Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-16
RECEIVERS LOST WATCH
STRANGE STORY OF REMoRSE
AND PREPARATION.
Valuable Timepiece Purloined Nearly
Twenty-Three Years Ago Return
ed to the Owner.

That fact is sometimes stranger than fic-
ton has again found verification, this time
In the loss and recovery of a valuable gold
watch. the property of Mr. M Du Perow of
1922 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. The
timepiece was lost, its owner believed,
more than twenty-three years ago in To-
ronto, Canada, where he held the position
of assistant chief operator of the Great
Northwestern Telegraph Company. The
watch, a handsome filigreed affair. disap-
peared mystcriously one day in the winter
of 1SSi-1SS2. from Mr. Du Perow's bed room
In the building In Toronto then occupied as
headquarters by the Great Northwestern
Telegraph Company. Soon after the dis
appearance of the watch Mr.. Du Perow
oamesto Washington. He at the time be-
feved his ticker gone for good. 1t was
his belief that sneak thief had distracted
it from his bed chamber.
Last February Mr.. Du Perow was sur
prised and gratifed to receive a communi-
cation which threw a flood of light on the
mystery of the gold watch. The letter was
dated at Detroit, Mich, signed "Remorse,
and is as follows:
Dear Mr. Du Perow: Some twenty years
ago while you were working for the g. N.
w in Toronto as assistant chief operator L
also worked there under YOU as an opera
tor. At the time you had two rooms over
the operating room, and when looking
y
was tempted by the sight of a gold watch
lying on the table or somewhere in the
room, and took it, but my conscience
troubled me so much that put 1t in an old
vest a day or so later and dropped 1t down
between the partition of closet in your
outer bed or dressing room.
Explicit Instructions.
you will remember it, and the * marked
on the inclosed diagram will show you just
Iofl pIo off no
partition and where 1 dropped it in; the
broken portion was on the inside of the par
ttion. If you send this diagram to some
of your old friends in the business in To-
ronto they might have the caretaker take
up the flooring and see If they can locate
the vest and the watch for you, and sin
cerely hope that they will be successful
1T has troubled my conscience all these
years but / only learned your address a
few days ago. and now trying to make
reparation and at least relieve my con-
science little by giving you this informa-
ton. AS, of course, yea know my name,
will simply sign myself"
Mr.. Du Perow says he does not remem-
Der the man who stole the watch. In fact,
he had not believed it stolen by any
one in his office up to the time of the re-
ceipt of the letter from "Remorse." Upon
receipt of the communication he wrote to
an officer of the Great Northwestern Tele-
graph Company stating that he had re-
somebody in Detroit, and forwarded it to
him for the necessary action.
Il lost a watch while in Toronto" he
said. but mad not supposed 1t had been
purloined. l have not the slightest idea
who the party can be, and, anyway, would
just as soon not know.
IF you can get at it without inconven-
fencing anybody too much or interfering
with the home life of some family of rats,
you will confer a favor by expressing 1t to
me, and | will frame 1t as souvenir of
happy golden days. 1t is apparent from
the letter the party is making the amende
honorable, and is made of the stuff that
heroes are composed of. OF course, it is
more than probable that you may not now
find 1t in the sequestered nook at the sign
of the cross, owing to changes made in
rooms. However, do the best you can"
Accompanying this letter Mr.. Du Perow
sent the diagram he had received with the
communication from. "Remorse." The place
where the gold watch was hidden more
than twenty-three years ago was marked
by q