Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-04-03

breakfast. the housemaid busting in
the library and the cook in the kitchen.
These were the only servants kept,
and there was no one else in the house
who could have taken the money. The
matter was reported to the police, but
in those days the machinery for hunt
ing up criminals which exists today
was unknown, and all hope of recov-
cry of the treasure was abandoned
within a few hours after it was lost.
Maria geS in England were in that
day dependent upon the settlements.
The groom in this case, Thomas Nolan,
had studied medicine and required cap
itaI to set him up in his profession.
He would receive 10000 from his ia
thcr IT nc latter's death, but not till
then. = , lie married Miss Trelawney
withJU, ct his father would cut
him OF ire-n his Inheritance. The loss
of what T--S to have been her dowry
broke of the match.
Not long after this rupture between
two lovers Anthony Barton, who had
for q long while been madly in love
with Miss Trelawney, renewed or at
tempted TO renew his attentions to her
But she would have nothing TO do with
him. he was a persistent fellow, and
it was difficult for her to get rid OF
him. In order TO help his case he told
her father that he had inherited $4,000
from an uncle who had died in Amer
lea. But even this failed. for. while
the daughter did not love Barton. her
father had a very poor opinion of him.
In6na6 fhnra nd
ing between Nolan and Miss Trela whey
that neither would marry until he
should have achieved success or had
inherited his portion of his fathers es.
tate.
Two years passed, during which
young DR.. Nolan, whose father would
do nothing for him pecuniarily, made
little progress in his profession, and
marriage with a portionless girl was
out of the question. One day when
Miss Trelawney returned from shop
ping she found in her room a bag con-
tanning the lost dowry. with the ex-
ception of a hundred pounds. In the
bag was a paper signed by Anthony
Barton. 1t was a confession and read
as follows:
When you receive this 1 shall be
where no one will find me- They say
love is ennobling. 1t has made me the
most despicable of men. 1 am going
to confess what L have done. have
made two mysteries. / will explain
them both, but l have had a confed-
crate. L did not steal your dowry, but
L employed another to do it for me.
I did not want your money, but 1
wanted to break Off your match with
Nolan, hoping that by doing so l could
in time persuade you to be my wife.
The man who stole the dowry took
away with him as much more money
BE and the money were sure to be
missed and he would be hunted. am
not going to betray him. How he got
your dowry, how it is returned to you,
must remain a mystery. The other
mystery 1 will explain, for you will
need ii to recover a hundred pounds
belonging to you.
my confederate determined to dis
appear from the face of the earth. Not
long after his departure he put up at
a hotel in Ireland, having with him
trunk in which there was little besides
a change of apparel and a red beard
went to his room. Dressing himself as
another person and putting on the
beard, he got out of a window, dropped
on shed and, going to the front door,
entered as a guest, securing the room
next to and communicating with his
own. Then he sent his trunk down
stairs, cut his finger purposely, wiping
the blood on the towels, and in the
morning, as the newcomer, went down
and carried the trunk away.
"All this was done to leave the i'm
preston that the first guest had been |
murdered by the second and carried |
away in the trunk. The deposit he |
made was but a small portion of his |
plumber and was intended to prove that |
he had not left the inn alive. His |
ruse was successful. Some months |
after he put it in practice those who
had lost money by him tracked him
to the Irish inn and learned, as they |
believed, that he had been murdered |
there. The landlord, however, refused |
to pay the money the murdered man
had left, without proper proofs. think
you can get il by presenting this con-
fession, which is duly executed"
The money was recovered, but before
that DR.. Nolan and Miss Trelawney
had been married AS for Barton, he
was never again heard from.