The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-19
were all as respectable and above sus'
Dicion as the constable himself

the mystery of the burglarics than
ever. He again reported to headquar-
ters that further investigation seemed
useless, and requested to be recalled.
He was awaiting an answer from
Scotland Yard, when, early one morn
ing, he was aroused by Inspector
Doodle rushing eNcitedly into his bed
room. The officer brought news Off
other burglary This time the victim
was st. Georgc-Robinson. The man.
sion broken into was called Hatfield
and lay on the opposite side of the vii
lagc to the other two plundcrcd houses.
EXasperatcd at this repetition of the
hurglarics under his very nose, Ser
geant Collie set out hurriedlv with In
sDector Doodle for Hatfield, ticrccly re-
solved to leave no trace unturncd i'll
his efforts to trace the perpetrators.
As they haStcnrd along the road-the
house was some half mile from the vii
lagc-thc sergeant tcrosS-qucStioncdh his
companion as to the character of the
poor people who lived in the ncighhor-
hood of Hatfield. When he had got
all the information he could he became
silent Suddenly. when they were not
far from the house, he came to Il dead
stop.
"IIurrah y he cried, dclightcdly,
well nab them this time!''
How. Why What makes YOU
think soz asked the inspector, amazed.
Don't you see this" replied Ser
.cant Collie, walking across the road
and picking up Il horseshoe. Luck
my hov-good luck"
The inspectors amazcment turned
ilto annoyance.
is that all2" he said II thought
YOU We're wiser than to pay attention
to such old women's notions rs that
You'll see we'll nab them, cried
the sergeant cNultantlv, as he pocket
ed the horseshoe. II never felt more
certain of anything"
The inspector made no reply; he
was too diSgustcd at his colleagues 5
folly.
They were now close To Hatfield.
On going into the house they found
everything and everybody there in the
widest confusion The family were
away from home. and the housckccpcr,
terrified at the burglary, and still more
terrified lest she might in some way be
held responsible for it, was in so excl
ted Il condition that the policemen
| found it useless to question her. From
| her daughter, however, who was the
onl V other person staying i'll the house,
occasion had been disturbed in they
work. and that they had hastily to
leave the house before they could force
the plate safe Dawn was just begin
ming to break when the alarm took
place. The housckccpcr and her daugh-
ter had sprung out of bed and run to
to the window to call for help. The
burglars by this time were running
hcter-skcltcr down the side of the lawn
to same trees which separated Hat
ticld-which was on the by road-from
Il field occupied rs dairy-tarm, and
opening into the main road. The wo-
man had only glance ut them, and
could give no very definite decription
of them. All they could say WAS that
there We're two mcn-onc looking some
thing like Il Stahlemln. the other more
like a clerk in dress. \ remark OF the
younger woman, however, struck Tie
| detective sergeant rs of more lmpor-
tancc than her description OF the bur
rlar. She said that the man who was
dressed like Il Stablcman seemed like
somebody she could not remember.
The alarm had arisen through the
barking of a little foN-trrrier which was
sleeping in basket in the hal! of the
house. Usually the dogs were kept
therc-thc fox terrier and Il bio mas
tiff: but when the family went to the
seaside for the benefit of their only
chi,d's health. the little 9irl asked to
! have her dogs with her, and the doctor
who was attending her advised that
h,r wish should he granted, rs she was
much attached t. the animals and
might fret if parted from them. The
mother assrntrd; but. ut the last mo-
mcnt the father insisted that one should
| he left behind for the protection OF the
| house. To this fortunate circumstance
it WAS due that the burglary was dis
covered before the house breakers could
secure their plnndcr.
Collie and Inspector Doodle spent
several hours in Il most exhaustive cX-
animation At the end of it one or
two things seemed clear enough. As
before, it WAS clear the burglars were
adopts in: their husidcSs; as before, it
was clear. too, that they knew well the
interior of the house; and. aS before
there was not a trace or Il mark to
show who they were or where they
came from.
When they gave over the invcstiga-
ton for the day they walked back to