Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1911-09-28

WHEN YOU COMH OUT YOU WILL Bh AN
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public property, such as car lines, wa
terworks and the gas and electric
plants. He is a good man and liberal
to those that do the right thing. but
he has had a lot of trouble, especially
with process servers. who are always
chasing him back and forth across the
state line. He has house In Little
ton and farm just over the border.
and he lives In one place or the other.
according to whether the New Jersey
or the New York people are after him
at the time.
The worst trouble that he had was
about four years ago, and 1t was then
that | first got mixed up In his af'
fairs, which was the making of me.
| was IL patroiman, and my beat was
in the Pleasant Hill section. where
Hasbrook's house stands. His daugh
ter had just come home from abroad.
and fine specimen OF the breed she
surely was. with the eye Of II hawk
and a face us hard as marble.
l used to pity her maid. whom she
had brought home with her from Eu-
rope. Il pretty girl born In France. but
speaking English aS well as myself:
cheerful as cricket and playful as a
kitten. There were times when I'D
have an hours talk with her ut the
gate of the garden that runs back to
the north road. and shed tell me how
tired she was and how late she'd been
up the night before and laugh as II
It was the best Joke In the world.
In the preceding fall there had been
a reform wave. and the people had
elected district attorney who had
pledged himself to send everybody to
jail. A good deal had been said In the
course of the campaign about Amos
l.. Hasbrook and the extension Of the
street railway franchise. After think
ing about II for six or seven months
the new district attorney. whose name
was Ridgewood. got after Hasbrook
ON this matter Of the franchise and
dragged him before the grand jury,
where he was badgered during long
forenoon. Not being satisfied with the
way he had been treated, Hasbrook
refused to attend the afternoon ses-
sion. and Ridgewood got some sort Of
warrant for him. but the Judge didn't
issue 1t until he knew for certain that
the victim Of this persecution had es-
capped across the state line to his farm.
Hasbrook executed this sidestep In
an unusually hasty manner. and he
left some documents at his city house
which were absolutely essential In
some matters which were then ia prog
ress. So he telephoned to his daugh-
ter to bring them over. The district
attorney had tapped the telephone
wire. not only the one that was In
plain sight. but the secret line that
ran under ground through the gar
den As soon as he had overheard
the message about the documents he
rushed half dozen of his men up to
the Hasbrook house.
I saw them coming. and. though l
did not know the inside of the case. l
scented danger. So passed the word
to Madeleine that picket line was
being thrown around the grounds and
that 1t looked to me as If the men
intended to arrest anybody who
should come out. Madeleine told Miss
Hasbrook. who promptly hid the papers
in a secret place which her father had
revealed to her. This made the papers
cafe from the clutches of the district
attorney. but 1t did not put Mr.. Has
brook in the way of getting them.
Miss Hasbrook called up her father
aud laid the situation before him. but
be could not tell her what to do. be.