Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
Ina;-IER V. MAX MANSON HAD ALREADY CAUGHT A NEW SOUND.


 Detective Max Manson when he set out to track the two natives of HindOO- stan was confident that, if the missing gem was ever recovered, 1t would be through his efforts rather than those of his clever cumradc. Folsom Simpson. He believed that his rotund friend had de Ghyritclv thrown the opportunity in his way.
 ':It would be just like him. He came to Ellcuvillc unwillingly, but in obedi- | ,.nc, to or,lcss. He staid long enough to help lno to the true theory and stays be i hind to % through the form of doing somcthin- That uwlish look when put the question 10 him was with a view of icccivug Inr. Folsom is a clever fellow, l but l can read him"
 | IT proved not very difficult to trace the l aliens. Travelling with their packs, it was their custom 10 spend several days | at different villages and towns. When through with any place, they did not walk to th.. next harvest field. but tray cled ly rail-
 Bcfurr leaving Ellcnville Manson made some inquiries. the result of which Was not altogether satisfactory. He fu,I9d that the p,,lllcrs had never been arrested for the suspected robbery of l Miss Livcrmorr. There was consider able suspicion expressed concerning th5rl. but it never went to the point of | interfering with their movements.
 "Dr. Maidhoff told lAc that those two men were arrested and subjected to rigid examination without proving any thing against them. What coull his ob- jcct have been in deccivinE me- l. vas hard to answ.r the question. l After &ll it Gid not S,e-l of special i'm r...l-: nee. md he sron dismissed it from a'"h <.
 .cr.t at EIIcnville remembered ..te-o lnrn had bought tickets for {; a,out 20 miles aw@y. The fact : .,lr il was i'll th" direction of N,w York ,;.I,. tl Ni1us..a some unvaSin"ss, for his ! f,ar Was that they might clude him by l :c'in[ straight 10 the metropolis and sGil- i,l., for Europe He decided that if he ! should find they had gone directly to the 1 city he would telegraph to Chief Naricl and st him at work.
 Leaving the train at the point indi- catcd. h. quickly gained tidinGs of the fellows. They hai left the town only two d:yS before still proceeding ill the ! direction of New York. Their tickets would curly them alarmingly close to tle metropolis. and Mau>on's miSsivings increased.
 \ surprise lwuitcl him when he once n.urr I,fl the train and succeeded after ! >.ll... inquiries i'll gaining track of the lu.u That morning they had bought ticket, for Wiu-ticld. whithor they had
 
 triuk"'~.
 The curious feature of this last move Was that Wingti.ll. instead of being to the westward. lay ill a directly opposite cour>r. The East Indians had turned back over their own trail.
 That's queer. reflected Manson. but those people are as cunning as the cobras of th, 1T own country. and probably they a-a iululrug in this q, liberation for the purp,,,,' of throwing off all possible sus- licion."
 II WAS last II o'clock when the detect i've stepped upon the platform at Wing field. which aS f"r as Et could tell with the %:l of the moonlight and few oil lamps. WAS of about the same size as FL lcnvillr ani, likr that primitive town, contained but ii single house for the en- t..rttiI!u nt uf l:l;:n and beast. Making lis Way thithcr. h. found the landlord >luO!,lIg lis pipe in the barroom and on the luut of r,tiriur His visitors had deV..-, |, aul If li5 -llcsts only a couple w,-r v5-il,. tn IL, b.la;rd arrival. They were the E:.>t Indians whom he was s.-,.i.-.-
 Thor c.:,Il lc no mistake on that point. f,r a single glance Was sufficient t. identify them. with their swarthy skin their i,.t llaci, hair and eyes. their white. glaSSy teeth and their half orien- tai garb.
 They were seated in chairs in one cor ncr If tlie room talking in their native tongue. Naturally they glanced up at Manson as he came in, and holding to them a@ well as tho landlord he regis tered and stated that he would probably spend several days i'll the village.
 II was a vast rvi If to the detective to finl that he had run down the couple in such a brief time and with comparative ly little trouble. He fully believed that one of them at that moment had the ra- ! jahs ruby about his garments, for it was not to be supposed that after once getting their hands on 1t they wOeld take the risk of forwarding it to India or in deed of allowing it to pass out of their possession unless compelled as a matter of procaution to take the step. Quite confident on this point, the strug gle, as the detective now viewed it, mar rowel down to conflict of wit and Cun- ming between him and these swarthy misCreants. who had travelled so many thousand miles to commit the robbery. His theory. as intimated elsewhere, was that the fellows arriving in Ellen ] vile had carefully looked over the ground and decided that the safer course for | them was to bribe Dr. Maidhoft to secure l the gem for them. Doubtless they came prepared to paya large price, for it could not have been the intrinsic value of the ruby, great as it was, which gave it such worth in the eyes of the descendant of its first owners.
 The physician had secured the prize, as he could readily do, and the detective was inclined to suspect that he had not hesitated at the crime of murder in order to carry out his part of the bargain. He had received the wages of his treachery, 1 and the messengers of evil were making ] their way homeward with the priceless ] jewel and doing so with dehberation that they might well believe would ward ! off all suspicion.
 Manson sat down for brief talk with the landlord before retiring for the night. He apparently bestowed little attention on the fellows in the corner, but he wanted the chance to study them, to make a preliminary survey of the | ground, as may be said.
 On their part they seemed to feel no interest in him, but every time he stole a glance at the dusky countenances, with their red felt skull caps, from which gilt tassels dangled, he encountered those