The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-11


wrong and the rescue party failed Ia
pear. Therma nearly ehoked In re
that time. On one or two other occas
the cowboys, who do the hanging. bee
careless, and he has been cut down |
nearly dead than alive. In being dra
over the ground at the end OF the 4
after his capture. Therma has had
arms broken, his legs dislocated ano
skull fractured. Jose Barraro. the
can, who leads the band of COW
which captures the horsethief. repre-
ed by Therma. is no gentle child.
when he has the sportive spirit wof
in him he looks for all the rough spo.
the ground to drag Therma over.
said that the two men have n bet.
raro contending that he will Kill TIL
during the course of the act and Tn
betting that he will not. Strange
may SEEM Therma likes his Job. ane
one ail-hauntlng fear is not that he
be hurt, but that somebody may ges
position away from him. Up to now.
ever, nobody has applied for the jos
Among other avoeations that con
. danger with popularity may be
toned that of the worker in explot
whether be be the legitimate empios
a powder factory or the agent OF
Russian secret terrorist society
quently bombmakers are the yictins
their own Internal machines. aud
story is told of wouldbe burglar@
gained access to n vault In large
don bank. He had with him
bomb, which he set for n night hou
scheme being, OF course, TO be In
vicinity and profit by the expiosie
robbery. After he had the bomb
erly placed he found to his horror
the door of the vault had closed
n ST. i-rtR tad q
being SO constructed that IL made
oner of any person who did not
which of the plates on the hos
avoid. There WAS nothing for the
oner to do but wait for the bon
explode. The agony of his suss
must have been awful. and whei
door was opened no piece OF the
bigger than a twenty -fve-cent piece
found.
Every occupation has fits peculia
To mention them all would bs to
nsh list of the doings of every CID
men and women In the United state
undertaking that would prove as ms
nous to the reader as IL would be |
sible for the writer. II has been tn
In these columns TO present some
most striking peculiarities of the
trades, mingled with the more nniq
dfvidual empioyments that resou
people nave eDurIl Dui- ohc VI -
ter of these is that of a limited nj
of men who make a regular busins
tracing lost heirs. They make a spe
of locating the bcDefciaries OF
who leave unclaimed balances In
and many a fat fee do they earn.
calling is somewhat similar to that
man in large city who makes
business Of tracing lost persons
large number OF people who disc
weekly suggested the idea TO the
sional tracer, and he mas made
thing out OF very unpromisins
He does not always locate the pro
but in many cases the application
little common sense and shrewdness
bined with a good knowledge OF /
nature. has resulted I'm astonishing
cess. The fees for this service ar
Some Great Moving Feats
My Investigations of the queer
field led me 10 the freight depots-k
said one of grlmy, dusty. busy Sr
men. as be paused for breath. "
pretty rushed. You see, we havs
put large brick house on that
and set the park surrounding i on
that drove away a few moments
Now we've got TO go back and
villa
Pretty big things to move"
Nav" he replied with ill-con
contempt Last week me and M
carried the ST. Louis Worlds Fai
four blocks to the depot just after
the rocky mountains and the
building on a fhree-horse truck.
The weather man. too, occupies
all his own Besides predictin
weather tmore or less accurately,
frequently called upon to play INC
portant roles In murder cases and
tFiais During the past 10 years
or man has figured In court no les
900 times. In many a legal bait
Fat of n rra
factor In the rendering Of the verdi
q murder case recently decided,
stance. the conviction hinged on tn
tihcation OF the prisoner by sever
pie who were Admittedly about
away. The records OF the wearhe
were put into the evidence and
that the night WIS very foggy and
and that the witnesses could no
seen 80 feet. On this evidence III
was acquitted. In another case
Tense tried 10 prove that as the b
the victim was IN good state of pr
ton the prisoner who left town
before the murder was discovered
not have done the deed The prost
attorney. however. proved by the
man that the weather had been
nearly all the time between the G
sion of the deed and the discovery
body The attorney. therefore, he
Il was possible for the body to b
manned In q good state Of preservar
20 days. and the jury agreed wit
On another occasion q MAN accuse
serious crime proved by the weaths
that he could not have been at 1
exposed place the night of the Grim
witnesses, who claimed TO have SCI
there. swore that he wore the same
be had Oh when lie WIS arrested.
policeman, who arrested him IN hos
the crime had been committed ao
that his clothes were absolutely dr.
arrested The weather man swore
had rained pitchforks on the nj
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