Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-29

and had some Welsh rabbit and had
gone straight to bed. About midnight
he had been aroused by violent
knocking at the door, and on opening
1t had been grufily told that he was
under arrest, and that he..was to dress
pretty quickly.
Hurried by the officers, he had
hastily dressed himself, protesting
uselessly that the clothes he was hus-
tied into were not his, and was hur-
ried off to the station.
"No amount Of cross-questioning
could get him to vary or enlarge his
story, nor could he give me the slight
est reason for his arrest. As to his
beard, that had easily been explained
in answer to O question OF mine. Ow-
ing to slight skin eruption contract
ed in Egypt, he had 1t shaved offsome
time ago.
"The next step was to get him bailed
out. This, found, was not SO easy q
task.
my non-recognition of first Of my
friend was against him. The police
justice next morning protested that
this prisoner was confidence man
wanted for various offences, and that
he was certain Wilcox, alias Palver,
alias Moroney, and scoffingly declared
he would not let him out under $4,000
bail.
IT did not stay to argue the matter
n,,N hut -, To- xl,o, hn,, l. Il
with couple of friends Of we'll known
wealth and standing.
Next morning my client was in
state of fever. easily got certif-
cate from my physician exaggerating
the illness.
"He remained in my house aud in
bed for nearly week. During that
time had found out enough to solve
the mystery to my moral satisfaction,
but not enough to convince jury or
even any outsider. The solution Of
the mystery was this:
"The man with many aliases had
come by the same train as my friend
Rowley, had registered at the same
hotel and had been assigned room on
the same narrow corridor BY some
chance, my friend, after supper, had
been given the key of Mr.. Wilcoxs
room and had gone straight to bed.
"Mr. Wilcox's keen mind, ever bent
on covering up his tracks, on finding
that he had been given the wrong key,
said nothing, examined my friends
valise, and then the idea evidently
came to him that it would be good
thing il he could pass out OF the hotel
as Mr.. r. Rowley.
"The probability was that he (Row-
ley) was in his room. To open the
door was an easy thing for the crook.
Then he must have taken my friends
attire, leaving his in its place. This
effected, he paid his bill as Mr.. Row.
ley, saying he was going to catch the
11.45 p. m. night express for Syracuse
and so vanished.
ellis resemblance in Wilcox's attire
was so like the photos sent on TO the
people, and so unlike his own photos,
that, with the correspondence, papers,
cards and odds and ends which Wilcox
had, either in haste or Intentionally,
left in the coat and vest pocket, and
which the police Mt the station had
seized when they had searched him, 1
shudderingly felt the chances were all
in favor of a speedy conviction"
'"What did You do?' askedthe young
lawyer
"What did do?" you ask. 81 SNUG
gled him off on o boat to Cuba and for
feited the BAIL He was, as said,
rich man. 1t was the simplest way
out of the difficulty and the surest.
Still, my client, though perfectly in.
nocent ia now n I'm gitiye from Justice. "