Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-24
FOUND IN CHESTERFIELD
BAIL JUMPER TRACED TO DR..
ROWEN'S FARM BY A WOMAN.
Boston HeraIds Wonderful Tale Of
Detective Work With Woman as
Heroine-Chased Her Prisoner
Through Four States.

Through Four States.
After following the trail of George
NJ. Bruce of Shirley through four states
and finally finding him in Chesterfield.
n H., Mrs. E. j. McCloskey of 16 I'm
ion Park, Boston, had the man hand
cuffed to her and brought him all the
way from New Hampshire to Boston.
They arrived here at o'clock Satur-
day afternoon. After giving him
good meal Mrs. McCloskey took Bruce
to the detention station. She later rode
with him in a patrol wagon to the jail,
where she bade him good night"
Mr.. Bruce had been arrested on
charge of perjury. Mrs. McCloskey had
furnished bail to the extent of $4,000.
| Bruce it is said was advised by sew
eral people to disappear. He did SO
| Mrs. McCloskey wished to save her
$4,000 and so turned detective. She was
emnently successful. She worked with
the acumen of Sherlock Holmes and
| followed a trail of boarding houses,
mileage books and Angora goats with
the tenacity of an Old Can Collier
| hero.
Bruce went away just before Hooker
| day last June He had relatives In
Connecticut Mrs McCloskey wrote
him a letter, sending II to his mother
in New London. Bruce answered the
letter. but first sent it to his mother
for her to remail it from New London.
| He dated the letter from Schenectady,
and said that he was going to Califor-
MIA. Mrs. McCloskey then went to Con-
necticut and had talk with his rela-
tives. She learned that Bruce had
brother Fred in Massachusetts. she
returned to Boston and started out on
a hunt for the brother. She went to
Athol. to Shirley. to Fitchburg and then
to Leominster where she found Fred
Bruce.
Fred was told that there was an i'm
portant paper that needed the sigma
ture of his brother. 1t must be done
before a justice of the peace Would
he take the paper to his brother, get
II signed and Immediately mail 1t TO
Mrs. McCloskey? Yes, certainly. He
came to Boston. Mrs McCloskey gave
him a Boston & Maine mileage book
This book. however, was good only
| within the limits of Massachusetts.
Bruce did not know that When ne
went to change to go across the bound
airy a clue would be furnished. This
Is why she gave him book good only
in this state Still further precau-
ttons were taken. A private detective
was waiting to shadow Bruce. He fol-
lowed his man from the office and lost
him before he got out of the builolng.
In due time the paper was returned.
1t showed that it had been sworn 10
before a justice of the peace In Hins-
dale. n. H. This did not furnish sur
ficient evidence. however. The two
brothers might have travelled some
distance to get there Where did freo
Bruce branch off to go north? MSs
McClosky went to the North station 10
see If she could learn anything from
the conductors of the trains on which
he would have been likely to travei.
Yes. one conductor remembered man
who had a Massachusetts mileage
book. She followed on the trail or that
man all the way from Boston to Fitz-
william, only to find that he was not
the man she was looking for.
Bruce had a sweetheart in AthoL
Mrs. McCloskey got word that the
Young lady intended to buy boarding
house. If she could establish an ac-
auaintance with the young lady she
might get trace of the man she wanted
| The boarding house was in keene'
| Mrs. McCloskey became prospective
purchaser of boarding houses in Keene.
The young lady was already there
with a house that she expected to take.
Mrs. McCloskey then became dress
maker who wanted a room in the
boarding house. Bruce's sweetheart
had to return to Athol for week
The woman detective saw disaster
stare her in the face. A whole week!
and her property was already adVer-
tised to be sold in order to satisfy the
bail bond.
She started out on a new clew. Thls