The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1907-01-16

bucllwhcat cakes to beat the band.
Say, now. is there any danger of any
one stealing my package from your
Not the slightest"
"Beeausc there are some suspicious
characters aboard. I've run across
four different men that | wouldn't
trust to 90 to my barn and get 4 peck
measure of oats. They call themselves
Stone, Dubois. Saunders and Wilkin-
son. We've got tin peddlers up in my
state that look more honest than these
men do. I'm right ON TO EN-, however,
and they can't fool me-
At least once II day during the rest
OF the voyage each of the four detee-
tiyes sought cut the purser and report
ed progress and planned what should
he done when quarantine WAS reached.
While each one had only suspected
one another on the start, ouly three
days had passed when each mans sus-
picions Included the three others in the
quartet. tuclc Abiiah bothered them
from the start. lie insisted ON butting
IN Mt all times and under all circum-
stances II one detective had another
aside 10 pump him, the old man from
! New HAMPSHIRE presently appeared
and earelessly said;
"Gentlemen, ] hope | don't intrude,
| but were either of you ever up in Sock
county. n. H."
Never" WAS the reply.
"rhcu you've missed n great thing
We haint got no Niagara falls up
there. hut sliding down hill In the
winter beats anything you can find
outdoors You load up big shed
with gals aud boys and head her down
hill aud let her 70, and the first thing
You know you are two miles away. |
hain't got but one spare bed In the
house. but Martha and me will sleep
on the floor il you'll come up"
Sometimes the four sleuths would
play cards together and pretend to be
very jovial and friendly. Before the
game was fairly under way Uncle
| Abijah would stroll into the smoking
room and say:
Il dunno whether any of you fellers
heard about that big robbery In Lon
don or not. but 1t was corker. Feller
| w bihtb iil'V 81 l'N'bs s''i' anu RiNh''
up bushel of diamonds and walked
out ag'm rs cool asa hired man going
10 work. | happened TO be right nigh
the store at the time. and | didn't
know but what they would arrest me.
The Teller got away, but I'm purity sure
| saw him and would know him ag'in.
| He would then lounge out on deck,
and the game would soon break up, aud
one Of the officers would hunt up Uncle
.Abiiah To get further particulars. lie
| would intimate that he had seen the
rohber among the passengers aboard
aud that he might give him away on
landing. and thus the four officers
would br further puzzled and mystl-
hed Zach one was invited UP to New
Hampshire over and over again, and
before Sandy Hook wis sighted each
one knew the old mans history from
the day he was born. No arrests were
made ut quarantine. 1t had been left
TO the purser, and he had tclephoned
up. Four interviews had been held
with him, and as Il result four different
men were arrested when the steamer
made her dock The victims were
MessrS. Saunders, Dubois, Wilkinson
and Stone tucle Abiiah saw them
taken into custody and smiled and
Wihked. He had also worked out a lit
lie plan.
Three hours later the four men, ac-
eompanlcd by two detectives from
headquarters. boarded the Monarch to
ask of the purser
what do yon know of the Old fellow
who called himself Barnesy'
nice old man and innocent as Il
child" replied the official. Say, now.
he's gone Off and forgotten his pack
age
III he returns for 1t, tie II string
around his wrist and hold him fast"
laughed one of the headquarters men.
Hes the chap that took the dia
mondsr'