The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-04-24
TWO CURIOUS cc!NcIDEN,sEs.
Fortunately the Persons Concerned in
Them Were Not Superstitious.

Fortunately the Persons Concerned in
Them Were Not Superstitious.
Here are two veritable condolences
while. Both might have been based
upon any kind of uncanny, fateful ma
nipulation of circumstances, seemingly
impossible in the natural order, mad
they been introduced by any such mo-
tive. They are simply rare and curious
sequences of facts, true in everything
but names of persons.
Mr.. Clinton lived in Dorchester, where
he had large establishment. One
night his child's nurse was taken sud-
denly i'll with kind of spasm. The
woman's services to the infant had been
invaluable and her faithfulness had
won her the respect and affection of her
master. AS the coachman happened to
be away that evening and the necessity
urgent. Mr.. Clinton saddied his horse
and rode hastily into town, and was
very soon ringing at the door of the
family doctor in Boylston street. Ills
inquiry of the servant maid who opened
it if the doctor was at home met reply
which stupcfed him for q moment so
that he fell back against the wall of the
errand. CDR. j is out" said the
girl. Mr.. Clinton, a patient of his, came
in on horseback an hour ago, and asked
him to come out and see Il nurse in his
family who was in commissions" Re
covering from the shock of an apparent
doppel ganger, thus forced upon his
conception, questioning elected the
fact that the second patient, bearing
his own name, lived in Charlestown. In
all other things the circumstances con-
cerning two persons of the same pat
ronymic was identical. The hour, the
illness, the vocation of the sufferer, the
arrival on horseback, were accidental
condolences which led nowhere and
meant nothing, though they might,
with stimulating attributes, have fur
nished food for the widest credulity.
A member of the B-f family, of Bal
timore, was sent for one evening to see
a convict who had expressed such an
urgent desire for the interview that the
jailer acceded to his request to send the
message, which conveyed the singular
intimation that it might be much to the
come to the prison. He was an evil
looking fellow, who, having just re-
ceived long sentence, which would in
all probability be Il life one, had been
moved by remorsc to communicate to
Mr.. B. certain facts in connection
with robbery of his family plate in
which he said he had been concerned
several years before. The robber told
his astonished hearer, who had long
given up any hope of detecting the
criminal OF recovering the property.
that he and another. were concerned in
the crime. The silver had been placed
in a bundle, which was in his posses
sion. His confederate was to meet him
at an agreed place on the night follow
ing the burglary and they were then to
make off together, but if he failed to
keep the appointment it was signal of
danger, and the fellow who had the
''swag" was to understand that he had
better get it out Of his hands without
delay and secure his own safety. The
appointment was not kept, and the
thief, desiring to make an effort at res
titution, however unlikely, had sent for
Mr.. B. to tell him that he had
thrown the package over the wall of
certain graveyard, which he described,
and that it had fallen within the door of
a tomb which was standing open and of
which he indicated the position.
Expressing suitable recognition of
the intentions of the penitent criminal
Mr.. B. left him, scarcely intending
to pursue the matter further. The
next morning, however, found him at
the door of the sexton in charge of the
burying place. The sexton, on hearing
of the description of the tomb, showed
at first some confusion, which Mr.. b
understood when he was reminded that
the tomb described was his own family
vault, and the sexton who had at once
remembered q gross earelessness of his
own, went on to recall the fact that the
time was that of the death and burial of
cousin of the family, and to acknowl-
edge that he had never forgotten nor
forgiven himself the accidental leaving
of the door of the tomb open the night
following the funeral. The two re.
paired to the tomb and found the pack.
age inclosed within it, the silver tar
nished but untouched, just as the thief
had cast the family plate, by an un-.
equaled coincidence, into the family
burial place OF it's owner. - Boston
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