Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
Queer Hiding Place.


ploy as clerk young man named The
odore Cushman. says a writer in the
Detroit Free Press, a good-looking, in
teiligent fellow. whose parents lived
In small town in Ohio. Booth had
taken the young man on the recon-
mendation of Il Congressman, and was
much pleased with him. About the
middle of May. when Cushman had
been employed about six weeks. he
suddenly disappeared, and with him
went the sum of $4,000. taken from
the paymasterS safe. His getting the
money was very bold thing The
safe stood open. and In the office sat
the paymaster and n friend, and there
We're two other clerks besides Cnsh-
man. The young man put on his hat
and coat TO go out, placed the package
of money in his pocket unseen. and
had two hours start when it was
missed
When | was placed on the case l
soon learned that Cushman, honest
and respectable as he appeared to his
friends, was really the consort of
many bad people He drank and gam
bled, and was general favorite with
several female Adventures. Indeed, |
even discovered that he had left
Washington in the company of n WON
an named Bell Grover. He must have
been planning a raid on the paymas-
ter's safe, and fl.t reasonably sure Of
making haul, for the woman was
packed up ready to leave, and both
were on their way to Baltimore with
Ing an hour from the time that the
money was taken. They had two days
the start of me, but | traced them to
Philadelphia. from there to Trenton
from Trenton to Jersey City, and they
crossed to New York only two hours
ahead Of me. In Philadelphia Cush-
man bought the woman $500 worth of
| diamonds. | had an idea that they
| would plan TO take a steamer for Eu-
rope and l had to telegraph to Wash
| ington for help in the case We
watched the ship offices, overhauled
| the hotels, and five days slipped away
the trail again. 1t was a question
| whether they had not left the city al
| most as soon as they had entered il.
After the first day there were four of
us on the case direct while the police
Were rendering us all the assistance
| possible. We had none of us met
Cushman or the woman face to face,
nor did we have their photographs
We We're trailing them from descrip-
tions, and faulty ones at that
! Towards night on the afternoon OF
the fifth day l was crossing Union
| Square when | encountered Young
| fellow whom | at once spotted for
! Cushman. He had shaved off his mus
| tache, changed his style of collar and
| put on a new suit of clothes, but | had
a feeling that he was the man want
! ed. | turned and followed him, and
| after a bit he looked about him In
| such a way as to prove that he was Il
! criminal Of some sort. lie went to a
| hotel and wrote a letter ana inclosed
| $50 bill in it. From there he went
|
| volyer. Then he started out like one
! going home, and l followed him to n
| boarding house on Lexington avenue.
Ten minutes after Cushman entered
the house | rang the bell and it did
not take over five more to explain my
! errand TO the landlady She volun-
teered to lead me to Cushman's ROOM
| which was up two flights, but she at
| the same time Informed me that Mrs
| Cusliman had left the house few
| minutes before his arrival. When
| knocked on the door | heard some one
moving inside, but no answer was re
| turned to my summons. | waited five
| minutes and then broke the door in,
! but Cushman was nowhere to be
| found. Ii was an elegantly furnished
| room. and the pair had gone straight
| 10 the house from the foot of De
| brosses street. / looked out Of the
| various windows, under the bed and
| behind the sofa, but Cushman was
| not to be found He could not have
| descended to the ground, and I made
| up my mind that when he came up
| stairs he entered some other room al
| though / thought ! heard him move
| about after / knocked
! was about to leave the room to
| make a search Of the house when |
! heard a great suffering and sncez-
! ing. and the wooden mantel was push
| ed back and Cushman came out If the
! fireplace 1t was mock fire CRATE
but so nicely arranged that was de
ceived His quarters were terribly
| cramped and the time and dust had
| tiled his eyes and set him to sncezing
| He was terribly chagrined aud
| crestfalen over his capture but a
! still worse thing was In store for him
| The woman for whom he had ruined
! himself had been entrusted 10 carry
| the bulk Of the "swag," and she had
taken advantage Of his absence 10 run
away with 1t. We did our beet to find
/ her bt1f ghp pOf WAY tn EuroUp with