Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-05-19

man. Did you search him? r. co ,.h,.
old you find ON his persons,,
plug of tobacco. a pocket knife ond
'naee dollars and half in silver
| noes he room in the location stated
"4 .n nave you searched the premises?''
nave, but found nothing but his cloth
1 m here is Mr.. Evans of the firm of
vans d Browning, summoned for tho
prisoner" ~ 'ne
, lou know this man, Mr.. Evans?v
wen, yes; he has been in my employ
,or the past six years. His detention here
.as caused me great inconvenience. as he
is our shipping clerk"
Read this statement. # embraces
merely my questions to him and his an.
swers." 'n
he has told you the truth in all par
ticulars." go
Suspect released. Bring in the next
One'
Inc employer and late prisoner depart
III company, cursing the detective and the
ponce force of Chicago in general and
inspector Hunt in particular.
hach man detained in the station was
IN turn brought forward and each in turn
went on his way denouncing the authori-
ties who had held him-a man, Of course,
above suspicion in his own mind-a ''sus-
pect.'
Some few were not fortunate enough to
gain release on their first examination, but
at the expiration of ten days, the last sus-
pect walked the streets free man.
In the case of number of them Col
lector Ellsworth, who had now resumed
his duties, was summoned to the inspec-
tors office, but in each case he had said:
Il do not believe that to be the man
passed on the sidewalk before entering
the alley"
inspector Hunt was Disguised man.
There goes the last of fifty suspects
that our officers have apprehended," he
said, as number fifty made his exit from
the Office
THAT cleans up the first batch. It ap-
pears rather discouraging The fact is,
Ellsworth is unable to identify the man he
passed before entering the alley. Again,
if he could identify him, where is the evil
dence that that man committed the
crime? OF course, if we had that indi-
vidual, and a search of his person or lodg-
ing place revealed a large sum of money,
we could make him account for how it
came into his possession. There we are
again. We have a schedule of the banks
that issued the bills of which the collec-
tor was robbed, but not the number of q
single bill. This is bound to be difficult
case to unravel." And the inspector arose
quickly from his chair, twirled the ends
of his silken mustache, looked wise, and
sat down again as he heard the voice Of
Mr. Andrews in the outer office.
A moment later that gentleman was
seated at the inspectors elbow.
$50 the man we are looking for was
not among your suspects, INSPECTOR" he
said.
sit seems not" observed the official.
Sat least none of them filled the bill to
the satisfaction of Ellsworth. l doubt if
he could identify the man if he was con-
fronted by him. And then, it don't FOL-
low"
Here the Inspector detailed, word for
word, his musings of but few minute1,
before.
"Well, what is to be your next step?"
asked the agent.
"Why, we will keep on gathering in sus-
poets. In this case there is nothing else
we can do. It's like looking for needle
in a haystack. 1t is worse, for it is a
question whether we can identify the nee
die after we have found it,
eff you could find among your suspects
one having a large amount Of money COM
posed of bills of the scheduled banks"
''There our hope lies-just there"
eyes, but if not done soon the money
may be scattered to the winds. That man
may be five hundred miles from Chicago
before this time"
CTo be continually