The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-12-18


the majority Of the party paid no at
tention to him. They regarded Green
with close interest, not unmixed with
awe. Finally he led them to the start
ing point, the broad hail. and there
he set down upon the stairs and
locked at his watch, which he han con
suited occasionally IN the course OF
his stroll Nineteen minutes and a
half, said Green Mr.. Jones. I be.
lieye you are deputy sheriff Of the
county az well as a constable of the
village. viii make my report to you
sir On points OF law Mr.. Sawyer car
advise you, or, If he can't he can pre-
tend to, which is just as good in his
profession This robbery was commit.
ted by two men who do not live in
Ashford, and who are not here at pres.
emit Where they are we viii con
slider later
"One Of them is about six feet tall
and rather slender He has red hair
but is bald on the front part Of his
Uranium. He we're a long black over.
coat and heavy rubber oyershoes. The
little finger Of his right hand has been
broken and is bent almost double. II
may interest you to know how / dis
covered this The thief is tall be-
cause he bumped his head on the
swinging lamp in the parlor, and that
is about six feet from the floor. He
left upon it a small portion Of his
scalp and one red hair. If he had not
been bald IN front he would have left
more hair and less scalp
Il infer that he has n mustache from
the circumstance that he lacks three
trout teeth on the upper Jaw, and even
burglar so dishgired probably would
attempt to remedy such defect. As
10 the missing teeth, need only say
That the men, as you observed, left
some fragments Of luncheon in the
kitchen
The prints Of his overshoes show
in the dust on the flcor Of the kitchen
closet. The print of his little finger is
IN the dust on the top Of that table, or
was before joe Sawyer sat down on it. 9
There wasn't any dust here not a
speck!" exclaimed Sawyer. jumping off
the table
1T depends on the eye" responded
Green calmly. "Tu continue. The
other robber was short thick set and
dark. lie wore a pea jacket and fur
cap. lie had heavy black beard,
which may, however, be false, can
not tell from the single hair which /
found upon piece of bread in the
kitchen until ! have examined it with
a microscope He was an Irishman .
Great Scott" exclaimed the con
stable How dc you know that?"
From his method of knocking out
the ashes from his pipe" replied
green, lrishmen have a peculiar way
Of doing 1T have not time to ex-
plain 1t in detail, but | am sure you
viii find when the man is caught that
he has a typical Irish face The other
is probably a Scotchman frcm his bui
is probably Scotchman from his
build
They carried a satehel something
like an oldfashioned carpetbag and a
black dress suit case.
The robbery was not committed in
the night, as you seem to imagine, .
continued Green, locking at Sawyer as
the teacher looks at a dun pupil. 1T
was about 4.30 in the afternoon. That
deduction is very simple One can
see footprints leading from the man
telpiece to tha western window. The
thieves were taking their plumber to
the light OF course, they walked just
far enough to reach the place where
1.-THE suns rays struck it, and from
that , get the angle and the time.
It's regular sun dial Now. let's see
whore the men have gone. It was
thawing yesterday The ground was
covered with slush. Later it froze,
and then light snow descended As
they finished their work before sun
down the robbers probably did not so
through the town Come with me,
and we win see what we can find"
He led the way to the rear of the
house where a gate opened from q
driveway into a field Here he very
carefully scraned away the snow from
space about three yards wide just
beyond the gate. In the frozen slush
beneath two lines of footprints were
visible
A thrill ran through the whole party.
Even Sawyer was impressed He bent
down to examine the footprints. THE
tall man walked on this side" said
Green MARK the longer stride and
the prints of the overshoes. Without
doubt they walked across meadows TO
Chartham and took the 7.l0 train for
London"
why not the ESQ for Dover?" asked
Sawyer
Thieves with plumber always strike
for the big cities" said Green. MT.
Jones, II YOU telegraph to London. Civ
ing a description OF the men and their
piunder l think the police can catch
them for YOU before tomorrow morn.