Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-10-25

stiffness awes you, and n thousand
eyes behind quite number OF re-
vovcrs seem to be pecring at you from
every turn and corner. The darkness
is frightsomc. If you have an asso-
ciate the work may come much easier,
but to be alone in burglary requires
the strongest kind of courage.
II left the old boots in the passage,
so as to create the belief that the bur-
glar had taken off his boots before go
ing upstairs. The farther the detec-
tives followed their track the farther
would they go from mine. / then
went to the rear of the house and
opened window, leaving it open. In
this way the belief would be induced
that had entered and departed by
the same way.
II then went cautiously up those
dark stairs Here and there the steps
gave forth little creak beneath my
footsteps, as il protesting against the
tread of the intruder. 1t was very ag.
gravating, but proceeded steadily,
and shortly found myself at the foot
OF the room recently occupied by the
deceased lady. Here slight difficulty
presented itself, but a little profes-
sional manipulation succeeded in eff.
fecting an entrance.
II closed the door of the bedroom
softly, and then proceeded to light my
candle. The next thing was to ar
range my accessories so as to induce
the opinion of the (false) identity Of
the burglar, and to establish theory
that he had been disturbed in his
quest. | had rolled few bread
crumbs in the old newspaper. This I
now opened, and laid it on the bed,
with the 'waxed end close beside it,
Then laid the old cap on chair, and
the awl and hammer on the drawers
They were intended to tell tale
Having thus arranged my supposed
surprise, | proceeded to worlS-solid
work. All the jewelry found in a
box, locked and placed In locked
drawer.
"The locks, however, made little
difference to me. ! appropriated all.
! was rather touched, confess, when
| discovered the dead lady's wedding
and engagement rings tied with a
piece of black silk, and carefully
placed in the corner of the little box.
How those rings had kept the poor
woman thinking, from the time she
put them on until her dying day! l
actually began to soliloquize in spite of
myself. Then I adhered to my plan
and placed them in the corner of the
envelope had brought with me to the
house for that purpose. had pre-
viously torn the envelope diagonally
across, leaving the postage stamp and
obliterating stamp visible.
81 had also left the final letters of q
name, and the words I'm, Beasley
Road Oh the envelope to be studied
by the detectives. The rings left be-
hind me.
81 never did believe in making lit.
ter about bedroom, so having placed
the valuables in my pockets l closed
the drawers and looked closely about
the room for something more. You
may judge of my surprise when
heard q key turned in the door below
stairs, and the movements of Mr.
Chumleigh in the hall.
"IIe had returned earlier than l had
expected. Calmly blew out my can
die and left the room silently, creep
ing down the stairs to meet him if he
had any intention of coming up.
II had scarcely steadied myself when
Mr.. Chumleigh turned on the gas, and
muttering something to himself, crept
up the stairs as cautiously as had
previously descended. When he wa:
well on his way l crept downwards
once again, and when heard hin
strike the light in his late wifes room
| noiselessly let myself out by the
front door, and as noiselessly closed il
behind me,
"You look surprised, SIR" he contin
ued, "but it was not a bad night'l
: work. / nctted over three hundred
pounds sterling for my plumber, and
had the satisfaction of not having
robbed his dead wife's treasured rings
This in itself was satisfaction. O.
course | had committed felony, and ,
shameful crime, admit; but the bust
ness of burglar and the business o
a moralist caunot be expected to agre,
in every particular.
1.-The morn ing papers told us of tn,
burglary of the preceding night. A
neighbor, l went up to sympathize
A sturdy policeman was standing a
: the door, and two others were making
, search inside.
"Here's where the cove has put OF
his boots said one of the policemen
, and nice blooming pair of beetl
|, crushers they are
"They certainly did not look re
. spectacle in daylight.
"'IIe has come through this windov
, here said another, in q strong Iris
accent, to Mr., Chumleigh, left hi
boots here and gone up the shtairs il
;. his bare feet
"'And the GOODNESS of the fellow
added the other. why, he has sa
, down and ate his tucker on the be,
: with the Morning News for clan
|, tablecloth.'
"Then the detectives went upstairs
7 and came downstairs, and measured
: and studied, and looked wise. An
! one saw it was new hand and said S
:. from the first; and the other said
was an old hand, and shook his head
|, Everybody was satisfied on one point
: and that was that the perpetrator G
the act was shoemaker who lived o
= the Beaslcy road.
: "And do you mean to tell me, MI
Ollacram, that this narrative is actr
a ally truc?" asked him, angrily, as
y moved farther from one whose yer
!. touch seemed now contamination.
v "True, sir?" Mr.. Ollacram replied
g EVERY word of it-as true as thos
s other detective yarns we are readin
n IN the magazines to-day. And If thi
is the period for an artistic detective
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