The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-18

Deen invaluable and her faithfulneSS
had won her the respect and affection
of her master. AS the coachman hap
pened to be away that evening and the
necessity for the services OF a physician
was urgent. Mr.. Clinton saddled his
horse and rode hastily into town. and
was very soon ringing at the door of
the family doctor I'm Boylston street.
His inquiry of the servant maid who
opened IL If the doctor was at home
was met by a reply which stupefied
him for a moment so that he fell back
against the wall of the passage and
forgot the exigency OF his errand. "Dr.
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 of town to see a nurse of his family
who was I'm commissions" Recovering
from the shock of an apparent doppel
ganger. thus forced upon his concep-
ton. questioning ELECTED the fact that
the second patient. bearing his own
name, lived i'm Charlestown. In all
other things the circumstances con-
corning two persons of the same pat
ronymic was identical. The hour. the
Illness, the vocation of the sufferer,
the arrival on horseback. were acciden-
tai 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 Il. family of Ralti-
more 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 sim
gular intimation that Il might be much
to the gentlemans advantage If he
would come TO the prison. He found an
evil-looling fellow, who. having just
received long sentence. which would
in all probability be n life one. had
been moved by remorse to commune
cate to Mr. b. certain facts I'm connec-
ton with a robbery OF his family plate
in which he said he had been concerned
several years before. The robber told
his astonished nearer. who had long
given up any hope OF detecting the
criminal or recovering the property.
that he and another were concerned in
the crime. The silver had been placed
i'm 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 II he failed to
keep the appointment IL was a signal
of danger, and the fellow who had the
'swag" was to understand that he had
better get il 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
restitution, however unlikely. had sent
for Mr.. b. to tell him that he had
thrown the package over the wall of
a certain graveyard which he de-
scribed. and that il had fallen within
the door of tomb which was standing
open and of which he indicated the po-
sition.
Expressing suitable recognition OF the
intentions of the penitent criminal. Mr..
b. left him, scarcely intending To pur-
sue the matter further. The next
morning, however, found him at the
door of the sexton i'm charge of the
burying place. The sexton, on hearing
the description of the tomb. showed at
first some confusion. which Mr. Il. UNI
derstood when he was reminded that
the tomb described was his own family
vault, and the sexton who had at once
remembered a gross carelessness OF his
own went on to recall the fact that the
time was that of the death and burial
of a cousin of the family. and TO ac-
knowledge that ne had never forgotten
nor forgiven himself the accidental
leaving of the door of the tomb open
the night following the funeral. The
two repaired to the tomb and found the
package inclosed within II. the silver
furnished but untouched. just as the
thief had cast the family plate, by an
unequaled coincidence, into the family
burial place of it's owner.