The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-14

In cash ana $3.50 worth q dianen1
II she hadn't ben . woman With Z
loud voice and = dstsrminod spirit ~
might not have heard q The a1Alr. -
at once laid her los - stewardom
and the stewardess promptly den1o4
1t and asked to b searched. TIL
was done and nothing vas found The
the most Of NJ agreed that MA 0sa3
ham had left her cash and Diamond
behind her when she sailed. and sh9
got even BY calling N . lot Of idioe&
and sticking to II that whoever rob4
bed her had used . false key to oponl
her trunk Only IL hours after. q
bachelor made q complaint TO the 81
feet that q gold watch set with dia-
monds had been taken from his room
II now. became evident that there
WAS . thief aboard. and things were
made very uncomfortable for ALL In
the excitement We almost forgot Miss
Davis. but she did not forget herself.
She It was who suggested q search OIL
all the staterooms and pronered her|
key. In 30 doing she got herself dis
liked by an old chap who was in the
calico printing business in New York
He said he had been turning out CALICO
warranted to wash for the last 40l
years. and he'd be hanged II he'd have
his honesty called In question at this
late day. This put a Quietus on the
proposition to search. but it left q most
uncomfortable feeling throughout the
ship Some one was stealing. but the,
passenger who suspected another
might be in turn himself suspected.
The captain and purser did their best.
but struck no clew. That evening Mr..
Greenleaf and Miss Davis had a quiet
confab together on deck. Their scheme
was to lay trap for the thief. The
young man had a very handsome dia-
mond and emerald ring on his finger
1t had history. and while he was re-
lating the history he removed the ring
and Miss Davis took possession OF it.
When the talk had been concluded he
held out his hand Tor the jewel. but
was not to be found. She contend9
that she had returned IT almost -
once. and that he must have dropped
it on deck She even led the search for
1t. and when IT could not be found she
criticised young Mr.. Greenleaf for
careless fellow. He was rather infat-
uated with her, but he had a grain or
two of common sense left and he
decided TO make change in his
program.
There was one more alarm. That
evening about 81. 900 worth of jewelry
was taken from another stateroom.
There was a row over II, but the
officers of the ship could do nothing
except to station sentinels In the pas
sage-ways thereafter and make every
person identify himself on going to his
stateroom. Mr.. Greenleaf said nothing
about the loss of his ring. No doubt he
wanted to. but of what use? 1t was
noticed and commented that he and
the ingenious Miss Davis had quarrel
ed, and many theories were advanced
as to the cause, but none OF them
came within 40 rods of the truth.
His withdrawal gave the others q
better chance, and they were not slow
to take advantage of IT. In the smok-
ing room, in talking over the mysteri-
our thefts, a man from Passaic, N. j.,
was imprudent enough to observe that
Miss Davis ought to be suspected as
soon as any one He had scarcely ut
tered the words regarding the young
lady when nine young men called him
a liar and a horse thief and fell upon
him and beat him until he looked like
raw beef. OF these nine, two got
change for hundred dollar bills and
three lost rings or pins before Mis-
Davis had got through thanking them
The others were coming hUmeN de<d
broke, and thus escaped.
Miss Davis had surprise for us
when the steamer was finally dragged
and pushed into her slip and the pas
sengers began to disembark. She told
us down at quarantine Of the surprise.
She expected her Uncle Joshua to
meet her, and she wanted to play a
trick on him. She therefore dressed
up as Salvation Army lass to go
ashore. She made a clipper. but no
one could have possibly recognized her
as the girl who had boarded the Baltic
on the other side. Uncle Joshua was
there with a cornfeld smile on his
face, and she got into a hack and dis
appeared within a few minutes.
That was the last any of us saw OF
Miss Davis. The rest of us read in
the newspapers. Her supposed father
was a forger, and they were fleeing
from England when they boarded tho
Baltic. The telegram was from a con-
federate and caused a change in the
program. All the stealing aboard could
be laid at the young lady's door, and
she had brought over a large sum of
money besides. There were detectives
at the dock, but she outwitted them.
They were on her trail for weeks and
weeks, but did not succeed in arresting
her For an ingenious young lady she
was a hummer. You not only have
the statement of steady, conserva-
tive old bachelor for that, but the
various impetuous and infatuated
young men who lost rings and pins
and ran to change hundred dollar bills
are ready to furnish corroborative ties
timOny.