El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-21


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facturers. and finally, at NeWburgh,
New York, / found the factory from
which the shipment had been made,
and in a few hours. by examining
order book after order book, I found
the destination Of those Overalls. They
had been bought by a little dry goods
store in Long Island City.
went staight to the little dry goods
store, and found that an old woman
with gray hair, dressed in mourning,
with gold trimmed spectacles, had
bought some
Mrs. Collins. the motherinlaw Of de
Resquesans, was an old woman IN
black with gold trimmed spectacles-
With the clerk, I sauntered around TO
her house and rang the bell. An IN
quirv for a mythical ledger brought
sharp negative from her; but as the
door closed the clerk cried under MS
breath: Yes. that's the woman who
bought the burlapP
canvassed the express drivers Of
the neighborhoOd, and finally found
the identical man who had carried the
sofa from Mrs COllins's house 10 the
pier where it had set out upon its
eYentful journey to Costa Idca- The eX-
pressman was able to recall that a
tail Spaniard7 had engaged him for
the job. and had paid MIN We'll ar
rested de Resquesans and motherln-
law.
Call From the General.
That vas only the beginning, how
ever. The real goal, as always, was
the man highest up, together, OF
course. with all those all the way up
In this case there was one willy old
conspiratOr who stood at the very pin
nacle. The problem was TO get him
Scarcely had de Requesans been ar
rested and, with the little widow,
al 7 rns4-~- e-#-= az TafT Iva
New York, when Gen. de Nora himself
walked, in his distinguished fashion,
into the very office OF the secret ser
vice and asked to see me. came to
the window
Good Afternoon. Meestair Bearns,
he said Here ees my Card IN
derstand you like TO see me2 Thees ees
my address At any time that Can
SERVE you, you viii find ne in my
rooms"
That is very kind Of you, general"
replied, putting the card into my
pocket And the general bowed him
self out backW ards
he had known that he would Oe sus-
rected; but he felt so sure that no eyi-
Gence could be obtained against him
that he had actually derived pleasure
in thus sticking his head into the
trap, and then Withdrawing 1t saIe
still on his shoulders
The little widow was a pathetic tgure
in her present circumstances
wealthy and dainty woman, who was
certainly not q principal in the aIIalr'
and who was separated by the width
of the continent from her older Irlen1S
and acQuainta1ces. had been thrown
into the old jail Of New HOrk's east
side, noted everywhere as the most an
cient and sQuald prison in the city
Her situation was enough to arouse
sympathy in a casual stranger. But
there was at least one person an New
York who had more than a casual IN
terest in her This was young Ameri-
can business man named Bates. no
formerly, before she had given her con
fidence to de ReQuesans, had been ner
Pretty widow in the Old Jail.
Hearing of her i'll fortune, Bates
went to visit her, and was horrif'ed
at seeing her in that dark, i'll yenu-
lated jail. He lost no time in look
il me up and finding out exactly now
far Mrs. Girard was involved
told him The trouble IS, 1 cen
tinued, shes tied. hand and foot, 10
that crowd. If she would only drop
them, as they viii drop her, II Would
be simple enough
Bates went away, planning what
In a short time I had another caller
who was very much interested in the
situation OF the widow. The warden
of the Jail came in 10 see me, to learn
zabout her chances After hinunG
about her case
I'm very sorry for Mrs. Girard,. 1
said slowly. They're putting up JOB
on her" Then. in an apparent burst
. of confidence I eXplained-what knew
was true-that de ReQuesans had MADE
r1ans to go free and leave Mrs GlraTd
to take care Of herself II was an eX-
ceuent chance to work upon the feel
K ings Of the woman and get the much
needed confession.
yes, Pm very sorry for that little
woman said. shes up against a
pretty hard situation"
Don't you think you ought to tell
her about ito asked the warden
what tell herr I guess you've
never heard her give her opinion Of ne
No wouldn't DO the slightest gOOd5
she wouldn't believe a word told
her"
81 think she would" said the ward
en-and went back and told Mrs. Cir
ard the whole conversation
It worked exactly as hoped In a
very short time I was invited to an
interview with the widow. She didn'
trust me entirely then, Of course
had no hope Of persuading her myself
But I proposed, instead, that she select
some friend in whom she had absolute
confidence; and she selected Bates
The rest was simple. ] went with
Bates to the office Of & surety COM