The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-19

uoWll ABOVE TWO pI tllItt "t'NH "i'i>
a TELEGRAM was received ut s. o land
Yard from the respected Inspector
Doodle 1t ran us follows: "Burglary
last night ut Chatsworth, seat of Mr..
st. Jamcs-.J ones. Similar in all re-
spects to that at Longlcat, seat. of Mr..
st. .John-Smth Immense robbery.
Send help" Within half an hour of
the receipt Of the telegram Sergeant
Collie was in the train bound for Bour-
yeoisville.
A rapid investigation showed the de-
tcctivc that Inspector Boobies descrir-
ton of the burglary was absolutely
correct The second burglary CORES
ponlcd with the first in every detail,
1T was executed with the same skill
and daring: the thieves had forced with
the same dextcrity and equally strong
plate safe, and had removed with the
same rapiditv and noiSclesSness an
equally large amount ofplatc and valu
ables, and finally they had left a few
traces by which they might he follow
ed up and identified. Sergeant Collie,
after three hours most careful and in
tclligent inspection OF the house, its
grounds. and everything in the neigh
borhood which by any possibility could
throw light on the mystery, felt COM
PEELED to acknowledge that he was as
much ut sea as to how or by whom the
burglary had been pcrpetrated as the
local police had been in the last case
Indeed the onl V point that even
looked like a clew had been discovered
by the local police Toward evening.
when the detective WAS wcaried and
disappointed by his lahorS, Inspector
Doodle came to him with very mys-
tcrious air, and told him that he had
found an important clcw This turned
out to he story told by the groom of
the doctor ut the village. who had been
attending one of Mr. st. .Iames-Joncs'
family. This fellow said that, on com
ing to Chatsworth the previous day
with a bottle of medicine. he had no
| ticcd shabby dressed man hanging
about the laurels ut the side ofthc lawn.
This person, when he saw he was oh
served, hurricdlv made Oft. Sergeant
Collie had the tootman before hm for
examination. 1t WAS then made clear
that the intruder on the lawn was
merely Il common tramp. The dctcc-
tive, on making sure of this dismissed
the tootman and his story with con
tempt. He WAS certain of little us re-
CARDS the burglary save this, that it
was the work, not of tramps. but of
men carefully trained in that line OF
business, who had planned out every
detail in it before taking the job in hand.
One or two points in the burglary
had carefully struck the detective In
the first place the plate safe in Chats
worth was built into the kitchen wall
vet the burglars had gone straight to
it in this unusual place. Again, mi
mute examination of the footprints out
side the house and it had convinced the
officer that two or. at the most, three
persons had been engaged in the job
Thirdly. the plumber carried away
and carried away with amazing rapid
itv-must have weighed the best part
of twenty stone. And. lastly, there
was not the slightest evidence to show
that Il horse and vehicle of any kind
had been used to remove the plumber
As before the usual number of privat,
carriages had been seen passing along
London road, hut nothing beyond that
To the detectives mind all these pc
culiar circumstances could point to on
" one conclusion. namely, that the bur
glars had been in the house before they
went there to commit the burglary. and
that they must live somewhere in tn,
immediate ncighhorhood of the seen,
Of the burglary. Accordingly. he Ill
rccte.l his inquiries all to the persons
who had lately been visiting the ser
wants hall ut Chatsworth
These hc found consisted ,rettv ex
clusivclv OF tradrSmrn and the maids
swcethrarts. The former were all ul
tra-rcSpcctahlc men who had been liv.
inT in the village for years back, Vet
the detective thought it wise to inspect
the premises of all of them. They
raised no objection and he made no dis
covcrv. As to the sweethartS. i.e found
that all the maids had recognized low
crs, who We're allowed by Mrs St
Jamcs-.|onrS Il pretty free run of the
servants hall Among them was the
policeman on whose beat London road
WAS. He informed the detective who
| the other lovers Were, and assured him
! that no new admirers had been hang
ING round the place OF hate. 'Ili,d
have seen cm if they 'ad, he said,
land the missus would ave done 50.
too. She's Il very systematic lady. She
| halluwS each Of ,cr midcS one sweet art
and no more. When the gal 'a> got
one. too. she won't stand poaching
No. hi III sure there weren't no hothcr
men about. And the men who were
about, the detective soon ascert;ined,