Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-11-08

was that the palings which separated
the shrubbery from a public by way
had lately been tarred and were not
yet dry. The robber had climbed over
the palings, and whoever he was
he must ha carried away a lit
tie of the tar on his person. In fact,
the marks of his fingers were quite
distinct.
On getting back ] had p easant half
hour in the billiard room with Mr.. Eng
strom.
Capt. Olyer returned just in time for
dinner, and I was only introduced to
He was faultlessly gotup of well-made
figure and handsome features, bearing
large traces of dissipation. As for his
speech, he had an invincible objection
to the letter 81" and carefully avoided
it's use.
We had finished soup, when / begged
thousand pardons for leaving the
table for a few minutes. My host
looked little surprised at my want Of
manners, and the captain surveyed me
through his eyeglasses as though T
were new kind of animal. ] was
only gone a few minutes, but it was
time well spent.
When we reached dessert and Mrs.
Engstrom had LETT the table, led the
conversation round to the burglary,
and induced the captain to give his YER
sion. l waited till he had finished,
and then, looking at him steadily,
said:
"Now, isn't it rather curious thing,
Capt. Olyer. that you should fall over
the wires when they were quite three
feet away?"
Engstrom stared at me. and the cap
tain did not answer till he had drank
glass of wine.
What do you mean, sir?" he asked
at last
Il mean" replied, still watching
him keenly, twas it not curious thing
that you should be tripped by blades
of grass? And is it not curious also,''
| went on, mercilessly, ''that your
servant, or rather your accomplice,
should be standing under the bedroom
window here at the same time hegw was
i'll London?'
The captain sat dazed and pale and
motionless, though his hands trem bled,
and DR.. Engstrom gasped out: Mr..
De Ware, whatever are you suggest
ing?"
II suggested" l answered, as stead
lily as before, ''that the burglar is sit
ting before you"
"Sir!'' Numbered Mr.. Engstrom,
pale with emotion; you are forget
ting yourself. TO accuse my old
friends son of being theft Prepos-
terous!'
This is not your old friends son,
Mr.. Engstrom. Capt. dyer, Of the
Thirty-eighth hussars, is at present
with his regiment at Woolwiclt. and
replied to me to-day. Here is the tele-
gram:
"'Capt. Olyer to De Warre: Am here.
What is the meaning Of this inq'1iry?'
The pseudo captain had risen and
looked around as if seeking way to
escape.
''Sit down." cried Engstrom, land if
you want to save yourself from jail
make a full confession. De Ware, ]
beg your pardon"
''Don't trouble about that" / said;
'tof course it was hard to credit it,
The poor wretch sat down again and
stammered out his story. His name
turned out to be Odgers, an ex-ser-
geant in the hussars, expelled from
the army in disgrace. His accomplice.
who acted as his servant, had hidden
the jewels in the wood near tho house,
till they could safely be removed.
At breakfast time the next morning
had to relate how I had unearthed
the conspiracy.
First of ALL said, sthe fact that
the burglary occurred shortly after
you had brought the jewelry from
London convinced me that the thief
was some one in the house. And when
I mad the wires relaid and found that
the captain had fallen three feet away
from them-a fact Which discovered
from the impression made by his knees
and the toes of his boots-I thought
things were very suspicious against
him. Upstairs l found that it was
little trouble for him to slip into your
, wife's room and throw the casket
down as soon as she left the room.
learned that he had been the last tc
appear at the dinner table, and the
case was strengthened. At the rail
way station l discovered that man
answering to the description of his
servant had arrived from London by
the $50 o'clock train, and not by the
9:15 o'clock, as it was made to appear
| What effect the telegram had you al
ready know. In tracing the footsteps
through the shrubbery l found tina
whoever had passed over the paling:
must have carried away some of the
tar on his clothing. AT dinner las
night seized my only opportunity an6
| examined the mans overcoat and {
pair Of trousers. The tar was there
and he had evidently tried to remoy.
| it. That is ALL think. "-Tid-Bits