Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-03
a LORD AND
TWO LADIES
BY
Cyrus Derickson
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

most delicacy, and it was handed over
to Inspector Jones. Jones was a red
headed, homely looking man, seeming
ly more fitted in every way to handle
crowbar in q quarry than to work
up delicate ease in police matters,
but as Il matter of fact he was all
dnesse to his fingers ends. This case was
Que wherein Lord Baltimore refused to
pay his just debts to certain tradesmen
Some lords refuse to pay their debts
Because they can't raise the money to
do it, but Lord Baltimore refused to
because he denied the bills, though
they We're sent in by some of the most
prominent jewelers. in the trade. Not
only did the young lord deny the bills
and damn the people who sent them.
but the daughter of Lady Jane Sy-
monds and the wife of Sir John Bevis
likewise denied certain bills incurred
at the same time and while in the COM
pany Of the ford
When Inspector Jones came to inter.
view the six anxious creditors, each of
whom had been let in for at least
f1,0GN. and some of them for three
times that sum, they told plain,
straight stories. Lord Baltimore had
called in company with the ladies at a
certain date. He needed no introduce
ton, as he was we'll known, but he had
introduced and thus guaranteed the
ladies. In each instance they had been
searching for birthday gifts, and moth
Ing but the choicest and the best
would satisfy them. That three peo-
pie of title should call at once was
enough to make shopkeeper gasp for
breath, and that the trio should con-
descend to select literally of his stock
and bear their purchases away with
them made him weak in the knees for
an hour afterward. Lord Bathmore's
credit was good for 100000 at any
shop in London, and it was really too
bad that the trio could not be induced
10 purchase three or four times what
they finally selected.
The bills had not been sent until
three months later, and they were al
most q year old before the various
firms dared to add that part payment
IL.
Then it was that the denials were
made, and those denials put the credi-
tors in 2 hole. 1t isn't considered
proper form in England to serve IL
tied debtor as they serve a delinquent
Maietactor He or she must be treated
III a ginSerly way until the last hope is
gone. It was the fiat denial of each
one of the trio that sent the case to
Scotland Iard1nd put Inspector Jones
10 work. 1t Soked like conspiracy.
aad is was possible that a trick had
been played on the jewelers.. 1t was
four weeks before Inspector Jones
made his first report, and it ran as fol-
lows:
Il find that all the purchases were
made in the same week, though on diff
feyent afternoons. l have had an ill.,
terview with each debtor, and all DENY
the purchases. Indeed l have proofs
fhat Lord Baltimore was in Paris all
that week and that at least one of the
ladies was out of town for the whole
month. We must either believe that
these three persons are liars and con
splrators or that there has been series
az queer mistakes"
II was far longer before a second and
Nnat report was sent in. Inspector
Jones did not believe the trio to be
liars and conspirators, and he ran up
against stone wall at once. In each
aud every case my lord and his lady
friends had been waited on by the head
salesman or one of the house, and in
each and every case was well known
Sy sight. The jewelers. couldn't be
anre Of the identity of the ladies. but
silat it was Lord Baltimore who hon
cred them with his presence they were
seady to take their affidavits. Inspector
zones begged to differ with them, but
he realized that he had work on hand
&efore he could prove his point. 1t
made the case all the more difficult be-
sause 1t was year old. AS a begin
sAug he visited the pawn shops, and
After long hunt he had the good luck
20 turn up string Of pearls that had
aeen included among the purchases.
xut IN the end it led to nothing, for the
description furnished by the pawn
eTokers failed to tally with the persons
81 the three accused.
inspector Jones, without being able to
advance anything but general reasons.
got further stay Of proceedings. He
lad an intuition that he would drop on
she right clew if given time, and the
creditors reluctantly conceded that if
they went to law and were beaten
ahey stood good chance of being
AMlcied in heavy damages. A year