The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-07
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and while pretending to Gmass money
slowly, he was, in reality, the secret
owner OF several fine business blocks,
and was the hacker of one of the larg-
est gambling houses in the city.
He also discovered that With. 4
| short time after arriving in the city
he had purchased, under another
name, property of the value of more
than 100000, paying cash therefor
He also discovered that he had paid
for another piece of property in Illi-
nois Central bonds.
With this information, the detect
i've returned to Chicago. The attor-
| ney was now satisfied Wallace was
the thief who had distracted the
bonds. The detective was put to
work tracing the life of Wallace while
he lived in Lanesvillc, and 1t was dis
covered that almost as soon as he en-
tered the bank of Ellington & Co. he
had begun gambling in Chicago mar
| gins. All this was traced out, and
then the attorney was desirous of get
ting Wallace to return to Lanesville
for two reasons: One, to force him, If
possible, to disgorge his plumber that
Miss Ellington might recover money
her father had paid the owner of the
bonds. and the other, to have him
properly punished for his crime.
AT last Miss Ellington was induced
to write to Wallace, asking him to
visit her at Lanesville, she telling
him that she believed clew had been
found to the missing bonds, and she
| desired to consult with him. incident
ally mentioning the fact that several
mysterious bank robberies had re-
Gently occurred in the vicinity. leav-
ing him to draw the inference the
| clew she mentioned had it's rise in the
robberies
Wallace promptly responded that
he would come, naming the day he
| would arrive in Lanesville. Not long
after reaching his room at the hotel
in Lanesville the attorney knocked
at lis door. On being hidden to en-
ter, he did so, locking the door after
him and putting the key in his pock-
ct, explaining that he desired the in
| terview to be private, and did not
want to be interrupted Placing him
self opposite the cashier, he quietly
said:
| wallace, the game is uD. We
know who stole the bonds. Listen to
| little story I have to relate to YOU:
when You were an orphan boy. with
| out nome, your uncle took you into
his home and educate1 you. After
| you finished your education he took
you into his bank, giving you n busi-
ness training. Your whole life in
Lanesville was one long course Of
hypocrisy and falsehood. Very early
you began gambling in Chicago, and
at first were successful. Then the
tide turned against you. You were
hard pressed for money, and forged
your uacle's name to notes to the
amount of $4,000, discounting them
in Chicago.
You had a brother who was wild
and reckless, and who left your un-
| cle's house in anger. short time
before the forged notes fell due that
brother sickened, and you visited him
in the hospital at Chicago. He died,
and you returned from burying him.
with hypocritical tears in your eyes
you told Mr.. Ellington that your
brother, on his dying bed, had con-
fessed to you the forgery of $4,000
in notes, thus putting your crime on
your dead brother. Your uncle
promptly said he would take up the
notes, and thus shield the name of his
sisters son. He also told you that to
do so he would have to raise the
money in Chicago, pledging the bonds
he had laid away for his daughters
wedding portion.
You were present when Mr.. Nc
Cabe deposited with your uncle the
100000 in Illinois Central bonds.
You were again in distress for money
TO meet your margins. The opportu-
nifty and the temptation came, and
| you eagerly seized 1t. You saw Mr..
Ellington go to the steel chest in the
vault, take from it the 100000 in
bonds preparatory to a hasty visit to
Chicago. Unfortunately, Mr.. Efing-
ton laid the package of bonds and the
key to the chest on his table. He was
called to another part of the bank
You took the key, opened the chest
and abstracted the bonds of Mr.. Nc
Cabe. Then devilish thought came
into your mind to avert suspicion
from yourself and throw it upon your
uncle. You quickly exchanged one Of
the Illinois Central bonds for one of
those in your uncle's package.
1T was you that set the rumor
afoat that your uncle had recently Sc
cretly borrowed large sum OF money
In Chicago, knowing that he would
not tell why he wanted the money, for
to do so would cast a shame on his
sisters son. 1t was you who secretly