The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-01-08


run OF luck was phenomenal. On
two or three occasions she manipu-
lated the cards in such n man
ner that had she been a man / should
have called her down, but as il was
had TO give her the benefit OF the doubt
and kept silence She didn't want to
win, she explained-she would rather
lose than win in playing with a
dear friend-but IL luck insisted that
she win she must pocket the stakes,
you know. When she had won $3.50
from me / cashed the slips and went
out OF the game pretty we'll satisfied
in my own mind that / hadn't been
given n square deal, and from that day
on Miss Judson had no further use for
me. When ] tried TO bask in her
smiles, as usual. tho smiles were not at
home 70 me. She had confided to me
that she found me congenial, but there
seemed TO be some mistake about that
after | had decided not 70 lose any
more money.
The next victim was the son OF an
English manufacturer, who was going
out to India 70 invent new ways Of
spending his fathers surplus cash 1t
was said that he had e 5000 in the pur-
scr's safe. That was when he began
playing cards with Miss Judson. How
much he had left after he got through
no one could say, but that she got at
least half Of IL was@common talk, and
be himself went SO far as 10 declare
that he had been sharped. In the
course OF three weeks the "Judson
Crowd" was dissolved One after an
other was cleaned out Of his spare cash
and withdrew, and Miss Judson was
certainly several thousand dollars to
the good. Nobody was willing TO adj
NIT his exact loss. Indeed, nearly
every man lied about IL and denied any
loss at all. but at the same time each
loser knew that the other loser He'd
There was no card playing for fun, and
soon after IL had ceased we were
treated 20 several sensations In success
sion. The first was the disappearance
OF several diamond rings and BRACE
let, which had been left on the piano
by n player, They had disappeared
in broad daylight, with people sitting
or moving about, and rs the value was
considerable the sensation was equal
After n little IL was found that the
jewelry had been taken while only six
people were in the cabin. Four of these
were married ladies, the fifth Miss
Judson, and the sixth the young nat
uralist who had been taken for Lacy.
The cabin was turned upside down i'm
the search, but the missing valuables
could not be found. Then everyone
OF the six persons demanded that his
or her stateroom and luggage be
searched, but the captain hushed mat
ters up by suggesting that one of the
servants was the thief and that the
plumber would soon be discovered
Three days later married woman had
a sensational complaint to make. Dur
ing her temporary absence from her
stateroom some one had entered IL aud
stole G 100 I'm cash. a gold watch and
"a costly breastpin. Her statcroom was
only two doors below mine, and I'm
leaving my room at three o'clock I'm the
afternoon / had caught a glimpse Of
some one entering hers. / just got
sight OF n skirt, but / was sure I'm my
own mind that IL was one / had seen
Miss Judsou wear. The bold robbery
was a shock TO everyone. We surely
had a thief aboard the ship, passenger
or servant, and no ones belongings
would be safe until that thief was dis
covered II was natural 90 at first sus-
pect the servants, and the captain had
them before him IN succession and tried
his best TO fix the guilt. While this
was going on the mate and stewardess
were searching quarters and baggage,
but no admission was made by any OF
the questioned, nor could any trace of
the plumber be found. Some thought
the thief had flung the stun overheard
to escape detection, but the majority
settled down TO the belief that one OF
the passengers was the guilty party.
Many who had iewelry and small sums
OF money FASTENED 10 the purscr. and
people began looking at each other in
an unpleasant way. Onc-half prob
ably suspected the other half, but that
wasn't discovering the criminal. felt
sure | could give a good guess rs 10
who II was. but guessing and declar-
ing are two different things Miss Jud-
son was loud in her indignation and
feverish in her anxiety 10 have the
mystery solved, aud the average de-
tcctiyc would have reasoned that She
rather oycrdid IL.
Four days later another stateroom
was entered and moro icwclry taken.
and right ia the midst Of the sensation
a lady missed pair Of diamond err
rings which She had put out 70 clean.
There was an Indignation meeting in
the cabin, and several persons made
speeches and introduced resolutions
and the captain found his position n
mast embarrassing one. II was finally
decided 20 hold all the passengers and
servants together on deck while
search was mnde Of every stateroom.
This search was most thorough and ex-
but not one Of the missing
valuablcs was discovered IL was.