Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-02
from her masters house. Her master

from her masters house. Her master himself Was so convinced uf her iuno- eence that he intcrcrD>d successfully for the shortening of u2r sentence and took h. again iuto il , H"rNtrc wien she cam" out ot jaiI. SAuIiy al,tI she had re-entered h!s .crNtce .s3> sAc was passing through the butchers AurSrt in Delft q nan tapped her oH her shou der and whispered into IIr ear, "I'rrtty well before and not aluiss bchlnd" uurryluS home, she told her master she had found the thief. "IioW:' he asked. Well, sir" she said on that Sunday when the things were stolen i Was dressing alone. as l thought, ill my room, and when l had dressed took q good view of myself in the glass and said. Pretty well before and not amiss behind. The man who robbed the house must have been concealed ill the garret noXt my room and there have overheard me, for today as l was pass ing through the butchers market he whispered these words i'll my ear" The police were set upon the mans track some of the missing goods were found in his house. and on this evidence he was convicted and broken on the wheel
 In the reign of Charles II. a French refugee named De Moulin was Sentenc- ed to be hanged for coning upon evi denee that must have staggered his own consciousness of innocence. It was indisputably proved that De Moulin had given out false coin. had returned counterfeit coins to persons from whom he had received money as though they had passed it off upon him, had a heap of counterfeit coin ill one drawer of his bureau and ill another d mixed heap of good and bad money, while all the implements of coining files. molds, aqua regia-Were discovered also in his cScritoire. De Moulin'S de fense was that he had received all this base coin from others, had sifted some of it and thrown it into one drawer, while in the other drawer lay the mon ey, good and bad, which he had not had time to Sift. As for the iInple- mentse of coining, he could not for his life imagine how they came to be in his escrtore. The judge swept scornfully aside this preposterous defense, and, the jury finding De Moulin guilty without quitting the box, he was sen tenced to be hanged But he was not hanged at all. At the foot of the gal. lows he was reprieved and pardoned on the testimony of Mrs. Williams, the widow of a seal engraver, whose death in street accident had so shocked her as to occasion through a miscarriage her own death. In dying she made the following confession: Williams and three others had lived for years by counterfeit coining. and to get rid of some of this base money one of them had become De Moulin's servant. He used to open with false keys the escritOire where his master kept his money and to substitute for it it's seeming equivalent in base coin.
 Scotland Yard would no doubt scorn to take Sir Conan Doyle into its coun- sels as an American detective consult ed k. l.. Stevenson. Arthur Johnstone in his Stevenson In the Pacific" tells the striking tale. As they sat together one evening on the veranda of an inn at Waikiki the detective conided to Stevenson case of extreme difficulty he had in hand and also his theory of it's solution. As Stevenson hardly seemed to attend, for he sat looking dreamiy at the sea, the detective left him to have chat with the more re- sponsive landlord. On his return to the veranda, however, Stevenson suddenly reused himself to say; Il think have solved that riddle of yours. You see, it's just like writing story. If you go at it right, 1t will work out right. Now, your theory does not do at all."
 The detective did not at first think anything of Stevenson's theory of the case It was daring even for theory and dangerous tO work if if did mt