Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-04-17
TWO CURIOUS CONDOLENCES.
Fortunately the Persons Concerned Las
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Here are Two yeTitabic condolences
related at 2 Boston dinner table erst-
while. Both might have been based
upon any kind of uncanry. fateful ia
nipulation % circumstance. seemingly
impossible In the natural order. nad
they been introduced by any such mo-
tive. They are simply rare and curious
sequences OF facts, true ia everything
bu. names Of persons.
&r. Clinton lived IN Dorchester, y here
he had 4 large establishment. CHe
night bis Chiia's nurse WAS taken std
deaiy IN with q lind Of spaSla. The
wcsnan'. ryiccs 30 the infant had been
Invaluable and her fai,hfulness had
won her The respect r:i affect OF her
master. As tho coachIaan happened to
be away chat evening ard The necessity
for the services of physician was
urgent. Mr. Clinton saslaicd his hon So
and rode hastily into town. and 1vas
very soon ringing at the door of the
family doctor ia Boylston street. Ills
inquiry of the servant maid who opened
IL il the doctor We, az home met a reply
which stupctcd him for raoueat 50
that he fell back against tlic wall of the
Is2osapc ard forgot the cNigencv Of his
crrand. or j. is cut said the
girl. MIR Clinton, At patient OF his. came
IN on horseback an hour ugO. and asked
him To come out and see q nurse iu his
family who was IA commissions" Ike
covering from the shock of IN apparent
dcppel ganger, thus forced upon his
conception, questioning elected the
fact that the second patient, bearing
his own raIoe. lived i'm ChGrlcsto,vr. In
all other things the circumstance con
corning two persons Of the same pat
ronymic was identical. The hour. the
illrcss, the location of the sufYcrer. the
arrival on horseback. were accidental
condolences which led nowhere aud
meant nothing, though they might.
with stimulating attributes. have fur
nished food for the widest crcdulity.
A member Of the b family, OF Pal
timoTe, was sent for one evening to see
u convict no had expressed such an
urgent desire for .hc interview that the
jaiicr ncceded h his request to send the
message, which conveyed thc singular
intinatiou that IL might bc much 10 the
gentCman's advantage IL he would
come 20 the prison. lie was an evil
looking fellow, who. having lust re-
ceiNed long sentence. which would ia
all probability bc & life ,rae, had been
moved 10y rcmorsc 20 communicate to
Mr.. b certain facts in connection
with robbery or his family plate IN
which he said be had been concerned
several years before The robber told
his astoniShed hcarcr, who had long
given up amy hope Of detecting the
criminal on recovering the property.
that he onG nnOthcr were concerned IN
The crime. The silver had been placed
IN bundle, which was In his poSec.-
sion lis confederate was 10 meet HIM
ut OF agreed place on the night follow
ing the burglary and they were then 10
make OFT together. but if lac failed to
Keep the appointment IL was Il signal OF
danger, md The fellow who had the
''9wag" was to understand that he had
better get &c out IF his hands without
delay and scaurc his own safety. The.
appointment was not kept, and the
tulef, crSiriug 10 make an effort at res
uiution, however unlikely. had sent foI.
Mr.. D 60 tell him that he had
Harown the package over the wall Of a
certain graveyard, which he described.
and that il had fallen within the door o
" tomb which WEES standing open and Of
which he Indicated The position.
Expressing suitable recognition OF
thc intentions o3 the peniieut criminal
Mr. b left him, scarcely intcudsnr
20 pursue the matter further. The.
next morning. however. found him st
the door of tho sexton in charge OF the,
iuryinG place. The sexton. on hearing
OF the description OF the tomb. showed
at first some confusion, hitch SIR. ---
underSto ou when ne was reminded that
The tomb described was his own family
vault. and the sexton who had at once
remembered "a gross carclessness uf his
own. went ON to recall the fact that the
time was that OF the deaf tn and b,7riai of
a cousin Of the family, and TO acknou.l-
edge that he had never forgotten nor
forgiven himself the accidental ieaviro.
OF the door of the tomb open the night
following the funeral. The two re.
paired Go 'he tomb and found the PACK.
age Enclosed within il. the silver tar
nished bat untouched. iuse as the th,ef
had cast the family plate, by an IN
equaied coincidence. into the family
burial place of its owner. - Boston
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