
much trouble, but | see 1 have made a
mistake Yes, and you'll pay for it, too,
she said very sharply. Well, said 1,
4 hope you won't be too hard on me.
was only trying to do my duty. / went
to-day to the address you gave me, but
found your sister didn't live there. 1
caught her, though, at your masters
house this afternoon when she came there
to inquire for you. II got her dead to
rights, as she had d lot of pawn tickets
for the stuff, and she said that she took
| IL Wu6u Su6 Cdlli6 W NlSlb YOU
'The woman caught her breath,
gasped, clehched her hands, ana yelled
out in fury She lied, she didn't take it
l took itl'
Then, supposing that I had really
caught her sister, and that the latter had
confessed in order to save her, she broke
down and gave away the whole story.
She had been stealing all the time, had
pawned the stuff, and left the pawn tick
cts in the care of her sister. She told me
where the stuff was pawned, and got it
together that night, II included all sorts
of things, and made a big cart load. l
had it all in court the next morning, and
compelled the Californian to identify it
against his will The best of all, how
ever, was the fact that L got evidence
that she had stolen from the police JUS
tice, too, when she was in his family, and
/ had the pleasure of returning to him
the things which she had taken, but
which he had never missed
''Once ] actually had suit brought
against me by woman. She brought one
suit against me for $25, 900 for defamation
of character and another for $4,000 for
false Imprisonment. | had arrested her,
and she had been discharged for lack of
evidence, ! followed her for tour months
after she was discharged, and finally
caught her en- tering pawn shop. 1t was
a little place out of the usual run, and
had never thought OF going there before.
1 got all the evidence l wanted then, and
rearrested her Her suits were never
brought to trial.
Sin each of these cases, however, it
was only my persistency and determine
ton that saved me from trouble. If /
hadn't stuck to it probably would have
got into serious difficulty. for 1 was not
acting strictly within the lines of my Off
cial duty.
Burglars in the Sewers.