Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-25
LUCKY HORSESHOE.

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- discover workable clew, he
thought, but when he was called in
The burglary was three days old. 1t
was only after The local police had done
tbeir best and failed that they applied
~ Scotland Yard for help, and that the
Clever detective sergeant was sent to
Bourgeoisyille.
BY that time the local police, under
che able direction of Inspector Doodle,
had succeeded pretty well in obliterat-
ing everything which might have
served as clew to the sergeant.
Enough, however, still remained ~
show him that the burglary was not
Che work of amateurs, but of profess
sioaals. The way in which Mr.. st. John
smiths powerful plate safe had been
forced was really charming piece of
yvorkmanship, and excited the detec-
tive's warmest admiration, and the rap
zdity and noiselessness with which the
massive silver plate had been removed,
and the reception rooms stripped of
their Understanding paintings.
bronzes, and other not easily portable
Rrticles--proved the persons concerned
20 possess the highest and rarest skill
known to the trade.
Although Sergt. Collie thought he
might have been able to do some
thing had he been called in immcd-
ately, yet be fully recognized that it
was no discredit to the local police
that they had failed to trace the guilty
persons. 1t was clear from the first
there was little to indicate who these
were. Not single suspicious-looking
man or woman had been seen in the
neighborhood for weeks, and yet it
looked as if those who committed the
~burglary had thorough knowledge not
merely of the country about, but also
OF the house and OF the habits of its
I Inmates Not a single suspicious-loolI-
ing vehicle had been seen on any of the
roads about the pillaged house, or, in
deed, about Bourgeoisville, or the viii
iage, as il was called, which was nearly
n mile distant, on the night of the bur
glary. and yet the number and weight
fof the articles were such as to render
Il highly improbable they were carried
.oG without the help of vehicle of
some sort. The policeman whose beat
lay along the London road, off which
the pillaged mansion was situated, had
seen the ordinary number of vehicles
pass during that night but they all OBJ
'siously belonged to carriage people
In the neighborhood. There was not
n van, dog cart or other likely convey
sance among them.
Sergt. Collie spent a whole fortnight
searching for anything that might
promise a clew to the solution of the
mystery He examined and cross-eX-
~Qined Mr.. st. John Smiths numerous
SERVANTS. He searched the grounds of
-.LoDgieat" plundered mansion
and on the neighboring houses most
tninutely in the hope of finding some
traces of the missing property. He
questioned everybody who lived in the
ueighborhocd and who within the past
month had visited the house. But he
discovered nothing.
At the end of the fortnight Sergt,
Collie reported to headquarters that
be had done all he could, and had com
pletely failed to trace the criminals.
As he was convinced that further in
vestigation on the spot-at least for
the present--was useless, he was re.
called 10 town. Before leaving 3our-
geoisville he impressed on Inspector
Doodle the necessity of reporting the
affair at once if another crime of the
same kin6 occurred in or about the
village.
Sergt. Collie had not returned 10
town above two or three weeks before
n Telegram was received at Scotland
Yard from the respected Inspector
Doodle. 1t ran rs fellows: burglary
last night at Chatsworth, seat of Mr..
St. James Jones. Similar in all re-
kpects TO that ct Gongleat, seat of Mr.,
st. John Smith. Immense robbery
Send help" Within hnif an hour of
she receipt OF this telegram Sergt. Col
lie WAS in the train bound for Bour-
geoisviIle.
a rapid investigation showed the de-
tective that Inspector Boobies dcrcrip-
tion of the burglary was absolutely
@arreet. The second burglary CORE
eponded with the first in every detail.
II was executed with the same skill ami
+ff-A th~ AAAt hnith ihNl IOiNNh W IA wv
same dexterity an equally strong plate
safe. and had removed with the same
fa2idity and noiselessness an equally
large amount of plate and valuables
and finally they had left as few traces
by which they might be followed up
and identified. Sergt. Collie, after
thrce hours most careful and inteIli- |
gent Inspection of the house. it,
grounds, and everything in the neigh
bofhood which by any possibility could |
throw light on the mystery, felt com
PEELED TO acknowledge that he was as
much ~ sea as to how or by whom the |
burglary had been perpetrated as the /
local police had been in the last case.
Indeed, the only point that even |
Looked like d clew had been discovered |
~ the local police. Towards the even
ing. when the detective was weuried |
md disappointed by his labors, JnSpec- |
.<or Doodle came to him with n very |
..tt.1 ~ rfoue mir and told hin, thar n. I