The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-08

commenced to walk to London. Be- tween GuiIford and London, very early one morning, he came upon man rid ing a pony and driving two cows. The stranger was taking the cattle to Lon don, he said, and, finding that Gill was bound for the same place, ne told him
 that he would give him five shillings to
 drive th= cattle for him to Vest minister Bridge. where he would find a man awaiting him.
 Gill was delighted and undertook the job readily. and the stranger a most agreeable person. rode on, having given Gill many instructions as to not over driving the beasts. and so on. For some hours Gill drove the COWS in peace, but at Wordsworth he was. to his surprise and indignation, bounced on by the police on charge of having stolen the beasts.
 In such an unlocked for situation lost
 his wits. His great anxiety was that
 his friend should know nothing of what
 had happened to him, and no way of preventing that occurred to him than by giving a false name and concealiDg his identity by a series of very mala- droit falsehoOds. He was convicted and sentenced, but before he had
 suffered long the facts came to light
 through the capture of the actual theft. He had stolen the pony he had been riding and various other articles, and at the time Gill chanced to overtake
 him had come to the conclusion that
 he should never be able to get the cows away safely. He therefore hand ed them to Gill.
 Having stolen things foisted on one
 may place man or woman in a terri ble position. The same result may at- tend having articles stolen from one. 1 Karl Franz, a young German, had his
 pocket picked of a packet of papers
 belonging to him. The next he heard
 of the packet was that it had been dis covered beside the dead body of woman who had been murdered by
 burglars at Kingswood Rectory. Franz
 was driven to frantic terror by the news and made desperate efforts to hide himself. All was in vain, however. | The detectives ran him down, and he
 was placed on trial. It was only by
 a train of marvelously fortunate cir l circumstances that he was able toshow
 that he could not have committed the
 murder
 Not so fortunate was a young fel- low named Gould, who was tried at Stafford Assizes for stealing a pocket
 book. A lady, having gone to market | one day, stopped down to look at some vegetable exposed for sale in a basket. While she was looking at them she felt some one touch her, and, standing up and looking around, she saw a young fellow beside her, who at once walked off. Entering a shop 8 short time afterward to make some purchases the lady felt in her dress for her pocket
 book, in which she had placed 8 bank note. It was gone. The police were at once called, and the lady communicated to them her suspicious of the young man whom she had found beside her near the vegetable basket, and, setting off with detectives, they quickly suc- ceeded in finding him. He stoutly pro- tested his innocence; but on his being taken to the police station and searched a black pocketbook was found upon him, which the lady at once re- cognized as hers. The bank note, how ever, was not in it. The lady and several persons who knew her pocket book swore positively to the one found on Gould. He was convicted and sen fenced. A few days later, while two men were moving a field of oats in the neighborhood of the market, they discovered a black pocket! It was exactly similar in every respect to that found on Gould, the missing banknote itself was in 1t! Gould was at once set free.
 A man suspected of burglary at Cardiff found himself placed in dire peril through wonman's dress discovered in his box. A girls dress had been stolen by the burglars and had been most minutely described to the police by the girl to whom 1t belonged. She identified the dress found in the pris- oner's box without the slightest hestita- tion, and it agreed in every respect
 with the particulars she had supplied
 to the authorities. One of the jurymen however, was, in spite of all not quite satisfied, and he suggested that the girl should retire with the dress and put it on. For a long time te court waited, and then the woman in attendance on her came back to say that the pros ecutrix could not get the dress on. It had been made for some one much more slender and smaller. The prison CT was acquitted, but it had been "a close shave for him.
 A witness in Glasgow murder case narrated how he had saved himself from most unexpected and terrible situation. Walking down a lonely street one night he had suddenly come upon the body of woman lying upon the pavement. She had been stabbed to death and horror rooted him to the spot beside her. While he was stand ingethere other people came up, and he awoke at last to the fact that there was crowd of angry and threatening per- sons around him who regarded him as the murderer.
 He was in terrible danger when a means of escapes flashed across his mind. He bade the people stand back from the body bent over it and pro- ceeded to describe the poor womans wounds in the best medical language he could command. The people were thunderstruck. He was not the mur- derer then, but doctor who had been