The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

there, and took mp the reins 10 begin the
drive TO the cemetery. In the meantime
! had secured the number Of the house
while | had been waiting, and / con-
graduated myself that | was developing
into quite a fly detective. Not word
was spoken during the drive by any of
us, and when the gate OF the cemetery
was reached one of the men got down
and with key which he took from his
pocket unlocked the entrance gate. /
drove in and one of the men directed me
TO drive toward a tall white monument
which he pointed out which did, and
was soon by the side Of freshly dug
and open grave. l stopped the wagon
and the two men, without asking any
assistance from me, took the box from
| the wagon and with ropes taken from
/ their pockets proceeded to lower il into
/ the grave. l was petrfied with fear and
astOnishment. / could hardly believe
! but what l was i'm some horrible dream.
pinched myself 10 be sure / was awake
and that my senses had not deceived me.
As soon as the box was lowered into its
place one of the men went behind the
monument and returned with two
shovels, one Of which he gave to his COM
panion, and the work Of filling up the
grave began, and the excavation was
soon filed, Every thing was done i'm
silence, and as l watched them at their
Work l was forcibly reminded of the
burial Of Sir John Moore, where mot
drum was heard; not funeral note.' As
soon as the grave was filled and the
mound made into the usual shape the
ghnVnlg tbvpttt, I'm, IN
young men climbed in and was directed
to drive them home again, which did
as fast as my old horse could travel. |
was filled with mystery in which had
been part, but l was too discreet TO ask
any questions, and neither one of my
companions volunteered any informa-
tion. In fact, neither Of them spoke
from the time the box was placed i'm my
wagon until | set them down again in
front OF the house in which the box lust
buried had been taken. Just before he
got down from his seat, the man who had
employed me, handed me a $50 bill, and
with the single admonition "Now keen
num-" bade me good night and left me
to drive home alone, filled with conflict.
ing thoughts, the most prominent of
which was my manifest duty to tell my
story at once to the police. In this de-
termination my wife encouraged me, and
the next morning 1 laid the whole thing
before Major Sylvester. who sent two
policemen with me to dig up the suppos-
ed corpse. In the meantime two police
men were sent to watch the house from
the box had been taken, with instruc-
tions to arrest the men if they attempted
to leave the house before we came back.
1t was no trouble to locate the grave, and
we had the box up before the superin-
tendent knew we were there. The lid
was taken from the box by one of the
policemen, and what do you reckon we
found? Well, sir it was big New
Foundland dog, the pet of the family,
and was buried in the family lot We
didn't know what to do, and my fine
sensation had fallen fiat. The superin-
tendent of the cemetery came up at that
moment and explained that regular
burial permit had been issued for the in
terment, and we could do nothing more
than TO put the body back and bury
it, although l think that afterward on
account OF protest, the dog was taken up
and buried elsewhere. And that is the
most peculiar thing that ever came to
me since l have been driving express"
said the old man, as he went to meet
customer, who wanted trunk hauled